Speaker 1: This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI
Speaker 1: A M six forty, the Gary and Shannon Show on
Speaker 1: demand on the iHeartRadio app. President Donald Trump says Mexico
Speaker 1: will not be required to pay tariffs on goods until
Speaker 1: April second. That is where we kick off swamp Watch.
Speaker 1: I'm a politician, which means I'm a cheap and a liar.
Speaker 2: And when I'm not kissing babies, I'm stealing their lollipops. Yeah,
Speaker 2: we got the real problem is that our leaders are dumb.
Speaker 1: The other side never quits.
Speaker 3: So what I'm not going anywhere, so that.
Speaker 1: Now you train the swat, I can imagine what can
Speaker 1: be and be unburdened by what has been. You know,
Speaker 1: Americans have always been going a president.
Speaker 2: They're not stupid.
Speaker 3: A political flunder is when a politician actually tells the truth.
Speaker 1: Whether people voting for you will not swamp watch, they're
Speaker 1: all countona. Well, the tariffs against Mexico will be suspended,
Speaker 1: as I mentioned, till April second. This was a post
Speaker 1: on truth Social where the President made the announcement. He
Speaker 1: said he spoke today with my Xico's president and said
Speaker 1: that Claudia Sinbaum, the president will work with the US
Speaker 1: on securing the border. That's kind of been the lynchpin
Speaker 1: for this whole tariff talk is that they're not doing
Speaker 1: enough to stop the flow of fentanyl. I've got to
Speaker 1: believe there's more to the equation than just that it
Speaker 1: is a major problem. But to start a trade war,
Speaker 1: what you could call the beginning of a trade war,
Speaker 1: I think has more skin in the game than just
Speaker 1: the flow of the fentanyl. The Commerce Secretary today, Howard Lutnik,
Speaker 1: said that Trump will most likely announce a one month
Speaker 1: delay on all Canadian tariffs as well. So kind of
Speaker 1: just waiting and seeing here. Yesterday he did the same
Speaker 1: thing with the Big Three, or after the phone conversation
Speaker 1: with the Big Three, when it came to the auto
Speaker 1: industry where they had a phone conversation with him, they
Speaker 1: said that the supply lines are very convoluted between the
Speaker 1: United States, Canada, and Mexico in terms of where cars
Speaker 1: are made, where parts are made, a lot of things
Speaker 1: going back and forth several times throughout North America. When
Speaker 1: you're making the cars that hit the assembly lines and
Speaker 1: then the floors of the dealerships, and the car industry
Speaker 1: was saying, hey, you're looking at a hit per vehicle
Speaker 1: from four thousand to twelve thousand dollars of an uptick
Speaker 1: in price per vehicle like soon like next week. So
Speaker 1: the President realized the harm that that would cause to
Speaker 1: the auto industry, so backed off that for a month
Speaker 1: until maybe we see what goes on with conversations between
Speaker 1: Canada and Mexico. Justin Trudeau and the waiting days in office,
Speaker 1: has been pretty blunt with his take on the tariffs,
Speaker 1: calling them stupid. As I mentioned earlier. Earlier, Canada has
Speaker 1: pulled off American liquor from their shelves as a defiant
Speaker 1: measure as well. Al Green, also of note today in
Speaker 1: Washington House voted to censure Democratic Representative Al Green of
Speaker 1: Texas for disrupting the President during his address to a
Speaker 1: joint session of Congress on Tuesday. It's very symbolic the censure,
Speaker 1: as you know, Handle and I were talking about it earlier.
Speaker 1: I'm surprised there wasn't more dissension going on in the
Speaker 1: chamber there. I'm surprised that there weren't more Democrats, and
Speaker 1: some of them have gotten heat from their constituency. Why
Speaker 1: don't you do something? I was all in handle. If
Speaker 1: Trump promised must CTV. What a spectacle it would have
Speaker 1: been if they all just stood up and walked out.
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know. If there's some sort of
Speaker 1: duty to where they can't do that, I don't know,
Speaker 1: But what a spectacle that would have been. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's essentially what they did. Anyway. They weren't responding, they
Speaker 1: held up their signs, they weren't clapping or standing or anything.
Speaker 1: Why wouldn't they just walk out and leave that whole
Speaker 1: half of the room empty? I don't know. Anyway, Trump
Speaker 1: turns out he will not be signing that executive order.
Speaker 1: It's been a big headline all morning that he would
Speaker 1: be signing this executive order to get rid of the
Speaker 1: Department of Education altogether. They say that will not happening today.
Speaker 1: To dismantle the Department of Education. We don't know where
Speaker 1: that stands, but that that it's not going to be
Speaker 1: happening today. And then Greenland, Greenland, the world's largest island,
Speaker 1: eighty percent of it covered in ice. What would we
Speaker 1: even do with Greenland? Well, I'm sure a lot of
Speaker 1: people in Minneapolis and the like would know what to
Speaker 1: do with an island covered in eighty percent of ice.
Speaker 1: But they are doubling down and saying that this cannot
Speaker 1: be taken Greenland hour, Greenland will not be taken. It's
Speaker 1: ours now. President Trump appears to be determined to acquire Greenland.
Speaker 1: You know, once he sets his sights on something, he
Speaker 1: he does not deter does he He does not one
Speaker 1: eighty around from that goal that he sets. It is
Speaker 1: mineral rich, it is strategically located in Arctic territory, and
Speaker 1: he plans to get it. Quoting here one way or
Speaker 1: the other, as he said last night in a joint
Speaker 1: address before cong Now, Greenland is part of Denmark. It
Speaker 1: does have its own local government, It's got a parliament
Speaker 1: that oversees some domestic and civil affairs. There are different
Speaker 1: ways that the Greenland saga could play out. USA today
Speaker 1: broke it down, and apparently Greenlanders have been debating for
Speaker 1: several years whether they would be better off as an
Speaker 1: independent country. That could be something that could happen if
Speaker 1: a national referendum is held, which Denmark has said it
Speaker 1: would allow if enough of the population voted to hold
Speaker 1: such a vote. But the majority of Greenlanders do not
Speaker 1: want their island to become a part of us. They
Speaker 1: don't want to become Americans. If they want independence at
Speaker 1: exactly what they want. Trump may simply try to buy Greenland.
Speaker 1: Don't know how that would work. Denmark has said repeatedly
Speaker 1: it is not for sale. The last foreign territory purchased
Speaker 1: by the US by the BYE, interestingly enough, was from Denmark.
Speaker 1: It bought the Virgin Islands in nineteen seventeen for twenty
Speaker 1: five million. That was the last. That was the last purchase.
Speaker 1: Some people that are paying attention say that Trump could
Speaker 1: squeeze Greenland and Denmark economically use those tariffs that he's
Speaker 1: used this week, So they said that he could go
Speaker 1: after them with this. Denmark apparently is a major exporter
Speaker 1: of pharmaceuticals, including insulin. For example, the Danish company Novo
Speaker 1: Nordsik makes ozempic. Could you imagine another option Trump could
Speaker 1: invade Greenland? That would be that would be very far fetched,
Speaker 1: onen't it? And then the other option is that Trump
Speaker 1: just gets over it, right, he just moves on. But
Speaker 1: he doesn't seem to be moving on. I'm surprised at
Speaker 1: this whole Greenland thing reared its head again during the
Speaker 1: Address before Congress this week. All right, coming up and
Speaker 1: next let's see, we are talking about coaching. Coaching is
Speaker 1: the new asking your friends for help. People are spending
Speaker 1: hundreds of dollars for advice from complete strangers. Sometimes you
Speaker 1: take strangers advice more quickly than you take the advice
Speaker 1: of people you know and love. Isn't that the case?
Speaker 1: We'll talk about this new industry when we return.
Speaker 2: You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
Speaker 2: AM six forty.
Speaker 1: Now, when you look at the Wall Street and what's
Speaker 1: going on with the markets, the huge swings may feel
Speaker 1: like it's not normal, but for investors, all of this
Speaker 1: is pretty typical. It's nothing to run around clutching your
Speaker 1: pearls with your hair on fire over sharp moves for
Speaker 1: the US stock market, like the since six percent drop
Speaker 1: in just a couple of weeks. Those happen regularly, so
Speaker 1: it's kind of up to It's kind of the price
Speaker 1: that investors have to pay for bigger returns that stocks
Speaker 1: offer over other investments. In the long term. May feel
Speaker 1: like things are crazy right now, but they have a
Speaker 1: way of evening out. It's kind of like turbulence on
Speaker 1: an airplane. You think the plane's bouncing all over, it's
Speaker 1: moving very little. It's not in the grand scheme of things.
Speaker 1: It's not moving at all, at least at this point.
Speaker 1: People are spending hundreds of dollars for advice from strangers.
Speaker 1: There are specialized coaches popping up everywhere these days. If
Speaker 1: a problem exists, there seems to be a coach for it.
Speaker 1: If you have trouble focusing, there is something called an
Speaker 1: executive function coach. If you're undecided about having kids, there's
Speaker 1: a coach for that as well. You want to plan
Speaker 1: a transformative vacation, sounds like white lotus, doesn't it? A
Speaker 1: travel coach can help you. How much does a travel
Speaker 1: coach plan or charge to help you plan your transformative vacation? Well,
Speaker 1: in this article here, it says that that will cost
Speaker 1: you about six hundred bucks on top of what you're
Speaker 1: paying for that transformative vacation. Could you imagine you're talking
Speaker 1: to a friend on the phone and you're like, Hey,
Speaker 1: what's going on. How are the kids? Oh, they're good.
Speaker 1: We're planning a vacation. Oh where are you going? Oh? Well,
Speaker 1: I hired this guy, Bob. He's going to help us
Speaker 1: because I'm just so burned out from work. I don't
Speaker 1: have time to plan this vacation. Oh really, Bob. Huh. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Bob's going to really find all the great things that
Speaker 1: we can do with the kids and all the different
Speaker 1: experiences we can have. Oh yeah, we're paying Bob six
Speaker 1: hundred bucks. Hey, how do you react to that?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm not a good non reactor. Like
Speaker 1: if one of my friends told me that, I'd be like,
Speaker 1: what the hell are you doing? I'll plan your vacation.
Speaker 1: Slide me two hundred bucks, then I will plan it.
Speaker 1: But apparently it's a thing. Apparently whatever happened to asking people,
Speaker 1: you know for advice? Why are people hiring coaches? This
Speaker 1: reporter here she and I will get her name. It
Speaker 1: was cut off here by the end. But anyway, she's
Speaker 1: spent a bunch of time talking to coaching clients, and
Speaker 1: she says, most of the coaching clients I spoke with
Speaker 1: asked to use only their first name because of the
Speaker 1: personal nature of the issues they sought help for. Bs.
Speaker 1: That is not why. It's because it's embarrassing to admit
Speaker 1: you've spent six hundred dollars on someone who planned your
Speaker 1: vacation for you. Like, that's an embarrassing thing. You should
Speaker 1: never admit if that happened. I mean, you do, you
Speaker 1: live your life, but I wouldn't admit that. There's one
Speaker 1: woman she talked to goes by Sarah. Sarah sees a
Speaker 1: meditation coach for three hundred and fifty dollars a session.
Speaker 1: Sarah justifies it because she does not own expensive purses
Speaker 1: or clothes. Another woman, Liz has various points, had a
Speaker 1: career coach, an executive coach, a doula, a co parenting coach,
Speaker 1: and two different accountability coaches who focus on diet and exercise.
Speaker 1: I'm going to work to get Liz's number for all
Speaker 1: of us so we can pitch ourselves to Liz. And
Speaker 1: she's just throwing money all the coaches. I'm sure we
Speaker 1: could find a niche, a niche to help Liz with.
Speaker 1: She recently, by the way, added a Disney concierge coach
Speaker 1: for navigating the Magic Kingdom? Are we all an agreement
Speaker 1: that we hate Liz? Who would admit this? Deborah? Now
Speaker 1: I can't really I cannot relate either. I mean, isn't
Speaker 1: this why you have friends? Yeah? I used to say
Speaker 1: that about therapy. I've never had a therapist. I understand
Speaker 1: the stigma has been removed and everybody goes to therapy.
Speaker 1: But my refrain used to be, well, that's what I
Speaker 1: have friends for. And then it hit me, maybe my
Speaker 1: friends are tired of hearing from me. Maybe that's why
Speaker 1: people pay their way out of that to preserve their friendships.
Speaker 1: But I mean, that's kind of what you do. You
Speaker 1: kind of that's you pick up the phone and you
Speaker 1: can Maybe that's part of it. Maybe people aren't picking
Speaker 1: up the phone anymore to talk to friends about, Hey,
Speaker 1: what kind of im planning this vacation for the family?
Speaker 1: What have you heard of anything cool? Like any places
Speaker 1: to go? Maybe we're not interfacing enough with our friends
Speaker 1: anymore to where you think you need some sort of
Speaker 1: bot on the other end of your computer screen that
Speaker 1: you're paying for this kind of advice. I mean, I
Speaker 1: get using a travel agent. Yeah, if you need to
Speaker 1: use a travel agent for whatever reason, you know, maybe
Speaker 1: getting a better deal on a hotel or well, you
Speaker 1: were going to Israel at one point, that's where you
Speaker 1: use a travel exactly exactly, Yeah, that makes sense. But
Speaker 1: my goodness, Liz really went for it. I mean, she
Speaker 1: hit all the coaches. She told this interviewer She told
Speaker 1: me that she hasn't done something important before and she
Speaker 1: wants to do it right. She tends to hire a
Speaker 1: coach to help her, She said, winging it is so
Speaker 1: not my style. Why not go into it informed if
Speaker 1: you can, Oh, Liz, if you want to make God laugh? Well, anyway,
Speaker 1: Apparently it's not just Liz. There is a whole slew
Speaker 1: of people that I gotta believe that if there's a
Speaker 1: number of people that are into hiring you just give
Speaker 1: them advice. You could just come up with easy Why
Speaker 1: not take advantage of them? Right? I think we should
Speaker 1: all start our coaching company. Some great, some hilarious examples
Speaker 1: of this. When we come back.
Speaker 2: You're listening to Arian Shannon on demand from KFI AM
Speaker 2: six forty.
Speaker 1: Karen Mass, the mayor of La says, it's okay people
Speaker 1: in the Palisades, so water is now safe to drink
Speaker 1: two months after the fires. You can turn your faucet on,
Speaker 1: but not till tomorrow, and then make sure you run
Speaker 1: it for ten minutes before you drink out of it,
Speaker 1: like you're going to be doing that. There you go,
Speaker 1: all caught up. We're talking about coaching and people hiring
Speaker 1: coaches for all aspects of their life these days. We
Speaker 1: talked about this woman that was profiled in this article.
Speaker 1: It was in the Atlantic, and the reporter here is
Speaker 1: Olga Kazan. She's a staff writer there at The Atlantic,
Speaker 1: but she's also written for the New York Times, La Times,
Speaker 1: the Washington Post. And she talked to people that are
Speaker 1: hiring these coaches. Liz was one of them. Liz has
Speaker 1: had a career coach, an executive coach, a doula, a
Speaker 1: co parenting coach. Two co parenting coach You mean her
Speaker 1: husband that marriage didn't work out. That was unfair and unkind.
Speaker 1: Two different accountability coaches who focus on diet and exercise
Speaker 1: as well. And Liz recently added a Disney concierge's coach
Speaker 1: for navigating the Magic Kingdom travel coach Olga Rights can
Speaker 1: cost you up to six hundred bucks, not including the
Speaker 1: actual booking of the trip as well, and that's just
Speaker 1: for advice, and then they charge you extra to book
Speaker 1: the trip that they plan, and then you have to
Speaker 1: pay for the actual trip. Okay. Eric Baker is a
Speaker 1: Harvard historian. He is the author of Make Your Own Job,
Speaker 1: and he says that coaching is the latest example of
Speaker 1: the therapeutic culture that emerged in the US in the
Speaker 1: twentieth century, a sense of needing to have some kind
Speaker 1: of expert to help optimize your performance. That being normal
Speaker 1: is no longer enough, So people are hiring coaches to
Speaker 1: help them transcend normal like the tiger mom, right, the
Speaker 1: old tiger mom hiring the piano coach and the mandarin
Speaker 1: coach and making sure your kid has all of these
Speaker 1: experts to help them become exceptional. People are now applying
Speaker 1: that to their lives we were talking about. Is the
Speaker 1: erosion of good old fashioned friendships playing into this, because
Speaker 1: that's who you would call for advice on things like this.
Speaker 1: You call your friends, they say, yes, that there are
Speaker 1: fewer close friends for people these days, so they may
Speaker 1: be reluctant to rely on those friends for help. Also,
Speaker 1: civic support. Sources of support have eroded over the past decade.
Speaker 1: People are not likely to be members of community groups,
Speaker 1: religious congregation, things like that. In some circles you used
Speaker 1: to kind of bounce things off those different groups or
Speaker 1: churches or things like that. One of theologists profiled in
Speaker 1: this in this article, our Lee Hofschild writes that a
Speaker 1: coach is like a super friend, someone very smart and
Speaker 1: attentive who can help you make the best decision possible.
Speaker 1: A travel coach by the name Makayah Thompson refers to
Speaker 1: her service like a best friend pre trip, during the trip,
Speaker 1: and after the trip. Some of these coaches say they
Speaker 1: see themselves like a big sister. Friends and family are
Speaker 1: really good. Often they give you advice, though that is
Speaker 1: not helpful. Also, you can be messy in front of
Speaker 1: these coaches. You can be depressed around them, so you
Speaker 1: can be interesting and bubbly around your friends. Another woman
Speaker 1: who has a weight loss coach said, your friends don't
Speaker 1: want to listen to you talk about that all the time.
Speaker 1: To my point earlier, maybe your friends want to break
Speaker 1: from being your unpaid therapist. Well, too bad for mine,
Speaker 1: They're not going to get that. A twenty twenty three
Speaker 1: report by the International Coaching Federation, which is a credentialing
Speaker 1: entd for some of these so that the average one
Speaker 1: of these coaches that's raking in the cash spends just
Speaker 1: twelve hours a week coaching. One woman that the reporter
Speaker 1: spoke with for The Atlantic Olga Cazan. She spoke with
Speaker 1: this woman named Maria Maria says she was scrolling through
Speaker 1: TikTok when she comes across a bariatric surgery coach who
Speaker 1: promised to help her adjust to the dramatically different eating
Speaker 1: habits that this kind of surgery requires. So Maria says,
Speaker 1: I booked a call with this coach and she sold
Speaker 1: me within like twenty minutes. So for about five hundred
Speaker 1: dollars a month, this coach would check Maria's My Fitness
Speaker 1: Pal food log and the coach would text her in
Speaker 1: emoji assessing her performance. So if she's doing well, Maria
Speaker 1: would get a fire emoji. For five hundred dollars a month,
Speaker 1: you get a fire emoji. My friends do much better
Speaker 1: than that. During their one on one sessions, Maria says
Speaker 1: she felt she was talking with the coach's TikTok character
Speaker 1: rather than with a devoted advisor. Maria said she had
Speaker 1: like five things that she would repeat over and over again.
Speaker 1: So she repeated after two months, two months, gone, thousand
Speaker 1: dollars gone for how many fire emojis? The reporter for
Speaker 1: The Atlantic spoke with Neil Wolfhart, a decision coach who
Speaker 1: charges two hundred and forty seven dollars per hour long session.
Speaker 1: Nell helps her clients make one big life decision for
Speaker 1: that two hundred and forty seven dollars per hour. The
Speaker 1: decisions are as varied as whether to have kids or
Speaker 1: what color to paint their kitchen. Oh my gosh, If
Speaker 1: I'm hiring someone for two hundred and fifty bucks an
Speaker 1: hour to tell me what color to paint my kitchen,
Speaker 1: I have one life. I also should check myself into
Speaker 1: some sort of center. This woman, Nell told the reporter
Speaker 1: she's always had this fixer brain, and that often she's
Speaker 1: simply listening for what the person really wants to do. Anyway,
Speaker 1: that's a real friend right there. It just happened. It
Speaker 1: just helps, she says, to have a totally neutral third
Speaker 1: party to check your work and make sure, yes, this
Speaker 1: is not a ludicrous risk you're taking. What qualifications does
Speaker 1: Nell have, the reporter asked, and Nell, to her credit,
Speaker 1: said nothing. She says, people have said to me, you're
Speaker 1: so wise. Nell takes that like they must think I'm
Speaker 1: in my mid forties. So the author of this story,
Speaker 1: the reporter, decided to hire Nell for an hour session.
Speaker 1: The question on the table should she move to Florida
Speaker 1: or to Texas. A reporter says, Nell began asking questions
Speaker 1: about what was important to me, what else i'd considered,
Speaker 1: what place each place had to offer me, And the
Speaker 1: reporter says, unlike my therapist, she didn't ask about my childhood.
Speaker 1: She didn't care about any of the backstory, none of that.
Speaker 1: Why I behave the way I do, none of that.
Speaker 1: And Nell said, why you feel this way is not relevant.
Speaker 1: The only thing that matters is that you do feel
Speaker 1: this way. The reporter says, it was like talking with
Speaker 1: a super friend, someone who is smart, likable, but disinterested
Speaker 1: and ruthlessly rational. And after about thirty minutes, she told
Speaker 1: me what I should do, and the author says, it's
Speaker 1: what I wanted to do anyway. All right. Coming up next,
Speaker 1: we've got tech Talk with Mark Saltzman, our tech guru.
Speaker 1: He's going to have the highlights of what's called the
Speaker 1: Mobile World Congress. Sounds very nerdy and exciting. There is
Speaker 1: a laptop that is powered by the sun. We've got
Speaker 1: information on the world's thinnest phone, and new ear buds
Speaker 1: that do even better real time language translation. I'm super
Speaker 1: into this because I'm super bad at learning languages, and
Speaker 1: if you could get earbuds that enable you to talk
Speaker 1: to somebody who doesn't speak the same language as you
Speaker 1: do in real time? How cool would that be when
Speaker 1: it comes to traveling. So we'll talk to Mark about
Speaker 1: all that when we return.
Speaker 2: You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
Speaker 2: AM six forty.
Speaker 1: We would like to get all of the latest tech
Speaker 1: news right now. And who do we turn to for
Speaker 1: that all? It's Mark Saltzman.
Speaker 2: The machines are getting smarter. This is tech Talk, brought
Speaker 2: to you by sky Net.
Speaker 1: Mark Saltzman. How are you good? To talk to you today?
Speaker 2: Like?
Speaker 3: Why is all good?
Speaker 2: I'm a little jet lagged.
Speaker 3: I was in Bartholona, as they say it there Barcelona, Barthalona,
Speaker 3: my first time in Spain.
Speaker 1: Really I love it. I try to make a stop
Speaker 1: there no matter where I'm going, especially the Gothic quarter
Speaker 1: there in Bartholona. The tapash the.
Speaker 3: Same, some delicious piea oh man and tapas.
Speaker 1: Yeah it was good.
Speaker 3: Oh and there was a tech conference. Oh also, I know, like,
Speaker 3: come on, there's nothing better than food than tech.
Speaker 2: No rights, So you.
Speaker 1: Got paid to go to Spain and Barcelona and eat
Speaker 1: tap us?
Speaker 2: Well, I wouldn't say got paid to go.
Speaker 3: I will be paid by the articles that I write
Speaker 3: to go to this. Yeah, so I've already written up
Speaker 3: a couple and I thought I would chat about some highlights.
Speaker 3: So this is a tech event called MWC Mobile World Congress.
Speaker 3: It as the name suggests, it focuses mostly on mobility
Speaker 3: and connectivity. So all the even American carriers were there,
Speaker 3: like T Mobile and AT and T and Verizon. And
Speaker 3: even though it's a European show, there's it's a worldwide audience. Yeah,
Speaker 3: one hundred thousand folks from the industry like yours. Truly,
Speaker 3: about twenty seven hundred exhibitors, so it's not as consumery
Speaker 3: as Consumer Electronics Show in January in Vegas every year,
Speaker 3: but there was still some cool tech products that Again,
Speaker 3: there was a lot of B to B a lot
Speaker 3: of business solutions, which I find a little dryer than
Speaker 3: you know, the consumer stuff. So I found, after you know,
Speaker 3: walking the massive showroom floor for a couple of days,
Speaker 3: a couple of really cool things that I thought i'd
Speaker 3: share with you. The first is a solar powered laptop
Speaker 3: from Lenovo. So it's got solar panels on the back
Speaker 3: of the laptop that will keep your computer topped up
Speaker 3: when you're out and about. So according to the company,
Speaker 3: about twenty minutes of sunlight can yield about an hour
Speaker 3: of video playback, which is a lot, or even more
Speaker 3: if you're using like a word process or to crank
Speaker 3: out something for work, you're in a coffee shop, you're
Speaker 3: by the window, the back of the laptop can take
Speaker 3: in some sunlight and convert that into energy. That concept
Speaker 3: PCs only fifteen millimeters thin as well for very thin
Speaker 3: and light about just about a kilogram or so a
Speaker 3: couple pounds.
Speaker 2: So that was pretty cool.
Speaker 3: And then Lenovo also had this it's called the think
Speaker 3: Book Flip, which looks like a regular laptop and then
Speaker 3: you press a button and it extends upwards like vertically
Speaker 3: cool up to eighteen inches for things like when you
Speaker 3: need to look at I don't know, legal sized documents,
Speaker 3: or you want one one screen for video maybe you're zooming,
Speaker 3: and the other one for taking notes. You know, it's
Speaker 3: just they're just showing that there's some innovation there, which
Speaker 3: is cool. So that was from Lenovo. And then I
Speaker 3: did say it was a very very heavy smartphone show.
Speaker 3: So I saw the world's thinnest smartphone. It's only five
Speaker 3: point seven millimeters deep. It's called and by the way,
Speaker 3: the iPhone sixteen is almost eight millimeters thin. So this
Speaker 3: is from a company called Techno Tecno and the phone
Speaker 3: is called the Spark Slim.
Speaker 1: I feel like I would break this in about three seconds.
Speaker 3: Well, it's made a stainless steel, so it's pretty strong.
Speaker 3: I felt the same thing, and I also thought, how comfortable, Like,
Speaker 3: just because you can make a thin laptop doesn't mean
Speaker 3: you should make it thin.
Speaker 1: Excuse me phone, then you.
Speaker 3: Know why, right, But once you hold it, actually was
Speaker 3: remarkably comfortable. And on the back it's like a mirror
Speaker 3: because it's stainless steel, and there's this cool kind of
Speaker 3: lighting around the camera lenses. But they also have a
Speaker 3: ceramic version. But the idea is that just people are
Speaker 3: that they're they're trending towards lighter phones. In fact, Apple
Speaker 3: is rumored to have an iPhone seventeen Air later this year,
Speaker 3: so we'll see if that comes comes out. But this
Speaker 3: is a nearly seven inch Android phone called the Spark
Speaker 3: Slim that is ridiculously thin, thinner than a pencil like
Speaker 3: a number two pencil, and about one hundred and forty
Speaker 3: eight gram so really light as well. In fact, Techno
Speaker 3: the company said they actually added weight to it because
Speaker 3: they thought it was too light, like people might think
Speaker 3: it's not real and despite it's like it looks like
Speaker 3: a dummy thing they see at Ikia, like staged, you
Speaker 3: know what I mean. Yeah, it's got like a fifty
Speaker 3: two hundred milli AM battery as well, which is really
Speaker 3: a lot for a thin phone. That's even more than
Speaker 3: like Samsung's Galaxy S twenty five, which is their flagship phone.
Speaker 3: So some cool things on the on the smartphone front.
Speaker 3: And then to round it out, I picked a tablet
Speaker 3: that was neat. It's a tablet that can show three
Speaker 3: D images without you needing to wear glasses. So when
Speaker 3: you look at content on this twelve inch tablets from
Speaker 3: a company called Red Magic. It's part of the ZTE family.
Speaker 3: The like if you're seeing like a turtle swimming, for example,
Speaker 3: you're watching a video of a turtle swimming, it looks
Speaker 3: like the turtle is coming out of the tablet screen
Speaker 3: and onto your lap. Yeah, it's pretty wild. It's a
Speaker 3: special screen and it's got two cameras on you as
Speaker 3: well that look at your eyes. And so there's two
Speaker 3: small caveats. One is that it only looks good if
Speaker 3: you're right in front, Like you can't be sharing that
Speaker 3: screen and watching YouTube beside anybody. It's just for you.
Speaker 3: And then secondly, as a content creator, when I so,
Speaker 3: I shot some videos and posted them to social media
Speaker 3: when I was away last week this week in Barcelona.
Speaker 3: You can't record this tablet with a phone and get
Speaker 3: that effect. You need two eyes to see it. It's right,
Speaker 3: that stereoscopic effect, you know, like remember when those remember
Speaker 3: those posters I'm going back, You had to let your
Speaker 3: eyes kind of blur a little bit all.
Speaker 1: The time you'd spend at the mall just staying friends.
Speaker 1: How much money the mall lost from the time we
Speaker 1: spent looking at those exactly.
Speaker 3: That's exactly the way to explain it. But it's pretty cool,
Speaker 3: and it doesn't have to be recorded in three D.
Speaker 3: You can flip a switch on it and you're watching
Speaker 3: like a YouTube video or playing a game and it'll
Speaker 3: turn it into that stereoscopic content.
Speaker 2: So that was really neat.
Speaker 3: Not coming to the US anytime soon, but it's a
Speaker 3: twelve inch Android tablet that against from a company called
Speaker 3: Red Magic and really cool. It's called the Pad three
Speaker 3: D Explorer. So that's just you know, a small sampling
Speaker 3: of the kinds of things you can find there. Oh
Speaker 3: one more cool one and this is more about personal security,
Speaker 3: and that would be it's called the key O Cam.
Speaker 3: It's billed as the world's first personal dash cam. So
Speaker 3: you wear it on your person and in case of
Speaker 3: an emergency, it's always recording. It's always recording content. It's
Speaker 3: a small little wearable that is always recording in sixty
Speaker 3: second video loops that you can you can stop and
Speaker 3: have it like you know, archived, or if it senses
Speaker 3: any any movement that you know, it could lock the
Speaker 3: file itself. You can also have it send alerts to
Speaker 3: certain contacts with a push of a button. So it's
Speaker 3: kind of an interesting take, you know, in this world
Speaker 3: that we're living in, sure of wearing it's basically a
Speaker 3: body cam that a police officer would wear. It's for
Speaker 3: personal use, and that's k e O c Am.
Speaker 1: I'm also super interested to the earbuds that in real time,
Speaker 1: can you know, help you song with somebody when you're
Speaker 1: in Barcelona?
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 3: So that's a good good one to call out as well.
Speaker 3: From a company called Honor, and they have these wireless
Speaker 3: earbuds that when you wear them, yes, it can trend
Speaker 3: laid from one language to another. So I could be
Speaker 3: talking to someone who speaks Spanish in Barcelona and English
Speaker 3: is my mother tongue. It will convert in near real
Speaker 3: time back to English for me. And you can also
Speaker 3: share that earbud with a friend, like you can take
Speaker 3: out one and give it to somebody else as well.
Speaker 3: So yeah, it's really neat that same company, Honor, showed
Speaker 3: a cool AI trick on their phone as well, where
Speaker 3: it's not unusual today Apple Samsung Pixel where if you
Speaker 3: have like a photo bomber in your photo that's rooting
Speaker 3: your photo, that you can circle it with your finger
Speaker 3: and have that subject removed, then that's using AI. But
Speaker 3: now with this Honor phone that they've got called the
Speaker 3: Magic seven.
Speaker 1: Pro, you can use your voice.
Speaker 3: You can say, like, let's say you're looking at a
Speaker 3: picture of your family on the beach and there's some
Speaker 3: jerk in yellow yellow bathing suit giving you the rabbit
Speaker 3: ears behind yourself or your partner, what have you. You
Speaker 3: can verbally say to your phone, remove the guy in
Speaker 3: the yellow short and it'll do that for you like,
Speaker 3: just by verbally saying so, it's using AI but a
Speaker 3: cleaner interface than having you having to do anything. Because
Speaker 3: if you're not tech savvy like you're, you know, then
Speaker 3: you're your sool. If if you don't know how to
Speaker 3: do it, you don't know how to do it. So
Speaker 3: this is kind of cool. That's from a company called Honor.
Speaker 1: Mark Saltzman Mark underscore Saltzman on Twitter. Check him out.
Speaker 1: He's an excellent follow, great articles that he puts out
Speaker 1: on the regular and joins us every Thursday. Mark, thank you,
Speaker 1: good luck for sht leg all right.
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