November 18, 2025 • 17 mins
Air travel is back to normal after the government shutdown. The Cambridge Dictionary named "parasocial" the word of the year. 83% of Americans have a fake Christmas tree.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is the press show.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Dame is taking over Las Vegas this January for his
seven Night Presidents. Heth Doby Live at Park MGM, and
we've got a trip for two to the January twenty
fifth show to Night Hotel State at Park MGM January
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Speaker 1 (00:25):
Rives biggest stories of the day.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
All right, So airports are resuming normal schedules. However, it's
gonna take a while for it to ramp up, and
you're not going to be able to have any recourse
as far as the financial benefits the government. You know,
guarantees been flied too late, so they rescinded all of
the compensation. Airports across the US would be a little
(00:49):
bit less stressful now, hopefully now that the FAA has
edited its Emergency Flight for Reduction order if they're calling him.
A reduction in flights of dozens of major airports began
a week ago to help addressing address the staffing issues
among traffic controllers during the government shutdown. This led to
thousands of flights being delayed and canceled, just as a
busy Thanksgiving travel period approaches. But things have been improving
(01:09):
and the reductions have been lifted, and I.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Guess they're adding more and more flights.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
But they did say the government said that the rules
that compensate travelers for airline delays are no longer in place,
at least not right now. That means that passengers who
deal with long flight delays have no way to push
back against the airlines. I guess that's because the government
told them they had to do this. So then if
your flights are messed up, well it's the government's fold.
So then the airlines shouldn't have to be penalized because
the purpose of you getting paid was the airline screwed
(01:35):
something up, so they got to pay you, and not
just keep you on the plane and give you water
for eight hours. Yikes, it turns out you can't do that.
The Cambridge Dictionary has named its word of the year parasocial.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Parasocial is the word used to describe a connection that
people feel with someone that they don't know, or even
an artificial intelligence.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
They're saying.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
The term was coined in nineteen fifty six by two
sociologists who wanted to describe how television viewers formed parasocial
relationship with TV personalities. The Dictionary said that this is
going to be the word of the year. I guess.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
I guess you could argue there are.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
People out there that haven't met us, that have parasocial
relationship with us. Right, they've never actually met us, and
we've never actually met them, but we feel that we
have relationships with them. Or that you listen every morning
because of whatever, or you listen every morning to hate
on us.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Either way, it's parasocial.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
The phenomenon continues today as social media users form parasocial
relationship with celebrities, influencers, and online personalities with whom they
have no personal connection. A key example cited by the
Cambridge Dictionary is singer Taylor Swift, who announced her engagement
to Travis Kelcey this year, with many fans expressing heartfelt
feelings towards a couple that most people will never and
(02:51):
have never met. Which I think that's a great example
because you know, the whole world was captivated by this
relationship and by his courtship and by are they toygether?
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Are they not?
Speaker 2 (03:00):
And then him chasing her around the world on the
Aras tour, and then her going to games, and then
them getting engaged, and ninety nine point nine percent of
people have never met either one of them, but yet
they're cheering them on because it's this nice love story, right, Yes,
so that's a perfect example.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
It's asocial. Hard hear though, Like, who voted? What was
the other one I gave you as a word of
the year? Six seven? Probably? Yeah, I mean so I
think that's a that's a better word than the rest. Okay,
we'll take it.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
But everything's so AI now, Like I feel like in
the last six months it's AI. And it's been like
this for a while, but it's lately it's just AI.
Everything's AI. Yes, So the word probably had to incorporate
get them. Yeah, yeah, your therapist, your business partner.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
You guys, if you're not on the AI boat, if
you're not on the train, you will be left behind.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
So you need to really immerse yourself. I'd enjoy it.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
He'll be left out. I told you, I'm on it.
I have the fifteen dollars a month subscription. I just
need to find someone who's much more tech savvy than
I am to teach me what I'm supposed to be
doing with it.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
It's not hard, you, guys, is creative if you want
to be, you know the crazy.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Things you can do. Your entire life isn't automated, so
you don't pretend like you're the A.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
My life is very automated. You know yesterday, but you
still show up forty five minutes late to everything? Not
anymore because of AI. I literally say, hey, how long
to take me to get ready? I'm with your with
your rollers and your baby in your hand er? Some
rollers right right? Brilliant? You're Brazilian blowout down?
Speaker 2 (04:31):
May I ask you out?
Speaker 1 (04:34):
May I know you? What was the line?
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Again? I don't know many media or should I get
hey I to do it for me? No, I'm with you,
and I think I'm completely with you. That that AI
is it and we either embrace it or I get it.
But I'm what I'm telling you?
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Is it crazy?
Speaker 2 (04:50):
There are layers of this that I don't even understand.
I just need someone to tell me what I should
be doing with it.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
No one can really tell you what to do.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
It's really based on your life, yeaple, can I say
what it did yesterday? And this might work for you too,
But I don't know how much would you got in
the fridge. You can take a picture of like what
you have if you have like leftover this or that
or whatever ingredients and say, hey, what can I make
with this a picture?
Speaker 1 (05:11):
I would love to know what I can make with French.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
Mustard's going to say, you got champagne and champagne.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
I would love to know, probably a vinaigrette of something.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
Yes actually in the store right you're nearest jewel Osco.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
But you guys know what I'm saying. Like, like Paulleen
over here is an AI master. Maybe she's the one
I have to hire. I like, I don't know. I
don't know what I'm supposed to be doing. Like I
know that it can help me with, you know, writing things.
I know it can help me with you know, captions
and posts, and I know that it can I know
it can do all these things. But like I need
someone to look at my life and go, oh, it
(05:45):
can be responding to this, and it can be doing that,
and you can program it to do this, and it'll
tell you how to do that. Because it's not as
simple as you don't get the best results of you
if you're just a novice. You get better results if
you know what you're doing. I don't know what I'm
doing what It really depends on the day. Like what
do you want to do to write that children's book
you've talked about?
Speaker 3 (06:01):
Do you want to I don't know, pitch ideas to
You have a TV show that we get to watch
every every night, right, so like do you have topics
for the show?
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Can you? I don't know. It's different things different days.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
I will say that I haven't been that impressed. That's
that's what I mean though, Like that, like the base level,
Like if I just go to it and say, tell
me what we should talk about on the radio, it
gives me terrible ideas because on top culture. Okay, but
Pauline Boom be specific.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
You have to talk to her. You're treating You're treating
her like I don't like a side chick, Like you
gotta be good to her. You gotta tell her the
bread earth like a side chick. What are we gonna
do when you have nowhere to stand?
Speaker 3 (06:39):
Because I ruined the plan, Well, there's a lot of
things ruing the planet unfortunately, But yes, you're.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Let's ruin it more. I don't know, well, no, I don't.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
I disagree with you actually about that, because if it's good,
it's not going anywhere.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
That's the sad part. It's not going anywhere.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
But if you actually are behind it, you can make
the changes of like, Okay, we don't want to pump
so much water. What can we do to like preserve
the earth and not use all this water to pump
you know, Fred's questions out today, Like you get what
I'm saying, it's not going questions.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
And are giving me bad answers. So why does so
much water get pumped up?
Speaker 1 (07:05):
Meet you specific? No?
Speaker 3 (07:08):
I mean yeah, I want them to be a different way.
And will there every be a different way?
Speaker 1 (07:11):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
I hope so, because that is really sad and I
don't like that it's using all of our water to
pump up questions. But okay, you have to be specific,
but I'm very passionate about this.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
You has to be very specific, and IM saying is
I didn't know that, So I need someone to teach
me that.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
To be specific about yourself.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
I don't think it's that simple, Paulina, I think that
there are probably people out there who have degrees in
this they do who could and that, Why are you arguing?
Speaker 1 (07:35):
That's who I want to talk to you.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
I want someone to follow me around and say here,
do this, and do that, and ask it this way,
and teach it this and do this and then this,
and then it's going to make your life easier in
this way because I don't know how.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
I hear you. May I help you, May I meet
you to help you.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
Okay, Let's ask her a question right now, should we like,
what should we do for the entertaining reporter?
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Let's ask her, Oh, no, I've done I've tried to
make I've tried that.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
And that's the problem, and it should.
Speaker 5 (08:04):
I'll be trying to ask them what we do on
this show, you know, like I do what I do,
Kaylin gonna do what she do. Don't ast about entertainer reports.
I'm all right, yeah, and I'm not gonna play with her.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
See Okay, So I got two separate sides of the
argument here. Kiki wants Ai to die and Polina is
an expert pure.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
How to please all your women when it comes to
a like these women in this room, because we're on
opposite ends.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
The way that I see it is I can I
am a I can cook. I can cook basic food,
right like if you if you give me some ingredients,
I can make you basic food. I can make you
eggs and grilled cheese, and I can make you basic
stuff and it tastes fine. But if I wanted to
get to a culinary like, you know, some sort of
gourmet level, then I would need someone to teach me that,
(08:50):
like I would need someone to say, here's how you
can make it better. That's what I'm saying, is I
need you know what I just it would be helpful
to me.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
Where's the manual? That's what I mean.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
There are probably probably My point is there probably ways
in which things can be even easier for me, and
I don't and I don't know how to do it.
So that's all I'm saying. And so then you're offering
to help me, which is exactly how we got on
this eight minute rant. Was I need someone to help me,
So you could have just said I'll help you, and
then we didn't have to have this because you're admitting
and you're acknowledging I don't know what I'm doing.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Listen, it's not AI's top. She's a tough one. But
we got it. We got this. You and I are
getting together after work. I can't wait.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
A routine flight turned into a mid air emergency for
a Jet Blue flight from Boston to Tampa, Kiki and
the meantime, she just burned my computer down.
Speaker 5 (09:31):
She burned it. She just unplugged it and handed me
a pencil. AI works for you. You don't work for
a period. Okay, just keep that in mind, Paul. You
are in control. You're in control. You have to see
it information. I'm Fred, I'm this person. This is my personality.
This is how I talk. You have to be specific.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
I'm gonna go grab.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
A coffee, right. This is the information I was asking
for that you were yelling at me for not knowing.
So back to my story. A routine flight turned into
a mid air emergency for a Jet Blue flight from
Boston to tamp It was forced to make a return
to Boston's Logan Airport because a passenger in first class
had been vaping marijuana in the lavatory. The crew then
inhaled the smoke got secondhand high. Apparently, the plane was
(10:13):
fully fueled and thus overweight for a safe landing, so
the pilot had to issue an emergency call to air
traffic Control. During communications, they asked that the cockpit was secure.
The guy said that the disturbance involved the lavatory. Thankfully,
the flight landed safely back in Boston. With that injuries
or further incidents, the passenger responsible faces federal charges a
lifetime airline van and the airline may pursue civil charges.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
This could actually be pretty bad.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
Yeah, if the vapes then go into the cockpit and
those guys breathe it in.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
How addicted are you that you can't take a flight?
Speaker 2 (10:44):
I know, I know, but I mean if the pilots
get high, that's not ideal. No, you know you want
to get high. Fine, but like pilot's sober, right, you
know when it comes time for landing. I know the
guys if they're you know, ordering taco bell on door
to ash and trying to figure out, you know, where
to get a pete. So I need you focused a
new s from the This is great. The American Christmas
(11:05):
Tree Association, which is also known in the industry as
the ACTA. Everybody knows that they're showing the artificial Christmas
tree market is the clear favorite for US homes. Eighty
three percent of households that plan to display a tree
this year have chosen a fake one. Despite some concerns
about tariffs and important goods, demand for an artificial tree
remains strong and steady. Speaking of the holidays, apparently more
(11:30):
people are planning to rent clothing for everything from holiday
parties to keeping warm coach to ugly sweaters.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
I do it every month. Ugly sweater.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
That is a good idea because because the last one
is the last time. First of all, you know I'm
not a theme party guy, no, and you want me
to come to ugly sweater party, I probably just wear
a normal sweater, so people will just think it's ugly.
But like you buy it right, they're usually very animated
(12:02):
and enunciated. You know, it's got a slogan on it
or a thing you really can't like recycle that, Like
you can't wear the same ugly sweater to every year,
so then you just sits there or you donate it
or you throw it away or whatever. So I mean imagine,
just rent the ugly sweater and then send it back
and then we're not wasting ugly. We're not wasting stuff
because like an ugly sweater party, like you're gonna wear
(12:22):
that once a year maybe, So apparently people are doing this.
I know a lot of people do it, Like my
friends at the TV station, they most of their clothes
rent rent. I do it every month because it's like
they gotta wear a new outfit on TV every night.
So because because some viewer will write them and say
I saw that dress on January third, that's crazy. So
they rent clothes, which makes a lot of sense because
(12:43):
they're wearing designer stuff every night. But then they can
just send it back and get new stuff. That's smart.
But I never thought about it as it pertained like
holiday parties and like big jackets, Like if you're traveling
somewhere you need a big coat. Maybe you don't live
somewhere where you need a big coat, so you don't
get to spend the money. So people are renting clothing
every mind.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Yeah, every month. I love it. It's my favorite thing.
I will not say which company I use.
Speaker 4 (13:04):
It's not rent the Rack because I've tried to do
things with them and they will not do anything with me.
But I love it. It's aside from this year, which
I'm wearing J C.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
Penny to.
Speaker 4 (13:13):
Usually I do it for things like Jingle Bosh to
where it's.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Like even though it's I think it's women's stuff, the
women's in juniors.
Speaker 4 (13:18):
Well yeah, and girls, Yeah, what are you wearing?
Speaker 1 (13:21):
Are you wearing the hotpants that I'm gonna wear? Are
you gonna wear it the long.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
I was going to Since you're wearing the hotpants, I'll
wear the long sequenced Beell bottoms.
Speaker 4 (13:29):
Okay, and you want the craps like semi.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Obviously I've lost some weights, so yeah, that's that's the move.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
No, it makes a lot of sense though I just
never thought about it as it pertains to holiday parties
exclusively or holiday stuff that you're never gonna wear again.
And finally today, guys, and I think I'm gonna send
Paulina to this because she's so impassioned. Well, similar some
parents are turning to digital detox camp oh for children
and teens, so.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
It might be for me.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Actually there's like a lake there and a tree buss.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
The parents interviewed say that they've tried time limits, parental
control apps, and endless negotiations but nothing stick. So now
they're paying thousands to send kids to unplugged camps in
the woods, structured reset programs, and tech free retreats designed
to break the cycle of scrolling and gaming. These camps
promise it when parents feel they can't deliver at home.
(14:29):
No phones, no apps, no TikTok, just real world activities,
counselors who specialize in tech dependence, and days built around
face to face interaction. We have to send people to
camps now to get you to do stuff that's.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
Not on a screen.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
And apparently programs now have weight lists stretching months and
months I can get in.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
My friends who have taken away their kids devices for
extended periods of time say that they have different children
when they don't have their devices.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
They don't throw.
Speaker 4 (14:57):
Tantrums, they don't argue as much like their present.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
They want to hang out and talk to the family.
It just stinks because then the friends at school.
Speaker 4 (15:05):
Still have their technology, and that's like the hard part.
Speaker 5 (15:08):
But remember that time I was on a cruise ship
and I didn't have Wi Fi and almost jumped.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
Yeah, they had to get that coast Guard helicopter to
fly away because you were having seizures and shaking. Yes,
that was a real waste of resources. Kik, like, I
don't think it was necessary.
Speaker 5 (15:20):
Oh no, it was like it it gets dangerous. Were
you trying to refresh that timeline and it won't go?
Speaker 2 (15:26):
Oh no, tell them what you might what our company
stay to me who I respect. But I thought it
was kind of dramatic until I thought about it, and
when you first hear the statement, it seems dramatic. But
he said that some to the effective giving kids phones
is like giving kids cigarettes in the eighties or something.
It was something like that, and I was like, oh,
I don't know about that, and then I thought about it.
(15:47):
It's like or what or maybe it's a different example,
but it was something that was like readily available to
kids in different generations that no one really thought a
whole lot of No one gives kids cigarettes.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
It wasn't that for yourself.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
I'm trying to also textimacy, but it was like, wow,
that's really But it's the point that he was trying
to make is that we don't realize the danger that
we're introducing into kids' lives when we give them access
to this tech because it seems harmless until it's not.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
No, it probably wasn't cigarettes. It wasn't explosives either, but
it's something that dangerous.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
Though.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
I get what he was trying to say.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
I do too, But when I first heard it, I'm like, oh, bro,
like that's a little dramatic. And then then I said
and thought about it for a minute, I'm like, no, no, Like, actually,
I wonder if in twenty years there's going to be
a whole study of and residual mental illness and or
already seeing it. I think socially, and we do social
skills and stuff like that as a result of people's
(16:42):
reliance on tech and how tech is something that is
introduced to kids at the youngest age, and so it's
like a dependency. I mean imagine, I mean it's the
dependency for us as adults, and we had a life
without it. Imagine if you were born and you never
had But on the flip side, I would probably have
done better in school if I had access to YouTube
and the internet in some ways, not because I would cheat,
but because half the time i'd go home and I
(17:03):
couldn't answer like a math question, and now I could
go to type and YouTube. Someone explained it to me.
You know, that's just one example. So there's a plus.
There's pluses and minuses. No, man, it's Mickey Mouse's birthday.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
Guys. We've covered a lot of topics.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
We've covered how to act with women and men in
the world. We've learned that Paulina has a pH d
in AI, and we've we've addressed very serious issues like
tech in the with children. So don't say there's no
substance on this show.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
Yes,
This is the press show.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Dame is taking over Las Vegas this January for his
seven Night Presidents. Heth Doby Live at Park MGM, and
we've got a trip for two to the January twenty
fifth show to Night Hotel State at Park MGM January
twenty fourth through the twenty sixth and round trip airfare.
Text dusk to three seven three three seven now for
a chance to win. A confirmation text will be said.
(00:22):
Standard message of data rates may apply. All thanks to
Live Nation.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Rives biggest stories of the day.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
All right, So airports are resuming normal schedules. However, it's
gonna take a while for it to ramp up, and
you're not going to be able to have any recourse
as far as the financial benefits the government. You know,
guarantees been flied too late, so they rescinded all of
the compensation. Airports across the US would be a little
(00:49):
bit less stressful now, hopefully now that the FAA has
edited its Emergency Flight for Reduction order if they're calling him.
A reduction in flights of dozens of major airports began
a week ago to help addressing address the staffing issues
among traffic controllers during the government shutdown. This led to
thousands of flights being delayed and canceled, just as a
busy Thanksgiving travel period approaches. But things have been improving
(01:09):
and the reductions have been lifted, and I.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Guess they're adding more and more flights.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
But they did say the government said that the rules
that compensate travelers for airline delays are no longer in place,
at least not right now. That means that passengers who
deal with long flight delays have no way to push
back against the airlines. I guess that's because the government
told them they had to do this. So then if
your flights are messed up, well it's the government's fold.
So then the airlines shouldn't have to be penalized because
the purpose of you getting paid was the airline screwed
(01:35):
something up, so they got to pay you, and not
just keep you on the plane and give you water
for eight hours. Yikes, it turns out you can't do that.
The Cambridge Dictionary has named its word of the year parasocial.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Parasocial is the word used to describe a connection that
people feel with someone that they don't know, or even
an artificial intelligence.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
They're saying.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
The term was coined in nineteen fifty six by two
sociologists who wanted to describe how television viewers formed parasocial
relationship with TV personalities. The Dictionary said that this is
going to be the word of the year. I guess.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
I guess you could argue there are.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
People out there that haven't met us, that have parasocial
relationship with us. Right, they've never actually met us, and
we've never actually met them, but we feel that we
have relationships with them. Or that you listen every morning
because of whatever, or you listen every morning to hate
on us.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Either way, it's parasocial.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
The phenomenon continues today as social media users form parasocial
relationship with celebrities, influencers, and online personalities with whom they
have no personal connection. A key example cited by the
Cambridge Dictionary is singer Taylor Swift, who announced her engagement
to Travis Kelcey this year, with many fans expressing heartfelt
feelings towards a couple that most people will never and
(02:51):
have never met. Which I think that's a great example
because you know, the whole world was captivated by this
relationship and by his courtship and by are they toygether?
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Are they not?
Speaker 2 (03:00):
And then him chasing her around the world on the
Aras tour, and then her going to games, and then
them getting engaged, and ninety nine point nine percent of
people have never met either one of them, but yet
they're cheering them on because it's this nice love story, right, Yes,
so that's a perfect example.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
It's asocial. Hard hear though, Like, who voted? What was
the other one I gave you as a word of
the year? Six seven? Probably? Yeah, I mean so I
think that's a that's a better word than the rest. Okay,
we'll take it.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
But everything's so AI now, Like I feel like in
the last six months it's AI. And it's been like
this for a while, but it's lately it's just AI.
Everything's AI. Yes, So the word probably had to incorporate
get them. Yeah, yeah, your therapist, your business partner.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
You guys, if you're not on the AI boat, if
you're not on the train, you will be left behind.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
So you need to really immerse yourself. I'd enjoy it.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
He'll be left out. I told you, I'm on it.
I have the fifteen dollars a month subscription. I just
need to find someone who's much more tech savvy than
I am to teach me what I'm supposed to be
doing with it.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
It's not hard, you, guys, is creative if you want
to be, you know the crazy.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Things you can do. Your entire life isn't automated, so
you don't pretend like you're the A.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
My life is very automated. You know yesterday, but you
still show up forty five minutes late to everything? Not
anymore because of AI. I literally say, hey, how long
to take me to get ready? I'm with your with
your rollers and your baby in your hand er? Some
rollers right right? Brilliant? You're Brazilian blowout down?
Speaker 2 (04:31):
May I ask you out?
Speaker 1 (04:34):
May I know you? What was the line?
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Again? I don't know many media or should I get
hey I to do it for me? No, I'm with you,
and I think I'm completely with you. That that AI
is it and we either embrace it or I get it.
But I'm what I'm telling you?
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Is it crazy?
Speaker 2 (04:50):
There are layers of this that I don't even understand.
I just need someone to tell me what I should
be doing with it.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
No one can really tell you what to do.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
It's really based on your life, yeaple, can I say
what it did yesterday? And this might work for you too,
But I don't know how much would you got in
the fridge. You can take a picture of like what
you have if you have like leftover this or that
or whatever ingredients and say, hey, what can I make
with this a picture?
Speaker 1 (05:11):
I would love to know what I can make with French.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
Mustard's going to say, you got champagne and champagne.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
I would love to know, probably a vinaigrette of something.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
Yes actually in the store right you're nearest jewel Osco.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
But you guys know what I'm saying. Like, like Paulleen
over here is an AI master. Maybe she's the one
I have to hire. I like, I don't know. I
don't know what I'm supposed to be doing. Like I
know that it can help me with, you know, writing things.
I know it can help me with you know, captions
and posts, and I know that it can I know
it can do all these things. But like I need
someone to look at my life and go, oh, it
(05:45):
can be responding to this, and it can be doing that,
and you can program it to do this, and it'll
tell you how to do that. Because it's not as
simple as you don't get the best results of you
if you're just a novice. You get better results if
you know what you're doing. I don't know what I'm
doing what It really depends on the day. Like what
do you want to do to write that children's book
you've talked about?
Speaker 3 (06:01):
Do you want to I don't know, pitch ideas to
You have a TV show that we get to watch
every every night, right, so like do you have topics
for the show?
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Can you? I don't know. It's different things different days.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
I will say that I haven't been that impressed. That's
that's what I mean though, Like that, like the base level,
Like if I just go to it and say, tell
me what we should talk about on the radio, it
gives me terrible ideas because on top culture. Okay, but
Pauline Boom be specific.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
You have to talk to her. You're treating You're treating
her like I don't like a side chick, Like you
gotta be good to her. You gotta tell her the
bread earth like a side chick. What are we gonna
do when you have nowhere to stand?
Speaker 3 (06:39):
Because I ruined the plan, Well, there's a lot of
things ruing the planet unfortunately, But yes, you're.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Let's ruin it more. I don't know, well, no, I don't.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
I disagree with you actually about that, because if it's good,
it's not going anywhere.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
That's the sad part. It's not going anywhere.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
But if you actually are behind it, you can make
the changes of like, Okay, we don't want to pump
so much water. What can we do to like preserve
the earth and not use all this water to pump
you know, Fred's questions out today, Like you get what
I'm saying, it's not going questions.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
And are giving me bad answers. So why does so
much water get pumped up?
Speaker 1 (07:05):
Meet you specific? No?
Speaker 3 (07:08):
I mean yeah, I want them to be a different way.
And will there every be a different way?
Speaker 1 (07:11):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
I hope so, because that is really sad and I
don't like that it's using all of our water to
pump up questions. But okay, you have to be specific,
but I'm very passionate about this.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
You has to be very specific, and IM saying is
I didn't know that, So I need someone to teach
me that.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
To be specific about yourself.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
I don't think it's that simple, Paulina, I think that
there are probably people out there who have degrees in
this they do who could and that, Why are you arguing?
Speaker 1 (07:35):
That's who I want to talk to you.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
I want someone to follow me around and say here,
do this, and do that, and ask it this way,
and teach it this and do this and then this,
and then it's going to make your life easier in
this way because I don't know how.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
I hear you. May I help you, May I meet
you to help you.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
Okay, Let's ask her a question right now, should we like,
what should we do for the entertaining reporter?
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Let's ask her, Oh, no, I've done I've tried to
make I've tried that.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
And that's the problem, and it should.
Speaker 5 (08:04):
I'll be trying to ask them what we do on
this show, you know, like I do what I do,
Kaylin gonna do what she do. Don't ast about entertainer reports.
I'm all right, yeah, and I'm not gonna play with her.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
See Okay, So I got two separate sides of the
argument here. Kiki wants Ai to die and Polina is
an expert pure.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
How to please all your women when it comes to
a like these women in this room, because we're on
opposite ends.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
The way that I see it is I can I
am a I can cook. I can cook basic food,
right like if you if you give me some ingredients,
I can make you basic food. I can make you
eggs and grilled cheese, and I can make you basic
stuff and it tastes fine. But if I wanted to
get to a culinary like, you know, some sort of
gourmet level, then I would need someone to teach me that,
(08:50):
like I would need someone to say, here's how you
can make it better. That's what I'm saying, is I
need you know what I just it would be helpful
to me.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
Where's the manual? That's what I mean.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
There are probably probably My point is there probably ways
in which things can be even easier for me, and
I don't and I don't know how to do it.
So that's all I'm saying. And so then you're offering
to help me, which is exactly how we got on
this eight minute rant. Was I need someone to help me,
So you could have just said I'll help you, and
then we didn't have to have this because you're admitting
and you're acknowledging I don't know what I'm doing.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Listen, it's not AI's top. She's a tough one. But
we got it. We got this. You and I are
getting together after work. I can't wait.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
A routine flight turned into a mid air emergency for
a Jet Blue flight from Boston to Tampa, Kiki and
the meantime, she just burned my computer down.
Speaker 5 (09:31):
She burned it. She just unplugged it and handed me
a pencil. AI works for you. You don't work for
a period. Okay, just keep that in mind, Paul. You
are in control. You're in control. You have to see
it information. I'm Fred, I'm this person. This is my personality.
This is how I talk. You have to be specific.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
I'm gonna go grab.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
A coffee, right. This is the information I was asking
for that you were yelling at me for not knowing.
So back to my story. A routine flight turned into
a mid air emergency for a Jet Blue flight from
Boston to tamp It was forced to make a return
to Boston's Logan Airport because a passenger in first class
had been vaping marijuana in the lavatory. The crew then
inhaled the smoke got secondhand high. Apparently, the plane was
(10:13):
fully fueled and thus overweight for a safe landing, so
the pilot had to issue an emergency call to air
traffic Control. During communications, they asked that the cockpit was secure.
The guy said that the disturbance involved the lavatory. Thankfully,
the flight landed safely back in Boston. With that injuries
or further incidents, the passenger responsible faces federal charges a
lifetime airline van and the airline may pursue civil charges.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
This could actually be pretty bad.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
Yeah, if the vapes then go into the cockpit and
those guys breathe it in.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
How addicted are you that you can't take a flight?
Speaker 2 (10:44):
I know, I know, but I mean if the pilots
get high, that's not ideal. No, you know you want
to get high. Fine, but like pilot's sober, right, you
know when it comes time for landing. I know the
guys if they're you know, ordering taco bell on door
to ash and trying to figure out, you know, where
to get a pete. So I need you focused a
new s from the This is great. The American Christmas
(11:05):
Tree Association, which is also known in the industry as
the ACTA. Everybody knows that they're showing the artificial Christmas
tree market is the clear favorite for US homes. Eighty
three percent of households that plan to display a tree
this year have chosen a fake one. Despite some concerns
about tariffs and important goods, demand for an artificial tree
remains strong and steady. Speaking of the holidays, apparently more
(11:30):
people are planning to rent clothing for everything from holiday
parties to keeping warm coach to ugly sweaters.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
I do it every month. Ugly sweater.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
That is a good idea because because the last one
is the last time. First of all, you know I'm
not a theme party guy, no, and you want me
to come to ugly sweater party, I probably just wear
a normal sweater, so people will just think it's ugly.
But like you buy it right, they're usually very animated
(12:02):
and enunciated. You know, it's got a slogan on it
or a thing you really can't like recycle that, Like
you can't wear the same ugly sweater to every year,
so then you just sits there or you donate it
or you throw it away or whatever. So I mean imagine,
just rent the ugly sweater and then send it back
and then we're not wasting ugly. We're not wasting stuff
because like an ugly sweater party, like you're gonna wear
(12:22):
that once a year maybe, So apparently people are doing this.
I know a lot of people do it, Like my
friends at the TV station, they most of their clothes
rent rent. I do it every month because it's like
they gotta wear a new outfit on TV every night.
So because because some viewer will write them and say
I saw that dress on January third, that's crazy. So
they rent clothes, which makes a lot of sense because
(12:43):
they're wearing designer stuff every night. But then they can
just send it back and get new stuff. That's smart.
But I never thought about it as it pertained like
holiday parties and like big jackets, Like if you're traveling
somewhere you need a big coat. Maybe you don't live
somewhere where you need a big coat, so you don't
get to spend the money. So people are renting clothing
every mind.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Yeah, every month. I love it. It's my favorite thing.
I will not say which company I use.
Speaker 4 (13:04):
It's not rent the Rack because I've tried to do
things with them and they will not do anything with me.
But I love it. It's aside from this year, which
I'm wearing J C.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
Penny to.
Speaker 4 (13:13):
Usually I do it for things like Jingle Bosh to
where it's.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Like even though it's I think it's women's stuff, the
women's in juniors.
Speaker 4 (13:18):
Well yeah, and girls, Yeah, what are you wearing?
Speaker 1 (13:21):
Are you wearing the hotpants that I'm gonna wear? Are
you gonna wear it the long.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
I was going to Since you're wearing the hotpants, I'll
wear the long sequenced Beell bottoms.
Speaker 4 (13:29):
Okay, and you want the craps like semi.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Obviously I've lost some weights, so yeah, that's that's the move.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
No, it makes a lot of sense though I just
never thought about it as it pertains to holiday parties
exclusively or holiday stuff that you're never gonna wear again.
And finally today, guys, and I think I'm gonna send
Paulina to this because she's so impassioned. Well, similar some
parents are turning to digital detox camp oh for children
and teens, so.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
It might be for me.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Actually there's like a lake there and a tree buss.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
The parents interviewed say that they've tried time limits, parental
control apps, and endless negotiations but nothing stick. So now
they're paying thousands to send kids to unplugged camps in
the woods, structured reset programs, and tech free retreats designed
to break the cycle of scrolling and gaming. These camps
promise it when parents feel they can't deliver at home.
(14:29):
No phones, no apps, no TikTok, just real world activities,
counselors who specialize in tech dependence, and days built around
face to face interaction. We have to send people to
camps now to get you to do stuff that's.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
Not on a screen.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
And apparently programs now have weight lists stretching months and
months I can get in.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
My friends who have taken away their kids devices for
extended periods of time say that they have different children
when they don't have their devices.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
They don't throw.
Speaker 4 (14:57):
Tantrums, they don't argue as much like their present.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
They want to hang out and talk to the family.
It just stinks because then the friends at school.
Speaker 4 (15:05):
Still have their technology, and that's like the hard part.
Speaker 5 (15:08):
But remember that time I was on a cruise ship
and I didn't have Wi Fi and almost jumped.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
Yeah, they had to get that coast Guard helicopter to
fly away because you were having seizures and shaking. Yes,
that was a real waste of resources. Kik, like, I
don't think it was necessary.
Speaker 5 (15:20):
Oh no, it was like it it gets dangerous. Were
you trying to refresh that timeline and it won't go?
Speaker 2 (15:26):
Oh no, tell them what you might what our company
stay to me who I respect. But I thought it
was kind of dramatic until I thought about it, and
when you first hear the statement, it seems dramatic. But
he said that some to the effective giving kids phones
is like giving kids cigarettes in the eighties or something.
It was something like that, and I was like, oh,
I don't know about that, and then I thought about it.
(15:47):
It's like or what or maybe it's a different example,
but it was something that was like readily available to
kids in different generations that no one really thought a
whole lot of No one gives kids cigarettes.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
It wasn't that for yourself.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
I'm trying to also textimacy, but it was like, wow,
that's really But it's the point that he was trying
to make is that we don't realize the danger that
we're introducing into kids' lives when we give them access
to this tech because it seems harmless until it's not.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
No, it probably wasn't cigarettes. It wasn't explosives either, but
it's something that dangerous.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
Though.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
I get what he was trying to say.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
I do too, But when I first heard it, I'm like, oh, bro,
like that's a little dramatic. And then then I said
and thought about it for a minute, I'm like, no, no, Like, actually,
I wonder if in twenty years there's going to be
a whole study of and residual mental illness and or
already seeing it. I think socially, and we do social
skills and stuff like that as a result of people's
(16:42):
reliance on tech and how tech is something that is
introduced to kids at the youngest age, and so it's
like a dependency. I mean imagine, I mean it's the
dependency for us as adults, and we had a life
without it. Imagine if you were born and you never
had But on the flip side, I would probably have
done better in school if I had access to YouTube
and the internet in some ways, not because I would cheat,
but because half the time i'd go home and I
(17:03):
couldn't answer like a math question, and now I could
go to type and YouTube. Someone explained it to me.
You know, that's just one example. So there's a plus.
There's pluses and minuses. No, man, it's Mickey Mouse's birthday.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
Guys. We've covered a lot of topics.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
We've covered how to act with women and men in
the world. We've learned that Paulina has a pH d
in AI, and we've we've addressed very serious issues like
tech in the with children. So don't say there's no
substance on this show.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
Yes,
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