A Tsunami has hit Hawaii, and it doesn't seem as bad as it was predicted to be. A Vigil in Central Park was held for the 4 victims that we're shot on Monday on Park Avenue in NYC's Mass Murder. We have the info on why President Trump cut off any communication with Jeffrey Epstein over 20 years ago. Chris Nowinski joined Larry to discuss how he was a former Harvard football player and WWE wrestler. In addition, Chris's career was cut short by a concussion he got, sparking his mission to raise awareness about brain trauma. Greg Giangrande and Larry talk about how A.I. can be used in the workplace in the future. A.I. is changing the way some companies do their interviewing process. Greg gives tips on how to get hired.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Halfway through the week. Thanks for being with us this morning,
the last day of the wimpy heat wave. And I
only call a whimpy heat wave because I got that
as a meteorological term from Race Stagic yesterday. He agreed.
I guess it's easy for me to say. I guess
it's easy for us to say it's a wimpy heat wave,
considering we work in air conditioning and drive in air
(00:22):
conditioning cars and go to an air conditioning home. If
you're working outside, I'm sure it's a lot different. So
if you are working outside of your spending a lot
of time outside, drink a lot of water, be very careful.
But right after today, it is going to be nice.
It's going to be high tomorrow, seventy near seventy degrees.
(00:44):
Is that right? You're checking, you're double checking it to
make sure that's right. That's what I have in front
of me, A few showers, maybe a thunderstorm, near seventy high.
It's going to be eighty five tomorrow. What is the
tomorrow night or near seventy tomorrow night? Okay, I didn't
have anything for the high of the day in the forecast.
(01:05):
That's in front of me. So thank you, Jacqueline, Saturday
High near eighty again Sunday High near eighty two. But
it's gonna feel a lot. It's going to feel a
lot cooler and a lot nicer compared to what we've
been through the last couple of days. Now, let's get
to the story of the day, which was the story
(01:25):
of yesterday, and of course it's going to be the
story during the investigation of the next few weeks. It
leads off our Big Three. And there was a visil
last night held in Brian Park for the four victims
of the Park Avenue mass shooting. Police Commissioner Jessica Tish
memorialized officer. Police officer did to rule Islam.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
They were taken from our arms in violence. They now
rest in God's arms in peace. May their memories be
a blessing.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
It will have much more on the investigation coming up
in just a couple of minutes. Tsunami has now hit
Hawaii and is headed towards the California coast. It was
spawned by a huge earthquake off the shores of Russia.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
Eight point eight magnitude, one of the most powerful earthquakes
ever and it has sent a chain of tsunami warnings
and advisories across and around the Pacific.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
And remember how controversial the offshore wind turbines were off
the coast of New Jersey, New York, and Connecticut. Not anymore.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
We will not allow a windmill to be built in
the United States. They killing as they're killing the beauty
of our scenery, our valleys, our beautiful planes. And you
look up and you see windmills all over the place.
It's a horrible thing. It's the most expensive form of energy.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
It's no good. The situation in Gaza continues to get worse.
In the United States is now sending cargo planes packed
with food. We will talk with ABC's Jordana Miller at
seven thirty five. So we sent sixty million dollars.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
It's a lot of money for food and a lot
of money that can take care of people for a
long time, and we want to make sure it's going
to be it's being spent properly. That part of the
spending is the distribution.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
And we now know why President Trump cut off all
contact with Jeffrey Epstein over twenty years ago.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
He stole people that work for me. I said, don't
ever do that again. He did it again, and I
threw him out of the place, per Sona on Grada.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Now, let's talk about the investigation into the mass shooting,
the worst shooting in New York in twenty five years,
killing for there was a vigil last night, and it's
important to remember the people that were killed. Just you know,
we always talk about how people are killed senselessly, but
this was just random acts of violence. I know he
(03:58):
was going after the NFL, but did you hear that
he got in the wrong elevator. That's why he ended
up in the thirty third floor. That's why Julie Hyman,
a twenty seven year old who worked at Rudent Property Management,
was killed because he happened to get on the floor
the elevator that went to her floor. He was trying
to go to the NFL. But you know, when you
get into high rises, there's different lots of elevators, right,
(04:22):
some of them go to certain floors, and this one
that he got into just happened to go to the
thirty third floor and there was Julie Hyman sitting there
and he killed her. She graduated from Cornell's Peter and
Stephanie Nolan's School of hotel administration. Back in twenty twenty,
some of the other victims all this were starting to
(04:43):
learn a lot more about them. Wesley Lapotner, forty three,
a Blackstone employee. She was a wife and mom she
was killed. She was a senior managing director at Blackstone.
She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Yale University and served
on the boards of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. And
get this, she's one of the best friends of Police
(05:06):
Commissioner Jessica Tish. Also, you remember the first person that
was killed was a security officer, Alan Eton, forty six
year old. Took his duties extremely seriously, his boss said yesterday,
and he's going to be remembered as a hero. He
also has a seven year old son. And of course
we've all been playing homage to off duty New York
(05:29):
Police officer d Darul Islam. And I mistakenly said off duty,
because when you have the uniform on, you're on duty
all the time. It doesn't matter who's signing your paycheck.
You are a police officer. Believe me, if something were
to happen outside, Officer Islam would have run out there.
So excuse me for saying that he is NYPD officer
(05:54):
Dietarol Islam, who was on duty, was the father of
two and his wife was pregnant. She was do with
their third child just next month, so all of it
is absolutely heartbreaking.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Officer Islam's death was yet another reminder of everything you
risk just by showing up to work. He knew that risk,
he embraced it. He understood what it meant to put
the safety of others above his own right.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
He's an absolute hero. He's getting a hero's funeral. The
PBA is going to make sure his wife and children
are taken care of. So God bless him and everybody
who died yesterday. The vigil was more than appropriate, except
for Kathy Hochol, and we'll get to that in a second,
but for right now, let's talk about the investigation into
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what happened. We do know that two notes were left behind,
one in his car and one they found in his home,
and in both of them he talked about the NFL,
and he talked about CTE. It is a brain condition
you get from concussions. And he was a star high
school football player. But what I didn't hear yesterday and
(07:05):
Mayor Adams kept talking about over and over again. He
was everywhere doing interviews yesterday. What he kept talking about
over and over again. And I haven't seen the note
obviously that was left in the car, but he says
in the note that the shooter, the murderer, I should say,
claims that he played in the NFL.
Speaker 5 (07:26):
He alluded to having CTE from playing in the NFL.
He never played in the NFL, and he alluded to
the CTE being the reason for his illness. It appears
as though he was going after the employees at the NFL.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
Yeah. Shane Timora is twenty seven years old from Las Vegas.
Drove all the way from Las Vegas here. What was
amazing yesterday is how much information they quickly had on him.
They knew exactly how he traveled from either easy Pass
or highway cameras almost instantaneously. They knew stop by stop
(08:13):
by stop by stop, that he was in Nebraska, that
he was in New Jersey, all the way through. They
were able to follow him, and then they had a
whole bunch of information about who he was and what
he did for a living hours after this happened. It
is incredible how we're all connected electronically right now, and
how much information is out there for law enforcement to
(08:36):
find when and if they need to. We had a
talk back yesterday that was fascinating that said that this
seems like it could be a copycat of Luigi Mangioni,
who killed the CEO of United Healthcare and an assassination
(08:57):
on the streets of New York and Mayor Adams, Yeah,
we're always worried about copycats.
Speaker 5 (09:02):
You always focus on copycats, and that's why we're going
to make sure we have our uniform assets that are
out at high target areas, but also there would be
assets that you're not going to see where officers are
going to be there to keep a close watch.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Everybody now is trying to find out more about Chain
Tomura and how this happened. Nobody saw this coming, nobody.
He was a nobody's radar. That gun that he used
he put together himself. That are now investigating the people
that gave him the parts, but nobody thought anything of them.
He just seemed like the nicest guy. They went back
(09:43):
to talk to his high school football coach at Grenada
Hills and he is just stunned. I'm in shocks. I
would not have ever imagined such a thing. Could I
done more? Could I help the kid? Could I reached
out to him? Or could you reach out to him?
It's just a lot of things I'm trying to process
right now. It's amazing he got emotional. That's a really
(10:05):
good coach, a coach that was worried about their players
long after they've left the fold, long after they've left
the field. So something went haywire with this guy a
long long time ago. And it wasn't the CTE that
did it. I don't know. He left the note saying,
please examine my brain. He believes that. Much more on
(10:28):
the investigation throughout the show and in the days to come.
In the meantime, it's day three of the heat wave.
Is relief coming. We have an extended talk with woor's
Weather Channel meteorologist Ray Stagic And have you noticed a
longer wait at the airports? There's a reason for that.
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(11:11):
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at nine am. Now, let's get back to the mass
shooting in New York and the man who did it
and the fact that he played football in high school
(11:32):
and suffered he says from CTEs. As a matter of fact,
in a note, he said he wants his brain studied.
So let's talk to an expert on CTEs and concussions.
Chris Nowinski is a PhD. He's co founder and CEO
of the Concussion Legacy Foundation. He's co founder of Unite
Brain Bank at Boston University. Chris, thanks so much for
(11:55):
joining us. We appreciate your expertise today.
Speaker 6 (12:00):
Thanks for talking about this difficult subject.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
Well, let's talk about it first. What is a cte?
Speaker 6 (12:05):
CT is a degenerative brain disease has a lot of
similarities to Alzheimer's, but you get it in your teens
or twenties while you're playing sports and getting repeated traumatic
brain injuries, and then it continues to spread throughout the
rest of your life. End the stage, it results in dementia,
usually in older age, and along the way, people have
abnormal behaviors and changes to the way they think.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Chris, I know you played football both in high school
and in college, and you were a pro wrestler. Did
you suffer concussions?
Speaker 6 (12:36):
I did, But it's important to note that there's no
time between number of concussions and CTE. Most of the
brain injuries that I suffered as a player were actually silent, asymptomatic,
and so one of the important things. I played eight
years of football, wrestled for three with a WW I'm
certainly at risk for this independent of if I had
concussions diagnosed or not.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
Is that right? So anybody can get CTE, It doesn't matter.
I thought it was completely tied to concussions and brain injuries.
Speaker 6 (13:03):
Well, it depends in a language you used. It is
tied to traumatic brain injuries, but most of the traumatic
brain We published a study to help people understand this,
where we highlighted a different study that showed for every
one concussion that I might have suffered in college, I
had three hundred and forty hits that were harder than
that concussion. And what we understand is that I couldn't
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feel one neuron dying, and so those hard hits are
probably causing microscopic we call subclinical traumatic brain injury. And
that's why when we study this now a thousand people
who were athletes, it's always the people with the longer careers,
the more hits, rather or not they were diagnosed with
concussions that have CTE. And so it's years of play
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which is a proxy for hard hits, number and strength
of hits that is driving this and that is important
note for everyone to know.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
And a CTE how does it manifest itself? How does
it change one's behavior?
Speaker 6 (14:02):
It depends in part because it is caused by injuries,
and so the original lesions and your prefernal cortex are
going to be a little different in everybody, and so
it's not a surprise that people some people seem to
be normal until they're late in life, and other people
seem to struggle early on. In addition, to get ct
you have to have repetitive traumatic brain injuries. The brain
(14:24):
injuries without CTE can also cause these symptoms. You know,
if you damage your frontal lobe, your behavior is going
to change. You're going to have problems with the disinhibition.
You're not going to be controlling your impulses. You might
have problems with executive functioning, making good choices, goal oriented behavior.
And then later on in life, you know, we start
having memory problems and we start having you know, dementia,
(14:46):
which means you just can't take care of yourself anymore.
You end up at a nursing home.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
I'm sure you've been looking very carefully because of your expertise,
at the story of Shane Tomora, the shooter at Park
Avenue that killed and injured another person. Does it make
sense that him having CTE would cause this violence.
Speaker 6 (15:11):
That's a difficult question answer, So I'll give you the
long answer, which is, you know, we've seen this before.
There were where these horrible things have happened. I think
about Philip Adams, former NFL player, who had thirty two,
lost his mind with leading journals it made no sense,
and then killed six strangers down the road, including two children.
He did have CTE and his frontal lobes were atrophying,
and you could make an argument in their pathologist, doctor Amnicky,
(15:34):
did that the changes to his frontal lobe would have
unlocked this sort of create you know, inappropriate social behavior.
We've also seen these happen where people's brains were normal, right,
so this this can happen. You know, CT is not
going to cause an act, but it is going to
make you more likely to have, you know, abnormal behaviors.
(15:56):
In the absence of this person's brain being studied, the
assumption is he just had you know, some psychosis, you
know some you know who knows what he was diagnosed
with during life, and it may have nothing to do
with CT, and he just focused on the CT as
part of his psychosis.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
That's one option.
Speaker 6 (16:13):
But another option is he did have traumatic brain injuries
through playing sports and it did change him. And because
that is possible, and because in the big picture, certainly
some of the people who are who have had these
EPNMOL behaviors, it is TBI and CT driving it. That's
why we need to continue to raise awareness and try
to prevent all these unnecessary hits that are happening in
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these sports that are causing this. And we have looked
at the brains of forty five former high school players
who died before thirty and fourteen to the forty five
did have the disease. This is a disease that you
see in less than one percent of the population. So
the fact that families parents usually are able to spot
it so well suggest there is something you know related there.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
Well, you just scared a lot of families and including me.
My son played college football. What do you do? How
do you get tested to see if you have CTE. Well,
that's the other big problem is that we can't tested
during life. You know, when we started the Night Brain Bank.
Speaker 6 (17:10):
In two thousand and eight, the Boston University CD Center,
there's the first academic center worldwide focused on this, and
so it takes decades to figure out how to diagnose
something during life. We're getting very close, but we can't.
And so and I understand why you're concerned too. You know,
I'm concerned. We've already diagnosed my former roommate and the
captain of the Harvard football team from nineteen ninety nine, Chrisitesman,
with CTE. He was the greatest guy in the world
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until he developed a severe drinking problem that we could
not pull him out of. So it like if you
are a college player. You know, we're actually working with
a number of colleges to reach out to their alumni
and say, if you are concerned about yourself for a
loved one, get help the important messages.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Help works.
Speaker 6 (17:47):
But you know we should having this conversation with a
former player yesterday. It's a shame to find out after
your career you may have damaged your brain.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
Would you let your children play contact football?
Speaker 6 (18:01):
There's no way my son is playing until high school,
and even then I don't see high school making the
reforms that should make to be safer. So it's a
good chance he'll never play because I can't imagine putting
my son on a path to where he's now, my
age forty six, where he all he cares about is
holding down his job and taking care of his family,
and he has to worry that his brain going to
fail him. Right, that's an uncomfortable feeling.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
Hey Chris, how do people get a hold of you?
How do people find out more about the Concussion Legacy Foundation.
Speaker 6 (18:31):
I go to Concussion Foundation dot org or on all
the social medias, and especially we have a free helpline.
If you are concerned, go to CLF Helpline dot org
or Concussion Foundation dot org and ask for help, and
we will find you a doctor, We'll find you support
groups will help you get better. And the good news
this treatment does work, especially for these midlife symptoms.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
Hey, Chris, thank you for joining us today. Thank you
for what you do. Chris Nowinski, PhD, co founder and
CEO of Concussion Legacy Foundation and co found under a
Unite Brain Bank at Boston University. Thanks again, sir. Now,
let's start to Greg g and Grande, career advice expert
with us every Wednesday at this time. You can check
(19:11):
him out at go to Greg dot com. Greg, we
want to talk about AI today. We were just discussing
it early about schooling and how it's being accepted more
in the schools and even taught now in college. I'm
sure it's been integrated into the workplace. Let's start with hiring.
How is AI used in hiring these days? I hope
(19:34):
Greg's not using AI to answer this phone call, because
he's showing that it doesn't work all that well. Greg
g and Grande, of course, is the career advice expert
that we talk to every week, and he's normally really
reliable man. He would have just blown the interview had
he had had this been for a job Greg, therey
(19:57):
are Greg. I don't know if you heard a word
I said, But you did hear it? No you didn't.
So let's talk about AI and talk about AI. Let's
start with how AI is being used in businesses for hiring. Oh,
he doesn't want to tell there, he goes again. Maybe
he doesn't know anything about this topic. Maybe that's the problem,
(20:19):
that's why he's staying silent.
Speaker 7 (20:20):
I'm back. I don't know what's going on. I'm so sorry.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
No, you're fine. Now, you're you're just fine. Now let
me for the third time, I'll ask the question, just
in case you didn't hear it. How is AI used
in hiring in businesses these days?
Speaker 7 (20:35):
It is something we will be talking about for the
foreseeable future. AI is really taking hold in how we
recruit and assess new applicants and in current jobs. Companies
are slowing down hiring and they're replacing you know, normal
hiring with AI agents who can do the work. So
(20:58):
it's having a trans formative, major generational, transformative impact on
the workforce. And if you're looking for a job or
if you're in a job, you need to pay close
attention to what your company is doing.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
So recruiters will all lose their jobs.
Speaker 7 (21:15):
Now, well, there will be fewer recruiters because there's a
lot in the recruitment process that is manual that AI
can do, you know, far better, far faster in terms
of reviewing resumes, assessing resumes. The volume of resumes that
come in when people apply to these big job sitech
(21:37):
indeed is so is so great that most most recruiters
can't really review them all. AI can review like thousands
in the time it would take one person to do
it in a in a week, they could do it
in a minute.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
Yeah, in the hiring process, I can see it really
having an effect on jobs, but serious it seems to me,
except for some manual labor jobs and some jobs that
wouldn't be affected necessarily by AI for certain reasons, it's
going to affect thousands and thousands, if not millions of jobs.
Speaker 7 (22:16):
It already is. There are some predictions that you know,
as much as forty percent of the current workforce is
going to be disrupted and jobs will disappear and new
jobs will be created. But you're right, most of the
trade jobs and the service jobs that could only be
(22:37):
replaced by robotics, we're way off from that having a
major impact on those types of jobs, But for traditional
corporate white collar jobs, it's already having a tremendous impact.
So if you're an entry level just entering the job market,
hiring is slowing down dramatically because companies every time there
(22:58):
is an opening, most big companies are thinking, well, how
can we replace that work through AI? And if you're
in a mid career middle management kind of job, those
jobs are at risk too because companies are looking when
they look at how to become more efficient, they look
at how many layers they have and how many people
(23:22):
are responsible for other people, and so they try to
flatten their organization by eliminating some of that middle management layer.
And wherever AI can do a job just as well
or better or more efficiently, companies are looking at how
to implement that.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
Now, is it important to be at least knowledgeable, if
not proficient, at AI to get jobs these days?
Speaker 7 (23:48):
You definitely want to be proficient at how your company
uses AI. So every company, whatever technology they use for
internal community, for email, whatever they use, there's AI typically
already embedded in that, and you want to make sure
that as an employee you are proficient in how to
(24:11):
use the technology to its fullest capability, and you want
to demonstrate that to your boss. And you don't have
to be a coder, you don't have to become an engineer,
but you have to learn how to use the technology
just like any other technology, to its fullest capabilities, and
that will help you in your job and it will
(24:31):
help you become more safe and marketable in your role
if you learn how to use these technologies.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
So let's flip this around. So AI is being used
by companies to help weed out people and to find
the right employee to hire. How does a job seeker
use AI to find a job and to make sure
that they are the right candidate.
Speaker 7 (24:56):
Well, everyone focuses on the resid and listen, you need
a resume and you should apply for jobs through these
online boards. But that's a little bit like hitting the
lottery because if you're applying to a job that's posted online,
like literally thousands of other resumes are coming across. Then
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so what you can do for that method of job
searching is to make sure that you are tailoring your
resume to that specific job and company. You can't have
a one size fits all resume and you need to
use language within your resume that is the language that
that profession and that company uses, because the AI technologies
(25:41):
will look for that and will pick up for the
language that is common to the job description and that
and that industry. But you shouldn't just be relying on that.
Networking always has been and always will be the most
effective way to find to find a job.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
Here's here's what's interesting about this because we're just talking
about this in schools and colleges and high schools and
how some are now changing how they feel about AI,
but many still are strict about now using AI to
do your work. And yet when you get a job,
you're going to need to know how to use AI
to do your work. They're not changing quickly enough for
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the times, are they.
Speaker 7 (26:21):
Well, Schools are concerned about cheating and about they're concerned
about not being able to differentiate between students and skills
and what they're actually learning. Employers don't care. They want
you to get the work done as best and as
fast as you can, but they do care that you
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use the technologies that are approved. So you should be
using AI at work only with the technologies that your
company has approved, because if you use other programs that
could be a violation and often is a violation of
company technology policy because they can't protect the company's information
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and you can lose your job if you're using technology
that the company hasn't authorized.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
Quote of the day screw AI so no. Greg gan
Grande career advice expert with us every Wednesday at nine
thirty five. Thanks a lot, Greg,
Halfway through the week. Thanks for being with us this morning,
the last day of the wimpy heat wave. And I
only call a whimpy heat wave because I got that
as a meteorological term from Race Stagic yesterday. He agreed.
I guess it's easy for me to say. I guess
it's easy for us to say it's a wimpy heat wave,
considering we work in air conditioning and drive in air
(00:22):
conditioning cars and go to an air conditioning home. If
you're working outside, I'm sure it's a lot different. So
if you are working outside of your spending a lot
of time outside, drink a lot of water, be very careful.
But right after today, it is going to be nice.
It's going to be high tomorrow, seventy near seventy degrees.
(00:44):
Is that right? You're checking, you're double checking it to
make sure that's right. That's what I have in front
of me, A few showers, maybe a thunderstorm, near seventy high.
It's going to be eighty five tomorrow. What is the
tomorrow night or near seventy tomorrow night? Okay, I didn't
have anything for the high of the day in the forecast.
(01:05):
That's in front of me. So thank you, Jacqueline, Saturday
High near eighty again Sunday High near eighty two. But
it's gonna feel a lot. It's going to feel a
lot cooler and a lot nicer compared to what we've
been through the last couple of days. Now, let's get
to the story of the day, which was the story
(01:25):
of yesterday, and of course it's going to be the
story during the investigation of the next few weeks. It
leads off our Big Three. And there was a visil
last night held in Brian Park for the four victims
of the Park Avenue mass shooting. Police Commissioner Jessica Tish
memorialized officer. Police officer did to rule Islam.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
They were taken from our arms in violence. They now
rest in God's arms in peace. May their memories be
a blessing.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
It will have much more on the investigation coming up
in just a couple of minutes. Tsunami has now hit
Hawaii and is headed towards the California coast. It was
spawned by a huge earthquake off the shores of Russia.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
Eight point eight magnitude, one of the most powerful earthquakes
ever and it has sent a chain of tsunami warnings
and advisories across and around the Pacific.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
And remember how controversial the offshore wind turbines were off
the coast of New Jersey, New York, and Connecticut. Not anymore.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
We will not allow a windmill to be built in
the United States. They killing as they're killing the beauty
of our scenery, our valleys, our beautiful planes. And you
look up and you see windmills all over the place.
It's a horrible thing. It's the most expensive form of energy.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
It's no good. The situation in Gaza continues to get worse.
In the United States is now sending cargo planes packed
with food. We will talk with ABC's Jordana Miller at
seven thirty five. So we sent sixty million dollars.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
It's a lot of money for food and a lot
of money that can take care of people for a
long time, and we want to make sure it's going
to be it's being spent properly. That part of the
spending is the distribution.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
And we now know why President Trump cut off all
contact with Jeffrey Epstein over twenty years ago.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
He stole people that work for me. I said, don't
ever do that again. He did it again, and I
threw him out of the place, per Sona on Grada.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Now, let's talk about the investigation into the mass shooting,
the worst shooting in New York in twenty five years,
killing for there was a vigil last night, and it's
important to remember the people that were killed. Just you know,
we always talk about how people are killed senselessly, but
this was just random acts of violence. I know he
(03:58):
was going after the NFL, but did you hear that
he got in the wrong elevator. That's why he ended
up in the thirty third floor. That's why Julie Hyman,
a twenty seven year old who worked at Rudent Property Management,
was killed because he happened to get on the floor
the elevator that went to her floor. He was trying
to go to the NFL. But you know, when you
get into high rises, there's different lots of elevators, right,
(04:22):
some of them go to certain floors, and this one
that he got into just happened to go to the
thirty third floor and there was Julie Hyman sitting there
and he killed her. She graduated from Cornell's Peter and
Stephanie Nolan's School of hotel administration. Back in twenty twenty,
some of the other victims all this were starting to
(04:43):
learn a lot more about them. Wesley Lapotner, forty three,
a Blackstone employee. She was a wife and mom she
was killed. She was a senior managing director at Blackstone.
She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Yale University and served
on the boards of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. And
get this, she's one of the best friends of Police
(05:06):
Commissioner Jessica Tish. Also, you remember the first person that
was killed was a security officer, Alan Eton, forty six
year old. Took his duties extremely seriously, his boss said yesterday,
and he's going to be remembered as a hero. He
also has a seven year old son. And of course
we've all been playing homage to off duty New York
(05:29):
Police officer d Darul Islam. And I mistakenly said off duty,
because when you have the uniform on, you're on duty
all the time. It doesn't matter who's signing your paycheck.
You are a police officer. Believe me, if something were
to happen outside, Officer Islam would have run out there.
So excuse me for saying that he is NYPD officer
(05:54):
Dietarol Islam, who was on duty, was the father of
two and his wife was pregnant. She was do with
their third child just next month, so all of it
is absolutely heartbreaking.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Officer Islam's death was yet another reminder of everything you
risk just by showing up to work. He knew that risk,
he embraced it. He understood what it meant to put
the safety of others above his own right.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
He's an absolute hero. He's getting a hero's funeral. The
PBA is going to make sure his wife and children
are taken care of. So God bless him and everybody
who died yesterday. The vigil was more than appropriate, except
for Kathy Hochol, and we'll get to that in a second,
but for right now, let's talk about the investigation into
(06:41):
what happened. We do know that two notes were left behind,
one in his car and one they found in his home,
and in both of them he talked about the NFL,
and he talked about CTE. It is a brain condition
you get from concussions. And he was a star high
school football player. But what I didn't hear yesterday and
(07:05):
Mayor Adams kept talking about over and over again. He
was everywhere doing interviews yesterday. What he kept talking about
over and over again. And I haven't seen the note
obviously that was left in the car, but he says
in the note that the shooter, the murderer, I should say,
claims that he played in the NFL.
Speaker 5 (07:26):
He alluded to having CTE from playing in the NFL.
He never played in the NFL, and he alluded to
the CTE being the reason for his illness. It appears
as though he was going after the employees at the NFL.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
Yeah. Shane Timora is twenty seven years old from Las Vegas.
Drove all the way from Las Vegas here. What was
amazing yesterday is how much information they quickly had on him.
They knew exactly how he traveled from either easy Pass
or highway cameras almost instantaneously. They knew stop by stop
(08:13):
by stop by stop, that he was in Nebraska, that
he was in New Jersey, all the way through. They
were able to follow him, and then they had a
whole bunch of information about who he was and what
he did for a living hours after this happened. It
is incredible how we're all connected electronically right now, and
how much information is out there for law enforcement to
(08:36):
find when and if they need to. We had a
talk back yesterday that was fascinating that said that this
seems like it could be a copycat of Luigi Mangioni,
who killed the CEO of United Healthcare and an assassination
(08:57):
on the streets of New York and Mayor Adams, Yeah,
we're always worried about copycats.
Speaker 5 (09:02):
You always focus on copycats, and that's why we're going
to make sure we have our uniform assets that are
out at high target areas, but also there would be
assets that you're not going to see where officers are
going to be there to keep a close watch.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Everybody now is trying to find out more about Chain
Tomura and how this happened. Nobody saw this coming, nobody.
He was a nobody's radar. That gun that he used
he put together himself. That are now investigating the people
that gave him the parts, but nobody thought anything of them.
He just seemed like the nicest guy. They went back
(09:43):
to talk to his high school football coach at Grenada
Hills and he is just stunned. I'm in shocks. I
would not have ever imagined such a thing. Could I
done more? Could I help the kid? Could I reached
out to him? Or could you reach out to him?
It's just a lot of things I'm trying to process
right now. It's amazing he got emotional. That's a really
(10:05):
good coach, a coach that was worried about their players
long after they've left the fold, long after they've left
the field. So something went haywire with this guy a
long long time ago. And it wasn't the CTE that
did it. I don't know. He left the note saying,
please examine my brain. He believes that. Much more on
(10:28):
the investigation throughout the show and in the days to come.
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at nine am. Now, let's get back to the mass
shooting in New York and the man who did it
and the fact that he played football in high school
(11:32):
and suffered he says from CTEs. As a matter of fact,
in a note, he said he wants his brain studied.
So let's talk to an expert on CTEs and concussions.
Chris Nowinski is a PhD. He's co founder and CEO
of the Concussion Legacy Foundation. He's co founder of Unite
Brain Bank at Boston University. Chris, thanks so much for
(11:55):
joining us. We appreciate your expertise today.
Speaker 6 (12:00):
Thanks for talking about this difficult subject.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
Well, let's talk about it first. What is a cte?
Speaker 6 (12:05):
CT is a degenerative brain disease has a lot of
similarities to Alzheimer's, but you get it in your teens
or twenties while you're playing sports and getting repeated traumatic
brain injuries, and then it continues to spread throughout the
rest of your life. End the stage, it results in dementia,
usually in older age, and along the way, people have
abnormal behaviors and changes to the way they think.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Chris, I know you played football both in high school
and in college, and you were a pro wrestler. Did
you suffer concussions?
Speaker 6 (12:36):
I did, But it's important to note that there's no
time between number of concussions and CTE. Most of the
brain injuries that I suffered as a player were actually silent, asymptomatic,
and so one of the important things. I played eight
years of football, wrestled for three with a WW I'm
certainly at risk for this independent of if I had
concussions diagnosed or not.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
Is that right? So anybody can get CTE, It doesn't matter.
I thought it was completely tied to concussions and brain injuries.
Speaker 6 (13:03):
Well, it depends in a language you used. It is
tied to traumatic brain injuries, but most of the traumatic
brain We published a study to help people understand this,
where we highlighted a different study that showed for every
one concussion that I might have suffered in college, I
had three hundred and forty hits that were harder than
that concussion. And what we understand is that I couldn't
(13:24):
feel one neuron dying, and so those hard hits are
probably causing microscopic we call subclinical traumatic brain injury. And
that's why when we study this now a thousand people
who were athletes, it's always the people with the longer careers,
the more hits, rather or not they were diagnosed with
concussions that have CTE. And so it's years of play
(13:47):
which is a proxy for hard hits, number and strength
of hits that is driving this and that is important
note for everyone to know.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
And a CTE how does it manifest itself? How does
it change one's behavior?
Speaker 6 (14:02):
It depends in part because it is caused by injuries,
and so the original lesions and your prefernal cortex are
going to be a little different in everybody, and so
it's not a surprise that people some people seem to
be normal until they're late in life, and other people
seem to struggle early on. In addition, to get ct
you have to have repetitive traumatic brain injuries. The brain
(14:24):
injuries without CTE can also cause these symptoms. You know,
if you damage your frontal lobe, your behavior is going
to change. You're going to have problems with the disinhibition.
You're not going to be controlling your impulses. You might
have problems with executive functioning, making good choices, goal oriented behavior.
And then later on in life, you know, we start
having memory problems and we start having you know, dementia,
(14:46):
which means you just can't take care of yourself anymore.
You end up at a nursing home.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
I'm sure you've been looking very carefully because of your expertise,
at the story of Shane Tomora, the shooter at Park
Avenue that killed and injured another person. Does it make
sense that him having CTE would cause this violence.
Speaker 6 (15:11):
That's a difficult question answer, So I'll give you the
long answer, which is, you know, we've seen this before.
There were where these horrible things have happened. I think
about Philip Adams, former NFL player, who had thirty two,
lost his mind with leading journals it made no sense,
and then killed six strangers down the road, including two children.
He did have CTE and his frontal lobes were atrophying,
and you could make an argument in their pathologist, doctor Amnicky,
(15:34):
did that the changes to his frontal lobe would have
unlocked this sort of create you know, inappropriate social behavior.
We've also seen these happen where people's brains were normal, right,
so this this can happen. You know, CT is not
going to cause an act, but it is going to
make you more likely to have, you know, abnormal behaviors.
(15:56):
In the absence of this person's brain being studied, the
assumption is he just had you know, some psychosis, you
know some you know who knows what he was diagnosed
with during life, and it may have nothing to do
with CT, and he just focused on the CT as
part of his psychosis.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
That's one option.
Speaker 6 (16:13):
But another option is he did have traumatic brain injuries
through playing sports and it did change him. And because
that is possible, and because in the big picture, certainly
some of the people who are who have had these
EPNMOL behaviors, it is TBI and CT driving it. That's
why we need to continue to raise awareness and try
to prevent all these unnecessary hits that are happening in
(16:34):
these sports that are causing this. And we have looked
at the brains of forty five former high school players
who died before thirty and fourteen to the forty five
did have the disease. This is a disease that you
see in less than one percent of the population. So
the fact that families parents usually are able to spot
it so well suggest there is something you know related there.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
Well, you just scared a lot of families and including me.
My son played college football. What do you do? How
do you get tested to see if you have CTE. Well,
that's the other big problem is that we can't tested
during life. You know, when we started the Night Brain Bank.
Speaker 6 (17:10):
In two thousand and eight, the Boston University CD Center,
there's the first academic center worldwide focused on this, and
so it takes decades to figure out how to diagnose
something during life. We're getting very close, but we can't.
And so and I understand why you're concerned too. You know,
I'm concerned. We've already diagnosed my former roommate and the
captain of the Harvard football team from nineteen ninety nine, Chrisitesman,
with CTE. He was the greatest guy in the world
(17:32):
until he developed a severe drinking problem that we could
not pull him out of. So it like if you
are a college player. You know, we're actually working with
a number of colleges to reach out to their alumni
and say, if you are concerned about yourself for a
loved one, get help the important messages.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Help works.
Speaker 6 (17:47):
But you know we should having this conversation with a
former player yesterday. It's a shame to find out after
your career you may have damaged your brain.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
Would you let your children play contact football?
Speaker 6 (18:01):
There's no way my son is playing until high school,
and even then I don't see high school making the
reforms that should make to be safer. So it's a
good chance he'll never play because I can't imagine putting
my son on a path to where he's now, my
age forty six, where he all he cares about is
holding down his job and taking care of his family,
and he has to worry that his brain going to
fail him. Right, that's an uncomfortable feeling.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
Hey Chris, how do people get a hold of you?
How do people find out more about the Concussion Legacy Foundation.
Speaker 6 (18:31):
I go to Concussion Foundation dot org or on all
the social medias, and especially we have a free helpline.
If you are concerned, go to CLF Helpline dot org
or Concussion Foundation dot org and ask for help, and
we will find you a doctor, We'll find you support
groups will help you get better. And the good news
this treatment does work, especially for these midlife symptoms.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
Hey, Chris, thank you for joining us today. Thank you
for what you do. Chris Nowinski, PhD, co founder and
CEO of Concussion Legacy Foundation and co found under a
Unite Brain Bank at Boston University. Thanks again, sir. Now,
let's start to Greg g and Grande, career advice expert
with us every Wednesday at this time. You can check
(19:11):
him out at go to Greg dot com. Greg, we
want to talk about AI today. We were just discussing
it early about schooling and how it's being accepted more
in the schools and even taught now in college. I'm
sure it's been integrated into the workplace. Let's start with hiring.
How is AI used in hiring these days? I hope
(19:34):
Greg's not using AI to answer this phone call, because
he's showing that it doesn't work all that well. Greg
g and Grande, of course, is the career advice expert
that we talk to every week, and he's normally really
reliable man. He would have just blown the interview had
he had had this been for a job Greg, therey
(19:57):
are Greg. I don't know if you heard a word
I said, But you did hear it? No you didn't.
So let's talk about AI and talk about AI. Let's
start with how AI is being used in businesses for hiring. Oh,
he doesn't want to tell there, he goes again. Maybe
he doesn't know anything about this topic. Maybe that's the problem,
(20:19):
that's why he's staying silent.
Speaker 7 (20:20):
I'm back. I don't know what's going on. I'm so sorry.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
No, you're fine. Now, you're you're just fine. Now let
me for the third time, I'll ask the question, just
in case you didn't hear it. How is AI used
in hiring in businesses these days?
Speaker 7 (20:35):
It is something we will be talking about for the
foreseeable future. AI is really taking hold in how we
recruit and assess new applicants and in current jobs. Companies
are slowing down hiring and they're replacing you know, normal
hiring with AI agents who can do the work. So
(20:58):
it's having a trans formative, major generational, transformative impact on
the workforce. And if you're looking for a job or
if you're in a job, you need to pay close
attention to what your company is doing.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
So recruiters will all lose their jobs.
Speaker 7 (21:15):
Now, well, there will be fewer recruiters because there's a
lot in the recruitment process that is manual that AI
can do, you know, far better, far faster in terms
of reviewing resumes, assessing resumes. The volume of resumes that
come in when people apply to these big job sitech
(21:37):
indeed is so is so great that most most recruiters
can't really review them all. AI can review like thousands
in the time it would take one person to do
it in a in a week, they could do it
in a minute.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
Yeah, in the hiring process, I can see it really
having an effect on jobs, but serious it seems to me,
except for some manual labor jobs and some jobs that
wouldn't be affected necessarily by AI for certain reasons, it's
going to affect thousands and thousands, if not millions of jobs.
Speaker 7 (22:16):
It already is. There are some predictions that you know,
as much as forty percent of the current workforce is
going to be disrupted and jobs will disappear and new
jobs will be created. But you're right, most of the
trade jobs and the service jobs that could only be
(22:37):
replaced by robotics, we're way off from that having a
major impact on those types of jobs, But for traditional
corporate white collar jobs, it's already having a tremendous impact.
So if you're an entry level just entering the job market,
hiring is slowing down dramatically because companies every time there
(22:58):
is an opening, most big companies are thinking, well, how
can we replace that work through AI? And if you're
in a mid career middle management kind of job, those
jobs are at risk too because companies are looking when
they look at how to become more efficient, they look
at how many layers they have and how many people
(23:22):
are responsible for other people, and so they try to
flatten their organization by eliminating some of that middle management layer.
And wherever AI can do a job just as well
or better or more efficiently, companies are looking at how
to implement that.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
Now, is it important to be at least knowledgeable, if
not proficient, at AI to get jobs these days?
Speaker 7 (23:48):
You definitely want to be proficient at how your company
uses AI. So every company, whatever technology they use for
internal community, for email, whatever they use, there's AI typically
already embedded in that, and you want to make sure
that as an employee you are proficient in how to
(24:11):
use the technology to its fullest capability, and you want
to demonstrate that to your boss. And you don't have
to be a coder, you don't have to become an engineer,
but you have to learn how to use the technology
just like any other technology, to its fullest capabilities, and
that will help you in your job and it will
(24:31):
help you become more safe and marketable in your role
if you learn how to use these technologies.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
So let's flip this around. So AI is being used
by companies to help weed out people and to find
the right employee to hire. How does a job seeker
use AI to find a job and to make sure
that they are the right candidate.
Speaker 7 (24:56):
Well, everyone focuses on the resid and listen, you need
a resume and you should apply for jobs through these
online boards. But that's a little bit like hitting the
lottery because if you're applying to a job that's posted online,
like literally thousands of other resumes are coming across. Then
(25:18):
so what you can do for that method of job
searching is to make sure that you are tailoring your
resume to that specific job and company. You can't have
a one size fits all resume and you need to
use language within your resume that is the language that
that profession and that company uses, because the AI technologies
(25:41):
will look for that and will pick up for the
language that is common to the job description and that
and that industry. But you shouldn't just be relying on that.
Networking always has been and always will be the most
effective way to find to find a job.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
Here's here's what's interesting about this because we're just talking
about this in schools and colleges and high schools and
how some are now changing how they feel about AI,
but many still are strict about now using AI to
do your work. And yet when you get a job,
you're going to need to know how to use AI
to do your work. They're not changing quickly enough for
(26:19):
the times, are they.
Speaker 7 (26:21):
Well, Schools are concerned about cheating and about they're concerned
about not being able to differentiate between students and skills
and what they're actually learning. Employers don't care. They want
you to get the work done as best and as
fast as you can, but they do care that you
(26:42):
use the technologies that are approved. So you should be
using AI at work only with the technologies that your
company has approved, because if you use other programs that
could be a violation and often is a violation of
company technology policy because they can't protect the company's information
(27:03):
and you can lose your job if you're using technology
that the company hasn't authorized.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
Quote of the day screw AI so no. Greg gan
Grande career advice expert with us every Wednesday at nine
thirty five. Thanks a lot, Greg,
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