Hour 2: AI's Electricity Explosion

AI's Electricity Explosion.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good morning. Well, I guess we could start our Big
three with the heat. There is a heat advisory for
today with the heat index nearing one hundred, may break
a hundred, and then it's gonna be the same tomorrow.
It'll be officially ninety six degrees tomorrow. But the heat index,
again they always right close to one hundred because they're
afraid to say it's gonna be over one hundred. But

(00:21):
trust me, if it's gonna be hotter tomorrow, it's gonna
be over one hundred. Tomorrow. There's gonna be some a
nice win. There's a chance of showers on Wednesday, but
again that's gonna be ninety five, heat index near one hundred.
So three days in a row of heat like that,
that's a heat wave that we're gonna be going through.
So you know, to watch the elderly in your neighborhood,

(00:44):
you know, kids with asthma, all that kind of stuff.
Just just be really careful out there. Try to stay
inside and air conditioning, drink lots of water, all the
things you normally hear you should be doing, especially over
these next three days, and just take it easy out there.
Also in the big three days before that, August first

(01:04):
deadline on tariffs. President Trump strikes a trade deal, the
biggest one in history, with our biggest trade partner, the
European Union.

Speaker 2 (01:13):
This is probably the biggest deal ever reached in any capacity,
trade or beyond trade.

Speaker 1 (01:18):
It is that's it's a giant deal with lots of countries.
White House correspond to John Decker is going to be
with us at eight thirty five to give us details
of the deal and tell us what deals may be next.
Apparently there's three or four in the works that may
happen or may not happen by August first, but close
to that, maybe a few days afterwards. Remember they can

(01:40):
still keep talking after they are imposed with the fifteen
percent tariffs. New Jersey US Attorney Alena Haba was fired
by a panel of judges. Right, so why is she
still in the office, And she says she's not leaving.

Speaker 3 (01:57):
I think anybody that's known me in this public sphere
for the last four years knows I'm not a coward
to a fight. So I have obviously been doing my job.
I do my job irrespective of who you are, what
you are, what your politics are.

Speaker 1 (02:12):
The Trump administration fired the woman who the judges appointed
to replace Alena Habba. Then they swore Alena Habba in again.
She was the interim Interim US Attorney, which means she
had to be voted on by Senate. Now they have
sworn her in again as the acting US Attorney, meaning

(02:34):
she has another two hundred and ten days in that office. Oh,
the politics, I'll tell you what. This is going to continue.
The back and forth is going to continue. We're going
to talk to New Jersey columnist Mike Kelly, who apparently
is no fan of Alena Habba at seven oh five
with more on the fight for the New Jersey US
Attorney's office. Well, ask him why he hates Alena Habba,

(02:55):
what does he have against her? And now Congress wants
to talk to Julie Slayane Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein's sex trafficking
co conspirator, and.

Speaker 4 (03:05):
She is serving a twenty year sentence for child sex
trafficking and so her character is in some question. But
if she wants to come clean now, that would be
a great service to the country. And we'd like to
know every single bit of information that she has. I
certainly hope she's telling the truth.

Speaker 1 (03:19):
So what did Julaine Maxwell get to talk to an
attorney from the Trump administration. That's the big question right now.
When asked about it, about whether he's going to pardon Maxwell,
he responded, this is Donald Trump. He responded, I haven't
even thought about it. Well, in Gaza a serious situation.

(03:39):
The UN is warning of a humanitarian crisis. They say
food is not getting to a starving population.

Speaker 5 (03:46):
It's almost impossible to put into words how terrible the
situation is.

Speaker 6 (03:50):
Patient's dying of man nutrition.

Speaker 3 (03:52):
My friends and colleagues who've I've named for years, some
of them might barely recognized as they'd lost so much weight.

Speaker 1 (03:59):
We have Georgie Anna Miller coming up live from Israel
at eight oh five to tell us about what's happening
there and the ceasefire that's been held up now for weeks.
But first let's get to Mike Kelly, who was an
award winning columnist for North Jersey dot Com and The Record.
He's with us every Monday at seven oh five. Mike,

(04:23):
I guess my first question is why do you hate
Alena Haba?

Speaker 5 (04:27):
Good morning, Larry, how are you?

Speaker 7 (04:29):
I'm good.

Speaker 5 (04:30):
I don't hate alas sure think she's completely unqualified for
the job.

Speaker 1 (04:38):
But she's in the job now. I mean, you're talking
about that's an argument to make before she got put
in there. Right now, let's see how she does. I
think so far's she hasn't been bad, And so far
she's been pretty good. I think I've seen her out
on the street with ice officers. I've seen her out
on the street with law enforcement all the time. You

(05:01):
haven't appreciated that.

Speaker 5 (05:04):
No, quite, Frankly, I think she was.

Speaker 7 (05:06):
She was.

Speaker 5 (05:07):
She was upbraided by the judge in her handling of
the arrest of Mayor ros Baraka. I mean, it's rare
that a federal judge, in this case, a magistrate judge
would would criticize a prosecutor for arresting someone. And because
that's pretty that's just the beginning of the process. Sometimes

(05:29):
they criticize them for the way they conduct themselves in court,
as another federal judge criticized Haba in a New York
case involving Donald Trump. But I just don't think she's
experienced enough, Larry, And here's who should be angry.

Speaker 1 (05:44):
Can I ask you about the judge real quickly, just
real quick. Was there a democratic judge in Newark?

Speaker 5 (05:50):
It was a magistrate judge, whether it was appointed by
a Democrat or Republican.

Speaker 1 (05:55):
Well, New Jersey, I would think so. But it was Newark, right,
and that's where he's married.

Speaker 5 (05:59):
It was a Newer Yeah, And I'm not sure we
can we can use those kinds of designations to you know,
sort of undermine a judge's decision, because what I think,
if you read his decision as I did, he was
clearly citing basic courtroom procedure that Habba seemed to be

(06:20):
unaware of. And that was her problem when she was
representing Donald Trump in the case against Egene Carroll. But
let me get back to something. I think it's even
more basic. Democrats might be outraged about this, and they
are okay, and and and it's it's again, you know,
more of the criticism that they're trying to find their
way around. But I think Republicans ought to be outraged.

(06:43):
Uh this, New Jersey is the fifth largest US Attorney's
office in the country. We handle organized crime, we handled
terrorism here. In fact, New Jersey led the way in
the investigation of one of the hijacked air planes in
nine to eleven. We have one of the largest FBI

(07:03):
offices in Newark, and in a very large joint terrorism
task force, all of which come under the umbrella of
the US Attorney, the top federal prosecutor. I just don't
think that Alina Habba is experienced enough. And there are
plenty of other Republican former prosecutors and experienced attorneys who

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could have been tapped for this.

Speaker 1 (07:25):
Did you write this a similar column when she was
put into the position.

Speaker 5 (07:32):
I mean initially when she put in no, because I thought, I,
you know, you know, Larry, it's funny. I thought she
would probably this be a you know, a temporary hold here.
And I think when there was this reversal and then
the sudden shuffling of bureaucratic shuffle that allowed her to
stay in, I thought, wow, this is a lot. She's

(07:54):
not just a temporary hold on this position. Frankly, I
couldn't believe that Donald Trump to be the u US
Attorney here in Newark, in part because if you just
look at her resume, she's she was running a four
person law firm, you know, in a in suburban Bernardsville,

(08:15):
got to know O'donald Trump by joining his golf club,
and then kind of messed up in some of the trials.
She was involved with with him, and yet I guess
he's a forgiving man.

Speaker 1 (08:24):
I'll tell you who. I'll tell you who agreed with
you and said this when he she was nominated the
first time as Jeffrey Lickman, the high profile defense attorney
who you know defended Gotti and l Choppo, he said
that he was vociferous as a matter of fact in
saying that she's completely unqualified for the job. But I
just feel like now and and and that was legitimate then,

(08:45):
but I feel like now so much, so much of
it's become political. And I believe that Booker and Kim
are involved in this, uh because because he went after
lah Monica mcguiver, and so it's hard to separate the
politics from what's going on right now.

Speaker 5 (08:59):
Well, well, listen, I will say Lamonica mcgiver is a
whole other case from ros from the mayor of Newark.
I thought what she did, if she did what she did,
and the video seems to indicate that's she's certainly possibly
guilty here that she was pushing around federal agents and

(09:20):
I can tell you from personal experience, you don't do that.
And I think she's in trouble as a result. But
what I'm what I'm talking about here, when we talk
with the top federal prosecutor in a district like New Jersey,
we're talking about somebody who really sets the policy and
the agenda for how the FBI and her staff of

(09:41):
federal prosecutors is going to go after people, whether it's
organized crime or terrorism or gangs and all of which
are huge problems in New Jersey. And I really wish
Trump had picked somebody with a lot more experience to
handle that, because I think some of the problems here
are very very serious.

Speaker 1 (10:00):
Yeah, it'll be This fight isn't over just yet. There
are other things that can happen, and the judges will
have their say, so we'll play it out. We'd love
to talk to you again soon. Mike Kelly is an
award winning columnist for North Jersey dot Com and The Record.
He's with us every Monday, so we'll talk to you
next Monday at seven o five.

Speaker 7 (10:16):
Thanks Larry, Take care sure, Mike.

Speaker 1 (10:18):
Thank you. The company that was sent for a loop
when it's married founder and CEO was found canoodling at
a Coldplay concert with the head of HR has found
a spokesperson for a viral rebound video. You'll hear it next,
plus tickets to see the off Broadway show Rolling Thunder.
Stay with us and welcome back to you. Always appreciate

(10:42):
your talkbacks. If you want to leave one, just go
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see a microphone there and you push it and then
you're on the air. Yeah. I just wanted to make
a comment.

Speaker 2 (10:56):
I always hear you know about the moms and the
women and the Yeah, I get that, and you know,
I love my mother she passed away, But also dads too.
We don't get the recognition that dads deserves. And I
don't like that, you know, because a father also suffers,
and a father also has feelings too, you know.

Speaker 1 (11:18):
So that's what I have to say. Have a good
day now. I'm glad you brought it up. Look, I
don't think anybody was leaving out dads. I think that C. C. Sabathia,
which we were talking about, had a unusual relationship with
his father. He gives him a lot of credit for
teaching him how to pitch. He was a pitcher himself,
but he had some struggles with drugs and he died

(11:40):
young of cancer. Back in two thousand and four didn't
get to see all the success of his son. He
did mention him during his speech too, But you're absolutely right.
I mean, I get it. Moms are talked about all
the time. Dad's not as much. But we've seen the
effects of a kid growing up without a father, and

(12:01):
especially a son, but a daughter too. I love that
guy's comment because I agree with it.

Speaker 8 (12:06):
I think women do get a lot of, you know,
extra praise when it comes to moms and things like that, and.

Speaker 1 (12:12):
Dads are so important in a kid's life, right, I mean,
we've seen it, We've seen what happens.

Speaker 9 (12:18):
Absolutely makes such a difference to have a present father.

Speaker 1 (12:23):
Yeah, and I don't think he was leaving out his dad.
I know that CC Sabbathia loved his dad and quirky
and was devastated when he died. But again he had
struggles and was in and out of his life because
of that.

Speaker 10 (12:37):
I'm very happy about the tariff win in Europe, but
it doesn't change the fact that I just paid three
twenty for a gall I guess I can't buy meat
for my kids, and then these three passes on it.
So win is a win, but it's not a win

(12:59):
for us.

Speaker 1 (13:00):
Well, it really Yeah, sorry did I mean interrupt, But yeah,
it really is a win. I mean, the gas prices
are down. If you remember what the gas prices were
under Biden, and inflation was up under Biden, It's gone
up insignificantly under Trump. And what I was talking about
when I was talking about the prices, it was all

(13:22):
of the fear tactics, how bad it was going to get. Well,
that's not going to happen now it's not. We're not
going to see a significant rise in prices and the
economy is going to be flown. I hope things go
better for you. I hope things go better for you.
But you're much better under this president than you were
under the last one.

Speaker 6 (13:42):
Thank you, Thank you for finally talking about something else
besides Epstein. I mean, Trump's been doing amazing things for
the last freaking six months and all year Isin Epstein, Epstein.
No one even talks about the halt law. When you
get caught with fennoil, you get like ten years behind bars.
You know how many lives that's gonna save. Where's my radio?

Speaker 1 (14:02):
Yeah, we eventually have to get him a radio. Eventually,
we have to. Thanks so much that was wonderful. Real quick,
let's talk about well, I don't want to give away
the name. Let's talk about Astronomer, the company, the tech company.
You know what happened with the CEO and founder. It's

(14:24):
infamous now. Oh, it's infamous now. It's everywhere. It's still
happening now. I'm getting sick of it. It's on every
kiss cam. Somebody does that, somebody is holding on and
they both go to hide, just like he did. He's gone.
The head of HR is working out a deal right now.
She'll be gone. But Astronomer now has to make a comeback.

(14:44):
And they made a great pr higher. Remember it was
a Coldplay concert. The lead singer is Chris Martin. Who
did he used to be married to Gwyneth Paltrow.

Speaker 11 (14:57):
Hi, I'm Gwyneth Paltrow. I hearn on a very temporary
basis to speak on behalf of the three hundred plus
employee Is it Astronomer?

Speaker 1 (15:06):
It was brilliant. That is so brilliant, So it's gone viral.
They're getting attention out of this better than anything they
could have possibly done. You want to hear more.

Speaker 11 (15:21):
We will now be returning to what we do best,
delivering game changing results for our customers. Thank you for
your interest in Astronomer.

Speaker 1 (15:30):
How much did they have to pay to get her?
That was an exact question. I wanted to ask how.

Speaker 3 (15:36):
Much because when I first saw this, I'm sure like
everybody else, I thought, Okay, is this like a joke satire?

Speaker 1 (15:43):
Is it Ai?

Speaker 5 (15:44):
Well?

Speaker 1 (15:45):
Is this real?

Speaker 3 (15:46):
No?

Speaker 1 (15:46):
It was her and she's you know, she said it
to her. But I think the showing how much that
cost was the word temporary. I'm going to be the
temporary spokesperson the ten minutes that she did that, Yeah,
was working for them. That was a couple That was
several hundred thousand dollars probably for that ten minutes. Kind

(16:07):
of money we're never going to make. Hey, thanks so
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(16:27):
A sea crane radio that works when it matters most. Now,
Larry Kowsky in for Jacqueline Carl with the eight to
thirty News Jacqueline. I mean it's a seven thirty news
and I called you Jacqueline too. I got everything wrong, Larry.
How can I get your name wrong? How can I
forget your name?

Speaker 12 (16:48):
Well, it's Monday morning.

Speaker 13 (16:49):
That kind of excuses a lot, right. Seventy eight degrees
sunny skies at seven thirty good morning heat Advisory and
effect for the city From today through Wednesday, temperatures to
reach into the nineties. The heat index could top one hundred.
Mayor Adams says three thousand illegal guns have already been
seized in the city.

Speaker 12 (17:08):
So far this year. That brings the total number taken
off the streets during his administration to nearly twenty three thousand.
The mayor and Police Commissioner Jessica Tish say that has
helped to produce declines in both the number of shootings
and homicides in the city. Calls a growing LTD are
in Congress to release the Jeffrey Epstein files. Appearing Sunday
on ABC's This Week, Representative Rocanna, a Democrat, and Representative

(17:33):
Republican Thomas Massey said it is time for the public
to see the full truth, and authorities in Connecticut are
on the hunt for an skp from Massachusetts, a large
lizard that escaped from a home in Webster, Massachusetts, where
it was being kept illegally. The five foot long reptile
named Goose is called a water monitor. It was last

(17:53):
seen last Friday near Upon in the Connecticut border town
of Thompson. Not known though to attack humans or pets.
Also too big to come out of the toilet.

Speaker 1 (18:06):
Wow. Thanks so much, Larry Koski in for Jacqueline Carl
with the seven thirty News. I knew I'd get it
right the second time. Thanks a lot, Larry. Congratulations to
Gary Wunsch from Port Jefferson Station who just want a
pair of tickets to see Rolling Thunder. You're gonna love this,
the electrifying rock musical of love, war and Revolution at

(18:29):
New World Stages. It's off Broadway in New York City.
Tickets on sale right now at telecharge dot Com. Another
chance to win at seven twenty five, plus we have
tickets to the Outlaw Music Festival with Bob Dylan and
Willie Nelson coming up at eight twenty five. Of course,
the legendary sportscaster Warner Wolf Knew the legendary wrestler Hulk Hogan.

(18:51):
Of course he did. Who died last week and he's
got a great story to tell. That's next. Yeah, let's
get to the great Warner Wolf, legendary sportscaster with us
every Monday at seven thirty five. So CC Sabathia gets
into the Hall of Fame. That so water. That's that's
three from the two thousand and nine team. Is that

(19:11):
going to be it? Or might there be one more?

Speaker 14 (19:15):
I'm not sure, but I'll tell you what. Certainly the
five guys who were inducted yesterday deserve it, Ichiro Wagner, Sabathia,
Dick Allen, and Theve Parker. But to me, how about
the two guys who are not in. John Franco had
more saves than Billy Wagner four hundred and twenty four saves.

(19:38):
Why isn't he in? And the other guy is Tommy
John who won two hundred and eighty five games. That's
more than sixty six other pitchers who are in the
Hall of Fame. I've never understood that.

Speaker 1 (19:52):
I don't get that either. That's a great point. I
didn't even think about Franco.

Speaker 8 (19:57):
No, oh yeah, more sa Billy Wagner's and he pitched
more years.

Speaker 14 (20:03):
So you know, it depends who's voting, who's in this year,
who's voting for him? So they I got a quick
story about Fulk Logan.

Speaker 7 (20:12):
Oh great, Yeah.

Speaker 14 (20:14):
I interviewed him once at Channel two in the nineteen eighties.
I asked him about the many cuts and scars he
received in the ring during his career, and he said
when he was first starting out, to make a little
extra money, the promoter would give him an extra fifty

(20:34):
dollars if he would sneak a razor blade into the
ring and tuck it under his trunks and cut his
own forehead, which would bleed profusely. Yeah, I saw it
on your far You ever cut your forehead?

Speaker 1 (20:49):
Yeah? I But apparently they cut there. I've seen a
documentary on pro wrestling where they talked about them using
razor blades and they all cut their foreheads only because
looser skin up there and it bleeds into your eyes. Right, Yeah,
it just looks more impressive.

Speaker 14 (21:06):
All the money here, here's a blade.

Speaker 1 (21:08):
Oh man, When you talk to him, was he out
of character?

Speaker 7 (21:12):
Uh?

Speaker 14 (21:13):
You know he was out of character?

Speaker 8 (21:15):
He was, he said out he was like talking to
a normal person.

Speaker 1 (21:18):
Yes, I can't even imagine a math character.

Speaker 8 (21:22):
Yeah, yeah, it was. It was good, you know.

Speaker 14 (21:26):
Hey, you know, the first exhibition game NFL season takes
place Thursday, and the Lions are two and a half
points favored over the Chargers. The only thing Dumberland making.

Speaker 8 (21:38):
A point spread for an exhibition game are the people
who bet.

Speaker 14 (21:42):
On the point spread.

Speaker 8 (21:43):
You don't know who's playing for how long, and you're watching.

Speaker 14 (21:47):
Guys you may never even see again.

Speaker 7 (21:50):
Uh.

Speaker 8 (21:50):
The boo of the week has.

Speaker 14 (21:51):
To go to Aaron Boom. Friday night, he takes out
Will Warren in a two to two game against the
Phillies with two hours and nobody on. In the sixth inning,
he brings in four relief pitchers who proceed to give
up nine hits and ten runs, and the Yankees lose
twelve to five. Why because Warren had thrown eighty nine pitches.

Speaker 8 (22:15):
Who cares? Yeah, yeah, what's the score?

Speaker 14 (22:20):
And how's he doing?

Speaker 8 (22:22):
Hey?

Speaker 14 (22:23):
You talk about depending on what team you pitch for.
Pirates right hander Paul Skeens.

Speaker 8 (22:30):
Has an urn run average of one point eighty three,
but his record is only six and eight for the
last place Pirates.

Speaker 14 (22:40):
He's lost four games by the score of one or
two to one and has eight no decision games which
he allowed only two runs. So I'm thinking if Skeens
pitch for a team like the Yankees or Phillies or
Dodgers or Jay's, he would.

Speaker 8 (22:58):
Be fifteen then two rather than six.

Speaker 14 (23:02):
And eight and a shot at the cy Young, Oh,
Senior citizens, you have.

Speaker 5 (23:07):
A new hero.

Speaker 14 (23:08):
Forty five year old Kansas City left hander Rich Hill
just recalled from the Miners. Not only becomes the oldest
active player in the majors, but he's now in his
twenty first year and tied with Edwin Jackson for playing
for the most franchises.

Speaker 8 (23:26):
Fourteen different teams. He can't hold a job all right, Okay,
Stage number one. All the print media and fake paid
protesters who reported that CBS is letting Stephen Colbert go
because of Colbert's political views, wrong newspaper heads. The bottom

(23:53):
line is that Colbert was losing advertisers and the ratings
were low. The show is losing between forty to fifty million.

Speaker 14 (24:02):
Dollars a year, plus is salary. Larry, You've been around
TV long enough. We used to say you could put
Charles Manson on TV as long as it's pulled in
the ratings. Right, I'm sure you've experienced that's.

Speaker 8 (24:18):
The way of work.

Speaker 1 (24:19):
Yeah, that the whole thing is ridiculous. I'll tell you
what though, all of them have to be worried. It's
not about politics. Late night TV is dying.

Speaker 8 (24:29):
Yeah, it's money rating yep, yep, and the advertisers.

Speaker 14 (24:33):
That's it. I don't care about anything else.

Speaker 8 (24:35):
That's our business or it was our businesses.

Speaker 14 (24:38):
All right' stude number two New York City Controller Brad Lander,
who is quoted as saying Zoe Ran Mandani does not
have an anti Semitic bone in his body. What wait
a minute, Brad, what have you been smoking? What else

(25:00):
do you call a person who denies the Holocaust and
who calls for the global infunna the destruction of Jews
in Israel? Put down that weed, Brad.

Speaker 8 (25:13):
This guy, what is he thinking? At stuge number three?

Speaker 14 (25:19):
You know the Mets shortstop that Francisco Lindore. He said
that Yankee shortstop Anthony Volpi is a great defensive shortstop,
great defensive shortstop. Stop the music unless there's another shortstop
named Anthony Volpi. The Yankee shortstop Volpi is tied for

(25:41):
the most errors in the league by a shortstop with thirteen.
By the way, Larry, do you know why it takes
longer to run from first to third than from any
other base?

Speaker 1 (25:55):
Well, from first to third because you have to go
to second.

Speaker 8 (26:00):
Because there's a short stop in the middle.

Speaker 1 (26:07):
Hey, what do we have a talk back for you?
Can you? And I think it's a question with us
here you go.

Speaker 15 (26:11):
I know you're gonna have Warner Wolf on today, so
you need to ask him a question. What does he
think about Edwin Diaz, the closer from the New York Mets,
Because the man is driving Mets fans crazy because he
just cannot come in and close one game up easily.
He has to put men on base. I don't understand it.

(26:33):
Ask him that question for me. Thank you, well.

Speaker 14 (26:36):
You did go ahead ask me that question. Well, the
caller is right. He Diaz is the only closer I
know who puts He puts excitement into the routine. Save
oh man, when he comes in the ninth inning, it's

(26:58):
it's the only time you hear the fans your oh.

Speaker 1 (27:01):
No like in unison instead of a boo, just just
a large sigh out of the stadium. You know, I
like this water about talkbacks with a question for you.
Did you Did you like that? I think we should
try to do that more often.

Speaker 8 (27:16):
Yeah, as long as I have an answer, yes, yeah,
go ahead, sure, I like that.

Speaker 1 (27:25):
Yeah, it was perfect. Do you have a day in history?

Speaker 8 (27:29):
No?

Speaker 1 (27:32):
Today, Absolutely nothing happened today.

Speaker 14 (27:36):
Well they weren't strong enough. See, it's got to be
something that grabbed you. So, I mean a lot of
things happen, you know, crickets and yeah.

Speaker 1 (27:46):
I get it. I get I'm so happy that you
are pounding the drum beat constantly about pitch counts because
I think that there are a lot of people out
there that are upset about this and just want to
get rid of analytics, at least the over obsession with
analytics in all of sports, but especially baseball.

Speaker 8 (28:07):
You're absolutely right.

Speaker 14 (28:09):
I'm just I'm thinking of the old managers. Man I once,
you know, I worked with Bob Ugert. He talked about
Bob Gibson. He said the managers were afraid to come
out to the mound, or when they get to the mound,

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Gibson would say, what are you doing out here?

Speaker 7 (28:36):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (28:36):
It is a good old it's incredible. It's just it's
ruining the game. Analytics is ruining the game. It's just
not as fun anymore. Thanks so much. Wonder Wolf, legendary
sportscaster with us every Monday at seven thirty five, Thanks
a lot.

Speaker 14 (28:49):
Warner, all right, thank you.

Speaker 1 (28:51):
We are at the start of an artificial intelligence explosion
and that is going to make to take a whole
lot of energy. What does that mean for our bills?
War National correspondent Roory O'Neil is next. So we all
know that we're in the middle of an artificial intelligence explosion.
Hundreds of billions of dollars are being put into centers

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out in Arizona, in Pittsburgh. A lot is being invested
in all of this, and soon it's already started. But
its AI is going to be everywhere. Now think about
that for a second, because AI takes a lot of electricity.
Where's all the electricity going to come from. Let's start

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to Rory O'Neil Woor, National correspondent, he's with us every
day at this time. Well, AI is going to suck
up a lot of electricity. What are the ramifications of that.

Speaker 9 (29:49):
Well, Look, a lot of the power companies are trying
to deal with this as the are building data centers everywhere. Look,
some of them are being built with power plants attached.
They have fields of sol panels or wind turbines they
are on site in order to offset their demand for electricity.
I saw there's one that's actually using old batteries from

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Tesla's to store power. That's one of the way they're
reusing those car batteries. But overall, it's essentially causing a
big drain on the grid, and to make up for it,
the utility has to essentially order in more power from
neighboring suppliers, and that increases the price of electricity for everyone.
Some states are seeing their electric KILLO loot hours go

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up ten twelve, fourteen percent year over year, and that
means it's going to cost you fifteen twenty twenty five
bucks more a month to power your home. And a
lot of people are saying, wait, why am I being
two hundred and fifty dollars a year more in electric
to support some of the most profitable companies on the
planet like Google and Meta and Facebook and Amazon.

Speaker 1 (30:53):
Yeah, and that's a great question. But we're also at
the infancy of AI. I mean, it is going there's
going to be a bigger explosion of AI, and these
centers are still being built that I was just talking about,
and they're enormous. So what we're seeing now that ten
or fifteen dollars on our electric bill, is that expected

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to go up higher?

Speaker 7 (31:15):
Yeah? That could be child's players. I'm looking now.

Speaker 9 (31:17):
Killowatt costs in New York State are up eleven point
seventy five percent year over year. Yeah, I can't necessarily
blame that on the AI expansion. Some states they can
have the data that does show that, But that's just
costing consumers more and more for their electric bills, especially
this week as we're flirting of one hundred degrees and
we've all got the AC if we have it cranked

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to the max, and it's going to impact our power
bills anyway. So we're hoping that there's some sort of
development in AI that also makes it cheaper to produce
or to generate this artificial intelligence without the need for
so much electricity. But that's going to require some sort
of a technological breakthrough.

Speaker 7 (32:00):
Not there.

Speaker 1 (32:00):
Well, yeah, I was going to say, you said we're hoping,
are we anywhere close to that right now? Or you
mentioned solar panels, which was fascinating. Will alternative energy sources
provide enough electricity for AI.

Speaker 9 (32:14):
Well in some places, you know, you have to offset
the cost of the real estate because those do take
up a lot of space.

Speaker 7 (32:20):
You know.

Speaker 9 (32:20):
We saw, I don't know if you saw President Trump's
press conference yesterday, he was railing against windmills extensively in
front of the head of the EU at here in Scotland.
So it doesn't sound like wind power is going to
be coming online much more across the US anytime soon. So, yes,
there are some renewable sources that could be out there,
but again, it's this is just increasing so significantly, so

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rapidly that it just seems that for now it's just
going to cause more of a strain on an already
spotty electrical grid.

Speaker 1 (32:52):
I love that he keeps saying wind mills like he's
in some Dutch classic drama. There they're wind turbines. These
in mills do something completely different. But man, who's going
to tell them?

Speaker 9 (33:05):
Well, how about Jerome Powell? Apparently he doesn't have a
problem telling him, right.

Speaker 1 (33:09):
Thanks, No, no, Jerome Powell, though he's gonna feel a
little bit silly. I know you're doing the tariffs too.
Just really quickly, we were talking about the deal with
the EU. He said something about three or four other
deals we might have. Do we know what they might
possibly be.

Speaker 9 (33:27):
Well, we are starting talks today with China in Stockholm, Sweden.

Speaker 7 (33:30):
It's going to be three days of talks there.

Speaker 9 (33:33):
I think that was Trump's being Trump when he said
those kinds of things. I think we'll have answers in
two weeks, just as a guess.

Speaker 1 (33:40):
Right, And but August first, that's it. No more extensions.

Speaker 7 (33:44):
Exactly, but they no more extensions.

Speaker 9 (33:46):
But they did say, hey, look, no more extensions, but
we're still willing to have a deal. So maybe there's
some you know, we're going to deal with Paraguay October
tenth or something that could still be in the cards.
But they're saying that the tariffs that we have already established,
they will start to take effect on the first on Friday.

Speaker 1 (34:02):
It's interesting what they've been saying. You mentioned Paraguay. I
don't think that's one of the big fifteen. They said
that like fifteen to eighteen of the top countries make
up almost ninety eight percent of the trade that we do,
so it sounds like they don't really care when it
gets past that eighteen.

Speaker 9 (34:17):
So Paraguay, especially especially when you got the EU, China, Japan.

Speaker 7 (34:23):
The rest is all sort of gravy.

Speaker 1 (34:25):
Yeah, UK, thanks a lot. Rory O'Neil, wr National correspond
It's going to be back tomorrow morning at seven fifty.
Good to talk to you, Rory. Coming coming up, we
go live to Jerusalem with ABC's Jordana Miller. The Israeli
Defense Forces announces tactical pauses in Gaza. What does that mean?
Do we have a ceasefire looming or? Dana explains after

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the eight o'clock News