May 8, 2025 • 24 mins
(May 08, 2025)
The mayor’s budget cuts could make our streets even worse. Air traffic controllers warned of ‘incredibly dangerous’ safety incidents months before the latest Newark system failure. This parenting tradition is dying with Gen Z and it’s harming their kids. After an Arizona man was shot, an AI video of him addresses his killer in court.
The mayor’s budget cuts could make our streets even worse. Air traffic controllers warned of ‘incredibly dangerous’ safety incidents months before the latest Newark system failure. This parenting tradition is dying with Gen Z and it’s harming their kids. After an Arizona man was shot, an AI video of him addresses his killer in court.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're list Saints Camp. I am six forty. The Bill
Handles show on demand on the iHeartRadio.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
F Happy Thursday, morn to you, Neil Sevadra. Here Bill
Handle's having foot surgery. I know, sexy, right, you'd like
to get their hands on uh on those fish flaps.
I can imagine what his feet look get in there
on those day those depas people are eating. No no, no,
(00:34):
no die this little pee with the he'll be back
on Monday. You got me tomorrow. Good times. The whole
gang is here all right. Budget time in Los Angeles.
Holy hell. The only the only thing sadder than not
(00:56):
having more sad, I get it. I can hear my
mom correcting me. Sadder than not having money to do
what you need to do is having way more money
and then spending it poorly. You know those people that
win the lottery, they got four teeth the go Mike
my life. So moch better outdating deer, say a truck
(01:19):
I'd be wanting. Can I I'm allowed to do that?
Voice right?
Speaker 3 (01:26):
You can make because that's yeah right, you're fine, okay,
So make sure is there a group I'm sure kids
for then we for everything?
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Okay. AnyWho I'm just saying, then they spend it all. Right.
You see these people that get rich doing I don't know,
music or whatever, and then they spend it all. And
that's what we do here in Los Angeles. We we
just spend it. We don't know where we spend it,
and it goes away. And the simple things, the everyday
(01:59):
things that we hire these people, I mean because they're hired. Yes,
we vote them in, there's a process to do it,
but we've hired them. We've said, please, street lights on
clean sidewalks, smooth streets, good fire department, good police department,
(02:22):
parks nice, let's see it. Do the things that we
can't do individually. I cannot fix all the streets as
an individual. I cannot fix the sidewalks. I'm not gonna
shimmy my way up a pole to replace the copper
(02:43):
that was stolen by a wing nut. To fix the lamps.
I need you. So you've got the mare coming out
with her budget that keeps changing, just messing around. Listen,
I know when you to budget, whether it's at home,
whether it's in government, whatever, here at the at the studios,
(03:06):
we all have to do it. Nobody is gonna want
you to cut anything, but it doesn't mean that there
aren't smart ways to do it. You don't go in
the house and say, you know what, we've only got
so much budget budget, we gotta we gotta cut water out.
(03:27):
We just got to cut water out. Otherwise it's sat
or Netflix. You don't do that. Smart people do not
do that. They go we need water. So by the
city law, Los Angeles has to balance its budget every
single year. Mayor Bass just happens to be Unfortunately, she's
(03:50):
been a big disappointment to me. I didn't vote for
but I have. I had high hopes. I always root
for whoever's in office. I try to as long as
the doing what's right for whatever their office is overseeing.
But every single time I turn around, the proposals are
(04:12):
just asinine. We've gotten to the point where we are
simply seeing politicians local or otherwise leaning on fads or
interests that are outside of the immediate needs of whatever
community they're overseeing. Is global change whatever that you call it, now,
(04:40):
it's not global warming. It's a climate change that's important.
But fix my streets first, because that's immediate. Maybe we'll
all be dead in ten years, that's fine, but right now,
I got to drive on the streets. Public transportation. You
want to help the poor, make public transportations safe. So
(05:06):
now you have a government that is switched from doing
the things that the individuals can't do, trying to help
the individuals do what they should be doing. You can't
live and have a house, you can't afford an apartment,
you can't have a job, So now we've got to
help them. Yet the people that have a job and
(05:28):
pay tax and do all that can't drive on a
street without holes half the size of their buick, And
it becomes backwards. You're looking at some of the things
being cut. Some of the proposed budget cuts in Los
Angeles are dealing with things that actually make money that
(05:50):
I'll bring in revenue. Now, I'm not thrilled to the
way they do it because usually means citations for US
drivers or whatever. But they have whether it's those new
cameras on the front of the the buses, you remember,
they put those on there so that they can see
who's parking, the idiots who are parking in bus only areas.
(06:16):
That makes money as well as keeping people safe, as
well as keeping public transmit transit on time. That's not
going to be able to be manned. Those types of
things that are actually working are not going to have
people doing doing what they need to do to watch
the footage, to execute the citations. They're saving a few
(06:42):
million dollars here, a few million dollars there, and we've
were out one hundred we're out of billion dollars right now,
a billion dollars for LA and the Bureau of Street
Lighting is estimating that broken street lights would take two
(07:04):
years after being reported to be fixed. Now that may
be hyperbole, but still the basics should be done before
you do anything else, relationships with other countries, as a
local politician, before you do any global things. Initiatives, get
the basic initiatives done. Fill the damn potholes, not with
(07:26):
that temporary garbage. Weren't you and I talking about this
and where when they fill the potholes, they just slap
stuff in it. They don't fill it properly. It pops
right out in the next rain. Don't do real things
that make our lives easier to live in Los Angeles
(07:47):
the basics first, and then you can do all the
other stuff. But only when the basics are done. That's
how I have to live that's how you have to live.
Food first, lights, electricity, water heating. These are the things
(08:07):
that you need to do first. Everything else is extra
and an initiative that should be put on hold until
we get the basics done right. Because every time we
get a new tax on gas, we get a new
tax here, a new tax there. This initiative, that initiative.
They say it's going to the roads. It never goes
(08:28):
to the roads. A world class city is what I
hear all the time about LA. It's not a world
class city. It's a third world class city right now
because it is getting completely torn apart by lack of
the basic necessities to keep the city running. Neil Savadri Here,
Bill Handles show happy to be with you today and
(08:49):
tomorrow Handles having foot surgery. Yeah, I just put that
visual in your head. You're welcome. I've been really man.
I'm on a tar about local politics and politics in
general lately, because everyone gets on the right and left
stuff and they miss it all, they miss everything in between,
(09:10):
and it drives me nuts. And here's another story that
focuses on that air traffic controllers warned of incredibly disastrous
safety incidents months before the latest Newark system failure. And
if you didn't know about that, you're talking about you're
(09:33):
talking about ninety seconds, which may not sound like a lot.
Ninety seconds of blackout. So the people that tell the
planes where to go, control traffic have nothing, no ability
(09:56):
to communicate their way or you know, going out coming
in nothing, can't see where the planes are. Controllers were
warning over and over there's a dangerous, dangerous situation company coming.
(10:17):
You know why, it's antiquated. Their system is old. You
can't do new things having tech, continue to move forward
and have old equipment. So I'm going to tie this together.
This is what keeps me up at night. These are
(10:38):
the things I think about because while everybody is on
their pet emotional peeve every other day, this really grinds
my gears. Or this is can you believe that you
know the earth has a fever? You go through all
these things, and yes, they're all important. Everything's important by definition,
(11:01):
is going to have a lot of crap that flies
around us on the daily that is dangerous. You can't
nurse the world. Man, We're gonna have dangerous stuff. But
we are creating dangerous situations by creating politicians that bandit
everybody's emotional whim so they don't do the basics. We
(11:25):
just talked about Mayor Bass having to cut budgets and
wanting to do the things that emotionally won't trigger somebody,
and it's going to end up costing us more. I
guarantee it in the long run, it's going to be
a bigger problem. Well, onto this, the air traffic controllers
there in Newerk, How do I tie this together? Because
(11:46):
instead of putting money into the basics infrastructure technology, instead
of doing that you're talking about. I've had friends in
federal positions, FBI, all kinds of places that say it's atrocious.
(12:06):
The computers and the tech that they have to work
with had problems over and over that have come up
in news stories about well the FBI dropped this, or
they couldn't do this, or they whatever. A lot of
that has to do with tech. We're not putting money
into the things that need it because everybody has a
(12:28):
pet peeve. War is ugly. I'm sorry. People are dying
in Gaza, it's horrible. You know what, people are dying
in Ukraine as well, It's horrible, But people dying in
you know, the possibility of plane crashes or doors falling
(12:52):
off planes or not being able to do the basic
things is our fault. We've created a system that is
jerk on the reactions of our emotional whim whatever we're
hot on today. And the only thing that's good about
this story is that now people are gonna care what
(13:12):
ninety seconds of blackout for somebody that's trying to land
planes or keep them from crashing into each other. But
now they come out after months and years. Let's be honest,
there's years that I guarantee these air traffic controllers of
saying we don't have enough of us, we don't have
the technology, we haven't updated the infrastructure. But guess what
(13:39):
that's because they're out looking at X and TikTok to
see what people care about. Oh my gosh, we gotta
start talking about this. This is really big. No, it's
not planes falling out of the sky or t boning
each other. That's that's pretty big. Fix the basics. Focus on.
(14:05):
The basics are law enforcement, fire department, air traffic control
should all have the best of the best, and then
we can worry about the crazy guy cutting down trees.
What was the first thing that the mayor said Oh,
we're going to replace those trees cut down by a
(14:27):
psychotic homeless person with a chainsaw, because homeless people on
bikes with chainsaws is the norm. But we're going to
replace those trees because that's horrible. How about get new
computers for the airport. Make sure that those fire trucks
(14:50):
that weren't working during the fires are up, just just
shiny and new. The basics. We need to go back
to the basics. We are so just distracted by every
little thing. The entire us of a has ADHD, and
we're screwed. You know what that stands for ADHD Attention deficit.
(15:14):
Hey donuts, No, I'm shot, but I'm bump. Yeah, no, no,
all right. Some things change as generations change. We know
this since the old the old yarn. And we're young
and we frolic and we do our thing, and the
news we get older, we look at the new young
(15:36):
frolickers and we go, don't do that. The thing you're
doing is bugging me. You're doing it wrong. You're doing
it wrong. And we become our parents. However, for a
long time we had similarities what I call crossover, generational crossover.
There's certain things that change and certain things that don't.
So your school experience was similar to your parents, although
(15:59):
there might have been my interchanges, Uh, but you still
had certain things. Well, there's a generational gap that is
pretty large when it comes to the newer generation because
they have technology and things that we didn't have when
we were in school. Right, So this changes. Now you
have something that you can't relate to. That's that's dissimilar
(16:22):
to how you grew up. Right. But if I make
a joke about church, growing up in church, my mom
would laugh because she grew up in church. She understood, Well,
once you don't go to church, then you slowly that
leaves the system. And now kids grow up with you know,
things change that way. So you've got Gen Z parents
(16:44):
that want to don't want to do the old parenting
classic of reading bedtime stories. And I'm not one to
go these kids today, but damn it, these kids today.
So a new study shows that coosing up with a
picture book or something before bed just doesn't fit the
(17:06):
vibe of younger parents. Now they're in their twenties and
reading fairy tales or nursery rhymes feels more like a
chore than what I see it as is a really
intimate and bonding moment. God bless my wife for doing this.
Books are a big deal in our house, always have been,
(17:31):
and I love There's something so magical when I saw
eight year old boy read when he first started, like
breaking the code and understanding it every time. Still to
this day, every time I see him read something over
my shoulder, I get so excited for him because that's
(17:57):
you know, today's all about the basics. I guess, you know,
going back to the basics, and you can't do anything
else without being able to read. I mean you can't.
You can't go into math. Yeah, he can't go into
the sciences. It's like the basics. And my dad was
he only had an eighth grade I think through the
(18:18):
eighth grade, seventh or eighth grade education. But man, could
that guy read, just read constantly, and he would at
the drop of a hat. He'd come in to kiss
you good night or something you say, Daddy, tell me
a story. He'd lay down. He wouldn't even say yes
or anything. He'd lay down once upon a time, and
(18:38):
it was on. I try and do that as much
as I can, But God bless my wife, there's reading
time every day. It's scheduled. It's on there. He's going
to have reading time. She gets some cool books, you know,
if he has interest, they go to the library and
they pick out books and he'll read them. He'll read
(18:59):
them to us, we'll read them to him. But in
all honesty, my wife she carries the vast majority of
all that stuff. So I guess the stories aren't antiquated.
You go back to the beginning of the Grim Brothers
and all of that, Mother Goose. A lot of those
(19:19):
were very important and powerful stories that had morals to
them and understanding that helped you get a peace of
the world and what it's going to mean to go
out in the world someday. They're pretty dark, quite honestly,
But apparently according to this research HarperCollins and Nielsen IQ
(19:40):
book data, they're just not doing it anymore. And now
you've got groups coming out concerned thinking, hey, this is
going to have some social retardation. There's going to be
a slow pattern, there's going to be unintended consequences on this,
and of course you don't know until it happens whether
(20:03):
it was good or bad. But that's a sad thing
to lose to me. There's something magical about a book
going to a library as a kid before the internet,
anything you wanted to know was in one of these books.
And then my dad would tell me that I would
just go It just excites me. All right, this story
(20:24):
got me. I'll just summarize AI. What an interesting tool
as an artist and somebody who did design for a
long time. Yes, there's a lot of controversy about the
fact that it basically pilfs a lot of stuff out
there that from creative people and then regenerates it in
different forms. I get all of that, but I like
(20:45):
technology and I'm fascinated by it. What a use of
this one? You have an Arizona man who was shot
and killed his sister, Stacy Wales. All she could think
about for the two years before the sentencing hearing is
what she'd say, just putting a list together, what she'd
say to the man that killed her brother in a
(21:08):
road rage incident, another pet peeve. So they used AI
of her brother to introduce videos of him that were
real and it's powerful. It's a white background. He a
bearded guy and he said, Hi, my name is such
(21:31):
and such. What you're watching is not really me. It's
made up. Of photos of me and voice and character patterning.
But I want you to know me, and the only
way to do that is through these videos. And he
(21:56):
goes and he introduces video of him, family videos, things
of him talking. So imagine being able to give a
witness statement or impact statement, I think is probably better
the right term, an impact statement. At you're at the
(22:21):
sentencing of your murderer. It was if you haven't seen it,
it's very I mean it just I can feel emotions
welling up when I'm thinking about the intensity of that,
and for the family to seem saying new words you've
never heard before, or saying doing something that you've never
seen before after he was murdered. So I don't know
(22:50):
if this is going to be a pattern of something
we're going to see more and more. But man, how
powerful a tool in that usage. It wasn't crass, wasn't morbid.
It was again just powerful. God bless his family dealing
with the loss of someone like that, young and taken
(23:13):
down for something stupid once again because emotions getting caught up.
It's not the freeway, it's my freeway. You're cutting me
off on my freeway. In the way that we have
personalized every single action out there to be about us. Sad,
very sad, but if you haven't seen it, it is
(23:36):
super breathtaking and moving handles out getting foot surgery. Nil
Sevedra happy to be with you with the gang, the
Morning Crew. We'll be back with more. This is KFI
heard everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
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Speaker 2 (00:06):
F Happy Thursday, morn to you, Neil Sevadra. Here Bill
Handle's having foot surgery. I know, sexy, right, you'd like
to get their hands on uh on those fish flaps.
I can imagine what his feet look get in there
on those day those depas people are eating. No no, no,
(00:34):
no die this little pee with the he'll be back
on Monday. You got me tomorrow. Good times. The whole
gang is here all right. Budget time in Los Angeles.
Holy hell. The only the only thing sadder than not
(00:56):
having more sad, I get it. I can hear my
mom correcting me. Sadder than not having money to do
what you need to do is having way more money
and then spending it poorly. You know those people that
win the lottery, they got four teeth the go Mike
my life. So moch better outdating deer, say a truck
(01:19):
I'd be wanting. Can I I'm allowed to do that?
Voice right?
Speaker 3 (01:26):
You can make because that's yeah right, you're fine, okay,
So make sure is there a group I'm sure kids
for then we for everything?
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Okay. AnyWho I'm just saying, then they spend it all. Right.
You see these people that get rich doing I don't know,
music or whatever, and then they spend it all. And
that's what we do here in Los Angeles. We we
just spend it. We don't know where we spend it,
and it goes away. And the simple things, the everyday
(01:59):
things that we hire these people, I mean because they're hired. Yes,
we vote them in, there's a process to do it,
but we've hired them. We've said, please, street lights on
clean sidewalks, smooth streets, good fire department, good police department,
(02:22):
parks nice, let's see it. Do the things that we
can't do individually. I cannot fix all the streets as
an individual. I cannot fix the sidewalks. I'm not gonna
shimmy my way up a pole to replace the copper
(02:43):
that was stolen by a wing nut. To fix the lamps.
I need you. So you've got the mare coming out
with her budget that keeps changing, just messing around. Listen,
I know when you to budget, whether it's at home,
whether it's in government, whatever, here at the at the studios,
(03:06):
we all have to do it. Nobody is gonna want
you to cut anything, but it doesn't mean that there
aren't smart ways to do it. You don't go in
the house and say, you know what, we've only got
so much budget budget, we gotta we gotta cut water out.
(03:27):
We just got to cut water out. Otherwise it's sat
or Netflix. You don't do that. Smart people do not
do that. They go we need water. So by the
city law, Los Angeles has to balance its budget every
single year. Mayor Bass just happens to be Unfortunately, she's
(03:50):
been a big disappointment to me. I didn't vote for
but I have. I had high hopes. I always root
for whoever's in office. I try to as long as
the doing what's right for whatever their office is overseeing.
But every single time I turn around, the proposals are
(04:12):
just asinine. We've gotten to the point where we are
simply seeing politicians local or otherwise leaning on fads or
interests that are outside of the immediate needs of whatever
community they're overseeing. Is global change whatever that you call it, now,
(04:40):
it's not global warming. It's a climate change that's important.
But fix my streets first, because that's immediate. Maybe we'll
all be dead in ten years, that's fine, but right now,
I got to drive on the streets. Public transportation. You
want to help the poor, make public transportations safe. So
(05:06):
now you have a government that is switched from doing
the things that the individuals can't do, trying to help
the individuals do what they should be doing. You can't
live and have a house, you can't afford an apartment,
you can't have a job, So now we've got to
help them. Yet the people that have a job and
(05:28):
pay tax and do all that can't drive on a
street without holes half the size of their buick, And
it becomes backwards. You're looking at some of the things
being cut. Some of the proposed budget cuts in Los
Angeles are dealing with things that actually make money that
(05:50):
I'll bring in revenue. Now, I'm not thrilled to the
way they do it because usually means citations for US
drivers or whatever. But they have whether it's those new
cameras on the front of the the buses, you remember,
they put those on there so that they can see
who's parking, the idiots who are parking in bus only areas.
(06:16):
That makes money as well as keeping people safe, as
well as keeping public transmit transit on time. That's not
going to be able to be manned. Those types of
things that are actually working are not going to have
people doing doing what they need to do to watch
the footage, to execute the citations. They're saving a few
(06:42):
million dollars here, a few million dollars there, and we've
were out one hundred we're out of billion dollars right now,
a billion dollars for LA and the Bureau of Street
Lighting is estimating that broken street lights would take two
(07:04):
years after being reported to be fixed. Now that may
be hyperbole, but still the basics should be done before
you do anything else, relationships with other countries, as a
local politician, before you do any global things. Initiatives, get
the basic initiatives done. Fill the damn potholes, not with
(07:26):
that temporary garbage. Weren't you and I talking about this
and where when they fill the potholes, they just slap
stuff in it. They don't fill it properly. It pops
right out in the next rain. Don't do real things
that make our lives easier to live in Los Angeles
(07:47):
the basics first, and then you can do all the
other stuff. But only when the basics are done. That's
how I have to live that's how you have to live.
Food first, lights, electricity, water heating. These are the things
(08:07):
that you need to do first. Everything else is extra
and an initiative that should be put on hold until
we get the basics done right. Because every time we
get a new tax on gas, we get a new
tax here, a new tax there. This initiative, that initiative.
They say it's going to the roads. It never goes
(08:28):
to the roads. A world class city is what I
hear all the time about LA. It's not a world
class city. It's a third world class city right now
because it is getting completely torn apart by lack of
the basic necessities to keep the city running. Neil Savadri Here,
Bill Handles show happy to be with you today and
(08:49):
tomorrow Handles having foot surgery. Yeah, I just put that
visual in your head. You're welcome. I've been really man.
I'm on a tar about local politics and politics in
general lately, because everyone gets on the right and left
stuff and they miss it all, they miss everything in between,
(09:10):
and it drives me nuts. And here's another story that
focuses on that air traffic controllers warned of incredibly disastrous
safety incidents months before the latest Newark system failure. And
if you didn't know about that, you're talking about you're
(09:33):
talking about ninety seconds, which may not sound like a lot.
Ninety seconds of blackout. So the people that tell the
planes where to go, control traffic have nothing, no ability
(09:56):
to communicate their way or you know, going out coming
in nothing, can't see where the planes are. Controllers were
warning over and over there's a dangerous, dangerous situation company coming.
(10:17):
You know why, it's antiquated. Their system is old. You
can't do new things having tech, continue to move forward
and have old equipment. So I'm going to tie this together.
This is what keeps me up at night. These are
(10:38):
the things I think about because while everybody is on
their pet emotional peeve every other day, this really grinds
my gears. Or this is can you believe that you
know the earth has a fever? You go through all
these things, and yes, they're all important. Everything's important by definition,
(11:01):
is going to have a lot of crap that flies
around us on the daily that is dangerous. You can't
nurse the world. Man, We're gonna have dangerous stuff. But
we are creating dangerous situations by creating politicians that bandit
everybody's emotional whim so they don't do the basics. We
(11:25):
just talked about Mayor Bass having to cut budgets and
wanting to do the things that emotionally won't trigger somebody,
and it's going to end up costing us more. I
guarantee it in the long run, it's going to be
a bigger problem. Well, onto this, the air traffic controllers
there in Newerk, How do I tie this together? Because
(11:46):
instead of putting money into the basics infrastructure technology, instead
of doing that you're talking about. I've had friends in
federal positions, FBI, all kinds of places that say it's atrocious.
(12:06):
The computers and the tech that they have to work
with had problems over and over that have come up
in news stories about well the FBI dropped this, or
they couldn't do this, or they whatever. A lot of
that has to do with tech. We're not putting money
into the things that need it because everybody has a
(12:28):
pet peeve. War is ugly. I'm sorry. People are dying
in Gaza, it's horrible. You know what, people are dying
in Ukraine as well, It's horrible, But people dying in
you know, the possibility of plane crashes or doors falling
(12:52):
off planes or not being able to do the basic
things is our fault. We've created a system that is
jerk on the reactions of our emotional whim whatever we're
hot on today. And the only thing that's good about
this story is that now people are gonna care what
(13:12):
ninety seconds of blackout for somebody that's trying to land
planes or keep them from crashing into each other. But
now they come out after months and years. Let's be honest,
there's years that I guarantee these air traffic controllers of
saying we don't have enough of us, we don't have
the technology, we haven't updated the infrastructure. But guess what
(13:39):
that's because they're out looking at X and TikTok to
see what people care about. Oh my gosh, we gotta
start talking about this. This is really big. No, it's
not planes falling out of the sky or t boning
each other. That's that's pretty big. Fix the basics. Focus on.
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The basics are law enforcement, fire department, air traffic control
should all have the best of the best, and then
we can worry about the crazy guy cutting down trees.
What was the first thing that the mayor said Oh,
we're going to replace those trees cut down by a
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psychotic homeless person with a chainsaw, because homeless people on
bikes with chainsaws is the norm. But we're going to
replace those trees because that's horrible. How about get new
computers for the airport. Make sure that those fire trucks
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that weren't working during the fires are up, just just
shiny and new. The basics. We need to go back
to the basics. We are so just distracted by every
little thing. The entire us of a has ADHD, and
we're screwed. You know what that stands for ADHD Attention deficit.
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Hey donuts, No, I'm shot, but I'm bump. Yeah, no, no,
all right. Some things change as generations change. We know
this since the old the old yarn. And we're young
and we frolic and we do our thing, and the
news we get older, we look at the new young
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frolickers and we go, don't do that. The thing you're
doing is bugging me. You're doing it wrong. You're doing
it wrong. And we become our parents. However, for a
long time we had similarities what I call crossover, generational crossover.
There's certain things that change and certain things that don't.
So your school experience was similar to your parents, although
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there might have been my interchanges, Uh, but you still
had certain things. Well, there's a generational gap that is
pretty large when it comes to the newer generation because
they have technology and things that we didn't have when
we were in school. Right, So this changes. Now you
have something that you can't relate to. That's that's dissimilar
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to how you grew up. Right. But if I make
a joke about church, growing up in church, my mom
would laugh because she grew up in church. She understood, Well,
once you don't go to church, then you slowly that
leaves the system. And now kids grow up with you know,
things change that way. So you've got Gen Z parents
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that want to don't want to do the old parenting
classic of reading bedtime stories. And I'm not one to
go these kids today, but damn it, these kids today.
So a new study shows that coosing up with a
picture book or something before bed just doesn't fit the
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vibe of younger parents. Now they're in their twenties and
reading fairy tales or nursery rhymes feels more like a
chore than what I see it as is a really
intimate and bonding moment. God bless my wife for doing this.
Books are a big deal in our house, always have been,
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and I love There's something so magical when I saw
eight year old boy read when he first started, like
breaking the code and understanding it every time. Still to
this day, every time I see him read something over
my shoulder, I get so excited for him because that's
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you know, today's all about the basics. I guess, you know,
going back to the basics, and you can't do anything
else without being able to read. I mean you can't.
You can't go into math. Yeah, he can't go into
the sciences. It's like the basics. And my dad was
he only had an eighth grade I think through the
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eighth grade, seventh or eighth grade education. But man, could
that guy read, just read constantly, and he would at
the drop of a hat. He'd come in to kiss
you good night or something you say, Daddy, tell me
a story. He'd lay down. He wouldn't even say yes
or anything. He'd lay down once upon a time, and
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it was on. I try and do that as much
as I can, But God bless my wife, there's reading
time every day. It's scheduled. It's on there. He's going
to have reading time. She gets some cool books, you know,
if he has interest, they go to the library and
they pick out books and he'll read them. He'll read
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them to us, we'll read them to him. But in
all honesty, my wife she carries the vast majority of
all that stuff. So I guess the stories aren't antiquated.
You go back to the beginning of the Grim Brothers
and all of that, Mother Goose. A lot of those
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were very important and powerful stories that had morals to
them and understanding that helped you get a peace of
the world and what it's going to mean to go
out in the world someday. They're pretty dark, quite honestly,
But apparently according to this research HarperCollins and Nielsen IQ
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book data, they're just not doing it anymore. And now
you've got groups coming out concerned thinking, hey, this is
going to have some social retardation. There's going to be
a slow pattern, there's going to be unintended consequences on this,
and of course you don't know until it happens whether
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it was good or bad. But that's a sad thing
to lose to me. There's something magical about a book
going to a library as a kid before the internet,
anything you wanted to know was in one of these books.
And then my dad would tell me that I would
just go It just excites me. All right, this story
(20:24):
got me. I'll just summarize AI. What an interesting tool
as an artist and somebody who did design for a
long time. Yes, there's a lot of controversy about the
fact that it basically pilfs a lot of stuff out
there that from creative people and then regenerates it in
different forms. I get all of that, but I like
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technology and I'm fascinated by it. What a use of
this one? You have an Arizona man who was shot
and killed his sister, Stacy Wales. All she could think
about for the two years before the sentencing hearing is
what she'd say, just putting a list together, what she'd
say to the man that killed her brother in a
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road rage incident, another pet peeve. So they used AI
of her brother to introduce videos of him that were
real and it's powerful. It's a white background. He a
bearded guy and he said, Hi, my name is such
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and such. What you're watching is not really me. It's
made up. Of photos of me and voice and character patterning.
But I want you to know me, and the only
way to do that is through these videos. And he
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goes and he introduces video of him, family videos, things
of him talking. So imagine being able to give a
witness statement or impact statement, I think is probably better
the right term, an impact statement. At you're at the
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sentencing of your murderer. It was if you haven't seen it,
it's very I mean it just I can feel emotions
welling up when I'm thinking about the intensity of that,
and for the family to seem saying new words you've
never heard before, or saying doing something that you've never
seen before after he was murdered. So I don't know
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if this is going to be a pattern of something
we're going to see more and more. But man, how
powerful a tool in that usage. It wasn't crass, wasn't morbid.
It was again just powerful. God bless his family dealing
with the loss of someone like that, young and taken
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down for something stupid once again because emotions getting caught up.
It's not the freeway, it's my freeway. You're cutting me
off on my freeway. In the way that we have
personalized every single action out there to be about us. Sad,
very sad, but if you haven't seen it, it is
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super breathtaking and moving handles out getting foot surgery. Nil
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