October 3, 2025 • 31 mins
(October 03, 2025)
Gov. Newsom threatens to withhold billions from California colleges that sign Trump’s ‘compact.’ Flying taxis are coming to L.A. This developer is already picking places to land them. US comedians defend decision to play in Saudi Arabia: ‘They’re paying me enough to look the other way.’ Robotic invitro fertilization is creating a new generation of babies.
Gov. Newsom threatens to withhold billions from California colleges that sign Trump’s ‘compact.’ Flying taxis are coming to L.A. This developer is already picking places to land them. US comedians defend decision to play in Saudi Arabia: ‘They’re paying me enough to look the other way.’ Robotic invitro fertilization is creating a new generation of babies.
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Is anybody in your household not on copious amounts of drugs?
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All right? Well in any case, moving on, and it's
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gonna be a little bit more serious this topic. And
this has to do with the fight that Donald Trump
is having with academia, and academia read gavenuwssom in this
uh regard is fighting right back. So what the White
House has done has asked nine universities to adopt Trump's
political priorities in exchange for priority access to federal grants. Now,
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this isn't Harvard or Columbia, in which the Trump administration
said straight out we're going to stop funding period. You're
done unless you acquiesce to our position on DEI and
admissions and academic priorities and what we want you to
teach and how we want you to report to US,
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et cetera. That was and that's going to court, as
you know, and the lower court said you can't do that.
Well they've switched a little bit. This one is the
White House asking nine different universities, mainly in California, but
including the University of Arizona, that you have to accept
political priorities, the Trump political priorities, and if you do,
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you will get priority access to federal grants. It's not
that we're going to stop federal grants to other places.
It's just you're gonna be You're gonna be able to
cut in line if you adopt our position. Well, Newsom
swings right back. Now it's going to be a fight.
It's one of these things where Newsom isn't caving. I
mean he is become the poster child of the let's
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fight Donald Trump on a political level guy out there.
And so what he does is say, Okay, if you
do acquiesce this is to these universities within the state,
we're going to cut state funding to you. Now, these
goals get a lot of state funding. Newsom threatened to
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cut billions of dollars in state funding to USC any
California campus that agrees to this administration with they're calling
a compact agreement to enact these very sweeping and well
conservative campus policies. If any California university signs this radical agreement,
this is Newsome, they'll lose billions in state funding, including
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CAL grants. California will not bankroll schools that sell out
their students, professors, researchers, and surrender academic freedom. Now, this
is a day after the White House asked USC and
the other major universities to switch to the right follow
the administration's view on gender identity, on admissions, a diversity
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on free speech in exchange for more favorable access to
those federal grants, mainly research grants CAL grants, which of
course is California. At this point, SC is the only
California university to be sent the proposal itself. White House
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said that universities are given the agreement. This was the
first round of these demands that are being made. All USC,
all CSU campuses in addition to Stanford are under federal
civil rights investigations right now. The Feds are investigating all
of them for civil rights violations, arguing that admission standards,
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DEI programs, any kind of affirmative action programs, which by
the way, are illegal, anything along those lines right now,
an investigation that the schools are violating the laws, the
anti discrimination laws. So the universities are being asked to
sign quote a Compact for Academic Excellence and Higher Education,
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which means adopting the White House's for America's campuses, and
the letter suggests that colleges should align with Trump's views
on student discipline, on college affordability, the importance of hard
sciences over liberal arts. I mean, the bottom line is
the administration wants control over what's todd at the university level.
It's that simple. You teach what we want you to teach.
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Otherwise you're not going to get money, and we're going
to do everything we can investigate you. We're going to
make sure that money is withheld. That's pretty I got
to tell you I don't mind a political fight, but
we're talking about withholding money for cancer research for example.
That's what's being done right now. So the Trump administration
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find UCLA one point two million dollars one toy two
billion for a civil rights violation, and Newsom said uc
should should sue right back and not bend the knee.
No lawsuit has been filed, by the way, so at
this point this is such a match, a pissing match
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between them. The other thing that a federal compact does
is going to restrict international student enrollment to fifteen percent
of a college undergraduate student body. No more than five
percent can come from any single country. Who's going to
get hit really hard. Sc is going to get nailed
because twenty six percent of the twenty twenty five freshman
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class is international. More than half of the students come
from either China or India. Why are international students so
important to a university or a college here in the
United States Because they pay full retail. They pay rack rates,
the most expensive tuition, and there are no benefits. There
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are no scholarship programs available to international students. They just
pay the tuition, which means if you're taking if you're
going to law school at sc or going to medical
school at UCLA, that's fifty six thousand dollars a year intuition.
You cut all of that out, or you cut out
a big chunk of that and not replace the money.
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By the way, we're not talking about replacing the money.
We're simply saying the money is not going to come in.
Or that's what the Trump administration is arguing. It's it's
a huge fight. Which way is it going to go?
You know, I don't know at this point because obviously
the power that the administration has, the power that the
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presidency has is extraordinary, almost unlimited. But if anybody can
bring that fight to the table, it's Newsome. And is
it because of Newsom and his personality? I guess, to
a smaller extent, it's because Newsom is California, and California
is no joke. I mean, this is not Arkansas, this
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is not Rhode Island. This is California, the juggernaut of
what the United States is about. And so Newsome, I
think on a political level, I mean, he's obviously running
for president. I mean there's no question about that. The
more he says, oh, I don't know, I want to
stay governor, Please give me a break. He is going
around the country at the various political rallies, which just
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make a lot of sense as far as someone's running
for office, and he has become the anti Trump spokesperson.
That's not to say that Trump is going to run again.
Although that meeting that was held this past week with
the leadership of Congress and the Senate in the Oval Office,
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I don't know if you saw pictures of it, but
Donald Trump had red hats that said Trump twenty twenty
eight on his desk. What do you do with that?
What do you do with that? I don't even know,
you laugh, He's trolling them. I don't even know what
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you do with that? Isn't just forget it. Let's say
he's gonna be able to pull it off. How old
is he going to be in twenty twenty eight. He's
not going to pull it off. Yeah, of course not.
But I'm just of course not but old. Let's just
talk about age for a minute. How old would he
be in twenty twenty eight? Eighty three, right, yeah, sevy
eighty seven? Yeah. Well. Robert Mugabi, who ran Rhodesia which
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became a Zimbabwe was ninety two and ninety three and
still running the country into the ground, I might add,
so this is all this part is entertainment. You know,
the Maga hat twenty twenty eight. How about how about
Trump twenty thirty two. I should make one of those?
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Are Let's let's make one of those and start selling those.
You think we'd get some sales. That's actually a pretty
good idea.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
He's gonna want to freeze himself so that he can
run again a thousand years from now.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
All right, back, no kidding, all right? Have you noticed
that there are no helicopters that you can take in
southern California going from place to place? They just don't
have too many commercial helicopters out there. How many wealthy
people do you think live in southern California who could
afford helicopters to beat the traffic? Because one of the
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things about I don't care how rich you are, you're
still stuck in traffic.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
Other than tourism, which I have done before, the only
time I've been in a helicopter for a meeting to
go to a meeting was with you, Yes.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
And those it's almost impossible. You can't get landing rights
on helicopters. When you talk about all of these rooftop
you know the high rise buildings have those helipads. It's
only for the purposes of rescuing people in a fire,
that's what that's about. So it used to be you
could fly helicopters, but it's done. It would be so crowded,
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to be so crazy out there. So what's the next step. Well,
air taxis right, you know, air taxis are coming and
by the way, they're here. Air taxis are now here.
And the trick is where are they going to land?
That is the problem. The technology of air taxis has
basically arrived. The problem is, let's get some landing spaces
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and we're talking about congested areas. Are they going to
go to using rooftop rooftop heli helipads, Well, they're already there.
You ever see what you've all seen movies New York
where you'd have the pan Am airways and they had
that helicopter would land on top of a building and
then people would walk down the stairs and he'd be
wealthy people. They didn't want to deal with the subway
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or the traffic in New York, And at one time
you know, they used to go to Disneyland. When I
was a kid, you could tell you a helicopter to
Disneyland from Fanny's Airport. They actually had a helicopter service
and I think one or two of them went down
and that was the end of that. So the air
taxis have arrived and they're going to be up and
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running by the Olympics. They say, here's the problem. The
problem is is that they're not the jets and kind
of air traffic or helicopters. They're the kind that need pilots,
and it's going to effectively be uber in the air.
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That is, that's not scalable, that doesn't work. There just
aren't that many helicopter pilots out there. It's hard to
fly a helicopter, although today with the eight rotors like drones,
it's probably a lot easier to fly those, but it's
not going to work with pilots. It's going to have
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to be autonomous. I mean, there's no way around it.
With autonomous much like we've been talking about autonomous driving
vehicles the way mos that are out there, the only
way for them to work is to be driverless, and
the same thing is going to happen with air taxis,
they're going to be pilot less and with that, now
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this thing is going to explode. And the technology is there.
I mean, can you imagine thousands of these flying around
the skies. There'll be collisions. No, the technology is there,
with the sensors and the radar and the light r
and the routar or whatever the hell they call that,
the Rudolphs. It's going to help them guide there a
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little that's that red blinking light you know at the
front of it, you know, the Rudolphs. It's the technology
is there to keep these things flying. Much like we've
talked about, as soon as fully autonomous vehicles kick in
and people are not going to be allowed to drive,
gridlock is gone. There will be no more gridlock ever,
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because cars will be able to drive at speed and
the technology will be able to keep them two inches apart,
and no one's going to speed up or slow down,
or if they are. It's all going to be all
of these vehicles talking to each other and it's going
to run very smoothly, the same things that happened with
their it shillies.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
There was a TV show I can't remember a class
of ninety seven or something like that about modern this
futuristic CIA or something, and it was that exact scenario.
And if you had your hands in the wheel and
were driving, cops could pull you over and ask you
why it wasn't in automatic mode, and you know, and
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the drivers like, ah, you know, I just felt like
driving tonight or being controlled. Okay, well it's safer for
you to put it into eighties, you know, And it is.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
I mean the people that are the truck drivers, for example,
of the unions, right, the teamsters always tremendously unsafe. You
don't want autonomous trucks driving around. You want teamsters. You
want guys who are men, real men, flannel shirts, big boots,
with the left arm having a tremendous tan on it.
That is who you want driving trucks. Forget about the
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fact that they are swallowing uppers like skittles to keep
themselves up and going. Or see radio is even around anymore?
Roger Roger over and now yeah, I mean.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
They use each other cell phones, but yeah they still
they still do CV. You can I can hear it
sometimes when I'm monitoring the airwaves in my shop.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
How cool is that? What was that? Song that the
CB Radio song con don't remember in any case, one joy. Oh,
that's right. What you're going to see, uh, is these
air taxis will be around. And the problem is right now,
as I've said, finding the secure landing sites because there's
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going to be a lot of traffic. I mean, can
you imagine you basically, let's say you're building and it's
going to be a helipad where hundreds of people, maybe
thousands of people are going to be flying around, and
that is the airport the center of these places, and
it's going to be an urban centers. I mean, you're
not going to see outlying areas. It's not going to
be lax out by the ocean, and you're not going
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to see Paul Dale out by Palmdale or John Wayne,
which is its own place. No, you're going to see
him right in the middle of the city. So what's
the big company. There's one big company that's out there
looking for these spaces right now, and this is they're
looking at the Greater La Area, San Francisco, New York City,
and by the end of the year they're going to
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start securing these places. Huh, all right, so much for that.
That's gonna be fine. We're going to see the Jetsons
all over again. Now, let me tell you what's going on.
Saudi Arabia is getting into the sports business in a
huge way in terms of Formula One racing and the
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the golf tournament's now gone against up against the PGA.
I think they've merged, if I'm not mistaken at this point. Well,
they're moving in a different direction now. It's comedy and
it is now the Rhea Comedy Festival. It's inaugural and
it runs started twenty sixth September and it goes until
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the ninth of October, so it's right in the middle
of it. And it features well some of the biggest
names in US comedy Dave Chappelle, Lewis c K, Bill Burke,
Kevin Hart, Whitney Cummings, Pete Davidson, Isis I'm sorry, I mean,
he goes on and on and on. And what makes
it interesting on this one is, first of all, the
amount of money. Saudi Arabia has unlimited amount of money.
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And with the golfers, how dare you members of the PGA,
they were threatened to be tossed out of the PGA,
and they said you know what, We'll take our eight
million dollars in play a game of golf if that's okay.
And enough of them want to where riadd Saudi Arabia won. Well,
it seems to be the same thing going on. But
here's the difference. You've got comedians who are fanatical First
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Amendment people, and you have a country that shuts down
First Amendment rights, probably as much or more so than
almost any country in the world. You don't speak against
the government, you don't speak against the royal family. You
just don't do that. And so they're getting a lot
of hits, these comedians, and some have said no, thank you,
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some have said thank you, and still rip into Saudi Arabia,
continue going, and they've been taking off the schedule to
say the least, they're no longer on the card. But
Human Rights Watch argued in news release that the Saudi
regime is really trying to whitewash its notorious abuses. That's
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what this is about. It's just not getting into a
new franchise taking over sports. No, this is a way
for them to sort of, as Human Rights Watch says,
whitewash their problems. For example, the murder of Kashogi, who
is the journalist. The fact that women are not treated
very well as if at they certainly don't vote, they
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can't drive. So what are the committeeans saying? Well, it
breaks down into, as I said, three different camps. Those
who say don't want any part of it, those who say, okay,
we'll have part of it and still don't stop their acts,
and we'll attack Saudi Arabia, and those who are just
for the money and say there's just enough money here
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where we're not going to say no. All right, so
they killed Koshogi. Everybody's entitled to a mistake. Okay, women
shouldn't drive, now, well, women shouldn't drive. You ever went
on the streets of the United States? You don't want
women drivers? Are those such thing as really First Amendment?
And it's just a question of money. I don't know
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if I would do it, you know, Neil, I mean,
would you for enough money, would you hang up your morals? Well?
I get paid to do this show. Yeah, I understand.
But let's see, let's say they asked you.
Speaker 1 (19:59):
I would think I wouldn't unless I could genuinely articulate
why why it was beneficial beyond the money.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
But okay, then you okay, then you wouldn't do it?
Uh So, Amy, would you change your broadcast? And let's
say the corporation wanted you to broadcast something that you
knew was not true or against your basic philosophy? Would
you take the money against Well, I'm a newsperson, so
I don't take a no. But I understand you know,
But I'm just saying, would you you're objective about the news.
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What if the corporation didn't want you to be objective?
I would have a I would have a real problem
with that. I would do it for five cents, all right?
That is that's the whole point. You wanted to set
a moral ground with Amy and me so that you
can go you're all, You're all.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
You're going to get a flotilla and go to uh Gaza.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
Right? Yes, I am I. And one of the things
that I've said this about iHeart which and before I
heart it was Cox that owned our station, is that
never once I have I or any of us been
told what to say and what not to say in
terms of content.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
Now, now you and I have both turned down money
for products or things that we don't use or wouldn't use.
That's the same.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
Yeah, those days are gone. We're it's it's a whole
new world now. Yes, I use those tampons on a
regular basis, Yes, I yes, I think they're great.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
You know, some days I just don't feel fresh, Bill.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
It's very funny stuff where it is. And look at
the legacy of comedians. Lenny Bruce, who out of Los Angeles,
he was Southern California. I mean the guy was, he
broke through. He he is the poster child First Amendment.
George Carlin in many ways, also Southern California. We really
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have promulgated. We have created a lot of these extraordinary comedians.
Lenny Bruce would roll over in his grave right now now. Personally,
as I said, iHeart has never once said here's what
you should or should not talk about, or here's a
position you should take. Now they will tell me, Bill,
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you shouldn't say those words, or you can't make fun
of certain ethnic groups. And I get that virtually every day.
That's not such a good idea, But in terms of content,
never even to the point where I call them up
and say, would you consider paying me more money if
I absolutely went the way you wanted me to do.
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I'm willing to sell myself. I am willing tohore myself out,
and this corporation will not let it happen. Just wanted
to point that out. Okay, why don't we move over
in a different direction. There is a technological segment I
want to do with you up. This is in my wheelhouse.
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And as you know, I was involved in reproduction, third
party reproduction, technological third party reproduction for many years. That
was my specialty as I practice law, and as you
know that, and let's talk about in vitul fertilization. In
viutul fertilization of which helped create my children is pretty
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complicated stuff. And it goes back to well, the first
IVF baby ever born was nineteen seventy eight. I wrote
my first surrogacy contract in nineteen eighty. My first IVF
baby born of surrogacy was in the early eighties, so
early days, and we were just waiting for the technology.
We knew it was coming. Well, let me tell you
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where it's gotten to. It's now become robotic and this
is where AI is kicking in again. We have no
idea where it's going. But I'll BETCHO didn't know that
the system of which an egg embryo is created, that
it is implanted into a woman is about two hundred
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manual steps, and it takes extraordinarily well trained embryologists who
have these eyes that you can see, I mean the
eagle eyes, because they're looking for these tiny little eggs
and they're looking for this sperm, looking at sperm which
has to be determined, whether the morphology is good, are
they swimming in the right direction? Are they too many
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of them spinning around? Too many of them going back
on themselves. It's a lot of skill. Well, robotics has
straightened all of that out, and this is huge, huge
news for a bunch of different reasons. I don't know
if you've ever well, I'm sure a lot of a
lot of us. I can't tell you how many kids
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have been born of IVF. I mean millions of children.
Next time you talk to anybody who've had twins, for example,
fraternal twins, Hey, what happened with your how your kids
born IVF? I know dozens of people who had had children.
Of course, you know, through my practice, I did idea,
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but this changes everything. Right now, it's about a sixty
percent success rate. When I first started doing this, the
success rate was under five percent. Three percent success rate.
Now it is a sixty percent success rate, which is
far more than natural conception. People don't have a sixty
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percent success rate when it comes to natural conception. Natural
conception means stooping. Let me explain the technology of stooping.
You you probably know what it is. Let me to
explain it to you. First, Well, no, you don't have to,
because I made my living off this, and not in
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that sense, but in another sense. So up to this point,
even with the technology of IVF, it has been for
the most part, a manual process, and that's on several
different levels. By the way, when we're talking about a
manual process, this takes away all of that. Well, certain
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stuff is still around, you know, there's the National Fluffer
Corporation that helps out, and they have machinery, certain gizmos
that help, but it's not the same here. The point
is that the success rate where it's going to fall.
Where success rate is not going to be as continue
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to be to the point of it's unsuccessful, is the implantation.
They haven't figured that out yet. You take an embryo
and it has to be implanted into the uterus. The
uterine wall and that they haven't gotten around yet everything
else they have, technology has been able to take over
and it's getting more and more. Now a cycle of
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IVF can cost up to thirty thousand dollars and couples
do it more than once. Now the thirty thousand dollars
involves egg retrieval, egg freezing. Also the IVF part the embryologists,
so that's the whole package and you can do it
for less. But at this point, this is where technology
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is going to be brought to the forefront and made
so much cheaper, and you're going to see an entire
group of people basically been put that are taken out
of the workforce. Ask someone with who used to be
a laboratory technologist. You know those were licensed at one
point lab techs. My mother was a lab tech which
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came to the United States. And what she would do
in order to count bacteria, for example, count the bacteria
in that when someone is sick. She worked in a
TB hospital, which is all of you medical center. She
would look under her microscope and she would in these
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grids literally count the cells with a clicker. Well, all
those jobs are gone because machines were developed very early
on that all of that analysis is done with one
slide with a drop of blood and they can do
three hundred tests. You won't see a lab tech, a
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licensed lab tech anymore. I think you may have to
have one in a lab. I don't even know if
that's the case. But you're going to see the same
thing with embryologists. You're going to see the same thing
with dealing with IVF, which means it's going to be cheaper,
far cheaper, and on top of that, it's going to
be more effective. And why is that? Because robotics. When
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robotics come into play, everything becomes cheaper. Life is changing
and a lot of people are being put out of work.
I mean, i'll tell you what else is. And we've
talked about this before. Entry level computer people are going
to be gone. You can't get a job as an
entry level computer. You go to school, there you are
with your skill set. You're looking at a basically a
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trainee entry level starting in a major corporation Amazon, Google,
there are no jobs. AI has taken over the whole thing.
I mean, we're in some big, big, big changes as
a matter of fact. And are we putting together the
show that we're going to do the segment that we're
going to do with me and Ai chat GPT. We're
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going to do that next week, right, Yeah, let's do
that because we've been talking about that this week. So
I want a news segment of Amy's using chat GPT
where we're going to hear Amy, who's not going to
be there. I want maybe a food segment from Neil
and maybe from me. We'll do some kind of general topic.
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We'll talk about this. You sound drunk right now. Hey, Hey,
hey guys, Hey guys. You know I'm just thinking it through.
I'm thinking it through. And you dressed up like a
show girl. No, stop it, stop it. I'm going to
get through. I'm putting We did this with Amy and Will.
We did it once, and I'm we did do it,
and it was months ago. And my argument why I
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want to do it again is to see how far
Oh yeah, it was horrible the first time, but I
want to see how far Ai has taken us even
in the last several months, because this thing is advancing
by the day, and that's what I want to do.
And maybe you're just talking about car chases. Oh, we
could do that. We could do a car Chase.
Speaker 3 (30:55):
An Ai car Chase with Tim Tim Conway with an
Ai Tim Cuss.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
Yes, let's do see. This is why I'm sounding drunk,
because we're putting together segments for those of you out
in radio land that are listening to this. This is
what we do to put together this show.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
I wonder if Dean Sharp needs a second banana.
Speaker 2 (31:16):
I'll go laugh on his show. Why not? Why don't
we come back and Neil, why don't you join me
with Foody Friday? And I'll try not to sound drunk.
Speaker 3 (31:25):
Reel me or Ai Me AIU because AIU is far
more entertaining and more funny and has.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
More of a depth of knowledge that you don't have.
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Is anybody in your household not on copious amounts of drugs?
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All right? Well in any case, moving on, and it's
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gonna be a little bit more serious this topic. And
this has to do with the fight that Donald Trump
is having with academia, and academia read gavenuwssom in this
uh regard is fighting right back. So what the White
House has done has asked nine universities to adopt Trump's
political priorities in exchange for priority access to federal grants. Now,
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this isn't Harvard or Columbia, in which the Trump administration
said straight out we're going to stop funding period. You're
done unless you acquiesce to our position on DEI and
admissions and academic priorities and what we want you to
teach and how we want you to report to US,
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et cetera. That was and that's going to court, as
you know, and the lower court said you can't do that.
Well they've switched a little bit. This one is the
White House asking nine different universities, mainly in California, but
including the University of Arizona, that you have to accept
political priorities, the Trump political priorities, and if you do,
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you will get priority access to federal grants. It's not
that we're going to stop federal grants to other places.
It's just you're gonna be You're gonna be able to
cut in line if you adopt our position. Well, Newsom
swings right back. Now it's going to be a fight.
It's one of these things where Newsom isn't caving. I
mean he is become the poster child of the let's
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fight Donald Trump on a political level guy out there.
And so what he does is say, Okay, if you
do acquiesce this is to these universities within the state,
we're going to cut state funding to you. Now, these
goals get a lot of state funding. Newsom threatened to
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cut billions of dollars in state funding to USC any
California campus that agrees to this administration with they're calling
a compact agreement to enact these very sweeping and well
conservative campus policies. If any California university signs this radical agreement,
this is Newsome, they'll lose billions in state funding, including
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CAL grants. California will not bankroll schools that sell out
their students, professors, researchers, and surrender academic freedom. Now, this
is a day after the White House asked USC and
the other major universities to switch to the right follow
the administration's view on gender identity, on admissions, a diversity
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on free speech in exchange for more favorable access to
those federal grants, mainly research grants CAL grants, which of
course is California. At this point, SC is the only
California university to be sent the proposal itself. White House
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said that universities are given the agreement. This was the
first round of these demands that are being made. All USC,
all CSU campuses in addition to Stanford are under federal
civil rights investigations right now. The Feds are investigating all
of them for civil rights violations, arguing that admission standards,
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DEI programs, any kind of affirmative action programs, which by
the way, are illegal, anything along those lines right now,
an investigation that the schools are violating the laws, the
anti discrimination laws. So the universities are being asked to
sign quote a Compact for Academic Excellence and Higher Education,
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which means adopting the White House's for America's campuses, and
the letter suggests that colleges should align with Trump's views
on student discipline, on college affordability, the importance of hard
sciences over liberal arts. I mean, the bottom line is
the administration wants control over what's todd at the university level.
It's that simple. You teach what we want you to teach.
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Otherwise you're not going to get money, and we're going
to do everything we can investigate you. We're going to
make sure that money is withheld. That's pretty I got
to tell you I don't mind a political fight, but
we're talking about withholding money for cancer research for example.
That's what's being done right now. So the Trump administration
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find UCLA one point two million dollars one toy two
billion for a civil rights violation, and Newsom said uc
should should sue right back and not bend the knee.
No lawsuit has been filed, by the way, so at
this point this is such a match, a pissing match
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between them. The other thing that a federal compact does
is going to restrict international student enrollment to fifteen percent
of a college undergraduate student body. No more than five
percent can come from any single country. Who's going to
get hit really hard. Sc is going to get nailed
because twenty six percent of the twenty twenty five freshman
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class is international. More than half of the students come
from either China or India. Why are international students so
important to a university or a college here in the
United States Because they pay full retail. They pay rack rates,
the most expensive tuition, and there are no benefits. There
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are no scholarship programs available to international students. They just
pay the tuition, which means if you're taking if you're
going to law school at sc or going to medical
school at UCLA, that's fifty six thousand dollars a year intuition.
You cut all of that out, or you cut out
a big chunk of that and not replace the money.
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By the way, we're not talking about replacing the money.
We're simply saying the money is not going to come in.
Or that's what the Trump administration is arguing. It's it's
a huge fight. Which way is it going to go?
You know, I don't know at this point because obviously
the power that the administration has, the power that the
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presidency has is extraordinary, almost unlimited. But if anybody can
bring that fight to the table, it's Newsome. And is
it because of Newsom and his personality? I guess, to
a smaller extent, it's because Newsom is California, and California
is no joke. I mean, this is not Arkansas, this
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is not Rhode Island. This is California, the juggernaut of
what the United States is about. And so Newsome, I
think on a political level, I mean, he's obviously running
for president. I mean there's no question about that. The
more he says, oh, I don't know, I want to
stay governor, Please give me a break. He is going
around the country at the various political rallies, which just
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make a lot of sense as far as someone's running
for office, and he has become the anti Trump spokesperson.
That's not to say that Trump is going to run again.
Although that meeting that was held this past week with
the leadership of Congress and the Senate in the Oval Office,
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I don't know if you saw pictures of it, but
Donald Trump had red hats that said Trump twenty twenty
eight on his desk. What do you do with that?
What do you do with that? I don't even know,
you laugh, He's trolling them. I don't even know what
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you do with that? Isn't just forget it. Let's say
he's gonna be able to pull it off. How old
is he going to be in twenty twenty eight. He's
not going to pull it off. Yeah, of course not.
But I'm just of course not but old. Let's just
talk about age for a minute. How old would he
be in twenty twenty eight? Eighty three, right, yeah, sevy
eighty seven? Yeah. Well. Robert Mugabi, who ran Rhodesia which
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became a Zimbabwe was ninety two and ninety three and
still running the country into the ground, I might add,
so this is all this part is entertainment. You know,
the Maga hat twenty twenty eight. How about how about
Trump twenty thirty two. I should make one of those?
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Are Let's let's make one of those and start selling those.
You think we'd get some sales. That's actually a pretty
good idea.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
He's gonna want to freeze himself so that he can
run again a thousand years from now.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
All right, back, no kidding, all right? Have you noticed
that there are no helicopters that you can take in
southern California going from place to place? They just don't
have too many commercial helicopters out there. How many wealthy
people do you think live in southern California who could
afford helicopters to beat the traffic? Because one of the
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things about I don't care how rich you are, you're
still stuck in traffic.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
Other than tourism, which I have done before, the only
time I've been in a helicopter for a meeting to
go to a meeting was with you, Yes.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
And those it's almost impossible. You can't get landing rights
on helicopters. When you talk about all of these rooftop
you know the high rise buildings have those helipads. It's
only for the purposes of rescuing people in a fire,
that's what that's about. So it used to be you
could fly helicopters, but it's done. It would be so crowded,
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to be so crazy out there. So what's the next step. Well,
air taxis right, you know, air taxis are coming and
by the way, they're here. Air taxis are now here.
And the trick is where are they going to land?
That is the problem. The technology of air taxis has
basically arrived. The problem is, let's get some landing spaces
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and we're talking about congested areas. Are they going to
go to using rooftop rooftop heli helipads, Well, they're already there.
You ever see what you've all seen movies New York
where you'd have the pan Am airways and they had
that helicopter would land on top of a building and
then people would walk down the stairs and he'd be
wealthy people. They didn't want to deal with the subway
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or the traffic in New York, And at one time
you know, they used to go to Disneyland. When I
was a kid, you could tell you a helicopter to
Disneyland from Fanny's Airport. They actually had a helicopter service
and I think one or two of them went down
and that was the end of that. So the air
taxis have arrived and they're going to be up and
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running by the Olympics. They say, here's the problem. The
problem is is that they're not the jets and kind
of air traffic or helicopters. They're the kind that need pilots,
and it's going to effectively be uber in the air.
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That is, that's not scalable, that doesn't work. There just
aren't that many helicopter pilots out there. It's hard to
fly a helicopter, although today with the eight rotors like drones,
it's probably a lot easier to fly those, but it's
not going to work with pilots. It's going to have
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to be autonomous. I mean, there's no way around it.
With autonomous much like we've been talking about autonomous driving
vehicles the way mos that are out there, the only
way for them to work is to be driverless, and
the same thing is going to happen with air taxis,
they're going to be pilot less and with that, now
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this thing is going to explode. And the technology is there.
I mean, can you imagine thousands of these flying around
the skies. There'll be collisions. No, the technology is there,
with the sensors and the radar and the light r
and the routar or whatever the hell they call that,
the Rudolphs. It's going to help them guide there a
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little that's that red blinking light you know at the
front of it, you know, the Rudolphs. It's the technology
is there to keep these things flying. Much like we've
talked about, as soon as fully autonomous vehicles kick in
and people are not going to be allowed to drive,
gridlock is gone. There will be no more gridlock ever,
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because cars will be able to drive at speed and
the technology will be able to keep them two inches apart,
and no one's going to speed up or slow down,
or if they are. It's all going to be all
of these vehicles talking to each other and it's going
to run very smoothly, the same things that happened with
their it shillies.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
There was a TV show I can't remember a class
of ninety seven or something like that about modern this
futuristic CIA or something, and it was that exact scenario.
And if you had your hands in the wheel and
were driving, cops could pull you over and ask you
why it wasn't in automatic mode, and you know, and
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the drivers like, ah, you know, I just felt like
driving tonight or being controlled. Okay, well it's safer for
you to put it into eighties, you know, And it is.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
I mean the people that are the truck drivers, for example,
of the unions, right, the teamsters always tremendously unsafe. You
don't want autonomous trucks driving around. You want teamsters. You
want guys who are men, real men, flannel shirts, big boots,
with the left arm having a tremendous tan on it.
That is who you want driving trucks. Forget about the
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fact that they are swallowing uppers like skittles to keep
themselves up and going. Or see radio is even around anymore?
Roger Roger over and now yeah, I mean.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
They use each other cell phones, but yeah they still
they still do CV. You can I can hear it
sometimes when I'm monitoring the airwaves in my shop.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
How cool is that? What was that? Song that the
CB Radio song con don't remember in any case, one joy. Oh,
that's right. What you're going to see, uh, is these
air taxis will be around. And the problem is right now,
as I've said, finding the secure landing sites because there's
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going to be a lot of traffic. I mean, can
you imagine you basically, let's say you're building and it's
going to be a helipad where hundreds of people, maybe
thousands of people are going to be flying around, and
that is the airport the center of these places, and
it's going to be an urban centers. I mean, you're
not going to see outlying areas. It's not going to
be lax out by the ocean, and you're not going
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to see Paul Dale out by Palmdale or John Wayne,
which is its own place. No, you're going to see
him right in the middle of the city. So what's
the big company. There's one big company that's out there
looking for these spaces right now, and this is they're
looking at the Greater La Area, San Francisco, New York City,
and by the end of the year they're going to
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start securing these places. Huh, all right, so much for that.
That's gonna be fine. We're going to see the Jetsons
all over again. Now, let me tell you what's going on.
Saudi Arabia is getting into the sports business in a
huge way in terms of Formula One racing and the
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the golf tournament's now gone against up against the PGA.
I think they've merged, if I'm not mistaken at this point. Well,
they're moving in a different direction now. It's comedy and
it is now the Rhea Comedy Festival. It's inaugural and
it runs started twenty sixth September and it goes until
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the ninth of October, so it's right in the middle
of it. And it features well some of the biggest
names in US comedy Dave Chappelle, Lewis c K, Bill Burke,
Kevin Hart, Whitney Cummings, Pete Davidson, Isis I'm sorry, I mean,
he goes on and on and on. And what makes
it interesting on this one is, first of all, the
amount of money. Saudi Arabia has unlimited amount of money.
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And with the golfers, how dare you members of the PGA,
they were threatened to be tossed out of the PGA,
and they said you know what, We'll take our eight
million dollars in play a game of golf if that's okay.
And enough of them want to where riadd Saudi Arabia won. Well,
it seems to be the same thing going on. But
here's the difference. You've got comedians who are fanatical First
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Amendment people, and you have a country that shuts down
First Amendment rights, probably as much or more so than
almost any country in the world. You don't speak against
the government, you don't speak against the royal family. You
just don't do that. And so they're getting a lot
of hits, these comedians, and some have said no, thank you,
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some have said thank you, and still rip into Saudi Arabia,
continue going, and they've been taking off the schedule to
say the least, they're no longer on the card. But
Human Rights Watch argued in news release that the Saudi
regime is really trying to whitewash its notorious abuses. That's
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what this is about. It's just not getting into a
new franchise taking over sports. No, this is a way
for them to sort of, as Human Rights Watch says,
whitewash their problems. For example, the murder of Kashogi, who
is the journalist. The fact that women are not treated
very well as if at they certainly don't vote, they
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can't drive. So what are the committeeans saying? Well, it
breaks down into, as I said, three different camps. Those
who say don't want any part of it, those who say, okay,
we'll have part of it and still don't stop their acts,
and we'll attack Saudi Arabia, and those who are just
for the money and say there's just enough money here
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where we're not going to say no. All right, so
they killed Koshogi. Everybody's entitled to a mistake. Okay, women
shouldn't drive, now, well, women shouldn't drive. You ever went
on the streets of the United States? You don't want
women drivers? Are those such thing as really First Amendment?
And it's just a question of money. I don't know
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if I would do it, you know, Neil, I mean,
would you for enough money, would you hang up your morals? Well?
I get paid to do this show. Yeah, I understand.
But let's see, let's say they asked you.
Speaker 1 (19:59):
I would think I wouldn't unless I could genuinely articulate
why why it was beneficial beyond the money.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
But okay, then you okay, then you wouldn't do it?
Uh So, Amy, would you change your broadcast? And let's
say the corporation wanted you to broadcast something that you
knew was not true or against your basic philosophy? Would
you take the money against Well, I'm a newsperson, so
I don't take a no. But I understand you know,
But I'm just saying, would you you're objective about the news.
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What if the corporation didn't want you to be objective?
I would have a I would have a real problem
with that. I would do it for five cents, all right?
That is that's the whole point. You wanted to set
a moral ground with Amy and me so that you
can go you're all, You're all.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
You're going to get a flotilla and go to uh Gaza.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
Right? Yes, I am I. And one of the things
that I've said this about iHeart which and before I
heart it was Cox that owned our station, is that
never once I have I or any of us been
told what to say and what not to say in
terms of content.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
Now, now you and I have both turned down money
for products or things that we don't use or wouldn't use.
That's the same.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
Yeah, those days are gone. We're it's it's a whole
new world now. Yes, I use those tampons on a
regular basis, Yes, I yes, I think they're great.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
You know, some days I just don't feel fresh, Bill.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
It's very funny stuff where it is. And look at
the legacy of comedians. Lenny Bruce, who out of Los Angeles,
he was Southern California. I mean the guy was, he
broke through. He he is the poster child First Amendment.
George Carlin in many ways, also Southern California. We really
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have promulgated. We have created a lot of these extraordinary comedians.
Lenny Bruce would roll over in his grave right now now. Personally,
as I said, iHeart has never once said here's what
you should or should not talk about, or here's a
position you should take. Now they will tell me, Bill,
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you shouldn't say those words, or you can't make fun
of certain ethnic groups. And I get that virtually every day.
That's not such a good idea, But in terms of content,
never even to the point where I call them up
and say, would you consider paying me more money if
I absolutely went the way you wanted me to do.
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I'm willing to sell myself. I am willing tohore myself out,
and this corporation will not let it happen. Just wanted
to point that out. Okay, why don't we move over
in a different direction. There is a technological segment I
want to do with you up. This is in my wheelhouse.
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And as you know, I was involved in reproduction, third
party reproduction, technological third party reproduction for many years. That
was my specialty as I practice law, and as you
know that, and let's talk about in vitul fertilization. In
viutul fertilization of which helped create my children is pretty
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complicated stuff. And it goes back to well, the first
IVF baby ever born was nineteen seventy eight. I wrote
my first surrogacy contract in nineteen eighty. My first IVF
baby born of surrogacy was in the early eighties, so
early days, and we were just waiting for the technology.
We knew it was coming. Well, let me tell you
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where it's gotten to. It's now become robotic and this
is where AI is kicking in again. We have no
idea where it's going. But I'll BETCHO didn't know that
the system of which an egg embryo is created, that
it is implanted into a woman is about two hundred
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manual steps, and it takes extraordinarily well trained embryologists who
have these eyes that you can see, I mean the
eagle eyes, because they're looking for these tiny little eggs
and they're looking for this sperm, looking at sperm which
has to be determined, whether the morphology is good, are
they swimming in the right direction? Are they too many
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of them spinning around? Too many of them going back
on themselves. It's a lot of skill. Well, robotics has
straightened all of that out, and this is huge, huge
news for a bunch of different reasons. I don't know
if you've ever well, I'm sure a lot of a
lot of us. I can't tell you how many kids
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have been born of IVF. I mean millions of children.
Next time you talk to anybody who've had twins, for example,
fraternal twins, Hey, what happened with your how your kids
born IVF? I know dozens of people who had had children.
Of course, you know, through my practice, I did idea,
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but this changes everything. Right now, it's about a sixty
percent success rate. When I first started doing this, the
success rate was under five percent. Three percent success rate.
Now it is a sixty percent success rate, which is
far more than natural conception. People don't have a sixty
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percent success rate when it comes to natural conception. Natural
conception means stooping. Let me explain the technology of stooping.
You you probably know what it is. Let me to
explain it to you. First, Well, no, you don't have to,
because I made my living off this, and not in
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that sense, but in another sense. So up to this point,
even with the technology of IVF, it has been for
the most part, a manual process, and that's on several
different levels. By the way, when we're talking about a
manual process, this takes away all of that. Well, certain
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stuff is still around, you know, there's the National Fluffer
Corporation that helps out, and they have machinery, certain gizmos
that help, but it's not the same here. The point
is that the success rate where it's going to fall.
Where success rate is not going to be as continue
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to be to the point of it's unsuccessful, is the implantation.
They haven't figured that out yet. You take an embryo
and it has to be implanted into the uterus. The
uterine wall and that they haven't gotten around yet everything
else they have, technology has been able to take over
and it's getting more and more. Now a cycle of
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IVF can cost up to thirty thousand dollars and couples
do it more than once. Now the thirty thousand dollars
involves egg retrieval, egg freezing. Also the IVF part the embryologists,
so that's the whole package and you can do it
for less. But at this point, this is where technology
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is going to be brought to the forefront and made
so much cheaper, and you're going to see an entire
group of people basically been put that are taken out
of the workforce. Ask someone with who used to be
a laboratory technologist. You know those were licensed at one
point lab techs. My mother was a lab tech which
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came to the United States. And what she would do
in order to count bacteria, for example, count the bacteria
in that when someone is sick. She worked in a
TB hospital, which is all of you medical center. She
would look under her microscope and she would in these
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grids literally count the cells with a clicker. Well, all
those jobs are gone because machines were developed very early
on that all of that analysis is done with one
slide with a drop of blood and they can do
three hundred tests. You won't see a lab tech, a
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licensed lab tech anymore. I think you may have to
have one in a lab. I don't even know if
that's the case. But you're going to see the same
thing with embryologists. You're going to see the same thing
with dealing with IVF, which means it's going to be cheaper,
far cheaper, and on top of that, it's going to
be more effective. And why is that? Because robotics. When
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robotics come into play, everything becomes cheaper. Life is changing
and a lot of people are being put out of work.
I mean, i'll tell you what else is. And we've
talked about this before. Entry level computer people are going
to be gone. You can't get a job as an
entry level computer. You go to school, there you are
with your skill set. You're looking at a basically a
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trainee entry level starting in a major corporation Amazon, Google,
there are no jobs. AI has taken over the whole thing.
I mean, we're in some big, big, big changes as
a matter of fact. And are we putting together the
show that we're going to do the segment that we're
going to do with me and Ai chat GPT. We're
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going to do that next week, right, Yeah, let's do
that because we've been talking about that this week. So
I want a news segment of Amy's using chat GPT
where we're going to hear Amy, who's not going to
be there. I want maybe a food segment from Neil
and maybe from me. We'll do some kind of general topic.
(30:12):
We'll talk about this. You sound drunk right now. Hey, Hey,
hey guys, Hey guys. You know I'm just thinking it through.
I'm thinking it through. And you dressed up like a
show girl. No, stop it, stop it. I'm going to
get through. I'm putting We did this with Amy and Will.
We did it once, and I'm we did do it,
and it was months ago. And my argument why I
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want to do it again is to see how far
Oh yeah, it was horrible the first time, but I
want to see how far Ai has taken us even
in the last several months, because this thing is advancing
by the day, and that's what I want to do.
And maybe you're just talking about car chases. Oh, we
could do that. We could do a car Chase.
Speaker 3 (30:55):
An Ai car Chase with Tim Tim Conway with an
Ai Tim Cuss.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
Yes, let's do see. This is why I'm sounding drunk,
because we're putting together segments for those of you out
in radio land that are listening to this. This is
what we do to put together this show.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
I wonder if Dean Sharp needs a second banana.
Speaker 2 (31:16):
I'll go laugh on his show. Why not? Why don't
we come back and Neil, why don't you join me
with Foody Friday? And I'll try not to sound drunk.
Speaker 3 (31:25):
Reel me or Ai Me AIU because AIU is far
more entertaining and more funny and has.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
More of a depth of knowledge that you don't have.
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