The cause of Pope Francis's death has been revealed and his funeral is scheduled for Saturday. More plane issues make headlines throughout the country including a small plane fire and a ceiling falling down. Teens are using AI to create fake images of others. Gen Z is saying their degree is becoming worthless because of AI.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Fred's show is on Fred's Biggest Stories of the day.
People are texting like, well, you know you're never gonna forget.
It's like, I'm not asking you to forget. Can we
not do it on my birthday and my wedding day?
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Would you mind?
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Like as hard as it is, you know, Christmas, right,
I mean, I don't think we needed to have like
a full play setting for the guy, you know, but
gifts under the tree from Bob, like he got a
better Christmas present than I did, and he's dad, like,
what are we doing over the last like a full
(00:35):
on offering? Like could I have seconds to know those?
I'm sorry that's for Bob.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Man.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
I don't know, especially if the dude were like awesome, yes,
you know what I mean. And that tends to have
when people pass away too. It's like we only remember
the really, really amazing things, which is fine. I mean,
I tell how I want to be remembered, not from
all my neuronic things that I've done, but like for
the better things I've But you know that way, I
just think that it would be really hard. You know,
You're at like family dinner and everyone's like, oh man, yeah,
you know so and so oh yeah he was. He
(01:02):
was a great he was in you know, grated skiing.
He was a great skier. You know, he was actually
was really good. He could have gone pro with it,
I think, you know, and you're just sit there going
damn it.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
I can't even go down the bunny.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
I can't.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
I'm like, I'm out here with the what do they
say that like the cheese greater cheese?
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Yeah? Really? Like really? Okay? So I don't add up
to the guy, got it?
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Oh yeah, I remind.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
You, Bob, barbecue was so much better.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
And then.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
You're talking about how in a fight you'd be like, well, Bob,
Bob never would have acted this way like honoring.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
Now you're just being toxic where it's no longer with you.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
To make sure I know he's not with me. Yeah,
biggest choice of the day.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
A gestificate has been issued by the Vatican list the
cause of Pope Francis's death as a stroke that prompted
irreversible heart failure. The certificate officially lists the cause of
death as cerebral stroke, coma and cardio circulatory collapse heart failure.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
I guess now there you go.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Now that's something i'd like to see all these guys going,
oh man, all these cardinals getting together.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Oh so sad about Francis. But it should be me.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
You can bet on it.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
It should be me.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
Yeah, oh yeah, yeah, I forgot that was you who
sent it to me?
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Yeah, you're taking bets on who which cardinal it's going
to be the front runner? Out right?
Speaker 3 (02:28):
The Median.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
I thought it was an Italian guy. Shoot, there is
the Canadian. Oh so the Canadians jumping ahead.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
I can't say his name.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Wow, Jason's on the pulse of this. Let's go on,
let's go line to.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
The Vatican now, yeah, Jason Brown out in front.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Of the papal conclave. Jason, what is the latest on
the race to be the.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
According to the you know the betting websites that I'm
always on and following out here and the Vatican, here's
that Italy I'm at it, Cardinal Pietro Parolene is the
slight favorite to succeed.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
And he's Canadians.
Speaker 4 (03:03):
Yep, wait, maybe not. Oh I thought Canadian is cardinal
I saw is from It's uh, he's Italian.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Gee, he's always an Italian. Always go with the Italian,
I know. That's what about Steve Smith. What about Cardinal
Steve Smith, Kansas City?
Speaker 1 (03:22):
Right?
Speaker 4 (03:22):
Why are we not looking at him? He's also seventy
years old, so old as hell.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
That's the last time I believe him for my bets.
You told me he was Canadian.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
I saw the sea with Canadian.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
We well, we shouldn't because you would have bet on
the Canadian.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Yeah, never before. I don't believe he has been a
Canadian pope. I don't think they're right.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
There should be the very fair. But he was my
sports reporter and now.
Speaker 5 (03:44):
Like a line up I can see, like a starting lineup.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Yeah, there may be.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
I'm just curious to see who's up for this.
Speaker 5 (03:50):
Job, and they one of them picks the hat.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
If you want to know about this though, it's the
Papal Conclave.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
I guess.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
The movie Conclave is now on Amazon Prime as of
like today, so nice nice timing. There won a bunch
of awards. I might have to watch it, though, But
the pontiff His funeral has been scheduled for Saturday. After
nine days of morning events, cardinals from around the world
will meet at the Sistine Chapel will conduct a secretive
vote to elect the new Pope. The process takes two
to three weeks and all ballots are burned afterwards. What
(04:19):
is going on in there that we can't know about
it while you are sworn for eternity not to tell
anybody what happens in there? What are we doing in there?
How are we determining which one of these people is
the best?
Speaker 2 (04:32):
I don't love that. And are they campaigning?
Speaker 1 (04:34):
You think number one on the list is calling his
boys and being like, I'll tell you what you know.
You hook me up with this, I'll make sure that
you're a saint. Like literally, I can make you a saint,
Like I'll do that for you.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
Change me like an unfair advantage because like it's all
the way over there.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
I'm not sure. I'm really not sure.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
But yeah, then it will be white smoke that will
rise from the chapel's chimney, signing a new era of
leadership for the world's one point four billion in Catholics.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
So there's that.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Another day of the plane story a couple for you.
A Delta Airlines plane with almost three hundred people on board,
caught fire at the Orlando International Airport on Monday, but
the airline says that it was safely evacuated with no
reports of injuries. Also, passengers on a recent Delta flight
from Atlanta to Chicago were forced to hold up the
plane ceiling after it collapsed mid air. The boweling seven
(05:23):
to one sevens panel was later a fixed into place
by attendant so customers didn't have to manually hold it
up during the flight. No injuries reported during the flight.
I have to say this as far as this is
concern for the picture that I saw, and I don't
know anything about this seven seventeen, but you know, i'd
look like a trim piece fell, and those things are
meant to come off so they can inspect the oxygen
(05:43):
masks and inspect everything that's behind there. So I mean,
this is not like a critical thing, but I would
not feel great if I'm flying along on the ceiling
just because I'd be like, what else did we did
we miss any other nuts or bolts? You know, It's
like me at the end of a Lego set where
there's like five or six pieces left, and I'm like,
I really hope those weren't es central to anything. You know,
do you think this The airplane took off and the
mechanics were like, oh man, we forgot to screw those
(06:06):
things in, didn't we Okay, but as far as like
it would be like the ceiling tile falling in the thing,
like the building's not going to collapse, the ceiling tile felt.
It's not awe inspiring by any means, but like how nice.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Was see my trail mix with my handholds the ceiling.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
You have to trade off with the guy next to you,
Come on, you know, be like, I'll tell you what
or maybe the middle seat has to do it because
the middle seat, you know, you're just the unlucky one.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Right.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
This is disgusting and it's a whole new generation of bullying.
I mean, I feel like we all grew up with
people just saying mean things, and you know, you go
to school and there were the bullies and the insecure
people and they would say mean things to you or
tell you that you were ugly or not good at
sports or whatever like that was hard. Right, Well, now
you can't escape it because social media and tech and
(06:50):
all this stuff. The latest teens are using artificial intelligence
to create realistic nude images of their classmates and then
share them so with just a headshots, often lifted from
a yearbook photo or social media platform. These AI apps
can fabricate explicit, deep fake images that appear scarily real,
and it's happening in schools. Last summer, the San Francisco
(07:12):
City Attorney's Office said that sixteen people were sued for
so called new Toify websites for allegedly violating laws around
child exploitation and non consensual images. But they scape past
some state laws. In Minnesota, they're trying to pass legislation
to hold them accountable. A whole different level of bullying
and it's terrible. Gen Z grads, I think a lot
(07:34):
of people can relate to this, say their college degrees
were a total waste of time and money. Nearly half
of gen Z grads say that their degrees have already
been made obsolete by the rise of generative AI tools
like chech ept, and they're wondering why they even bothered
to attend college and new Indeed report found forty nine
percent of gen Z job hunters think that their college
(07:56):
education has lost value in the job market thanks to AI.
Only one third of millennials feel the same way, and
one in five boomers have similar regrets. So, if you
went to college thirty years ago and I went to
college twenty years ago. At this point, you should expect
that whatever, you know, I don't think I can ride
on when they do it. Tell me html you know,
I don't think I should still be making money on
(08:17):
that now. I probably should have evolved, but I would
I will say, the amount of money that was invested
in a college degree, did I have to have it?
I hear you to be successful in this business, I
would tell you probably not. However, And I was talking
to my sister about this the other day, because the
college that we went to is now eighty five thousand
dollars a year. She and and my mom actually went
to the same college. Yes, eighty five thousand dollars a year,
(08:41):
all in to go to college there. And that's just
to live there and eat and go to school and
buy the books or whatever. I don't know, I guess
iPads or computers, whatever it is. Now, that's not the
travel back and forth. That's not all the rest of it,
the cars and whatever else you might need. And my
sister has two kids, and that's now, and they're fourteen
years away from doing this. I can't imagine what it's
(09:02):
going to cost. And so let's say let's say it's
let's say it's one hundred thousand. Let's say let's just
around numbers. It's going to cost a million dollars to
send both those girls to school. And you have to
ask yourself at some point, is there a return on
investment for that, Like it's not going to be is
probably going to be four hundred thousand dollars ahead of
everyone else if we send her to college and pay
that much money.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
My answer would be probably not.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
And then you could say, well, you know, for those
people who I know, Kaylin, you did and and I did,
you know, moved far weall you didn't move too far away,
but I moved a thousand miles away to go to college,
you know. And it was and my parents were like,
you're you anywhere you want? You nowhere in Arizona, nowhere
or any neighboring state, Like you need to go far
enough away you can't drive home, like this is part
of the deal. And so we went and we did that,
(09:47):
and I did that, and I would argue that that
was a transformational time in my life, but it was
it worth that much money? If you've got it, maybe,
but if you don't, if you're sending your kid to
college because you think they're going to get a better
job and make a bunch more money off that. I'm
not sure if that's true anymore.
Speaker 5 (10:02):
It's just crazy eighty thousand dollars a year, and then
these people are applying for jobs that pay like eighteen
dollars an hour, so like it's just.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
The math's not math thing.
Speaker 5 (10:09):
And I feel like AI is doing a lot of
stuff in the work in the workforce, Like it's changing
a lot of jobs and opportunities for people too. It's
you know, essentially like eliminating jobs. So I don't know
where the where the fairness is for kids who are
going to college.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
I want my kid to go to college.
Speaker 5 (10:22):
I do, but I'm also got a post to her
doing other things like if gig shows, for example, my daughter,
if she shows you know, interest in makeup, whatever it
might be, and she's good, we might be going to
cosmetology school, you know.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
What I mean, or something specialized like computer programing. My
brother in law did that. He makes a very good living.
Speaker 5 (10:39):
Some of these kids are just good at certain things,
like I said, the makeup, or they are good at
computer work and computer stuff.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
I even know what it's called that's how good they are.
I don't even know how to call that.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
I don't even know what it's, right, I don't know
it's now Karen went to college.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
And she's a genius. The actual men's a genius herself. Yeah,
but that she was a genius for us. She went
to college. Okay, Oh she was born though, Yeah she
was that waydy guy I got saying that song about her.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Yeah, it's true. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
It's a luxury. I think it's long been a luxury.
And if you've got the money, great, yeah, I just
I don't know. I guess I don't know about if
you want to be a doctor or a lawyer, you're
gonna have to do it, you know, therapists, any kind
of you know, you need to graduate degree for it.
You're gonna have to do it the way it is,
and we probably should, but I don't know. I don't
know if it's you know, if it was automatic. It
seemed for everybody that I grew up with, and now
(11:25):
I'm not sure if it should be for that much money.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
It's great for life skills, but I was going to say, right, but.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
For a half a million bucks, like I don't know.
I'll tell you what I'll take. I'll take half of
that or less than half of that. I'll buy you
an apartment in a big city, and we'll get you
a nice online gets you a nice laptop, and you
can get some online training, get you a job, and honestly, like, okay,
we can.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
We can do a lot of the.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Same things for less money, and we'll get you some
life experience, like we'll throw you.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
Into You're not wrong.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
But here's the thing about college, right.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
The thing about college is it's kind of like supervised
responsibility because no one's holding your hand.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
But like freshman year, you get our age.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
You got people to make sure that you're like getting
out of your room eventually. If you don't go to class,
someone's gonna call somebody and call your parents eventually and
be like where is so and so. So there's a
little bit of accountability. So it's kind of like sheltered independence.
You can still totally screw up your life, you can't.
But then but at the same time, like there's a
limit to how far it's gonna go before somebody finally
(12:23):
calls mom and dad and goes, hey, yeah, little Timmy
hasn't shown three months, you know, right, you better go
get little Timmy out of you know, Sam's pub down
the street or whatever.
Speaker 5 (12:35):
I don't know, to be honest too, like i'd rather
investn't know how you can do this in like life skills,
essentially putting my kid in a situation where she learns
how to like be as a room or like work
the room, meet people. I'm a big believer it's about
who you know, not just what you know. And I'm like, well,
how do I get my.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
Kid to like be that. I don't want her to
be shy.
Speaker 5 (12:52):
And just like always closed off, Like I want her
to be able to walk into your room and just
be as the crap out of it.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
Send her out with Jonathan honestly.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
But you could argue you throw into the real world
in some kind of like nurtured way, and they're first there.
They're forced to sink or swim like they have to.
They have to figure this stuff out.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
You know.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
It's like you can't really teach that street smarts. You
kind of have to.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
Like that's a good point.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
I gotta wrap this up.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
Though Chipotle Mexican Grill might have Mexican in its name,
but it hasn't gone to Mexico until now. Chipotle is
opening up in Mexico City early next year, and I'm
sure they're super excited about it.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
They can't wait.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
I'm sure the people in Mexico City are like, I've
been waiting for this authentic Cuisi.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
The best street tacos in the world arguably in.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
Yeah, so they have James Beard street tacos, but go.
And here's the thing, Chipotle is delicious. I don't know
that it represents some form of text MAXI. It's its
own lane, you know. So like not to say that
they won't enjoy it there, but maybe we don't call
it a Mexican grill there. Maybe we just call it
Chipotle and we just serve the food and you enjoy it.
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And the most unhealthy fast food burgger in a America
is at five Guys, which apparently it's just like the
normal cheeseburger is super unhealthy. It's one of the most
unhealthy cheeseburgers, if not the most unhealthy, with a fifty
point unhealthiest score. They also waited in as the unhealthiest fries, Waterburger,
(14:17):
smash Burger, and Carls Junior trailed behind in the ranking.
Five guys had seventy three percent more saturated fat than
any other fast food cheeseburger on the list. Now, remember,
Carls Junior is the place that takes the cheeseburger and
deep fries it and then rolls it in a pizza
like that snl skit and then deep fries it again
and then rolls it.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
In ranch and ladies and bikinis right, and.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
Then serves it to you.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
You know, well, the whole thing goes down your fright
in a bikini and goes down your face.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
So anyway, it's a.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
School bus Driver Appreciation Day, National Jellybean Day, National Girl
Scout Day, and today is Earth Day as well. All right,
let's see there go. We'll dibation relationship drama. We'll get
to an entertainment report at some point. I promise. There
were too busy talk about the youth of America. It
wasn't enough to go to college.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Well, just so
Fred's show is on Fred's Biggest Stories of the day.
People are texting like, well, you know you're never gonna forget.
It's like, I'm not asking you to forget. Can we
not do it on my birthday and my wedding day?
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Would you mind?
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Like as hard as it is, you know, Christmas, right,
I mean, I don't think we needed to have like
a full play setting for the guy, you know, but
gifts under the tree from Bob, like he got a
better Christmas present than I did, and he's dad, like,
what are we doing over the last like a full
(00:35):
on offering? Like could I have seconds to know those?
I'm sorry that's for Bob.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Man.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
I don't know, especially if the dude were like awesome, yes,
you know what I mean. And that tends to have
when people pass away too. It's like we only remember
the really, really amazing things, which is fine. I mean,
I tell how I want to be remembered, not from
all my neuronic things that I've done, but like for
the better things I've But you know that way, I
just think that it would be really hard. You know,
You're at like family dinner and everyone's like, oh man, yeah,
you know so and so oh yeah he was. He
(01:02):
was a great he was in you know, grated skiing.
He was a great skier. You know, he was actually
was really good. He could have gone pro with it,
I think, you know, and you're just sit there going
damn it.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
I can't even go down the bunny.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
I can't.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
I'm like, I'm out here with the what do they
say that like the cheese greater cheese?
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Yeah? Really? Like really? Okay? So I don't add up
to the guy, got it?
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Oh yeah, I remind.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
You, Bob, barbecue was so much better.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
And then.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
You're talking about how in a fight you'd be like, well, Bob,
Bob never would have acted this way like honoring.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
Now you're just being toxic where it's no longer with you.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
To make sure I know he's not with me. Yeah,
biggest choice of the day.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
A gestificate has been issued by the Vatican list the
cause of Pope Francis's death as a stroke that prompted
irreversible heart failure. The certificate officially lists the cause of
death as cerebral stroke, coma and cardio circulatory collapse heart failure.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
I guess now there you go.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Now that's something i'd like to see all these guys going,
oh man, all these cardinals getting together.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Oh so sad about Francis. But it should be me.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
You can bet on it.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
It should be me.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
Yeah, oh yeah, yeah, I forgot that was you who
sent it to me?
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Yeah, you're taking bets on who which cardinal it's going
to be the front runner? Out right?
Speaker 3 (02:28):
The Median.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
I thought it was an Italian guy. Shoot, there is
the Canadian. Oh so the Canadians jumping ahead.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
I can't say his name.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Wow, Jason's on the pulse of this. Let's go on,
let's go line to.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
The Vatican now, yeah, Jason Brown out in front.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Of the papal conclave. Jason, what is the latest on
the race to be the.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
According to the you know the betting websites that I'm
always on and following out here and the Vatican, here's
that Italy I'm at it, Cardinal Pietro Parolene is the
slight favorite to succeed.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
And he's Canadians.
Speaker 4 (03:03):
Yep, wait, maybe not. Oh I thought Canadian is cardinal
I saw is from It's uh, he's Italian.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Gee, he's always an Italian. Always go with the Italian,
I know. That's what about Steve Smith. What about Cardinal
Steve Smith, Kansas City?
Speaker 1 (03:22):
Right?
Speaker 4 (03:22):
Why are we not looking at him? He's also seventy
years old, so old as hell.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
That's the last time I believe him for my bets.
You told me he was Canadian.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
I saw the sea with Canadian.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
We well, we shouldn't because you would have bet on
the Canadian.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Yeah, never before. I don't believe he has been a
Canadian pope. I don't think they're right.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
There should be the very fair. But he was my
sports reporter and now.
Speaker 5 (03:44):
Like a line up I can see, like a starting lineup.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Yeah, there may be.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
I'm just curious to see who's up for this.
Speaker 5 (03:50):
Job, and they one of them picks the hat.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
If you want to know about this though, it's the
Papal Conclave.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
I guess.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
The movie Conclave is now on Amazon Prime as of
like today, so nice nice timing. There won a bunch
of awards. I might have to watch it, though, But
the pontiff His funeral has been scheduled for Saturday. After
nine days of morning events, cardinals from around the world
will meet at the Sistine Chapel will conduct a secretive
vote to elect the new Pope. The process takes two
to three weeks and all ballots are burned afterwards. What
(04:19):
is going on in there that we can't know about
it while you are sworn for eternity not to tell
anybody what happens in there? What are we doing in there?
How are we determining which one of these people is
the best?
Speaker 2 (04:32):
I don't love that. And are they campaigning?
Speaker 1 (04:34):
You think number one on the list is calling his
boys and being like, I'll tell you what you know.
You hook me up with this, I'll make sure that
you're a saint. Like literally, I can make you a saint,
Like I'll do that for you.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
Change me like an unfair advantage because like it's all
the way over there.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
I'm not sure. I'm really not sure.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
But yeah, then it will be white smoke that will
rise from the chapel's chimney, signing a new era of
leadership for the world's one point four billion in Catholics.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
So there's that.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Another day of the plane story a couple for you.
A Delta Airlines plane with almost three hundred people on board,
caught fire at the Orlando International Airport on Monday, but
the airline says that it was safely evacuated with no
reports of injuries. Also, passengers on a recent Delta flight
from Atlanta to Chicago were forced to hold up the
plane ceiling after it collapsed mid air. The boweling seven
(05:23):
to one sevens panel was later a fixed into place
by attendant so customers didn't have to manually hold it
up during the flight. No injuries reported during the flight.
I have to say this as far as this is
concern for the picture that I saw, and I don't
know anything about this seven seventeen, but you know, i'd
look like a trim piece fell, and those things are
meant to come off so they can inspect the oxygen
(05:43):
masks and inspect everything that's behind there. So I mean,
this is not like a critical thing, but I would
not feel great if I'm flying along on the ceiling
just because I'd be like, what else did we did
we miss any other nuts or bolts? You know, It's
like me at the end of a Lego set where
there's like five or six pieces left, and I'm like,
I really hope those weren't es central to anything. You know,
do you think this The airplane took off and the
mechanics were like, oh man, we forgot to screw those
(06:06):
things in, didn't we Okay, but as far as like
it would be like the ceiling tile falling in the thing,
like the building's not going to collapse, the ceiling tile felt.
It's not awe inspiring by any means, but like how nice.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Was see my trail mix with my handholds the ceiling.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
You have to trade off with the guy next to you,
Come on, you know, be like, I'll tell you what
or maybe the middle seat has to do it because
the middle seat, you know, you're just the unlucky one.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Right.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
This is disgusting and it's a whole new generation of bullying.
I mean, I feel like we all grew up with
people just saying mean things, and you know, you go
to school and there were the bullies and the insecure
people and they would say mean things to you or
tell you that you were ugly or not good at
sports or whatever like that was hard. Right, Well, now
you can't escape it because social media and tech and
(06:50):
all this stuff. The latest teens are using artificial intelligence
to create realistic nude images of their classmates and then
share them so with just a headshots, often lifted from
a yearbook photo or social media platform. These AI apps
can fabricate explicit, deep fake images that appear scarily real,
and it's happening in schools. Last summer, the San Francisco
(07:12):
City Attorney's Office said that sixteen people were sued for
so called new Toify websites for allegedly violating laws around
child exploitation and non consensual images. But they scape past
some state laws. In Minnesota, they're trying to pass legislation
to hold them accountable. A whole different level of bullying
and it's terrible. Gen Z grads, I think a lot
(07:34):
of people can relate to this, say their college degrees
were a total waste of time and money. Nearly half
of gen Z grads say that their degrees have already
been made obsolete by the rise of generative AI tools
like chech ept, and they're wondering why they even bothered
to attend college and new Indeed report found forty nine
percent of gen Z job hunters think that their college
(07:56):
education has lost value in the job market thanks to AI.
Only one third of millennials feel the same way, and
one in five boomers have similar regrets. So, if you
went to college thirty years ago and I went to
college twenty years ago. At this point, you should expect
that whatever, you know, I don't think I can ride
on when they do it. Tell me html you know,
I don't think I should still be making money on
(08:17):
that now. I probably should have evolved, but I would
I will say, the amount of money that was invested
in a college degree, did I have to have it?
I hear you to be successful in this business, I
would tell you probably not. However, And I was talking
to my sister about this the other day, because the
college that we went to is now eighty five thousand
dollars a year. She and and my mom actually went
to the same college. Yes, eighty five thousand dollars a year,
(08:41):
all in to go to college there. And that's just
to live there and eat and go to school and
buy the books or whatever. I don't know, I guess
iPads or computers, whatever it is. Now, that's not the
travel back and forth. That's not all the rest of it,
the cars and whatever else you might need. And my
sister has two kids, and that's now, and they're fourteen
years away from doing this. I can't imagine what it's
(09:02):
going to cost. And so let's say let's say it's
let's say it's one hundred thousand. Let's say let's just
around numbers. It's going to cost a million dollars to
send both those girls to school. And you have to
ask yourself at some point, is there a return on
investment for that, Like it's not going to be is
probably going to be four hundred thousand dollars ahead of
everyone else if we send her to college and pay
that much money.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
My answer would be probably not.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
And then you could say, well, you know, for those
people who I know, Kaylin, you did and and I did,
you know, moved far weall you didn't move too far away,
but I moved a thousand miles away to go to college,
you know. And it was and my parents were like,
you're you anywhere you want? You nowhere in Arizona, nowhere
or any neighboring state, Like you need to go far
enough away you can't drive home, like this is part
of the deal. And so we went and we did that,
(09:47):
and I did that, and I would argue that that
was a transformational time in my life, but it was
it worth that much money? If you've got it, maybe,
but if you don't, if you're sending your kid to
college because you think they're going to get a better
job and make a bunch more money off that. I'm
not sure if that's true anymore.
Speaker 5 (10:02):
It's just crazy eighty thousand dollars a year, and then
these people are applying for jobs that pay like eighteen
dollars an hour, so like it's just.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
The math's not math thing.
Speaker 5 (10:09):
And I feel like AI is doing a lot of
stuff in the work in the workforce, Like it's changing
a lot of jobs and opportunities for people too. It's
you know, essentially like eliminating jobs. So I don't know
where the where the fairness is for kids who are
going to college.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
I want my kid to go to college.
Speaker 5 (10:22):
I do, but I'm also got a post to her
doing other things like if gig shows, for example, my daughter,
if she shows you know, interest in makeup, whatever it
might be, and she's good, we might be going to
cosmetology school, you know.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
What I mean, or something specialized like computer programing. My
brother in law did that. He makes a very good living.
Speaker 5 (10:39):
Some of these kids are just good at certain things,
like I said, the makeup, or they are good at
computer work and computer stuff.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
I even know what it's called that's how good they are.
I don't even know how to call that.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
I don't even know what it's, right, I don't know
it's now Karen went to college.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
And she's a genius. The actual men's a genius herself. Yeah,
but that she was a genius for us. She went
to college. Okay, Oh she was born though, Yeah she
was that waydy guy I got saying that song about her.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Yeah, it's true. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
It's a luxury. I think it's long been a luxury.
And if you've got the money, great, yeah, I just
I don't know. I guess I don't know about if
you want to be a doctor or a lawyer, you're
gonna have to do it, you know, therapists, any kind
of you know, you need to graduate degree for it.
You're gonna have to do it the way it is,
and we probably should, but I don't know. I don't
know if it's you know, if it was automatic. It
seemed for everybody that I grew up with, and now
(11:25):
I'm not sure if it should be for that much money.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
It's great for life skills, but I was going to say, right, but.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
For a half a million bucks, like I don't know.
I'll tell you what I'll take. I'll take half of
that or less than half of that. I'll buy you
an apartment in a big city, and we'll get you
a nice online gets you a nice laptop, and you
can get some online training, get you a job, and honestly, like, okay,
we can.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
We can do a lot of the.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Same things for less money, and we'll get you some
life experience, like we'll throw you.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
Into You're not wrong.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
But here's the thing about college, right.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
The thing about college is it's kind of like supervised
responsibility because no one's holding your hand.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
But like freshman year, you get our age.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
You got people to make sure that you're like getting
out of your room eventually. If you don't go to class,
someone's gonna call somebody and call your parents eventually and
be like where is so and so. So there's a
little bit of accountability. So it's kind of like sheltered independence.
You can still totally screw up your life, you can't.
But then but at the same time, like there's a
limit to how far it's gonna go before somebody finally
(12:23):
calls mom and dad and goes, hey, yeah, little Timmy
hasn't shown three months, you know, right, you better go
get little Timmy out of you know, Sam's pub down
the street or whatever.
Speaker 5 (12:35):
I don't know, to be honest too, like i'd rather
investn't know how you can do this in like life skills,
essentially putting my kid in a situation where she learns
how to like be as a room or like work
the room, meet people. I'm a big believer it's about
who you know, not just what you know. And I'm like, well,
how do I get my.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
Kid to like be that. I don't want her to
be shy.
Speaker 5 (12:52):
And just like always closed off, Like I want her
to be able to walk into your room and just
be as the crap out of it.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
Send her out with Jonathan honestly.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
But you could argue you throw into the real world
in some kind of like nurtured way, and they're first there.
They're forced to sink or swim like they have to.
They have to figure this stuff out.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
You know.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
It's like you can't really teach that street smarts. You
kind of have to.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
Like that's a good point.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
I gotta wrap this up.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
Though Chipotle Mexican Grill might have Mexican in its name,
but it hasn't gone to Mexico until now. Chipotle is
opening up in Mexico City early next year, and I'm
sure they're super excited about it.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
They can't wait.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
I'm sure the people in Mexico City are like, I've
been waiting for this authentic Cuisi.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
The best street tacos in the world arguably in.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
Yeah, so they have James Beard street tacos, but go.
And here's the thing, Chipotle is delicious. I don't know
that it represents some form of text MAXI. It's its
own lane, you know. So like not to say that
they won't enjoy it there, but maybe we don't call
it a Mexican grill there. Maybe we just call it
Chipotle and we just serve the food and you enjoy it.
(13:57):
And the most unhealthy fast food burgger in a America
is at five Guys, which apparently it's just like the
normal cheeseburger is super unhealthy. It's one of the most
unhealthy cheeseburgers, if not the most unhealthy, with a fifty
point unhealthiest score. They also waited in as the unhealthiest fries, Waterburger,
(14:17):
smash Burger, and Carls Junior trailed behind in the ranking.
Five guys had seventy three percent more saturated fat than
any other fast food cheeseburger on the list. Now, remember,
Carls Junior is the place that takes the cheeseburger and
deep fries it and then rolls it in a pizza
like that snl skit and then deep fries it again
and then rolls it.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
In ranch and ladies and bikinis right, and.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
Then serves it to you.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
You know, well, the whole thing goes down your fright
in a bikini and goes down your face.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
So anyway, it's a.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
School bus Driver Appreciation Day, National Jellybean Day, National Girl
Scout Day, and today is Earth Day as well. All right,
let's see there go. We'll dibation relationship drama. We'll get
to an entertainment report at some point. I promise. There
were too busy talk about the youth of America. It
wasn't enough to go to college.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Well, just so
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