January 2, 2026 • 28 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to kf
I A M six forty, the Gary and Shannon Show
on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Breathe that air, breathe it smell itt smell that year.
I don't want to smell it that much.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
This happens to be some of the best of Gary
and Shannons big area.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
You're not a panze. You can't eat too big, Max.
You're just not a pig like that guy.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Hold on, I didn't say, okay, I can I can
eat too big MAXs.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Why is this? Why this is a hill? You seem
to want to die. By the way, this is all
self imposed. I stopped in Los Banos.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Yeah, the menu was two quarter pounders with cheese, a
large order of fries, the chocolate shaven apple pie.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Like you're talking about. And I'd have that done before
I got to the top.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Yeah the past, Yeah, listen, And I dated a guy
in college from Los Banos.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
When I was dating my wife and living in Chico,
I would drive. I'd make that drive and I would
stop at the Carls Junior in Ubi City and I
would get a double Western bacon cheeseburger. I would get
that giant Chicken Club sandwich.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
I would get a.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
Large chocolate shape and new large doctor pepper and new upholstery,
two orders of flies.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Jesus, that's a lot of food. Holy crap.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Yeah, I go into a diabetic coma right around the
time I got so much I.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Like to space get fast food because I was twenty
two years old. What do you mean why so much?
That's well, why so much at one time?
Speaker 1 (01:33):
Like if I'm going to take a road trip, I'm
going to stop at like three different places and kind
of space it out.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
How annoying is that? Sorry? That sounded like I threw up,
by the way, but that was me laughing. It's sound like.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
I had a friend when I was in my probably
late twenties. It's definitely before I kids, So it's mid
to late twenties and he's like ten twelve years older
than me, and he we were it was before an
improv class and I was eating two gigantic New York
slices of pepperoni pizza and he's like two and I go, yeah,
he goes, you know You're not gonna be able to
eat like that forever. And I remember thinking like what,
(02:08):
Like I didn't even think anything of it. Today, if
I had half of one of those slices, I'd be
like heartburn.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
If I looked one of those slices, my ash would
grow three seconds.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
It's my disappointment in your intestinal system and how it
can't handle male versus female.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
That's what your gut grows, my ass grows. But it's
more about that.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
It makes me feel not well like it.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
It doesn't feel as good as it used to.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Like it used to feel great to down a bunch
of pizza in French fries, and now I I do
that and I feel like something's broken inside, Like is this?
Speaker 2 (02:43):
It is this?
Speaker 1 (02:44):
You start sweating, like, yes, you can't do this anymore.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
It's a warning sign from you.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
It is like three years ago I learned what meat
sweats were, Like I always thought it was just a joke.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
That's why it's like I go visit my mom.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
She eats like four almonds a day.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Now I know why you get to a certain age
your body's like I can't do it.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
My metabolism is like I think we're a one meal
a day guy. Right, So you know you're like an
older retired army general. Now you know you're forty six.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
You get one piece of bread, a blass of water,
maybe a couple of beans, and you're done.
Speaker 4 (03:16):
There's a friend out there that I think you might
be listening, but like I'm he eats like rice and apples,
and I'm so like awestruck at his discipline, Like that's
just what he like.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
He's just this is what I eat. I don't eat
that much.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
And then I go home and I have like a
meal every once while He's like, I'll have a bunch
of pizza.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
But and I'm just like I can't. I don't know.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
Yeah, that's it, but I feel it coming, Like I
definitely feel my body has tried to tell me, like
you need to stop, you need to stop.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Let's shift down into fourth gear, let's get out of FI.
There was enough of us to have an intervention. We
would do it. Now, that's not that's not true.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Justin Warsham joints, as we talk about parents in issues
and I want to know what an Americanism is, what
it is and everybody's angry about them.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
But here's why. Now, First what I saw it, I
almost brought that story in. There were like four or
five articles that were sort of trending recently about kids
in Australia that are losing their Australian accent because they
spend so much time on their tablets or phones watching
American YouTubers and influencers, so just by listening to that,
(04:16):
they're losing their Australian accent. But what I thought was
more interesting was this woman who was responding to a
survey of ten thousand teachers for The Times, which found
that primary school children routinely say candy and diaper in England,
so they don't say nappy and sweets, I think is
the term.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
I got to reverse those, but you know what I mean.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
So they're losing the colloquialisms of England, the original English language,
and they're adopting.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
They're saying things like dude and neat. And then my
favorite two is that she says kids are asking can
I do this?
Speaker 4 (04:48):
Which I always thought was like just correct grammar, because
I was the one who always got like correct, correct
because I was raised by rednecks, and so we just
said can I do this?
Speaker 2 (04:57):
And you're like, well, I don't know, may you or
can you? And all that stuff.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
Uh, that's just but that's global, is I mean, is
there just a specific British thing that they're upset that
their kids are turning into Americans?
Speaker 4 (05:09):
Or yeah, that's it, like they're just they're seeing that
the words like she goes, she has all these examples.
There's normalcy, bangs, reach out, takeouts, and the autocorrects on
computers are now changing where it's putting the it's taking
the S out and putting the Z and analyze the
way we spell it. Yeah, she removing the elegant U
(05:30):
from favorite. It's elegant. The only reason it's got a
you is to make it elegant. Yeah, if you're but
I mean you all. But who listening to this has
never heard Like, if you listen to someone with any
kind of an English accent, I would say, even if
it's cockney, you're probably like, that's that's pretty impressive.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Like they if it's not cognate, if it's all the.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
Others, they sound ten times more intelligent than you are.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
They're words. They're just better with words than what we are.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
So well, I guess if H will be the equivalent
for a California native non accented speaker.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
I don't want my kid talking like that?
Speaker 4 (06:09):
Is it some like what would be like they're losing
things that make us California specific, or or somebody comes
to California nothing.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Just I'd like it if I sent my kid to
the South and they came back with an accent.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
I'd find this. I think a Tennessee accent. I love that.
Love those Yeah, great, they are fantastic.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Maybe your daughter comes back from Texas with an accent.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Oh, we can only too stubborn. Really, she is so no,
she would never do that. Really, she didn't even throw
into like a y'all, not yet. I can't wait for
that first day though.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
I think door eat from the Housewives, the one born
in Jersey went to Paris for a week and came
back with some sort of European a week and then
kept it her whole life. Some people they find their
way into accents later in life.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
I noticed that when I would hang around my grandparents,
especially when my grandfather is still alive, like I would
get a little Southern twang around him.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Yeah, he liked to say Frisco and taters. Those are
the two words my grandparents had.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
Was putting an R in a flat a they would
say in the washing machine or the state of Washington.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
My grandparents did that. There was a lot of ours
that came from.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
I had what I thought were mashed potatoes and Nashville.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
I said, these are the best potatoes. I got a
little kicking them. They're so good. It's cream potatoes. They
were grits. Yeah, that's good cream. That's how stupid I am.
That's how California.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
Yeah, you are grits. You're going to have struggle to
find grits on a menu in California.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
They're so good they are. I keep thinking, it's all
the cream. It's all the cream, guys.
Speaker 4 (07:43):
I have just so you could lose a little more
respect for me, I've taken to meal planning for my family.
Like I put a menu together for the whole week,
and then I prepped.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
The meal the day beforehand. If you oh no, I mean, okay,
that is not the bar that we are going to
return to decide about masculinity. Here's here today.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
I didn't even think.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
That that it was about being manly. I thought it
was just about being American. Starting early, whole thing, justin
Morrisham was joined that you meal plan what is for
dinner tonight?
Speaker 4 (08:21):
Tonight is chicken fajitas? That have been marinating for all right,
that's amazing trauma. On Tuesday, probably around seven o'clock time,
I got a blackstone.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
They're delicious. How to keep from yelling if your kid
makes a mess, screw that kid. You should yell at them.
This is gonna be great. You want to mess in
your house?
Speaker 5 (08:39):
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Speaker 2 (08:48):
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Speaker 3 (08:50):
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Speaker 3 (09:02):
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year twenty twenty two. Yes, just in terms of timing,
that was the year that my mom passed away, and
she had been prescribed a bunch of different.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Medicines and you're still taking them.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
Seven point six million seniors simultaneously prescribed eight or more
medications for ninety days, eight or more. There is an
entire industry of things to help you remember to take
your pills. And everything from those little the pill boxes
(09:44):
days of the week when my dad when we had
to buy a pill caddy or whatever they call them
for my dad, it was four rows.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
That's a grid for each day of the week.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Before breakfast at bracke lunch before it's several times a.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Day each day. Yeah, and specification tables right I could,
I don't remember what they all were.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
When my wife finally was able to sit down and
take a look at the things that were, at least
we had a description as to why they were, why
he was on specific medications, and some of them actually
were medications prescribed to counteract the side effects of the earlier.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Medications that have been prescribed.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
And that's the situation that a lot of people find
themselves in right now, especially seniors. I said seven point
six million had eight or more medications, three point nine
million had ten or more medications, and there were about
a half a million, almost a half a million seniors
prescribed fifteen plus drugs at the same time.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Well, and the concern that I would have, because I've.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Heard horror stories, is that some of these interact with
each other and that is not flagged in the hospital system.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
Or what have you, And obviously they're supposed to be
the charts are supposed to include every medication that you're on.
But if you have a general practitioner, you have your
regular family doctor, and you've got especially you've got an
oncologist who's working here, you have a cardiologist who's working there,
(11:28):
are it's just going to happen that some of those
fall through the craft.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
So there's not one database for each patient that there's
not a database that exists where all those doctors could
communicate into about that one patient.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
Well, in some cases there are some if you belong
to a specific health plan, there are when my dad,
for example, had the ability, we had the ability to
go on to his chart and keep track of it everything,
and his doctors also had access to that chart electronic.
(12:04):
They could check whatever medications he's on or had been
on previously, and notes from the other doctors. This medication
worked great, this one didn't work so good, this one
we're good. So in that instance, yes, there can be
a lot of information. And in other instances where you're
just dealing with I have to bring my list of
medication to this new specialist so they know what they're on,
(12:27):
or however it's going to work, there's going to be
a lot of confusion. And if you're talking about mom
and dad or grandma and grandpa, they're already dealing with
all kinds of stuff, whether health issues that would require
multiple medications. You're now expecting them to keep track of
all of their medications. And some of them are four
times a day, Some of them you take with foods,
(12:47):
some of them you don't take with foods, some of
them you can't take with the other pill. And some
of them you have to pee in your own bathroom
because it's causing radioactivity in your body. I mean, there's
so much that can go on in it that of
course it's going to fall through the cracks unless we
come up with a much more robust way to track
your medications and flag any what do they call it?
Speaker 1 (13:10):
Well?
Speaker 2 (13:10):
And how do you remember all of them?
Speaker 1 (13:13):
The other thing, Yeah, you know, I've heard through his
people that's taking their mom man or whatever and just
taking all the pill bubbles and just whosh, put them
in a box and saying this is what she's on.
I don't know what any of these are, but have
at it.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
And how many of those do you even think that
they're still taking at that point. You know.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
It's just it's just such a how many pills are
you on right now?
Speaker 2 (13:34):
Zero? I don't take medications.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
I did a couple of weeks ago when I had
my cold that I was I saw that.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
I saw that. I saw it. When you're holding pill popping,
you did it right here. Yeah, I'm not afraid of it. Yeah,
I'm not afraid. Well, you're very lucky that you don't
have to take anything.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
Well, that's also the reason I haven't gone to the
doctor for fear that they're going to try to put
me on medicine.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
And I just got to go no. We could say no.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
I also could say no, Yeah, this is America. You
are an adult. No one's gonna tell you have to
do anything.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
But I would rather change things about what I'm doing first,
right before I tried, before I try to. For some people,
medicine is the only thing.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
But here's the thing. Like for me, my cholesterol was high.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
I would have never known that if I didn't get
blood work done routinely for not having a thyroid, you know,
And that's why I made life changes to do to
write to lower that.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
You wouldn't know right now.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
If your cholesterol was high, you could be making dietary changes.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
I know what it was a few years ago, yeah,
three years ago. I mean that was the last time
I had a full blood panel done.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
Well, that was when you were in your forties. Now
you're in the danger zone.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
The danger zone. I just made that up. Paid for
by the American Medical Association. Gary and Shannon will continue.
Speaker 5 (14:51):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
I thought you might joy just a quick one of
our favorite stories.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Why is it your favorite story? Shannon? Please enjoy this
best of Gary and Shannon.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
We did an event where Gary's nipples were on display
for hundreds of listeners.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
Nice, so we've all seen them. I missed that. I
missed the Bigfoot reveal she did. He'll show you one
right now if you want, you want to show them.
Not here? It's Christmas? Was that asking? It's Christmas? What
does that mean?
Speaker 3 (15:26):
We'll do it later. Michael has joined us here on
the Gary and Shannon Show. There is a push now.
Mayor bass is asking the city for a what amounts
to it feels like a sliver of money to keep
the lapd on track in terms of hiring.
Speaker 6 (15:45):
It's a sliver of money when you think of how
large the city budget is, but it's a sliver of
money that has not been appropriated. We go through a
budget process every single late spring, early summer. The budget
has to be approved and adopted by the end of June.
The fiscal starts on July. One does that every year.
Everyone involved in this story knows this. The mayor proposes
(16:06):
a budget, the city Council holds a bunch of budget hearings,
the departments are all operated in, including the LAPD. Everyone
has their wish list, their concerns, and then a budget
is crafted and adopted. This budget was crafted and adopted,
allowing the LAPD to hire about two hundred and fifty officers.
But as we talked on this very program, just a
couple of months ago, the LAPD showed up at a
(16:27):
budget committee meeting after this budget was already in place
and said we're bringing on four hundred and ten officers,
and the budget committee was like, wait a second, this
was not appropriated. Regardless of whether you agree that you
need more police officers in the LAPD, there is a process,
and this process has not been followed and the asterisk
(16:48):
on this particular story. Mayor Bass puts out this letter
yes a late Wednesday night saying I need the Council
to approve more than four million dollars so we can
get the full four hundred and ten or the lad
will have to stop hiring.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
January one.
Speaker 6 (17:03):
Chief McDonald comes out late yesterday afternoons basically says the
same thing, and the Council will now have to figure
this out. The mayor promised during the budget process, after
they reached a compromise on the number officers, that they
would allow that they would work together to find the
full amount to bring on the full number desired by
(17:23):
the LAPD, the full four hundred and ten. That didn't happen,
And now here we are at the end of the
year and there's a lot of finger pointing and a
lot of crying and a lot of worrying about what's
going to happen. But no one in all of the
months since July one has done anything about this.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
And the thing is is, it's not like these are
novice politicians. These are people who have been in the
budget game for years that know. And it must be
exhausting to go through the dog and pony show. Every
time a budget needs to be approved and the you know.
Speaker 5 (17:54):
The.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
Jockeying and the fluffing and all the things you have
to do. It's awful, but it does have to be
done right. That's why we have protocols in place.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
Now, what is this I hear about Jim McDonald's saying
we're not even going to have an academy class.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
That's exactly what this is.
Speaker 6 (18:09):
Because when you hire a police officer, it's not like
they get in the cruiser and start driving around town.
You're hired and then you have to go to the
academy and they do these new recruit classes every single month,
and they've been doing them. They have not been at
the numbers that they have wanted for years now. But
because of this situation, if they don't get this immediate
(18:30):
injection of more than four million dollars, they will not
have a January class and the department's numbers will fall
to about eighty three hundred sworn officers for the first
time in decades.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
Wow, and they want ten thousand.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
Yeah, they've said that for years, as long as I've
been in LA they've said ten thousand is the would
be a goal for a fully staffed LA Police Department,
and we already know living here that people who live
in certain neighborhoods that have had spikes and burglaries over
the past couple of years that though the response time
is not what you want it to be.
Speaker 6 (19:03):
There's already that basic struggle. But we have major events coming,
including next year. The World Cup will be our first test.
So it's Olympics, a coming.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
Complete disaster between the World Cup and the Olympics. Maybe not,
maybe maybe it all goes super smooth, but I see
no signs of it, of smooth sailing ahead.
Speaker 6 (19:21):
I don't know how anyone could put their trust in
the city to do anything.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (19:25):
Now, by the way, I keep bringing this off. I
heart on it for months leading up to this vote,
and it's significantly relevant here. The city had a billion
dollar budget deficit that it had to close. It was
basing a layoff of sixteen hundred city workers. They saved
every one of those jobs, including in the police department.
No sworn personnel were on the chopping block, but people
that the departments that are critical to investigations, forensics types,
(19:48):
those people, it's not just people answering phones. They saved
all those jobs, which they still have to pay for potentially. Yeah,
and they approved this multi billion dollar expansion of the
Convention Center in downtown LA, which they will have to
start paying in the next budget cycle. They're going to
have to find somewhere between eighty and two hundred million
(20:10):
dollars every year for the next thirty years on top
of the ongoing and existing budget problems they have.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
That was a choice.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
Well, it's a good thing that I could become an
LAPD officer just day one. No academy training, is there,
give me the cruiser and the gears.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
No, don't say it. What Oh, I thought you were
going to make an age reference.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
I was I was going to ask because we've talked
with Chief McDonalds your.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
Guys, is that Harry, it's not. That's your number one issue.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
Raised a good question, and I think Chief McDonald said,
there is no there's no ceiling on age for new
recruits for LAPD.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
Yes, there is there is a ceiling. There is thirty five.
I think.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
I think it's like being a president of the United States.
Speaker 6 (20:58):
Well, they have one thing that they do have is
they've already extended these offers to people that are not
budgeted Yeah, to go into this recruiting class, and if
this class doesn't happen, those people will go to other departments.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
See police officers too. There is no maximum.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
There's the lap does not impose a maximum for the
academy to apply or work as an LAPED office.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
What was that eighties series Police Academy?
Speaker 6 (21:24):
There was a lot of randos that, thanks Joama.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
What was that show in the eighties about the police academy,
the LAPD You mean the one called police Academy Academy?
Speaker 2 (21:35):
That one Steve Guttenberg, Welcome to the room of dumbasses.
Speaker 6 (21:38):
So you're saying Steve Gutenberg even now and is what
I would imagine is his sixties sixty seventies.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
Yeah, he could be an LAPD officer. Sure, why not? Yeah? Good?
How old is Steve Gutenberg? We didn't get enough of
him after the eighties? And then yeah, yeah, sixty seven.
There's a show called The Rookie Sorry about like a
middle aged guy that comes a cop too. It's yeah,
there's also Elmer always sounds like his head is on
(22:06):
a pillow. I know it soothing? Yeah, you should hear
his meditation? Does he do it? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (22:13):
He's starting his own meditation. Like I would scribe you
it's really good. I would download Elmer really good. Yeah,
Like I hope he sticks with it.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
It's out of here.
Speaker 6 (22:26):
This has been a revolting conversation. Thank you, Michael, my pleasures.
Speaker 5 (22:30):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
This happens to be some of the best of Gary
and Shannon.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
Katherine Hartman is like the secret Mormon clothes? Is that
what you're telling the underparents?
Speaker 5 (22:47):
Now?
Speaker 3 (22:48):
Katherine Hartman is a professor at University of Wyoming, and
she was figuring out what to do when it came
to finals this month, and her student encountered a testing method,
according to The Washington Post, as old as the ancient
philosophers whose ideas they were studying. She didn't do written exams.
(23:11):
She did oral exams as their final. Now you, I
didn't think about this when I was reading through this
article in the first place. But if you look back
to your college days, depending on what kind of studies
you did, kinds of classes that you took, oral exams
were probably not entirely unknown. When we were in college,
(23:37):
I took like a theater class. One I took one
theater class, and it wasn't It wasn't obviously, it wasn't
a written exam.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
It was a final scene that you had to.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
Be for ever having an oral exam in the history
of my education.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
I'm right to cite a poem at one point.
Speaker 3 (23:52):
That's I mean, that would kind of count. But in
terms of testing your knowledge about specific things that would
be really nerve.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
Wrecked, that would be awful. Are you kidding?
Speaker 1 (24:03):
Like that was before that would have provided me with
the what the kids now call anxiety. You didn't have
a word for it back then, But could you imagine
getting up in front of the class and being on
the spot and you have to talk about what you know?
Speaker 3 (24:15):
Oh, even if it's not in front of the class,
even if it's just you and the professor, and she's
banging out a list of questions, and you're like, I.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
Mean, I had a hard enough time at confession h D. Yeah,
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
She said that she tells her students that this all
is an attempt to push back against AI, to take
AI out of the equation. When you're trying to prove
to your professor what knowledge you've gained over the course
of this semester or you know, whatever it is. She
says to her students, using AI is like bringing a
(24:47):
forklift to the gym when you're supposed to be working
out your own muscles. And so far, she said, most
of the students have embraced left is a little overkilled,
but okay, have embraced the training regimen. One twenty year
old is a double major Spanish and History. Took her
final exams last week and admits to being pretty freaked
(25:10):
out by the idea of the oral exam, but now
she wishes she had more of them. She says, with
this exam, I don't know how you could use AI.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
Frankly.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
In a recent survey of college students, eighty five percent
said they had used AI in their courses. The other
fifteen percent lied through their teeth. They said they were
using it in terms of brainstorming ideas, maybe even preparing
for quizzes. A quarter of them admitted that they had
used AI to complete assignments, and about thirty percent said
(25:40):
colleges should design more AI proof methods of assessment and
that oral exams may would be something that they would
that the students would be in favor of and to
test their knowledge as opposed to write a twelve page
term paper on the I don't know the oil impact
(26:01):
on the something of the trees.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
I love that you were just trying to come up
with something that would be and I couldn't. You could
have said anything like earlier in the week I brough
up the War of eighteen twelve.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
I would have been perfect. I guess right.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
Hey, did you hear I heard on the radio this
morning a story to a radio station go on. There
was a story about a guy who's suing a hospital
because he went in for a medical procedure for some reason,
was able to have his phone on him and recorded
the surgeons talking while he was under and they were
(26:38):
saying rude things about him or her. I think it's
a trans person, and I think it was a woman.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
I think it's a trans transition. Was it. I just
used your wife's trick.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
Oh, it was a trans woman and she was recording
the whole thing and the things that the people were saying,
and it was not trans related. That is so an
ancillary part of the It has nothing to do with it.
But except there is a penis involved. But the fact
that she's suing, you know, because because they said things about,
(27:13):
you know, her is ridiculous or is it sing? For
half a million dollars? And I think the jury awarded
it to her.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
Here is the kicker. This is what they said.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
They said she was really annoying and that they wanted
the doctor. Surgeon said she was so annoying, I wanted
to punch her in the face. And then said somebody
else said her penis looks like it has ebola. Well
that's hilarious, Like that is the most ridiculous insult.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
It's not even timely, but it made me laugh out loud.
It was like, look at this like.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
An a bola penis, Like that's fun I don't know
what it means. It's not timely, nobody's mentioned ebola in
a series of years, but it's funny. That is weird, right,
Not a good not a good rip, but a half
a million dollars. Would you have your penis name called
for half a million?
Speaker 2 (28:04):
I'd say yes, you would, I think I would. I'd
even go and you do it for twenty bucks.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
Any sort of hemorrhagic disease fine by me, rip away,
I don't care. Gary and Shannon kfi Am six forty
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Speaker 2 (28:21):
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Speaker 2 (00:10):
Breathe that air, breathe it smell itt smell that year.
I don't want to smell it that much.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
This happens to be some of the best of Gary
and Shannons big area.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
You're not a panze. You can't eat too big, Max.
You're just not a pig like that guy.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Hold on, I didn't say, okay, I can I can
eat too big MAXs.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Why is this? Why this is a hill? You seem
to want to die. By the way, this is all
self imposed. I stopped in Los Banos.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Yeah, the menu was two quarter pounders with cheese, a
large order of fries, the chocolate shaven apple pie.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Like you're talking about. And I'd have that done before
I got to the top.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Yeah the past, Yeah, listen, And I dated a guy
in college from Los Banos.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
When I was dating my wife and living in Chico,
I would drive. I'd make that drive and I would
stop at the Carls Junior in Ubi City and I
would get a double Western bacon cheeseburger. I would get
that giant Chicken Club sandwich.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
I would get a.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
Large chocolate shape and new large doctor pepper and new upholstery,
two orders of flies.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Jesus, that's a lot of food. Holy crap.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Yeah, I go into a diabetic coma right around the
time I got so much I.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Like to space get fast food because I was twenty
two years old. What do you mean why so much?
That's well, why so much at one time?
Speaker 1 (01:33):
Like if I'm going to take a road trip, I'm
going to stop at like three different places and kind
of space it out.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
How annoying is that? Sorry? That sounded like I threw up,
by the way, but that was me laughing. It's sound like.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
I had a friend when I was in my probably
late twenties. It's definitely before I kids, So it's mid
to late twenties and he's like ten twelve years older
than me, and he we were it was before an
improv class and I was eating two gigantic New York
slices of pepperoni pizza and he's like two and I go, yeah,
he goes, you know You're not gonna be able to
eat like that forever. And I remember thinking like what,
(02:08):
Like I didn't even think anything of it. Today, if
I had half of one of those slices, I'd be
like heartburn.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
If I looked one of those slices, my ash would
grow three seconds.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
It's my disappointment in your intestinal system and how it
can't handle male versus female.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
That's what your gut grows, my ass grows. But it's
more about that.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
It makes me feel not well like it.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
It doesn't feel as good as it used to.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Like it used to feel great to down a bunch
of pizza in French fries, and now I I do
that and I feel like something's broken inside, Like is this?
Speaker 2 (02:43):
It is this?
Speaker 1 (02:44):
You start sweating, like, yes, you can't do this anymore.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
It's a warning sign from you.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
It is like three years ago I learned what meat
sweats were, Like I always thought it was just a joke.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
That's why it's like I go visit my mom.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
She eats like four almonds a day.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Now I know why you get to a certain age
your body's like I can't do it.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
My metabolism is like I think we're a one meal
a day guy. Right, So you know you're like an
older retired army general. Now you know you're forty six.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
You get one piece of bread, a blass of water,
maybe a couple of beans, and you're done.
Speaker 4 (03:16):
There's a friend out there that I think you might
be listening, but like I'm he eats like rice and apples,
and I'm so like awestruck at his discipline, Like that's
just what he like.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
He's just this is what I eat. I don't eat
that much.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
And then I go home and I have like a
meal every once while He's like, I'll have a bunch
of pizza.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
But and I'm just like I can't. I don't know.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
Yeah, that's it, but I feel it coming, Like I
definitely feel my body has tried to tell me, like
you need to stop, you need to stop.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Let's shift down into fourth gear, let's get out of FI.
There was enough of us to have an intervention. We
would do it. Now, that's not that's not true.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Justin Warsham joints, as we talk about parents in issues
and I want to know what an Americanism is, what
it is and everybody's angry about them.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
But here's why. Now, First what I saw it, I
almost brought that story in. There were like four or
five articles that were sort of trending recently about kids
in Australia that are losing their Australian accent because they
spend so much time on their tablets or phones watching
American YouTubers and influencers, so just by listening to that,
(04:16):
they're losing their Australian accent. But what I thought was
more interesting was this woman who was responding to a
survey of ten thousand teachers for The Times, which found
that primary school children routinely say candy and diaper in England,
so they don't say nappy and sweets, I think is
the term.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
I got to reverse those, but you know what I mean.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
So they're losing the colloquialisms of England, the original English language,
and they're adopting.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
They're saying things like dude and neat. And then my
favorite two is that she says kids are asking can
I do this?
Speaker 4 (04:48):
Which I always thought was like just correct grammar, because
I was the one who always got like correct, correct
because I was raised by rednecks, and so we just
said can I do this?
Speaker 2 (04:57):
And you're like, well, I don't know, may you or
can you? And all that stuff.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
Uh, that's just but that's global, is I mean, is
there just a specific British thing that they're upset that
their kids are turning into Americans?
Speaker 4 (05:09):
Or yeah, that's it, like they're just they're seeing that
the words like she goes, she has all these examples.
There's normalcy, bangs, reach out, takeouts, and the autocorrects on
computers are now changing where it's putting the it's taking
the S out and putting the Z and analyze the
way we spell it. Yeah, she removing the elegant U
(05:30):
from favorite. It's elegant. The only reason it's got a
you is to make it elegant. Yeah, if you're but
I mean you all. But who listening to this has
never heard Like, if you listen to someone with any
kind of an English accent, I would say, even if
it's cockney, you're probably like, that's that's pretty impressive.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Like they if it's not cognate, if it's all the.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
Others, they sound ten times more intelligent than you are.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
They're words. They're just better with words than what we are.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
So well, I guess if H will be the equivalent
for a California native non accented speaker.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
I don't want my kid talking like that?
Speaker 4 (06:09):
Is it some like what would be like they're losing
things that make us California specific, or or somebody comes
to California nothing.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Just I'd like it if I sent my kid to
the South and they came back with an accent.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
I'd find this. I think a Tennessee accent. I love that.
Love those Yeah, great, they are fantastic.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Maybe your daughter comes back from Texas with an accent.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Oh, we can only too stubborn. Really, she is so no,
she would never do that. Really, she didn't even throw
into like a y'all, not yet. I can't wait for
that first day though.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
I think door eat from the Housewives, the one born
in Jersey went to Paris for a week and came
back with some sort of European a week and then
kept it her whole life. Some people they find their
way into accents later in life.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
I noticed that when I would hang around my grandparents,
especially when my grandfather is still alive, like I would
get a little Southern twang around him.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Yeah, he liked to say Frisco and taters. Those are
the two words my grandparents had.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
Was putting an R in a flat a they would
say in the washing machine or the state of Washington.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
My grandparents did that. There was a lot of ours
that came from.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
I had what I thought were mashed potatoes and Nashville.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
I said, these are the best potatoes. I got a
little kicking them. They're so good. It's cream potatoes. They
were grits. Yeah, that's good cream. That's how stupid I am.
That's how California.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
Yeah, you are grits. You're going to have struggle to
find grits on a menu in California.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
They're so good they are. I keep thinking, it's all
the cream. It's all the cream, guys.
Speaker 4 (07:43):
I have just so you could lose a little more
respect for me, I've taken to meal planning for my family.
Like I put a menu together for the whole week,
and then I prepped.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
The meal the day beforehand. If you oh no, I mean, okay,
that is not the bar that we are going to
return to decide about masculinity. Here's here today.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
I didn't even think.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
That that it was about being manly. I thought it
was just about being American. Starting early, whole thing, justin
Morrisham was joined that you meal plan what is for
dinner tonight?
Speaker 4 (08:21):
Tonight is chicken fajitas? That have been marinating for all right,
that's amazing trauma. On Tuesday, probably around seven o'clock time,
I got a blackstone.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
They're delicious. How to keep from yelling if your kid
makes a mess, screw that kid. You should yell at them.
This is gonna be great. You want to mess in
your house?
Speaker 5 (08:39):
No, you're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from
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But Elmer and Matt and Ritchie they all looked back
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year twenty twenty two. Yes, just in terms of timing,
that was the year that my mom passed away, and
she had been prescribed a bunch of different.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Medicines and you're still taking them.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
Seven point six million seniors simultaneously prescribed eight or more
medications for ninety days, eight or more. There is an
entire industry of things to help you remember to take
your pills. And everything from those little the pill boxes
(09:44):
days of the week when my dad when we had
to buy a pill caddy or whatever they call them
for my dad, it was four rows.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
That's a grid for each day of the week.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Before breakfast at bracke lunch before it's several times a.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Day each day. Yeah, and specification tables right I could,
I don't remember what they all were.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
When my wife finally was able to sit down and
take a look at the things that were, at least
we had a description as to why they were, why
he was on specific medications, and some of them actually
were medications prescribed to counteract the side effects of the earlier.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Medications that have been prescribed.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
And that's the situation that a lot of people find
themselves in right now, especially seniors. I said seven point
six million had eight or more medications, three point nine
million had ten or more medications, and there were about
a half a million, almost a half a million seniors
prescribed fifteen plus drugs at the same time.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Well, and the concern that I would have, because I've.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Heard horror stories, is that some of these interact with
each other and that is not flagged in the hospital system.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
Or what have you, And obviously they're supposed to be
the charts are supposed to include every medication that you're on.
But if you have a general practitioner, you have your
regular family doctor, and you've got especially you've got an
oncologist who's working here, you have a cardiologist who's working there,
(11:28):
are it's just going to happen that some of those
fall through the craft.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
So there's not one database for each patient that there's
not a database that exists where all those doctors could
communicate into about that one patient.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
Well, in some cases there are some if you belong
to a specific health plan, there are when my dad,
for example, had the ability, we had the ability to
go on to his chart and keep track of it everything,
and his doctors also had access to that chart electronic.
(12:04):
They could check whatever medications he's on or had been
on previously, and notes from the other doctors. This medication
worked great, this one didn't work so good, this one
we're good. So in that instance, yes, there can be
a lot of information. And in other instances where you're
just dealing with I have to bring my list of
medication to this new specialist so they know what they're on,
(12:27):
or however it's going to work, there's going to be
a lot of confusion. And if you're talking about mom
and dad or grandma and grandpa, they're already dealing with
all kinds of stuff, whether health issues that would require
multiple medications. You're now expecting them to keep track of
all of their medications. And some of them are four
times a day, Some of them you take with foods,
(12:47):
some of them you don't take with foods, some of
them you can't take with the other pill. And some
of them you have to pee in your own bathroom
because it's causing radioactivity in your body. I mean, there's
so much that can go on in it that of
course it's going to fall through the cracks unless we
come up with a much more robust way to track
your medications and flag any what do they call it?
Speaker 1 (13:10):
Well?
Speaker 2 (13:10):
And how do you remember all of them?
Speaker 1 (13:13):
The other thing, Yeah, you know, I've heard through his
people that's taking their mom man or whatever and just
taking all the pill bubbles and just whosh, put them
in a box and saying this is what she's on.
I don't know what any of these are, but have
at it.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
And how many of those do you even think that
they're still taking at that point. You know.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
It's just it's just such a how many pills are
you on right now?
Speaker 2 (13:34):
Zero? I don't take medications.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
I did a couple of weeks ago when I had
my cold that I was I saw that.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
I saw that. I saw it. When you're holding pill popping,
you did it right here. Yeah, I'm not afraid of it. Yeah,
I'm not afraid. Well, you're very lucky that you don't
have to take anything.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
Well, that's also the reason I haven't gone to the
doctor for fear that they're going to try to put
me on medicine.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
And I just got to go no. We could say no.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
I also could say no, Yeah, this is America. You
are an adult. No one's gonna tell you have to
do anything.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
But I would rather change things about what I'm doing first,
right before I tried, before I try to. For some people,
medicine is the only thing.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
But here's the thing. Like for me, my cholesterol was high.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
I would have never known that if I didn't get
blood work done routinely for not having a thyroid, you know,
And that's why I made life changes to do to
write to lower that.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
You wouldn't know right now.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
If your cholesterol was high, you could be making dietary changes.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
I know what it was a few years ago, yeah,
three years ago. I mean that was the last time
I had a full blood panel done.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
Well, that was when you were in your forties. Now
you're in the danger zone.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
The danger zone. I just made that up. Paid for
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Speaker 5 (14:51):
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I thought you might joy just a quick one of
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We did an event where Gary's nipples were on display
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missed the Bigfoot reveal she did. He'll show you one
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Not here? It's Christmas? Was that asking? It's Christmas? What
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We'll do it later. Michael has joined us here on
the Gary and Shannon Show. There is a push now.
Mayor bass is asking the city for a what amounts
to it feels like a sliver of money to keep
the lapd on track in terms of hiring.
Speaker 6 (15:45):
It's a sliver of money when you think of how
large the city budget is, but it's a sliver of
money that has not been appropriated. We go through a
budget process every single late spring, early summer. The budget
has to be approved and adopted by the end of June.
The fiscal starts on July. One does that every year.
Everyone involved in this story knows this. The mayor proposes
(16:06):
a budget, the city Council holds a bunch of budget hearings,
the departments are all operated in, including the LAPD. Everyone
has their wish list, their concerns, and then a budget
is crafted and adopted. This budget was crafted and adopted,
allowing the LAPD to hire about two hundred and fifty officers.
But as we talked on this very program, just a
couple of months ago, the LAPD showed up at a
(16:27):
budget committee meeting after this budget was already in place
and said we're bringing on four hundred and ten officers,
and the budget committee was like, wait a second, this
was not appropriated. Regardless of whether you agree that you
need more police officers in the LAPD, there is a process,
and this process has not been followed and the asterisk
(16:48):
on this particular story. Mayor Bass puts out this letter
yes a late Wednesday night saying I need the Council
to approve more than four million dollars so we can
get the full four hundred and ten or the lad
will have to stop hiring.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
January one.
Speaker 6 (17:03):
Chief McDonald comes out late yesterday afternoons basically says the
same thing, and the Council will now have to figure
this out. The mayor promised during the budget process, after
they reached a compromise on the number officers, that they
would allow that they would work together to find the
full amount to bring on the full number desired by
(17:23):
the LAPD, the full four hundred and ten. That didn't happen,
And now here we are at the end of the
year and there's a lot of finger pointing and a
lot of crying and a lot of worrying about what's
going to happen. But no one in all of the
months since July one has done anything about this.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
And the thing is is, it's not like these are
novice politicians. These are people who have been in the
budget game for years that know. And it must be
exhausting to go through the dog and pony show. Every
time a budget needs to be approved and the you know.
Speaker 5 (17:54):
The.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
Jockeying and the fluffing and all the things you have
to do. It's awful, but it does have to be
done right. That's why we have protocols in place.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
Now, what is this I hear about Jim McDonald's saying
we're not even going to have an academy class.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
That's exactly what this is.
Speaker 6 (18:09):
Because when you hire a police officer, it's not like
they get in the cruiser and start driving around town.
You're hired and then you have to go to the
academy and they do these new recruit classes every single month,
and they've been doing them. They have not been at
the numbers that they have wanted for years now. But
because of this situation, if they don't get this immediate
(18:30):
injection of more than four million dollars, they will not
have a January class and the department's numbers will fall
to about eighty three hundred sworn officers for the first
time in decades.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
Wow, and they want ten thousand.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
Yeah, they've said that for years, as long as I've
been in LA they've said ten thousand is the would
be a goal for a fully staffed LA Police Department,
and we already know living here that people who live
in certain neighborhoods that have had spikes and burglaries over
the past couple of years that though the response time
is not what you want it to be.
Speaker 6 (19:03):
There's already that basic struggle. But we have major events coming,
including next year. The World Cup will be our first test.
So it's Olympics, a coming.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
Complete disaster between the World Cup and the Olympics. Maybe not,
maybe maybe it all goes super smooth, but I see
no signs of it, of smooth sailing ahead.
Speaker 6 (19:21):
I don't know how anyone could put their trust in
the city to do anything.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (19:25):
Now, by the way, I keep bringing this off. I
heart on it for months leading up to this vote,
and it's significantly relevant here. The city had a billion
dollar budget deficit that it had to close. It was
basing a layoff of sixteen hundred city workers. They saved
every one of those jobs, including in the police department.
No sworn personnel were on the chopping block, but people
that the departments that are critical to investigations, forensics types,
(19:48):
those people, it's not just people answering phones. They saved
all those jobs, which they still have to pay for potentially. Yeah,
and they approved this multi billion dollar expansion of the
Convention Center in downtown LA, which they will have to
start paying in the next budget cycle. They're going to
have to find somewhere between eighty and two hundred million
(20:10):
dollars every year for the next thirty years on top
of the ongoing and existing budget problems they have.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
That was a choice.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
Well, it's a good thing that I could become an
LAPD officer just day one. No academy training, is there,
give me the cruiser and the gears.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
No, don't say it. What Oh, I thought you were
going to make an age reference.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
I was I was going to ask because we've talked
with Chief McDonalds your.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
Guys, is that Harry, it's not. That's your number one issue.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
Raised a good question, and I think Chief McDonald said,
there is no there's no ceiling on age for new
recruits for LAPD.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
Yes, there is there is a ceiling. There is thirty five.
I think.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
I think it's like being a president of the United States.
Speaker 6 (20:58):
Well, they have one thing that they do have is
they've already extended these offers to people that are not
budgeted Yeah, to go into this recruiting class, and if
this class doesn't happen, those people will go to other departments.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
See police officers too. There is no maximum.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
There's the lap does not impose a maximum for the
academy to apply or work as an LAPED office.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
What was that eighties series Police Academy?
Speaker 6 (21:24):
There was a lot of randos that, thanks Joama.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
What was that show in the eighties about the police academy,
the LAPD You mean the one called police Academy Academy?
Speaker 2 (21:35):
That one Steve Guttenberg, Welcome to the room of dumbasses.
Speaker 6 (21:38):
So you're saying Steve Gutenberg even now and is what
I would imagine is his sixties sixty seventies.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
Yeah, he could be an LAPD officer. Sure, why not? Yeah? Good?
How old is Steve Gutenberg? We didn't get enough of
him after the eighties? And then yeah, yeah, sixty seven.
There's a show called The Rookie Sorry about like a
middle aged guy that comes a cop too. It's yeah,
there's also Elmer always sounds like his head is on
(22:06):
a pillow. I know it soothing? Yeah, you should hear
his meditation? Does he do it? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (22:13):
He's starting his own meditation. Like I would scribe you
it's really good. I would download Elmer really good. Yeah,
Like I hope he sticks with it.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
It's out of here.
Speaker 6 (22:26):
This has been a revolting conversation. Thank you, Michael, my pleasures.
Speaker 5 (22:30):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
This happens to be some of the best of Gary
and Shannon.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
Katherine Hartman is like the secret Mormon clothes? Is that
what you're telling the underparents?
Speaker 5 (22:47):
Now?
Speaker 3 (22:48):
Katherine Hartman is a professor at University of Wyoming, and
she was figuring out what to do when it came
to finals this month, and her student encountered a testing method,
according to The Washington Post, as old as the ancient
philosophers whose ideas they were studying. She didn't do written exams.
(23:11):
She did oral exams as their final. Now you, I
didn't think about this when I was reading through this
article in the first place. But if you look back
to your college days, depending on what kind of studies
you did, kinds of classes that you took, oral exams
were probably not entirely unknown. When we were in college,
(23:37):
I took like a theater class. One I took one
theater class, and it wasn't It wasn't obviously, it wasn't
a written exam.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
It was a final scene that you had to.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
Be for ever having an oral exam in the history
of my education.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
I'm right to cite a poem at one point.
Speaker 3 (23:52):
That's I mean, that would kind of count. But in
terms of testing your knowledge about specific things that would
be really nerve.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
Wrecked, that would be awful. Are you kidding?
Speaker 1 (24:03):
Like that was before that would have provided me with
the what the kids now call anxiety. You didn't have
a word for it back then, But could you imagine
getting up in front of the class and being on
the spot and you have to talk about what you know?
Speaker 3 (24:15):
Oh, even if it's not in front of the class,
even if it's just you and the professor, and she's
banging out a list of questions, and you're like, I.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
Mean, I had a hard enough time at confession h D. Yeah,
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
She said that she tells her students that this all
is an attempt to push back against AI, to take
AI out of the equation. When you're trying to prove
to your professor what knowledge you've gained over the course
of this semester or you know, whatever it is. She
says to her students, using AI is like bringing a
(24:47):
forklift to the gym when you're supposed to be working
out your own muscles. And so far, she said, most
of the students have embraced left is a little overkilled,
but okay, have embraced the training regimen. One twenty year
old is a double major Spanish and History. Took her
final exams last week and admits to being pretty freaked
(25:10):
out by the idea of the oral exam, but now
she wishes she had more of them. She says, with
this exam, I don't know how you could use AI.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
Frankly.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
In a recent survey of college students, eighty five percent
said they had used AI in their courses. The other
fifteen percent lied through their teeth. They said they were
using it in terms of brainstorming ideas, maybe even preparing
for quizzes. A quarter of them admitted that they had
used AI to complete assignments, and about thirty percent said
(25:40):
colleges should design more AI proof methods of assessment and
that oral exams may would be something that they would
that the students would be in favor of and to
test their knowledge as opposed to write a twelve page
term paper on the I don't know the oil impact
(26:01):
on the something of the trees.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
I love that you were just trying to come up
with something that would be and I couldn't. You could
have said anything like earlier in the week I brough
up the War of eighteen twelve.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
I would have been perfect. I guess right.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
Hey, did you hear I heard on the radio this
morning a story to a radio station go on. There
was a story about a guy who's suing a hospital
because he went in for a medical procedure for some reason,
was able to have his phone on him and recorded
the surgeons talking while he was under and they were
(26:38):
saying rude things about him or her. I think it's
a trans person, and I think it was a woman.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
I think it's a trans transition. Was it. I just
used your wife's trick.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
Oh, it was a trans woman and she was recording
the whole thing and the things that the people were saying,
and it was not trans related. That is so an
ancillary part of the It has nothing to do with it.
But except there is a penis involved. But the fact
that she's suing, you know, because because they said things about,
(27:13):
you know, her is ridiculous or is it sing? For
half a million dollars? And I think the jury awarded
it to her.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
Here is the kicker. This is what they said.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
They said she was really annoying and that they wanted
the doctor. Surgeon said she was so annoying, I wanted
to punch her in the face. And then said somebody
else said her penis looks like it has ebola. Well
that's hilarious, Like that is the most ridiculous insult.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
It's not even timely, but it made me laugh out loud.
It was like, look at this like.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
An a bola penis, Like that's fun I don't know
what it means. It's not timely, nobody's mentioned ebola in
a series of years, but it's funny. That is weird, right,
Not a good not a good rip, but a half
a million dollars. Would you have your penis name called
for half a million?
Speaker 2 (28:04):
I'd say yes, you would, I think I would. I'd
even go and you do it for twenty bucks.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
Any sort of hemorrhagic disease fine by me, rip away,
I don't care. Gary and Shannon kfi Am six forty
Live everywhere on the iHeart Radio app. And that's that
wraps up one of our best segments of the year.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
That's it. Think about that, Wow, think about that. Let's
do better. You've been listening to The Gary and Shannon Show.
Speaker 3 (28:28):
You can always hear us live on KFI AM six
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