No-Phone Childhood/Unschooling, Waymo’s LA Expansion & Mail Carrier Dog Attacks

ICYMI: Hour Two of ‘Later, with Mo’Kelly’ Presents – Guest Host Chris Merrill filling in with a look at a new study that explains the reasons why “most Americans are significantly stressed about money” AND the concepts of the ‘no-phone childhood movement’ & ‘unschooling’…PLUS – Thoughts on the rise of driverless car technology in California with the State board’s support of Waymo's expansion into LA - on KFI AM 640…Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app

Episode Transcript

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You're listening to Later with Moe Kellyon demand from KFI AM six forty.
Don't forget. On Thursday, youcan hear the CNN presidential debate starting at
six on CNN and simulcast on KFI. Excited to be able to bring that
to you and the first we'll behere right after. We'd to give you
post debate coverage. So looking forward, it'll be good. I'll be listening,

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you'll be listening, listening together,just not in the same room.
It'll be coo. You probably haveheard that we are facing inflation issues right
now, no doubt that will bepart of the CNN presidential thing. Talking
about inflation. That'll be a bigA new study. I love it when

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we get a good study out that'sable to look into exactly what the people
are thinking. And according to thePeople Bank, Great did us and it
shows that half of all adults inthe United States say that money has a
negative impact on their mental health,causing stress. Yep, worrying over anxiety

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over money, debt, and variousexpenses. So there ain't have it.
We did a survey that says halfthe country has financial stress because they're worried
about money. Debt and various expenses, including the rising costs, inflation,
and rising prices. So I'm gladBank Great did a study on that because

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I was concerned that I was theonly one. Sometimes do you feel like
surveys are dumb? Because that onefeels pretty dumb to me. In fact,
I would even say this, Iffifty percent of the country is stressing
over money, what's the other fiftypercent stressing about it? If you're not

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stressed, what is it? Go, I'm sorry, it's the obvious.
The other fifty percent are stressing overthe obvious. Can you imagine being paid
to conduct surveys like that? Whata survey is? Water wet? What
do you think? Oh my gosh, yeah, are you stressed about the
rising prices of goods? I wouldsay that the only people not stressed about

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the rising prices of goods, andthey tend to just take on the stress
themselves because it's in their nature,are people who are financially quite secure.
Well, there's one other group whoisn't stressed about the rising prices of goods.
Those are the people in the corporationswho are price gouging everyone. Yeah,
they're doing great, They're making they'redoing fine on that right, Like,

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whoa, why don't we just raisesome prices some more and we'll blame
it on inflation. We will contributeto inflation and then blame inflation for the
reason we had to raise prices.And they're like, I love it.
I don't think they're stress levels toohigh. I don't think they're goblin xenx
like pez these days like the restof us. No, they're getting bonuses,
is what they're getting. Yeah,and now they're doing stock buybacks.

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There are two types of people notstressing about money right now. One those
that have plenty of it, includingthose that are making money off the stress
of others, and those that havenone. It doesn't matter what the price
of things are if you can't affordto buy things in the first place.
Although I would say this, Ithink about the guy on the exit right
when I'm coming in on the freewayand I take the exit, there's a

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guy standing there with a sign,is you know anything helps? And I
don't know what he spends his moneyon. I'd like to think that he
takes his money and he goes andhe buys a sandwich, where he buys
water or coffee, or something,right. I mean, I'm hoping that
if people are handing him money,that he is trying to help himself out
in some way shape. That's wecan debate what happens with people who are

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asking for money on the freeway exits. We can talk about the unhoused issue
all that stuff, But I'm justtelling you what goes out in my mind
when I see somebody who's gotta signup that says please, anything helps,
right, So in my mind,I go, Okay, I don't want
to assume the worst. I don'tknow this person, maybe that I have

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fallen out some really tough times andanything helps. And when they say anything
helps, what they mean is I'mgoing to take that money and I'm going
to try to find myself a hotpeel somewhere. Okay, cool, And
I know there's plenty of services outthere for this person whatever. I'm just
imagining what happens after the dollar getshanded to the five dollars to twenty dollars
or whatever gets hand to that person. In Mark's case, it's one hundred
dollars bills or nothing. Yeah exactly, Yeah, yeah, you're rolling in

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it. I get you. SoI always think maybe this guy's gonna go
spend this money. Mind, thatguy can't get as much for his the
money that he collects on the freewayexit ram as he could before. So
if he's taking that money and thenheading into the seven eleven and he's getting
himself a slurpee and a sandwich,he doesn't have as much left over for

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tomorrow. Right, So in thatcase, the guide with nothing is concerned
about inflation. Although I also don'tthink that that guy has a phone line
to be able to answer surveys frombankring, so I don't know how accurate
some of these surveys are. Theydid do a breakdown as far as the
demographics, and baby Boomers are worriedabout inflation and rising prices, Millennials are

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mostly worried about inflation and rising prices. Gen X mostly worried about inflation and
rising prices. However, gen Zthose that were surveying, and they only
ask people who are nineteen to twentyseven. Gen Z actually runs like twelve
to twenty seven. But just let'sjust use this cohort here nineteen to twenty
seven, where the participants in theirserving their biggest concern was not inflation and

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rising prices, although it's intertwined.It was paying for everyday expenses. So
they are most concerned with just nothaving enough money at the end of the
month. If you're a little bitolder, you have your job and you've
got some income, you might nothave as much disposable income. But largely,

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according to the survey, your dayto days are covered. You can
afford gas to get to work,you can pay your internet bill, you
can pay your mortgage, whatever itis. You might not be able to
buy a new car right now.You might you might have to trim back
and cut one of your streaming services, whatever it is, but you're getting

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by without making too big a sacrifice. For gen Z, they're just worried
that maybe they've sacrificed enough and can'tsacrifice more. And I know that flies
in the face of the stereotypes thatwe create, but remember the stereotypes that
we create. Also, we're tellingpeople that the reason millennials couldn't afford houses
is because they liked avocado to posts. It had nothing to do with the

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fact that houses have quadrupled in pricecompared to earnings over the course the last
twenty years. It had everything todo with them spending it on avocado tones.
Right, So forget some of thosenarratives and stereo times, and let's
just think about when we were twenty, how much money did we have left
over after we got done working ourjob. For me, I was a

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line cook or you know, washingdishes, or you know, working that
other hustle, whatever it was,how much money did we have left over
At the internet, we just didn'thave a whole lot leftover. And so
for gen Z, they're worried aboutjust being able to make the nut at
the end of the morning. Here, I think gen Z, here's just
talking about our parents and grandparents whoon one income of your dad, you

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know, they could support the wholefamily going to dedication, send a kid
to college. And the gen Zpeople are like, well, that's a
charming science fiction tale you've just toldthat doesn't exist. Exactly right, You
are exactly right. In fact,if you were to tell people in the
nineteen fifties and even the nineteen sixtiesthat you'd have to have two incomes just
to be able to pay your mortgageand your light bill, and that you

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wouldn't be able to save money tosend your kids to college if you made
the median income. And remember whatyou have to have for a down payment.
If you're living in southern California andstill be able to make your monthly
payment, you'd have to pay somethinglike seven hundred eight seventy thousand dollars something
like that. It's like seven hundredand fifty seven hundred and eighty thousand dollars
in a down paint. It's anda kidney. It's un attainable, right,

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totally unattainable. And I'm thinking back. My grandfather worked various jobs.
He was a lagger, he wasa bus driver, he diat all these
other things. He was a hewas a quiet man who had a in
a lot of great stories and thatyeah, lagger in Oregon and in Maine,
cool stories there. Surprised he stillhas all of his fingers because they

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always lost it. But Grandpa raisedsix kids on a single paycheck. When
he got done with his other jobs, he went to work for General Motors,
so he was union making enough moneyto support a wife, six kids,
pay for the mortgage, and tryingto think at least four of those
kids went to college. I thinkall of them did, a couple of

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them had scholarships, but I thinkall of my aunts and uncles and my
mother went to combine and that wason one you kneed, John, could
you do that now? Not evenit's not a chance, it's no way,
not a chance. So while whilewe're talking about stressed over money and
half the country is stressed over money, the other half we're lying about not
being stressed moment, it's just ait's just it's tough right now. It's

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tough. And I think this iswhat a lot of us are gonna be
looking for when it comes to leadershipin this country. But I don't know
how incentivized the leaders are to necessarilyfix things because we keep making massive donations
to them and they're happy to takethose donations so long as there's a problem
needs to fix. That's my cynable. Via Chris merrill In from O Kelly
got to talk about this. Onething that parents are doing to try to

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wrangle their raaty kids is they've decidedto delay their digital age. Next you're
listening to Later with Moe Kelly onDemand from KFI AM six forty. Imagine
that you are a Midwestern who movesto California, and you move when your

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kids are going into high school.Right, So you move and your daughter
is going into ninth grade. Veryexciting, it's a high schooler. But
she's starting in a new school andthat's scary. That is real scary for
a thirteen year old to do.So the ninth grader gets to the school

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and the teacher starts handing out assignments, and the assignments are on an app.
Now, at thirteen years old,you've yet to provide your daughter with
any sort of a phone. Didn'tneed a phone? Why you need a
phone? I know I sound alittle bit old school here, right,
Oh, you're sort of put aphone in your kid's hands when they're seven.
They need to learn how to usethose apps. They don't. So

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imagine that you've got a thirteen yearold who goes to school and the teacher
starts handing out assignments that are onan app. And your daughter comes home
and she says, I need aphone, and you go, you're buying
you a phone since they're expensive,I have to have it for school.
Yet, No, you don't haveto have it for school. Yes I
do. The teacher says, Ihave to have it for school because all

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of our assignments are on this appand we have to turn it in on
our app and then we can trackour assignments on the app. And the
teacher said, everything is on theapp, and you say, no,
that can't be right. So you, being a naive Midwesterner, you contact
the teacher and you say, hey, I just wanted to check. My
daughter says she's having a little bitof trouble with her assignments because she doesn't

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have a smartphone. She says,everybody else in class has a smartphone,
she doesn't have one. That can'tbe true. Please tell me that there
are other kids in class that don'thave a smartphone. The teacher that informs
you that you are the naive phone, Oh, no, they all have
apps. We require them. Werequire that the kids use their smartphones because

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they all have them. And soI started trying to engage the children where
they are and that's on their phones. So all of my assignments are done
on the smart So here, youare a naive midwestern are who moved to
California. Your thirteen year old girlsuddenly has to have a smartphone to participate
in platts. That's frustrating. Thereis a new movement right now and I

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don't know how well it's going togo over because, in my experience,
society doesn't let people not have phonesin their teenage years. But parents are
starting to band together in a newmovement that is the no phone childhood movement.
Study after study detailing the stress andanxiety the kids and teens deal with

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as a result of smartphone social mediaDeuce is from Maxius. Smartphones are ubiquitous.
Half the kids in the US ownone by age eleven. Most have
smartphones by thirteen, probably because theirteachers make them. An organization in the
United States called Wait until A isgaining traction. The group offers a playbook
to communities of parents who want tosign pledges to hold off on getting their

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kids smartphones until at least eighth grade. Remember when you were a kid and
there was always some group. It'susually like a like an after school youth
group that was trying to get youto sign a pledge for celibacy. Now
it's just sign a pledge to notgo on a phone. Yep. That
society used to be please don't getpregnant before high school. Now it's please

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don't get a phone before high school. Pregnancy is fine. Fifty four pledges
were established in sixteen states. Eachpledge signed by at least ten families.
Boy, you're just crushing it now, aren't it. So Evidently there's a
group in Spain called the Adolescents Freeof Mobile Phones. They've picked up ten

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thousand members around their country, whichis doing much better than our pledge drive
kind of stinks. They're trying tokeep smartphones if they until kids turn sixteen.
Here here there are some that say, why don't we try to keep
the kids off the phones until they'reeighteen. That's not gonna happen. Let's
we have to be realistic, right, you're not gonna keep the kids off

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the phones until they're eighteen. Iknow you think you As a parent,
I can stop it happening. I'lltell my kids what they're gonna do.
I control this is this is thisis not a this is a christocracy.
I've used that line that way.This is a christocracy. You'll do what
I say? And the kids arelike, this sucks. We hate them.

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Yeah, you're not gonna be ableto keep them off the phone until
they're eighteen, but maybe sixteen.The trouble is, of course they can
start driving when they're sixteen. Thelast thing you want to do is be
getting a phone and a car ora driver's license to when they turn sixteen.
That's not great. I don't knowhow effective the no phone childhood movement
is going to be, especially whenyou go and get ten families from each

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of sixteen states to sign on.It does not bode well for the future
of amer I can tell you thatI am a little dismayed though that,
for instance, my daughter's school requiredthat she have a smartphone, not just
a cell phone, a smartphone,and this would have been ten years ago.

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That had to happen. That is, as a parent, I felt
felt trapped to be I felt trapped. I know, well, you know
you could have homeschooled things. No, I can't because I'm not smart enough
to homeschool my kids, and Idon't want my kids to turn out like
weirdos by having bad homeschool. There'sa trend on tiktop. God, you

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gotta love these TikTok trends. Areyou ready for this? Mark bring?
Well? Yeah, I was alreadyimpressed with Christocracy, so yeah it was
good. Yeah, I felt prettygood about them. Yeah. Unschooling.
Unschooling, although one influencer who isa spiritual influencer who has two hundred and
fifty thousand followers on TikTok and hasadvocated practices such as free birth, which

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is pregnancy without any medical intervention,hope the kid is okay, and then
drinking her own menstrual blood. Shesays that you should allow your kids to
grow up free schooling. It's anideology that proposes that children learn best when
their education of self direct is selfdirected, meaning they do not attend formal
classes, have teachers, or adhereto a formal curriculum of any kind.

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Oh yeah, that's exactly what weneed in this country, is less formal
education. That's going to solve everything. My mom drinks her own mensrure blood
and she could. She named meMowgli raised in the wild. Yeah,
just kidding, screwed, screwed.We will be supporting that child in the
future. There's no doubt in mymind about none. And somebody's like,

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oh, this is just brilliant.This is free range childhood. Look,
Lord, boundaries, set boundaries.Kids gone straight to Congress for it.
Oh my gosh. Oh parental rightsversus crazy people on TikTok how will the
Supreme Court rule on that. We'llget techy, super geek techy. I

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love getting geeky. It is nextChris Merrill INFROMO Kelly. You're listening to
Later with Moe Kelly on demand fromKFI AM six forty. I love getting
tech geeky, getting geeky with it. I'm a big fan of watching some
of the advancements that we have rightnow. We are at a time in
this information age where tech advances fasterthan it ever has throughout any other point

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in his stream. Every day weadvance more than the day before, So
we are advancing faster today than wewere last year at this time last year,
more than the year before. Allthat kind of thing, and especially
with the UH. The advancements inAI fascinating. What AI is gonna do.
It's gonna supercharge a lot of boerour tech advancements and probably inevitably will

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be used for destroying humankind in someway, shape or former. A lot
of people think that the machines aregoing to take over. I don't think
it's that the machines are going totake over. I think that we as
humans are going to figure out away to weaponize AI already. I know
the military is trying to use itto better target things, and at some
point we are going to use AIto kill ourselves. On what Until that

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happens, let's enjoy the ride.In this case, it would be a
ride without a driver, because wenow are likely to see Weaimo expanding into
La Waimo is the car that drivesitself, oftentimes running into things that it
shouldn't run into. We've seen thishappen with all of the what they call

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avs autonomous vehicles, and a regulatoryboard has reaffirmed Waymo's ability to operate its
driverless taxi service in Los Angeles,just days after a bill that would have
let local governments regulate the driverless carsstalled out in the state legislature, so
we can still have weimo's in thestreets. I'm always fascinated by the waves
because there are times that a weimowill do crazy things that you are sure

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it ran across at some point inits testing phases. So Weimo, which
is the Google company right the alphabetalphabet apparent company, Weimo's underth I've seen
videos of, for instance, aWeimo on an exit ramp trying to turn
left onto a surface street, butthe traffic on the surface street is called

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out because the people on the surfacestreet are trying to turn onto the on
range, so traffic is backing upduring the rush hour. Weaymo then drives
the wrong way in the oncoming trafficlane, trying to figure out how it's
going to get past this line.Are you telling me that during the testing
phase the Weymo vehicles never encountered rushhour and never had to try to figure

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out when they could turn left,and that they weren't allowed to turn left,
and so again bo bizarre. Iwas driving on the road one time
and I had one of these waymemospull out, and it scared the hell
out of me. It didn't doanything wrong, to be very clear,
it didn't do anything wrong, butit was. It was one of those
surface streets, and it had twolanes in each direction and a turn lane.

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So I am in the left handlane going north, let's just say
north just the sake of the story, and all of a sudden, this
weameo turns off of one of thefeeder streets and it turns left at a
high rate. I mean it accelerated. Driver loves this is. It was
just running as attacks driver lives,and it accelerated and it pulled up alongside

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me in the turn lane and justabout came up to my speed. I
thought that thing was going to swiperight into me. To be fair,
had there been a driver behind thewheel, I probably I would have been
okay with it because I know thedriver is getting into the turnline until they
can merge over behind me in thein the north bound lane. Fine.
But the fact that it didn't havea driver or scared the hell out of

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me. It did. I thought, this car's lost its mind. I
thought this is the moment the machinesare taking over and they're gonna start killing
humans, start with me. That'swhat I thought at the moment. But
it did okay right across another one. Uh. Just this week, I
thought it was a viral video wherethe the Weymo with a passenger came up

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to a piece of construction in astreet. And you've seen this before where
they decided they're going to resurface acertain areas starting at this point, and
they're resurfacing, for instance, theintersection. So what do they do?
They tear up the asphalt that's there, So it's just kind of a it's
kind of a gravelly looking thing.Well, they clean all that up and
then they bring in and lay outnew asspholet. So this weymo pulls up.

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Obviously it's not a lot. Thiswas closed. It missed the sign
saying it's closed, and it keptdriving right onto the dirt area until it
came up to a construction worker whowas staring at the car and of course,
Waimo's not going to run over somebody. It's not supposed to me the
dirt area of the torn up road, and the construction workers going, now
what we do? So the constructionworkers had to herd the car, I

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guess. So they had a constructionworker that was in front so that the
car couldn't go that way, andthen they had another construction worker kind of
come around on the driver's side andwalk closer and closer so the car would
kind of pull away. It wasit really was. It was like watching
farmers heard a bull into a pen. They were trying to basically scare the
car into thinking it was going tohit somebody until it would turn in order

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to avoid them, and then goonto the other street and recalculate around them.
It was the most bizarre thing.So good news, we've got more
of that going on the street.A little more of that we have that.
That's don't worry, We've reaffirmed theability to do more of that.
Oh good, I can't wait.The self driving cars should advance very quickly

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based on the advancements and technology thatI mentioned earlier. The AI, so
they are artificial intelligence is learning atan incredibly rapid pas. Right. It's
self learning. It's it's it's itcertainly doesn't have its own agency. It's
not conscious, but it is startingto pick up on things and learn from

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stuff. And so what's happening isa number of these companies are integrating AI
into their self driving cars, andthey've sent contracts with certain AI companies to
do this. So let me seeif I can find this a number of
companies that have done Oh yeah,loobby Waabi is a trucking system, right,

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so it's they want to do autonomoustrucking. We knew that was coming.
It's probably going to be one ofthe first places where autonomous vehicles start
making a real difference and start eliminatingjobs. Truckers are going to go I
want to, and companies are goingto say, look, I don't have
to pay a trucker. I justhave I pay for this autonomous program and
the semi might cost me an extraone hundred and fifty thousand dollars, but

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I'll make up for the the firsttwo years that I'm not paying a driver,
right, that's the thought pust.So Wabi is testing a system.
They call it provably safe because itsdecisions can be interpreted and traced unlike other
black box av systems. What Wabiis doing is using learning based AVS,
in other words, AI artificial intelligenceautonomous vehicles AIAVS AVS, I E AVS,

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whatever it is. So now you'vegot Wabi is using this, and
other companies are going to start tryingto integrate this sort of self learning into
their vehicles, and they say thiswill help our vehicles, our autonomous vehicles
advance at an incredibly rapid rates rate. So you've got Wabi, You've got

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Wave, which is a UK selfdriving carn Nvidia, which is one of
the biggest names in AI. They'rethe ones that they kind of bounce back
and forth between Apple and Microsoft.Is the most valuable US company because they're
basically producing all of the hardware forAI that's being used. They are partnering
up with these different companies. Soundscool, right, that's great. There's

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a problem, and this is whatpeople are not getting. They want AI
to teach a virtual driver to reasonlike a human so it can make snap
decisions correctly and safely, even innovel situations like oh my god, we
can't turn left because there's too muchtraffic. They wanted to think like us,
Okay, I'm all for then,but we're relying on AI to do

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it. In other words, wehave one emerging technology, autonomous vehicles that
is now going to start relying onanother emerging technology, AI to help drive
the emerging technology, and techis areexcited. They're like, oh, look,
cars can learn faster using AI.But the truth is AI is still

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learning to learn, so any advancesin these self driving cars can only go
as fast as the tech advances inAI. Does that make sense? In
other words, you can't be abetter driver until you learn how to drive
better by just saying, look,we put a human in there, and

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humans are good drivers. Therefore,by putting a human behind the wheel,
the car will be a better driver. No, not until that human learns
how to be a better driver.In the case of AI, it has
to learn all of that stuff first, and we're still figuring out how to
make AI learn better. So untilwe do that, the cars can't be

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autonomous. Ert follow good, clearas mud. Glad we cleared that up.
See that's how techies think nothing makessense and somehow it all works because
they're smarter than us. I'm Christmaolf, I am six forty. We're
live everywhere on the iHeart Ready weapp you're listening to Later with Moe Kelly
on demand from KFI amsing And inmy experience, I have had wonderful interactions

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with the postal carriers. I've beenvery fortunate. I have generally very good
postal carriers, and they're there fora long time too. The only reason
that they would not be on myroute is because they got a promotion or
something of that sort where they're fillingin for somebody else and they didn't route
that name. But for the mostpart, you get a good route.
As a mail purse delivery person,you love it. That is, of

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course, unless you've got nasty dogs. Inder that's got to be stress.
Dog attacks on mail carriers rose inCalifornia over the last year. The largest
cities in California had the most bites. Obvieed LA had sixty five dog bite
incidents with fighting the mailman, SanDiego forty one, Sacramento twenty six,

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San Francisco twenty, Long Beach nineteen, Oakland seventeenth, President thirteen, Bigspi
at twelve out of ten, andat least one attack was reported in nearly
half of calibate. In his cities, Pacinating, Englewood, Anaheim each had
eight attacks and Pedro Pomona was six. North Hollywood, Huntington Beach, where

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else the Garden Grove, Burbank allhad fives. From the the Dukes sho
wo Are we to read anything intothat? No, Na, don't read
a whole money except the dog bitesare still down from what they weren't in
twenty nineteen. I think Cordon's story. They're still down from that, but

(28:32):
they're up from the last couple ofyears, right, So that's that's not
a great trend. And I'm tryingto look into this, and I'm gonna
there are times that I say somethingon the radio and people hate my guns.
I understand I know you're not gonnalike what. I'm a buve percent,
especially dog. I consider myself adog person. I'm a big dog

(28:56):
lover. Dog's over you know,twenty pounds. Of course, anything smaller
than that doesn't count. But Iconsider myself a dog lover. And I
don't even know if the people herehave dogs. Foosh, I don't know
if you have a dog. Tualadon't know if you have a dog.
Mark don't know if you have adog. I don't have a no idea,
no dog. Okay, good,all right. I might upset some

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people. And I actually ran intothis at my weekday job where I said
something about rock Wilers and how awfulrock wilers are, and the guy goes,
I have a rock Wiler. Ilove my dog. That's great,
but they're horribly ugly creatures. Thatsaid, I know people with rock Wilers,
and this is the best companion.Blah blah blah blah blah. But
here's the truth. The dog bitesare up. And you know what else

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is up the rise in pit breeds. Pitbull is now the most common dog
that you find. It used tobe there. We've gone through different different
you know, kings of the Mountain, the Labradors, Golden Retrievers or Great
family dogs. Pits are now themost popular dog there. Nobody wants to
hear it because everybody wants to saythere are no bad dogs, there's only

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bad owners. But that's garbage,total garbage. Do you think that pit
bulls are inherently dangerous? I do, really. They have an instinct to
bite. Its nature. And listen. I got lots of friends that have
pit boles. They trust their dogsimplicitly. The dogs are the best brands.
Dogs never have a biting incident.But that's not the point. Is
the pit breed has a switch intheir brains that tells them to attack.

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We don't know when that switch isgonna flip. And I will say this
too. Every dog has that switch. Every dog does, just like every
human has that switch, the fightor flight. We all have it.
Pit Bulls have a little bit differentthreshold. Even those sweet little dog owners
they say, my dog would neverdo anything. Look, I got a
gentle giant. I have one hundredand ten pound dog. She's afraid of

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everything. My wife turned out shesent me attack. She was going to
bed right because she doesn't want tolisten to me. So she says,
I'm going to bed. She turnsthe fan on in the bedroom, and
the one hundred and ten pound dogwind be like turn around left the room.
She's afraid of the fan. Idon't think she would ever hurt anyone.
But you know what, I haveseen this dog do, this gentle

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giant, this this scaredy cat,this person who cowers because there's a fan
in the bedroom. I've seen herkill. Granted it was chipmunks and not
babies like pitbulls like they do,but she has the hunter instinct. These
are all descendants of wolves. Killingis in their nature. Don't be fooled
by the cute Instagram videos that Irepost because I love them so much and

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they're so godly and I just wantto squeeze them all because I do.
There is something about that mail truckand the sexy blue shorts that turns these
coaches into absolute killers. That's whya lot of the smart male people start
carrying treats. Me. I thinkthat's brilliant. They started doing that too,
I don't know, like the fifteentwenty years ago, they started carrying

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treats. So when they dogs startbarking, they're like here, have a
treat, then they run. Yeah, that only makes sense. Also,
let's just be honest. Letter carrierstaste good. Okay, I haven't tried
them. Okay, is there something? Is it because they walk so much?
A nice Yeah, they're nice andlean. It's a lean meat.
I got you. I had anUPS driver come up from my house one
time. I had another big dog. Thisears ago. I had another big

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dog. He was a He wasa German Shepherd mix. I don't know
what he was mixed with, buthe was golden like a like a yellow
lab. But he was he wasa shepherd. I mean, if you
were colorblind, you say German Shepherd, no doubt, but you're not colored
blinds you. I don't know whatthat is. So this yellow shepherd that
I had, big dog, GentilJohnny hated the UPS guy don't know what.

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UPS comes up and the dog isoutside, sees the UPS pull up.
The UPS guy doesn't see the doguntil he drops the package by the
front door. The dog. TheUPS driver goes screaming, flying out of
the runs down the walkway to thefront of my house and jumps in the
bed of my own of my pickupthat was in the driveway and goes,

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get the dog off of me,Get the off of me, the poor
guy, and so I I,you know, I hold the dog.
I think his counting. I'm sorry. He's all barked, no bite,
and the ups guy jumped out ofhis bed. I don't take any chances.
I don't blame him, don't takeany chances. That's fine. I
don't know many probably jumped in thebat of my truck, that's fine.
Yeah. Well, Also, whatwas he wearing. He kind of brought

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it on himself by wearing that outdown yeah yeah, yeah. He was
dressed like, you know, akiller, like a like a giant brown
ups sexy, brown short killer.I mean, if you ask me,
it sounds like he was asking forit. Oh, you might be right.
Snassage that kind of like you neverwear and wear a black wet suit.
I think the sharksnak your seal.Just walking food, That's probably what

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