June 3, 2024 • 27 mins
Gary and Shannon talk about investigators trying to find thieves who they believe are responsible for a string of burglaries targeting LEGO resale stores across Southern California. Del Mar beaches are close after a 46-year-old man was attacked by a shark. California teachers are using AI to grade papers now.
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This is Gary and Shannon and you'relistening to KFI AM six forty, the
Gary and Shannon Show on demand onthe iHeartRadio app. A couple stories that
we're following. Two of Benjamin uttYaho's coalition allies over the weekend threatened to
quit that government if nat Yahoo goesahead with the truce deal that was outlined
by President Biden. On Friday,he announced that Israel had offered a new
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roadmap towards a full cease fire,including the release of hostages held by Hamas,
But Israel's National security minister said thathis party would dissolve the government if
this deal went through, and saidthis proposal is quote a victory for terrorism
and a security risk to the stateof Israel. Corrections and retractions. Statins
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are for cholesterol, not high bloodpressure. Hey, Gary, Unless there's
been some big breakthrough in research,statins are used to treat high cholesterol,
all right. They lower your cholesterolblood They don't lower your blood pressure.
You're right, you're right, althoughthere could be some indirect by lowering your
cholesterol, possibly you could have aneffect on your blood pressure. But they
don't treat blood pressure. Okay,So I'll say this. It's kind of
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the same thing. Cholesterol also predicteda lot by your genetics, not necessarily
by the cookies that you put inyour face, although you can manage some
of these symptoms with an interesting dietif you are a man, or you
were raised with a man. Thatsounds weird, but let's just say,
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you know the importance of legos.I remember my brother putting together his Lego
sets and just it meant everything,you know, And he was so focused,
and he was so excited by legos. And you know the star ship
you know things enterprise. No,that's different. No, it wasn't Star
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Trek. It was the big thingin the space Ennium foulon the Millennium Falcon
and uh, and like he tookit very seriously, like you you just
did. And I also remember himand my nephews always asking for legos for
their birthdays. I mean, it'sa real it's a real important thing in
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a boy's life, slash man's life. Sure, so I think we can
all understand the motive behind these recentrash of Lego robberies. There's a Lego
resailer, bricks and minifigs. It'sI didn't realize this was a nation wide
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thing. I thought it was local, but multiple owners of Bricks and Minifigs
say that they believe one person isresponsible for breaking into several different locations across
southern California, Whittier, Fullerton,Coasta, Mesa, Riverside in Ontario.
Another place in Anaheim was broken into, but at this point they said nothing
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appeared to actually have been stolen.However, or five or six Lego sets
were successfully put together in the overnighthours. That's not true. Now I
made that up. But maybe hejust wanted to play. Maybe he just
wanted to body. The elf breaksin and with him makes the New York
skyline out of legos. I mean, could you imagine much being better than
you alone in a Lego store withaccess to all those legos and nobody's there
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to bother you. See, here'sthe thing. Your brother and I have
the memory of having to get Legosets, big Lego sets, and not
having the opportunity to go to aLego store or a place like Bricks and
Minifigs where you could pick up individualpieces. So we were confined, I
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guess, or yeah, confined tothe stuff that came in the box period,
and that's all we had. Youcould go farther back into Lego history
where they would sell you sets ofjust random bricks and they would, you
know, give you different ideas onhow you could do it. But the
ones that I grew up with werepretty specific. This is a police car,
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this is an airplane, This isthe Lego airport, this is the
Lego gas station. Stuff like that. These these new places where you can
buy lighted lit lighted, lighted bricks, mechanized bricks, wind up stuff like,
all of them are so far advancedpast what we had as kids.
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It's not just the Imperial Star destroyer, right, and the minifigures themselves.
There used to be two kinds ofminifigures. It was like the city guy
and the astronaut guy. Yeah,and that was it. Those are the
only two. I mean, ifyou've ever seen the Lego movie, that
was a perfect representation because everybody's astronauthelmet got cracked right in the middle.
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It was I mean, it wasso great. But now they make them
so specific to Marvel characters and SpiderMan and all of these different crossover things
that back to the future. Imean, all of these different things that
they have been able to make outof Lego. I think Ghostbusters actually has
one. Also, these many figuresyou can go on eBay and depending on
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how they're set up, these minifigureswill go five, six, ten,
twenty bucks apiece depending on who theyare, So there is some money to
be made. This guy isn't justcollecting. They said. Between the five
stores, about one hundred thousand dollarsworth of products were stolen. About ten
thousand dollars in mini figures were burglarizedbefore the suspect got spooked by a noise
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near the store in Whittier, tenthousand dollars in mini figures, which Lego
SAIDs do you think he stole?I mean, they've come so far,
Like you mentioned, it's like stuffyou don't even you wouldn't even imagine beyond
your imagination. I don't know whatthe most expensive ones are, but they
have some pretty advanced ones that aresuper high end architectural design, like you
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could get a if I'm not ifI'm not mistaken, a Frank Lloyd Wright
model made entirely out of Legos,and those are some of the more expensive
ones. I think do you feela little bit of envy? When you
see how far Legos have come andyou don't want to No, no,
I do not because I think itdoes the work for you. If you
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get a if you get a Legobrick that is, you know, specifically
formed to be. I don't know, the front bumper on a portion nine
eleven. It's different than you hadto find out how to make that front
bumper on the portion nine eleven.R. That's true. So I think
they kind of tamped down your imaginationby doing it all for you. It's
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like the difference between a smartphone anda two way radio from Vietnam. Okay,
you have some people. What didI do? I don't know,
Miss Shannon. It's Thursday, notThursday. Okay, please don't say Thursday.
It's Thursday. Thank you. Mygrandmother used to say that. That's
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why I do that. It's anhomage, it is, Shannon Deer.
Legos are not gender specific. Legosare the most neutral toy slash educational building
experience slash engineering product product on themarket and always have been gender neutral.
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Wow. Yeah, I just Igrew up as a girl and I never
had a friend that played with legos. A female friend that played with legos
you don't have to explain it.She's going a little crazy. I mean,
she's She's right in that it's notnecessarily mark marketed. It is marketed
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to boy I don't I mean,I wasn't just I just I just know
the look in a boy's I've throughmy brother, like looking at my brother
do legos about how serious that thosewere to him. I never felt one
way or the other about legos.It wasn't my thing. Maybe that's because
I don't have an engineering mind.I mean a little plastic brick. Yes,
technically there's no gender thing, there'sno gender assigned to that. So
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in that case, yes, butit tends to appeal to boys more than
girls. Yes, through my experiences, that's my life. Experiences have pointed
me in that direction. I hadtwo sisters. They never played with my
legos. Now my cousins, itwas all dudes. We all had legos.
None of the girls did. No. I mean, I I'd steal
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the g I Joe's to play withthem. You would do your early episodes
of the Bachelor and Bachelorette. Yeah, with Barbie's and g I Joe's and
even the little men. My datacalled them the little men Andy clean up
the little men, like the littlearmy, plastic army guys. Yeah,
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big heat wave is coming through California. Although here in southern California it's not
going to be ridiculous. We'll probablyget up into the nineties Wednesday Thursday and
then back into more normal temperatures.But they're talking about up in the San
Joaquin Valley and Sacramento Valley, wayup north, well into the triple digits,
possibly as high as one oh eightup in Redding and red Bluff in
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the area. Sacramento probably just overone hundred. Fresno Bakersfield also seeing triple
digits. That's not good news forthe Corral Fire. It's already at fourteen
thousand acres up near Tracy, aboutfifty percent contained, so that's good.
It is burning near the Lawrence LivermoreNational Lab Site three hundred. You've changed
it now. You were going withCoral last hour. Now you're going with
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Corral. Yeah. I you sawthe air in your waist. I feel
like no one cares. There's enoughto correct me. I they cared enough
to correct you, But in thatyours was a more important story. The
Legos. Yeah, okay, thename of the fire doesn't matter. It
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doesn't matter where it's burning matters.It's a fire near Tracy, there you
go, or as they say inTracy Tracy, nature continues to fight back.
There was a forty six year oldman bitten by a shark in del
Mar yesterday, prompting Delmar lifeguards toclose beaches for swimming and surfing in the
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area. Happened about nine am,about one hundred yards off shore. I
guess this guy was swimming with agroup, pretty regular swimmer and the shark
came up, grabbed his torso,his left arm and his hand. The
significant injuries, but they say they'renot life threatening. That would be terrifying
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because the first thing I would thinkof is not that the shark is going
to eat me necessarily, but I'mgoing to bleed out one hundred yards off
shore. Yeah, I don't know. That's why I don't go in the
water. Stick to my bathtub.You could bleed out there. It's safer.
I don't know if i'd say safelike blanket, what do you mean,
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What's what's the danger in a bathtub? I bet you more people die
in bathtubs every year than in sharkattacks. It's a pretty safe bet.
Actually, why are you scared ofthe bath I'm not as scared of it.
Do you think people die in thebathtub they slip and fall, oh,
or they fall asleep, or theyhave a little glasses shod indy and
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then they fall under the water.I don't think that that happens. It
happens a lot. It does nothappen a lot. Well, you can't
just say it and have it beareyou're making things up like miniature football?
Take a bath and you die.According to a study from two thousand and
six, three hundred and thirty fiveAmericans drown and bathtubs each year. How
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many people are killed in shark attackseach year? I'm looking that up next.
Well, i'd say fifty around theworld. Oh interesting, But I
don't know why you're dying on this. Thirty six attacks per year in America
in American waters. But that's alot less than bathtub deaths. That's not
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even deadly attacks, that's just people'sshark encounters. That's true. I win
that one. You do. Ididn't know bathtubs and could kill me.
So nature in the heat, thefire and the sharks is going to be
putting up a strong battle when theworld finally comes to a smoldering end,
when nature goes up against artificial intelligence. Oh my gosh, do you want
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a love story? I don't knowif I'm in the mood for a love
fine Murdoch, Oh no, Idon't want to do that, Okay,
I just it's one of those storiesI did understand why everyone lost their minds
over Rupert Murre getting married again forthe fifth time. He's ninety three,
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fine, Okay, she's sixty seven. Yeah, and a retired molecular biologist.
That's nice. It's good for him. He likes them smart, right,
Yeah. I guess Jerry Hall,she you smart. I don't know.
I don't know either. That's agood question. I don't know enough.
I know she's beautiful. That's notenough, you know, Just so
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you know, are you sureing youdidn't sneak a diet coke bots? Okay?
California schools are turning to AI teachersusing AI chatbots to grade papers and
give students feedback. Teachers, Okay, uh, I think this is an
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awful I think what you're doing isyou are devaluing what you do as a
teacher by using this well, it'salso and I know, I know it's
different, but students don't see itthis way. You can say to your
class, you're not allowed to useAI, any generative, AI chat,
GPT, You're not You're not allowedto use that in my class to either
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come up with topics or write yourpaper or write part of your paper.
You're not allowed to do that.And then turn around and use AI to
grade the papers that these kids wrote. It's just a bad exactly, it's
a it's a bad lesson. You'reyou're teaching laziness, you're teaching lack of
individuality. I mean, teachers magicis in who they are and the feedback
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that they provide students and what differentstudents need to hear and how they need
to be taught, especially in thoseclasses where AI would grade papers. It's
like an English class, literature class, creative writing, something like that.
To me, the impact that theteacher has on that is so much more
than just the whether you grammatically wentthrough a fifteen hundred word essay or something
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like that. California did issue guidancefor how teachers should use AI last fall,
one of only seven states to actuallydo so, and encourages, what
they say, critical analysis of textand imagery created by AI models, and
conversations between teachers and students about whatamounts to ethical or appropriate use of AI
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in the classroom. That all makessense. But Jen Roberts is an English
teacher at Point Loma High School downin San Diego, and she went to
a training session to learn how touse writeable, which is an AI tool
that automates grading writing assignments and givesstudents feedback powered by open AI. She
said for the last school year sheused writeable and some other AI tools in
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the classroom, and she said it'sbeen the best year yet of nearly three
decades of teaching. She said,because it's made the students better writers,
not because the AI did the writingfor them, but because this aud automated
feedback can tell her students faster thanshe can on how to improve, which
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in turn allows her to hand outmore writing assignments. Now, in that
kind of an instance, if youhave kids that are you know, five
hundred word essay, you're writing itand you're turning it in AI, within
a couple of seconds can come backand give you the feedback. Right That
that makes sense? That you couldspeed up the process, but is it
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worth it? Is that speed worththe difference in AI generated comments versus teacher
generated comments? Well, and thenyou have to follow the money, right
who's getting paid on this contracts involvingAI quite lucrative. La Unified, for
example, signed a six point twomillion dollar contract for two years with the
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option of renewing for three additional yearsto launch its chatbot named ed. There's
a there'sh a lot of money.There's a teacher up in Chico. Alex
Rainey teaches English to fourth graders atChico Country Day School. I'm not mistaken.
I had some relatives who went there. She used chat Ept four,
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a language model which costs about twentybucks a month, to grade papers and
provide feedback for fourth grade writing assignmentsunnecessary. I could understand you get some
pretty high level students into senior highschool, you know, juniors and seniors.
They're writing at a collegiate level hopefully, And I can understand how you
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might be a little overwhelmed trying toread a ten page essay from someone.
But fourth graders, she said,she uses it to great assignments about animal
defense mechanisms, allowing the AI toanalyze their grammar and sentence structure while she
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focuses on assessing creativity. I feellike the feedback it gave was very similar
to how I grade my kids.Like my brain was tapped into it.
That pull the plug on that pullit now, pull the plug on that.
Unplug that thing. Get it outof your classroom. I just pulled
up a writing assignment for a fourthgrader Narrative writing prompt, Talking Animal.
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Write a story about a magical adventureyou have with a talking animal. Your
story should have a beginning, middle, and an end. Include details about
the animal's personality as well as dialogue. It should be written in first person.
That sounds like a fun assignment.Yes, we're being closed minded.
I mean I can imagine it now. People are going to say to us,
well, you don't know how difficultit is to be a teacher these
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days. I'm not a teacher.That's why I didn't choose that profession.
I don't want to do that muchwork. But using AI to grade your
papers, tell me what kind oftalking animal you had picked her? Write
about a chimpanzee. I have anessay. It's sitting in my closet right
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now. I took it out ofmy parents' house back we were doing our
big clean up in March, andit's the title of my essay was after
all, I was doing it forLeon. Leon was a chimpanzee who came
to my rescue after I had beenstranded on a desert island. Wow,
I would love to read that.No, why not? I don't think
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you would. I think I would. Well. The snake that was about
to pounce upon me was stopped byLeon, but he took the bite instead
of me. Wow, yeah,that sounds biblical. I promised it.
I promised Leon that I would Iwould save myself and get off that island.
And so what happened to Leon?He stayed on the Did he die?
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Did the snake kill Lee? Oh? My god? I told you
you don't want to read it.It came from a very dark place.
Did you have a relationship with Leonprior to him sacrificing his life for you
and your sins? No? Iwas just on the desert. I didn't
know there was stuff there, andthen a snake was coming down. I
didn't see it, and Leon screamsin like a chimpanzee would and wrestles with
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the snake, and the snake youknow, hits him and he I don't
remember if he rips the head offthe snake or something. Wow. Yeah,
and then ends up dying. Sothe snake and Leon died. Yes,
that's a real dark tale. Wellhow old were you? Oh?
I thought you were like eight.It's more more creative than that. All
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right, how about this? Iwas too old? Yeah, I was
too old. Yes. Yes.Palestinian officials have applied on behalf of the
State of Palestine at the top UNCourt for permission to join South Africa's case
accusing Israel of genocide in Gaza.This request, that was published today,
said that Israel's ongoing military operations partof a systemic, sorry systematic effort to
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wipe Palestinian society and its culture andsocial institutions from the map. Marjorie Taylor
Green claims that Anthony Fauci belongs injail. She attacked him during a congressional
hearing today. She also didn't referto him as doctor okay. She called
him mister Fauci over and over again, which received a prompted a rebuke,
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apparently from the chair of the committee. Somebody, somebody told her, let's
not be let's not be stupid.Do you remember the old Saturday Night Live
spoof on male artistic swimmers rhythmic swimming? What was it called? No,
I didn't. I did not growup in a house that watched that.
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It was just a great old skit. Martin Short and Harry Shearer as synchronized
swimmers. That's what I'm thinking of. There is a forty five year old
man who lives here in California willfind out this week if he is picked
to represent synchronized swimming in the UnitedStates at the upcoming Olympics. Forty five
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year old Bill May would be thefirst man to compete in artistic swimming and
forty five years old. Yeah,he's performed with circ de Sole. He
coached at a club in Santa Clara. Always held out hope of a chance
to go to the Olympics. Menare allowed to participate in artistic swimming for
the first time in these upcoming games. Wow, next hour, by the
way, is it next hour?A little bit in the eleven o'clock hour,
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Yeah, that is next hour.We're going to talk more about how
Russia has been messing with people's mindsabout secure at the Olympics. Fake Tom
Cruise says the Olympics have fallen,But it's fake Tom Cruise. Dirty cities,
dirty dirty cities. Seven of thetwenty dirtiest cities in the country are
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right here in southern California. Studylooked at various bunch of information from various
federal agencies including CDC, Census,Department of Energy, Environmental Protection Agency,
and they said that pollution, livingconditions, infrastructure, residence satisfaction puts Houston
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at the top of the list.High levels of pollution, significant cockroach problem,
greenhouse gas emissions from the large industrialplants gross, never been gross.
Houston is number one, Newark,New Jersey is number two, but right
there at number three, San Bernardino, California numberdu and then Detroit, Jersey
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City, and then Bakersfield further downthe list. And again part of this
is because of the residents satisfaction levelwith cleanliness and San Bernardino had the most
dissatisfied residents when it came to cleanliness. Water issues here in the Southwest that
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have been worsened by drought. LasVegas was named the dirtiest in the region
in the Southwest outside of California,obviously, ranking number nineteen. Chandler,
Arizona was the cleanest at number seventyone. Cigarette litter is a common problem
apparently in Ohio. Yeah, Clevelandhad the highest percentage of smokers leading to
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litter problems despite strict laws, twentynine percent. Twenty nine percent is not
a lot, is it, Imean compared to what it was sixty years
ago. Virginia Beach, Virginia,they said, was the cleanest city for
the second year in in a row, showcasing the low pollution levels and high
consumer satisfaction. And even though wegot seven of the twenty dirtiest cities in
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California, Fremont, California was oneof the cleanest. I think it was
number two as a matter of fact. So the ones in California, San
Bernardino, Bakersfield, Fresno, Ontario, La Modesto, and Palmdale, the
seven that are in the top twofeel dirty just saying those names out loud,
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Okay, all right, two hourstwo hours of what gone? Whoa,
we've been FN and s and fortwo hours nobody no, that's not
no, it's been happening. Orwhat did you learn in this last two
hours on the Gary and Shannon Show, that you are afraid of shark attacks
when you should be afraid of yourbathtub. Yeah, I developed an understanding
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that you have a real fear ofthe bathtub. I don't have a fear
of the bathtub. I just knowthe statistics of the chances of me getting
killed by a shark are much lowerthan me getting killed by my own bathtub.
I also learned that you were operatingon a fourth grade reading level as
a junior in high school. Nowriting level that was. It's very different.
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I could read fine. Just writingthe stories about the chimpanzee. That's
insane. You were sixteen years oldand you were writing about a chimpanzee giving
his life for you, but somuch there was a snake attack, but
it was deeper than that, becauseI had a connection. Leon didn't know
me. Leon had no reason tosave my life. He just did.
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Now that gave me the compunction topull it together and build a raft and
get off of that island. You'renot going to save face by using words
like compunction when you're talking about thestory that you wrote as a teenager about
a chimpanzee getting bitten by a snakeon a deserted island to save your life.
Now I understand what you feel likewhen I talk about mister bumber Puss.
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This is Gary and Shannon and you'relistening to KFI AM six forty, the
Gary and Shannon Show on demand onthe iHeartRadio app. A couple stories that
we're following. Two of Benjamin uttYaho's coalition allies over the weekend threatened to
quit that government if nat Yahoo goesahead with the truce deal that was outlined
by President Biden. On Friday,he announced that Israel had offered a new
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roadmap towards a full cease fire,including the release of hostages held by Hamas,
But Israel's National security minister said thathis party would dissolve the government if
this deal went through, and saidthis proposal is quote a victory for terrorism
and a security risk to the stateof Israel. Corrections and retractions. Statins
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are for cholesterol, not high bloodpressure. Hey, Gary, Unless there's
been some big breakthrough in research,statins are used to treat high cholesterol,
all right. They lower your cholesterolblood They don't lower your blood pressure.
You're right, you're right, althoughthere could be some indirect by lowering your
cholesterol, possibly you could have aneffect on your blood pressure. But they
don't treat blood pressure. Okay,So I'll say this. It's kind of
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the same thing. Cholesterol also predicteda lot by your genetics, not necessarily
by the cookies that you put inyour face, although you can manage some
of these symptoms with an interesting dietif you are a man, or you
were raised with a man. Thatsounds weird, but let's just say,
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you know the importance of legos.I remember my brother putting together his Lego
sets and just it meant everything,you know, And he was so focused,
and he was so excited by legos. And you know the star ship
you know things enterprise. No,that's different. No, it wasn't Star
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Trek. It was the big thingin the space Ennium foulon the Millennium Falcon
and uh, and like he tookit very seriously, like you you just
did. And I also remember himand my nephews always asking for legos for
their birthdays. I mean, it'sa real it's a real important thing in
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a boy's life, slash man's life. Sure, so I think we can
all understand the motive behind these recentrash of Lego robberies. There's a Lego
resailer, bricks and minifigs. It'sI didn't realize this was a nation wide
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thing. I thought it was local, but multiple owners of Bricks and Minifigs
say that they believe one person isresponsible for breaking into several different locations across
southern California, Whittier, Fullerton,Coasta, Mesa, Riverside in Ontario.
Another place in Anaheim was broken into, but at this point they said nothing
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appeared to actually have been stolen.However, or five or six Lego sets
were successfully put together in the overnighthours. That's not true. Now I
made that up. But maybe hejust wanted to play. Maybe he just
wanted to body. The elf breaksin and with him makes the New York
skyline out of legos. I mean, could you imagine much being better than
you alone in a Lego store withaccess to all those legos and nobody's there
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to bother you. See, here'sthe thing. Your brother and I have
the memory of having to get Legosets, big Lego sets, and not
having the opportunity to go to aLego store or a place like Bricks and
Minifigs where you could pick up individualpieces. So we were confined, I
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guess, or yeah, confined tothe stuff that came in the box period,
and that's all we had. Youcould go farther back into Lego history
where they would sell you sets ofjust random bricks and they would, you
know, give you different ideas onhow you could do it. But the
ones that I grew up with werepretty specific. This is a police car,
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this is an airplane, This isthe Lego airport, this is the
Lego gas station. Stuff like that. These these new places where you can
buy lighted lit lighted, lighted bricks, mechanized bricks, wind up stuff like,
all of them are so far advancedpast what we had as kids.
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It's not just the Imperial Star destroyer, right, and the minifigures themselves.
There used to be two kinds ofminifigures. It was like the city guy
and the astronaut guy. Yeah,and that was it. Those are the
only two. I mean, ifyou've ever seen the Lego movie, that
was a perfect representation because everybody's astronauthelmet got cracked right in the middle.
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It was I mean, it wasso great. But now they make them
so specific to Marvel characters and SpiderMan and all of these different crossover things
that back to the future. Imean, all of these different things that
they have been able to make outof Lego. I think Ghostbusters actually has
one. Also, these many figuresyou can go on eBay and depending on
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how they're set up, these minifigureswill go five, six, ten,
twenty bucks apiece depending on who theyare, So there is some money to
be made. This guy isn't justcollecting. They said. Between the five
stores, about one hundred thousand dollarsworth of products were stolen. About ten
thousand dollars in mini figures were burglarizedbefore the suspect got spooked by a noise
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near the store in Whittier, tenthousand dollars in mini figures, which Lego
SAIDs do you think he stole?I mean, they've come so far,
Like you mentioned, it's like stuffyou don't even you wouldn't even imagine beyond
your imagination. I don't know whatthe most expensive ones are, but they
have some pretty advanced ones that aresuper high end architectural design, like you
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could get a if I'm not ifI'm not mistaken, a Frank Lloyd Wright
model made entirely out of Legos,and those are some of the more expensive
ones. I think do you feela little bit of envy? When you
see how far Legos have come andyou don't want to No, no,
I do not because I think itdoes the work for you. If you
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get a if you get a Legobrick that is, you know, specifically
formed to be. I don't know, the front bumper on a portion nine
eleven. It's different than you hadto find out how to make that front
bumper on the portion nine eleven.R. That's true. So I think
they kind of tamped down your imaginationby doing it all for you. It's
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like the difference between a smartphone anda two way radio from Vietnam. Okay,
you have some people. What didI do? I don't know,
Miss Shannon. It's Thursday, notThursday. Okay, please don't say Thursday.
It's Thursday. Thank you. Mygrandmother used to say that. That's
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why I do that. It's anhomage, it is, Shannon Deer.
Legos are not gender specific. Legosare the most neutral toy slash educational building
experience slash engineering product product on themarket and always have been gender neutral.
(07:39):
Wow. Yeah, I just Igrew up as a girl and I never
had a friend that played with legos. A female friend that played with legos
you don't have to explain it.She's going a little crazy. I mean,
she's She's right in that it's notnecessarily mark marketed. It is marketed
(07:59):
to boy I don't I mean,I wasn't just I just I just know
the look in a boy's I've throughmy brother, like looking at my brother
do legos about how serious that thosewere to him. I never felt one
way or the other about legos.It wasn't my thing. Maybe that's because
I don't have an engineering mind.I mean a little plastic brick. Yes,
technically there's no gender thing, there'sno gender assigned to that. So
(08:24):
in that case, yes, butit tends to appeal to boys more than
girls. Yes, through my experiences, that's my life. Experiences have pointed
me in that direction. I hadtwo sisters. They never played with my
legos. Now my cousins, itwas all dudes. We all had legos.
None of the girls did. No. I mean, I I'd steal
(08:46):
the g I Joe's to play withthem. You would do your early episodes
of the Bachelor and Bachelorette. Yeah, with Barbie's and g I Joe's and
even the little men. My datacalled them the little men Andy clean up
the little men, like the littlearmy, plastic army guys. Yeah,
(09:07):
big heat wave is coming through California. Although here in southern California it's not
going to be ridiculous. We'll probablyget up into the nineties Wednesday Thursday and
then back into more normal temperatures.But they're talking about up in the San
Joaquin Valley and Sacramento Valley, wayup north, well into the triple digits,
possibly as high as one oh eightup in Redding and red Bluff in
(09:30):
the area. Sacramento probably just overone hundred. Fresno Bakersfield also seeing triple
digits. That's not good news forthe Corral Fire. It's already at fourteen
thousand acres up near Tracy, aboutfifty percent contained, so that's good.
It is burning near the Lawrence LivermoreNational Lab Site three hundred. You've changed
it now. You were going withCoral last hour. Now you're going with
(09:52):
Corral. Yeah. I you sawthe air in your waist. I feel
like no one cares. There's enoughto correct me. I they cared enough
to correct you, But in thatyours was a more important story. The
Legos. Yeah, okay, thename of the fire doesn't matter. It
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doesn't matter where it's burning matters.It's a fire near Tracy, there you
go, or as they say inTracy Tracy, nature continues to fight back.
There was a forty six year oldman bitten by a shark in del
Mar yesterday, prompting Delmar lifeguards toclose beaches for swimming and surfing in the
(10:37):
area. Happened about nine am,about one hundred yards off shore. I
guess this guy was swimming with agroup, pretty regular swimmer and the shark
came up, grabbed his torso,his left arm and his hand. The
significant injuries, but they say they'renot life threatening. That would be terrifying
(11:00):
because the first thing I would thinkof is not that the shark is going
to eat me necessarily, but I'mgoing to bleed out one hundred yards off
shore. Yeah, I don't know. That's why I don't go in the
water. Stick to my bathtub.You could bleed out there. It's safer.
I don't know if i'd say safelike blanket, what do you mean,
(11:20):
What's what's the danger in a bathtub? I bet you more people die
in bathtubs every year than in sharkattacks. It's a pretty safe bet.
Actually, why are you scared ofthe bath I'm not as scared of it.
Do you think people die in thebathtub they slip and fall, oh,
or they fall asleep, or theyhave a little glasses shod indy and
(11:41):
then they fall under the water.I don't think that that happens. It
happens a lot. It does nothappen a lot. Well, you can't
just say it and have it beareyou're making things up like miniature football?
Take a bath and you die.According to a study from two thousand and
six, three hundred and thirty fiveAmericans drown and bathtubs each year. How
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many people are killed in shark attackseach year? I'm looking that up next.
Well, i'd say fifty around theworld. Oh interesting, But I
don't know why you're dying on this. Thirty six attacks per year in America
in American waters. But that's alot less than bathtub deaths. That's not
(12:30):
even deadly attacks, that's just people'sshark encounters. That's true. I win
that one. You do. Ididn't know bathtubs and could kill me.
So nature in the heat, thefire and the sharks is going to be
putting up a strong battle when theworld finally comes to a smoldering end,
when nature goes up against artificial intelligence. Oh my gosh, do you want
(12:52):
a love story? I don't knowif I'm in the mood for a love
fine Murdoch, Oh no, Idon't want to do that, Okay,
I just it's one of those storiesI did understand why everyone lost their minds
over Rupert Murre getting married again forthe fifth time. He's ninety three,
(13:15):
fine, Okay, she's sixty seven. Yeah, and a retired molecular biologist.
That's nice. It's good for him. He likes them smart, right,
Yeah. I guess Jerry Hall,she you smart. I don't know.
I don't know either. That's agood question. I don't know enough.
I know she's beautiful. That's notenough, you know, Just so
(13:35):
you know, are you sureing youdidn't sneak a diet coke bots? Okay?
California schools are turning to AI teachersusing AI chatbots to grade papers and
give students feedback. Teachers, Okay, uh, I think this is an
(14:01):
awful I think what you're doing isyou are devaluing what you do as a
teacher by using this well, it'salso and I know, I know it's
different, but students don't see itthis way. You can say to your
class, you're not allowed to useAI, any generative, AI chat,
GPT, You're not You're not allowedto use that in my class to either
(14:24):
come up with topics or write yourpaper or write part of your paper.
You're not allowed to do that.And then turn around and use AI to
grade the papers that these kids wrote. It's just a bad exactly, it's
a it's a bad lesson. You'reyou're teaching laziness, you're teaching lack of
individuality. I mean, teachers magicis in who they are and the feedback
(14:50):
that they provide students and what differentstudents need to hear and how they need
to be taught, especially in thoseclasses where AI would grade papers. It's
like an English class, literature class, creative writing, something like that.
To me, the impact that theteacher has on that is so much more
than just the whether you grammatically wentthrough a fifteen hundred word essay or something
(15:13):
like that. California did issue guidancefor how teachers should use AI last fall,
one of only seven states to actuallydo so, and encourages, what
they say, critical analysis of textand imagery created by AI models, and
conversations between teachers and students about whatamounts to ethical or appropriate use of AI
(15:35):
in the classroom. That all makessense. But Jen Roberts is an English
teacher at Point Loma High School downin San Diego, and she went to
a training session to learn how touse writeable, which is an AI tool
that automates grading writing assignments and givesstudents feedback powered by open AI. She
said for the last school year sheused writeable and some other AI tools in
(15:58):
the classroom, and she said it'sbeen the best year yet of nearly three
decades of teaching. She said,because it's made the students better writers,
not because the AI did the writingfor them, but because this aud automated
feedback can tell her students faster thanshe can on how to improve, which
(16:18):
in turn allows her to hand outmore writing assignments. Now, in that
kind of an instance, if youhave kids that are you know, five
hundred word essay, you're writing itand you're turning it in AI, within
a couple of seconds can come backand give you the feedback. Right That
that makes sense? That you couldspeed up the process, but is it
(16:41):
worth it? Is that speed worththe difference in AI generated comments versus teacher
generated comments? Well, and thenyou have to follow the money, right
who's getting paid on this contracts involvingAI quite lucrative. La Unified, for
example, signed a six point twomillion dollar contract for two years with the
(17:06):
option of renewing for three additional yearsto launch its chatbot named ed. There's
a there'sh a lot of money.There's a teacher up in Chico. Alex
Rainey teaches English to fourth graders atChico Country Day School. I'm not mistaken.
I had some relatives who went there. She used chat Ept four,
(17:30):
a language model which costs about twentybucks a month, to grade papers and
provide feedback for fourth grade writing assignmentsunnecessary. I could understand you get some
pretty high level students into senior highschool, you know, juniors and seniors.
They're writing at a collegiate level hopefully, And I can understand how you
(17:53):
might be a little overwhelmed trying toread a ten page essay from someone.
But fourth graders, she said,she uses it to great assignments about animal
defense mechanisms, allowing the AI toanalyze their grammar and sentence structure while she
(18:14):
focuses on assessing creativity. I feellike the feedback it gave was very similar
to how I grade my kids.Like my brain was tapped into it.
That pull the plug on that pullit now, pull the plug on that.
Unplug that thing. Get it outof your classroom. I just pulled
up a writing assignment for a fourthgrader Narrative writing prompt, Talking Animal.
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Write a story about a magical adventureyou have with a talking animal. Your
story should have a beginning, middle, and an end. Include details about
the animal's personality as well as dialogue. It should be written in first person.
That sounds like a fun assignment.Yes, we're being closed minded.
I mean I can imagine it now. People are going to say to us,
well, you don't know how difficultit is to be a teacher these
(18:59):
days. I'm not a teacher.That's why I didn't choose that profession.
I don't want to do that muchwork. But using AI to grade your
papers, tell me what kind oftalking animal you had picked her? Write
about a chimpanzee. I have anessay. It's sitting in my closet right
(19:21):
now. I took it out ofmy parents' house back we were doing our
big clean up in March, andit's the title of my essay was after
all, I was doing it forLeon. Leon was a chimpanzee who came
to my rescue after I had beenstranded on a desert island. Wow,
I would love to read that.No, why not? I don't think
(19:44):
you would. I think I would. Well. The snake that was about
to pounce upon me was stopped byLeon, but he took the bite instead
of me. Wow, yeah,that sounds biblical. I promised it.
I promised Leon that I would Iwould save myself and get off that island.
And so what happened to Leon?He stayed on the Did he die?
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Did the snake kill Lee? Oh? My god? I told you
you don't want to read it.It came from a very dark place.
Did you have a relationship with Leonprior to him sacrificing his life for you
and your sins? No? Iwas just on the desert. I didn't
know there was stuff there, andthen a snake was coming down. I
didn't see it, and Leon screamsin like a chimpanzee would and wrestles with
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the snake, and the snake youknow, hits him and he I don't
remember if he rips the head offthe snake or something. Wow. Yeah,
and then ends up dying. Sothe snake and Leon died. Yes,
that's a real dark tale. Wellhow old were you? Oh?
I thought you were like eight.It's more more creative than that. All
(20:55):
right, how about this? Iwas too old? Yeah, I was
too old. Yes. Yes.Palestinian officials have applied on behalf of the
State of Palestine at the top UNCourt for permission to join South Africa's case
accusing Israel of genocide in Gaza.This request, that was published today,
said that Israel's ongoing military operations partof a systemic, sorry systematic effort to
(21:18):
wipe Palestinian society and its culture andsocial institutions from the map. Marjorie Taylor
Green claims that Anthony Fauci belongs injail. She attacked him during a congressional
hearing today. She also didn't referto him as doctor okay. She called
him mister Fauci over and over again, which received a prompted a rebuke,
(21:41):
apparently from the chair of the committee. Somebody, somebody told her, let's
not be let's not be stupid.Do you remember the old Saturday Night Live
spoof on male artistic swimmers rhythmic swimming? What was it called? No,
I didn't. I did not growup in a house that watched that.
(22:06):
It was just a great old skit. Martin Short and Harry Shearer as synchronized
swimmers. That's what I'm thinking of. There is a forty five year old
man who lives here in California willfind out this week if he is picked
to represent synchronized swimming in the UnitedStates at the upcoming Olympics. Forty five
(22:29):
year old Bill May would be thefirst man to compete in artistic swimming and
forty five years old. Yeah,he's performed with circ de Sole. He
coached at a club in Santa Clara. Always held out hope of a chance
to go to the Olympics. Menare allowed to participate in artistic swimming for
the first time in these upcoming games. Wow, next hour, by the
way, is it next hour?A little bit in the eleven o'clock hour,
(22:52):
Yeah, that is next hour.We're going to talk more about how
Russia has been messing with people's mindsabout secure at the Olympics. Fake Tom
Cruise says the Olympics have fallen,But it's fake Tom Cruise. Dirty cities,
dirty dirty cities. Seven of thetwenty dirtiest cities in the country are
(23:17):
right here in southern California. Studylooked at various bunch of information from various
federal agencies including CDC, Census,Department of Energy, Environmental Protection Agency,
and they said that pollution, livingconditions, infrastructure, residence satisfaction puts Houston
(23:37):
at the top of the list.High levels of pollution, significant cockroach problem,
greenhouse gas emissions from the large industrialplants gross, never been gross.
Houston is number one, Newark,New Jersey is number two, but right
there at number three, San Bernardino, California numberdu and then Detroit, Jersey
(24:02):
City, and then Bakersfield further downthe list. And again part of this
is because of the residents satisfaction levelwith cleanliness and San Bernardino had the most
dissatisfied residents when it came to cleanliness. Water issues here in the Southwest that
(24:22):
have been worsened by drought. LasVegas was named the dirtiest in the region
in the Southwest outside of California,obviously, ranking number nineteen. Chandler,
Arizona was the cleanest at number seventyone. Cigarette litter is a common problem
apparently in Ohio. Yeah, Clevelandhad the highest percentage of smokers leading to
(24:44):
litter problems despite strict laws, twentynine percent. Twenty nine percent is not
a lot, is it, Imean compared to what it was sixty years
ago. Virginia Beach, Virginia,they said, was the cleanest city for
the second year in in a row, showcasing the low pollution levels and high
consumer satisfaction. And even though wegot seven of the twenty dirtiest cities in
(25:08):
California, Fremont, California was oneof the cleanest. I think it was
number two as a matter of fact. So the ones in California, San
Bernardino, Bakersfield, Fresno, Ontario, La Modesto, and Palmdale, the
seven that are in the top twofeel dirty just saying those names out loud,
(25:29):
Okay, all right, two hourstwo hours of what gone? Whoa,
we've been FN and s and fortwo hours nobody no, that's not
no, it's been happening. Orwhat did you learn in this last two
hours on the Gary and Shannon Show, that you are afraid of shark attacks
when you should be afraid of yourbathtub. Yeah, I developed an understanding
(25:52):
that you have a real fear ofthe bathtub. I don't have a fear
of the bathtub. I just knowthe statistics of the chances of me getting
killed by a shark are much lowerthan me getting killed by my own bathtub.
I also learned that you were operatingon a fourth grade reading level as
a junior in high school. Nowriting level that was. It's very different.
(26:15):
I could read fine. Just writingthe stories about the chimpanzee. That's
insane. You were sixteen years oldand you were writing about a chimpanzee giving
his life for you, but somuch there was a snake attack, but
it was deeper than that, becauseI had a connection. Leon didn't know
me. Leon had no reason tosave my life. He just did.
(26:38):
Now that gave me the compunction topull it together and build a raft and
get off of that island. You'renot going to save face by using words
like compunction when you're talking about thestory that you wrote as a teenager about
a chimpanzee getting bitten by a snakeon a deserted island to save your life.
Now I understand what you feel likewhen I talk about mister bumber Puss.
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