Can AI Empower Staff Without Replacing Human Work?

#SWAMPWATCH – Trump extends Mexico trade deadline for 90 days / South Korea Reaches Trade Deal with Trump. Trump set to revive the Presidential Fitness Test while hosting professional athletes at White House. #TECHTALK w/ Marc Saltzman – USA TODAY: Can AI empower staff without replacing human work?

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI
AM six forty the Gary and Shannon Show on demand
on the iHeartRadio app.

Speaker 2 (00:09):
A bunch of stories that are going on.

Speaker 3 (00:11):
Last night in baseball, Shoho Tani came out of the
game after he threw six consecutive balls a couple of
wild pitches.

Speaker 2 (00:20):
Dave Roberts comes out of the dugout.

Speaker 3 (00:22):
It turns out that they said that it was just cramps,
but they were concerned obviously because of his back coming
back from Tommy John surgery.

Speaker 2 (00:33):
They wanted to be careful. He said.

Speaker 3 (00:34):
Cramping in his right hip throughout the first four innings
that he said was affecting his pitching, so we got
him out. They have a day off today, but the
Reds did beat the Dodgers last night five to two. Tomorrow,
the Dodgers is going to take on the Rays in
Tampa Bay, first pitch at four point thirty, and you
can listen to all the Dodgers games on AM five
to seventy LA Sports Live from the Galpin Motors Broadcast Booth,

(00:55):
stream all the games in HD on the iHeartRadio app.
Used that keyword A five seventy LA Sports of course,
tonight the Pro Football Hall of Fame game, Chargers taking
on the Detroit Lions, and right here on KFI, starting
at four o'clock is the pregame show with everybody including Shannon,
and then the game itself kickoff just after five o'clock.

Speaker 2 (01:16):
There in Canton, Ohio, a range mess, Canton, Ohio.

Speaker 1 (01:20):
It's the rain of subsiding. There's a little light. I
wouldn't say sunshine, I'll stop, I'll stop short of that,
but a little light breaking through the crowds here, clouds here.
But yeah, it's gonna be fun. I mean, gosh, Antonio
Gates is the big name and in the class that'll
be inducted on Saturday, will be the big ceremony here

(01:41):
at Tom Benson Hall of Fame Stadium. And when you
think about Antonio Gates, and I mean that's a name
that transcends the Chargers, you know, arguably the best tight
end ever to play the game. And he never played
college football and that crazy played basketball at Kent State
just up the road here from Canton. But the most

(02:02):
natural ability maybe ever of anyone didn't really even have
to try Antonio Gates. He just was great instantly.

Speaker 2 (02:11):
His is the helmet that we have in the office.

Speaker 1 (02:13):
Right it is signed. Yeah, we should sell that thing.
Wait till Saturday and then we'll put it up on
the whatever you put it up on. Do you use
eBay anymore? How do we sell that thing?

Speaker 3 (02:24):
We can find a place. We could find a place.
I'm sure it's time for swamp watch.

Speaker 2 (02:28):
I'm a politician, which means I'm a cheat and a liar.
And when I'm not kissing babies, I'm stealing their lollipops.

Speaker 4 (02:34):
We got the.

Speaker 2 (02:35):
Real problem is that our leaders are done.

Speaker 1 (02:38):
The other side never quits.

Speaker 5 (02:39):
So what I'm not going anywhere?

Speaker 6 (02:43):
So the squat I can imagine what can be and
be unburdened by what has been.

Speaker 2 (02:49):
You know, vans have always been going. They're not stupid.

Speaker 3 (02:53):
A political plunder is when a politician actually tells the truth.

Speaker 2 (02:56):
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Speaker 1 (03:15):
Well, Kamala Harris is out for governor. I got the
alert yesterday, I think upon landing. When did that hit yesterday?
Were you still in the air?

Speaker 3 (03:26):
Yes, it was during the show. I think was probably
the new nour here that.

Speaker 1 (03:32):
So you've probably already talked about it a bunch. I
wasn't shocked by this. I just thought it was clear
that she wants to make money, and you're going to
make a hell of a lot money not being governor
of California. Also, is it beneath you after you've been
vice president, isn't it? I think so. The idea that
she's going to run for a third time, to me,

(03:54):
is crazy because nobody's genuflecting for her. No, none of
the Democrats are going to take any and be like,
here's your path, Kamala Harris. That's not gonna happen. So
it'll just be interesting to see how much money she
makes on the circuit.

Speaker 2 (04:07):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (04:08):
The other issue I think is if she runs for
governor but loses, I mean the Democratic.

Speaker 1 (04:14):
Yeah, then she's done and she will make no money.
Ever again, ever't.

Speaker 2 (04:18):
She's gotta try to get as much as she can.

Speaker 3 (04:20):
Now, if she even thinks about running in twenty eight,
which I don't think she does because I don't I
agree with you.

Speaker 2 (04:28):
I don't think there's the support there that she thinks
there is.

Speaker 1 (04:31):
I mean, I think she'd run away with with the
governorship in California. I think she'd run away with it.
But could you imagine if she didn't. And there's no
world in which that happens in California. But if she didn't,
oh my god, what a colossal failure, the most colossal
of all failures that would be.

Speaker 3 (04:49):
And I don't know if you saw, but today she's
been pitching her book she wrote, or is right, she
wrote write a book?

Speaker 2 (04:56):
A book?

Speaker 1 (04:56):
I mean, she couldn't write. She couldn't write a five
minute play and media availability when she was vice president
and that was my major knock with her. She had
all the world to prepare for some of that stuff
and constantly looked unprepared for that stuff, and it was
just maddening. Why would you what a waste, what a
waste of a first woman vice president, woman of color,

(05:17):
the whole bit to a waste it the way she
squandered it, Just that's what pisses me off about Kamala Harris, Well,
I know what I'm thinking that she sat down and
put to think that she sat down and put pen
to paper for a book. I mean, I know none
of them do that. They all have writers and stuff
like that. But what's going to be in there? A
bunch of world word salad. How long of a salad?

(05:38):
Can you sit down for?

Speaker 2 (05:40):
One hundred and seven days? That's what the name of
the book is.

Speaker 3 (05:44):
President Trump says he is going to delay tariffs on
Mexico because they are continuing trade negotiations. He has said
he had a very successful conversation this morning with Claudia Schinbaum,
the president of Mexico.

Speaker 2 (05:58):
So he says, we have agreed. This is from a
truth social posts.

Speaker 3 (06:00):
We have agreed to extend for a ninety day period
the exact same deal as we had for the last
short period of time, namely that Mexico will continue to
pay a twenty five percent fentanyl tariff, a twenty five
percent tariffon cars, and a fifty percent tariff on steel, aluminum,
and copper. Shinebaum reiterated that her call with the President

(06:21):
was good, sorry she used the term very good, confirmed
the extension, but she didn't address any of the changes
to some of the other trade barriers that the President
was talking about.

Speaker 1 (06:31):
Did you talk about the bloodbath that will be the
Democrats in California? I mean that governor's race is tomorrow essentially,
it's going to be here so soon.

Speaker 3 (06:42):
Well, I mean there are some massive, massive names that
are running, but no, there aren't.

Speaker 1 (06:47):
It's Antonio via Ragosa.

Speaker 3 (06:49):
Well, how about recognizable names. Recognizable names?

Speaker 1 (06:53):
I mean, this is going to be a mud slinging
of people that nobody likes. I like via Ragosa, I
don't agree with him. I don't think he's a trailblazer
when it comes to thought, but he's a likable guy.
Katie Porter, Oh my god, Katie Porter for a whole campaign.
I mean, she's the one that they're all that they're
all talking about because she has an overlapping base of

(07:14):
money people. She's performed pretty well when it comes to polling,
but god is she hard to take.

Speaker 3 (07:21):
That's what those are the ones I'm excited to see.
And I think you're right it's gonna be It's gonna
be messy because they they let's see you mentioned Javier
Psara and elais.

Speaker 2 (07:35):
The current lieutenant governor. Yes, she's in there.

Speaker 1 (07:38):
Tony Atkins, Tony Atkins, I'm sorry, like you, we recognize
some of these names because we're entrenched in this, But
in terms of the casual voter.

Speaker 3 (07:48):
Oh, I want to throw in there because it's a
name that doesn't get recognized very much. Zoltan Ist Vaughan,
who is the founder of the Transhumanist Party, has run
previously as a libertarian and has also run as a
Republican for different offices. So Zoltan is something you want
to keep your eyes on.

Speaker 1 (08:08):
Maybe we should do some sort of like survivor physical
fight or something on our show for these people.

Speaker 2 (08:15):
You do a bracket for those No, I want to.

Speaker 1 (08:18):
Like have them in studio fighting each other physically. That's
what I was envisioning. Okay, I mean they're gonna have
to get attention. We might as well offer them up
some sort of way to do it.

Speaker 3 (08:31):
So we have a platform, strap on the old boxing
gloves and go at or do you want bare knuckle.

Speaker 1 (08:37):
I don't know, we'll have to see, you know, maybe
we start with gloves and then the gloves come off,
and you know, Katie Porter has her way with Via Ragosa.
I don't know what'll happen.

Speaker 3 (08:48):
She would be a formidable opponent. She's in a different
weight class than he is.

Speaker 1 (08:54):
Yes, they are different. They are very different.

Speaker 3 (08:57):
And I think she's also taller than him a good
eight inches.

Speaker 1 (09:01):
But you know, we talked to him last year around
this time when we were in Chicago, and via Ragosa
after his reign of terror, John and Ken would call
it on on Los Angeles, although he gave them a
lot of gifts through the years. Via Ragosa is a
moderate Democrat. You know we're talking to him. We've been

(09:22):
hit over the head with such far left progressive California
politics in the years since he left City Hall that
talking to via Ragosa now is like whoa, where are
you from Michigan? Like he sounds like, you know, he's
got some good ideas that would work in California, would
make people happy that are that are independents. So it'll

(09:45):
be interesting to see how they play.

Speaker 2 (09:46):
This when we come back.

Speaker 3 (09:48):
Do you remember the presidential fitness test we all had
to do? It hasn't been a thing for a while,
but Trump wants to bring it back. We'll talk about
that and.

Speaker 2 (09:56):
The new.

Speaker 3 (09:58):
The new health data tracking that they're talking about implementing
at a federal level, and the strippers and the strippers
still to come. I promise you we will get to
the strippers. Shannon's live in Can't, Ohio today.

Speaker 2 (10:10):
Oh I'm Sanon and I have to report on a
football game. You bet? Are you back in shape? Do
you think?

Speaker 3 (10:19):
And it's not going to be sweaty. You were concerned
about sweaty. This is not a sweaty day.

Speaker 1 (10:23):
I love preseason games because in terms of my field
reporting during the games, I can just interview all of
the starters because none of them are playing. You're essentially
here to watch a practice. This is the type of
game where you're going to get a lot of the
guys trying to make a name from themselves and stay
on the roster. They travel with ninety guys here before

(10:44):
they cut down the roster of fifty three, so a
lot of people here with their lives on the line.
But it makes for a fun game for me because
I get to talk to the.

Speaker 3 (10:52):
Starters pre game. At four kickoff just after five right
here on Cafi.

Speaker 6 (10:57):
Shannon, are you wearing your blue leather jacket?

Speaker 1 (11:00):
No, I thought that that would be more of a
fall jacket. Very trum. Yes, I'm wearing some sort of
throwback polyester chargers jackets.

Speaker 7 (11:10):
Yeah, you're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from
KFI AM six forty.

Speaker 3 (11:18):
Promise, Promise, Promise, caltrans stripper stories coming up a little
bit later, before the end of the before the end
of the hour, we're talking we're talking about fitness or well.
I was talking about health, specifically What's Up with Your Butt? Health,
which might turn into a new segment based on the
feedback that we've already gotten.

Speaker 1 (11:39):
No, I don't what kind of feedback positive? Really?

Speaker 2 (11:44):
Sure?

Speaker 1 (11:45):
Like what let me let me hear some of it?

Speaker 2 (11:47):
Well, I didn't.

Speaker 1 (11:48):
I mean, you're making it up.

Speaker 2 (11:50):
I'm backing it up.

Speaker 1 (11:51):
Yeah, you made it up. It's okay, I listen. Sometimes
sometimes we think it's a good idea to talk about
butts stuff for a segment, and it's not.

Speaker 3 (12:04):
I'm just saying I wouldn't immediately say no if it
were to come up again. So we'll just we'll table
that the whole What's Up with Your Butt segment.

Speaker 2 (12:12):
We'll do that. I'm sure there will be more stories.

Speaker 3 (12:14):
But anyway, President Trump today is supposed to be joined
by a bunch of professional athletes to sign an executive
order that expands his Council on Sports, Fitness and Nutrition,
including bringing back those old presidential fitness tests to public schools.

Speaker 1 (12:34):
Those were always kind of weird, right, You had to
get your pull ups, your sit ups, the touch the box.
I remember there was a box you had to touch.
I think you had to like reach through, like sit
down and reach your toes like.

Speaker 2 (12:48):
A box the flexibility thing.

Speaker 1 (12:49):
Yeah, yeahw far you could reach on the box.

Speaker 2 (12:52):
I know I couldn't find I'm sure why would.

Speaker 1 (12:54):
The president want to do this because then everyone would
be like, President, do you want to take it? Right?
Isn't that going to be one of the stupid questions?

Speaker 2 (13:01):
This is for kids.

Speaker 1 (13:02):
It is for kids.

Speaker 2 (13:03):
I don't think they're gonna make it. I don't think.

Speaker 3 (13:05):
But this is part of the make America Healthy Again thing.
This is part of what RFK Junior wants to do
through Health and Human Services.

Speaker 1 (13:13):
Do I have a question kids these days? Do they
have pe, do they have run the mild? Do they
have any sort of fitness education at all? In schools
and public schools.

Speaker 3 (13:24):
I don't think my kids ever had to do a test.
I don't know if there's like a California version of it,
a California version of the Presidential Fitness Test anymore.

Speaker 1 (13:33):
Because like, like we were talking about last week about
how or maybe it was this week unclear, but how
there should be a class devoted every year of high
school for finance, learning.

Speaker 2 (13:44):
The firersal fish, personal.

Speaker 1 (13:46):
Finance, how to pay tax, just the rudimentary stuff. Should
then there also be and maybe this will be part
of make America healthy again, a class in high school
where you learn what's good for you, what's not. It
doesn't need to be anatomy, but a little bit of
what's good for your body and how it works.

Speaker 3 (14:02):
Well I think so, yes, But then you have to
go back and argue with the government. I mean, what
are we teaching. Are we teaching government standards? Because the
food pyramid that came out of the government was a
complete mess.

Speaker 1 (14:16):
No, it turn throw nutritionists in there and just do
the common sense stuff. It would be common sense stuff,
you know, it's not like stuff that's controversial.

Speaker 2 (14:28):
It would be great.

Speaker 1 (14:29):
But I don't know if is everything controversial now?

Speaker 2 (14:31):
Yes, everything is.

Speaker 1 (14:33):
Harrison Butker, of course, Kansas City Chiefs. Kicker will be
at the White House. Lawrence Taylor New York Giants linebacker
will be there.

Speaker 3 (14:42):
That I think is simply because I don't know if
the fest guy in the world.

Speaker 1 (14:47):
But no, but I know Harrison Butker is a very
trump forward, outspoken guy. Yes, Bryson does, Shambeau will be there.
Have you seen The Happy Gilmore Part two?

Speaker 5 (14:58):
No?

Speaker 3 (14:59):
Okay, I was again. Oh, my wife started watching some is.

Speaker 1 (15:05):
It The Hunting Wives?

Speaker 2 (15:06):
Yes? Thank you?

Speaker 1 (15:08):
Yeah, I knew it. I could feel it. I could
feel in my bones when I started it last night,
I was like, I wonder if Shannon started this, And
I'm like, what is this? Because it is racy, right.

Speaker 2 (15:18):
Racy is a very gentle term.

Speaker 1 (15:21):
For what I just so. I watched like twenty five
minutes of the first episode last night. I was really
in a dark place. Epstein for two episodes, The Naked
Hunting Wives for an episode and listen. But yeah, this
woman's dress comes right off and it's boobs like in
the first episode. First half of the first episode, I'm like,
what is this show?

Speaker 2 (15:41):
There's more?

Speaker 1 (15:41):
Probably watch more?

Speaker 2 (15:42):
Oh, there is there's more.

Speaker 1 (15:45):
How far deep is is she into this?

Speaker 2 (15:47):
I think what was it? Two episodes? Maybe?

Speaker 1 (15:52):
Okay? I started watching it and I was like, this
is right up my alley, Like I will consume this.

Speaker 3 (15:57):
The end of the second episode and you'll want to
close the blinds.

Speaker 1 (16:00):
Really okay, it's okay, it's not a Deborah. You might
like this then too.

Speaker 6 (16:05):
Yeah, you know I'm thinking about that. I mean, I
am still binging Sullivan's Crossing.

Speaker 1 (16:10):
I finished it, thank god. I don't know why I
watched that whole schlog. It's nice, it's I mean, I
got into Hunting Wives and that woman's dress comes up.
I was like, this is more my this is Jay.

Speaker 6 (16:22):
I'm gonna have to between Ginny and Georgia Sullivan's Crossing. Now,
I gotta throw in Hunting Wise.

Speaker 1 (16:28):
Yeah, I would. I think you need it.

Speaker 3 (16:30):
I can't wait to hear how the next couple episodes go,
because it's at it.

Speaker 1 (16:36):
On the plane home, I was watching the Epstein documentary.
On the way here. Matt was like, why are you
watching child porn? What's happening? You know we're on a
new it's a new charter flight. It's American Airlines. You
don't have the flight attendants. They're gonna come by, They're
gonna look at your screen and think you're watching child
porn and I was like, yes, that is true because

(16:59):
the documentary it's a bunch of testimony from younger girls
and there's pictures and all awful stuff. Don't watch that
in public.

Speaker 2 (17:08):
No, you're gonna want to not watch that.

Speaker 1 (17:11):
I'm just just how are you too watching the Hunting one? Well?

Speaker 2 (17:15):
I was there again.

Speaker 3 (17:16):
I was golfing yesterday, so I didn't get home until
like seven thirty and she had started it.

Speaker 1 (17:20):
Was it sex? Gary? Is that what you saw? I?

Speaker 2 (17:25):
Yeah, okay?

Speaker 1 (17:27):
Was it? Was it a different flavor of sex? Was
it cheesecake factory sex? Or was it McDonald's sex?

Speaker 2 (17:33):
Uh? Well, it wasn't it was.

Speaker 1 (17:35):
Something you're used to, or something you didn't even think
about yet.

Speaker 2 (17:38):
I wouldn't say it's I hadn't thought of it.

Speaker 1 (17:41):
I see.

Speaker 3 (17:44):
My my wife is worried that I've said.

Speaker 2 (17:47):
That we've watched it. It's absolute trash. That's the that's
her review.

Speaker 1 (17:52):
Okay, but she's gonna keep watching.

Speaker 7 (17:54):
I didn't.

Speaker 3 (17:55):
I don't know if she is could be right now,
but I know nobody.

Speaker 2 (18:01):
Don't tell anybody. No one's watching.

Speaker 1 (18:03):
Not all golf and sewing classes at the Hoffman House.

Speaker 3 (18:06):
Y'all enough tech talk when we come back, Gary and
Shannon will continue.

Speaker 7 (18:15):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.

Speaker 1 (18:22):
It is a Thursday, which means strange science coming up
in the next hour. Did you know your brain is
editing your life while you sleep. It's fascinating science that
we will bring straight to your ears. Coming up at
about an hour.

Speaker 2 (18:35):
In the meantime, it's time for tech Talk.

Speaker 5 (18:38):
The machines are getting smarter. This is tech Talk, brought
to you by Skynett.

Speaker 3 (18:44):
And Mark Saltzman, our friend from up North talks all
things tech brings to us today. A terrifying continuation of
a story that I was doing yesterday. The head of
Anthropic I don't remember his name, something to Mario whatever
it was. He was suggesting that AI is going to
take over a lot of lower level, entry level, white

(19:08):
collar jobs within the next five years, and that we
could see an unemployment rate somewhere between ten and twenty percent.
Is AI going to take everyone's job?

Speaker 5 (19:19):
Yes?

Speaker 3 (19:19):
Or no?

Speaker 4 (19:20):
Mark, No, not everyone's job. But yeah, scary stuff and
it's funny. The song that you play to introduce our
segment every Thursday is the Machines are taking over. It's like, well,
it's not really happening just yet. So I wrote a
piece in USA Today last week that has sparked some
debate about the role of AI in the workplace. So, yes,

(19:41):
we are using these generative AI tools like chat Shept,
Microsoft's Copilot Plus, or Google Gemini. I'm sure many of
your listeners have already started dabbling in AI in their
day to day lives to get more done in less time.
But yeah, many white collar workers, if the surveys are accurate,
are concerned about job displacement. Half of those surve haid

(20:05):
said that they're worried about their career being.

Speaker 5 (20:07):
Impacted by AI.

Speaker 4 (20:08):
But as ioncovered with the many reports that I've read
and I conducted a handful of interviews with top experts,
the findings are this, those who use AI at work
find a threefold productivity game. So a task that would
normally or let's say, manually take about ninety minutes to
complete can now be done under a half an hour

(20:30):
with the help of AI, and Microsoft says the same thing,
those that an individual with AI can now outperform a
team without it, and a team using AI can outperform
them all. So there will be some job replacement, whether
it's the entry level jobs that you're hinting at, Gary,
I mean it's inevitable there will be some displacement, but

(20:51):
the experts are saying it's time to upskill or reskill
by learning how to use AI. Tell your boss you
want to learn how to use AI to help the
company do more with less, save time, save money.

Speaker 2 (21:05):
There are free courses.

Speaker 4 (21:07):
I know a WS has some free online courses to
teach you AI and get certifications.

Speaker 1 (21:11):
Isn't it intuitive enough to where we won't have to
take a course. It'll just know us and we will
know it.

Speaker 4 (21:17):
Maybe not just yet, but yeah, I mean, look, I
interviewed the shameless plug here on my tech it Out
podcast and radio show. I interviewed the president of Cisco.
His name is G two Patel, and this is what
he said. Don't be afraid of AI taking your job.
Be afraid of someone who knows how to use AI
well from taking your job. So I think that's the
takeaway here is, yes, there will be some displacement, Shannon

(21:40):
and Gary, but even in our world, even in broadcast,
I mean, these AI models are sounding.

Speaker 5 (21:48):
None of us are safe.

Speaker 4 (21:50):
Well, I know that I can use AI to help
me write that USA Today article. But I don't want
to go there. That's a slippery slope. I don't do it.
But yeah, you can use as a tool though.

Speaker 3 (22:00):
For sure, I've noticed AIS now is showing up in
areas where people don't necessarily expect it. I mean, if
you search for something on Google period, usually the first
thing that comes up is an AI overview of whatever
it is that you're looking for.

Speaker 2 (22:15):
It tries to consolidate all this sort of stuff.

Speaker 3 (22:17):
But I've also noticed it, and I know that part
of it is because, for example, Microsoft and Microsoft Office,
which is what we use for a lot of our
stuff here within the company, they now have this little
button that has copilot on it.

Speaker 5 (22:32):
Yeah, and it's everywhere.

Speaker 2 (22:34):
Yeah, it's everywhere.

Speaker 4 (22:36):
Look, you don't need an Alexa speaker for AI. It's
everything you touch or speak to. May ask you if
you want to use AI. Heck, even Paint, which is
an archaic Windows image editing platform. Now, when you launch Paint,
if you still have Windows that has it, it's been updated.
You know, in the back end, it'll say do you

(22:56):
want to help edit this image is or any object
you wanted to and it like it asks you so
it's going to be hard to avoid it.

Speaker 5 (23:03):
But if you you know.

Speaker 4 (23:04):
Through some painstaking efforts, you can say, leave me alone,
I'm never going to use AI.

Speaker 5 (23:09):
Get out of my face.

Speaker 4 (23:10):
And you can do that with a couple of clicks
and your phone, right, I mean, your Apple's asking about
Apple Intelligence. Do you want it to prioritize your inbox
and give you summaries of what people are You know,
there's a couple of things I like as a journalist.

Speaker 5 (23:24):
I can tell you that I do. When I'm on
an iPhone interview with someone that I'm interviewing.

Speaker 4 (23:29):
For a story, I hit that little record button and
not only will it transcribe the interview into text for me,
but it will give me AI summaries of what they said. Like,
that's really handy, all for free, But you don't have
to use it. No one's putting a gun in your
head saying you have to use AI. Just know that
if you're in the workplace, it can help you get
your stuff done and you can focus on what you like.

(23:51):
Let it handle those menial tasks that you don't want
to do, so you can free up your time and
energy for more interesting parts of your job. You know,
maybe flexing your creativity and you know that that might
be more rewarding.

Speaker 1 (24:03):
So use it as a tool of our job. I
mean we use it when we're just you know, googling
things for our own edification during the show and the
Google AI assistant googles everything for you. Now that's the
first thing that comes up. And the thing that troubles
me in that is the hallucinations. What's the deal with

(24:23):
the hallucinations where it just essentially makes things up? Is
that some sort of glitch that's going to be worked
out or what's the deal?

Speaker 2 (24:31):
It's getting better.

Speaker 4 (24:32):
So chat ept came out in November of twenty two,
and already like the hallucination, like you've said, Shannon, is
when your AI is telling you something that's very factual
when it's not true, but it insists it's true. It
is getting better and better the more that we're using AI.
And what I feel bad about is those who's living

(24:54):
requires you to visit their website, right they sell ads
or they sell merchandise. And instead of you having to
go to those websites, now Google is summarizing the information
on your website for those who are searching for you
know what, I mean, so it's it's not perfect.

Speaker 5 (25:09):
It's going to take a long time.

Speaker 4 (25:11):
I think before the dust settles, there's going to be
a lot more lawsuits. We've already heard of the likes
of WAPO and New York Times suing open ai, the
company behind chat GPT for summarizing their articles without any credits.
And you know, so it's going to be a while.
But yeah, the hallucinations, the trick there is you just
got to double check your sources, don't take it as fact,

(25:32):
make sure you do your due diligence, and just compare
those results. Because there's been a lot of funny in
some cases instances of people using AI and then they
didn't You hear about this, like a book report that
some a journalist published a like best Books to Read,
and half of those books weren't even.

Speaker 2 (25:50):
True, they weren't even real books.

Speaker 4 (25:52):
Journalists had it published in like a major newspaper, you know,
without knowing that those book books were made up. So
you've got to do your work as well. We're not
that lazy yet, are we?

Speaker 1 (26:02):
Oh my goodness, I mean, did anybody ever do a
book report? I use cliff notes for all my for
all my stuff you.

Speaker 2 (26:10):
Know, not a book report. It was like a book review.

Speaker 4 (26:12):
It was like a half dozen books he recommended, and
half of them weren't even real books.

Speaker 5 (26:16):
Something like that.

Speaker 2 (26:17):
Yeah, that there's no.

Speaker 5 (26:17):
Excuse for that. He was fired on the spot.

Speaker 1 (26:19):
Yeah that's awful. I mean, if that's your job, and
that's a great job. I mean I would love to
just be able to write books all the time.

Speaker 3 (26:25):
Oh my gosh, me too. As always, great stuff, Thank you,
thank you. You have a great rest of your Thursday.
Make sure you follow Mark on x m ARC underscore
Saltzman with a Z and.

Speaker 1 (26:37):
I was making a joke, but there's a point there.
There's there's a kernel of interesting there. I didn't read
the books that were required because I knew in school,
because I knew that there were cliff notes, and that
was an easier way out, an easier way for me
to do the book report or what have you. And

(26:58):
just knowing that now, had I not known there was
an easier way out, I would have read the book
and my life would have been vastly better. I would
have been far more learned. But that's the thing that
kids know that there's an easy way out in AI,
So why not use it for all your school stuff.
It's a hard thing to say no to.

Speaker 2 (27:17):
It's what I'm saying, very hard to say no to.

Speaker 3 (27:20):
Speaking of Caltrans strippers, also very hard to say no to.

Speaker 2 (27:24):
We'll talk about that week.

Speaker 7 (27:27):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.

Speaker 2 (27:34):
Can't know, Ohio. It's for Shannon.

Speaker 3 (27:36):
Is for tonight's Pro Football Hall of Fame game between
the Chargers and the Detroit Lions.

Speaker 1 (27:43):
You know, I was just thinking about this game, and
these are two teams whose seasons ended abruptly disappointing. The
Chargers eleven win team last season, and then a disaster
in Houston, just a complete disaster justin Herbert through four
picks I think. And then the Lions, a fifteen win team,

(28:05):
the number one seed I think, and they lost in
the divisional round of the Commanders. I mean, both seasons
ended with just sheer disappointment just to complete drop off
a cliff. So I think they're going to be excited
to get back into it tonight.

Speaker 3 (28:23):
Kick off just after five o'clock. Pregame starts at four
here on KFI.

Speaker 2 (28:28):
The whole team's reassembled.

Speaker 3 (28:30):
You and DJ and Matt you guys talk about talk
about how you're going to do the game tonight.

Speaker 1 (28:35):
No, we have not talked about that.

Speaker 2 (28:37):
When does that happen? When you guys too?

Speaker 1 (28:39):
We played We played Uno and Yatzi on the flight.

Speaker 2 (28:43):
Whoa we did that?

Speaker 3 (28:44):
That's what I always thought about those flights. You guys
just let loose, man, just let loose.

Speaker 1 (28:50):
Yeah, I played Uno and Yatzi and then I watched
the Epstein documentary, So yeah, I was a real barn burner.

Speaker 3 (28:56):
Did you also carry an an afghan and put a
shawl over your legs so you'd stay warm?

Speaker 1 (29:03):
Yo? Yo yo? Did have I did have a jacket
covering my legs?

Speaker 2 (29:07):
Yes, yo yo yolar.

Speaker 3 (29:11):
Hey Gary, yes you think then cows cow Trans strippers work?

Speaker 1 (29:17):
Where uh Jannet yelling work?

Speaker 2 (29:23):
I want to go? You don't want to.

Speaker 4 (29:29):
Alight?

Speaker 1 (29:32):
Oh my god, I promptly want to start a GoFundMe
page for him to go to a good strip club.

Speaker 3 (29:40):
Well, twelve Caltrans employees are facing disciplinary action because of
allegations they attended a retirement party for a co worker
that involved stand by, that involved heavy drinking and a
hired stripper.

Speaker 1 (29:56):
Now, I don't mean to brag about my youth, but
I have not been to many retirement parties I went to.
I think my dad had a retirement party. Maybe I
don't know. I haven't been. I haven't reached the time
where I'm going to these things all the time. Is
this normal?

Speaker 3 (30:15):
Fair?

Speaker 1 (30:16):
Have I been missing out on not being invited to
retirement parties? Are there strippers at retirement parties?

Speaker 3 (30:22):
I went to a retirement party, my sister's retirement party,
so I'm just saying, And it was in her backyard,
and there were no strippers.

Speaker 2 (30:28):
And that was my last month.

Speaker 1 (30:30):
My mom hired a stripper for my dad's fortieth birthday
party at a restaurant and it was a lunch I
do believe interesting, But I mean, she wasn't a stripper.
She was supposed to be a dancer. This is why
my mom spins it all these years later. She and
she wasn't a stripper. She was a dancer and she
went by the name May West. And then my mom
also likes to throw in, but she didn't have boobs

(30:53):
like May West. She'ld have gotten my money back. But anyway,
it was very awkward. She danced around the table at
the restaurant. But anyway, that was a birthday party, a
retirement party. I don't know. I never would have put.

Speaker 3 (31:08):
A stripper there. This party took place July tenth in Monterey.
They began investigating the party after one tipster party pooper
called Caltrans and detailed the alleged debauchery, including the hiring
of a stripper, the consumption of alcohol, and employees leaving
the party while intoxicated.

Speaker 1 (31:30):
Quick gas go around. Do we still have that on
the computer somewhere? If we had a party at KFI
and we hired a stripper to spice it up a
little bit, who would be the tipster? Who would be
the person who called in HR or whatever it's called
where we work and tipped us off? Who would it be?

(31:51):
Around there? Elmer, You're up first, not me.

Speaker 2 (31:55):
I'm not a smish. There you go?

Speaker 1 (31:57):
Okay, well who would?

Speaker 2 (31:59):
I'm not throwing anyone.

Speaker 1 (32:02):
How, he has a good energy about him. Kana Kana
almost sad a bad word.

Speaker 5 (32:11):
Okay, honestly, I have no idea, but I'm gonna just
throw Bellio under.

Speaker 1 (32:15):
The bus totally. Sharon is such a frude, Oh my god,
and zero fun. I haven't had like the best times
of my life with Sharon Ever, Oh my god, so
not fun and so not up for everything. She's a

(32:36):
party pooper. She's the best. I love Sharon. Gary. Who
do you think would be the tipster? Since we're happy
to throw people.

Speaker 3 (32:43):
Under the bus, I'm less happy to throw people under
the bush.

Speaker 2 (32:48):
Yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 3 (32:50):
I mean, I have some ideas, but I would get
in trouble for saying names.

Speaker 1 (32:53):
So I'm going to go with Oscar. I'm gonna go
with Oscar. I said it. It's what everyone's thinking, Oscar.
Oscar used to be fun. Oscar was like Sharon. He
was so much fun. We've been to strip clubs with Oscar?
Maybe we used to do he used to do fireball
shots in the morning.

Speaker 2 (33:12):
To the part where we've been to strip clubs with Oscar?

Speaker 1 (33:15):
Were we not in a bar in Philadelphia with Oscar
when somebody took to a pole and started dancing for dollars?

Speaker 2 (33:23):
That was not a strip club.

Speaker 1 (33:25):
You made it one. When you took the pole, you
made it.

Speaker 3 (33:29):
A strip club. I made zero money on that venture.
I made zero money.

Speaker 1 (33:33):
Anyway, Remember when Oscar was fun, but now he's management.

Speaker 2 (33:36):
Heather Brooker just popped her head in to say it's
going to be Amy King.

Speaker 1 (33:40):
That called Amy King. I don't know. I think Amy's
got a side. We don't know about it.

Speaker 2 (33:44):
She's willing, she keeps a lot of secrets.

Speaker 1 (33:47):
She does keep secrets, and she likes cats. I have one.
I have one.

Speaker 6 (33:52):
Okay, okay, I'm gonna get in trouble for this one,
but I'm gonna say Michael monksh.

Speaker 1 (33:58):
Yeah, he's super button ight yep.

Speaker 3 (34:03):
There were twelve employees placed on a paid administrative leave
after this party. Since then, ten of them have received
notices of termination two of them.

Speaker 2 (34:13):
You know, I've got another invention.

Speaker 1 (34:15):
I got another name. Ricky. Ricky. Ricky would totally throw
us under the bus for having a stripper. He's zero
fun too, no zero.

Speaker 3 (34:23):
What's wrong with you? I don't think any of those
names that you've said are the right names. Oh and
I'm not.

Speaker 2 (34:32):
And now since you're three to deal with, what are
you talking about?

Speaker 1 (34:38):
You guys? You guys. This is why we work in
such a great place, because I literally can't think of
one person that will call it in. Everybody, even Amy.
Amy King would jump on that stage. She'd be like,
what I can do better?

Speaker 3 (34:51):
Worked at a radio station the first place I worked
in Chico, the boss hired a stripper when somebody, Yeah,
when somebody was retiring.

Speaker 1 (35:00):
Oh my god, you should have led with that. That
was my question. Are there strippers a retirement party? So
this is a thing?

Speaker 2 (35:05):
Was it retirement? It was something? I remember? How was
that something? Where was the party in the in the
conference room?

Speaker 1 (35:13):
Oh my gosh? And what was the stripper?

Speaker 6 (35:15):
Like?

Speaker 1 (35:16):
Tell me everything.

Speaker 3 (35:17):
Listen, I'm not an officionado, but he got a deal.

Speaker 1 (35:21):
It was a man. No, oh oh, he being the
boss got How old was she?

Speaker 2 (35:30):
Listen?

Speaker 3 (35:30):
I was twenty one years old at the time, so
she could have been thirty and I would have been like,
she's way too old.

Speaker 1 (35:36):
Okay, So what was she wearing?

Speaker 3 (35:38):
Well, she came in with a suit on, like a
three piece suit. She was part of the training that
we were all supposed to go through or somebody.

Speaker 1 (35:45):
God, are you serious? What year was this?

Speaker 2 (35:47):
Nineteen ninety three or four?

Speaker 1 (35:50):
Wow? What a time to be alive, the Bill Clinton years?
Am I right?

Speaker 2 (35:53):
It was awkward.

Speaker 3 (35:54):
It just because you're you're there with people that you
don't want to see a stripper.

Speaker 1 (35:58):
Of course it was awkward. Could you imagine watching a stripper,
even with all the cool people we work with.

Speaker 2 (36:06):
No I heard I heard Rich in the background.

Speaker 1 (36:08):
I was all right, Rich, because I'll bring somebody in
right now. I'll find you an Ohio lady from the stands.

Speaker 3 (36:16):
And high talent there and can't Ohio. Gary and Shannon
will continue right after this. You've been listening to The
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