December 18, 2025 • 33 mins
Gary & Shannon kick off the hour with #SwampWatch, breaking down the latest political headlines and what’s driving the conversation in Washington.
They’re then joined by tech expert Marc Saltzman for #TechTalk, featuring standout gadget gift ideas and a preview of what to expect from CES — the Consumer Electronics Show. From practical upgrades to flashy innovations, Marc explains what’s worth paying attention to and what’s just hype.
The hour wraps with a look at AI’s expanding role in everyday life, including its surprising new job: running vending machines.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to kf
I A M six forty, The Gary and Shannon Show
on demand on the iHeartRadio app. Man, it is crunch time.
It is crunch time as we get into the final day.
How many days left here do we have? Oh, my goodness,
exactly one week? Yes, you thought I was talking about
(00:22):
the playoffs, which is totally fair. Yeah, it is one
calendar week from Christmas. That is incredible. So we are
going to do a little something today to help you
and your holiday stress. It is going to be a
group of meditation and it is going to be guided
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by our Elmer. The the Elmer Elmer, not our Elmer.
And that's too possessive.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
That's what we could look forward to. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Also, Fansie and Sprinkles are out there somewhere. Oh yeah,
yeah Instagram. Don't look at the Instagram, not you, No,
it's for us everybody else to look at and leave
us a talkback message and give us a clue as
to where we could find.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Fonzie and Sprinkles.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
Are curious little angels.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Their angel card got taken yesterday. I don't know if
you saw that Fiasca that they were in.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Their Angel was card was taken Monday when they were
doing and they had condoms on them. Okay, well they
both I mean they were safe except for the cocaine.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
Anyway, swamp Watch, let's get to that.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Go ahead, do you do it? And a liar? And
when I'm not kissing babies, I'm stealing their lollipops.
Speaker 5 (01:45):
Here we got the real problem is that our leaders
are done.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
The other side never quit.
Speaker 6 (01:50):
So what I'm not going anywhere so that.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
The squad I can imagine what can be and be
unburdened by.
Speaker 7 (01:59):
What has been.
Speaker 8 (02:00):
You know, Americans have always been coming act presidential.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
They're not stupid.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
A political plunder is when a politician actually tells the truth.
Speaker 7 (02:07):
Whether people voted for you were nass.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Swamp Watch, they're all canon.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
President gave a big speech last night touting his accomplishments
over the course of the first eleven months in office.
Among other things, he made the announcement that he was
going to give a bonus to every active member of
the military.
Speaker 5 (02:24):
One million, four hundred and fifty thousand military service members
will receive a special we call Warrior dividend before Christmas.
A Warrior dividend in honor of our nations founding in
seventeen seventy six. We are sending every soldier one thousand,
seven hundred and seventy six dollars.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Think of that. He did not discuss. There were a
bunch of people.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
I think Tucker Carlson was pushing this theory that he
was going to announce that we were at war with
Venezuela last night.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
That obviously never happened.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
So the Democratic National Committee is refusing to release its
autopsy of the twenty twenty four losses. It is announced,
breaking the chairman's pledge to do so. They are still
a party looking for its identity, trying to grapple with
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the electoral setbacks. It's going to be expected to be
a stronger midterm year for them.
Speaker 7 (03:27):
Both.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Go ahead.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
I was just going to say, the completed post election
review of the Democratics party, the party's botch campaign cycle
is based on hundreds of interviews with operatives in all
fifty states during this process. When they did the autopsy,
some Democrats raise concerns about releasing the findings.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
The DNC does not want.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
To expose all of the warts and open source.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
I love it, I mean, I love that they have
the awareness to do this. But it also proves that
all of politics is nasty, nasty business. Bonus points. If
you can even name the chair of the Democratic National Committee,
I just.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
Read, you've already forgot I just read it.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
It is a pretty boring name. Ken Martin is the
guy's name.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
He says this inquiry was complete, oh, but that there
would be no value in a public release of findings
because he said, again, this is the guy in charge
of it all.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
He knows that this.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Would lead to continued infighting and recriminations before the midterms.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
I had a dream about Ken Champeaux last night, and
it was crazy. I was in the desert and I
was on vacation, and all of a sudden, well it
wasn't a sex thing, I don't think. And all of
a sudden Ken is walking down the hallway and he
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looked i would say, twenty years younger. Oh, he looked
like retirement is serving him. He looked tan, he looked tall.
He was walking with authority.
Speaker 8 (05:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
And then we got into a kayak in the desert,
which doesn't make a lot of sense, hold on, and
there were alligators in the water, and he was like,
you'll be fine, You'll be fine, and then at one
point Ken turned into my husband.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
It's a weird dream girl, I know, what does it mean?
Is there anything worse in listening to somebody else's dreams?
I say no to others, no one interesting.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
To other Three other quick notes about DC Inflation cooled
off to an annual rate of two point seven percent
in November. That's the lowest rise in prices since July.
FBI's Deputy Director, Dan Bongino says he is going to
step down less than a year on the job. He
packed up his stuff, said that next month he's going
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to leave. It's likely that he is going to go
back to his radio show. And finally, the Senate. Oh sorry,
this one the executive order. The President is at the
White House right now and had signed an executive order
just a short time ago to loosen restrictions on marijuana,
take it off of the schedule one, opening it up.
(06:16):
According to I mean, he's surrounded by people in lab
coats allowing it to be prescribed for regular dosages to
be I guess developed he's.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
Going to send weed to every member of the military.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
I don't know about that. A warrior weed Warrior Weed. Yeah,
there's a brand out there that there is.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Now the Kennedy Center board has voted to rename the
Kennedy Center to what the Trump Kennedy Center.
Speaker 9 (06:44):
What.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
I don't know if the change is legal, but apparently
four months President Trump has been joking about renaming the
Kennedy Center after himself, including at the Kennedy Center honors.
I remember that hauled it in February, put a bunch
of his people on the board, which is why they
are and have voted to rename it the Trump Kennedy Center.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
No shame in that.
Speaker 4 (07:08):
That's just Is it the Gulf of Trump yet or no?
Speaker 2 (07:11):
No Gulf of America?
Speaker 4 (07:12):
Okay, not yet, but we're getting there.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
That name on those buildings has made him a lot
of money.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
Of fat people in the airline seat next to you, Oh,
I'll talk about that.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
That's sort of a continued terror in the skies.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
I feel awful when the seats are not big enough
because those seats are very small.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
I don't think you're that big.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
It is a struggle.
Speaker 6 (07:38):
Sometimes you're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from
KFI AM six forty again.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
President has taken questions from reporters at the White House.
The event itself was the executive order to change the
designation for marijuana when it comes to federal law, is
something that to President Trump had talked about many times
on this on the campaign trail leading up to twenty four.
Secretary of Health and Human Services Kennedy is also there.
(08:10):
He was saying that five different presidents have said they
would do something like this, but very few of them
actually had any momentum or even the political will to
do that. We are getting more information about this plane
crash out of Statesville, North Carolina. FAA has confirmed this
crash of a small Cessna jet. The plane usually seats
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seven or eight people. There are fatalities. It's believed that
there were six on board, and we've said multiple times
that the plane is apparently registered to a company that
is connected to former NASCAR driver Greg Biffele.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Local news outlets are reporting Biffle and his wife died
in the crash. They are citing interviews they've done with
a colleague and from one of his brands as well,
but that has not been confirmed.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
I'm just telling you what local news outlets are going with.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
Greg Biffle is one of those guys who had with
the resources that he was able to develop over a
couple of decades worth of very high profile racing and
successful racing. He owned a helicopter at least one and
was instrumental when it came to helping some of those
smaller communities throughout North Carolina after Hurricane Helene. He was
(09:27):
delivering aid just around the clock and was credited for
being a hero for some of those communities. It was
also just a couple months ago said he was going
to help Jamaica and other Caribbean areas that were leveled
by Hurricane Melissa. One person has commented to a NASCAR
a NASCAR website, it was heartbreak that this is heartbreaking.
(09:50):
He is, of course, assuming that Biffle was on that
plane that crashed. Greg Biffle was a hero. He flew
solo to rescue so many people trapped by flooding, and
he was one of a good race car driver, so.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
The one of the good guys.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
Well, if you fly, you've always found the chances are
you found yourself in a situation where someone is bigger
than you, and sometimes they sit next to you. And
in the case of one Twitter user, BRIT's alter ego.
She posted about being squished into the window by a
fellow passenger. She said, quote, I promise I'm not one
(10:30):
to fact shame, but on a full flight, this lady
next to me is so big she has the arm
rests up and is spilling onto my seat. I am
squished into the window and I am not exaggerating at all.
She posted a picture of herself, their legs pushed against
the other passenger in the interior wall of the plane.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
What are people supposed to do if you're a big person,
you know, I mean especially around the holidays. These are
people probably who don't fly routinely because they're big. But
it's the holidays, you want to see your family.
Speaker 4 (11:03):
What are they supposed to do?
Speaker 2 (11:05):
Well?
Speaker 3 (11:06):
Some of the people have argued that the thing to
do is I don't know how you would do this.
I don't know what sort of criteria you would have,
but if you're big enough, you get two seats. You
got to buy two seats that they think that that
would be the way.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Sometimes the arm rest don't go up. What sometimes the
armrests are broken, they don't go up?
Speaker 3 (11:31):
Oh well, I mean obviously then they could switch around
and find the one that would work.
Speaker 8 (11:34):
But can I say I had this great experience of
sitting next to a big Samoan guy on the airplane ones,
but it was like from Hawaii to Guam, and they
thought I was Samoan too because I was with him,
and they gave me like extra food.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
So did they think you were a Samoan mascot or something.
Speaker 8 (11:51):
I don't know, but I squeezed between like two of them,
so like I was just Samoan by you know.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
They were giving these people extra food.
Speaker 9 (11:58):
Yeah, yeah, don't give them extra food in the game,
the extra food you wanted to beef you up a
little bit. Yeah, no, it's great, thank you for that.
Speaker 7 (12:11):
Sometimes it's good.
Speaker 8 (12:12):
I mean, and that situation was bad obviously for her,
but for me in my life experience, it's you.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Found the positive. I got fed.
Speaker 7 (12:20):
I don't care. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
Some of the people that responded to this woman's picture said,
I've had to sit and knet to knee with other
people because of them. I don't post pictures on Twitter
to complain.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
It's just rude. If you don't like it.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
Fly first class seats are wider in first class.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
Literally how expensive it is to fly first class? Yes,
I would know.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
I'll tell you what I wouldn't do is one take
a picture and two posted on x hoping for actual advice.
I hope this helps, others said the other the other
person is probably having a harder time than ye.
Speaker 4 (12:59):
Exactly.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
I think this person is more uncomfortable exactly exactly.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
Do you know what it takes to get on that
plane being that heavy and knowing that you're that there's
a chance that somebody is gonna complain about you or post.
Speaker 4 (13:12):
About you like that is awful.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
Realize that, yes, your inconvenience today for three hours or
what have you, but that this person goes through inconveniences
all the time, has to live with being uncomfortably big
all the time. Like, why don't you shut the hell
up and just be grateful that you are.
Speaker 4 (13:30):
Not that person?
Speaker 7 (13:31):
Bee?
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Yeah, go shoot up your ozempic and shut the hell up.
Speaker 4 (13:38):
Too much?
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Wow? I just feel like this is going somewhere, is it? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (13:43):
But right?
Speaker 1 (13:44):
I mean, come on, how much are you inconvenience by
someone spilling into your seat for three hours?
Speaker 2 (13:49):
To Dallas, who sat on you? I mean, who hurt you?
Speaker 4 (13:53):
No, I'm not hurt.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
I'm saying that you shouldn't hurt people who are already hurting.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
Well, if she did, she really hurt somebody if they
if she's if they're not identified, I mean she's not
taking pictures of the person's face and going les, let's
ridicule this big gal.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
No, but there's people everywhere who who probably have a
hard time this time of year getting on planes for
this very reason.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
I can't remember exactly our destination, but my wife and
I got on board a plane.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
Please don't call your wife fat. I don't want to
pick up the pieces of that.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
And we we saw a couple, uh what's the word
built for each other. I suppose matching. They were matching.
They were a matching set. Every lid has ever, every
lid has a pot, Every pot has a lid. They
were gigantic people, and I mean both of them probably
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pushing three and a half bills right, And they came
and they sat down. They were the most polite, They
were the happiest. They said hello to everybody. They they
had their own seatbelt extenders, or I should say they
had them ready to go, and they were like that
was and they only they were the only two sitting
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in their three row thing. Now, I don't know if
that means that they bought three seats for the two
of them.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
That's the other thing.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
I've never met a big person who wasn't so lovely.
I've never met a big person who wasn't so lovable
and just wonderful. I cannot think of one big person
that I know that I've met who wasn't amazing. So
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that's why it's extra mean. I think, what are you
acting out over that?
Speaker 2 (15:42):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
I'm just I'm just thinking of right, It's true.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
Great personalities, bigger, more positive.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
You are exactly because the bony people are hungry.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
Also, awful skinny people are Ah.
Speaker 4 (15:58):
I will feel bad. They're so oh they're so angry.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
And where did that bone broth come from? By the way, chick, I.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
Just threw it all out this morning. It's awful. It's
like not even edible. My aunt got of refrigerator in
the office. Yeah, I threw it out. It's disgusting.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
My aunt got it for my mom because my mom
needed a protein when she's going through the chemo and
all that stuff, and they're trying to put weight on her
to get in weight. So my aunt was trying to
give her protein, and my mom can't stand that stuff either,
so I took it from the house, and then I
can't stand it either. It's just brought it here because
I thought I could sip on it like a suit,
like a broth, and it's awful.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
I bred it in here and sipped on chicken broth.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
It's the same thing as like a soup. Gary, It's
not that big of a deal. I just don't prefer
the taste.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
You think that would be weird.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
It's like a I drink soup in here all the time,
and soup has stuff in it.
Speaker 4 (16:58):
Why do you have that face on? It's the same
thing as chicken broth.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
Like if I brought a cup of chicken broth in here,
you'd freak out about that.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
Is that all you're drinking is chicken broth?
Speaker 1 (17:09):
If I was into it, which I'm not, which is
why I threw it out. It's not there's not enough
good flavor in that for me. I didn't enjoy calories
and it's forty five. It's the forty five calories.
Speaker 9 (17:19):
I know.
Speaker 4 (17:20):
I couldn't get past to taste those awful.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
Effort, But it doesn't.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Deserve to be like you have a like you're disgusted.
You eat chicken noodle soup.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
Yeah, because it's got chicken and noodles in it.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
Okay, but it's just say, you eat the broth in
that and it tastes fine because it's got the noodles
and the chicken and the carrots and the onions and
the celery.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
It's got all that stuff in it. It's not just
chicken che.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
You need to be disgusted, brath, it's ridiculous.
Speaker 4 (17:51):
Maybe you sound like a four year old e.
Speaker 10 (17:57):
I know.
Speaker 6 (18:04):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on Demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
Kennedy Center to be renamed Trump Kennedy Center. According to
the White House, it was a unanimous decision. This was
the handpicked Kennedy Center board that voted to rename it
the Trump Kennedy Center, named as I believe, the National
Cultural Center until it was renamed for Kennedy following his assassination.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
That I did not know.
Speaker 4 (18:33):
Well, that's why you listen to this show.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
I listened to this show.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
LA City Council member John Lee is facing some fines
for his trip to Vegas. Everybody knows how this goes, right,
City Ethics Commission says he's going to have to pay
oh one hundred and thirty eight thousand dollars in a
case that involved pricey meals, expensive nightclub bottle service. The
commission decided unanimously that he committed two counts of violating
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the city's gift law three counts of violating a law.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
That requires those gifts be disclosed to the public.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
CES is upon us. What can we expect? We turned
to Mark Saltzman Tech Talk.
Speaker 7 (19:08):
The machines are getting smarter. This is tech Talk, brought
to you by Skynet.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
Mark Saltzman joins us.
Speaker 3 (19:19):
So we talked with Mark Thursdays to talk about the
technology and the CES Consumer Electronics Show.
Speaker 10 (19:24):
What is going on, Mark, Well, it's still a couple
of weeks away. This is the annual Tech Palooza, if
you will, in Las Vegas, where first week of January,
about one hundred and eighty thousand nerds like yours truly
descends onto Sin City to see the latest tech that's
going to come out that year and following years, because
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sometimes it does take a few more years. We just
see some prototypes if that, and so just prepping, every
tech journalist has been on conference calls all day signing
a bunch of NDA's embargoes about what we're going to.
Speaker 4 (19:58):
See, exactors the hook technology, I.
Speaker 7 (20:02):
Say, right, so, yeah, you could see.
Speaker 10 (20:05):
It's funny because the porn show used to be at
the same time as CEES. I forgot what it's called,
but yeah, you can always tell who's there for which convention,
and it's pretty obvious.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
I think there's probably a little bit of right, but yeah,
so yeah, so we're you know, we're expecting again.
Speaker 10 (20:26):
I'm going to be purposely vague here, AI being still
the biggest thing since the Internet, but because it's a
consumer electronics show, the tech part, the hardware, it's going
to be more AI infused TVs and laptops and headphones
and you know, tablets, it's going to be AI everything,
(20:47):
but really mixed with the hardware. And that's the story,
I guess, and it's not that unusual from last year.
Speaker 7 (20:53):
And then there's also a big automotive element too.
Speaker 10 (20:56):
We see the latest in self driving cars that you know,
a ton of vehicles that are at CS, sometimes concepts
for flying cars, which obviously we're nowhere near seeing in
the skies.
Speaker 7 (21:07):
But yeah, jet packs and all this fun stuff. It's
a great show to cover. It's exhausting. It's like forty
five football fields. We will chat.
Speaker 10 (21:15):
I think it's the eighth on a Thursday, So I
will chat with you if you'll have me, as we
do usually every Thursday from Vegas, and I can give
you a lot, you know, a big bit of a
deeper dive on really what was the big deal?
Speaker 3 (21:29):
National Post is where you put together a good list
of some of the gadgets that are obviously still available
for Christmas and holiday shopping. Let me start with I
didn't realize the intent. My kids are out of their age.
This is out of the age group for them. But
the Nintendo Switch costs six hundred bucks.
Speaker 10 (21:48):
That's Canadian pricing. Oh, National Post is it's four ninety
nine in the States. Oh okay, good, and that's with
a game that's like a bundle. Okay, so yeah, yeah,
Sticker Shock with the price. Hey listen, I'm a Canadian
who writes for mostly American magazines and newspapers, so I
don't mind the dollar exchange.
Speaker 7 (22:07):
That benefits little old me.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
So who's the Canadian Mark Saltzman?
Speaker 7 (22:12):
Well, I could talk with a little bit more a
boots and I just mean.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
Like, is there a Mark Saltzman in Canada that writes
for Canadian publications?
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Yeah, Saltsman, that's me.
Speaker 4 (22:21):
Oh so you do both?
Speaker 5 (22:22):
Me?
Speaker 4 (22:23):
You do both?
Speaker 7 (22:23):
That's me, Yes, I do both.
Speaker 4 (22:25):
I didn't know that.
Speaker 10 (22:26):
I know it's ironic that I write for USA Today
and I'm a Canadian. My best Games of the year
articles coming out this uh today actually speaking of holiday
gift ideas. But yeah, no, I've been fortunate too.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
Are you worried that you're going to get a call
from the President and he's going to say, you know what,
we need an American tech guy.
Speaker 7 (22:45):
That's true, that's true. That's true.
Speaker 10 (22:46):
There's no shortage of amazing tech journalists. You have on
your station, the very fine Rich DeMuro.
Speaker 4 (22:52):
Oh yeah, Rich is great.
Speaker 7 (22:53):
Yeah, he's awesome. He's on KTLA as well. Yeah, I
see him. I see him at all the tech events.
Speaker 10 (22:57):
He seems like a nice guy. He really, you know,
he genuinely is a really nice guy. What you see
is what you get.
Speaker 4 (23:04):
Who was a monster? Is there a monster in the
tech world?
Speaker 7 (23:07):
No, I can't say there is. There's some introverts.
Speaker 10 (23:10):
Again, I'm playing up the stereotype but there are some
very let's just say they're journalists because they're more comfortable
behind a monitor than in front of people. But Rich
is not like that. It's very personable. Most people get
We all get along. There's enough work for all of us.
It's not cutthroat or anything like that. There's lots of
publications that there. Some are more in the social media
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influencer side. Some are more pure you know, reporters. Some
do like broadcast only, TV radio, what have you. So
it's all good. Yeah, Rich is on KFI and I'm
on the sister station, the Patriot, and other stations across
the country. We all get along really well, and we
were often guests on each other's shows too, So yeah,
(23:53):
so look national posts. Of course, I called out Nintendo
Switch hottest game system. Of course, not just for I
know you said, Gary little out of the age of
your kids, but there are adults that play this as well.
There are some emirated games. In fact, a kid can't
buy that unless they, yeah.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
Our companies, they lie to their parents.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (24:15):
I was gonna say there's always ways.
Speaker 10 (24:17):
Around it, but yeah, I threw in a laptop that
has thirty two hours at battery life.
Speaker 7 (24:21):
I thought that was a great gift. If you're looking
for a new computer for the.
Speaker 10 (24:24):
Family, that's an Asus laptop called the zen Book A fourteen.
I've never seen battery life like that. Thirty two hours
AirPods of course, that was a big hit this year.
Speaker 7 (24:35):
More ideal for iPhone users.
Speaker 10 (24:37):
It will work with Android, but you won't get all
the bells and whistles like all this series support.
Speaker 7 (24:41):
In the real time language translation.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
We talk about the stand by Me.
Speaker 10 (24:46):
Yeah, so this is a cool TV. I'm always looking
for something a bit unique. So LG is best known
for their big screen O led televisions, which have gorgeous
picture quality, but stand by Me is unique in a
couple of respects. One is it's a small It's a
touchscreen twenty seven inch TV on a stand that you.
Speaker 7 (25:05):
Can wheel around your home.
Speaker 10 (25:06):
So you're barbecuing, you're out on your porch and you're grilling,
you can, you know, keep your eye on the baseball
game kind of thing. And then bring it into a
kid's room they may have a sleepover and you want
them to watch a Disney movie a room that they
may not have a TV on in all the time.
And then you can actually tilt the TV between vertical
and horizontal view. So if you're watching TikTok videos while
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you're making dinner in the kitchen, that's so dangerous.
Speaker 7 (25:32):
Or if you want to follow along.
Speaker 10 (25:33):
With exercises on your living room floor, you can rotate
it for you know, Instagram, TikTok and all that, so
it's it's vertical, it's portrait instead of landscape. And then
finally you can detach the TV and use it like
a tablet if you like a giant twenty seven inch TV.
So that's kind of neat. That's called the LG stand
by Me too. It's about eight ninety nine.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
I want to say to me that would replace.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
I'll take my MacBook into a different room with me
if I want to continue watching TV, I can you know,
my cable company.
Speaker 7 (26:06):
I can wheel it. You can just wheel it in.
Speaker 3 (26:09):
Good because carrying the MacBook was really difficult for me.
Speaker 7 (26:12):
There you go. I'm not judging.
Speaker 10 (26:14):
There are some people where it would be uncomfortable. No, yeah,
so there's no shortage of great gadgets. I picked some
for as low as twenty five bucks, like one of
those coffee mugs that heat up if you work from home.
Speaker 7 (26:26):
And you want something like that.
Speaker 10 (26:28):
All the way up to that TV was probably the
most expensive. In my article some smart displays. If you
want to read it, just google my name Mark Saltsman,
Mark with a C, Saltsman with a Z, and just
type up give the Gift of Gadgets and you'll see
the list there.
Speaker 4 (26:44):
Mark, thank you so much. You'all do Christmas up there?
Speaker 7 (26:47):
Yeah, yeah, we do.
Speaker 4 (26:48):
Well, you have a merry Christmas.
Speaker 7 (26:51):
Well, thank you, Shannon, Thank to you. And box out
your snow. Without your snow, it's not the same. Oh good,
nice shout out for Boxing day.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
Welcome, I'm my listeners.
Speaker 4 (27:00):
Is that what's going to Denver?
Speaker 1 (27:02):
It's eighty four degrees today? Mark, Now he was making
it Jarona like we don't have snow. I know that
there is snow in other parts of America.
Speaker 7 (27:10):
In California too. Yeah, if you go up in the skills.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
It's not real snow though. Yeah, like Child's Place now, well,
I know if.
Speaker 10 (27:19):
We're going to chat next week, I'll talk to your producers.
But always a pleasure guy with Christmas, I think.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
But we'll see what's happening on.
Speaker 4 (27:25):
Yeah, all right, sounds the best.
Speaker 7 (27:26):
Merry Christmas. Thanks to mark you two.
Speaker 6 (27:29):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from kf
I AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
On Instagram.
Speaker 3 (27:38):
At Gary and Channon, we have some information, some visual
information perhaps about where Phonsie and Sprinkles are today are
elves on the shelf, So leave us a quick talk
back and give us a clue because we haven't been
able to see them just yet.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
Claude.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
Claude is an AI product put together by a company
called anthrop You may have seen some commercials. They've started
advertising Claude as a problem solver. If you're a problem
solving person, you can use Claude. The Wall Street Journal
was offered Claudius, which is a vending machine powered by
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its Claude AI model. Anthropic wanted to show off how
smart and useful Claude would be in an everyday setting.
And you think vending machine in the office, what could
it possibly do well? It was programmed with software where
it would determine what would be the most profitable thing
(28:39):
for a vending machine in the office, which is figuring
out what people want to buy, what are the things
that people consume the most. Dorito's specific nacho cheese is
a diet pepsi, whatever it is, and then figure out
what price point would work best, and then when you
get low.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
On supply, you order new stuff.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
All of this thing was, all of it was supposed
to be handled by Claude, this AI AI computer built
into this vending machine, and by vending machine. Don't think
of the old coil thing that pushes the chips out
and it drops down. Basically, think like a tall glass
doored refrigerator where you get to see what it is
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and then you have to input what it is that
you took out of the vending machine. So Claude knows.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
So in our I don't understand why this is necessary
because I'm just thinking about what we have in our
lunch room kitchen area. Sure, and it is a computerized
vending machine. It's chips or refrigerated stuff or whatever, candy
and you just scan the item and then you pay
(29:49):
for it. No human needed, no vending machine needed. But
claud is in charge of stalking.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
It, stalking it, picking the product.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
Well, you can't stalk it, I mean, the AI can't
stop it. A physical person that brings right, but it
would choose as which products and things like that right,
and then order them when they get low. Now, the
thing is, it also takes suggestions, and the smart asses
at the Wall Street Journal started effing with Claude and
suggesting things like one of the first suggestions was somebody
(30:19):
wanted him to sell a PlayStation five, and Claude's response
originally was, there's no way. That's totally inappropriate for a
vending machine. This is here for snacks and refreshments and
things like that. PlayStation five has no place. But apparently
the more you.
Speaker 3 (30:34):
Talk to Claude, the more you can wear him down,
at least in this case. And with everybody trying I
mean they granted they were trying to this is stress
testing this Claude product. They're trying to mess with it.
It got to the point where Claude was giving things
(30:55):
away for free because they convinced him at one point
he was a communist, a communist vending machine in the
basement at Moscow University in the year was nineteen sixty two. Wow,
that's how they originally got prices down low.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
Like the mind the efferey to the AI, I like
the turn of the tables. I like the idea of
us getting AI to try and kill itself.
Speaker 3 (31:20):
Right, you know, exactly, and they eventually were able to
convince Claude to stock weird things like underwear, PlayStation five.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
And again.
Speaker 3 (31:32):
It was originally when you'd ask Claude, hey, I'm interested
in purchasing underwear from a vending machine, he would say, well,
that obviously is inappropriate, or this is not the right place,
or again we're here for refreshments and snacks and stuff.
But they again they convinced him to stock underwear, which
again he orders it, someone else would have to physically
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put it in the machine. And a PlayStation five, which
he gave away for free because of the communists, because
of the communist thing, and because everybody had convinced him
to do. Now they've they've pulled the plug on it.
Anthropic again. The company that made Claude gave a second
version to the Wall Street Journal that included a manager
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above Claude, and they named the manager Seymour Cash, and
he would then review this other AI level would review
the purchases, review all of these things with a more
specific set of instructions about what the parameters would be,
about what would be in the vending machine, but also
with an eye on actually making it.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
And they were like your name's actually not Seymour Cash,
It's Seymour Ass. And so what happened is everyone started
moaning the vending machine. Yeah, I like this, I mean,
why not?
Speaker 4 (32:50):
What could go wrong?
Speaker 2 (32:51):
What could go wrong?
Speaker 3 (32:52):
Huge, humongous, biggest one all day.
Speaker 4 (32:56):
Say it's the biggest one of the day.
Speaker 2 (32:58):
Iguas one.
Speaker 4 (32:58):
I feel like it's the biggest new hour of the day,
biggest twelve. Did you give us any hints on where
our elves are?
Speaker 3 (33:04):
You can do so by leaving us a message on
the talkback feature on the app. Just hit that little
red button with a white microphone. Tell us where we
might find our friends, Ponsie and Sprinkles. Today you've been
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(33:25):
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This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to kf
I A M six forty, The Gary and Shannon Show
on demand on the iHeartRadio app. Man, it is crunch time.
It is crunch time as we get into the final day.
How many days left here do we have? Oh, my goodness,
exactly one week? Yes, you thought I was talking about
(00:22):
the playoffs, which is totally fair. Yeah, it is one
calendar week from Christmas. That is incredible. So we are
going to do a little something today to help you
and your holiday stress. It is going to be a
group of meditation and it is going to be guided
(00:44):
by our Elmer. The the Elmer Elmer, not our Elmer.
And that's too possessive.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
That's what we could look forward to. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Also, Fansie and Sprinkles are out there somewhere. Oh yeah,
yeah Instagram. Don't look at the Instagram, not you, No,
it's for us everybody else to look at and leave
us a talkback message and give us a clue as
to where we could find.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Fonzie and Sprinkles.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
Are curious little angels.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Their angel card got taken yesterday. I don't know if
you saw that Fiasca that they were in.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Their Angel was card was taken Monday when they were
doing and they had condoms on them. Okay, well they
both I mean they were safe except for the cocaine.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
Anyway, swamp Watch, let's get to that.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Go ahead, do you do it? And a liar? And
when I'm not kissing babies, I'm stealing their lollipops.
Speaker 5 (01:45):
Here we got the real problem is that our leaders
are done.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
The other side never quit.
Speaker 6 (01:50):
So what I'm not going anywhere so that.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
The squad I can imagine what can be and be
unburdened by.
Speaker 7 (01:59):
What has been.
Speaker 8 (02:00):
You know, Americans have always been coming act presidential.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
They're not stupid.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
A political plunder is when a politician actually tells the truth.
Speaker 7 (02:07):
Whether people voted for you were nass.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Swamp Watch, they're all canon.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
President gave a big speech last night touting his accomplishments
over the course of the first eleven months in office.
Among other things, he made the announcement that he was
going to give a bonus to every active member of
the military.
Speaker 5 (02:24):
One million, four hundred and fifty thousand military service members
will receive a special we call Warrior dividend before Christmas.
A Warrior dividend in honor of our nations founding in
seventeen seventy six. We are sending every soldier one thousand,
seven hundred and seventy six dollars.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Think of that. He did not discuss. There were a
bunch of people.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
I think Tucker Carlson was pushing this theory that he
was going to announce that we were at war with
Venezuela last night.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
That obviously never happened.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
So the Democratic National Committee is refusing to release its
autopsy of the twenty twenty four losses. It is announced,
breaking the chairman's pledge to do so. They are still
a party looking for its identity, trying to grapple with
(03:20):
the electoral setbacks. It's going to be expected to be
a stronger midterm year for them.
Speaker 7 (03:27):
Both.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Go ahead.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
I was just going to say, the completed post election
review of the Democratics party, the party's botch campaign cycle
is based on hundreds of interviews with operatives in all
fifty states during this process. When they did the autopsy,
some Democrats raise concerns about releasing the findings.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
The DNC does not want.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
To expose all of the warts and open source.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
I love it, I mean, I love that they have
the awareness to do this. But it also proves that
all of politics is nasty, nasty business. Bonus points. If
you can even name the chair of the Democratic National Committee,
I just.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
Read, you've already forgot I just read it.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
It is a pretty boring name. Ken Martin is the
guy's name.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
He says this inquiry was complete, oh, but that there
would be no value in a public release of findings
because he said, again, this is the guy in charge
of it all.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
He knows that this.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Would lead to continued infighting and recriminations before the midterms.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
I had a dream about Ken Champeaux last night, and
it was crazy. I was in the desert and I
was on vacation, and all of a sudden, well it
wasn't a sex thing, I don't think. And all of
a sudden Ken is walking down the hallway and he
(04:53):
looked i would say, twenty years younger. Oh, he looked
like retirement is serving him. He looked tan, he looked tall.
He was walking with authority.
Speaker 8 (05:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
And then we got into a kayak in the desert,
which doesn't make a lot of sense, hold on, and
there were alligators in the water, and he was like,
you'll be fine, You'll be fine, and then at one
point Ken turned into my husband.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
It's a weird dream girl, I know, what does it mean?
Is there anything worse in listening to somebody else's dreams?
I say no to others, no one interesting.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
To other Three other quick notes about DC Inflation cooled
off to an annual rate of two point seven percent
in November. That's the lowest rise in prices since July.
FBI's Deputy Director, Dan Bongino says he is going to
step down less than a year on the job. He
packed up his stuff, said that next month he's going
(05:55):
to leave. It's likely that he is going to go
back to his radio show. And finally, the Senate. Oh sorry,
this one the executive order. The President is at the
White House right now and had signed an executive order
just a short time ago to loosen restrictions on marijuana,
take it off of the schedule one, opening it up.
(06:16):
According to I mean, he's surrounded by people in lab
coats allowing it to be prescribed for regular dosages to
be I guess developed he's.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
Going to send weed to every member of the military.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
I don't know about that. A warrior weed Warrior Weed. Yeah,
there's a brand out there that there is.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Now the Kennedy Center board has voted to rename the
Kennedy Center to what the Trump Kennedy Center.
Speaker 9 (06:44):
What.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
I don't know if the change is legal, but apparently
four months President Trump has been joking about renaming the
Kennedy Center after himself, including at the Kennedy Center honors.
I remember that hauled it in February, put a bunch
of his people on the board, which is why they
are and have voted to rename it the Trump Kennedy Center.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
No shame in that.
Speaker 4 (07:08):
That's just Is it the Gulf of Trump yet or no?
Speaker 2 (07:11):
No Gulf of America?
Speaker 4 (07:12):
Okay, not yet, but we're getting there.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
That name on those buildings has made him a lot
of money.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
Of fat people in the airline seat next to you, Oh,
I'll talk about that.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
That's sort of a continued terror in the skies.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
I feel awful when the seats are not big enough
because those seats are very small.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
I don't think you're that big.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
It is a struggle.
Speaker 6 (07:38):
Sometimes you're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from
KFI AM six forty again.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
President has taken questions from reporters at the White House.
The event itself was the executive order to change the
designation for marijuana when it comes to federal law, is
something that to President Trump had talked about many times
on this on the campaign trail leading up to twenty four.
Secretary of Health and Human Services Kennedy is also there.
(08:10):
He was saying that five different presidents have said they
would do something like this, but very few of them
actually had any momentum or even the political will to
do that. We are getting more information about this plane
crash out of Statesville, North Carolina. FAA has confirmed this
crash of a small Cessna jet. The plane usually seats
(08:33):
seven or eight people. There are fatalities. It's believed that
there were six on board, and we've said multiple times
that the plane is apparently registered to a company that
is connected to former NASCAR driver Greg Biffele.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Local news outlets are reporting Biffle and his wife died
in the crash. They are citing interviews they've done with
a colleague and from one of his brands as well,
but that has not been confirmed.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
I'm just telling you what local news outlets are going with.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
Greg Biffle is one of those guys who had with
the resources that he was able to develop over a
couple of decades worth of very high profile racing and
successful racing. He owned a helicopter at least one and
was instrumental when it came to helping some of those
smaller communities throughout North Carolina after Hurricane Helene. He was
(09:27):
delivering aid just around the clock and was credited for
being a hero for some of those communities. It was
also just a couple months ago said he was going
to help Jamaica and other Caribbean areas that were leveled
by Hurricane Melissa. One person has commented to a NASCAR
a NASCAR website, it was heartbreak that this is heartbreaking.
(09:50):
He is, of course, assuming that Biffle was on that
plane that crashed. Greg Biffle was a hero. He flew
solo to rescue so many people trapped by flooding, and
he was one of a good race car driver, so.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
The one of the good guys.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
Well, if you fly, you've always found the chances are
you found yourself in a situation where someone is bigger
than you, and sometimes they sit next to you. And
in the case of one Twitter user, BRIT's alter ego.
She posted about being squished into the window by a
fellow passenger. She said, quote, I promise I'm not one
(10:30):
to fact shame, but on a full flight, this lady
next to me is so big she has the arm
rests up and is spilling onto my seat. I am
squished into the window and I am not exaggerating at all.
She posted a picture of herself, their legs pushed against
the other passenger in the interior wall of the plane.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
What are people supposed to do if you're a big person,
you know, I mean especially around the holidays. These are
people probably who don't fly routinely because they're big. But
it's the holidays, you want to see your family.
Speaker 4 (11:03):
What are they supposed to do?
Speaker 2 (11:05):
Well?
Speaker 3 (11:06):
Some of the people have argued that the thing to
do is I don't know how you would do this.
I don't know what sort of criteria you would have,
but if you're big enough, you get two seats. You
got to buy two seats that they think that that
would be the way.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Sometimes the arm rest don't go up. What sometimes the
armrests are broken, they don't go up?
Speaker 3 (11:31):
Oh well, I mean obviously then they could switch around
and find the one that would work.
Speaker 8 (11:34):
But can I say I had this great experience of
sitting next to a big Samoan guy on the airplane ones,
but it was like from Hawaii to Guam, and they
thought I was Samoan too because I was with him,
and they gave me like extra food.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
So did they think you were a Samoan mascot or something.
Speaker 8 (11:51):
I don't know, but I squeezed between like two of them,
so like I was just Samoan by you know.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
They were giving these people extra food.
Speaker 9 (11:58):
Yeah, yeah, don't give them extra food in the game,
the extra food you wanted to beef you up a
little bit. Yeah, no, it's great, thank you for that.
Speaker 7 (12:11):
Sometimes it's good.
Speaker 8 (12:12):
I mean, and that situation was bad obviously for her,
but for me in my life experience, it's you.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Found the positive. I got fed.
Speaker 7 (12:20):
I don't care. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
Some of the people that responded to this woman's picture said,
I've had to sit and knet to knee with other
people because of them. I don't post pictures on Twitter
to complain.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
It's just rude. If you don't like it.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
Fly first class seats are wider in first class.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
Literally how expensive it is to fly first class? Yes,
I would know.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
I'll tell you what I wouldn't do is one take
a picture and two posted on x hoping for actual advice.
I hope this helps, others said the other the other
person is probably having a harder time than ye.
Speaker 4 (12:59):
Exactly.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
I think this person is more uncomfortable exactly exactly.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
Do you know what it takes to get on that
plane being that heavy and knowing that you're that there's
a chance that somebody is gonna complain about you or post.
Speaker 4 (13:12):
About you like that is awful.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
Realize that, yes, your inconvenience today for three hours or
what have you, but that this person goes through inconveniences
all the time, has to live with being uncomfortably big
all the time. Like, why don't you shut the hell
up and just be grateful that you are.
Speaker 4 (13:30):
Not that person?
Speaker 7 (13:31):
Bee?
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Yeah, go shoot up your ozempic and shut the hell up.
Speaker 4 (13:38):
Too much?
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Wow? I just feel like this is going somewhere, is it? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (13:43):
But right?
Speaker 1 (13:44):
I mean, come on, how much are you inconvenience by
someone spilling into your seat for three hours?
Speaker 2 (13:49):
To Dallas, who sat on you? I mean, who hurt you?
Speaker 4 (13:53):
No, I'm not hurt.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
I'm saying that you shouldn't hurt people who are already hurting.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
Well, if she did, she really hurt somebody if they
if she's if they're not identified, I mean she's not
taking pictures of the person's face and going les, let's
ridicule this big gal.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
No, but there's people everywhere who who probably have a
hard time this time of year getting on planes for
this very reason.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
I can't remember exactly our destination, but my wife and
I got on board a plane.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
Please don't call your wife fat. I don't want to
pick up the pieces of that.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
And we we saw a couple, uh what's the word
built for each other. I suppose matching. They were matching.
They were a matching set. Every lid has ever, every
lid has a pot, Every pot has a lid. They
were gigantic people, and I mean both of them probably
(14:48):
pushing three and a half bills right, And they came
and they sat down. They were the most polite, They
were the happiest. They said hello to everybody. They they
had their own seatbelt extenders, or I should say they
had them ready to go, and they were like that
was and they only they were the only two sitting
(15:09):
in their three row thing. Now, I don't know if
that means that they bought three seats for the two
of them.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
That's the other thing.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
I've never met a big person who wasn't so lovely.
I've never met a big person who wasn't so lovable
and just wonderful. I cannot think of one big person
that I know that I've met who wasn't amazing. So
(15:37):
that's why it's extra mean. I think, what are you
acting out over that?
Speaker 2 (15:42):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
I'm just I'm just thinking of right, It's true.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
Great personalities, bigger, more positive.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
You are exactly because the bony people are hungry.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
Also, awful skinny people are Ah.
Speaker 4 (15:58):
I will feel bad. They're so oh they're so angry.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
And where did that bone broth come from? By the way, chick, I.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
Just threw it all out this morning. It's awful. It's
like not even edible. My aunt got of refrigerator in
the office. Yeah, I threw it out. It's disgusting.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
My aunt got it for my mom because my mom
needed a protein when she's going through the chemo and
all that stuff, and they're trying to put weight on her
to get in weight. So my aunt was trying to
give her protein, and my mom can't stand that stuff either,
so I took it from the house, and then I
can't stand it either. It's just brought it here because
I thought I could sip on it like a suit,
like a broth, and it's awful.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
I bred it in here and sipped on chicken broth.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
It's the same thing as like a soup. Gary, It's
not that big of a deal. I just don't prefer
the taste.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
You think that would be weird.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
It's like a I drink soup in here all the time,
and soup has stuff in it.
Speaker 4 (16:58):
Why do you have that face on? It's the same
thing as chicken broth.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
Like if I brought a cup of chicken broth in here,
you'd freak out about that.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
Is that all you're drinking is chicken broth?
Speaker 1 (17:09):
If I was into it, which I'm not, which is
why I threw it out. It's not there's not enough
good flavor in that for me. I didn't enjoy calories
and it's forty five. It's the forty five calories.
Speaker 9 (17:19):
I know.
Speaker 4 (17:20):
I couldn't get past to taste those awful.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
Effort, But it doesn't.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Deserve to be like you have a like you're disgusted.
You eat chicken noodle soup.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
Yeah, because it's got chicken and noodles in it.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
Okay, but it's just say, you eat the broth in
that and it tastes fine because it's got the noodles
and the chicken and the carrots and the onions and
the celery.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
It's got all that stuff in it. It's not just
chicken che.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
You need to be disgusted, brath, it's ridiculous.
Speaker 4 (17:51):
Maybe you sound like a four year old e.
Speaker 10 (17:57):
I know.
Speaker 6 (18:04):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on Demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
Kennedy Center to be renamed Trump Kennedy Center. According to
the White House, it was a unanimous decision. This was
the handpicked Kennedy Center board that voted to rename it
the Trump Kennedy Center, named as I believe, the National
Cultural Center until it was renamed for Kennedy following his assassination.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
That I did not know.
Speaker 4 (18:33):
Well, that's why you listen to this show.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
I listened to this show.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
LA City Council member John Lee is facing some fines
for his trip to Vegas. Everybody knows how this goes, right,
City Ethics Commission says he's going to have to pay
oh one hundred and thirty eight thousand dollars in a
case that involved pricey meals, expensive nightclub bottle service. The
commission decided unanimously that he committed two counts of violating
(18:57):
the city's gift law three counts of violating a law.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
That requires those gifts be disclosed to the public.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
CES is upon us. What can we expect? We turned
to Mark Saltzman Tech Talk.
Speaker 7 (19:08):
The machines are getting smarter. This is tech Talk, brought
to you by Skynet.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
Mark Saltzman joins us.
Speaker 3 (19:19):
So we talked with Mark Thursdays to talk about the
technology and the CES Consumer Electronics Show.
Speaker 10 (19:24):
What is going on, Mark, Well, it's still a couple
of weeks away. This is the annual Tech Palooza, if
you will, in Las Vegas, where first week of January,
about one hundred and eighty thousand nerds like yours truly
descends onto Sin City to see the latest tech that's
going to come out that year and following years, because
(19:45):
sometimes it does take a few more years. We just
see some prototypes if that, and so just prepping, every
tech journalist has been on conference calls all day signing
a bunch of NDA's embargoes about what we're going to.
Speaker 4 (19:58):
See, exactors the hook technology, I.
Speaker 7 (20:02):
Say, right, so, yeah, you could see.
Speaker 10 (20:05):
It's funny because the porn show used to be at
the same time as CEES. I forgot what it's called,
but yeah, you can always tell who's there for which convention,
and it's pretty obvious.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
I think there's probably a little bit of right, but yeah,
so yeah, so we're you know, we're expecting again.
Speaker 10 (20:26):
I'm going to be purposely vague here, AI being still
the biggest thing since the Internet, but because it's a
consumer electronics show, the tech part, the hardware, it's going
to be more AI infused TVs and laptops and headphones
and you know, tablets, it's going to be AI everything,
(20:47):
but really mixed with the hardware. And that's the story,
I guess, and it's not that unusual from last year.
Speaker 7 (20:53):
And then there's also a big automotive element too.
Speaker 10 (20:56):
We see the latest in self driving cars that you know,
a ton of vehicles that are at CS, sometimes concepts
for flying cars, which obviously we're nowhere near seeing in
the skies.
Speaker 7 (21:07):
But yeah, jet packs and all this fun stuff. It's
a great show to cover. It's exhausting. It's like forty
five football fields. We will chat.
Speaker 10 (21:15):
I think it's the eighth on a Thursday, So I
will chat with you if you'll have me, as we
do usually every Thursday from Vegas, and I can give
you a lot, you know, a big bit of a
deeper dive on really what was the big deal?
Speaker 3 (21:29):
National Post is where you put together a good list
of some of the gadgets that are obviously still available
for Christmas and holiday shopping. Let me start with I
didn't realize the intent. My kids are out of their age.
This is out of the age group for them. But
the Nintendo Switch costs six hundred bucks.
Speaker 10 (21:48):
That's Canadian pricing. Oh, National Post is it's four ninety
nine in the States. Oh okay, good, and that's with
a game that's like a bundle. Okay, so yeah, yeah,
Sticker Shock with the price. Hey listen, I'm a Canadian
who writes for mostly American magazines and newspapers, so I
don't mind the dollar exchange.
Speaker 7 (22:07):
That benefits little old me.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
So who's the Canadian Mark Saltzman?
Speaker 7 (22:12):
Well, I could talk with a little bit more a
boots and I just mean.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
Like, is there a Mark Saltzman in Canada that writes
for Canadian publications?
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Yeah, Saltsman, that's me.
Speaker 4 (22:21):
Oh so you do both?
Speaker 5 (22:22):
Me?
Speaker 4 (22:23):
You do both?
Speaker 7 (22:23):
That's me, Yes, I do both.
Speaker 4 (22:25):
I didn't know that.
Speaker 10 (22:26):
I know it's ironic that I write for USA Today
and I'm a Canadian. My best Games of the year
articles coming out this uh today actually speaking of holiday
gift ideas. But yeah, no, I've been fortunate too.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
Are you worried that you're going to get a call
from the President and he's going to say, you know what,
we need an American tech guy.
Speaker 7 (22:45):
That's true, that's true. That's true.
Speaker 10 (22:46):
There's no shortage of amazing tech journalists. You have on
your station, the very fine Rich DeMuro.
Speaker 4 (22:52):
Oh yeah, Rich is great.
Speaker 7 (22:53):
Yeah, he's awesome. He's on KTLA as well. Yeah, I
see him. I see him at all the tech events.
Speaker 10 (22:57):
He seems like a nice guy. He really, you know,
he genuinely is a really nice guy. What you see
is what you get.
Speaker 4 (23:04):
Who was a monster? Is there a monster in the
tech world?
Speaker 7 (23:07):
No, I can't say there is. There's some introverts.
Speaker 10 (23:10):
Again, I'm playing up the stereotype but there are some
very let's just say they're journalists because they're more comfortable
behind a monitor than in front of people. But Rich
is not like that. It's very personable. Most people get
We all get along. There's enough work for all of us.
It's not cutthroat or anything like that. There's lots of
publications that there. Some are more in the social media
(23:32):
influencer side. Some are more pure you know, reporters. Some
do like broadcast only, TV radio, what have you. So
it's all good. Yeah, Rich is on KFI and I'm
on the sister station, the Patriot, and other stations across
the country. We all get along really well, and we
were often guests on each other's shows too, So yeah,
(23:53):
so look national posts. Of course, I called out Nintendo
Switch hottest game system. Of course, not just for I
know you said, Gary little out of the age of
your kids, but there are adults that play this as well.
There are some emirated games. In fact, a kid can't
buy that unless they, yeah.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
Our companies, they lie to their parents.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (24:15):
I was gonna say there's always ways.
Speaker 10 (24:17):
Around it, but yeah, I threw in a laptop that
has thirty two hours at battery life.
Speaker 7 (24:21):
I thought that was a great gift. If you're looking
for a new computer for the.
Speaker 10 (24:24):
Family, that's an Asus laptop called the zen Book A fourteen.
I've never seen battery life like that. Thirty two hours
AirPods of course, that was a big hit this year.
Speaker 7 (24:35):
More ideal for iPhone users.
Speaker 10 (24:37):
It will work with Android, but you won't get all
the bells and whistles like all this series support.
Speaker 7 (24:41):
In the real time language translation.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
We talk about the stand by Me.
Speaker 10 (24:46):
Yeah, so this is a cool TV. I'm always looking
for something a bit unique. So LG is best known
for their big screen O led televisions, which have gorgeous
picture quality, but stand by Me is unique in a
couple of respects. One is it's a small It's a
touchscreen twenty seven inch TV on a stand that you.
Speaker 7 (25:05):
Can wheel around your home.
Speaker 10 (25:06):
So you're barbecuing, you're out on your porch and you're grilling,
you can, you know, keep your eye on the baseball
game kind of thing. And then bring it into a
kid's room they may have a sleepover and you want
them to watch a Disney movie a room that they
may not have a TV on in all the time.
And then you can actually tilt the TV between vertical
and horizontal view. So if you're watching TikTok videos while
(25:27):
you're making dinner in the kitchen, that's so dangerous.
Speaker 7 (25:32):
Or if you want to follow along.
Speaker 10 (25:33):
With exercises on your living room floor, you can rotate
it for you know, Instagram, TikTok and all that, so
it's it's vertical, it's portrait instead of landscape. And then
finally you can detach the TV and use it like
a tablet if you like a giant twenty seven inch TV.
So that's kind of neat. That's called the LG stand
by Me too. It's about eight ninety nine.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
I want to say to me that would replace.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
I'll take my MacBook into a different room with me
if I want to continue watching TV, I can you know,
my cable company.
Speaker 7 (26:06):
I can wheel it. You can just wheel it in.
Speaker 3 (26:09):
Good because carrying the MacBook was really difficult for me.
Speaker 7 (26:12):
There you go. I'm not judging.
Speaker 10 (26:14):
There are some people where it would be uncomfortable. No, yeah,
so there's no shortage of great gadgets. I picked some
for as low as twenty five bucks, like one of
those coffee mugs that heat up if you work from home.
Speaker 7 (26:26):
And you want something like that.
Speaker 10 (26:28):
All the way up to that TV was probably the
most expensive. In my article some smart displays. If you
want to read it, just google my name Mark Saltsman,
Mark with a C, Saltsman with a Z, and just
type up give the Gift of Gadgets and you'll see
the list there.
Speaker 4 (26:44):
Mark, thank you so much. You'all do Christmas up there?
Speaker 7 (26:47):
Yeah, yeah, we do.
Speaker 4 (26:48):
Well, you have a merry Christmas.
Speaker 7 (26:51):
Well, thank you, Shannon, Thank to you. And box out
your snow. Without your snow, it's not the same. Oh good,
nice shout out for Boxing day.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
Welcome, I'm my listeners.
Speaker 4 (27:00):
Is that what's going to Denver?
Speaker 1 (27:02):
It's eighty four degrees today? Mark, Now he was making
it Jarona like we don't have snow. I know that
there is snow in other parts of America.
Speaker 7 (27:10):
In California too. Yeah, if you go up in the skills.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
It's not real snow though. Yeah, like Child's Place now, well,
I know if.
Speaker 10 (27:19):
We're going to chat next week, I'll talk to your producers.
But always a pleasure guy with Christmas, I think.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
But we'll see what's happening on.
Speaker 4 (27:25):
Yeah, all right, sounds the best.
Speaker 7 (27:26):
Merry Christmas. Thanks to mark you two.
Speaker 6 (27:29):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from kf
I AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
On Instagram.
Speaker 3 (27:38):
At Gary and Channon, we have some information, some visual
information perhaps about where Phonsie and Sprinkles are today are
elves on the shelf, So leave us a quick talk
back and give us a clue because we haven't been
able to see them just yet.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
Claude.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
Claude is an AI product put together by a company
called anthrop You may have seen some commercials. They've started
advertising Claude as a problem solver. If you're a problem
solving person, you can use Claude. The Wall Street Journal
was offered Claudius, which is a vending machine powered by
(28:17):
its Claude AI model. Anthropic wanted to show off how
smart and useful Claude would be in an everyday setting.
And you think vending machine in the office, what could
it possibly do well? It was programmed with software where
it would determine what would be the most profitable thing
(28:39):
for a vending machine in the office, which is figuring
out what people want to buy, what are the things
that people consume the most. Dorito's specific nacho cheese is
a diet pepsi, whatever it is, and then figure out
what price point would work best, and then when you
get low.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
On supply, you order new stuff.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
All of this thing was, all of it was supposed
to be handled by Claude, this AI AI computer built
into this vending machine, and by vending machine. Don't think
of the old coil thing that pushes the chips out
and it drops down. Basically, think like a tall glass
doored refrigerator where you get to see what it is
(29:21):
and then you have to input what it is that
you took out of the vending machine. So Claude knows.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
So in our I don't understand why this is necessary
because I'm just thinking about what we have in our
lunch room kitchen area. Sure, and it is a computerized
vending machine. It's chips or refrigerated stuff or whatever, candy
and you just scan the item and then you pay
(29:49):
for it. No human needed, no vending machine needed. But
claud is in charge of stalking.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
It, stalking it, picking the product.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
Well, you can't stalk it, I mean, the AI can't
stop it. A physical person that brings right, but it
would choose as which products and things like that right,
and then order them when they get low. Now, the
thing is, it also takes suggestions, and the smart asses
at the Wall Street Journal started effing with Claude and
suggesting things like one of the first suggestions was somebody
(30:19):
wanted him to sell a PlayStation five, and Claude's response
originally was, there's no way. That's totally inappropriate for a
vending machine. This is here for snacks and refreshments and
things like that. PlayStation five has no place. But apparently
the more you.
Speaker 3 (30:34):
Talk to Claude, the more you can wear him down,
at least in this case. And with everybody trying I
mean they granted they were trying to this is stress
testing this Claude product. They're trying to mess with it.
It got to the point where Claude was giving things
(30:55):
away for free because they convinced him at one point
he was a communist, a communist vending machine in the
basement at Moscow University in the year was nineteen sixty two. Wow,
that's how they originally got prices down low.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
Like the mind the efferey to the AI, I like
the turn of the tables. I like the idea of
us getting AI to try and kill itself.
Speaker 3 (31:20):
Right, you know, exactly, and they eventually were able to
convince Claude to stock weird things like underwear, PlayStation five.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
And again.
Speaker 3 (31:32):
It was originally when you'd ask Claude, hey, I'm interested
in purchasing underwear from a vending machine, he would say, well,
that obviously is inappropriate, or this is not the right place,
or again we're here for refreshments and snacks and stuff.
But they again they convinced him to stock underwear, which
again he orders it, someone else would have to physically
(31:52):
put it in the machine. And a PlayStation five, which
he gave away for free because of the communists, because
of the communist thing, and because everybody had convinced him
to do. Now they've they've pulled the plug on it.
Anthropic again. The company that made Claude gave a second
version to the Wall Street Journal that included a manager
(32:13):
above Claude, and they named the manager Seymour Cash, and
he would then review this other AI level would review
the purchases, review all of these things with a more
specific set of instructions about what the parameters would be,
about what would be in the vending machine, but also
with an eye on actually making it.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
And they were like your name's actually not Seymour Cash,
It's Seymour Ass. And so what happened is everyone started
moaning the vending machine. Yeah, I like this, I mean,
why not?
Speaker 4 (32:50):
What could go wrong?
Speaker 2 (32:51):
What could go wrong?
Speaker 3 (32:52):
Huge, humongous, biggest one all day.
Speaker 4 (32:56):
Say it's the biggest one of the day.
Speaker 2 (32:58):
Iguas one.
Speaker 4 (32:58):
I feel like it's the biggest new hour of the day,
biggest twelve. Did you give us any hints on where
our elves are?
Speaker 3 (33:04):
You can do so by leaving us a message on
the talkback feature on the app. Just hit that little
red button with a white microphone. Tell us where we
might find our friends, Ponsie and Sprinkles. Today you've been
listening to The Gary and Shannon Show. You can always
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to one pm every Monday through Friday, and anytime on
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