July 18, 2025 • 30 mins
ICYMI: Hour One of ‘Later, with Mo’Kelly’ Presents – Initial thoughts on CBS’ decision to cancel ‘Late Show With Stephen Colbert’…PLUS – A look at the battle between Waymo and Tesla to rule the Robotaxi landscape - on KFI AM 640…Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app & YouTube @MrMoKelly
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Speaker 1 (00:22):
I Am six forty is later with Mo Kelly. We're
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in the motown chat. It's very lively, very very lively.
Some of it is inappropriate, but a lot of it
is fun, and we like to have fun here every
single night, Monday through Friday from seven to ten pm.
(00:44):
We have a chance of thundershowers coming this week. What
here southern California. We'll talk about it with Mark Runner
next segment. And there's a new war going on right now.
You didn't know.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
No, I'm not talking about anything in the Middle East.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
No, I'm not talking talking about anything in the Far
East of with Ukraine and Russia. No, no, no, I'm
talking about Weimo and Tesla. They're going to war as
it were. We'll tell you about that before the hour's up.
And I have my final thought. I'm going to tell
you about the subject right now. And you may not
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know where I'm going to come from, so don't try
to get out in front of me. But you hopefully
have seen the news now that Stephen Colbert announced that
his show will be no more as of May twenty
twenty six. And you may not know what that has
to do with or or why that happened now if
you haven't been paying attention to the other ancillary issues
(01:43):
surrounding paramount CBS and also the Trump administration. I got
a lot of thoughts on that, and people should not
run by this moment. It's very important what Stephen Colbert
had to say today about the impending into his show.
It was just announced today while he was taping, and
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it's not going to be for another ten months or so.
But it's something that most people did not see coming,
or maybe you did see it coming if you saw
his remarks earlier this week on The Late Show. He
had a lot to say about his parent company. If
you're wondering whether you're going to stay around after you
completely rake your boss and bosses company over the Coles, yeah,
(02:28):
that might not get you fired, but it might have
someone say that they're not going to renew your contracts.
So we're going to get into all of that. But
I also want to look at it as a member
a fellow member of the media. I didn't watch the
Late Show with Stephen Colbert. I mean I pick up
clips here and there, but I'd never really watched it
with any consistency. I don't think i've watched it ever
(02:49):
since David Letterman left, to tell you the truth, but
Stephen Colbert was a needed voice in that media space,
and we'll see what is going to happen to him
in the future. But there's so much to cover tonight.
I encourage you to join in. Join in the chat.
We have Carnesia who's back in the studio. She'll be
(03:09):
monitoring the chat, so if you get too crazy, she
will block you. If you think I block people quickly,
she will block you quicker than I will.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
I just dislike a lot of you. She hates all
of you. There's a huge difference. Oh I missed that. Laugh.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
There is a huge difference. I can tolerate you for
fifteen minutes at a time. She has zero tolerance. She
has a zero tolerance policy for any foolishness in the chat,
and that goes for you, Mark Ronner. If you get
too squirrely in there, she may block you as well.
You keep me the hell out of this while I
have you on the mic, Have you decided what your
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runner report is going to be?
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
No, I haven't because the only movie I was really
interested in that Eddington movie. But I think Ari Haster
is not opening very widely, so I may nerd out
and talk about the new star trek Strange New Worlds. Colbert,
you might beat me to the punch. This has been
on my mind all day as well all day and
since you mentioned Colbert.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
It's kind of hard to not take take notice of
big moments in our business and when we talk about
freedom of the press and how that figures into this woman.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
This was a big deal today.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
I don't think people really know or understand it if
you only look at it through a political lens. I
think you're missing a larger portion of the story. That's
a part of it. Seismic deal. And yeah, I almost
never miss at least his opening monologue. I think he's
probably our greatest living satirist. I wonder, though, since he's
been unshackled and unburdened by the idea of not worrying
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about the future of his show, what it might mean
for the next ten months.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
Oh, he has always had just cajones of steel, and
now that he might not care anymore. I'm also a
big fan of John Oliver on HBO, and he just
constantly screws with him bosses as well, and I admire
that for reasons I don't want to go into. But
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you know, you always wondered if they were bulletproof.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Now we know. I don't believe anyone is bulletproof.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Everyone has a boss, everyone has a contract in this business.
So it comes down to I will say this because
this is not a part of my remarks. When you
work in this business and you're front facing your personality
who's talking to the general public, you know that they're
things that you can say, you know that there are
things that you shouldn't say, and then you have to
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decide what you will say, how far you will go.
And that's a conversation and internal conversation we all have
with ourselves. And when you see someone go so far
out there, it makes me wonder what was already said
internally At CBS, of course, but we.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
Know that to some degree, success gives you a little
bit of in vulnerability. But I think there's more going
on behind the scenes here, and you'll probably get into
this with the CBS merger and all that kind of stuff. Yep,
definitely not invulnerable. When you get into the politics of it.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
No, and definitely not invulnerable when you're using someone else's airways,
someone else's studio, someone else's.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Show.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
You know, it may have been called The Late Show
was Stephen Colbert, but Stephen Colbert didn't own the show.
But it'll be interesting to see what he does next.
I'm quite sure he'll own whatever he does next. And
I've been a fan since the start. And I remember
a friend of mine was in the audience for his
first show and noticed that up close, she was sitting
in the front row. He seemed pretty nervous, but boy
did he grow into that fast. And of all the
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ones I compulsively watched.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
You know, Seth Meyer Meyer or Myers Myers, I should
know if it's got aness on the end after all
this time.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
And Kimmel, I don't. I don't watch Fallon.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
But Colbert is the one who consistently makes me laugh
out loud the most of the three of them.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
What I admired most, And not that I'm in his mold,
but I can appreciate someone who started behind the scenes
and then came to the stage. You know, he starts
as a writer and then he becomes a personality and
I can identify with that, and I appreciate that because
not often does someone have their own voice. They usually
start off writing for someone else's voice, and that's all
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you ever do.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
You don't get to have your own voice.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
And for him to have his own voice and have
one of the largest voices in this business is really admirable.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
I think he's hilarious.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
I followed him since he was a correspondent on The
Daily Show and then when he was in his persona
on The Colbert Report. It's really this isn't gonna be
a one day story, Oh not at all. It's Later
with Mo Kelly KIM six forty. We're live on YouTube, Instagram, Facebook,
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Speaker 4 (07:40):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
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Speaker 1 (07:49):
KIM six forty is Later with mo Kelly Live everywhere
on YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, and the iHeartRadio app. We were
really overlast segment, starting to get into the subjects of
Stephen Colbert. The Late Show with Stephen Colbert is going
to be no more as of May twenty twenty six,
Mark Ronner and I think hit it right on the
head that's a story because people are just now really
(08:10):
finding out. That's a story which is going to be
huge for a number of reasons, and people are going
to be discussing it for quite some time, if only
because no one really knows what Stephen Colbert is going
to do in response. The story is that Stephen Colbert
didn't even know until last night what was going to
happen to his show. He was informed last night, that is,
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after he had some very pointed remarks about Paramount on Monday.
I'll play that during my final thought at the end
of the show. But Stephen Colbert has never been afraid.
And if you're going to give Stephen Colbert a whole
ten months, a whole ten months to say what is
ever on his mind, look out.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
But we'll get into that a little bit later. Got
to talk about the weather. Now, got to talk about
the weather.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
Someone said that there might be thunder storms and showers
coming our way.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Mark.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
I don't know if your information is different than mine,
but I hear there's a chance of showers tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
This is a true fact.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
We got a chance of thunderstorms late tonight and it's
gonna last until tomorrow morning. And if it does happen
tomorrow morning, it'll be cleared out by the afternoon. It's
about a twenty percent chance, so you could roll the
dice stand outside all night.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
I encourage that. Whenever I see thundershowers thunderstorms in the summer,
I think about going back east or down south where
you have humidity. And it's not uncommon when I would
go back to the city of Detroit for the summer.
You it's almost something I look forward to because it'd
be the middle of the day. All of a sudden,
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it would just start raining and you might get thunder
and lightning, and then twenty minutes later it stopped. It'd
be sunny all of a sudden, and it's something that
you just don't get all that off and out here
in southern California. So just seeing it is like, Wow,
that's kind of different, is it. I know you're not
a meteorologist, but I'm saying it just seems like it's
more humid than usual out here in southern California.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
I know it's messing with my hair. And you're all
streamlined now, so you don't care. Yeah, I don't care
about the toilet. Kid him, I kid him. He's not
nice today. What I wasn't an insult? No, I mean
not a direct insult.
Speaker 5 (10:20):
Well, I indirect don't attack our ball not no, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
It's probably much more convenient for you. I'm starting to
look like, Yeah, who's serious in this weather?
Speaker 1 (10:32):
It is. No, it is definitely convenient. I can grow
some hair, I just don't like how it grows or
where it grows. So this is just easier for maintenance.
And I'm at the age where I'm not as vain
as I used to be.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
I'm not vain.
Speaker 5 (10:48):
I just don't need people walking around call me George Jefferson.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
I got a.
Speaker 5 (10:53):
Full full sun roof that opens up wide appear if
this girl, But you have the cul de sac, Yeah,
the straight called the straight U. It's gonna be like
like I'm wearing some type of reverse halo or something.
It's it's it's a bad look up here. Oh, I
haven't heard it called the cul de sact before.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
I like, you've never heard that, seriously. Oh that's good.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Oh, it's almost synonymous with George Ooh. I wouldn't say
you would look like George Jefferson because he had more like.
Speaker 5 (11:23):
A kind of a U turn Look if this grows out,
it's going to turn into it. It just looks like,
why does Well have like these these ear muffs with
a band going around his head?
Speaker 2 (11:36):
Halloween's coming up.
Speaker 5 (11:38):
It's it's just it's just thin, all these it's all
thin on the top.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
Mark is out for blood. I say this with love.
Halloween's coming. Did you see what the nice load lady? Uh?
Speaker 2 (11:49):
Dressed up as a nice load lady. She's dressed up
as Stephan last year. It was fantastic. So I think
we have a competitive thing going here.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
And if you show it up for Hallowne as George Jefferson,
I would completely lose it.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
That would be brilliant.
Speaker 5 (12:03):
I'm not even think for a moment I'm letting this
horrifically bald yet unkemped side growth.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
No.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
August, September, October, and you've got the perfect amount of
time to cultivate this.
Speaker 5 (12:23):
It's not it's not it's not even it's not even attractive.
It's not like, hey, it looks like a mess shaved that.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Hey, Mark, have you ever shaved your head just to
see what you look like?
Speaker 3 (12:32):
No, but you've seen it high and tight. I mean,
we know that I have a fairly normal shaped skull.
Fairly fairly you're qualifier a little like the Zeno morph.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
Can we be the judge of that? Just go ahead
and shave your head one time? Do it tonight, get
right now, shave it, shave it, shave it. Sha.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
I'm obviously due for a haircut. I look like side
show Bob. So when it happens, you'll you'll know.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
Well no, we're saying, why don't you go ahead and
do it like immediately?
Speaker 3 (13:01):
Yeah, like tonight? What just like a Gitmo shave? Yeah,
just shave it off. I mean just like you going
to the marine. Yeah, like the marine cut. I mean
it gets close enough to that when I when I
go to a normal barber for a hair Just what
do you want to do it?
Speaker 2 (13:14):
Yeah? Do it. This is where I can tell that
you were in a frat house.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
Mo.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
Yeah, that's true. But do it. No, you do it.
I've done it. He done it. That's right, Well he's
currently it. All right.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
Well, let's just address the elephant in the room, which
is that you guys look cooler with a shaved head
than pretty much most white guys.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Can we at least see just to confirm what will
this serve comedic purpose? You want to see if I
have like three sixes.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
In my skin, I just want to the divots or
you know, indentations, what.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
Like a bowling ball, some finger holes? There's nothing there.
Why do we have to take your work?
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Well, don't know that? Show us. It's time for the news.
It's Later with mo Kelly.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
Cave everywhere in the iHeartRadio apples.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
Can you believe these cree honestly? All right?
Speaker 4 (14:01):
Resetting you're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand
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Speaker 2 (14:16):
Mister mo'kelly, he wounds a s this is autonomous vehicles
might be on the ball, nothing too all the coons
on cleaner tongue under control. This says m Kelly is
(14:40):
wrong from thinks he's on the payroll from Wamo Chris,
Wamo be bad So you openmo be run over, run
be bad.
Speaker 4 (14:58):
You the way.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
KFI Later with mo Kelly live everywhere on the iHeartRadio
app YouTube, all over social media. Let's get into Weimo
and Tesla. They are going at each other on social
media and it's rather funny. I gotta say it's rather
funny and you would think king Twitter troll Elon Musk
(15:27):
would have the upper hand on in this case, the
upper penis. This is exactly what I mean. Sorry, Carnation,
but that's part of the story. Elon Musk posted an
image of Tesla's robotaxi service on Twitter, but he put
it in the shape of a penis, trying to troll Weimo,
saying that Tesla's robo taxi service area was larger than weymo's.
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Then Weaimo came back and said it just announced its
own expansion. Didn't use the penis photo, but it showed
a bigger map with more customers, and and just I
guess if it's bigger, you.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
Don't have to really say anything.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
You just sort of just put it out there and
everyone knows it's bigger.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
I think it's surrounded Way Moo's shape.
Speaker 5 (16:16):
Yeah, almost shape could fit inside of the Waymo. So
Tesla could fit inside of the way Moo. It's always
about fit, though, it's always about fit and Waymo's circumference
under Waymos. No the Waymo's area.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
It's bigger.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Oh yeah, Waymo is bigger. Waymo has more of a
service area. Weymo has more customers, Wimo has more of
a track record. And so yeah, when you when you
want to go after someone, you always want to go
after number one.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
You always want to go after someone who has more
or is done more.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
And if anything, Tesla Robotaxis, they're saying, hey, we're coming,
We're we're Oh I'm sorry, that's I mean, we're we're
on our way.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
That that just slipped out.
Speaker 5 (17:06):
I mean, shoot, now, okay, you can't say anything. Just
gonna stop talking about foods. This is something that I
saw today connected to this in way Mo's desire to
spread further. They are partnering with and going all in
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with Uber and Lyft, and they are going to be
spreading all across everywhere in a in a rapid way. Yeah,
it's it's about to be a real problem. Uber is
going all in with robo taxis.
Speaker 6 (17:48):
Yeah, I've definitely heard that because and even when I
work uh and and most season too. Yeah, when I
work Fridays and Saturday nights, I can't tell you how
many times I'm I'm literally driving right behind a Waymo.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
Well think about it. Think about it in this way.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
If you are Uber and you have a way to
not pay anyone, and you can have coverage cars out
there picking up riders that you don't have to pay
or split any fair with. Of course they're going to
do that, and they could be rolling twenty four to
seven as opposed to Stephan You might be on an
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eight hour shift self imposed. Yeah, same car will be
out there twenty four hours.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Yeah. I mean, Sol needs to be the charge everywhere today.
Speaker 5 (18:33):
Maybe it's in response to Tesla trying to show off
their little map, their little penile map. Maybe right. Maybe
it's in response No it is, but Uber is like,
that's fine, Tesla, but we're going all in with Weymo,
and they're talking about massive expansion in every single market
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that they are in part and whistle. You will now
see way Mo on the window along with Uber, and
that's just what it's going to be. And they're not
even saying anything to the to the Fuses of the
world to say.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
Hey, no, they don't have to.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
And Tesla on its own right doesn't have the market
share or the customer base to compete right now with
Waibo even without the Uber and lift contingency. When you
when you start making when you combine those forces, I
don't know, seriously, for Tesla robotaxis. I don't know what
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there is for them unless they're first into the consumer
ownership market. The first one to start selling these two
people where we can choose our next new car is
going to be an autonomous vehicle, a fully autonomous vehicle,
which Tesla had been promising for the past I don't know,
five six years, still haven't done it. And if they
haven't been able to do it on a consumer level,
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I'm not so sure they can do it on a
public transfer tation level. But the first one who's who
is able to sell cars to you and me that
are fully autonomous.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
Look out.
Speaker 6 (20:08):
Oh so you think it's still have a job. Yeah
for the next three weeks. I mean, yeah, this is
all to be serious.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
This is all happening very very I know it's very quickly,
and they're not going to say hey, get ready, it's coming. No,
they'll just make an announcement one day and all of
a sudden, you will have fewer customers to pick up
because I'm quite sure they'll be routing all of these
fares to these cars, depending on how many cars they
have out there.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
Autonomous cars.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
Yeah, way, that is the next they have a proof
of concept as we call it in this business, they
have a proof of concept where they can service a
city without any real major all jokes aside, without any
real major incidents, and whatever incidents they will have will
probably be fewer than what they've experienced with real drivers.
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You know, the cars make attack, but they're not having
to worry about the liability of drivers getting attacked, and
maybe that's a reasonable expenditure that they're they're willing to
deal with.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
I don't know. All of this driver stuff is going away.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
Taxicab drivers going away, bus drivers going away, truck drivers
going away, delivery drivers gone.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
Yeah, they're already going away. All's gone.
Speaker 6 (21:24):
The drones delivering and they got those what is it
that robot they're implementing to deliver the actual packages.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
Exactly. It's crazy. You're only going to go further down
that progression.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
You're not actually going to it's not going to go
in any other direction where we're going to there's going
to be a movement back to in person drivers.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
No, it's not going to work that way.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
The technology is as long as it's becoming more and
more feasible and financially reasonable, then that's what businesses are
going to do. Because yes, why not remove the human
component when the human component always costs more than the
automated option, Like you always say.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
It's just they're they're just worried about the bottom line,
what you can save. That's it.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
And Mark is going to be bad because he thinks
we should push back against all this and the AI,
which is inevitably included in this. But I'm just here
to tell Mark, whether he shaves his head or not,
this is happening.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
You're back to that. Yes, I am mister frat boy.
Would you like to paddle me next? Is that where
this is really mad? Did you want to paddle me?
Speaker 2 (22:27):
Wow? I'll do it.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
If you got darker, you just pipe down there. Baba booby.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
Now I'm getting uncomfortable. I think that there's a me
too lawsuit coming around. Mission accomplished. It's Later with mo
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Speaker 1 (23:22):
There's an ongoing discussion, and I think it is emblematic
of what most of us are discussing. Sometimes technology can
feel like too much, too soon, too fast, and I
am a firm believer in having that discussion. For as
much as we talk about Weimo, I have yet to
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set foot in one.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
I've said I'm a slow adopter of a lot of technology.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
It took me a while to get comfortable with the
idea of Uber getting in someone's private personal car with
an absolute stranger and having that person be in control
of wherever I end up.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
It took me a long time to get used to that.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
Then, I mean, you had Airbnb, and I've used Airbnb
maybe once in my life, and that was enough for me.
I was not comfortable being in someone's personal space and
wondering if there were cameras, wondering if I might have
all these hidden charges that I'll be responsible for because
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I didn't see all the fine print, not having the
benefit of being able to just pick up a phone
and so like, yes, can I have some extra towels please?
And now I've gone back to hotel. So I understand
that when I say advancement of technology, the idea of
an app being used in a way that we weren't
customarily using it, I get it.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
I'm not comfortable with everything.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
And if you're looking at the Motown chat, the mo
egos are debating that as well. Mone Raymer Amayah was saying,
you know, she didn't want how nine thousand from the
movie A Space Odyssey two thousand and one to show
up where you have the unintended consequences of a machine
taking over and taking control and then you ending up dead.
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I mean, yeah, that's the cinematic version of how everything
goes wrong.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
But I get the uncertainty.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
I get the questionable feelings that we all have about
technology too much, too soon, too fast. I am not
personally ready to just get in a car where there's
nobody in the car with me and letting it drive.
And we have some fun with this with the subject
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to all it talks about. You know, it's safe and
we haven't had any major incidents with it. And all
that's true, it doesn't mean I'm gonna feel comfortable with it.
It doesn't mean that I am ready for it. And
I remember when I was a kid in the home
computer the personal computer came out, and I remember my
father's mother who passed away in like nineteen ninety one.
(26:03):
She was not really on board but the whole computer thing.
And I didn't understand in the time, because I thought
all technology was cool.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
Then you get a little older, you live a.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
Little life, and you realize that just because something is newer,
just because something is advanced, doesn't necessarily mean it's better.
I remember how that same grandmother of mine was born
prior to the Great Depression, and she didn't trust banks,
and it seems silly to me. She literally, and I'm
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meaning literally, I'm using the word correctly, she literally hid
money in her mattress because she did not trust banks.
I remember speaking of banks by my mother. She was
not all the way down with computer banking, you know,
checking your balance and paying bills via the internet. And
(27:00):
it took me a while to convince her or show
her how to do it. Now she I can't stop
her from doing everything on the internet and buying stuff
and what have you. But it took a while for
her to get there. Now that I have some years
under my belt, it makes sense. Just because something is
newer doesn't mean that I'm going to quickly or automatically
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be comfortable with it.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
And I know I'm not the only one. I know
that I'm not the only one.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
Who is reticent to get into a cab with nobody
at the controls. I know I would not be ready
to get on an airplane with no one at the controls,
and I don't know if I'll ever be there, and
I think that's the next likely progression for this technology. Yes,
we have autopilot, I get all that, But the whole
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idea of a plane taking off and landing with no
one at the controls, I'm not there yet.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
It turns out people are useful for a variety of things,
and you don't want to remove them from the equation.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
No, And you know, yes, human error is real. Humans
are fallible. Humans make mistakes. We can just drive down
the one ten freeway. We'll see all sorts of human
imperfections happening in real time. But there is a degree
of certainty with that that I can wrap my mind
(28:20):
around that I can't when I'm completely out of control.
And maybe if the whole transportation world, at least as
far as driving was concerned, if the whole transportation world
was using automated technology, in other words, there was no
car on the road with the exception of fully automated
vehicles like we see in movies like Minority Report or
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in other movies, then I would be more at ease
with it. And we're a long way from that.
Speaker 3 (28:48):
Yeah, I don't think it's going to be to any
point where we can be fully confident in it before
you and I die. Weren't the cars in Minority Report
on tracks or something?
Speaker 2 (28:58):
They were? It wasn't.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
I don't know if it's a track, but they were
completely automated when they were in the city, and then
you could drive them when you're out.
Speaker 3 (29:07):
Of the city. Okay, Yeah, I'm not getting in one
of those. There's no right, right, absolutely not.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
I'm not ready for that.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
And I will be that person that I could not
understand when I was a child looking at my grandparents.
And part of it is age, and part of it
is it sometimes takes a while for.
Speaker 3 (29:24):
Technology to get it right. Also, sometimes technology doesn't get
it right. I mean, we have to regulate the living
daylights out of some of this stuff because it doesn't
have any sense of its own on when to hold
back and when to move cautiously.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
And this is the human element. Humans cut corners exact.
Humans are guided oftentimes by capitalism, and so safety sometimes
is a casualty of that.
Speaker 3 (29:55):
I think we've got a mountain of history that supports
that if they answer first to their shareholders, unless they
have to answer to regulators first.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
How many times have we learned about a product being
dangerous well after the fact.
Speaker 3 (30:10):
Are you thinking specifically about the pinto There are too
many examples.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
I'm just saying, how many times have we learned well
after the fact that something was dangerous to the general public,
and then because of capitalism, because of selfish interests, those
concerns were pushed aside.
Speaker 3 (30:27):
The approximate number is always right, That's all I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
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We have a chance of thundershowers coming this week. What
here southern California. We'll talk about it with Mark Runner
next segment. And there's a new war going on right now.
You didn't know.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
No, I'm not talking about anything in the Middle East.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
No, I'm not talking talking about anything in the Far
East of with Ukraine and Russia. No, no, no, I'm
talking about Weimo and Tesla. They're going to war as
it were. We'll tell you about that before the hour's up.
And I have my final thought. I'm going to tell
you about the subject right now. And you may not
(01:19):
know where I'm going to come from, so don't try
to get out in front of me. But you hopefully
have seen the news now that Stephen Colbert announced that
his show will be no more as of May twenty
twenty six. And you may not know what that has
to do with or or why that happened now if
you haven't been paying attention to the other ancillary issues
(01:43):
surrounding paramount CBS and also the Trump administration. I got
a lot of thoughts on that, and people should not
run by this moment. It's very important what Stephen Colbert
had to say today about the impending into his show.
It was just announced today while he was taping, and
(02:05):
it's not going to be for another ten months or so.
But it's something that most people did not see coming,
or maybe you did see it coming if you saw
his remarks earlier this week on The Late Show. He
had a lot to say about his parent company. If
you're wondering whether you're going to stay around after you
completely rake your boss and bosses company over the Coles, yeah,
(02:28):
that might not get you fired, but it might have
someone say that they're not going to renew your contracts.
So we're going to get into all of that. But
I also want to look at it as a member
a fellow member of the media. I didn't watch the
Late Show with Stephen Colbert. I mean I pick up
clips here and there, but I'd never really watched it
with any consistency. I don't think i've watched it ever
(02:49):
since David Letterman left, to tell you the truth, but
Stephen Colbert was a needed voice in that media space,
and we'll see what is going to happen to him
in the future. But there's so much to cover tonight.
I encourage you to join in. Join in the chat.
We have Carnesia who's back in the studio. She'll be
(03:09):
monitoring the chat, so if you get too crazy, she
will block you. If you think I block people quickly,
she will block you quicker than I will.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
I just dislike a lot of you. She hates all
of you. There's a huge difference. Oh I missed that. Laugh.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
There is a huge difference. I can tolerate you for
fifteen minutes at a time. She has zero tolerance. She
has a zero tolerance policy for any foolishness in the chat,
and that goes for you, Mark Ronner. If you get
too squirrely in there, she may block you as well.
You keep me the hell out of this while I
have you on the mic, Have you decided what your
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runner report is going to be?
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
No, I haven't because the only movie I was really
interested in that Eddington movie. But I think Ari Haster
is not opening very widely, so I may nerd out
and talk about the new star trek Strange New Worlds. Colbert,
you might beat me to the punch. This has been
on my mind all day as well all day and
since you mentioned Colbert.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
It's kind of hard to not take take notice of
big moments in our business and when we talk about
freedom of the press and how that figures into this woman.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
This was a big deal today.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
I don't think people really know or understand it if
you only look at it through a political lens. I
think you're missing a larger portion of the story. That's
a part of it. Seismic deal. And yeah, I almost
never miss at least his opening monologue. I think he's
probably our greatest living satirist. I wonder, though, since he's
been unshackled and unburdened by the idea of not worrying
(04:41):
about the future of his show, what it might mean
for the next ten months.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
Oh, he has always had just cajones of steel, and
now that he might not care anymore. I'm also a
big fan of John Oliver on HBO, and he just
constantly screws with him bosses as well, and I admire
that for reasons I don't want to go into. But
(05:07):
you know, you always wondered if they were bulletproof.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Now we know. I don't believe anyone is bulletproof.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Everyone has a boss, everyone has a contract in this business.
So it comes down to I will say this because
this is not a part of my remarks. When you
work in this business and you're front facing your personality
who's talking to the general public, you know that they're
things that you can say, you know that there are
things that you shouldn't say, and then you have to
(05:34):
decide what you will say, how far you will go.
And that's a conversation and internal conversation we all have
with ourselves. And when you see someone go so far
out there, it makes me wonder what was already said
internally At CBS, of course, but we.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
Know that to some degree, success gives you a little
bit of in vulnerability. But I think there's more going
on behind the scenes here, and you'll probably get into
this with the CBS merger and all that kind of stuff. Yep,
definitely not invulnerable. When you get into the politics of it.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
No, and definitely not invulnerable when you're using someone else's airways,
someone else's studio, someone else's.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Show.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
You know, it may have been called The Late Show
was Stephen Colbert, but Stephen Colbert didn't own the show.
But it'll be interesting to see what he does next.
I'm quite sure he'll own whatever he does next. And
I've been a fan since the start. And I remember
a friend of mine was in the audience for his
first show and noticed that up close, she was sitting
in the front row. He seemed pretty nervous, but boy
did he grow into that fast. And of all the
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ones I compulsively watched.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
You know, Seth Meyer Meyer or Myers Myers, I should
know if it's got aness on the end after all
this time.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
And Kimmel, I don't. I don't watch Fallon.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
But Colbert is the one who consistently makes me laugh
out loud the most of the three of them.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
What I admired most, And not that I'm in his mold,
but I can appreciate someone who started behind the scenes
and then came to the stage. You know, he starts
as a writer and then he becomes a personality and
I can identify with that, and I appreciate that because
not often does someone have their own voice. They usually
start off writing for someone else's voice, and that's all
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you ever do.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
You don't get to have your own voice.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
And for him to have his own voice and have
one of the largest voices in this business is really admirable.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
I think he's hilarious.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
I followed him since he was a correspondent on The
Daily Show and then when he was in his persona
on The Colbert Report. It's really this isn't gonna be
a one day story, Oh not at all. It's Later
with Mo Kelly KIM six forty. We're live on YouTube, Instagram, Facebook,
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Speaker 1 (07:49):
KIM six forty is Later with mo Kelly Live everywhere
on YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, and the iHeartRadio app. We were
really overlast segment, starting to get into the subjects of
Stephen Colbert. The Late Show with Stephen Colbert is going
to be no more as of May twenty twenty six,
Mark Ronner and I think hit it right on the
head that's a story because people are just now really
(08:10):
finding out. That's a story which is going to be
huge for a number of reasons, and people are going
to be discussing it for quite some time, if only
because no one really knows what Stephen Colbert is going
to do in response. The story is that Stephen Colbert
didn't even know until last night what was going to
happen to his show. He was informed last night, that is,
(08:32):
after he had some very pointed remarks about Paramount on Monday.
I'll play that during my final thought at the end
of the show. But Stephen Colbert has never been afraid.
And if you're going to give Stephen Colbert a whole
ten months, a whole ten months to say what is
ever on his mind, look out.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
But we'll get into that a little bit later. Got
to talk about the weather. Now, got to talk about
the weather.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
Someone said that there might be thunder storms and showers
coming our way.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Mark.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
I don't know if your information is different than mine,
but I hear there's a chance of showers tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
This is a true fact.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
We got a chance of thunderstorms late tonight and it's
gonna last until tomorrow morning. And if it does happen
tomorrow morning, it'll be cleared out by the afternoon. It's
about a twenty percent chance, so you could roll the
dice stand outside all night.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
I encourage that. Whenever I see thundershowers thunderstorms in the summer,
I think about going back east or down south where
you have humidity. And it's not uncommon when I would
go back to the city of Detroit for the summer.
You it's almost something I look forward to because it'd
be the middle of the day. All of a sudden,
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it would just start raining and you might get thunder
and lightning, and then twenty minutes later it stopped. It'd
be sunny all of a sudden, and it's something that
you just don't get all that off and out here
in southern California. So just seeing it is like, Wow,
that's kind of different, is it. I know you're not
a meteorologist, but I'm saying it just seems like it's
more humid than usual out here in southern California.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
I know it's messing with my hair. And you're all
streamlined now, so you don't care. Yeah, I don't care
about the toilet. Kid him, I kid him. He's not
nice today. What I wasn't an insult? No, I mean
not a direct insult.
Speaker 5 (10:20):
Well, I indirect don't attack our ball not no, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
It's probably much more convenient for you. I'm starting to
look like, Yeah, who's serious in this weather?
Speaker 1 (10:32):
It is. No, it is definitely convenient. I can grow
some hair, I just don't like how it grows or
where it grows. So this is just easier for maintenance.
And I'm at the age where I'm not as vain
as I used to be.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
I'm not vain.
Speaker 5 (10:48):
I just don't need people walking around call me George Jefferson.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
I got a.
Speaker 5 (10:53):
Full full sun roof that opens up wide appear if
this girl, But you have the cul de sac, Yeah,
the straight called the straight U. It's gonna be like
like I'm wearing some type of reverse halo or something.
It's it's it's a bad look up here. Oh, I
haven't heard it called the cul de sact before.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
I like, you've never heard that, seriously. Oh that's good.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Oh, it's almost synonymous with George Ooh. I wouldn't say
you would look like George Jefferson because he had more like.
Speaker 5 (11:23):
A kind of a U turn Look if this grows out,
it's going to turn into it. It just looks like,
why does Well have like these these ear muffs with
a band going around his head?
Speaker 2 (11:36):
Halloween's coming up.
Speaker 5 (11:38):
It's it's just it's just thin, all these it's all
thin on the top.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
Mark is out for blood. I say this with love.
Halloween's coming. Did you see what the nice load lady? Uh?
Speaker 2 (11:49):
Dressed up as a nice load lady. She's dressed up
as Stephan last year. It was fantastic. So I think
we have a competitive thing going here.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
And if you show it up for Hallowne as George Jefferson,
I would completely lose it.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
That would be brilliant.
Speaker 5 (12:03):
I'm not even think for a moment I'm letting this
horrifically bald yet unkemped side growth.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
No.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
August, September, October, and you've got the perfect amount of
time to cultivate this.
Speaker 5 (12:23):
It's not it's not it's not even it's not even attractive.
It's not like, hey, it looks like a mess shaved that.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Hey, Mark, have you ever shaved your head just to
see what you look like?
Speaker 3 (12:32):
No, but you've seen it high and tight. I mean,
we know that I have a fairly normal shaped skull.
Fairly fairly you're qualifier a little like the Zeno morph.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
Can we be the judge of that? Just go ahead
and shave your head one time? Do it tonight, get
right now, shave it, shave it, shave it. Sha.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
I'm obviously due for a haircut. I look like side
show Bob. So when it happens, you'll you'll know.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
Well no, we're saying, why don't you go ahead and
do it like immediately?
Speaker 3 (13:01):
Yeah, like tonight? What just like a Gitmo shave? Yeah,
just shave it off. I mean just like you going
to the marine. Yeah, like the marine cut. I mean
it gets close enough to that when I when I
go to a normal barber for a hair Just what
do you want to do it?
Speaker 2 (13:14):
Yeah? Do it. This is where I can tell that
you were in a frat house.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
Mo.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
Yeah, that's true. But do it. No, you do it.
I've done it. He done it. That's right, Well he's
currently it. All right.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
Well, let's just address the elephant in the room, which
is that you guys look cooler with a shaved head
than pretty much most white guys.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Can we at least see just to confirm what will
this serve comedic purpose? You want to see if I
have like three sixes.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
In my skin, I just want to the divots or
you know, indentations, what.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
Like a bowling ball, some finger holes? There's nothing there.
Why do we have to take your work?
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Well, don't know that? Show us. It's time for the news.
It's Later with mo Kelly.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
Cave everywhere in the iHeartRadio apples.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
Can you believe these cree honestly? All right?
Speaker 4 (14:01):
Resetting you're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand
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Speaker 2 (14:16):
Mister mo'kelly, he wounds a s this is autonomous vehicles
might be on the ball, nothing too all the coons
on cleaner tongue under control. This says m Kelly is
(14:40):
wrong from thinks he's on the payroll from Wamo Chris,
Wamo be bad So you openmo be run over, run
be bad.
Speaker 4 (14:58):
You the way.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
KFI Later with mo Kelly live everywhere on the iHeartRadio
app YouTube, all over social media. Let's get into Weimo
and Tesla. They are going at each other on social
media and it's rather funny. I gotta say it's rather
funny and you would think king Twitter troll Elon Musk
(15:27):
would have the upper hand on in this case, the
upper penis. This is exactly what I mean. Sorry, Carnation,
but that's part of the story. Elon Musk posted an
image of Tesla's robotaxi service on Twitter, but he put
it in the shape of a penis, trying to troll Weimo,
saying that Tesla's robo taxi service area was larger than weymo's.
(15:54):
Then Weaimo came back and said it just announced its
own expansion. Didn't use the penis photo, but it showed
a bigger map with more customers, and and just I
guess if it's bigger, you.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
Don't have to really say anything.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
You just sort of just put it out there and
everyone knows it's bigger.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
I think it's surrounded Way Moo's shape.
Speaker 5 (16:16):
Yeah, almost shape could fit inside of the Waymo. So
Tesla could fit inside of the way Moo. It's always
about fit, though, it's always about fit and Waymo's circumference
under Waymos. No the Waymo's area.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
It's bigger.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Oh yeah, Waymo is bigger. Waymo has more of a
service area. Weymo has more customers, Wimo has more of
a track record. And so yeah, when you when you
want to go after someone, you always want to go
after number one.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
You always want to go after someone who has more
or is done more.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
And if anything, Tesla Robotaxis, they're saying, hey, we're coming,
We're we're Oh I'm sorry, that's I mean, we're we're
on our way.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
That that just slipped out.
Speaker 5 (17:06):
I mean, shoot, now, okay, you can't say anything. Just
gonna stop talking about foods. This is something that I
saw today connected to this in way Mo's desire to
spread further. They are partnering with and going all in
(17:31):
with Uber and Lyft, and they are going to be
spreading all across everywhere in a in a rapid way. Yeah,
it's it's about to be a real problem. Uber is
going all in with robo taxis.
Speaker 6 (17:48):
Yeah, I've definitely heard that because and even when I
work uh and and most season too. Yeah, when I
work Fridays and Saturday nights, I can't tell you how
many times I'm I'm literally driving right behind a Waymo.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
Well think about it. Think about it in this way.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
If you are Uber and you have a way to
not pay anyone, and you can have coverage cars out
there picking up riders that you don't have to pay
or split any fair with. Of course they're going to
do that, and they could be rolling twenty four to
seven as opposed to Stephan You might be on an
(18:26):
eight hour shift self imposed. Yeah, same car will be
out there twenty four hours.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Yeah. I mean, Sol needs to be the charge everywhere today.
Speaker 5 (18:33):
Maybe it's in response to Tesla trying to show off
their little map, their little penile map. Maybe right. Maybe
it's in response No it is, but Uber is like,
that's fine, Tesla, but we're going all in with Weymo,
and they're talking about massive expansion in every single market
(18:58):
that they are in part and whistle. You will now
see way Mo on the window along with Uber, and
that's just what it's going to be. And they're not
even saying anything to the to the Fuses of the
world to say.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
Hey, no, they don't have to.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
And Tesla on its own right doesn't have the market
share or the customer base to compete right now with
Waibo even without the Uber and lift contingency. When you
when you start making when you combine those forces, I
don't know, seriously, for Tesla robotaxis. I don't know what
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there is for them unless they're first into the consumer
ownership market. The first one to start selling these two
people where we can choose our next new car is
going to be an autonomous vehicle, a fully autonomous vehicle,
which Tesla had been promising for the past I don't know,
five six years, still haven't done it. And if they
haven't been able to do it on a consumer level,
(19:57):
I'm not so sure they can do it on a
public transfer tation level. But the first one who's who
is able to sell cars to you and me that
are fully autonomous.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
Look out.
Speaker 6 (20:08):
Oh so you think it's still have a job. Yeah
for the next three weeks. I mean, yeah, this is
all to be serious.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
This is all happening very very I know it's very quickly,
and they're not going to say hey, get ready, it's coming. No,
they'll just make an announcement one day and all of
a sudden, you will have fewer customers to pick up
because I'm quite sure they'll be routing all of these
fares to these cars, depending on how many cars they
have out there.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
Autonomous cars.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
Yeah, way, that is the next they have a proof
of concept as we call it in this business, they
have a proof of concept where they can service a
city without any real major all jokes aside, without any
real major incidents, and whatever incidents they will have will
probably be fewer than what they've experienced with real drivers.
(20:58):
You know, the cars make attack, but they're not having
to worry about the liability of drivers getting attacked, and
maybe that's a reasonable expenditure that they're they're willing to
deal with.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
I don't know. All of this driver stuff is going away.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
Taxicab drivers going away, bus drivers going away, truck drivers
going away, delivery drivers gone.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
Yeah, they're already going away. All's gone.
Speaker 6 (21:24):
The drones delivering and they got those what is it
that robot they're implementing to deliver the actual packages.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
Exactly. It's crazy. You're only going to go further down
that progression.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
You're not actually going to it's not going to go
in any other direction where we're going to there's going
to be a movement back to in person drivers.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
No, it's not going to work that way.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
The technology is as long as it's becoming more and
more feasible and financially reasonable, then that's what businesses are
going to do. Because yes, why not remove the human
component when the human component always costs more than the
automated option, Like you always say.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
It's just they're they're just worried about the bottom line,
what you can save. That's it.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
And Mark is going to be bad because he thinks
we should push back against all this and the AI,
which is inevitably included in this. But I'm just here
to tell Mark, whether he shaves his head or not,
this is happening.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
You're back to that. Yes, I am mister frat boy.
Would you like to paddle me next? Is that where
this is really mad? Did you want to paddle me?
Speaker 2 (22:27):
Wow? I'll do it.
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Wow.
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There's an ongoing discussion, and I think it is emblematic
of what most of us are discussing. Sometimes technology can
feel like too much, too soon, too fast, and I
am a firm believer in having that discussion. For as
much as we talk about Weimo, I have yet to
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set foot in one.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
I've said I'm a slow adopter of a lot of technology.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
It took me a while to get comfortable with the
idea of Uber getting in someone's private personal car with
an absolute stranger and having that person be in control
of wherever I end up.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
It took me a long time to get used to that.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
Then, I mean, you had Airbnb, and I've used Airbnb
maybe once in my life, and that was enough for me.
I was not comfortable being in someone's personal space and
wondering if there were cameras, wondering if I might have
all these hidden charges that I'll be responsible for because
(24:31):
I didn't see all the fine print, not having the
benefit of being able to just pick up a phone
and so like, yes, can I have some extra towels please?
And now I've gone back to hotel. So I understand
that when I say advancement of technology, the idea of
an app being used in a way that we weren't
customarily using it, I get it.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
I'm not comfortable with everything.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
And if you're looking at the Motown chat, the mo
egos are debating that as well. Mone Raymer Amayah was saying,
you know, she didn't want how nine thousand from the
movie A Space Odyssey two thousand and one to show
up where you have the unintended consequences of a machine
taking over and taking control and then you ending up dead.
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I mean, yeah, that's the cinematic version of how everything
goes wrong.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
But I get the uncertainty.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
I get the questionable feelings that we all have about
technology too much, too soon, too fast. I am not
personally ready to just get in a car where there's
nobody in the car with me and letting it drive.
And we have some fun with this with the subject
(25:43):
to all it talks about. You know, it's safe and
we haven't had any major incidents with it. And all
that's true, it doesn't mean I'm gonna feel comfortable with it.
It doesn't mean that I am ready for it. And
I remember when I was a kid in the home
computer the personal computer came out, and I remember my
father's mother who passed away in like nineteen ninety one.
(26:03):
She was not really on board but the whole computer thing.
And I didn't understand in the time, because I thought
all technology was cool.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
Then you get a little older, you live a.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
Little life, and you realize that just because something is newer,
just because something is advanced, doesn't necessarily mean it's better.
I remember how that same grandmother of mine was born
prior to the Great Depression, and she didn't trust banks,
and it seems silly to me. She literally, and I'm
(26:36):
meaning literally, I'm using the word correctly, she literally hid
money in her mattress because she did not trust banks.
I remember speaking of banks by my mother. She was
not all the way down with computer banking, you know,
checking your balance and paying bills via the internet. And
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it took me a while to convince her or show
her how to do it. Now she I can't stop
her from doing everything on the internet and buying stuff
and what have you. But it took a while for
her to get there. Now that I have some years
under my belt, it makes sense. Just because something is
newer doesn't mean that I'm going to quickly or automatically
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be comfortable with it.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
And I know I'm not the only one. I know
that I'm not the only one.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
Who is reticent to get into a cab with nobody
at the controls. I know I would not be ready
to get on an airplane with no one at the controls,
and I don't know if I'll ever be there, and
I think that's the next likely progression for this technology. Yes,
we have autopilot, I get all that, But the whole
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idea of a plane taking off and landing with no
one at the controls, I'm not there yet.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
It turns out people are useful for a variety of things,
and you don't want to remove them from the equation.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
No, And you know, yes, human error is real. Humans
are fallible. Humans make mistakes. We can just drive down
the one ten freeway. We'll see all sorts of human
imperfections happening in real time. But there is a degree
of certainty with that that I can wrap my mind
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around that I can't when I'm completely out of control.
And maybe if the whole transportation world, at least as
far as driving was concerned, if the whole transportation world
was using automated technology, in other words, there was no
car on the road with the exception of fully automated
vehicles like we see in movies like Minority Report or
(28:43):
in other movies, then I would be more at ease
with it. And we're a long way from that.
Speaker 3 (28:48):
Yeah, I don't think it's going to be to any
point where we can be fully confident in it before
you and I die. Weren't the cars in Minority Report
on tracks or something?
Speaker 2 (28:58):
They were? It wasn't.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
I don't know if it's a track, but they were
completely automated when they were in the city, and then
you could drive them when you're out.
Speaker 3 (29:07):
Of the city. Okay, Yeah, I'm not getting in one
of those. There's no right, right, absolutely not.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
I'm not ready for that.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
And I will be that person that I could not
understand when I was a child looking at my grandparents.
And part of it is age, and part of it
is it sometimes takes a while for.
Speaker 3 (29:24):
Technology to get it right. Also, sometimes technology doesn't get
it right. I mean, we have to regulate the living
daylights out of some of this stuff because it doesn't
have any sense of its own on when to hold
back and when to move cautiously.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
And this is the human element. Humans cut corners exact.
Humans are guided oftentimes by capitalism, and so safety sometimes
is a casualty of that.
Speaker 3 (29:55):
I think we've got a mountain of history that supports
that if they answer first to their shareholders, unless they
have to answer to regulators first.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
How many times have we learned about a product being
dangerous well after the fact.
Speaker 3 (30:10):
Are you thinking specifically about the pinto There are too
many examples.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
I'm just saying, how many times have we learned well
after the fact that something was dangerous to the general public,
and then because of capitalism, because of selfish interests, those
concerns were pushed aside.
Speaker 3 (30:27):
The approximate number is always right, That's all I'm saying.
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