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You're listening to Bill Handle on demandfrom KFI AM six forty California. You
are listening to the Bill Handle Show. And this is kfive Bill Handle here,
Wednesday, January tenth. Boy A, lots going on. Let me
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tell you what is happening stories thatwe're covering. First of all, here's
something for you football fans today.The California lawmakers are going to be looking
at a bill that says no tacklefootball for any kid under twelve years of
age, just too dangerous. Andguess who's finding that. Coaches are saying,
oh, no, no, no. An important source of physical activity
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is getting yourself pummeled to the pointwhere you have serious injury. I ten,
go figure. And then we foundout what happened with Secretary of State
Lloyd Austin. It was prostate cancer. He didn't tell the president for four
days he'd been in the hospital,and boy is he getting nailed for that
and he should and the President Bidenat this point still gives him full confidence.
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Okay, I throw his ass out. That was me. Now a
story on AI. We're gonna bedoing this just so much as you can
imagine. His AI is constantly takingover and we're looking at the good the
bad. We just did a storyof AI with these major stars that are
now pitching cookware and dental plans inthe case of Tom Hanks that Neil and
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I were talking about with this isall AI, and it's all fraudulent.
The good side, of course AIis and we talked about that. It
just changes the way life is goingto be handled. And so the California
Department Transportation is now teaming up withother state agencies across the board and is
asking tech companies to propose generative AItools that could help, in the case
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of the Department Transportation, reduce traffic, make roads safer, and especially for
pedestrian cyclists and scooter writers, whichI don't care about since I'm only in
a car. So if you getrun over and it's not the end of
the world, but I'm assuming alot of society does not feel that way,
especially if you happen to be onerunover you can say, okay,
I care. And of course weknow AI chat GPT produces texts and images
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and content, but that's easy tosee. But what they're saying is,
let's use AI to help us brainstormwhat we're going to do. And this
is an executive order that Gavin Newsomsigned to September about generative AI. As
part of the order, the statereleased this report saying, Okay, here
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is what we can do, andthis is how AI benefits us, and
this is how AI is actually adanger. One of the things about government
which I think they're reacting appropriately atthis point, and even those who have
the AI models the AI programs aresaying, let's get concerned about the safeguards,
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the guardrails. Here. We knowway in advance what the problems could
be with AI. We understand thedangers. Now let's figure out exactly how
we're going to deal with it.The problem becrese is technology moves at a
much more rapid pace. Technology doesn'thave ethical issues, Technology doesn't have moral
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issues. Technology just moves forward.It's science, it's yes or no,
and you can't be a luddite.It's going to advance. Now, dealing
with technology is a very different animal. Dealing with technology is something that is
insanely complex, ridden with moral valuesand dealing how do we as a society
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deal with this, how it affectsus? What are the what are the
guardrails we put on it, socatching up is always always more difficult.
They didn't have traffic laws until away after the cars were invented. The
FAA didn't come into existence until wayafter the airplane was thrown up in the
sky. And that's exactly what's happeninghere. So what they're saying is we
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have the tool. They already havethe tools. By the way, if
you look at the state and thetechnology and and the data that has,
I mean, it has unbelievable amountsof data, traffic stops, accidents,
time of day for example. Dealingwith traffic. They know when there's the
most traffic, They know how manycars, they know what kind of cars,
they know mileage, they know whothe drivers are. They know all
of it. But it takes reallyat this point human beings to try to
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figure out how to best use trafficsignals, etc. It's like a chessboard
where they're moving in real time.How to figure this out? Well,
AI is going to blow that upand you press a button and the AI
algorithm, the ACII computer program figuresit all out. And to the furthest
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costent and the and the technologies hereAnd I said this before we all bitch
and Mona by traffic. I meanyou go on the freeway and traffic is
a horror here in southern California.A matter of fact, that's why so
many people are coming into California becausenow the terrorist build actually advertises how much
traffic you'll have if you light trafficcome down here, and what will happen?
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And this is happening. I guaranteeyou once we have complete autonomous vehicles
in other words, on the freeway, for example, it will be illegal
for you to have a non autonomousvehicle. It just to be illegal.
It's like but putting a bicycle onthe freeway or a golf cart on the
freeway, you just can't do it. The same thing's going to happen with
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the driverless cars. When every caron the freeway is a driverless, autonomous,
computer controlled car, here's what happens. No more traffic jams. Cars
are moving in sixty or sixty fivemiles an hour, two feet from each
other. There will be not noquick stops. You will see traffic moving
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flawlessly. For example, let's sayyou're in the left lane and the computer
and you want to move to theright lane, and the computer knows what
exit, and what it does istell the cars around you to start moving
separated, imperceptively, so it doesn'taffect the flow of traffic. You move
over it, you get off.All of that done by the computer.
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That's where we're going to go,and we can wrap it up. It's
gonna be done. It's gonna bedone. Now, we're still generations away
from that, because there's always gonnabe saying idiot with his bell air or
his ancient twenty twenty eight tesla.You know, that's become a museum piece
because it was bought so many yearsago, and I'm taking mine on the
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road. But you know, hopefullywe're over that. I don't believe in
anybody being an original You know that, don't you. Everybody has to.
I'm a big believer in nineteen eightyfour. But on the other side of
nineteen eighty four, originality is it'sgiven way too much credit. Okay,
Neil's looking at me. Now.What happens when you call nine one one,
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Well, you're going to be puton hold for about forty five minutes,
and whoever is going to have aheart attack is dead already or your
house has already burned. Down,But theoretically that's not the case. Point
is, when you call nine oneone, it doesn't matter what area code
your cell phone is, because nineto one one calls are geo targeted.
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If you're calling in the city ofBellflower, for example, even if you
have an area code outside of thestate, the nine to one one folks,
the computer is going to know whereyou are calling from. That's a
given, all right, That makesall the sense in the world because what
difference was is your area code?Make Okay, So that's for nine to
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one one. Let's see you fromDetroit and this is out of the LA
Times to this story kind of neatand you now live in LA and you
keep your cell phone. Of course, you keep your number No. One.
It's new numbers anymore. So thereyou are with your Detroit cell phone
and you dial nine to one one. Okay, the dispatchers locally are going
to get it. What if youdial nine to eight eight? Nine eight
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eight is the National Mental Health Crisishotline that's just been put in. So
people that are grappling with suicidal thoughtsor real substance abuse issues, what they
will find out is that they arethen directed to a call center based on
their area code, not where theyare located. They didn't quite get it
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when they built that nine eight eightsystem. Not quite. And now for
some people it doesn't matter because amental health expert is mental health expert.
If you're going to be jumping offa building, if you're going to take
a swan dive off the fifth storyof the for example, the Disneyland parking
structure, it really doesn't matter ifit's a Disneyland or someplace else, right,
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I mean a five story building parkingstructure is the same as any other.
So that works for mental health practicition. Okay, that is universal.
Granted, what if you need help? What if you need to be directed
to a counseling center or in forexample, the County of LA we're pretty
sophisticated. We send out teams.Did you know that Department mental Health in
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the county actually sends out teams thatdeal with people having those problems? Well,
if they don't know where you are, that's a problem. It's an
easy fix. You just have tospend the money. Oh boy, resources,
where are we going to take awaythe money from. It's kind of
hard to believe they didn't develop thissystem from the get go, that GEO
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targets where that call is. Andthe other problem is, even if they
do have let's say that Detroit nineeight eight operator who is or that mental
health practitioner even does know where aLos ANGELESO can go? Is it in
real time? Probably not. So. Here is where your AI comes in.
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Here's where your computer programs. Youcall nine eight eight, you have
a cell number that's out of state, but it directed immediately to a mental
health practitioner, finds out what you'reabout. You obviously need help. It
can send out a team, knowsexactly what teams are available, how far
away they are from you, triesto figure out the severity of your problem.
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Remember this is a mental health practitioneror a counselor who's been trained,
and all of this happens in realtime. That takes a lot of sophistication.
It takes a lot of work.So right now you call nine eight
eight, You're in a lot ofhelp. Ah, I'm going to jump
off a building. Well before theyfinally figure out where you are, then
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the only people that show up arethose that come from the Department of Sanitation
to sort of scoop up the parts, bring a garden hose and a couple
of buckets and shovels and you justwant to clean up the mess a little
bit. It's an easy fix thissystem, and you figure all we have
to do in this way. Thisis one of those where government should have
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less money. No, in thiscase, government has to do this because
can you imagine being able to callnine to eight. Really you're in trouble,
I mean deeply in trouble. Youdon't know where to turn. You
know that number is available by default, you call it like we call nine
one one whenever there's a fire ora medical emergency, and all of a
sudden, it's there. Right,you've got the resources, they can send
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out the teams and unfortunately at certainpoints, and doing an interview with one
of the women who runs the countyprogram says that it's the wait times for
these teams is getting longer and longerfor them to come out, and a
lot of it because their calls aremisdirected because they're going to the wrong places,
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which is unfortunate. But that's afix that we can deal with.
And of course AI, because AIcomes into this and figures out instantaneously what's
available, Who is there, who'sthe nearest? What kind of resources?
Do you pick them out and takethem a mental institution? Do someone just
talk them down? Okay? Captionson TV now, there's the whole story
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behind that. Now I happen tobe a caption watcher. Now, one
of my favorite shows that I haveseen on TV I think is Netflix,
is Peaky Blinders. I don't knowif you've seen Peaky Blinders. Phenomenal Irish
television or British TV. It's aboutsome Irish gangsters and you cannot understand a
word of it. They say it'sEnglish, but who are we kidding?
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So the first time I saw it, no captions lost about seventy percent.
Second time captions got one hundred percent. And I happen to be one of
people that watch I watch captioned everything. Now I go, okay, how
many of us are there? Itturns out over half of us? Now
do that is? Watch caption TVNow. At Westwood's Regency Village Theater,
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which I have been to recently,there was a showing of Barbie and it
was done not only in captions butalso American sign language for people that are
deaf, What do you mean Americanside language, well, you know those
little corners where you have screen onscreen, and much like when you see
a governor a press conference, there'salways someone who is doing American Sign language.
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And it's always someone who's seventy fivepounds overweight, and it's always someone
who is dressed horribly. And Ilove watching ASL press conferences because they're so
expressive. I mean, those peoplethat do ASL are phenomenal. It's just
so great. Boy that adds certainlyadds a lot of flavor to it.
But in movies they don't do that. They started in television, but movies
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they don't do that. Now whatI didn't know, and Neil was noddings
hit when I said that that bylaw, if you are deaf you go
into a movie theater, they haveto provide you with equipment that you can
see captioning on the screen. Therest of us can't, but you,
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as someone who is deaf, hasthat capability. That's close captioning. Open
captioning is everything that we see thateverybody walks in and there's the captioning at
the bottom of the screen. AndI find that so much easier. And
if you look at the amount ofpeople that are doing this, it's growing
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and growing and growing. Fifty threepercent of millennials, seventy percent of zoomers,
gen xers about half of that,which is really weird. Baby Boomers
not even that many, which iskind of strange because baby boomers are the
ones that are losing their hearing.You think they'd be the first up to
do that. No, it lookslike only millennials and exers are doing that.
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The chief executive of does ZANDU Innovation, an accessible marketing company. He
says, captioning is not just fordeaf people, it's for everyone now.
And why why is captioning so muchin the future, and why does it
make so much sense? Well,Flatter TV screens, for one thing,
make it easier newer sound mixing trendsbecause there's inconsistent audio levels, and that
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drives me crazy. You ever noticecommercials are hot and then you have commentators
or you have the programming which isat different levels. You would think the
TVs would just you would think thatevery TV would just equal it out.
I don't understand why they don't dothat. Where the signal goes in and
I can simply press a button thatsays equalize all sound, and I don't.
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They don't do that. So whatends up happening is I get captions.
And the good news is most mostcommercials are not captioned, so you've
got compressed quality. You've got themodern technology. The interfaces make it so
easy to watch captions. And thereinis a real problem because I watch YouTube
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TV. That's where I get mynews, That's where I get some of
the programming with all the commercials.The rest of them is all non commercial
stuff that I watch Netflix. Thecaptions are in real time right right there
on YouTube TV. The captions arealways three quarters a second or a second
behind, and it drives you completelynuts, which is why I thank goodness
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I don't have any weapons at home, because I would have shot out several
TV screens by now. It triesto me completely out of my mind.
By the way, the TV,well, the films were captioned back in
the seventies. That started, andthe passage of the American with Disabilities Act
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and the Television Decoder Circuitry Act ofnineteen ninety, new TV sets, all
of them were to be able torequire captions. That is the law.
You cannot buy a TV that doesnot caption by law, and that has
been taken to an extreme and ina good way. So now you have
a movie theaters. That's the lastgraft. Oh. Also, we happen
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to like a whole lot of alot of foreign films, and the technology
is such you can either watch andI always do this at the bottom of
the screen whenever anything comes on Netflix, for example, English with subtitles,
the original language with subtitles. Ikind of like the dubbing today. The
dubbing is fantastic. It's not likebad Japanese science fiction movies anymore. You
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know Godzilla versus Mathra, where it'sjust really bad dubbing, which is actually
hugely entertaining in its own way.But today the technology the dubbing is phenomenal,
just an easier way to watch TV. And now it's coming to the
movies where you're going to be ableto see caption movies. And I just
do nothing but captioning matter. Ijust read everything, and Neil will tell
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you I read my name on thewall. If it's not written on the
whiteboard, I have no idea whatmy name is. I'm Ron Burgundy.
Yeah, pretty much. Boy,A lot is happening. I mean,
like right now, a lot ofhappening. Hunter Biden just walked in and
out of a congressional hearing. Iremember he was subpoena to go in front
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of the hearing behind closed doors,and he said, you're dreaming. I'm
not going to do this other thanin public. It's just not going to
happen because you have all these allegationsand you've never proved any of them.
Let's bring it out in public.And the Congressional hearing, Republican Hearing,
said no, no, we wantto do it in private. Well,
Hunter Biden just showed up, andman, what a zoo that was.
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And the story is now breaking,and you know what, we'll see.
We're gonna be able to cram thatone in in the next couple of minutes.
As matter of fact, let melet me know, let me do
this because this is breaking right nowand the two really are connected. So
I want to cover this one fora bit. And here's what ended up
happening. Okay, So here isan Oversight Committee hearing that's opening up.
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That was a schedule for day thatopened, and Hunter Biden walks in the
door. They were considering whether tohold in contempt of Congress for not going
to a hearing. They wanted thehearing to be private. There's two kinds
of hearings you can do in Congress, behind closed door hearings and open hearings
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where the public is allowed in andthe media is allowed to cover it.
You see that all the time.You know, people are testifying in front
of committees or in front of theHouse committees or Senate committees, and there's
always that whole row of cameras,camera people. They're sitting on the floor
with photographs, photographing who's ever behindthe desk. That's an open hearing,
and the Republicans, for some crazyreason, never wanted him to appear in
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an open hearing. Why is that, Well, I'll tell you why,
because all the allegations right now,because they're going after Joe Biden, that's
a given. Because the allegations arethat Joe Biden, through Hunter Biden,
was able to get millions of dollarsor interfered with governmental business and moved contracts
over to Hunter Biden because he wasvice president, and therefore corruption occurred.
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Hunter Biden would never have gotten thosecontracts, but for which, by the
way, is true. The factthat Hunter Biden is Joe Biden's son when
he was vice president and still nowsure gave him a leg up. And
I think those contracts were signed bythe folks that gave Biden Hunter Biden the
money in the hopes that somehow hisrelationship would help them. Well, it
turned out it didn't because I believeJoe Biden was not involved at all.
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I mean, he did some sloppystuff, I'll grant you, but was
there any criminality there? Uh?And the Congressional Oversight Committee, the Republican
part of it is trying to provethere was absolute proof. They said they
had proof. They said, wehave proof that Joe Biden received millions of
dollars. And so Biden's people say, okay, let's see it will come
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up with when it's appropriate. Ourhearing's going to be high behind closed door.
This one Hunter Blendon said, nochance. So he walks in today,
and what starts immediately Republican Nancy Maceleans into him. Who bribed Hunter
Biden to be here today? That'smy first question, this is how she
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starts it. Second question, Youare the epitome of white privilege coming into
the Oversight committee, spitting in ourface, ignoring our congressional apoena subpoena to
be deposed. What are you afraidof? You have no balls to come
up here? Wooh okay, Sonow you have the Democrats come back.
If the General lady wants to hearfrom Hunter Biden, we can hear from
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him right now, mister Sherman,Let's take a vote and hear from Hunter
Biden. See that makes it anopen hearing, doesn't it. That means
he is now doing what he wantsto do, and that is testifying in
an open hearing, not a closeddoor hearing. It just goes on and
on, so on. The daythat this hearing to determine whether he is
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in contempt for ignoring the subpoena forthe closed hearing, he shows up and
walks in. Wow, that's abig one. And by the way,
as soon as he walked in andthis little exchange happened, he walked out.
Why because just as he was walkingout the door, guess who speaks
and guess who is on that committee. Marjorie Taylor green right right, right
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right election denier, QAnon follower,conspiracist, out of her mind. Marjorie
Taylor Green, and she as he'swalking out, saying, apparently you're afraid
of my words. Well, no, I'll tell you who should really be
afraid of Marjorie Taylor Green's words isthose of us who are Jewish. After
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the accusation that she made that theRothschawe family, very wealthy Jews, had
taken up space on one of thesatellites and used rays to start the forest
fires of wildfires in California and thewhole thing was a Jewish cabal applot,
not kidding, she said that,not kidding. Pedophile ring in Congress by
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congressional Democrats. She said that,honest to God, yep, and she's
gonna win overwhelmingly in Georgia again.This is KFI AM six forty Live everywhere
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