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California Republicans push Democrats on transparency, timeline for redistricting. Trump says the Smithsonian focuses too much on the negative aspects of U.S history. Goodbye $165,000 tech jobs… student coders seek work at Chipotle. Come one, come all! Buy all your subscriptions here!
California Republicans push Democrats on transparency, timeline for redistricting. Trump says the Smithsonian focuses too much on the negative aspects of U.S history. Goodbye $165,000 tech jobs… student coders seek work at Chipotle. Come one, come all! Buy all your subscriptions here!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
six forty KFI AM six forty Bill Handled. Here. It
is a Wednesday morning, August twentieth, and as we know,
and I'm sighing here, as we know, Texas I will
(00:24):
vote today tomorrow to redraw the congressional map in the state.
And what Texas is doing and the reason they're redrawing
the map is to make sure that there are five
new Republican districts. How do you do that, Well, you jerrymander.
You make sure that all the Democrats are in one district,
(00:47):
so you know that's a democratic district, and swing districts
you make sure Republicans are there. And if you look
at the congressional maps, the lines are crazy, I mean
they're drawn. It almost looks like an etch a sketch
where the lines make no sense. But they do because
(01:08):
what it does is determine the congressional makeup. Okay, so
that's done. And is it legal in Texas? Yep, even
though traditionally it is only done every ten years by
all the states predicated on the census. So Texas decide
is going to go in the middle. Why is that?
Because of the midterms, no question about it. They admit it.
(01:31):
We're doing this because we want to make sure we
keep our majority in the midterms. So in response to that,
Newsome says, Okay, we are going to redraft, redraw our
congressional map. So we're going to add five Democrats to
our congressional districts. And I can see the Republicans fighting this,
(01:55):
and they're coming up with all all kinds of crap
ideas and refuse to accept the fact that this is
a straight response to Texas. Oh no, it's illegal. You're
not paying attention to the people of the state of California.
California has laws that don't allow this to happen. What
California has done is to make sure there isn't that
(02:17):
happening where you have parties that determine the congressional district
It's an independent commission that we have in California that
determines where the congressional districts are drawn. And it is
a non partisan, objective group of people that make that happen.
In Texas, they don't pretend to be a nonpartisan. So
(02:40):
now you have Republicans that are saying, well, what Newsom
is doing is illegal. Violating the law. You have these
congressional rules where the nonpartisan committee is going to determine
and that's the law, and therefore you're breaking the law.
Got news for you, they're not breaking the law. There
(03:01):
is a method in which the commission can be overruled,
and it is by a ballot on the November a
special election in November that is going to take place.
And the Republicans are screaming, unfair, unconstitutional. Now why is
it okay in Texas? They divert that, they deflect from that.
(03:24):
There's nothing to do with Texas. It's illegal here in California.
I get that, okay as a backdrop to all this.
What I don't get is how unpopular this is among
groups in California Democratic groups. What are you doing? Do
(03:45):
you literally sit back if you are a Democrat and
let Texas draw that redraw that map. So it virtually
guarantees that the Republicans with the midterms, and they're going
to the courts, and the Republicans are going up to
the California Supreme Court, and I think they're taking it
(04:08):
to the US Supreme Court and arguing that it's unfair
because a public hasn't looked at it. There hasn't been
enough hearings. The public hasn't had enough time to look
at this, and therefore the law, if it is changed,
should be determined to be illegal and unconstitutional. And if
(04:30):
it is passed, and Newsom is pitching this, if it
has passed by two thirds in both bodies, and by
the way, California has super majority with the Democrats, so
that's going to happen, then the measure is on the
ballot on November fourth. And there was a hearing yesterday
(04:50):
at the Assembly Elections Committee hearing and the screaming was
going on, the fights were happening. And the part that
I don't understand is how many Democrats are actually fighting
this and saying we should keep our independent committee, the
non partisan committee to determine congressional districts, while I guess
(05:15):
allowing Texas to undo it all. So let's make sure
that we can't do it, or other states can't do it,
because you know, the Republican to fight it in every
single state, arguing that Texas allows it, but these other
states have controls, and we want to make damn sure
those controls are there. We are there for the benefit
(05:39):
of the people of California has nothing to do with Texas.
We are there to maintain that the people of the
state of California are protected against this cheap shot political
move by Newsom. Well, how about the cheap shot political
move in Texas. That's not important that can talk about that.
(06:01):
We have to talk about what's fair in California. The
sheer hypocrisy of it, I just love. And the analogy
is it's like big Pharma telling us that that expensive
drugs are good for us. The more money we pay
for drugs, the better off we're going to be. So
(06:21):
the more controls we have in terms of redrafting congressional
districts and the longer it takes to do that, and
special elections should not be allowed, the better off the
people of California are. Democrats are better off losing their
seats and not responding was not responding to what Texas
(06:44):
does instantly. What the Democrats are doing is very unusual.
There are a couple of technical issues here that I
don't want to get into because it'll take forever. But
it is legal. It is legal. There is no question.
The mechanism by which this is going to happen is
perfectly legal. All right, now, let me tell you what
(07:05):
is going on in Washington. This is another episode, another
chapter in What I Think is Crazy, and we start
with well, we've already started with the President going after Harvard,
Harvard and Columbia because of two issues, anti Semitism and wokeness.
(07:25):
He is now going after the Smithsonian because of wokeness,
not the anti semitism part. And what he is accusing
the Smithsonian of doing is focusing too much on how
bad slavery was, that's a quote, not enough on the
brightness of America, and wants the administration to conduct a
(07:46):
wide ranging review of the content of the museum exhibits.
He posted the Smithsonian is out of control. Everything discussed
is how horrible our country is, how bad slavery was,
how unaccomplished the downtrodden have been. Well, that's why they're downtrodden.
I guess nothing about success, nothing about brightness, nothing about
(08:10):
the future. This country cannot be woke, because woke is broke.
We have the hottest country in the world, and we
want people to talk about it, including our museums. Now,
maybe I'm missing some things, but aren't museums places where
you study history where it talks about what has happened
(08:31):
in this country. Our museums there to tell us what
the country will be like. Maybe, but you know, slavery
is a big no no. And it's kind of hard
to argue that slavery is not as bad as it is.
Slavery is the original sin of this country. The first
(08:55):
African American who put his feet on the shores of
America was a slave. And I don't know how you
undo that. And this is a week after the White
House told this Smithsonian that it would be required Smithsonian
to adjust any content that the administration finds problematic in tone,
(09:18):
historical framing, and alignment with American ideals. They have one
hundred and twenty days to do that, and you know,
getting involved. The Smithsonian is up to this point, was
up to this point a an independent organization. Government did
not tell the Smithsonian what exhibits. Now there's a panel.
(09:40):
I guess the president of the Smithsonian makes the choices
and which way the exhibits are going to be exhibited.
But the argument is that we are spending way too
much time talking about the negative part of America and
not the positive part. You ever been to the airspace
Museum in Washington. It's all about how great America is. Uh.
(10:08):
The African Museum. African American Museum talks about the Civil
Rights era and the kind of accomplishments that are made
were made, recognizing what Blacks have created and what they
what they have, what they have accomplished, what African Americans
have accomplished and done for the benefit of this country.
(10:31):
Is I guess wokeness is that, you know, accepting the
fact that there are some negatives in this country and
what we want to do is just concentrate on the Yay,
everything is good. Well, the reality is not everything is good.
For example, the argument that Confederate monument should be put
back in parks honoring Confederate soldiers and Confederate politicians. I mean,
(10:56):
these people fought for slavery, They fought to enslave human beings. Now,
the other argument is this is a South. They were
considered heroes, but so what they are not heroes. First
of all, we won the war, and of course I'm
(11:17):
talking about the Union and whoever wins writes the history.
But to argue that the Smithsonian is not doing that
is not talking about the future of America. By virtue
of studying the past, and part of the past is
this horrific aspect of America, which was slavery. I mean,
(11:42):
that's the big one. That is the big one. So
I just well, I guess I do understand it. But
it's really depressing the way I've seen this, the way
I look at it, and anything that is woke, anything
guarding diversity, anything regarding how unfair we as a society
(12:05):
have been to minorities is somehow bad. Now you can
be on the other side of the coin, but do
you stop the teaching of this, do you stop the
recognition of this. That's like arguing you're a Holocaust denier
and arguing the Holocaust took place, and you go to
(12:27):
the Holocaust Museum, you go, wait a second, that's way
too negative, way too negative. All right? Coming up this one.
I think this one my daughter sent to Lindsey, who
turned around and sent it to Anne, who turned around
and sent it to me. And it's a story about
(12:50):
my daughter who is in the master's program studying computer engineering,
how she will never ever get a job in computers.
And I'll explain what's going on out there, and that
part is really depressing. God, the world's going to hell
in a handbasket. It really is. It's all crap. Always
(13:11):
look on the bright side of life. That's the new
song that Trump is going to be singing when he
walks through the Smithsonian. Yeah, that's exactly correct. Wednesday morning,
August twentieth, we'll tell you about my daughter, My daughter, Pamela.
She's in a master's program in computer engineering now. In
(13:33):
addition to her bachelor's degree that she got, she also
enrolled in a program that Amazon sponsored. It was a
year's program and a certificate that was she was out
of ten hours a day, six days a week. I mean,
it was crazy. And the guarantee at the end of
it was she had a job waiting for her at Amazon.
(13:54):
Well after the layoffs, of course, and they change their tune.
No job. And so now master's program and computer engineering,
and she's looking at jobs and she wants to do
the masters at night whatever, because she wants a job
in computers, in coding, in cybersecurity. Used to be you
(14:15):
started one hundred sixty five thousand dollars a few years ago,
and companies were desperate for people that had ad skill
level in the world of computers. Nope, completely gone. And
now one of the biggest levels of unemployment happens to
(14:36):
be in the world of computers. And it is tough
because she has sent out over one hundred or two
hundred resumes and nothing. The companies are ghosting her, and
she's not alone, and she has a really good skill set,
and there just ain't no jobs. Now, you go to
(15:01):
the early twenty tens, you had billionaires and tech executives
and presidents urging young people to learn coding. Those tech
skills would help job prospects as well as the economy
and tech companies' computer science graduates with high salaries and perks,
(15:21):
and typically the starting salary was way north of six figures.
So of course people did exactly that. One hundred and
seventy thousand graduated in the US in what last year,
more than double the number in twenty fourteen. Well, guess
what's killing these jobs? AI? Entry level jobs gone because
(15:46):
AI can do it all. And that does not bode well,
it really doesn't because as middle management and high end
management retires attrition, there's nobody there to fill that gap.
So you're going to have companies at a real disadvantage.
(16:08):
Right now. AI is the end all, be all. Now
is AI going to be making high management decisions as
to which way a company is going to go? Maybe,
but that changes everything. That changes simply the entire way
business and the world runs. That some program, some algorithm
(16:29):
is going to make a decision that a major corporation
is going to move into a different direction. We're going
to drop this division because we're not making enough money,
and we're going to go on this one and we
are going to hire people. This is going to be
our training program. All of that will be gone. And
I am not I gotta tell you, I'm not happy
(16:55):
about the way it's going. Not that I'm a luddite,
I really am not. But you eat your point where
it changes so drastically, and part of the change is
that there will be massive amounts of people that will
be unemployed. Now, it used to be when you manufactured
buggy whips and cars came into being, more jobs were
(17:19):
created with cars and did buggy whips, and engineers that
use slide rules and started using computers. Well, it turned
out that that didn't cost any jobs. AI is costing
tons of jobs. By the way, if you have a
job opening, my daughter Pamela would love to have one
(17:42):
in the world of computers, just mentioning that. Matter of fact,
if you have an opening and you work at your
manager at a Starbucks, it'd be great for her to
have a job. Here's the problem. She sends out resumes
and she's too qualified for a lot of these job
because the algorithm sees she has a certificate from this
(18:05):
Amazon program, has an undergrad degree and is now in
her master's degree, and so she's overqualified to poor cups
of coffee or to stand there at the doorway. Welcome
to Walmart, everybody, boy, it's not fun. I'm glad I'm
at this end of my career. Just email me if
(18:28):
you have a job opening, and that way I don't
have to help her every month. Am I allowed to
do that? Incidentally, Neil, is that considered a no? No,
as far as the FTC isn't is involved. Are you
implying you give a rodents whole if it isn't legal? No?
Absolutely not. All right, that is absolutely correct. Just wanted
(18:50):
to bring that up, just a little bit of fact.
I want it from you at Lane right, what's our
email in how do they reach me? Because I don't
have an email at work? No, never mind, you don't
have an email. I know that. So you can't reach
me with email. All right, you can write me a
letter at this day at the radio station. Sure, why not? Okay. Now,
(19:16):
I'm a big fan of various platforms on TV. I
basically subscribe to almost everything. So I watch my main
TV through YouTube TV, and then I've Amazon and Peacock
and Hulu. I mean, I have them all, and like
a whole lot of people, there's a maze of apps, payments,
(19:40):
passwords and here's what I want, and more and more
Americans want. We want to sign up for multiple streaming
services through one provider. Now, by far, Prime Video is
a number one. I love Prime Video because through Prime
VI Video, I happen to have just picked up another platform,
(20:04):
and it's BBC Select through Prime and it has some
of the best documentaries I've ever seen. I watch hard
news and documentaries. That's basically what I watch so and
occasionally Shark Tank, but it can only do that through
YouTube TV. I become a football fan now games some
(20:26):
are on Prime, some are on NBC, some are on CBS,
some are Peacock. I mean, it's all over the place,
and so I have to basically be a subscriber to
almost everything. Well, can you imagine one platform that has
everything you want? And that's where the future is now?
(20:48):
Right now? You can bundle and that's what Lindsay does.
Every quarter. She bundles and figures out what's available on
what platform and so that changes all over the place.
She's able to get a real good deal. I mean,
we pay a little bit north of two hundred dollars
a month. I know that seems like a lot of money,
but we probably have twelve or fifteen platforms. There is
(21:11):
not a platform we don't have Acorn, BritBox, this, BBC Select,
and a whole bunch of other ones. So and otherwise
we would pay twice as much. So she is our bundler. Now,
if it turned out that you could get one one
platform where everything was available, would you do it? Yep?
(21:37):
And are the platforms in favor of it? Yep? They are.
And the question is why hasn't it been done yet?
That makes no sense. All Right, We're done with that.
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(21:59):
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You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
six forty KFI AM six forty Bill Handled. Here. It
is a Wednesday morning, August twentieth, and as we know,
and I'm sighing here, as we know, Texas I will
(00:24):
vote today tomorrow to redraw the congressional map in the state.
And what Texas is doing and the reason they're redrawing
the map is to make sure that there are five
new Republican districts. How do you do that, Well, you jerrymander.
You make sure that all the Democrats are in one district,
(00:47):
so you know that's a democratic district, and swing districts
you make sure Republicans are there. And if you look
at the congressional maps, the lines are crazy, I mean
they're drawn. It almost looks like an etch a sketch
where the lines make no sense. But they do because
(01:08):
what it does is determine the congressional makeup. Okay, so
that's done. And is it legal in Texas? Yep, even
though traditionally it is only done every ten years by
all the states predicated on the census. So Texas decide
is going to go in the middle. Why is that?
Because of the midterms, no question about it. They admit it.
(01:31):
We're doing this because we want to make sure we
keep our majority in the midterms. So in response to that,
Newsome says, Okay, we are going to redraft, redraw our
congressional map. So we're going to add five Democrats to
our congressional districts. And I can see the Republicans fighting this,
(01:55):
and they're coming up with all all kinds of crap
ideas and refuse to accept the fact that this is
a straight response to Texas. Oh no, it's illegal. You're
not paying attention to the people of the state of California.
California has laws that don't allow this to happen. What
California has done is to make sure there isn't that
(02:17):
happening where you have parties that determine the congressional district
It's an independent commission that we have in California that
determines where the congressional districts are drawn. And it is
a non partisan, objective group of people that make that happen.
In Texas, they don't pretend to be a nonpartisan. So
(02:40):
now you have Republicans that are saying, well, what Newsom
is doing is illegal. Violating the law. You have these
congressional rules where the nonpartisan committee is going to determine
and that's the law, and therefore you're breaking the law.
Got news for you, they're not breaking the law. There
(03:01):
is a method in which the commission can be overruled,
and it is by a ballot on the November a
special election in November that is going to take place.
And the Republicans are screaming, unfair, unconstitutional. Now why is
it okay in Texas? They divert that, they deflect from that.
(03:24):
There's nothing to do with Texas. It's illegal here in California.
I get that, okay as a backdrop to all this.
What I don't get is how unpopular this is among
groups in California Democratic groups. What are you doing? Do
(03:45):
you literally sit back if you are a Democrat and
let Texas draw that redraw that map. So it virtually
guarantees that the Republicans with the midterms, and they're going
to the courts, and the Republicans are going up to
the California Supreme Court, and I think they're taking it
(04:08):
to the US Supreme Court and arguing that it's unfair
because a public hasn't looked at it. There hasn't been
enough hearings. The public hasn't had enough time to look
at this, and therefore the law, if it is changed,
should be determined to be illegal and unconstitutional. And if
(04:30):
it is passed, and Newsom is pitching this, if it
has passed by two thirds in both bodies, and by
the way, California has super majority with the Democrats, so
that's going to happen, then the measure is on the
ballot on November fourth. And there was a hearing yesterday
(04:50):
at the Assembly Elections Committee hearing and the screaming was
going on, the fights were happening. And the part that
I don't understand is how many Democrats are actually fighting
this and saying we should keep our independent committee, the
non partisan committee to determine congressional districts, while I guess
(05:15):
allowing Texas to undo it all. So let's make sure
that we can't do it, or other states can't do it,
because you know, the Republican to fight it in every
single state, arguing that Texas allows it, but these other
states have controls, and we want to make damn sure
those controls are there. We are there for the benefit
(05:39):
of the people of California has nothing to do with Texas.
We are there to maintain that the people of the
state of California are protected against this cheap shot political
move by Newsom. Well, how about the cheap shot political
move in Texas. That's not important that can talk about that.
(06:01):
We have to talk about what's fair in California. The
sheer hypocrisy of it, I just love. And the analogy
is it's like big Pharma telling us that that expensive
drugs are good for us. The more money we pay
for drugs, the better off we're going to be. So
(06:21):
the more controls we have in terms of redrafting congressional
districts and the longer it takes to do that, and
special elections should not be allowed, the better off the
people of California are. Democrats are better off losing their
seats and not responding was not responding to what Texas
(06:44):
does instantly. What the Democrats are doing is very unusual.
There are a couple of technical issues here that I
don't want to get into because it'll take forever. But
it is legal. It is legal. There is no question.
The mechanism by which this is going to happen is
perfectly legal. All right, now, let me tell you what
(07:05):
is going on in Washington. This is another episode, another
chapter in What I Think is Crazy, and we start
with well, we've already started with the President going after Harvard,
Harvard and Columbia because of two issues, anti Semitism and wokeness.
(07:25):
He is now going after the Smithsonian because of wokeness,
not the anti semitism part. And what he is accusing
the Smithsonian of doing is focusing too much on how
bad slavery was, that's a quote, not enough on the
brightness of America, and wants the administration to conduct a
(07:46):
wide ranging review of the content of the museum exhibits.
He posted the Smithsonian is out of control. Everything discussed
is how horrible our country is, how bad slavery was,
how unaccomplished the downtrodden have been. Well, that's why they're downtrodden.
I guess nothing about success, nothing about brightness, nothing about
(08:10):
the future. This country cannot be woke, because woke is broke.
We have the hottest country in the world, and we
want people to talk about it, including our museums. Now,
maybe I'm missing some things, but aren't museums places where
you study history where it talks about what has happened
(08:31):
in this country. Our museums there to tell us what
the country will be like. Maybe, but you know, slavery
is a big no no. And it's kind of hard
to argue that slavery is not as bad as it is.
Slavery is the original sin of this country. The first
(08:55):
African American who put his feet on the shores of
America was a slave. And I don't know how you
undo that. And this is a week after the White
House told this Smithsonian that it would be required Smithsonian
to adjust any content that the administration finds problematic in tone,
(09:18):
historical framing, and alignment with American ideals. They have one
hundred and twenty days to do that, and you know,
getting involved. The Smithsonian is up to this point, was
up to this point a an independent organization. Government did
not tell the Smithsonian what exhibits. Now there's a panel.
(09:40):
I guess the president of the Smithsonian makes the choices
and which way the exhibits are going to be exhibited.
But the argument is that we are spending way too
much time talking about the negative part of America and
not the positive part. You ever been to the airspace
Museum in Washington. It's all about how great America is. Uh.
(10:08):
The African Museum. African American Museum talks about the Civil
Rights era and the kind of accomplishments that are made
were made, recognizing what Blacks have created and what they
what they have, what they have accomplished, what African Americans
have accomplished and done for the benefit of this country.
(10:31):
Is I guess wokeness is that, you know, accepting the
fact that there are some negatives in this country and
what we want to do is just concentrate on the Yay,
everything is good. Well, the reality is not everything is good.
For example, the argument that Confederate monument should be put
back in parks honoring Confederate soldiers and Confederate politicians. I mean,
(10:56):
these people fought for slavery, They fought to enslave human beings. Now,
the other argument is this is a South. They were
considered heroes, but so what they are not heroes. First
of all, we won the war, and of course I'm
(11:17):
talking about the Union and whoever wins writes the history.
But to argue that the Smithsonian is not doing that
is not talking about the future of America. By virtue
of studying the past, and part of the past is
this horrific aspect of America, which was slavery. I mean,
(11:42):
that's the big one. That is the big one. So
I just well, I guess I do understand it. But
it's really depressing the way I've seen this, the way
I look at it, and anything that is woke, anything
guarding diversity, anything regarding how unfair we as a society
(12:05):
have been to minorities is somehow bad. Now you can
be on the other side of the coin, but do
you stop the teaching of this, do you stop the
recognition of this. That's like arguing you're a Holocaust denier
and arguing the Holocaust took place, and you go to
(12:27):
the Holocaust Museum, you go, wait a second, that's way
too negative, way too negative. All right? Coming up this one.
I think this one my daughter sent to Lindsey, who
turned around and sent it to Anne, who turned around
and sent it to me. And it's a story about
(12:50):
my daughter who is in the master's program studying computer engineering,
how she will never ever get a job in computers.
And I'll explain what's going on out there, and that
part is really depressing. God, the world's going to hell
in a handbasket. It really is. It's all crap. Always
(13:11):
look on the bright side of life. That's the new
song that Trump is going to be singing when he
walks through the Smithsonian. Yeah, that's exactly correct. Wednesday morning,
August twentieth, we'll tell you about my daughter, My daughter, Pamela.
She's in a master's program in computer engineering now. In
(13:33):
addition to her bachelor's degree that she got, she also
enrolled in a program that Amazon sponsored. It was a
year's program and a certificate that was she was out
of ten hours a day, six days a week. I mean,
it was crazy. And the guarantee at the end of
it was she had a job waiting for her at Amazon.
(13:54):
Well after the layoffs, of course, and they change their tune.
No job. And so now master's program and computer engineering,
and she's looking at jobs and she wants to do
the masters at night whatever, because she wants a job
in computers, in coding, in cybersecurity. Used to be you
(14:15):
started one hundred sixty five thousand dollars a few years ago,
and companies were desperate for people that had ad skill
level in the world of computers. Nope, completely gone. And
now one of the biggest levels of unemployment happens to
(14:36):
be in the world of computers. And it is tough
because she has sent out over one hundred or two
hundred resumes and nothing. The companies are ghosting her, and
she's not alone, and she has a really good skill set,
and there just ain't no jobs. Now, you go to
(15:01):
the early twenty tens, you had billionaires and tech executives
and presidents urging young people to learn coding. Those tech
skills would help job prospects as well as the economy
and tech companies' computer science graduates with high salaries and perks,
(15:21):
and typically the starting salary was way north of six figures.
So of course people did exactly that. One hundred and
seventy thousand graduated in the US in what last year,
more than double the number in twenty fourteen. Well, guess
what's killing these jobs? AI? Entry level jobs gone because
(15:46):
AI can do it all. And that does not bode well,
it really doesn't because as middle management and high end
management retires attrition, there's nobody there to fill that gap.
So you're going to have companies at a real disadvantage.
(16:08):
Right now. AI is the end all, be all. Now
is AI going to be making high management decisions as
to which way a company is going to go? Maybe,
but that changes everything. That changes simply the entire way
business and the world runs. That some program, some algorithm
(16:29):
is going to make a decision that a major corporation
is going to move into a different direction. We're going
to drop this division because we're not making enough money,
and we're going to go on this one and we
are going to hire people. This is going to be
our training program. All of that will be gone. And
I am not I gotta tell you, I'm not happy
(16:55):
about the way it's going. Not that I'm a luddite,
I really am not. But you eat your point where
it changes so drastically, and part of the change is
that there will be massive amounts of people that will
be unemployed. Now, it used to be when you manufactured
buggy whips and cars came into being, more jobs were
(17:19):
created with cars and did buggy whips, and engineers that
use slide rules and started using computers. Well, it turned
out that that didn't cost any jobs. AI is costing
tons of jobs. By the way, if you have a
job opening, my daughter Pamela would love to have one
(17:42):
in the world of computers, just mentioning that. Matter of fact,
if you have an opening and you work at your
manager at a Starbucks, it'd be great for her to
have a job. Here's the problem. She sends out resumes
and she's too qualified for a lot of these job
because the algorithm sees she has a certificate from this
(18:05):
Amazon program, has an undergrad degree and is now in
her master's degree, and so she's overqualified to poor cups
of coffee or to stand there at the doorway. Welcome
to Walmart, everybody, boy, it's not fun. I'm glad I'm
at this end of my career. Just email me if
(18:28):
you have a job opening, and that way I don't
have to help her every month. Am I allowed to
do that? Incidentally, Neil, is that considered a no? No,
as far as the FTC isn't is involved. Are you
implying you give a rodents whole if it isn't legal? No?
Absolutely not. All right, that is absolutely correct. Just wanted
(18:50):
to bring that up, just a little bit of fact.
I want it from you at Lane right, what's our
email in how do they reach me? Because I don't
have an email at work? No, never mind, you don't
have an email. I know that. So you can't reach
me with email. All right, you can write me a
letter at this day at the radio station. Sure, why not? Okay. Now,
(19:16):
I'm a big fan of various platforms on TV. I
basically subscribe to almost everything. So I watch my main
TV through YouTube TV, and then I've Amazon and Peacock
and Hulu. I mean, I have them all, and like
a whole lot of people, there's a maze of apps, payments,
(19:40):
passwords and here's what I want, and more and more
Americans want. We want to sign up for multiple streaming
services through one provider. Now, by far, Prime Video is
a number one. I love Prime Video because through Prime
VI Video, I happen to have just picked up another platform,
(20:04):
and it's BBC Select through Prime and it has some
of the best documentaries I've ever seen. I watch hard
news and documentaries. That's basically what I watch so and
occasionally Shark Tank, but it can only do that through
YouTube TV. I become a football fan now games some
(20:26):
are on Prime, some are on NBC, some are on CBS,
some are Peacock. I mean, it's all over the place,
and so I have to basically be a subscriber to
almost everything. Well, can you imagine one platform that has
everything you want? And that's where the future is now?
(20:48):
Right now? You can bundle and that's what Lindsay does.
Every quarter. She bundles and figures out what's available on
what platform and so that changes all over the place.
She's able to get a real good deal. I mean,
we pay a little bit north of two hundred dollars
a month. I know that seems like a lot of money,
but we probably have twelve or fifteen platforms. There is
(21:11):
not a platform we don't have Acorn, BritBox, this, BBC Select,
and a whole bunch of other ones. So and otherwise
we would pay twice as much. So she is our bundler. Now,
if it turned out that you could get one one
platform where everything was available, would you do it? Yep?
(21:37):
And are the platforms in favor of it? Yep? They are.
And the question is why hasn't it been done yet?
That makes no sense. All Right, We're done with that.
KFI am sixty. You've been listening to the Bill Handle show.
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