October 27, 2025 • 26 mins
(October 27,2025)
Part of the White House’s East Wing has been demolished… here’s what was lost. ChatGPT’s new web browser launched this week but beware, it’s watching everything you do. More big companies bet they can still grow without hiring. The Poltergeist house in Simi Valley is available on Airbnb… what are some other haunted houses available to rent?
Part of the White House’s East Wing has been demolished… here’s what was lost. ChatGPT’s new web browser launched this week but beware, it’s watching everything you do. More big companies bet they can still grow without hiring. The Poltergeist house in Simi Valley is available on Airbnb… what are some other haunted houses available to rent?
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
I AM six forty bill handle here Monday morning, October
twenty seven, just being announced that the US and China
have come to an agreement. Looks like the one hundred
percent tariff increase in China that was supposed to start
November one is off the table. China is going to
(00:28):
resume buying soybeans from the United States. The rare earth
minerals that China has said is going to stop sending
the United States, that is resuming. So it looks like
they're coming to some kind of an agreement China in
the US. So that's good news on that side for sure.
(00:50):
Where the president is in it's in Japan, I think
right now, and he's going to be meet with Xang
Xing Ping g Jing Pen Ping pings around. It's yeah,
President j Ping, the old Pinster, that's what they call him,
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the the.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Ping Master, that's what they call him. Hey, the pinkster
doing Yeah, Yeah, it's the Ping maister.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Yes, that's what he's known in China with for all right, God, damn,
I'm good, aren't I?
Speaker 3 (01:24):
It's flowing people go, how do you keep a job.
I have no idea. I agree with you completely. Okay.
I got some emails.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
I received some emails regarding the demolition of the East
Wing because, as I said last week, man, it's heartbreaking,
you know, I look at the White House and it's
being completely changed the profile of the White House instead
of what I thought, and a lot of people did
this symmetrical building that we know of. What the President
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did is take out the east wing completely. He originally
said the East Wing was not going to be touched
at all. It was going to be this ballroom adjacent
to but not actually touching the East Wing. And the
next thing we know, it's demolished without telling us, without
saying anything, it's just, hey, I'm demolishing it. And so
(02:17):
as I was complaining about it, because I do think
it's our iconic building, the President's house, that sort of
my opinion arbitrarily taken down. Of course, I got emails.
So look what Truman did, Look what Obama did, Look
what Teddy Roosevelt did, all of which is true. But
(02:38):
I thought i'd go back with a little bit of
history going starting in nineteen to Teddy Roosevelt remade the
White House and it was additions to when they started.
And I don't know how many years back, the White House
was just the White House itself, without the East or
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the West wing, and then prior to nineteen oh two,
presidents would work from different spaces. The oval office didn't exist.
There was no designated spot, and Roosevelt wanted a central office,
so he built the first presidential office right there, and
the West Wing came into existence.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
In nineteen thirty three.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
President Franklin Roosevelt added twenty five thousand feet of permanent
office space to the West Wing, and there was a
penthouse story. A second story was put on, and there
was a subterranean office also put on, and the office
was relocated to the West Wing where we now know
that it is now a couple of big ones. And
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this is where I was written to look what Truman did.
Truman reconstructed the White House. Well, he did because the
White House was falling apart. The inspectors that came in,
the folks that looked at the very construction of that
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White House of the White House, the supports were saying,
this thing was falling apart.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
They had no idea how it was even standing.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
The Trumans were in the residents and the floor above that.
The piano came through, the piano leg came through the ceiling,
and they gutted the White House, not changing the view
of the White House, just refurbishing the whole White House.
So whatever changes were put in, by the way, it
all went through the various committees, the National Historic White
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House Association, asking Congress.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
I mean, they went through a long, long period.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Of the basically looking at it. You know, there were
commissions that were involved. Truman was very very careful about
doing this. There was nothing fast about. And then Obama
that's the big one. Well, Obama's been three hundre million
dollars on refurbishing or what he did to the White House.
Look at the White House before and after Obama and
tell me what the changes are.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
It was all structural changes.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
It was refitting the pipe, it was new electrical, it
was new alarm systems.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
That's where the money was spent.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Well, oh wait a minute, Okay, So the tennis court,
he added a basketball court, he put up some baskets
at the end, did not change the look of it.
So as you say, look at what Obama did, look
at what Truman did, versus look at what's happening now
the White House will not look the same ever, again,
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what we know is the White House.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
Has been changed completely.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
We now have a building where the East Wing of
the White House is now bigger than the White House itself,
all because arbitrary the President wakes up and he goes,
this is what I want.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
This is what we're going to do.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
And I tell you have lived through looking at the
White House as our iconic building, is probably the most
famous building in the world. And now it's going to
be that big, beautiful white with ballroom that'll fit nine
hundred people. By the way, that's not to say that
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there wasn't an issue, because the biggest state room in
the White House itself holds two hundred people, and to
have a state dinner with only two hundred people, that's
a low number. To have a state dinner with almost
one thousand people, that probably makes more sense. But could
have been built in another place, could have been built
that it have to be built right next to the
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East Wing, which completely destroyed the look of the White
House as we know it. And of course Mike Johnson
when asked about it, he said, it's going to be
glorious that's the word he used.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
Glorious.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
And as I said earlier this morning when I opened
the show, if Donald Trump took a dump on the
front lawn of the White House, that would be glorious,
just glorious.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
Yeah, that's a heartbreaker. It is for me, It really is.
It is.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
I mean, I grew up with the White House looking
the way it is my entire life. And maybe there's
certain things that I just don't want to change. I'm
old school and I'm fine with change. By the way,
I have no problem with change on this one, not
so much, okay. Now, the world's most popular chat box
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chat GPD Jack cheap Chat GPT just launched a web
browser this week and it promises to make surfing the
Internet smarter. And it's called Atlas, and at once permission
to watch and remember everything you do online. It outsurveils
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Google's Chrome. By the way, that's saying a lot. It
doesn't just log which websites you visit. Here's where it
goes beyond that. It's the word memories of what you
look at and what you do on those sites. It
actually can grab control of your mouse and browse for you.
I mean, God forbid all right now. There is a
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huge amount at steak when which browser you choose because
it's your daily portal to the Internet, and who doesn't
use the Internet and a spigotive information companies can use
to target you with ads, steer you towards certain sites,
and train AI on your behaviors and interests, so it
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actually gets to know you better than you know you.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
And its minority report is what this is.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
There's the search engineer Perplexity makes a browser called Comment.
Google has Gemini added Gemini bought to Chrome and it
also adds capabilities that lets AI do tasks for you.
What does that actually do well? It replaces Google with
chat gp is the main source to find websites and
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information and I use I don't even want to know
what I use Safari and I don't know who owns
Safari and what goes. Okay, that's what I use.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
But here's it.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
For instance, you asked it to summarize an article or
analyze data.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
Okay, that makes sense.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
And it puts chat GPT one click away for for example,
revising email drafts. Okay, that makes it easier because chat
GPT just makes.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
Work much easier.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Now behind the scenes, it's also working to learn about you,
not about making a speech better or rewriting a resume.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
Nope.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
If you grant permission during setup, and that's easy to do,
it builds a trove of memories about the sites you
visit and surfaces them when you need them. It's just
a very very sophisticated way of knowing who we are
and who you are. I go to Costco and they
know I buy frozen burritos.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
Okay, Now it knows when.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
I really need them, what my feelings are about burritos.
It knows what my life is vis a VI burritos.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
I think we all kind of do. Yeah, I know, well,
I'm pretty open about it.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
But there are things that are not optically open about,
for example, opening up a website talking about the pimples
on my scroat. All right, it's not something I want
to share with everybody. But if I just even open
that asking the question, all of a sudden, it knows
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what I'm interested in. It knows I have a problem
and it's going to throw me. Here's some scrote pimple cream.
Now I have someone here who is just groaning. Lindsey's
in the room.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
She's not the only one growing one, and my vote
it's probably an ingrown hair.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
So yeah, thank you, thank you for that.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
And by the way, they'll the chat GPT will know
that it's your view of it. So it remembers not
just the website addresses, but facts and insights from the
sites themselves based on summaries of the content that open
ai makes. Bottom line is it's diving much much deeper
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into what you are thinking, what you are visiting, and
gets an impression not just specifically as to that site,
knowing that I'm looking for frozen burritos, but actually figures
out why I'm looking for frozen burritos. Now, obviously that
is a horrible analogy because I can't go beyond making
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horrible analogies.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
But I'm imagine where this is going. It is Minority Report.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
It really is that film where they know before you
think it, what you're.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
Going to think about. Now, is it going to go
that far?
Speaker 2 (12:12):
Probably not, But I'll tell you, these programs are going
to know which way.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
You're leaning, what you might be doing, what you will
never do.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
That's pretty frightening stuff to say the least. You know
it remembers everything you looked at. It also remembers things
you don't want it to look at, relationship troubles or
a medical condition that you were just looking at at
two am in the morning. Now, I don't know if
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you're frightened of that of the kind Usually I'm not
frightened of technology.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
I'm really not.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
I'm fine with license plate readers, and I'm fine with
cameras in open places, helicopters, drones out there with cameras
in public. But man, this one goes a little bit
further than I'm comfortable with. All right, now, AI, we've
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heard a lot about AI. We live with AI. We're
looking at a future with AI. And you may not
be hired though, or you may be fired, or you
may be asked to do a whole lot more work
or maybe not, depending on how AI is utilized by
your company. Well, it turns out that companies are increasingly
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aiming to maintain or reduce workforce size, anticipating that AI
is going to automate tasks it will boost productivity. Should
for example, let me give you an example into its
revenue rose sixteen percent in the last fiscal year, no
additional employees, sixteen percent up. You think a lot more
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employees not a chance. And they're thinking staffing and not
replacing departing employees attrition, and we've seen that happen here
at iHeart. I don't even know if iHeart uses AI
at all.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
I do know that a.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
Lot of people are gone and a lot of people
are not being hired. And I don't know how much
AI is part of it. Maybe it's because i Heart
just hates people, even though we're in the people business.
You know. I've got to ask management about that, but
they won't talk to me because they said they hate me.
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Some companies are cutting jobs target eight percent they've cut
using AI. And here is the gamble. It's a corporate gamble.
Can you run a company? Can you increase sales? Can
you juice profits without adding people? And companies are making
that calculation, saying, let's see if we can keep the
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size of our employees flat or not the size of
the employees wait wise, but the number of employees flat.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
I want to make sure you get that, or.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
Maybe even shrink through layoffs without harming the business.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
And seems to me one of the things about.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
The philosophy the last few years is more for fewer people.
I don't know if you've noticed. But every time, and
here it's all over the place. They let someone go
and do not replace that someone, simply asking the existing
someone's to take up the slack, and all of a sudden.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
There's more to do.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
And you're asked to do more, perform better for the
same money. Usually part of the thinking is that AI
can be used to pick up some of the slack,
maybe automate more processes. And companies are hesitant because are
we going to hire people? Well, we don't know what's
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happening with the economy, we don't know what's happening with
the administration and.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
Which way it's going to go.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
JP Morgan Chase chief financial officers said, the bank at
this moment has a very strong bias against having the
response to hire more people.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
They just don't want to do it.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
Golden Sachs send a memo to staffers that the firm
will I love this constrain headcount growth through the end
of the year.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
That means no more people are going to be.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
Hired and it's going to reduce the role that AI
is going to be able to function in. Walmart plans
on keeping the head count roughly flat over the next
three years now, even with just inflation in terms of
growth that's ten percent, and no new people are going
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to be hired. So there is this new model, ultra
lean model of staffing. More roles are kept unfilled and
hiring is now as a last resort. Used to be
as business came in, you'd hire more people.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
It was real easy.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
I have friends of mine who have law firms, and
as more business comes in, of course they hire more lawyers. Well,
if you look at it, first year second year lawyers
really aren't needed that much. First and second year lawyers
do research, they produce memos, they create well, they do
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deposition questions, they do interrogatories, these questions asked the other side.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
An AI probe can do that and can do.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
It great into it is not replacing roles in its finance,
legal and customer support functions. So the last year revenues
rose sixteen percent into it the head count stayed flat.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
So you can see why.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
So many hundreds of billions of dollars are being invested
in AI. The problem with AI is so much money
is going into AI, so much astronomical amounts of money
is they ever going to pay for itself?
Speaker 3 (18:25):
A lot of insiders are saying, uh uh.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
Also, in these large companies, HR chiefs are saying, you know,
it is becoming difficult to even predict how many employees
we're going to need because of how quickly technology is
taking off, and it goes even more than that. Some
employers say, think that fewer employees will actually improve operations.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
Now, think about that.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
One you work at a company and X number of
dollars are produced or whatever products are produced, they lay
off ten percent and more is being done. That's way
beyond someone quits, someone gets fired.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
Hey you over there, are you going to do the work.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
This is someone quits, someone gets fired, and hey you
over there, you're going to do the work.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
Oh no, no, you're going to get fired too. We're
going to fire everybody now.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
Right now, layoffs have not become widespread, but some companies
are making cuts. Just last Thursday, Target said it's cutting
about one thousand corporate employees and another eight hundred that
are open are no longer going to be open.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
AI.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
We don't know which way it's going, and have we
figured out yet how AI is going to do our segments.
We did it once and we want to know if
it's any better.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
Yeah, we're still working on that. The person who's helping
us out is no longer with us.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
Oh yeah here, yeah, because AI has replaced the person
who was doing that, So now we need AI to
replace the person who was working with AI to do that.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
I couldn't have said it any better. Thank you very much,
Thank you very very much.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
Okay, Now, I don't know if you're a big fan
of haunted houses.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
I am not. I do well. First of all, I
don't watch horror movies.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
Let's start with that, because I can't sleep for three
weeks after a horror movie. I'm a real pantyways when
it comes to that. Also, I don't go to those
haunted houses at the various theme parks and the ones
that are put up because they're they're pretty impressive.
Speaker 3 (20:38):
Now, Neil creates haunted houses, and you did one for
you helped the school MAXI School right create times.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
This year I was an ancillary player doing some props
and some animatronics and stuff, some video projection things, and
but last year I I headed it up with a
team and I love doing it.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
I don't think. Let me ask you how to gore
per se.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
Yeah, let me ask you this you put you put
you put an eight year old kid through a haunted
house where the monsters come out and Jason comes out
and arms that are decapitated, you know, heads are flying around.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
How does that kid not stay in therapy for the
next thirty years?
Speaker 1 (21:21):
Explain that one too, Well, I don't do those kinds
of things. But there's some people that have different responses.
The the fear response is similar to like a thrill
response of a roller coaster or something like that. And
some people really love, you know, having their you know,
their heart rate jump up and great. There was a
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recently bill I just saw an a I think it
was in some magazine or something, did a breakdown of
the scariest movies. The scientists actually put you know, did
a study to see how people's body reacted to certain movies.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
They just some people love it.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
Yeah, I can't. I don't understand that I'm scared so much.
But in any case, Uh, you can rent the Poltergece
house in Simi Valley.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
Yeah, bearer came in yep.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
Uh and uh it's an Airbnb And there are other
homes out there around the country.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
Some have been around forever, some have just opened up.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
As the rentals Airbnb.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
Uh, Salem, Massachusetts is the fastest rising Halloween destination on
this platform platform being do you want to rent? Do
you want to go to Airbnb and rent a haunted house? Now,
there is one place I'm going to ask you if
you know this and I read this because I don't
look into this as far as I'm going to go there.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
Uh, there is one city that remains the.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
Undisputed top of the list when it comes to haunted
places and haunted houses.
Speaker 3 (22:53):
Where do you think that would be?
Speaker 1 (22:55):
Do do do do?
Speaker 2 (22:57):
Do?
Speaker 3 (22:58):
Do do do do doo? Dude, I don't know, Okay,
New Orleans? Oh, New Orleans, Yeah, that makes sense.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
They have so many of these houses on the West coast.
Which city do you think this is a fun one
on the West coast?
Speaker 3 (23:14):
Which city has.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
The highest number of haunted hot haunted houses? Haunted hounse anyway,
I don't know what that phrase is, but which city
do you think is number one on the West coast
in terms of haunted homes?
Speaker 3 (23:32):
I don't know what Cono kono that is correct?
Speaker 2 (23:38):
Con O no Bernardino, Yep, yep, they do.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
It's exactly correct.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
It is a huge Halloween draw go figure that one out.
It's which I have to look at the one in well,
we know the Siami Valley one, but there's one here
that I want to look ab at San Bernardino. I'm
all over the place. Saint Helen's, Oregon, Fayetteville, Fullerton has one.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
Fullerton has one. And these are people.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
Now, people go to these things, which I never would
because I would be scared to death. It's not so
much seeing a ghost or a Pultzergeist or Casper.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
It's the knocks on the door.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
It's all of a sudden, the room gets cold and
there's a draft going through it. You hear giggling off
in the background, and hearing children would freak me out,
or a faint woman's voice. But knocking on a door
and getting chilly, come on. I've spent the night in
at least two places that are reported to be haunted.
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The Magic Castle, I spent the night in once during
the Timid Neil Show, I think.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
And then I spent the night in the haunted cabin
at the Queen Mary.
Speaker 3 (24:57):
Ooh, you stayed in that one in that.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
Room yeah, yeah, And there was a the bed looked
like someone sat on it, like well, we were talking
out of the court of my eye.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
It looked like someone sat on it.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
But I don't believe in in ghosts in that sense.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
I stayed at in.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
The Queen Mary once, not in the haunted house, but
in the hotel itself, and I watched there a couple
of times. Yeah, KFI connected to some kind of a
magic show. There, a weird, weird magic show that went on,
and the place already closed down.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
And going through.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
The halls of the Queen Mary, oh Man, past the
rooms by yourself eleven o'clock at night. Boy, that was
not a pleasant experience. Oh I love the Queen God,
it was horrible. All right, we are done. This is
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
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Speaker 2 (00:08):
I AM six forty bill handle here Monday morning, October
twenty seven, just being announced that the US and China
have come to an agreement. Looks like the one hundred
percent tariff increase in China that was supposed to start
November one is off the table. China is going to
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resume buying soybeans from the United States. The rare earth
minerals that China has said is going to stop sending
the United States, that is resuming. So it looks like
they're coming to some kind of an agreement China in
the US. So that's good news on that side for sure.
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Where the president is in it's in Japan, I think
right now, and he's going to be meet with Xang
Xing Ping g Jing Pen Ping pings around. It's yeah,
President j Ping, the old Pinster, that's what they call him,
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the the.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Ping Master, that's what they call him. Hey, the pinkster
doing Yeah, Yeah, it's the Ping maister.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Yes, that's what he's known in China with for all right, God, damn,
I'm good, aren't I?
Speaker 3 (01:24):
It's flowing people go, how do you keep a job.
I have no idea. I agree with you completely. Okay.
I got some emails.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
I received some emails regarding the demolition of the East
Wing because, as I said last week, man, it's heartbreaking,
you know, I look at the White House and it's
being completely changed the profile of the White House instead
of what I thought, and a lot of people did
this symmetrical building that we know of. What the President
(01:55):
did is take out the east wing completely. He originally
said the East Wing was not going to be touched
at all. It was going to be this ballroom adjacent
to but not actually touching the East Wing. And the
next thing we know, it's demolished without telling us, without
saying anything, it's just, hey, I'm demolishing it. And so
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as I was complaining about it, because I do think
it's our iconic building, the President's house, that sort of
my opinion arbitrarily taken down. Of course, I got emails.
So look what Truman did, Look what Obama did, Look
what Teddy Roosevelt did, all of which is true. But
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I thought i'd go back with a little bit of
history going starting in nineteen to Teddy Roosevelt remade the
White House and it was additions to when they started.
And I don't know how many years back, the White House
was just the White House itself, without the East or
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the West wing, and then prior to nineteen oh two,
presidents would work from different spaces. The oval office didn't exist.
There was no designated spot, and Roosevelt wanted a central office,
so he built the first presidential office right there, and
the West Wing came into existence.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
In nineteen thirty three.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
President Franklin Roosevelt added twenty five thousand feet of permanent
office space to the West Wing, and there was a
penthouse story. A second story was put on, and there
was a subterranean office also put on, and the office
was relocated to the West Wing where we now know
that it is now a couple of big ones. And
(03:45):
this is where I was written to look what Truman did.
Truman reconstructed the White House. Well, he did because the
White House was falling apart. The inspectors that came in,
the folks that looked at the very construction of that
(04:10):
White House of the White House, the supports were saying,
this thing was falling apart.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
They had no idea how it was even standing.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
The Trumans were in the residents and the floor above that.
The piano came through, the piano leg came through the ceiling,
and they gutted the White House, not changing the view
of the White House, just refurbishing the whole White House.
So whatever changes were put in, by the way, it
all went through the various committees, the National Historic White
(04:39):
House Association, asking Congress.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
I mean, they went through a long, long period.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Of the basically looking at it. You know, there were
commissions that were involved. Truman was very very careful about
doing this. There was nothing fast about. And then Obama
that's the big one. Well, Obama's been three hundre million
dollars on refurbishing or what he did to the White House.
Look at the White House before and after Obama and
tell me what the changes are.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
It was all structural changes.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
It was refitting the pipe, it was new electrical, it
was new alarm systems.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
That's where the money was spent.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Well, oh wait a minute, Okay, So the tennis court,
he added a basketball court, he put up some baskets
at the end, did not change the look of it.
So as you say, look at what Obama did, look
at what Truman did, versus look at what's happening now
the White House will not look the same ever, again,
(05:37):
what we know is the White House.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
Has been changed completely.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
We now have a building where the East Wing of
the White House is now bigger than the White House itself,
all because arbitrary the President wakes up and he goes,
this is what I want.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
This is what we're going to do.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
And I tell you have lived through looking at the
White House as our iconic building, is probably the most
famous building in the world. And now it's going to
be that big, beautiful white with ballroom that'll fit nine
hundred people. By the way, that's not to say that
(06:18):
there wasn't an issue, because the biggest state room in
the White House itself holds two hundred people, and to
have a state dinner with only two hundred people, that's
a low number. To have a state dinner with almost
one thousand people, that probably makes more sense. But could
have been built in another place, could have been built
that it have to be built right next to the
(06:39):
East Wing, which completely destroyed the look of the White
House as we know it. And of course Mike Johnson
when asked about it, he said, it's going to be
glorious that's the word he used.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
Glorious.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
And as I said earlier this morning when I opened
the show, if Donald Trump took a dump on the
front lawn of the White House, that would be glorious,
just glorious.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
Yeah, that's a heartbreaker. It is for me, It really is.
It is.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
I mean, I grew up with the White House looking
the way it is my entire life. And maybe there's
certain things that I just don't want to change. I'm
old school and I'm fine with change. By the way,
I have no problem with change on this one, not
so much, okay. Now, the world's most popular chat box
(07:29):
chat GPD Jack cheap Chat GPT just launched a web
browser this week and it promises to make surfing the
Internet smarter. And it's called Atlas, and at once permission
to watch and remember everything you do online. It outsurveils
(07:51):
Google's Chrome. By the way, that's saying a lot. It
doesn't just log which websites you visit. Here's where it
goes beyond that. It's the word memories of what you
look at and what you do on those sites. It
actually can grab control of your mouse and browse for you.
I mean, God forbid all right now. There is a
(08:15):
huge amount at steak when which browser you choose because
it's your daily portal to the Internet, and who doesn't
use the Internet and a spigotive information companies can use
to target you with ads, steer you towards certain sites,
and train AI on your behaviors and interests, so it
(08:35):
actually gets to know you better than you know you.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
And its minority report is what this is.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
There's the search engineer Perplexity makes a browser called Comment.
Google has Gemini added Gemini bought to Chrome and it
also adds capabilities that lets AI do tasks for you.
What does that actually do well? It replaces Google with
chat gp is the main source to find websites and
(09:07):
information and I use I don't even want to know
what I use Safari and I don't know who owns
Safari and what goes. Okay, that's what I use.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
But here's it.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
For instance, you asked it to summarize an article or
analyze data.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
Okay, that makes sense.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
And it puts chat GPT one click away for for example,
revising email drafts. Okay, that makes it easier because chat
GPT just makes.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
Work much easier.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Now behind the scenes, it's also working to learn about you,
not about making a speech better or rewriting a resume.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
Nope.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
If you grant permission during setup, and that's easy to do,
it builds a trove of memories about the sites you
visit and surfaces them when you need them. It's just
a very very sophisticated way of knowing who we are
and who you are. I go to Costco and they
know I buy frozen burritos.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
Okay, Now it knows when.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
I really need them, what my feelings are about burritos.
It knows what my life is vis a VI burritos.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
I think we all kind of do. Yeah, I know, well,
I'm pretty open about it.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
But there are things that are not optically open about,
for example, opening up a website talking about the pimples
on my scroat. All right, it's not something I want
to share with everybody. But if I just even open
that asking the question, all of a sudden, it knows
(10:52):
what I'm interested in. It knows I have a problem
and it's going to throw me. Here's some scrote pimple cream.
Now I have someone here who is just groaning. Lindsey's
in the room.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
She's not the only one growing one, and my vote
it's probably an ingrown hair.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
So yeah, thank you, thank you for that.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
And by the way, they'll the chat GPT will know
that it's your view of it. So it remembers not
just the website addresses, but facts and insights from the
sites themselves based on summaries of the content that open
ai makes. Bottom line is it's diving much much deeper
(11:37):
into what you are thinking, what you are visiting, and
gets an impression not just specifically as to that site,
knowing that I'm looking for frozen burritos, but actually figures
out why I'm looking for frozen burritos. Now, obviously that
is a horrible analogy because I can't go beyond making
(11:57):
horrible analogies.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
But I'm imagine where this is going. It is Minority Report.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
It really is that film where they know before you
think it, what you're.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
Going to think about. Now, is it going to go
that far?
Speaker 2 (12:12):
Probably not, But I'll tell you, these programs are going
to know which way.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
You're leaning, what you might be doing, what you will
never do.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
That's pretty frightening stuff to say the least. You know
it remembers everything you looked at. It also remembers things
you don't want it to look at, relationship troubles or
a medical condition that you were just looking at at
two am in the morning. Now, I don't know if
(12:48):
you're frightened of that of the kind Usually I'm not
frightened of technology.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
I'm really not.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
I'm fine with license plate readers, and I'm fine with
cameras in open places, helicopters, drones out there with cameras
in public. But man, this one goes a little bit
further than I'm comfortable with. All right, now, AI, we've
(13:14):
heard a lot about AI. We live with AI. We're
looking at a future with AI. And you may not
be hired though, or you may be fired, or you
may be asked to do a whole lot more work
or maybe not, depending on how AI is utilized by
your company. Well, it turns out that companies are increasingly
(13:35):
aiming to maintain or reduce workforce size, anticipating that AI
is going to automate tasks it will boost productivity. Should
for example, let me give you an example into its
revenue rose sixteen percent in the last fiscal year, no
additional employees, sixteen percent up. You think a lot more
(13:57):
employees not a chance. And they're thinking staffing and not
replacing departing employees attrition, and we've seen that happen here
at iHeart. I don't even know if iHeart uses AI
at all.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
I do know that a.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
Lot of people are gone and a lot of people
are not being hired. And I don't know how much
AI is part of it. Maybe it's because i Heart
just hates people, even though we're in the people business.
You know. I've got to ask management about that, but
they won't talk to me because they said they hate me.
(14:36):
Some companies are cutting jobs target eight percent they've cut
using AI. And here is the gamble. It's a corporate gamble.
Can you run a company? Can you increase sales? Can
you juice profits without adding people? And companies are making
that calculation, saying, let's see if we can keep the
(14:59):
size of our employees flat or not the size of
the employees wait wise, but the number of employees flat.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
I want to make sure you get that, or.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
Maybe even shrink through layoffs without harming the business.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
And seems to me one of the things about.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
The philosophy the last few years is more for fewer people.
I don't know if you've noticed. But every time, and
here it's all over the place. They let someone go
and do not replace that someone, simply asking the existing
someone's to take up the slack, and all of a sudden.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
There's more to do.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
And you're asked to do more, perform better for the
same money. Usually part of the thinking is that AI
can be used to pick up some of the slack,
maybe automate more processes. And companies are hesitant because are
we going to hire people? Well, we don't know what's
(15:59):
happening with the economy, we don't know what's happening with
the administration and.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
Which way it's going to go.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
JP Morgan Chase chief financial officers said, the bank at
this moment has a very strong bias against having the
response to hire more people.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
They just don't want to do it.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
Golden Sachs send a memo to staffers that the firm
will I love this constrain headcount growth through the end
of the year.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
That means no more people are going to be.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
Hired and it's going to reduce the role that AI
is going to be able to function in. Walmart plans
on keeping the head count roughly flat over the next
three years now, even with just inflation in terms of
growth that's ten percent, and no new people are going
(16:54):
to be hired. So there is this new model, ultra
lean model of staffing. More roles are kept unfilled and
hiring is now as a last resort. Used to be
as business came in, you'd hire more people.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
It was real easy.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
I have friends of mine who have law firms, and
as more business comes in, of course they hire more lawyers. Well,
if you look at it, first year second year lawyers
really aren't needed that much. First and second year lawyers
do research, they produce memos, they create well, they do
(17:39):
deposition questions, they do interrogatories, these questions asked the other side.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
An AI probe can do that and can do.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
It great into it is not replacing roles in its finance,
legal and customer support functions. So the last year revenues
rose sixteen percent into it the head count stayed flat.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
So you can see why.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
So many hundreds of billions of dollars are being invested
in AI. The problem with AI is so much money
is going into AI, so much astronomical amounts of money
is they ever going to pay for itself?
Speaker 3 (18:25):
A lot of insiders are saying, uh uh.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
Also, in these large companies, HR chiefs are saying, you know,
it is becoming difficult to even predict how many employees
we're going to need because of how quickly technology is
taking off, and it goes even more than that. Some
employers say, think that fewer employees will actually improve operations.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
Now, think about that.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
One you work at a company and X number of
dollars are produced or whatever products are produced, they lay
off ten percent and more is being done. That's way
beyond someone quits, someone gets fired.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
Hey you over there, are you going to do the work.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
This is someone quits, someone gets fired, and hey you
over there, you're going to do the work.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
Oh no, no, you're going to get fired too. We're
going to fire everybody now.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
Right now, layoffs have not become widespread, but some companies
are making cuts. Just last Thursday, Target said it's cutting
about one thousand corporate employees and another eight hundred that
are open are no longer going to be open.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
AI.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
We don't know which way it's going, and have we
figured out yet how AI is going to do our segments.
We did it once and we want to know if
it's any better.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
Yeah, we're still working on that. The person who's helping
us out is no longer with us.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
Oh yeah here, yeah, because AI has replaced the person
who was doing that, So now we need AI to
replace the person who was working with AI to do that.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
I couldn't have said it any better. Thank you very much,
Thank you very very much.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
Okay, Now, I don't know if you're a big fan
of haunted houses.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
I am not. I do well. First of all, I
don't watch horror movies.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
Let's start with that, because I can't sleep for three
weeks after a horror movie. I'm a real pantyways when
it comes to that. Also, I don't go to those
haunted houses at the various theme parks and the ones
that are put up because they're they're pretty impressive.
Speaker 3 (20:38):
Now, Neil creates haunted houses, and you did one for
you helped the school MAXI School right create times.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
This year I was an ancillary player doing some props
and some animatronics and stuff, some video projection things, and
but last year I I headed it up with a
team and I love doing it.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
I don't think. Let me ask you how to gore
per se.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
Yeah, let me ask you this you put you put
you put an eight year old kid through a haunted
house where the monsters come out and Jason comes out
and arms that are decapitated, you know, heads are flying around.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
How does that kid not stay in therapy for the
next thirty years?
Speaker 1 (21:21):
Explain that one too, Well, I don't do those kinds
of things. But there's some people that have different responses.
The the fear response is similar to like a thrill
response of a roller coaster or something like that. And
some people really love, you know, having their you know,
their heart rate jump up and great. There was a
(21:42):
recently bill I just saw an a I think it
was in some magazine or something, did a breakdown of
the scariest movies. The scientists actually put you know, did
a study to see how people's body reacted to certain movies.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
They just some people love it.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
Yeah, I can't. I don't understand that I'm scared so much.
But in any case, Uh, you can rent the Poltergece
house in Simi Valley.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
Yeah, bearer came in yep.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
Uh and uh it's an Airbnb And there are other
homes out there around the country.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
Some have been around forever, some have just opened up.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
As the rentals Airbnb.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
Uh, Salem, Massachusetts is the fastest rising Halloween destination on
this platform platform being do you want to rent? Do
you want to go to Airbnb and rent a haunted house? Now,
there is one place I'm going to ask you if
you know this and I read this because I don't
look into this as far as I'm going to go there.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
Uh, there is one city that remains the.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
Undisputed top of the list when it comes to haunted
places and haunted houses.
Speaker 3 (22:53):
Where do you think that would be?
Speaker 1 (22:55):
Do do do do?
Speaker 2 (22:57):
Do?
Speaker 3 (22:58):
Do do do do doo? Dude, I don't know, Okay,
New Orleans? Oh, New Orleans, Yeah, that makes sense.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
They have so many of these houses on the West coast.
Which city do you think this is a fun one
on the West coast?
Speaker 3 (23:14):
Which city has.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
The highest number of haunted hot haunted houses? Haunted hounse anyway,
I don't know what that phrase is, but which city
do you think is number one on the West coast
in terms of haunted homes?
Speaker 3 (23:32):
I don't know what Cono kono that is correct?
Speaker 2 (23:38):
Con O no Bernardino, Yep, yep, they do.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
It's exactly correct.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
It is a huge Halloween draw go figure that one out.
It's which I have to look at the one in well,
we know the Siami Valley one, but there's one here
that I want to look ab at San Bernardino. I'm
all over the place. Saint Helen's, Oregon, Fayetteville, Fullerton has one.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
Fullerton has one. And these are people.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
Now, people go to these things, which I never would
because I would be scared to death. It's not so
much seeing a ghost or a Pultzergeist or Casper.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
It's the knocks on the door.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
It's all of a sudden, the room gets cold and
there's a draft going through it. You hear giggling off
in the background, and hearing children would freak me out,
or a faint woman's voice. But knocking on a door
and getting chilly, come on. I've spent the night in
at least two places that are reported to be haunted.
(24:44):
The Magic Castle, I spent the night in once during
the Timid Neil Show, I think.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
And then I spent the night in the haunted cabin
at the Queen Mary.
Speaker 3 (24:57):
Ooh, you stayed in that one in that.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
Room yeah, yeah, And there was a the bed looked
like someone sat on it, like well, we were talking
out of the court of my eye.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
It looked like someone sat on it.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
But I don't believe in in ghosts in that sense.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
I stayed at in.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
The Queen Mary once, not in the haunted house, but
in the hotel itself, and I watched there a couple
of times. Yeah, KFI connected to some kind of a
magic show. There, a weird, weird magic show that went on,
and the place already closed down.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
And going through.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
The halls of the Queen Mary, oh Man, past the
rooms by yourself eleven o'clock at night. Boy, that was
not a pleasant experience. Oh I love the Queen God,
it was horrible. All right, we are done. This is
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
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Speaker 2 (25:52):
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