February 13, 2025 • 30 mins
SwampWatch / Wellness: Running Long vs Fast / Tech Talk w/ Marc: How AI can help you plan the perfect Last Minute Valentine’s Day. Young men struggling in the dating scene.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI
AM six forty, the Gary and Shannon Show on demand
on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Shannon's out today, back tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
She's getting the final work done, final dental, whatever something's
going on.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Rain obviously is going to be our big issue today.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Evacuation warnings have been put up through most areas. Evacuation
orders have been issued for the Sierra Madre area because
of the expectation that we are going to see mud
slides into brief flows as a result as these rains
get stronger. Pacific Palisades, for example, is limited to residents
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only until two o'clock tomorrow afternoon. Any contractor with a
pass still not allowed entry. Evacuation warnings issued for the
Getty Villa area, portions of the Highlands Neighborhood, the northern
section of ben Venette Bien Veneda Avenue, northern section of
Temiskull Canyon Road, edge of Marinette Road, Oracle Place, the
area around will Rogers State Park, including the Villawoods Drive
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and Villa Grove Drive. Brentwood has some evacuation warnings. Malibu
has some evacuation warnings, all of them because of the
burn areas that exist now because of the Palisades Fire
and other fires in those areas in the last couple
of years. This is one of the strongest storms that
we have that we will see this winter, and potentially
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one of the strongest that we've seen in a couple
of years. There are also some evacuation warnings in Orange
County the Tribuco Hot Springs, Bell Long Canyon, Majesca Canyon
areas because of the risk of Debrifo debris flows near
the Airport fire burn scar. Those evacuation warnings started this
morning and will stay in effect basically until they determine
its safe. San Bernardino around Mount Baldy Village and Rightwood
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because of potential mudslides, and then Santa Barbara County as well,
because of the Lake fire that burned through the mountains
north of Los Alevos the county. It did issue an
evacuation order for some areas in Santa Barbara County because
of that.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
This is this is one of.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
Those dynamic things where we really won't know how bad
it gets until it gets here, and the strongest part
of this rainstorm isn't expected to hit La County until
much later this afternoon, probably four or five hours from now,
right about four o'clock is what they have said when
they expect this window, about a five hour window of
the strongest rain to be coming. So as it gets
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dark here in La County, that's when we're going to
see some of the strongest rains. So that's all. That's
all the local stuff. It's time for swamp watch.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
I'm a politician, which means I'm a cheat and a liar.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
And when I'm not kissing babies, I'm stealing that lollipop
here we got The real problem is that our leaders
are done.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
The other side never quits.
Speaker 5 (02:44):
So what.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
I'm not going anywhere, So that now you train the squat,
I can imagine what can be and be unburdened by
what has been.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
You know, Americans have always been going at president, but
they're not stupid.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
A political flunder is when a politician actually tells the truth.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Have the people voted for you were not swamp watch?
They're all counter knowing well.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
The reciprocal tariffs have apparently been signed into effects. According
to the latest reports out of the White House, the
President has signed these into effect and is expected to
make some sort of an announcement over the course of
the next few minutes. It was supposed to happen about
an hour ago, but it hasn't. When the President starts speaking,
we'll bring it to you. His cabinet's getting filled out.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
On this vote.
Speaker 5 (03:28):
The a's are fifty two, the naser forty eight. The
confirmation is confirmed.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
Senator Senator sorry, Robert F. Kennedy Junior was confirmed by
senators today. He was going to now oversee Health and
Human Services. The department has a one point seven trillion
dollar budget, eighty thousand employees. I mean, at least it
does now until Elon Musk gets a hold of it.
Secretary of Agriculture was also confirmed today, Brooke Rollins on
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account of seventy two to twenty eight. One of the
more lopsided wins for the Trump cabinet. I think the
most lopsided would have been Marco Rubio as Secretary of State.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Didn't have anybody vote against him.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
The Senate Judiciary Committee has also voted along party lines
to advance the nomination of Cash Bettel for FBI director.
Republicans pushed past some of the Democratic concerns that Bateel
was simply going to be a loyalist Trump and target
some of the perceived adversaries. Linda McMahon, who has been
chosen to be the Education Secretary, told her confirmation hearing
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senators that she is prepared to enact the education vision
of President Trump if she's confirmed, but she did not,
at least in the opening statement, she did not mention
the most controversial element of what his agenda is, which
is that she's supposed to work herself out of a job.
She is supposed to eventually lead to eliminate the Department
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of Education. So again, Linda McMahon, at least starting her
confirmation hearing today, one of the issues that's been going
on with these at least the I don't know, could
I say the tumultuous three Tulsey Gabbard as Director of
National Intelligence, RFK Junior as Secretary of Health and Human Services,
and Cash Bettel as FBI Director. One of the common
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no votes for all of those has been Mitch McConnell.
Mitch McConnell, Senator from Kentucky, been there since Jesus walked
the earth, has is now eighty two years old, and
he has decided that on his way out. I mean,
he's old, he's going to retire. He's already announced that
he stepped back from party leadership in the Senate Chamber
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and turned it over to John Thune so he could
be the majority leader. He has basically said, I am
unshackled by the burden of leadership. I don't have to
pass any bills. I don't have to be the referee.
I can spend my time pulling people back to what
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he thinks. What Mitch McConnell thinks is the Republican Party.
Leon Caldwell actually wrote an article about Mitch McConnell titled
I'm that Mitch, and describes how the double Birds are
helping Mitch McConnell sort of ride off into the sunset
double birds towards the White House and specifically Donald Trump.
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The specific wording I thought was pretty clever. She talked about. Now,
this was before Mitch McConnell voted against Tulsea Gabbard as
DNI and against RFK Junior as a Secretary of HHS,
and he did both. He voted no on both of those,
and it's likely that he'll vote no on Cash Bettel
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coming up.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
But she wrote this enigma exemplify. Sorry.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
This enigma amplifies growing questions about how McConnell plans to
spend his hard earn out of FS to give Twilight
Era once the relentless part is in willing to vote
his platform to ensuring that the United States doesn't decimate
Western alliances and retreat from the world, pitting himself against
his president and a growing number of colleagues in his conference,
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and could it work. Interesting thing about the RFK confirmation
now that we know is RFK said at one point
that the polio vaccine likely killed more people than it saved.
Mitch McConnell takes that personally because Mitch McConnell is a
polio survivor, and he said that that perspective is dangerous.
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Mitch McConnell actually still suffers from the impact of polio.
It's affected the way he walks, it's affected his balance.
Let me give you an impression, just an example of that.
Just this week, this is not old news. This week
Mitch McConnell fell walking down the steps off the Senate
floor and then literally minutes later he fell again and
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his plate of Hamburger, hot dog, French fries and ketchup
fell and hit him on the head on his way down.
There are doctors in the Senate. John Barrasso's one of them.
He walked over. Mitch McConnell, refused any medical attention. He
got up, he walked to his table, He sat down
and acted as if nothing had happened. He's been pushed
around in his wheelchair. He has been helped literally carried
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from his wheelchair to his car at times. He is
not going to resign, he says, but he is also
not going to run for reelection. And like I said,
flipping the double birds on his way out a wellness segment.
When we come back, you consider yourself a serious runner. Maybe,
I mean, that's a pretty small audience. But if you
like to run, you like to exercise. Which is better
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running faster or running longer?
Speaker 2 (08:44):
That's next. Gary and Shannon will continue.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
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Speaker 3 (08:54):
Big stories that were following the rain. Biggest storm coming
in in probably at least year later this afternoon is
when it's going to get even stronger. A car attack
in Munich has injured at least twenty eight people, including kids.
German anti terrorism officials said that an asylum seeker from
Afghanistan is the one who was blamed for it. He's
been arrested. This attack took place just a few blocks
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away from the site of the Munich Security Conference, which
is going to start tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
Jadie Vance is there.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
Ukrainian President Vledimer z Alensky, Secretary of State Marko Rubio,
several NATO allies are insisting that Ukraine and Europe must
not be cut out of any peace negotiations that take place.
Trump signaled that he's going to hold talk soon with
President Putin. The uk Defense secretary said the Ukraine's voice
must be heard at the heart of any talks. Estonians
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But in the meantime, it's time for us to check
in on your wellness.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
I feel terrible. He spends most of his day at
the office.
Speaker 5 (10:34):
City tendation include a variety of activities.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
I'm preferably some exercise late in the afternoon. I never
exercised a day of my life. You just got to
sit here and wait for God.
Speaker 4 (10:46):
Every morning I smoke a cigarette, and for lunch, I
eat a bacon sandwich, and I usually drink my dinner.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
It's time for Gary and Shannon's periodic Guide for Wellness
and Personal and pro for your health.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
Listen, none of us moves around enough, probably, but we
like the idea of it. If you consider yourself a
pretty serious runner, you got one of two camps right.
You're either a long distance runner, I think four or
five miles at a clip and you keep it nice
and easy. You're talking ten twelve minute miles, I mean
twelve minutes almost walking. But listen, who's to judge. Or
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you're the speed person. You like to do sprints, or
you like to do a mile, maybe a mile and
a half, but you're going for time.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Listen.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
You could be a total running new bee and have
no idea which one is going to be better besides training,
The simple answer is do both. You need both for
a well rounded sort of exercise regimen. Running faster has benefits.
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Running longer has benefits like for example, faster runners more
fat and carbs, they use more muscle fibers, they burn
calories efficient more efficiently. But if fast running does require
more recovery time and probably not suitable for most people
every single day, the benefit for the distance runners you
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have improved endurance, you have a decreased risk of cardiovascular disease,
and since you don't need necessarily a break for recovery,
you could probably distance run every single day that you're there. So,
but is there a difference? Is there a definitive answer
as to which one is better? Running only long distance
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and easy is probably not the greatest option. Because it
doesn't burn the carbs the way you think you're doing it.
When you go slower, your energy demands are lower. Your
body's going to rely predominantly on fat to drive that exercise.
We don't really use carbs for the easy runs because
we don't need the energy that quickly. You use carbs
when you go at the harder intensities. Getting energy from
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carbohydrates a quicker process. So if you're going to be
more intense, the energy demands are going to spike up
a little bit and your body's going to start using
fat and carbs.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
Now.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
A lot of this guidance comes from Danny Mackie. He
is a track club coach with Brooks master's degree in
exercise physiology and biomechanics. Going at an easy pace uses
fewer muscle fibers as well, and that engages less of
your nervous system. It's about sixty percent of your nervous
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system versus eighty percent during those higher intensity training methods.
Plus pushing yourself to go faster does require acceleration. That
can put a lot of stress on your muscles, the
good kind, the good kind of stress on your muscles,
and that encourages your body to adapt. It encourages your
body to make improvements incrementally, but still it's obviously improvement.
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And since it's more efficient, you're going to burn more
calories per mile when you're going faster, even if it
means you're running for a shorter amount of time. That
can lead to weight loss. But burning calories and weight
loss not always the most important factors in which workout
you choose, so sticking to the short, explosive runs isn't
the best idea either, because listen, if you're running five
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or six days a week, you need long, slow runs
to let the body recover. You've got to have downtime
in all of that. Our body is not built with switches.
It's not on or off. If you're going hard, you're
using everything, but the consequence is that you have to
recover from that or you're going to get hurt. Muscular endurance,
the ability for the body to work for an extended
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amount of time is important. And when you're doing that
work for a long period of time running, for example,
you're training your body to turn the oxygen into the
energy more efficiently. But during the sustained run, you're going
to be building aerobic endurance, and the key benefit of
improving muscular endurance is that fatigue won't set in as
fast as it would and you'll be able to withstand
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more energy. Y sorry, you'll be able to withstand more
when you use less energy, so you'll be able to
go longer without working up a sweat. The best option
you want a daily dose. You want to do this
every single day. Running longer is probably fine if you've
got plenty of rest days that you can build in,
run faster, and just the Perhaps the best option is
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a combination of the both of them. Run quick enough,
fast enough to get that muscular endurance, and then take
a couple of slow days where you're doing the longer,
slower runs and building your cardio through that tech talk.
When we come back, Mark Saltzman's going to join us,
how AI can help you plan the perfect last minute?
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Oh my gosh, that's twelve hours away Valentine's Day?
Speaker 2 (15:49):
Did you get your wife something special? Yes?
Speaker 1 (15:52):
You did? Yes?
Speaker 2 (15:53):
Wait, wait a minute, did you sounded surprised?
Speaker 6 (15:56):
Because Shannon, not your Shannon, but the other Shannon, you know,
she pooh pooh, who's getting gifts on Valentine's Day?
Speaker 3 (16:02):
Well, it's not like a two thousand dollars tennis bracelet
or something crazy like that. Oh okay, And in fact,
we're old enough now that we've got what we need.
It's now a matter of trying to find the right
event or activity for us to do.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
That's going to be fun. Oh activity, don't give it away.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
Just checking some of the radar images, and our heaviest
rain is expected sometime later on this afternoon. I say,
the biggest window for La County, specifically, the strongest rain
is coming in sometime between say four o'clock and nine
o'clock Orange County, Inland Empire, San Diego County, it's going
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to be shift that just back a couple of hours,
probably closer to say eight o'clock nine o'clock before the
heaviest rains go into those areas. But for La County,
they said, just as you're about ready to drive home
from work tonight is when things are going to get
pretty sticky. You ever wondered about the best time to
take a nap, like the best time of day to
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take a nap. In the next segment, I'll tell you
about that exactly a very specific time, and we're approaching it.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
By the way, it's time for tech talk.
Speaker 5 (17:22):
The machines are getting smarter.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
This is tech Talk, brought to you by Skynet.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
Well, you're fresh out of lock.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
If you are, I have not yet purchased something, or
bought a thing, or written a poem or whatever.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
However people celebrate Valentine's Day.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
Mark Saltzman, our tech guru, is joining us to talk
about how the world of technology may be able to
help our love life.
Speaker 5 (17:47):
I'm your love guru today, not your tech guru.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
I don't know if I want to say that out loud,
but that's fine.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
Mark. How's it going?
Speaker 6 (17:56):
Not bad things? I guess Shannon is off again today.
Let me guess the dentist. Yes, of fact, it is
sensing a theme here.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
She got a punch card. I think the next one
is free, so good good.
Speaker 6 (18:08):
That'll help out at the when she opens up her
credit card bills.
Speaker 5 (18:13):
Yeah, thanks for having me.
Speaker 6 (18:14):
Yeah, you know, it's Thursday, so we like to talk
tech and I figured, with tomorrow being Valentine's Day, to
change hats from.
Speaker 5 (18:23):
Tech guru to love guru or the two can be
the same.
Speaker 6 (18:25):
I can wear both hats because yes, you can leverage
AI to hop out or if you're having a Gallantines
Date date tonight with your girlfriends, you know, instead of
Valentine's Day, that's a becoming a bigger trend. I've got
some ideas. Yeah, there's actually there was a great article.
I just want to tip my hat both of them
to cnet dot com. They published an article about some
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great ways that AI can help you plan a great
Valentine's Day. So the easy sort of the low hanging
fruit is that you can use these free AI image
generation tools to print out a custom card. So you
don't want to give it on flimsy paper. You want
good stock. But you can create a beautiful royalty free
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image and the words and even ask the AI to
help you with words. And you know, if the cards
that you're looking at at your wherever, your CVS, your
your local store are lame because all the good ones
are taken, you can print out your own customized, personalized
Valentine's Day card.
Speaker 5 (19:28):
So you can definitely take advantage of some of those tools.
But if you are.
Speaker 6 (19:32):
Looking to have a good date night, there are a
couple of dedicated AI platforms. One is called four Lovebirds
dot Com. That's the number four where it's basically an
AI date idea generator, so it doesn't have to be
for for Valentine's Day, but you type in where you
are and it'll give you some suggestions. So using La
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as an example, it gave me everything from a sunset
picnic at Griffith Observatory and it gives you a description
of what's going on there, a dinner at a rooftop restaurant,
so you can have a nice panoramic view of the
La skyline if the rain doesn't impede your view as
it might tonight. Yeah, strolling along Santa monicap here of course,
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attend a live jazz performance. So you can even specify
your budget with some of these, like like Chat, GPT
or Google Gemini. You can say for under one hundred
dollars or whatever, right and I'll give you some ideas.
Another one, Gary is called the Dateidea dot Com. Same idea,
but you don't have to say where you are. You
can if you want. There are a couple of things
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you can click like third date or meal based or
indoor date, which might be ideal for the rain, and
then it basically gives you a bunch of ideas and
links as well. So there are these free tools that
you can leverage and get very specific. You can say,
between this hour and this hour, I'd like to take
my partner on a date or within this budget or
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in this area, and it'll it'll do a great job
for you. So planning your Valentine's Day, printing out a
custom personalized card, these are all great ways. And of course,
as you've hinted that off the top, even having it
write a poem for you, Feed it some information like
where you met, how long you've been together, what you know,
maybe your Valentine's dates, favorite hobbies are, and it'll print
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out probably a very cheesy poem, but it'll do it
for you.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
All right. You're a tech guy.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
How would you react if you knew that missus Mark
Saltzman used AI to write the card expressing her heartfelt
love for the partner of her life.
Speaker 5 (21:36):
That's a good question.
Speaker 6 (21:37):
I don't think I'd be too offended because there's still
effort needed to help you write it. I mean, unless
you're gifted and you know how to write a go
a good poem. I don't know, it could and if
it's really cheesy, it could actually be charming. But yeah,
I'm looking at the glass half full here to our
listeners too, are thinking am I going to get in
more trouble by using AI? Well you can even say
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to the AI, don't make it sound like AI, like,
don't forget like I think we talked about this the
other day. If you're asking for your AI to explain
something to you, you can say, explain it to me
like a a ten year old, or explain it to
me that doesn't sound so much like AI, and it'll
actually do a better job.
Speaker 5 (22:16):
So if you don't want to be.
Speaker 6 (22:17):
Honest with your significant other, then yes, you can try
to pass it off as if it's yours or just
omit the fact that you leverage AI. But hey, your
your partner may have been doing the same to you
and you didn't realize it. I mean, if you're getting
a custom card that says your name and some other
personalized information of personalized image, then obviously you use AI.
Speaker 5 (22:38):
Why not?
Speaker 2 (22:39):
You know, why not just lean into it a little bit?
Speaker 5 (22:41):
Right there?
Speaker 2 (22:42):
You go, car like I'm a sixth grader.
Speaker 6 (22:46):
But if you use deep seek from China. Then now
the CCP knows every you and.
Speaker 5 (22:51):
Your partner, so just be aware about that.
Speaker 3 (22:53):
Just another information dump that they've got there, go exactly
like they need more.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Well, enjoy your time your wife for Valentine's Day.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
Thank you so much to you, Thank you, you bet.
Maybe Shannon will be back next week. Mark Saltzman follow
Mark on X Marc Underscore Saltsman, we come back. There
has been a dating in romance glot and we've talked
about it many times, specifically with young men in the world.
Are they struggling? Are we setting them up correctly to
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learn how to how to date?
Speaker 1 (23:27):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on Demand from KFI
Am six forty.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
President Trump rolled out his plan to increase tariffs to
match the tax rates that other countries charge on imports.
This could trigger some sort of economic confrontation with allies
and rivals alike. He was speaking from the Oval Office
just a short time ago.
Speaker 4 (23:51):
Canada has been very bad to us andre but now
Canada is going to have to start paying up. And
Canada has been tough on the military because they don't
have a very have a very low military cost. They
think we're going to you know, protect them with our military,
which is unfair. So Canada is going to be a
very interesting situation because you know, we just don't need
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their product and yet they survive if the fact that
we're you know, we do ninety five percent of what
they do and Canada is just absolutely I say it,
and sometimes people smile and sometimes they say, great idea,
but Canada, their taxes would come down greatly, their security
would go up greatly. Amazing things happened to Canada, and
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really Canada, and this particularly, why would we pay two
hundred billion dollars a year in subsidies to Canada when
they're not a state. You do that for a state,
but you don't do that for somebody else's country. So
I think Canada is going to be a very serious
contender to be our fifty first state.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
With Canada, there was obviously a delay in implementing those tariffs.
Speaker 4 (25:03):
I spoke to Governor Trudeau on numerous occasions, and we'll
see what happens.
Speaker 3 (25:09):
Not only is he saying that Canada should be the
could be the fifty first state, he's now referring to
Prime Minister Trudeau as Governor Trudeau. Okay, so as he's
going on and talking about these new tariffs. He has
said that these new tariffs would level the playing field
between American manufacturers and foreign manufacturers. But under current law,
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these new tariffs that would come in would likely be
paid by US by American consumers and businesses, either directly
or in the form of higher prices wherever you're buying
goods and services. Now, this could easily backfire on him.
This is a bet. This is a bet that he
did successfully. It appears against Mexico and against Canada already,
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and I mean that process is still playing out, but
he was going to impose those tariffs, came to agreements
at least to postpone those tariffs until they could work
out a deal. This may be the similar negotiation tactic
that he's got, although he's running into some very interesting
potential downfalls. I mean, the politics of tariffs could easily backfire,
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like I said, because this could push inflation up. We
already saw it three percent in January and it was
higher than expected. It could stamp down tamp down growth.
This could be very very interesting to see how this goes.
Now in terms of when these would be put in place,
they had suggested that they're going to do all their
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work by April first in terms of the negotiations against
the research to figure out what tariffs need to be imposed,
these reciprocal tariffs, and it would depend on each different country,
so the tariff increases would be customized with the partial
goal of starting new trade negotiations, but other nations could
feel like they need to respond with their own tariff
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on ours. So there could have to be a way
to reassure you and I and consumers businesses to counteract
the uncertainty that would be caused by the terror I mean,
this is this is him holding a hand grenade at
the negotiation table, and he hasn't pulled the pin yet,
but he's showing everybody that there is a hand grenade
and this is the beginning of the negotiations to try
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to even like I said, to level the playing field
I think was the term that he had said. So
he said there could be some short term price increases
on things, but that the outcome of it eventually would
be that a more level playing field. Some Again, we'll
keep an eye on that news conference. And again it
was several minutes ago. They didn't actually do it live.
(27:42):
They're just playing back some of the tape from the
Oval Office. We've talked before about how young men have
their heads and their asses when it comes to dating.
Dating is a numbers game, and the numbers do not
appear to be on our side.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
Guys.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
Sixty three percent of men under the age of thirty
say they are single. Sixty three percent of men under
the age of thirty say they're single. Compare that to
thirty four percent of women in the same in that
same age group who say they're single. Now, that doesn't
make sense, but these single are more likely to be
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looking for love. Half of the single men in this
Pew survey reported looking for committed relationship and or casual dates.
Only about thirty five percent of single women are saying
the same. On that, what are men afraid of? A
new U gov poll said that fifty seven percent of
women said that they have been on a terrible date.
(28:36):
About forty four percent of men say the same. Women
are no longer willing to accept ghosting, the non commitment,
the harassment. Men are going to be forced to change
their ways, are forced being shut out of the dating.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
Pool, and by and large, the men.
Speaker 3 (28:52):
They know what not to do, don't be toxic, don't
be mean, don't be arrogant, don't be a predator, don't
be a creep. But they say they're at a loss
for what is acceptable when they're trying to date.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
How about this be yourself?
Speaker 3 (29:07):
They say, you could see a little bit of risk
aversion among young men, partly because they're largely worried about
the risks that they're going to come from putting yourself
out there. There is very little rit Yes you might
get your feelings hurt. Yes you might be embarrassed. But
the more you allow that to drive whether or not
you go after finding love, then you're the more likely
(29:28):
you are to be screwed. I mean, and I mean
that in the not that way. I mean you're going
to lose out on the potential for love. According to
recent American Perspective survey from the Survey Center on American Life,
fifty two percent of single women said they would be
less likely to date a Trump supporter. Thirty percent of
thirty six percent of single men say they wouldn't date
a Trump supporter.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
Men don't care as much.
Speaker 3 (29:50):
Sixty percent of single women feared that women would be
worse off under a Trump administration. Only forty seven percent
of single men do not allow who the president is
to impact your dating life. That is completely wrong. You're
doing it wrong. If that's the case, and then that's
what you're doing. We have our trending stories and at
(30:11):
twelve twenty, rebuilding after our fires. We can learn something
from those other places who have had recent fires and rebuilt.
What is it we can learn from the Tubs fire,
from the Maui fires, maybe the campfire up in Paradise.
We'll talk about that coming up at twelve twenty. Gary
and Shannon will continue right after this. You've been listening
to the Gary and Shannon Show. You can always hear
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Speaker 2 (00:09):
Shannon's out today, back tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
She's getting the final work done, final dental, whatever something's
going on.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Rain obviously is going to be our big issue today.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Evacuation warnings have been put up through most areas. Evacuation
orders have been issued for the Sierra Madre area because
of the expectation that we are going to see mud
slides into brief flows as a result as these rains
get stronger. Pacific Palisades, for example, is limited to residents
(00:40):
only until two o'clock tomorrow afternoon. Any contractor with a
pass still not allowed entry. Evacuation warnings issued for the
Getty Villa area, portions of the Highlands Neighborhood, the northern
section of ben Venette Bien Veneda Avenue, northern section of
Temiskull Canyon Road, edge of Marinette Road, Oracle Place, the
area around will Rogers State Park, including the Villawoods Drive
(01:02):
and Villa Grove Drive. Brentwood has some evacuation warnings. Malibu
has some evacuation warnings, all of them because of the
burn areas that exist now because of the Palisades Fire
and other fires in those areas in the last couple
of years. This is one of the strongest storms that
we have that we will see this winter, and potentially
(01:22):
one of the strongest that we've seen in a couple
of years. There are also some evacuation warnings in Orange
County the Tribuco Hot Springs, Bell Long Canyon, Majesca Canyon
areas because of the risk of Debrifo debris flows near
the Airport fire burn scar. Those evacuation warnings started this
morning and will stay in effect basically until they determine
its safe. San Bernardino around Mount Baldy Village and Rightwood
(01:46):
because of potential mudslides, and then Santa Barbara County as well,
because of the Lake fire that burned through the mountains
north of Los Alevos the county. It did issue an
evacuation order for some areas in Santa Barbara County because
of that.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
This is this is one of.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
Those dynamic things where we really won't know how bad
it gets until it gets here, and the strongest part
of this rainstorm isn't expected to hit La County until
much later this afternoon, probably four or five hours from now,
right about four o'clock is what they have said when
they expect this window, about a five hour window of
the strongest rain to be coming. So as it gets
(02:24):
dark here in La County, that's when we're going to
see some of the strongest rains. So that's all. That's
all the local stuff. It's time for swamp watch.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
I'm a politician, which means I'm a cheat and a liar.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
And when I'm not kissing babies, I'm stealing that lollipop
here we got The real problem is that our leaders
are done.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
The other side never quits.
Speaker 5 (02:44):
So what.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
I'm not going anywhere, So that now you train the squat,
I can imagine what can be and be unburdened by
what has been.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
You know, Americans have always been going at president, but
they're not stupid.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
A political flunder is when a politician actually tells the truth.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Have the people voted for you were not swamp watch?
They're all counter knowing well.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
The reciprocal tariffs have apparently been signed into effects. According
to the latest reports out of the White House, the
President has signed these into effect and is expected to
make some sort of an announcement over the course of
the next few minutes. It was supposed to happen about
an hour ago, but it hasn't. When the President starts speaking,
we'll bring it to you. His cabinet's getting filled out.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
On this vote.
Speaker 5 (03:28):
The a's are fifty two, the naser forty eight. The
confirmation is confirmed.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
Senator Senator sorry, Robert F. Kennedy Junior was confirmed by
senators today. He was going to now oversee Health and
Human Services. The department has a one point seven trillion
dollar budget, eighty thousand employees. I mean, at least it
does now until Elon Musk gets a hold of it.
Secretary of Agriculture was also confirmed today, Brooke Rollins on
(03:55):
account of seventy two to twenty eight. One of the
more lopsided wins for the Trump cabinet. I think the
most lopsided would have been Marco Rubio as Secretary of State.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Didn't have anybody vote against him.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
The Senate Judiciary Committee has also voted along party lines
to advance the nomination of Cash Bettel for FBI director.
Republicans pushed past some of the Democratic concerns that Bateel
was simply going to be a loyalist Trump and target
some of the perceived adversaries. Linda McMahon, who has been
chosen to be the Education Secretary, told her confirmation hearing
(04:29):
senators that she is prepared to enact the education vision
of President Trump if she's confirmed, but she did not,
at least in the opening statement, she did not mention
the most controversial element of what his agenda is, which
is that she's supposed to work herself out of a job.
She is supposed to eventually lead to eliminate the Department
(04:50):
of Education. So again, Linda McMahon, at least starting her
confirmation hearing today, one of the issues that's been going
on with these at least the I don't know, could
I say the tumultuous three Tulsey Gabbard as Director of
National Intelligence, RFK Junior as Secretary of Health and Human Services,
and Cash Bettel as FBI Director. One of the common
(05:16):
no votes for all of those has been Mitch McConnell.
Mitch McConnell, Senator from Kentucky, been there since Jesus walked
the earth, has is now eighty two years old, and
he has decided that on his way out. I mean,
he's old, he's going to retire. He's already announced that
he stepped back from party leadership in the Senate Chamber
(05:39):
and turned it over to John Thune so he could
be the majority leader. He has basically said, I am
unshackled by the burden of leadership. I don't have to
pass any bills. I don't have to be the referee.
I can spend my time pulling people back to what
(06:00):
he thinks. What Mitch McConnell thinks is the Republican Party.
Leon Caldwell actually wrote an article about Mitch McConnell titled
I'm that Mitch, and describes how the double Birds are
helping Mitch McConnell sort of ride off into the sunset
double birds towards the White House and specifically Donald Trump.
(06:22):
The specific wording I thought was pretty clever. She talked about. Now,
this was before Mitch McConnell voted against Tulsea Gabbard as
DNI and against RFK Junior as a Secretary of HHS,
and he did both. He voted no on both of those,
and it's likely that he'll vote no on Cash Bettel
(06:43):
coming up.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
But she wrote this enigma exemplify. Sorry.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
This enigma amplifies growing questions about how McConnell plans to
spend his hard earn out of FS to give Twilight
Era once the relentless part is in willing to vote
his platform to ensuring that the United States doesn't decimate
Western alliances and retreat from the world, pitting himself against
his president and a growing number of colleagues in his conference,
(07:09):
and could it work. Interesting thing about the RFK confirmation
now that we know is RFK said at one point
that the polio vaccine likely killed more people than it saved.
Mitch McConnell takes that personally because Mitch McConnell is a
polio survivor, and he said that that perspective is dangerous.
(07:32):
Mitch McConnell actually still suffers from the impact of polio.
It's affected the way he walks, it's affected his balance.
Let me give you an impression, just an example of that.
Just this week, this is not old news. This week
Mitch McConnell fell walking down the steps off the Senate
floor and then literally minutes later he fell again and
(07:55):
his plate of Hamburger, hot dog, French fries and ketchup
fell and hit him on the head on his way down.
There are doctors in the Senate. John Barrasso's one of them.
He walked over. Mitch McConnell, refused any medical attention. He
got up, he walked to his table, He sat down
and acted as if nothing had happened. He's been pushed
around in his wheelchair. He has been helped literally carried
(08:18):
from his wheelchair to his car at times. He is
not going to resign, he says, but he is also
not going to run for reelection. And like I said,
flipping the double birds on his way out a wellness segment.
When we come back, you consider yourself a serious runner. Maybe,
I mean, that's a pretty small audience. But if you
like to run, you like to exercise. Which is better
(08:40):
running faster or running longer?
Speaker 2 (08:44):
That's next. Gary and Shannon will continue.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
Big stories that were following the rain. Biggest storm coming
in in probably at least year later this afternoon is
when it's going to get even stronger. A car attack
in Munich has injured at least twenty eight people, including kids.
German anti terrorism officials said that an asylum seeker from
Afghanistan is the one who was blamed for it. He's
been arrested. This attack took place just a few blocks
(09:17):
away from the site of the Munich Security Conference, which
is going to start tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
Jadie Vance is there.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
Ukrainian President Vledimer z Alensky, Secretary of State Marko Rubio,
several NATO allies are insisting that Ukraine and Europe must
not be cut out of any peace negotiations that take place.
Trump signaled that he's going to hold talk soon with
President Putin. The uk Defense secretary said the Ukraine's voice
must be heard at the heart of any talks. Estonians
(09:44):
Defense minister said that Europe has driven sanctions against Russia
and will have to foot the bill for reconstruction. Is
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But in the meantime, it's time for us to check
in on your wellness.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
I feel terrible. He spends most of his day at
the office.
Speaker 5 (10:34):
City tendation include a variety of activities.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
I'm preferably some exercise late in the afternoon. I never
exercised a day of my life. You just got to
sit here and wait for God.
Speaker 4 (10:46):
Every morning I smoke a cigarette, and for lunch, I
eat a bacon sandwich, and I usually drink my dinner.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
It's time for Gary and Shannon's periodic Guide for Wellness
and Personal and pro for your health.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
Listen, none of us moves around enough, probably, but we
like the idea of it. If you consider yourself a
pretty serious runner, you got one of two camps right.
You're either a long distance runner, I think four or
five miles at a clip and you keep it nice
and easy. You're talking ten twelve minute miles, I mean
twelve minutes almost walking. But listen, who's to judge. Or
(11:24):
you're the speed person. You like to do sprints, or
you like to do a mile, maybe a mile and
a half, but you're going for time.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Listen.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
You could be a total running new bee and have
no idea which one is going to be better besides training,
The simple answer is do both. You need both for
a well rounded sort of exercise regimen. Running faster has benefits.
(11:56):
Running longer has benefits like for example, faster runners more
fat and carbs, they use more muscle fibers, they burn
calories efficient more efficiently. But if fast running does require
more recovery time and probably not suitable for most people
every single day, the benefit for the distance runners you
(12:16):
have improved endurance, you have a decreased risk of cardiovascular disease,
and since you don't need necessarily a break for recovery,
you could probably distance run every single day that you're there. So,
but is there a difference? Is there a definitive answer
as to which one is better? Running only long distance
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and easy is probably not the greatest option. Because it
doesn't burn the carbs the way you think you're doing it.
When you go slower, your energy demands are lower. Your
body's going to rely predominantly on fat to drive that exercise.
We don't really use carbs for the easy runs because
we don't need the energy that quickly. You use carbs
when you go at the harder intensities. Getting energy from
(13:01):
carbohydrates a quicker process. So if you're going to be
more intense, the energy demands are going to spike up
a little bit and your body's going to start using
fat and carbs.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
Now.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
A lot of this guidance comes from Danny Mackie. He
is a track club coach with Brooks master's degree in
exercise physiology and biomechanics. Going at an easy pace uses
fewer muscle fibers as well, and that engages less of
your nervous system. It's about sixty percent of your nervous
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system versus eighty percent during those higher intensity training methods.
Plus pushing yourself to go faster does require acceleration. That
can put a lot of stress on your muscles, the
good kind, the good kind of stress on your muscles,
and that encourages your body to adapt. It encourages your
body to make improvements incrementally, but still it's obviously improvement.
(13:54):
And since it's more efficient, you're going to burn more
calories per mile when you're going faster, even if it
means you're running for a shorter amount of time. That
can lead to weight loss. But burning calories and weight
loss not always the most important factors in which workout
you choose, so sticking to the short, explosive runs isn't
the best idea either, because listen, if you're running five
(14:17):
or six days a week, you need long, slow runs
to let the body recover. You've got to have downtime
in all of that. Our body is not built with switches.
It's not on or off. If you're going hard, you're
using everything, but the consequence is that you have to
recover from that or you're going to get hurt. Muscular endurance,
the ability for the body to work for an extended
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amount of time is important. And when you're doing that
work for a long period of time running, for example,
you're training your body to turn the oxygen into the
energy more efficiently. But during the sustained run, you're going
to be building aerobic endurance, and the key benefit of
improving muscular endurance is that fatigue won't set in as
fast as it would and you'll be able to withstand
(14:59):
more energy. Y sorry, you'll be able to withstand more
when you use less energy, so you'll be able to
go longer without working up a sweat. The best option
you want a daily dose. You want to do this
every single day. Running longer is probably fine if you've
got plenty of rest days that you can build in,
run faster, and just the Perhaps the best option is
(15:24):
a combination of the both of them. Run quick enough,
fast enough to get that muscular endurance, and then take
a couple of slow days where you're doing the longer,
slower runs and building your cardio through that tech talk.
When we come back, Mark Saltzman's going to join us,
how AI can help you plan the perfect last minute?
(15:45):
Oh my gosh, that's twelve hours away Valentine's Day?
Speaker 2 (15:49):
Did you get your wife something special? Yes?
Speaker 1 (15:52):
You did? Yes?
Speaker 2 (15:53):
Wait, wait a minute, did you sounded surprised?
Speaker 6 (15:56):
Because Shannon, not your Shannon, but the other Shannon, you know,
she pooh pooh, who's getting gifts on Valentine's Day?
Speaker 3 (16:02):
Well, it's not like a two thousand dollars tennis bracelet
or something crazy like that. Oh okay, And in fact,
we're old enough now that we've got what we need.
It's now a matter of trying to find the right
event or activity for us to do.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
That's going to be fun. Oh activity, don't give it away.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
Just checking some of the radar images, and our heaviest
rain is expected sometime later on this afternoon. I say,
the biggest window for La County, specifically, the strongest rain
is coming in sometime between say four o'clock and nine
o'clock Orange County, Inland Empire, San Diego County, it's going
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to be shift that just back a couple of hours,
probably closer to say eight o'clock nine o'clock before the
heaviest rains go into those areas. But for La County,
they said, just as you're about ready to drive home
from work tonight is when things are going to get
pretty sticky. You ever wondered about the best time to
take a nap, like the best time of day to
(17:12):
take a nap. In the next segment, I'll tell you
about that exactly a very specific time, and we're approaching it.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
By the way, it's time for tech talk.
Speaker 5 (17:22):
The machines are getting smarter.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
This is tech Talk, brought to you by Skynet.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
Well, you're fresh out of lock.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
If you are, I have not yet purchased something, or
bought a thing, or written a poem or whatever.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
However people celebrate Valentine's Day.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
Mark Saltzman, our tech guru, is joining us to talk
about how the world of technology may be able to
help our love life.
Speaker 5 (17:47):
I'm your love guru today, not your tech guru.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
I don't know if I want to say that out loud,
but that's fine.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
Mark. How's it going?
Speaker 6 (17:56):
Not bad things? I guess Shannon is off again today.
Let me guess the dentist. Yes, of fact, it is
sensing a theme here.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
She got a punch card. I think the next one
is free, so good good.
Speaker 6 (18:08):
That'll help out at the when she opens up her
credit card bills.
Speaker 5 (18:13):
Yeah, thanks for having me.
Speaker 6 (18:14):
Yeah, you know, it's Thursday, so we like to talk
tech and I figured, with tomorrow being Valentine's Day, to
change hats from.
Speaker 5 (18:23):
Tech guru to love guru or the two can be
the same.
Speaker 6 (18:25):
I can wear both hats because yes, you can leverage
AI to hop out or if you're having a Gallantines
Date date tonight with your girlfriends, you know, instead of
Valentine's Day, that's a becoming a bigger trend. I've got
some ideas. Yeah, there's actually there was a great article.
I just want to tip my hat both of them
to cnet dot com. They published an article about some
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great ways that AI can help you plan a great
Valentine's Day. So the easy sort of the low hanging
fruit is that you can use these free AI image
generation tools to print out a custom card. So you
don't want to give it on flimsy paper. You want
good stock. But you can create a beautiful royalty free
(19:08):
image and the words and even ask the AI to
help you with words. And you know, if the cards
that you're looking at at your wherever, your CVS, your
your local store are lame because all the good ones
are taken, you can print out your own customized, personalized
Valentine's Day card.
Speaker 5 (19:28):
So you can definitely take advantage of some of those tools.
But if you are.
Speaker 6 (19:32):
Looking to have a good date night, there are a
couple of dedicated AI platforms. One is called four Lovebirds
dot Com. That's the number four where it's basically an
AI date idea generator, so it doesn't have to be
for for Valentine's Day, but you type in where you
are and it'll give you some suggestions. So using La
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as an example, it gave me everything from a sunset
picnic at Griffith Observatory and it gives you a description
of what's going on there, a dinner at a rooftop restaurant,
so you can have a nice panoramic view of the
La skyline if the rain doesn't impede your view as
it might tonight. Yeah, strolling along Santa monicap here of course,
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attend a live jazz performance. So you can even specify
your budget with some of these, like like Chat, GPT
or Google Gemini. You can say for under one hundred
dollars or whatever, right and I'll give you some ideas.
Another one, Gary is called the Dateidea dot Com. Same idea,
but you don't have to say where you are. You
can if you want. There are a couple of things
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you can click like third date or meal based or
indoor date, which might be ideal for the rain, and
then it basically gives you a bunch of ideas and
links as well. So there are these free tools that
you can leverage and get very specific. You can say,
between this hour and this hour, I'd like to take
my partner on a date or within this budget or
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in this area, and it'll it'll do a great job
for you. So planning your Valentine's Day, printing out a
custom personalized card, these are all great ways. And of course,
as you've hinted that off the top, even having it
write a poem for you, Feed it some information like
where you met, how long you've been together, what you know,
maybe your Valentine's dates, favorite hobbies are, and it'll print
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out probably a very cheesy poem, but it'll do it
for you.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
All right. You're a tech guy.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
How would you react if you knew that missus Mark
Saltzman used AI to write the card expressing her heartfelt
love for the partner of her life.
Speaker 5 (21:36):
That's a good question.
Speaker 6 (21:37):
I don't think I'd be too offended because there's still
effort needed to help you write it. I mean, unless
you're gifted and you know how to write a go
a good poem. I don't know, it could and if
it's really cheesy, it could actually be charming. But yeah,
I'm looking at the glass half full here to our
listeners too, are thinking am I going to get in
more trouble by using AI? Well you can even say
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to the AI, don't make it sound like AI, like,
don't forget like I think we talked about this the
other day. If you're asking for your AI to explain
something to you, you can say, explain it to me
like a a ten year old, or explain it to
me that doesn't sound so much like AI, and it'll
actually do a better job.
Speaker 5 (22:16):
So if you don't want to be.
Speaker 6 (22:17):
Honest with your significant other, then yes, you can try
to pass it off as if it's yours or just
omit the fact that you leverage AI. But hey, your
your partner may have been doing the same to you
and you didn't realize it. I mean, if you're getting
a custom card that says your name and some other
personalized information of personalized image, then obviously you use AI.
Speaker 5 (22:38):
Why not?
Speaker 2 (22:39):
You know, why not just lean into it a little bit?
Speaker 5 (22:41):
Right there?
Speaker 2 (22:42):
You go, car like I'm a sixth grader.
Speaker 6 (22:46):
But if you use deep seek from China. Then now
the CCP knows every you and.
Speaker 5 (22:51):
Your partner, so just be aware about that.
Speaker 3 (22:53):
Just another information dump that they've got there, go exactly
like they need more.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Well, enjoy your time your wife for Valentine's Day.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
Thank you so much to you, Thank you, you bet.
Maybe Shannon will be back next week. Mark Saltzman follow
Mark on X Marc Underscore Saltsman, we come back. There
has been a dating in romance glot and we've talked
about it many times, specifically with young men in the world.
Are they struggling? Are we setting them up correctly to
(23:24):
learn how to how to date?
Speaker 1 (23:27):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on Demand from KFI
Am six forty.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
President Trump rolled out his plan to increase tariffs to
match the tax rates that other countries charge on imports.
This could trigger some sort of economic confrontation with allies
and rivals alike. He was speaking from the Oval Office
just a short time ago.
Speaker 4 (23:51):
Canada has been very bad to us andre but now
Canada is going to have to start paying up. And
Canada has been tough on the military because they don't
have a very have a very low military cost. They
think we're going to you know, protect them with our military,
which is unfair. So Canada is going to be a
very interesting situation because you know, we just don't need
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their product and yet they survive if the fact that
we're you know, we do ninety five percent of what
they do and Canada is just absolutely I say it,
and sometimes people smile and sometimes they say, great idea,
but Canada, their taxes would come down greatly, their security
would go up greatly. Amazing things happened to Canada, and
(24:36):
really Canada, and this particularly, why would we pay two
hundred billion dollars a year in subsidies to Canada when
they're not a state. You do that for a state,
but you don't do that for somebody else's country. So
I think Canada is going to be a very serious
contender to be our fifty first state.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
With Canada, there was obviously a delay in implementing those tariffs.
Speaker 4 (25:03):
I spoke to Governor Trudeau on numerous occasions, and we'll
see what happens.
Speaker 3 (25:09):
Not only is he saying that Canada should be the
could be the fifty first state, he's now referring to
Prime Minister Trudeau as Governor Trudeau. Okay, so as he's
going on and talking about these new tariffs. He has
said that these new tariffs would level the playing field
between American manufacturers and foreign manufacturers. But under current law,
(25:31):
these new tariffs that would come in would likely be
paid by US by American consumers and businesses, either directly
or in the form of higher prices wherever you're buying
goods and services. Now, this could easily backfire on him.
This is a bet. This is a bet that he
did successfully. It appears against Mexico and against Canada already,
(25:55):
and I mean that process is still playing out, but
he was going to impose those tariffs, came to agreements
at least to postpone those tariffs until they could work
out a deal. This may be the similar negotiation tactic
that he's got, although he's running into some very interesting
potential downfalls. I mean, the politics of tariffs could easily backfire,
(26:17):
like I said, because this could push inflation up. We
already saw it three percent in January and it was
higher than expected. It could stamp down tamp down growth.
This could be very very interesting to see how this goes.
Now in terms of when these would be put in place,
they had suggested that they're going to do all their
(26:38):
work by April first in terms of the negotiations against
the research to figure out what tariffs need to be imposed,
these reciprocal tariffs, and it would depend on each different country,
so the tariff increases would be customized with the partial
goal of starting new trade negotiations, but other nations could
feel like they need to respond with their own tariff
(27:00):
on ours. So there could have to be a way
to reassure you and I and consumers businesses to counteract
the uncertainty that would be caused by the terror I mean,
this is this is him holding a hand grenade at
the negotiation table, and he hasn't pulled the pin yet,
but he's showing everybody that there is a hand grenade
and this is the beginning of the negotiations to try
(27:22):
to even like I said, to level the playing field
I think was the term that he had said. So
he said there could be some short term price increases
on things, but that the outcome of it eventually would
be that a more level playing field. Some Again, we'll
keep an eye on that news conference. And again it
was several minutes ago. They didn't actually do it live.
(27:42):
They're just playing back some of the tape from the
Oval Office. We've talked before about how young men have
their heads and their asses when it comes to dating.
Dating is a numbers game, and the numbers do not
appear to be on our side.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
Guys.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
Sixty three percent of men under the age of thirty
say they are single. Sixty three percent of men under
the age of thirty say they're single. Compare that to
thirty four percent of women in the same in that
same age group who say they're single. Now, that doesn't
make sense, but these single are more likely to be
(28:16):
looking for love. Half of the single men in this
Pew survey reported looking for committed relationship and or casual dates.
Only about thirty five percent of single women are saying
the same. On that, what are men afraid of? A
new U gov poll said that fifty seven percent of
women said that they have been on a terrible date.
(28:36):
About forty four percent of men say the same. Women
are no longer willing to accept ghosting, the non commitment,
the harassment. Men are going to be forced to change
their ways, are forced being shut out of the dating.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
Pool, and by and large, the men.
Speaker 3 (28:52):
They know what not to do, don't be toxic, don't
be mean, don't be arrogant, don't be a predator, don't
be a creep. But they say they're at a loss
for what is acceptable when they're trying to date.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
How about this be yourself?
Speaker 3 (29:07):
They say, you could see a little bit of risk
aversion among young men, partly because they're largely worried about
the risks that they're going to come from putting yourself
out there. There is very little rit Yes you might
get your feelings hurt. Yes you might be embarrassed. But
the more you allow that to drive whether or not
you go after finding love, then you're the more likely
(29:28):
you are to be screwed. I mean, and I mean
that in the not that way. I mean you're going
to lose out on the potential for love. According to
recent American Perspective survey from the Survey Center on American Life,
fifty two percent of single women said they would be
less likely to date a Trump supporter. Thirty percent of
thirty six percent of single men say they wouldn't date
a Trump supporter.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
Men don't care as much.
Speaker 3 (29:50):
Sixty percent of single women feared that women would be
worse off under a Trump administration. Only forty seven percent
of single men do not allow who the president is
to impact your dating life. That is completely wrong. You're
doing it wrong. If that's the case, and then that's
what you're doing. We have our trending stories and at
(30:11):
twelve twenty, rebuilding after our fires. We can learn something
from those other places who have had recent fires and rebuilt.
What is it we can learn from the Tubs fire,
from the Maui fires, maybe the campfire up in Paradise.
We'll talk about that coming up at twelve twenty. Gary
and Shannon will continue right after this. You've been listening
to the Gary and Shannon Show. You can always hear
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