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Today’s Popcorn Moment: NIH director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya · Tony Katz | Popcorn Moment

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  Speaker 1: Tony Gats Morning News ninety three w IBC. My name
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  Speaker 1: is Craig Collins, filling in, thrilled to be with you.
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  Speaker 1: A bunch of stuff out there to talk about. It
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  Speaker 1: is time for our Popcorn Moment, brought to you by
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  Speaker 1: Boer Homer Modeling.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm not going to talk as much. I'm just
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  Speaker 2: going to fire it. Here we go.
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  Speaker 1: You have Tony Fauci's old job, is that correct?
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  Speaker 3: Talktor about Itharia?
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  Speaker 4: Well, he he would have worked for me, actually he would.
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  Speaker 4: He was the head of National Institute of Algae and
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  Speaker 4: Texassease as it.
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  Speaker 3: Should be, by the way.
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  Speaker 2: But do you feel vindicated for that?
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  Speaker 3: Like my goodness talk about coming full circle?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean it's it's I mean, vindication is nice.
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  Speaker 4: But to me, the most important thing is that we
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  Speaker 4: have to make sure the NIH works for the American people. Sure,
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  Speaker 4: and what you saw yesterday in Congress was not an
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  Speaker 4: example of that. And it just pains me. And just
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  Speaker 4: year and a half that I've been the leader of
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  Speaker 4: the NIH, I've worked very hard to reform the NIH
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  Speaker 4: and it's actually been in many ways so easy to
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  Speaker 4: find dead scientists who want to find advances and cures
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  Speaker 4: that make people better, make people in America healthy.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that sounds nice. I like that last part. I
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  Speaker 1: in love a lot of the part for it. And
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  Speaker 1: also but the honest reflection and the true reflection about
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  Speaker 1: Fauci and his testimony and how bad it made a
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  Speaker 1: lot of people look not just a doctor Anthony Fauci,
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  Speaker 1: but anybody kind of tied to him during COVID and
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  Speaker 1: within NIH and other organizations. All Right, other things out
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  Speaker 1: there that I thought were interesting. I think this is
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  Speaker 1: kind of funny. There is video of a robotic mouth
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  Speaker 1: that has gone very viral that sounds terrible. It looks
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  Speaker 1: more like a weird fish mouth than a human one.
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  Speaker 1: It physically replicates human speech using an air pump for lungs,
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  Speaker 1: a silicon tongue, and eight artificial vocal cords. It does
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  Speaker 1: make weird sounds. And so since this is radio and
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  Speaker 1: not video and I can't show you the strange video,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to play the weird sounds. But again, this
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  Speaker 1: is being made by a robotic mouth that went very viral.
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  Speaker 2: Fantastic. I'm gonna I'm gonna play what.
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  Speaker 3: Was that, Matt fantastic?
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  Speaker 2: That's great, I'm gonna play it again.
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  Speaker 1: Someone is very happy that they've created a robotic mouth.
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  Speaker 2: It doesn't talk yet, but it does this. It's closer
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  Speaker 2: to a real thing.
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  Speaker 1: Many many people assume that whenever this is finished, it'll
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  Speaker 1: still be used for horrible reasons and not great ones.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, all this technology, all of this AI, and
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  Speaker 5: this is the best we can come up with right now.
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  Speaker 2: This is yeah, you know.
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  Speaker 3: Well.
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  Speaker 1: What I love about it too is the guy who's
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  Speaker 1: like demoing it and then put up the video about it.
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  Speaker 1: He's proud he built the whole mouth. It looks kind
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  Speaker 1: of like a mouth, and he's like, guys, guys, guys,
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  Speaker 1: you don't know, like, listen to what it does.
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  Speaker 2: And he's thrilled.
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  Speaker 5: This is this is what's going to end up taking
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  Speaker 5: my job. It's like, they build your robotic mouth, and
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  Speaker 5: those are the first sounds. It's like baby's forced words,
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  Speaker 5: you know, Carl's newborn baby comes.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's how it starts, and you.
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  Speaker 5: Know, and then it evolves into traffic reporting and everything else.
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  Speaker 5: So I'm out of a gig in five years because
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  Speaker 5: of this robot mount that sounds like it's having a seizure.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you're right, Although occasionally I think that while it's
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  Speaker 1: like crushing a traffic report or something.
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  Speaker 2: It would just evolve back into.
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  Speaker 1: And then it would just try to shift away from
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  Speaker 1: it and you'd be like, wait, what was that that
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  Speaker 1: happened for a few seconds.
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  Speaker 5: Tis this is what we do with these million billion
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  Speaker 5: dollar grants, as we build things that have absolutely no
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  Speaker 5: practical purpose whatsoever. And that's the beautiful thing about wasting
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  Speaker 5: government money.
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  Speaker 2: I love it.
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  Speaker 3: It's wells more men or women.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah see, yeah, like we talked about yesterday and wasting
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  Speaker 1: university money. I would love to be like in the
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  Speaker 1: room for this stuff. Man, it would be so much fun.
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  Speaker 1: And then also, like you would assume since it's a
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  Speaker 1: robotic mouth and it looks real and it took a
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  Speaker 1: lot of assembling that it's a whole team of people
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  Speaker 1: who are behind this, And so like, I'm betting one
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  Speaker 1: person on the team is disappointed with the result. He's like,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I don't think we did as good as
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  Speaker 1: everybody else in the room. Things, And you don't want
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  Speaker 1: to be the crappy person saying the crappy thing to
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  Speaker 1: everybody else. But I imagine at least one guy doesn't
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  Speaker 1: want his name tied to this.
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  Speaker 5: This is the guy who doesn't get it, invited out
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  Speaker 5: for drinks, doesn't get to go to the company meals,
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  Speaker 5: shows up to the holiday parties alone, is the first
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  Speaker 5: one to go to HR because nobody ecceects it.
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  Speaker 3: I get it, you know, it's it would just be
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  Speaker 3: I don't understand.
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  Speaker 5: If we can do this, why aren't we like it
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  Speaker 5: be some kind of way to teach somebody another language quickly,
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  Speaker 5: you know what they're like better.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know. I love this. I'm not gonna lie.
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  Speaker 2: No, it's fine.
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  Speaker 1: And every time we think there's an advancement, there's some
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  Speaker 1: level of proof that, like, maybe it's not going to
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  Speaker 1: go well, all.
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  Speaker 2: The stuff that we're gonna do. I know it's yeah,
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  Speaker 2: maybe just maybe too much trust in the internet. At
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  Speaker 2: tempted to play it again, but I'm not gonna play it.
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  Speaker 3: No, I can wait hear it one more time, just
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  Speaker 3: for me.
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  Speaker 1: You want to hear the amazing advancement that happened in science,
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  Speaker 1: in the world of for anyone just tuning in. Someone
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  Speaker 1: made a electronic mouth that moves and looks very similar
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  Speaker 1: to a real human mouth, with air pumps and all
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  Speaker 1: kinds of things, and they're very proud It also can
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  Speaker 1: make noises, although not noises you and I totally recognize
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  Speaker 1: that's all it does for now. Yeah, at some point,
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  Speaker 1: who knows what's coming next, to see what.
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  Speaker 3: It's gonna say next. I mean it's beautiful, come on.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it's amazing.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 1: Other things out there that I thought were interesting. How
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  Speaker 1: much are Americans really spending on summer activities was a
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  Speaker 1: story that was out there this year. People are claiming
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  Speaker 1: that they're pulling back, but yet a lot of people
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  Speaker 1: really aren't. Nearly four hundred dollars a weekend is the
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  Speaker 1: average cost of just summer itself. This doesn't mean vacation.
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  Speaker 1: This doesn't mean you know, the trip you take. This
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  Speaker 1: this means the things you do to splurge to have
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  Speaker 1: fun because it's nice outside in a lot of places.
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  Speaker 2: Does this number surprise us or no?
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  Speaker 5: It surprises me a little bit because I'm thinking about
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  Speaker 5: a family and gas prices and feeding the family.
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  Speaker 3: Four hundred dollars seems low to me.
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  Speaker 2: Actually, sure, yeah, every week is two hundred bucks and well.
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  Speaker 1: Right, but again, I want to contextualize it correctly. This
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  Speaker 1: is what you spend on a weekend just going out
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  Speaker 1: with the family on like a regular summer weekend.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, sure, but now say you're going to a lake.
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  Speaker 5: You got to feel up the boat, you have to
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  Speaker 5: drive to the lake, you have to pull the trailer,
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  Speaker 5: which takes more gas, and then you have to pack
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  Speaker 5: the lunches and everything else.
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  Speaker 3: To me, that sounds I don't know, maybe you can
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  Speaker 3: get a done for four hundred dollars.
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  Speaker 5: I don't have a family, but it just seems four
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  Speaker 5: hundred dollars on two incomes, say the husband and wife
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  Speaker 5: or the significant other are both working with the salaries.
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  Speaker 5: That doesn't seem too awful to me. And somebody's gonna
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  Speaker 5: punch me in the face for saying that. I get
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  Speaker 5: it now, But I would think it would be much
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  Speaker 5: more than that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, no fair.
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  Speaker 1: And here I can even break it down because they
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  Speaker 1: did this in the study. A dining out sixty one
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  Speaker 1: bucks for a family. Typically, that sounds a little low.
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  Speaker 1: I know, not a chance, no, And I wonder if
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  Speaker 1: dining out actually means any like not a real restaurant,
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  Speaker 1: like this is fast food.
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  Speaker 2: This is an taco Bell, Yeah, taco Bell.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Well, in all the diarrhea transportation transportation fifty one
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  Speaker 1: bucks for an average weekend of travel, hosting, gathering, sixty
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  Speaker 1: bucks to buy other stuff, entertainment maybe going to a
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  Speaker 1: movie or something fifty seven outdoor activity fifty five Self
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  Speaker 1: care and wellness was also put into this list. Any
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  Speaker 1: kind of like getting a haircut or something fifty four dollars.
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  Speaker 1: That's some of what makes up a typical weekend spend
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  Speaker 1: in the world of our country right now. I do
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  Speaker 1: think it's interesting that they also say the number one
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  Speaker 1: activity is going to a restaurant that most people like.
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  Speaker 1: If you want to do something fun over the weekend,
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  Speaker 1: just going to a place and eating food is pretty
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  Speaker 1: much all you do.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I would say that would be because that's your
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  Speaker 5: family time, right, that would be the time where your
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  Speaker 5: date night with your wife.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, that makes sense to me. But the sixty
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  Speaker 3: two dollars, I think that was the number way too low.
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  Speaker 2: Will made to be all four hundred.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, you're not even getting the adpetizer for sixty two dollars.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, I really I very fondly remember being
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  Speaker 1: a kid and getting to go out to eat, because
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  Speaker 1: I feel like it did it very seldom growing up
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  Speaker 1: with a single mom, and I remember, and I think
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  Speaker 1: i've told this in the air before because my grandfather
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  Speaker 1: loved steak and would make steak when we went over
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  Speaker 1: his house.
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  Speaker 2: No matter what restaurant I went to, I.
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  Speaker 1: Would order a steak and I'd always ask for it rare,
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  Speaker 1: as like a small ten year old child, because my
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  Speaker 1: grandfather told me that was good. And every time it
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  Speaker 1: happened before the waitress would walk away, my mom would
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  Speaker 1: change the order.
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  Speaker 2: It didn't matter what it was like. Every time I
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  Speaker 2: would be like, can I get a rare steak?
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  Speaker 1: And I'd be sitting in an eye hoop and I'm like,
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  Speaker 1: get me a flame and yon rare, And then my
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  Speaker 1: mom would be like, that's not what he's going to eat.
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  Speaker 2: Can you change it to something else?
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  Speaker 1: But I did it every time, and I ate whatever came,
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  Speaker 1: and I thought that it was always a rare steak.
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  Speaker 1: So I love the idea of that, and I love
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  Speaker 1: how many people that go eat, you know, with their
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  Speaker 1: family and think that that's a weekend out Because to
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  Speaker 1: the kids, I think it is, Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: That's awesome, and why you're ordering a steak for my
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  Speaker 5: hop I'd be to your ten year old kid, I
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  Speaker 5: get it, but you know they can hit you in
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  Speaker 5: the head with that and you'll be concussed.
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  Speaker 2: That's true.
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 2: It was anywhere, like literally anywhere. I think.
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  Speaker 1: We'd go to Tcby Frozen Yogurt and I'd be like
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  Speaker 1: steak medium rare, please, And then I'd go sit down
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  Speaker 1: and they'd be like that that boy is broken. He'd
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  Speaker 1: get some kind of problem going on with him. Priever,
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  Speaker 1: my grandfather was thrilled though, by the way. Every time
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  Speaker 1: we'd tell him, he'd be like, this's a good man,
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  Speaker 1: good young man right there. We also have a story
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  Speaker 1: about oh yeah, actually, we'll hold it. I have a
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  Speaker 1: story about a weird gecko that we'll tell later on
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  Speaker 1: in the show. The big Stuff coming out in just
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  Speaker 1: a bit.