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- 0:00Speaker 1: You're listening to bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
- 0:04Speaker 1: six forty.
- 0:06Speaker 2: Bill handle here on a Thursday morning, Marsha twenty six,
- 0:11Speaker 2: and we've got, oh, we've got some cases to talk
- 0:14Speaker 2: about and a couple of big ones. So yesterday here
- 0:19Speaker 2: in La jury deliberated for nine days and at one point,
- 0:26Speaker 2: and this is telling, at one point telling the judge
- 0:29Speaker 2: it was having a very difficult time reaching a decision.
- 0:33Speaker 2: Nine days is a long time for a jury to deliberate.
- 0:38Speaker 2: And then they returned the verdict yesterday finding that both
- 0:42Speaker 2: Meta and Google are liable for creating addictive products that
- 0:47Speaker 2: caused a young women's mental health problems. Now, there are
- 0:51Speaker 2: two cases that have come down and they're very different,
- 0:55Speaker 2: and I think this one is far more problematic to
- 1:00Speaker 2: these platforms. So in this case, the two companies were
- 1:04Speaker 2: ordered to pay three million dollars in conpensatory damages to
- 1:09Speaker 2: this woman, seventy percent by Meda, thirty percent by Google.
- 1:13Speaker 2: And if you talk about three million dollars come on,
- 1:16Speaker 2: that is a little not even pocket change for these companies.
- 1:19Speaker 2: For example, Meta a loan brought in nearly sixty billion
- 1:22Speaker 2: dollars over the first quarter of twenty twenty five. But
- 1:29Speaker 2: here is the problem for these companies. Is this a
- 1:33Speaker 2: bell Weather lawsuit? Will There are thousands of these are
- 1:38Speaker 2: already pending. And sometimes when you look at which way
- 1:42Speaker 2: a jury is going to go, or how many juries
- 1:45Speaker 2: have come down in a certain decision, all of a sudden,
- 1:48Speaker 2: you've got defendants that are going whoops, and we've got
- 1:51Speaker 2: to we have to settle this. A couple of big
- 1:54Speaker 2: companies already settled. Matthew Bergman, one of the lawyers of
- 1:58Speaker 2: the plaintiff, sent State to the reporters. This verdic carries
- 2:03Speaker 2: implications far beyond the courtroom, no kidding, and it establishes
- 2:07Speaker 2: a framework for how similar cases the contract across the
- 2:10Speaker 2: country will be evaluated and demonstrates the juries are willing
- 2:14Speaker 2: to hold tech companies accountable.
- 2:18Speaker 3: And here is the difference.
- 2:21Speaker 2: In one case, it's argued that these platforms are complicit
- 2:29Speaker 2: in helping people or helping various bad actors from going
- 2:35Speaker 2: on and causing harm to kids, primarily in terms of
- 2:41Speaker 2: body dysmorphia. Yeah you are ugly, or here's how you
- 2:44Speaker 2: handle something badly, or just a negative view of themselves
- 2:50Speaker 2: and others. It's easy to bully someone when you're on
- 2:53Speaker 2: a platform, and is the platform liable for that generally not.
- 2:59Speaker 2: This is a tough one for them because the argument
- 3:02Speaker 2: here is the very nature of these platforms, the design
- 3:07Speaker 2: of these platforms tries to addict kids. In other words,
- 3:15Speaker 2: we have designed this thing to make it happen, so
- 3:19Speaker 2: kids spend more time on our platform and check to
- 3:23Speaker 2: it and check on it much more. And that is
- 3:27Speaker 2: completely addictive, and harm comes out of that. Now we
- 3:29Speaker 2: know harm comes out of it if you're on if
- 3:32Speaker 2: you're scrolling for ten hours a day, that ain't good.
- 3:35Speaker 2: And there are all kinds of damages you got, emotional damages,
- 3:37Speaker 2: psychological damages.
- 3:39Speaker 3: The argument is that your school work, that a kid's school.
- 3:43Speaker 2: Work and ability to think, have cognitive skills and understand
- 3:47Speaker 2: and analyze is basically all effectively gone.
- 3:50Speaker 3: I'm gonna do a little story about that a little
- 3:52Speaker 3: later on too.
- 3:53Speaker 2: And so the very premise how these very programs, these
- 3:58Speaker 2: platforms are designed is defective. It's a design defect, that's
- 4:05Speaker 2: the problem.
- 4:07Speaker 3: And that is a core question.
- 4:11Speaker 2: Is this does this program that does these platforms meta Google,
- 4:17Speaker 2: do they play a direct role in causing the mental
- 4:20Speaker 2: health issues that the plaintiff in fact experience, and she
- 4:25Speaker 2: argued she had a dangerous dependency on the platforms and
- 4:29Speaker 2: they contributed to her anxiety, depression, self harm, and body dysmorphia,
- 4:34Speaker 2: and that in fact that was not only a consequence,
- 4:39Speaker 2: it was designed to keep them on and it really
- 4:42Speaker 2: didn't matter.
- 4:42Speaker 3: It's like big tobacco.
- 4:44Speaker 2: This is a kin to big tobacco, where the argument
- 4:47Speaker 2: was that the cigarettes were designed to be addictive, the
- 4:53Speaker 2: very design to keep people smoking more, and then ignored,
- 4:57Speaker 2: of course, thought like crazy that they that nicotine was
- 5:00Speaker 2: dangerous at all. Same argument is here that these platforms
- 5:05Speaker 2: are designed well, exactly almost the same thing, designed to
- 5:09Speaker 2: keep kids addicted to the platform and therefore causing whatever harm.
- 5:16Speaker 2: And we're getting more and more information about the harm,
- 5:19Speaker 2: and so very different than kids who are that or
- 5:27Speaker 2: excuse me, are that bad actors are there and the
- 5:31Speaker 2: platforms aren't doing enough, for example, to stop them, not
- 5:36Speaker 2: doing enough to monitor the what's being posted here. It's
- 5:43Speaker 2: the very design of this product. It goes in that direction.
- 5:48Speaker 2: It's a big, big decision for sure. Okay, let's that
- 5:53Speaker 2: is a little complicated, really earth shattering. So I want
- 5:58Speaker 2: to go into something a little little bit more fun
- 6:02Speaker 2: so a little bit about my life. I work every morning, obviously,
- 6:08Speaker 2: and so when I am at my home, which I
- 6:11Speaker 2: am today, I go down the stairs and I have
- 6:14Speaker 2: my basic thirty foot commute. There you go, kno an
- 6:18Speaker 2: hour driving in. I have a thirty foot commute, And
- 6:22Speaker 2: I go downstairs in the morning and roll into the
- 6:26Speaker 2: studio and start getting things.
- 6:28Speaker 3: I'm in my shorts.
- 6:29Speaker 2: I do throw a shirt on, and during the summer,
- 6:32Speaker 2: I don't even wear my shorts.
- 6:34Speaker 3: You know, the wind is blowing and it feels very good.
- 6:38Speaker 3: So that's my life.
- 6:40Speaker 2: And then once I'm finished, and excuse me, I do
- 6:45Speaker 2: my workout and I'm starting yoga, and I go to
- 6:48Speaker 2: the gym and I walk every day. Then I do
- 6:52Speaker 2: I go to my afternoon job. And my afternoon job
- 6:56Speaker 2: is basically either going to Costco. And then I start
- 7:01Speaker 2: my afternoon job late. And what is my afternoon job.
- 7:05Speaker 2: It is sitting on the couch and watching television. Now,
- 7:08Speaker 2: I'll tell you what does not happen on my afternoon job.
- 7:12Speaker 2: What I don't worry about. Rattlesnakes. Very few rattlesnakes in
- 7:17Speaker 2: my house. Very few rattlesnakes down the stairs. Very few
- 7:21Speaker 2: rattlesnakes on my way to Costco. Now, if you hike,
- 7:28Speaker 2: and this happened to a forty six year old More
- 7:31Speaker 2: Park woman, she was bit by a rattlesnake in Ventura
- 7:37Speaker 2: County and she died. Usually you don't die of rattlesnake
- 7:41Speaker 2: bites because they have anti venom.
- 7:43Speaker 3: People are there. Incomes the airplane or the ambulance.
- 7:47Speaker 2: But if you're in for forefin Land, if you're in
- 7:49Speaker 2: the far reaches of the forest or in the hiking.
- 7:54Speaker 3: Areas, you know, it may take a while.
- 7:57Speaker 2: Oh, by the way, the sucking the venom out of
- 8:00Speaker 2: the bite, that really doesn't work. It only works if
- 8:04Speaker 2: you have a sore in your mouth, then it's really pleasant.
- 8:08Speaker 2: If you have a canker sore not maybe problematic. Also,
- 8:13Speaker 2: for some reason, the tournique doesn't work very well. The
- 8:17Speaker 2: secret is get the battle, get the rattlesnake victim to
- 8:22Speaker 2: a hospital. Then they have anti venom and so okay.
- 8:27Speaker 2: The point is, there have been two rattlesnake bites in
- 8:33Speaker 2: the last well in the last month, and that's compared
- 8:38Speaker 2: with nine bites total in twenty twenty five. So we're
- 8:40Speaker 2: talking about the first first quarter. Now, the health authorities.
- 8:46Speaker 2: Ventura County Fire Department responded to a call for a
- 8:49Speaker 2: bite on a hiking trail at Wellwood Park and then
- 8:52Speaker 2: airlifted the patient to a local hospital. The woman, identified
- 8:57Speaker 2: as a forty six year old Gabriela Batisa of more Park,
- 9:01Speaker 2: died March nineteenth as a result of the rattlesnake venom toxicity. See,
- 9:06Speaker 2: I didn't know it took that long to die. And
- 9:09Speaker 2: I don't know how pleasant a death that is and
- 9:11Speaker 2: may be excruciating pain.
- 9:12Speaker 3: I have no idea. We have to ask doctor Jim.
- 9:15Speaker 2: And then the following day, the County Fire Department rescued
- 9:19Speaker 2: a teenager from Wendy Trail and she suffered a rattlesnake
- 9:24Speaker 2: bite and firefighters hiked up to access her and bring
- 9:29Speaker 2: her down and go to a hospital in stable conditions.
- 9:33Speaker 2: So she's okay.
- 9:34Speaker 1: But you know what's weird, Bill, The distance between Wildwood
- 9:38Speaker 1: Park and Los Roblest Medical Center is less than two miles.
- 9:46Speaker 1: I know the area incredibly well, so I don't understand
- 9:50Speaker 1: even if she's deep in hiking in the Wildwood area,
- 9:54Speaker 1: you're still less than two miles away from.
- 9:57Speaker 3: Now I ask you this, there may be two miles.
- 10:00Speaker 2: But what if it is such rough terrain that you
- 10:03Speaker 2: cannot get an ambulance there, that you have to hire
- 10:07Speaker 2: and bring it down. That's why, that's why they airlifted
- 10:11Speaker 2: her or one of them. And then on March fourth,
- 10:14Speaker 2: just a little while ago. You know, a couple three
- 10:16Speaker 2: weeks ago, Julie and Hernandez twenty five years old, rattlesnake bite.
- 10:21Speaker 2: She ended up dying. Now, why do you have so
- 10:25Speaker 2: many rattlesnakes? Well, how about this one right, the hottest
- 10:29Speaker 2: march on record. They come, They like the sun, those
- 10:32Speaker 2: old rottle snakes. And US Forest Service and Sam Berdandin
- 10:36Speaker 2: issued a warning saying you got to be very careful.
- 10:40Speaker 2: So here are some safety tips. Number one, wear hiking
- 10:44Speaker 2: boots and long pants, which provides some protection against a battlesnake.
- 10:50Speaker 2: The second one is to hike on clearly marked paths
- 10:53Speaker 2: so you can see in front of you and to
- 10:55Speaker 2: avoid snakes. Don't wander into areas of tall grass. Snakes
- 11:00Speaker 2: could be coiled up. And if you do see a snake,
- 11:04Speaker 2: you back away slowly avoid contact. And then some common
- 11:08Speaker 2: safety tips tell someone where you're going, carry planet of water,
- 11:13Speaker 2: make sure your phone is charged or GPS, and in
- 11:17Speaker 2: the event of a rattlesnake bite, hikers should.
- 11:22Speaker 3: Remain calm and call nine to one one.
- 11:24Speaker 2: Obviously, don't use turniquets, don't try to tract the venom,
- 11:30Speaker 2: try to communicate to anyone nearby, and just wait calmly
- 11:34Speaker 2: for respenders responders.
- 11:36Speaker 3: To be on their way.
- 11:37Speaker 2: But the best piece of advice is, what the hell
- 11:41Speaker 2: are you doing on a trail? Really, you're hiking in
- 11:46Speaker 2: an area that may have rattlesnakes.
- 11:49Speaker 3: Give me a break.
- 11:52Speaker 2: Now, I was the boy scout many years ago before
- 11:54Speaker 2: I was thrown out of the troop. Literally, I was
- 11:56Speaker 2: thrown out of the troop and I was on a hike.
- 12:00Speaker 2: Stupid going on a hike. I did not realize what
- 12:02Speaker 2: life was about at that time. And we ran into
- 12:05Speaker 2: a rattle snake and the scout master took a shovel
- 12:10Speaker 2: and literally cut the snake's head off.
- 12:14Speaker 3: So you had this.
- 12:15Speaker 2: Writhing snake with his head over there, and it was
- 12:22Speaker 2: it was tough to see. So the bottom line is
- 12:26Speaker 2: hiking it'll kill you every time you know it will
- 12:29Speaker 2: you know you hike, you die. It's not that complicated. Okay,
- 12:34Speaker 2: we're done. See good advice. Okay, story that just appeared
- 12:43Speaker 2: in the New York Times I want to share with you,
- 12:46Speaker 2: and that is that the United States Army has officially
- 12:49Speaker 2: raised the enlistment age limit from thirty five, which was heretofore,
- 12:55Speaker 2: to forty two and ease restrictions for people with marijuana conviction,
- 13:02Speaker 2: but a single conviction for either smoking pot, having pot,
- 13:06Speaker 2: or having the paraphernalia. And this comes years after the
- 13:12Speaker 2: Army just struggled to meet the retirement goals or recruitment goals,
- 13:17Speaker 2: and so you've got that recruitment goal issue, and we've
- 13:20Speaker 2: got a war going on now with Iran. Now, granted
- 13:24Speaker 2: it's only going to be a few thousand soldiers that
- 13:26Speaker 2: are currently in the mid East, but if the war
- 13:29Speaker 2: goes on, it could be thousands. So these updated requirements,
- 13:35Speaker 2: which were published last week.
- 13:37Speaker 3: Brings the Army in line with the other branches.
- 13:42Speaker 2: The Air Force went from thirty nine to forty two
- 13:46Speaker 2: years of age, the Navy went from thirty nine to
- 13:49Speaker 2: forty one.
- 13:52Speaker 3: And this is well, there's some very good reasons for this.
- 13:56Speaker 2: Catherine Krizminski, director of studies at the Center for New
- 14:00Speaker 2: American Security, said that most likely the increase in its
- 14:06Speaker 2: age cap is matching the other branches, okay, and to
- 14:11Speaker 2: tap into a larger pool of people with needed skills,
- 14:16Speaker 2: including experts in cybersecurity, logistics, transportations. The bottom line is
- 14:21Speaker 2: the skill level of soldiers today is extraordinarily higher than
- 14:25Speaker 2: it needed, than it was needed twenty years ago, thirty
- 14:29Speaker 2: years ago, even ten years ago. And here's what the
- 14:33Speaker 2: outcome of this study issued by the RAM Corporation. The
- 14:38Speaker 2: older recruits much more likely to fail out of basic training.
- 14:41Speaker 3: Okay, no surprise there. But if they passed, they were.
- 14:44Speaker 2: Promoted more quickly and re enlisted at a higher rate
- 14:49Speaker 2: than recruits under twenty. And the argument is, and it
- 14:53Speaker 2: seems to be panning out, mature soldiers at the beginning
- 14:57Speaker 2: of their military career add real value, not only terms
- 15:01Speaker 2: of skill sets when we're talking about cybersecurity and transportation,
- 15:05Speaker 2: I mean logistics, but also their mentors. Here's this old
- 15:11Speaker 2: They are all called pop for some reason, and Pop
- 15:17Speaker 2: gives you great information. And here's the other thing going on.
- 15:20Speaker 2: The Army struggled for years to meet its recruitment goals.
- 15:25Speaker 2: In twenty twenty two, the goal was sixty thousand new
- 15:30Speaker 2: recruits and missed it. By fifteen thousand people. In twenty
- 15:34Speaker 2: twenty three, the army again missed its target by fifteen
- 15:38Speaker 2: thousand recruits.
- 15:40Speaker 3: In twenty twenty four, it.
- 15:42Speaker 2: Lowered its goal to fifty five thousand, and it did
- 15:46Speaker 2: reach it by a very thin margin. However, last year,
- 15:50Speaker 2: the best numbering years recruiting more than sixty two thousand recruits.
- 15:56Speaker 2: It surpassed its goal of sixty one thousand.
- 16:01Speaker 3: So why is that, Well, I gave you the reasons
- 16:05Speaker 3: for it.
- 16:06Speaker 2: Now, Pete Hegseth has given us the reason why recruits
- 16:10Speaker 2: are such an increase. And what would you guess that
- 16:16Speaker 2: our Secretary of Defense, Secretary of war, what is the
- 16:19Speaker 2: sole reason that recruitment has gone up because of the
- 16:24Speaker 2: tremendous leadership of our president and American young men and
- 16:29Speaker 2: women want to be part of this administration and its goals.
- 16:34Speaker 2: Now that may be true, By the way, I have
- 16:36Speaker 2: no idea. I'd sure like to see some studies. I'd
- 16:41Speaker 2: like to see some surveys. But if you ask the administration,
- 16:46Speaker 2: the only reason that they're moving ahead with recruiting more,
- 16:51Speaker 2: I have succeeded in recruiting more is because of the
- 16:56Speaker 2: vast honor and simply they want to be part of it, right,
- 17:04Speaker 2: and it is an honor and we'll die. Now, it
- 17:09Speaker 2: used to be that during war. For example, during World
- 17:12Speaker 2: War Two, they couldn't get enough recruits. We went from
- 17:15Speaker 2: an army at the beginning of World War Two of
- 17:18Speaker 2: two hundred thousand soldiers to having twelve million soldiers by
- 17:25Speaker 2: the time the war ended who had fought and were
- 17:28Speaker 2: part of the military services. But in those days, first
- 17:32Speaker 2: of all, there was conscription. But I don't even think
- 17:35Speaker 2: they needed conscription because if you see videos, you can
- 17:38Speaker 2: go on YouTube and see these centers, these recruitment centers.
- 17:42Speaker 2: People were lining up by the hundreds, by the thousands
- 17:45Speaker 2: to join the army because that was America. Now it's
- 17:50Speaker 2: still America, but different reasons, different reasons.
- 17:55Speaker 3: Okay.
- 17:55Speaker 2: Now, if you go to school, have gone to school
- 17:59Speaker 2: and even high school, college, certainly you take tests and
- 18:05Speaker 2: in most cases it's an essay test.
- 18:09Speaker 3: And what ends up happening.
- 18:10Speaker 2: Since AI has become a big deal, of course AI
- 18:13Speaker 2: is used, so you turn in an AI paper and
- 18:16Speaker 2: sometimes get away with it. AI is getting pretty sophisticated.
- 18:19Speaker 2: I mean, there are ways of testing for AI. There
- 18:23Speaker 2: are ways of trying to figure out if AI is
- 18:25Speaker 2: being used, but a lot of students slip through the cracks.
- 18:30Speaker 2: One of the ways of knowing i AI is being
- 18:33Speaker 2: used is the paper is just too good for a
- 18:36Speaker 2: college student. Then the professor's going on, this is just
- 18:40Speaker 2: too good. So what they've moved to is oral exams.
- 18:47Speaker 2: Oral exams. And when I went to college, and I
- 18:53Speaker 2: went to a school in Canada, the school, Simon Fraser University,
- 18:57Speaker 2: used the Socratic method method. It was oral exams, and
- 19:02Speaker 2: it was the Oxford model. The teacher gave his lecture
- 19:07Speaker 2: and then you broke apart in rooms where the TA,
- 19:10Speaker 2: the teacher's assistant, who is a graduate student, would you talk,
- 19:15Speaker 2: and then you'd be graded on what you produced than
- 19:18Speaker 2: your understanding of the topic. They don't do that. By
- 19:20Speaker 2: the way, I don't remember one minute of it because
- 19:22Speaker 2: I was so stoned out of my mind the entire
- 19:25Speaker 2: time I was there. But that was the model. So
- 19:29Speaker 2: why oral exams. Well, if you're defending your topic, If
- 19:33Speaker 2: you're defending your position and it's an oral exam, AI
- 19:38Speaker 2: is not going to help you. You have to understand it.
- 19:41Speaker 2: You have to have the analytic skills, you have to
- 19:44Speaker 2: be able to voice your opinion and facts and analysis,
- 19:50Speaker 2: and students are going, oh, that's a problem. That's really
- 19:55Speaker 2: the way to learn. I mean, there is nothing better
- 19:58Speaker 2: to determine how much a student understands what is going
- 20:03Speaker 2: on and cognitive skills, well, not cognitive skills, just a
- 20:08Speaker 2: basic understanding analysis and the ability to communicate.
- 20:12Speaker 3: Now, there are some problems with that. People are shy.
- 20:15Speaker 2: Some people have a hard time talking about their topic
- 20:18Speaker 2: and they'd rather write about it.
- 20:20Speaker 3: So there are issues either way.
- 20:23Speaker 2: But the bottom line is a lot of schools, a
- 20:26Speaker 2: lot of professors are going to the oral exam. Now
- 20:30Speaker 2: what gets interesting is what do you do, for example,
- 20:34Speaker 2: an English exam? Right English class, and the teacher has
- 20:40Speaker 2: to read every single one of the papers now and
- 20:43Speaker 2: then has to give an oral exam.
- 20:45Speaker 3: How long is the oral exam? Do two people sit
- 20:50Speaker 3: on the board?
- 20:51Speaker 2: Now, if you look at, for example, becoming a medical examiner,
- 20:55Speaker 2: part of it is oral exams. You're sitting in front
- 20:58Speaker 2: of three or four doctor and they're asking you all
- 21:02Speaker 2: kinds of questions and you'd better.
- 21:04Speaker 3: Know your stuff. Law school, there are no oral exams.
- 21:09Speaker 2: You simply take the bar exam, which is a combination
- 21:13Speaker 2: of essay as well as as a multiple choice, but
- 21:19Speaker 2: the essay is given to you there and you don't
- 21:21Speaker 2: know what.
- 21:21Speaker 3: The question is.
- 21:24Speaker 2: And by the way, the fact that there are no
- 21:25Speaker 2: oral exams that make you defend your position is why
- 21:28Speaker 2: there's so many rotten lawyers out there.
- 21:30Speaker 3: Is want to point that out.
- 21:32Speaker 2: I think there are a few rotten medical doctors in
- 21:36Speaker 2: comparison to rotten lawyers. Just my view of it, knowing
- 21:39Speaker 2: the legal profession. But is this a good idea?
- 21:41Speaker 3: I think it is. It makes cheating a whole lot harder,
- 21:46Speaker 3: and it makes students think.
- 21:49Speaker 2: And if you have students entering society who don't think, man,
- 21:54Speaker 2: tell me that's not going to put modern society. Put
- 21:57Speaker 2: America yet another step behind other countries.
- 22:02Speaker 3: All right?
- 22:03Speaker 2: Coming up, American aviation is near collapse, completely collapsing, and
- 22:09Speaker 2: just as the people that are in line for five
- 22:11Speaker 2: hours at Chicago at O'Hare Airport, and we'll talk about
- 22:16Speaker 2: that coming up. KFI Am sixty.
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