1-on-1 with DP – 93.7 The Ticket KNTK - Tar Pits and Driverless Cars: May 14th, 12:25pm

Episode Date: May 14, 2025

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You're listening to One-on-One with DP. Brought you by Canopy Street Market on 93-7 the ticket and the ticketfm.com. Welcome back one-on-one on a Wednesday. Thank you for hanging out, box running the board to get us through. Okay, so you guys know me well enough to know that rules of one-on-one is that it's kind of like Forrest Gump's mom's chocolate. You never know where it's going to go. As much as we've made plans, sometimes it's... conversation goes in different directions.

You never know what you're going to get. So, Bach, I asked you the question. I'll ask it a break. I had the opportunity in Los Angeles to take Wago, which is a driverless car service. So imagine Uber without a human driver. And you said, yeah, you would do it. Would you do it?

Textline, tell me, would you ride in a driverless car? Vak? I would, but it's almost for like, I'd at least want to do one stuff. I want to see what it. It's just for to see what it is. You know, see what it doesn't do. See what it does, you know, what quite,

it still needs maybe work on or whatever. And I think I would be nervous. I was going to explain you during the break to, just certain things that maybe a computer would do. Like there's times where it's like, all right, well, I wanted to get off here, but I really can't. Does the car go, well, I'm programmed to get off here.

I'm going to do it no matter what. So, I mean, I'd be intrigued. So I think I definitely do it, but I think a lot of it would just to be see what it, you know, what it does. 15 years of data, all those situations, of course, all the GPS sensory, right, all of those things. And that it has, it removes all the human failures, right? Distraction, mood, conversation, right?

How many people you've been in a car, you don't want the driver talking to you? Shut up and drive. Pay attention to the road. Like, it's not a driver looking at its phone. It is the phone. It is the phone. and it was a much smoother ride than you first of all you get in a Jaguar

and it is I'm telling you it made amazing decisions and and the smoothness of the ride that it was just the transitions, the mergers, all of that. Very cool, very cool. And then what are the rides that we took? We went to La Brea Tarpitz.

and I like to think of myself as informed, but it had been 15 years since I had 20 years, since I'd been to Liberia Tarpitz, and you just forget the history that the Ice Age actually existed in Los Angeles, California. And there are woolly mammoths and camels and saber-tooth cats and giant birds. that, you know, these sloths, these giant sloths that are 10 times the size of humans. And you go, and that the tar pits are still active. So the whole story behind it is that it's this, this tar, literally tar, in its truest form. And animals, so imagine a Willie mammoth would get stuck in the tar. Like it would just go, oh, well, what's going on here?

And you walk through and, oh. So the mammoths would just sit there until it starved itself to death. And then what would happen? So what was frequent and in full in the area were dire wolves. And dire wolves are massive, massive, massive animals, predators. So guess what happens? The dire wolves see, free meat, there's a buffet. Everybody into the pool.

except they would get stuck in the tar. They would get stuck in the tar. Right. Imagine that Mastodons, the tar is undefeated, first of all. The tar is undefeated. And so Mastodons, mammoths. And I didn't know, like I knew, like I knew, but the reminder is that the camels began in, in the tarpit, like in that area. And then you go to Beverly Hills and you realize, oh, it must have been really cool.

thousands of years ago that you were here and every all the weird animals lived in Los Angeles, California. And you go, well, it makes a lot of sense that there's a lot of stuff going on there. And then you realize, okay, this is just unique. But they still have, it's because it's active, there are certain areas that you can't go to. Like the tar is still active. And I just, in my head, I was just like, how many bad humans? would get stuck in the tar. Like, you've been around families with kids who let the kids go running.

Oh, yeah. Right? And the kid sprints directly to the one thing that it should not go to. And so my fear was, oh, I don't know how this works. Like, I don't know how this works. And then they tell the story of there's, apparently there was a mystery that they found, I want to say in the 2000 somewhere, they found the first human remains in the talk.

Oh, okay. And they were trying to figure it, and they realized through science and through data that it wasn't an accident. Somebody threw a body into... Ooh, okay. Right? And there's a whole, you know, murder investigation to this four-foot-nine woman

who got hit in the back of the head and thrown into the tarpins. But they're still finding... bones of these because it's got a natural preserve. But they have these cones where they would just put over and then these boundaries that they'll put over the air and go,

listen, do not go inside of this. And without fail, you will see somebody lean against it. Like, I'm just like, like you see people lean against you go, that's not a foundation.

That is, that's not a suggestion. That is, hey man. you literally came to a place where where unalives happened in full do not go to the tar like just avoid it yeah just avoid it but humans we human

and that's the other book I was just like oh man that's what I was interested in in that body that they found if that was okay was this is from the prehistoric age or is this from 2014 when somebody leaned to, you know. Well, no, but the prehistoric age, I mean, again, creatures that do not exist in this space, current, right?

Through natural human geographical migrations, right? But yeah, it's the thing. Gina says, to your point, literally stories every week in the news about idiots, wondering a yellow stone park trying to ride the buffalo or pet the bears. Yep, yep, yep, yep, yep. Look, if you want to occupy an hour of my time, just occupy it. Send me videos of people trying to engage wild animals. And I'm just, and it becomes a point that at about the four minute mark of these videos, I start rooting

for the animals. I start rooting for the animals. Hey, can I feed that bear? Can I feed the bear? Oh, this is really cool. That bear's close enough for me to feed it some potato chips. Nope. That bear doesn't like potato chips. Likes humans. Well done. Well done. Sorry for the family. So I took my son to Pioneers Park to see the Buffalo and they were really close. The bison, I suppose, a difference. But they were really close to the fence. And, you know, one of them started huffing and puffing and I said, well, there's a fence here. But I think you can go through the fence. We're getting out of here. Yeah, like, listen, it's, first of all, there is no fence that it is, and again, a suggestion to the animal, not more for the human, that if that fence exists between you and an animal, there's a reason. Yeah. There's a reason. It's the, you know, the people, even the people who work in these, these, these preserves, right?

These reserves that, you know, you get close enough to, to a silver bag, right? And the silverback just at some point just goes, it's disrespectful for you to get this close to me, hey, I'm a silverback. And you get close enough that he just reaches through the fence and goes, mine now. Let's part. And it takes four people and still, it's only when the silverback just goes, okay, I'm going to bite you to go tell your friends. I don't really want to bite you. But go tell your friends, don't get within arm's reach of the silverback cake. We're going to do that.

Uday Traff says, yeah, he's written in the in the in the way goes. It's cool experience and he didn't feel unsafe. I recommend doing it for sure. Yeah, I'm a member of that club now. Makes sense. Bradley says, no way, I don't trust it. I would rather walk. Yeah, you're right.

Oh, my goodness. That's, you know, they said, okay. So 8, 85 says probably not for another decade to make sure they get all the kinks out. I've seen total recall. Yeah, you know, but, okay, so first of all, it has to be the original total recall. Oh, much better. It has to be the honor total recall. It can't be the other recall.

Like, I don't, I won't even acknowledge the other recall. Total recall when the, when the chassis driver is virtual, is virtual and goes, goes bonkers. He's digitally and goes bonkers. Yeah, absolutely. And they had, years ago, they had. the story of somebody purposely sent all the way goos to one parking lot and there was no way for them to program and counter engage. But there's 15 years of work tied into this stuff. So there's a big thing. Texas says this. We were talking about road trips. He says,

I don't think he, because I don't think there's more disgusting and disturbing place to visit other than Penn State. Yeah, it's a cramp scene. And there's a lot. It's that weird tribalism that exists that you protect yours, to a fault even, right? And this is a big part of the Pete Rose thing. It was a big part of the Joe Paterno story, right? No matter what your gang is, but no matter what your tribe is, you will defend and protect your tribe, even at fault. Even the point you know, I'm wrong. We're so wrong. But it's our wrong. It's ours to defend. They said, we can talk about our family. Our neighbors can't talk about our family. And that's a big, it's a big thing.

Yeah, you're right, 85. He says, I refuse to watch a remake. Yeah, they don't even go to Mars. That is a spectacular take. 69 says, male drivers, robot drivers, then female drivers. I don't, here's the thing. It was smooth. It was smooth to watch the lane transitions, the turn, the speed of turns.

It was smooth. And again, it avoids friction. Like, that's what it's really good at. That's what it's really good at. And I can recommend it. So are the way goes a little bit more expensive than like an Uber? No. No, about the same.

No. Okay. No. No. Yeah. And, yeah, Frick says this. White Out and Happy Valley would be awesome to take my son to. It's a great building.

Not the building. How do I say this? Because I'm not necessarily a fan of Penn State fans, right? The whole we are thing makes me, you know, it's a bit of a throat punch. But I understand it. And any time you can get 100,000 people to agree on something, I'm for it. Like I'm for it. and sports is involved,

you don't even have to root for Penn State to understand 100,000 fans, football fans, in a place. Same can be said for Ohio State, same for Michigan. It doesn't, you don't have to like the people or the event, but the idea of them getting together makes perfect sense,

right, that you can get together and do those things. Derek in the car says, I would love to go to UCLA. I had tickets to a game in 88 with Steve Taylor was quarterback. He was stationed in San Diego, but my ship got emergency deployed and missed out. Yeah, because it's a weird thing. So when I lived, I lived in Breyer when I was doing CBA basketball. And we would go, my team owner had UCLA tickets.

I am an honorer in UCLA Bruin. There's a long story behind it, but it was me taking care of the Bruin alumni in D.C. the year they won the National Basketball Championship. So when they came to the White House, I was kind of a hero. And they they have given me a forever gold card to the UCLA bookstore. I never have a tab when I go to the UCLA bookstore.

Through eternity. That's the heck of a deal. For life. Yeah, for life. Like I went out there, me and my buddy, Sean, we went out there right after the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, and National Championship. And they took us to the,

they took us to, uh, the bookstore. And the guy goes, yeah, you're all set up. Uh, your name's in the system. Uh, go crazy. And Bach, it legitimately, we shop for an hour. Hmm. I mean,

jerseys, hoodies, helmets, the whole she bag. And literally the lady was like, well, yeah. I said, well, I'm, I'm only going to get what I can take. And she goes, oh, no, no, we'll send it to you in D.C. We'll ship it to you. You don't have to get on the plane with it.

And my buddy goes, this is the greatest day of our lives. This is the greatest day of our lives. So I thought about it. Like, I was supposed to go on campus Saturday, Friday. And then things, you know, the American Idol thing. So we went to American Idol. That was why we went out. Becky got VIP passes to American Idol.

Exceptional, by the way. And if you didn't watch, go watch it. And if you, spoiler, we got to see two performances recorded for the final. And one was Jelly Roll. Jelly Roll. He's already established. He can't win American Idol. Well, no.

So for the final, they put the established stars with one of this year's finalists who kind of work. or sing, like, maybe they've covered one of their songs. So there was a young lady that, who had covered a Patty LaBelle song. And Patty LaBelle was there. And Patty LaBelle was in town because Patty LaBelle, Shacki Khan, Gladys Night, somebody else who, it's like a divas tour, Queens tour. So they were in L.A. Sunday. And so they stayed for the Monday recording.

And Patty LaBelle had 80 years old, Gladys Night, 80 years old, Shakaana, I want to say 75 maybe. But Patty LeBelle got out there and sang with this young lady. And here's a beautiful thing, it's funny about the you see behind the curtain, right? That they pre-recorded it. But the first time they recorded the song, the pyro didn't go off.

So they redid it. And we got two Patty LaBelle performances. So I'm like, oh, this is amazing. And listen, if you don't, there were a whole lot of, people, unmelanated people who got introduced to Patty LaBelle that night. And if you haven't seen Paddy LaBelle live, folks who have will tell you that is a performance, she is the singer.

Of all singers, Patty LaBelle top of list. And Patty does the thing that when she's taking you to what we call taking you to church, when she hits a moment where the music is so, the song has moved her so much. Not only does she dance, even at 80, Patty kicks off her shoes. It's a Tony Storm moment. she kicks off her shoes into the crap. And let me tell you, first of all, you know Patty the Bell's shoes aren't cheap.

So there's a fight that takes. There's a brawl that happens. But you also have to pay attention because, hey, man, nobody wants a thousand dollar pump hitting you in the, hitting you in the eye, right? So there was that. And then they jelly roll and one of the finalists did a song.

And I loved their performance. The final is going to be spectacular. You know, there's the final three now. We saw it go from five to three. I didn't agree with the three they chose, but hey, who am I? But watch it because it was just exceptional. So it was a great trip to Los Angeles. Lots to, lots of going on, lots to consume.

But, yeah, watch American Idol. Sunday? I would think it's Sunday night. Yeah, do that thing. But go to the Rose Bowl. It is iconic. It's not an exception. facility.

It's a weird layout because it's the tailgating is weird. Golf course. Yeah, it's just, yeah, it's just, it's really like Rose Bowl is just different. But I would say Rose Bowl in Los Angeles in November is not a, in Pasadenae is not a bad trip. It's not a bad trip. So we'll throw a break. We'll come back.

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