EPISODE · Jul 3, 2026 · 9 MIN
Ryan Wrecker discusses local climate, American history, and top guests.
from The Tara Show
In this segment of The Tara Show, guest host Ryan Wrecker engaged with listeners' text messages regarding the contentious New York City $78^\circ\text{F}$ thermostat recommendation, jokingly musing on how future presidential libraries, like a potential AI-driven Donald Trump archive, might interact with highly critical visitors. Wrecker highlighted a real-world example of this technology by describing President Trump's recent tour of the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library, which features an interactive AI projection of Roosevelt answering questions about landmark historical achievements like the Panama Canal. Transitioning to the local climate, Wrecker noted that while Greenville, South Carolina, was experiencing a massive heat wave with a projected high of $96^\circ\text{F}$, one disciplined listener proudly claimed to keep their AC set at $78^\circ\text{F}$ all summer long. Looking ahead to the rest of the morning broadcast, Wrecker previewed an impressive lineup of upcoming expert guests, including political historian Rich Rubino to discuss the nation's milestone anniversaries, author Randall Sullivan to chronicle the very first baseball All-Star game, and a brain expert to break down which 4th of July cookout foods are best for cognitive health.
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00:00 There it is. I was looking at some of the text messages that are coming up. One said, "Shut up about her." Okay, hold on. Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on. Even if I'm making fun of it, come on! The other text message said, "AC set to 78 is proof socialism is just equal pain and suffering." I don't know if 78 is qualifying as equal pain. Um, I would say the effects of socialism go much deeper than 78 on the AC, but to say that everyone should set it at there—it's just dumb. Like, okay, whatever. Just one less thing I'll be listening to when it comes to the things you want us to do. Is there anything Mumdani has said that you said, "You know what? Right on, man, right on"? No, no, I don't think there's been one thing. 01:03 So, that's New York City right now, and I can't believe New Yorkers voted for that. That just, still, is so strange. So, when—let's see—about 14 minutes from now, Rich Rubino's going to join us. I'm looking forward to that. Did you see how AI Donald Trump was talking to Teddy Roosevelt, which was very fascinating? Oh, by the way, if you wanted to reach us, the Common Sense Retirement Planning Text Line is 800-905-0989. You know, it's 6:22 in the morning. We're live here on a Friday morning before the 4th of July, so I'm here with you, and we're going to spend this day together. I actually—this is my—what I do for fun: doing fill-in shows and helping Tara out when she needs a day off. I actually have a regular job, so when I'm done doing the show here, I basically go upstairs, eat, and then go to my regular job. So, I'll be playing double duty while most of you are off today enjoying the holiday. It is just one of the things that I do, the sacrifices for my family—so they don't have to keep the air at 78! They can turn it down lower, and I hope they appreciate these things by not complaining too much. 02:37 Isn't that something? I think maybe that is the—the story of America after 250 years. We complain about things we have no business complaining about. If you go back—and this is something I'll maybe talk to Rich Rubino about because I want to know—what did the country look like at 1776, 1876, 1976? I want to go and look at, okay, in these three markers of American history, kind of give us a landscape of what it looks like. And now, in 2026, do we have any reason to complain? Probably not, especially going back to 1776 and the sacrifices they made so we can get to this point where we debate where to put the AC at. 03:32 So, President Trump was touring the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library, and one of the cool things about this presidential library is that they set up this AI display. And to kind of explain what it looks like, it looks like someone took a projector and beamed it onto a wall to make it look like the Oval Office. So, you have the desk and the books and the backdrop and the windows, and it's all flat on a wall, but it kind of gives the illusion it's not flat. And you have Theodore Roosevelt standing there—or sitting behind the desk, I should say. So, you can't really tell because it's, you know, very flat, it's not three-dimensional. Like when you go to Disney and you see the Hall of Presidents, it's not like a robot or anything, it's just projected. And you have this podium that you walk up to, and it looks like there's a little display on it, kind of like Star Trek. And you press the button on it, and you can ask Theodore Roosevelt a question. And what happens is there's this awkward moment—I'm going to play the clip for you, you can hear President Donald Trump's question to Teddy Roosevelt. 04:54 So, he pushes the button down, asks the question, lets go, and the computer has to think about what it just heard. It has to take the words of Donald Trump, translate it, try to decode it, think of an answer and generate it, and then animate it in the voice of Teddy Roosevelt, and then have that animation projected on the wall, and then discussing it. So, there's a little bit of ...
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