Right? It’s not like the kid’s soccer game is part of the AI’s programming, it won’t know anything about it that you don’t tell it. It can’t go over who they’re playing against, or give their record so far, or provide any other new information about it, so what exactly is it going to say?

Then the birthday will still be “coming up” every day until the day itself arrives, so what is there to say about that that would be interesting and new on a daily drive?

That just leaves “some news,” at which point you might as well turn on the radio, or put on a real podcast.