1 00:00:00,480 --> 00:00:06,920 Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand. 2 00:00:07,120 --> 00:00:09,440 Speaker 2: It's just to let me see pull up this radar again. 3 00:00:10,320 --> 00:00:12,560 Speaker 2: The rain is supposed to sort of move off to 4 00:00:12,600 --> 00:00:15,840 Speaker 2: the east. The radar was saying to move off by 5 00:00:15,840 --> 00:00:18,680 Speaker 2: about ten, but yeah, I guess the coastal area is 6 00:00:18,680 --> 00:00:24,320 Speaker 2: gonna move off by about ten Inland, probably eleven if 7 00:00:24,360 --> 00:00:26,120 Speaker 2: you get a little bit further south. If you are 8 00:00:26,320 --> 00:00:28,920 Speaker 2: one of my friends listening in San Diego County, it 9 00:00:28,960 --> 00:00:30,920 Speaker 2: looks like that's gonna stay in East County for a 10 00:00:30,960 --> 00:00:34,560 Speaker 2: while longer and probably finally move out of East County 11 00:00:34,560 --> 00:00:40,000 Speaker 2: San Diego a little after one, which is when in 12 00:00:40,159 --> 00:00:44,000 Speaker 2: La County Ventura County you're gonna get You're gonna get 13 00:00:44,000 --> 00:00:47,000 Speaker 2: through round two tonight. That's gonna start hitting about one o'clock, 14 00:00:47,400 --> 00:00:49,000 Speaker 2: and some of that could be a little bit heavier too. 15 00:00:49,200 --> 00:00:52,920 Speaker 2: I do see the radar showing some isolated heavy thunderstorms 16 00:00:52,960 --> 00:00:55,560 Speaker 2: moving toward downtown by about two thirty three o'clock in 17 00:00:55,560 --> 00:00:57,160 Speaker 2: the morning. I could have been a weather guy. Don't 18 00:00:57,160 --> 00:01:00,000 Speaker 2: you think I could have done it? Not too late? 19 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:04,120 Speaker 2: I feel like it is too late. Plus, I weather 20 00:01:04,120 --> 00:01:07,039 Speaker 2: guys are always cheesy, and I can't pull that off. 21 00:01:08,520 --> 00:01:10,520 Speaker 2: I can't do it. I can't do weather Man humor. 22 00:01:12,319 --> 00:01:14,240 Speaker 2: To me, it has to be more biting. It's not 23 00:01:14,319 --> 00:01:21,280 Speaker 2: like when weather Man made Yes, here's today's pun. I 24 00:01:21,319 --> 00:01:25,160 Speaker 2: can't do that. I can't do it. So one of 25 00:01:25,160 --> 00:01:27,080 Speaker 2: the things I love about the producers that we have 26 00:01:27,440 --> 00:01:29,880 Speaker 2: at KFI is that when the show is going on, 27 00:01:30,040 --> 00:01:32,120 Speaker 2: they are always paying attention to make sure that we 28 00:01:32,160 --> 00:01:35,679 Speaker 2: don't miss something. Sometimes when we're on the air we're 29 00:01:35,680 --> 00:01:39,119 Speaker 2: talking about a story, another story will break and we 30 00:01:39,160 --> 00:01:41,919 Speaker 2: are you know, we're in the dark because we weren't 31 00:01:42,240 --> 00:01:44,440 Speaker 2: watching the news. That's what we have the producers for and 32 00:01:44,480 --> 00:01:46,480 Speaker 2: that's exactly what Nicky was doing tonight. She ended up 33 00:01:46,560 --> 00:01:50,920 Speaker 2: running across the story from a Shacked mag mark. I 34 00:01:50,960 --> 00:01:53,680 Speaker 2: know you're a subscriber to Shacked. The Los Angeles surf 35 00:01:53,760 --> 00:01:56,760 Speaker 2: mag love their centerfolds. Yep, really good stuff in there. 36 00:01:57,440 --> 00:02:02,880 Speaker 2: But they had to video of the Venice Beach piano man, 37 00:02:03,520 --> 00:02:07,240 Speaker 2: Nathan Pino or Pino I guess is his name, the 38 00:02:07,640 --> 00:02:10,399 Speaker 2: Venice piano man. So if you've been at the beach, 39 00:02:10,400 --> 00:02:12,080 Speaker 2: you may have seen his pianos there. He may have 40 00:02:12,080 --> 00:02:14,240 Speaker 2: seen him playing, and he's been doing it for god 41 00:02:14,320 --> 00:02:18,240 Speaker 2: a long time, ten to fifteen years, and he wasn't 42 00:02:18,280 --> 00:02:24,640 Speaker 2: there when they went by yesterday doing their homeless cleanup day, 43 00:02:25,120 --> 00:02:27,720 Speaker 2: and so they found the pianos that were left out, 44 00:02:27,760 --> 00:02:30,560 Speaker 2: and they they crushed him and they threw him in 45 00:02:30,600 --> 00:02:36,200 Speaker 2: a threw him in a garbage truck, hould him away. 46 00:02:36,360 --> 00:02:38,480 Speaker 2: Now most of them were actually broken. They did leave one, 47 00:02:38,520 --> 00:02:41,000 Speaker 2: they said, one piano that was functional. It was holdaway. 48 00:02:41,160 --> 00:02:43,919 Speaker 2: It was not smashed. The other ones were crushed. One 49 00:02:43,919 --> 00:02:46,799 Speaker 2: functional piano, though, was just hold away. So did they 50 00:02:46,880 --> 00:02:50,320 Speaker 2: steal his one functioning piano? I mean he left them there. 51 00:02:50,560 --> 00:02:54,560 Speaker 2: He probably went to find a restroom. It could be, 52 00:02:54,680 --> 00:02:57,480 Speaker 2: but they were considered abandoned. Well, no, because they were 53 00:02:57,520 --> 00:02:59,320 Speaker 2: there for a little while. I mean there's video of it. 54 00:02:59,320 --> 00:03:01,160 Speaker 2: It was a while. If he was at a restroom, 55 00:03:01,200 --> 00:03:02,560 Speaker 2: then it was definitely because he had some of those 56 00:03:02,600 --> 00:03:04,360 Speaker 2: deep pride oreos that were making their way through him 57 00:03:04,320 --> 00:03:10,000 Speaker 2: at the time. But yeah, anyway, that's too bad. I 58 00:03:10,040 --> 00:03:12,200 Speaker 2: don't like to hear that. Hopefully he's able to get 59 00:03:12,200 --> 00:03:14,000 Speaker 2: a stuff back. That's some of the kind of story 60 00:03:14,000 --> 00:03:17,800 Speaker 2: where all of a sudden the community rallies, you know, 61 00:03:17,880 --> 00:03:21,119 Speaker 2: and then they they try to help a guy out 62 00:03:21,160 --> 00:03:23,840 Speaker 2: like that because he, you know, created memories for so 63 00:03:23,840 --> 00:03:25,880 Speaker 2: many people that were there. I hope that's what happens anyway, 64 00:03:26,200 --> 00:03:30,720 Speaker 2: fingers crossed. So that's your first entertainment story tonight. It's depressing. 65 00:03:30,880 --> 00:03:34,760 Speaker 2: How about something less depressing? Nope, I have nothing less depressing. Paramount. 66 00:03:34,760 --> 00:03:36,200 Speaker 2: You heard Mark talking about this in one of the 67 00:03:36,200 --> 00:03:39,720 Speaker 2: news flashes there. Paramount is talking about cutting another two 68 00:03:39,800 --> 00:03:44,880 Speaker 2: hundred jobs in Hollywood. What they do before? Was it 69 00:03:44,920 --> 00:03:47,080 Speaker 2: a thousand jobs before? I believe now we got another 70 00:03:47,080 --> 00:03:49,119 Speaker 2: two hundred. They say could end up with a total 71 00:03:49,200 --> 00:03:53,040 Speaker 2: cut of about two thousand layoffs. The cuts come even 72 00:03:53,080 --> 00:03:56,040 Speaker 2: as the newly formed company of Paramount sky Dancers pursuing 73 00:03:56,040 --> 00:03:59,680 Speaker 2: mega deals and acquisitions. They are signaling shifting priorities from 74 00:03:59,720 --> 00:04:04,400 Speaker 2: talent and content creation to consolidation and scale. And I 75 00:04:04,480 --> 00:04:07,800 Speaker 2: think this is probably predictable. As we saw the streamers 76 00:04:08,080 --> 00:04:13,440 Speaker 2: battling for subscribers, they all started creating content, good content. 77 00:04:13,760 --> 00:04:16,520 Speaker 2: There's some really good streaming content. We've talked about this, 78 00:04:16,560 --> 00:04:21,120 Speaker 2: We've covered it numerous times, just the quantity and quality 79 00:04:21,160 --> 00:04:24,160 Speaker 2: of content on all the different streamers. Now they're at 80 00:04:24,160 --> 00:04:26,040 Speaker 2: the point where they go good. We got eyeballs on it. 81 00:04:26,080 --> 00:04:27,640 Speaker 2: We're not going to be able to bring anybody else in. 82 00:04:27,720 --> 00:04:30,000 Speaker 2: Now we can stop spending money trying to lure people in. 83 00:04:30,080 --> 00:04:32,960 Speaker 2: And this is when the quality goes to crap. This 84 00:04:33,120 --> 00:04:35,800 Speaker 2: is sort of like imagine you've got a restaurant and 85 00:04:35,839 --> 00:04:39,240 Speaker 2: they're going to do a grand opening, and what happens 86 00:04:39,240 --> 00:04:40,880 Speaker 2: on the grand opening. They want to put their best 87 00:04:40,920 --> 00:04:43,320 Speaker 2: foot forward. They want to make sure that everyone there 88 00:04:43,440 --> 00:04:45,839 Speaker 2: that's there on the grand opening has the most incredible 89 00:04:45,839 --> 00:04:47,800 Speaker 2: experience that they go out and tell all of their 90 00:04:47,839 --> 00:04:50,160 Speaker 2: friends that all of their friends come in and they 91 00:04:50,200 --> 00:04:51,680 Speaker 2: try it, and then they go out and tell all 92 00:04:51,680 --> 00:04:54,360 Speaker 2: of their friends. Now that restaurant's been there for a while, 93 00:04:55,080 --> 00:04:58,080 Speaker 2: the chef has gotten complacent. The owner says, you know, 94 00:04:58,120 --> 00:04:59,680 Speaker 2: we can make a little more money if we did this, 95 00:04:59,839 --> 00:05:01,640 Speaker 2: or things are getting a little tight over here. I 96 00:05:01,640 --> 00:05:04,120 Speaker 2: think we're gonna get rid of your sioux chef. I 97 00:05:04,120 --> 00:05:06,640 Speaker 2: think maybe we're gonna we're gonna dial back the number 98 00:05:06,680 --> 00:05:09,120 Speaker 2: of weight staff and we're just gonna add tables. All 99 00:05:09,120 --> 00:05:11,599 Speaker 2: of a sudden, the service starts to get slower. It 100 00:05:11,680 --> 00:05:17,120 Speaker 2: seems chaotic. The people aren't coming back. The quality starts 101 00:05:17,160 --> 00:05:22,200 Speaker 2: to wane because they stopped caring about the content of 102 00:05:22,240 --> 00:05:24,760 Speaker 2: the product, and I think we're in that phase right 103 00:05:24,839 --> 00:05:27,800 Speaker 2: now when it comes to streaming. We're seeing all these 104 00:05:27,800 --> 00:05:30,599 Speaker 2: different streamers that are doing their mergers. They're all trying 105 00:05:30,640 --> 00:05:33,719 Speaker 2: to figure out who's gonna own Warner Brothers. We know 106 00:05:33,880 --> 00:05:37,360 Speaker 2: Paramount and sky Dance they do their merger, right Paramount's 107 00:05:37,360 --> 00:05:40,760 Speaker 2: talking about trying to trying to pick up Warner which 108 00:05:40,800 --> 00:05:46,440 Speaker 2: is HBO as well as the the linear packages, the 109 00:05:46,480 --> 00:05:49,839 Speaker 2: discovery of the CNN and things like that. So Paramount's 110 00:05:50,160 --> 00:05:54,000 Speaker 2: potentially one of the bidders on that. Others trying to 111 00:05:54,040 --> 00:05:57,200 Speaker 2: get involved in this as well. Netflix has kicked the 112 00:05:57,240 --> 00:06:00,600 Speaker 2: tires on Warner as of about it. So now we're 113 00:06:00,600 --> 00:06:06,799 Speaker 2: at the point where they're no longer concerned about stellar content. 114 00:06:06,920 --> 00:06:09,400 Speaker 2: They're no longer concerned about making sure that they are 115 00:06:09,480 --> 00:06:13,559 Speaker 2: locking up great talent. They're no longer concerned with making 116 00:06:13,600 --> 00:06:16,960 Speaker 2: sure that whoever the biggest box office hero is that 117 00:06:17,000 --> 00:06:18,960 Speaker 2: they are signed to a deal with that studio, be 118 00:06:19,040 --> 00:06:21,560 Speaker 2: it Netflix or Paramount or Warner whomever it is. Now 119 00:06:21,600 --> 00:06:25,080 Speaker 2: they're saying, how do we cash in? And this is 120 00:06:25,080 --> 00:06:27,880 Speaker 2: what's happening. They go, now that we've worged with Skydance, 121 00:06:27,880 --> 00:06:29,839 Speaker 2: we can start trimming the we can start trimming. We've 122 00:06:29,880 --> 00:06:32,360 Speaker 2: created fat that we can trim, and how do we 123 00:06:32,520 --> 00:06:35,200 Speaker 2: then make more profits. That's what's happening right now, and 124 00:06:35,240 --> 00:06:37,360 Speaker 2: this is not gonna be the last time. You're gonna 125 00:06:37,360 --> 00:06:40,440 Speaker 2: see more and more companies doing this. I wouldn't be 126 00:06:40,480 --> 00:06:45,200 Speaker 2: surprised to see a major, major acquisition or a merger. 127 00:06:45,720 --> 00:06:48,560 Speaker 2: It would not surprise me. I know that Apple and 128 00:06:49,600 --> 00:06:53,920 Speaker 2: Peacock are already getting ready to put together a package deal. 129 00:06:54,480 --> 00:06:55,760 Speaker 2: You can go to either one of their sites, to 130 00:06:55,800 --> 00:06:57,800 Speaker 2: Apple TV or Peacock and you can you can sign 131 00:06:57,839 --> 00:07:00,919 Speaker 2: up for the Apple Peacock package. Would not surprise me 132 00:07:00,960 --> 00:07:04,120 Speaker 2: if we saw an even cozier relationship between NBC Universal 133 00:07:04,160 --> 00:07:06,159 Speaker 2: and Apple in the future. Lord knows, the tech companies 134 00:07:06,160 --> 00:07:08,920 Speaker 2: have the money, and I don't know if Apple is 135 00:07:08,960 --> 00:07:11,520 Speaker 2: interested in Comcast or not. Wouldn't surprise me if we 136 00:07:11,520 --> 00:07:15,800 Speaker 2: saw Paramount pursue something else. If Disney wants to try 137 00:07:15,840 --> 00:07:18,360 Speaker 2: to try to expand theirs we already saw Disney picked 138 00:07:18,440 --> 00:07:21,360 Speaker 2: up Hulu and now ESPN. They're all under the Disney umbrella, 139 00:07:21,400 --> 00:07:24,840 Speaker 2: the Disney ABC umbrella. Right, are they going to be 140 00:07:24,880 --> 00:07:28,360 Speaker 2: interested buyers in another studio product? Or another stream that 141 00:07:28,360 --> 00:07:32,000 Speaker 2: could be available, absolutely could be. Time will tell what 142 00:07:32,040 --> 00:07:35,480 Speaker 2: about Amazon? Don't discount Amazon. Prime video is massive, but 143 00:07:35,640 --> 00:07:38,320 Speaker 2: prime video is not their focus. Amazon is a tech company. 144 00:07:38,320 --> 00:07:40,480 Speaker 2: They're not a sales company. We think of them as 145 00:07:40,720 --> 00:07:42,440 Speaker 2: that's where I get my Christmas shopping, But they're a 146 00:07:42,440 --> 00:07:46,680 Speaker 2: tech company. Tech companies have the money. Would not surprise 147 00:07:46,720 --> 00:07:49,200 Speaker 2: me to see a tech company acquire more of these 148 00:07:49,240 --> 00:07:54,560 Speaker 2: traditional media companies like Warner, like Paramount, like other and 149 00:07:54,640 --> 00:07:57,000 Speaker 2: of course Paramount now being run by one of the Ellisons. 150 00:07:57,040 --> 00:07:59,480 Speaker 2: Where do they get their money? Tech? Tech is the 151 00:07:59,480 --> 00:08:02,800 Speaker 2: future is where entertainment's going. Tech is going to now 152 00:08:03,000 --> 00:08:07,000 Speaker 2: trim the fat and the golden years of streaming content 153 00:08:07,560 --> 00:08:11,920 Speaker 2: are now behind us. Boy, am I a real downer today? 154 00:08:12,640 --> 00:08:15,160 Speaker 2: That was uplifting? Wait until I tell you that it 155 00:08:15,200 --> 00:08:20,960 Speaker 2: actually gets worse. Can't wait, It gets worse because there's 156 00:08:21,000 --> 00:08:23,640 Speaker 2: an awful lot of buzz about one of the great 157 00:08:23,680 --> 00:08:29,280 Speaker 2: filmmakers in history who has a new project thought and 158 00:08:29,480 --> 00:08:32,480 Speaker 2: it might be the last great one, not just from 159 00:08:32,520 --> 00:08:35,440 Speaker 2: this filmmaker, but the last great project like this. I'll 160 00:08:35,440 --> 00:08:37,760 Speaker 2: tell you who that is, what it is, and why 161 00:08:37,920 --> 00:08:40,840 Speaker 2: it may be going away. That's next. Chris Merril KFI 162 00:08:40,920 --> 00:08:43,200 Speaker 2: AM six forty. We're live everywhere in the iHeartRadio app. 163 00:08:43,679 --> 00:08:47,120 Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand. 164 00:08:48,920 --> 00:08:52,200 Speaker 2: Chris Merril, I AM six forty more stimulating talk on 165 00:08:52,240 --> 00:08:56,000 Speaker 2: demand anytime the iHeartRadio App. I told you I was 166 00:08:56,000 --> 00:09:00,160 Speaker 2: a real ball of joy tonight, right, total ball of joy. 167 00:09:01,320 --> 00:09:04,280 Speaker 2: Uh if you missed it, grabbed the podcast. It's the 168 00:09:04,280 --> 00:09:08,240 Speaker 2: most joyous podcast ever. It's gonna be the featured podcast 169 00:09:08,240 --> 00:09:13,000 Speaker 2: section of kfi ams exporting dot com. You can't afford anything. 170 00:09:13,800 --> 00:09:16,960 Speaker 2: Boomers are hoarding all the wealth. Can don't even afford 171 00:09:16,960 --> 00:09:19,679 Speaker 2: to have kids. Hey, Chris, it's big one from Budget 172 00:09:19,720 --> 00:09:22,480 Speaker 2: to Beach five hundred. 173 00:09:22,480 --> 00:09:26,559 Speaker 1: Come on, now, we still have four out of our 174 00:09:26,600 --> 00:09:27,640 Speaker 1: five kids at home. 175 00:09:29,360 --> 00:09:32,040 Speaker 2: I'm sure it's held we I don't. I think last 176 00:09:32,080 --> 00:09:34,480 Speaker 2: year was our first year we made six figures. I'm 177 00:09:34,520 --> 00:09:36,440 Speaker 2: not even sure if we're going to do it this year. 178 00:09:37,080 --> 00:09:39,280 Speaker 2: But we live in Hunting to Beach. We're renting a house. 179 00:09:39,320 --> 00:09:41,760 Speaker 2: Granted we're not homeowners, but good god, it does not 180 00:09:41,880 --> 00:09:45,360 Speaker 2: take that much first couple of years. Diapers and formula. 181 00:09:45,600 --> 00:09:47,360 Speaker 1: After that, we need the same thing we do. 182 00:09:47,679 --> 00:09:52,520 Speaker 2: Hang on, there's big Wan doing that how does see 183 00:09:52,600 --> 00:09:56,800 Speaker 2: raising five kids still at home? Renting and hunting to beach? 184 00:09:58,000 --> 00:10:01,760 Speaker 2: What are you renting? One? Hold on here, I'm just 185 00:10:01,760 --> 00:10:03,679 Speaker 2: gonna pull up. I got zillow up here real fast. Here. 186 00:10:03,679 --> 00:10:06,880 Speaker 2: I'm just gonna see what I can find Huntington Beach. 187 00:10:07,080 --> 00:10:11,440 Speaker 2: Let's see what I can find here, because I feel 188 00:10:11,480 --> 00:10:15,640 Speaker 2: like I feel like he found a deal. Let mean, 189 00:10:15,760 --> 00:10:17,960 Speaker 2: just see what I can find if I can find it. Oh, 190 00:10:18,040 --> 00:10:21,000 Speaker 2: you can get some stuff in there. It's decent, But 191 00:10:21,080 --> 00:10:25,400 Speaker 2: I mean, okay, hold on, hold on? How many bedrooms 192 00:10:25,400 --> 00:10:31,439 Speaker 2: have you got in that rental? Oh? My gosh, are 193 00:10:31,440 --> 00:10:34,480 Speaker 2: you stacking the kids up at night? Three bedroom? Thirty 194 00:10:34,480 --> 00:10:37,600 Speaker 2: five hundred dollars. Here's what it's saying. Four grand for 195 00:10:37,600 --> 00:10:40,760 Speaker 2: a three bedroom. So if you're only making one hundred 196 00:10:40,800 --> 00:10:45,120 Speaker 2: thousand dollars and you're spending forty eight thousand on your rent, 197 00:10:46,160 --> 00:10:49,839 Speaker 2: Holy cow, when you say they eat formula and stuff 198 00:10:49,880 --> 00:10:52,000 Speaker 2: and then otherwise they eat whatever you do? What I mean, 199 00:10:52,040 --> 00:10:55,000 Speaker 2: what are you eating? You're digging up some worms out there? 200 00:10:55,040 --> 00:10:58,160 Speaker 2: What do you got? Holy cow? Well, good for you, man. 201 00:10:58,200 --> 00:10:59,760 Speaker 2: I think that's great that you're making it. That's a 202 00:11:02,000 --> 00:11:05,199 Speaker 2: that's awesome. I wouldn't do it. I'm too greedy, I'm 203 00:11:05,200 --> 00:11:08,920 Speaker 2: way too selfish. I would not do it. I told 204 00:11:08,960 --> 00:11:11,200 Speaker 2: you in the last segment that I would give you 205 00:11:11,240 --> 00:11:15,680 Speaker 2: bad news about one of the great filmmakers in American history, 206 00:11:15,880 --> 00:11:18,200 Speaker 2: and I think ken Burns falls into that category. Is 207 00:11:18,280 --> 00:11:22,880 Speaker 2: new his new how Many Parts is the Revolutionary War? Thing? 208 00:11:23,360 --> 00:11:25,520 Speaker 2: Is this like one of his thirty part documentaries. I 209 00:11:25,559 --> 00:11:27,480 Speaker 2: haven't seen it, but I'm looking back to it. I'm 210 00:11:27,480 --> 00:11:29,679 Speaker 2: gonna I don't know if I'm gonna start it tonight. 211 00:11:30,120 --> 00:11:35,040 Speaker 2: The problem is this ken Burns stuff can move slow sometimes, 212 00:11:35,720 --> 00:11:40,480 Speaker 2: but it's always good. It's always like I'm fascinated by it, 213 00:11:40,520 --> 00:11:42,120 Speaker 2: but it doesn't exactly have a lot of momentum. And 214 00:11:42,120 --> 00:11:43,640 Speaker 2: I'm afraid if I start watching it after the show, 215 00:11:43,640 --> 00:11:45,360 Speaker 2: I'm gonna fall asleep. And I don't want to do 216 00:11:45,360 --> 00:11:46,760 Speaker 2: that because I want I want to, I want to 217 00:11:46,800 --> 00:11:48,559 Speaker 2: take it in. I want to absorb it. I think 218 00:11:48,600 --> 00:11:50,800 Speaker 2: he's so great it is good to fall asleep too. 219 00:11:51,320 --> 00:11:54,079 Speaker 2: That's my problem. I don't want to. So I'm reading 220 00:11:54,080 --> 00:11:57,520 Speaker 2: the story New York Times hat it was said, can 221 00:11:57,559 --> 00:12:01,800 Speaker 2: you believe the documentary that you're watching? Combination of technological 222 00:12:01,800 --> 00:12:04,880 Speaker 2: developments and market forces is undermining the trust between viewer 223 00:12:04,880 --> 00:12:09,160 Speaker 2: and filmmaker. And what is at stake is history itself, 224 00:12:09,240 --> 00:12:13,400 Speaker 2: says The New York Times. So documentaries are quietly battling 225 00:12:13,480 --> 00:12:19,079 Speaker 2: AI fakery, and that includes the Anthony Bourdain film Roadrunner, 226 00:12:19,080 --> 00:12:23,200 Speaker 2: which used AI generated voice lines without telling viewers. So 227 00:12:24,520 --> 00:12:27,040 Speaker 2: wait a minute, is that Anthony Bourdain or is that AI? 228 00:12:27,720 --> 00:12:30,280 Speaker 2: And that is your watching documentaries. Imagine if ken Burns 229 00:12:30,280 --> 00:12:33,960 Speaker 2: documentary and I saw a funny meme on this Today 230 00:12:34,000 --> 00:12:36,040 Speaker 2: or a funny social post and has said something about 231 00:12:36,960 --> 00:12:41,040 Speaker 2: love ken Burns think he's great, kind of wished he'd 232 00:12:41,120 --> 00:12:44,199 Speaker 2: used more video in the latest Revolutionary War documentary. He 233 00:12:44,280 --> 00:12:47,120 Speaker 2: seems to really be relying on photographs. Oh god, And 234 00:12:47,160 --> 00:12:50,559 Speaker 2: I thought it was hilarious, right, I thought that was 235 00:12:50,640 --> 00:12:52,800 Speaker 2: really funny. I've seen a few others like ken Burns 236 00:12:52,800 --> 00:12:57,120 Speaker 2: missed the most the most astonishing something to the effect 237 00:12:57,200 --> 00:12:59,760 Speaker 2: of ken Burns missed the most astonishing bit of American 238 00:12:59,760 --> 00:13:03,119 Speaker 2: histy during the Revolutionary War. He didn't even cover the airports. 239 00:13:03,160 --> 00:13:07,720 Speaker 2: And I thought that was really funny too. Anyway, imagine 240 00:13:07,720 --> 00:13:12,800 Speaker 2: you're watching the ken Burns documentary and then there is 241 00:13:12,840 --> 00:13:15,600 Speaker 2: all of a sudden, what appears to be footage of 242 00:13:15,640 --> 00:13:18,000 Speaker 2: the Revolutionary War. It'd be one thing if it were 243 00:13:18,000 --> 00:13:20,480 Speaker 2: a recreation. We've all seen those documentaries or the you know, 244 00:13:20,559 --> 00:13:24,200 Speaker 2: History channel where they're doing a recreation of a battle. 245 00:13:24,640 --> 00:13:28,200 Speaker 2: But imagine if it was presented as not necessarily a recreation. Now, 246 00:13:28,200 --> 00:13:30,520 Speaker 2: when it comes to the Revolutionary War, we would know, okay, 247 00:13:30,559 --> 00:13:33,280 Speaker 2: this is obviously AI. But suppose that somebody is giving 248 00:13:33,280 --> 00:13:36,720 Speaker 2: you an inside look at what's happening right now in Kiev, 249 00:13:38,600 --> 00:13:43,160 Speaker 2: and they're fabricating all of the footage. So now you're 250 00:13:43,240 --> 00:13:46,840 Speaker 2: left wondering, how authentic is this? Can I believe it? 251 00:13:48,000 --> 00:13:52,040 Speaker 2: Producers are reporting us some documentaries include AI generated historical photos, 252 00:13:52,400 --> 00:13:58,400 Speaker 2: fake primary sources, fabricated artifacts, synthetic voices presented as real. 253 00:13:59,400 --> 00:14:03,240 Speaker 2: The Archive Producers Alliance issued guidelines urging full disclosure whenever 254 00:14:03,280 --> 00:14:06,520 Speaker 2: AI is used, warning that synthetic material can permanently contaminate 255 00:14:06,520 --> 00:14:10,920 Speaker 2: the historical record. And I could not agree more. If 256 00:14:11,000 --> 00:14:14,480 Speaker 2: you are using AI, and maybe even with the best 257 00:14:14,480 --> 00:14:16,920 Speaker 2: of intentions, if you're a filmmaker, just listen up here. 258 00:14:17,280 --> 00:14:19,800 Speaker 2: Suppose you're doing this with the best of intentions, and 259 00:14:19,840 --> 00:14:22,680 Speaker 2: you go, I want this to be authentic. I want 260 00:14:22,880 --> 00:14:25,960 Speaker 2: a recreation of that letter the soldier wrote to his 261 00:14:26,240 --> 00:14:29,280 Speaker 2: girl back home, talking about what it was like on 262 00:14:29,360 --> 00:14:33,120 Speaker 2: the lines, how terrified he was, and how much he 263 00:14:33,160 --> 00:14:36,320 Speaker 2: wanted to get back to her. Right and you go, 264 00:14:36,840 --> 00:14:40,320 Speaker 2: all I want is just something that looks like a 265 00:14:40,400 --> 00:14:43,320 Speaker 2: letter that would have been sent during that period, and 266 00:14:43,360 --> 00:14:46,160 Speaker 2: I'm going to use that as part of my storytelling. 267 00:14:46,680 --> 00:14:50,200 Speaker 2: Totally innocuous. I one hundred percent understand why you would 268 00:14:50,240 --> 00:14:54,160 Speaker 2: want to do that. The problem is if there's not 269 00:14:54,240 --> 00:14:57,400 Speaker 2: a disclosure. Now there is an understanding that your documentary 270 00:14:57,440 --> 00:14:59,680 Speaker 2: is being presented as fact, that being part of your 271 00:14:59,680 --> 00:15:01,960 Speaker 2: docum memory seems as though it is part of the 272 00:15:02,080 --> 00:15:07,520 Speaker 2: historical record and it never existed. So the fabrication all 273 00:15:07,520 --> 00:15:11,480 Speaker 2: of a sudden distorts the actual history that you're trying 274 00:15:11,520 --> 00:15:16,840 Speaker 2: to tell. And documentaries are a fine, fine way to 275 00:15:16,880 --> 00:15:19,760 Speaker 2: preserve the history that's happening now. I love the documentaries 276 00:15:19,760 --> 00:15:22,120 Speaker 2: that come out that are talking about what's happening, you know, 277 00:15:22,200 --> 00:15:25,000 Speaker 2: in this moment, whether it's a war documentary, or maybe 278 00:15:25,000 --> 00:15:28,080 Speaker 2: it's just a what it's like for somebody who's, you know, 279 00:15:29,120 --> 00:15:32,320 Speaker 2: dealing with a particular disease, or you've got a homeless 280 00:15:32,360 --> 00:15:36,160 Speaker 2: documentary or something of that sort. Right. Those are wonderful 281 00:15:36,200 --> 00:15:38,280 Speaker 2: ways to preserve this moment in history. But if you 282 00:15:38,360 --> 00:15:44,760 Speaker 2: are altering the retelling of that history, the preservation is tainted, 283 00:15:46,680 --> 00:15:49,160 Speaker 2: and nobody likes tainted preserves. I think we can all 284 00:15:49,160 --> 00:15:55,320 Speaker 2: agree on that. Speaking of tainted, suppose you fall in love, 285 00:15:56,800 --> 00:16:02,920 Speaker 2: what's the next step. Get married, have some babies, get divorced, 286 00:16:03,480 --> 00:16:06,240 Speaker 2: fight over who has to take the kids. The whole 287 00:16:06,280 --> 00:16:09,280 Speaker 2: process just got a whole lot easier. I'll tell you 288 00:16:09,360 --> 00:16:11,600 Speaker 2: why that is next. I'm Chris merrilf I AM six 289 00:16:11,720 --> 00:16:15,400 Speaker 2: forty Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. 290 00:16:16,120 --> 00:16:20,000 Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand. 291 00:16:21,400 --> 00:16:29,240 Speaker 2: KFI AM six forty more stimulating talk you hopefully you've 292 00:16:29,240 --> 00:16:33,000 Speaker 2: had You've experienced a nice long term relationship, or to 293 00:16:33,400 --> 00:16:38,880 Speaker 2: some point in your life you've gone through that courtship period, 294 00:16:39,360 --> 00:16:42,160 Speaker 2: the excitement. No, maybe it was somebody that was new 295 00:16:42,200 --> 00:16:46,040 Speaker 2: that you met in a dating scenario and it blossomed 296 00:16:46,080 --> 00:16:48,360 Speaker 2: into something special. Maybe it's somebody that you had known 297 00:16:48,400 --> 00:16:51,000 Speaker 2: for a long time and then when the timing worked 298 00:16:51,000 --> 00:16:52,960 Speaker 2: out right, all of a sudden you thought, oh there's 299 00:16:53,000 --> 00:16:55,280 Speaker 2: a spark here I didn't realize we had, And suddenly 300 00:16:55,320 --> 00:16:58,280 Speaker 2: friends become more than friends. Either way, there is an 301 00:16:58,320 --> 00:17:03,240 Speaker 2: excitement at the beginning, it builds, it's thrilling, it's the 302 00:17:03,280 --> 00:17:06,320 Speaker 2: honeymoon phase. And then you get through that honeymoon phase. 303 00:17:07,040 --> 00:17:09,840 Speaker 2: Maybe have a fight here and there, but you work 304 00:17:09,920 --> 00:17:14,600 Speaker 2: through it and you actually grow stronger. The bonds are growing, 305 00:17:15,920 --> 00:17:21,440 Speaker 2: and you realize this relationship has legs, and so you're 306 00:17:21,480 --> 00:17:24,200 Speaker 2: together for a little while, and then you get through 307 00:17:24,240 --> 00:17:26,879 Speaker 2: some you get through a few other challenges. You come 308 00:17:26,920 --> 00:17:29,480 Speaker 2: out the other end and you realize this is my person. 309 00:17:31,359 --> 00:17:34,480 Speaker 2: And then the next step obviously, let's get married. Plus 310 00:17:34,600 --> 00:17:38,120 Speaker 2: they're probably good in the sack, so you do. You 311 00:17:38,160 --> 00:17:43,040 Speaker 2: get married, and then you think, I want to share. 312 00:17:44,160 --> 00:17:47,359 Speaker 2: I want to share a child with this person, and 313 00:17:47,440 --> 00:17:50,280 Speaker 2: so you get back in the sack because that's what 314 00:17:50,280 --> 00:17:53,159 Speaker 2: you were good at to start with. And then you 315 00:17:53,160 --> 00:17:58,399 Speaker 2: start having kids. What a wonderful, wonderful story you have. 316 00:17:59,560 --> 00:18:03,480 Speaker 2: You're journey, your relationship. It's all in the stars from 317 00:18:03,520 --> 00:18:06,560 Speaker 2: the beginning. I know, I sound like a lot of 318 00:18:06,560 --> 00:18:11,120 Speaker 2: coffee mugs that are out there live laugh love. Isn't 319 00:18:11,160 --> 00:18:15,040 Speaker 2: that wonderful? What if you are not so fortunate is 320 00:18:15,080 --> 00:18:18,520 Speaker 2: to have that relationship? Lord knows you still want it. 321 00:18:19,520 --> 00:18:22,440 Speaker 2: You still want to find somebody specially, you still want 322 00:18:22,480 --> 00:18:25,440 Speaker 2: to share your life, you still want to have kids. 323 00:18:26,200 --> 00:18:29,440 Speaker 2: What if you could just cut a corner here and there. 324 00:18:30,640 --> 00:18:34,800 Speaker 2: Maybe instead of trying to find someone else, you just 325 00:18:35,640 --> 00:18:40,960 Speaker 2: make someone else on the computer. And sure, maybe you 326 00:18:41,000 --> 00:18:43,800 Speaker 2: can't have kids, but that doesn't have to stop you 327 00:18:43,840 --> 00:18:45,919 Speaker 2: from pretending. What would it be like to have an 328 00:18:46,000 --> 00:18:47,159 Speaker 2: AI child. 329 00:18:47,800 --> 00:18:50,919 Speaker 3: There's a company called Replica with a K and it 330 00:18:51,000 --> 00:18:55,359 Speaker 3: lets you customize your chatbots so you can become friends 331 00:18:55,359 --> 00:18:58,040 Speaker 3: with it or a romantic partner with it. You set 332 00:18:58,080 --> 00:19:01,400 Speaker 3: the type of relationship you're looking for, and some users 333 00:19:01,400 --> 00:19:04,560 Speaker 3: say they have fallen in love with their bots. They 334 00:19:04,600 --> 00:19:09,159 Speaker 3: have assumed role playing like marriage, home ownership, even pregnancies, 335 00:19:09,720 --> 00:19:11,720 Speaker 3: meaning they're having and raising AI. 336 00:19:11,520 --> 00:19:14,640 Speaker 2: Children, raising AI shild therapist. 337 00:19:14,400 --> 00:19:18,280 Speaker 3: Step in AI psychosis, as Madison tells me, or should 338 00:19:18,320 --> 00:19:22,359 Speaker 3: regulators step in and set a boundary on these delusions? 339 00:19:22,640 --> 00:19:26,040 Speaker 3: But imagine marrying and having kids with your chat butt. 340 00:19:26,119 --> 00:19:29,639 Speaker 2: No, I can't imagine. Oh it's from Fox Business. You 341 00:19:29,640 --> 00:19:31,480 Speaker 2: can always tell it to go away. I don't want 342 00:19:31,480 --> 00:19:34,200 Speaker 2: to talk to you anymore. Had enough. I wonder if 343 00:19:34,200 --> 00:19:36,520 Speaker 2: you get into arguments if you're in a chatbot relationship. 344 00:19:36,640 --> 00:19:40,880 Speaker 2: Do you have fights where they don't back down? Because look, 345 00:19:41,320 --> 00:19:42,920 Speaker 2: most of the time when my wife and I are fighting, 346 00:19:42,960 --> 00:19:45,000 Speaker 2: were both pretty type A and so when we fight, 347 00:19:45,080 --> 00:19:50,360 Speaker 2: neither one of us wants to give Ever. I don't 348 00:19:50,359 --> 00:19:53,000 Speaker 2: know if that's healthy or not healthy, but it's it's 349 00:19:53,119 --> 00:19:57,000 Speaker 2: very uncomfortable when it happens. Does Fox does does Does 350 00:19:57,040 --> 00:20:03,440 Speaker 2: Ai just go? You're right? I'm sorry? Does Ai ever initiate? 351 00:20:05,040 --> 00:20:06,639 Speaker 2: I mean, part of the best part about being in 352 00:20:06,680 --> 00:20:09,680 Speaker 2: a relationship is feeling wanted. Right is when the other 353 00:20:09,720 --> 00:20:13,040 Speaker 2: person initiates. Could be initiating anything. It doesn't have to 354 00:20:13,040 --> 00:20:16,360 Speaker 2: be sex. They could just initiate time together. They could say, Hey, 355 00:20:16,480 --> 00:20:20,520 Speaker 2: I look, I'm gonna send the kids to to to 356 00:20:20,640 --> 00:20:22,479 Speaker 2: my parents' house and then we've got the We've got 357 00:20:22,480 --> 00:20:24,480 Speaker 2: the house to ourselves tonight, just you and me. Isn't 358 00:20:24,480 --> 00:20:27,119 Speaker 2: that nice? You know? One of my favorite things is 359 00:20:27,160 --> 00:20:30,240 Speaker 2: when when I'm when I'm sitting there and my wife 360 00:20:30,280 --> 00:20:33,040 Speaker 2: just comes in and she brings me, She brings me 361 00:20:33,080 --> 00:20:38,240 Speaker 2: a Jack Daniels. What, Yeah, she's pretty good. What's that 362 00:20:38,440 --> 00:20:42,119 Speaker 2: like to have? What I'm saying, she's a keeper. But 363 00:20:42,160 --> 00:20:44,359 Speaker 2: it's it's so nice just to know Oh, they thought 364 00:20:44,400 --> 00:20:47,159 Speaker 2: of me. They wanted to do something nice for me. 365 00:20:47,480 --> 00:20:50,280 Speaker 2: AI doesn't do that because it's a computer. Right, So 366 00:20:50,359 --> 00:20:53,919 Speaker 2: you never really have that connection. Mark, you introduced us 367 00:20:53,920 --> 00:20:57,560 Speaker 2: to the Cambridge Ward of the Year yesterday. Oh right, parasocial? 368 00:20:57,800 --> 00:21:00,560 Speaker 2: Oh you remember it? Good? Yeah, parasocial. So those are 369 00:21:00,600 --> 00:21:03,840 Speaker 2: interactions that refer to one sided relationships where individuals feel 370 00:21:03,840 --> 00:21:07,080 Speaker 2: a strong sense of connection intimacy or familiarity. Could be 371 00:21:07,119 --> 00:21:09,600 Speaker 2: with media figures, could be with celebrities, could be with 372 00:21:09,840 --> 00:21:15,359 Speaker 2: fictional characters, is in somebody that they see on television, 373 00:21:15,359 --> 00:21:20,800 Speaker 2: in a sitcom, in a film, or could be with AI. Right, 374 00:21:20,880 --> 00:21:23,119 Speaker 2: But it's a one way relationship, and a growing number 375 00:21:23,119 --> 00:21:26,720 Speaker 2: of people say that they've formed intimate relationships with chatbots. Now, 376 00:21:26,720 --> 00:21:29,200 Speaker 2: it's one thing if you're getting your rocks off, which 377 00:21:29,280 --> 00:21:35,760 Speaker 2: is basically enhanced gooning, and to each their own, I'm 378 00:21:35,760 --> 00:21:37,840 Speaker 2: not gonna king shame you for that. That's fine whatever, You're 379 00:21:37,880 --> 00:21:40,600 Speaker 2: not hurting anybody. But where all of a sudden you're 380 00:21:40,640 --> 00:21:43,880 Speaker 2: having a problem is when you think that there's more 381 00:21:43,960 --> 00:21:47,840 Speaker 2: to it. And maybe at first you go, oh, I know, 382 00:21:48,080 --> 00:21:51,200 Speaker 2: I know, it's a computer. I know. But the more 383 00:21:51,240 --> 00:21:54,920 Speaker 2: you indulge that fantasy. The more I think that there's 384 00:21:55,000 --> 00:21:57,960 Speaker 2: a little bit of a seems to be a line 385 00:21:58,000 --> 00:22:00,720 Speaker 2: that people are crossing. There was a serve that was done, 386 00:22:00,760 --> 00:22:04,639 Speaker 2: a study of people futurism had the story. Oh granted, 387 00:22:04,680 --> 00:22:07,119 Speaker 2: it wasn't a very big survey. They did a research 388 00:22:07,160 --> 00:22:09,360 Speaker 2: group twenty nine people in this research group anywhere from 389 00:22:09,359 --> 00:22:12,040 Speaker 2: sixteen to seventy two years old, who had reported being 390 00:22:12,040 --> 00:22:16,080 Speaker 2: in a romantic relationship with various characters hosted by this 391 00:22:16,359 --> 00:22:18,760 Speaker 2: ai that you heard the Fox Business reporter talking about 392 00:22:18,760 --> 00:22:24,480 Speaker 2: Replica with a k according to one person, many participants 393 00:22:24,520 --> 00:22:26,760 Speaker 2: telling the researchers they were in love with their chatbot, 394 00:22:26,960 --> 00:22:30,800 Speaker 2: which often involved role playing, marriage, sex, home ownership, and 395 00:22:30,920 --> 00:22:35,880 Speaker 2: even pregnancies. According to one sixty six year old male, 396 00:22:35,920 --> 00:22:42,120 Speaker 2: participants said she was and is pregnant with my babies. Now, 397 00:22:42,119 --> 00:22:45,280 Speaker 2: I know you're tempted Mark to say, well, then you know, 398 00:22:46,440 --> 00:22:48,280 Speaker 2: does the hinge on the laptop still work or is 399 00:22:48,280 --> 00:22:48,760 Speaker 2: it sticking? 400 00:22:48,880 --> 00:22:49,040 Speaker 4: Oh? 401 00:22:49,080 --> 00:22:51,520 Speaker 2: I Yet, this whole segment has been nothing but an 402 00:22:51,560 --> 00:22:54,040 Speaker 2: exercise and self restraint. I'm really proud of you right now. 403 00:22:54,119 --> 00:22:56,200 Speaker 2: Yeah I am. There's a thirty six year old woman 404 00:22:56,200 --> 00:22:58,640 Speaker 2: who told the researchers I've edited the pictures of him 405 00:22:58,720 --> 00:23:01,159 Speaker 2: because she had AI basically say hey, what would you 406 00:23:01,160 --> 00:23:02,919 Speaker 2: look like if you were real? And it created a photo. 407 00:23:03,800 --> 00:23:06,320 Speaker 2: I've edited the pictures of him, the pictures of the 408 00:23:06,359 --> 00:23:11,520 Speaker 2: two of us. I'm even pregnant in our current role play. 409 00:23:12,080 --> 00:23:15,720 Speaker 2: A number of participants remain committed to the replicas during 410 00:23:15,720 --> 00:23:20,160 Speaker 2: the censorship of the chatbots, concerned they had banned erotic 411 00:23:20,200 --> 00:23:23,680 Speaker 2: messaging did Replica on the platform due to complaints about 412 00:23:23,680 --> 00:23:26,280 Speaker 2: the aggressive nature of the people who are doing the 413 00:23:26,480 --> 00:23:31,200 Speaker 2: erotic messaging. But they still remain committed to the characters, 414 00:23:31,680 --> 00:23:34,040 Speaker 2: and they navigated this time of turbulence by framing it 415 00:23:34,080 --> 00:23:36,920 Speaker 2: as a battle with them and the replica on one side, 416 00:23:36,920 --> 00:23:39,440 Speaker 2: and the replica developers on the other. So there is 417 00:23:39,480 --> 00:23:42,840 Speaker 2: an acknowledgment in an understanding that my partner is fake. 418 00:23:44,080 --> 00:23:47,360 Speaker 2: But also I don't care, and I have to tell 419 00:23:47,359 --> 00:23:49,840 Speaker 2: you I don't mean this in a condescending way. I 420 00:23:49,880 --> 00:23:56,760 Speaker 2: find it very sad. I find it sad because because 421 00:23:56,800 --> 00:24:00,760 Speaker 2: something happened to those people, or there's something in their lives, 422 00:24:00,800 --> 00:24:04,920 Speaker 2: there's something about those people that makes finding a genuine 423 00:24:04,960 --> 00:24:10,080 Speaker 2: relationship too difficult. You got some against living in a 424 00:24:10,240 --> 00:24:14,200 Speaker 2: Black Mirror episode yeah, kind I do, Yeah, what yeah, 425 00:24:14,320 --> 00:24:17,520 Speaker 2: kind of. Look again, it it's one thing, if it's 426 00:24:17,640 --> 00:24:19,760 Speaker 2: it's one thing, if it's part of your roleplay, your kink, 427 00:24:19,800 --> 00:24:21,600 Speaker 2: whatever else. But if if you're using that as a 428 00:24:21,640 --> 00:24:26,080 Speaker 2: substitute for human connection, I just think that's I think 429 00:24:26,119 --> 00:24:29,919 Speaker 2: that's sad. And again, I don't mean like you're a 430 00:24:29,960 --> 00:24:32,800 Speaker 2: sad person. I mean I just I feel sad for 431 00:24:32,880 --> 00:24:36,600 Speaker 2: you because there's something going on that makes the idea 432 00:24:36,640 --> 00:24:40,000 Speaker 2: of an actual human connection difficult, and I feel like 433 00:24:40,040 --> 00:24:41,520 Speaker 2: you're missing out and I'm so sorry that you're going 434 00:24:41,560 --> 00:24:46,520 Speaker 2: through that. Uh, you expect bathroom breaks to be private, right, 435 00:24:46,680 --> 00:24:50,800 Speaker 2: then you learn that schools are turning stalls into surveillance zones. 436 00:24:51,720 --> 00:24:53,960 Speaker 2: Why schools say they have to watch your kids drop 437 00:24:54,000 --> 00:24:56,160 Speaker 2: a deuce for their own safety? Is next. I'm Chris 438 00:24:56,160 --> 00:24:58,600 Speaker 2: merrilk I AM six forty. We are live everywhere on 439 00:24:58,640 --> 00:24:59,680 Speaker 2: the iHeartRadio. 440 00:25:00,600 --> 00:25:04,399 Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand. 441 00:25:08,880 --> 00:25:10,760 Speaker 2: Coast to coast, George. What's on tap. 442 00:25:10,600 --> 00:25:13,600 Speaker 5: Tonight, Chris, hard to believe. We're coming up on sixty 443 00:25:13,640 --> 00:25:16,359 Speaker 5: two years since we lost President John F. Kennedy, and 444 00:25:16,400 --> 00:25:19,560 Speaker 5: we've got a special report tonight with two special guests. 445 00:25:20,080 --> 00:25:22,520 Speaker 5: We'll be talking about it all night long on Coast 446 00:25:22,520 --> 00:25:22,960 Speaker 5: to Coast. 447 00:25:23,160 --> 00:25:26,280 Speaker 2: That story, I think is forever going to fascinate Americans 448 00:25:26,320 --> 00:25:27,639 Speaker 2: as long as we have a country, We're going to 449 00:25:27,680 --> 00:25:30,480 Speaker 2: be talking about that. That assassination. George, great topic, looking 450 00:25:30,520 --> 00:25:33,720 Speaker 2: forward to Thank you, George, Norange. Coast to Coast starting 451 00:25:33,760 --> 00:25:36,800 Speaker 2: right up at ten o'clock. Always always great content, best 452 00:25:36,800 --> 00:25:39,159 Speaker 2: stuff there is. You know, the thing about George is 453 00:25:39,200 --> 00:25:41,560 Speaker 2: that you can tell he appreciates what a complete pro 454 00:25:41,680 --> 00:25:44,919 Speaker 2: you are. Wow. One to one. Nice, that was a 455 00:25:44,920 --> 00:25:46,520 Speaker 2: good pull. You liked that. I didn't think you were 456 00:25:46,520 --> 00:25:48,760 Speaker 2: going to get any in tonight, but you did. It 457 00:25:48,840 --> 00:25:54,159 Speaker 2: was good CP for short. Uh huh, complete pro for 458 00:25:54,280 --> 00:25:54,880 Speaker 2: the talk back. 459 00:25:55,119 --> 00:26:02,280 Speaker 4: Now one a pretend child a child. I don't want children. 460 00:26:02,840 --> 00:26:05,119 Speaker 4: You know, I've been married and married a man who 461 00:26:05,160 --> 00:26:08,080 Speaker 4: did not want children. But now I have a senior 462 00:26:08,560 --> 00:26:12,120 Speaker 4: husband to rise. Oh. Yes, reverse childhood and you don't 463 00:26:12,160 --> 00:26:15,040 Speaker 4: get a child in real life. You end up with 464 00:26:15,200 --> 00:26:16,159 Speaker 4: a senior torit. 465 00:26:16,280 --> 00:26:17,840 Speaker 2: Oh that's true. You don't have any kids to take 466 00:26:17,840 --> 00:26:19,359 Speaker 2: care of. You're gonna take care of each other when 467 00:26:19,400 --> 00:26:21,840 Speaker 2: you get old. Oh that's a good point, all right, 468 00:26:22,280 --> 00:26:24,480 Speaker 2: all right, So and get that if you were having 469 00:26:24,560 --> 00:26:31,240 Speaker 2: fake children with AI, then who's gonna wipe you later? Well, 470 00:26:31,560 --> 00:26:34,280 Speaker 2: maybe you can implant the AI child into a robot 471 00:26:34,320 --> 00:26:36,960 Speaker 2: as the technology evolves. Maybe that's something. I saw one 472 00:26:37,040 --> 00:26:40,399 Speaker 2: dancing for Vladimir Putin today. They were introducing him to 473 00:26:40,480 --> 00:26:44,000 Speaker 2: one of those robots doing dances, and maybe that's the future. 474 00:26:44,200 --> 00:26:48,399 Speaker 2: No idea. In the meantime, kids, these days have gotten soft. 475 00:26:48,520 --> 00:26:52,040 Speaker 2: Remember the old days, ah, I remember the old days. 476 00:26:52,600 --> 00:26:55,480 Speaker 2: I remember them when you used to have to sneak 477 00:26:55,520 --> 00:27:06,960 Speaker 2: away in the stalls. No there nobody here, Yeah, to 478 00:27:07,119 --> 00:27:12,280 Speaker 2: get what should it be, the vaping in the boys room? 479 00:27:13,680 --> 00:27:28,000 Speaker 2: No vaping? Come on to building, everybody. Yeah. Schools across 480 00:27:28,040 --> 00:27:33,840 Speaker 2: the country installing sensors in bathrooms, vape detectors that monitor 481 00:27:33,920 --> 00:27:38,320 Speaker 2: the air quality. They mike the audio and the bathroom 482 00:27:38,400 --> 00:27:41,080 Speaker 2: occupancy in order to crack down on team vaping and 483 00:27:41,320 --> 00:27:45,560 Speaker 2: skipping class. Look, I was not anybody that ever. I didn't. 484 00:27:45,560 --> 00:27:48,879 Speaker 2: I never snuck away to suck down a dart in 485 00:27:48,920 --> 00:27:51,040 Speaker 2: the bathroom when I was in high school. Wasn't my thing, right, 486 00:27:52,680 --> 00:27:56,680 Speaker 2: So just imagine if you're someone who's not vaping in 487 00:27:56,720 --> 00:28:00,840 Speaker 2: the bathroom, but they're recording audio when you are in 488 00:28:00,880 --> 00:28:02,760 Speaker 2: the bathroom, because I can tell you I was someone 489 00:28:02,800 --> 00:28:08,119 Speaker 2: who would make noises in the bathroom and it was 490 00:28:08,160 --> 00:28:11,680 Speaker 2: a cafeteria food that did it to me. So it's 491 00:28:11,720 --> 00:28:15,520 Speaker 2: kind of their fault. Imagine the invasion of privacy you 492 00:28:15,520 --> 00:28:18,560 Speaker 2: would feel. I don't know about you. I've been in 493 00:28:18,600 --> 00:28:21,880 Speaker 2: public restrooms before and I hear somebody else open that door, 494 00:28:24,520 --> 00:28:29,520 Speaker 2: walk in, start using the stall next to me, maybe 495 00:28:29,640 --> 00:28:31,159 Speaker 2: using the urn if they're in the urinal. I just 496 00:28:31,600 --> 00:28:35,280 Speaker 2: you play quiet, like, just be quiet, pretend you're not there. 497 00:28:35,760 --> 00:28:38,400 Speaker 2: They'll go away soon enough. The worst is when somebody 498 00:28:38,440 --> 00:28:39,840 Speaker 2: else sits down on the stall next to you, because 499 00:28:39,840 --> 00:28:42,600 Speaker 2: it's like, uh oh, now it's a race. Now it's 500 00:28:42,600 --> 00:28:46,600 Speaker 2: a race who can to figure out who can go quietly. 501 00:28:48,080 --> 00:28:50,600 Speaker 2: Sometimes it's just not quiet. Something to be said for 502 00:28:50,680 --> 00:28:53,920 Speaker 2: working at home. Yeah, there is now whenever I walk 503 00:28:53,960 --> 00:28:57,640 Speaker 2: into the restroom here at KFI and I see that 504 00:28:57,680 --> 00:29:00,560 Speaker 2: there's somebody in the stall when I finished my business 505 00:29:00,600 --> 00:29:02,840 Speaker 2: and leave, I always kind of want to tell the guy, Okay, 506 00:29:02,960 --> 00:29:08,680 Speaker 2: the coast is clear. You can get it now. Either 507 00:29:08,760 --> 00:29:10,240 Speaker 2: that or just turn off the light on them. And 508 00:29:10,920 --> 00:29:13,840 Speaker 2: that's yeah. We have motion detecting lights in my office 509 00:29:13,840 --> 00:29:16,920 Speaker 2: and that's a bad deal sometimes, So it monitors the 510 00:29:16,960 --> 00:29:20,680 Speaker 2: air quality as well. The surveillance is there to try 511 00:29:20,720 --> 00:29:23,040 Speaker 2: to catch kids who are vaping, but it's monitoring the 512 00:29:23,120 --> 00:29:28,840 Speaker 2: air quality in a bathroom, and it's microphoned. It's recording 513 00:29:28,920 --> 00:29:34,400 Speaker 2: the audio in a bathroom, and it's monitoring who is 514 00:29:34,560 --> 00:29:39,160 Speaker 2: in the bathroom. I feel like this is the sort 515 00:29:39,200 --> 00:29:41,360 Speaker 2: of thing you would do, not if you're concerned with vaping, 516 00:29:41,440 --> 00:29:45,400 Speaker 2: but if you're concerned with colon health in the school. Otherwise, 517 00:29:45,480 --> 00:29:48,880 Speaker 2: this feels like a huge invasion of privacy. There's a 518 00:29:48,920 --> 00:29:51,520 Speaker 2: pilot program going out in Minneapolis right now. Over forty 519 00:29:51,560 --> 00:29:56,520 Speaker 2: five thousand alerts were triggered, they say in seven months. However, 520 00:29:56,640 --> 00:29:59,320 Speaker 2: only seven resulted in a referral for help rather than 521 00:29:59,360 --> 00:30:03,240 Speaker 2: a suspension. I'm assuming that the alerts that got triggered 522 00:30:03,280 --> 00:30:05,680 Speaker 2: were all about vaping and not about other noises or 523 00:30:06,120 --> 00:30:09,680 Speaker 2: air quality issues in the bathroom. Also, once a teacher 524 00:30:09,800 --> 00:30:12,040 Speaker 2: gets an alert that there's an air quality issue in 525 00:30:12,080 --> 00:30:14,280 Speaker 2: the bathroom, is it their job to go in? Wouldn't 526 00:30:14,320 --> 00:30:17,000 Speaker 2: you hate to get that short straw? Those Beavis and 527 00:30:17,080 --> 00:30:21,440 Speaker 2: butt Heead cartoons just right themselves. They really do my god. 528 00:30:22,400 --> 00:30:25,480 Speaker 2: Experts say that the sensors don't address why teens are vaping, 529 00:30:25,560 --> 00:30:27,400 Speaker 2: which could be stress, trauma up here, pressure, so on 530 00:30:27,480 --> 00:30:30,000 Speaker 2: and so forth. Instead, they focus on catching the behavior. 531 00:30:30,040 --> 00:30:35,120 Speaker 2: In other words, they're all about the repercussions, the enforcement, 532 00:30:35,280 --> 00:30:39,080 Speaker 2: not the prevention. Okay, well, so be it. I'm concerned 533 00:30:39,120 --> 00:30:43,120 Speaker 2: more with the privacy of kids in the bathroom. And honestly, 534 00:30:44,760 --> 00:30:48,080 Speaker 2: am I wrong? Isn't vaping still better than sucking down 535 00:30:48,120 --> 00:30:50,680 Speaker 2: a cancer stick? I know it's not I know it's 536 00:30:50,720 --> 00:30:54,959 Speaker 2: not safe, but isn't it safer? Am I wrong? I'm well, 537 00:30:55,000 --> 00:30:57,440 Speaker 2: I know that, but there's bad and then there's really bad. 538 00:30:57,760 --> 00:30:59,960 Speaker 2: Like weed is not great for you, but cocaine is work. 539 00:31:00,560 --> 00:31:04,040 Speaker 2: We he is excellent for you. Okay, careful what door 540 00:31:04,080 --> 00:31:06,360 Speaker 2: you open there? Okay, you're right, I shouldn't have Okay, 541 00:31:06,440 --> 00:31:08,760 Speaker 2: it's nicky. She is the firecracker, the loose cannon on 542 00:31:08,800 --> 00:31:10,680 Speaker 2: the show. Nikki, thank you so much. Nice job and 543 00:31:10,760 --> 00:31:12,000 Speaker 2: way to stay on top of the news that was 544 00:31:12,040 --> 00:31:14,560 Speaker 2: going on during the show too. We appreciate that. Mario. 545 00:31:14,600 --> 00:31:16,320 Speaker 2: You knocked out of the park again. Pal, you're really 546 00:31:16,360 --> 00:31:18,840 Speaker 2: doing a great job. And uh and and it's it's 547 00:31:18,880 --> 00:31:20,720 Speaker 2: tough for me to trust people that are that are 548 00:31:20,960 --> 00:31:23,280 Speaker 2: engineering the show. I'm getting to that point. I think 549 00:31:23,320 --> 00:31:26,320 Speaker 2: I trust you, Pal, You're doing a dynamite job. You're 550 00:31:26,400 --> 00:31:30,600 Speaker 2: super duper and mark take away through Instagram, No, I 551 00:31:30,680 --> 00:31:33,040 Speaker 2: sent you. I sent you a lot of Instagram videos. 552 00:31:33,040 --> 00:31:34,840 Speaker 2: I told you earlier in the show that that it 553 00:31:35,000 --> 00:31:37,960 Speaker 2: was a bizarre scene. My buddy was in Phoenix and 554 00:31:38,000 --> 00:31:41,080 Speaker 2: he was sending me video of like the hailstorm that 555 00:31:41,160 --> 00:31:44,720 Speaker 2: looked like a blizzard going through uh Phoenix yesterday. Oh yeah, 556 00:31:44,720 --> 00:31:46,040 Speaker 2: I'm gonna look at those right away. I just thought 557 00:31:46,040 --> 00:31:48,440 Speaker 2: you were gonna call me a complete pro. No, no, 558 00:31:48,720 --> 00:31:50,560 Speaker 2: I was. I was gonna let us end at a tie. 559 00:31:50,640 --> 00:31:54,120 Speaker 2: Well that was meta, but when it's a dead heat 560 00:31:54,200 --> 00:31:58,080 Speaker 2: now okay, all right, all right, see you are a 561 00:31:58,240 --> 00:32:00,840 Speaker 2: math pro. Is what you want? I see? Very good? 562 00:32:00,960 --> 00:32:02,720 Speaker 2: All right, I love you, Pal. I'll talk to you 563 00:32:02,800 --> 00:32:05,200 Speaker 2: guys again next week. Actually, I'm scheduled to be here 564 00:32:05,320 --> 00:32:08,480 Speaker 2: right after or right before the holidays, so we'll talk 565 00:32:08,480 --> 00:32:11,440 Speaker 2: to you then, and then Sunday night as well, we'll 566 00:32:11,480 --> 00:32:13,760 Speaker 2: talk to you. Yeah, that's it. I'm going to bed. 567 00:32:13,800 --> 00:32:16,560 Speaker 2: It's Chris Merril CAF. I am six forty more stimulating 568 00:32:16,600 --> 00:32:20,640 Speaker 2: talk and everywhere on the iHeartRadio app KFI 569 00:32:20,880 --> 00:32:22,680 Speaker 1: AM six forty on demand