AI Country Star and What's Your Backup Plan

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Yeah, Tucker, what Moore? Michael J. Bethany and it's ninety.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
Three point one WPOC Bethany is brief all the things
you need to know to get you day started.

Speaker 3 (00:18):
Lots of people all over Baltimore were able to see
the Northern Lights last night. A friend of mine boasted
a beautiful picture of them in Reisterstown. If you got
to see them, let us know seven to seven nine
six to begin your message with hi or hey. I'm
also excited locally that Chick fil A is going to
roll out a new test menu and we are going

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to be among the first to try it starting December first.

Speaker 1 (00:42):
Chick fil A is going.

Speaker 3 (00:43):
To offer a chicken and waffle sandwich on the breakfast
menu and a slightly bigger one on the lunch and
dinner menu, and between us and San Antonio, we'll get
to decide if it sticks around.

Speaker 4 (00:53):
Well, the idea is great. I mean, chicken and waffles
go together. Well, right, it's kind of like, why didn't
they have that already? Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:01):
Okay, So there was this bridge in China.

Speaker 3 (01:05):
They just built it a couple months ago, seven and
fifty eight meters brand new.

Speaker 1 (01:11):
A couple months later, it falls the whole thing crumbles. Oops.

Speaker 3 (01:15):
Well, authorities are investigating. No casualties are reported, thank goodness.
But what a waste of resources.

Speaker 1 (01:21):
Isn't that wild? Was it an attack? A terrorist thing?
Was it construction?

Speaker 5 (01:28):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:28):
Lay of the land kind of thing. Yeah, I mean,
I'm sure we'll find out more. But it's just interesting.
As we build a giant bridge. No kidding, I'm thinking
about that. Pope Leo will host a group of Hollywood
figures at the Vatican next week. The group will include
Kate Flinchette, Adam Scott, Spike Lee, Chris Pine and others.

Speaker 1 (01:47):
Let us go, we should go with them, Okay, all right,
all right.

Speaker 3 (01:51):
Apparently he wants to try to see if he can
team up with some people in Hollywood to help spread
the Vatican's message.

Speaker 1 (01:57):
Well, the Pope is welcome to check in with us anytime,
he yeah, of course. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (02:02):
So if you are a formula user for your baby,
you might want to be on alert for buy Heart. Okay,
it's been hovering around in the news for the last
couple of days, but they have decided to recall all
of their products. How do you spell buy heart b
y h eaart.

Speaker 1 (02:21):
Got it by not buy b y okay.

Speaker 3 (02:25):
And so there've been fifteen bachelism cases in the last
I don't know what since August, right that they have
linked back to this particular formula.

Speaker 1 (02:36):
So they just said, you know what we're pulling off,
get it off the shelf. Okay. And then lastly, astronauts,
how did they eat?

Speaker 3 (02:44):
They are eating a new protein powder made from their
own excrement.

Speaker 1 (02:49):
No, don't tell me that. Yeah, it's true.

Speaker 3 (02:52):
So the European Space Agency has launched a program called
hobi Wan, which is the actual name of the program,
and their test sing a product called so Lean. It's
a powder made of microbes, air, electricity, and urea no,
which is a substance found in urine.

Speaker 1 (03:10):
They make their own up there or they take it
with them.

Speaker 3 (03:12):
Well, I think right now they're just testing the prefab version,
but I think the goal is to eventually.

Speaker 1 (03:19):
Okay, I'm having breakfast there you go? Oh no, ninety
three point one w POC traffic?

Speaker 3 (03:29):
Is this just to save on What I don't know
is that we're all going to eat when we have
to live on Mars.

Speaker 1 (03:35):
No, we're not going to Mars. Would you go? Would
you really want to?

Speaker 6 (03:39):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (03:39):
Really?

Speaker 4 (03:41):
Oh yeah, they're gonna need radio hosts on Mars. No, okay,
well you can take that gig. That's too long of
a commute.

Speaker 3 (03:47):
A ninety five southbound between Pulaski Highway and the Harbor
Tunnel backed up about five or six minutes.

Speaker 1 (03:52):
Ninety five southbound.

Speaker 2 (03:59):
Michael Music City minutes in sixty seconds.

Speaker 8 (04:02):
You don't know like you own music row.

Speaker 1 (04:05):
Megan Moroni went pink yesterday. We counted down at ten
o'clock yesterday morning, all excited.

Speaker 4 (04:14):
To find out what she's doing. Yep, she announced a
new album, Cloud nine. So are you excited about that?
Megan Runnie for sure?

Speaker 1 (04:22):
And she says this is her pink era. She says,
are you okay?

Speaker 4 (04:26):
I had a blue aesthetic, Now I want a pink aesthetic.

Speaker 1 (04:29):
So I don't know she pink?

Speaker 3 (04:32):
Is?

Speaker 4 (04:32):
That is pink the new fashion color? Is that bigger
than just Megan Moroni?

Speaker 1 (04:38):
You think? Or what I mean? I always like pink.
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (04:42):
Well, it's October was National Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

Speaker 1 (04:46):
I was wearing pink.

Speaker 4 (04:47):
But now we're into November, so don't Maybe she's making
a universal Luke Combs honors veterans with acoustic music called Evermine.

Speaker 1 (04:56):
To honor all those who served.

Speaker 4 (04:57):
On Veterans Day, he dropped an unreleased song that was
very much inspired by veterans on Instagram. If you hit
up Luke Combs alongside a video of him on his
acoustic guitar, Luke wrote, in honor of Veterans Day, here's Evermine.
We wrote this from the perspective of a soldier writing
a letter to his wife during war, without knowing if

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he'll ever see her again.

Speaker 3 (05:21):
Love this one a lot personally, That's what Luke says.
I love when he does acoustic. I think it sounds
so pretty.

Speaker 4 (05:26):
You need to check it out, and you need to
keep listening for our country music minute every hour.

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In Bridge Highway at College Parkway. We are are slow,
all right.

Speaker 1 (05:43):
So bethany I.

Speaker 4 (05:44):
Came across his story yesterday that really planted the scene
about this conversation. There's a guy named Chad who in
New York City was making one hundred and twenty thousand
dollars a year working in high tech, all right, and
he had gone to Cornell and that was his major.
He got out he started doing you know the business world,
doing I tech.

Speaker 1 (06:04):
Well.

Speaker 4 (06:04):
He hated it because his boss was always yelling at him.
He felt pressure and he just didn't like it. Just
was bummed out. And he's twenty nine years old, and
he said, you know what I really want to do.
My backup plan, Chad said, was he wanted to open
a pizza bagel business. So he shifted gears, figured out
a way to do it, and his backup was pizza bagels.

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He just he said, when he was a kid, he'd
get the frozen ones, uh huh, and they never really
that great, oh like bagel bites basically, but he was
what he showed in the video that I saw was
like full like halves of bagels and he would put
like you know, mozzarella and some pepperoni and had he
had like six or seven different pizza bagels. So he
started out making like a couple grand a month. Last

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I think it was like in March or April. This
past spring, he hit twenty thousand dollars. Okay, so he's
starting to really do well. He's out doing you know,
pop up shops and that kind of thing. That's so
that's his backup plan. And I started wandering hearing the
song backup plan? I wonder if we all should have
a backup plan?

Speaker 1 (07:07):
What do we do if what we're doing doesn't really
rock our world or it goes away?

Speaker 3 (07:13):
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Speaker 1 (07:18):
Do you have a backup plan?

Speaker 3 (07:20):
I don't think I heard, and I can't remember which
country artist it was, but it was the one country
artist that said I don't have a backup plan.

Speaker 1 (07:29):
This is it? Right?

Speaker 3 (07:30):
Because if you don't, right, if you if you give
yourself an out, you'll often take it right, So you
have to so no plan B right, you just got to.

Speaker 1 (07:40):
Go all in.

Speaker 3 (07:41):
And I thought, oh that's that's great. But also what
if you have a family, Right.

Speaker 1 (07:49):
That's a good idea. You know, let's go go. I mean,
I look back. All I've ever wanted to do is radio.

Speaker 4 (07:54):
But if this doesn't work out, maybe maybe it's pizza bagels.

Speaker 1 (07:58):
I don't know, IM go that no.

Speaker 7 (08:08):
All right?

Speaker 1 (08:08):
Ninety three point one WPOC.

Speaker 4 (08:10):
If the job you're driving to right this moment went
away today, what would you do?

Speaker 1 (08:17):
What is your backup plan? Do you even have one?
Is it okay to have one? Should you? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (08:23):
I think I think I read somewhere that most Americans
have four careers in their lifetime.

Speaker 1 (08:31):
Oh that's interesting.

Speaker 3 (08:33):
Yeah, and I thought that was I don't know that
was important to me because I you know, I think
you feel like if you do one thing for a
really long time and then you switch, there's something wrong, right,
because I feel like there used to be like this
whole mentality of like, well, I worked there for forty
years and that that was the goal, that was the thing.

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But often people switch and change it up and all that.

Speaker 4 (08:57):
And you're doing four careers at once, right, You got
real estate, you're a mom, you're on the radio. Huh,
that's three at least. I'm sure there's something else you're doing.
I don't even know about, but uh, that's kind of
the question. So we're wondering if you have a backup plan,
you can share it with us.

Speaker 1 (09:16):
Do you have a backup plan? Do I?

Speaker 4 (09:17):
Yeah? You know, I was always the no plan B
because I started this. I started in radio when I
was thirteen, and I know that sounds crazy, but I
wasn't getting paid, but I was working at the college station.
No one knew that my mom was driving me to Talllison.
I was because I was a big kid. And I

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found out about like a meeting that this college students
were having at Tllison. They didn't check college IDs, they
were just everybody's walked in. I walked in there like
who wants to show on the radio? I hold my
hand up.

Speaker 1 (09:52):
So they thought you they they thought I was a
student exactly.

Speaker 4 (09:56):
And so I was doing a show every Thursday night
at WCV and they had no idea on that, you know.

Speaker 1 (10:03):
And that worked out.

Speaker 4 (10:05):
And then when I was sixteen, second I had a
driver's license, I got a job on the Eastern Shore,
and I've been doing It's all I've ever wanted to do.
So I never had a plan B. I guess that was.
You know, my dad tried to drag.

Speaker 1 (10:17):
Me into his catering business, but that like didn't do
it did not rock my world.

Speaker 4 (10:21):
Okay you know what I mean. Yeah, So nothing against catering.
It's great, but it just wasn't for you. It wasn't
country music, you know. So I don't know. So I
think what you just said about how not having a
plan B makes you work harder on your plan A.

Speaker 3 (10:36):
Right, and it kind of makes sense. So I guess
I have like retirement I dreams. I know I won't
actually be able to retire, so like most people yourself
doing though, like I don't know, something like like low key,
I really want to have.

Speaker 1 (10:53):
This is dumb.

Speaker 3 (10:54):
I really want to have like a bicycle with a
freezer on the back.

Speaker 1 (10:59):
And I want to sell ice cream sandwiches on the beach. Wow,
I sound nice. I would buy ice cream sandwiches from you. Really, Hey,
I'll take two. Can you got the big ones? Not
the little ones? I want those big suckers?

Speaker 6 (11:12):
Pretty much the same.

Speaker 1 (11:18):
Ninety three point one WDPOC.

Speaker 4 (11:20):
If you go to page I think we're one seventy
two or one seventy six in the back of Baltimore Magazine.
We almost didn't even make the magazine because what I
told them we only have twelve listeners. They're like, well,
we'll put you in. No, but it's a there's an
ad for WDPOC. I'm like flipping through. That's Bethany, that's

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that's us.

Speaker 3 (11:41):
Trying to get thirteen listeners. Yeah, we're working on it.
We appreciate you being one of them. So backup plans.

Speaker 1 (11:47):
What is yours. We're getting a bunch of texts. Someone said,
I have had many backup plans. I'm a mom. I'm
retired from the.

Speaker 3 (11:54):
World's best navy, i worked for the world's largest credit union,
full time college student, making classes with my two youngest children,
and I'm currently working as a federal employee civil service
while raising my husband of thirty seven years. My next
backup plan is full retirement. I think it sounds like
you deserve it. Yeah, someone said, I hate I definitely
do not have a backup plan now, but after thirty

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two years in the insurance insurance industry, this job became
my backup plan, and that's a net. She's a secretary
at elementary school. Heynnette Valerie says, I have two careers now.
I've worked in the legal system for forty years, but
I also do home healthcare.

Speaker 1 (12:33):
My backup plan is anything with dogs.

Speaker 3 (12:36):
I think this is fun because this is kind of
how I imagine a backup plan too. Is kind of
like a dream, like I'll do this if I want
to eventually or if I have to eventually, instead of
being like if this doesn't work out right.

Speaker 1 (12:51):
Yeah, Well that's the conversation. We're kind of curious about
something to think about. Maybe over the weekend, you can
dream because I always think it would be something that
gets outside.

Speaker 4 (13:01):
It gets me outside. That's the one thing I dream
about because we're inside so much. Will work outside, Yeah,
wouldn't it be. It's because it's I love to dig
in the dirt, and you know that's why I think
I like to spend which time on the weekend blowing leaves.

Speaker 1 (13:14):
Uh huh. It's just nice to have fresh air.

Speaker 8 (13:16):
Yeah, ninety three point one w POC traffic.

Speaker 4 (13:20):
So I'm envious of landscapers and stuff. I was so excited.

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I stopped at the Royal farm Store last night. I
picked one one set of numbers for the Mega millions.
First off, it was the first time I realized it's
five bucks, not two bucks. Because I'm Mike, what is
going on with they've raised the price back in May?
I hear five bucks though, So that's why I only
bought a lot. I bought one. But I mean, you

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could win like almost a billion dollars.

Speaker 6 (14:11):
Could you.

Speaker 4 (14:12):
I was prepared to give money away to everybody, all
twelve of us. Well that's nice and one of these days,
One of these days, Bethan is.

Speaker 2 (14:22):
Ninety three point one WPOC Bethan ees Bree all the
things you need to know to get you day started.

Speaker 3 (14:29):
Pope Leo is going to host a group of Hollywood
figures at the Vatican on November fifteenth. That the group
includes Kate Blanchette, Spike Lee, Chris Pine, Allison Breed, Dave Franco.
Apparently the Pope is a big fan of American media.
He's from Chicago, and he wants to see if there's
a way that the Vatican can use Hollywood to kind of,

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you know, help out the about the cause.

Speaker 4 (14:53):
That could be dangerous because you know, you get the
producers all into it and they start coming up with
the Exorcist, you know what I mean.

Speaker 1 (15:01):
I don't know. Better be careful, Bob. I'm sure he's
seen the ex orses Okay.

Speaker 3 (15:05):
In a rare move, baby formula maker by Heart has
recalled all of its products amid a growing botulism outbreak
linked to the powdered formula. Since August, fifteen cases have
been reported of twelve states. Wow, no babies have died yet,
but the FDA did say that fifteen cases of botulism

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out of the eighty four total have been linked back
to this particular formula brand.

Speaker 4 (15:32):
Oh my god, So if you have any of that
on hand, and what is the name of it again?

Speaker 3 (15:35):
By Heart Formula by Heart, that's the company.

Speaker 1 (15:39):
They have a couple of different kinds of formula. Oh,
now you're freaking me out. No, no, I mean like
fifteen out of the entire country.

Speaker 4 (15:46):
Okay, you know, no, I know. But so you want
to look at the manufacturers by Heart Heart. So before
I'm buying any formula, I'm looking, yeah, to save it.

Speaker 1 (15:53):
They've recalled so they can't sell any more. But you
might have some. I mean you usually rifle through baby
formula pretty quickly.

Speaker 4 (15:59):
Remember buy Heart, get rid of Heart. Yeah, yeah, I
don't know.

Speaker 1 (16:03):
Okay.

Speaker 3 (16:04):
A newly reopened seven hundred and fifty eight meter bridge
on a national highway in China collapsed Tuesday afternoon, just
months after it opened. No casual casualties reported. Authorities have
launched an investigation. But god, that's pretty scary that engineers
in trouble. The FBI is investigating the death of an
eighteen year old high school student who was found dead

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on a carnival cruise ship over the weekend. What her
Name's Anna, Kepner. She was found dead by her family
on board the Carnival Horizon. Not sure if it had
anything to do with the ship at all, but.

Speaker 1 (16:35):
You know, could have been drugs, could have been anything, anything. Yeah,
it could have been a health problem.

Speaker 3 (16:39):
The Pentagon has confirmed two more military strikes on sus
suspected drug boats in the Pacific, killing six people. Pete
Hegsath said the boats were carrying narcotics among a well
known smuggling route. Chick fil A is rolling out a
new test menu and Baltimoreans will be among the first
to try it.

Speaker 1 (16:59):
I like that because I'm a fan of what you're
gonna talk about.

Speaker 3 (17:02):
December first, Chick fil A locations in Baltimore will offer
two versions of a chicken and waffle sandwich.

Speaker 1 (17:07):
Bacon in there too.

Speaker 3 (17:08):
I hear one on the breakfast menu and one a
slightly bigger one on the luncheon dinnerman Chicken and waffles baby,
and then whatever we think of it might determine if
they make it a full time.

Speaker 4 (17:17):
Dey're trying it in San Antonio two, so it's between
the two cities.

Speaker 1 (17:21):
And lastly, Aurora Borealis in Baltimore.

Speaker 3 (17:24):
What is Aurora Borealis the northern lights right, we're visible.
Yesterday a friend of mine posted a beautiful picture of
them from Reisterstown.

Speaker 1 (17:31):
Oh wow, So if you saw them, holler at us.
Let us know. Finally we can see some lights we
don't have to pay beg and E four.

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Luke Holmbs has made the Music City Minute this morning,
Michael J's Music.

Speaker 2 (17:57):
City Minute in sixty seconds, you going.

Speaker 8 (18:00):
Like you own music rose.

Speaker 4 (18:02):
Yesterday, Luke Combs dropped a previously unreleased song that people
are talking about.

Speaker 1 (18:07):
So I wanted to give you a snippet. Are you ready?

Speaker 4 (18:09):
How much time do you need to decide in your
head if you love it or you're bored?

Speaker 1 (18:14):
Twenty three seconds?

Speaker 4 (18:15):
Here we go, miss the Green.

Speaker 9 (18:21):
To these trouble Times.

Speaker 1 (18:24):
Whip back, how You're the wind whispers to the bad.

Speaker 7 (18:36):
Blooming rule.

Speaker 6 (18:40):
Green on.

Speaker 1 (18:41):
All right, there's twenty three seconds.

Speaker 4 (18:43):
I love it, digit Yeah, all right, that's called ever mine,
not never mind, ever mind.

Speaker 7 (18:49):
I like it.

Speaker 4 (18:49):
Luke Combs just just came out, all right, Riley Green
found the perfect way to commemorate Veterans Day yesterday. Uh,
he chose Veterans Day to announce he'd be doing shows
at three different military bases next year. She'll be visiting
US Navy based Fleet Yosaku or Yusaka in Japan on
March ninth, the Naval Facility Astugi in Japan March tenth,

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and Joint based Pearl Harbor in Waku, Hawaii on March
twenty second.

Speaker 3 (19:19):
If I was gonna do a tour military basis, I
definitely go to Hawaii exactly.

Speaker 4 (19:24):
Reba is making a news headline this morning. She is
going to be hosting this year's Christmas and Rockefeller Center
for the very first time.

Speaker 1 (19:34):
Yeah, that's gonna be great.

Speaker 4 (19:35):
NBC said in press release that the annual two hour
event will air live Wednesday night, December third, eight pm.

Speaker 1 (19:42):
And that is your Music City Minute this morning. We
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So we're going to order something or what.

Speaker 2 (20:24):
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Win one thousand dollars for a gag, no butter balls,
for enough doubled eggs you won't have to wait around
for your late family to get there.

Speaker 7 (20:36):
I gat my.

Speaker 3 (20:41):
Again.

Speaker 1 (20:42):
So this is where it ends? Well is it where
it ends? That's what we're about to find out.

Speaker 4 (20:47):
You're at ninety three point one WPOC Michael J and Bethany.
We've been having a conversation here for the last fifteen
twenty minutes behind the scenes on how we ought to
introduce this.

Speaker 3 (20:59):
Clip to you. Yeah, this because this is a big deal. Well,
I remember there's a lot of first in music. You know,
the first time a rap record hit number one, Sugarhill
Gang Rappers Delight back in whatever year it was, all right,
or the first year the Beatles, you know, hit number one.
There's these these moments in music where things hit number

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one and it's the first ever. So this is the
first for country, right you said there was one R
and B record that.

Speaker 4 (21:30):
Has done this before. Yeah, all right, but we're going
to play a snippet of a song. Bethany, you want
to reveal upfront what's special about.

Speaker 1 (21:37):
This, right? Yeah? Because I don't want to be part
of the problem. Yeah, I don't want to either.

Speaker 3 (21:41):
So what we're talking about is a new AI country
artist called Breaking Rust.

Speaker 1 (21:48):
He's number one. Well, it's number.

Speaker 3 (21:50):
One, number one on the Country Digital Song Sales chart,
one point six million US streams. That's crazy, tens of
thousands of Instagram and followers. Uh, you know, hundreds and
hundreds of comments on the video and the song.

Speaker 1 (22:08):
Ah, people love it. Well, not everybody loves it, because
I'm seeing a lot of comments of like you know
that are very negative.

Speaker 4 (22:17):
Right, but let's play it. Well, let's play a snippet
of it. We're not gonna play the whole thing, but
it's called Walk My Walk, Breaking Rust. This is number one.
This is an AI generated artist. In other words, there's
nothing human about it.

Speaker 1 (22:34):
Are you ready?

Speaker 6 (22:35):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (22:35):
All right, But I don't stay loo, got murder on
my jean.

Speaker 9 (22:42):
Still ready to go here, have a stars, a story
that I survived, not been through.

Speaker 1 (22:50):
Hell, but I'm still alone. Does the voice so far
sound human to you at all? Yeah?

Speaker 9 (22:56):
Okay, this is slow down boy. Don't go your fans.
But I ain't never been waning to live in the past.
I keep moving forward, never looking back, with a worn
out at in the six string string.

Speaker 8 (23:13):
You can kig rocks.

Speaker 6 (23:14):
If you don't like how.

Speaker 5 (23:16):
I talk, I'm gonna keep on talking and walk my walk.
Ain't changing my tone, ain't changing my song. I was
born this way, being loud too long, you gag my style.

Speaker 9 (23:28):
You can roll your eyes, but I ain't slowing down.

Speaker 1 (23:32):
I was born to rise or kick them rocks.

Speaker 9 (23:35):
If you don't like hour I talk, I'm gonna keep
on talking the walking ma wall All right, there you go.

Speaker 3 (23:41):
All right, So we just got to get to the
bottom of this, and we need your help seven seven
ninety six two Begin your message with higher hay or
eight hundred three two one thirty six ninety three.

Speaker 1 (23:50):
What do you think?

Speaker 3 (23:50):
Do you like the song? Do you hate the song?
Do you want more artists to be AI general?

Speaker 4 (23:57):
I think that the biggest This is a bigger story,
even bigger than the song Beth and I think it's
about do we really want do we really want here
to hear and see entertainment? I guess I'm thinking of
my kids playing video games, you know what I mean,
Like they're all computer based, right, I'm thinking of like

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look at your daughter who fell in love with a
guy in California and they were playing what was It? Which, yeah,
there's nothing human about that, right. Well, I don't know
what do you mean?

Speaker 1 (24:30):
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (24:31):
Well, I mean the video games when you they're all
computer they're they're not human beings in it. No, well,
I mean like the ones i've seen are all like
you know, yeah, but they're.

Speaker 1 (24:42):
Like the playing with each other. No, no, no, no, I'm
talking about the game like you're you're watching You're not
watching a movie.

Speaker 3 (24:49):
I don't think that's the same thing as this, Okay, no,
because this is like, this is art.

Speaker 1 (24:55):
This is a different form of art. Well, some people
argue video games are art too, that's but so let's
stick to the song. Though. The point is, do you
are you comfortable with this?

Speaker 4 (25:07):
This really bothers me, It really does because I think
it's like it's another example of computers taking over the world,
you know what I mean, taking our jobs, taking our lives.

Speaker 3 (25:18):
I guess my question is is it that deep or
is it just like another, like I said, piece of
art to take in like you just like I don't know.

Speaker 1 (25:30):
Is it that big of a deal?

Speaker 4 (25:48):
Ninety three point one Wedpoc, Michael J and Bethany. So
first time ever number one song is a I generated.

Speaker 9 (25:56):
I've also free made a few new phoses.

Speaker 1 (25:59):
But that's just life. That's how it goes. I bend
in no just to please a crowd. If I fall down,
I don't fall down. Proud out talk my truth.

Speaker 4 (26:11):
What are people saying, Bethany, We're getting a lot of
text right now.

Speaker 3 (26:15):
So this artist is breaking rust, okay, and it is
an AI artist. The songwriter is a weare a Rivardo Taylor.
We don't know if that's a real person either. That
could also be a computer. Yeah, well except for it's
not though, because here's the thing. Somebody gave prompts, somebody

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produced like and edited, so there is there is a
person behind this, it's just not the person singing.

Speaker 1 (26:49):
So I don't know.

Speaker 3 (26:50):
I think that there's just a bigger conversation here, like
is this what we want? You know, a lot of
the comments that are coming in, but by the way,
we love your comments. Of some will say, hey, I
love aa AI. Hey I hate it. I don't want
anything to do with this. I can't can you turn
it down to sorry? Okay, okay. So a lot of

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the people are saying that they want to go to
a concert and they would never be able to see,
which I think is interesting. You guys seem to really
be caught up on the you want live music, which
I think is interesting because I was thinking that a
lot of the stuff is recorded, like a lot of
our favorite singers are recorded and computerized and produced and

(27:37):
you know.

Speaker 1 (27:39):
So it's still a human being though behind it. You
know what I mean.

Speaker 3 (27:42):
Well, I mean, like, like I said, there is a
human being behind this. Somebody you know, created this. It's
just not the way that we're used to. I mean,
I don't like the song, like I just don't think
it's good, but it sounds like a song.

Speaker 4 (27:57):
Hey, good morning from dun Doc. I think AI stuff
is dumb. High morning. I think this is awful. The
more AI, more modern technology is just getting ridiculous, not
to mention you can't even call anywhere without pressing buttons
to get an actual person. Kendra, I agree with you
a million percent, Kendra, And that was my point. I
think it's a bigger conversation. It's just irritating that we

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can't deal with human beings. You know, everything is becoming
a computer these days, and I know we can't turn
it back. It is what it is.

Speaker 3 (28:28):
But somebody said, I turned on the radio in the
middle of that song, and I loved it until I.

Speaker 1 (28:33):
Found out what it was. Wow, that's interesting.

Speaker 4 (28:37):
Well again, it's number one and uh number one on
the sales chart, so it dig digital sales, digital sales.

Speaker 1 (28:45):
This is not a real person.

Speaker 9 (28:46):
Listen, got murdel my Gene still ready to go ever
a scar a story. I've not been too ill, but
I'm still alive. This slow down boy don't go to fans.

(29:06):
But I ain't never been one to live in the past.
I keep moving forward, never looking back. With a worn
out at and a six string.

Speaker 4 (29:16):
String, all I can all I can think of is
what do you do you go to a concert and
see a robot saying it?

Speaker 3 (29:23):
It seems like all AI music would be a parody
of regular music to me. Yeah, which somebody said, I
think AI is disrespectful to the real artists.

Speaker 1 (29:33):
Yeah, people put their heart into writing and singing.

Speaker 4 (29:35):
Hey, no, AI generated songs should ever be number one.
It should be a human singer, not a computer. Very sad,
this is what the world has come to. So let's
play some humans and you see if you can hear
the difference. Something great about imperfection.

Speaker 5 (29:57):
I was raised over a round three out passed were
the blacktop binge.

Speaker 6 (30:05):
We'd walk to church, chon son anymore?

Speaker 1 (30:08):
Race bear put back to John.

Speaker 6 (30:13):
I swear i'mber s married.

Speaker 9 (30:16):
Oh then wrote Son picking BlackBerry that.

Speaker 6 (30:19):
Summer ninety three point one.

Speaker 1 (30:30):
W poc Bruce just hit us up.

Speaker 4 (30:33):
He says, AI generated song is okay, but you know
the creators will try to get Chris Stapleton duet and
make one. You know what, that's what about the first
time somebody duets with an AI voice? In other words,
real country star, fake country star.

Speaker 1 (30:47):
They could they guys, they already could have been doing this.

Speaker 3 (30:51):
And in addition, like the every song gets run through
a computer and like auto tuned and voice corrected, and
like I would argue, I don't know if every song does.
I think I think a lot of like ninety nine.

Speaker 1 (31:07):
I think that's more for performing than it is for
for recording. But who knows. You think that they just
go into a studio and just lay it down and
put it out just like it is. No, I think
there's mixing inbout it.

Speaker 4 (31:18):
I mean, I've been in studios before they're recording it,
but I don't think that they are. I think that
what I've what I've been exposed to is when people
use auto tune. It's when you're on stage because you're
running around, you're out of breath, you're performing in front
of people, and sometimes you can get pitchy. Sometimes you

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can't hear yourself very well. But this is the whole
thing is this conversation is about this.

Speaker 1 (31:42):
AI dude, if you don't.

Speaker 5 (31:47):
Breaking russ, I'm o key bone talking and walk my
ain't changing my tone, ain't changing my song.

Speaker 1 (31:54):
I was bone this way being allowed too long. That
is not a human being. That is on my mind.
And Bethany, you brought up a couple others. There was
an R and B performer, Zannia Monet.

Speaker 3 (32:07):
Yeah, so this isn't the first time. And a robot
has taken over the charge. Right, there is an R
and B artist, and then there's also a band.

Speaker 4 (32:15):
All right, here's the R and B artist. Just a snippet.
Listen to the way she sings.

Speaker 1 (32:21):
The Knights.

Speaker 9 (32:22):
I cry, praying, asking him well, smiling in the crab,
broken inside, carrying a weight.

Speaker 1 (32:32):
I can never describe.

Speaker 9 (32:34):
I lost friends, lost love, even lost myself, had a
bibble in my head. I was still needed.

Speaker 4 (32:42):
There's something about it. I can't put my finger on it.
There's something about it that just doesn't sound human to me.
And here's the band, the Velvet Sundown. Dust on the
Wind just a snippet, now, just a.

Speaker 1 (33:04):
Wind on the ground. This one sounds smoking. Guy, he's fast,
sounds like it's from the nineteen sixties.

Speaker 7 (33:16):
AI tell me, brother, where do we go? Raise your
hand away?

Speaker 4 (33:29):
All right, I've heard enough. I personally I have uh
I vote no to AI. What do you say?

Speaker 3 (33:36):
I'm up in the air still, well, I mean, like, look,
it's it's here, like it's like like everything else.

Speaker 1 (33:43):
We you either get on board or if you're against it,
like what I don't know. Well, it's happening. I know
one thing. Here's why.

Speaker 4 (33:50):
Here's why I will get upset about this is for real.
I think if they if it's marketed and not revealed upfront,
that you're listening to something that's not human.

Speaker 1 (34:00):
I think that should be illegal. I think there should
be a sticker on it that says this is AI.

Speaker 8 (34:07):
Ninety three point one w POC traffic.

Speaker 1 (34:10):
Do you or do you not agree with that?

Speaker 9 (34:11):
That?

Speaker 7 (34:12):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (34:13):
I mean like Spotify, Amazon Music, everybody, radio, We're all
trying to figure out how to handle this. How do
you label AI music? How do you keep it separate?
How do you like? You gotta you've got to label it.
It's because it's just going to keep happening. So it's like,
all right, how do you what do you want to do? There?

Speaker 8 (34:30):
It is, there's an accedent