February 15, 2026 • 36 mins
The Andy Riesmeyer Show Hour 1 (02/15) - A late-winter storm is brewing for SoCal, just in time for the end of all Valentine's Day celebrations. Plus, Nancy Guthrie kidnapping investigation draws scrutiny as case drags on. Seedance2.0 , an A.I. program created by Chinese company ByteDance, is creating some freakishly realistic videos. Also, how was your Valentine's Day?
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
I Am six forty. This is the Andy Reesemeyer Show.
We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. We'll be with
you all the way till four o'clock. Island Gonzales, Good afternoon,
Nice to see you. Great to see you here with
Mario as well and Kayla on the ones and tues. Hey, hey,
so so thrilled. Kayla. We haven't done a radio show
in a long time. I think the last time we
did it was when I was filling in for Merril
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like a million years ago. And here we are. Meryl's
going to be back again tonight ahead of his debut
along with Monks coming up on Tuesday. How exciting is that?
Very exciting, is the answer. But we got a lot
to about on the show today coming up. Concerns are
growing over missteps and the investigation into the disappearance of
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Nancy Guthrie, that, of course, is Savannah Guthries mother. Finally
someone is saying that there are a lot of concerns.
There's not a lot of confidence in Tucson law enforcement.
I remember the second day when we were watching the
press conference at Katla and I said this guy, I
don't if I'm the family, I'm a little nervous because
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this guy is not instilling us with a sense of confidence.
We will get into that. Plus, you could be paid
to call out AI videos that are fooling people. It's
what many of us naturally did during the holidays with
our families. Now it's time to make some money doing that.
And one ungrateful Russian Olympian has insulted Italian food in Italy,
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he hates pasta. What Italy is saying about what could
be considered an act of war. And then later in
the three PM hour, we are playing a game called
Solo the Solo. That's where I play an isolated track
of a famous guitar solo and then ask you to
call in and guess the song makes k if I
feel like a Sunday afternoon in a guitar center with
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just just a guy Whalen over there in the corner. Eileen.
I'm excited for this because something I was doing during
the week on Friday night was I had my buddy
Jack Primavera, who's a producer on the television show The Voice,
which is in you know that show on NBC and
I had him come in and he's a big music guy,
so we would do new music for people who don't
like new music, which we'll also do today in the
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three o'clock hour, and then also we'll play solo in
the solo and I'm going to ask you guys to
play along as well. Aileen, of course, you're a music
a music head yourself.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
Yes, I used to play a game like that when
I was eight years old.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Friends. Yeah, was it similar where you would like play
the solo and try.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
To figure out what it was or what was our
our friend my friend's older brother would play a song
and then he'd make us guess it.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
I love that. Yeah, that's fun. And you know what,
nothing that music people like more than to show other
people how much they know about me music. That's how
I feel if I know a thing, and I'm oh,
I know that song. So we'll open up the phone
lines a little bit later there. As always, you can
leave us a message on the talkback feature with the
iHeartRadio app. Look for KFI look for that little microphone
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and you can leave as much as you'd like thirty
seconds of thoughts about things good bad, either here nor there.
If we got anything wrong, if I said anything stupid,
the likelihood that I did is fairly high. But that's
all right, no problem there. I'm happy to field any
of your concerns. But before we get into those things,
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the big news, because we are a very serious news
organization here at KFI, we've got to talk about the
most important thing happening in southern California maybe in the
next six months, which is this rain storm that's coming
heading into town tomorrow afternoon into the evening. We'll probably
start to see some of those conditions interiorate here in
Los Angeles County, but already you started to see some
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storms out in the western parts of the central coast,
Ventura County, Santa Barbara County. But we're looking at this,
as you heard Aileen Gonzalez just say about ten minutes ago,
this first of three very serious storms where we're talking
about the most intense one this coming tomorrow, and it's
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going to basically bring us inclement weather. We're gonna have
rain all the way till Friday at the very least,
and we're looking at many inches of rain, potentially three
inches of rain in the coastal areas and in the valleys.
That's a lot of rain for Los Angeles and people,
especially in those burnscar areas. We're talking about the Palisades Fire,
Sunset Fire, Hurst fire. The Hurst fire was the one
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that was up along the five Freeway north of La County,
heading towards Santa Clarita. That was on the same day
that the Palisades Fire and the Eton fire also broke out,
So lots of concerns for those areas. Evacuation warnings will
be in effect from nine pm tonight until nine pm
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nine am rather Tuesday. And that's Palisades Fire, burn scar areas,
Hurst Fire, burn scar areas, and Sunset fire burn scar areas.
And the Sunset fire was the fire that was in Hollywood.
I think it was probably the eighth maybe or the ninth,
maybe a couple it was. Maybe it was right in
that same realm, maybe the next day after the Palisades Fire,
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and that that was a very that was a very
scary time. And I think that the thing that you
really remember about all this is that these areas are
so dangerous so many years after the fires because it
takes a long time for that vegetation to come back,
and the vegetation that normally would keep your hillside intact,
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allows the water to sort of run run down. Now
becomes a cascade, and then you know that's a that's
never good. So we will keep you posted on that
and let you know how that goes, because I you know,
I know it's silly that we don't we don't handle
rain very well. But you think back to Santa Barbara County,
you think about the Thomas fire, you think about the
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mudslides after that. You know how many months, maybe a
year after the Thomas fire, when they actually saw the
repercussions of what that mud slide could actually do and unfortunately,
you know, it was disastrous for them up in Santa
Barbara County. I want to move on, though, to the Olympics.
I love having the Olympics on in the background while
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all of the insanity that's happening day to day in
America and the rest of the world, but we got
the Olympics we can tune into and these sort of
little moments where we can be distracted by either something
cool happening. I don't know if you saw the figure
skater who looks like the guy from Blades of Glory,
he looks like Napoleon Dynamite. Homeboy does backflips, he does
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quad quadruple axles. That's when he spends around four times.
He's the only human being who can do that. They
call him the quad God. Pretty wild. But the Russian
athletes maybe not having so much of a good time.
The joke used to always be that Russian judges gave
low scores to athletes, right, and now it's the Russian
athletes that have bad reviews for the food in Italy.
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Can you believe this? The ingrate the land that brought
us pizza and pasta is getting slammed by a Russian
figure skater. You know, complaining about the food in Italy
is basically a war crime. His name is Gleb Smulkin.
He's Russian, but he's on the Georgian team, and he's
been complaining that there is no Russian or Georgian cuisine
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at the village at all. He says, the food here
is European and quite monotonous. Pasta is already starting to
make my stomach churn. I mean, no ill will, But
I lived in Los Angeles. When I first moved here,
I lived in West Hollywood in an apartment building that
many Russian people lived there and all day it was
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soup and cigarettes. They would just just beat soup and cigarettes.
The head of the Olympics Food and Drink organization is
someone named Elizabeth Salvadori, and she told the UK Times
nobody's obligated to eat pasta. There's always potatoes, rice and bread, which, hey, man,
you need those carbs. And if you think though that
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that is a mean thing to say. People, especially Italians,
are reacting to this on social media very negatively. One
commenter told the skater to go back to eating crickets
and earthworms. Yikes. Other athletes having a nice time with
the Apparently, days and days of endless risotto, pasta, beef.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
And barrata sounds like Keavin, doesn't.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
That sound fantastic?
Speaker 3 (08:37):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (08:39):
I did the story on the on the KTLA Morning
News last week and I said very similar things to
what I just said, and I got a lot of
people messaging me and saying, well, I got one person
messing you saying you don't know what you're talking about.
Go eat some Russian food. Does anyone ever, I mean,
how many times you ever been like, oh man, I'm
really craving Borshed, Borshed or some beat never craved. It's
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it's kind of heavy and it's very preserved.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
Yeah, there's a Ukrainian restaurant near my place and a
lot of people, good star Russian people. It's good. It's
just not my cup of tea.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
I just I would say, like having had been an
adult and have having had a partner and been partnered
for much of my adult life, I don't think a
girl ever and I'm trying to think of ever dated
someone who is Russian. Maybe I don't think anyone's ever
been like I really, I really want, I really want
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to go have Russian food tonight. I just don't. And
there's a lot of Russians in southern California, a lot
of Russians in La.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
I mean it's good.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
Yeah, just like I just it's not pasta pizza, all right.
Lots coming up when we come back. We are talking
about how Ai of course is taking over and how
you can actually make some money, trying to identify if
a video is real or fake. Very fun.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
You're listening to KFI AM six on.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Demand Tuesday, The Big Switch is Flipped, Monks and Merrill
get their own show. I just saw mister Chris Merril
roaming around. He just popped in to say, Hello, that
guy's a superstar. What a rock star that dude is.
And I don't mean I mean that for real, because
a lot of times back in the day when people
would use rock star for things, it was like for
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people who really weren't you know. I mean. I had
like an executive one time that I was working with
when I was produced some shows, and he said, you
just need like a rock star editor. I know, this
guy is a rock star editor. This guy is a
rock star. He's a rock star copy editor. This guy
is a rock star. PA like these there's that's not
those that doesn't work. But for mister Chris Merril, he indeed.
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And maybe it's the stature. I think he's seven seven
foot three or something like that. Mario, do we know
how tall Chris Merrill is? All I know is he
is a gentle giant. He is, and he can't I
don't think he can fit through the through the parking garage,
you know what I mean. The is too low for him. Yeah, yeah,
we probably got to get him street parking. I don't know.
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He'll pop in a little bit later and we'll talk,
of course about his new show that's debuting on Tuesday
with the also very talented Michael Monks. I'm very excited
for that. It'll be very fun to see. And I
think Merril's been here for twelve years off and on,
and I think if anybody deserves a show, mister Chris Merril,
let's talk about what's happening here in Arizona. Pima County
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Sheriff's Department is now kind of coming under a little
bit of fire, perhaps you could say, based on the
handling of the search for eighty four year old Nancy Guthrie.
It's been nearly two weeks since she vanished from her
Arizona home, and FBI agents and SWAT teams descending on
new locations questions rather mounting. I think have been mountain
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for a while about what's happening with this search. More importantly,
why does it feel like we've had very little movement
in the past few days. Sheriff Chris Nanos, who has
sort of been the face of the investigation there in
Pma County, has has appeared a lot before the press,
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and to say that he has seemed a little overwhelmed,
I think is an understatement. Ellie Time's doing a story
about this today. Here's a quote early in this investigation.
He said, and I'm quoting him, I'm not used to
everyone hanging on my every word and then holding me
accountable for what I say. This is really pretty new
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for me now. Sheriff Nanos has been in law enforcement
for fifty years, so it's not like he just all
of a sudden became a figurehead of law enforcement. This
guy has been a legitimate cop. You know, some people
become sheriffs and they are elected sheriff. This guy has
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has been in law enforcement for a long time. But
many things that have occurred, including opening up the crime
scene a day after Nancy Guthrie went missing, allowing local
media to walk all over the front of the house,
allowing an Amazon delivery driver to just show up. I
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would say that's a little bit a little bit unnerving.
If I'm the family, I'm not feeling super confident in this,
And a lot of times when when Sheriff Nanos will
will speak to the press, there will be I guess
a sense of hey, guys, I don't know. I can't
answer these questions in a way that doesn't feel like
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a lot of the public information officers that we talked
to in Los Angeles or even in other parts of
this country. I mean, I don't think that it's just because,
I mean, Tucson is a fairly big city relatively speaking,
and to say that they don't have any crime is inaccurate. Now,
have they had to deal with something to this magnitude. No,
But you just look at this and think before the
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FBI got involved, were their mistakes that were made to
the point where maybe something was missed. As the home
stood unguarded, reporters, photographers, other people wandered the property, walking
to the front door, capturing video of blood drops. The
crime scene was eventually closed again so the FBI could
do another search, even after a lot of conversations about wait,
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does this crime scene not feel like it's locked down?
A pizza delivery driver walked food that had been ordered
for somebody in the neighborhood up to the door of
Nancy Guthrie's home. On Friday, a company showed up to
clean the pool at the request of the Guthrie family,
and the same time, the sheriff today said it could
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take years to find Nancy Guthrie. TMZ called the remarks sobering.
I would call them incredibly disappointing. Obviously, we saw some
footage from a doorbell camera last week with the alleged
kidnapper lurking around the front door of Nancy's house wearing
a mask in gloves. A glove was recovered some two
miles away just last week, and then the DNA evidence
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that was recovered was sent way across the country to
be analyzed because it was a free service that they
were using, and unfortunately that service also destroys the DNA
in the process. Adding to all of this chaos. Also,
of course, are these ransom demands. Some of those that
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we know have been dismissed as hoaxes by impostors looking
to get paid in bitcoin, But an early note remains
under heavy scrutiny which contained specific, non public details about
a damaged item inside the home of Nancy Guthrie. Which
is why experts think that this is a legitimate This
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is a legitimate piece of information. Now, what I think
we've all talked about, Oh my god, what's going on here?
The fact that you haven't seen and if indeed this
kidnapper was legitimate, if we the fact that we haven't
seen any kind of proof of life, or that the
family has not seen any kind of proof of life
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is probably a bad sign because now we've moved into
the phase where the person who is requesting money just
wants to get a much smaller amount of money so
that they will reveal the person who they say took
Nancy Guthrie. It is a tragic story regardless, and one
I think that one. I think that has interested a
lot of people. It is something that everybody wants to
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talk about. But I have also been in groups of
my friends who have said, look, I'm will you guys
stop talking about Nancy Guthrie NonStop? We get it. And
I think the reason people feel like that is because
there just isn't any new information. But unfortunately that's of
course still a family that has a lot of questions
about their eighty four year old grandmother. Keep you posted,
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of course, if we get any more information coming up.
Gen Z doesn't drink, they don't romance, and now they
also don't drive cars. What is going on with that? Plus,
if you could get paid to figure out if a
video was AI or not, would you.
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Speaker 2 (17:20):
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guess Burbank technically, right, Aileen, this is Burbank. We're not
really in LA but like.
Speaker 4 (17:27):
So, col Sorry, I had some buttons hit. Oh my gosh,
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It's two thirty five and three seconds on the dot,
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Speaker 2 (17:43):
This is live and in Charge. It doesn't rhyme, but
that's what's going on. Day after Valentine's Day? Did you
have a good Valentine's Day?
Speaker 3 (17:52):
Are you asking me?
Speaker 2 (17:53):
I am asking you.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
I don't do Valentine's Day.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
You know you're a smart woman.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
I mean, I'll celebrate it on a different day.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
But it's such a racket, isn't it. Can I tell you,
I'm not going to say the restaurant that I went
to yesterday because I want to have a little bit
of class left.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
Just don't say you don't like pasta.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
It was no, No, I love love pasta. It was a.
It was a I would say, one of those places
that's like iconic for Los Angeles. You know you would
if you looked at a list of fifteen best sort
of most iconic places to go in La to experience
like the La thing. This is on the list.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
I can guess about three off the top of my head,
but I'm not going to.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
You can guess, and I won't say anything. How about that?
Speaker 3 (18:40):
Uh No, no, Olive Garden, just kidding it.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
It wasn't Olive Gardening, but now that I think about it.
So the it was a prefixed menu situation, and I
kind of screwed up because I didn't have reservations until
the last minute, and I'm like looking through and I
got I got a text message. I was on the
wait list. They were saying, Hey, would you like to
come and do that? And I said, you know what, Yeah,
let's try it. It's a really cool location. It's a
classic play. So you know, it was pretty expensive. It
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was a pre a pre fixed menu, four course menu
for two each, one seventy five a person, which is
a lot of money. And I thought, well, this is
what happens when you're not. When you don't, you're you're
behind the ball. Andy, You're gonna get what you get.
But I decided, all right, I'll go check it out.
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I'll try this we'll do this. We get there and uh,
you share one of the you know it's it's four course,
but you choose and you pick, and then it's like
there's not a lot of food. And we both were
very hungry by the end, and we had two drinks each,
and we ordered a side of fries to add to
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the food, and by the time all was said and done,
our one seventy five per person meal ended up with
tax with tip with drinks more than six hundred dollars.
WHOA Like, I was like, I know that I have
a job. I have two jobs. I'm very lucky. I
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might have to get three now because of this this
one Valentine's Day night.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
Yeah, you need another job just starting with that.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
I know. Do you think they're uh you think they're
hiring down over there at the Wiener Schnitzel and Olive.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
It might take you a while to earn.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
To even be able to work there. I don't think
they look at me and they say, get out of here, kid,
Get out of here kid. Anyway, so Valentine's Day, I'm
glad that you didn't do it. I think next year
I'm just going to cook because this was that was.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
Really great flowers. Did you get like a fIF.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
I did all that too. I did all that too.
I got flowers and chocolate. I went to ann Son's
on the other side of the hill. I did it.
I was I was feeling like in the mood, you know.
I was like, Hey, this will be fun. It makes
me feel good to do something nice and to put
in the effort. And so your girl appreciates it.
Speaker 5 (20:59):
I think she did.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
But we were both like, wow, that was crazy. That
was really wild, even for us. So anyway, it was fun.
I can't understand a comprehendive world where that is as
much money as a person can spend on a thing.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
But that's why you celebrate on a different day.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
There you go.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
You don't have that prefixed menu. The flowers are much
cheaper after Valentine's Day.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
Yeah, I think a bouquet of roses? Is that how
you say it? Bouquet? Why think that sounds so weird
coming out of my mouth that way? Bouquet, bouquet, bouque,
bouquet boutku bucks. I grabbed them at the grocery store
and went to the think. I think I just stopped
by the Gelsons forty bucks chocolate eighty buck. I mean,
it's like you can't if you're broke, you just don't.
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There's just no.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
Love, and today that's all half price.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
You're right, You're absolutely right. All right, Well, speaking of
things that are befuddling, AI continues, it's a hillacious march.
Speaker 6 (21:59):
This is definitely a big talker in Hollywood tonight. And
the person behind that viral clip is actually a filmmaker.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
And this fifteen second clip is turning up.
Speaker 6 (22:08):
The volume on a conversation happening right now in Hollywood
about AI.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
Turning up the volume on the conversation happening about AI.
So there's a new engine, I guess, and a new
AI video creation service that's from China. It's called Sedans
two point zero Sedens Clearwater Revival, and it is so lifelike.
And remember you know a couple of years ago when
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AI video first started coming out, and it was like
Will Smith trying to eat spaghetti and it looked like
a true nightmare. His face was all melting into the
spaghetti and stuff would like eat the actual spoon. Now,
it is so imperceptible that when you showed this video
to somebody, they would say, oh yeah, that's actually them.
And what is so odd about it is that it
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has become so good that now you don't really know
what isn't real.
Speaker 6 (23:02):
On the surface, it looks like two of Hollywood's biggest
stars going head to head in an action pack showdown,
Tom Cruise versus Brad Pitt, but the scene never happened.
Speaker 7 (23:13):
Well, they're like two of the biggest movie stars, and
it was funny to see them say stuff that no
one would ever ever agree to having them say.
Speaker 6 (23:23):
Irish filmmaker Rory Robinson created the AI clip using a
new AI tool from byte Dance, the company that owns
TikTok and China.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
Oh, this can go in no way bad. You've got
everybody addicted to your service, watching your stuff all the time,
and now you have invented a system, a program, a
program that can create whatever you want to say, whatever
you wanted to say. I can see zero concerns about
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this at all.
Speaker 7 (23:56):
But I didn't know it was going to blow up
this fig or whatever. But but I had a hunch
that was going to cause a little bit of a commotion.
Speaker 6 (24:03):
I think the quality is so good it's hard to
tell what's AI and what's real. Late Friday, Disney hit
Byte Dance with a cease and desist. The Motion Picture
Association also denounced the AI tool, saying, in part, Byte
Dance is disregarding well established copyright law that protects the
rights of creators and underpins millions of American jobs.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
I wonder why this is Disney's thing. Does Disney also
own Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise? Have they purchased them
as well through this recent string of acquisitions? Did you
not know that? I didn't know that. Did you know that? No? No,
everybody knows that. Well, Disney does own everything. Are we
the only people who are not owned in part by Disney? Right? iHeartRadio,
(24:48):
iHeart Media is not owned by Disney. Right, I'm trying
to be owned by Disney. Well, that's right, you're right.
I look across the street and look at all those
cars parked in the parking lot there. I look at
all the cars parked in the parking lot here, and
I think, I think about that with a the other
television stations in the market, ABC seven, which is Channel seven.
That's a television station in Los Angeles that you might
know about. And I know that they live a different
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world than we do. Than kt lairs, and I think
that makes us humble, makes us scrappy. But you know,
when you got that Disney corporate money, it's a different world,
you know what I mean? Like, I don't know if
they're paying for their snacks.
Speaker 6 (25:24):
The way that we are, by Dan's is disregarding well
established copyright law that protects the rights of creators and
underpins millions of American jobs. AI was one of the
main reasons both SAG after It and the Writers Guild
went on strike in twenty twenty three. In a statement,
SAG after a Seid in part, it stands with the
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studios in condemning the blatant infringement as video includes unauthorized
use of our members' voices and likenesses well.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
And now a Hollywood startup is going to use what
is so called AI bounty hunters to help studios track
down potential misuse of film and television content made by AI.
This all according to Deadline. The company is called light Bar,
and it will develop a system that will allow any
old Internet user to test AI tools and submit examples
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of content that appears to replicate copyrighted characters or material
without authorization.
Speaker 3 (26:19):
Doesn't it seem like AI could do that.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
I was gonna say, AI, do you think AI is
a snitch?
Speaker 3 (26:26):
It could be taught to be a snitch man.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
I just every single week that goes by the scar
the scarier and scarier. This skits because it does. It
just feels as if like it is. But I also
wonder if we're on the precipice of a napster moment
where Okay, all these lawsuits come out and now AI
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is no longer able to rip things from copyrighted content.
Let's just say, does then it mean that it's really
really junkie and really bad? Does it have to be
handicapped in order to not have some copyright in frenchrip? Maybe?
Maybe not. I mean, you look at these other AI
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companies like Suno, which does this music AI music creation.
They've partnered with Warner Brothers. Because somebody at least recognizes
that the cat is out of the bag.
Speaker 3 (27:23):
There's no going back, there's no going back again.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
Also, why do you think why were we putting a
cat in a bag? Who was carrying around a cat
in a bag? Who that had that genius idea?
Speaker 3 (27:36):
Well, first of all, that should be considered animal abuse.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
Absolutely so put the cat in a crate in a carrier.
That cat is out of the crate. It would have
never gotten out of the crate. You should have never
put the cat in a bag to begin with. Are
we talking about like a Trader Joe's bag, like a
canvas bag? Are we talking about a plastic bag? Because
claws come on now long in the tooth. That's another
fun one.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
It's me Andy Reesmeyer. How about that. You can find
me on the internet at Andy KTLA. You can, of
course also leave us a talk back if you'd like,
on the KFI section of the iHeartRadio app. Leave up
to thirty seconds. Maybe let us know what happened for
your Valentine's Day if you got taken to the cleaners
like I did. I just like I gotta say, man,
(28:30):
I I'm so lucky that I like could go out
to dinner even at that, you know, like decide to
do that when I thought it was the price point
it was gonna be. But now, like I can't even comprehend.
What do you do? You can't give the you can't
take take it back. Mario, did you have a good
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Do you have a good Valentine's Day? I did, me
and my lady. We stayed in. We don't like to
do the whole being out with the rest of the
world on the day of a holiday kind of thing.
Speaker 5 (28:58):
Yeah, so we just made a lovely dinner. I think
we just stuck to the pasta side of things. Hey, yeah,
not no Russian food for you, huh no? And did
our gift exchange? And that's good?
Speaker 2 (29:09):
What you what did you get her?
Speaker 5 (29:10):
Got her a rose rose gold necklace with her initial
and you know, a little bit of dazzled.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
Whoa big time man? How long young have you guys
been together? Coming up on three years? But we've known
each other for six? Wow? Wow, wow Wow. That's a
pretty good gift. A necklace rose gold? Yeah? Yeah yeah?
And just what else would I get her? Did you
pick that up on you go down to the the
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tiffanys W where'd you get where'd you somewhere? A little
bit more small business? I like that. It's crazy, you know.
Speaker 7 (29:44):
That.
Speaker 2 (29:44):
I mean, that's it's a It's an amazing thing that
anybody can afford to do anything these days. It's like
out of control. I just don't I don't understand where
we're going with this. I don't know what the future
is going to look like. Like I have a job
and I'm like, what is happening here? But I'm glad
you date it? And that sounds really nice, very cozy
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for sure. Yeah, that's the move you always gotta. You
can control the situation a little bit better that way.
But if you're not a good cook, that's that's not
that's a little bit dangerous. It's like I told Neil
uh in yesterday's show, as long as I provide the wine,
I'm allowing in the kitchen. Ah. I bet Savader had
some great ideas for for Valentine's Day. That's I bet
(30:27):
that's a guy probably knows all right. Do you ever
have the start stop feature in your car? Thing drives
you nuts? You know, it's like when you come to
a start or stop rather and then your car shuts
off automatically to save gas. Well that's over, Yeah, Tesla,
you don't have that issue because your car is just
it's just on or off. There's no there's no in between,
(30:50):
so bad for your transmission. So you think it's this
transmission thing to have it shut off, because it probably
decouples from the transmission too, right. I think it's bad
for your battery too. And it also is annoying when
you sit there and then you need to have you
push the gas and there's like a split second delay
between pushing the gas and the car going again. Well,
(31:10):
the Trump administration is actually eliminated credits for automakers that
include start stop engine systems as features. Now I didn't
realize this, but automakers way back during the Obama administration
were incentivized to put those automatic start stop functions into
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their cars because it would give them a one mile
credit on MPG. So when you looked at the you
go to see a Toyota, Corolla or whatever, and it
said it was thirty five miles per gallon. I'm making
up numbers. It actually was only thirty four, but if
it had a start stop feature, you could market it
as thirty five. And it makes you wonder what other
things have been insteadivized into your actual your mileage. You know,
(31:55):
mileage should just be mileage. It should be like your
car is blue, it's blue on the sticker. Your mileage
is thirty two miles a gallon. You should have thirty
two miles a gallon. The current EPA administrator, Lee Zelden,
called start stop technology from twenty twelve the Obama switch.
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Everything has to be politicized right because it gained traction
under President Barack Obama's twenty twelve EPA rules. He declared
the credits over done finished countless Americans passionately despise the
start stop feature in cars. He also argued the system's
harm vehicles, saying it kills the battery of your car
without any significant benefit to the environment. Two thirds of
(32:38):
vehicles sold today have the start stop feature, providing drivers
with anywhere from seven percent to twenty six percent in
fuel economy savings, according to the Society of Automotive Engineers. However,
some automotive experts don't agree. A New York based automotive
expert named Lauren Fix said for years drivers been stuck
(32:59):
with this junk because regulators dangled roughly a one mile
per gallon credit to help automakers meet greenhouse gas targets
on paper, never mind that real world savings were a joke,
often barely noticeable in everyday driving, especially outside perfect lab conditions.
It is just part of the Trump administration's brought a
(33:19):
rollback of clean vehicle policies. They also eliminated the Biden
administration's target for half of all new vehicle sales in
the United States to be electric by twenty thirty, something
that even if you, I think were a major EV supporter,
you thought that's probably a little bit egregious. Right now
I think it's something. It's still less than ten percent
(33:41):
of electric vehicles make up the majority of cars sold
every year. So to get to fifty percent by twenty thirty,
which remember, friends, it's three years and eleven months away,
that have to be a big old jump, big old jump.
Another thing that's kind of sad Wendy's closing.
Speaker 6 (34:02):
Wendy says it's closing hundreds of restaurants here in the
US as the Burger Giant flips its strategy.
Speaker 3 (34:07):
Let's talk about this, so.
Speaker 2 (34:08):
The company, I like, Burger Giant Ilean. Do you use
those kind of words when you write scripts, when you
say things like target the retail giant.
Speaker 3 (34:15):
No, I don't say that.
Speaker 2 (34:16):
It's so ridiculous because no one would ever ever be like, hey,
uh Ani, would you like to go out to dinner?
I'm thinking about Wendy's. Yeah, we haven't been to the
Burger Giant in quite some time. I want to go
find some uh, I want to find a tooth in
my chili the Burger Giant. Remember that, wasn't that the story?
There was a tooth, it was a big and then
it turned out it was a hoax. A guy like
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put a tooth in or was it a toe?
Speaker 1 (34:40):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (34:41):
Are you kidding?
Speaker 2 (34:41):
Was it a thumb?
Speaker 1 (34:42):
Do you remember?
Speaker 2 (34:43):
If he was a finger? It was a finger? Yeah,
but it was like somebody had planted it in there.
Speaker 3 (34:48):
And where did they get a finger from?
Speaker 2 (34:50):
Well, I can get you a finger by tomorrow. I
get you a finger by two o'clock this afternoon. What
do you mean where's a finger from?
Speaker 3 (34:57):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (34:58):
Like a daff don't too many questions. The thum will
cost you more though, that is true. There's it's a
scarcity thing, you know. For every one finger there is
zero point two five thumbs. It's a four to one ratio.
Speaker 3 (35:18):
You were quick on the math.
Speaker 2 (35:21):
Well, I had to fin I dug myself into a
hole because I met to say for every one thumb,
there's four fingers, but I said one finger, and then
I had to do that. I had to go backwards. Yeah,
I don't know, man. Listen. The show is a joy
to do and we'll keep on doing it. We've got
lots more coming up in the next hour. New Music
Sunday weekend edition of New Music for people who do
(35:42):
not like new music with mister music man Jack Brimriva.
James Reddick, who is a mortgage broker, was stopped by
in person to talk about maybe the lowest interest rates
in three years and what that means for homeowners or
people who have mortgage rates that they'd like to see
see have lower payments. That's gonna be exciting. And then
(36:03):
of course we're doing solo, the solo, which is where
we would love for you to leave a message or
call us in rather when we play the isolated guitar
track from a song that you know, we make it
sound like a guitar center here.
Speaker 3 (36:17):
Looking forward to that one.
Speaker 2 (36:18):
Yes, And if nobody calls, we're just gonna play it
all with us here. That's how that's how it goes.
This is the Andy Resmire Show. It's kf I AM
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Speaker 2 (00:23):
I Am six forty. This is the Andy Reesemeyer Show.
We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. We'll be with
you all the way till four o'clock. Island Gonzales, Good afternoon,
Nice to see you. Great to see you here with
Mario as well and Kayla on the ones and tues. Hey, hey,
so so thrilled. Kayla. We haven't done a radio show
in a long time. I think the last time we
did it was when I was filling in for Merril
(00:44):
like a million years ago. And here we are. Meryl's
going to be back again tonight ahead of his debut
along with Monks coming up on Tuesday. How exciting is that?
Very exciting, is the answer. But we got a lot
to about on the show today coming up. Concerns are
growing over missteps and the investigation into the disappearance of
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Nancy Guthrie, that, of course, is Savannah Guthries mother. Finally
someone is saying that there are a lot of concerns.
There's not a lot of confidence in Tucson law enforcement.
I remember the second day when we were watching the
press conference at Katla and I said this guy, I
don't if I'm the family, I'm a little nervous because
(01:27):
this guy is not instilling us with a sense of confidence.
We will get into that. Plus, you could be paid
to call out AI videos that are fooling people. It's
what many of us naturally did during the holidays with
our families. Now it's time to make some money doing that.
And one ungrateful Russian Olympian has insulted Italian food in Italy,
(01:49):
he hates pasta. What Italy is saying about what could
be considered an act of war. And then later in
the three PM hour, we are playing a game called
Solo the Solo. That's where I play an isolated track
of a famous guitar solo and then ask you to
call in and guess the song makes k if I
feel like a Sunday afternoon in a guitar center with
(02:11):
just just a guy Whalen over there in the corner. Eileen.
I'm excited for this because something I was doing during
the week on Friday night was I had my buddy
Jack Primavera, who's a producer on the television show The Voice,
which is in you know that show on NBC and
I had him come in and he's a big music guy,
so we would do new music for people who don't
like new music, which we'll also do today in the
(02:33):
three o'clock hour, and then also we'll play solo in
the solo and I'm going to ask you guys to
play along as well. Aileen, of course, you're a music
a music head yourself.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
Yes, I used to play a game like that when
I was eight years old.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Friends. Yeah, was it similar where you would like play
the solo and try.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
To figure out what it was or what was our
our friend my friend's older brother would play a song
and then he'd make us guess it.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
I love that. Yeah, that's fun. And you know what,
nothing that music people like more than to show other
people how much they know about me music. That's how
I feel if I know a thing, and I'm oh,
I know that song. So we'll open up the phone
lines a little bit later there. As always, you can
leave us a message on the talkback feature with the
iHeartRadio app. Look for KFI look for that little microphone
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and you can leave as much as you'd like thirty
seconds of thoughts about things good bad, either here nor there.
If we got anything wrong, if I said anything stupid,
the likelihood that I did is fairly high. But that's
all right, no problem there. I'm happy to field any
of your concerns. But before we get into those things,
(03:34):
the big news, because we are a very serious news
organization here at KFI, we've got to talk about the
most important thing happening in southern California maybe in the
next six months, which is this rain storm that's coming
heading into town tomorrow afternoon into the evening. We'll probably
start to see some of those conditions interiorate here in
Los Angeles County, but already you started to see some
(03:57):
storms out in the western parts of the central coast,
Ventura County, Santa Barbara County. But we're looking at this,
as you heard Aileen Gonzalez just say about ten minutes ago,
this first of three very serious storms where we're talking
about the most intense one this coming tomorrow, and it's
(04:18):
going to basically bring us inclement weather. We're gonna have
rain all the way till Friday at the very least,
and we're looking at many inches of rain, potentially three
inches of rain in the coastal areas and in the valleys.
That's a lot of rain for Los Angeles and people,
especially in those burnscar areas. We're talking about the Palisades Fire,
Sunset Fire, Hurst fire. The Hurst fire was the one
(04:41):
that was up along the five Freeway north of La County,
heading towards Santa Clarita. That was on the same day
that the Palisades Fire and the Eton fire also broke out,
So lots of concerns for those areas. Evacuation warnings will
be in effect from nine pm tonight until nine pm
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nine am rather Tuesday. And that's Palisades Fire, burn scar areas,
Hurst Fire, burn scar areas, and Sunset fire burn scar areas.
And the Sunset fire was the fire that was in Hollywood.
I think it was probably the eighth maybe or the ninth,
maybe a couple it was. Maybe it was right in
that same realm, maybe the next day after the Palisades Fire,
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and that that was a very that was a very
scary time. And I think that the thing that you
really remember about all this is that these areas are
so dangerous so many years after the fires because it
takes a long time for that vegetation to come back,
and the vegetation that normally would keep your hillside intact,
(05:44):
allows the water to sort of run run down. Now
becomes a cascade, and then you know that's a that's
never good. So we will keep you posted on that
and let you know how that goes, because I you know,
I know it's silly that we don't we don't handle
rain very well. But you think back to Santa Barbara County,
you think about the Thomas fire, you think about the
(06:05):
mudslides after that. You know how many months, maybe a
year after the Thomas fire, when they actually saw the
repercussions of what that mud slide could actually do and unfortunately,
you know, it was disastrous for them up in Santa
Barbara County. I want to move on, though, to the Olympics.
I love having the Olympics on in the background while
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all of the insanity that's happening day to day in
America and the rest of the world, but we got
the Olympics we can tune into and these sort of
little moments where we can be distracted by either something
cool happening. I don't know if you saw the figure
skater who looks like the guy from Blades of Glory,
he looks like Napoleon Dynamite. Homeboy does backflips, he does
(06:45):
quad quadruple axles. That's when he spends around four times.
He's the only human being who can do that. They
call him the quad God. Pretty wild. But the Russian
athletes maybe not having so much of a good time.
The joke used to always be that Russian judges gave
low scores to athletes, right, and now it's the Russian
athletes that have bad reviews for the food in Italy.
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Can you believe this? The ingrate the land that brought
us pizza and pasta is getting slammed by a Russian
figure skater. You know, complaining about the food in Italy
is basically a war crime. His name is Gleb Smulkin.
He's Russian, but he's on the Georgian team, and he's
been complaining that there is no Russian or Georgian cuisine
(07:32):
at the village at all. He says, the food here
is European and quite monotonous. Pasta is already starting to
make my stomach churn. I mean, no ill will, But
I lived in Los Angeles. When I first moved here,
I lived in West Hollywood in an apartment building that
many Russian people lived there and all day it was
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soup and cigarettes. They would just just beat soup and cigarettes.
The head of the Olympics Food and Drink organization is
someone named Elizabeth Salvadori, and she told the UK Times
nobody's obligated to eat pasta. There's always potatoes, rice and bread, which, hey, man,
you need those carbs. And if you think though that
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that is a mean thing to say. People, especially Italians,
are reacting to this on social media very negatively. One
commenter told the skater to go back to eating crickets
and earthworms. Yikes. Other athletes having a nice time with
the Apparently, days and days of endless risotto, pasta, beef.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
And barrata sounds like Keavin, doesn't.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
That sound fantastic?
Speaker 3 (08:37):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (08:39):
I did the story on the on the KTLA Morning
News last week and I said very similar things to
what I just said, and I got a lot of
people messaging me and saying, well, I got one person
messing you saying you don't know what you're talking about.
Go eat some Russian food. Does anyone ever, I mean,
how many times you ever been like, oh man, I'm
really craving Borshed, Borshed or some beat never craved. It's
(09:01):
it's kind of heavy and it's very preserved.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
Yeah, there's a Ukrainian restaurant near my place and a
lot of people, good star Russian people. It's good. It's
just not my cup of tea.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
I just I would say, like having had been an
adult and have having had a partner and been partnered
for much of my adult life, I don't think a
girl ever and I'm trying to think of ever dated
someone who is Russian. Maybe I don't think anyone's ever
been like I really, I really want, I really want
(09:33):
to go have Russian food tonight. I just don't. And
there's a lot of Russians in southern California, a lot
of Russians in La.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
I mean it's good.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
Yeah, just like I just it's not pasta pizza, all right.
Lots coming up when we come back. We are talking
about how Ai of course is taking over and how
you can actually make some money, trying to identify if
a video is real or fake. Very fun.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
You're listening to KFI AM six on.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Demand Tuesday, The Big Switch is Flipped, Monks and Merrill
get their own show. I just saw mister Chris Merril
roaming around. He just popped in to say, Hello, that
guy's a superstar. What a rock star that dude is.
And I don't mean I mean that for real, because
a lot of times back in the day when people
would use rock star for things, it was like for
(10:20):
people who really weren't you know. I mean. I had
like an executive one time that I was working with
when I was produced some shows, and he said, you
just need like a rock star editor. I know, this
guy is a rock star editor. This guy is a
rock star. He's a rock star copy editor. This guy
is a rock star. PA like these there's that's not
those that doesn't work. But for mister Chris Merril, he indeed.
(10:44):
And maybe it's the stature. I think he's seven seven
foot three or something like that. Mario, do we know
how tall Chris Merrill is? All I know is he
is a gentle giant. He is, and he can't I
don't think he can fit through the through the parking garage,
you know what I mean. The is too low for him. Yeah, yeah,
we probably got to get him street parking. I don't know.
(11:07):
He'll pop in a little bit later and we'll talk,
of course about his new show that's debuting on Tuesday
with the also very talented Michael Monks. I'm very excited
for that. It'll be very fun to see. And I
think Merril's been here for twelve years off and on,
and I think if anybody deserves a show, mister Chris Merril,
let's talk about what's happening here in Arizona. Pima County
(11:28):
Sheriff's Department is now kind of coming under a little
bit of fire, perhaps you could say, based on the
handling of the search for eighty four year old Nancy Guthrie.
It's been nearly two weeks since she vanished from her
Arizona home, and FBI agents and SWAT teams descending on
new locations questions rather mounting. I think have been mountain
(11:54):
for a while about what's happening with this search. More importantly,
why does it feel like we've had very little movement
in the past few days. Sheriff Chris Nanos, who has
sort of been the face of the investigation there in
Pma County, has has appeared a lot before the press,
(12:18):
and to say that he has seemed a little overwhelmed,
I think is an understatement. Ellie Time's doing a story
about this today. Here's a quote early in this investigation.
He said, and I'm quoting him, I'm not used to
everyone hanging on my every word and then holding me
accountable for what I say. This is really pretty new
(12:40):
for me now. Sheriff Nanos has been in law enforcement
for fifty years, so it's not like he just all
of a sudden became a figurehead of law enforcement. This
guy has been a legitimate cop. You know, some people
become sheriffs and they are elected sheriff. This guy has
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has been in law enforcement for a long time. But
many things that have occurred, including opening up the crime
scene a day after Nancy Guthrie went missing, allowing local
media to walk all over the front of the house,
allowing an Amazon delivery driver to just show up. I
(13:21):
would say that's a little bit a little bit unnerving.
If I'm the family, I'm not feeling super confident in this,
And a lot of times when when Sheriff Nanos will
will speak to the press, there will be I guess
a sense of hey, guys, I don't know. I can't
answer these questions in a way that doesn't feel like
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a lot of the public information officers that we talked
to in Los Angeles or even in other parts of
this country. I mean, I don't think that it's just because,
I mean, Tucson is a fairly big city relatively speaking,
and to say that they don't have any crime is inaccurate. Now,
have they had to deal with something to this magnitude. No,
But you just look at this and think before the
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FBI got involved, were their mistakes that were made to
the point where maybe something was missed. As the home
stood unguarded, reporters, photographers, other people wandered the property, walking
to the front door, capturing video of blood drops. The
crime scene was eventually closed again so the FBI could
do another search, even after a lot of conversations about wait,
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does this crime scene not feel like it's locked down?
A pizza delivery driver walked food that had been ordered
for somebody in the neighborhood up to the door of
Nancy Guthrie's home. On Friday, a company showed up to
clean the pool at the request of the Guthrie family,
and the same time, the sheriff today said it could
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take years to find Nancy Guthrie. TMZ called the remarks sobering.
I would call them incredibly disappointing. Obviously, we saw some
footage from a doorbell camera last week with the alleged
kidnapper lurking around the front door of Nancy's house wearing
a mask in gloves. A glove was recovered some two
miles away just last week, and then the DNA evidence
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that was recovered was sent way across the country to
be analyzed because it was a free service that they
were using, and unfortunately that service also destroys the DNA
in the process. Adding to all of this chaos. Also,
of course, are these ransom demands. Some of those that
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we know have been dismissed as hoaxes by impostors looking
to get paid in bitcoin, But an early note remains
under heavy scrutiny which contained specific, non public details about
a damaged item inside the home of Nancy Guthrie. Which
is why experts think that this is a legitimate This
(15:58):
is a legitimate piece of information. Now, what I think
we've all talked about, Oh my god, what's going on here?
The fact that you haven't seen and if indeed this
kidnapper was legitimate, if we the fact that we haven't
seen any kind of proof of life, or that the
family has not seen any kind of proof of life
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is probably a bad sign because now we've moved into
the phase where the person who is requesting money just
wants to get a much smaller amount of money so
that they will reveal the person who they say took
Nancy Guthrie. It is a tragic story regardless, and one
I think that one. I think that has interested a
lot of people. It is something that everybody wants to
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talk about. But I have also been in groups of
my friends who have said, look, I'm will you guys
stop talking about Nancy Guthrie NonStop? We get it. And
I think the reason people feel like that is because
there just isn't any new information. But unfortunately that's of
course still a family that has a lot of questions
about their eighty four year old grandmother. Keep you posted,
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of course, if we get any more information coming up.
Gen Z doesn't drink, they don't romance, and now they
also don't drive cars. What is going on with that? Plus,
if you could get paid to figure out if a
video was AI or not, would you.
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guess Burbank technically, right, Aileen, this is Burbank. We're not
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It's two thirty five and three seconds on the dot,
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This is live and in Charge. It doesn't rhyme, but
that's what's going on. Day after Valentine's Day? Did you
have a good Valentine's Day?
Speaker 3 (17:52):
Are you asking me?
Speaker 2 (17:53):
I am asking you.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
I don't do Valentine's Day.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
You know you're a smart woman.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
I mean, I'll celebrate it on a different day.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
But it's such a racket, isn't it. Can I tell you,
I'm not going to say the restaurant that I went
to yesterday because I want to have a little bit
of class left.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
Just don't say you don't like pasta.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
It was no, No, I love love pasta. It was a.
It was a I would say, one of those places
that's like iconic for Los Angeles. You know you would
if you looked at a list of fifteen best sort
of most iconic places to go in La to experience
like the La thing. This is on the list.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
I can guess about three off the top of my head,
but I'm not going to.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
You can guess, and I won't say anything. How about that?
Speaker 3 (18:40):
Uh No, no, Olive Garden, just kidding it.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
It wasn't Olive Gardening, but now that I think about it.
So the it was a prefixed menu situation, and I
kind of screwed up because I didn't have reservations until
the last minute, and I'm like looking through and I
got I got a text message. I was on the
wait list. They were saying, Hey, would you like to
come and do that? And I said, you know what, Yeah,
let's try it. It's a really cool location. It's a
classic play. So you know, it was pretty expensive. It
(19:09):
was a pre a pre fixed menu, four course menu
for two each, one seventy five a person, which is
a lot of money. And I thought, well, this is
what happens when you're not. When you don't, you're you're
behind the ball. Andy, You're gonna get what you get.
But I decided, all right, I'll go check it out.
(19:29):
I'll try this we'll do this. We get there and uh,
you share one of the you know it's it's four course,
but you choose and you pick, and then it's like
there's not a lot of food. And we both were
very hungry by the end, and we had two drinks each,
and we ordered a side of fries to add to
(19:50):
the food, and by the time all was said and done,
our one seventy five per person meal ended up with
tax with tip with drinks more than six hundred dollars.
WHOA Like, I was like, I know that I have
a job. I have two jobs. I'm very lucky. I
(20:11):
might have to get three now because of this this
one Valentine's Day night.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
Yeah, you need another job just starting with that.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
I know. Do you think they're uh you think they're
hiring down over there at the Wiener Schnitzel and Olive.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
It might take you a while to earn.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
To even be able to work there. I don't think
they look at me and they say, get out of here, kid,
Get out of here kid. Anyway, so Valentine's Day, I'm
glad that you didn't do it. I think next year
I'm just going to cook because this was that was.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
Really great flowers. Did you get like a fIF.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
I did all that too. I did all that too.
I got flowers and chocolate. I went to ann Son's
on the other side of the hill. I did it.
I was I was feeling like in the mood, you know.
I was like, Hey, this will be fun. It makes
me feel good to do something nice and to put
in the effort. And so your girl appreciates it.
Speaker 5 (20:59):
I think she did.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
But we were both like, wow, that was crazy. That
was really wild, even for us. So anyway, it was fun.
I can't understand a comprehendive world where that is as
much money as a person can spend on a thing.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
But that's why you celebrate on a different day.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
There you go.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
You don't have that prefixed menu. The flowers are much
cheaper after Valentine's Day.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
Yeah, I think a bouquet of roses? Is that how
you say it? Bouquet? Why think that sounds so weird
coming out of my mouth that way? Bouquet, bouquet, bouque,
bouquet boutku bucks. I grabbed them at the grocery store
and went to the think. I think I just stopped
by the Gelsons forty bucks chocolate eighty buck. I mean,
it's like you can't if you're broke, you just don't.
(21:46):
There's just no.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
Love, and today that's all half price.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
You're right, You're absolutely right. All right, Well, speaking of
things that are befuddling, AI continues, it's a hillacious march.
Speaker 6 (21:59):
This is definitely a big talker in Hollywood tonight. And
the person behind that viral clip is actually a filmmaker.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
And this fifteen second clip is turning up.
Speaker 6 (22:08):
The volume on a conversation happening right now in Hollywood
about AI.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
Turning up the volume on the conversation happening about AI.
So there's a new engine, I guess, and a new
AI video creation service that's from China. It's called Sedans
two point zero Sedens Clearwater Revival, and it is so lifelike.
And remember you know a couple of years ago when
(22:33):
AI video first started coming out, and it was like
Will Smith trying to eat spaghetti and it looked like
a true nightmare. His face was all melting into the
spaghetti and stuff would like eat the actual spoon. Now,
it is so imperceptible that when you showed this video
to somebody, they would say, oh yeah, that's actually them.
And what is so odd about it is that it
(22:54):
has become so good that now you don't really know
what isn't real.
Speaker 6 (23:02):
On the surface, it looks like two of Hollywood's biggest
stars going head to head in an action pack showdown,
Tom Cruise versus Brad Pitt, but the scene never happened.
Speaker 7 (23:13):
Well, they're like two of the biggest movie stars, and
it was funny to see them say stuff that no
one would ever ever agree to having them say.
Speaker 6 (23:23):
Irish filmmaker Rory Robinson created the AI clip using a
new AI tool from byte Dance, the company that owns
TikTok and China.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
Oh, this can go in no way bad. You've got
everybody addicted to your service, watching your stuff all the time,
and now you have invented a system, a program, a
program that can create whatever you want to say, whatever
you wanted to say. I can see zero concerns about
(23:55):
this at all.
Speaker 7 (23:56):
But I didn't know it was going to blow up
this fig or whatever. But but I had a hunch
that was going to cause a little bit of a commotion.
Speaker 6 (24:03):
I think the quality is so good it's hard to
tell what's AI and what's real. Late Friday, Disney hit
Byte Dance with a cease and desist. The Motion Picture
Association also denounced the AI tool, saying, in part, Byte
Dance is disregarding well established copyright law that protects the
rights of creators and underpins millions of American jobs.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
I wonder why this is Disney's thing. Does Disney also
own Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise? Have they purchased them
as well through this recent string of acquisitions? Did you
not know that? I didn't know that. Did you know that? No? No,
everybody knows that. Well, Disney does own everything. Are we
the only people who are not owned in part by Disney? Right? iHeartRadio,
(24:48):
iHeart Media is not owned by Disney. Right, I'm trying
to be owned by Disney. Well, that's right, you're right.
I look across the street and look at all those
cars parked in the parking lot there. I look at
all the cars parked in the parking lot here, and
I think, I think about that with a the other
television stations in the market, ABC seven, which is Channel seven.
That's a television station in Los Angeles that you might
know about. And I know that they live a different
(25:12):
world than we do. Than kt lairs, and I think
that makes us humble, makes us scrappy. But you know,
when you got that Disney corporate money, it's a different world,
you know what I mean? Like, I don't know if
they're paying for their snacks.
Speaker 6 (25:24):
The way that we are, by Dan's is disregarding well
established copyright law that protects the rights of creators and
underpins millions of American jobs. AI was one of the
main reasons both SAG after It and the Writers Guild
went on strike in twenty twenty three. In a statement,
SAG after a Seid in part, it stands with the
(25:44):
studios in condemning the blatant infringement as video includes unauthorized
use of our members' voices and likenesses well.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
And now a Hollywood startup is going to use what
is so called AI bounty hunters to help studios track
down potential misuse of film and television content made by AI.
This all according to Deadline. The company is called light Bar,
and it will develop a system that will allow any
old Internet user to test AI tools and submit examples
(26:13):
of content that appears to replicate copyrighted characters or material
without authorization.
Speaker 3 (26:19):
Doesn't it seem like AI could do that.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
I was gonna say, AI, do you think AI is
a snitch?
Speaker 3 (26:26):
It could be taught to be a snitch man.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
I just every single week that goes by the scar
the scarier and scarier. This skits because it does. It
just feels as if like it is. But I also
wonder if we're on the precipice of a napster moment
where Okay, all these lawsuits come out and now AI
(26:51):
is no longer able to rip things from copyrighted content.
Let's just say, does then it mean that it's really
really junkie and really bad? Does it have to be
handicapped in order to not have some copyright in frenchrip? Maybe?
Maybe not. I mean, you look at these other AI
(27:12):
companies like Suno, which does this music AI music creation.
They've partnered with Warner Brothers. Because somebody at least recognizes
that the cat is out of the bag.
Speaker 3 (27:23):
There's no going back, there's no going back again.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
Also, why do you think why were we putting a
cat in a bag? Who was carrying around a cat
in a bag? Who that had that genius idea?
Speaker 3 (27:36):
Well, first of all, that should be considered animal abuse.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
Absolutely so put the cat in a crate in a carrier.
That cat is out of the crate. It would have
never gotten out of the crate. You should have never
put the cat in a bag to begin with. Are
we talking about like a Trader Joe's bag, like a
canvas bag? Are we talking about a plastic bag? Because
claws come on now long in the tooth. That's another
fun one.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
It's me Andy Reesmeyer. How about that. You can find
me on the internet at Andy KTLA. You can, of
course also leave us a talk back if you'd like,
on the KFI section of the iHeartRadio app. Leave up
to thirty seconds. Maybe let us know what happened for
your Valentine's Day if you got taken to the cleaners
like I did. I just like I gotta say, man,
(28:30):
I I'm so lucky that I like could go out
to dinner even at that, you know, like decide to
do that when I thought it was the price point
it was gonna be. But now, like I can't even comprehend.
What do you do? You can't give the you can't
take take it back. Mario, did you have a good
(28:50):
Do you have a good Valentine's Day? I did, me
and my lady. We stayed in. We don't like to
do the whole being out with the rest of the
world on the day of a holiday kind of thing.
Speaker 5 (28:58):
Yeah, so we just made a lovely dinner. I think
we just stuck to the pasta side of things. Hey, yeah,
not no Russian food for you, huh no? And did
our gift exchange? And that's good?
Speaker 2 (29:09):
What you what did you get her?
Speaker 5 (29:10):
Got her a rose rose gold necklace with her initial
and you know, a little bit of dazzled.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
Whoa big time man? How long young have you guys
been together? Coming up on three years? But we've known
each other for six? Wow? Wow, wow Wow. That's a
pretty good gift. A necklace rose gold? Yeah? Yeah yeah?
And just what else would I get her? Did you
pick that up on you go down to the the
(29:36):
tiffanys W where'd you get where'd you somewhere? A little
bit more small business? I like that. It's crazy, you know.
Speaker 7 (29:44):
That.
Speaker 2 (29:44):
I mean, that's it's a It's an amazing thing that
anybody can afford to do anything these days. It's like
out of control. I just don't I don't understand where
we're going with this. I don't know what the future
is going to look like. Like I have a job
and I'm like, what is happening here? But I'm glad
you date it? And that sounds really nice, very cozy
(30:06):
for sure. Yeah, that's the move you always gotta. You
can control the situation a little bit better that way.
But if you're not a good cook, that's that's not
that's a little bit dangerous. It's like I told Neil
uh in yesterday's show, as long as I provide the wine,
I'm allowing in the kitchen. Ah. I bet Savader had
some great ideas for for Valentine's Day. That's I bet
(30:27):
that's a guy probably knows all right. Do you ever
have the start stop feature in your car? Thing drives
you nuts? You know, it's like when you come to
a start or stop rather and then your car shuts
off automatically to save gas. Well that's over, Yeah, Tesla,
you don't have that issue because your car is just
it's just on or off. There's no there's no in between,
(30:50):
so bad for your transmission. So you think it's this
transmission thing to have it shut off, because it probably
decouples from the transmission too, right. I think it's bad
for your battery too. And it also is annoying when
you sit there and then you need to have you
push the gas and there's like a split second delay
between pushing the gas and the car going again. Well,
(31:10):
the Trump administration is actually eliminated credits for automakers that
include start stop engine systems as features. Now I didn't
realize this, but automakers way back during the Obama administration
were incentivized to put those automatic start stop functions into
(31:33):
their cars because it would give them a one mile
credit on MPG. So when you looked at the you
go to see a Toyota, Corolla or whatever, and it
said it was thirty five miles per gallon. I'm making
up numbers. It actually was only thirty four, but if
it had a start stop feature, you could market it
as thirty five. And it makes you wonder what other
things have been insteadivized into your actual your mileage. You know,
(31:55):
mileage should just be mileage. It should be like your
car is blue, it's blue on the sticker. Your mileage
is thirty two miles a gallon. You should have thirty
two miles a gallon. The current EPA administrator, Lee Zelden,
called start stop technology from twenty twelve the Obama switch.
(32:15):
Everything has to be politicized right because it gained traction
under President Barack Obama's twenty twelve EPA rules. He declared
the credits over done finished countless Americans passionately despise the
start stop feature in cars. He also argued the system's
harm vehicles, saying it kills the battery of your car
without any significant benefit to the environment. Two thirds of
(32:38):
vehicles sold today have the start stop feature, providing drivers
with anywhere from seven percent to twenty six percent in
fuel economy savings, according to the Society of Automotive Engineers. However,
some automotive experts don't agree. A New York based automotive
expert named Lauren Fix said for years drivers been stuck
(32:59):
with this junk because regulators dangled roughly a one mile
per gallon credit to help automakers meet greenhouse gas targets
on paper, never mind that real world savings were a joke,
often barely noticeable in everyday driving, especially outside perfect lab conditions.
It is just part of the Trump administration's brought a
(33:19):
rollback of clean vehicle policies. They also eliminated the Biden
administration's target for half of all new vehicle sales in
the United States to be electric by twenty thirty, something
that even if you, I think were a major EV supporter,
you thought that's probably a little bit egregious. Right now
I think it's something. It's still less than ten percent
(33:41):
of electric vehicles make up the majority of cars sold
every year. So to get to fifty percent by twenty thirty,
which remember, friends, it's three years and eleven months away,
that have to be a big old jump, big old jump.
Another thing that's kind of sad Wendy's closing.
Speaker 6 (34:02):
Wendy says it's closing hundreds of restaurants here in the
US as the Burger Giant flips its strategy.
Speaker 3 (34:07):
Let's talk about this, so.
Speaker 2 (34:08):
The company, I like, Burger Giant Ilean. Do you use
those kind of words when you write scripts, when you
say things like target the retail giant.
Speaker 3 (34:15):
No, I don't say that.
Speaker 2 (34:16):
It's so ridiculous because no one would ever ever be like, hey,
uh Ani, would you like to go out to dinner?
I'm thinking about Wendy's. Yeah, we haven't been to the
Burger Giant in quite some time. I want to go
find some uh, I want to find a tooth in
my chili the Burger Giant. Remember that, wasn't that the story?
There was a tooth, it was a big and then
it turned out it was a hoax. A guy like
(34:37):
put a tooth in or was it a toe?
Speaker 1 (34:40):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (34:41):
Are you kidding?
Speaker 2 (34:41):
Was it a thumb?
Speaker 1 (34:42):
Do you remember?
Speaker 2 (34:43):
If he was a finger? It was a finger? Yeah,
but it was like somebody had planted it in there.
Speaker 3 (34:48):
And where did they get a finger from?
Speaker 2 (34:50):
Well, I can get you a finger by tomorrow. I
get you a finger by two o'clock this afternoon. What
do you mean where's a finger from?
Speaker 3 (34:57):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (34:58):
Like a daff don't too many questions. The thum will
cost you more though, that is true. There's it's a
scarcity thing, you know. For every one finger there is
zero point two five thumbs. It's a four to one ratio.
Speaker 3 (35:18):
You were quick on the math.
Speaker 2 (35:21):
Well, I had to fin I dug myself into a
hole because I met to say for every one thumb,
there's four fingers, but I said one finger, and then
I had to do that. I had to go backwards. Yeah,
I don't know, man. Listen. The show is a joy
to do and we'll keep on doing it. We've got
lots more coming up in the next hour. New Music
Sunday weekend edition of New Music for people who do
(35:42):
not like new music with mister music man Jack Brimriva.
James Reddick, who is a mortgage broker, was stopped by
in person to talk about maybe the lowest interest rates
in three years and what that means for homeowners or
people who have mortgage rates that they'd like to see
see have lower payments. That's gonna be exciting. And then
(36:03):
of course we're doing solo, the solo, which is where
we would love for you to leave a message or
call us in rather when we play the isolated guitar
track from a song that you know, we make it
sound like a guitar center here.
Speaker 3 (36:17):
Looking forward to that one.
Speaker 2 (36:18):
Yes, And if nobody calls, we're just gonna play it
all with us here. That's how that's how it goes.
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