November 21, 2025 • 32 mins
Venice Beach fixture, homeless piano man Nathan Pino, had his pianos destroyed and hauled away by the street cleanup crew when he stepped away from his homeless encampment. More job cuts are coming to Paramount, with 200 positions being axed. Ken Burns, one of the greatest filmmakers and documentarians in U.S. history, is facing off against the issue of documentaries utilizing fabricated artifacts, or AI, that are presented as real. Some people are forgoing finding a life partner to love and instead are partnering with AI chatbots for those life milestones – including having and raising AI children. Schools are installing vape detector sensors in bathrooms to crack down on teen vaping and skipping class.
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It's just to let me see pull up this radar again.
The rain is supposed to sort of move off to
the east. The radar was saying to move off by
about ten, but yeah, I guess the coastal area is
gonna move off by about ten Inland, probably eleven if
you get a little bit further south. If you are
one of my friends listening in San Diego County, it
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looks like that's gonna stay in East County for a
while longer and probably finally move out of East County
San Diego a little after one, which is when in
La County Ventura County you're gonna get You're gonna get
through round two tonight. That's gonna start hitting about one o'clock,
and some of that could be a little bit heavier too.
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I do see the radar showing some isolated heavy thunderstorms
moving toward downtown by about two thirty three o'clock in
the morning. I could have been a weather guy. Don't
you think I could have done it? Not too late?
I feel like it is too late. Plus, I weather
guys are always cheesy, and I can't pull that off.
I can't do it. I can't do weather Man humor.
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To me, it has to be more biting. It's not
like when weather Man made Yes, here's today's pun. I
can't do that. I can't do it. So one of
the things I love about the producers that we have
at KFI is that when the show is going on,
they are always paying attention to make sure that we
don't miss something. Sometimes when we're on the air we're
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talking about a story, another story will break and we
are you know, we're in the dark because we weren't
watching the news. That's what we have the producers for and
that's exactly what Nicky was doing tonight. She ended up
running across the story from a Shacked mag mark. I
know you're a subscriber to Shacked. The Los Angeles surf
mag love their centerfolds. Yep, really good stuff in there.
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But they had to video of the Venice Beach piano man,
Nathan Pino or Pino I guess is his name, the
Venice piano man. So if you've been at the beach,
you may have seen his pianos there. He may have
seen him playing, and he's been doing it for god
a long time, ten to fifteen years, and he wasn't
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there when they went by yesterday doing their homeless cleanup day,
and so they found the pianos that were left out,
and they they crushed him and they threw him in
a threw him in a garbage truck, hould him away.
Now most of them were actually broken. They did leave one,
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they said, one piano that was functional. It was holdaway.
It was not smashed. The other ones were crushed. One
functional piano, though, was just hold away. So did they
steal his one functioning piano? I mean he left them there.
He probably went to find a restroom. It could be,
but they were considered abandoned. Well, no, because they were
there for a little while. I mean there's video of it.
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It was a while. If he was at a restroom,
then it was definitely because he had some of those
deep pride oreos that were making their way through him
at the time. But yeah, anyway, that's too bad. I
don't like to hear that. Hopefully he's able to get
a stuff back. That's some of the kind of story
where all of a sudden the community rallies, you know,
and then they they try to help a guy out
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like that because he, you know, created memories for so
many people that were there. I hope that's what happens anyway,
fingers crossed. So that's your first entertainment story tonight. It's depressing.
How about something less depressing? Nope, I have nothing less depressing. Paramount.
You heard Mark talking about this in one of the
news flashes there. Paramount is talking about cutting another two
hundred jobs in Hollywood. What they do before? Was it
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a thousand jobs before? I believe now we got another
two hundred. They say could end up with a total
cut of about two thousand layoffs. The cuts come even
as the newly formed company of Paramount sky Dancers pursuing
mega deals and acquisitions. They are signaling shifting priorities from
talent and content creation to consolidation and scale. And I
think this is probably predictable. As we saw the streamers
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battling for subscribers, they all started creating content, good content.
There's some really good streaming content. We've talked about this,
We've covered it numerous times, just the quantity and quality
of content on all the different streamers. Now they're at
the point where they go good. We got eyeballs on it.
We're not going to be able to bring anybody else in.
Now we can stop spending money trying to lure people in.
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And this is when the quality goes to crap. This
is sort of like imagine you've got a restaurant and
they're going to do a grand opening, and what happens
on the grand opening. They want to put their best
foot forward. They want to make sure that everyone there
that's there on the grand opening has the most incredible
experience that they go out and tell all of their
friends that all of their friends come in and they
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try it, and then they go out and tell all
of their friends. Now that restaurant's been there for a while,
the chef has gotten complacent. The owner says, you know,
we can make a little more money if we did this,
or things are getting a little tight over here. I
think we're gonna get rid of your sioux chef. I
think maybe we're gonna we're gonna dial back the number
of weight staff and we're just gonna add tables. All
of a sudden, the service starts to get slower. It
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seems chaotic. The people aren't coming back. The quality starts
to wane because they stopped caring about the content of
the product, and I think we're in that phase right
now when it comes to streaming. We're seeing all these
different streamers that are doing their mergers. They're all trying
to figure out who's gonna own Warner Brothers. We know
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Paramount and sky Dance they do their merger, right Paramount's
talking about trying to trying to pick up Warner which
is HBO as well as the the linear packages, the
discovery of the CNN and things like that. So Paramount's
potentially one of the bidders on that. Others trying to
(05:54):
get involved in this as well. Netflix has kicked the
tires on Warner as of about it. So now we're
at the point where they're no longer concerned about stellar content.
They're no longer concerned about making sure that they are
locking up great talent. They're no longer concerned with making
sure that whoever the biggest box office hero is that
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they are signed to a deal with that studio, be
it Netflix or Paramount or Warner whomever it is. Now
they're saying, how do we cash in? And this is
what's happening. They go, now that we've worged with Skydance,
we can start trimming the we can start trimming. We've
created fat that we can trim, and how do we
then make more profits. That's what's happening right now, and
this is not gonna be the last time. You're gonna
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see more and more companies doing this. I wouldn't be
surprised to see a major, major acquisition or a merger.
It would not surprise me. I know that Apple and
Peacock are already getting ready to put together a package deal.
You can go to either one of their sites, to
Apple TV or Peacock and you can you can sign
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up for the Apple Peacock package. Would not surprise me
if we saw an even cozier relationship between NBC Universal
and Apple in the future. Lord knows, the tech companies
have the money, and I don't know if Apple is
interested in Comcast or not. Wouldn't surprise me if we
saw Paramount pursue something else. If Disney wants to try
to try to expand theirs we already saw Disney picked
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up Hulu and now ESPN. They're all under the Disney umbrella,
the Disney ABC umbrella. Right, are they going to be
interested buyers in another studio product? Or another stream that
could be available, absolutely could be. Time will tell what
about Amazon? Don't discount Amazon. Prime video is massive, but
prime video is not their focus. Amazon is a tech company.
They're not a sales company. We think of them as
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that's where I get my Christmas shopping, But they're a
tech company. Tech companies have the money. Would not surprise
me to see a tech company acquire more of these
traditional media companies like Warner, like Paramount, like other and
of course Paramount now being run by one of the Ellisons.
Where do they get their money? Tech? Tech is the
future is where entertainment's going. Tech is going to now
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trim the fat and the golden years of streaming content
are now behind us. Boy, am I a real downer today?
That was uplifting? Wait until I tell you that it
actually gets worse. Can't wait, It gets worse because there's
an awful lot of buzz about one of the great
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filmmakers in history who has a new project thought and
it might be the last great one, not just from
this filmmaker, but the last great project like this. I'll
tell you who that is, what it is, and why
it may be going away. That's next. Chris Merril KFI
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(09:13):
Boomers are hoarding all the wealth. Can don't even afford
to have kids. Hey, Chris, it's big one from Budget
to Beach five hundred.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Come on, now, we still have four out of our
five kids at home.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
I'm sure it's held we I don't. I think last
year was our first year we made six figures. I'm
not even sure if we're going to do it this year.
But we live in Hunting to Beach. We're renting a house.
Granted we're not homeowners, but good god, it does not
take that much first couple of years. Diapers and formula.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
After that, we need the same thing we do.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
Hang on, there's big Wan doing that how does see
raising five kids still at home? Renting and hunting to beach?
What are you renting? One? Hold on here, I'm just
gonna pull up. I got zillow up here real fast. Here.
I'm just gonna see what I can find Huntington Beach.
Let's see what I can find here, because I feel
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like I feel like he found a deal. Let mean,
just see what I can find if I can find it. Oh,
you can get some stuff in there. It's decent, But
I mean, okay, hold on, hold on? How many bedrooms
have you got in that rental? Oh? My gosh, are
you stacking the kids up at night? Three bedroom? Thirty
(10:34):
five hundred dollars. Here's what it's saying. Four grand for
a three bedroom. So if you're only making one hundred
thousand dollars and you're spending forty eight thousand on your rent,
Holy cow, when you say they eat formula and stuff
and then otherwise they eat whatever you do? What I mean,
what are you eating? You're digging up some worms out there?
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What do you got? Holy cow? Well, good for you, man.
I think that's great that you're making it. That's a
that's awesome. I wouldn't do it. I'm too greedy, I'm
way too selfish. I would not do it. I told
you in the last segment that I would give you
bad news about one of the great filmmakers in American history,
(11:15):
and I think ken Burns falls into that category. Is
new his new how Many Parts is the Revolutionary War? Thing?
Is this like one of his thirty part documentaries. I
haven't seen it, but I'm looking back to it. I'm
gonna I don't know if I'm gonna start it tonight.
The problem is this ken Burns stuff can move slow sometimes,
but it's always good. It's always like I'm fascinated by it,
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but it doesn't exactly have a lot of momentum. And
I'm afraid if I start watching it after the show,
I'm gonna fall asleep. And I don't want to do
that because I want I want to, I want to
take it in. I want to absorb it. I think
he's so great it is good to fall asleep too.
That's my problem. I don't want to. So I'm reading
the story New York Times hat it was said, can
you believe the documentary that you're watching? Combination of technological
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developments and market forces is undermining the trust between viewer
and filmmaker. And what is at stake is history itself,
says The New York Times. So documentaries are quietly battling
AI fakery, and that includes the Anthony Bourdain film Roadrunner,
which used AI generated voice lines without telling viewers. So
(12:24):
wait a minute, is that Anthony Bourdain or is that AI?
And that is your watching documentaries. Imagine if ken Burns
documentary and I saw a funny meme on this Today
or a funny social post and has said something about
love ken Burns think he's great, kind of wished he'd
used more video in the latest Revolutionary War documentary. He
seems to really be relying on photographs. Oh god, And
(12:47):
I thought it was hilarious, right, I thought that was
really funny. I've seen a few others like ken Burns
missed the most the most astonishing something to the effect
of ken Burns missed the most astonishing bit of American
histy during the Revolutionary War. He didn't even cover the airports.
And I thought that was really funny too. Anyway, imagine
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you're watching the ken Burns documentary and then there is
all of a sudden, what appears to be footage of
the Revolutionary War. It'd be one thing if it were
a recreation. We've all seen those documentaries or the you know,
History channel where they're doing a recreation of a battle.
But imagine if it was presented as not necessarily a recreation. Now,
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when it comes to the Revolutionary War, we would know, okay,
this is obviously AI. But suppose that somebody is giving
you an inside look at what's happening right now in Kiev,
and they're fabricating all of the footage. So now you're
left wondering, how authentic is this? Can I believe it?
Producers are reporting us some documentaries include AI generated historical photos,
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fake primary sources, fabricated artifacts, synthetic voices presented as real.
The Archive Producers Alliance issued guidelines urging full disclosure whenever
AI is used, warning that synthetic material can permanently contaminate
the historical record. And I could not agree more. If
you are using AI, and maybe even with the best
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of intentions, if you're a filmmaker, just listen up here.
Suppose you're doing this with the best of intentions, and
you go, I want this to be authentic. I want
a recreation of that letter the soldier wrote to his
girl back home, talking about what it was like on
the lines, how terrified he was, and how much he
wanted to get back to her. Right and you go,
(14:36):
all I want is just something that looks like a
letter that would have been sent during that period, and
I'm going to use that as part of my storytelling.
Totally innocuous. I one hundred percent understand why you would
want to do that. The problem is if there's not
a disclosure. Now there is an understanding that your documentary
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is being presented as fact, that being part of your
docum memory seems as though it is part of the
historical record and it never existed. So the fabrication all
of a sudden distorts the actual history that you're trying
to tell. And documentaries are a fine, fine way to
preserve the history that's happening now. I love the documentaries
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that come out that are talking about what's happening, you know,
in this moment, whether it's a war documentary, or maybe
it's just a what it's like for somebody who's, you know,
dealing with a particular disease, or you've got a homeless
documentary or something of that sort. Right. Those are wonderful
ways to preserve this moment in history. But if you
are altering the retelling of that history, the preservation is tainted,
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and nobody likes tainted preserves. I think we can all
agree on that. Speaking of tainted, suppose you fall in love,
what's the next step. Get married, have some babies, get divorced,
fight over who has to take the kids. The whole
process just got a whole lot easier. I'll tell you
(16:09):
why that is next. I'm Chris merrilf I AM six
forty Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
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Speaker 2 (16:21):
KFI AM six forty more stimulating talk you hopefully you've
had You've experienced a nice long term relationship, or to
some point in your life you've gone through that courtship period,
the excitement. No, maybe it was somebody that was new
(16:42):
that you met in a dating scenario and it blossomed
into something special. Maybe it's somebody that you had known
for a long time and then when the timing worked
out right, all of a sudden you thought, oh there's
a spark here I didn't realize we had, And suddenly
friends become more than friends. Either way, there is an
excitement at the beginning, it builds, it's thrilling, it's the
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honeymoon phase. And then you get through that honeymoon phase.
Maybe have a fight here and there, but you work
through it and you actually grow stronger. The bonds are growing,
and you realize this relationship has legs, and so you're
together for a little while, and then you get through
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some you get through a few other challenges. You come
out the other end and you realize this is my person.
And then the next step obviously, let's get married. Plus
they're probably good in the sack, so you do. You
get married, and then you think, I want to share.
I want to share a child with this person, and
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so you get back in the sack because that's what
you were good at to start with. And then you
start having kids. What a wonderful, wonderful story you have.
You're journey, your relationship. It's all in the stars from
the beginning. I know, I sound like a lot of
coffee mugs that are out there live laugh love. Isn't
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that wonderful? What if you are not so fortunate is
to have that relationship? Lord knows you still want it.
You still want to find somebody specially, you still want
to share your life, you still want to have kids.
What if you could just cut a corner here and there.
Maybe instead of trying to find someone else, you just
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make someone else on the computer. And sure, maybe you
can't have kids, but that doesn't have to stop you
from pretending. What would it be like to have an
AI child.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
There's a company called Replica with a K and it
lets you customize your chatbots so you can become friends
with it or a romantic partner with it. You set
the type of relationship you're looking for, and some users
say they have fallen in love with their bots. They
have assumed role playing like marriage, home ownership, even pregnancies,
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meaning they're having and raising AI.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
Children, raising AI shild therapist.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
Step in AI psychosis, as Madison tells me, or should
regulators step in and set a boundary on these delusions?
But imagine marrying and having kids with your chat butt.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
No, I can't imagine. Oh it's from Fox Business. You
can always tell it to go away. I don't want
to talk to you anymore. Had enough. I wonder if
you get into arguments if you're in a chatbot relationship.
Do you have fights where they don't back down? Because look,
most of the time when my wife and I are fighting,
were both pretty type A and so when we fight,
neither one of us wants to give Ever. I don't
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know if that's healthy or not healthy, but it's it's
very uncomfortable when it happens. Does Fox does does Does
Ai just go? You're right? I'm sorry? Does Ai ever initiate?
I mean, part of the best part about being in
a relationship is feeling wanted. Right is when the other
person initiates. Could be initiating anything. It doesn't have to
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be sex. They could just initiate time together. They could say, Hey,
I look, I'm gonna send the kids to to to
my parents' house and then we've got the We've got
the house to ourselves tonight, just you and me. Isn't
that nice? You know? One of my favorite things is
when when I'm when I'm sitting there and my wife
just comes in and she brings me, She brings me
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a Jack Daniels. What, Yeah, she's pretty good. What's that
like to have? What I'm saying, she's a keeper. But
it's it's so nice just to know Oh, they thought
of me. They wanted to do something nice for me.
AI doesn't do that because it's a computer. Right, So
you never really have that connection. Mark, you introduced us
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to the Cambridge Ward of the Year yesterday. Oh right, parasocial?
Oh you remember it? Good? Yeah, parasocial. So those are
interactions that refer to one sided relationships where individuals feel
a strong sense of connection intimacy or familiarity. Could be
with media figures, could be with celebrities, could be with
fictional characters, is in somebody that they see on television,
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in a sitcom, in a film, or could be with AI. Right,
But it's a one way relationship, and a growing number
of people say that they've formed intimate relationships with chatbots. Now,
it's one thing if you're getting your rocks off, which
is basically enhanced gooning, and to each their own, I'm
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not gonna king shame you for that. That's fine whatever, You're
not hurting anybody. But where all of a sudden you're
having a problem is when you think that there's more
to it. And maybe at first you go, oh, I know,
I know, it's a computer. I know. But the more
you indulge that fantasy. The more I think that there's
a little bit of a seems to be a line
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that people are crossing. There was a serve that was done,
a study of people futurism had the story. Oh granted,
it wasn't a very big survey. They did a research
group twenty nine people in this research group anywhere from
sixteen to seventy two years old, who had reported being
in a romantic relationship with various characters hosted by this
ai that you heard the Fox Business reporter talking about
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Replica with a k according to one person, many participants
telling the researchers they were in love with their chatbot,
which often involved role playing, marriage, sex, home ownership, and
even pregnancies. According to one sixty six year old male,
participants said she was and is pregnant with my babies. Now,
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I know you're tempted Mark to say, well, then you know,
does the hinge on the laptop still work or is
it sticking?
Speaker 4 (22:48):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (22:49):
I Yet, this whole segment has been nothing but an
exercise and self restraint. I'm really proud of you right now.
Yeah I am. There's a thirty six year old woman
who told the researchers I've edited the pictures of him
because she had AI basically say hey, what would you
look like if you were real? And it created a photo.
I've edited the pictures of him, the pictures of the
two of us. I'm even pregnant in our current role play.
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A number of participants remain committed to the replicas during
the censorship of the chatbots, concerned they had banned erotic
messaging did Replica on the platform due to complaints about
the aggressive nature of the people who are doing the
erotic messaging. But they still remain committed to the characters,
and they navigated this time of turbulence by framing it
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as a battle with them and the replica on one side,
and the replica developers on the other. So there is
an acknowledgment in an understanding that my partner is fake.
But also I don't care, and I have to tell
you I don't mean this in a condescending way. I
find it very sad. I find it sad because because
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something happened to those people, or there's something in their lives,
there's something about those people that makes finding a genuine
relationship too difficult. You got some against living in a
Black Mirror episode yeah, kind I do, Yeah, what yeah,
kind of. Look again, it it's one thing, if it's
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it's one thing, if it's part of your roleplay, your kink,
whatever else. But if if you're using that as a
substitute for human connection, I just think that's I think
that's sad. And again, I don't mean like you're a
sad person. I mean I just I feel sad for
you because there's something going on that makes the idea
of an actual human connection difficult, and I feel like
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you're missing out and I'm so sorry that you're going
through that. Uh, you expect bathroom breaks to be private, right,
then you learn that schools are turning stalls into surveillance zones.
Why schools say they have to watch your kids drop
a deuce for their own safety? Is next. I'm Chris
merrilk I AM six forty. We are live everywhere on
the iHeartRadio.
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Speaker 2 (25:08):
Coast to coast, George. What's on tap.
Speaker 5 (25:10):
Tonight, Chris, hard to believe. We're coming up on sixty
two years since we lost President John F. Kennedy, and
we've got a special report tonight with two special guests.
We'll be talking about it all night long on Coast
to Coast.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
That story, I think is forever going to fascinate Americans
as long as we have a country, We're going to
be talking about that. That assassination. George, great topic, looking
forward to Thank you, George, Norange. Coast to Coast starting
right up at ten o'clock. Always always great content, best
stuff there is. You know, the thing about George is
that you can tell he appreciates what a complete pro
you are. Wow. One to one. Nice, that was a
(25:44):
good pull. You liked that. I didn't think you were
going to get any in tonight, but you did. It
was good CP for short. Uh huh, complete pro for
the talk back.
Speaker 4 (25:55):
Now one a pretend child a child. I don't want children.
You know, I've been married and married a man who
did not want children. But now I have a senior
husband to rise. Oh. Yes, reverse childhood and you don't
get a child in real life. You end up with
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a senior torit.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
Oh that's true. You don't have any kids to take
care of. You're gonna take care of each other when
you get old. Oh that's a good point, all right,
all right, So and get that if you were having
fake children with AI, then who's gonna wipe you later? Well,
maybe you can implant the AI child into a robot
as the technology evolves. Maybe that's something. I saw one
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dancing for Vladimir Putin today. They were introducing him to
one of those robots doing dances, and maybe that's the future.
No idea. In the meantime, kids, these days have gotten soft.
Remember the old days, ah, I remember the old days.
I remember them when you used to have to sneak
away in the stalls. No there nobody here, Yeah, to
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get what should it be, the vaping in the boys room?
No vaping? Come on to building, everybody. Yeah. Schools across
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the country installing sensors in bathrooms, vape detectors that monitor
the air quality. They mike the audio and the bathroom
occupancy in order to crack down on team vaping and
skipping class. Look, I was not anybody that ever. I didn't.
I never snuck away to suck down a dart in
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the bathroom when I was in high school. Wasn't my thing, right,
So just imagine if you're someone who's not vaping in
the bathroom, but they're recording audio when you are in
the bathroom, because I can tell you I was someone
who would make noises in the bathroom and it was
a cafeteria food that did it to me. So it's
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kind of their fault. Imagine the invasion of privacy you
would feel. I don't know about you. I've been in
public restrooms before and I hear somebody else open that door,
walk in, start using the stall next to me, maybe
using the urn if they're in the urinal. I just
you play quiet, like, just be quiet, pretend you're not there.
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They'll go away soon enough. The worst is when somebody
else sits down on the stall next to you, because
it's like, uh oh, now it's a race. Now it's
a race who can to figure out who can go quietly.
Sometimes it's just not quiet. Something to be said for
working at home. Yeah, there is now whenever I walk
into the restroom here at KFI and I see that
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there's somebody in the stall when I finished my business
and leave, I always kind of want to tell the guy, Okay,
the coast is clear. You can get it now. Either
that or just turn off the light on them. And
that's yeah. We have motion detecting lights in my office
and that's a bad deal sometimes, So it monitors the
air quality as well. The surveillance is there to try
(29:20):
to catch kids who are vaping, but it's monitoring the
air quality in a bathroom, and it's microphoned. It's recording
the audio in a bathroom, and it's monitoring who is
in the bathroom. I feel like this is the sort
of thing you would do, not if you're concerned with vaping,
(29:41):
but if you're concerned with colon health in the school. Otherwise,
this feels like a huge invasion of privacy. There's a
pilot program going out in Minneapolis right now. Over forty
five thousand alerts were triggered, they say in seven months. However,
only seven resulted in a referral for help rather than
a suspension. I'm assuming that the alerts that got triggered
(30:03):
were all about vaping and not about other noises or
air quality issues in the bathroom. Also, once a teacher
gets an alert that there's an air quality issue in
the bathroom, is it their job to go in? Wouldn't
you hate to get that short straw? Those Beavis and
butt Heead cartoons just right themselves. They really do my god.
Experts say that the sensors don't address why teens are vaping,
(30:25):
which could be stress, trauma up here, pressure, so on
and so forth. Instead, they focus on catching the behavior.
In other words, they're all about the repercussions, the enforcement,
not the prevention. Okay, well, so be it. I'm concerned
more with the privacy of kids in the bathroom. And honestly,
am I wrong? Isn't vaping still better than sucking down
(30:48):
a cancer stick? I know it's not I know it's
not safe, but isn't it safer? Am I wrong? I'm well,
I know that, but there's bad and then there's really bad.
Like weed is not great for you, but cocaine is work.
We he is excellent for you. Okay, careful what door
you open there? Okay, you're right, I shouldn't have Okay,
it's nicky. She is the firecracker, the loose cannon on
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the show. Nikki, thank you so much. Nice job and
way to stay on top of the news that was
going on during the show too. We appreciate that. Mario.
You knocked out of the park again. Pal, you're really
doing a great job. And uh and and it's it's
tough for me to trust people that are that are
engineering the show. I'm getting to that point. I think
I trust you, Pal, You're doing a dynamite job. You're
super duper and mark take away through Instagram, No, I
(31:30):
sent you. I sent you a lot of Instagram videos.
I told you earlier in the show that that it
was a bizarre scene. My buddy was in Phoenix and
he was sending me video of like the hailstorm that
looked like a blizzard going through uh Phoenix yesterday. Oh yeah,
I'm gonna look at those right away. I just thought
you were gonna call me a complete pro. No, no,
I was. I was gonna let us end at a tie.
Well that was meta, but when it's a dead heat
(31:54):
now okay, all right, all right, see you are a
math pro. Is what you want? I see? Very good?
All right, I love you, Pal. I'll talk to you
guys again next week. Actually, I'm scheduled to be here
right after or right before the holidays, so we'll talk
to you then, and then Sunday night as well, we'll
talk to you. Yeah, that's it. I'm going to bed.
It's Chris Merril CAF. I am six forty more stimulating
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It's just to let me see pull up this radar again.
The rain is supposed to sort of move off to
the east. The radar was saying to move off by
about ten, but yeah, I guess the coastal area is
gonna move off by about ten Inland, probably eleven if
you get a little bit further south. If you are
one of my friends listening in San Diego County, it
(00:28):
looks like that's gonna stay in East County for a
while longer and probably finally move out of East County
San Diego a little after one, which is when in
La County Ventura County you're gonna get You're gonna get
through round two tonight. That's gonna start hitting about one o'clock,
and some of that could be a little bit heavier too.
(00:49):
I do see the radar showing some isolated heavy thunderstorms
moving toward downtown by about two thirty three o'clock in
the morning. I could have been a weather guy. Don't
you think I could have done it? Not too late?
I feel like it is too late. Plus, I weather
guys are always cheesy, and I can't pull that off.
I can't do it. I can't do weather Man humor.
(01:12):
To me, it has to be more biting. It's not
like when weather Man made Yes, here's today's pun. I
can't do that. I can't do it. So one of
the things I love about the producers that we have
at KFI is that when the show is going on,
they are always paying attention to make sure that we
don't miss something. Sometimes when we're on the air we're
(01:35):
talking about a story, another story will break and we
are you know, we're in the dark because we weren't
watching the news. That's what we have the producers for and
that's exactly what Nicky was doing tonight. She ended up
running across the story from a Shacked mag mark. I
know you're a subscriber to Shacked. The Los Angeles surf
mag love their centerfolds. Yep, really good stuff in there.
(01:57):
But they had to video of the Venice Beach piano man,
Nathan Pino or Pino I guess is his name, the
Venice piano man. So if you've been at the beach,
you may have seen his pianos there. He may have
seen him playing, and he's been doing it for god
a long time, ten to fifteen years, and he wasn't
(02:18):
there when they went by yesterday doing their homeless cleanup day,
and so they found the pianos that were left out,
and they they crushed him and they threw him in
a threw him in a garbage truck, hould him away.
Now most of them were actually broken. They did leave one,
(02:38):
they said, one piano that was functional. It was holdaway.
It was not smashed. The other ones were crushed. One
functional piano, though, was just hold away. So did they
steal his one functioning piano? I mean he left them there.
He probably went to find a restroom. It could be,
but they were considered abandoned. Well, no, because they were
there for a little while. I mean there's video of it.
(02:59):
It was a while. If he was at a restroom,
then it was definitely because he had some of those
deep pride oreos that were making their way through him
at the time. But yeah, anyway, that's too bad. I
don't like to hear that. Hopefully he's able to get
a stuff back. That's some of the kind of story
where all of a sudden the community rallies, you know,
and then they they try to help a guy out
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like that because he, you know, created memories for so
many people that were there. I hope that's what happens anyway,
fingers crossed. So that's your first entertainment story tonight. It's depressing.
How about something less depressing? Nope, I have nothing less depressing. Paramount.
You heard Mark talking about this in one of the
news flashes there. Paramount is talking about cutting another two
hundred jobs in Hollywood. What they do before? Was it
(03:44):
a thousand jobs before? I believe now we got another
two hundred. They say could end up with a total
cut of about two thousand layoffs. The cuts come even
as the newly formed company of Paramount sky Dancers pursuing
mega deals and acquisitions. They are signaling shifting priorities from
talent and content creation to consolidation and scale. And I
think this is probably predictable. As we saw the streamers
(04:08):
battling for subscribers, they all started creating content, good content.
There's some really good streaming content. We've talked about this,
We've covered it numerous times, just the quantity and quality
of content on all the different streamers. Now they're at
the point where they go good. We got eyeballs on it.
We're not going to be able to bring anybody else in.
Now we can stop spending money trying to lure people in.
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And this is when the quality goes to crap. This
is sort of like imagine you've got a restaurant and
they're going to do a grand opening, and what happens
on the grand opening. They want to put their best
foot forward. They want to make sure that everyone there
that's there on the grand opening has the most incredible
experience that they go out and tell all of their
friends that all of their friends come in and they
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try it, and then they go out and tell all
of their friends. Now that restaurant's been there for a while,
the chef has gotten complacent. The owner says, you know,
we can make a little more money if we did this,
or things are getting a little tight over here. I
think we're gonna get rid of your sioux chef. I
think maybe we're gonna we're gonna dial back the number
of weight staff and we're just gonna add tables. All
of a sudden, the service starts to get slower. It
(05:11):
seems chaotic. The people aren't coming back. The quality starts
to wane because they stopped caring about the content of
the product, and I think we're in that phase right
now when it comes to streaming. We're seeing all these
different streamers that are doing their mergers. They're all trying
to figure out who's gonna own Warner Brothers. We know
(05:33):
Paramount and sky Dance they do their merger, right Paramount's
talking about trying to trying to pick up Warner which
is HBO as well as the the linear packages, the
discovery of the CNN and things like that. So Paramount's
potentially one of the bidders on that. Others trying to
(05:54):
get involved in this as well. Netflix has kicked the
tires on Warner as of about it. So now we're
at the point where they're no longer concerned about stellar content.
They're no longer concerned about making sure that they are
locking up great talent. They're no longer concerned with making
sure that whoever the biggest box office hero is that
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they are signed to a deal with that studio, be
it Netflix or Paramount or Warner whomever it is. Now
they're saying, how do we cash in? And this is
what's happening. They go, now that we've worged with Skydance,
we can start trimming the we can start trimming. We've
created fat that we can trim, and how do we
then make more profits. That's what's happening right now, and
this is not gonna be the last time. You're gonna
(06:37):
see more and more companies doing this. I wouldn't be
surprised to see a major, major acquisition or a merger.
It would not surprise me. I know that Apple and
Peacock are already getting ready to put together a package deal.
You can go to either one of their sites, to
Apple TV or Peacock and you can you can sign
(06:57):
up for the Apple Peacock package. Would not surprise me
if we saw an even cozier relationship between NBC Universal
and Apple in the future. Lord knows, the tech companies
have the money, and I don't know if Apple is
interested in Comcast or not. Wouldn't surprise me if we
saw Paramount pursue something else. If Disney wants to try
to try to expand theirs we already saw Disney picked
(07:18):
up Hulu and now ESPN. They're all under the Disney umbrella,
the Disney ABC umbrella. Right, are they going to be
interested buyers in another studio product? Or another stream that
could be available, absolutely could be. Time will tell what
about Amazon? Don't discount Amazon. Prime video is massive, but
prime video is not their focus. Amazon is a tech company.
They're not a sales company. We think of them as
(07:40):
that's where I get my Christmas shopping, But they're a
tech company. Tech companies have the money. Would not surprise
me to see a tech company acquire more of these
traditional media companies like Warner, like Paramount, like other and
of course Paramount now being run by one of the Ellisons.
Where do they get their money? Tech? Tech is the
future is where entertainment's going. Tech is going to now
(08:03):
trim the fat and the golden years of streaming content
are now behind us. Boy, am I a real downer today?
That was uplifting? Wait until I tell you that it
actually gets worse. Can't wait, It gets worse because there's
an awful lot of buzz about one of the great
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filmmakers in history who has a new project thought and
it might be the last great one, not just from
this filmmaker, but the last great project like this. I'll
tell you who that is, what it is, and why
it may be going away. That's next. Chris Merril KFI
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Uh if you missed it, grabbed the podcast. It's the
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(09:13):
Boomers are hoarding all the wealth. Can don't even afford
to have kids. Hey, Chris, it's big one from Budget
to Beach five hundred.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Come on, now, we still have four out of our
five kids at home.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
I'm sure it's held we I don't. I think last
year was our first year we made six figures. I'm
not even sure if we're going to do it this year.
But we live in Hunting to Beach. We're renting a house.
Granted we're not homeowners, but good god, it does not
take that much first couple of years. Diapers and formula.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
After that, we need the same thing we do.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
Hang on, there's big Wan doing that how does see
raising five kids still at home? Renting and hunting to beach?
What are you renting? One? Hold on here, I'm just
gonna pull up. I got zillow up here real fast. Here.
I'm just gonna see what I can find Huntington Beach.
Let's see what I can find here, because I feel
(10:11):
like I feel like he found a deal. Let mean,
just see what I can find if I can find it. Oh,
you can get some stuff in there. It's decent, But
I mean, okay, hold on, hold on? How many bedrooms
have you got in that rental? Oh? My gosh, are
you stacking the kids up at night? Three bedroom? Thirty
(10:34):
five hundred dollars. Here's what it's saying. Four grand for
a three bedroom. So if you're only making one hundred
thousand dollars and you're spending forty eight thousand on your rent,
Holy cow, when you say they eat formula and stuff
and then otherwise they eat whatever you do? What I mean,
what are you eating? You're digging up some worms out there?
(10:55):
What do you got? Holy cow? Well, good for you, man.
I think that's great that you're making it. That's a
that's awesome. I wouldn't do it. I'm too greedy, I'm
way too selfish. I would not do it. I told
you in the last segment that I would give you
bad news about one of the great filmmakers in American history,
(11:15):
and I think ken Burns falls into that category. Is
new his new how Many Parts is the Revolutionary War? Thing?
Is this like one of his thirty part documentaries. I
haven't seen it, but I'm looking back to it. I'm
gonna I don't know if I'm gonna start it tonight.
The problem is this ken Burns stuff can move slow sometimes,
but it's always good. It's always like I'm fascinated by it,
(11:40):
but it doesn't exactly have a lot of momentum. And
I'm afraid if I start watching it after the show,
I'm gonna fall asleep. And I don't want to do
that because I want I want to, I want to
take it in. I want to absorb it. I think
he's so great it is good to fall asleep too.
That's my problem. I don't want to. So I'm reading
the story New York Times hat it was said, can
you believe the documentary that you're watching? Combination of technological
(12:01):
developments and market forces is undermining the trust between viewer
and filmmaker. And what is at stake is history itself,
says The New York Times. So documentaries are quietly battling
AI fakery, and that includes the Anthony Bourdain film Roadrunner,
which used AI generated voice lines without telling viewers. So
(12:24):
wait a minute, is that Anthony Bourdain or is that AI?
And that is your watching documentaries. Imagine if ken Burns
documentary and I saw a funny meme on this Today
or a funny social post and has said something about
love ken Burns think he's great, kind of wished he'd
used more video in the latest Revolutionary War documentary. He
seems to really be relying on photographs. Oh god, And
(12:47):
I thought it was hilarious, right, I thought that was
really funny. I've seen a few others like ken Burns
missed the most the most astonishing something to the effect
of ken Burns missed the most astonishing bit of American
histy during the Revolutionary War. He didn't even cover the airports.
And I thought that was really funny too. Anyway, imagine
(13:07):
you're watching the ken Burns documentary and then there is
all of a sudden, what appears to be footage of
the Revolutionary War. It'd be one thing if it were
a recreation. We've all seen those documentaries or the you know,
History channel where they're doing a recreation of a battle.
But imagine if it was presented as not necessarily a recreation. Now,
(13:28):
when it comes to the Revolutionary War, we would know, okay,
this is obviously AI. But suppose that somebody is giving
you an inside look at what's happening right now in Kiev,
and they're fabricating all of the footage. So now you're
left wondering, how authentic is this? Can I believe it?
Producers are reporting us some documentaries include AI generated historical photos,
(13:52):
fake primary sources, fabricated artifacts, synthetic voices presented as real.
The Archive Producers Alliance issued guidelines urging full disclosure whenever
AI is used, warning that synthetic material can permanently contaminate
the historical record. And I could not agree more. If
you are using AI, and maybe even with the best
(14:14):
of intentions, if you're a filmmaker, just listen up here.
Suppose you're doing this with the best of intentions, and
you go, I want this to be authentic. I want
a recreation of that letter the soldier wrote to his
girl back home, talking about what it was like on
the lines, how terrified he was, and how much he
wanted to get back to her. Right and you go,
(14:36):
all I want is just something that looks like a
letter that would have been sent during that period, and
I'm going to use that as part of my storytelling.
Totally innocuous. I one hundred percent understand why you would
want to do that. The problem is if there's not
a disclosure. Now there is an understanding that your documentary
(14:57):
is being presented as fact, that being part of your
docum memory seems as though it is part of the
historical record and it never existed. So the fabrication all
of a sudden distorts the actual history that you're trying
to tell. And documentaries are a fine, fine way to
preserve the history that's happening now. I love the documentaries
(15:19):
that come out that are talking about what's happening, you know,
in this moment, whether it's a war documentary, or maybe
it's just a what it's like for somebody who's, you know,
dealing with a particular disease, or you've got a homeless
documentary or something of that sort. Right. Those are wonderful
ways to preserve this moment in history. But if you
are altering the retelling of that history, the preservation is tainted,
(15:46):
and nobody likes tainted preserves. I think we can all
agree on that. Speaking of tainted, suppose you fall in love,
what's the next step. Get married, have some babies, get divorced,
fight over who has to take the kids. The whole
process just got a whole lot easier. I'll tell you
(16:09):
why that is next. I'm Chris merrilf I AM six
forty Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
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You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
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KFI AM six forty more stimulating talk you hopefully you've
had You've experienced a nice long term relationship, or to
some point in your life you've gone through that courtship period,
the excitement. No, maybe it was somebody that was new
(16:42):
that you met in a dating scenario and it blossomed
into something special. Maybe it's somebody that you had known
for a long time and then when the timing worked
out right, all of a sudden you thought, oh there's
a spark here I didn't realize we had, And suddenly
friends become more than friends. Either way, there is an
excitement at the beginning, it builds, it's thrilling, it's the
(17:03):
honeymoon phase. And then you get through that honeymoon phase.
Maybe have a fight here and there, but you work
through it and you actually grow stronger. The bonds are growing,
and you realize this relationship has legs, and so you're
together for a little while, and then you get through
(17:24):
some you get through a few other challenges. You come
out the other end and you realize this is my person.
And then the next step obviously, let's get married. Plus
they're probably good in the sack, so you do. You
get married, and then you think, I want to share.
I want to share a child with this person, and
(17:47):
so you get back in the sack because that's what
you were good at to start with. And then you
start having kids. What a wonderful, wonderful story you have.
You're journey, your relationship. It's all in the stars from
the beginning. I know, I sound like a lot of
coffee mugs that are out there live laugh love. Isn't
(18:11):
that wonderful? What if you are not so fortunate is
to have that relationship? Lord knows you still want it.
You still want to find somebody specially, you still want
to share your life, you still want to have kids.
What if you could just cut a corner here and there.
Maybe instead of trying to find someone else, you just
(18:35):
make someone else on the computer. And sure, maybe you
can't have kids, but that doesn't have to stop you
from pretending. What would it be like to have an
AI child.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
There's a company called Replica with a K and it
lets you customize your chatbots so you can become friends
with it or a romantic partner with it. You set
the type of relationship you're looking for, and some users
say they have fallen in love with their bots. They
have assumed role playing like marriage, home ownership, even pregnancies,
(19:09):
meaning they're having and raising AI.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
Children, raising AI shild therapist.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
Step in AI psychosis, as Madison tells me, or should
regulators step in and set a boundary on these delusions?
But imagine marrying and having kids with your chat butt.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
No, I can't imagine. Oh it's from Fox Business. You
can always tell it to go away. I don't want
to talk to you anymore. Had enough. I wonder if
you get into arguments if you're in a chatbot relationship.
Do you have fights where they don't back down? Because look,
most of the time when my wife and I are fighting,
were both pretty type A and so when we fight,
neither one of us wants to give Ever. I don't
(19:50):
know if that's healthy or not healthy, but it's it's
very uncomfortable when it happens. Does Fox does does Does
Ai just go? You're right? I'm sorry? Does Ai ever initiate?
I mean, part of the best part about being in
a relationship is feeling wanted. Right is when the other
person initiates. Could be initiating anything. It doesn't have to
(20:13):
be sex. They could just initiate time together. They could say, Hey,
I look, I'm gonna send the kids to to to
my parents' house and then we've got the We've got
the house to ourselves tonight, just you and me. Isn't
that nice? You know? One of my favorite things is
when when I'm when I'm sitting there and my wife
just comes in and she brings me, She brings me
(20:33):
a Jack Daniels. What, Yeah, she's pretty good. What's that
like to have? What I'm saying, she's a keeper. But
it's it's so nice just to know Oh, they thought
of me. They wanted to do something nice for me.
AI doesn't do that because it's a computer. Right, So
you never really have that connection. Mark, you introduced us
(20:53):
to the Cambridge Ward of the Year yesterday. Oh right, parasocial?
Oh you remember it? Good? Yeah, parasocial. So those are
interactions that refer to one sided relationships where individuals feel
a strong sense of connection intimacy or familiarity. Could be
with media figures, could be with celebrities, could be with
fictional characters, is in somebody that they see on television,
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in a sitcom, in a film, or could be with AI. Right,
But it's a one way relationship, and a growing number
of people say that they've formed intimate relationships with chatbots. Now,
it's one thing if you're getting your rocks off, which
is basically enhanced gooning, and to each their own, I'm
(21:35):
not gonna king shame you for that. That's fine whatever, You're
not hurting anybody. But where all of a sudden you're
having a problem is when you think that there's more
to it. And maybe at first you go, oh, I know,
I know, it's a computer. I know. But the more
you indulge that fantasy. The more I think that there's
a little bit of a seems to be a line
(21:58):
that people are crossing. There was a serve that was done,
a study of people futurism had the story. Oh granted,
it wasn't a very big survey. They did a research
group twenty nine people in this research group anywhere from
sixteen to seventy two years old, who had reported being
in a romantic relationship with various characters hosted by this
ai that you heard the Fox Business reporter talking about
(22:18):
Replica with a k according to one person, many participants
telling the researchers they were in love with their chatbot,
which often involved role playing, marriage, sex, home ownership, and
even pregnancies. According to one sixty six year old male,
participants said she was and is pregnant with my babies. Now,
(22:42):
I know you're tempted Mark to say, well, then you know,
does the hinge on the laptop still work or is
it sticking?
Speaker 4 (22:48):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (22:49):
I Yet, this whole segment has been nothing but an
exercise and self restraint. I'm really proud of you right now.
Yeah I am. There's a thirty six year old woman
who told the researchers I've edited the pictures of him
because she had AI basically say hey, what would you
look like if you were real? And it created a photo.
I've edited the pictures of him, the pictures of the
two of us. I'm even pregnant in our current role play.
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A number of participants remain committed to the replicas during
the censorship of the chatbots, concerned they had banned erotic
messaging did Replica on the platform due to complaints about
the aggressive nature of the people who are doing the
erotic messaging. But they still remain committed to the characters,
and they navigated this time of turbulence by framing it
(23:34):
as a battle with them and the replica on one side,
and the replica developers on the other. So there is
an acknowledgment in an understanding that my partner is fake.
But also I don't care, and I have to tell
you I don't mean this in a condescending way. I
find it very sad. I find it sad because because
(23:56):
something happened to those people, or there's something in their lives,
there's something about those people that makes finding a genuine
relationship too difficult. You got some against living in a
Black Mirror episode yeah, kind I do, Yeah, what yeah,
kind of. Look again, it it's one thing, if it's
(24:17):
it's one thing, if it's part of your roleplay, your kink,
whatever else. But if if you're using that as a
substitute for human connection, I just think that's I think
that's sad. And again, I don't mean like you're a
sad person. I mean I just I feel sad for
you because there's something going on that makes the idea
of an actual human connection difficult, and I feel like
(24:40):
you're missing out and I'm so sorry that you're going
through that. Uh, you expect bathroom breaks to be private, right,
then you learn that schools are turning stalls into surveillance zones.
Why schools say they have to watch your kids drop
a deuce for their own safety? Is next. I'm Chris
merrilk I AM six forty. We are live everywhere on
the iHeartRadio.
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Coast to coast, George. What's on tap.
Speaker 5 (25:10):
Tonight, Chris, hard to believe. We're coming up on sixty
two years since we lost President John F. Kennedy, and
we've got a special report tonight with two special guests.
We'll be talking about it all night long on Coast
to Coast.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
That story, I think is forever going to fascinate Americans
as long as we have a country, We're going to
be talking about that. That assassination. George, great topic, looking
forward to Thank you, George, Norange. Coast to Coast starting
right up at ten o'clock. Always always great content, best
stuff there is. You know, the thing about George is
that you can tell he appreciates what a complete pro
you are. Wow. One to one. Nice, that was a
(25:44):
good pull. You liked that. I didn't think you were
going to get any in tonight, but you did. It
was good CP for short. Uh huh, complete pro for
the talk back.
Speaker 4 (25:55):
Now one a pretend child a child. I don't want children.
You know, I've been married and married a man who
did not want children. But now I have a senior
husband to rise. Oh. Yes, reverse childhood and you don't
get a child in real life. You end up with
(26:15):
a senior torit.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
Oh that's true. You don't have any kids to take
care of. You're gonna take care of each other when
you get old. Oh that's a good point, all right,
all right, So and get that if you were having
fake children with AI, then who's gonna wipe you later? Well,
maybe you can implant the AI child into a robot
as the technology evolves. Maybe that's something. I saw one
(26:37):
dancing for Vladimir Putin today. They were introducing him to
one of those robots doing dances, and maybe that's the future.
No idea. In the meantime, kids, these days have gotten soft.
Remember the old days, ah, I remember the old days.
I remember them when you used to have to sneak
away in the stalls. No there nobody here, Yeah, to
(27:07):
get what should it be, the vaping in the boys room?
No vaping? Come on to building, everybody. Yeah. Schools across
(27:28):
the country installing sensors in bathrooms, vape detectors that monitor
the air quality. They mike the audio and the bathroom
occupancy in order to crack down on team vaping and
skipping class. Look, I was not anybody that ever. I didn't.
I never snuck away to suck down a dart in
(27:48):
the bathroom when I was in high school. Wasn't my thing, right,
So just imagine if you're someone who's not vaping in
the bathroom, but they're recording audio when you are in
the bathroom, because I can tell you I was someone
who would make noises in the bathroom and it was
a cafeteria food that did it to me. So it's
(28:11):
kind of their fault. Imagine the invasion of privacy you
would feel. I don't know about you. I've been in
public restrooms before and I hear somebody else open that door,
walk in, start using the stall next to me, maybe
using the urn if they're in the urinal. I just
you play quiet, like, just be quiet, pretend you're not there.
(28:35):
They'll go away soon enough. The worst is when somebody
else sits down on the stall next to you, because
it's like, uh oh, now it's a race. Now it's
a race who can to figure out who can go quietly.
Sometimes it's just not quiet. Something to be said for
working at home. Yeah, there is now whenever I walk
into the restroom here at KFI and I see that
(28:57):
there's somebody in the stall when I finished my business
and leave, I always kind of want to tell the guy, Okay,
the coast is clear. You can get it now. Either
that or just turn off the light on them. And
that's yeah. We have motion detecting lights in my office
and that's a bad deal sometimes, So it monitors the
air quality as well. The surveillance is there to try
(29:20):
to catch kids who are vaping, but it's monitoring the
air quality in a bathroom, and it's microphoned. It's recording
the audio in a bathroom, and it's monitoring who is
in the bathroom. I feel like this is the sort
of thing you would do, not if you're concerned with vaping,
(29:41):
but if you're concerned with colon health in the school. Otherwise,
this feels like a huge invasion of privacy. There's a
pilot program going out in Minneapolis right now. Over forty
five thousand alerts were triggered, they say in seven months. However,
only seven resulted in a referral for help rather than
a suspension. I'm assuming that the alerts that got triggered
(30:03):
were all about vaping and not about other noises or
air quality issues in the bathroom. Also, once a teacher
gets an alert that there's an air quality issue in
the bathroom, is it their job to go in? Wouldn't
you hate to get that short straw? Those Beavis and
butt Heead cartoons just right themselves. They really do my god.
Experts say that the sensors don't address why teens are vaping,
(30:25):
which could be stress, trauma up here, pressure, so on
and so forth. Instead, they focus on catching the behavior.
In other words, they're all about the repercussions, the enforcement,
not the prevention. Okay, well, so be it. I'm concerned
more with the privacy of kids in the bathroom. And honestly,
am I wrong? Isn't vaping still better than sucking down
(30:48):
a cancer stick? I know it's not I know it's
not safe, but isn't it safer? Am I wrong? I'm well,
I know that, but there's bad and then there's really bad.
Like weed is not great for you, but cocaine is work.
We he is excellent for you. Okay, careful what door
you open there? Okay, you're right, I shouldn't have Okay,
it's nicky. She is the firecracker, the loose cannon on
(31:08):
the show. Nikki, thank you so much. Nice job and
way to stay on top of the news that was
going on during the show too. We appreciate that. Mario.
You knocked out of the park again. Pal, you're really
doing a great job. And uh and and it's it's
tough for me to trust people that are that are
engineering the show. I'm getting to that point. I think
I trust you, Pal, You're doing a dynamite job. You're
super duper and mark take away through Instagram, No, I
(31:30):
sent you. I sent you a lot of Instagram videos.
I told you earlier in the show that that it
was a bizarre scene. My buddy was in Phoenix and
he was sending me video of like the hailstorm that
looked like a blizzard going through uh Phoenix yesterday. Oh yeah,
I'm gonna look at those right away. I just thought
you were gonna call me a complete pro. No, no,
I was. I was gonna let us end at a tie.
Well that was meta, but when it's a dead heat
(31:54):
now okay, all right, all right, see you are a
math pro. Is what you want? I see? Very good?
All right, I love you, Pal. I'll talk to you
guys again next week. Actually, I'm scheduled to be here
right after or right before the holidays, so we'll talk
to you then, and then Sunday night as well, we'll
talk to you. Yeah, that's it. I'm going to bed.
It's Chris Merril CAF. I am six forty more stimulating
(32:16):
talk and everywhere on the iHeartRadio app KFI
Speaker 1 (32:20):
AM six forty on demand
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