October 23, 2025 • 31 mins
Netflix’s hit dramedy “Boots” shines a new light on identity and duty, while Channel 4’s AI-generated news anchor raises big questions about the future of journalism. Plus, you can now spend the night in the real “Poltergeist” house — if you dare — and Miami’s newest cop isn’t human: an autonomous police SUV equipped to launch drones on patrol. It’s the future arriving faster than expected!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to KFI AM six on demand.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
I've been a news from Tintletown and beyond. Netflix is
gone all woke you Netflix straight up woke.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
I know because the Pentagon said so.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Indeed, indeed, they've got a new series mark have you
seen it called Boots.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
I don't.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Somebody's asked me about Netflix and I and I don't
have Netflix. It's the only I have Netflix in paramount,
like the only streaming services I don't have, because Netflix
just started to get so expensive and it just started
to irritate me, so I dumped it. But now everybody
else is catching up to the Netflix price now. So anyway, Netflix,
(00:44):
Netflix got the boot first and now they have a
new series called Boots, which is a dramay about a
closeted gay marine in nineteen ninety and evidently it is
very popular on Netflix. So it is a loose adaptation
of the Pink Marine, which is a from Sergeant Greg
Cope White. And the Pentagon was asked about it because
(01:06):
that's journalism. Now what are you talking about the new
show on Netflix? Pentagon press secretary called Netflix content woke garbage.
So the the Press secretary, Kingsley Wilson put out a
statement and emphasize they returned to the warrior ethos under
(01:28):
President Trump and Secretary Hexeth, rejecting what she called ideological agendas. Now,
if you get anything out of this, I want you
to start paying attention to the way that certain words
are being used to market to you. So you've got
the warrior ethos. Okay, what does that do? I didn't
(01:50):
do anything. I saw there's an ad running. I forget
what station I saw it on, maybe something my Hulu.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Have you seen this ad? Marke?
Speaker 2 (01:59):
It's the Uh it's for a hoodie and it's got
it's a tactical hoodie. Well, all guys love tactical gear,
that's it. What is tactical about a hoodie? Just like
we love cargo shorts. Come on, what is tactical about
a hoodie? They're like, Oh, it's a tactical hoodie. What
is tactical about it? No, you want to say that
it's rugged. You want to say that it's made with
(02:20):
a certain weave that is tear resistant, something of that sort.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
That's fine.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
You would have said it's waterproof.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
That's great.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Look, I've got I've got some car hearts that are
waterproof and and they're the ones I use when I'm
doing field work at my parents' house. You know, I'll
be doing that next week. I'll be in Michigan, uh
and I'll be working in the in the in the cold.
It's the end of October, it's cold. I'll be doing
leaves and I'll be in my my car.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Heart. But it's not tactical.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
The military is funny because they have they have what
they call tactical stretching. Yep, it's tactical stretching. Do you
know what tactical stretching is? And yoga it's yoga. Yoga, really,
it's yoga. Yeah, but they can't call it yoga because
that doesn't have the warrior ethos. So they call it
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tactical stretching.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
Okay, I guess if you add tactical to anything, it
makes it sound just a little bit more.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Butch doesn't it Absolutely it's more manly. Yeah, And I'm
not woke. I'm tactical, right. And so you start seeing
these little dog whistles that are being put everywhere, and
the military knows, they know it. And look, if you're
trying to sell yourself as a place for young men
to sign up and dedicate a portion of their young
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lives to before they head off to college or whatever
else it is.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
I get it.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
It makes perfect sense. You know your audience. You're marketing
to them.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
I don't like being marketed to all the time, though,
And look, I actually like a good hoodie. I will
pay good money, as I did for my car herd.
I will pay good money for a waterproof hoodie that
is rip resistant and warm and insulated, and I can
use it when I'm snowblowing or when I'm a rake
and leaves.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Whatever it is, right, I'm all for it.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
To me.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
It's very practical.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
It's utilitarian, but it's not tactical, and I find that
to be a huge turn off. So anyway, the Pentagon
says boots is woke garbage, and it's it is.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
It's not in line with the warrior ethos.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Well, you're not about to suggest that there could possibly
be any gay people in the military, are you.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
No, there are not. We got rid of a please.
You know, I.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Recall it's been fifteen years or more. Did Mark moved
them a DENI shatt you remember that guy? He was
ahead of Iran?
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (04:40):
And yeah, so he was I think he was at
the UN and somebody asked him about how they deal
with gay people in Iran, How do you deal with
gay Iranians?
Speaker 3 (04:52):
And he said, we don't have any.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Well, surely you have, you have some members of your
society that are gay.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
Nope, we don't have any. Okay.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
And that's what this reminds me of, like, oh, there
are nobody is gay in the military.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
No.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
No, too tactical for him. It's more tactical, tactical sexual encounter.
This is a tactical release exercise. Careful, we're gonna do
some tactical bunking up.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
Yeah, what happened? I dropped my tactical soap Good Times.
All right, enough of that.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
The FCC chair Brendan Car says we're not tactical enough.
He claims it's time to start punishing people for thought.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
Oh good, you know.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
I was worried we weren't barreling toward nineteen eighty four
fast enough.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
But lo and behold.
Speaker 5 (05:56):
FCC chair Brendan Car says he from a Barrett media
he's reopen to revoking broadcast licenses from broadcasters. In an
interview with Media Research Center President David Bozel, car stated
that it's.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
His book, by the Way Media Research Center that is
a way right wing news. What do you call them, uh,
news watchdog. They're kind of like a media watch.
Speaker 5 (06:18):
For the right belief that leading the FCC means he
has a duty to reinvigorate the public interest standard and
that broadcasters need to serve the needs of their local
communities when it comes to licensed broadcast TV.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Okay, there you go. Got to serve the needs of
the local community. So again we're in a denial phase.
So it's like, you have to serve the needs of
your local community. And we've got a number of people
here who voted for President Trump that don't like what
this broadcast is saying. So you're not serving the needs.
What about the people they do like it. We don't
worry about their needs. We were about our needs, tactical needs.
Speaker 5 (06:53):
Only twenty six percent of news consumers trust AI information.
According to new data revealed at the NAB Show New York.
Sixty eight percent of respondents that AI generated information is
not trustworthy. Eight seventy six percent are concerned about AI
stealing or reproducing local news stories.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
There you go, Mark, AI is gonna do it.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
We're not gonna limit AI, but we're gonna limit people
for not serving the.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
Certain portions of the community.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
Well what's more American than punishing people for free speech?
Speaker 3 (07:25):
Yeah, or well taking away their broadcast.
Speaker 4 (07:26):
Relations really learned the lesson from that whole Kimmel fiasco
leaning on ABC. Yeah, by the way, did you see
that Disney cancelations like doubled the rate of cancelations doubled. Yeah,
story today, and they lost something like five billion dollars
in market value as well.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
That Honestly, I saw people saying, I'm canceling, and I'm canceling,
and I'm canceling it. I never imagined that it was
going up to four million cancelations. Now, they normally have
like two million cancelations a month.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Right, they come and they go.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
So it's not like four million people canceled because of
Jimmy Kimmel, but you could probably reasonably assume that two
million plus.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
Did their normal rate doubled at Hulu and Disney.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
Yeah, that I.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
Was wrong.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
I saw people saying I'm gonna cancel, and I thought, yeah, okay,
well they don't care about you.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
But also, let me make this point. They got him
back on.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
And I think it's important to do a follow up
to what the subscription rate was after he's back on
and football season is in the throws because as Disney
and Hulu carry football, and it's Disney and ESPN now
are teaming up because now you've got Monday night football
with Disney, you've got ESPN that's got the college football rights,
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and football is king in America. It is driving content
and especially appointment viewing more than any anything else.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
Networks are.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
They are fighting for sports right now because that's where
they get their appointment viewing.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
And I think we're going to see those numbers reverse.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Maybe not at the same rate, but I would not
be surprised to see that subscription numbers increase more, maybe
fifty percent rather than rather than double, But I would
not be surprised to see those numbers come back. But look,
I was wrong about the cancelations. I could be wrong
about people returning. I absolutely could happen. It's been known.
(09:31):
It's been known to not often, but there are instances
of you being wrong.
Speaker 4 (09:37):
Yeah, oh heaven forbidden. No, no, I mean rare, but it.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
Does happen, So mark it down.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Oh have you ever wanted to own an iconic piece
of movie memorabilia. Of course I'd be meat for the collection.
What if it's too big to throw in the den?
What if you could just rent it for a while weekend.
You'll find out where your rental money could go and
make you the scariest person this Halloween.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
That is next. I'm Chris Merrill.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Oh, much to the chagrin of one Mark Runner will
get pixel perfect with Ai coming up here after his
nine thirty news.
Speaker 4 (10:19):
You love antagonizing me a.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Little bit, a little bit, a little bit, little bit.
Speaker 4 (10:25):
Okay, how about.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
The greatest airbnb in southern California for Halloween? Anyway, it
could be the Poltergeist House. Listen to that eighties soundtrack. Ooh,
I love that, well done, ABC seven.
Speaker 6 (10:46):
Like the house is getting a new life and people
able to experience it in really cool and interesting and
unique ways. Buying this house was not quite what I
had planned in life. I actually had a gut instinct
about a month before it went on the market. Fast
forward a month later, I'm in my backyard of my
sister's house. She's like, Hey, the Poltergeist House is on
the market. Next thing I know, I am calling my
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realtor getting preapproved, and I'm in the kitchen in the
Poltergeis house.
Speaker 4 (11:13):
Whoo.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
I kind of love that.
Speaker 4 (11:16):
The house looks just like the one next to it
and the one next to that.
Speaker 6 (11:24):
I grew up watching the culture.
Speaker 5 (11:26):
I've probably seen it about.
Speaker 6 (11:27):
Fifty times before I bought the house, and now since
I've bought the house, now probably another fifty.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
Is that one of those things where you just keep
it rolling, like you just you just have it on
constant repeat. I give you an example. I think you
almost have to do this a certain museum pieces. So
I've made mentioned more than once, probably irritatingly so that
I grew up in northern Michigan. So last summer, or
(11:55):
I guess it was a labor day, my wife and
I went up to the Upper Peninsula and whenever we're
up there, always like to go up to white Fish Point.
If you're unfamiliar, Whitefish Point is where Edmund Fitzgerald sank,
and so there's a coast Guard station up there, and
then there's a museum.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
It's a shipwreck museum. It's a great Lake.
Speaker 4 (12:12):
Shipwreck museum is there at Whitefish Point.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
And a cool place, goes through all the different shipwrecks,
and of course Edmond Fitzgerald is prominently featured, but there
are a number of others, hundreds of shipwrecks in the
Great Lakes. When you walk in, they have Gordon Lightfoot
playing on repeat, which must be absolute torture for the
people working there. Granted it's a great song, but any
song over.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
And over and over again, day in and day out,
day in and day out.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
I mean, that's that's how you break terraces, right, that's
Abu Grebe stuff. Come on, who doesn't love a shanty,
a good shanty. Everybody loves a shaw. So anyway, I'm
just thinking when you when you're at the Poultergeist House,
you basically have to have that running NonStop and room anyway,
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don't you.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
You have to.
Speaker 6 (13:03):
I wanted to bring the feeling of the eerie charm,
but also have it warm and inviting.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
I wanted warm and inviting, like when she disappeared and
was talking through the television, to have.
Speaker 6 (13:17):
A balance between modern amenities. Especially there's a lot of
families that come here, and so kids may not want
to play on the atari. They might want to play
on the Xbox, on the app, on the smart.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
TV, doesn't matter, you still end up getting sucked into
a vortex.
Speaker 6 (13:31):
Yeah, instead and again, just bringing people together and families together.
And what do you love to do around a fire?
Die signature Poltergeist some moors at the Poltergeist House.
Speaker 4 (13:41):
Okay.
Speaker 6 (13:42):
What's interesting is that every time somebody inquires about the house,
they tell me their story. And it's really cool because
it's never just a Hey, I want to book the house.
It's Poltergeist. The movie means something to me and I
want to be able to experience it in real life.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Okay, are you in or are you one of those
that that freaks out?
Speaker 3 (14:06):
It was just a movie, But are you in? Because
I am.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
I am one of these people that does not get
spooked by uh by, Look, I got the little hesitation,
I got the little hole.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
Did you hear that in the back of my head? Look,
I get that.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
But whenever I watched all these like ghost hunting shows,
I've just rolled my eyes.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
I'm more fascinated with.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
The history of the facility where there it's always like
an asylum or an old prison something like that. Right,
I'm always more fascinated by that than I am the
whole who thing. Oh look, gosh, I just got a chill.
Oh look, gosh, did you hear that? I think the
wind blew? Oh my gosh, I hate that crap. Poltergeist
House was never actually haunted. It was just the setting
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for a film. But some people still are going to
freak out.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
Not me. I would love it. I'm with this lady, like,
I would just love to be there.
Speaker 4 (14:59):
So I'd stay there. But I do think we're getting
dumber if people are worried about a movie set. But
would you stay in some place like the Amityville actual
howis absolutely you would? Yeah, Okay, yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
I know it's like, oh, but how could it's actually haunted? Okay,
sure it is. Okay, No, I'm not a big fan
of that side. I just don't look me.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
Here's here's what it was. We get this all the time.
Speaker 4 (15:28):
You go.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
You ever watch one of those shows where they're hunting
big foot and they're like, oh, do you hear that wit?
Speaker 2 (15:36):
That was that was a big foot, that was a
big foot, that was a squatch, that was a squatch,
And you're like, oh my gosh, you're in the woods
and you heard a noise and you know that it
was a squatch. Yeah, come over here, lookas see the
way his twigs are broken, Lucas, you see this hair,
See his hair I found on this branch. That's not,
dear a squatch. And yet they never find a squat.
(15:57):
We are squatch free.
Speaker 4 (15:58):
Right.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
Then you go to some cabin in the woods, right
deep in the woods where they're.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
Hunting ghosts, and then they hear something that there's a
ghost and we've got the history and so and so
died here in eighteen ninety four and it was there's
scary circumstances and it was a but we've got we've
got our ghost meter, and our ghost meter says the
ghost is in here. And you go, oh my gosh,
it's definitely haunted. We know because the ghost meter said.
(16:26):
So you ever notice that when they're hunting ghosts, they
never accidentally find bigfoot, and when they're hunting bigfoot, they
never accidentally find the ghosts.
Speaker 4 (16:34):
Well, you want to stay focused. Yeah, isn't that something
you know? Isn't that something really interesting?
Speaker 2 (16:41):
Because I got to tell you, if I'm looking for sharks,
there's a chance I run across in Orca because it's
the ocean, right oh, I was looking for sharks, but
I found this killer whale. Crazy how those things cohabitate.
But evidently bigfoot and ghosts don't cohabitate because it's all lore.
So yeah, I would add lutely stay in the Ambityville home.
Speaker 4 (17:02):
Adjust your ghost meter so that it'll it'll pick up
the ghost meter.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
Yeah, gotta go, go ghost meter.
Speaker 4 (17:11):
It's all about the settings. That's exactly right.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
You gotta get the settings right. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
See, if they had just used that when they were
hunting Bigfoot, we would have caught them by now.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
Unbelievable. Oh did you hear that it's a demon?
Speaker 4 (17:24):
No way?
Speaker 2 (17:24):
Yeah, I know a guy. He's an exorcist. Oh okay,
that's amazing, Okay, perfect. Yeah, Hey, while you're out there,
see if you see, if you smell the sasquatch, they
smell really bad.
Speaker 4 (17:34):
It's terrible.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
It's gotta be out there somewhere.
Speaker 4 (17:36):
I think if you're not careful, you're gonna get an
earfull from George in a few minutes.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
I love the fantasy, and I love watching like ancient aliens.
I love watching ancient aliens that show humors the heck
out of me.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
Plus I pick up a little bit of history.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
Well it's mainly that guy's hair though, right yeah, oh yeah, who,
by the way, live in San Diego County, I believe,
oh did Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah he was actually I
think he lived real close to He was in Rancho
Santa Fe and I was Rancho Santa Fe adjacent in
the poor neighborhood. At least that was my understanding. So anyway, yeah, no,
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he's a cool guy, smart guy too. All Right, we'll
go pixel perfect and we'll see how AI ready you
are next time.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
Chris Merrill, you're listening to KFI AM sixty on demand.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
Yesterday we're talking about AI marked us and like AI,
I think it's fantastic because it keeps you, it keeps
you guessing, It just keeps you on your toes and
then here you look, it keeps you on your toes
enough that it's it's gonna start popping up in places
where you don't even want it, Like when you want
credible information, that's the fear everybody has, what if the
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person giving you that credible information is themselves incredible.
Speaker 7 (18:54):
It seemed like a normal news report until the end.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
It was from the Today Show.
Speaker 7 (19:00):
Real Last Night UK audiences watching a show about AI
taking jobs, stunned to learn that was happening in front
of their eyes in.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
A British TV First, I'm actually an AI presenter. I
wasn't on location.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
You know what.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
The most disturbing part was she was hot, and then
I felt.
Speaker 4 (19:21):
Gross reporting this story.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
My image and voice were generated using AI.
Speaker 7 (19:30):
Before that point, the documentary had shown the host reporting
in multiple settings, explaining it was part of a deliberate
on screen stunt to show just how convincing artificial intelligence
has become. The dramatic reveal just the latest demonstration of
AI's growing influence.
Speaker 4 (19:47):
It's happening fast too.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
Three seasons and a podcast.
Speaker 7 (19:51):
Last month, Hollywood responding to the debut of a one
percent AI generated actress.
Speaker 4 (19:57):
Yeah that is gross, Tillie Norwood, you are what a
dumb name?
Speaker 1 (20:02):
Suddenly up again, something that's been generated with five thousand
other actors.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
Yeah, as gross too, whoopee.
Speaker 7 (20:12):
But fears of AI's growth going beyond the screen, with
many American workers worried about the very question posed in
that documentary.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
So we want to find out will AI take your job?
Speaker 3 (20:25):
Will AI take your job? Well? This could be this
could be.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
A balloom for the unions because you're going to have
to have some collective bargaining. You're not going to be
able to save your job from AI. If the boss wants.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
To cut you, you're cut.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
However, if you've got collective bargaining and you're a member
of a union that can come together and say you
can't use AI instead of people, you may find yourself
a little more leverage. If you try to go it alone,
you're not gonna be able to They're gonna say, well,
I don't need you.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
But if all of a sudden.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
They realize, oh I actually need I need some employees,
and if I start wiping people out, I'm not gonna
have anybody left and I can't have AI doing everything,
then you've got some more leverage.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
That's when you have some leverage. I teached you yesterday.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
I said I was I have one of those self
evaluations due for my real job.
Speaker 4 (21:32):
Oh yeah, uh.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
You want to try to have AI fill this out.
I don't know if I'm comfortable with this because it
does not sound like me. Let's put your money where
your mouth goes right here, Come.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
On, all right?
Speaker 2 (21:44):
Question number one, Please describe your progress in your key
priorities or goals over the past six months.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
So here's what AI says.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
Over the past six months, I've made significant progress across
my core priorities, particularly in segment development, editorial, in audience engagement.
For KFI, I've expanded and streamlined our segment bank, organizing
content into distinct editorial lanes to allow for instant pivots
in show tone and flow. Conversational Man, this is crap.
This is great. But the thing is, my boss loves
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this garbage. She loves corporate speak like this could be
really good. I launched and iterated numerous benchmark segments, pairing
tight new summaries with weird personal questions that drive listener
engagement and spark on air debate. Iterated, Yeah, we don't
do enough iterating. Oh my gosh, I need to iterate
and do some more iterating. Overall, I've deepened our editorial identity,
(22:37):
improved workflow agility, and elevated the creative bar across the
radio program.
Speaker 4 (22:42):
I've no energized.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
Man, I know, right, but this is the kind of
stuff because my daytime boss, she absolutely loves loves meetings.
She wants told me, and I mean because I do radio.
Uh said of KFI as well, and she once said
(23:04):
she says, I don't get to listen to your show
very often because it's when I schedule my meetings. Don't
tell your employees that you don't listen to them, you know,
But I'm in the meetings. Oh, she loves meetings. She
just loves corporate stuff. Okay, how do you incorporate the
company values in your day to day work activities? Please
share at least one example of how you use core
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values in your work. I consistently incorporate values in my
daily work, especially throughout my commitment to pursue excellence and
work together. Over the past six months, I've led the
development of a dynamic segment bank, which is totally AI
I speak for when I'm putting the show together, I'm like,
hang on to this, put this in the segment bank.
Speaker 4 (23:44):
Is it also a rule that you got to repeat
the wording of the question. Yes, I guess so, Okay,
thank you caught that. Yeah, let's see oh and again.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
Organizing content and editorial lanes that allow for instant pivots
and tone and flow.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
Oh, this is wonderful.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
I also leaned into work together by collaborating closely with producers, writers,
and tech partners to troubleshoot workflows and improve segment turnaround. Tony,
don't you feel like we've worked together, hand in hand
to troubleshoot workflows and improve segment turnaround?
Speaker 3 (24:17):
Yes, I concur your iteration is accurate.
Speaker 4 (24:22):
You've improved each other's flow.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
Wow, Oh my gosh, that is such crap. Yeah, I
gotta tell you. If I turned that in, the boss
will be like, do it again. Yeah, this is just garbage,
although there's a big part of me that's really tempted.
Tomorrow morning, I actually have to sit in on uh
AI training for my company. So they're going to teach
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us how to use the company approved AI, which my
understanding was that the last company and they change it
every week. The last company approved AI was Copilot, which
is chat GPT. But then I I think they found
out that co Pilot was using chat GPT and they
were like, wait, we said no to chat GPT. Yeah,
so now we've got a new completely never heard of
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it before.
Speaker 4 (25:09):
AI.
Speaker 3 (25:09):
Oh. I can't wait for this training.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
Maybe I'll use the company's AI to help me rate
up my self evaluation.
Speaker 4 (25:16):
Yeah, just have it kind of feed on itself like
one of those Ora Borros images.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
Yes, it'll just it's just like I use AI to
develop new ideas, which helped me to create more ideas
to feed into AI to create new ideas.
Speaker 4 (25:30):
Oh great, it's the kind of thing Captain Kirk would
do to make a computer explode. Do that.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
You're you're so right, he would, You're exactly right.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
He would create a Santax error in order to to like,
you know, bomb the Klingons.
Speaker 4 (25:44):
You're exactly right, be Captain Kirk. You can do it.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
I could do it, and I will.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
All right, forget about AI making your workflow iterations more
effective to pivot quickly. There's a new vehicle, a flying
camera in a city that is betting on surveillance over sirens.
Miami's latest police tech just got weird. The question is
will their new RoboCop work. We'll find out next. I'm
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Chris Merrill.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
You're listening to KFI A six on demand.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
Catch me normally on Sunday afternoons. Let's do a little
Sunday afternoon show. And I just it's just it's fun.
I love doing it. I'm out this weekend doing a
little traveling. I'll be raking leaves. So going to the
Great White North to rake some leaves this weekend, so
I will not be here, but we get a chance
to catch up with you soon enough. So thank you
(26:38):
so much for making us a part of your evening.
Could not could not be more honored that you would
choose Kfi, especially when I'm on it.
Speaker 4 (26:48):
That's that's great.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
So the city of Miami, Miami is piloting Actually it's not,
it's Miami, Miama is a city in Missouri.
Speaker 3 (26:56):
Did you know that? It's true?
Speaker 2 (26:58):
Miami is piloting a new autonomous police SUV that can
launch surveillance drones mid patrol. So I want you to
think weimo with drone launching capabilities. We are officially living
in sci fi world. In fact, I think Mark, you
were mocking something yesterday about the AI doing things that Andy,
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We're like, okay, sure, you know you can't make it. No, no,
we're catching up to what sci fi was predicting years ago.
In the same way that we finally caught up to
many of the different predictions from Star Trek. There wasn't
a question of whether or not we'd have handheld communication
devices that flip open. This is a question of when
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and we do. In the same way, RoboCop is coming
to life. Now, we've got autonomous police SUVs. So think
weimo that can launch surveillance drones while they're driving. Okay,
The vehicle is designed to operate without a human driver
deploy the flying cameras to monitor public spaces. The city
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claims it's a leap forward in public safety and emergency use.
Speaker 4 (28:05):
Civil liberties groups though I don't like it.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
They say the tech will normalize mass surveillance and erode
privacy rights. Since when has in society a police state
every roaded privacy rights?
Speaker 4 (28:26):
After all?
Speaker 2 (28:29):
As as the smartest people among us say, what do
you got to hide?
Speaker 4 (28:36):
Right?
Speaker 2 (28:37):
I mean, if you're not doing anything wrong, what do
you got to hide? A Fourth Amendment is such a
waste of time. Just focus on the second. That's the
only one cares about that. That's the only amendment that counts.
What do you got to hide? The drawn equipped suv
is part of a broader push to automate law enforcement.
Speaker 4 (29:00):
What can go wrong?
Speaker 2 (29:01):
It does raise questions about accountability bias in the future
of policing. So I guess my question is if something
goes awry and Let's say the drone is doing things
that it's not supposed to do because it's decided that
it needs to follow you, because it's following some algorithms,
some protocol, some some line of code that told it
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this was a priority over protecting someone's privacy. What happens
when the drone starts flying over your bathroom window while
you're trying to take a shower because it sees a
mysterious figure in a room that shouldn't between the hours
of nine pm and one am have any emotion in it.
How do you hold that robot accountable? If a drone
violates your rights? Who do you see? You sue the city?
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But are we going to give the drone the same
kind of what do they call it? Qu qualified immunity?
I was looking for you. I always think of it
as the license to badge who do you? Does the
drone get qualified immunity? And I said this before when
we were talking about automation AI yesterday, I said, there
is no steak in the game for the machines. There
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is steak in the game when someone else is driving
on the road. We get angry when we see WEIMO
doing something crazy, even though Statistically, it's far less likely
to get into an action. We get angry because that
weimo has no stake in the games, is no threat.
It's only a threat to you. It is not a
threat to itself because it is not syndient. As a result,
the drones don't care about your civil liberties. They don't
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care about your civil rights. It has nothing to lose
by violating them. There's no steak in the game. All right,
I have a great night. Nora is up next.
Speaker 3 (30:42):
Mark. I love you, pal. I love doing the show
with you. I just do.
Speaker 4 (30:46):
You're gonna get me emotional.
Speaker 3 (30:47):
I just do.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
I love to make you cry too. That's my favorite party.
And Tony is like the coolest guy to hang out.
Tony is the guy you want at every party because
it's like Tony's such a quirky dude. Well, as long
as the party is at his I want to go
to house. I want to go to his house and
hang out. Yeah, we do, we have to do that.
He's like the he's like the funnest guy to be around.
He's just and not like not like pretentious or like hey.
Speaker 4 (31:10):
But I'm cool.
Speaker 3 (31:10):
No, he's just he's just fun.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
And then Richie. He's been working from home. But what
you guys can't see, He's been sending me audio all
night long. He's been just busting his tail behind the scenes.
Just great people all the way around here a KFI
love you guys to death. Can't wait till the next time.
Have a great night, Chris Merril KFI AM six forty
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Speaker 1 (31:27):
App, KFI AM sixty on demand
You're listening to KFI AM six on demand.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
I've been a news from Tintletown and beyond. Netflix is
gone all woke you Netflix straight up woke.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
I know because the Pentagon said so.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Indeed, indeed, they've got a new series mark have you
seen it called Boots.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
I don't.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Somebody's asked me about Netflix and I and I don't
have Netflix. It's the only I have Netflix in paramount,
like the only streaming services I don't have, because Netflix
just started to get so expensive and it just started
to irritate me, so I dumped it. But now everybody
else is catching up to the Netflix price now. So anyway, Netflix,
(00:44):
Netflix got the boot first and now they have a
new series called Boots, which is a dramay about a
closeted gay marine in nineteen ninety and evidently it is
very popular on Netflix. So it is a loose adaptation
of the Pink Marine, which is a from Sergeant Greg
Cope White. And the Pentagon was asked about it because
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that's journalism. Now what are you talking about the new
show on Netflix? Pentagon press secretary called Netflix content woke garbage.
So the the Press secretary, Kingsley Wilson put out a
statement and emphasize they returned to the warrior ethos under
(01:28):
President Trump and Secretary Hexeth, rejecting what she called ideological agendas. Now,
if you get anything out of this, I want you
to start paying attention to the way that certain words
are being used to market to you. So you've got
the warrior ethos. Okay, what does that do? I didn't
(01:50):
do anything. I saw there's an ad running. I forget
what station I saw it on, maybe something my Hulu.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Have you seen this ad? Marke?
Speaker 2 (01:59):
It's the Uh it's for a hoodie and it's got
it's a tactical hoodie. Well, all guys love tactical gear,
that's it. What is tactical about a hoodie? Just like
we love cargo shorts. Come on, what is tactical about
a hoodie? They're like, Oh, it's a tactical hoodie. What
is tactical about it? No, you want to say that
it's rugged. You want to say that it's made with
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a certain weave that is tear resistant, something of that sort.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
That's fine.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
You would have said it's waterproof.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
That's great.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Look, I've got I've got some car hearts that are
waterproof and and they're the ones I use when I'm
doing field work at my parents' house. You know, I'll
be doing that next week. I'll be in Michigan, uh
and I'll be working in the in the in the cold.
It's the end of October, it's cold. I'll be doing
leaves and I'll be in my my car.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Heart. But it's not tactical.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
The military is funny because they have they have what
they call tactical stretching. Yep, it's tactical stretching. Do you
know what tactical stretching is? And yoga it's yoga. Yoga, really,
it's yoga. Yeah, but they can't call it yoga because
that doesn't have the warrior ethos. So they call it
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tactical stretching.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
Okay, I guess if you add tactical to anything, it
makes it sound just a little bit more.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Butch doesn't it Absolutely it's more manly. Yeah, And I'm
not woke. I'm tactical, right. And so you start seeing
these little dog whistles that are being put everywhere, and
the military knows, they know it. And look, if you're
trying to sell yourself as a place for young men
to sign up and dedicate a portion of their young
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lives to before they head off to college or whatever
else it is.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
I get it.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
It makes perfect sense. You know your audience. You're marketing
to them.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
I don't like being marketed to all the time, though,
And look, I actually like a good hoodie. I will
pay good money, as I did for my car herd.
I will pay good money for a waterproof hoodie that
is rip resistant and warm and insulated, and I can
use it when I'm snowblowing or when I'm a rake
and leaves.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Whatever it is, right, I'm all for it.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
To me.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
It's very practical.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
It's utilitarian, but it's not tactical, and I find that
to be a huge turn off. So anyway, the Pentagon
says boots is woke garbage, and it's it is.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
It's not in line with the warrior ethos.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Well, you're not about to suggest that there could possibly
be any gay people in the military, are you.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
No, there are not. We got rid of a please.
You know, I.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Recall it's been fifteen years or more. Did Mark moved
them a DENI shatt you remember that guy? He was
ahead of Iran?
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (04:40):
And yeah, so he was I think he was at
the UN and somebody asked him about how they deal
with gay people in Iran, How do you deal with
gay Iranians?
Speaker 3 (04:52):
And he said, we don't have any.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Well, surely you have, you have some members of your
society that are gay.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
Nope, we don't have any. Okay.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
And that's what this reminds me of, like, oh, there
are nobody is gay in the military.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
No.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
No, too tactical for him. It's more tactical, tactical sexual encounter.
This is a tactical release exercise. Careful, we're gonna do
some tactical bunking up.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
Yeah, what happened? I dropped my tactical soap Good Times.
All right, enough of that.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
The FCC chair Brendan Car says we're not tactical enough.
He claims it's time to start punishing people for thought.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
Oh good, you know.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
I was worried we weren't barreling toward nineteen eighty four
fast enough.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
But lo and behold.
Speaker 5 (05:56):
FCC chair Brendan Car says he from a Barrett media
he's reopen to revoking broadcast licenses from broadcasters. In an
interview with Media Research Center President David Bozel, car stated
that it's.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
His book, by the Way Media Research Center that is
a way right wing news. What do you call them, uh,
news watchdog. They're kind of like a media watch.
Speaker 5 (06:18):
For the right belief that leading the FCC means he
has a duty to reinvigorate the public interest standard and
that broadcasters need to serve the needs of their local
communities when it comes to licensed broadcast TV.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Okay, there you go. Got to serve the needs of
the local community. So again we're in a denial phase.
So it's like, you have to serve the needs of
your local community. And we've got a number of people
here who voted for President Trump that don't like what
this broadcast is saying. So you're not serving the needs.
What about the people they do like it. We don't
worry about their needs. We were about our needs, tactical needs.
Speaker 5 (06:53):
Only twenty six percent of news consumers trust AI information.
According to new data revealed at the NAB Show New York.
Sixty eight percent of respondents that AI generated information is
not trustworthy. Eight seventy six percent are concerned about AI
stealing or reproducing local news stories.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
There you go, Mark, AI is gonna do it.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
We're not gonna limit AI, but we're gonna limit people
for not serving the.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
Certain portions of the community.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
Well what's more American than punishing people for free speech?
Speaker 3 (07:25):
Yeah, or well taking away their broadcast.
Speaker 4 (07:26):
Relations really learned the lesson from that whole Kimmel fiasco
leaning on ABC. Yeah, by the way, did you see
that Disney cancelations like doubled the rate of cancelations doubled. Yeah,
story today, and they lost something like five billion dollars
in market value as well.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
That Honestly, I saw people saying, I'm canceling, and I'm canceling,
and I'm canceling it. I never imagined that it was
going up to four million cancelations. Now, they normally have
like two million cancelations a month.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Right, they come and they go.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
So it's not like four million people canceled because of
Jimmy Kimmel, but you could probably reasonably assume that two
million plus.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
Did their normal rate doubled at Hulu and Disney.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
Yeah, that I.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
Was wrong.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
I saw people saying I'm gonna cancel, and I thought, yeah, okay,
well they don't care about you.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
But also, let me make this point. They got him
back on.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
And I think it's important to do a follow up
to what the subscription rate was after he's back on
and football season is in the throws because as Disney
and Hulu carry football, and it's Disney and ESPN now
are teaming up because now you've got Monday night football
with Disney, you've got ESPN that's got the college football rights,
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and football is king in America. It is driving content
and especially appointment viewing more than any anything else.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
Networks are.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
They are fighting for sports right now because that's where
they get their appointment viewing.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
And I think we're going to see those numbers reverse.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Maybe not at the same rate, but I would not
be surprised to see that subscription numbers increase more, maybe
fifty percent rather than rather than double, But I would
not be surprised to see those numbers come back. But look,
I was wrong about the cancelations. I could be wrong
about people returning. I absolutely could happen. It's been known.
(09:31):
It's been known to not often, but there are instances
of you being wrong.
Speaker 4 (09:37):
Yeah, oh heaven forbidden. No, no, I mean rare, but it.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
Does happen, So mark it down.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Oh have you ever wanted to own an iconic piece
of movie memorabilia. Of course I'd be meat for the collection.
What if it's too big to throw in the den?
What if you could just rent it for a while weekend.
You'll find out where your rental money could go and
make you the scariest person this Halloween.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
That is next. I'm Chris Merrill.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Oh, much to the chagrin of one Mark Runner will
get pixel perfect with Ai coming up here after his
nine thirty news.
Speaker 4 (10:19):
You love antagonizing me a.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Little bit, a little bit, a little bit, little bit.
Speaker 4 (10:25):
Okay, how about.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
The greatest airbnb in southern California for Halloween? Anyway, it
could be the Poltergeist House. Listen to that eighties soundtrack. Ooh,
I love that, well done, ABC seven.
Speaker 6 (10:46):
Like the house is getting a new life and people
able to experience it in really cool and interesting and
unique ways. Buying this house was not quite what I
had planned in life. I actually had a gut instinct
about a month before it went on the market. Fast
forward a month later, I'm in my backyard of my
sister's house. She's like, Hey, the Poltergeist House is on
the market. Next thing I know, I am calling my
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realtor getting preapproved, and I'm in the kitchen in the
Poltergeis house.
Speaker 4 (11:13):
Whoo.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
I kind of love that.
Speaker 4 (11:16):
The house looks just like the one next to it
and the one next to that.
Speaker 6 (11:24):
I grew up watching the culture.
Speaker 5 (11:26):
I've probably seen it about.
Speaker 6 (11:27):
Fifty times before I bought the house, and now since
I've bought the house, now probably another fifty.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
Is that one of those things where you just keep
it rolling, like you just you just have it on
constant repeat. I give you an example. I think you
almost have to do this a certain museum pieces. So
I've made mentioned more than once, probably irritatingly so that
I grew up in northern Michigan. So last summer, or
(11:55):
I guess it was a labor day, my wife and
I went up to the Upper Peninsula and whenever we're
up there, always like to go up to white Fish Point.
If you're unfamiliar, Whitefish Point is where Edmund Fitzgerald sank,
and so there's a coast Guard station up there, and
then there's a museum.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
It's a shipwreck museum. It's a great Lake.
Speaker 4 (12:12):
Shipwreck museum is there at Whitefish Point.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
And a cool place, goes through all the different shipwrecks,
and of course Edmond Fitzgerald is prominently featured, but there
are a number of others, hundreds of shipwrecks in the
Great Lakes. When you walk in, they have Gordon Lightfoot
playing on repeat, which must be absolute torture for the
people working there. Granted it's a great song, but any
song over.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
And over and over again, day in and day out,
day in and day out.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
I mean, that's that's how you break terraces, right, that's
Abu Grebe stuff. Come on, who doesn't love a shanty,
a good shanty. Everybody loves a shaw. So anyway, I'm
just thinking when you when you're at the Poultergeist House,
you basically have to have that running NonStop and room anyway,
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don't you.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
You have to.
Speaker 6 (13:03):
I wanted to bring the feeling of the eerie charm,
but also have it warm and inviting.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
I wanted warm and inviting, like when she disappeared and
was talking through the television, to have.
Speaker 6 (13:17):
A balance between modern amenities. Especially there's a lot of
families that come here, and so kids may not want
to play on the atari. They might want to play
on the Xbox, on the app, on the smart.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
TV, doesn't matter, you still end up getting sucked into
a vortex.
Speaker 6 (13:31):
Yeah, instead and again, just bringing people together and families together.
And what do you love to do around a fire?
Die signature Poltergeist some moors at the Poltergeist House.
Speaker 4 (13:41):
Okay.
Speaker 6 (13:42):
What's interesting is that every time somebody inquires about the house,
they tell me their story. And it's really cool because
it's never just a Hey, I want to book the house.
It's Poltergeist. The movie means something to me and I
want to be able to experience it in real life.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Okay, are you in or are you one of those
that that freaks out?
Speaker 3 (14:06):
It was just a movie, But are you in? Because
I am.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
I am one of these people that does not get
spooked by uh by, Look, I got the little hesitation,
I got the little hole.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
Did you hear that in the back of my head? Look,
I get that.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
But whenever I watched all these like ghost hunting shows,
I've just rolled my eyes.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
I'm more fascinated with.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
The history of the facility where there it's always like
an asylum or an old prison something like that. Right,
I'm always more fascinated by that than I am the
whole who thing. Oh look, gosh, I just got a chill.
Oh look, gosh, did you hear that? I think the
wind blew? Oh my gosh, I hate that crap. Poltergeist
House was never actually haunted. It was just the setting
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for a film. But some people still are going to
freak out.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
Not me. I would love it. I'm with this lady, like,
I would just love to be there.
Speaker 4 (14:59):
So I'd stay there. But I do think we're getting
dumber if people are worried about a movie set. But
would you stay in some place like the Amityville actual
howis absolutely you would? Yeah, Okay, yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
I know it's like, oh, but how could it's actually haunted? Okay,
sure it is. Okay, No, I'm not a big fan
of that side. I just don't look me.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
Here's here's what it was. We get this all the time.
Speaker 4 (15:28):
You go.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
You ever watch one of those shows where they're hunting
big foot and they're like, oh, do you hear that wit?
Speaker 2 (15:36):
That was that was a big foot, that was a
big foot, that was a squatch, that was a squatch,
And you're like, oh my gosh, you're in the woods
and you heard a noise and you know that it
was a squatch. Yeah, come over here, lookas see the
way his twigs are broken, Lucas, you see this hair,
See his hair I found on this branch. That's not,
dear a squatch. And yet they never find a squat.
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We are squatch free.
Speaker 4 (15:58):
Right.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
Then you go to some cabin in the woods, right
deep in the woods where they're.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
Hunting ghosts, and then they hear something that there's a
ghost and we've got the history and so and so
died here in eighteen ninety four and it was there's
scary circumstances and it was a but we've got we've
got our ghost meter, and our ghost meter says the
ghost is in here. And you go, oh my gosh,
it's definitely haunted. We know because the ghost meter said.
(16:26):
So you ever notice that when they're hunting ghosts, they
never accidentally find bigfoot, and when they're hunting bigfoot, they
never accidentally find the ghosts.
Speaker 4 (16:34):
Well, you want to stay focused. Yeah, isn't that something
you know? Isn't that something really interesting?
Speaker 2 (16:41):
Because I got to tell you, if I'm looking for sharks,
there's a chance I run across in Orca because it's
the ocean, right oh, I was looking for sharks, but
I found this killer whale. Crazy how those things cohabitate.
But evidently bigfoot and ghosts don't cohabitate because it's all lore.
So yeah, I would add lutely stay in the Ambityville home.
Speaker 4 (17:02):
Adjust your ghost meter so that it'll it'll pick up
the ghost meter.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
Yeah, gotta go, go ghost meter.
Speaker 4 (17:11):
It's all about the settings. That's exactly right.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
You gotta get the settings right. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
See, if they had just used that when they were
hunting Bigfoot, we would have caught them by now.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
Unbelievable. Oh did you hear that it's a demon?
Speaker 4 (17:24):
No way?
Speaker 2 (17:24):
Yeah, I know a guy. He's an exorcist. Oh okay,
that's amazing, Okay, perfect. Yeah, Hey, while you're out there,
see if you see, if you smell the sasquatch, they
smell really bad.
Speaker 4 (17:34):
It's terrible.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
It's gotta be out there somewhere.
Speaker 4 (17:36):
I think if you're not careful, you're gonna get an
earfull from George in a few minutes.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
I love the fantasy, and I love watching like ancient aliens.
I love watching ancient aliens that show humors the heck
out of me.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
Plus I pick up a little bit of history.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
Well it's mainly that guy's hair though, right yeah, oh yeah, who,
by the way, live in San Diego County, I believe,
oh did Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah he was actually I
think he lived real close to He was in Rancho
Santa Fe and I was Rancho Santa Fe adjacent in
the poor neighborhood. At least that was my understanding. So anyway, yeah, no,
(18:18):
he's a cool guy, smart guy too. All Right, we'll
go pixel perfect and we'll see how AI ready you
are next time.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
Chris Merrill, you're listening to KFI AM sixty on demand.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
Yesterday we're talking about AI marked us and like AI,
I think it's fantastic because it keeps you, it keeps
you guessing, It just keeps you on your toes and
then here you look, it keeps you on your toes
enough that it's it's gonna start popping up in places
where you don't even want it, Like when you want
credible information, that's the fear everybody has, what if the
(18:50):
person giving you that credible information is themselves incredible.
Speaker 7 (18:54):
It seemed like a normal news report until the end.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
It was from the Today Show.
Speaker 7 (19:00):
Real Last Night UK audiences watching a show about AI
taking jobs, stunned to learn that was happening in front
of their eyes in.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
A British TV First, I'm actually an AI presenter. I
wasn't on location.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
You know what.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
The most disturbing part was she was hot, and then
I felt.
Speaker 4 (19:21):
Gross reporting this story.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
My image and voice were generated using AI.
Speaker 7 (19:30):
Before that point, the documentary had shown the host reporting
in multiple settings, explaining it was part of a deliberate
on screen stunt to show just how convincing artificial intelligence
has become. The dramatic reveal just the latest demonstration of
AI's growing influence.
Speaker 4 (19:47):
It's happening fast too.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
Three seasons and a podcast.
Speaker 7 (19:51):
Last month, Hollywood responding to the debut of a one
percent AI generated actress.
Speaker 4 (19:57):
Yeah that is gross, Tillie Norwood, you are what a
dumb name?
Speaker 1 (20:02):
Suddenly up again, something that's been generated with five thousand
other actors.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
Yeah, as gross too, whoopee.
Speaker 7 (20:12):
But fears of AI's growth going beyond the screen, with
many American workers worried about the very question posed in
that documentary.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
So we want to find out will AI take your job?
Speaker 3 (20:25):
Will AI take your job? Well? This could be this
could be.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
A balloom for the unions because you're going to have
to have some collective bargaining. You're not going to be
able to save your job from AI. If the boss wants.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
To cut you, you're cut.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
However, if you've got collective bargaining and you're a member
of a union that can come together and say you
can't use AI instead of people, you may find yourself
a little more leverage. If you try to go it alone,
you're not gonna be able to They're gonna say, well,
I don't need you.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
But if all of a sudden.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
They realize, oh I actually need I need some employees,
and if I start wiping people out, I'm not gonna
have anybody left and I can't have AI doing everything,
then you've got some more leverage.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
That's when you have some leverage. I teached you yesterday.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
I said I was I have one of those self
evaluations due for my real job.
Speaker 4 (21:32):
Oh yeah, uh.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
You want to try to have AI fill this out.
I don't know if I'm comfortable with this because it
does not sound like me. Let's put your money where
your mouth goes right here, Come.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
On, all right?
Speaker 2 (21:44):
Question number one, Please describe your progress in your key
priorities or goals over the past six months.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
So here's what AI says.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
Over the past six months, I've made significant progress across
my core priorities, particularly in segment development, editorial, in audience engagement.
For KFI, I've expanded and streamlined our segment bank, organizing
content into distinct editorial lanes to allow for instant pivots
in show tone and flow. Conversational Man, this is crap.
This is great. But the thing is, my boss loves
(22:17):
this garbage. She loves corporate speak like this could be
really good. I launched and iterated numerous benchmark segments, pairing
tight new summaries with weird personal questions that drive listener
engagement and spark on air debate. Iterated, Yeah, we don't
do enough iterating. Oh my gosh, I need to iterate
and do some more iterating. Overall, I've deepened our editorial identity,
(22:37):
improved workflow agility, and elevated the creative bar across the
radio program.
Speaker 4 (22:42):
I've no energized.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
Man, I know, right, but this is the kind of
stuff because my daytime boss, she absolutely loves loves meetings.
She wants told me, and I mean because I do radio.
Uh said of KFI as well, and she once said
(23:04):
she says, I don't get to listen to your show
very often because it's when I schedule my meetings. Don't
tell your employees that you don't listen to them, you know,
But I'm in the meetings. Oh, she loves meetings. She
just loves corporate stuff. Okay, how do you incorporate the
company values in your day to day work activities? Please
share at least one example of how you use core
(23:25):
values in your work. I consistently incorporate values in my
daily work, especially throughout my commitment to pursue excellence and
work together. Over the past six months, I've led the
development of a dynamic segment bank, which is totally AI
I speak for when I'm putting the show together, I'm like,
hang on to this, put this in the segment bank.
Speaker 4 (23:44):
Is it also a rule that you got to repeat
the wording of the question. Yes, I guess so, Okay,
thank you caught that. Yeah, let's see oh and again.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
Organizing content and editorial lanes that allow for instant pivots
and tone and flow.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
Oh, this is wonderful.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
I also leaned into work together by collaborating closely with producers, writers,
and tech partners to troubleshoot workflows and improve segment turnaround. Tony,
don't you feel like we've worked together, hand in hand
to troubleshoot workflows and improve segment turnaround?
Speaker 3 (24:17):
Yes, I concur your iteration is accurate.
Speaker 4 (24:22):
You've improved each other's flow.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
Wow, Oh my gosh, that is such crap. Yeah, I
gotta tell you. If I turned that in, the boss
will be like, do it again. Yeah, this is just garbage,
although there's a big part of me that's really tempted.
Tomorrow morning, I actually have to sit in on uh
AI training for my company. So they're going to teach
(24:46):
us how to use the company approved AI, which my
understanding was that the last company and they change it
every week. The last company approved AI was Copilot, which
is chat GPT. But then I I think they found
out that co Pilot was using chat GPT and they
were like, wait, we said no to chat GPT. Yeah,
so now we've got a new completely never heard of
(25:08):
it before.
Speaker 4 (25:09):
AI.
Speaker 3 (25:09):
Oh. I can't wait for this training.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
Maybe I'll use the company's AI to help me rate
up my self evaluation.
Speaker 4 (25:16):
Yeah, just have it kind of feed on itself like
one of those Ora Borros images.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
Yes, it'll just it's just like I use AI to
develop new ideas, which helped me to create more ideas
to feed into AI to create new ideas.
Speaker 4 (25:30):
Oh great, it's the kind of thing Captain Kirk would
do to make a computer explode. Do that.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
You're you're so right, he would, You're exactly right.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
He would create a Santax error in order to to like,
you know, bomb the Klingons.
Speaker 4 (25:44):
You're exactly right, be Captain Kirk. You can do it.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
I could do it, and I will.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
All right, forget about AI making your workflow iterations more
effective to pivot quickly. There's a new vehicle, a flying
camera in a city that is betting on surveillance over sirens.
Miami's latest police tech just got weird. The question is
will their new RoboCop work. We'll find out next. I'm
(26:13):
Chris Merrill.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
You're listening to KFI A six on demand.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
Catch me normally on Sunday afternoons. Let's do a little
Sunday afternoon show. And I just it's just it's fun.
I love doing it. I'm out this weekend doing a
little traveling. I'll be raking leaves. So going to the
Great White North to rake some leaves this weekend, so
I will not be here, but we get a chance
to catch up with you soon enough. So thank you
(26:38):
so much for making us a part of your evening.
Could not could not be more honored that you would
choose Kfi, especially when I'm on it.
Speaker 4 (26:48):
That's that's great.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
So the city of Miami, Miami is piloting Actually it's not,
it's Miami, Miama is a city in Missouri.
Speaker 3 (26:56):
Did you know that? It's true?
Speaker 2 (26:58):
Miami is piloting a new autonomous police SUV that can
launch surveillance drones mid patrol. So I want you to
think weimo with drone launching capabilities. We are officially living
in sci fi world. In fact, I think Mark, you
were mocking something yesterday about the AI doing things that Andy,
(27:22):
We're like, okay, sure, you know you can't make it. No, no,
we're catching up to what sci fi was predicting years ago.
In the same way that we finally caught up to
many of the different predictions from Star Trek. There wasn't
a question of whether or not we'd have handheld communication
devices that flip open. This is a question of when
(27:42):
and we do. In the same way, RoboCop is coming
to life. Now, we've got autonomous police SUVs. So think
weimo that can launch surveillance drones while they're driving. Okay,
The vehicle is designed to operate without a human driver
deploy the flying cameras to monitor public spaces. The city
(28:03):
claims it's a leap forward in public safety and emergency use.
Speaker 4 (28:05):
Civil liberties groups though I don't like it.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
They say the tech will normalize mass surveillance and erode
privacy rights. Since when has in society a police state
every roaded privacy rights?
Speaker 4 (28:26):
After all?
Speaker 2 (28:29):
As as the smartest people among us say, what do
you got to hide?
Speaker 4 (28:36):
Right?
Speaker 2 (28:37):
I mean, if you're not doing anything wrong, what do
you got to hide? A Fourth Amendment is such a
waste of time. Just focus on the second. That's the
only one cares about that. That's the only amendment that counts.
What do you got to hide? The drawn equipped suv
is part of a broader push to automate law enforcement.
Speaker 4 (29:00):
What can go wrong?
Speaker 2 (29:01):
It does raise questions about accountability bias in the future
of policing. So I guess my question is if something
goes awry and Let's say the drone is doing things
that it's not supposed to do because it's decided that
it needs to follow you, because it's following some algorithms,
some protocol, some some line of code that told it
(29:24):
this was a priority over protecting someone's privacy. What happens
when the drone starts flying over your bathroom window while
you're trying to take a shower because it sees a
mysterious figure in a room that shouldn't between the hours
of nine pm and one am have any emotion in it.
How do you hold that robot accountable? If a drone
violates your rights? Who do you see? You sue the city?
(29:48):
But are we going to give the drone the same
kind of what do they call it? Qu qualified immunity?
I was looking for you. I always think of it
as the license to badge who do you? Does the
drone get qualified immunity? And I said this before when
we were talking about automation AI yesterday, I said, there
is no steak in the game for the machines. There
(30:11):
is steak in the game when someone else is driving
on the road. We get angry when we see WEIMO
doing something crazy, even though Statistically, it's far less likely
to get into an action. We get angry because that
weimo has no stake in the games, is no threat.
It's only a threat to you. It is not a
threat to itself because it is not syndient. As a result,
the drones don't care about your civil liberties. They don't
(30:32):
care about your civil rights. It has nothing to lose
by violating them. There's no steak in the game. All right,
I have a great night. Nora is up next.
Speaker 3 (30:42):
Mark. I love you, pal. I love doing the show
with you. I just do.
Speaker 4 (30:46):
You're gonna get me emotional.
Speaker 3 (30:47):
I just do.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
I love to make you cry too. That's my favorite party.
And Tony is like the coolest guy to hang out.
Tony is the guy you want at every party because
it's like Tony's such a quirky dude. Well, as long
as the party is at his I want to go
to house. I want to go to his house and
hang out. Yeah, we do, we have to do that.
He's like the he's like the funnest guy to be around.
He's just and not like not like pretentious or like hey.
Speaker 4 (31:10):
But I'm cool.
Speaker 3 (31:10):
No, he's just he's just fun.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
And then Richie. He's been working from home. But what
you guys can't see, He's been sending me audio all
night long. He's been just busting his tail behind the scenes.
Just great people all the way around here a KFI
love you guys to death. Can't wait till the next time.
Have a great night, Chris Merril KFI AM six forty
Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio
Speaker 1 (31:27):
App, KFI AM sixty on demand
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