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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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you listen to these?
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Yeah?
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They're fine, They're good. Okay, I have not heard these before,
so I don't know. But you sent me a couple
of them. The head swearwards in them before, So yeah,
these ones, don't they promisright? Well, we'll stay on the
dump bucket button. Yeah, here we go from the talkback.
Here we are. Thank you so much for listening on
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Thank you.
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I enjoy it on the Sundays.
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and stay it. I think it's a good show.
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Thanks.
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Somehow Bellio just got dragged into this.
Speaker 5 (01:10):
There's all these new voices. I've never heard you talkbacks before.
It's it's like you have an audience or something.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
I don't know. I love that. The one guy says,
Kayla needs to fire Chris and at least Kyle is
my producer. That guy just called on Tim Conway, Junior's producer,
to fire me. That's great. Love that. Oh fantastic. Thank
you so much, you guys.
Speaker 6 (01:30):
I love you today, Eric and Lyle like Manny Yeah
in the Runaway Train movie and everybody cheers and stuff
because they've been there for thirty years.
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all right, yeah, all right, I'm down with you. Thank
you so much, you guys. You the best. Thank you
And as always, if you're on the iHeartRadio app, can
hit the talkback button. And we did ask a question earlier.
What's the one thing here? And I'm gonna throw this
to you before we get into our shows. What's the
one thing you won't give up no matter how expensive
(02:01):
it gets. That was the question we threw out initially
for the talkbacks tonight.
Speaker 5 (02:06):
Gosh, that's a hard question. Yeah, I have so many addictions.
Where do I start?
Speaker 2 (02:12):
See my trouble with that is that the stuff that
I don't want to give up. I had to give
up for a diet because I got too fat, and
so I had to give up breakfast burritos. Okay, I
got one. I think it's I think it's common.
Speaker 7 (02:22):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (02:23):
I am addicted to coffee, like that is my vitamin
in the morning, that is my vitamin C. And some
days I'm like, yeah, I'll just switch to orange juice
or something dumb like that, and I'm just like, Nope,
it's that. That's how I start my days. I cannot
adult until coffee is in my system.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
It's funny I've had. I don't think I'm revealing too
much here. Personal conversations with the new Boss Long, the
new program director at the station. Yeah, and uh. And
we were talking about our medical histories and and you know,
he goes and gets his physical and and I go, yeah,
I got a physical. One time I walked in. The
doctor said I had never even met the guy, new guy,
And he says, he walks in, he goes, boy, you're fat.
(02:59):
Thanks doctor, I appreciate that, he said. And you know,
Boss Long just started laughing about that, and he said,
I get the same thing. I go in there and
they say, well, you know your your cholesterol is high.
You should cut back on eggs. You know this is high.
You gotta cut back on that. And he says, but
I'll tell you what if they tell me to cut
back on coffee. He goes, no, that's it. I'm tapping out. Sorry, Doc,
it's it. I'm done. It was a good run, but
(03:21):
I'm not giving up that coffee. It's a good run,
fun times. So he's with you on that one, Bud,
I get it, and I'm a coffee every morning, but
I think I could give it up if I needed to.
Did you see coffee is supposed to get real expensive too,
not necessarily tariff related, but coffee's gonna shoot up in price.
Speaker 5 (03:37):
No, Tan, Yeah, I don't know what I'm gonna do
about that. I just told uh Sam Zea. He was
leavings like I'm going to Hawaii. I'm like, do me
a favor, Can you give up some coffee? I do
this with everybody. So he said, smuggle it back.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Oh, unbelievable. All right, it's been a while since we've
had a chance to do this live and with Kayla
in studio as well. It's nice to be back in
the saddle. There's no business like shell business. And off
we go to Coachella, the big festival with Lady Gaga,
Green Day, Posty, They're all headlining the big weekend. That is,
(04:09):
if you could get in.
Speaker 8 (04:11):
Campers trying to get into the Coachella festival.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Grounds are calling the process a nightmare.
Speaker 9 (04:16):
Yeah, some campers say they've been in line for more
than eight hours. They say, without access to water or restrooms.
They say in the past it had only taken up
to two hours to get in. Social media has quickly
become flooded with the plight of the campers. A one
user posting, this is beyond unacceptable. You charge thousands and
can't manage basic logistics.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
What a joke, agreed anow.
Speaker 9 (04:40):
They're saying Coachella camping entry line is unconscionable.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
To be honest.
Speaker 9 (04:44):
Firefest two Rochella Valley say they have dispatched all agencies
to help with the influx of traffic, not just around
the grounds but throughout the region. I wonder what has
changed and why? Yeah, two eight hours?
Speaker 2 (04:57):
All right, let me tell you this nightmare. This is
I think electric vehicles are great, and by the way,
I don't think you should be attacking a Tesla vehicle either.
The only attack I have in a Tesla vehicle. First
of all, the cyber truck never should have been released.
But I love the model ass. I think it's a
great car. It needs to be updated. That's my only
(05:19):
attack on Tesla. Otherwise, great car, love it fantastic. I
don't have an electric. I did a test drive and
a Machi a couple of months ago. I loved it.
Has all of the amenities of the hybrid I'm driving
right now, which is not a mock or it's not
a Mustang. But I loved it. My only hang up
(05:40):
is exactly that story. There. You hear these stories about
people that are like, wow, there was this big pile
up and the freeway got closed in the middle of
winter and they were stuck in their cars for twelve hours.
You go to Coachella and you're sitting in line, stuck
in your car for twelve hours. If my car runs
out of gas, I can siphon some off from the
(06:01):
next guy, or I can I can call Triple A
and they'll bring me a can. Right my car battery
goes dead, I might die. And at Coachella it was
one hundred one degrees and I don't want to be
hanging outside my car waiting to get into my campsite
that I paid thousands of dollars for and my battery
is dead, and then how am I going to get
it out of the way if I'm stuck on one
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of the passes in the middle of winter, right, I
do not want to be stuck there for twelve hours
and then my battery dies. That's and I know the
odds of that happening are incredibly minimal. I've lived forty
seven years, had never been stuck in traffic more than
a few hours for a bad traffic jam, not like
anything that we're talking about here. So what am I
really worried about? I shouldn't be worried about those things, right,
(06:46):
but I'm still worried. It's still going on. Meanwhile, we
talked about the price of things. What was it? It
was a slider and fries, a hot chicken slider and fries,
thirty bucks, two plates of tacos, three tacos on each plate,
plate of nachos, and two lemonades. Came up to over
(07:07):
one hundred dollars at Coachella and then uh Bernie Sanders
showed up, and I know this is gonna sound weird.
Bernie Sanders shows up. I mean he is on tour
right now, I know he is. He's not his no
Oligarchs tour, right Yeah. So he shows up though at
(07:30):
Coachella to talk about all these injustices and I'm presuming
to follow, you know, the chastisement and deriding the the
money grabbers while people are paying one hundred dollars for
two plates of tacos and a couple of lemonades. Like, Bernie,
I don't know that this is your crowd. This is
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not the Coachella of old. This is not the this
is not the Dave Matthews band type festival that you
might have had twenty years ago. It is old Cella.
And it's also the same people whose parents have luxury
suites at Dodger Stadium.
Speaker 5 (08:09):
Yeah, but you gotta remember, right when Bernie was running
like he's like, he's like the one the young the
youngins like right, yeah, he's popular with the young kids.
So I could see Bernie Sanders going to Coachella actually,
of course.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Except Coachella isn't like it. My point is that if
you are going to stand up and speak out against
the people who are taking advantage of the little guy.
It's the people at Coachella that are charging thousands of
dollars for a piece of the desert in order to
sleep in your car. I mean, when they talk about campsites,
it's to sleep in your car. And then they're charging
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six hundred and fifty dollars for tickets, and then they've
got the biggest celebrities out there. And again, I do
I have anything against it. It's just not exactly the
anti corporate retreat that you would think Bernie Sanders would
gravitate toward. I know he wants to talk to the
young people, that's the demographic. I get what he's aiming at,
but it just I don't know. It's kind of like
(09:07):
the people that jet set around talking about global warming. Right,
I'm gonna get out of my private plane. I'm gonna
fly to the next place and tell everybody that they
should recycle more. If he wore a band shirt, he
may have had more of an impact. Oh, that would
have been good, But then we would have done the
same thing we do to people like Cala. We would
have said name a member of the band, right, Keila
(09:31):
walks in with like a fog hat t shirt on
killer name one member of that band. She's like, name
one song. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
It's just cute fashion.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
It's cute, so cute it was on sale tote that sue. Meanwhile,
when we start talking about politics intersecting with show business, Jina,
he's doing what they can to seek retribution over those tariffs,
and it might hurt Southern California as much as any.
Chinese audiences are going more and more for Chinese movies.
(10:04):
Earlier this year, Neja Too made more than one point
eight billion dollars inside China alone, one point eight billion dollars.
Of course, I guess they have five times as many
people there as we do. But dang, we've only had
a couple of billion dollar movies in the United States,
and they're just cranking out cartoons.
Speaker 10 (10:22):
There's one point eight billion worldwide. The animated sequel is
now the eighth highest grossing movie of all time.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Wow.
Speaker 10 (10:30):
On Wednesday, when President Donald Trump increased tariffs on China,
China hit back with its own tariffs on the US,
and the China Film Administration announced it will moderately reduce
the number of American movies it imports.
Speaker 9 (10:45):
President China retaliated today by reducing the number of American films.
Speaker 11 (10:49):
That can be shown there.
Speaker 9 (10:50):
What's your reaction to them now targeting cultural exports from
the United States.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
I think I've heard of worse things than You're missing
the point. When we don't have cultural exports, we lose
cultural influence. And when you take a look at some
of these different fights for democracy, standing up against communist regimes,
(11:18):
Genim and Square, the Arab Spring, all of these different things,
that's because of cultural exports. That's because the same young
people at Bernie trying to reach who are alerting people
overseas that there's a whole world out there that you
guys don't even know. And so as us trying to
(11:40):
become more nativist and protectionists, we continue to decrease our
influence globally. We also decrease the amount of ticket sales
on some of our movies coming the ones that are
still being made in southern California. We're cutting the number
of receipts we can get on those movies, and that
ain't good. We'll continue. There's no business like business, including
(12:02):
celebrities behaving badly. That is next Chris Merril CAFI AM
six forty. We live everywhere in the Iheartrap Wrap. Yeah,
nailed it.
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There's no business like shel business and sometimes celebrities behave
well sometimes not so much. This from ABC seven at
(12:37):
breaking News. We have new information on the woman shot
by Los Angeles police following a hit run on a
freeway in the Eagle Walk. Gran David Oo, I'm Ellen Leva.
Speaker 12 (12:45):
Just minutes ago, we learned that Jullian Schriner was shot
by officers during a search for the hit and run suspects.
According to police, officers were searching a home in the
neighborhood for one of the suspects when they spotted Shriner
standing in our front yard next door arm with a gun.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
Yeah, but who who is she? I don't recognize that name.
Speaker 12 (13:01):
They claim that she ignored commands to drop the weapon
and that's when officers open fire. Tchriina was taken to
the hospital and treated for a non life threatening gunshot wound.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
We ran her.
Speaker 12 (13:11):
Address and it comes back to Gillian and Scott Schwiner.
He is the basis for the band Weezer.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
Oh yeah, there you go. Love Weezer. I mean, I'm
a nineties kid, so I love Weezer. They're great and
don't marry crazy people. That's what's the best I can say.
Just I kind of want to watch the bodycam footage.
Of course, why would you not? I'm I'm always I
(13:41):
always feel like the last thing you want to do
is hear your name on the news. Am I right? Like, sure,
you might hear your name on the news for something good,
but more often than not, if your name is on
the news, it is for something bad. So, just generally speaking,
if you don't hear your name on the news, that's good.
And even if that means you didn't do something so
(14:04):
outstanding that you didn't make the news, that's okay. You
still were a pretty great person because you weren't on
the news for something bad. That's it. Yeah, Okay, Weezer's
bassist wife, that's got to be an awkward conversation to have.
He still performed at Coachella. That's the other That's what
(14:25):
I was gonna I was gonna ask you because I
know Weezer has done Coachella before. So his wife is
recovering from a there it is, his wife is recovering
from a gunshot wound after a cop shot her, and
he's like, sorry, Bube, gotta go Coachella. We might have
a contract, I know, but don't Andrew. You would know
(14:50):
better than I because you've done a lot of world tours. Yep. Uh.
Is there no stipulation in the contract that if my
wife gets shot by the cops, I might be able
to a postpone?
Speaker 5 (15:01):
Well, it's never in a contract, like in the event
that your your wife gets shot, you don't have to
do the show. I mean there may be like no exceptions,
you know. I mean it's it's possible, you know, have
you had.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
No exception contracts? I mean, what if you had, for instance,
a parent die or something like that.
Speaker 5 (15:18):
Well, okay, it's Coachella, right, I mean he could just
be going every day, you know, for to go and
play and then he comes home. It's not like it's
not like he's like wester State or something. So that's
a good point, you know, it's in this case. Yeah,
I could see that absolutely, because he's he's he's only
a counting over.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
Maybe it's good though, to take a few hours and
get away from that. Yeah, I mean, honestly, wife went crazy.
He had to be shot by the police, and uh,
I mean based on the police.
Speaker 5 (15:46):
Report, it's a good marketing tactic. Let's go see the
Weezer or Weezer on.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
This stage of say the Weezer. That's great. Wow, that's
what Bernie said.
Speaker 7 (15:56):
I'm very excited to be here at THEE to see
the wee Yea and the Lady Gotga.
Speaker 5 (16:01):
You know what it means, like, oh, yeah, the guy's
wife is just shot recently. Let's go see there's them
on stage, see what they're doing, like, you know, it's
I don't know, it's relevant.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
It's that I feel like that baseline was a little
a little draggy man felt like it was a little
dragging this time. It's like his mind is somewhere else dragging,
all right. From the talkback line.
Speaker 6 (16:19):
Bernie Sanders showed up at Gochella to do the talking
with Lady Gaga. That's all it was about.
Speaker 7 (16:27):
I am asking you once again to talk in front
of me. Lady Goga. It's all I've ever dreamed, It's
all I've ever wanted. Also, down with the oligakia. But
give me the give me the talk, show me that
show me that. I mean, if you got.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
It, then do it. Whatever? Uh, how about this, I've
been accused of somebody who needs help. In fact, tonight
I believe I've been called an idiot and a moron,
which I gotta I gotta tell you makes me feel
sad about myself, which means I have something to talk
about in therapy, except my therapist never has time or
(17:08):
will ignore the restraining order, whatever it is. What should
I be doing instead? The robot will see you now. Next,
Chris Merril, I am six forty. We're live everywhere on
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(17:30):
the iHeart Radio app. And Kayla and Raoul inform me
that you can find the podcast for tonight's program under
the featured segments after the show. So there you are,
my friends. We were just talking about Weezer, and evidently
Andrew has upset some people talking about Weezer. Weezer isn't
(17:51):
a guy, It's a band, Yeah, Andrew, so get your
act together.
Speaker 5 (17:57):
Okay, Just for clarification, I was in marching band growing up,
and the relevancy to this is the band director and
both of his sons were the biggest Weezer fans ever,
So I was forced to understand Weezer. Yeah, and their
music every single week. Yeah, they got some good tunes.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
I love Weezer. They were I was first introduced to them.
They were kind of an underground band, like they would
have been a band that would only play the festivals
when I first heard about them, and I was like,
I like these guys. And then all of a sudden
I saw one of their It was probably a sweater
song we got played on MTV or whatever, so and
I was like, all right, well they hit it. Now
I have to hate them. That's how alternative music works. Works.
(18:40):
As soon as their mainstream, then you have to hate
them because they're no longer alternative. So that happened. Yeah,
I don't think did we roll? Did we ever say
that the Weezer was a guy and not a band.
Is he just referred to him as the Weezer. That
was Andrew, I misspoke. It's live radio, doesn't happen. All right,
(19:03):
Just wait until I tell Jethrow Tall what you've been saying.
He's gonna be mad, so mad. He'll probably call his
friend Pink Floyd, and they're gonna they're gonna they're gonna
duel it out, the two of them. They're gonna probably
form a posse and come get you, buddy. Those two guys,
Jethrow Tall and Pink Floyd, you know they're close. They
went to high school together, the two of them. Well,
(19:24):
the hang out with them. Harley Davidson, Is that right? Yeah, Harley,
heck of a guy. Harley. Yeah. Hey, before I get
into the AI therapy, which I think is a good
one for us to bridge into our conversation with doctor
Wendy waalsh'll pop into the studio here to preview her
show next. Andrew, I threw you under the bus. I
was feeling in for Bill Handle. Oh, and I completely
(19:47):
threw you into the bus. My name made it to
the morning show. Wow. Yeah. Time. Well, so here's how
it went down. I was making fun of TV reporters
because I that's one of my favorite pastimes playing TV reporters.
Who are We're standing outside the school board where eight
hours ago there was a meeting. Now granted, at five
(20:10):
point thirty in the morning, there's no one here in
security looks at as funny, but we had to do
a live shot from somewhere that had something to do
with this story, so we chose an empty parking lot
in the dark. So I always love to make fun
of them for that. So I was making fun of
them and I said, you know, the craziest thing is
that they have these scaphans. And I said, you may
(20:30):
have heard on Sunday, of course, I was promoting the
show and I said that. I said, Andrew Caravella's on there.
And sometimes we'll have some of these local reporters that
will come in and do their show and then what's
your your girl that just had the baby, Marla Marlot, yeah,
Marlet Tayas, Yeah, so she had her baby and I
was I was like, hey, it's really great that Marla
(20:51):
had a baby, and you know she's done the weekend
show before mine periodically, and I said, the funny thing
is every time these reporters come in, Andrew Caravell is
nowhere to be found. We start doing the show and
I start talking and I'm like, hey, Andrew, of course
I'm in a different studio, so I can't see. I
can't see what's going on the new studio, and he's
not there and I and I said, it's because he's
(21:11):
out there chasing down selfies with these with these TV
reporters who are half the time just excited to be
standing in a dark parking lot at five point thirty
in the morning. And I said, And the weirdest thing
about Andrew is this. It's not that he just wants
to go and get a selfie and introduce himself one time.
I kind of understand that because I listen, I got
TV crushes too. I get it. But it's that every
(21:31):
time they come in, he has to get a new one,
like he's creating a chronology of his growing friendship with
these people before he's creating a shrine.
Speaker 5 (21:41):
For the record, I am asked at least seventy five
percent of those times to take the selfies with them.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
Facts. Those are facts. Look, I don't think Marlteez is
coming in that. What has she been here like three times?
And you have to have selfies all I don't think
she's asking, like, Hey, Andrew, that last Helfie was good,
but can I get you with this new baby bump. No,
that wasn't happening.
Speaker 5 (22:05):
You know, for the last five years doing weekend news,
most people that listen to me, No, I'm only here until,
like the Netflix deal happens. So if a TV deal
happens before that, it's all else. So I'm just being consistent,
Chris with my brand. That's all I'm doing.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
We're standing live now in front of the dark school board.
You're hear the cricket Serian's night times rolled in were
You're never gonna believe what happened last night. More on
that coming up on our six o'clock report. Until then,
I'm gonna stand out here in the dark. I love them.
Uh if you missed it, chat GPT will see you now.
Speaker 8 (22:46):
And Health News. Could an AI chat bot be your
new therapist? Researchers at Dartmouth tested a therapy chatbot and
found it actually did help patients with depression, anxiety, and
eating disorders. Patients would text the chatbot through an app.
Researcher say the AI still needs oversight from a real person,
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but that it could help those who don't have access
to a mental health professional.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
I'm standing outside of a best Buy five point thirty
in the morning. We're inside. You could purchase a computer,
and I'm that computer. You could access chat GPT, where
chat GPT could be your therapist. More on this in
my six am report. See how they do that. You're welcome. Meanwhile,
best Beisley, what are you doing here? Weirdos? I'm not
(23:33):
so sure that I'm in for chat GPT being my therapist. Now,
it did pass the Turing test. If you're unfamiliar with
the Turing test, so, the Turing test was named for
Alan Turing. He's considered kind of the godfather of modern computing.
He's the guy that created the Enigma machine and broke
the German code. And listen, I know you want to
give me a talk back and tell me in my
World War One history is wrong somehow, I don't care. So,
(23:55):
but Turing is the father of modern computing. And the
test is if someone on the other end of the
communication with a computer can't tell that they're talking to
a computer, they pass. And this test, chat GPT better
than the other language learning modules. Chat GPT seventy percent
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of the time, the people that were speaking with it
couldn't tell that they were talking to AI. They couldn't
tell that they were talking to a machine. So effectively
it passed the Turing test. Not with flying colories, but
it passes. It's another saying that this may have applications
for therapy. I have concerns practical First of all, practical
(24:41):
concern because one of the great advantages to this is
that you never have to set up an appointment. Chat
GPT is always there. But here's my practical concern on
using the chat GPT as a therapist. If I go
to therapy, if you sit down on the couch and
the therapist says, tell me about what's on your mind,
what happened this week, how is your relationship with your mother,
(25:04):
all this kind of stuff, right, then the therapists will
not divulge any of that information unless they are subpoened somehow,
like if you're committing a crime, right, I mean, they
have to keep it quiet or they lose their license.
Their lives are in shambles. It's a bad deal. If
chat GPT is hacked and your information is stolen, what's
(25:29):
the consequence. There's no consequence set up, right, now what
people might not use chat GPT four point five until
chat GPT five point oh comes out, We've all forgotten
about it. If there's a hack, what happens to that
very private, very personal information is that being sold on
the dark web to the highest bidder. So that's a
very practical concern that I have with that. Beyond that,
(25:51):
I have concerns about the efficacy of the AI therapist.
I also I'm a little bit concerned about actual therapists
losing their jobs. Are they going to become computer programmers
for chat GPT? Maybe, but I'm guessing I'm not gonna
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want to sit and talk to that computer as much
as I would want to talk with my friend in
the same room. We'll find out from doctor Wendy Walts
which she thinks about this. Next Chris merylf I AM
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Speaker 1 (26:28):
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Shout out to everybody that has given us a talk
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of the evening.
Speaker 11 (26:47):
I want to let you know I'll share my coffee
with you. I called into the hear.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
That, Andrew, we're hooking you up, buddy. Yeah all right?
Why does she have so much coffee?
Speaker 11 (26:56):
I called into the Neil Savedra Cooking Show back in December.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
I remember her, and I was the.
Speaker 13 (27:01):
Eighth caller, and I won one year of coffee from
the Don Francisco Company.
Speaker 11 (27:08):
Wow, I'm so excited. I'm still excited.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
Sounds like that we probably should have given her the.
Speaker 13 (27:13):
Decaf and I get the delivery and they're so sweet
to me from the Don Francisco Company.
Speaker 11 (27:20):
Love you guys, Love you, Chris.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
Thank you.
Speaker 11 (27:22):
Don't go anywhere, stay right where.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
You are, thank you? All right? Bye? Uh yeah, you
know what she is? Exactly who you want winning? Am
I right?
Speaker 5 (27:30):
Did I miss something? At the beginning of years show,
everyone keeps saying don't go anywhere.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
Yeah, people telling me that I need to be fired
right now. Oh okay, yeah, fire him, get rid of him.
Speaker 3 (27:40):
He's an idiot.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
Yeah yeah, yeah, what was it?
Speaker 5 (27:45):
I thought those were the qualifications to have your own
radio show.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
Oh my god. Yeah, get rid of Chris Merrill, permanently. Repeat,
get rid of Chris Merrill, permanently. No, and you're burying
the lead. He was gone three weeks. The sky too
busy for this, Harold, Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
Oh, where was that.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
I'm terrible at self promotion. I need to use my
hype man. Uh. Speaking of hype, how about we build
up a little love for Doctor Wendy Walsh and Dr
Wendy After Dark starts at seven o'clock. Doctor Wendy, I
was just talking about chat GPT passing the touring test
and now, uh, many places they're testing whether or not
it can be your therapist.
Speaker 3 (28:26):
People are using it for therapy, and.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
I am concerned about that, not only and I laid
this out in the last segment that I'm a little
bit concerned about the security of my information because it
is a computer, which means hacking spot.
Speaker 3 (28:37):
Yeah, you know what chat GBT asked me today?
Speaker 2 (28:39):
What's that?
Speaker 3 (28:40):
It said, Hey, like I've known you a while, would
you like me to give you a synopsis of who
you are and your personality and tell you a little
bit about yourself?
Speaker 2 (28:49):
Really?
Speaker 3 (28:50):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (28:51):
That you know what?
Speaker 3 (28:52):
It told me?
Speaker 2 (28:53):
Go ahead?
Speaker 3 (28:54):
It said you are brainy and bold and love science
and pop culture.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Okay, they were right, it said you are pop culture.
No that I love all.
Speaker 3 (29:05):
I love pop culture mixed with science.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
Mine would be like, you read a lot of news
and pornography.
Speaker 3 (29:12):
Yeah, it knows about that part.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
Of you confused. It just follows my algorithms. I'm sure.
So my question here, Wendy is yes, I think this
is great, especially for rural areas right where you have
limited access.
Speaker 3 (29:29):
Where we talk about what is the healing factor in therapy?
Speaker 2 (29:33):
That's where I was going.
Speaker 3 (29:34):
Okay, so if we're talking about cognitive behavioral therapy, yes,
or maybe even family systems therapy, it's very like teaching
people about faulty beliefs they might have, helping them, you know,
take bolder steps to build their self esteem. Robot could
probably do some of that, but the big piece of
(29:57):
the healing is the relationship between having that unconditional positive regard,
having that someone there at the same time every week,
holding that time for you as if good mommy is
there and good mommy will care for you. I mean,
that's kind of the difference between comes from.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
It's kind of the difference between hiring a personal trainer
and being accountable, and in creating that relationship where they're
coaching you and teaching you and encouraging you versus downloading
a workout video. Yeah right, and I feel like that
relationship is so key to amplifying results. Yeah, the information
might be here.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
I know, even during COVID, even though I had a
live instructor at the other side, I didn't work out
that hard. He couldn't really see me that well.
Speaker 2 (30:42):
I wasn't right, which is why so many pelotons become
folding tables, close wrecks. Yeah right, whatever it is.
Speaker 3 (30:50):
Yeah, so yeah, I don't think it's necessarily a good thing.
But like to basic stuff like if somebody, let's say,
somebody is ID they're suffering from loneliness and they go
to the robot. I know people who do that and
they say, what's wrong with me whatever? And the robot says.
Speaker 5 (31:08):
You're great.
Speaker 3 (31:09):
And here's what I think. Here's some places I think
you should go today. Meet some people. Well, what are
some things I should ask them? How do I meet
a friend? See, robots can give that basic kind of
psycho education, okay, but as far as deep changing, deep
personality problems or mental illness, like real mental illness, Like, well.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
That's it. Yeah, what if you're in a crisis situation
right right?
Speaker 3 (31:33):
Can the robot call nine one one for you? I
don't know. That's something to be looked at.
Speaker 2 (31:38):
Can the robot talk you down from wherever you are,
from whatever you've got going on? That's why I know.
Speaker 3 (31:42):
There was some talk a few years ago that social
media algorithms were analyzing people's posts to determine who was
suffering from depression and anxiety. And I don't know where
it ended up, but there was some talk where it
would automatically call nine one if somebody was potentially suicidal
and posting it. That's in some way I thought that
would I don't know if they do that.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
I sold that information to the pharmaceutical company, so they
knew who to tell.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
There's that too, Yeah, I'm sure they do.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
Hey, I love talking with you, but unfortunately my time
to talk with you is short, and I want to
make sure you have a chance to tell us what's
coming up in your program.
Speaker 3 (32:16):
Well, let's see what happens when one partner changes and
the other doesn't. How does the relationship adapt? And therapy
speak in dating forget about robots. There are people out
there on real dates using terms that they may not Actually,
you know, they're a narcissist. They're gaslighting me. I think
(32:37):
they have an avoidant attachment stuff. Really do you know
what that is? Can you diagnose them? So let's talk
about the pros and cons of therapy speak in dating,
and also why spring causes the most breakups and why
one partner never saw it coming.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
Oh, because he's an idiot, that's why.
Speaker 3 (32:56):
Wow, there's some phases of a breakup. And there's a
new research out of Germany where they follow thousands of
couples for a bunch of years and they were able
to determine that there is these two steps in a breakup,
and the second step the other partner doesn't get.
Speaker 2 (33:12):
Oh what at Hey? Well done? Really well done, doctor Wendy.
I love talking with you. Thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (33:18):
All right, we'll see you next week.
Speaker 2 (33:20):
Kayla, I missed you. I'm so glad we got to
spend the evening together. You are fantastic, Raoul, God bless
my friend. I always love catching up and Andrew. You
just brightened the night. You're You're great and I want
you to have a wonderful rest of your rest of
your news.
Speaker 5 (33:34):
I will as soon as I get my selfie with Wendy.
I got to update those, of.
Speaker 2 (33:37):
Course, you do. Unbelievable this guy in his shrine, Well,
I have a shrine. I have a great night. Doctor
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They're fine, They're good. Okay, I have not heard these before,
so I don't know. But you sent me a couple
of them. The head swearwards in them before, So yeah,
these ones, don't they promisright? Well, we'll stay on the
dump bucket button. Yeah, here we go from the talkback.
Here we are. Thank you so much for listening on
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that's Jacob from Huntington Beach. You're doing great. Thanks buddy,
you're doing great. Repeat, you're doing great. You're doing You're
doing great. Repeat, you're doing great. All units, all units.
Thank you.
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Chris Marrill. Tell Sharon Bellio to keep your show. Oh,
I enjoy it on the Sundays.
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Thank you.
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and stay it. I think it's a good show.
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Thanks.
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Alrighty caeculator.
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Somehow Bellio just got dragged into this.
Speaker 5 (01:10):
There's all these new voices. I've never heard you talkbacks before.
It's it's like you have an audience or something.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
I don't know. I love that. The one guy says,
Kayla needs to fire Chris and at least Kyle is
my producer. That guy just called on Tim Conway, Junior's producer,
to fire me. That's great. Love that. Oh fantastic. Thank
you so much, you guys.
Speaker 6 (01:30):
I love you today, Eric and Lyle like Manny Yeah
in the Runaway Train movie and everybody cheers and stuff
because they've been there for thirty years.
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And the grandfather of the prison system. All right, cool,
all right, yeah, all right, I'm down with you. Thank
you so much, you guys. You the best. Thank you
And as always, if you're on the iHeartRadio app, can
hit the talkback button. And we did ask a question earlier.
What's the one thing here? And I'm gonna throw this
to you before we get into our shows. What's the
one thing you won't give up no matter how expensive
(02:01):
it gets. That was the question we threw out initially
for the talkbacks tonight.
Speaker 5 (02:06):
Gosh, that's a hard question. Yeah, I have so many addictions.
Where do I start?
Speaker 2 (02:12):
See my trouble with that is that the stuff that
I don't want to give up. I had to give
up for a diet because I got too fat, and
so I had to give up breakfast burritos. Okay, I
got one. I think it's I think it's common.
Speaker 7 (02:22):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (02:23):
I am addicted to coffee, like that is my vitamin
in the morning, that is my vitamin C. And some
days I'm like, yeah, I'll just switch to orange juice
or something dumb like that, and I'm just like, Nope,
it's that. That's how I start my days. I cannot
adult until coffee is in my system.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
It's funny I've had. I don't think I'm revealing too
much here. Personal conversations with the new Boss Long, the
new program director at the station. Yeah, and uh. And
we were talking about our medical histories and and you know,
he goes and gets his physical and and I go, yeah,
I got a physical. One time I walked in. The
doctor said I had never even met the guy, new guy,
And he says, he walks in, he goes, boy, you're fat.
(02:59):
Thanks doctor, I appreciate that, he said. And you know,
Boss Long just started laughing about that, and he said,
I get the same thing. I go in there and
they say, well, you know your your cholesterol is high.
You should cut back on eggs. You know this is high.
You gotta cut back on that. And he says, but
I'll tell you what if they tell me to cut
back on coffee. He goes, no, that's it. I'm tapping out. Sorry, Doc,
it's it. I'm done. It was a good run, but
(03:21):
I'm not giving up that coffee. It's a good run,
fun times. So he's with you on that one, Bud,
I get it, and I'm a coffee every morning, but
I think I could give it up if I needed to.
Did you see coffee is supposed to get real expensive too,
not necessarily tariff related, but coffee's gonna shoot up in price.
Speaker 5 (03:37):
No, Tan, Yeah, I don't know what I'm gonna do
about that. I just told uh Sam Zea. He was
leavings like I'm going to Hawaii. I'm like, do me
a favor, Can you give up some coffee? I do
this with everybody. So he said, smuggle it back.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Oh, unbelievable. All right, it's been a while since we've
had a chance to do this live and with Kayla
in studio as well. It's nice to be back in
the saddle. There's no business like shell business. And off
we go to Coachella, the big festival with Lady Gaga,
Green Day, Posty, They're all headlining the big weekend. That is,
(04:09):
if you could get in.
Speaker 8 (04:11):
Campers trying to get into the Coachella festival.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Grounds are calling the process a nightmare.
Speaker 9 (04:16):
Yeah, some campers say they've been in line for more
than eight hours. They say, without access to water or restrooms.
They say in the past it had only taken up
to two hours to get in. Social media has quickly
become flooded with the plight of the campers. A one
user posting, this is beyond unacceptable. You charge thousands and
can't manage basic logistics.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
What a joke, agreed anow.
Speaker 9 (04:40):
They're saying Coachella camping entry line is unconscionable.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
To be honest.
Speaker 9 (04:44):
Firefest two Rochella Valley say they have dispatched all agencies
to help with the influx of traffic, not just around
the grounds but throughout the region. I wonder what has
changed and why? Yeah, two eight hours?
Speaker 2 (04:57):
All right, let me tell you this nightmare. This is
I think electric vehicles are great, and by the way,
I don't think you should be attacking a Tesla vehicle either.
The only attack I have in a Tesla vehicle. First
of all, the cyber truck never should have been released.
But I love the model ass. I think it's a
great car. It needs to be updated. That's my only
(05:19):
attack on Tesla. Otherwise, great car, love it fantastic. I
don't have an electric. I did a test drive and
a Machi a couple of months ago. I loved it.
Has all of the amenities of the hybrid I'm driving
right now, which is not a mock or it's not
a Mustang. But I loved it. My only hang up
(05:40):
is exactly that story. There. You hear these stories about
people that are like, wow, there was this big pile
up and the freeway got closed in the middle of
winter and they were stuck in their cars for twelve hours.
You go to Coachella and you're sitting in line, stuck
in your car for twelve hours. If my car runs
out of gas, I can siphon some off from the
(06:01):
next guy, or I can I can call Triple A
and they'll bring me a can. Right my car battery
goes dead, I might die. And at Coachella it was
one hundred one degrees and I don't want to be
hanging outside my car waiting to get into my campsite
that I paid thousands of dollars for and my battery
is dead, and then how am I going to get
it out of the way if I'm stuck on one
(06:25):
of the passes in the middle of winter, right, I
do not want to be stuck there for twelve hours
and then my battery dies. That's and I know the
odds of that happening are incredibly minimal. I've lived forty
seven years, had never been stuck in traffic more than
a few hours for a bad traffic jam, not like
anything that we're talking about here. So what am I
really worried about? I shouldn't be worried about those things, right,
(06:46):
but I'm still worried. It's still going on. Meanwhile, we
talked about the price of things. What was it? It
was a slider and fries, a hot chicken slider and fries,
thirty bucks, two plates of tacos, three tacos on each plate,
plate of nachos, and two lemonades. Came up to over
(07:07):
one hundred dollars at Coachella and then uh Bernie Sanders
showed up, and I know this is gonna sound weird.
Bernie Sanders shows up. I mean he is on tour
right now, I know he is. He's not his no
Oligarchs tour, right Yeah. So he shows up though at
(07:30):
Coachella to talk about all these injustices and I'm presuming
to follow, you know, the chastisement and deriding the the
money grabbers while people are paying one hundred dollars for
two plates of tacos and a couple of lemonades. Like, Bernie,
I don't know that this is your crowd. This is
(07:52):
not the Coachella of old. This is not the this
is not the Dave Matthews band type festival that you
might have had twenty years ago. It is old Cella.
And it's also the same people whose parents have luxury
suites at Dodger Stadium.
Speaker 5 (08:09):
Yeah, but you gotta remember, right when Bernie was running
like he's like, he's like the one the young the
youngins like right, yeah, he's popular with the young kids.
So I could see Bernie Sanders going to Coachella actually,
of course.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Except Coachella isn't like it. My point is that if
you are going to stand up and speak out against
the people who are taking advantage of the little guy.
It's the people at Coachella that are charging thousands of
dollars for a piece of the desert in order to
sleep in your car. I mean, when they talk about campsites,
it's to sleep in your car. And then they're charging
(08:45):
six hundred and fifty dollars for tickets, and then they've
got the biggest celebrities out there. And again, I do
I have anything against it. It's just not exactly the
anti corporate retreat that you would think Bernie Sanders would
gravitate toward. I know he wants to talk to the
young people, that's the demographic. I get what he's aiming at,
but it just I don't know. It's kind of like
(09:07):
the people that jet set around talking about global warming. Right,
I'm gonna get out of my private plane. I'm gonna
fly to the next place and tell everybody that they
should recycle more. If he wore a band shirt, he
may have had more of an impact. Oh, that would
have been good, But then we would have done the
same thing we do to people like Cala. We would
have said name a member of the band, right, Keila
(09:31):
walks in with like a fog hat t shirt on
killer name one member of that band. She's like, name
one song. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
It's just cute fashion.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
It's cute, so cute it was on sale tote that sue. Meanwhile,
when we start talking about politics intersecting with show business, Jina,
he's doing what they can to seek retribution over those tariffs,
and it might hurt Southern California as much as any.
Chinese audiences are going more and more for Chinese movies.
(10:04):
Earlier this year, Neja Too made more than one point
eight billion dollars inside China alone, one point eight billion dollars.
Of course, I guess they have five times as many
people there as we do. But dang, we've only had
a couple of billion dollar movies in the United States,
and they're just cranking out cartoons.
Speaker 10 (10:22):
There's one point eight billion worldwide. The animated sequel is
now the eighth highest grossing movie of all time.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Wow.
Speaker 10 (10:30):
On Wednesday, when President Donald Trump increased tariffs on China,
China hit back with its own tariffs on the US,
and the China Film Administration announced it will moderately reduce
the number of American movies it imports.
Speaker 9 (10:45):
President China retaliated today by reducing the number of American films.
Speaker 11 (10:49):
That can be shown there.
Speaker 9 (10:50):
What's your reaction to them now targeting cultural exports from
the United States.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
I think I've heard of worse things than You're missing
the point. When we don't have cultural exports, we lose
cultural influence. And when you take a look at some
of these different fights for democracy, standing up against communist regimes,
(11:18):
Genim and Square, the Arab Spring, all of these different things,
that's because of cultural exports. That's because the same young
people at Bernie trying to reach who are alerting people
overseas that there's a whole world out there that you
guys don't even know. And so as us trying to
(11:40):
become more nativist and protectionists, we continue to decrease our
influence globally. We also decrease the amount of ticket sales
on some of our movies coming the ones that are
still being made in southern California. We're cutting the number
of receipts we can get on those movies, and that
ain't good. We'll continue. There's no business like business, including
(12:02):
celebrities behaving badly. That is next Chris Merril CAFI AM
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There's no business like shel business and sometimes celebrities behave
well sometimes not so much. This from ABC seven at
(12:37):
breaking News. We have new information on the woman shot
by Los Angeles police following a hit run on a
freeway in the Eagle Walk. Gran David Oo, I'm Ellen Leva.
Speaker 12 (12:45):
Just minutes ago, we learned that Jullian Schriner was shot
by officers during a search for the hit and run suspects.
According to police, officers were searching a home in the
neighborhood for one of the suspects when they spotted Shriner
standing in our front yard next door arm with a gun.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
Yeah, but who who is she? I don't recognize that name.
Speaker 12 (13:01):
They claim that she ignored commands to drop the weapon
and that's when officers open fire. Tchriina was taken to
the hospital and treated for a non life threatening gunshot wound.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
We ran her.
Speaker 12 (13:11):
Address and it comes back to Gillian and Scott Schwiner.
He is the basis for the band Weezer.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
Oh yeah, there you go. Love Weezer. I mean, I'm
a nineties kid, so I love Weezer. They're great and
don't marry crazy people. That's what's the best I can say.
Just I kind of want to watch the bodycam footage.
Of course, why would you not? I'm I'm always I
(13:41):
always feel like the last thing you want to do
is hear your name on the news. Am I right? Like, sure,
you might hear your name on the news for something good,
but more often than not, if your name is on
the news, it is for something bad. So, just generally speaking,
if you don't hear your name on the news, that's good.
And even if that means you didn't do something so
(14:04):
outstanding that you didn't make the news, that's okay. You
still were a pretty great person because you weren't on
the news for something bad. That's it. Yeah, Okay, Weezer's
bassist wife, that's got to be an awkward conversation to have.
He still performed at Coachella. That's the other That's what
(14:25):
I was gonna I was gonna ask you because I
know Weezer has done Coachella before. So his wife is
recovering from a there it is, his wife is recovering
from a gunshot wound after a cop shot her, and
he's like, sorry, Bube, gotta go Coachella. We might have
a contract, I know, but don't Andrew. You would know
(14:50):
better than I because you've done a lot of world tours. Yep. Uh.
Is there no stipulation in the contract that if my
wife gets shot by the cops, I might be able
to a postpone?
Speaker 5 (15:01):
Well, it's never in a contract, like in the event
that your your wife gets shot, you don't have to
do the show. I mean there may be like no exceptions,
you know. I mean it's it's possible, you know, have
you had.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
No exception contracts? I mean, what if you had, for instance,
a parent die or something like that.
Speaker 5 (15:18):
Well, okay, it's Coachella, right, I mean he could just
be going every day, you know, for to go and
play and then he comes home. It's not like it's
not like he's like wester State or something. So that's
a good point, you know, it's in this case. Yeah,
I could see that absolutely, because he's he's he's only
a counting over.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
Maybe it's good though, to take a few hours and
get away from that. Yeah, I mean, honestly, wife went crazy.
He had to be shot by the police, and uh,
I mean based on the police.
Speaker 5 (15:46):
Report, it's a good marketing tactic. Let's go see the
Weezer or Weezer on.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
This stage of say the Weezer. That's great. Wow, that's
what Bernie said.
Speaker 7 (15:56):
I'm very excited to be here at THEE to see
the wee Yea and the Lady Gotga.
Speaker 5 (16:01):
You know what it means, like, oh, yeah, the guy's
wife is just shot recently. Let's go see there's them
on stage, see what they're doing, like, you know, it's
I don't know, it's relevant.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
It's that I feel like that baseline was a little
a little draggy man felt like it was a little
dragging this time. It's like his mind is somewhere else dragging,
all right. From the talkback line.
Speaker 6 (16:19):
Bernie Sanders showed up at Gochella to do the talking
with Lady Gaga. That's all it was about.
Speaker 7 (16:27):
I am asking you once again to talk in front
of me. Lady Goga. It's all I've ever dreamed, It's
all I've ever wanted. Also, down with the oligakia. But
give me the give me the talk, show me that
show me that. I mean, if you got.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
It, then do it. Whatever? Uh, how about this, I've
been accused of somebody who needs help. In fact, tonight
I believe I've been called an idiot and a moron,
which I gotta I gotta tell you makes me feel
sad about myself, which means I have something to talk
about in therapy, except my therapist never has time or
(17:08):
will ignore the restraining order, whatever it is. What should
I be doing instead? The robot will see you now. Next,
Chris Merril, I am six forty. We're live everywhere on
the iHeart Radio app. You're listening to KFI AM six
forty on demand. Ko Chris Merril, can if I am
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(17:30):
the iHeart Radio app. And Kayla and Raoul inform me
that you can find the podcast for tonight's program under
the featured segments after the show. So there you are,
my friends. We were just talking about Weezer, and evidently
Andrew has upset some people talking about Weezer. Weezer isn't
(17:51):
a guy, It's a band, Yeah, Andrew, so get your
act together.
Speaker 5 (17:57):
Okay, Just for clarification, I was in marching band growing up,
and the relevancy to this is the band director and
both of his sons were the biggest Weezer fans ever,
So I was forced to understand Weezer. Yeah, and their
music every single week. Yeah, they got some good tunes.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
I love Weezer. They were I was first introduced to them.
They were kind of an underground band, like they would
have been a band that would only play the festivals
when I first heard about them, and I was like,
I like these guys. And then all of a sudden
I saw one of their It was probably a sweater
song we got played on MTV or whatever, so and
I was like, all right, well they hit it. Now
I have to hate them. That's how alternative music works. Works.
(18:40):
As soon as their mainstream, then you have to hate
them because they're no longer alternative. So that happened. Yeah,
I don't think did we roll? Did we ever say
that the Weezer was a guy and not a band.
Is he just referred to him as the Weezer. That
was Andrew, I misspoke. It's live radio, doesn't happen. All right,
(19:03):
Just wait until I tell Jethrow Tall what you've been saying.
He's gonna be mad, so mad. He'll probably call his
friend Pink Floyd, and they're gonna they're gonna they're gonna
duel it out, the two of them. They're gonna probably
form a posse and come get you, buddy. Those two guys,
Jethrow Tall and Pink Floyd, you know they're close. They
went to high school together, the two of them. Well,
(19:24):
the hang out with them. Harley Davidson, Is that right? Yeah, Harley,
heck of a guy. Harley. Yeah. Hey, before I get
into the AI therapy, which I think is a good
one for us to bridge into our conversation with doctor
Wendy waalsh'll pop into the studio here to preview her
show next. Andrew, I threw you under the bus. I
was feeling in for Bill Handle. Oh, and I completely
(19:47):
threw you into the bus. My name made it to
the morning show. Wow. Yeah. Time. Well, so here's how
it went down. I was making fun of TV reporters
because I that's one of my favorite pastimes playing TV reporters.
Who are We're standing outside the school board where eight
hours ago there was a meeting. Now granted, at five
(20:10):
point thirty in the morning, there's no one here in
security looks at as funny, but we had to do
a live shot from somewhere that had something to do
with this story, so we chose an empty parking lot
in the dark. So I always love to make fun
of them for that. So I was making fun of
them and I said, you know, the craziest thing is
that they have these scaphans. And I said, you may
(20:30):
have heard on Sunday, of course, I was promoting the
show and I said that. I said, Andrew Caravella's on there.
And sometimes we'll have some of these local reporters that
will come in and do their show and then what's
your your girl that just had the baby, Marla Marlot, yeah,
Marlet Tayas, Yeah, so she had her baby and I
was I was like, hey, it's really great that Marla
(20:51):
had a baby, and you know she's done the weekend
show before mine periodically, and I said, the funny thing
is every time these reporters come in, Andrew Caravell is
nowhere to be found. We start doing the show and
I start talking and I'm like, hey, Andrew, of course
I'm in a different studio, so I can't see. I
can't see what's going on the new studio, and he's
not there and I and I said, it's because he's
(21:11):
out there chasing down selfies with these with these TV
reporters who are half the time just excited to be
standing in a dark parking lot at five point thirty
in the morning. And I said, And the weirdest thing
about Andrew is this. It's not that he just wants
to go and get a selfie and introduce himself one time.
I kind of understand that because I listen, I got
TV crushes too. I get it. But it's that every
(21:31):
time they come in, he has to get a new one,
like he's creating a chronology of his growing friendship with
these people before he's creating a shrine.
Speaker 5 (21:41):
For the record, I am asked at least seventy five
percent of those times to take the selfies with them.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
Facts. Those are facts. Look, I don't think Marlteez is
coming in that. What has she been here like three times?
And you have to have selfies all I don't think
she's asking, like, Hey, Andrew, that last Helfie was good,
but can I get you with this new baby bump. No,
that wasn't happening.
Speaker 5 (22:05):
You know, for the last five years doing weekend news,
most people that listen to me, No, I'm only here until,
like the Netflix deal happens. So if a TV deal
happens before that, it's all else. So I'm just being consistent,
Chris with my brand. That's all I'm doing.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
We're standing live now in front of the dark school board.
You're hear the cricket Serian's night times rolled in were
You're never gonna believe what happened last night. More on
that coming up on our six o'clock report. Until then,
I'm gonna stand out here in the dark. I love them.
Uh if you missed it, chat GPT will see you now.
Speaker 8 (22:46):
And Health News. Could an AI chat bot be your
new therapist? Researchers at Dartmouth tested a therapy chatbot and
found it actually did help patients with depression, anxiety, and
eating disorders. Patients would text the chatbot through an app.
Researcher say the AI still needs oversight from a real person,
(23:06):
but that it could help those who don't have access
to a mental health professional.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
I'm standing outside of a best Buy five point thirty
in the morning. We're inside. You could purchase a computer,
and I'm that computer. You could access chat GPT, where
chat GPT could be your therapist. More on this in
my six am report. See how they do that. You're welcome. Meanwhile,
best Beisley, what are you doing here? Weirdos? I'm not
(23:33):
so sure that I'm in for chat GPT being my therapist. Now,
it did pass the Turing test. If you're unfamiliar with
the Turing test, so, the Turing test was named for
Alan Turing. He's considered kind of the godfather of modern computing.
He's the guy that created the Enigma machine and broke
the German code. And listen, I know you want to
give me a talk back and tell me in my
World War One history is wrong somehow, I don't care. So,
(23:55):
but Turing is the father of modern computing. And the
test is if someone on the other end of the
communication with a computer can't tell that they're talking to
a computer, they pass. And this test, chat GPT better
than the other language learning modules. Chat GPT seventy percent
(24:17):
of the time, the people that were speaking with it
couldn't tell that they were talking to AI. They couldn't
tell that they were talking to a machine. So effectively
it passed the Turing test. Not with flying colories, but
it passes. It's another saying that this may have applications
for therapy. I have concerns practical First of all, practical
(24:41):
concern because one of the great advantages to this is
that you never have to set up an appointment. Chat
GPT is always there. But here's my practical concern on
using the chat GPT as a therapist. If I go
to therapy, if you sit down on the couch and
the therapist says, tell me about what's on your mind,
what happened this week, how is your relationship with your mother,
(25:04):
all this kind of stuff, right, then the therapists will
not divulge any of that information unless they are subpoened somehow,
like if you're committing a crime, right, I mean, they
have to keep it quiet or they lose their license.
Their lives are in shambles. It's a bad deal. If
chat GPT is hacked and your information is stolen, what's
(25:29):
the consequence. There's no consequence set up, right, now what
people might not use chat GPT four point five until
chat GPT five point oh comes out, We've all forgotten
about it. If there's a hack, what happens to that
very private, very personal information is that being sold on
the dark web to the highest bidder. So that's a
very practical concern that I have with that. Beyond that,
(25:51):
I have concerns about the efficacy of the AI therapist.
I also I'm a little bit concerned about actual therapists
losing their jobs. Are they going to become computer programmers
for chat GPT? Maybe, but I'm guessing I'm not gonna
(26:16):
want to sit and talk to that computer as much
as I would want to talk with my friend in
the same room. We'll find out from doctor Wendy Walts
which she thinks about this. Next Chris merylf I AM
six forty we live everywhere in the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
Hey Gold Evenigga's Chris Merril on demand anytime in the
iHeartRadio app, and you'll find the podcast on the featured segments.
Shout out to everybody that has given us a talk
back to I'd appreciate your feedback, including the last one
of the evening.
Speaker 11 (26:47):
I want to let you know I'll share my coffee
with you. I called into the hear.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
That, Andrew, we're hooking you up, buddy. Yeah all right?
Why does she have so much coffee?
Speaker 11 (26:56):
I called into the Neil Savedra Cooking Show back in December.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
I remember her, and I was the.
Speaker 13 (27:01):
Eighth caller, and I won one year of coffee from
the Don Francisco Company.
Speaker 11 (27:08):
Wow, I'm so excited. I'm still excited.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
Sounds like that we probably should have given her the.
Speaker 13 (27:13):
Decaf and I get the delivery and they're so sweet
to me from the Don Francisco Company.
Speaker 11 (27:20):
Love you guys, Love you, Chris.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
Thank you.
Speaker 11 (27:22):
Don't go anywhere, stay right where.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
You are, thank you? All right? Bye? Uh yeah, you
know what she is? Exactly who you want winning? Am
I right?
Speaker 5 (27:30):
Did I miss something? At the beginning of years show,
everyone keeps saying don't go anywhere.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
Yeah, people telling me that I need to be fired
right now. Oh okay, yeah, fire him, get rid of him.
Speaker 3 (27:40):
He's an idiot.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
Yeah yeah, yeah, what was it?
Speaker 5 (27:45):
I thought those were the qualifications to have your own
radio show.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
Oh my god. Yeah, get rid of Chris Merrill, permanently. Repeat,
get rid of Chris Merrill, permanently. No, and you're burying
the lead. He was gone three weeks. The sky too
busy for this, Harold, Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
Oh, where was that.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
I'm terrible at self promotion. I need to use my
hype man. Uh. Speaking of hype, how about we build
up a little love for Doctor Wendy Walsh and Dr
Wendy After Dark starts at seven o'clock. Doctor Wendy, I
was just talking about chat GPT passing the touring test
and now, uh, many places they're testing whether or not
it can be your therapist.
Speaker 3 (28:26):
People are using it for therapy, and.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
I am concerned about that, not only and I laid
this out in the last segment that I'm a little
bit concerned about the security of my information because it
is a computer, which means hacking spot.
Speaker 3 (28:37):
Yeah, you know what chat GBT asked me today?
Speaker 2 (28:39):
What's that?
Speaker 3 (28:40):
It said, Hey, like I've known you a while, would
you like me to give you a synopsis of who
you are and your personality and tell you a little
bit about yourself?
Speaker 2 (28:49):
Really?
Speaker 3 (28:50):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (28:51):
That you know what?
Speaker 3 (28:52):
It told me?
Speaker 2 (28:53):
Go ahead?
Speaker 3 (28:54):
It said you are brainy and bold and love science
and pop culture.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Okay, they were right, it said you are pop culture.
No that I love all.
Speaker 3 (29:05):
I love pop culture mixed with science.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
Mine would be like, you read a lot of news
and pornography.
Speaker 3 (29:12):
Yeah, it knows about that part.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
Of you confused. It just follows my algorithms. I'm sure.
So my question here, Wendy is yes, I think this
is great, especially for rural areas right where you have
limited access.
Speaker 3 (29:29):
Where we talk about what is the healing factor in therapy?
Speaker 2 (29:33):
That's where I was going.
Speaker 3 (29:34):
Okay, so if we're talking about cognitive behavioral therapy, yes,
or maybe even family systems therapy, it's very like teaching
people about faulty beliefs they might have, helping them, you know,
take bolder steps to build their self esteem. Robot could
probably do some of that, but the big piece of
(29:57):
the healing is the relationship between having that unconditional positive regard,
having that someone there at the same time every week,
holding that time for you as if good mommy is
there and good mommy will care for you. I mean,
that's kind of the difference between comes from.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
It's kind of the difference between hiring a personal trainer
and being accountable, and in creating that relationship where they're
coaching you and teaching you and encouraging you versus downloading
a workout video. Yeah right, and I feel like that
relationship is so key to amplifying results. Yeah, the information
might be here.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
I know, even during COVID, even though I had a
live instructor at the other side, I didn't work out
that hard. He couldn't really see me that well.
Speaker 2 (30:42):
I wasn't right, which is why so many pelotons become
folding tables, close wrecks. Yeah right, whatever it is.
Speaker 3 (30:50):
Yeah, so yeah, I don't think it's necessarily a good thing.
But like to basic stuff like if somebody, let's say,
somebody is ID they're suffering from loneliness and they go
to the robot. I know people who do that and
they say, what's wrong with me whatever? And the robot says.
Speaker 5 (31:08):
You're great.
Speaker 3 (31:09):
And here's what I think. Here's some places I think
you should go today. Meet some people. Well, what are
some things I should ask them? How do I meet
a friend? See, robots can give that basic kind of
psycho education, okay, but as far as deep changing, deep
personality problems or mental illness, like real mental illness, Like, well.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
That's it. Yeah, what if you're in a crisis situation
right right?
Speaker 3 (31:33):
Can the robot call nine one one for you? I
don't know. That's something to be looked at.
Speaker 2 (31:38):
Can the robot talk you down from wherever you are,
from whatever you've got going on? That's why I know.
Speaker 3 (31:42):
There was some talk a few years ago that social
media algorithms were analyzing people's posts to determine who was
suffering from depression and anxiety. And I don't know where
it ended up, but there was some talk where it
would automatically call nine one if somebody was potentially suicidal
and posting it. That's in some way I thought that
would I don't know if they do that.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
I sold that information to the pharmaceutical company, so they
knew who to tell.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
There's that too, Yeah, I'm sure they do.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
Hey, I love talking with you, but unfortunately my time
to talk with you is short, and I want to
make sure you have a chance to tell us what's
coming up in your program.
Speaker 3 (32:16):
Well, let's see what happens when one partner changes and
the other doesn't. How does the relationship adapt? And therapy
speak in dating forget about robots. There are people out
there on real dates using terms that they may not Actually,
you know, they're a narcissist. They're gaslighting me. I think
(32:37):
they have an avoidant attachment stuff. Really do you know
what that is? Can you diagnose them? So let's talk
about the pros and cons of therapy speak in dating,
and also why spring causes the most breakups and why
one partner never saw it coming.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
Oh, because he's an idiot, that's why.
Speaker 3 (32:56):
Wow, there's some phases of a breakup. And there's a
new research out of Germany where they follow thousands of
couples for a bunch of years and they were able
to determine that there is these two steps in a breakup,
and the second step the other partner doesn't get.
Speaker 2 (33:12):
Oh what at Hey? Well done? Really well done, doctor Wendy.
I love talking with you. Thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (33:18):
All right, we'll see you next week.
Speaker 2 (33:20):
Kayla, I missed you. I'm so glad we got to
spend the evening together. You are fantastic, Raoul, God bless
my friend. I always love catching up and Andrew. You
just brightened the night. You're You're great and I want
you to have a wonderful rest of your rest of
your news.
Speaker 5 (33:34):
I will as soon as I get my selfie with Wendy.
I got to update those, of.
Speaker 2 (33:37):
Course, you do. Unbelievable this guy in his shrine, Well,
I have a shrine. I have a great night. Doctor
Wendy is next Doctor Wendy after Dark on Chris Merril.
The podcast is going to be up on the featured
segments at KFI AM six forty dot com and we're
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