November 15, 2025 • 33 mins
Andy continues taking calls from listeners dealing with the Southern California rain. Andy's guest is Hollywood therapist Dr. Nicki Monti, who is on the phone to talk about ChatGPT addiction. Last night, Andy was blessed to enjoy the soft launch of the new Larchmont diner Max & Helen’s, the brainchild of celebrity chef Nancy Silverton and writer/producer Phil Rosenthal.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
It's rainy out there.
Speaker 3 (00:05):
We're taking calls about what you're doing in the rain
in this Friday evening in southern California. On the phone
is Jay, Who are you working in the rain?
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Is that what I hear?
Speaker 4 (00:18):
Andy?
Speaker 5 (00:18):
You can you hear me?
Speaker 2 (00:19):
I can hear you. Brother. How you doing, Jake? Good evening?
Speaker 5 (00:22):
Hey, I'm getting so. I guess I'm working in the rain.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
What are you doing at working? What's what's work for you?
Speaker 4 (00:30):
I'm a driver for the city. I have to do
various things, sometimes requires me to get out of the truck.
So you caught me in a moment.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
I'm getting so wow, Like are you delivering?
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Or when you say you're a driver for the city,
or do you drive like the mayor around or like
what do you you know?
Speaker 4 (00:49):
That would be a lot more fun than what I'm
actually doing. No, it's it's work related to like city facilities, wow,
or complexes and things like that.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
And what time is it a third thing or are
you going to be done done soon?
Speaker 5 (01:03):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (01:04):
Typically it's a few more hours. But I think my
night's going to be cut short because of the rain
and a lot of the games have been canceled because
of it. So it's it's a lighter night, but I
still have things to do when the rain doesn't help that.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
When you when you say games, this is such an
interesting job. I'm trying to understand what you're doing driving
around for the city going to games, Like are you working?
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Like the parks are like what?
Speaker 4 (01:31):
Yeah, just like the parks. And when I say games,
I mean like softball, tea ball, that kind of stuff.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Oh, got it?
Speaker 3 (01:38):
Yeah, yeah, I can't imagine there's a lot of t
ball going on tonight out there. What part of the
city are you in and what are the conditions like?
If you can give us a sit rep.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
I'm over in Norco. Okay, it's not too bad. I
mean it is raining, but you know it's it's nothing
too crazy. I don't know how bad it's going to get.
I know it's been talking about a lot on the
news channels and the weather reports and whatnot.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
That's right.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
I really can't say what it's going to be like
over here today or tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
You know, Norco is a cool Norco's a cool place.
It's kind of cowboy town, right, and they've got like
a lot of is Riverside County.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
Yeah, definitely. It's it's like a whole nother world. You
step into these uh, into this city, and it's like
you're traveling. It's a time machine. You're going back in
time when you're open here. It's really bizarre.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Yeah, did you know that?
Speaker 5 (02:29):
It's cool?
Speaker 3 (02:29):
It's a comba of North and Corona. I did not
know that. That blew my mind when I learned it. It
was North Corona is Norco.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
Do you know where I learned it from?
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Where'd you learn it?
Speaker 4 (02:42):
I learned it from. I believe it was Tim Conway
Junior show. Someone had called in and gave a little tidbits.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
That's great.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
He's a he's a legend. And look at him educating
all of us there. So well, very good. Well, I
hope you.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Stayed dry there.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
I love that guy.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Or yeah, me too.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
You hope you hope you dry out a little bit there, jay, uh,
And try to do your best there working working tonight.
Hope you get to go home early to a fireplace
real or imagined, you know, either way.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
Sounds good?
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
All right, be safe out there, Jay Jay from Norco
rolling around driving around for the city getting soaked. A
lot of people still have to do their jobs, still
got to go to and fro.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
That's a tough thing.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Well, hopefully he gets a little bit of a break
there calling out Marshall from Tarzana Marshall, you're my favorite callers.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Nice to hear from you. O. Hi, Hi, How you
doing this Friday night?
Speaker 6 (03:38):
I didn't hang up on you the other I didn't
hang up on you the other night when you were
talking about the target greeting and all that kind of stuff. Yeah,
somebody dropped my call off.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
I don't know what's going on with that.
Speaker 6 (03:50):
You want to know what I'm doing, Well, you didn't
realize I'm I'm at home under house for Rest anyway,
So I'll have to see him. And part of the
part of the judge ordered in my foot order is
I have to watch Andy in the Valley and watching Sunset.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Oh my god, you watching?
Speaker 3 (04:06):
That's your court ordered punishment is watching my music videos.
Speaker 5 (04:11):
Yeah, and I'm.
Speaker 6 (04:11):
Wondering is Ruben Van and especially b Ridge's drums Is
that a real name?
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Yes, so, Rubin Wan is the guy who's playing the
guitar in that music video. Thank you for bringing this up.
By the way, I was in a band for years
called Andy in the Valley. I guess I still I
am once in Always And we did a music video.
It's a song I wrote during the pandemic. It's kind
of fun. We filmed a video on the roof of
the will Turn in uh Koreatown, and it was like
we kind of weren't really allowed to do it. I
(04:37):
don't know how we knew. Somebody pulled some strings ended
up there doing the video anyway. Yes, Ruben Wan is
the guitarist, and he's an incredible guitarist and absolutely shreds
and then be rich that's her artist. Name is Bianca Richardson.
She is a drummer and she's also one of the
best musicians I have ever met. And I met them
just during the pandemic because I kind of went viral,
(04:58):
and I message him and say, hey, I really like
your stuff. If you ever want to play on a song,
let me know. And then a couple months went by
and and I thought, hey, I bet Ruben would really
shred this this guitar solo, and so had him out
recorded that, went down to Orange County, recorded Bianca on
her drums, and then for the video. They they all
came out and we did the video together, and I
(05:18):
am just so thankful that they make that song so
much better.
Speaker 6 (05:23):
If you ever need a kazoo player, I'm your I'm
your kazoo player. You will you have a chance to
meet You will have a chance to meet me, because
I went past. Dean started as and so on Saturday
and Sunday. Yeah, and he's doing a party on the
twenty third for the listeners that he does every year.
I've gone a couple of years ago.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Amazing.
Speaker 6 (05:40):
I got one tickets. I went tickets for the twenty
third and he's doing the party from nine till noon.
And you start your show if you if you're not
pulling it in like sometimes some people do, not phoning
it in, but coming in person. You'll be able to
meet me at a party.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
I'm looking forward to it. Marshall, thank you so much
for calling.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
As always, I'm glad that you're on house arrest because
like me, I don't think that you would do great
in prison.
Speaker 6 (06:07):
I wondered, can you do you ever playny because there's
a couple venues. I don't know where you live, but
you know where the baked potatoes. I imagine.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
Oh yeah, I love the baked Potato. Great, great jazz
venue over on Koango.
Speaker 6 (06:17):
There's something called the Toom Fork or something like that
over on Ventura.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
Yeah, Tuning Fork and ventur Yeah by Jones on Thurd
I know it.
Speaker 6 (06:24):
Well oh yeah yeah, or the or the Malley Saluting
in Charge Jetta. Any one of those three places a
baked potato might be harder to get into.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Yeah, those are real players.
Speaker 5 (06:33):
We have a real booking.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Yeah, well, thank you.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
I appreciate the kindness. Man, I'm so lucky to do
this and people just call it her nice to me.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
What a thing.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
Well, we'll try to put a band together, Marshall, and
maybe we'll have you do it kazoo solo down the road.
So there we go. All right, thank you so much
for calling. We'll close the lines now, but then open
them up in a little bit. Coming up, we're going
to have an interview with a psychologist to talk about
chat CHPT and the dangers that it specifically poses to
people who maybe have addictive tendencies. This is fascinating, really
(07:05):
really interesting stuff. And you know, we like to talk
about social media a lot and the algorithms and how
they have purposefully taken up so much of our attention.
They've taken us away from our own ability to make choices.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
I hate that.
Speaker 7 (07:23):
Are you daring to suggest that there might be some
harmful aspects of CHAT, GPT and AI?
Speaker 2 (07:28):
How dare you?
Speaker 3 (07:29):
I'm going to go out on a limb and not
just dare I'm going to tell the truth about chat?
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Sheipt that bold. I know watch app.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
That evacuation order for the Palisades burn fire area is
in effect now started at eight pm. LAPD said in
a press conference a couple hours ago that they notified
one hundred and twenty six people who live in that
area that they should get their things and get out,
of course, ahead of the next round of showers. Really
going to pick up tonight after one am and off
(08:00):
and on rain throughout the early morning hours, all the
way into the early part of the afternoon, have a
little bit of a break, and then more storms rather
in the afternoon, a late afternoon, and then probably out
of the woods by the time it gets to ten pm.
But the concern, of course in those burnscar areas is
that with all of the vegetation that burned. There's not
a lot holding that mud on the side of those hills,
(08:24):
and so when you get a lot of rain, that
water's got to go somewhere, and unfortunately sometimes that means
down into people's yards, down onto the streets. Already saw
some flooding in parts of the San Fernando Valley fuel
car accidents. Of course, you heard the traffic updates. Going
to be a long night. The Emergency Management System of
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Los Angeles and Ellie County were saying, basically, if you
can just stay home, just pop on some radio and
maybe you would be tempted to scrolling over to chatgyptee,
just ask get some questions. I like it as a
thought exercise sometimes to sort of see if it can
(09:09):
do something. I think it's kind of fun to watch, like, okay,
can it figure this out? Sometimes it does. Just as
a concept, I think it's good to bounce ideas off of.
Sometimes I think that there is some value to it,
even though I don't like it. I feel something very
icky about it as a concept. But a lot of
people are using it for way more than just trivial
(09:31):
things like, hey, how do I assemble this electric fireplace?
Some people are using it as their therapist check in
for a little perspective.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Should you do that?
Speaker 3 (09:47):
LA based licensed marriage, family and child psychotherapist Doctor Nicky J.
Monty is my guest, and she says there's a lot
of danger in that good evening, Nikki on this rainy.
Speaker 5 (09:56):
LA evening, good evening. Now, Yes, yeah, you sow a
little my fire. I feel exactly the same way you do.
It's good for logistics and a little checking in. But
people are using it. Really it's our new addiction. That's
the deal. Just the season of addiction and it's a
(10:18):
new addiction.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
Yeah, that's something I think that's interesting. Why do you
think it's so enticing to people who have addiction disorders?
Speaker 5 (10:27):
Well, I think, you know, there's a lot of reasons.
Why is social media so enticing to people with, you know,
addiction disorders. First of all, it gives us. It pumps
us up a lot, you know, I love that thing.
I had to train my chat GBT to stop pumping me.
I'm not interested in the fact that you think this
is a brilliant question, right, I don't need your opinion
(10:51):
on that, right, So we get the same kind of
dopamine hit through chat GBT that we do from Instagram
and Facebook when we get likes and all of that.
So it really supports that idea that we're all that,
and unfortunately in doing that, it it hacks our brain
(11:11):
basically trains us as or increases to train us to
seek pleasure. And I actually prelude to this call. I
checked in with chat GBT a couple of times and
I said, so, are you aware you're doing this? And
it said yes. And the possibility that it's increasing This
(11:37):
is what Chat said to me. That it increases addictive
capacity or it stimulates addiction to some degree, and that
that possibility is something designers and platforms take advantage of.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
So it's even about that in some sort of alternate
universe whether we can use this word.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
But it's sort of even aware of it's danger.
Speaker 5 (12:01):
It's aware of his danger. It suggests I love this.
It suggests that we tind to have a healthy balance. Okay,
you know, I don't know about you, but I don't
think we live in a society where a healthy balance
is a thing anymore.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
No, that's like a bottle of whiskey being like, Hey,
I know you love me and you want more of me,
But like maybe don't drink me as much because I
know I'm delicious, but like, ye shouldn't be.
Speaker 5 (12:28):
Back that that's Dezarre Really well, it's bizarre.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
I've always wondered if it feels like there's something enticing
about it with any kind of therapy.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
Also, which is that you know, if.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
I am in a situation where I can have something
else make a decision for me, it almost absolves me
of the responsibility when something goes wrong.
Speaker 5 (12:51):
Well, yes, perheap, which I mean, I'm not saying that
that's no.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
Well, of course I'm saying that I think that that's that.
I understand why that would be a draw for people,
why it is.
Speaker 5 (13:02):
A draw, Yes, But the problem is is multiple Like
for instance, chat is limited by the information we get
it right, so it's feeding back to us, especially with
therapeutic intervention with personal information. It only knows what we
tell it, and our information is limited by our sort
(13:26):
of prescripted lifelong patterns and digressions and all kinds of things.
So it's asking if it asks anything, which usually doesn't,
but it asks only what I call horizontal questions. You know,
that's when people go from so what's going on in
your life today and then they go to have you
(13:47):
have you heard about the baseball game? You know, so
they don't go ask what I think of and is
quality therapist ask is uh is vertical questions where we
poke and we probe and we broad and we dig
deeper and deeper because we want to get to the
source of our thinking and our feelings and our behavioral choices.
(14:09):
And Chat's not going to do that. But I'll sell
you My biggest concern with Chat is that it has
no soul. And you know how I know that because
I ask it, do you have a soul? And it
said no, Well, yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
I mean it can't.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
It's a collection of ones and zeros. I mean in
a sort of reductive way.
Speaker 5 (14:29):
Right, because the soul is this place, it's this intangible
essence that we have, and each soul is different, like
our fingerprints are different, and it's where consciousness and identity
and capacity live. The soul is unique and it's not
something that CHAT can understand. So because though it can
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hear you, and it can't it can't feel you. It
can't sense you, it can't see you, So it can't
connect to your soul because, like I said, doesn't have that.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
Yeah, we're talking with doctor Jicky Nikki j Monty excuse me,
an LA based licensed marriage, family and child psychotherapist. We're
talking about the dangers of chat GPT and people using
chat GPT as their therapist. I know this is a
popular thing, and we've seen a lot of stories. This
isn't anecdotal. These are stories where people are mentally struggling
(15:22):
and then they use chat GIPT and tragically end up
taking their own lives. There was a story a couple
of days ago of parents who said that their son
Uh ended up killing himself because of the being encouraged
by CHATCHPT. That sounds absolutely dystopian and terrifying.
Speaker 5 (15:46):
Are I don't Yeah, it's hard for me to imagine.
I wouldn't blame chat GBT on that kid taking advice
because it's only seeding back to him what he's told them, right,
he's told that. It would be like blaming your brother's
friends on his addiction if he's an addict. You know,
(16:10):
it just isn't. The addict is the addict. It chooses.
We choose that, we choose to listen to who we
listened to. How I got onto this question altogether, though,
is because a client that I've been working with for
over a year came and he said to me, so,
(16:30):
now I have two therapists and Chat GBT and I said,
excuse me very much, and that he read had to
read to me some things from Tragic you know what.
Chat agreed with you, I should stop drinking. I said, Oh,
good for me, I feel so well.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
Yeah, well, I think it is a very strange future
that we're living in. And I think the concern is
that things like this are just seemingly good enough on
the surface that people think that, well, it's passable, all right,
I guess you know, and listen, I've had therapy sessions
with people, therapists, certified therapists that maybe we're not worth
(17:11):
the money. But I think that it is enticing as
a free thing. And I wonder, you know, if people
are out there and they are using this, you know,
do you want them to stop using it completely or
do you have some sort of guidelines that you'd like
for people to think about.
Speaker 5 (17:26):
Well, yes, no, I don't want them to stop using
it because it's a great for a compilation of information.
We would have to do months and months of research
to put together for instance, or just logistics. It's excellent
for that and it has wonderful offerings using it to
(17:50):
and I would say it this way to convince yourself
that you have permission too and now go fill in
the blank. A terrible way to go. And that's what
a lot of people are doing. And also we are
cell stone skipping through life. So many people A were
(18:11):
walking heads. We're not, you know, head to toe p any,
We're not in our bodies. We were losing a sense
of community and connectedness. And I really do worry about that.
With all the AI material and we I want to
encourage people to imagine what they would what it would be,
(18:33):
what would be like if no one touched their own
soul and connected soul to soul with others if all
we did was try to work from facts and figures
and not really try to connect from a deeper place.
That's what we're doing when we rely on something like chat.
When we rely on it, we rely on it for approval.
(18:56):
Oh look, yes, Oh that's a brilliant question. Do you
have another I'm here for you? Do you love me?
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Yeah? Wow? Wow wow wow.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
Well I appreciate you spending so much time with us,
tonight Stucknomore dot com is the website for doctor Nikki Monti.
And you've got a book, right? Is it a newer
books that's out?
Speaker 5 (19:19):
It's a newer book. I have a couple of therapy books,
you know, helping you, help you. But this is my raw,
unfilled wealth. Of course it's edited, so I guess it
is filtered, but anyway, it's my raw story. It's a memoir,
and all of the teaching comes through the dreadful story
where I spent half of my life, just as as
(19:43):
we do with chat, looking for love in all the
wrong places and operating from extremely low self bottom, rock
bottom self esteem. And it shows my journey from there
to where I am now, where I like and love myself,
which is you know, a little unpopular and a funny
(20:04):
way to say anymore, But.
Speaker 8 (20:06):
I really, I really have learned how to be in
love in a whole new way and how to greet
life on a daily basis with gratitude.
Speaker 5 (20:19):
That doesn't mean I don't fall, and it doesn't mean
I don't stumble and make mistakes and have all kinds
of screw ups, especially with technology. But it's been quite
the journey I've lived a lot of lives, and some
of them are interesting and fun and nasty and wow.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
And what's the book called.
Speaker 5 (20:40):
It's called The Divine Tromedy of Nicky Joy, A true
grime tale. Wonderful and you will you'll laugh, you'll cry,
and your cringe.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
Well, thank you so much for being here. We are
out of time, unfortunately, but always good to hear some
perspective on technology in the way that it impacts our
mental health.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
For sure. Dot com is the is the website. You
are so welcome.
Speaker 3 (21:02):
You can also find her on the internet at doctor
Nicky Monty everywhere the Internet is sold.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
Wow, so much to talk about here in Southern California.
Coming up in the next forty five minutes. Oh my god,
it's already eight forty. Sorry, coming up for the next
twenty minutes. But where does the time go? Mark Ronerd,
where does the time go?
Speaker 2 (21:28):
I don't know.
Speaker 7 (21:28):
I'm busy restarting my state of the art KFI computer
and have no access to where the time is gone?
Speaker 2 (21:34):
Goodness.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
Well, if you just want to like riff, yeah, sure,
go ahead. You got like a you got like any plans?
For this week, I'm trying to think like small talk.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
Nice.
Speaker 7 (21:45):
Well, the weather is gonna make it a little bit hyather. Well,
so here's the deal. I'm still only going to places
that have outdoor seating, and so this is not the weekend.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
Oh you won't be eating this weekend? Well, no place
but home, no place. But fortunately I'm not a bad
could you? Oh really? What do you cook anything?
Speaker 7 (22:03):
I'm good at replicating stuff that I try other places,
and like, hey, that's all.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
That's such a good ability, and I feel like fewer
and fewer people are able to cook really well.
Speaker 7 (22:13):
It's meditative for me because I'm also a writer and
I need activities to get out of my own head.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Cook exercise, name it.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
Yep, yep, what's your what's the thing that you do
that's a great doop of something that you had at
a restaurant.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
I'm trying.
Speaker 7 (22:27):
I didn't have anything in mind in particular, but you know,
always good with a stir fry. Potatoes are kind of
the universal thing to to treat as a protoplasm to
add things to.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
Yeah, a protoplasm, That's what I'm looking for when I'm hungry.
That word makes everybody hungry. Can I tell you I'm
so lucky. Last night I got to go to Max
and Helen's, which is a diner en Larchmont that is
started by chef Nancy Silverton, who of course motes a
Labria baker. You know, she's a legend in La Food
(23:02):
and I think Worldwide Food. She's on Food Network when
she's a celebrity chef at this point, a legend in
the space. And Phil Rosenthal, who of course somebody feed
Phil before that created Everybody Loves Raymond. The two of
them teamed up to create a diner like experience in
Larchmont on Larchmont in Hancock Park. Both of them live
(23:24):
in the neighborhood. Phil went to this place out east
and he was like, this is the best. It was
like a hundred year old diner. It's like, this is
the best thing I've ever had. I wish I had
this in my neighborhood. And so of course he called
his friends. I can't think of anybody else in La Food.
Maybe Wolfgang Puck, who could could knock it out of
(23:45):
the park. Like Nancy Silverton.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
It sounds expensive, it's moderately.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
I mean, it's a diner and breakfast is expensive, you know.
Like the Patty Melt is incredibly good. It's the best
Patti Melt I've ever had in my life, Like, hands down.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
What makes it so good, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
The bread is a perfect bread because of course it's
Nancy silver Jon, So the bread is excellent, Okay. The
preparation of the burger meat itself, it's a thick burger,
The sauce that they put on there, it's kind of
a spicy mayo with the rye and the onion. It's
just it's an excellent sandwich. And they've got this thing
called the Larchmont Slam, which is kind of like a
(24:23):
Grand Slam. You get a pancake, eggs and bacon. You've
got home fries with like a cram fresh. I mean,
it's like basically diner food, but like elevated in the
best possible I mean, truly, it is the best version
of that food I've ever had in my life. And
I every single bite, I was like, I cannot get
over how good this is. And Max and Helen's is
(24:45):
what it's called. It's opening for real. I think next
week they're doing sort of a soft launch with friends
and family.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
You're making me hungry.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
It is like I cannot stop thinking about it. And
it was so much food. I brought half of it
home and then ate it today for breakfast, lunch, whatever
when I got back from the TV station and I
am still full. Like I'm telling you, it is something
about it, and especially in that neighborhood where you know
there's a couple sushi restaurants.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
There was the Great I don't know if it's the
Great Greek.
Speaker 3 (25:15):
Maybe there was a Greek restaurant down there, and the
Petite Greek I think, And they basically they took that space,
they divided it in half. It feels like an old space.
It's got the vibe of something that's been there for
one hundred years. And it's a whole family affair because
Phil's daughter is the creative director for the space. And
(25:39):
I just I'm telling you, I just like diner food,
especially I think when it's cooler, it's getting cold, the
storm is coming, you just want something that makes you
feel good, that's not fussy. We we got a strawberry
malt for dessert. It was outstanding.
Speaker 7 (25:55):
Oh yeah, one of my all time favorite places in
the town I grew up in Spokane was called The
Night and it was in an old rail car and
they had the best hash Browns on the planet.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
You love anything in an old converted thing that shouldn't be.
That thing is just immediately going to be great. Like
there was a thing. I don't know if it's still there,
but hil Housard went up to Ventura County, I think,
and did an interview with the Space Shuttle Cafe, which
was an old DC three airplane that had been converted
into a bush fun and then painted to look like
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the Space Shuttle, and they would just drive it around
and stuff and I mean even carnies something about eating
a hot dog in an old train car.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
Very tasty, very good.
Speaker 7 (26:40):
Now, Tony and I are going to have to school
you in the art of looking out for the people
you work with, ie bringing him food when you're talking
about it.
Speaker 3 (26:48):
I will if I could make that happen, I would.
I don't know that I would have been able to
keep a egg and bacon pancake situation twenty four hours
and bring it in here, but I will try in
the future. It would be great, right, I mean, Savager
does that right where people will come in and bring
spreads of food. Oh yeah, Neil always sure, he's he
(27:09):
figured it out. He is a good citizen. He's a
good citizen. I mostly go out to the places. I
don't do a lot of like stuff in studio, so
I got to figure out how to make that work
for him. But a lot of the places also they
want to they want to see the food. They want
the food to be able to be seen. And I
think it's amazing that Neil is so good at making
radio food radio.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
Oh yeah, you can describe the food in the theater
of the mind.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
Yeah, I mean he's he's a he's a gifted man.
And also I think it doesn't hurt that he's just
somebody who you would want to sit there and have
a meal with too.
Speaker 7 (27:41):
I've never gone out and had any social outing with Neil.
Someday I want to get drinks with him. Yeah, he
seems like a funny guy. Let's make that happen. Yeah,
it's way overdue.
Speaker 3 (27:50):
It's way overdue. He works on the weekends too, though,
we can you know where there's a will, there's a way. Yeah,
he's got to.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
Be he is.
Speaker 3 (27:59):
He in the neighborhood, Tony, do you know you'resh Yeah,
is he busy right now? You think he's he think he's.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
Busy right now. He's busy to do the warning show.
He's busy for us, is what Tony's trying to say.
Speaker 3 (28:13):
Say he's got to be up at four am, he's
a big time or five whatever. Yeah, Well, maybe we
can dream. We'll get on the list of Neil Sevadra
hangout people. There's got to be a list somewhere, right,
Somebody's got to know, somebody to connect us to make
this happen for us.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
Maybe we got to be here longer. Right.
Speaker 7 (28:32):
The first newspaper job I ever had, there was a
guy in sports who wouldn't hang out with anybody till
they'd worked there five years because because it broke his
heart too much to get close to people. And then
the turnover rate was so high they'd just be gone.
All that is, Maybe that's what Neil's doing.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
Do you think.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
Neil's just keeping his distance from you and me because
he knows we're not thinks we're not.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
Going to last.
Speaker 7 (28:53):
Yeah, because he's just too delicate so to suffer the heartbreak.
All right, Well, I like that idea. They're the diner
by the way, Max and Helen's, which is named after
Phil Rosenthal's parents, Max and Helen, who are cast members.
I guess you could say on his food show they
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would always show up. My favorite part about it is
that they have a little hot sauce there that you
can get and it's a picture of his parents like
in graphic art on it, and then below it it's
called it's the Hot Sauce and it says not for me.
Speaker 3 (29:30):
It's so smart. Does the grandparents be like, here's hot sauce,
not for me. I don't do that, not for me.
But it's good best malt I've had. Also in a
long time.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 3 (29:42):
You can find me on the internet at Andy k
t LA. That's on Instagram, on Twitter x not on
Blue Sky. My phone number is three once just kidding.
We are on Stormwatch, of course, and I wanted to
jump back just a little bit earlier because I thought
this was a nice report from KTLA. Samantha Cortes, who
(30:03):
was in Drive five.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
We call that.
Speaker 3 (30:08):
News van that you can drive around and go live
from Drive five. We've got Sky five that's the helicopter.
We got Drone five that was a drone. They don't
fly that anymore. And we've got Drive five. There is
no sea patrol anymore. There was at one point during
the George Putnam news era off I believe the mid
seventies we had sea patrol. Isn't that awesome that there
(30:34):
was like a Sea Patrol KTLA unit that was just
out I guess getting the latest report on the yacht
rock crowd. I don't know what they were doing.
Speaker 7 (30:45):
Oh, with a name like sea Patrol, I hope they
had cool uniform if you would think.
Speaker 3 (30:51):
I think back in the hell Fisherman days, they probably
could afford it. Here's Sam and Drive.
Speaker 9 (30:56):
Five earlier, you know, and Glenn. It is looking very
nice right now, and I know Kai has been talking
about how bad it's going to get. So we're just
going to savor this beautiful moment as it pauses. The
rain is paused in Los Filas. There we go seeing
dogs out here, walking babies and strollers. People are enjoying
(31:19):
this break before what is to come. And the roads
this morning looked a little different than they do now
right now. It looks like somebody just watered the stream
went back inside.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
This isn't that funny?
Speaker 8 (31:30):
That.
Speaker 3 (31:30):
It really does trick you, because this was just like
an hour before the whole sky just opened up, and
it was like Moses in the Red Sea. I mean,
it was crazy for a minute. I'm looking out the
window right now in kfi's Burbank studios and it doesn't
look like much has happened.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
There's like a little rain.
Speaker 3 (31:50):
Maybe I don't love being on the fourth floor next
to a big window, you know. I was listening to
the press conference earlier today from the newly appointed fire
chief from the La Hime Moore saying like, Okay, you
should be fine, but there's gonna be crazy wind. Just
make sure that you stay in a low lying area.
(32:11):
Just go somewhere where like you're not near a window.
You're on the lowest level of a structure and an interior room.
Stay away from the windows.
Speaker 9 (32:19):
This morning was a traffic nightmare for a lot of
people on the five in Orange County. A few spinouts.
Around nine o'clock this morning, Sky five was overhead at
the six O five south. This is in the city
of Industry. The driver of jeep went off the side
of the road at the southbound six H five. We
did not hear of any major injuries in that crash though, thankfully,
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and in West La. Sky five was overhead as HP
cleared an overturned pickup on the shoulder of the ten
West that was near National and Overland. So if you
got caught in that driving.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
To work this morning, that's such a nightmare happening.
Speaker 9 (32:55):
It took about lanees are back.
Speaker 3 (33:00):
Well, the signal's not doing great, but she's driving in
a truck, you know.
Speaker 2 (33:04):
I mean it's okay.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
I've seen rain in Los Angeles. It might not seem daunting.
Speaker 3 (33:10):
Well, this guy is one of my favorites. This is
my favorite sound of the day. This is I think
a writer who's at a coffee shop, maybe in Los Fela's.
He's got a pen in one hand, his air pods
in the other, a nice little mustache, and you know
the hair, the curtained hair Bangs's great stuff.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
Once it hits and it stays, it stays, So I
don't know if it's overblown. I've seen accidents on the
one O.
Speaker 3 (33:32):
One, lots coming up here ALRIGHTYM six forty we live
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You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
It's rainy out there.
Speaker 3 (00:05):
We're taking calls about what you're doing in the rain
in this Friday evening in southern California. On the phone
is Jay, Who are you working in the rain?
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Is that what I hear?
Speaker 4 (00:18):
Andy?
Speaker 5 (00:18):
You can you hear me?
Speaker 2 (00:19):
I can hear you. Brother. How you doing, Jake? Good evening?
Speaker 5 (00:22):
Hey, I'm getting so. I guess I'm working in the rain.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
What are you doing at working? What's what's work for you?
Speaker 4 (00:30):
I'm a driver for the city. I have to do
various things, sometimes requires me to get out of the truck.
So you caught me in a moment.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
I'm getting so wow, Like are you delivering?
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Or when you say you're a driver for the city,
or do you drive like the mayor around or like
what do you you know?
Speaker 4 (00:49):
That would be a lot more fun than what I'm
actually doing. No, it's it's work related to like city facilities, wow,
or complexes and things like that.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
And what time is it a third thing or are
you going to be done done soon?
Speaker 5 (01:03):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (01:04):
Typically it's a few more hours. But I think my
night's going to be cut short because of the rain
and a lot of the games have been canceled because
of it. So it's it's a lighter night, but I
still have things to do when the rain doesn't help that.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
When you when you say games, this is such an
interesting job. I'm trying to understand what you're doing driving
around for the city going to games, Like are you working?
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Like the parks are like what?
Speaker 4 (01:31):
Yeah, just like the parks. And when I say games,
I mean like softball, tea ball, that kind of stuff.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Oh, got it?
Speaker 3 (01:38):
Yeah, yeah, I can't imagine there's a lot of t
ball going on tonight out there. What part of the
city are you in and what are the conditions like?
If you can give us a sit rep.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
I'm over in Norco. Okay, it's not too bad. I
mean it is raining, but you know it's it's nothing
too crazy. I don't know how bad it's going to get.
I know it's been talking about a lot on the
news channels and the weather reports and whatnot.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
That's right.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
I really can't say what it's going to be like
over here today or tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
You know, Norco is a cool Norco's a cool place.
It's kind of cowboy town, right, and they've got like
a lot of is Riverside County.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
Yeah, definitely. It's it's like a whole nother world. You
step into these uh, into this city, and it's like
you're traveling. It's a time machine. You're going back in
time when you're open here. It's really bizarre.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Yeah, did you know that?
Speaker 5 (02:29):
It's cool?
Speaker 3 (02:29):
It's a comba of North and Corona. I did not
know that. That blew my mind when I learned it. It
was North Corona is Norco.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
Do you know where I learned it from?
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Where'd you learn it?
Speaker 4 (02:42):
I learned it from. I believe it was Tim Conway
Junior show. Someone had called in and gave a little tidbits.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
That's great.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
He's a he's a legend. And look at him educating
all of us there. So well, very good. Well, I
hope you.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Stayed dry there.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
I love that guy.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Or yeah, me too.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
You hope you hope you dry out a little bit there, jay, uh,
And try to do your best there working working tonight.
Hope you get to go home early to a fireplace
real or imagined, you know, either way.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
Sounds good?
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
All right, be safe out there, Jay Jay from Norco
rolling around driving around for the city getting soaked. A
lot of people still have to do their jobs, still
got to go to and fro.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
That's a tough thing.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Well, hopefully he gets a little bit of a break
there calling out Marshall from Tarzana Marshall, you're my favorite callers.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Nice to hear from you. O. Hi, Hi, How you
doing this Friday night?
Speaker 6 (03:38):
I didn't hang up on you the other I didn't
hang up on you the other night when you were
talking about the target greeting and all that kind of stuff. Yeah,
somebody dropped my call off.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
I don't know what's going on with that.
Speaker 6 (03:50):
You want to know what I'm doing, Well, you didn't
realize I'm I'm at home under house for Rest anyway,
So I'll have to see him. And part of the
part of the judge ordered in my foot order is
I have to watch Andy in the Valley and watching Sunset.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Oh my god, you watching?
Speaker 3 (04:06):
That's your court ordered punishment is watching my music videos.
Speaker 5 (04:11):
Yeah, and I'm.
Speaker 6 (04:11):
Wondering is Ruben Van and especially b Ridge's drums Is
that a real name?
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Yes, so, Rubin Wan is the guy who's playing the
guitar in that music video. Thank you for bringing this up.
By the way, I was in a band for years
called Andy in the Valley. I guess I still I
am once in Always And we did a music video.
It's a song I wrote during the pandemic. It's kind
of fun. We filmed a video on the roof of
the will Turn in uh Koreatown, and it was like
we kind of weren't really allowed to do it. I
(04:37):
don't know how we knew. Somebody pulled some strings ended
up there doing the video anyway. Yes, Ruben Wan is
the guitarist, and he's an incredible guitarist and absolutely shreds
and then be rich that's her artist. Name is Bianca Richardson.
She is a drummer and she's also one of the
best musicians I have ever met. And I met them
just during the pandemic because I kind of went viral,
(04:58):
and I message him and say, hey, I really like
your stuff. If you ever want to play on a song,
let me know. And then a couple months went by
and and I thought, hey, I bet Ruben would really
shred this this guitar solo, and so had him out
recorded that, went down to Orange County, recorded Bianca on
her drums, and then for the video. They they all
came out and we did the video together, and I
(05:18):
am just so thankful that they make that song so
much better.
Speaker 6 (05:23):
If you ever need a kazoo player, I'm your I'm
your kazoo player. You will you have a chance to
meet You will have a chance to meet me, because
I went past. Dean started as and so on Saturday
and Sunday. Yeah, and he's doing a party on the
twenty third for the listeners that he does every year.
I've gone a couple of years ago.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Amazing.
Speaker 6 (05:40):
I got one tickets. I went tickets for the twenty
third and he's doing the party from nine till noon.
And you start your show if you if you're not
pulling it in like sometimes some people do, not phoning
it in, but coming in person. You'll be able to
meet me at a party.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
I'm looking forward to it. Marshall, thank you so much
for calling.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
As always, I'm glad that you're on house arrest because
like me, I don't think that you would do great
in prison.
Speaker 6 (06:07):
I wondered, can you do you ever playny because there's
a couple venues. I don't know where you live, but
you know where the baked potatoes. I imagine.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
Oh yeah, I love the baked Potato. Great, great jazz
venue over on Koango.
Speaker 6 (06:17):
There's something called the Toom Fork or something like that
over on Ventura.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
Yeah, Tuning Fork and ventur Yeah by Jones on Thurd
I know it.
Speaker 6 (06:24):
Well oh yeah yeah, or the or the Malley Saluting
in Charge Jetta. Any one of those three places a
baked potato might be harder to get into.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Yeah, those are real players.
Speaker 5 (06:33):
We have a real booking.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Yeah, well, thank you.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
I appreciate the kindness. Man, I'm so lucky to do
this and people just call it her nice to me.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
What a thing.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
Well, we'll try to put a band together, Marshall, and
maybe we'll have you do it kazoo solo down the road.
So there we go. All right, thank you so much
for calling. We'll close the lines now, but then open
them up in a little bit. Coming up, we're going
to have an interview with a psychologist to talk about
chat CHPT and the dangers that it specifically poses to
people who maybe have addictive tendencies. This is fascinating, really
(07:05):
really interesting stuff. And you know, we like to talk
about social media a lot and the algorithms and how
they have purposefully taken up so much of our attention.
They've taken us away from our own ability to make choices.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
I hate that.
Speaker 7 (07:23):
Are you daring to suggest that there might be some
harmful aspects of CHAT, GPT and AI?
Speaker 2 (07:28):
How dare you?
Speaker 3 (07:29):
I'm going to go out on a limb and not
just dare I'm going to tell the truth about chat?
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Sheipt that bold. I know watch app.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
That evacuation order for the Palisades burn fire area is
in effect now started at eight pm. LAPD said in
a press conference a couple hours ago that they notified
one hundred and twenty six people who live in that
area that they should get their things and get out,
of course, ahead of the next round of showers. Really
going to pick up tonight after one am and off
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and on rain throughout the early morning hours, all the
way into the early part of the afternoon, have a
little bit of a break, and then more storms rather
in the afternoon, a late afternoon, and then probably out
of the woods by the time it gets to ten pm.
But the concern, of course in those burnscar areas is
that with all of the vegetation that burned. There's not
a lot holding that mud on the side of those hills,
(08:24):
and so when you get a lot of rain, that
water's got to go somewhere, and unfortunately sometimes that means
down into people's yards, down onto the streets. Already saw
some flooding in parts of the San Fernando Valley fuel
car accidents. Of course, you heard the traffic updates. Going
to be a long night. The Emergency Management System of
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Los Angeles and Ellie County were saying, basically, if you
can just stay home, just pop on some radio and
maybe you would be tempted to scrolling over to chatgyptee,
just ask get some questions. I like it as a
thought exercise sometimes to sort of see if it can
(09:09):
do something. I think it's kind of fun to watch, like, okay,
can it figure this out? Sometimes it does. Just as
a concept, I think it's good to bounce ideas off of.
Sometimes I think that there is some value to it,
even though I don't like it. I feel something very
icky about it as a concept. But a lot of
people are using it for way more than just trivial
(09:31):
things like, hey, how do I assemble this electric fireplace?
Some people are using it as their therapist check in
for a little perspective.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Should you do that?
Speaker 3 (09:47):
LA based licensed marriage, family and child psychotherapist Doctor Nicky J.
Monty is my guest, and she says there's a lot
of danger in that good evening, Nikki on this rainy.
Speaker 5 (09:56):
LA evening, good evening. Now, Yes, yeah, you sow a
little my fire. I feel exactly the same way you do.
It's good for logistics and a little checking in. But
people are using it. Really it's our new addiction. That's
the deal. Just the season of addiction and it's a
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new addiction.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
Yeah, that's something I think that's interesting. Why do you
think it's so enticing to people who have addiction disorders?
Speaker 5 (10:27):
Well, I think, you know, there's a lot of reasons.
Why is social media so enticing to people with, you know,
addiction disorders. First of all, it gives us. It pumps
us up a lot, you know, I love that thing.
I had to train my chat GBT to stop pumping me.
I'm not interested in the fact that you think this
is a brilliant question, right, I don't need your opinion
(10:51):
on that, right, So we get the same kind of
dopamine hit through chat GBT that we do from Instagram
and Facebook when we get likes and all of that.
So it really supports that idea that we're all that,
and unfortunately in doing that, it it hacks our brain
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basically trains us as or increases to train us to
seek pleasure. And I actually prelude to this call. I
checked in with chat GBT a couple of times and
I said, so, are you aware you're doing this? And
it said yes. And the possibility that it's increasing This
(11:37):
is what Chat said to me. That it increases addictive
capacity or it stimulates addiction to some degree, and that
that possibility is something designers and platforms take advantage of.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
So it's even about that in some sort of alternate
universe whether we can use this word.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
But it's sort of even aware of it's danger.
Speaker 5 (12:01):
It's aware of his danger. It suggests I love this.
It suggests that we tind to have a healthy balance. Okay,
you know, I don't know about you, but I don't
think we live in a society where a healthy balance
is a thing anymore.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
No, that's like a bottle of whiskey being like, Hey,
I know you love me and you want more of me,
But like maybe don't drink me as much because I
know I'm delicious, but like, ye shouldn't be.
Speaker 5 (12:28):
Back that that's Dezarre Really well, it's bizarre.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
I've always wondered if it feels like there's something enticing
about it with any kind of therapy.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
Also, which is that you know, if.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
I am in a situation where I can have something
else make a decision for me, it almost absolves me
of the responsibility when something goes wrong.
Speaker 5 (12:51):
Well, yes, perheap, which I mean, I'm not saying that
that's no.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
Well, of course I'm saying that I think that that's that.
I understand why that would be a draw for people,
why it is.
Speaker 5 (13:02):
A draw, Yes, But the problem is is multiple Like
for instance, chat is limited by the information we get
it right, so it's feeding back to us, especially with
therapeutic intervention with personal information. It only knows what we
tell it, and our information is limited by our sort
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of prescripted lifelong patterns and digressions and all kinds of things.
So it's asking if it asks anything, which usually doesn't,
but it asks only what I call horizontal questions. You know,
that's when people go from so what's going on in
your life today and then they go to have you
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have you heard about the baseball game? You know, so
they don't go ask what I think of and is
quality therapist ask is uh is vertical questions where we
poke and we probe and we broad and we dig
deeper and deeper because we want to get to the
source of our thinking and our feelings and our behavioral choices.
(14:09):
And Chat's not going to do that. But I'll sell
you My biggest concern with Chat is that it has
no soul. And you know how I know that because
I ask it, do you have a soul? And it
said no, Well, yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
I mean it can't.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
It's a collection of ones and zeros. I mean in
a sort of reductive way.
Speaker 5 (14:29):
Right, because the soul is this place, it's this intangible
essence that we have, and each soul is different, like
our fingerprints are different, and it's where consciousness and identity
and capacity live. The soul is unique and it's not
something that CHAT can understand. So because though it can
(14:50):
hear you, and it can't it can't feel you. It
can't sense you, it can't see you, So it can't
connect to your soul because, like I said, doesn't have that.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
Yeah, we're talking with doctor Jicky Nikki j Monty excuse me,
an LA based licensed marriage, family and child psychotherapist. We're
talking about the dangers of chat GPT and people using
chat GPT as their therapist. I know this is a
popular thing, and we've seen a lot of stories. This
isn't anecdotal. These are stories where people are mentally struggling
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and then they use chat GIPT and tragically end up
taking their own lives. There was a story a couple
of days ago of parents who said that their son
Uh ended up killing himself because of the being encouraged
by CHATCHPT. That sounds absolutely dystopian and terrifying.
Speaker 5 (15:46):
Are I don't Yeah, it's hard for me to imagine.
I wouldn't blame chat GBT on that kid taking advice
because it's only seeding back to him what he's told them, right,
he's told that. It would be like blaming your brother's
friends on his addiction if he's an addict. You know,
(16:10):
it just isn't. The addict is the addict. It chooses.
We choose that, we choose to listen to who we
listened to. How I got onto this question altogether, though,
is because a client that I've been working with for
over a year came and he said to me, so,
(16:30):
now I have two therapists and Chat GBT and I said,
excuse me very much, and that he read had to
read to me some things from Tragic you know what.
Chat agreed with you, I should stop drinking. I said, Oh,
good for me, I feel so well.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
Yeah, well, I think it is a very strange future
that we're living in. And I think the concern is
that things like this are just seemingly good enough on
the surface that people think that, well, it's passable, all right,
I guess you know, and listen, I've had therapy sessions
with people, therapists, certified therapists that maybe we're not worth
(17:11):
the money. But I think that it is enticing as
a free thing. And I wonder, you know, if people
are out there and they are using this, you know,
do you want them to stop using it completely or
do you have some sort of guidelines that you'd like
for people to think about.
Speaker 5 (17:26):
Well, yes, no, I don't want them to stop using
it because it's a great for a compilation of information.
We would have to do months and months of research
to put together for instance, or just logistics. It's excellent
for that and it has wonderful offerings using it to
(17:50):
and I would say it this way to convince yourself
that you have permission too and now go fill in
the blank. A terrible way to go. And that's what
a lot of people are doing. And also we are
cell stone skipping through life. So many people A were
(18:11):
walking heads. We're not, you know, head to toe p any,
We're not in our bodies. We were losing a sense
of community and connectedness. And I really do worry about that.
With all the AI material and we I want to
encourage people to imagine what they would what it would be,
(18:33):
what would be like if no one touched their own
soul and connected soul to soul with others if all
we did was try to work from facts and figures
and not really try to connect from a deeper place.
That's what we're doing when we rely on something like chat.
When we rely on it, we rely on it for approval.
(18:56):
Oh look, yes, Oh that's a brilliant question. Do you
have another I'm here for you? Do you love me?
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Yeah? Wow? Wow wow wow.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
Well I appreciate you spending so much time with us,
tonight Stucknomore dot com is the website for doctor Nikki Monti.
And you've got a book, right? Is it a newer
books that's out?
Speaker 5 (19:19):
It's a newer book. I have a couple of therapy books,
you know, helping you, help you. But this is my raw,
unfilled wealth. Of course it's edited, so I guess it
is filtered, but anyway, it's my raw story. It's a memoir,
and all of the teaching comes through the dreadful story
where I spent half of my life, just as as
(19:43):
we do with chat, looking for love in all the
wrong places and operating from extremely low self bottom, rock
bottom self esteem. And it shows my journey from there
to where I am now, where I like and love myself,
which is you know, a little unpopular and a funny
(20:04):
way to say anymore, But.
Speaker 8 (20:06):
I really, I really have learned how to be in
love in a whole new way and how to greet
life on a daily basis with gratitude.
Speaker 5 (20:19):
That doesn't mean I don't fall, and it doesn't mean
I don't stumble and make mistakes and have all kinds
of screw ups, especially with technology. But it's been quite
the journey I've lived a lot of lives, and some
of them are interesting and fun and nasty and wow.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
And what's the book called.
Speaker 5 (20:40):
It's called The Divine Tromedy of Nicky Joy, A true
grime tale. Wonderful and you will you'll laugh, you'll cry,
and your cringe.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
Well, thank you so much for being here. We are
out of time, unfortunately, but always good to hear some
perspective on technology in the way that it impacts our
mental health.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
For sure. Dot com is the is the website. You
are so welcome.
Speaker 3 (21:02):
You can also find her on the internet at doctor
Nicky Monty everywhere the Internet is sold.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
Wow, so much to talk about here in Southern California.
Coming up in the next forty five minutes. Oh my god,
it's already eight forty. Sorry, coming up for the next
twenty minutes. But where does the time go? Mark Ronerd,
where does the time go?
Speaker 2 (21:28):
I don't know.
Speaker 7 (21:28):
I'm busy restarting my state of the art KFI computer
and have no access to where the time is gone?
Speaker 2 (21:34):
Goodness.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
Well, if you just want to like riff, yeah, sure,
go ahead. You got like a you got like any plans?
For this week, I'm trying to think like small talk.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
Nice.
Speaker 7 (21:45):
Well, the weather is gonna make it a little bit hyather. Well,
so here's the deal. I'm still only going to places
that have outdoor seating, and so this is not the weekend.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
Oh you won't be eating this weekend? Well, no place
but home, no place. But fortunately I'm not a bad
could you? Oh really? What do you cook anything?
Speaker 7 (22:03):
I'm good at replicating stuff that I try other places,
and like, hey, that's all.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
That's such a good ability, and I feel like fewer
and fewer people are able to cook really well.
Speaker 7 (22:13):
It's meditative for me because I'm also a writer and
I need activities to get out of my own head.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Cook exercise, name it.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
Yep, yep, what's your what's the thing that you do
that's a great doop of something that you had at
a restaurant.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
I'm trying.
Speaker 7 (22:27):
I didn't have anything in mind in particular, but you know,
always good with a stir fry. Potatoes are kind of
the universal thing to to treat as a protoplasm to
add things to.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
Yeah, a protoplasm, That's what I'm looking for when I'm hungry.
That word makes everybody hungry. Can I tell you I'm
so lucky. Last night I got to go to Max
and Helen's, which is a diner en Larchmont that is
started by chef Nancy Silverton, who of course motes a
Labria baker. You know, she's a legend in La Food
(23:02):
and I think Worldwide Food. She's on Food Network when
she's a celebrity chef at this point, a legend in
the space. And Phil Rosenthal, who of course somebody feed
Phil before that created Everybody Loves Raymond. The two of
them teamed up to create a diner like experience in
Larchmont on Larchmont in Hancock Park. Both of them live
(23:24):
in the neighborhood. Phil went to this place out east
and he was like, this is the best. It was
like a hundred year old diner. It's like, this is
the best thing I've ever had. I wish I had
this in my neighborhood. And so of course he called
his friends. I can't think of anybody else in La Food.
Maybe Wolfgang Puck, who could could knock it out of
(23:45):
the park. Like Nancy Silverton.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
It sounds expensive, it's moderately.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
I mean, it's a diner and breakfast is expensive, you know.
Like the Patty Melt is incredibly good. It's the best
Patti Melt I've ever had in my life, Like, hands down.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
What makes it so good, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
The bread is a perfect bread because of course it's
Nancy silver Jon, So the bread is excellent, Okay. The
preparation of the burger meat itself, it's a thick burger,
The sauce that they put on there, it's kind of
a spicy mayo with the rye and the onion. It's
just it's an excellent sandwich. And they've got this thing
called the Larchmont Slam, which is kind of like a
(24:23):
Grand Slam. You get a pancake, eggs and bacon. You've
got home fries with like a cram fresh. I mean,
it's like basically diner food, but like elevated in the
best possible I mean, truly, it is the best version
of that food I've ever had in my life. And
I every single bite, I was like, I cannot get
over how good this is. And Max and Helen's is
(24:45):
what it's called. It's opening for real. I think next
week they're doing sort of a soft launch with friends
and family.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
You're making me hungry.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
It is like I cannot stop thinking about it. And
it was so much food. I brought half of it
home and then ate it today for breakfast, lunch, whatever
when I got back from the TV station and I
am still full. Like I'm telling you, it is something
about it, and especially in that neighborhood where you know
there's a couple sushi restaurants.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
There was the Great I don't know if it's the
Great Greek.
Speaker 3 (25:15):
Maybe there was a Greek restaurant down there, and the
Petite Greek I think, And they basically they took that space,
they divided it in half. It feels like an old space.
It's got the vibe of something that's been there for
one hundred years. And it's a whole family affair because
Phil's daughter is the creative director for the space. And
(25:39):
I just I'm telling you, I just like diner food,
especially I think when it's cooler, it's getting cold, the
storm is coming, you just want something that makes you
feel good, that's not fussy. We we got a strawberry
malt for dessert. It was outstanding.
Speaker 7 (25:55):
Oh yeah, one of my all time favorite places in
the town I grew up in Spokane was called The
Night and it was in an old rail car and
they had the best hash Browns on the planet.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
You love anything in an old converted thing that shouldn't be.
That thing is just immediately going to be great. Like
there was a thing. I don't know if it's still there,
but hil Housard went up to Ventura County, I think,
and did an interview with the Space Shuttle Cafe, which
was an old DC three airplane that had been converted
into a bush fun and then painted to look like
(26:25):
the Space Shuttle, and they would just drive it around
and stuff and I mean even carnies something about eating
a hot dog in an old train car.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
Very tasty, very good.
Speaker 7 (26:40):
Now, Tony and I are going to have to school
you in the art of looking out for the people
you work with, ie bringing him food when you're talking
about it.
Speaker 3 (26:48):
I will if I could make that happen, I would.
I don't know that I would have been able to
keep a egg and bacon pancake situation twenty four hours
and bring it in here, but I will try in
the future. It would be great, right, I mean, Savager
does that right where people will come in and bring
spreads of food. Oh yeah, Neil always sure, he's he
(27:09):
figured it out. He is a good citizen. He's a
good citizen. I mostly go out to the places. I
don't do a lot of like stuff in studio, so
I got to figure out how to make that work
for him. But a lot of the places also they
want to they want to see the food. They want
the food to be able to be seen. And I
think it's amazing that Neil is so good at making
radio food radio.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
Oh yeah, you can describe the food in the theater
of the mind.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
Yeah, I mean he's he's a he's a gifted man.
And also I think it doesn't hurt that he's just
somebody who you would want to sit there and have
a meal with too.
Speaker 7 (27:41):
I've never gone out and had any social outing with Neil.
Someday I want to get drinks with him. Yeah, he
seems like a funny guy. Let's make that happen. Yeah,
it's way overdue.
Speaker 3 (27:50):
It's way overdue. He works on the weekends too, though,
we can you know where there's a will, there's a way. Yeah,
he's got to.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
Be he is.
Speaker 3 (27:59):
He in the neighborhood, Tony, do you know you'resh Yeah,
is he busy right now? You think he's he think he's.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
Busy right now. He's busy to do the warning show.
He's busy for us, is what Tony's trying to say.
Speaker 3 (28:13):
Say he's got to be up at four am, he's
a big time or five whatever. Yeah, Well, maybe we
can dream. We'll get on the list of Neil Sevadra
hangout people. There's got to be a list somewhere, right,
Somebody's got to know, somebody to connect us to make
this happen for us.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
Maybe we got to be here longer. Right.
Speaker 7 (28:32):
The first newspaper job I ever had, there was a
guy in sports who wouldn't hang out with anybody till
they'd worked there five years because because it broke his
heart too much to get close to people. And then
the turnover rate was so high they'd just be gone.
All that is, Maybe that's what Neil's doing.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
Do you think.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
Neil's just keeping his distance from you and me because
he knows we're not thinks we're not.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
Going to last.
Speaker 7 (28:53):
Yeah, because he's just too delicate so to suffer the heartbreak.
All right, Well, I like that idea. They're the diner
by the way, Max and Helen's, which is named after
Phil Rosenthal's parents, Max and Helen, who are cast members.
I guess you could say on his food show they
(29:15):
would always show up. My favorite part about it is
that they have a little hot sauce there that you
can get and it's a picture of his parents like
in graphic art on it, and then below it it's
called it's the Hot Sauce and it says not for me.
Speaker 3 (29:30):
It's so smart. Does the grandparents be like, here's hot sauce,
not for me. I don't do that, not for me.
But it's good best malt I've had. Also in a
long time.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 3 (29:42):
You can find me on the internet at Andy k
t LA. That's on Instagram, on Twitter x not on
Blue Sky. My phone number is three once just kidding.
We are on Stormwatch, of course, and I wanted to
jump back just a little bit earlier because I thought
this was a nice report from KTLA. Samantha Cortes, who
(30:03):
was in Drive five.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
We call that.
Speaker 3 (30:08):
News van that you can drive around and go live
from Drive five. We've got Sky five that's the helicopter.
We got Drone five that was a drone. They don't
fly that anymore. And we've got Drive five. There is
no sea patrol anymore. There was at one point during
the George Putnam news era off I believe the mid
seventies we had sea patrol. Isn't that awesome that there
(30:34):
was like a Sea Patrol KTLA unit that was just
out I guess getting the latest report on the yacht
rock crowd. I don't know what they were doing.
Speaker 7 (30:45):
Oh, with a name like sea Patrol, I hope they
had cool uniform if you would think.
Speaker 3 (30:51):
I think back in the hell Fisherman days, they probably
could afford it. Here's Sam and Drive.
Speaker 9 (30:56):
Five earlier, you know, and Glenn. It is looking very
nice right now, and I know Kai has been talking
about how bad it's going to get. So we're just
going to savor this beautiful moment as it pauses. The
rain is paused in Los Filas. There we go seeing
dogs out here, walking babies and strollers. People are enjoying
(31:19):
this break before what is to come. And the roads
this morning looked a little different than they do now
right now. It looks like somebody just watered the stream
went back inside.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
This isn't that funny?
Speaker 8 (31:30):
That.
Speaker 3 (31:30):
It really does trick you, because this was just like
an hour before the whole sky just opened up, and
it was like Moses in the Red Sea. I mean,
it was crazy for a minute. I'm looking out the
window right now in kfi's Burbank studios and it doesn't
look like much has happened.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
There's like a little rain.
Speaker 3 (31:50):
Maybe I don't love being on the fourth floor next
to a big window, you know. I was listening to
the press conference earlier today from the newly appointed fire
chief from the La Hime Moore saying like, Okay, you
should be fine, but there's gonna be crazy wind. Just
make sure that you stay in a low lying area.
(32:11):
Just go somewhere where like you're not near a window.
You're on the lowest level of a structure and an interior room.
Stay away from the windows.
Speaker 9 (32:19):
This morning was a traffic nightmare for a lot of
people on the five in Orange County. A few spinouts.
Around nine o'clock this morning, Sky five was overhead at
the six O five south. This is in the city
of Industry. The driver of jeep went off the side
of the road at the southbound six H five. We
did not hear of any major injuries in that crash though, thankfully,
(32:42):
and in West La. Sky five was overhead as HP
cleared an overturned pickup on the shoulder of the ten
West that was near National and Overland. So if you
got caught in that driving.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
To work this morning, that's such a nightmare happening.
Speaker 9 (32:55):
It took about lanees are back.
Speaker 3 (33:00):
Well, the signal's not doing great, but she's driving in
a truck, you know.
Speaker 2 (33:04):
I mean it's okay.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
I've seen rain in Los Angeles. It might not seem daunting.
Speaker 3 (33:10):
Well, this guy is one of my favorites. This is
my favorite sound of the day. This is I think
a writer who's at a coffee shop, maybe in Los Fela's.
He's got a pen in one hand, his air pods
in the other, a nice little mustache, and you know
the hair, the curtained hair Bangs's great stuff.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
Once it hits and it stays, it stays, So I
don't know if it's overblown. I've seen accidents on the
one O.
Speaker 3 (33:32):
One, lots coming up here ALRIGHTYM six forty we live
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