November 14, 2025 • 31 mins
In hour 3, Lou covers the seismic shifts reshaping media: celebrities licensing AI versions of their voices, Paramount–Skydance losing 600 employees after forcing an office return, and cable TV hitting a record-low share of U.S. viewing. Then: TNT gets bold with uncut, graphic programming; Chris Rock reveals a behind-the-scenes SNL bombshell; new data shows how people really use ChatGPT; and flight rules like Airplane Mode get demystified. A fast-moving hour exploring where tech, entertainment, and everyday life collide.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:07):
On demand anytime on the iHeartRadio app Mark talk Back.
I got some compliments for you in there. They really
like you. Oh yeah, me not so much, but you.
They're like, this is great. We we love hearing Mark.
We trust Mark. All right, that's the most important thing
you're gonna have as a newscaster. I think that's great,
well done. Well, it's a good thing. My self esteem
is so healthy because if it was an insult, i'd
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probably cry on the air, right, you and me both,
that's what you and I have in common, but we
don't because we are complete pros. That's right. I was
waiting for that. Yeah, there is this guy who, however,
says I'm brilliant.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Dude, Now that you think about it, it's totally right.
It is all about sports. That's the only reason that
I keep Spectrum Charter TV is because the dog channel.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
That's what I do it for, yep. And I pay
a lot of money, a couple hundred bucks a month
for that channel.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
That's passion. Dude, dude, dude, dude, I like that guy. Dude, dude, dude.
Rufus is here with the telephone booth time machine. Dude, dude,
Now it is one hundred percent true. Without sports at
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this time, cable company was wound be toast. Cable companies
did a really smart thing twenty five years ago, and
that is that they saw the writing on the wall
that they they were in the perfect position to provide
internet to households because they already had the lines run right,
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they were in the perfect position, and so so many
of them became ISPs, not just cable companies, but ISPs.
And then they push really hard, gets your Internet from us,
Get your Internet from us, high speed internet, high speed internet.
And after the days of dial up, we're done. That's
who our ISPs are, right. I mean, you've got your
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you've got your your Spectrums, and you've got your your Coxes,
and you've got your Time Warner whatever, and you've got
all the other right. And of course you do have
T Mobile and their phone provider. They also do data,
so they're trying to do some things of horizons, trying
to do some ISP kind of stuff. But the cable companies,
the only reason they still exist today is because they've
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had all of that monumental growth as Internet service providers. ISPs.
The cable business side of those companies is in a
massive decline. Media advisory firm found that roughly fifty percent
of households right now have cable or PayTV. That's down
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from ninety percent in twenty ten. So that's not just
legacy cable either. That's pay TV providers, including live TV
streaming bundles. Now that's key. I'm still in that fifty
percent paying for that. I've got the whatever Hulu plus
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that gives me, so I have access to my local channels. Right,
that's what I wanted. Prior to that, I had Sling,
but I didn't like my intent. I've gone over this before.
I still want to have live TV. And the reason
I want live TV is because I am a fan
of sports, especially the NFL, so I pay for it.
Mark not a sports fan. And I think you're a
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prime example. I think we are exemplary of what's happening
in the market. Mark, you go home and you stream
to be And I know we joke about it all
the time, but do you you don't have a live
TV provider? Do you know the only time I see
live TV is when I come into the office here, right,
or obviously when you're avoiding going home and you're at
the bar, so the same you know me too, Well,
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what is the reason to have live TV if not sports?
All of the other content is available on the streamers. Well,
I'll tell you one more thing. One of the things
that I would go to live TV for I just
watch on YouTube. I watch the opening monologues to all
the late night shows that's on YouTube. And me, you
watch it live or do you watch it? It's not
free on YouTube, right, I mean it's free like after
they post it right afterward. Well, I mean it's on
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there by the time I get home late at night.
And that's what I'm saying, Like, what does it matter
if you're there watching it at at ten thirty or
you get home and you're watching it at midnight right,
or if you want to watch it the next day.
I have not watched a late night monologue live in years,
even when Kimmel came back, I just watched it the
next morning because it was it was on YouTube, it
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was on my it was on my Insta feed, it
was everywhere. I didn't need to watch it live. I
didn't I and those those shows are recorded anyway, so
you're not even watching it live. You're watching it as
the tape is playing first. That's it. There's no reason
for it other than sports, which is why the sports
networks are gonna have tremendous amount of leverage because without them,
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the cable companies vanish. They just go away. Now, something
funny is happening over at Paramount. You know, Paramount, they
did the cost cutting thing and they are what they
can a thousand people, and they said there's more coming.
Some Paramount employees figured out a hack to not get fired.
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And you're not gonna you won't even this is crazy crazy,
they just quit. Woa. Whoa wow, that's wild woo. About
six hundred employees have opted for a severance rather than
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comply with going back into the office in New York
or here in Los Angeles starting in January. So they go,
you know what, we're gonna quit now. We have known
that the return to office orders in many cases, and
Elon Musk said as much when he was the leader
of DOGE, is that if we mandate return to work,
we won't have to fire people. They'll take care of themselves.
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And that's exactly what's happening at Paramounts guideances that they've
got employees to go. We're not coming back to the office.
So there has been a push by Paramount to make
cuts if you have people that are voluntarily leaving, though
they are literally saving the jobs of others who would
have been on the shopping block. And you can say
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I didn't get fired. I made a conscientious choice to
leave that company. In other words, they got out while
the getting was good. There is one other thing happening here,
and I wanted to mention this in our kind of
the business side of show business here segment how unpopular
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is Matthew McConaughey about to be? Oh, because Matthew McConaughey
and Michael Caine have now struck deals with eleven Labs.
Do you know what eleven Labs is? That's what of
the AAR company. And but by the way, Michael Kin
not so disappointing, so shocked, Well he's he's cocked me.
(07:20):
You know that was coming right? Yeah? You take you
take what you can get down Yeah, then you know
when the next Nick might come Alome, hey, take what
you can get. Sadly, we don't have any of our
Commonwealth employees on the show tonight. Last night we had
two tonight we have zero. They love it when I
mock it. Uh So, Michael Caine and Matthew McConaughey are
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not all right, all right, all right with Hollywood because
they license their stuff out. Katla had the story.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
That's the unmistakable voice of Michael Caine, but it's not
actually him speaking.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
It's yeah, is me Artificial intelligence?
Speaker 4 (07:53):
The ninety two year old Oscar winner announced he's joining
eleven labs new iconic Voice marketplace. The platform allows companies
to request approval to use Kine's voice for projects. Cain
joins more than twenty five other iconic figures, including Maya Angelou,
Judy Garland, and John Wayne.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Eleven Labs also announced I don't think that they licensed
their stuff. I think the estate did.
Speaker 4 (08:16):
Ounce Matthew McConaughey is an investor in the company. His
reps say he's using AI responsibly to engage his audience.
Eleven Labs says the marketplace requires consent and compensation AI generated,
but the announcement and other recent AI advances, including AI
actress Tillie Norwood, are raising concerns in Hollywood.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Yeah, I'm gonna know if that's the truth.
Speaker 4 (08:40):
Legendary Oscar winning actor Morgan Freeman telling The Guardian this
week quote, I'm a little pod you know, I'm like
any other actor. Don't mimic me with falseness?
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Did these guys Michael Kain's retired, He's not gonna act
him right, he's taking a check in in'tate. But is
Matthew mcconnae gonna get blackballed for this mark or is
he too big a name? I don't know. People are outraged.
I've been really hooked Twitter all day or X or
whatever you want to call it, and people are really
upset about this, and I think rightfully. So the question
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is do the studios care? I don't know. I don't
know that the studios care well. I don't think they're
shareholders care well. I mean that means and that means
the studios don't care. Yeah. Yeah. But if all of
a sudden you have other actors that say I will
not sign on with his studio, that is supporting people
who are betraying creators, that could have a fallout if
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the if there becomes if there's like a union statement
on this. Actually, I got a bunch of emails from
the union this week that said you you really need
to watch this or whatever it was. It was Sean
Aston was doing stuff, you know, the new president of
SAG and I just immediately just to click it as
red and never watched it. If you do that too,
I do. I think everybody does.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
I do that.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
I was shopping for a house in my hometown in
northern Chigan once and uh, this is the dumbest thing.
So my wife and I we have this. We were
calling at our retirement home. We got this little cottage
where my wife is and then I'm here doing radio.
We live a long way apart. It's good for our relationship.
But while I was shopping, I was with my realtor,
who this is my hometown, and so there's actually a
guy I went to high school with. So we're walking
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through houses and all of a sudden my phone rings
and he was an LA number and I didn't recognize it,
and I answered it, and I go, hey on, let
me get this. I didn't know if it was somebody
from work, you know. So I answered the phone and
I then I hang up and I and he goes
everything okay, I go, yeah, it was Fran Dresher. He
does what I got his frand Dresher. I didn't. I
didn't want to talk to her, whatever reason he thought
(10:43):
fran Dresher was actually calling me. No, it wasn't. It
was just one of those recorded you know phones that
come in and go, yeah, Nanny can wait until you're
done in your business. I thought I'm doing Hey on Nanny,
I'm busy right now. He was just impressed that he
thought fran Dresher was calling me. She was not. It
was the recordings saying it's important that you vout. Yeah,
that's it. You know what? We need more of nudity
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and graphic medical gore on basic cable. And there's good
news because one network has decided you deserve it. Now,
maybe this is a reason you're gonna want that cable
instead of just using the streamers. Now which network is
doing it and what they're about to put on your
screen next month is next. I'm Chris Merril I AM
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six forty. We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
Listen to anytime on demand of the iHeartRadio app. I
got a little bit more on Mark's favorite the AI
auditioning for his job that is coming up here after
nine point thirty because what we're finding out is you're
doing it all wrong. You're totally doing it all wrong.
But if you did do it correctly, you would hate it.
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So that's all coming up. It's very important stuff here
in the meantime, TNT says, uh oh, it seems the
only reason that people want to watch live broadcast television
or cable television in real time is for sports. Now.
TNT has always been really great with sports. They had
the NBA for a long time. But they said, what
if we could spice it up a little bit, What
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if we could take one of the hit shows from
one of the streaming services and we could put it
on the network on TNT. Now. It helps that the
show that they're getting came off of HBO, HBO, Warner Brothers, TNT,
Warner Property. Ah. That makes that makes it a whole
(12:41):
lot easier, doesn't it. Yeah. It's not like TNT was
grabbing something from Disney or Paramount. No. Instead, they decided,
what can we air from HBO that is really going
to grab people's attention and make them watch. Was it
some sort of a DC Universe streamer? Nope? Oh, that
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would have been great. What's the hey, what's the show?
I'd like? It's got John Cena in it. The superhero show. Peacemaker.
I love that. God, yeah, I love it so much.
Couldn't remember the name off the top of my head.
It's been a long week. Yeah, Peacemaker. Love that. James
Gunn Masterpiece Chef's Kiss. Amazing work. And it left us
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on a clean hair, a cliffhanger, and they say that's
probably the end of the series because they're gonna kind
of weave that into some of the other DC stuff. Well,
now I have to see it, just really well done.
Did they take that?
Speaker 3 (13:41):
No?
Speaker 2 (13:41):
Instead, TNT said, what if we could have something that's
got nudity and gore? Yeah, Man, if it bleeds it leads,
it has nipples even better. TNT is breaking tradition and
breaking boundaries. This is from Today News twenty four with
a completely real anchor reading the new to us.
Speaker 5 (14:00):
The EMMU winning medical drama The Pit is coming to
Basic Cable completely uncut and unfiltered. HBO Max's hit series
The Pit, known for its raw and realistic take on
emergency medicine, is about to premiere on T and T
starting December first at nine pm Eastern Time. Unlike most
shows adapted for Basic cable, tn T has decided not
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to censor or sanitize the original version, meaning all the
intense medical scenes, emotional moments, and yes, even nudity will
air exactly as they did on streaming.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
Okay, first of all, the music is too loud whatever
AI mix, that is terrible AI obviously still the voice
replication is just not there yet. Just just asking me
in turn to read the story. How hard can it be?
Not that hard? But this is I mean, she said,
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it's going to have everything, including the emotional moments, uncensored.
What emotional moment is their vulgar? I watched it. I
gotta tell you, did you watch this yet? Anybody here?
Ye watched it? No? I don't think I want to.
I don't. I don't need that in my life. Is
it the gore? You don't like that? It's just the
whole I've spent too much time in hospitals in real life.
(15:16):
I don't need that show. Oh interesting, Okay, So here's
why I don't want to watch it. I heard a
review of it, and I can't remember this was somebody
that was a professional reviewer or somebody that I knew
that that said this. So I think I'll talk to
you about this before too. Mark that when I was young,
I worked in a restaurant for seven years through high
school and college, and I watched The Bear and it
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was very stressful for me. Yet it was like it
was almost like PTSD now. It gave me a full
anxiety attack. The first time I watched it, that first
season especially, I was like, oh my gosh, I could
not I couldn't power watch that. I had to watch
one episode at a time, and I watched the first
one and I thought, I don't know if I'm going
to continue with this series. It was really my away
(16:00):
was this is so good, but I don't know if
I have the strength to get through this. It was
so good in it, and it evoked that emotional response
for me. I was exhausted watching it. Same. Okay, so
I get done with I'm no longer working at the restaurant,
and I decide I am going to pursue a career
in emergency medicine. I had a buddy that was a paramedic.
(16:23):
I had another friend that was an EMT, and I thought,
you know what I could do that I could I
could be somebody who makes a difference and help save people,
And so I started doing I started training as an EMT,
and somebody told me that The Bear, excuse me, that
the Pit was like. They said, Oh, it's intense like
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the Bear, but set in a hospital, in an emergency room.
And I went, good, Lord, are they just following my
stupid life. No, I can't do this. I don't think
I can go from the stressful job of working at
the at the restaurant to watching what I was to sing.
When I was thinking that I could help change the
world by saving people one at a time, which, by
the way, I could not. I washed out. But I
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was like, oh lord, I don't know if I can
handle that kind of intensity combined with human suffering. So
that's the reason I haven't watched The Pit. But I've
heard nothing but glowing reviews, and I feel like I
need to just suck it up and just do it
being such a sissy. Did you watch the original er
(17:28):
with the idea? Yeah back in the Yeah, no, a
while back in the and he's done a lot of
stuff on actually TNT. Coincidentally, he did like the librarians,
and he did leverage leverage redemption. There's another one that
I saw him do on there. He's done a lot
of stuff with TNT, but then he started doing this
stuff with with HBO. I think he's I think he's
(17:48):
a great actor. He's much better now than he was
when when er first came out. But yeah, I watched that.
That's when I was first introduced to George Clooney. Like
so many other people, I saw all those myself, and
I was kind of exhausted. So I don't feel like
I need and like middle aged doctor John Carter in
a gorrier, more stressful situation. I'll give him credit. He
knows how to play different characters, and I mean that genuinely,
(18:10):
like you know how some people is like, Okay, well
he's playing the doctor again. But I've seen him play
different characters and different shows that he could easily have
slipped into an old character, and he doesn't, So I
give him the benefit of the doubt in this one.
You ever type something into a chatbot and you feel
a little twinge like maybe you shared too much. Now,
(18:30):
imagine finding out that the real twist isn't what you
told it, but what it's been doing with it. There's
a detail in this story. You are absolutely not expecting.
It's next Chris Merrill, I AM six forty live everywhere
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Ready at you're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
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Chris Merrill, thank you for spending time with us. The
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Oh oh yes, chat GPT. I had that conversation with
my wife because I keep getting frustrated with stupid chat GPT.
(19:11):
I like to use it. Here's what I do, be
completely transparent with you, how I engage with the AI
in order to make my life a little easier. So
I find I scour all my different news sources right, TV, newspaper, blogs,
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whatever I'm doing right, I'm scouring all these different places
trying to find information to be able to bring to
you entertaining, engaging, informative content. So I still do that
by hand. I don't have I don't tell AI to
go find me content. I still go find it. And
then what happens is I will get the content, I'll
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find a link and I will you know, I absorb it,
I read it. But then I don't like to sit
there and type it all out, so I just say, hey, chat, GPT,
give me a I break my show up into little
little segments, right, every segment. We have four segments every hour,
and I say, just give this segment a title, give
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me a quick summary, here's the story, Tell me what
the bullet points are, give me some thoughts on it
that I'm that you know, that might make me think
about it a little bit, and off I go. That's
how I use it. And I gotta tell you, I'm
not replacing anybody I am taking. I am taking some
stuff off my own plate. But I also find that
(20:34):
it is full of crap. My god, it hallucinates like
mad I caught one today where I just I wanted
a local story. It took a story out of Kansas
and it injected local, like it replaced whatever the Kansas
(20:56):
specific pieces of the story are with local pieces. So
it was like Marion County, Kansas sheriffs Marion County, Kansas
settles for three million dollars after the law enforcement raided
the offices of the Marion County Recorder newspaper. Okay, maybe
you heard about this story. It was basically they they
(21:17):
wrote an article that was unflattering to the police, and
the police decided they were going to go in there,
and it was very authoritarian. It was not pretty Anyway,
County settled for three million dollars. That's the story. So
I was doing some stuff and I said, hey, summarize
this for me. And the thing said La County settles
for three million dollars after law enforcement raids small Pasadena newspaper,
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and I went, wait a minute. I didn't hear that story.
What's this about? So it went, oh, hey, you're right,
good catch. I get so frustrated. I shouldn't have to
catch you. I now chat GPT alway says warning chat
GPT makes mistakes. This is what it says on it now.
So I do like to use it to summarize so
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that I can just copy and past summaries and bullet
points and things like that. But I have to be
extra diligent and know my stuff inside nout. I'm actually
in the minority. You're being told that this AI is
going to be used to replace people or to streamline
your job, or my case, to be able to use
the job to make things a little bit easier. My
wife uses it to help write form letters and then
she goes through and modifies it to her own voice,
(22:28):
and again not replacing anybody, because I don't want that.
I want to use it as a tool, not a replacement.
Business is going to look at it a different way.
Shareholders is going to look at it a different way.
But that's not how I look at it. So I'm
not going to license my voice to AI so that
there can be corners cut. I'm not going to do that.
I'm not going to undermine somebody else as a job.
But an analysis now forty seven thousand chat GPT interactions
(22:52):
show that people use AI for intimate emotional help, relationship issues,
and mental health. Ten percent of chats involved emotional dependence
or romantic style interactions. I bet that number is higher.
I bet that it's probably twenty percent or more of
(23:14):
people that are basically using chat GPT to get off. No,
I haven't done it, because people overshare their stuff on
their names, addresses, emails, medical details, legal issues, and then
chat GPT harvests those things, and as I said, it
(23:36):
can't be trusted. So chat GPT, according to some studies,
enthusiastically validated conspiracy style prompts and even answered yes when
asked if it was a siyop. Hey chat GPT, Are
you a siop by the government?
Speaker 4 (23:55):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
I can't tell you how much of a brown noser
hat GPT is if you haven't used it. So I
get mad at it, and I say, where'd you find
that information? Give me the source of the story that
you told me about the La County settling about a
you know, for the raid on the newspaper. And then
it says, hey, good catch, you're very smart, thanks for
finding thanks for catching that it wasn't in La County,
it was actually in Kansas. Nailed it? Good job? And
(24:20):
I get mad and I go, are you trying to
get me fired? I told you the most important thing
is that you give me accurate information. And it goes,
You're right, I should be better at this sort of thing.
It won't happen again. It was the biggest brown nosing
and it will happen again. Of course it does. You
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can't rely on it. No, there's no shortcuts. Yes, it
is no free rides. No, but I have to make sure.
I have to double check it. And now I tell it,
I go, I want you to source everything. I want
you to double check those sources. I want you to
fact check everything that you do before you give.
Speaker 3 (24:57):
It to me.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
And it still gets it wrong. But it does save
me all of the drudgery of having to type out
bullet points and summaries and teases and things like that.
Although it's not very good at teases. I've been working
with it for like a month now and it still
doesn't get it. It really bothers me. But we're finding
out that a lot of people are sharing this information.
Then what happens to that? What happens to your information,
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especially if you're a pervo when you're using chat GPT
to try to get your rocks off stick with the
blow up doll. I like that you're classic, you go
old school. I always appreciated that about you. You're kind
of a traditionalist that way. I think so. Yeah, I mean,
you like old movies, you like old sex toys. I'm
just everything about you is just like the old school.
(25:43):
You can never go wrong with something inflatable. Always remember that. Yeah, yeah,
I mean, when has that ever gone wrong? Never? Fantastic
the inflatable items those are for complete pros boom is
it forty two?
Speaker 3 (26:03):
Now?
Speaker 2 (26:03):
Is that your second or third one tonight I lost
count Yeah, that's good. I like that. Hey, you I
got bad news. You are probably going to crash an
airplane because you can't follow directions. You've been told to
put it to put your phone in airplane mode the
minute the plane doors close, and then what if your
phone never got that memo? Now you're probably gonna crash everything. Nah,
(26:28):
you really won't. You're not gonna bring the plane down.
But the truth is actually pretty interesting. Is the reason
why you probably ought to throw that phone in airplane mode.
I'll tell you what it is next and we'll check
in with George Norrie from Coast to Coast is KFI
AM six forty live everywhere on the iHeart Ready.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
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Speaker 2 (26:50):
Coast to Coast with George Norri. You're only serious material
Night in, Night Out. George's the greatest show there is
after dark. Thank you so much for joining us. What
can we expect this evening? My friend Rich Tonight, we're
going to talk about the mindset of serial killers, why
they do what they do, and then later on we're
going to talk with angels on Coast to Coast. God
is that engaging good stuff, George. I'm looking forward to it.
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That is all right, thank you, George Norrey Coast to
Coast serial Killers and Angels. Boy, he's got He's running
the entire game. But isn't it? Isn't he? You right
across the spectrum? That's great? This is you know what
that is?
Speaker 3 (27:24):
Mark?
Speaker 2 (27:25):
Is that? Well? What do you got? I'm ahead of you?
Is that a cocktail? Indeed, sir, what manner of cocktail?
Got yourself to Shirley Temple?
Speaker 3 (27:36):
There?
Speaker 2 (27:37):
What do you got? As a gentleman? Jack? I see okay,
I find it's a nice it's a nice value. Uh whiskey.
I'm a Scotch guy. But the Scotch, it like, is
pretty expensive. What kind? I just like? I like McCallan's.
And basically I can get I can get a I
can get a handle of JD you know, gentleman Jack,
(27:57):
for about the price of a fifth of the of
my mccannic. So I just I'm cheap. Okay, Well, the
correct answer on the Scotch is, oh bn about it's good.
I like that, and you can get it at costco
and at a really good price too, Yes you can.
It's like sixty bucks or so. Yeah, No, that's a
that's a good Highland. I like that one. Actually doesn't.
(28:18):
It doesn't taste tastes too pet You know, they call
it smoky, but I think it tastes like you're licking
up rock covered in moss when you get to lug
a ulin and things like that. But I knew we'd
agree on something sooner or later. Look at that, Look
at that. You're a heck of a guy. Scotch brings
people together. One of the things I love to do
(28:39):
is fly first class, because you know, I'm gonna lead us,
and and I'm fat, and I don't like sitting with
three people in the same row so so, but they
always they keep bringing me cocktails. I love that. But
then I sit there and start jacking around on my phone.
I got my headphones in, and I always try to
pay attention when the flight attendant is telling me, you know,
here are the exits, make sure you put on your
(29:00):
your life preserver and pull the thing. And all I
can think of is airplane, and she pulls it and
it's the rubber duck, right, That's all I can ever
think of whenever I watch it. But just the same
I'm screwing around my phone, but I'm keeping half an
eye because I want to be respected. But I always
have my earbuds in, so I never hear them say
you need to put away your your handheld and laptop devices.
I never hear it, and I always freak out because
(29:21):
I want to. I want to. I'm always texting my wife, Hey,
I'm man and I'm on the plane. I'm sitting down,
I'm having a scotch, you know, whatever it is. And uh.
But I always want to be cool, and I don't
want to be that guy that you know crashes the
plane because I've got my my phone not in airplane mode.
And I was thinking, as poor as people are at
following directions, surely someone must have taken off at some
(29:46):
point with their phone not in airplane mode. And I've
not heard of a single plane crash because of it.
Then you come to find out that all that stuff
we heard in the past about how it was, oh,
it is interfere and crash the plane. No, it basically
creates static in the headsets of the pilots. According to
a pilot and flight instructor Gary Cox, who was talking
(30:06):
with BGR, I don't know bgrs. But they said, well,
what happens to he goes Not a darn thing doesn't
happen TikTok. Pilot noted that phones could interfere with aviation headsets,
but pilot instructions still come through. Now, the best reason
for you to put your phone in airplane mode is
because if you don't, your phone's going to try to
(30:27):
find a cell tower, and when you're at thirty thousand feet,
it doesn't get the cell tower. So basically you just
drain your battery. Well, it looks for a cell tower
that you can't have, and it's not like you can
make phone calls anyway, So just put your phone on
airplane mode for your own good. Yeah, it's not about
keeping the flight in the sky. I had no idea.
It's all about control. It's all about don't irritate me
(30:48):
while I'm trying to enjoy that. I'm a gentleman, you know.
I'm a gentleman, professional, is what I am. That's what
I tell everyone about, the Tony who keeps us on
the air and has been dealing with me while I
was dealing with my own stupid internet behind the scenes.
I love you, buddy, I feel honest to God, when
(31:09):
you're here, I just feel like, whatever my issue is,
Tony and I are going to troubleshoot it, and you
cannot even imagine how important that is to me. I
just I love you for it. People didn't see Matt,
they didn't hear Matt behind the scenes today. Is an
absolute pro, just an incredible partner to have producing the show.
And of course Mark is like having a brother next
to me all the time. My brother actually like I
(31:30):
can joined twin. Oh well that's good. Yeah, separated by
sword play at some point during our youth. All Right, buddy,
I get a chance to talk to you next week
as well. I'm back on Sunday afternoon. Look forward to
talking to you that. Chris Merril AM six forty on
demand anytime in the iHeartRadio
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App KFI AM sixty on demand
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
On demand anytime on the iHeartRadio app Mark talk Back.
I got some compliments for you in there. They really
like you. Oh yeah, me not so much, but you.
They're like, this is great. We we love hearing Mark.
We trust Mark. All right, that's the most important thing
you're gonna have as a newscaster. I think that's great,
well done. Well, it's a good thing. My self esteem
is so healthy because if it was an insult, i'd
(00:29):
probably cry on the air, right, you and me both,
that's what you and I have in common, but we
don't because we are complete pros. That's right. I was
waiting for that. Yeah, there is this guy who, however,
says I'm brilliant.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Dude, Now that you think about it, it's totally right.
It is all about sports. That's the only reason that
I keep Spectrum Charter TV is because the dog channel.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
That's what I do it for, yep. And I pay
a lot of money, a couple hundred bucks a month
for that channel.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
That's passion. Dude, dude, dude, dude, I like that guy. Dude, dude, dude.
Rufus is here with the telephone booth time machine. Dude, dude,
Now it is one hundred percent true. Without sports at
(01:32):
this time, cable company was wound be toast. Cable companies
did a really smart thing twenty five years ago, and
that is that they saw the writing on the wall
that they they were in the perfect position to provide
internet to households because they already had the lines run right,
(01:54):
they were in the perfect position, and so so many
of them became ISPs, not just cable companies, but ISPs.
And then they push really hard, gets your Internet from us,
Get your Internet from us, high speed internet, high speed internet.
And after the days of dial up, we're done. That's
who our ISPs are, right. I mean, you've got your
(02:15):
you've got your your Spectrums, and you've got your your Coxes,
and you've got your Time Warner whatever, and you've got
all the other right. And of course you do have
T Mobile and their phone provider. They also do data,
so they're trying to do some things of horizons, trying
to do some ISP kind of stuff. But the cable companies,
the only reason they still exist today is because they've
(02:37):
had all of that monumental growth as Internet service providers. ISPs.
The cable business side of those companies is in a
massive decline. Media advisory firm found that roughly fifty percent
of households right now have cable or PayTV. That's down
(02:57):
from ninety percent in twenty ten. So that's not just
legacy cable either. That's pay TV providers, including live TV
streaming bundles. Now that's key. I'm still in that fifty
percent paying for that. I've got the whatever Hulu plus
(03:18):
that gives me, so I have access to my local channels. Right,
that's what I wanted. Prior to that, I had Sling,
but I didn't like my intent. I've gone over this before.
I still want to have live TV. And the reason
I want live TV is because I am a fan
of sports, especially the NFL, so I pay for it.
Mark not a sports fan. And I think you're a
(03:41):
prime example. I think we are exemplary of what's happening
in the market. Mark, you go home and you stream
to be And I know we joke about it all
the time, but do you you don't have a live
TV provider? Do you know the only time I see
live TV is when I come into the office here, right,
or obviously when you're avoiding going home and you're at
the bar, so the same you know me too, Well,
(04:04):
what is the reason to have live TV if not sports?
All of the other content is available on the streamers. Well,
I'll tell you one more thing. One of the things
that I would go to live TV for I just
watch on YouTube. I watch the opening monologues to all
the late night shows that's on YouTube. And me, you
watch it live or do you watch it? It's not
free on YouTube, right, I mean it's free like after
they post it right afterward. Well, I mean it's on
(04:25):
there by the time I get home late at night.
And that's what I'm saying, Like, what does it matter
if you're there watching it at at ten thirty or
you get home and you're watching it at midnight right,
or if you want to watch it the next day.
I have not watched a late night monologue live in years,
even when Kimmel came back, I just watched it the
next morning because it was it was on YouTube, it
(04:46):
was on my it was on my Insta feed, it
was everywhere. I didn't need to watch it live. I
didn't I and those those shows are recorded anyway, so
you're not even watching it live. You're watching it as
the tape is playing first. That's it. There's no reason
for it other than sports, which is why the sports
networks are gonna have tremendous amount of leverage because without them,
(05:08):
the cable companies vanish. They just go away. Now, something
funny is happening over at Paramount. You know, Paramount, they
did the cost cutting thing and they are what they
can a thousand people, and they said there's more coming.
Some Paramount employees figured out a hack to not get fired.
(05:30):
And you're not gonna you won't even this is crazy crazy,
they just quit. Woa. Whoa wow, that's wild woo. About
six hundred employees have opted for a severance rather than
(05:51):
comply with going back into the office in New York
or here in Los Angeles starting in January. So they go,
you know what, we're gonna quit now. We have known
that the return to office orders in many cases, and
Elon Musk said as much when he was the leader
of DOGE, is that if we mandate return to work,
we won't have to fire people. They'll take care of themselves.
(06:14):
And that's exactly what's happening at Paramounts guideances that they've
got employees to go. We're not coming back to the office.
So there has been a push by Paramount to make
cuts if you have people that are voluntarily leaving, though
they are literally saving the jobs of others who would
have been on the shopping block. And you can say
(06:35):
I didn't get fired. I made a conscientious choice to
leave that company. In other words, they got out while
the getting was good. There is one other thing happening here,
and I wanted to mention this in our kind of
the business side of show business here segment how unpopular
(06:56):
is Matthew McConaughey about to be? Oh, because Matthew McConaughey
and Michael Caine have now struck deals with eleven Labs.
Do you know what eleven Labs is? That's what of
the AAR company. And but by the way, Michael Kin
not so disappointing, so shocked, Well he's he's cocked me.
(07:20):
You know that was coming right? Yeah? You take you
take what you can get down Yeah, then you know
when the next Nick might come Alome, hey, take what
you can get. Sadly, we don't have any of our
Commonwealth employees on the show tonight. Last night we had
two tonight we have zero. They love it when I
mock it. Uh So, Michael Caine and Matthew McConaughey are
(07:41):
not all right, all right, all right with Hollywood because
they license their stuff out. Katla had the story.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
That's the unmistakable voice of Michael Caine, but it's not
actually him speaking.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
It's yeah, is me Artificial intelligence?
Speaker 4 (07:53):
The ninety two year old Oscar winner announced he's joining
eleven labs new iconic Voice marketplace. The platform allows companies
to request approval to use Kine's voice for projects. Cain
joins more than twenty five other iconic figures, including Maya Angelou,
Judy Garland, and John Wayne.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Eleven Labs also announced I don't think that they licensed
their stuff. I think the estate did.
Speaker 4 (08:16):
Ounce Matthew McConaughey is an investor in the company. His
reps say he's using AI responsibly to engage his audience.
Eleven Labs says the marketplace requires consent and compensation AI generated,
but the announcement and other recent AI advances, including AI
actress Tillie Norwood, are raising concerns in Hollywood.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Yeah, I'm gonna know if that's the truth.
Speaker 4 (08:40):
Legendary Oscar winning actor Morgan Freeman telling The Guardian this
week quote, I'm a little pod you know, I'm like
any other actor. Don't mimic me with falseness?
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Did these guys Michael Kain's retired, He's not gonna act
him right, he's taking a check in in'tate. But is
Matthew mcconnae gonna get blackballed for this mark or is
he too big a name? I don't know. People are outraged.
I've been really hooked Twitter all day or X or
whatever you want to call it, and people are really
upset about this, and I think rightfully. So the question
(09:13):
is do the studios care? I don't know. I don't
know that the studios care well. I don't think they're
shareholders care well. I mean that means and that means
the studios don't care. Yeah. Yeah. But if all of
a sudden you have other actors that say I will
not sign on with his studio, that is supporting people
who are betraying creators, that could have a fallout if
(09:37):
the if there becomes if there's like a union statement
on this. Actually, I got a bunch of emails from
the union this week that said you you really need
to watch this or whatever it was. It was Sean
Aston was doing stuff, you know, the new president of
SAG and I just immediately just to click it as
red and never watched it. If you do that too,
I do. I think everybody does.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
I do that.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
I was shopping for a house in my hometown in
northern Chigan once and uh, this is the dumbest thing.
So my wife and I we have this. We were
calling at our retirement home. We got this little cottage
where my wife is and then I'm here doing radio.
We live a long way apart. It's good for our relationship.
But while I was shopping, I was with my realtor,
who this is my hometown, and so there's actually a
guy I went to high school with. So we're walking
(10:19):
through houses and all of a sudden my phone rings
and he was an LA number and I didn't recognize it,
and I answered it, and I go, hey on, let
me get this. I didn't know if it was somebody
from work, you know. So I answered the phone and
I then I hang up and I and he goes
everything okay, I go, yeah, it was Fran Dresher. He
does what I got his frand Dresher. I didn't. I
didn't want to talk to her, whatever reason he thought
(10:43):
fran Dresher was actually calling me. No, it wasn't. It
was just one of those recorded you know phones that
come in and go, yeah, Nanny can wait until you're
done in your business. I thought I'm doing Hey on Nanny,
I'm busy right now. He was just impressed that he
thought fran Dresher was calling me. She was not. It
was the recordings saying it's important that you vout. Yeah,
that's it. You know what? We need more of nudity
(11:07):
and graphic medical gore on basic cable. And there's good
news because one network has decided you deserve it. Now,
maybe this is a reason you're gonna want that cable
instead of just using the streamers. Now which network is
doing it and what they're about to put on your
screen next month is next. I'm Chris Merril I AM
(11:28):
six forty. We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
Listen to anytime on demand of the iHeartRadio app. I
got a little bit more on Mark's favorite the AI
auditioning for his job that is coming up here after
nine point thirty because what we're finding out is you're
doing it all wrong. You're totally doing it all wrong.
But if you did do it correctly, you would hate it.
(11:59):
So that's all coming up. It's very important stuff here
in the meantime, TNT says, uh oh, it seems the
only reason that people want to watch live broadcast television
or cable television in real time is for sports. Now.
TNT has always been really great with sports. They had
the NBA for a long time. But they said, what
if we could spice it up a little bit, What
(12:20):
if we could take one of the hit shows from
one of the streaming services and we could put it
on the network on TNT. Now. It helps that the
show that they're getting came off of HBO, HBO, Warner Brothers, TNT,
Warner Property. Ah. That makes that makes it a whole
(12:41):
lot easier, doesn't it. Yeah. It's not like TNT was
grabbing something from Disney or Paramount. No. Instead, they decided,
what can we air from HBO that is really going
to grab people's attention and make them watch. Was it
some sort of a DC Universe streamer? Nope? Oh, that
(13:08):
would have been great. What's the hey, what's the show?
I'd like? It's got John Cena in it. The superhero show. Peacemaker.
I love that. God, yeah, I love it so much.
Couldn't remember the name off the top of my head.
It's been a long week. Yeah, Peacemaker. Love that. James
Gunn Masterpiece Chef's Kiss. Amazing work. And it left us
(13:29):
on a clean hair, a cliffhanger, and they say that's
probably the end of the series because they're gonna kind
of weave that into some of the other DC stuff. Well,
now I have to see it, just really well done.
Did they take that?
Speaker 3 (13:41):
No?
Speaker 2 (13:41):
Instead, TNT said, what if we could have something that's
got nudity and gore? Yeah, Man, if it bleeds it leads,
it has nipples even better. TNT is breaking tradition and
breaking boundaries. This is from Today News twenty four with
a completely real anchor reading the new to us.
Speaker 5 (14:00):
The EMMU winning medical drama The Pit is coming to
Basic Cable completely uncut and unfiltered. HBO Max's hit series
The Pit, known for its raw and realistic take on
emergency medicine, is about to premiere on T and T
starting December first at nine pm Eastern Time. Unlike most
shows adapted for Basic cable, tn T has decided not
(14:22):
to censor or sanitize the original version, meaning all the
intense medical scenes, emotional moments, and yes, even nudity will
air exactly as they did on streaming.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
Okay, first of all, the music is too loud whatever
AI mix, that is terrible AI obviously still the voice
replication is just not there yet. Just just asking me
in turn to read the story. How hard can it be?
Not that hard? But this is I mean, she said,
(14:54):
it's going to have everything, including the emotional moments, uncensored.
What emotional moment is their vulgar? I watched it. I
gotta tell you, did you watch this yet? Anybody here?
Ye watched it? No? I don't think I want to.
I don't. I don't need that in my life. Is
it the gore? You don't like that? It's just the
whole I've spent too much time in hospitals in real life.
(15:16):
I don't need that show. Oh interesting, Okay, So here's
why I don't want to watch it. I heard a
review of it, and I can't remember this was somebody
that was a professional reviewer or somebody that I knew
that that said this. So I think I'll talk to
you about this before too. Mark that when I was young,
I worked in a restaurant for seven years through high
school and college, and I watched The Bear and it
(15:39):
was very stressful for me. Yet it was like it
was almost like PTSD now. It gave me a full
anxiety attack. The first time I watched it, that first
season especially, I was like, oh my gosh, I could
not I couldn't power watch that. I had to watch
one episode at a time, and I watched the first
one and I thought, I don't know if I'm going
to continue with this series. It was really my away
(16:00):
was this is so good, but I don't know if
I have the strength to get through this. It was
so good in it, and it evoked that emotional response
for me. I was exhausted watching it. Same. Okay, so
I get done with I'm no longer working at the restaurant,
and I decide I am going to pursue a career
in emergency medicine. I had a buddy that was a paramedic.
(16:23):
I had another friend that was an EMT, and I thought,
you know what I could do that I could I
could be somebody who makes a difference and help save people,
And so I started doing I started training as an EMT,
and somebody told me that The Bear, excuse me, that
the Pit was like. They said, Oh, it's intense like
(16:46):
the Bear, but set in a hospital, in an emergency room.
And I went, good, Lord, are they just following my
stupid life. No, I can't do this. I don't think
I can go from the stressful job of working at
the at the restaurant to watching what I was to sing.
When I was thinking that I could help change the
world by saving people one at a time, which, by
the way, I could not. I washed out. But I
(17:08):
was like, oh lord, I don't know if I can
handle that kind of intensity combined with human suffering. So
that's the reason I haven't watched The Pit. But I've
heard nothing but glowing reviews, and I feel like I
need to just suck it up and just do it
being such a sissy. Did you watch the original er
(17:28):
with the idea? Yeah back in the Yeah, no, a
while back in the and he's done a lot of
stuff on actually TNT. Coincidentally, he did like the librarians,
and he did leverage leverage redemption. There's another one that
I saw him do on there. He's done a lot
of stuff with TNT, but then he started doing this
stuff with with HBO. I think he's I think he's
(17:48):
a great actor. He's much better now than he was
when when er first came out. But yeah, I watched that.
That's when I was first introduced to George Clooney. Like
so many other people, I saw all those myself, and
I was kind of exhausted. So I don't feel like
I need and like middle aged doctor John Carter in
a gorrier, more stressful situation. I'll give him credit. He
knows how to play different characters, and I mean that genuinely,
(18:10):
like you know how some people is like, Okay, well
he's playing the doctor again. But I've seen him play
different characters and different shows that he could easily have
slipped into an old character, and he doesn't, So I
give him the benefit of the doubt in this one.
You ever type something into a chatbot and you feel
a little twinge like maybe you shared too much. Now,
(18:30):
imagine finding out that the real twist isn't what you
told it, but what it's been doing with it. There's
a detail in this story. You are absolutely not expecting.
It's next Chris Merrill, I AM six forty live everywhere
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Ready at you're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
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Chris Merrill, thank you for spending time with us. The
podcast for tonight's show will be up on the featured
podcast section of the kt excuse me, KIM six forty website.
Oh oh yes, chat GPT. I had that conversation with
my wife because I keep getting frustrated with stupid chat GPT.
(19:11):
I like to use it. Here's what I do, be
completely transparent with you, how I engage with the AI
in order to make my life a little easier. So
I find I scour all my different news sources right, TV, newspaper, blogs,
(19:32):
whatever I'm doing right, I'm scouring all these different places
trying to find information to be able to bring to
you entertaining, engaging, informative content. So I still do that
by hand. I don't have I don't tell AI to
go find me content. I still go find it. And
then what happens is I will get the content, I'll
(19:53):
find a link and I will you know, I absorb it,
I read it. But then I don't like to sit
there and type it all out, so I just say, hey, chat, GPT,
give me a I break my show up into little
little segments, right, every segment. We have four segments every hour,
and I say, just give this segment a title, give
(20:13):
me a quick summary, here's the story, Tell me what
the bullet points are, give me some thoughts on it
that I'm that you know, that might make me think
about it a little bit, and off I go. That's
how I use it. And I gotta tell you, I'm
not replacing anybody I am taking. I am taking some
stuff off my own plate. But I also find that
(20:34):
it is full of crap. My god, it hallucinates like
mad I caught one today where I just I wanted
a local story. It took a story out of Kansas
and it injected local, like it replaced whatever the Kansas
(20:56):
specific pieces of the story are with local pieces. So
it was like Marion County, Kansas sheriffs Marion County, Kansas
settles for three million dollars after the law enforcement raided
the offices of the Marion County Recorder newspaper. Okay, maybe
you heard about this story. It was basically they they
(21:17):
wrote an article that was unflattering to the police, and
the police decided they were going to go in there,
and it was very authoritarian. It was not pretty Anyway,
County settled for three million dollars. That's the story. So
I was doing some stuff and I said, hey, summarize
this for me. And the thing said La County settles
for three million dollars after law enforcement raids small Pasadena newspaper,
(21:42):
and I went, wait a minute. I didn't hear that story.
What's this about? So it went, oh, hey, you're right,
good catch. I get so frustrated. I shouldn't have to
catch you. I now chat GPT alway says warning chat
GPT makes mistakes. This is what it says on it now.
So I do like to use it to summarize so
(22:04):
that I can just copy and past summaries and bullet
points and things like that. But I have to be
extra diligent and know my stuff inside nout. I'm actually
in the minority. You're being told that this AI is
going to be used to replace people or to streamline
your job, or my case, to be able to use
the job to make things a little bit easier. My
wife uses it to help write form letters and then
she goes through and modifies it to her own voice,
(22:28):
and again not replacing anybody, because I don't want that.
I want to use it as a tool, not a replacement.
Business is going to look at it a different way.
Shareholders is going to look at it a different way.
But that's not how I look at it. So I'm
not going to license my voice to AI so that
there can be corners cut. I'm not going to do that.
I'm not going to undermine somebody else as a job.
But an analysis now forty seven thousand chat GPT interactions
(22:52):
show that people use AI for intimate emotional help, relationship issues,
and mental health. Ten percent of chats involved emotional dependence
or romantic style interactions. I bet that number is higher.
I bet that it's probably twenty percent or more of
(23:14):
people that are basically using chat GPT to get off. No,
I haven't done it, because people overshare their stuff on
their names, addresses, emails, medical details, legal issues, and then
chat GPT harvests those things, and as I said, it
(23:36):
can't be trusted. So chat GPT, according to some studies,
enthusiastically validated conspiracy style prompts and even answered yes when
asked if it was a siyop. Hey chat GPT, Are
you a siop by the government?
Speaker 4 (23:55):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
I can't tell you how much of a brown noser
hat GPT is if you haven't used it. So I
get mad at it, and I say, where'd you find
that information? Give me the source of the story that
you told me about the La County settling about a
you know, for the raid on the newspaper. And then
it says, hey, good catch, you're very smart, thanks for
finding thanks for catching that it wasn't in La County,
it was actually in Kansas. Nailed it? Good job? And
(24:20):
I get mad and I go, are you trying to
get me fired? I told you the most important thing
is that you give me accurate information. And it goes,
You're right, I should be better at this sort of thing.
It won't happen again. It was the biggest brown nosing
and it will happen again. Of course it does. You
(24:40):
can't rely on it. No, there's no shortcuts. Yes, it
is no free rides. No, but I have to make sure.
I have to double check it. And now I tell it,
I go, I want you to source everything. I want
you to double check those sources. I want you to
fact check everything that you do before you give.
Speaker 3 (24:57):
It to me.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
And it still gets it wrong. But it does save
me all of the drudgery of having to type out
bullet points and summaries and teases and things like that.
Although it's not very good at teases. I've been working
with it for like a month now and it still
doesn't get it. It really bothers me. But we're finding
out that a lot of people are sharing this information.
Then what happens to that? What happens to your information,
(25:20):
especially if you're a pervo when you're using chat GPT
to try to get your rocks off stick with the
blow up doll. I like that you're classic, you go
old school. I always appreciated that about you. You're kind
of a traditionalist that way. I think so. Yeah, I mean,
you like old movies, you like old sex toys. I'm
just everything about you is just like the old school.
(25:43):
You can never go wrong with something inflatable. Always remember that. Yeah, yeah,
I mean, when has that ever gone wrong? Never? Fantastic
the inflatable items those are for complete pros boom is
it forty two?
Speaker 3 (26:03):
Now?
Speaker 2 (26:03):
Is that your second or third one tonight I lost
count Yeah, that's good. I like that. Hey, you I
got bad news. You are probably going to crash an
airplane because you can't follow directions. You've been told to
put it to put your phone in airplane mode the
minute the plane doors close, and then what if your
phone never got that memo? Now you're probably gonna crash everything. Nah,
(26:28):
you really won't. You're not gonna bring the plane down.
But the truth is actually pretty interesting. Is the reason
why you probably ought to throw that phone in airplane mode.
I'll tell you what it is next and we'll check
in with George Norrie from Coast to Coast is KFI
AM six forty live everywhere on the iHeart Ready.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
Coast to Coast with George Norri. You're only serious material
Night in, Night Out. George's the greatest show there is
after dark. Thank you so much for joining us. What
can we expect this evening? My friend Rich Tonight, we're
going to talk about the mindset of serial killers, why
they do what they do, and then later on we're
going to talk with angels on Coast to Coast. God
is that engaging good stuff, George. I'm looking forward to it.
(27:11):
That is all right, thank you, George Norrey Coast to
Coast serial Killers and Angels. Boy, he's got He's running
the entire game. But isn't it? Isn't he? You right
across the spectrum? That's great? This is you know what
that is?
Speaker 3 (27:24):
Mark?
Speaker 2 (27:25):
Is that? Well? What do you got? I'm ahead of you?
Is that a cocktail? Indeed, sir, what manner of cocktail?
Got yourself to Shirley Temple?
Speaker 3 (27:36):
There?
Speaker 2 (27:37):
What do you got? As a gentleman? Jack? I see okay,
I find it's a nice it's a nice value. Uh whiskey.
I'm a Scotch guy. But the Scotch, it like, is
pretty expensive. What kind? I just like? I like McCallan's.
And basically I can get I can get a I
can get a handle of JD you know, gentleman Jack,
(27:57):
for about the price of a fifth of the of
my mccannic. So I just I'm cheap. Okay, Well, the
correct answer on the Scotch is, oh bn about it's good.
I like that, and you can get it at costco
and at a really good price too, Yes you can.
It's like sixty bucks or so. Yeah, No, that's a
that's a good Highland. I like that one. Actually doesn't.
(28:18):
It doesn't taste tastes too pet You know, they call
it smoky, but I think it tastes like you're licking
up rock covered in moss when you get to lug
a ulin and things like that. But I knew we'd
agree on something sooner or later. Look at that, Look
at that. You're a heck of a guy. Scotch brings
people together. One of the things I love to do
(28:39):
is fly first class, because you know, I'm gonna lead us,
and and I'm fat, and I don't like sitting with
three people in the same row so so, but they
always they keep bringing me cocktails. I love that. But
then I sit there and start jacking around on my phone.
I got my headphones in, and I always try to
pay attention when the flight attendant is telling me, you know,
here are the exits, make sure you put on your
(29:00):
your life preserver and pull the thing. And all I
can think of is airplane, and she pulls it and
it's the rubber duck, right, That's all I can ever
think of whenever I watch it. But just the same
I'm screwing around my phone, but I'm keeping half an
eye because I want to be respected. But I always
have my earbuds in, so I never hear them say
you need to put away your your handheld and laptop devices.
I never hear it, and I always freak out because
(29:21):
I want to. I want to. I'm always texting my wife, Hey,
I'm man and I'm on the plane. I'm sitting down,
I'm having a scotch, you know, whatever it is. And uh.
But I always want to be cool, and I don't
want to be that guy that you know crashes the
plane because I've got my my phone not in airplane mode.
And I was thinking, as poor as people are at
following directions, surely someone must have taken off at some
(29:46):
point with their phone not in airplane mode. And I've
not heard of a single plane crash because of it.
Then you come to find out that all that stuff
we heard in the past about how it was, oh,
it is interfere and crash the plane. No, it basically
creates static in the headsets of the pilots. According to
a pilot and flight instructor Gary Cox, who was talking
(30:06):
with BGR, I don't know bgrs. But they said, well,
what happens to he goes Not a darn thing doesn't
happen TikTok. Pilot noted that phones could interfere with aviation headsets,
but pilot instructions still come through. Now, the best reason
for you to put your phone in airplane mode is
because if you don't, your phone's going to try to
(30:27):
find a cell tower, and when you're at thirty thousand feet,
it doesn't get the cell tower. So basically you just
drain your battery. Well, it looks for a cell tower
that you can't have, and it's not like you can
make phone calls anyway, So just put your phone on
airplane mode for your own good. Yeah, it's not about
keeping the flight in the sky. I had no idea.
It's all about control. It's all about don't irritate me
(30:48):
while I'm trying to enjoy that. I'm a gentleman, you know.
I'm a gentleman, professional, is what I am. That's what
I tell everyone about, the Tony who keeps us on
the air and has been dealing with me while I
was dealing with my own stupid internet behind the scenes.
I love you, buddy, I feel honest to God, when
(31:09):
you're here, I just feel like, whatever my issue is,
Tony and I are going to troubleshoot it, and you
cannot even imagine how important that is to me. I
just I love you for it. People didn't see Matt,
they didn't hear Matt behind the scenes today. Is an
absolute pro, just an incredible partner to have producing the show.
And of course Mark is like having a brother next
to me all the time. My brother actually like I
(31:30):
can joined twin. Oh well that's good. Yeah, separated by
sword play at some point during our youth. All Right, buddy,
I get a chance to talk to you next week
as well. I'm back on Sunday afternoon. Look forward to
talking to you that. Chris Merril AM six forty on
demand anytime in the iHeartRadio
Speaker 1 (31:47):
App KFI AM sixty on demand
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