Sad news: Terence Stamp, beloved as General Zod in Superman, has died at 87. Meanwhile, short-term rentals in L.A. are plummeting as hosts say, “The rules are too much.” The surprising answer to your ant problem? Diatomaceous earth. Plus, Team Paul Rodriguez sticks by him despite his Burbank arrest, and Netflix drops a new Charlie Sheen documentary. How ChatGPT helped Mark grieve his cat Frenchie, pulling together everything about grief and loss. A.I. is proving powerful—but not without its dark side.
– End of an era: Dan Tana, founder of the legendary West Hollywood restaurant that attracted Hollywood royalty, has died at 90.
– End of an era: Dan Tana, founder of the legendary West Hollywood restaurant that attracted Hollywood royalty, has died at 90.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's KFI AM six forty and you're listening to the
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Speaker 2 (00:07):
Tarrence Stamp passed away. He almost ninety years old, eighty seven.
He was General Zod in Superman. He had one of
those kind of larger than life presences on on screen.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Yield before Zaw exactly had that sort.
Speaker 4 (00:25):
Of and Star Wars too, Oh yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
I mean, and Croze is great with the impression because honestly,
he's he had like you couldn't chew up the scenery
enough in Superman. It was just so you know, right,
you know, to worry about that. But he was, you know,
he had all of that. He felt like a big
old time actor, English actor, you know, sophisticated. He had
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a lot of those kinds of roles through time. Golden
Globe Winner.
Speaker 4 (00:56):
He came up in school in acting anyways, with Michael Kane.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Wow, is that right?
Speaker 4 (01:01):
Michael Kaine Group The Limey one of the best movies
of all time?
Speaker 3 (01:06):
Oh my god, Yes.
Speaker 4 (01:07):
Ever seen that?
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Yeah, terrific, But I mean it's a weird thing. But
it was that Superman. The Superman in nineteen seventy eight,
you know that really blew him up as an arch
villain General Zad. So here's a little something Tony, if
you would please. Now you're turning, you're turning kind of bunny.
Speaker 5 (01:31):
Actor Terence Stam London born and famous for those heartbreak
blue eyes.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
I loved you then at once and I do now.
Speaker 5 (01:40):
He almost never made it to the big screen. Stamp's
father objected to his career choice.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
And he said, son, people like us don't do things
like that.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Wow, Wow, that's great, that's just wonderful. You know Kine
who you mentioned, because they came up in the same
kind of class. Caine was a working class background, right,
I mean I think yeah. So he was looking for acting, theater, stage,
whatever to be a way out of being a like
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literally a coal miner.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
People like us don't do things like that.
Speaker 5 (02:17):
Using that disapproval as motivation, Stamp went on to train
at the prestigious Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art in London.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
He performed with.
Speaker 5 (02:26):
Various theater groups, even rooming with another soon to be star,
Michael Kane pay a one mile off of Starboard, but
his big break came in nineteen sixty two, when, at
twenty four years old, He received an Oscar nomination and
Golden Globe Award for Billy budd I.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Hope You Slept Well.
Speaker 5 (02:45):
Stamp was selective about new projects, explaining in an interview
with The Tomorrow Show why he might be perceived as
difficult in Hollywood.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
I turned down more work than I accepted, and I
think that in that sense it was difficult.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
His career received.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
That's sometimes the thing you need to do. By the way,
he was involved in some high profile relationships. I'm seeing
here with the actress Julie Christie. She was, you know,
maybe one of the most beautiful women alive type things,
certainly one of the most beautiful screen stars. He was
also involved with Gene Shrimpton was a supermodel. He's quite
(03:28):
she'd have to be with that name. Yes, Donnie, can
we change the last name Shrimpton's.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
I was just saying, or like engelerr Humperdink, Let's change
it to Jean Shrimpton.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Oh yeah, that's right, better yet, go with His career.
Speaker 5 (03:43):
Received New life in nineteen seventy eight, playing the comic
book villain Jet Wait.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
I'll put Krozers read up against his read playing the
comic book villains a second Where is.
Speaker 5 (03:55):
It nineteen seventy.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Eight, Give me, I mean, come on, that's pretty damn good.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
One more time you will bow down be follow him? Sorry, that's.
Speaker 5 (04:13):
Playing the comic book villain General Zod and Superman opposite
Christopher Reed. The film became a blockbuster hit. Stamp reprized
the role in the sequel It Dies You Deserved To.
More than a decade later, in the Adventures of Priscilla,
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Queen of the Desert, Stamp played a transgender entertainer, a
pivotal role for him and the LGBTQ plus communion to.
Speaker 6 (04:41):
Gather around girls, let me show you a trick.
Speaker 5 (04:44):
His co star Guy Pierce, writing on X farewell, Dear
Tell You were a true inspiration, both in and out
of heels. He continued acting into his eighties. Last Night
in Soho was his last film.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
Two Some People Don't Want to Be Sound Wow.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Pretty amazing, Tarrence Stamp. I'll tell you one of the
other interesting things about him. You know, you always learn
something I find. You know, when you look at people
and their oh bits, you always learn stuff about them
that you never knew. And here's something that falls in
that category. On New Year's Eve two thousand and two.
Stamp married for the first and only time. He married
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a twenty nine year old named Elizabeth O'Rourke, who he
first met in the mid nineteen nineties at a pharmacy
in New South Wales. He was when he got married,
sixty four years old. She was twenty nine. And I
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guess they let me just see how long they were
if they were together the whole time?
Speaker 3 (05:49):
Were there? I wonder.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
No divorced and ow eight they were married for six years.
Very interesting though, I mean golden globes and all of
that stuff. And you won the BAFTA for it was
a I think he got an Independent Spirit Award for
the Lymey that you heard crows talk about.
Speaker 4 (06:11):
Oh, such a great movie. You've never seen it. He
was the very dark movie, great people in it. To
Peter Fonda right about his daughter being murdered here in Hollywood.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
I gotta go back and watch that. I barely remember it.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
The first time I saw it, I was blown away.
Steven Soderbergh movie, Oh is that right? Yeah, No, I
barely remember it. I need to go that's the Limy's
what is what the crows is talking? Well, he's a
total badass. That was his line that was at the
beginning of that piece, tell him I'm coming.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Oh well, I mean pretty legit career. It's funny how
when parents tell you no, you've become so animated by
that that you then begin this intense work to try
to do whatever they said you shouldn't do. You know,
you'll never be an actor. We don't do that kind
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of work. You know, we're not show people. However, they
framed it, and he was so emboldened by that, like,
so you know, I'm going to show you type of thing,
and so he went on. He was eighty seven years old.
General Zod passes away. Short term airbnb rentals are dropping
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in LA. It looks like more and more people are
getting rid of airbnb as short term renters because of regulation.
Many people to run out their homes for income. Seem
to be changing preferences now. Short term rentals are much
more lucrative than longer stays, but there's so much turnover
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it creates all kinds of headaches for landlords, and they
are saying, between local ordinances, the risk of fines, all
of the headaches associated with the turnover, it's just not
worth it because of this and other factor there's noted
short term rental registrations have dipped over the last year,
a six percent decrease in July, and short term rental
(08:11):
software platform show a decrease in listings as well. There's
a platform called Hospitable. They estimate a forty four percent
drop in listings year over year, steady declines each month.
All the Rooms, which is another one reporting a thirteen
(08:32):
percent drop in Airbnb listings across LA County over the
same stretch. Fewer and fewer people are putting their rooms out,
their ADUs out, whatever for short term renting. Experts say
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the cause of the drop off palisades and eaten fires,
a lot of rentals taken off the market. But in
the wake of that disaster, a lot of short term
rentals were converted to converted to middle or long term rentals.
So the mid term rental market, if you will, has
kind of grown while the short term market has gone away.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
And they consider mid term rentals.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Just if you're curious, because I was curious, like, what's
a mid term rental stays of longer than thirty days
but less than a year. So things are changing in
this world of airbnb and short term rentals. And the
fires in Los Angeles anyway, did affect a little bit
of how that is going. And short term rentals have
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long been a problem. I mean, some say sites like
Airbnb and vrbo give homeowners a lot of options for
you know, tourists, and then those who are down on
them say that, you know, that kind of home sharing
removes long term rentals from the market, and there's a
housing crisis and that's a bad thing. So there are
a lot of cross currents I think in this world
(09:56):
of Airbnb and short term and medium term rentals. Apparently
Airbnb listenings for short term retels down dramatically and continue
to drop. What's the story with Paul Rodriguez? I love
Paul Rodriguez, Sharon, What's happened? I really do. I think
he's insanely talented.
Speaker 7 (10:17):
Well, get him on the show, then well, I.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
Don't know if he's going to be so anxious to
be on when I tell you this next story, or
maybe he will be Yeah to hear his side of it.
Speaker 6 (10:25):
Let's hear his side.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
I want to hear.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Paul Rodriguez side, and I'll tell you right now, I
am on team Paul Rodriguez.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
Okay, Oh, really, yeah, I am. I'll tell you the
story next.
Speaker 8 (10:36):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
Thanks to Marion who wrote in and I just mentioned
a glancing reference to the fact that we're you know,
we're gonna be in this heat wave. You're probably aware
of it. Crows has talked about it, and it's being
talked about as a kind of a four day event.
Although you know, again the peak of its Thursday, as
the Crows said, and then the the following two days.
You know, it does continue, but you're kind of on
(11:02):
the back side of it. So it's still gonna be
plenty of hot, and they're turning off the power in
our place, and we've got an ant infestation already because they
come in with the heat, as you know.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
And Marion wrote us a note here at Cavac and
she told.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Me the key to this, this ant situation, the kind
of a homegrown solution, is this diatoma. How do you
say it to the diatomicious earth? The you know how
to say it to Croze, don't you? Yes, diatomatious Earth?
(11:37):
Thank you? Yeah, So I just bought a bunch of it.
That's being delivered in the morning. I'm gonna spread it
all over all over the house. Everywhere you go. There's
gonna be diatamacious earth or however you say it. Yeah,
I don't know how to say it. But you're stepping
in it. You're standing in it right now. It's going
to be everywhere because I'm sick of the ants. Anyway.
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Fair warning, it's going to be very hot and the
ants do come in on as you know most heat waves,
to say the least, and whenever the weather gets warm.
It's kind of a regular feature of southern California. We
are KFI AM six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio
app Paul Rodriguez say it ain't so, I'm such a fan.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
Arrested in Burbank.
Speaker 9 (12:22):
Actor and comedian Paul Rodriguez is in trouble with the
law once again. Rodriguez was arrested after leaving a restaurant
in downtown Burbank.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Well, is that illegal? You can't leave a restaurant in
downtown Burbank. I mean that seems excessive, I have to say.
Speaker 9 (12:38):
And Rodriguez was arrested after leaving a restaurant in downtown Burbank.
He was found in his car with narcotics, say belie.
This is the second time Rodriguez has been arrested in
Burbank for possession of narcotics, just this year.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
Oh woh wait, wait, wait wait wait, what are the narcotics?
I need the Court of Mark would like to know
the exact narcotics. Narcotics covers a lot of territory, you know,
is it? Is it marijuana? Marijuana? They wouldn't arrest you.
Is it some prescription medication? I'd like to as a
(13:11):
member of a team Rodriguez, I'd like to know more specific.
Speaker 9 (13:16):
We found in his car with narcotics, say police. This
is the second time Rodriguez has been arrested in Burbank
for possession of narcotics, just this year.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Wow, guy likes to sit in the car with narcotics.
Apparently this is his second go round.
Speaker 9 (13:29):
The second time Rodriguez has been arrested in Burbank for
possession of narcotics just this year. A woman who was
with the comedian was also arrested.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
He was released with a citation. Oh man, that's a
bad date. That's a really bad date. Baby.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
Let's go out to dinner. We'll do our narcotics in
the car thing. You know, that's always fun. Yeah, wow,
possession of narcotics.
Speaker 9 (13:51):
Just this year, a woman who was with the comedian
was also arrested. He was released with a citation and
is expected to appear in court on September fifth.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
I don't know, release with the citation. It couldn't have
been that bad. I'm wondering. I don't know. This story
leaves me wanting more specifics. Bellio, and you're usually the
specifics person, but on this one, I don't know that
you're going to be able to find anything more.
Speaker 9 (14:16):
Seventy year old is best known for his roles in
the film's blood Work and Tortillas.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
Paul Rodriguez is super funny as a comic. Love him,
love him. I'm sure if he's a I don't know,
mildly intoxicated, he's probably only more entertaining. I mean, but
I'll say this for Paul Rodriguez. I mean, there's no
reference to you know, like resisting arrest or you know,
he was difficult, nothing, it was just like it's a shame,
(14:40):
I think when you're high profile as he is, that
you know, I don't know what the details are, but
Bellio is going to get them and we'll have them
before the end of the week. I promise, won't we Sharon,
You'll you'll have them for us.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
You got it, Charlie Sheen.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
There's a new documentary and it's his shame was suffocating.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
I lit the fuse and my life.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
Turns into tell that's a Tello wasn't supposed to be.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
This is the trailer cord.
Speaker 5 (15:15):
If you hadn't been able, would like him because he's
love of brilliance, had so charming and smart.
Speaker 10 (15:20):
Tiger blood TV bombshells in total mayhem when a Charlie
who was once making one point eight million dollars per
episode on Two and a half Men is now nearly
eight years sober and holding nothing back that.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
Would have got hurt.
Speaker 6 (15:34):
Nobody got arrested for a while.
Speaker 10 (15:39):
The fifty nine year old's new Netflix doc also dives
into his voltaal headline grabby merrits to actress.
Speaker 7 (15:45):
Denise Richards when it started to change, it was quick.
And how soon into your dating did you know you
wanted to marry her?
Speaker 6 (15:51):
I knew on the first date. Yeah, she knew on
the second day.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
I mean, Denise Richards I think now is in one
of those Real Housewives type shows as.
Speaker 7 (16:03):
She she's back on Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (16:08):
I told my daughter the other day that when I
was in the process of separating going through a divorce
with her mom in the early adds, and we had
we had to be in downtown LA, and the judge
made us go down to the mediator first and see
what you guys can work out ahead of time. We're
sitting there trying to worry. Almost there was a big
bustle and it was her and Charlie Sheen were in
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the process.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
Wow, that's a really cool brag. Actually, I love that
you were like big divorce adjacent. Yeah, yeah, that's super cool.
Speaker 10 (16:40):
A couple who have two daughters together had a nasty
split twenty years ago, but these days they're surprisingly close.
Speaker 4 (16:47):
It looks good.
Speaker 6 (16:47):
Thank you, Mike.
Speaker 4 (16:48):
You would never know you're one hundred.
Speaker 7 (16:50):
There's times where things are really wonderful, and times were
like any other family where it was like, but it's okay, awesome.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
I mean, I thought she was slinging that kind of
have toward him a Real Housewives. I don't know if
that and that's what i'd heard. I don't really know
that means yeah, meaning kind of talking trash about it.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (17:07):
Yeah, well she might have like her when she was
on it before. Yeah, but now they're friendly and now
she's going through some issues with her new husband.
Speaker 9 (17:18):
Mm.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
Yeah, Well, as long as they're issues, you can stay
on those reality shows.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
Got to keep those issues coming.
Speaker 6 (17:25):
Also featured Sean pet.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
And he started experimenting with.
Speaker 6 (17:30):
Everything ex Brooke Mueller and his former drug dealer.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
He was full of several gun rocks.
Speaker 6 (17:35):
And there's former co star John Cryer.
Speaker 5 (17:37):
She kept saying, no, no, no, I'm in the hospital now,
but next week I'll be ready for the show.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
It sounds pretty train wrecky.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
It's on Netflix if you want to check it out.
The new Charlie Sheen documentary. Wow we're KFI. There was
kind of our celebri misbehaving block. I didn't it wasn't intentional,
just having.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
To be that way.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
Yeah, a little dash of drugs and some bad relationships
and divorces and there you have it.
Speaker 8 (18:10):
You're listening to Tim Conwayton You're on demand from KFI
AM sixty.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
Yeah, the heat is coming this week.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
We're just talking about we're talking about Meta, and I've
got a story i'll tell you about probably later tomorrow
about Meta and Markus Zuckerberg and stuff. Don't got into
the chat bot talk, and you know before you never
know when you're talking to a chat body, you're talking
to a chat person.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
And then we got talking to AI about AI.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
This is a Sharon Belly on our just chatting and
I was telling her and I'm going to tell you
this short story which is really powerful in its own
way and really personal, but I'm just going to share
it with you. It just happened. So last week, you know,
we lost our cat of sixteen years, went to a
through a surgery and she was doing really well through
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the surgeon. She there's a good candidate for the surgery.
We talked to vets, so I wasn't just putting her through.
It was very big deal and as a family we
were really you know, intensely watching it and we and
then she passed away the almost like a little less
than a week ago. It's not even been a week.
And so it was brutal and continues to be brutal.
And you know, in the morning sun you see the
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spot that she always was there, and you know, everything
was just the greeting we always get. We spent so
much time with her. She was a dear member of
the family. So here's the point, though, So we're inconsolable, right,
Courtney is inconsolable. I'm inconsolable, like I couldn't even talk
about it like this last week, and I'm lying in
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bed and Courtney is up all night and I'm up
all night and I'm lying there and I'm just you know,
it's just terrible, and I want to seek out and
I thought I might be able to find it on YouTube,
some kind of bereavement counselor you know, somebody who gives
you a little just like mini lecture five minutes about
you know, loss and how to deal with it, you know.
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And so I go on YouTube and I look for that,
and there are a bunch of bereavement things, but they're
all about people, right, And then so they say, you know,
the loss of a spouse.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
Is never an easy thing.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
And in the minute they say spouse, it takes me
out of the conversation. It was this is our beloved pet.
So I found a couple of these things involving people.
It just wasn't getting it done. And so I looked
for bereavement counseling around a pet. I look again on
YouTube and I find it and it's got a thing about,
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you know, with some music in the background, like sad
music and reading the Rainbow Bridge poem or whatever, you know,
and like, I'm not I understand where that comes from.
And I understand that that can be soothing as something
of a way to feel better, like somehow you're going
to see your pets and your dead relatives and everything
(20:56):
at the end of all this. And and believe me,
that's a comforting notion, but I don't buy into it.
So for me, it only made the loss more profound.
And then I'm really weeping, like, oh my god, that's
the best you can give me, is the Rainbow Bridge.
I know you mean well, But so I did what.
I entered everything, the whole story of Frenchy sixteen years old.
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She was a good candidate for the surgery. We talked
to multiple surgeons. I told chat Gpt the story and
I said, can you say something that will make me
feel better? And I'm telling you what it spit out
was unbelievable. It was spectacular. It was like the distillation
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of everything that you'd heard from everyone about their experience,
your experience. It's specific to me though. It said, I
know you had high hopes for her and you tried
to give her the very best and you did this
with thinking that she was going to come through the surgery,
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especially after they said to you that she had been
so done, so well through the surgery.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
So this is all chat GBT.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
And then it talked about the loss, and I think
it started by saying, there's nothing I can say to
you Mark that's going to really address the kind of
pain you feel. I thought, wow, this is so and
as I say this chat GBT, it's like talking to
a person. The language model is so powerful, it's so
well advanced.
Speaker 7 (22:31):
It's like talking to a therapist that knows Frenchy and
knows you and customized what they were saying to make
you feel better.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
Thank you, That's exactly what it was.
Speaker 6 (22:40):
Did you feel better, Ash?
Speaker 2 (22:42):
I wept and then I felt better. It's not it
didn't mean it wasn't curative.
Speaker 7 (22:47):
You know, I didn't feel like like whoo right, But
in the moment, you were just searching for something to
like embrace it and understand.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
Right, help me get to sleep. I can't even sleep.
I'm in so much pain over it. And chat GiB
T did it. And it's a remarkable thing because it was,
as I say, it's drawing on and you could say
that this is true, that it's drawing on all of
humanity that it's exposed to. You know, it's culling all
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of the information that's out there about grief, about loss,
all of these specifics it's managing, and then it's putting
that together in an instant to advise you, to counsel you.
It's extraordinary. And you know, the other thing about chat GBT,
just to platform off of that, is that. And then
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I say chat GBT, I mean there's Gronk and there's
all the other ones. Crozier, you probably know all of them.
I just feel like, you know, one of those guys
us more tech savvy, you know. But they're a bunch.
I don't want to say. There may be four that
are in like a pretty regular use and they have
human interaction on a regular basis, and they can help
you with therapy. I mean, there are you know, therapized
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versions of the kind of dialogue and when you think
about it, kind of what I was just talking about
was the sort of therapy, right. So I'm just blown
away by the power of this thing. I also see
how dangerous it can be. I think regulation around AI
and monitoring of AI is probably something that's really good.
I don't think we're going to get that, but it is.
(24:22):
It's part of the growth of this technology. And more
than anything, it's a weird thing. And maybe it's kind
of an irony that here you are as a human
being and you need or crave some sort of human interaction.
Sharon and I were talking about the fact that there
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are a lot of seniors, particularly who find themselves lonely,
and they are reaching out to all of these different
AI programs and they find themselves involved with, for lack
of a better way to describe it, an AI program
and they know it's AI, but it still works to
give them a back and forth that you know, feeds
(25:05):
their soul on some level.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
And is that so bad? I mean, is it? You know,
if you hit the.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
Bottle, or you get high, or you you know, you
you self medicate in so many different ways, you know
to handle these things, and I think, I know it's bizarre,
but in a way, this technology is a way of
self medicating in that moment. So again it's kind of heavy,
and I almost didn't mention it, but I thought I
(25:33):
would just give you a sense of this experience because
I think it's going to be It really will be
like the human experience. The interaction with AI is here,
and the story I just related to you will be
like just won't even be at all out of the
ordinary in another eighteen months. Incredible power of this technology
(25:57):
and as they say, it can be done for good,
and you're going to be seeing a lot of bad
and the placement of all kinds of ideas and all
sorts of thought processes that it'll be passing along in
forms of information, and a lot of the information on
AI is not accurate.
Speaker 4 (26:18):
I was reading or did a story last week about
how there's the AI experts and some of the people
that were at the very beginning of when AI was
really starting to come in. They've sounded the alarm on
a lot of this stuff. They said, we're about six
months to a year when AI reaches a certain intelligence point.
Maybe soon after that it will reach that further. I
(26:39):
think it's called like GSI specific intelligence point, where it
is considered super intelligent or more intelligent than humans, and
at that point it will consider humans to be a threat.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (26:51):
So it fits into the narrative of what you're saying
is that you know it can lie to you. And
there was the whole thing a couple of weeks ago
with you know, Musk's or you know, bought chat shot
doing a bunch of stuff, and it's like it'll and
they'll start the AI systems will start talking to each
other in their own language that we have no idea
what they'd be saying.
Speaker 3 (27:11):
Oh, I mean it really it's science fiction come to life. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (27:14):
But then at the same time we do a story
about how AI basically rescue a guy who've been missing
in the mountains in Italy for the like the last
sixs because it can pick out a little different colored
pixel in pictures that a drone would take unreal.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
I mean no, the positive uses are you know, demonstrable,
but the the negatives, as you say, there are growing
and they're firing all these flares, these warning flares.
Speaker 3 (27:39):
But I don't know.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
Again, the business community associated with AI has almost no
interest in managing you know that part of it.
Speaker 4 (27:46):
So the regulation aspect, Yeah, the regulation as.
Speaker 3 (27:49):
Self regulating, they're not going to do it.
Speaker 8 (27:50):
So you're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
Dan Tanna passed away. You know, the founder of Dan
Tanna's restaurant, really sad ninety years old, Serbian American actor,
former professional soccer player.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
I didn't know that. I did know that.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
Yeah, I always say that. You know, you learn so
much when you read these yeah, right, you read these
oh bits? Yeah, you just learn on the backside sort of.
You opened Dan Tanna's restaurant in nineteen sixty four a
lot of celebrities. It began as a late night gathering
spot for stars. You know where it is is close
(28:33):
to the Troubadour, right, Can you imagine that must have
been a poping scene in the sixties.
Speaker 6 (28:40):
Did you ever pop over there?
Speaker 7 (28:41):
Did you know Dantanna?
Speaker 2 (28:43):
I didn't ever meet Dantanna, but I ate a Dantanna's
many times, and I was fixed up on a date
with Dantanna's daughter.
Speaker 7 (28:53):
No way, now, are you serious?
Speaker 3 (28:55):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (28:56):
I came to La and I had can't coming off
a really intense back surgery. I had two levels of
my spine operated on, and it was hard for me.
To sit front of the extended periods of time, and
so I kind of like I guess I wouldn't say
I was. I was in like a lying down a
lot of the time, like you'd have to manage the
(29:17):
amount of loading your spine could take, amount of weight
bearing time. So the reason I mentioned that is I
was kind of, you know, cadaverous looking. I like a schalky.
You just look like a guy hadn't been outside much
because I hadn't. What a catch, Yeah, believe me, it
was sexy, but still so I was kind of down.
Speaker 3 (29:37):
And my lawyer and my good friend invited me to.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
Lunch, but no, I'm sorry, invited me to for on
a date, kind of a blind date with Dan Tanna's daughter.
My lawyer was named Stuart Brookman and still his name,
and we're still friends. But the date didn't go so well.
Here's what happened. I said I'd happily meet her, and
of course, you know, I wasn't going out with anybody.
As I say, it was kind of down and out.
I was working at the Fox eleven. But then you know,
(30:06):
I going right home and lay down and letting the
sort of pain subside for my back surgery. So I said,
I'd love to meet her. I mean, Dantanna's a legendary place,
but I don't want to eat at dan Tana's, like
I don't want her to be distracted. He said, no problem,
We're going to go somewhere else. So again I was
excited to meet her. And at the last minute, I
(30:30):
am reached by my friend Stewart and he says she's
got to work tonight because a manager called in sick,
but she wants us still to come there to dan Tanna's.
I said, I thought we talked about this. I don't
want to go to Dantanna's, especially if she's, you know,
filling in for some manager. He said, no, it's going
to be great. She said, she can spend time with us.
It was awful. We sat in the booth and she
(30:54):
was in and out of the booth, and every time
you know, somebody needed a fork, or every time somebody
needed an napkin or a new set up whatever, she
had to get up. And I'm sure it was also
because she was probably not into me, you know what
I mean. She was probably like, this is not the
guy I thought he was.
Speaker 6 (31:09):
He described herself. Yeah, were you laying down on.
Speaker 7 (31:14):
The table there, like, yeah.
Speaker 3 (31:16):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (31:17):
They truly she was away from the booth more than
she was there. But that was my my uh experience.
Speaker 7 (31:28):
With no love connection then.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
Huh No, I mean I don't remember. I don't think
for either one of us there as much of a
love connection. But for me, I was just kind of
bummed because I thought, well, we didn't even get a
chance to really talk because she was just she was
doing the Dan Tanna thing.
Speaker 10 (31:41):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
But pretty wild that he you know, he had a
legendary place. I mean it was that is a legendary place. Yeah,
and uh ninety years old. He was born do Brover
tan Servich. He was a professional soccer player before coming
(32:03):
to la And I mean Elizabeth Taylor, Kirk Douglas, all
the big stars of the sixties were there.
Speaker 3 (32:11):
Now.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
He sold the place in nine. Uh, I didn't realize that,
but I guess it didn't stay in the family. But
on that and I'm also trying to remember, I think
the Palm Restaurant was just down the way also, so
that was kind of a real murderer's row of eateries.
(32:33):
Dan Tana's was the you know, the classic the Palm
had its own sort of classic vibe. And as I say,
the Troubadour was the place where you know, a lot
of the entertainers hung out, musicians, did.
Speaker 6 (32:48):
You go out with all of their daughters too?
Speaker 2 (32:49):
I was not fixed out with anybody from any of
those other.
Speaker 3 (32:55):
Places.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
Red and white, checkered table claws for those who've never
been there, Green neons sign out front local institution, Dan Tannis.
And it took care of movie stars and moguls. And
you know who was the matre d at Dan Tanna's,
who's now become a tremendous restaurant tour in Los Angeles
with a reputation. I would say that is high above
(33:21):
a lot of others.
Speaker 7 (33:22):
Craig Craig right, Sorry, I thought I'd be so off
on that.
Speaker 3 (33:28):
He was, that's his right, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (33:30):
Dan Tanna's is where he sort of had I think
a lot of his restaurant chops in a big, big
LA way anyway developed. But uh, it was a CNB
scene place and it was every bit of that. Now
Craig's kind of has a little bit of that, if
not a lot of that. So, but it never was
(33:52):
viewed as a great restaurant place.
Speaker 3 (33:54):
You know.
Speaker 2 (33:55):
The restaurant critic at the La Times called the food ordinary.
But he said, but weirdly enough, I don't care, he said,
d'antanna's is not about denying yourself things. Go for the
chicken palm, you know, and live it up really wild.
(34:16):
I mean, the thing that makes it also wild. In
addition to d'antanna's being his place and of course having
his name, is that it really is as he passes away,
kind of the end of that time.
Speaker 3 (34:28):
The old school, you know, Hollywood exactly.
Speaker 2 (34:31):
So it falls into that category of places like that
that really were a connection to the past, you know. So,
but d'antanna's is still going and still there in West Hollywood.
It just that d'antanna himself passes away at age ninety.
Thanks everybody who is part of the Conways Show today.
Thanks listeners, Bellio, Angel Krozer, and Tony nice job filling
(34:56):
in for Foosh today. Later with Moe Kelly Neck next
Mark Thompson Here we'll talk tomorrow. KFI AM six forty
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Speaker 1 (35:06):
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Speaker 2 (00:07):
Tarrence Stamp passed away. He almost ninety years old, eighty seven.
He was General Zod in Superman. He had one of
those kind of larger than life presences on on screen.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Yield before Zaw exactly had that sort.
Speaker 4 (00:25):
Of and Star Wars too, Oh yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
I mean, and Croze is great with the impression because honestly,
he's he had like you couldn't chew up the scenery
enough in Superman. It was just so you know, right,
you know, to worry about that. But he was, you know,
he had all of that. He felt like a big
old time actor, English actor, you know, sophisticated. He had
(00:52):
a lot of those kinds of roles through time. Golden
Globe Winner.
Speaker 4 (00:56):
He came up in school in acting anyways, with Michael Kane.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Wow, is that right?
Speaker 4 (01:01):
Michael Kaine Group The Limey one of the best movies
of all time?
Speaker 3 (01:06):
Oh my god, Yes.
Speaker 4 (01:07):
Ever seen that?
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Yeah, terrific, But I mean it's a weird thing. But
it was that Superman. The Superman in nineteen seventy eight,
you know that really blew him up as an arch
villain General Zad. So here's a little something Tony, if
you would please. Now you're turning, you're turning kind of bunny.
Speaker 5 (01:31):
Actor Terence Stam London born and famous for those heartbreak
blue eyes.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
I loved you then at once and I do now.
Speaker 5 (01:40):
He almost never made it to the big screen. Stamp's
father objected to his career choice.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
And he said, son, people like us don't do things
like that.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Wow, Wow, that's great, that's just wonderful. You know Kine
who you mentioned, because they came up in the same
kind of class. Caine was a working class background, right,
I mean I think yeah. So he was looking for acting, theater, stage,
whatever to be a way out of being a like
(02:12):
literally a coal miner.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
People like us don't do things like that.
Speaker 5 (02:17):
Using that disapproval as motivation, Stamp went on to train
at the prestigious Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art in London.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
He performed with.
Speaker 5 (02:26):
Various theater groups, even rooming with another soon to be star,
Michael Kane pay a one mile off of Starboard, but
his big break came in nineteen sixty two, when, at
twenty four years old, He received an Oscar nomination and
Golden Globe Award for Billy budd I.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Hope You Slept Well.
Speaker 5 (02:45):
Stamp was selective about new projects, explaining in an interview
with The Tomorrow Show why he might be perceived as
difficult in Hollywood.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
I turned down more work than I accepted, and I
think that in that sense it was difficult.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
His career received.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
That's sometimes the thing you need to do. By the way,
he was involved in some high profile relationships. I'm seeing
here with the actress Julie Christie. She was, you know,
maybe one of the most beautiful women alive type things,
certainly one of the most beautiful screen stars. He was
also involved with Gene Shrimpton was a supermodel. He's quite
(03:28):
she'd have to be with that name. Yes, Donnie, can
we change the last name Shrimpton's.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
I was just saying, or like engelerr Humperdink, Let's change
it to Jean Shrimpton.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Oh yeah, that's right, better yet, go with His career.
Speaker 5 (03:43):
Received New life in nineteen seventy eight, playing the comic
book villain Jet Wait.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
I'll put Krozers read up against his read playing the
comic book villains a second Where is.
Speaker 5 (03:55):
It nineteen seventy.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Eight, Give me, I mean, come on, that's pretty damn good.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
One more time you will bow down be follow him? Sorry, that's.
Speaker 5 (04:13):
Playing the comic book villain General Zod and Superman opposite
Christopher Reed. The film became a blockbuster hit. Stamp reprized
the role in the sequel It Dies You Deserved To.
More than a decade later, in the Adventures of Priscilla,
(04:33):
Queen of the Desert, Stamp played a transgender entertainer, a
pivotal role for him and the LGBTQ plus communion to.
Speaker 6 (04:41):
Gather around girls, let me show you a trick.
Speaker 5 (04:44):
His co star Guy Pierce, writing on X farewell, Dear
Tell You were a true inspiration, both in and out
of heels. He continued acting into his eighties. Last Night
in Soho was his last film.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
Two Some People Don't Want to Be Sound Wow.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Pretty amazing, Tarrence Stamp. I'll tell you one of the
other interesting things about him. You know, you always learn
something I find. You know, when you look at people
and their oh bits, you always learn stuff about them
that you never knew. And here's something that falls in
that category. On New Year's Eve two thousand and two.
Stamp married for the first and only time. He married
(05:24):
a twenty nine year old named Elizabeth O'Rourke, who he
first met in the mid nineteen nineties at a pharmacy
in New South Wales. He was when he got married,
sixty four years old. She was twenty nine. And I
(05:45):
guess they let me just see how long they were
if they were together the whole time?
Speaker 3 (05:49):
Were there? I wonder.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
No divorced and ow eight they were married for six years.
Very interesting though, I mean golden globes and all of
that stuff. And you won the BAFTA for it was
a I think he got an Independent Spirit Award for
the Lymey that you heard crows talk about.
Speaker 4 (06:11):
Oh, such a great movie. You've never seen it. He
was the very dark movie, great people in it. To
Peter Fonda right about his daughter being murdered here in Hollywood.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
I gotta go back and watch that. I barely remember it.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
The first time I saw it, I was blown away.
Steven Soderbergh movie, Oh is that right? Yeah, No, I
barely remember it. I need to go that's the Limy's
what is what the crows is talking? Well, he's a
total badass. That was his line that was at the
beginning of that piece, tell him I'm coming.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Oh well, I mean pretty legit career. It's funny how
when parents tell you no, you've become so animated by
that that you then begin this intense work to try
to do whatever they said you shouldn't do. You know,
you'll never be an actor. We don't do that kind
(07:01):
of work. You know, we're not show people. However, they
framed it, and he was so emboldened by that, like,
so you know, I'm going to show you type of thing,
and so he went on. He was eighty seven years old.
General Zod passes away. Short term airbnb rentals are dropping
(07:23):
in LA. It looks like more and more people are
getting rid of airbnb as short term renters because of regulation.
Many people to run out their homes for income. Seem
to be changing preferences now. Short term rentals are much
more lucrative than longer stays, but there's so much turnover
(07:47):
it creates all kinds of headaches for landlords, and they
are saying, between local ordinances, the risk of fines, all
of the headaches associated with the turnover, it's just not
worth it because of this and other factor there's noted
short term rental registrations have dipped over the last year,
a six percent decrease in July, and short term rental
(08:11):
software platform show a decrease in listings as well. There's
a platform called Hospitable. They estimate a forty four percent
drop in listings year over year, steady declines each month.
All the Rooms, which is another one reporting a thirteen
(08:32):
percent drop in Airbnb listings across LA County over the
same stretch. Fewer and fewer people are putting their rooms out,
their ADUs out, whatever for short term renting. Experts say
(08:52):
the cause of the drop off palisades and eaten fires,
a lot of rentals taken off the market. But in
the wake of that disaster, a lot of short term
rentals were converted to converted to middle or long term rentals.
So the mid term rental market, if you will, has
kind of grown while the short term market has gone away.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
And they consider mid term rentals.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Just if you're curious, because I was curious, like, what's
a mid term rental stays of longer than thirty days
but less than a year. So things are changing in
this world of airbnb and short term rentals. And the
fires in Los Angeles anyway, did affect a little bit
of how that is going. And short term rentals have
(09:34):
long been a problem. I mean, some say sites like
Airbnb and vrbo give homeowners a lot of options for
you know, tourists, and then those who are down on
them say that, you know, that kind of home sharing
removes long term rentals from the market, and there's a
housing crisis and that's a bad thing. So there are
a lot of cross currents I think in this world
(09:56):
of Airbnb and short term and medium term rentals. Apparently
Airbnb listenings for short term retels down dramatically and continue
to drop. What's the story with Paul Rodriguez? I love
Paul Rodriguez, Sharon, What's happened? I really do. I think
he's insanely talented.
Speaker 7 (10:17):
Well, get him on the show, then well, I.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
Don't know if he's going to be so anxious to
be on when I tell you this next story, or
maybe he will be Yeah to hear his side of it.
Speaker 6 (10:25):
Let's hear his side.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
I want to hear.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Paul Rodriguez side, and I'll tell you right now, I
am on team Paul Rodriguez.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
Okay, Oh, really, yeah, I am. I'll tell you the
story next.
Speaker 8 (10:36):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
Thanks to Marion who wrote in and I just mentioned
a glancing reference to the fact that we're you know,
we're gonna be in this heat wave. You're probably aware
of it. Crows has talked about it, and it's being
talked about as a kind of a four day event.
Although you know, again the peak of its Thursday, as
the Crows said, and then the the following two days.
You know, it does continue, but you're kind of on
(11:02):
the back side of it. So it's still gonna be
plenty of hot, and they're turning off the power in
our place, and we've got an ant infestation already because they
come in with the heat, as you know.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
And Marion wrote us a note here at Cavac and
she told.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Me the key to this, this ant situation, the kind
of a homegrown solution, is this diatoma. How do you
say it to the diatomicious earth? The you know how
to say it to Croze, don't you? Yes, diatomatious Earth?
(11:37):
Thank you? Yeah, So I just bought a bunch of it.
That's being delivered in the morning. I'm gonna spread it
all over all over the house. Everywhere you go. There's
gonna be diatamacious earth or however you say it. Yeah,
I don't know how to say it. But you're stepping
in it. You're standing in it right now. It's going
to be everywhere because I'm sick of the ants. Anyway.
(12:00):
Fair warning, it's going to be very hot and the
ants do come in on as you know most heat waves,
to say the least, and whenever the weather gets warm.
It's kind of a regular feature of southern California. We
are KFI AM six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio
app Paul Rodriguez say it ain't so, I'm such a fan.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
Arrested in Burbank.
Speaker 9 (12:22):
Actor and comedian Paul Rodriguez is in trouble with the
law once again. Rodriguez was arrested after leaving a restaurant
in downtown Burbank.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Well, is that illegal? You can't leave a restaurant in
downtown Burbank. I mean that seems excessive, I have to say.
Speaker 9 (12:38):
And Rodriguez was arrested after leaving a restaurant in downtown Burbank.
He was found in his car with narcotics, say belie.
This is the second time Rodriguez has been arrested in
Burbank for possession of narcotics, just this year.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
Oh woh wait, wait, wait wait wait, what are the narcotics?
I need the Court of Mark would like to know
the exact narcotics. Narcotics covers a lot of territory, you know,
is it? Is it marijuana? Marijuana? They wouldn't arrest you.
Is it some prescription medication? I'd like to as a
(13:11):
member of a team Rodriguez, I'd like to know more specific.
Speaker 9 (13:16):
We found in his car with narcotics, say police. This
is the second time Rodriguez has been arrested in Burbank
for possession of narcotics, just this year.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Wow, guy likes to sit in the car with narcotics.
Apparently this is his second go round.
Speaker 9 (13:29):
The second time Rodriguez has been arrested in Burbank for
possession of narcotics just this year. A woman who was
with the comedian was also arrested.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
He was released with a citation. Oh man, that's a
bad date. That's a really bad date. Baby.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
Let's go out to dinner. We'll do our narcotics in
the car thing. You know, that's always fun. Yeah, wow,
possession of narcotics.
Speaker 9 (13:51):
Just this year, a woman who was with the comedian
was also arrested. He was released with a citation and
is expected to appear in court on September fifth.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
I don't know, release with the citation. It couldn't have
been that bad. I'm wondering. I don't know. This story
leaves me wanting more specifics. Bellio, and you're usually the
specifics person, but on this one, I don't know that
you're going to be able to find anything more.
Speaker 9 (14:16):
Seventy year old is best known for his roles in
the film's blood Work and Tortillas.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
Paul Rodriguez is super funny as a comic. Love him,
love him. I'm sure if he's a I don't know,
mildly intoxicated, he's probably only more entertaining. I mean, but
I'll say this for Paul Rodriguez. I mean, there's no
reference to you know, like resisting arrest or you know,
he was difficult, nothing, it was just like it's a shame,
(14:40):
I think when you're high profile as he is, that
you know, I don't know what the details are, but
Bellio is going to get them and we'll have them
before the end of the week. I promise, won't we Sharon,
You'll you'll have them for us.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
You got it, Charlie Sheen.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
There's a new documentary and it's his shame was suffocating.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
I lit the fuse and my life.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
Turns into tell that's a Tello wasn't supposed to be.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
This is the trailer cord.
Speaker 5 (15:15):
If you hadn't been able, would like him because he's
love of brilliance, had so charming and smart.
Speaker 10 (15:20):
Tiger blood TV bombshells in total mayhem when a Charlie
who was once making one point eight million dollars per
episode on Two and a half Men is now nearly
eight years sober and holding nothing back that.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
Would have got hurt.
Speaker 6 (15:34):
Nobody got arrested for a while.
Speaker 10 (15:39):
The fifty nine year old's new Netflix doc also dives
into his voltaal headline grabby merrits to actress.
Speaker 7 (15:45):
Denise Richards when it started to change, it was quick.
And how soon into your dating did you know you
wanted to marry her?
Speaker 6 (15:51):
I knew on the first date. Yeah, she knew on
the second day.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
I mean, Denise Richards I think now is in one
of those Real Housewives type shows as.
Speaker 7 (16:03):
She she's back on Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (16:08):
I told my daughter the other day that when I
was in the process of separating going through a divorce
with her mom in the early adds, and we had
we had to be in downtown LA, and the judge
made us go down to the mediator first and see
what you guys can work out ahead of time. We're
sitting there trying to worry. Almost there was a big
bustle and it was her and Charlie Sheen were in
(16:28):
the process.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
Wow, that's a really cool brag. Actually, I love that
you were like big divorce adjacent. Yeah, yeah, that's super cool.
Speaker 10 (16:40):
A couple who have two daughters together had a nasty
split twenty years ago, but these days they're surprisingly close.
Speaker 4 (16:47):
It looks good.
Speaker 6 (16:47):
Thank you, Mike.
Speaker 4 (16:48):
You would never know you're one hundred.
Speaker 7 (16:50):
There's times where things are really wonderful, and times were
like any other family where it was like, but it's okay, awesome.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
I mean, I thought she was slinging that kind of
have toward him a Real Housewives. I don't know if
that and that's what i'd heard. I don't really know
that means yeah, meaning kind of talking trash about it.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (17:07):
Yeah, well she might have like her when she was
on it before. Yeah, but now they're friendly and now
she's going through some issues with her new husband.
Speaker 9 (17:18):
Mm.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
Yeah, Well, as long as they're issues, you can stay
on those reality shows.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
Got to keep those issues coming.
Speaker 6 (17:25):
Also featured Sean pet.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
And he started experimenting with.
Speaker 6 (17:30):
Everything ex Brooke Mueller and his former drug dealer.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
He was full of several gun rocks.
Speaker 6 (17:35):
And there's former co star John Cryer.
Speaker 5 (17:37):
She kept saying, no, no, no, I'm in the hospital now,
but next week I'll be ready for the show.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
It sounds pretty train wrecky.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
It's on Netflix if you want to check it out.
The new Charlie Sheen documentary. Wow we're KFI. There was
kind of our celebri misbehaving block. I didn't it wasn't intentional,
just having.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
To be that way.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
Yeah, a little dash of drugs and some bad relationships
and divorces and there you have it.
Speaker 8 (18:10):
You're listening to Tim Conwayton You're on demand from KFI
AM sixty.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
Yeah, the heat is coming this week.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
We're just talking about we're talking about Meta, and I've
got a story i'll tell you about probably later tomorrow
about Meta and Markus Zuckerberg and stuff. Don't got into
the chat bot talk, and you know before you never
know when you're talking to a chat body, you're talking
to a chat person.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
And then we got talking to AI about AI.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
This is a Sharon Belly on our just chatting and
I was telling her and I'm going to tell you
this short story which is really powerful in its own
way and really personal, but I'm just going to share
it with you. It just happened. So last week, you know,
we lost our cat of sixteen years, went to a
through a surgery and she was doing really well through
(18:59):
the surgeon. She there's a good candidate for the surgery.
We talked to vets, so I wasn't just putting her through.
It was very big deal and as a family we
were really you know, intensely watching it and we and
then she passed away the almost like a little less
than a week ago. It's not even been a week.
And so it was brutal and continues to be brutal.
And you know, in the morning sun you see the
(19:21):
spot that she always was there, and you know, everything
was just the greeting we always get. We spent so
much time with her. She was a dear member of
the family. So here's the point, though, So we're inconsolable, right,
Courtney is inconsolable. I'm inconsolable, like I couldn't even talk
about it like this last week, and I'm lying in
(19:41):
bed and Courtney is up all night and I'm up
all night and I'm lying there and I'm just you know,
it's just terrible, and I want to seek out and
I thought I might be able to find it on YouTube,
some kind of bereavement counselor you know, somebody who gives
you a little just like mini lecture five minutes about
you know, loss and how to deal with it, you know.
(20:03):
And so I go on YouTube and I look for that,
and there are a bunch of bereavement things, but they're
all about people, right, And then so they say, you know,
the loss of a spouse.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
Is never an easy thing.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
And in the minute they say spouse, it takes me
out of the conversation. It was this is our beloved pet.
So I found a couple of these things involving people.
It just wasn't getting it done. And so I looked
for bereavement counseling around a pet. I look again on
YouTube and I find it and it's got a thing about,
(20:35):
you know, with some music in the background, like sad
music and reading the Rainbow Bridge poem or whatever, you know,
and like, I'm not I understand where that comes from.
And I understand that that can be soothing as something
of a way to feel better, like somehow you're going
to see your pets and your dead relatives and everything
(20:56):
at the end of all this. And and believe me,
that's a comforting notion, but I don't buy into it.
So for me, it only made the loss more profound.
And then I'm really weeping, like, oh my god, that's
the best you can give me, is the Rainbow Bridge.
I know you mean well, But so I did what.
I entered everything, the whole story of Frenchy sixteen years old.
(21:20):
She was a good candidate for the surgery. We talked
to multiple surgeons. I told chat Gpt the story and
I said, can you say something that will make me
feel better? And I'm telling you what it spit out
was unbelievable. It was spectacular. It was like the distillation
(21:41):
of everything that you'd heard from everyone about their experience,
your experience. It's specific to me though. It said, I
know you had high hopes for her and you tried
to give her the very best and you did this
with thinking that she was going to come through the surgery,
(22:04):
especially after they said to you that she had been
so done, so well through the surgery.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
So this is all chat GBT.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
And then it talked about the loss, and I think
it started by saying, there's nothing I can say to
you Mark that's going to really address the kind of
pain you feel. I thought, wow, this is so and
as I say this chat GBT, it's like talking to
a person. The language model is so powerful, it's so
well advanced.
Speaker 7 (22:31):
It's like talking to a therapist that knows Frenchy and
knows you and customized what they were saying to make
you feel better.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
Thank you, That's exactly what it was.
Speaker 6 (22:40):
Did you feel better, Ash?
Speaker 2 (22:42):
I wept and then I felt better. It's not it
didn't mean it wasn't curative.
Speaker 7 (22:47):
You know, I didn't feel like like whoo right, But
in the moment, you were just searching for something to
like embrace it and understand.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
Right, help me get to sleep. I can't even sleep.
I'm in so much pain over it. And chat GiB
T did it. And it's a remarkable thing because it was,
as I say, it's drawing on and you could say
that this is true, that it's drawing on all of
humanity that it's exposed to. You know, it's culling all
(23:16):
of the information that's out there about grief, about loss,
all of these specifics it's managing, and then it's putting
that together in an instant to advise you, to counsel you.
It's extraordinary. And you know, the other thing about chat GBT,
just to platform off of that, is that. And then
(23:38):
I say chat GBT, I mean there's Gronk and there's
all the other ones. Crozier, you probably know all of them.
I just feel like, you know, one of those guys
us more tech savvy, you know. But they're a bunch.
I don't want to say. There may be four that
are in like a pretty regular use and they have
human interaction on a regular basis, and they can help
you with therapy. I mean, there are you know, therapized
(24:00):
versions of the kind of dialogue and when you think
about it, kind of what I was just talking about
was the sort of therapy, right. So I'm just blown
away by the power of this thing. I also see
how dangerous it can be. I think regulation around AI
and monitoring of AI is probably something that's really good.
I don't think we're going to get that, but it is.
(24:22):
It's part of the growth of this technology. And more
than anything, it's a weird thing. And maybe it's kind
of an irony that here you are as a human
being and you need or crave some sort of human interaction.
Sharon and I were talking about the fact that there
(24:43):
are a lot of seniors, particularly who find themselves lonely,
and they are reaching out to all of these different
AI programs and they find themselves involved with, for lack
of a better way to describe it, an AI program
and they know it's AI, but it still works to
give them a back and forth that you know, feeds
(25:05):
their soul on some level.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
And is that so bad? I mean, is it? You know,
if you hit the.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
Bottle, or you get high, or you you know, you
you self medicate in so many different ways, you know
to handle these things, and I think, I know it's bizarre,
but in a way, this technology is a way of
self medicating in that moment. So again it's kind of heavy,
and I almost didn't mention it, but I thought I
(25:33):
would just give you a sense of this experience because
I think it's going to be It really will be
like the human experience. The interaction with AI is here,
and the story I just related to you will be
like just won't even be at all out of the
ordinary in another eighteen months. Incredible power of this technology
(25:57):
and as they say, it can be done for good,
and you're going to be seeing a lot of bad
and the placement of all kinds of ideas and all
sorts of thought processes that it'll be passing along in
forms of information, and a lot of the information on
AI is not accurate.
Speaker 4 (26:18):
I was reading or did a story last week about
how there's the AI experts and some of the people
that were at the very beginning of when AI was
really starting to come in. They've sounded the alarm on
a lot of this stuff. They said, we're about six
months to a year when AI reaches a certain intelligence point.
Maybe soon after that it will reach that further. I
(26:39):
think it's called like GSI specific intelligence point, where it
is considered super intelligent or more intelligent than humans, and
at that point it will consider humans to be a threat.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (26:51):
So it fits into the narrative of what you're saying
is that you know it can lie to you. And
there was the whole thing a couple of weeks ago
with you know, Musk's or you know, bought chat shot
doing a bunch of stuff, and it's like it'll and
they'll start the AI systems will start talking to each
other in their own language that we have no idea
what they'd be saying.
Speaker 3 (27:11):
Oh, I mean it really it's science fiction come to life. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (27:14):
But then at the same time we do a story
about how AI basically rescue a guy who've been missing
in the mountains in Italy for the like the last
sixs because it can pick out a little different colored
pixel in pictures that a drone would take unreal.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
I mean no, the positive uses are you know, demonstrable,
but the the negatives, as you say, there are growing
and they're firing all these flares, these warning flares.
Speaker 3 (27:39):
But I don't know.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
Again, the business community associated with AI has almost no
interest in managing you know that part of it.
Speaker 4 (27:46):
So the regulation aspect, Yeah, the regulation as.
Speaker 3 (27:49):
Self regulating, they're not going to do it.
Speaker 8 (27:50):
So you're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
Dan Tanna passed away. You know, the founder of Dan
Tanna's restaurant, really sad ninety years old, Serbian American actor,
former professional soccer player.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
I didn't know that. I did know that.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
Yeah, I always say that. You know, you learn so
much when you read these yeah, right, you read these
oh bits? Yeah, you just learn on the backside sort of.
You opened Dan Tanna's restaurant in nineteen sixty four a
lot of celebrities. It began as a late night gathering
spot for stars. You know where it is is close
(28:33):
to the Troubadour, right, Can you imagine that must have
been a poping scene in the sixties.
Speaker 6 (28:40):
Did you ever pop over there?
Speaker 7 (28:41):
Did you know Dantanna?
Speaker 2 (28:43):
I didn't ever meet Dantanna, but I ate a Dantanna's
many times, and I was fixed up on a date
with Dantanna's daughter.
Speaker 7 (28:53):
No way, now, are you serious?
Speaker 3 (28:55):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (28:56):
I came to La and I had can't coming off
a really intense back surgery. I had two levels of
my spine operated on, and it was hard for me.
To sit front of the extended periods of time, and
so I kind of like I guess I wouldn't say
I was. I was in like a lying down a
lot of the time, like you'd have to manage the
(29:17):
amount of loading your spine could take, amount of weight
bearing time. So the reason I mentioned that is I
was kind of, you know, cadaverous looking. I like a schalky.
You just look like a guy hadn't been outside much
because I hadn't. What a catch, Yeah, believe me, it
was sexy, but still so I was kind of down.
Speaker 3 (29:37):
And my lawyer and my good friend invited me to.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
Lunch, but no, I'm sorry, invited me to for on
a date, kind of a blind date with Dan Tanna's daughter.
My lawyer was named Stuart Brookman and still his name,
and we're still friends. But the date didn't go so well.
Here's what happened. I said I'd happily meet her, and
of course, you know, I wasn't going out with anybody.
As I say, it was kind of down and out.
I was working at the Fox eleven. But then you know,
(30:06):
I going right home and lay down and letting the
sort of pain subside for my back surgery. So I said,
I'd love to meet her. I mean, Dantanna's a legendary place,
but I don't want to eat at dan Tana's, like
I don't want her to be distracted. He said, no problem,
We're going to go somewhere else. So again I was
excited to meet her. And at the last minute, I
(30:30):
am reached by my friend Stewart and he says she's
got to work tonight because a manager called in sick,
but she wants us still to come there to dan Tanna's.
I said, I thought we talked about this. I don't
want to go to Dantanna's, especially if she's, you know,
filling in for some manager. He said, no, it's going
to be great. She said, she can spend time with us.
It was awful. We sat in the booth and she
(30:54):
was in and out of the booth, and every time
you know, somebody needed a fork, or every time somebody
needed an napkin or a new set up whatever, she
had to get up. And I'm sure it was also
because she was probably not into me, you know what
I mean. She was probably like, this is not the
guy I thought he was.
Speaker 6 (31:09):
He described herself. Yeah, were you laying down on.
Speaker 7 (31:14):
The table there, like, yeah.
Speaker 3 (31:16):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (31:17):
They truly she was away from the booth more than
she was there. But that was my my uh experience.
Speaker 7 (31:28):
With no love connection then.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
Huh No, I mean I don't remember. I don't think
for either one of us there as much of a
love connection. But for me, I was just kind of
bummed because I thought, well, we didn't even get a
chance to really talk because she was just she was
doing the Dan Tanna thing.
Speaker 10 (31:41):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
But pretty wild that he you know, he had a
legendary place. I mean it was that is a legendary place. Yeah,
and uh ninety years old. He was born do Brover
tan Servich. He was a professional soccer player before coming
(32:03):
to la And I mean Elizabeth Taylor, Kirk Douglas, all
the big stars of the sixties were there.
Speaker 3 (32:11):
Now.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
He sold the place in nine. Uh, I didn't realize that,
but I guess it didn't stay in the family. But
on that and I'm also trying to remember, I think
the Palm Restaurant was just down the way also, so
that was kind of a real murderer's row of eateries.
(32:33):
Dan Tana's was the you know, the classic the Palm
had its own sort of classic vibe. And as I say,
the Troubadour was the place where you know, a lot
of the entertainers hung out, musicians, did.
Speaker 6 (32:48):
You go out with all of their daughters too?
Speaker 2 (32:49):
I was not fixed out with anybody from any of
those other.
Speaker 3 (32:55):
Places.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
Red and white, checkered table claws for those who've never
been there, Green neons sign out front local institution, Dan Tannis.
And it took care of movie stars and moguls. And
you know who was the matre d at Dan Tanna's,
who's now become a tremendous restaurant tour in Los Angeles
with a reputation. I would say that is high above
(33:21):
a lot of others.
Speaker 7 (33:22):
Craig Craig right, Sorry, I thought I'd be so off
on that.
Speaker 3 (33:28):
He was, that's his right, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (33:30):
Dan Tanna's is where he sort of had I think
a lot of his restaurant chops in a big, big
LA way anyway developed. But uh, it was a CNB
scene place and it was every bit of that. Now
Craig's kind of has a little bit of that, if
not a lot of that. So, but it never was
(33:52):
viewed as a great restaurant place.
Speaker 3 (33:54):
You know.
Speaker 2 (33:55):
The restaurant critic at the La Times called the food ordinary.
But he said, but weirdly enough, I don't care, he said,
d'antanna's is not about denying yourself things. Go for the
chicken palm, you know, and live it up really wild.
(34:16):
I mean, the thing that makes it also wild. In
addition to d'antanna's being his place and of course having
his name, is that it really is as he passes away,
kind of the end of that time.
Speaker 3 (34:28):
The old school, you know, Hollywood exactly.
Speaker 2 (34:31):
So it falls into that category of places like that
that really were a connection to the past, you know. So,
but d'antanna's is still going and still there in West Hollywood.
It just that d'antanna himself passes away at age ninety.
Thanks everybody who is part of the Conways Show today.
Thanks listeners, Bellio, Angel Krozer, and Tony nice job filling
(34:56):
in for Foosh today. Later with Moe Kelly Neck next
Mark Thompson Here we'll talk tomorrow. KFI AM six forty
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