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All right, it's the Noon Hour of Madness and Mayhem. What up, Peaches?
What's happening?
Well, I was reading this article earlier about Channel 4 in the UK. Isn't it weird how their, their channels are so boringly named? Like, why is the UK so dull? Why can't they come up with something, at least boring letters like we have here? CNN, Fox, ABC, NBC. They just go with four. Anyway-
I mean, you might as well start at one and go up from there.
[laughs] I guess.
That's it.
So, what they did is put out this, um, new show called Will AI Take My Job? And, you know, they go over all these, you know, real-life situations where AI is starting to take over. You know, like music, um, in law, fashion, medicine, but then they threw in a twist, Peaches. And at the end, you find out the host was entirely AI generated. So, I'm guessing they're gonna be [laughs] firing some of their staff soon and replacing them with AI. How long do you think till news broadcasters are pretty much eliminated?
I think what's gonna happen is that there's gonna be one company that, all of a sudden, replaces everybody with AI, right?
Mm-hmm.
And then, all of a sudden, everyone kind of just really stops watching that company, to the point where they're like, "You know what? Maybe we should reconsider." Like Cracker Barrel, I'm sure that lady did not expect that big of a backlash on that whole thing.
I'm still wondering if that was a publicity stunt.
I don't think she was smart enough to realize that.
Yeah.
I don't think so. I think she was honestly trying to modernize the look of it and then quickly saw the backlash and was, and was panicking with the other-
[laughs]
... heads of staff and were like, "Okay, how do we pretend, or how do we kinda make this to where it's like, 'Huh, maybe it's a marketing stunt'? Okay, we'll wait a little bit and then say, 'Hey, you know what? Due to the feedback, we'll flip back to our old ways. We're sorry.'"
Yeah, they-
'Cause they were very s- like, just set on, uh, making it new. Like, they were like, "Oh, sorry, like everything has to kind of-"
Yeah
"... update."
I mean, it, it would've had to have been a very, very clever marketing stunt the way that it all played out. And it would be risky, I guess, 'cause if there was no backlash, then you gotta go with it, you know? And you'd have to do the update even if you didn't intend on doing so.
I think if you do anything change-wise now, a lot of people are going to really freak out. I think Mr. Pibb, uh, is back-
Mm-hmm
... the drink, and Dr Pepper really isn't seen anywhere or something like that. And there's the radio show, Ellen K's Morning Show in LA.
Yeah.
Uh, they're like, uh, talking all about it, like, "Where, where's Dr Pepper been?" Or, "Where's it going?"
What?
It's like, "Who really cares?"
Dr Pepper is a super popular beverage.
N- no, it's the biggest cult following, uh, it has the biggest cult following out of all the sodas.
Yeah.
You never meet anybody as passionate about a Sprite compared to Dr Pepper.
Let's look up most popular sodas, 'cause it... Dude, like, Dr Pepper's in every restaurant and every store, like, 'cause they're independent or whatever. So, you know how restaurants will make deals like, "Hey, we'll only serve Coke products," or, "We only serve Pepsi products." They all have Dr Pepper. The most popular soda in the US is Coca-Cola Classic, followed by number two, Dr Pepper. That's the second most popular soda in the US. What's Ellen K talking about?
"Why Dr Pepper fans might notice it missing from Coca Cola fountains soon."
Oh, w- okay. Maybe they're, um...
"Dr Pepper pulled from Coke fountains as new distribution rule takes effect. Coca-Cola drops popular soda flavor from key venues, restaurants."
Okay.
And then I seen him post into R/slash Detroit two weeks ago. "Man, what's going on with Dr Pepper lately? This is the fourth store that's completely out of regular Dr Pepper. Did someone rob a freight train or something?"
Huh. Interesting. I'm gonna go to the, uh, the news on Dr Pepper 'cause I have not seen any sh- We have Dr Pepper in my office. [laughs] I've got some right over there. I th- I think there was some in the fridge recently too. "Popular soda to quietly disappear from some Coca Cola machines." So yeah, Coke must be fighting with them over some kind of a licensing thing, and, uh, yeah. I- I'm sure it's still gonna show up.
Big soda war.
I'm a big fan of Pepsi. Team Pepsi all the way.
Team Pepsi. You know, every time I did the Pepsi Coke challenge, I went with Pepsi. You know, when you had the blind taste test? I think Pepsi does taste better than Coke.
I get a little sad when I say that because I realize that we have people who work for Coke here in the area that listen to us.
Yeah.
And I do appreciate Coke, but I don't know why, I've always liked Pepsi. And people do like to talk trash on Pepsi who are mostly Dr Pepper drinkers. Now-
Well, I-
... Dr Pepper is not good to me.
See, and I would go with that's probably my favorite soda.
I don't want any barbecue Sprite, all right?
Oh, get outta here with that. [laughs] Get outta here. I, I will go with, uh, Dr Pepper over Coke or Pepsi, so take that both companies.
But have you ever met Dr Pepper... uh, a Dr Pepper fan who's quiet about it?
Me? Uh, do you hear me spout off much about Dr Pepper?
There's a lot of people that spew off nonsense about Dr Pepper. Their fridge is full of it. I've, I've seen the Dr Pepper fan club pop up on my Facebook.
[laughs]
I've never expressed interest in the soda.
[laughs] Yeah, I mean, I don't drink soda very often. It's, I, I guess I'm an old person now and it's too, too sweet. You know, I get, I'm like, "Whoo."
Aubrey has gotten, Aubrey has gotten me into the whole, like, dirty soda thing 'cause we oftentimes go get a pop, is what she calls it.
Let's go get our selves a soda pop.
And then so she's teaching me how, like, the, how it all works with different syrups and stuff-
Ah
... and how the parents have the different things, and I feel like a bartender pressing down on the dispenser.
That's a Utah and Idaho bar.
Oh, I know.
Yeah. Yeah. So, I mean, it's g- it's good. I ain't gonna put in that kinda effort just 'cause a- again, it's too s- too sweet.[laughs] I don't know, but I can mow down chocolate all freaking day, so I don't know why soda's such an issue. [laughs]
Yeah, but we were talking about like overrated candy on, for, to Peaches Their Own a couple of days ago-
Uh-huh
... and I was arguing back and forth with Andy Matter about, uh, he, he thinks the plain Hershey's milk chocolate just by itself is overrated. I love that compared to it with almonds.
Ah, no. Yeah, I would, I would take the ones with, uh, some kind of addition any day.
No, not me.
I mean, plain Hershey's chocolate's fine, but it is kinda boring.
And I'd dr- eat that, drink milk. Oh, it's nice.
Mm. Yeah, I don't know. That, that's pretty low on my candy list, plain Hershey's. I like the cookies and cream one better than the, uh, original.
A lot of people are giving me the, the most controversial candies with that question, though. It was more so like, "Oh, circus peanuts, they're overrated." It's like, no, they're not really overrated. Most people hate them.
Yeah, they're not overrated at all.
Candy corn, very controversial. The anti-candy corn crowd, very loud.
Yeah, and I think candy corn is, uh, fine if you mix it with something else. If you... Have you ever taken a handful of peanuts and candy corn?
No.
It's pretty much like eating a, like a, what do they call those, a nut roll?
I don't mind eating a, a, what's it called, candy corn by itself. I like 'em. What?
I, I don't like 'em by themself. Well, I'm, th- they're fine. They're better than Bit-O-Honey, which is like the worst.
Well, it's so funny, I l- I asked Chad GPT yesterday, "What's the most underrated candy?" And it gave me Bit-O-Honey on that list. [laughs]
Un- underrated? It's terrible.
And it said, "Grandma knew what's up," or something like that. [laughs]
Though, you did, you did recently introduce me to a terrible candy, and that was the, uh, Tootsie Roll Snack Bar.
Oh, they're great.
[laughs] Them? I could not handle that.
I pretend I'm chewing on tobacco like a tough guy.
[laughs] Yeah.
Yeah, poppin' it.
I, I, I ended up having it in my lip while I was doing a break, like a dip.
[laughs]
And then I finally had to spit it out. I was like, "This is too much Tootsie Roll." [laughs] Back to what we were talking about at the beginning of that last break, Peaches, before, I don't know how we went in the direction we did. Do you think anyone would care if the average news broadcaster was replaced by AI? 'Cause generally, news broadcasters, they're not throwing out much, like, personality, you know?
Yeah, no, I would say they definitely would care. Uh-
You think so?
... my parents growing up always watched KTLA.
Okay.
Sam Rubin was on there, Mark Kriski, uh, a lot of these names. Same old people for the past like 20 plus years.
Yeah.
Sam passed away, Mark had to battle this terrible disease, and my parents were devastated.
Aw.
Uh, but like, what's it called? Uh, like there was a, there's been plenty of replacements now to where KTLA is just not the same anymore, and most people aren't watching it.
Yeah, that's-
So-
... so that's why I'm wondering if they did swap 'em out with AI, would anybody notice or even care?
They wouldn't care.
Yeah, I think the news needs to add more personality.
Oh, for sure.
You know, 'cause the only popular news is filled with like lunatics spouting off opinions. You know, you, you look at the 24-hour news.
People, people want weird. That's why I think they-
Yeah
... like us so much.
Yeah, yeah, for sure.
It's better to say like, "Oh, today's horoscope for Virgos."
[laughs] Maybe we should start doing that. It'd be a lot easier than trying to figure out something to talk about. [laughs] Oh, yeah, um, I've been looking at a picture of this AI news broadcaster. She looks like every other news broadcaster that I've ever seen. Um, so yeah, I think the news needs to kick it up a notch. But then, every once in a while when they do, people get all butt hurt. Like Nate Eaton was taking a bunch of backlash for asking political candidates questions on, uh, one of the panels.
Peo- People are just sour now. They'll complain really about anything.
Oh, I know.
You, you, you could say a local restaurant's changing their carpet color, and all of a sudden people would like lose their minds about that. "I grew up with it being red. Why does it turn blue?"
[laughs] Wh- Why are people so afraid of change? Change is fine.
I think it's just because ever since COVID, people have like had this like extra, I don't know, this like extra feeling of like they're gonna be controlled again or something like that. And so whenever something like that happens, whenever change happens, like they're just like, "Ay, ay, no, no, no."
Like, I hate to break it to people, but change is gonna continue happening. [laughs] You know, the world's gonna drastically change, especially with AI. And, you know, it's funny, I've already seen, um, instances where like politicians are claiming that videos of themselves are, are AI that aren't.
[laughs]
Like we're, we're, we're no longer gonna be able to know anything at this point.
And they won't put out any rules against AI. They won't whatsoever.
No, 'cause they know they can use... Probably 'cause then they can use that excuse, "Oh, it's fake. It's fake." They don't want regulation on it, and that's a bad thing, 'cause that's how the AI overlords are gonna take over, man. I, I've seen a lot of videos making the rounds and, uh, stories about how AI is gonna wipe out the human race. We're doomed, man. We're doomed. But, I don't know, I guess at least we were, uh, alive to watch the end, huh?
I, I guess.
Yeah. I just feel bad for my kids though. [laughs] It's gonna be a weird future. Uh, anyway, just trying to keep things light, light on the show today. [laughs]
[laughs]
Uh, I did a break earlier on the morning show about this new nuclear, uh, torpedo that Russia's making that can cause 1,600-foot radioactive tsunamis. Like, why? Why, guys?
I did see how, uh, Donald Trump was testing out nuclear, uh, weapons again.
Yeah, yeah. [laughs] You know, since the world's in such a great place and everybody gets along so well, why don't you... Let's just bust out the nukes again. Like, let's [laughs] just go back to the Cold War. What's going on, Peaches? What happened? When did the timeline shift? Things have got-
Uh, 2016.
This-
That's when everyone became really divisive.
Yeah, and that's when that, uh, was it a, a weasel got into the, uh, particle accelerator and shut it down? You remember the particle accelerator, people were worried about ending the world 'cause it would create a black hole?
Oh, no.
Okay, you, you'll have to look into this.
May- maybe I do. I, I did hear something like that, but then thought nothing of it.
Yeah. Apparently at some point, a weasel got into it, I believe in 2015, 2016, and shut it down. And people believe it might have shifted us into an alternate timeline, and that's why everything's completely out of control now.[laughs] There's some, some pretty good conspiracy theories out there about it. You know, that like, maybe that's why we have the Mandela effect, and stuff like that, you know? We have these memories of things a certain way, but then they, they just changed. And it's 'cause of that weasel, man. And what better animal than a weasel-
Right
... to do something weasely?
[laughs]
Screw everything up for the rest of us. Maybe we need to chuck weasel in it again. 'Cause I'm sure it's still running-
Sure
... the particle accelerator.
Yeah.
I don't know, man. I think they need to quit, quit tinkering. I like new technology, but could- couldn't we work on like better video game technology [laughs] or... I, I don't know.
That's what AI should be used for, is developing these characters in a new video game as like your friend, your enemy, or whatever.
Oh yeah, dude, the, some of the AI videos that are popping up [laughs] in the last month are so unhinged and crazy that... I don't know, do they make you feel weird to watch them sometimes?
Yeah, there's some weird ones, like fever dream ones, where people get like their heads bit off by a dog, but it turns into cake.
Yeah.
Weird things like that.
Yeah, they, they make me feel kinda strange when I'm watching them. Like, I, I can't remember the name of this one AI channel that always pops up on my Facebook feed, but it's like, "AI is e- evil," or something.
Well-
And oh, those videos are so bizarre.
I still can't believe people are actually dating AI.
I-
Like they're that big of a loser, to where they're like, "I, I give up on people. I just opened up ChatGPT and be, pretended we're in a relationship," or something like that.
Yeah. Well it's, it's easy to give up on people if you spend too much time on social media [laughs]. But I don't know, I think you, you gotta get yourself out there, find a, find a real person.
Yeah.
A real person's better.
You can't hold hands or cuddle with a AI bot?
Not yet. Not till they make them into actual physical robots. How long do you think till that happens, five years max?
Well, I mean there's already that humanoid bot that they're selling for like $20,000 that can clean your house or something like that.
Man. Wish the price was better. My house is a mess. Can it carry heavy stuff [laughs]?
I don't know. I just saw a whole article about it yesterday.
Hmm. I'm gonna have to look into that. Uh, anybody out there, rich people, wanna hook one up for the K-Bear Studio? I could use naps in the morning. Can it pre- you know, uh, like imitate me pretty well? I just need to train it to be me.
Well-
Long as I still get the paycheck.
Just use an AI voice, like clone your AI voice through ElevenLabs and then, you know-
Yeah. I, I don't think people realize how much AI is being used. Like in commercials and things like that.
Oh yeah.
Like there's a lot of AI going on. I had a friend message me the other day who he was asking like, "Hey, you know, is there, do you have any info or insight on how to break into, like, voice work or voice acting?" And I'm like, "You know, right now, I wouldn't even try." I was like, "'Cause so many people are getting replaced by AI." Um,
and listeners wouldn't have any idea.
No, not at all.
Wouldn't be able to tell whatsoever.
[laughs]
You know? Have you ever heard AI on K-Bear? You would never know. Maybe you have, maybe you haven't. We're not gonna tell you [laughs].
So Peaches, I saw this article making the rounds the other day, I wasn't sure if it's real, but now it's popping up, uh, in many more places, about China requiring influencers to basically be tested and get like accredited or a degree in whatever subject matter they wanna babble on about online.
Yeah. I did, I saw many news headlines about that.
Yeah!
I think they said that they have to get a degree if they wanna debate politics or bring up politics.
Yeah, and like medical stuff.
Right.
Uh, there, there were a variety of different things. There's not a lot of things that I see China do that I go, "That's awesome!"
[laughs]
"Can we please do this in the US?" But I think that would be fantastic, if you had to go through some kinda class and get accredited to be able to get online and just spout off about what- whatever as an influencer.
All, all the influencers would be doomed.
They all!
All, all, all of them are pretty dumb.
Oh, they are all pretty dumb.
There, there're some that are like legitimate doctors. I follow this guy, I think his name is Dr. Mike. He'll give out legitimate medical advice, but then say like, "Hey, just go to your doctor too-"
Yeah.
"... for the, for the actual visits."
Like some of the things I see get shared online for like how to cure your sicknesses [laughs] and people are buying into it.
Just take ivermectin, Victor.
[laughs] If, if a doctor instructed me to do a certain thing, I will do it. But-
My favorite thing is that I've seen people take horse electrolytes.
Horse electrolytes?
What's it called? Apple A Day, and they'll eat it and it's... yeah.
What?
Mm-hmm.
I haven't heard about that one. I mean, I've heard of Gatorade [laughs].
Look it up. Apple A Day horse electrolytes.
Hold on, I, I, I have to look this up. I don't know if it's made for horses, it just, it, it's, I'm, I'm gonna assume I'm gonna leave it for horses. Apple A Day Horse... Yeah, this really is a... It's in a big bucket. You buy it from, uh, websites like chewy.com, you know, for your pets [laughs]. All right, I gotta go back and search
for people.
It says right there on their website, "It is a, it, it is one of a number of popular horse supplements in our product line. In the interest of social responsibility, we remind consumers that this product and all of our horse products are not approved by the FDA for human use or consumption."
Okay. Google AI says, "No, horse-specific Apple A Day electrolytes are not safe for humans." Now, I, I don't just buy into what, uh, Google AI says 'cause it's wrong all the time. I see a lot of [laughs], there's a variety of videos.
Of people eating it, right?
[laughs] Of people eating it and others saying, "Don't do it." [laughs] It's horse stuff. I don't know, it's made for horses. W- w- would you just start eating dog food, Peaches?
No.
If someone's like, "Dog food is packed with, uh, essential nutrients and blah, blah, blah. It's, uh, you know, very nutrient dense." Eat dog food! I don't know.[laughs] I've never heard of this. That's really weird. People don't, don't get your medical advice from influencers, please. Yeah, you're not gonna see that type of stuff pop up in China, apparently. We need to, we need to settle things down around here.
I mean, it could pop up, but they could be quickly taken off.
Like dude, if we jumped on air and said, "You guys should all be taking apple a day horse electro-" We'd get fired.
[laughs]
We're required-
I think you just said it [laughs]
I was making an example, and I do not think you should take ho- horse electrolytes. [laughs] But it's just crazy to me that there isn't any regulation on what, uh, you know, like major podcasters or major influencers can say, 'cause we gotta be careful about every little thing we say, or we could be fined by the FCC and definitely fired.
We have way too many podcasts. I also feel like we should add something to it. Like, I, I don't know. I feel like there's others. Everybody who has, like, their 15 minutes of fame all of a sudden gets a podcast going.
Yeah.
The Hawk Tuah Girl.
Yeah.
Uh, that's just one, but there's, uh, too, way too many podcasts of people thinking, "Oh, me and my friends are so funny. Let's get together and do a podcast."
Yeah.
And they do it for a couple weeks, and then they stop.
Mm-hmm. Might as well just, just give up, everybody. Just like I told the local bands, [laughs] podcasts are gonna be replaced by AI anyway. For, there's probably popular AI podcasts out there.
We already saw the, uh, Spotify recap for last year. There was two AI podcasters that would tell you what your biggest songs and artists were.
All right, let's search for "AI podcasts popular." Oh, these are podcasts about AI. I want one that is actually AI created. Hmm. We'll have to dig in and see if we could find that later on, and we'll, we'll judge it. All right, Peaches, I haven't found any popular AI podcasts, but I found a YouTube video where a guy is talking about AI podcasts that sound 100% real. Uh, let's listen to th- This is from a year ago, too, so it wouldn't be as good as what they could do now. Uh, you want your cans here? I'm just wondering how good something from a year ago could possibly sound, and they better not swear, or I will... I guess I can't punch 'em.
There's a spot on the phone. Can you fix it?
Uh... Oh, yeah, it is. There we go. There you go, Peaches.
Thank you.
There's your cans. Here you go.
Taylor Swift, political endorsements, and, uh, a little bit of celebrity romance sprinkled in. You guys sent me in a wild mix for this-
This sounds fake
... deep dive, but that's what we're here for.
Yeah, absolutely. And you know what I find so interesting about this particular set of stories is this idea that we've got these kinda separate threads, right?
Yeah.
You know, from Taylor's Instagram post to Trump on Truth Social, it all speaks to-
Yeah, you can hear the, the audio artifacting a little bit.
When he said "yeah," he kinda cl- clipped out weirdly there.
Yeah. Oh, wow, they have AI podcast generators.
What are we doing doing a radio show, dude? [laughs] We can just, uh, you know, write a prompt and make an AI podcast. Like, dude-
Let's use one.
Let's use one?
Yeah.
All right. AI podcast generator, they got one-
I'm sure you, you'll have to create account and sign in and all that crap.
Uh, yeah. Well, this one, it says, "Enter a topic or script to generate a podcast."
All right, tell ChatGPT-
All right, let me get into ChatGPT
... to give you an in-depth script
about how Jade Davis is way too skinny and he's freaking everybody out.
Okay, let's see. Please give me a prompt for an AI generated podcast
about Jade Davis being too skinny and scaring everyone.
Perfect.
All right, wait on ChatGPT here. All right, here's the prompt. [laughs] "The, the case of Jade Davis: Too skinny for this dimension." All right, here we go. I'm gonna punch this into the AI podcast generator.
And I can guarantee you that website is gonna let you type it in, you press enter, and it's gonna be like, "Hey, sign up to use this. Create an account."
Oh, it probably will. All right, I'm generating podcast. All right, it's slowly churning, so while we wait for this, I, I told it to give us one to three minutes. I probably should have done like 30 seconds, but it, it's moving at a fairly decent pace here. Hopefully, it, uh, just gets done quickly, and I'm, I'm, I picked a man with a deep voice and an upbeat woman. All right? So-
Every, every radio show out there?
[laughs] Yeah, yeah, pretty much. Okay, now
how do we... Okay, we, I don't need to review the script. I just want to continue generating podcasts. All right. So it's got a script for us. Uh, "Panic on Air: Jade Davis Defies Physics." [laughs]
[laughs]
And, uh, now it's generating the podcast, so we have to just sit here and patiently wait, and we're gonna see how... I mean, we threw this together in a matter of seconds right here on the show. Very minimal effort. We had ChatGPT come up with the prompt for it. You know, it was a pretty in-depth prompt, too. I didn't read through the whole thing. Okay.
So, last night I was scrolling through my phone, right? And suddenly, this headline just jumps out at me. "Jade Davis: Too skinny for this dimension." I'm not exaggerating here. My coffee nearly leapt out of my hand. Did you see those photos? She looks like a rumor about a skeleton.
"She."
I couldn't look away. It's like her body is skipping dimensions. Her legs are less actual limbs and more like suggestions.
[laughs]
The real kicker, though? Her shadow detached itself and started giving TED Talks about existential lightness. I mean, has anyone ever been haunted by negative calories before?
[laughs]
Exactly. Studio lights don't even know-
And it doesn't sound good.
That's awful.
[laughs] It doesn't sound good. The, the wording is pretty funny, but it-
It sounds like, it sounds exactly like ChatGPT.
Yeah, it sounds very, very robotic, for sure. So I, I gotta give Note GPT two thumbs down on, on, uh, believability. But that one we didn't have to sign up. We didn't have to do anything. I just jumped in, punched some stuff in. Bam! And it, it gave us, uh, m- like three minutes of podcast, and it looked like it could generate, like... Let's see. How long can you make it here? "10 to 15 minutes." So you can't generate a full podcast, but you could do in chunks and just put them together, you know? Do- Most people are doomed. It... Again, if you're into podcasting, just give up. [laughs] Just give up. You into making music? Just give up. [laughs] What other things should you just give up on, Peaches?
Uh, uh, graphic editing?
Graphic editing, just give up.
Uh, news anchor?
News anchor? Yeah, you gotta go. Uh, writing, probably.
Voice actor?
Voice actor, just give up. Um, yeah, I mean, pretty much we're, we're all just gonna be, I think, like, uh, in the Matrix at some point. We'll just be in tubes, just feeding the machines. [laughs] Yeah, it's gonna be the only way humanity survives. Yeah, en- enjoy life, people. Hope you had a great lunchtime [laughs], and, uh, we'll talk to you tomorrow for Halloween, Peaches! Halloween!
Well, I got my show to do.
Oh, yeah, Peaches will be back in a few, like two o'clock.
Yeah.
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