AI Alarm Bells & Heather Brooker's Entertainment Report

Customs and Border Protection agents have been working. They are the ones that were involved in the death of Renee Good and the death of Alex Preddy. But those two agencies? will be able to continue operations with almost no disruption based on the way the government is set up and the Department of Homeland Security is funded. However, you will see things like the Transportation Security Administration and you will see things like the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Oh, and don't forget, the United States Coast Guard who will be impacted by this partial government shutdown. And again, they're supposed to be out of work. I shouldn't say out of work. They should, they're supposed to be out of D.C. next week because they get a week-long recess for President's Day holiday. We'll see if they come back to work to try to get any of this done. This would be the third partial or full federal government shutdown in just over three months. And Chuck Schumer, the... Senate Minority Leader has suggested that this is a vote that is a, quote, shot across the bow to Republicans that Democrats are not going to support a blank check for chaos. John Fetterman, I mentioned, was the only one who broke with Democrats, the only Democrat who voted to fund DHS, at least avoid the government shutdown. He says right now Democrats have a brand problem. It's a little bit ironic that the guy who suffered a massive and at one point debilitating stroke is the one who's speaking the most sense. He pointed to some new polls that suggest the popularity of the Democratic Party is declining. And he said, have you seen the polling? This was a CNN interview he did. He said the biggest liability for Democrats is the brand that it continues to drop. Quinnipiac poll released in December found that 18%, 1 8, 18% of voters approve the way. Democrats are handling their job in Congress compared to 73% who disapprove. There was some good news economically today. New federal data showed inflation slowing down, wages actually going up in January. Bureau of Labor statistics showed that consumer prices rose 2.4% last month. That was below the forecast of 2.5%. And we did see some positive movement on Wall Street as a result of that. Average hourly earnings actually rose. 3.7% over the last year. That outpaced inflation, which is good news and reflected real wage growth. Private sector employers also added more than 170,000 jobs in January. That's all prompted. Pretty positive day on Wall Street. The Dow is up 219 points right now. Still back down below the 50,000 mark. This doesn't mean a whole lot, but it's just a nice round number to talk about. And then...

President Trump pardoned five former NFL players for crimes that range from drug trafficking to counterfeiting, starting with New York Jets Hall of Fame defensive tackle Joe Cleco. Houston Oilers, Oakland Raiders, Halfback, Bailey Cannon, who died a few years ago. Three other former players granted clemency, Dallas Cowboys offensive tackle Nate Newton, Browns, Baltimore Ravens running back, Jamal Lewis, and Bill's running back, Travis Henry. All of the former players that were pardoned by the president had already served their prison sentences, but this pardon actually clears their criminal records. The woman... who's basically been in charge of pardons. Alice Marie Johnson said, excellence is built on grace and the courage to rise again, and so is our nation. Grateful to the president for his continued commitment to second chances and says mercy changes lives. All right. Up next. Some of the people who work on the absolute cutting edge of AI. are sounding some very loud alarm bells about what's going on in those computers. And I'm not just talking about Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise in a fight scene that no one has actually done before that's coming out of a computer. It's some of that background stuff that's happening that is scaring the people who are working on it most closely. We'll talk about that coming up. You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI AM 640. We're going to be talking to Heather Brooker about entertainment coming up at the bottom of the hour. Big 12 o'clock hour rolls around. I'll tell you who L.A.Q. is and why she may be grandma's best friend. I don't care who your grandma is. She may be L.A.Q.'s best friends. Also, what you learned this week on the Gary and Shannon Show and the nine news nuggets you need to know. Matt Chuck Schumer is a name. probably don't recognize, but he's a guy who's been working in sort of the cutting edge of AI for the last several years. Spent six years building a startup when it comes to artificial intelligence, one of the investors in AI. He says, I live in this world in AI. And he says, I'm writing a piece for people in my life who don't live in AI. Family, friends, the people I care about who keep asking me. So what's the deal with AI? Now, again, this guy. He's a guy who has been building artificial intelligence models and code for years and has seen it from the ground up in many cases. And he said, even though I work in AI, I have almost no influence over about what's about to happen. And neither does the vast majority of the industry. He said, the future is being shaped by a remarkably small number of people, a few hundred researchers at a handful of companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Deep Mind, and a few others. And a single training run can produce an AI system that shifts the entire trajectory of the technology in just a few months or even...

weeks. So, he says this is what's amazing. You and I see sort of the butt, well, that's not the right word. Now, I'll say that. You and I kind of see the butt end of AI. We see the big hammer that comes with Grock answering questions about how to cut down a recipe or how to make an image clearer or something like that. You know, the fun, playful tools that we've been using. these large language models for chat GPT, GROC, Google Gemini, things like that. But what he says is there have been big jumps here and there. But each big jump up until now was spaced out enough. You could absorb them as they came. And then last year, the new techniques for building the models unlocked a faster pace of progress. And then it got even faster. And then it got even faster again. And it wasn't that just each new iteration of AI was better than the last. It was better by a lot. And the time between those model resources was shorter. You're talking about exponential technological advance. And he's arguing, we ain't ready for it. He, for example, says, I am no longer needed for the actual technical work of my job. He says, all he has to do now is describe what he wants AI to do for him in plain English. You don't have to write crazy code for it. Just do it in plain English. And it just appears. It's not a rough draft that he has to go through and spell check or look for errors or anything. He says, it's the finished thing. I can tell AI what I want. walk away from the computer for four hours and come back to find the work done and done well, and in fact done better than I or anybody on my team would have done with no corrections needed. As an example, he says, I'll tell the AI, I want to build this app, here's what it should do, here's what it should look like, figure out how the user flow maximizes it, what the design looks like and all of it. And it does. It writes tens of thousands of lines of code in minutes. And then, and this is the part that would have been unthinkable years ago. It opens the app itself, all while it's working in its little computer. It would click through the buttons millions of times, tests the features, millions of times, uses the app the way a person would. And if it doesn't like how something looks or feels, it goes back and changes it on its own. it iterates, it fixes, it refines until it's satisfied. And then only once it's decided that the app meets its own standards, does it come back and say, it's ready for you to test? And he says, usually, when I test that app, it's perfect. And he goes, he writes, that's what my Monday looked like. There's a new thing that comes out, though. He said the chat GPT 5.3 codex. I don't know what the hell that means.

He says, it wasn't just executing my instructions. It was making intelligent decisions. It had something that felt for the first time like judgment and like taste. An inexplicable sense of knowing what the right call is that people always said that AI would never have. And he says it's always been early to adopt, he has always been early to adopt these AI tools and to use them a lot. But the last few months, he said, have shocked me. These are not incremental improvements. This is a different thing entirely. And he says, what scares him the most is, I was going to say Americans, humans have been the ones that write the code to make AI. Now we're asking AI to write its own code to make AI. And if it can write that code, it can help build the next version of itself better. The smarter version, which then can write better code faster, which builds an even smarter version. You see where that's going. And that making AI great at coding. is the strategy that unlocks everything else. And listen, you and I may be on the clunky end of all of this. You and I may be sort of on the... the back end of it, but he's got some suggestions about how we, normal people who aren't involved in technology, might want to keep an eye on this thing. 1220, we'll get into some of this guy's suggestions about what to do about it. Gary and Shannon will continue. We'll do entertainment with Heather Brooker when we come back. You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI AM 640. Friday the 13th, February 13th, tomorrow's Valentine's Day. A reminder that the 10th anniversary party is coming up for this show. The Gary and Shannon Show has been on the air for 10 years and we're throwing a party coming up Saturday, March 7th in the afternoon at Brewery X in Anaheim. Now, this is not a public event, but we do want you to be there. So. Space is limited. Attendance by invitation only to see if you can get an invite. You do have to sign up. Go to KFIam640.com slash gas party. Again, KFIam640.com slash gas party. Put your name in there. We are only taking entries through next Friday. Might have some tickets left over after that. You can win on the air. Maybe. But the best chance is to get your name on the list. to see if you get an invite. KFIam640.com slash gas party. A bunch of people that you hear on the show, of course, will be there, we'll be there, a bunch of people behind the scenes. Our own Heather Brooker is going to be there as well. Not that we own you, but you know what I mean. I get it and I'm pumped. It's going to be an absolute lot of fun. And there's a bunch of stuff that we're going to be given away. Are we allowed to say what I'm going to be doing there? You'll be being there.

We've already said. Oh, okay. Are you going to roast us? Are you going to poke fun at us? Yes. Have you run by? Have you done some, you know, done some spots at the Ice House just to prepare your set? I have been recruited to roast. Yeah. And I am beyond excited about it. A big thank you to everybody who has helped out with this, including our friends at Thorson Buick, who have come alongside to help put this party on. So you and I were just talking about that segment I did about artificial intelligence. iterating itself to a point exponentially now where we we're a kind we've lost the reins we this is a runaway carriage that has turned into a bullet train that will be a rocket ship by the end of next week and oh absolutely we don't know how to we don't know what's coming and there's nobody in government as much as anti-regulation as i might be there's nobody in government who would be able to wrap their heads around what's coming yeah i i right now is truly a bullet train that is left the station and it is gone far beyond what I think anybody originally thought it could be, you know, that the Tom Cruise, I know you talked about it earlier, but the Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, Deep Fake that's going around right now is so good. You could easily make an entire movie, a short film, a series, you know, based on a few prompts. And most people with the untrained eye... would not notice that it's all AI generated. Like my mom, who is almost 80, will send me stuff and go, Heather, is this AI? I've got her to the point now where I'm like, ask me. Does Donald Trump actually have Eagle's wings? And I'm like, yes, he does. She wouldn't believe me if I said he didn't anyway. But I'm like, she at least will ask me now, Heather, is this AI? And I'm like, no, mom, puppies do not talk.

But they could. But they could. And it would be great if they did. I wish they did. It would be great. It would be so great. My dog would have an accent. I know. I was going to say, how would Peter? Would he be like an old Scottish man? Yes. Getting the wall. All right. So Crox is getting into the world of entertainment. How wild is this? Make me not hate it. Make me not hate it. Well, here's how I want hate it. How about this title? Charmed to Meet You. That's right. Crocs is now stepping into the world of microdramas and their first original series is called Charmed to Meet You and it is based on a true story. It's inspired by a true love story involving a crox employee named Lexi in early 20s. She notices a mysterious neighbor's men's pair of classic croc clogs, try saying that three times, outside an apartment door and it leads to shenanigans and they fall in love. So, This is just one of many brands that are starting to branch out into microdrama's short projects. You know, we've talked a lot about vertical shorts and things like that. This is what's happening now. The trend is for these major companies. You've got J.C. Penny doing it. Procter and Gamble just did want a 55 episode microdrama series. The Gap has hired a huge entertainment branding person to create their microdramas. It is a way for them to promote their brand in an entertaining storytelling way. And what we're seeing now with Crocs is they're releasing it today on Real Shorts, which is a Chinese app that features a lot of microdramas. And they're going to promote it on their social media channels. So this is the direction that so much content is going in right now. And people apparently around the world are just eating it up. I have never sat through other than just doing research for our stories here. I'm, I. It's not in my algorithm. I don't sit down and watch a lot of micro dramas because it's a little bit cheesy. It is very dramatic. It's very soapy kind of a feel to it. So if that's what you're into, then Crocs has what you need for Charmed to Meet You in time for Galentine's Day. Did I mention it's Galentine's Day? My daughter did Galentine's Day, I think, on Tuesday or Wednesday. One of those days. She went out with her friends. It's a really fun thing to do. Speaking of Parks and Rec, we were talking to Parks and Rec earlier. That's where it started was Galentine's Day when she gets all the girls together and they have their lunch. So cute. The entertain me podcast is yours. Yes. Entertain me with Heather Brooker. That's right. Where do I find it? So entertain me with Heather Brooker. You can find, obviously, on the IHeart Radio app or wherever you get your podcast. It is all entertainment stories I cover from SoCal to the silver screen, some of its local events that are happening that people may not know about. It's interviews that I do for the news that maybe I don't get to fit the whole interview in. You know, our news stories here are very short. We like to be quick with it.

but it gives me a chance to let those interviews breathe a little bit. I just recently interviewed Howie Mandel, Mindy Cohn, but also talk to some local people who are facing some serious issues with the entertainment industry. So it's a little bit of everything and it's a really fun show and it is. nominated for a Golden Mike. It's a finalist for a Golden Mike Award. I'm really excited about that. Well, congratulations. Thank you. I'm up against Alex Michelson, which I think. Whoever heard of that guy. I know. I'm like, I don't think I have a shot. Entertain me with the Heather Brooker. That podcast is available. Anywhere you find your podcast, just search for entertain me. A couple movies we'll talk about when we come back. One of them is, well, I should say, these are diametrically opposed movies. As far as what I know about them so far, Gary and Shannon will continue. You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI AM 640. What you learned this week on the Gary and Shannon show is coming up at 1230, so let us know what it is that you have learned. Take advantage of the weather because it's going to change significantly by Sunday into Monday. We do expect to see a pretty significant storm. that will be rolling in. They're talking about the potential for thunderstorms, flooding, gusty winds, dangerous surf. All of that is potentially on the block. Also, hookers trying to unionize in Nevada. The majority of brothels. in Nevada or in those rural counties, there's a place called Sherry's Ranch, about an hour away from Vegas. 74 of the workers there have submitted a petition to unionize with the National Labor Relations Board. 74. Yeah. That's a big ranch. I feel like wasn't that featured on a reality show, like an HBO show? Sherry's Ranch. Yeah. There was the chicken ranch. No, that's. That's that Dolly Parton movie. Dennis Huff? Was that his name? I don't remember. I don't remember if it was Sherry's ranch, but there was. I do remember what you're talking about. Yeah. The, um, it was the place where, um, the bunny ranch, that's what it was. Why are they all ranches? Uh, you know, again, rural areas. Uh, they, here's the thing that bothers me the most. They want to, they want to, um, unionize under the name, United Brothal workers. That's not a problem. It's that they would be represented by the communications workers of America. Oh. Now, it's not our union. No. But people are going to confuse us for hookers. What is? I mean, they probably already do, to be honest. We have a lot of ads. We do sell ourselves a lot here at KMI. Now, that's interesting. Out of all the unions to join, what union would a brothel fall under? Perhaps pipe fitters? Oh, come on. Too easy. But I'm pop. Okay, so Wuthering Heights is officially out. It is out. The reviews I've seen so far don't make me want to watch it at all. But I guess it's supposed to be pretty hazy-tazzi. It's very hotcy-totsy. If you're going in expecting to see that classic movie or, you know, iterations of the previous movies that you've seen, you're not. It's kind of upended. It's a modern take on it. It's very sexual. It's too hot people doing hot stuff.

If you know that going into it, maybe you'll be, maybe you enjoy it. So keep that in mind. Okay. You're going to skip that one? I think I am. But there's others for you. Crime 101. Yes. Chris Hemsworth. These are really, if I know they do give, somebody gives awards for movie trailers. These are some of the best movie trailers I've seen in a couple of years probably. Yes. So the movie trailer, I feel like, does it justice. This is a really fun jewelry heist. capery kind of movie with an incredible cast. Chris Hemsworth, Hallie Bari Weiss, Barry Keegan, Nick Nolte is in it, and Mark Ruffalo. And it takes place in Los Angeles. Hooray, we love a film that's shot and based in L.A. Was it actually shot here? Yeah. Okay, good. Yeah. So what's cool is that a lot of the... cars chases, there's a lot of car chases because it's a heisty kind of film. They look very uncoreographed. You know, reviewers are saying it looks like they really took a lot of risk and that it wasn't quite as planned out. And so it's just a really fun, immersive stunts. So basically, Chris Hemsworth plays Davis, a jewel thief who specializes in targeted robberies. But his robberies are only along the 101 freeway. He's a very meticulous plan of carrying out these robberies along the 101 freeway. And Ruffalo plays the cop, the LAPD cop that kind of catches on to his antics and is going after him. And it's a really fun, it's a fun take on a heisty movie. And if you love looking at L.A. movies with the backdrop of L.A., it's a lot of fun. You'll enjoy it. Those, I always like seeing if people from my life and other parts of the country see the same movie. And I go, I had lunch. You remember that scene where they did the thing? I just did that the other day. We've been rewatching, rewatching Sons of Anarchy. And there's a scene in the seventh season where the former sheriff calls one of the guys and meets him at a diner. It's this, whatever that is, Frank's Diner, whatever it is down here on Olive with a little hotel in the background. Yes. And I noticed it. I mean, I've driven by that thing hundreds of times. But I noticed it in the show. I thought, wait a minute. And it was only the interior shot. It looks like it would be a diner somewhere in Olive Boulevard in Burbank. And lo and behold, as I drove by the next day. That was it. That was back when I feel like so many shows. Like anywhere you go, like somebody was filming in L.A. Remember all the yellow signs were everywhere? The trucks were everywhere. There was so much happening. And I do love watching shows like that. And I always wonder if people from other cities, like if movies are happening in Paris in front of all of these like historic places or London or whatever, if they're like, oh, yeah, I know that pub. Or I know that place if they kind of feel the same way about their city. I was in Seattle for six years and our radio station for most of that, the building was downtown Seattle. And there were very few times that Seattle was used as the backdrop for Seattle. For Seattle. I mean, I think the Tom Hanks. Meg Ryan movie. Yes, sleepless in Seattle. Sleepless in Seattle. That was one of the few where they actually used Seattle. Yes. Everything else after that, it seemed, was filmed in Vancouver with maybe some exterior shots or opening sequences. So much cheaper. Everything is so much cheaper. But they did a Sylvester Stallone movie. I can't remember what it was called. And they did a car chase through downtown Seattle. And they did it for two or three nights where...

big portions of downtown were shut down so that they could do this production and then when you see the movie everybody was like, I can't wait to see it's going to be, it's going to make Seattle look so great. It's in the shot, or it's in the movie for like nine seconds. And everything else is super close up, interior shots. You can't tell what they're going past. You can't tell what they're driving near it. Well, and that's why people advocate for filming inside studios or filming it overseas or, you know, because now with technology, you can make any backdrop look like any city in the world, you know, like. When I was a tour guide at Universal Studios, they have the whole back lot there with New York Street. And so many movies have filmed there to make it look, you know, to look set up to look like New York, but they're actually here in L.A. So it's the magic of filmmaking. Magic of filmmaking. But as we've said before, I mean, we kind of opened the whole segment with the advancement of technology. I know that when the Mandalorian was produced for Disney. that series, they used a lot of virtual sets in that, I don't remember what they called it to whatever strange name it had, but the set, this giant circular set with LED screens all around it and above it. And they could make anything, anything they wanted to. Yeah. And that is, again, the advancements and the technology that they have available to them. Now they could film. in Vancouver and be super cheap. They could film in Atlanta. They can go wherever they want. And we need to find ways to keep them here in L.A. so that we get the benefit of the jobs. And also maybe see Chris Hensworth speeding down the 101 freeway. Okay. Easy. He is my boyfriend speaking of Valentine's Day. Oh, I didn't really say. And then what is Nirvana, the band, the movie, the movie? I'm sorry, Nirvana, the band, the show, the movie. I'm very excited about this for you because I thought of this. You know, we talk a lot about how there's not been like good comedies. There's not a lot of comedies anymore. This is an unusual comedy that I think will resonate with like, especially Gen X folks. So this is a Canadian comedy duo and they have a digital series that's based on them, these two good friends in their digital series, comedians Matt Johnson and Jay McCarroll. And it is. It is basically them playing out their dream as Nirvana, the band, the show, the movie. It's funny. It's silly. It is something that is unusual. It is like Back to the Future meets Nirvana. So take all of your like fun favorite Gen X-E kind of loves and tropes and that sort of thing. They go back in time to perform as Nirvana, but not necessarily in the way that you and I remember Nirvana. It's got a couple of twists that I won't give too much away on that. But it's, it just, I think people will really enjoy it. And also more comedies, please. We need some more funny movies, the more like dark, weird, zombie horror stuff. Give us some comedy for crying out loud. We consume comedy differently now.

You think? Well, I mean, you can, you watch comedians themselves produce comedy in different ways. Yeah. They'll take a, you know, a 20-minute set that they do at the Ice House and then chop it up into tiny little pieces. Yeah. Yeah. And throw it up on social media. And that's one way that people consume it now differently. It is, you know, like you interviewed Leanne Morgan, you had Leanne on the show. Her first few episodes for me were basically just a rehashing of her stand-up set. Right. And that's what comics do. It's what they've done since the days of Seinfeld. You know, they take their jokes that work in front of a live audience and they turn it into a TV show. And then they can grow and expand from there. But to. I think gone are the days of the Judd-Apato comedies. Yeah. Do you remember that? Like 40-year-old Virgin knocked up. Like those movies were so cutting edge at the time. And people were like, yes, it was sort of a comedy renaissance in films. And we just don't have that anymore. Nobody is writing. jokes that make us laugh. And maybe it's because we're not in a position to laugh, not to get like too deep. But what makes us laugh? You know, what makes, what do we find funny nowadays? We're all too cynical. Yeah, a little bit, a little bit. That's sad. It is. Good Lord. Just to bum everybody else. And now I will take your $100 for therapy. Who could laugh in a time like this? Who could make us laugh? You know what? Me at the Gary and Shannon party. There you go. I'm going to roast the bejesus out of y'all. Ten year anniversary is part coming up. Saturday, March 7th. We want you to be there, but you have to be invited. Is that weird? It's like your Dracula. It is an exclusive party, but to get on the list of potential guests, how's that? Go to KFIam640.com slash gas party. Thank you, Heather. Thank you. Don't forget the Entertain Me with Heather Brooker podcast anywhere you find your podcast. All right. Big, huge, penultimate. 12 o'clock hour is coming up when we come back. You've been listening to the Gary and Shannon Show. You can always hear us live on KFI AM 6.40, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. every Monday through Friday and anytime on demand on the IHeart Radio app.