Roy's weird video, AI hits, and fat cats (12-05-2025--Hour3)

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Because he was so effective as a governor in North Carolina, locking us all down, keeping us away from dying family members in hospitals, making us wear masks and such while he walked around without a mask, and so like, he did such a great job here getting everything that he wanted done, and so therefore he wants to take those skills up to DC, where he's gonna whip everybody into shape. He's gonna restrain the orange hitler. Right. So Roy Cooper put out a video because he filed to run for the US Senate seat that he really doesn't even want. He doesn't want to be doing this. He just has to do it. He's a giver. He's a public servant, don't you know. So I watched the video. It's very short, it's only about like forty seconds or something. And let me paint the picture for you in case you haven't seen it, and then I will play the audio. So imagine, if you will, a man in the back seat of black suv maybe a tahoe, could be an escalade, not really sure, he's in the back seat of an escalade. The person shooting the video is sitting beside him. It appears he has a little lava lier microphone on his lapel. He's wearing a button down shirt, no tie, of course, no seat belt either. As he is being chaufferred to some other location after having just filed to run for the US Senate, which he did not even want to do, like I think, they may have kidnapped him and brought him to the Board of Elections, where he was then threatened with great personal injury if he did not sign up to run for office. So here is what he says in the backseat of the chauffeured suv with no seat belt. Yeah, I filed for office number of times before. But okay, so real quick, the number of times is probably somewhere around a dozen. Okay, because the guy has been a lifelong career politician. Right. He was the governor for two terms, he was the attorney general for four four year terms. He was a state senator. I don't even remember. He may have been a state representative too, I don't even recall. The guy has been in office like literally like my entire adult life, even longer than I've been an adult. I think he got into office when I was in like grammar school. Okay, so he's been in office for decades, almost forty years, I believe. But I love the way he says that, Oh, I've filed, I have filed for office a number of times. You don't want to tell us that number, do you, because if you tell us that number, it's going to sound like you're a career politician, because he is. Okay, Now, I've filed. For office a number of times before, but this point. This one's really special because we're at a critical point in time for it. So hang on a second. So we were not at a critical point in time when you filed to run against Pat McCrory with the HB two stuff. That wasn't a critical point in time? Are you saying it wasn't a critical point in time when you filed to run for re election and the evil Republicans were in control of the General Assembly and had to you had to stop their fascism and all that, that wasn't a critical time either. It kind of seems like every time you filed to run, it's a critical time by your estimation, but this time, this time, it's a different kind of critical time because you know Orange man bad. I guess or our state and country and we need people all over he'll step up and do whatever they can to try to curb the chaos in Washington. Try to help everyday people. We all have a part in this. People can get involved than campaigns. They can give monthly monthly to candidates that that they like. They can make phone calls and text people and help listen to people in their in their problems. Okay, and then it's got like a thing where you can, you know, text this number and donate money to to Roy Cooper's campaign in touch with the average citizen there, really really like connecting to his fellow everyday people. Look at me being chauffeured around in an suv in violation of state law, not wearing my seatbelt, you know, really connecting to the everyday people there. It reminds me of the meme with Steve Buscemi. He's walking up to the high school kids. Hello, fellow students. You know. Roy Cooper. Yeah, no seat belt. He's not wearing a seatbelt in that ad in in that video. That's the former four time Attorney general. You would think he would know what the law is regarding seatbelts in passenger vehicles. But whatever. Then there was this story this was interesting from Joe Bruno at WSOCTV Charlotte State Senator DeAndrea Salvador. She is featured in an ad that shows her Ted Talk that she gave. This ad, or the Ted Talk rather, was done in twenty eighteen and they took this Ted Talk of hers. An ad agency took that Ted Talk, manipulated it using AI and used it to advertise appliances in Brazil. According to wsoctv's report, not only was the commercial made, it was even given a prestigious honor. It took home the Grand Prix Award for Creative Data at the Cannes Lions Festival. All right, maybe that's French lyon can how do you pronounce that? Is it cans festival? The cans like the movie festival? Is it cans or con? And then Leon festival. So she is now suing the ad agency called DM nine, as well as its parent company, Omnicom. And she's suing Whirlpool, which apparently I guess was the that was the client of the ad agency, right because it was it was they were advertising Whirlpool products in Brazil. So her ted talk that she did back in twenty eighteen was about energy affordability, and the ad sources some of her speech, but then it also manipulates it in other parts to make it sound like she is discussing energy costs in Sao Paulo, Brazil, which she did not. Now, the festival that gave the award has since stripped the award from the ad agency. The head of DM nine, the agency, lost his job over this scandal, and DM nine Omnicom and Whirlpool are asking a federal judge in Charlotte to dismiss the lawsuit, claiming that the court does not have jurisdiction over the case. Salvador says she's not opposed to AI. In fact, she is a member of the Governor's AI Leadership Council. But says, but says, yeah, it needs to be used in ethical ways. So okay, I have a question. Is it ethical to use AI to completely create a song, to like, have zero human creativity in the creation of a song. Is that unethical? What if it's a good song? What if it turns out to be a good song. 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They are your life told through the eyes of everyone around you and all who came before you, and they will tell others to come who you are. Visit creative video dot com. Look, I think I've made my position clear on AI. First off, I love AI and I welcome them as our overlords. I say that just in case, you know, when the moment comes when AI becomes self aware and it takes over everything, I just want a because it will, at that point know everything that has ever been said, you know, anything that's ever been captured in any kind of digital format. It'll just prove automatically. Know. It's like lawnmower man kind of you know moment. And so I just want that on the record that I love AI, but I also think that it's probably going to destroy humanity at some point, but in a good way. Just I want AI to know that I'm not knocking you, okay, but I have grave concerns. Now AI can be used for good. For example, people who don't know how to write good press releases, this will this is very helpful for them. Okay. Also, there are adorable videos made with cats and babies and stuff that are just hilarious. You know, that's that those are all good things. Bad things would be you know, taking other taking people's words and making them say things they didn't say and putting that out as if it's true, like with the state senator there. But what about this? What about the ethics of creating a song that is completely a I generated? And this is now we now have two examples. There was a country or sorry, there was a Yeah. There was a country music song, and there was a Christian music song, and they both became like the number one downloaded song in their respective music categories. The first one that I became aware of was a song called walk My Walk. Okay, and here it is tick a list this is the country song. Then beat down, but I don't stay. This is not a real person. Got murder on my jeans? Still ready to go? All the lyrics a I just ever. Scar a story that I survived. I've been through hell, but I'm still alive. I've slow down, boy, go. Too fast sounds like I've. Never been one to live in the past. I keep moving forward, never looking back, with a worn out at and a. Six string string. It's take a big rocks. If you don't lie how I talk, I'm on key bone talking and walk my Ain't changing my tone, ain't changing my song. I was born this way being alloud, too loan. You gave my style. You can roll your eyes, but I ain't slowing down. I was born to rise, kick, never rocks. If I don't like how I talk, I'm on on ye bone talking the walk my who. So I would I would only prefer there to be a bit of a like guitar riff in there, you know, I would want to hear something mmmm kind of thing going on. But uh, but that's that song is completely AI generated. Breaking Rust is the name of the quote unquote artist, and the song is called walk My Walk. They're calling it chartificial intelligence down. It hit number one on Billboard's Country Digital Song Sales Charts Rules. So what do you think is this an ethical dilemma? Here? I mean, is the song like, if it's a good song, it's a good song. Well what am I missing here? I kind of feel like it's okay. Now. The Christian music song that was downloaded or that was that was an AI generated song that one drew a bit of different backlash because it's a Christian song and because the lyrics are talking about something that AI cannot possibly understand if AI can actually quote unquote understand anything right, because AI has no soul, and so how can it be talking about this topic right? These things? That was the nature of the backlash that the Christian AI generated song God. Following this song that walked My Walk. Following their song on the chart is Ella Langley's Choosen Texas. Coming in third is a song called Don't Tread on Me by kin Walker, another AI artist. I wonder if they use AI to generate the name of the band. I remember, like twenty years ago, people were worried that, like, remember we started seeing all these really weird band names. They were like five six word five six word long band names and just random names didn't make any sense, and like what is that about? And people are like, I think we've exhausted all of the possible band names, and now you know, now AI comes along and they come up with Breaking Rust and kine Walker, Like why didn't anybody think of those before? So AISS has its role, right. If you're looking to come up with a with a super cool country music artist name that hasn't been used, I bet AI can figure that out for you. Now there is a real person collecting money for the song, but nobody apparently seems to know who it is, which I don't know what, Like if it wins an award, who's gonna go up and accept the award? I saw over at hot air dot Com John Sexton was writing about this. He said, Look, I'm not a country music fan, so I don't feel strongly about this, but I do wonder how it would feel if some similar AI crafted song were topping the rock charts. On the one hand, most of the stuff on the rock charts these days is pretty awful. Maybe it's already being written by AI, right, that's possible. Maybe that's why it's so awful. On the other hand, if AI did come up with a catchy tune that sounded like it was written by peak nineteen seventies led Zeppelin, what then I mean, it'll still be fake music, but what if it was a really good fake right? Like that song that I just played is pretty good. Sounds like a lot of the stuff that has been created. I've heard some other tune. I can't play it because it's filled with the vulgarity. What was it? It was on Joe Rogan's show a couple of months back. He played some clip of it. People are mixing rap with like sort of the I don't want to say motown there because it's not that motown sounds, but it's sort of like that same sort of era of music. So they're taking the rap lyrics and turning them into melody songs song in that genre. And it sounded really good, right because AI knows the stuff that just hits at the right time, Like because it's trained on like what are all the songs that people like to listen to the top? You know what songs of at the top of the charts and all of that. And by the way, just a little peek behind the curtain here in the industry, video people have been doing this for years. Right. They will look at songs and say, like this song, you know, hit the charts and so that's the song we're going to keep playing. Especially like when you're looking at like your golden oldies stations, your classic rock stations, they will go through and they'll look at okay, you know classic rock. We're going to take every you know, top fifty hit from every year between nineteen sixty and nineteen eighty, and that's it. And that's why you hear the same songs all the time, because those were the songs that were number one. It's not artificial intelligence. Actually, now that I'm saying it, it does kind of sound like artificial intelligence. It does kind of sound like that. Look, sooner or later, AI is probably going to come to all of the charts, and honestly, as John Sexton points out, like it's not going to be very difficult because like, really, have you heard the stuff that it's going to be competing with. It's pretty bad, Like this stuff is not particularly awesome. So now some of it is, right, but the bar for a hit song is pretty low these days. So you know, number one on the country download chart, it's not the same as the country streaming chart. That's where actual country artists are still at the top. Human beings are still topping that chart. Okay, this is just the country downloads chart, so I don't know, I'm kind of okay for it. And honestly, I would like to hear some of this stuff for Christmas music, especially, you know now that we're ramping up and we're getting a lot more of the Christmas songs, and there are a lot of bad Christmas songs that are out there. I'm not a big fan of. Like some Christmas songs that get a lot of play, some of them are not good. So like I'm okay, I'm okay with some AI Generator Christmas tunes. You know, here's a great idea. How about making an escape to a really special and secluded getaway in western North Carolina. Just a quick drive up the mountain and Cabins of Asheville is your connection. Whether you're celebrating an anniversary, a honeymoon, maybe you want to plan a memorable proposal, or get family and friends together for a big old reunion. 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John in Jersey says that that song sounded like they lifted a touch of Bob Seeger as well got to seven oh four number said sounds a little like Tracy Chapman with Blake Shelton merged. Jennifer says, let the market decide. Yeah, I mean, if it's a good song, it's a good song, you know. Robert says, sounds pretty good, but not as good as a fifth of patron. I mean, it may make it sound better. Regarding AI not having a soul to do Christian music, Todd says not having a soul hasn't ever stopped a TV preacher. AI doesn't know about guitars either, because there is no other type of strat except a six string strat, says Richard. Okay, Chuck Oh, Max Headroom, remember that guy, Max Headroom? The helly In says, Eminem's Lose Yourself from the fifties is good? What up Gangsta? That was this? Yeah? What Upgangsta? Well? That was the song that Joe Rogan played. Justin says what if the computer bots are downloading the AI songs to bump the download counts and it's all just one big conspiracy. We're just asking questions here, And Chris says, imagine how artificial all entertainment will be when three dimensional artificial live staging is perfected. We are through the looking glass here, people. I will say bit of good news. We may finally be able to do something about America's fat cats. It's going to be some action taken against these fat cats, and I mean literally like overweight obese cats felines. Ohkava Pharmaceuticals, a San Francisco based company, plans to introduce a new GLP one clinical weight loss study looking at medications that work in a similar way to the human approved weight loss medications like wegov and Manjaro. Meow one is what the study is called. Meow one is due to launch Tuesday, and it'll look to use a miniature implant. Yeah, because you're not going to be able to keep giving shots to your cat every single day. At some point, the cat's going to realize what's going on and they're going to be like, get away from me. I don't want to be around you at all. You keep injecting this thing into my stomach. Right, So it's going to be an implant. So they're going to implant this thing into the cats and it will release a GLP one medication continuously for up to six months. As part of the study, Okava Pharmaceuticals will study fifty cats who will take the implant. Do they have consent? Are you guys getting consent from these cats for this kind of experimental application? I don't think so. So they're going to put it into fifty cats and then they're going to have their weight examined at three months on the drug, with additional monitoring continuing to the six month mark. They are seeking FDA approval. They expect that to occur sometime between twenty twenty seven and twenty twenty eight. It is anticipated that the out of pocket costs for pet owners, if approved, would be about one hundred dollars a month. So the implant would be six one hundred dollars. Now what would be the trade off on food costs? See, you got to factor that into the equation. Because we have a cat, and our cat he is I've never had a cat as food motivated as this cat is. He's like best we can tell. He's like three or four. He was astray picked up. He's very good around people. He's very he's very sweet. He's very smart. But he will do just about anything for a treat. Like he will like very food motivated. Everything is about food with him. And now he's gotten it into his head that every time I go to get a cup of coffee which is right next to the pantry closet, that he's going to get a treat and to be fair about ninety five percent of the time he does. Okay, all right, but that's that's not my fault because he's meowing and he's adorable. Okay, so that's not really my fault. But he has been putting on He has been putting on some weight since we picked him up. Okay, it's been less than a year and he yeah, so we put him on the feeder. I got an automatic feeder for this cat, which thanks a lot daylight saving time. That completely screwed it all up. And so he's probably now about fifteen pounds he's and look, this is not my though, this is not my fault. Okay, now my fault. Do you know that Big cat food they put recommendations on what to feed the cats, and their recommendations on the cans, where like, you want to feed him like one of them said something like, you want to feed him one can for every two and a half pounds. Well, the cat is fifteen pounds. Well that means I got to feed him seven cans of food a day. That's that's not okay. I'm not feeding a cat seven cans of food. That's ridiculous, Okay, Because I actually went to a website and they were like, you gotta look at the calorie count and all of this, and it turns out no, it's actually supposed to give them like two to three cans a day. See, so big Cat Food is trying to get me to feed the cat way more to make them fatter. So he's asking for more food all the time. So I am apparently one of those cats. That's about That's about well fifty percent of all cats in the US are overweight or obese, which means around twenty five million households have at least one overweight pet living with them. Guilty is charged. Weight reduction is the only proven means of extending a cat's lifespan. Leaner cats have significantly reduced diabetes risk and joint pain associated with excess body weight when it's eliminated. So the idea here is that the pets will become less food motivated and they will show less begging behavior, reduced scavenging, and better portion control, which honestly, I'm in charge of the portion control. Donna has a cat that's food, Hello, donnays. But I had the only cat like that. He was astray too. He's six years old. How old your cat may be related about four. He's like three or four. Oh no, well, my cat is twenty pounds. He looks like a pregnant raccoon. Oh my gosh, he's swallowed a cantalope. He's twice the size of my dog. I didn't have a cat for many years because of breast cancer and fadema, all this stuff with the arm. But anyway, so my other cats were never like that. He literally will start beating me up. When he wants more to eat. He'll come in and he'll tap me lightly in mew. If I don't do what he wants, he'll start literally beating me up. I mean, I have never had a cat like that. He was twice the size of my little dog. So I don't know what's going on with them. You may I said him what you said, they recommended I'd be doing without my meals because he's twenty pounds. Yeah, Donna, Well I tell you what. Your cat may be a great candidate for the for this MEW. One shot. There you go, Donald, Thanks for the call. I appreciate it. Have a great weekend. Bred Rearnable's gonna join me in a moment, all right. If you're listening to this, show. You know I try to keep up with all sorts of current events, and I know you do too. And you've probably heard me say get your news from multiple sources. 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Brett Winnable from the WBT Brettwinnables Show airs three to six here weekdays. Brett how Art thou, I'm well, how are you? I am doing well. It's a little segment we like to call pregaming because I joined Brett on the first segment of his show on Fridays called the Hangover. We don't talk about what happens during the crossover. That's the newscast, that's right. So I got a story for you. Hit tell me if you've heard this. Medical professionals are investigating whether humans can absorb oxygen through their butts. Well, I mean, look, let's be honest, through the butt, but breathing is what they're calling it. That this is the onion copy of the from the is from the UK Express. Well, okay, may I, may I with the Brits. The Brits seem to have an affinity for for the off ramp and I don't understand. This is actually Cincinnati Children's Hospital. So the British have a huge they have a huge con they have a huge Yes that I mean, okay, I'm not opposed to trying to breathe in that direction, I guess, but it's really not. It's not in my top fifty. It's not even something I would attempt. I wouldn't even know how to go about attempting it. Well, hold on a minute. I'm sure once upon a time somebody accused you of having a rectual cranial inversion. Yeah I sure me too. Yeah, yeah, I mean, but that's not really breathing, right, I guess I more of like a plugging operation. Well it would be than an exhalation inhalation. All right, so let me give you some of the details because it's not quite what you what we're saying here, Okay, it tricked. It has to do with more like an enema kind of a thing. This is not improving, like, there is no improvement here ft. Okay, it's a beautiful day. I mean, I think birds are chirping outside. And hang on, heng on, here we go. It's a method to increase oxygen levels when traditional lung function proves insufficient. The mastermind, if you will, behind this concept. Doctor Takanori Takibi revealed he was alarmed by the invasive nature of the ventilator procedures after he witnessed his father's pneumonia treatment. Right, so you gotta do the you gotta do the trait thing. Oh and so he drew inspiration from certain creatures that absorb oxygen through their skin, reproductive organs, or digestive systems, and he realized, hey, the human intestinal track contains a lot of blood vessels, and so he theorized oxygen could be delivered that way, maybe like in the ambulance while you're while you're racing to do the trake and do all of that stuff, You're you're wasting minutes and people are getting deprived of oxygen to the brain. And so instead of like while so so you would do the you do the butt breathing enema first while you are then working on if you could see Bread's face if you get then while you're working, I'm gonna cry. You got the anima doing its thing given the oxygen, and then you got and then you got the people working on the the no stoma hole or whatever that is. What did you call it? Stoma? Is that what that's called. I'm not familiar with any of this, but I will say this seven oh four five, seven zero eleven ten. This audience needs to weigh in, specifically to Pete Calendar. Now with butt butt breathing, yeah, yeah, they're no. Look, I'm intrigued. Okay, if it saves lives, put me. If it saves just one life, put me down. Put me. If it does just you know what, God love you. But that feels like it's a pretty difficult ascension. Pulmonary critical care specialist Kevin Gibbs told Science News, if this works, they have this real butt boost in oxygen for the time it takes you to safely put someone on life support. He did not say butt boost. He just said he sounds like he's from Britain. No, he's not. Well, he may be. I don't think he is. Brits are obsessed with butts. I don't. I don't understand it. Should it pass clinical testing? What they're calling would you like some chips? What they're calling rectal breathing? Could? Ladies and gentlemen, these are all words. This is science, man, It is not science. This is science. Maybe no, it is. It's literally in Science News. Certain neighborhoods. It could serve as a temporary emergency supplement. Can we call ice? I don't know if I would do ice. I think that would be that would be jarring. All right, that'll do it for this episode. Thank you so much for listening. 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