KUCI: Weekly Signals Nathan Callahan & Mike Kaspar

On this week’s episode, educator and self-proclaimed hermit who lives under a rock Athena Greene talks to Nathan about artificial intelligence, irony, artifice, thoughts, the creative process, muses, Netflix, ChatGPT, copyright infringement, electricity consumption, disturbing clichés, and so much more.

Claudia Shambaugh, the host of KUCI’s Ask a Leader, joins Nathan to discuss The Newport Beach Public Library board’s decision to move “Melissa” – a book about a 10-year-old transgender child — from the children’s section in a new appeal process that has been offered to reactionary patrons wanting to challenge decisions on where books should be shelved.

Joining Nathan is Claudia Shambaugh of KUCI’s Ask A Leader to talk about AI generated post-death time travel, grief bots, and Laurie Anderson’s Lou Reed bot; Mike Kaspar of KUCI’s Film School discussing The Balboa Cinema, The Pussycat Theater, I am Curious Yellow, and his life as a projectionist; and Mahler the Deep Fake News Dog howling about wishing someone was dead.

On this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler the Deep Fake News Dog talk about crucifixion, dog language, armadillos, the Fescue Belt, left-wing stuff, dealing with cows, simpler songs, Joni Mitchell, disasters, Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge, engagement farming, Ronna McDaniel, strange metals, sports gambling, River Action, Martha Stewart, Godzilla, and so on.

On this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler the Deep Fake News Dog talk about seeding the grounds, leftover pizza in a refrigerator, giant sequoias in the UK, asbestos in the US, perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances, outrage, Trump the Transgressive Comic, plausible deniability, malign Russian influence, waterfront property, the iPhone monopoly, rats eating our marijuana, sleeping on a jet, and so on.

On this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler the Deep Fake News Dog talk about constitutional abortion, non-existing unidentified anomalous phenomena, alien technology, Amazonian drought, altered rain gauges, German Chocolate Cake, lead in drinking water, TikTok, car apps, robotaxis in L.A., Standard Daylight Savings Time, Miami in Alaska, football frostbite, the world’s largest chocolate fountain in the world, and so on.