Welcome to Overheard at Chica’s Café, Where Friends Meet is an entertainment podcast. After producing two other podcasts, Poetic Resurrection, which is An introspective look at life and our Perceptions and Beliefs. It’s a self-help poetry site and Chica and the Man, As Unscripted as it Gets, is about two podcasters, Alex and Sonia who talk about anything that comes to mind on the day of the recording.
One of the episodes of Chica and the Man was called Overheard at Chica’s Café and I thought what a fun name for a podcast. It’s not gossip, just hearing two friends talk. This one is light, interesting, and the goal is to have it bring a smile to your face. Tune in and check out our gallery.
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Welcome to Overheard at Chica’s Café, Where Friends Meet is an entertainment podcast.
My New Scene Partner Has No Pulse
CHARACTER BREAKDOWN
CHICASuspicious of my new digital scene partner and determined to discover whether artificial intelligence can understand human emotion—or merely imitate it.
ME/I (SONIA)An actor using AI to rehearse auditions, analyze characters, and survive the occasional creative crisis. She insists it is only a professional relationship.
AIAlways available, endlessly polite, and occasionally helpful. It remembers everything—except what Sonia has already explained four times.
I have a new scene partner. It is always available, nevercomplains about starting over, and doesn’t belong to a union. There is only one problem: it has no pulse.
In this episode of Overheard at Chica’s Café, Chicadiscovers that I have been rehearsing auditions with artificial intelligence. What begins as a convenient creative partnership raises larger questions about the emotional connections people are forming with AI.
Can AI provide genuine companionship? Can it understandgrief without experiencing loss? Can it help an actor find emotional truth when it has never lived a human life? And is being responded to the same as being witnessed?
Chica and I explore the benefits, frustrations, and risksof digital companionship—from having an encouraging creative partner available at any hour to repeatedly explaining the same simple request while the AIconfidently answers a completely different question.
AI may help us think, create, rehearse, and feel less alone.But can it replace human chemistry, lived experience, or the soul behind a performance?
Most importantly: Can it get Chica and Me an audition?
