November 26, 2025 • 30 mins
RIP, Jimmy Cliff, the Jamaican musician has died at the age of 81. When it comes to movie star ratings, Merrill firmly believes five stars is one star too many. Horror comedies are incredibly hard to do well, and Merrill loves campy horror! Music producer Benny Blanco’s mother Sandra Levin was the victim of a home invasion in Studio City, in which she hid in her bathroom as her multimillion-dollar home was broken into. Levin is the mother-in-law of Selena Gomez. When it comes to sleep patterns, we’ve got early birds, night owls or normies. Sleep preference is almost entirely genetically predetermined. It’s evolutionary. Gen Z just loves to rename things that have been around since the beginning of forever. The latest? Micro joy, which is actually just a new name for the small moments of happiness.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
And there Chris Merril KFI AM six forty more stimulating
talk on demand any time, and the iHeartRadio app and
my friends, I have bad news.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
You just heard the music from Jimmy Cliff. There is
our return music. Yeah, he read did it? So that's
the uh you know that's the old Johnny Nash. I
can see clearly now.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Then Jimmy Cliff put kind of the reggae turn on
it for the the movie Cool Runnings.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
You remember the movie Mark, you remember Cool Runnings. I
never saw it.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
See somehow I knew you would not have seen that
because it was kind of a PG, feel good, happy
go lucky fun movie. Doesn't sound like there was no
there was no gratuitous murder.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
It wasn't in a foreign language, no zombies, nobody getting
shot in the.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Show, nothing like that. No, it's just kind of good,
wholesome family fun. I guess I'll have to watch it.
I was fifteen when it came out. You're gonna watch it,
and you're gonna go, eh, you don't know me.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Eh. Eh. It was like when I was fifteen and
I'm watching that.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
My little brother was twelve. It was a good movie
for us to go see.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
It was great. You know, it's fine. I like fun.
It's fun. It's fun.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
I mean it's I always look at this like, first
of all, movies only should have four stars, not five stars. Okay,
there's I hate the five star thing. Let's just go
back to the four stars, right, one to four. That's
all I want. I don't want this Amazon scalers, IMDb,
how many five stars?
Speaker 3 (01:37):
Nonsense, I don't want that crap. So I always looked
at it like this.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
I always thought four stars is like an amazing film,
although sometimes those four star films are not as entertaining,
you know, they're kind of slow.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Like Schindler's List is a four star movie.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
But also it's not exactly let's sit down and enjoy
a film tonight. It's definitely like a commentary type film.
It's a film, not a movie. Okay, you get my point.
I always look at like a three star as being
like that is a good movie. I like a three star,
three and a half stars, like this movie is gonna
be amazing. I love this, such a good movie. To me,
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a two star is like, okay, that was ninety minutes.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Of my life.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
I could think of worse things to happen. It was pretty,
it was alright, it was entertaining. Nothing I'm gonna remember
for a long period of time. But I'm not mad
that I saw it. A one star is like, what
a complete waste of my entire time? I want it back.
Who do I sue for my time back? That's a
one star to me. The no stars, which are incredibly rare,
(02:46):
incredibly well, I shouldn't even say no stars, are also
in the same boat half stars those That's that's my jam.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
I love that stuff. On the h I think it's
the IMDb scale that is like a one ten or
like a rotten tomatoes somewhere around at twenty five to
thirty percent is great IMDb scale. I figure about a
three and a half to a six six starts to
get a little bit too good, But like the four
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to five on the scale of ten, that's a.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Sweet spot for me. I love that so much because
those are just like the bad B movies. I love them, and.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
Yet and yet you try to mock me for watching
two Be so much. That's that's all that's on there.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Yeah, I know I really should watch it if you
look at my at my history, and you look at
my algorithms. It has me figured out, like it knows.
The Deer Camp eighty six, I believe, is one I
watched recently. I think it's Dear Camp eight six. I
think it's hang on.
Speaker 5 (03:51):
What's your preferred genre?
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Bad horror? Yeah, Deer Camp eighty six. Oh, it's so great,
so bad? It was actually kind of fun. It's campy.
I like campy. Does that make sense? I like camp
so horror comedy is incredibly difficult to do. Well, yes, okay,
you can do horror slapstick like scary movie, right, that's fun.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
I like those too, But I like campy horror.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
If it's too realistic, I have trouble separating with my suspension.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
I have trouble with the suspension of disbelief.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Okay, so I can't do that if it's if it's
if they're trying too hard to be funny, and I
would say that there was one scene of that Deer
Camp eighty six where they tried too hard, and it
was like, what was the point of that whole scene?
Speaker 3 (04:39):
But otherwise I was okay, I was like, this is fun.
I like this.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
It was it was it was labeled comedy horror, and
they did an okay job at it.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
What I really love is like, just.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Like the bad teen horror movies, like the later Jason's Okay,
that's the funny stuff, or if the If it's so
gratuitously violent that all I can do is laugh, so
unrealistically violent that makes me.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
That makes me just giggle.
Speaker 5 (05:08):
Do you remember Pandemonium? No, it's like a seventies slapstick
horror movie with the with high school students being pursued
by a slasher. But it was tongue in cheek.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
Was it well done? Oh? It's a five point three
out of ten on IMDb. I might like that.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
Now you bring up the Friday the Thirteenth movies. This
one's absolute trash. But people have really slept on the
tenth one. I believe where he goes to space. Yeah,
that's what I'm saying, Like, it's so implausible. That just
makes me and I think that one got like zero
stars or something. It's ridiculous, but it's fun to watch.
And the thing about horror comedies is that they're often
neither fish nor foul. They're not scary, they're not that funny.
(05:50):
So you know, you'll run through a hundred bad ones
before you run across an Army of Darkness or a
Shawn of the Dead.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
Oh my gosh, both of those are so good.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Sean of the Dead is classic, and all the Bruce
Campbell Evil Dead Army of Darkness all really great stuff.
I think the first wasn't the first Army of Darkness
wasn't that actually like supposed to be a horror movie
and then they kind of it was Sam Ramy right, Yeah,
And I think the first one was actually supposed to
(06:21):
be kind of like a horror movie and then they
decided to make it really campy.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
The first one was a bit of an ordeal, the
second one was kind of a remake of it with
more money, and then the third one was just flat
out like you know, a three Stooges stuff.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
I love it. That was, but it was well done.
Oh yeah, and Bruce Campbell is so good in that
stuff too.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
He's terrific. I will never understand why he is not
a bigger star than he is.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
Yeah, agreed.
Speaker 4 (06:43):
So anyway, Jimmy Cliff died, Yeah, I will say that
I took a turn, didn't Oh no, no, no, he did
The one movie that he did was called The Harder
They Come, and I've been trying to get the Criterion
addition to that forever.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
But that stuff's not cheap.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
Was it, Sam Raimie, No, No, Jimmy Cliff's The Harder They
Got Jimmy Cliff, Oh.
Speaker 6 (07:00):
No, fantastic movie. And I remember learning about it in
college and they talked about how that was the movie
that kind of brought reggae to the to the West,
to like America and okay it really he played a
lot of his songs were in the film, like.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
Oh I got to see this.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
Great. When you say it's expensive, Mark, what do you mean?
Speaker 4 (07:23):
A lot of the Criterion stuff goes out of print,
so things like the John wu Hard Boiled and The Killer,
and I think that I think The Harder They Come
is out of print, so you get on eBay and.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
It just depends. Shouldn't there be? Isn't there a Criterion
streaming channel? There is. I'm too cheap to have it,
but there is. Oh do you know how much it is?
I do not.
Speaker 4 (07:44):
When I hit the big time, I'll get that in
like the BBC channel. That's that's and I'll stop having
to assemble my own furniture. That's how I No, you'll
stop having to, but you'll still do it. Sure, Okay,
hold up, how much is Criteria Channel. It's one hundred
bucks a year, eleven dollars a month. Okay, it's not terrible.
(08:05):
They have great stuff.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
I know they do, but then again, you watch twob
for free, and so one hundred bucks over free seems
kind of tough.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
I get that well to b.
Speaker 4 (08:14):
It's got such a deep bench, and it's got good movies,
bad movies, classics, trash, it's got everything. It really it's
like a different kind of dimension of the Criterion Channel.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
It's really good. I love that about you.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
I just love it all right, bad news as we've
had celebrities that are now celebrity victims right here in
southern California.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
You'll find out who next. I'm Chris Meryl.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
I'm Chris Meryl. Pleasure being with you.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
And I always I tell people, look, I listen to
all the talkbacks, good, bad and different. They don't all
make it out of the air, but I do. If
you take the time to talk to me, I'll take the.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
Time to listen.
Speaker 7 (08:56):
Hey, guys, you were talking about the cost of some
streaming services. If you want to get a really good
barometer from somebody on YouTube, watch flick Connection.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
It's so I'm always a little nervous about recommendations like
this because if I go to someplace called flick Connection,
am I going to find out that this guy is
pranking me and it's like some sort of a sick
porn site. Yeah, proceed with caution. Yeah, I'm okay if
it's a porn side. I just don't want to be
a sick porn sid I think one way.
Speaker 4 (09:23):
Or the other, we're in the ballpark because YouTube has
some terrific old movies that you don't find on streaming.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
Okay, all right, he continues on.
Speaker 7 (09:29):
Here it's narrated by a guy named Darren van Dam.
He's got some great, great ideas, suggestions for two be
for Plex, for Netflix, all of those. So check it out.
Take care, good to hear you.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
Bye, Thanks buddy. I appreciate that.
Speaker 4 (09:44):
I'm glad you mentioned plex. Plex has some great stuff
on there too. In fact, I just caught up with
the Paul Newman classic The Hustler on Plex.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Oh, now you're talking now, you're talking about a classic
that's not a deep cut.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
Oh it's terrific. Yeah, and Newmanism, and so is Piper Laurie.
For God's sakes, Well, how could he not be? Did
you say he no? I stuttered, Okay, it's work.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Yeah, yeah, we've got a bad connection. I just uh, Mark, Mark, Mark, Mark, Mark,
are you there?
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Yeah, I don't know what's going on. I'm losing this.
This is this is bizarre. I don't know what what's
happening here. I think Ollie and I will just do
the rest of the show. That's probably just as well.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
Seems to be just dropping random, random consonants. I thought
you said Peter Laurie. No, no, no, Piper Laurie. It's
been a while since I've seen no, no, no, It's true.
I didn't think Peter Laurie was in there, but I
wasn't gonna argue with you. But whatever, that's cooler. Peter Laurie,
girl in the Laurie family. Yeah, yeah, why not, great
(11:00):
Australian actor.
Speaker 5 (11:01):
Best Australian.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Yeah he's not. We get it, guys, we got it.
Kind of like a running joke tonight, mixing up the
Australians of the Brits. Okay, what else? Oh, this is
terrible news.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
I hate this. I got bad news.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
This falls under our call this la laws slash Celebrity edition,
he said.
Speaker 8 (11:23):
Terrifying home invasion last night here in Studio City. It
left the resident hiding for her life inside her.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
Multimillion dollar home.
Speaker 8 (11:31):
Now this morning, police are still searching for the suspects
who broke in.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
When the victim don't you hate when people play sirens
on the radio. I have two pet peeves sirens on
the radio and horns on the radio because when I'm
driving and I hear that, stuff freaks me out, like
where's where's the ambulance?
Speaker 3 (11:49):
Right? I hate that? So my apologies was home alone.
Speaker 8 (11:52):
They responded to calls of a burglary around nine fifteen
last night. According to investigators, three suspects smashed through a
large sliding glass at the rear of the property. Inside,
the suspects ransacked several rooms, while the victim barricaded herself
in an upstairs bathroom and was able to call nine
one one.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
God, that's terrifying. It's right out of a horror movie.
The woman told police.
Speaker 8 (12:12):
The suspects kicked the bathroom door off its hinges before
taking off.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Now, I'm gonna tell you ahead of time here that
this reporter is burying the lead.
Speaker 8 (12:22):
One neighbor claim this home has been hit several times,
and that same neighbor also told us that the victim's
son is music producer Benny Blanco, who is married to
singer Selena Gomez. Neighbors say there has been a rise
and break ins in this area.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
Okay, yeah, you buried the lead there.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
Uh, it's not random house in Studio City was broken into,
which is which is a story in and of itself,
that there was someone in there, an older woman who
had hide in the bathroom called nine when one that's terrifying,
But that it's Selena Gomez's mother in law. That it's
that it's Benny Blanco's mom. Like, that's the story here,
that's the headline. He kind of buried the lead. And
(13:02):
also I'm old school, I spell lead led.
Speaker 9 (13:05):
You know, I feel safe.
Speaker 10 (13:08):
Much less so than when we moved here. We moved
here like twenty seven years ago for the Carpenter School District,
and it was like you could walk, let your kids
walk around all the time. It was fine much not
so much dumb. Yeah, we check our locks and make
sure the alarm's on and it's a much different life.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
Sorry you're dealing with that sucks.
Speaker 8 (13:33):
And as we said, the suspects got away. The good
news is no one was injured. Now, neighbors also tell
us that this street one issue that there is here.
There are no street lights. It's very dark, so even
though they've checked their surveillance videos, they say they really
can't see anything.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
Yeah, at least are.
Speaker 8 (13:47):
Asking for anyone who went for information to call the
LAPD's North Hollywood station.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
Reporting Life from Studio City.
Speaker 8 (13:54):
I'm Carlos Granda, ABC seven eyewitness.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
No thanks, Carlos, appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
Yeah, valance cameras, look, they're great for seeing what happened,
but not necessarily who done it unless they're like a
porch pirate in their faces right in your your doorbell cam.
I had surveillance cameras set up at a house and uh,
and I had it pointed at my drive. Somebody broke
it into my car and they stole not much like sunglasses,
and you know, it's a couple hundred bucks worth of stuff,
(14:19):
not anything too bad, but I was like.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
I'm I'm getting surveillance cameras because now there goes the neighborhood, right.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
I'm all upset about it.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
So a couple months later, I get a knock on
the door and it's the police, and I was like, hey,
what's going on. They said, uh, we noticed you got
cameras and I said, oh, yeah, I do, I've got cameras,
and things said we not just want to point it
off this way, and I said yeah.
Speaker 4 (14:45):
They said, do you have any footage that we could
look at? So I go, well, yeah, we can take
a look at it. What's going on? They go, somebody
stole your neighbor's car.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
So we pull it up and unfortunately, my camera showed
the car backing out of the driveway and driving off
then anybody doing it. Had another incident where my son
was parked in front of the house and we had
all on camera. Guy rides up on his bike. My
sid had forgotten to lock his door. Guy rides up
on his bike, checks the handle, rides away, comes back
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a little later, opens the door, rummages through everything, steals it,
goes away. I sent that to the police. I never
heard a word. They're like, oh, yeah, we'll get right on.
It couldn't make out a face. So what are you
gonna do? You know, what are you gonna do?
Speaker 3 (15:25):
I don't like it. E've been told that the early
bird gets the worm.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
However, it could be that your worm is coming at
the cost of your night, and your social life and
your sanity.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
We'll talk about that in just a few moments.
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Speaker 3 (16:45):
Huh.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Probably ask them all your legal questions would be a
terrible idea. We'll talk about the Darkness before Dawn.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
That is next.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
Chris Merril, you're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
I'm Chris Merrill. You can listen anytime on demand in
the iHeartRadio have. Tomorrow we'll do a drinks giving, so
Mark be prepared for that drinks giving.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
What exactly does this involve? You'll have to wait and
find out.
Speaker 4 (17:15):
I mean, I thought you just say drinks, but just
be prepared, all right, my liver and I will be
a blackout show. But those are always the best, aren't
They're always the best?
Speaker 3 (17:25):
Right?
Speaker 2 (17:26):
Yeah, So we'll do drinks giving and we are getting dumber.
You'll find out why we're all getting dumber or dumber arrest.
That's all tomorrow. It is a big show. Listen, don't don't.
I don't mail it in on a holiday week.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
I don't do that.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
You're gonna get You're gonna get one hundred percent of
mediocre what I bring to the table that's gonna get
their money's worse. It's exactly right.
Speaker 4 (17:56):
The time.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
It works every time, right? Or is this? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Uh, here's one of the challenges I have when I
do the evening show. I don't know when it is
that all of a sudden you decide, or when your
mind decides it's going to settle into a certain sleep pattern.
But you got early birds, you got night owls, then
you got just Normis Mark. You're a bit of a
night owl? Is that fair to say?
Speaker 3 (18:21):
You could say that? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (18:21):
Okay, So I find that if I don't have anything
going on, I start to get up earlier and earlier
and earlier. But when I was a teenager, my god,
I never wanted to get up early. I was always like,
sleep till noon, sleep later, sleep later, sleep later, right.
So I think there was a bit of a responsibility
thing that was going on. But as I got older,
I find myself getting up earlier and earlier and earlier,
and I'm like, I actually I like watching the sun rise.
(18:43):
I like having my coffee when the you know, when
it's still calm outside.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
I like all that. I like it. I do now.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
Maybe it's because I'm old and my joints start to
hurt after I've been in one position in bed for
a few hours. Maybe that's what it is. Whatever it is,
I kind of enjoy it. So I do find it
a little harder to stay up late, and maybe I'm
just getting old. But come to find out, and I
have experienced this too, when I'm getting up earlier, I
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find that my social life sucks. Maybe it's because I'm
bad at social life that I find myself going to
bed earlier and then end up getting up earlier. So
am I doing it right and Mark doing it wrong?
Or is Mark doing it wrong and I'm doing it right.
Speaker 11 (19:27):
You may have heard the saying the early bird gets
the worm. But when it comes to humans, do morning
people really have an advantage over night ours?
Speaker 3 (19:34):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (19:35):
Also, I will admit this, early birds tend to be
obnoxious about being early birds. They're like vegans or marathon runners. Insufferable. Yeah,
I will give you that. And my father is a
total early bird, and he used, you waste it the
whole day? Oh, come on, But now I start getting
(19:58):
up early. I'm like, oh man, I'll tell him, like, oh,
slept in late today. I didn't get up till six thirty.
He goes, yeah, I really disappointed myself too. I slept
until seven. I I'll go, you wasted the whole day.
I love that.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
He's like, you're right, I did ye little vengeance.
Speaker 11 (20:15):
Does one come out on top as more intelligent or
successful than the other in this battle over bedtime?
Speaker 3 (20:20):
Ah? Here you go. Mark.
Speaker 11 (20:21):
The somewhat surprising truth is that we have little say
in sleep preference, as it's almost entirely genetically predetermined.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
That's crazy. I didn't know that. But it was basically
just this is my schedule, this is what I like.
Speaker 4 (20:32):
More. No, no, no, no, no, I did I did not choose
my vampire lifestyle.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
Is that right? Okay, that's interesting.
Speaker 11 (20:37):
Chances are if you're a night owl, it was likely
passed down from an ancestor who was also a night owl,
and from an evolution or a vampire polutionary perspective, it
makes sense having individuals with varying sleeping patterns would allow
for better protection of a group throughout the day and night.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
That does make sense, and the world needs grave.
Speaker 11 (20:54):
Diggers instead of everybody sleeping at one time. Some people
naturally stay up later and some wake up earlier aware
of threats or predators, while others sleep.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
I'd never even thought of it that way. It's evolutionary.
This is from asap science or curiosity stream.
Speaker 11 (21:10):
But considering most modern societal activities happened between nine am
and five pm, it may seem clear that night owls
are put at a disadvantage.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
And they're like lefties.
Speaker 11 (21:19):
Searchers have actually coined the term social jet lag to
describe the sleep deprivation many experience to accommodate social norms.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
Ah light owls.
Speaker 11 (21:27):
This social jet leg feels like living in a different
time zone every single day.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
Mark Do you ever feel that way constantly? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (21:35):
I miss out on all sorts of things that normal
people do. Hey, do you have trouble with the doctor's appointments?
Speaker 3 (21:41):
Yes, yeah, I always ask for from late in the
afternoon and.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
They and they never want to do that because they're like, oh,
we might be running behind by then, right. Or if
you have to have surgery, they always do surgery in
the morning. Have you ever done the whole Oh I
have to I have to have surgery, or I have
to have a procedure done.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
I'm just gonna stay up all night. I mean, I
can adapt.
Speaker 4 (21:58):
But I think one of the reasons that I got
on this horrible schedule that I was in was that
last year I worked on a video game and it
was being made in Poland and they're like nine hours
ahead of us. So I would come home from work
after midnight when I get off here and work on
the game all night and then go to sleep.
Speaker 3 (22:13):
Oh my gosh, like basically waiting for the sun to
come up.
Speaker 4 (22:16):
After the sun came up. Oh, and I just never
got out of that schedule.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
Yeah. Then, how do you readjust right when you go
on vacation? What's that? I have no idea what you're
talking about? What is that? What radio scealary vacation.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
Ah yeah, well it's good because I'm working a lot
of December too, So you and I just hang out.
Speaker 4 (22:34):
Through the holidays. Oh yeah, we'll get sick of each other.
Good times, good times. It'll be wonderful.
Speaker 11 (22:39):
Considering chronic sleep deprivation has a direct effect on brain functioning,
it's no surprise that studies report night owl university students
have lower overall grades. Not to mention, early birds tend
to display more positive social traits, such as being proactive
and optimistic, and are less prone to depression or addictions
to nicotine, alcohol, and food.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
See.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Yeah, I'm not so sure about that, because I got
to tell you my anxiety has gone way up as
I've gotten older. I used to be able to be like, oh,
I got homework due, I'll do it before class tomorrow.
Now I'm like, oh my gosh, they give me homework.
I have to get this done before I can go
home from school.
Speaker 3 (23:15):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (23:16):
Like, I have half of tomorrow's show already plotted, Really
I do. I mean, now, maybe maybe we'll breaking news,
maybe we'll have something else, but I know we're gonna
do Drunks Giving tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
Right. I know that.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
I know we're gonna talk about the dropping IQs around
the world. I know some of these stories that I
want to do. Now, once it's laid out, I could
throw the whole thing out the window. But once I
have a framework, once I know what my map looks like,
then I feel like I can take I can take
an exit, I can go stop at a tourist destination. Right, Well,
you don't want to have those dead air nightmares that
(23:48):
every single person in radio has had.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
Horrible. I always have this recurring nightmare that I leave
before the end.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
Of the shift, Like I get done and I'm like, oh,
that was a good show, and I'll get my car
and I'll drive off. Oops I and I have the
station on and they're like, we don't know where he went.
And the phone rings and they go, where are you.
I'm like, I'm on my way home. They go, you
still have an hour left. That's the one I always have.
I know you could like listen, I've been around this
long enough that I know, especially especially when you're in
(24:18):
market number two like this, you guys are pros Mark,
You're a complete pro.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
I was waiting for that. ALLI led me to it.
Well placed. Yeah, so I think that we could.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
Absolutely, you guys could handle something. And we've all dealt
with curveballs in this industry. Right, breaking news or the
towers is on the fritz and we have to switch over,
or or you know, something happens, Computers all crash, microphone
doesn't work.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
Lights go out.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
We've all been there, it's all happened. But I feel
like if I can handle it a whole lot easier.
If I have my map ahead of me, if I
already know where I'm going, then I can take a
different route if I need to get there. So that's
that's where I am now. And again my anxieties through
the roof. Let me ask this. I did a Morning
s in San Diego and we went on the air
(25:03):
at five point thirty. I'm somebody who likes to prep
the dickens out of things, but I also wanted to
make sure I had fresh stories because it was the
morning show, and I wanted I wanted for people to
have the fresh news when they came. You know, they
come to me, they want stuff they haven't heard before.
They want to hear what happened overnight, that kind of stuff.
So I couldn't really do a lot the night before.
My producer would do some things the night before. But
then what happened was I would get up really early
(25:25):
and I would get into work, and I was targeted
two am, but then my anxiety kicked in and I
started waking up earlier and earlier and earlier, so it
was like two am. I don't know, Maybe if I
got there at one it would be better. Maybe if
I got there a little earlier would be better. And
it got to the point where I was going to
bed at five pm the day before, and then I
(25:47):
was getting up at midnight, and then I was heading
into work and getting there at one. There were nights
that I was actually leaving for work at twelve thirty
in the morning to do the morning show, which went
on at five thirty am. But when you think about it,
I was five thirty and then I think it was
until till nine.
Speaker 3 (26:09):
Nine.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
Yeah, it's like five thirty to nine. So when you
think about it, I got there at twelve thirty. I
was only working an eight and a half hour day. No,
it wasn't like it wasn't like it was crazy. It
was just a weird schedule.
Speaker 3 (26:18):
No, I get it. It maths out, but it's just miserable.
Speaker 5 (26:21):
Yeah, it's like hell it So it.
Speaker 3 (26:23):
Was tough on my relationship. My wife and I had
to make a bargain.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
She used to stay late at work, and we had
to make a deal, like she would come home and
be home by six, and I had to dedicate I
would promise to stay up till six thirty so that
we at least had a little bit of time that
we would see each other.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
Otherwise, we didn't see each other.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
During the day because I was in bed, and then
I was getting up before she while she was in bed.
So anyway, my question is was I a night owl
because I was up at twelve thirty one o'clock?
Speaker 3 (26:48):
Or was I an early bird? You were ambitious, you
were a go getter. No, I was anxiety ridden, is
what I was.
Speaker 4 (26:54):
I've turned down jobs and appearances and stuff just because
they were too early in the morning.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
That's funny. I can't say no to stuff. God bless
you for having the goal to do it. I just
can't do it either.
Speaker 3 (27:04):
The dude in the Big Lebowski is not as lazy
as I'm.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
All right, you're chasing that big win. You want that
huge moment, the next life changing breakthrough. But what if
what you really need is just five seconds of something
far simpler every day Instead, I tell you what it
is next, Chris Merylon.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
At ten o'clock.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
George, what can we expect on the program tonight, my friend?
Speaker 9 (27:37):
We're going to talk about the words of the late
Stephen Hawking, the physicists. We're talking about an extinction event
coming up from mankind. And then later on we're tapping
into your Cashick records, your book of Life.
Speaker 3 (27:50):
I love it. I love it. Smartest man in history,
Stephen Hawking. Thanks, Jeor. I appreciate that we're looking forward
to it. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
One of my peeves I may here is gen Z
just loves to rename things that have been around since forever.
They just love it. They just love They're like, I
discovered something and now I'm gonna give it a name.
It's been around since the beginning of foreverness. The latest
is micro Joy micro Joy, and he guesses, dang, And
(28:23):
I guess I can say on the radio, no, oh fair,
yeah micro Joy. Hang on, Let's cut to the Chaser
Fast Company had this strategies for micro joy can be
a solution to the struggles of life in a way
to build both well being and resilience. Micro Joy is
(28:43):
made up of the small moments of happiness, presence, and
mindfulness that we can find in the midst of challenger difficulty.
It's about embracing the power of little delights in the
every day. Oh well, thank god, we've got micro joy.
You can take action, focus on small wins, focus on others,
focus on the present. It's could stopping and smelling the roses.
(29:08):
This is not a new concept. Quit doing things that
have been around since our great great great great great
great grandparents and then pretending like you discovered something. You're
not original.
Speaker 3 (29:20):
I'll be happy when gen Z does something original, and
I will praise them for doing it, but this ain't it.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
Quit making up names for crap that we're already doing.
Speaker 3 (29:31):
Microjoy.
Speaker 4 (29:33):
Well, it would be kind of a microjoy to punch
the person who wrote.
Speaker 3 (29:37):
That thank you. Oh my gosh. Uh.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
It's just painful for me, just painful because the thing is,
I don't want to I don't want to be that.
Speaker 3 (29:46):
Guy who goes, oh the kids these days. I hate that.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
The god dang the kids these days. Oh, thank goodness
you have me. I found something new. Have you considered microjoys?
Have you considered the.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
Back of my hand?
Speaker 2 (30:03):
Goll lee, Well, let's look a violent twist. Ali, you
saved my height again tonight. I didn't realize that the
word you bleeped earlier was one that we're not allowed
to use on the air. But I'm going to add
that to my list of dirty words.
Speaker 3 (30:14):
So thank you for that.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
Yeah, I love you, buddy, Nicky nice job. You're probably
my favorite.
Speaker 5 (30:19):
Brit Thanks mate, of course.
Speaker 3 (30:24):
Mark Ronner. Get ready for tomorrow drunksgiving. I'm ready for
you to handle it like a complete pro. I love
this man. I'll talk to you guys tomorrow night. Chris
Merril
Speaker 1 (30:37):
KFI AM six on demand
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
And there Chris Merril KFI AM six forty more stimulating
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my friends, I have bad news.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
You just heard the music from Jimmy Cliff. There is
our return music. Yeah, he read did it? So that's
the uh you know that's the old Johnny Nash. I
can see clearly now.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Then Jimmy Cliff put kind of the reggae turn on
it for the the movie Cool Runnings.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
You remember the movie Mark, you remember Cool Runnings. I
never saw it.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
See somehow I knew you would not have seen that
because it was kind of a PG, feel good, happy
go lucky fun movie. Doesn't sound like there was no
there was no gratuitous murder.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
It wasn't in a foreign language, no zombies, nobody getting
shot in the.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Show, nothing like that. No, it's just kind of good,
wholesome family fun. I guess I'll have to watch it.
I was fifteen when it came out. You're gonna watch it,
and you're gonna go, eh, you don't know me.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Eh. Eh. It was like when I was fifteen and
I'm watching that.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
My little brother was twelve. It was a good movie
for us to go see.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
It was great. You know, it's fine. I like fun.
It's fun. It's fun.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
I mean it's I always look at this like, first
of all, movies only should have four stars, not five stars. Okay,
there's I hate the five star thing. Let's just go
back to the four stars, right, one to four. That's
all I want. I don't want this Amazon scalers, IMDb,
how many five stars?
Speaker 3 (01:37):
Nonsense, I don't want that crap. So I always looked
at it like this.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
I always thought four stars is like an amazing film,
although sometimes those four star films are not as entertaining,
you know, they're kind of slow.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Like Schindler's List is a four star movie.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
But also it's not exactly let's sit down and enjoy
a film tonight. It's definitely like a commentary type film.
It's a film, not a movie. Okay, you get my point.
I always look at like a three star as being
like that is a good movie. I like a three star,
three and a half stars, like this movie is gonna
be amazing. I love this, such a good movie. To me,
(02:17):
a two star is like, okay, that was ninety minutes.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Of my life.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
I could think of worse things to happen. It was pretty,
it was alright, it was entertaining. Nothing I'm gonna remember
for a long period of time. But I'm not mad
that I saw it. A one star is like, what
a complete waste of my entire time? I want it back.
Who do I sue for my time back? That's a
one star to me. The no stars, which are incredibly rare,
(02:46):
incredibly well, I shouldn't even say no stars, are also
in the same boat half stars those That's that's my jam.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
I love that stuff. On the h I think it's
the IMDb scale that is like a one ten or
like a rotten tomatoes somewhere around at twenty five to
thirty percent is great IMDb scale. I figure about a
three and a half to a six six starts to
get a little bit too good, But like the four
(03:16):
to five on the scale of ten, that's a.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Sweet spot for me. I love that so much because
those are just like the bad B movies. I love them, and.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
Yet and yet you try to mock me for watching
two Be so much. That's that's all that's on there.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Yeah, I know I really should watch it if you
look at my at my history, and you look at
my algorithms. It has me figured out, like it knows.
The Deer Camp eighty six, I believe, is one I
watched recently. I think it's Dear Camp eight six. I
think it's hang on.
Speaker 5 (03:51):
What's your preferred genre?
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Bad horror? Yeah, Deer Camp eighty six. Oh, it's so great,
so bad? It was actually kind of fun. It's campy.
I like campy. Does that make sense? I like camp
so horror comedy is incredibly difficult to do. Well, yes, okay,
you can do horror slapstick like scary movie, right, that's fun.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
I like those too, But I like campy horror.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
If it's too realistic, I have trouble separating with my suspension.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
I have trouble with the suspension of disbelief.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Okay, so I can't do that if it's if it's
if they're trying too hard to be funny, and I
would say that there was one scene of that Deer
Camp eighty six where they tried too hard, and it
was like, what was the point of that whole scene?
Speaker 3 (04:39):
But otherwise I was okay, I was like, this is fun.
I like this.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
It was it was it was labeled comedy horror, and
they did an okay job at it.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
What I really love is like, just.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Like the bad teen horror movies, like the later Jason's Okay,
that's the funny stuff, or if the If it's so
gratuitously violent that all I can do is laugh, so
unrealistically violent that makes me.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
That makes me just giggle.
Speaker 5 (05:08):
Do you remember Pandemonium? No, it's like a seventies slapstick
horror movie with the with high school students being pursued
by a slasher. But it was tongue in cheek.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
Was it well done? Oh? It's a five point three
out of ten on IMDb. I might like that.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
Now you bring up the Friday the Thirteenth movies. This
one's absolute trash. But people have really slept on the
tenth one. I believe where he goes to space. Yeah,
that's what I'm saying, Like, it's so implausible. That just
makes me and I think that one got like zero
stars or something. It's ridiculous, but it's fun to watch.
And the thing about horror comedies is that they're often
neither fish nor foul. They're not scary, they're not that funny.
(05:50):
So you know, you'll run through a hundred bad ones
before you run across an Army of Darkness or a
Shawn of the Dead.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
Oh my gosh, both of those are so good.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Sean of the Dead is classic, and all the Bruce
Campbell Evil Dead Army of Darkness all really great stuff.
I think the first wasn't the first Army of Darkness
wasn't that actually like supposed to be a horror movie
and then they kind of it was Sam Ramy right, Yeah,
And I think the first one was actually supposed to
(06:21):
be kind of like a horror movie and then they
decided to make it really campy.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
The first one was a bit of an ordeal, the
second one was kind of a remake of it with
more money, and then the third one was just flat
out like you know, a three Stooges stuff.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
I love it. That was, but it was well done.
Oh yeah, and Bruce Campbell is so good in that
stuff too.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
He's terrific. I will never understand why he is not
a bigger star than he is.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
Yeah, agreed.
Speaker 4 (06:43):
So anyway, Jimmy Cliff died, Yeah, I will say that
I took a turn, didn't Oh no, no, no, he did
The one movie that he did was called The Harder
They Come, and I've been trying to get the Criterion
addition to that forever.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
But that stuff's not cheap.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
Was it, Sam Raimie, No, No, Jimmy Cliff's The Harder They
Got Jimmy Cliff, Oh.
Speaker 6 (07:00):
No, fantastic movie. And I remember learning about it in
college and they talked about how that was the movie
that kind of brought reggae to the to the West,
to like America and okay it really he played a
lot of his songs were in the film, like.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
Oh I got to see this.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
Great. When you say it's expensive, Mark, what do you mean?
Speaker 4 (07:23):
A lot of the Criterion stuff goes out of print,
so things like the John wu Hard Boiled and The Killer,
and I think that I think The Harder They Come
is out of print, so you get on eBay and.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
It just depends. Shouldn't there be? Isn't there a Criterion
streaming channel? There is. I'm too cheap to have it,
but there is. Oh do you know how much it is?
I do not.
Speaker 4 (07:44):
When I hit the big time, I'll get that in
like the BBC channel. That's that's and I'll stop having
to assemble my own furniture. That's how I No, you'll
stop having to, but you'll still do it. Sure, Okay,
hold up, how much is Criteria Channel. It's one hundred
bucks a year, eleven dollars a month. Okay, it's not terrible.
(08:05):
They have great stuff.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
I know they do, but then again, you watch twob
for free, and so one hundred bucks over free seems
kind of tough.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
I get that well to b.
Speaker 4 (08:14):
It's got such a deep bench, and it's got good movies,
bad movies, classics, trash, it's got everything. It really it's
like a different kind of dimension of the Criterion Channel.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
It's really good. I love that about you.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
I just love it all right, bad news as we've
had celebrities that are now celebrity victims right here in
southern California.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
You'll find out who next. I'm Chris Meryl.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
I'm Chris Meryl. Pleasure being with you.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
And I always I tell people, look, I listen to
all the talkbacks, good, bad and different. They don't all
make it out of the air, but I do. If
you take the time to talk to me, I'll take the.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
Time to listen.
Speaker 7 (08:56):
Hey, guys, you were talking about the cost of some
streaming services. If you want to get a really good
barometer from somebody on YouTube, watch flick Connection.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
It's so I'm always a little nervous about recommendations like
this because if I go to someplace called flick Connection,
am I going to find out that this guy is
pranking me and it's like some sort of a sick
porn site. Yeah, proceed with caution. Yeah, I'm okay if
it's a porn side. I just don't want to be
a sick porn sid I think one way.
Speaker 4 (09:23):
Or the other, we're in the ballpark because YouTube has
some terrific old movies that you don't find on streaming.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
Okay, all right, he continues on.
Speaker 7 (09:29):
Here it's narrated by a guy named Darren van Dam.
He's got some great, great ideas, suggestions for two be
for Plex, for Netflix, all of those. So check it out.
Take care, good to hear you.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
Bye, Thanks buddy. I appreciate that.
Speaker 4 (09:44):
I'm glad you mentioned plex. Plex has some great stuff
on there too. In fact, I just caught up with
the Paul Newman classic The Hustler on Plex.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Oh, now you're talking now, you're talking about a classic
that's not a deep cut.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
Oh it's terrific. Yeah, and Newmanism, and so is Piper Laurie.
For God's sakes, Well, how could he not be? Did
you say he no? I stuttered, Okay, it's work.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Yeah, yeah, we've got a bad connection. I just uh, Mark, Mark, Mark, Mark, Mark,
are you there?
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Yeah, I don't know what's going on. I'm losing this.
This is this is bizarre. I don't know what what's
happening here. I think Ollie and I will just do
the rest of the show. That's probably just as well.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
Seems to be just dropping random, random consonants. I thought
you said Peter Laurie. No, no, no, Piper Laurie. It's
been a while since I've seen no, no, no, It's true.
I didn't think Peter Laurie was in there, but I
wasn't gonna argue with you. But whatever, that's cooler. Peter Laurie,
girl in the Laurie family. Yeah, yeah, why not, great
(11:00):
Australian actor.
Speaker 5 (11:01):
Best Australian.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Yeah he's not. We get it, guys, we got it.
Kind of like a running joke tonight, mixing up the
Australians of the Brits. Okay, what else? Oh, this is
terrible news.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
I hate this. I got bad news.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
This falls under our call this la laws slash Celebrity edition,
he said.
Speaker 8 (11:23):
Terrifying home invasion last night here in Studio City. It
left the resident hiding for her life inside her.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
Multimillion dollar home.
Speaker 8 (11:31):
Now this morning, police are still searching for the suspects
who broke in.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
When the victim don't you hate when people play sirens
on the radio. I have two pet peeves sirens on
the radio and horns on the radio because when I'm
driving and I hear that, stuff freaks me out, like
where's where's the ambulance?
Speaker 3 (11:49):
Right? I hate that? So my apologies was home alone.
Speaker 8 (11:52):
They responded to calls of a burglary around nine fifteen
last night. According to investigators, three suspects smashed through a
large sliding glass at the rear of the property. Inside,
the suspects ransacked several rooms, while the victim barricaded herself
in an upstairs bathroom and was able to call nine
one one.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
God, that's terrifying. It's right out of a horror movie.
The woman told police.
Speaker 8 (12:12):
The suspects kicked the bathroom door off its hinges before
taking off.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Now, I'm gonna tell you ahead of time here that
this reporter is burying the lead.
Speaker 8 (12:22):
One neighbor claim this home has been hit several times,
and that same neighbor also told us that the victim's
son is music producer Benny Blanco, who is married to
singer Selena Gomez. Neighbors say there has been a rise
and break ins in this area.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
Okay, yeah, you buried the lead there.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
Uh, it's not random house in Studio City was broken into,
which is which is a story in and of itself,
that there was someone in there, an older woman who
had hide in the bathroom called nine when one that's terrifying,
But that it's Selena Gomez's mother in law. That it's
that it's Benny Blanco's mom. Like, that's the story here,
that's the headline. He kind of buried the lead. And
(13:02):
also I'm old school, I spell lead led.
Speaker 9 (13:05):
You know, I feel safe.
Speaker 10 (13:08):
Much less so than when we moved here. We moved
here like twenty seven years ago for the Carpenter School District,
and it was like you could walk, let your kids
walk around all the time. It was fine much not
so much dumb. Yeah, we check our locks and make
sure the alarm's on and it's a much different life.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
Sorry you're dealing with that sucks.
Speaker 8 (13:33):
And as we said, the suspects got away. The good
news is no one was injured. Now, neighbors also tell
us that this street one issue that there is here.
There are no street lights. It's very dark, so even
though they've checked their surveillance videos, they say they really
can't see anything.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
Yeah, at least are.
Speaker 8 (13:47):
Asking for anyone who went for information to call the
LAPD's North Hollywood station.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
Reporting Life from Studio City.
Speaker 8 (13:54):
I'm Carlos Granda, ABC seven eyewitness.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
No thanks, Carlos, appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
Yeah, valance cameras, look, they're great for seeing what happened,
but not necessarily who done it unless they're like a
porch pirate in their faces right in your your doorbell cam.
I had surveillance cameras set up at a house and uh,
and I had it pointed at my drive. Somebody broke
it into my car and they stole not much like sunglasses,
and you know, it's a couple hundred bucks worth of stuff,
(14:19):
not anything too bad, but I was like.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
I'm I'm getting surveillance cameras because now there goes the neighborhood, right.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
I'm all upset about it.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
So a couple months later, I get a knock on
the door and it's the police, and I was like, hey,
what's going on. They said, uh, we noticed you got
cameras and I said, oh, yeah, I do, I've got cameras,
and things said we not just want to point it
off this way, and I said yeah.
Speaker 4 (14:45):
They said, do you have any footage that we could
look at? So I go, well, yeah, we can take
a look at it. What's going on? They go, somebody
stole your neighbor's car.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
So we pull it up and unfortunately, my camera showed
the car backing out of the driveway and driving off
then anybody doing it. Had another incident where my son
was parked in front of the house and we had
all on camera. Guy rides up on his bike. My
sid had forgotten to lock his door. Guy rides up
on his bike, checks the handle, rides away, comes back
(15:13):
a little later, opens the door, rummages through everything, steals it,
goes away. I sent that to the police. I never
heard a word. They're like, oh, yeah, we'll get right on.
It couldn't make out a face. So what are you
gonna do? You know, what are you gonna do?
Speaker 3 (15:25):
I don't like it. E've been told that the early
bird gets the worm.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
However, it could be that your worm is coming at
the cost of your night, and your social life and
your sanity.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
We'll talk about that in just a few moments.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
Quick reminder that the fifteenth annual Cafi pastathanus here Chef
Bruno's charity Katarina's Club, providing more than twenty five thousand
meals every stinkle week to kids and me to cross
southern California.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
It's your generosity that makes that happen.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
We've got Giving Tuesday coming up on a week from tonight,
December second, and we're broadcasting live all day long Anaheim
White House five am from wake up call right on
through at the Anaheim White House Anahem Boulevard. You can
donate anytime go to KFI AM six forty dot com
slash Pastathon. It's a hondo percent of your donation going
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to Katerina's Club. You can also go to Javava Resort
and Casino just off two ten and Highland and when
you cast your winning ticket at the kiosk going to
ask you if you want to donate your change. You
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it's a Instagram at KFI AM six forty and you'll
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you can bet on those auction items. They're all up
at KFI AM six forty dot com. Slash pastathon. Bet
(16:33):
on those auction items and all of your money is
going to go right to Katerina's Club. Some really cool
stuff in the auction is well, including I think you
get to have a backyard barbecue with the handle.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
Huh.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Probably ask them all your legal questions would be a
terrible idea. We'll talk about the Darkness before Dawn.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
That is next.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
Chris Merril, you're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
I'm Chris Merrill. You can listen anytime on demand in
the iHeartRadio have. Tomorrow we'll do a drinks giving, so
Mark be prepared for that drinks giving.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
What exactly does this involve? You'll have to wait and
find out.
Speaker 4 (17:15):
I mean, I thought you just say drinks, but just
be prepared, all right, my liver and I will be
a blackout show. But those are always the best, aren't
They're always the best?
Speaker 3 (17:25):
Right?
Speaker 2 (17:26):
Yeah, So we'll do drinks giving and we are getting dumber.
You'll find out why we're all getting dumber or dumber arrest.
That's all tomorrow. It is a big show. Listen, don't don't.
I don't mail it in on a holiday week.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
I don't do that.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
You're gonna get You're gonna get one hundred percent of
mediocre what I bring to the table that's gonna get
their money's worse. It's exactly right.
Speaker 4 (17:56):
The time.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
It works every time, right? Or is this? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Uh, here's one of the challenges I have when I
do the evening show. I don't know when it is
that all of a sudden you decide, or when your
mind decides it's going to settle into a certain sleep pattern.
But you got early birds, you got night owls, then
you got just Normis Mark. You're a bit of a
night owl? Is that fair to say?
Speaker 3 (18:21):
You could say that? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (18:21):
Okay, So I find that if I don't have anything
going on, I start to get up earlier and earlier
and earlier. But when I was a teenager, my god,
I never wanted to get up early. I was always like,
sleep till noon, sleep later, sleep later, sleep later, right.
So I think there was a bit of a responsibility
thing that was going on. But as I got older,
I find myself getting up earlier and earlier and earlier,
and I'm like, I actually I like watching the sun rise.
(18:43):
I like having my coffee when the you know, when
it's still calm outside.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
I like all that. I like it. I do now.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
Maybe it's because I'm old and my joints start to
hurt after I've been in one position in bed for
a few hours. Maybe that's what it is. Whatever it is,
I kind of enjoy it. So I do find it
a little harder to stay up late, and maybe I'm
just getting old. But come to find out, and I
have experienced this too, when I'm getting up earlier, I
(19:11):
find that my social life sucks. Maybe it's because I'm
bad at social life that I find myself going to
bed earlier and then end up getting up earlier. So
am I doing it right and Mark doing it wrong?
Or is Mark doing it wrong and I'm doing it right.
Speaker 11 (19:27):
You may have heard the saying the early bird gets
the worm. But when it comes to humans, do morning
people really have an advantage over night ours?
Speaker 3 (19:34):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (19:35):
Also, I will admit this, early birds tend to be
obnoxious about being early birds. They're like vegans or marathon runners. Insufferable. Yeah,
I will give you that. And my father is a
total early bird, and he used, you waste it the
whole day? Oh, come on, But now I start getting
(19:58):
up early. I'm like, oh man, I'll tell him, like, oh,
slept in late today. I didn't get up till six thirty.
He goes, yeah, I really disappointed myself too. I slept
until seven. I I'll go, you wasted the whole day.
I love that.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
He's like, you're right, I did ye little vengeance.
Speaker 11 (20:15):
Does one come out on top as more intelligent or
successful than the other in this battle over bedtime?
Speaker 3 (20:20):
Ah? Here you go. Mark.
Speaker 11 (20:21):
The somewhat surprising truth is that we have little say
in sleep preference, as it's almost entirely genetically predetermined.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
That's crazy. I didn't know that. But it was basically
just this is my schedule, this is what I like.
Speaker 4 (20:32):
More. No, no, no, no, no, I did I did not choose
my vampire lifestyle.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
Is that right? Okay, that's interesting.
Speaker 11 (20:37):
Chances are if you're a night owl, it was likely
passed down from an ancestor who was also a night owl,
and from an evolution or a vampire polutionary perspective, it
makes sense having individuals with varying sleeping patterns would allow
for better protection of a group throughout the day and night.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
That does make sense, and the world needs grave.
Speaker 11 (20:54):
Diggers instead of everybody sleeping at one time. Some people
naturally stay up later and some wake up earlier aware
of threats or predators, while others sleep.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
I'd never even thought of it that way. It's evolutionary.
This is from asap science or curiosity stream.
Speaker 11 (21:10):
But considering most modern societal activities happened between nine am
and five pm, it may seem clear that night owls
are put at a disadvantage.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
And they're like lefties.
Speaker 11 (21:19):
Searchers have actually coined the term social jet lag to
describe the sleep deprivation many experience to accommodate social norms.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
Ah light owls.
Speaker 11 (21:27):
This social jet leg feels like living in a different
time zone every single day.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
Mark Do you ever feel that way constantly? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (21:35):
I miss out on all sorts of things that normal
people do. Hey, do you have trouble with the doctor's appointments?
Speaker 3 (21:41):
Yes, yeah, I always ask for from late in the
afternoon and.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
They and they never want to do that because they're like, oh,
we might be running behind by then, right. Or if
you have to have surgery, they always do surgery in
the morning. Have you ever done the whole Oh I
have to I have to have surgery, or I have
to have a procedure done.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
I'm just gonna stay up all night. I mean, I
can adapt.
Speaker 4 (21:58):
But I think one of the reasons that I got
on this horrible schedule that I was in was that
last year I worked on a video game and it
was being made in Poland and they're like nine hours
ahead of us. So I would come home from work
after midnight when I get off here and work on
the game all night and then go to sleep.
Speaker 3 (22:13):
Oh my gosh, like basically waiting for the sun to
come up.
Speaker 4 (22:16):
After the sun came up. Oh, and I just never
got out of that schedule.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
Yeah. Then, how do you readjust right when you go
on vacation? What's that? I have no idea what you're
talking about? What is that? What radio scealary vacation.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
Ah yeah, well it's good because I'm working a lot
of December too, So you and I just hang out.
Speaker 4 (22:34):
Through the holidays. Oh yeah, we'll get sick of each other.
Good times, good times. It'll be wonderful.
Speaker 11 (22:39):
Considering chronic sleep deprivation has a direct effect on brain functioning,
it's no surprise that studies report night owl university students
have lower overall grades. Not to mention, early birds tend
to display more positive social traits, such as being proactive
and optimistic, and are less prone to depression or addictions
to nicotine, alcohol, and food.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
See.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Yeah, I'm not so sure about that, because I got
to tell you my anxiety has gone way up as
I've gotten older. I used to be able to be like, oh,
I got homework due, I'll do it before class tomorrow.
Now I'm like, oh my gosh, they give me homework.
I have to get this done before I can go
home from school.
Speaker 3 (23:15):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (23:16):
Like, I have half of tomorrow's show already plotted, Really
I do. I mean, now, maybe maybe we'll breaking news,
maybe we'll have something else, but I know we're gonna
do Drunks Giving tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
Right. I know that.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
I know we're gonna talk about the dropping IQs around
the world. I know some of these stories that I
want to do. Now, once it's laid out, I could
throw the whole thing out the window. But once I
have a framework, once I know what my map looks like,
then I feel like I can take I can take
an exit, I can go stop at a tourist destination. Right, Well,
you don't want to have those dead air nightmares that
(23:48):
every single person in radio has had.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
Horrible. I always have this recurring nightmare that I leave
before the end.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
Of the shift, Like I get done and I'm like, oh,
that was a good show, and I'll get my car
and I'll drive off. Oops I and I have the
station on and they're like, we don't know where he went.
And the phone rings and they go, where are you.
I'm like, I'm on my way home. They go, you
still have an hour left. That's the one I always have.
I know you could like listen, I've been around this
long enough that I know, especially especially when you're in
(24:18):
market number two like this, you guys are pros Mark,
You're a complete pro.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
I was waiting for that. ALLI led me to it.
Well placed. Yeah, so I think that we could.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
Absolutely, you guys could handle something. And we've all dealt
with curveballs in this industry. Right, breaking news or the
towers is on the fritz and we have to switch over,
or or you know, something happens, Computers all crash, microphone
doesn't work.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
Lights go out.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
We've all been there, it's all happened. But I feel
like if I can handle it a whole lot easier.
If I have my map ahead of me, if I
already know where I'm going, then I can take a
different route if I need to get there. So that's
that's where I am now. And again my anxieties through
the roof. Let me ask this. I did a Morning
s in San Diego and we went on the air
(25:03):
at five point thirty. I'm somebody who likes to prep
the dickens out of things, but I also wanted to
make sure I had fresh stories because it was the
morning show, and I wanted I wanted for people to
have the fresh news when they came. You know, they
come to me, they want stuff they haven't heard before.
They want to hear what happened overnight, that kind of stuff.
So I couldn't really do a lot the night before.
My producer would do some things the night before. But
then what happened was I would get up really early
(25:25):
and I would get into work, and I was targeted
two am, but then my anxiety kicked in and I
started waking up earlier and earlier and earlier, so it
was like two am. I don't know, Maybe if I
got there at one it would be better. Maybe if
I got there a little earlier would be better. And
it got to the point where I was going to
bed at five pm the day before, and then I
(25:47):
was getting up at midnight, and then I was heading
into work and getting there at one. There were nights
that I was actually leaving for work at twelve thirty
in the morning to do the morning show, which went
on at five thirty am. But when you think about it,
I was five thirty and then I think it was
until till nine.
Speaker 3 (26:09):
Nine.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
Yeah, it's like five thirty to nine. So when you
think about it, I got there at twelve thirty. I
was only working an eight and a half hour day. No,
it wasn't like it wasn't like it was crazy. It
was just a weird schedule.
Speaker 3 (26:18):
No, I get it. It maths out, but it's just miserable.
Speaker 5 (26:21):
Yeah, it's like hell it So it.
Speaker 3 (26:23):
Was tough on my relationship. My wife and I had
to make a bargain.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
She used to stay late at work, and we had
to make a deal, like she would come home and
be home by six, and I had to dedicate I
would promise to stay up till six thirty so that
we at least had a little bit of time that
we would see each other.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
Otherwise, we didn't see each other.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
During the day because I was in bed, and then
I was getting up before she while she was in bed.
So anyway, my question is was I a night owl
because I was up at twelve thirty one o'clock?
Speaker 3 (26:48):
Or was I an early bird? You were ambitious, you
were a go getter. No, I was anxiety ridden, is
what I was.
Speaker 4 (26:54):
I've turned down jobs and appearances and stuff just because
they were too early in the morning.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
That's funny. I can't say no to stuff. God bless
you for having the goal to do it. I just
can't do it either.
Speaker 3 (27:04):
The dude in the Big Lebowski is not as lazy
as I'm.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
All right, you're chasing that big win. You want that
huge moment, the next life changing breakthrough. But what if
what you really need is just five seconds of something
far simpler every day Instead, I tell you what it
is next, Chris Merylon.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
At ten o'clock.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
George, what can we expect on the program tonight, my friend?
Speaker 9 (27:37):
We're going to talk about the words of the late
Stephen Hawking, the physicists. We're talking about an extinction event
coming up from mankind. And then later on we're tapping
into your Cashick records, your book of Life.
Speaker 3 (27:50):
I love it. I love it. Smartest man in history,
Stephen Hawking. Thanks, Jeor. I appreciate that we're looking forward
to it. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
One of my peeves I may here is gen Z
just loves to rename things that have been around since forever.
They just love it. They just love They're like, I
discovered something and now I'm gonna give it a name.
It's been around since the beginning of foreverness. The latest
is micro Joy micro Joy, and he guesses, dang, And
(28:23):
I guess I can say on the radio, no, oh fair,
yeah micro Joy. Hang on, Let's cut to the Chaser
Fast Company had this strategies for micro joy can be
a solution to the struggles of life in a way
to build both well being and resilience. Micro Joy is
(28:43):
made up of the small moments of happiness, presence, and
mindfulness that we can find in the midst of challenger difficulty.
It's about embracing the power of little delights in the
every day. Oh well, thank god, we've got micro joy.
You can take action, focus on small wins, focus on others,
focus on the present. It's could stopping and smelling the roses.
(29:08):
This is not a new concept. Quit doing things that
have been around since our great great great great great
great grandparents and then pretending like you discovered something. You're
not original.
Speaker 3 (29:20):
I'll be happy when gen Z does something original, and
I will praise them for doing it, but this ain't it.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
Quit making up names for crap that we're already doing.
Speaker 3 (29:31):
Microjoy.
Speaker 4 (29:33):
Well, it would be kind of a microjoy to punch
the person who wrote.
Speaker 3 (29:37):
That thank you. Oh my gosh. Uh.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
It's just painful for me, just painful because the thing is,
I don't want to I don't want to be that.
Speaker 3 (29:46):
Guy who goes, oh the kids these days. I hate that.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
The god dang the kids these days. Oh, thank goodness
you have me. I found something new. Have you considered microjoys?
Have you considered the.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
Back of my hand?
Speaker 2 (30:03):
Goll lee, Well, let's look a violent twist. Ali, you
saved my height again tonight. I didn't realize that the
word you bleeped earlier was one that we're not allowed
to use on the air. But I'm going to add
that to my list of dirty words.
Speaker 3 (30:14):
So thank you for that.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
Yeah, I love you, buddy, Nicky nice job. You're probably
my favorite.
Speaker 5 (30:19):
Brit Thanks mate, of course.
Speaker 3 (30:24):
Mark Ronner. Get ready for tomorrow drunksgiving. I'm ready for
you to handle it like a complete pro. I love
this man. I'll talk to you guys tomorrow night. Chris
Merril
Speaker 1 (30:37):
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