December 3, 2025 • 35 mins
The Supreme Court heard arguments as to whether internet companies are complicit in billions of dollars in losses due to people illegally downloading content they’re not paying for.
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Speaker 7 (03:16):
Everyday, billions of people illegally stream or download copyrighted material
like music, movies or TV shows. The key question before
the Supreme Court is our internet companies complicit in those
copyright infringements simply by giving online pirates access to the web.
Major record label Sony Music Entertainment says the answer is yes,
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that Internet providers contribute to billions of dollars of losses
every year by failing to cut off access to people
who illegally download and stream content. They're seeking a billion
dollars from Cox Communications, one of the largest broadband internet
companies in the United States.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
Now Cox says yes. What does Cox say?
Speaker 8 (03:59):
The real culprits here are the individual users, and they
say that suing internet companies over i legal downloads could
drive them out of business and lead to quote, mass
evictions from the Internet in some communities.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Okay, so this gets uh, this gets heavy fast, real fast.
So the argument here, and this feels very much like
the section two thirty argument where they were saying, for instance, the.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
Facebook or.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
X or whomever you name the social media could be
held liable for things that are done on those platforms.
And I'm I'm very hesitant to do that in the
same way that I'm hesitant to say that it is
at and T's fault for nine to eleven because they
operated the phone lines that terrorists used to try to
coordinate the attacks. You know that that concerns me. Now
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we're going to do a privacy issue, and I know
they're going to say, well, yeah, but Cox can actually
figure this out. Internet service providers, and we'll just use
conscious the example because the O the ones being sued,
they've lost already, by the way, in other lower court rulings.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
It's a billion dollar judgment.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
And so imagine if all of a sudden, your ISP
is tasked with making sure they know what you're downloading.
That's a problem, making sure they know what you're uploading,
that's a problem, and that they're liable for anything that
you do. So I see this as highly problematic, and
I don't know how the courts have ruled against them
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thus far. It feels very odd to me that they
would hold them accountable for it. I certainly understand why
the music industry is trying to find somebody to hold
responsible for the piracy.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
I get it, I get it.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
I just don't know that you can hold the highway
responsible for the cars that are speeding. I don't know
that you can hold the toll booth operator responsible for
somebody stealing a car and then driving it on a turnpike. Right,
that's where I have That's where I have issues. Now,
here's what COX does right now. They do actually know
if you are pirrating stuff. I don't think they're following
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exactly what it is that you're downloading. I don't think
that they're doing that, they're going that far.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
But they can see.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
The Internet service providers can see if you're downloading mass
quantities of information above and beyond what a normal person
would do. In streaming, for instance, I think my I
think my streaming limit is something like I don't know,
one hundred gig a month or something like that, right,
and if I go over one hundred gig a month,
then they start to throttle me or I could be
charged for an overage. And this has happened to me before,
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and it happened years ago when I was doing I
was doing some crypto mining and a bunch of downloading
of other stuff. Nothing illegal, of course, so they can
kind of tell that somebody's got something going on. They're
downloading a bunch, they're uploading a bunch whatever it might be.
Above and beyond normal usage, and normal usage does include
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you and the rest of the family streaming every night
or x amount of hours a day like they know that,
and streaming uses a bunch of a bunch of with
but beyond watching your Netflix because you're.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
Like, ooh, stranger Things.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
You can't wait to see these forty year olds pretending
they're still teenagers and I and all of a sudden,
you've got three people streaming stranger things all at once.
That's gonna look like a lot of downloads, but it's
a whole lot different than somebody who's downloading twenty movies
a day using a bit torrent.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
It takes us back to the napster days.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Basically, Instead Cox is saying the people who are breaking
the law should be the ones held responsible. It's akin
to blaming the liquor company because you're an alcoholic and
it's Mark Snacker Like this, it's kind of like when
you say, oh, well, Remington should be held responsible for
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gun deaths because they made the gun.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
Well.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
The other thing is that the people who are tech
savvy are always going to be a step ahead, whether
it's buying a VPN or something else that is beyond
my comprehension, and you also you have to look at
the reasons people do things. I know that's unpopular, and
if you just want to obey the law, that's fine.
But when things are out of reach for one reason
or another, that's why they get taken. If a movie
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is unavailable to buy, people will find a way to
acquire it online. If something's if something's just gouging people
being too expensive, they're gonna take it.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Or if I don't have any money or a There
are also people who like to try to beat the system.
We talked about that in the last segment. Just feeling
like they have some sort of power in the world
where they otherwise feel powerless. They're going to try to
do this. I'm concerned about the repercussions. So you mentioned
the VPN, and that's a great point. And one of
the things you hear NordVPN runs ADS and if I
have Norton and when I need to, I'll turn on
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my NordVPN. I have a few programs I use that
don't like it, so I don't have it out a lot,
but I'll use NordVPN. NordVPN blocks your ISP, your service
provider from knowing where you're surfing. They could probably still
see that you've got a bunch of information that's coming in,
but they can't see where you're going or what it is,
all right, So that's one way that you can, yeah,
block it.
Speaker 4 (09:02):
You can also make it appear that you're coming from
a different.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Place, which is how people in Texas are still getting
their their porn Hub because remember Texas said you had
to do ID, and Pornhub pulled out of all states
that are requiring identifications.
Speaker 4 (09:15):
So now give people that are going, I'll just use
my VPN.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
That's exactly what they're doing to make it look like
they're coming from somewhere else. So my concern here also
is this, if I'm worried that I'm going to get
busted for doing this stuff at home, or if I'm
worried that I'm gonna hit certain thresholds when I'm at home,
why don't I just take my laptop to work? Can
you imagine if somebody catches on to Tim Conway Junior
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downloading a bunch of movies on the iHeart Internet, and
all of a sudden we lose our Internet because the
Internet service paradery goes oh oh, somebody's pirrating things at
the radio station. Can you imagine, Because they're only going
to know that it came from our our user address,
that's it. They're gonna know that it came from from
our IP and as a result, they're done. You know, well,
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we can't. We can't risk another billion dollar lawsuit shut
them off. And it's not just us, right, I mean
we would still go on. What if it's the hospital,
What if it's your power company. What if it's somebody
else who absolutely has to have that Internet. What if
you've got and I know this is gonna blow your mind,
what if you've got a cop who's doing these things
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and then takes his laptop into the precinct in order
to try to download the stuff surreptitiously so as.
Speaker 4 (10:35):
To not get caught at home.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
Something like that would never happen, I'm sure, Firefighter, And
all of a sudden they lose their internet.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
Oh, we've got a blaze. We're gonna need that map. Yeah, sorry,
the internet's down. Why is the internet down? Well? Dan
was downloading a bunch of.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Christmas movies again, Dan, Yeah, this is where I worry
about the consequences of it. The repercussions. But I'm not
exactly somebody that goes, well, you ought to be able
to break the law if if the consequences are too bad.
That brings us back to the too big to fail
argument from years back. Oh, they broke the law, they
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were doing things wrong. Yeah, but they're too big to fail.
We have to let them do it. It drives me
nuts when Pgene gets away with crap because well, they're
too big.
Speaker 4 (11:22):
We can't let them do it. But the truth is, I.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
Don't know how you can hold I don't know how
you can hold the road responsible for the drunk driver
driving on it.
Speaker 4 (11:33):
That's where I have issues with it.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
All right, Netflix, Right, that's that place where you can
escape or put on a Show's a safe background noise.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
Not anymore.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
The studio is dropping something that is sure to be
a chart topper, and it might make them the biggest
dog in the block.
Speaker 4 (11:46):
It's next. I'm Chris Meryl.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
Mark and I are just talking off air about the
streaming services. We'll get into one of those that's making
the headlines in here. Just a moment was discussing the
Supreme court case in which internet service provider Cox is
battling against a billion dollar judgment where lower courts have
ruled that because they had customers who were pirting music, movies,
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and the like illegally, Cox is responsible. Now right now,
Cox knows if you're going over, they think you're pirrating things,
they're gonna send you what amounts to a season desist letter.
Speaker 4 (12:30):
They're gonna go knock it off. But they're not cutting
anybody off yet.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
And if the judgment goes against them, Cox is gonna
and all internet service providers for that matter, are gonna
have some They're gonna have some some questions to answer.
Are we gonna shut off the Internet for people that
are abusing it? Boy, that's scary. Can you imagine if
you're somebody who works remotely and all of a sudden,
your teenage kid has been downloading a bunch of music
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and videos and you didn't even know it, then your
Internet gets shut off or worse.
Speaker 4 (13:02):
That's not great.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
I think if I had a teenager, Yeah, we'd go amish,
there'd be there'd be no internet in that.
Speaker 4 (13:08):
That's just smart in general.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
Yeah, Yeah, go outside and churn some butter. You're you're
not getting on the internet.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
Yeah, and you're only getting a bath on Saturday night
because we basically don't want anyone to find your genitals attractive.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
Yes, and you must remain partially clothed for the bath
the whole time. Yeah, put on your bloomers for that,
all right? From the talk back, Oh, because I said,
I said, you know what are people are gonna do.
They're gonna go to work to do this, so they're
gonna get busted at home. And then all of a sudden,
we got a bunch of.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
Businesses that are having their their internet shut off from
the talkbacks here.
Speaker 9 (13:37):
Back in the nineties, I had a buddy of mine
that was producing, uh, you know, movies with adults.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
Yeah, okay, so like action flicks or what does he
mean when he says movies with adult.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
Like My Dinner with Andre that kind of movie. I guess, okay,
I don't know what else it would be. Well, oh,
you got clip.
Speaker 4 (14:04):
Carry on and yeah.
Speaker 9 (14:06):
He was using the bandwidth over at his job overrad Disney,
and he made it a point since he was in
the I T department, he went there every day to
delete all of his progress and everything else.
Speaker 4 (14:22):
Wow.
Speaker 6 (14:24):
Wow, that's awesome.
Speaker 4 (14:27):
No, it's inappropriate. I've been watching from the corner the
whole time.
Speaker 10 (14:32):
Come on, goofy, You're gonna get sued by Disney for
doing that impersonation.
Speaker 4 (14:38):
No, no, no, no, no no. That was the steamboat
Willie version Mortimer Mouse.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
Steamboat Willie version of Mickey, of mee of Mickey.
Speaker 4 (14:50):
Nothing not. Everything's about you.
Speaker 10 (14:52):
You know, I used to work at Disney, so I
like that story from that listener.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
That's not appropriate. That's a many I think we could
do that. So speaking of uh no, nothing has nothing
to do with them. How about Netflix? So Netflix is
getting ready to drop this big documentary on Diddy.
Speaker 4 (15:11):
Ooh, this is gonna be must.
Speaker 11 (15:14):
Watch Netflix overnight. Lawyers for Sean Diddy Combs trying to
stop the release of a Netflix docu series do out today.
Speaker 4 (15:21):
Oh my for ABC News.
Speaker 12 (15:24):
We have to find somebody that to work with us,
that has dealt in the dirtiest of dirty business.
Speaker 11 (15:29):
The series contains never before seen footage of Combe's debating
strategy with his lawyers in the days leading up to
his arrest in New York last year.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
I am gonna let you professionals look at the situation
and come back.
Speaker 4 (15:41):
To me with a solution.
Speaker 11 (15:42):
It also includes video of Comb's greeting fans in Harlem.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
What sounds kind of arrogant? Does Anybody's talking to his
lawyers like, you're gonna look at the problem. You're gonna
find my solution. Uh yeah, the solution is you're gonna
do time Bud Organ College, and.
Speaker 11 (16:01):
Then saying this about the interaction moments later, I need.
Speaker 4 (16:05):
Some handstand the top of it. I got I've been
down the streets amongst the people. Yeah, I gotta take
the bag.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
You like, just like the amount of people that's that
actually I'm coming in contact.
Speaker 11 (16:17):
With, Like, that's the That's what I have to do here.
Speaker 4 (16:24):
It's it's like one hundred and fifty hugs. Okay, he's
a germophobe.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
What kind of guy doesn't host a ton of orgies
with a lot of baby oil? That isn't a germophobe.
You don't want to go you don't want to go
into an orgy with like scabs. I think we can
all agree with that. He's only acting reasonable.
Speaker 13 (16:45):
Now.
Speaker 11 (16:45):
Comb's lawyers are demanding Netflix pull the series, threatening legal
action claiming Netflix is using stolen footage that was never authorized.
For release as part of what they call a shameful
hit piece.
Speaker 4 (16:58):
Okay, so there you go.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
So the docuentaries Sean Combs, the reckoning produced by Fitty.
Speaker 4 (17:03):
Set not flattering.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
In the meantime, Netflix is feeling pretty good about their
financial situation. They just dropped an old cash offer on
Warner Brothers Discovery. No excuse me, mostly cash offer, mostly
cash offer. So Netflix is offering mostly cash, although, according
to Charlie Gasprino New York Post, Paramount Skydance making the
(17:30):
only all cash offer for Wonder Brothers Discovery of any
of the three bidders Netflix is Netflix offer is heavily
weighted on cash. People close to Paramount Skydance reps say
that their offer includes foreign investors with cash, which may
need government approval international, you know, whatever approval.
Speaker 4 (17:51):
They bring the cleanest deal of all three.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
They're looking to buy with cash, and they have an
easier path through Trump's regulators as well, so that that
could play into where Warner Brothers goes.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
Do we have a preference on who ends up with
Warner Brothers? Mark? Do we care? Well?
Speaker 3 (18:09):
We know that all this giant media consolidation one way
or the other sucks for everybody.
Speaker 4 (18:14):
Yeah, because well it's always worked out really well. Take
a look at radio.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
Well, I can't speak to radio so much because I'd
like to keep my job. But you know, in general,
media consolidation leaves people with fewer choices, they pay more
for a wrist product, and they're also subject to the
whims of the person who owns it. So I forget
who runs paramount skuid Dance?
Speaker 4 (18:36):
Do you have that? Yeah? Isn't that Ellison?
Speaker 3 (18:39):
Yeah, that's right, that's right. So you know, whatever that
person's politics are, that's going to be the slam prevailing
for the information that you receive from all of their
media properties, or at least you'll have to wonder.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
I don't want to have to wonder, and you'll have
to wonder. Yeah, yeah, I mean, as long as you've
got competition. You know where Fox stands, right, It's like, okay,
I know where they stand, and you know where ms
now stands. Okay, I know where they stand. I just
want to where they stand so that I can make
my choice. I don't want to have it all just
feels to me. I don't like the consolidation. I don't
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like them all coming together. But I guess it's it
was inevitable when we started to see the democratization of
content because you had all not only the studios, but
then you had these upstarts like Netflix and Apple getting
into the game, and others that were getting into the
streaming wars to be Mark's favorite.
Speaker 4 (19:34):
You know that that felt really cool.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
You had Freeform that Amazon bought free Form, right, They
had a bunch of others, and then all of a
sudden they start they they're starting to kind of come together.
So Paramount, sky Dance they're together. Comcast is the other one.
Speaker 4 (19:48):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
The Comcast wants the the the HBO Video library. They
probably want the linear service? Does Netflix want the linear service?
Speaker 4 (19:58):
Hard to say.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
What's really funny is that every time John Oliver talks
about this on his show, he realized that whatever his
new corporate daddy is, he's probably gonna be in trouble.
And then he just plows right ahead and insults him anyway. Yeah, yeah, well,
I mean, is he at the point where he's untouchable?
Speaker 4 (20:17):
He might be.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
He's got some nerve on him. He does, and he
doesn't care it, said British Hubris. Yeah, hey, you're choosing
those for you, Ali, you're choosing your gifts and your
deals all week, but what about choosing to give instead.
The season of spending might flip into the season of
giving back. That's good for Uncle Sam. It's next and
tell you why, Chris Merrill.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
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Speaker 2 (20:43):
Boy, we were just lamenting about if Netflix, well whomever
buys Warner Brothers Discovery, it's going to mean consolidation. Whether
that's the Paramount skuyd Dance, whether it's Comcast, whether it's Netflix.
Speaker 4 (20:56):
It's going to be in consolidation.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
I think we agree that we kind of la and
more consolidation, because when has that ever gone poorly?
Speaker 4 (21:05):
From the talkbacks?
Speaker 14 (21:06):
Who are those foreign investors in? On top of that,
you realize, hmm, now we're going to be under what
five different media outlets. It's going to become a problem.
And actually a spelled Mark Robert or Ronner so I
can look for him.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
Oh am, I supposed to spell Mark Ronner. I don't
know if that's a good idea.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
Yeah, it gives me pause too, but I guess it
kind of comes with the territory. It's our a h
N E R.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
Yeah, But hold on, I don't think, but I think
that's a different guy than wanted to see nicky model
underwear for him, though, well they probably all it is
no different guy.
Speaker 4 (21:46):
Listen, this was I agree with her.
Speaker 5 (21:48):
I think that socks and undies are a perfect gift
and I would love to get those for her if
she would try them on in front of me.
Speaker 4 (21:56):
That's a different voice.
Speaker 6 (21:57):
I didn't want to say to that.
Speaker 4 (21:59):
Noah, see my temporary restraining order, that's what you say?
Speaker 2 (22:04):
Yeah again again, God, so many temporary restraining.
Speaker 6 (22:10):
Orders, so many diamonds in the post for me as well.
Speaker 4 (22:13):
I don't know what that means.
Speaker 6 (22:15):
True story.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
Okay, I don't know. I'm going to need an interpreter
on this one. Okay, more talkbacks.
Speaker 9 (22:22):
You had sixty seven different outlets for news and media,
but after that eight it was consolidated into six because
of Clinton.
Speaker 4 (22:31):
Look it up.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
Well, no, I'm quite familiar to telecommunications at nineteen ninety six.
Speaker 4 (22:36):
I'm yeah, I don't have to look it up. I
know it.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
That's what That's what erased limitations on radio ownership. So
I'm pretty familiar with that, and I think Clinton should
have vetoed the thing. But you know, who was speaking
out against it back in the nineties, Ralph Nader.
Speaker 4 (22:53):
You know who's for it.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
The Republicans in Congress and the Democrats have signed it.
So I think both political parties were way off on that. Nator,
who was always kind of considered a bit of a
kook boy, I think he was right on it. He
was right on it.
Speaker 3 (23:11):
There's just something that doesn't sit well with me about
maybe five or six giant companies controlling almost everything we
see here and read.
Speaker 4 (23:18):
I mean, that's an oligarchy, right right, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
I think we're probably, at this point the most propagandized
nation outside of North Korea on the planet.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
I'm not gonna go that far because you do have
some mother well, you've got any any communist leaning country,
So you got China, you got North Korea.
Speaker 4 (23:36):
I'm gonna say Venezuela.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
In the last two decades we've become quite competitive on
that front.
Speaker 4 (23:42):
Though.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
Yeah, well we've definitely stepped up our game. Yeah, I'll
agree with you on that. Yeah, I mean, we're it's
all about well, but but what do we know? Division cells?
In fact, I think I have something to I do
I do I was looking at Tomorrow's stories and I
have something tomorrow sacifically. I'm glad you brought this up. Mark,
thank you for that. I'm glad you brought this up
to me. So tomorrow I've got a story about how
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gen Z dislikes news media and we'll dive into that
a little bit. But not only that, you have multiple
attempts from different actors who are trying to manipulate the
media narrative. So that's fun. We got that going for us.
A downer, Let's go back to the other fun stuff.
(24:34):
Let's go back to weird people calling and asking Nikki
to model underwear for them. As gross as that was,
it was actually more interesting.
Speaker 6 (24:41):
It was innocent.
Speaker 4 (24:44):
Okay, that's fun.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
Hey, today is Giving Tuesday, and we're not quite done
with Giving Tuesday yet. Now there's there's definitely somewhere I
could go that would extend the underwear modeling for.
Speaker 4 (24:57):
It was just about going to do it.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
Yeah, both of us are We've read too much time
around each other.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
It is so funny because I could tell Mark and
I were both weighing do we make this comment or not?
Speaker 4 (25:09):
Do we go with it or no? Fifteenth annuel O
Kfi Pastathon is still going on.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
Of course, we did the live broadcast from the White
House in Anaheim today all day long.
Speaker 4 (25:20):
Our total is up close to a million dollars.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
In fact, we think once we get the numbers in
from Smart and Final and Wendy's, we're gonna be up
over a million dollars. Chef Brunos charity Katerina's Club providing
more than twenty five thousand meals every week to kids
in need insun California. And thanks to you and your generosity,
that's why it happens. You can still go to any
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you can still go to KFI AM six forty dot
com slash pastathon to make a donation or to bid
on the auction items that we have up there, including
a backyard barbecue with handle where he promises to be
only half curmudgeon.
Speaker 4 (25:59):
So are you stepping up? I gotta give him credit.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
Oh, speaking of giving Tuesday, wanted to throw a little
love out there to Paul Walker's charity and I love when.
I'm a big fan of when celebrities pass away that
their name lives on in perpetuity because of their benevolence.
I love it, I do, and so I'm a big
fan of that. And a great story from maybec seven
about the Paul Walker charity.
Speaker 13 (26:23):
Reach Out Worldwide is a disaster relief organization founded by
the late actor Paul Walker fifteen years ago. The organization
has serviced more than two thousand families since the Eton
and Palace Griers.
Speaker 4 (26:33):
Look at that.
Speaker 13 (26:34):
Today with Ikea, they're completely furnishing the Pasmino's new home.
Speaker 12 (26:39):
They wanted to go wall to wall to for a
family before the holidays, and so today we get to
move into a family who had lost everything, and all
the way from their kitchen supplies to the art on
the wall, to the beds, to the sofas, to the
Christmas decorations.
Speaker 4 (26:54):
That's so cool.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
I love that, And I'm a little sad because those
kids are never going to sleep on those beds because
those little wrenches, you can never put the stupid things together.
Speaker 4 (27:02):
But you know, it's the thought that counts.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
Can you imagine Ikea pulls up with a bunch of
boxes and you have to start trying to assemble him
with those little, those mini Allen wrenches that they put
in all the all the crates.
Speaker 3 (27:15):
I still haven't hit the big time because I still
have to assemb all my own furniture.
Speaker 4 (27:18):
That's what you do with Akiya. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
My wife wants hired an old man to come in
and put Ikea together. I was working. It was when
I was working jobs in different markets, so I was
gone for the week and she's like, oh, I got
this bookshelf. I just hired somebody to can put it together.
I go, you hired somebody because I don't want to
deal with the Ikea furniture.
Speaker 4 (27:35):
You're nuts?
Speaker 6 (27:36):
Was he Swedish?
Speaker 4 (27:39):
Here we go, Here we.
Speaker 6 (27:40):
Go ike Swedish company?
Speaker 4 (27:43):
Yes, so he would be.
Speaker 10 (27:44):
And she hired a subject matter expert. Your wife is
as smart. No, she hired an old man subject meta expert.
Speaker 4 (27:51):
It doesn't have to be sweetish, just old man with tools.
Speaker 6 (27:54):
I love old men with tools.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
Very okay, all right, hang on listen to me, Ali.
If Nicky pipes up, don't ever, don't ever use the
word balls in front of her when she's talking about
loving old men with tools. Okay, it's it's just a
it's a it's just a it's a bridge too far.
She can't help herself.
Speaker 4 (28:15):
If that scenario comes up again. Yeah, don't.
Speaker 3 (28:17):
Just just I'll remember nice knowing everybody put that little
post in the back.
Speaker 6 (28:21):
Of your hand the way.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
Okay, okay, all right, well it was nice working with you.
We'll check with George Norri and uh. Also, you've got
a bond with your dog. You think it's harmless, then
you find out just how peep how deep some people
are taking their bonds. Boy, why do I get the
feeling somebody's gonna bring up sheep in the next segment?
Speaker 4 (28:44):
All right, we'll find out.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
It's next Chris Meryl, you're listening to KFI AM sixty
on demand.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
Will be joined by the legend George Norrie, host of
Coast to Coast AM. George, what can we expect on
the program this evening?
Speaker 5 (29:02):
My friend, You're gonna teach people how to feel a
little better from our friends at Critical Healthnews dot com.
And then later on we're gonna dabble with the supernatural
on Coast to Coast.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
I love the supernatural. I hear peptides are are hot
right now. Peptides are supposed to make me better.
Speaker 5 (29:20):
That's what I hear too. I'll find out.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
Okay, I'm looking forward that, all right, George Norria Coast
to Coast talk about the supernatural and how the supernatural
will make you feel better about your peptides. Maybe not
quite and we'll just blend them all together speaking of
the supernatural. Not sure if you're a big fan of
the concept of soulmates. Got a new an argument about
this with a with a coworker this week because I'm
(29:44):
not a big fan of the idea of soulmates.
Speaker 4 (29:46):
I just feel like a soulmate is kind.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
Of this romantic version of Look I found love, they're
my soul mat And how do you know that they're
your soulmate? Well you have a connection. Well that's great,
that's wonderful. Well, there's eight billion people on Earth. Chances
are you're going to have a chemical composition that is
somewhat similar to someone else's chemical composition, and you're going
(30:11):
to find.
Speaker 4 (30:12):
That connection and hopefully you've experienced that. I have.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
I would call it hitting it off with people, not
necessarily romantically. A male female hit it off. Boy, you know,
I was. I met up with some friends and we
went together. Oh and there was this guy and he
was in from Cleveland, and oh, what a great dude.
Love to spend some more time with him. We hit
it off, right. I've been in a situation. I go
(30:36):
to college and you meet a bunch of new people
and I, you know, going to class and you sit
next to a girl and you're like, Wow, this is
we're really vibing.
Speaker 4 (30:42):
You're hitting it off, You've got a connection. Does that
mean your soulmates? No?
Speaker 2 (30:48):
No, oh, but we're soulmates. We're star crossed lover, We're
meant to be together.
Speaker 4 (30:56):
Oh Boloni. You know who pushes the idea of soulmates dudes?
Speaker 2 (31:04):
Dudes do because women believe it.
Speaker 4 (31:07):
It's not that we believe it, we just lean into it.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
For instance, a few years ago, I was looking for
an anniversary gift from my wife and I got her.
I got her star map of exactly what the sky
looked like from the location on the date that we
were married. And she's like, that is so romantic, and
it says something like it was always in our stars.
Speaker 4 (31:34):
We didn't fall for that crap all the time. I
didn't no such thing as sole me.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
However, this is interesting more than half of dog owners
believe that their pop is their soulmate. Two thousand dog
owners Survey Survey says eighty one percent felt like it
was fate that they ended up with their particular dog.
Three quarters say that their dog mirror them in key
(32:00):
traits like energy, social habits, and emotional sensitivity. I think
some of that's projection and some of it probably is
learned behavior that your dog picked up from being around you.
And more than half say that their dog is their soulmate.
Two thirds say their dog is their emotional twin. Look
I've had I've had a few dogs in my life,
(32:22):
and I'm a dog guy. I love them. When my
last one passed away, I just went through the two
year anniversary of my dog dying this last month, and I,
to be honest, I had I had a rough couple
of days because he was on my mind.
Speaker 4 (32:35):
In fact, total transparency.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
During tonight's show, in between in between segments, I was
flipping through some photos on my phone waiting for the
commercials to end so it'd come back, and I ran
across some old photos my dog, who is my best
buddy in the whole wide world, and I loved him
and when he died, I was wrecked.
Speaker 4 (32:59):
I mean I bawled like a child.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
I had to take a couple of days off work,
and even when I came back to work, it was
still everything I could do to hold it together.
Speaker 4 (33:10):
I don't wish that pain on anyone.
Speaker 2 (33:14):
The dog was not my soulmate, no, because the soulmate
stuff is just made up. My dog was my best friend,
and he was there for me, and we had lots
of adventures together, and he was a wonderful part of
my life. And I only hope that somewhere, somehow, Although
(33:34):
I don't believe it, but I'd like to think it's
true that he knows just how much he meant to me,
That he's looking down on me from some wide open
field full of sticks that he's running around in and
he goes Dad misses me. God, I would love that.
I don't believe it to be true, but God, would
I love that. There's no such thing as soulmates. I
(33:57):
don't mean to rein on your parade. I don't mean
to ruin everything for you. I don't mean to be
the dead Debbie Downer here. But you know what, love
those dogs will you got them? Love them like they're
the best thing in the whole wide world because they're
super duper. But there is no metaphysical trait that your
animals bringing to the table, because here's what happens. That
(34:17):
animal is gonna pass away, and you're gonna find another
animal and you're gonna love that animal.
Speaker 4 (34:22):
It's gonna bond with you. And then what, oh no,
this is my soulmate.
Speaker 2 (34:27):
How disrespectful to the one that passed away? How dare
you do that? And I'm just standing up for your
dead dog, George nor Coast to Coast is next Mark,
Love you, buddy, love you back you.
Speaker 4 (34:41):
Nikki.
Speaker 2 (34:41):
You terrify me. I have a feeling you're gonna be
the end of my career. And Ali, Buddy, I don't
know why they still have you training anymore. I think
you're crushing it. You're absolutely one of the best and
one of my favorite guys to work with. And I
trust you, and that's the highest compliment I can pay
to somebody in your position.
Speaker 4 (34:57):
You trust you with my career.
Speaker 3 (34:59):
NICKI has some much practice with that dumb button dolly
practice that.
Speaker 4 (35:04):
Yeah. Oh, Nikki's offended. Oh boy, we're talking tomorrow night.
Speaker 1 (35:08):
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That's pretty great. Oh yeah, she has a little business
doing the sandals.
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What are they called? Naughty? Is naughty? Yeah? Okay?
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Any ut I Boddy sandals. I feel like there's something
you could have done. I can't imagine what couldn't you
have like made somebody their own personalized graphic novel.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
Does take a bit of work. I don't. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
You think we just whip those out with an AI.
What do you think happened to us?
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What I would do? First of all?
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Yeah, I mean I guess I could have had a
signed copy on one of my books or something.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
But there you go.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Nobody asked me. I'm not I'm not keep personnel around here.
I'm no bill handle. Okay, nobody asked. I mean if somebody, I.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
Mean, you can't.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Those things sold out so fast you can't find them
at any bookstores.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
So yeah, you gotta get your hands on those things.
Maybe next year. Uh yeah, we could have done so.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
For instance, there's the go to Vegas package that sounds fun,
I know. Don't you think that they could have asked
you and I to like go with people to Vegas
that they basically they would have paid.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
For our trip.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
That really might cut down on the bidding, don't you think?
Speaker 4 (02:04):
You know? What? How about this?
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Okay, let me let me start over and remembering still
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you bid now, we guarantee Mark and Chris will not
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Speaker 4 (02:38):
That's a bonus. There you go. I think we just
added another couple hundred dollars to that. Yeah, it's all
in the bid. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Also, it's Pastathon, it's not pastor thon. You won't be
surrounded by youth pastors. It's uh, it's it's a win
win for all.
Speaker 5 (02:54):
Right.
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Pasta, we like pasta pastata.
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Okay, Great, scottis is busy today trying to decide if
they still want you to have the Internet from ABC News.
Speaker 7 (03:16):
Everyday, billions of people illegally stream or download copyrighted material
like music, movies or TV shows. The key question before
the Supreme Court is our internet companies complicit in those
copyright infringements simply by giving online pirates access to the web.
Major record label Sony Music Entertainment says the answer is yes,
(03:38):
that Internet providers contribute to billions of dollars of losses
every year by failing to cut off access to people
who illegally download and stream content. They're seeking a billion
dollars from Cox Communications, one of the largest broadband internet
companies in the United States.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
Now Cox says yes. What does Cox say?
Speaker 8 (03:59):
The real culprits here are the individual users, and they
say that suing internet companies over i legal downloads could
drive them out of business and lead to quote, mass
evictions from the Internet in some communities.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Okay, so this gets uh, this gets heavy fast, real fast.
So the argument here, and this feels very much like
the section two thirty argument where they were saying, for instance, the.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
Facebook or.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
X or whomever you name the social media could be
held liable for things that are done on those platforms.
And I'm I'm very hesitant to do that in the
same way that I'm hesitant to say that it is
at and T's fault for nine to eleven because they
operated the phone lines that terrorists used to try to
coordinate the attacks. You know that that concerns me. Now
(04:56):
we're going to do a privacy issue, and I know
they're going to say, well, yeah, but Cox can actually
figure this out. Internet service providers, and we'll just use
conscious the example because the O the ones being sued,
they've lost already, by the way, in other lower court rulings.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
It's a billion dollar judgment.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
And so imagine if all of a sudden, your ISP
is tasked with making sure they know what you're downloading.
That's a problem, making sure they know what you're uploading,
that's a problem, and that they're liable for anything that
you do. So I see this as highly problematic, and
I don't know how the courts have ruled against them
(05:31):
thus far. It feels very odd to me that they
would hold them accountable for it. I certainly understand why
the music industry is trying to find somebody to hold
responsible for the piracy.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
I get it, I get it.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
I just don't know that you can hold the highway
responsible for the cars that are speeding. I don't know
that you can hold the toll booth operator responsible for
somebody stealing a car and then driving it on a turnpike. Right,
that's where I have That's where I have issues. Now,
here's what COX does right now. They do actually know
if you are pirrating stuff. I don't think they're following
(06:06):
exactly what it is that you're downloading. I don't think
that they're doing that, they're going that far.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
But they can see.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
The Internet service providers can see if you're downloading mass
quantities of information above and beyond what a normal person
would do. In streaming, for instance, I think my I
think my streaming limit is something like I don't know,
one hundred gig a month or something like that, right,
and if I go over one hundred gig a month,
then they start to throttle me or I could be
charged for an overage. And this has happened to me before,
(06:33):
and it happened years ago when I was doing I
was doing some crypto mining and a bunch of downloading
of other stuff. Nothing illegal, of course, so they can
kind of tell that somebody's got something going on. They're
downloading a bunch, they're uploading a bunch whatever it might be.
Above and beyond normal usage, and normal usage does include
(06:53):
you and the rest of the family streaming every night
or x amount of hours a day like they know that,
and streaming uses a bunch of a bunch of with
but beyond watching your Netflix because you're.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
Like, ooh, stranger Things.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
You can't wait to see these forty year olds pretending
they're still teenagers and I and all of a sudden,
you've got three people streaming stranger things all at once.
That's gonna look like a lot of downloads, but it's
a whole lot different than somebody who's downloading twenty movies
a day using a bit torrent.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
It takes us back to the napster days.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Basically, Instead Cox is saying the people who are breaking
the law should be the ones held responsible. It's akin
to blaming the liquor company because you're an alcoholic and
it's Mark Snacker Like this, it's kind of like when
you say, oh, well, Remington should be held responsible for
(07:47):
gun deaths because they made the gun.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
Well.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
The other thing is that the people who are tech
savvy are always going to be a step ahead, whether
it's buying a VPN or something else that is beyond
my comprehension, and you also you have to look at
the reasons people do things. I know that's unpopular, and
if you just want to obey the law, that's fine.
But when things are out of reach for one reason
or another, that's why they get taken. If a movie
(08:11):
is unavailable to buy, people will find a way to
acquire it online. If something's if something's just gouging people
being too expensive, they're gonna take it.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Or if I don't have any money or a There
are also people who like to try to beat the system.
We talked about that in the last segment. Just feeling
like they have some sort of power in the world
where they otherwise feel powerless. They're going to try to
do this. I'm concerned about the repercussions. So you mentioned
the VPN, and that's a great point. And one of
the things you hear NordVPN runs ADS and if I
have Norton and when I need to, I'll turn on
(08:42):
my NordVPN. I have a few programs I use that
don't like it, so I don't have it out a lot,
but I'll use NordVPN. NordVPN blocks your ISP, your service
provider from knowing where you're surfing. They could probably still
see that you've got a bunch of information that's coming in,
but they can't see where you're going or what it is,
all right, So that's one way that you can, yeah,
block it.
Speaker 4 (09:02):
You can also make it appear that you're coming from
a different.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Place, which is how people in Texas are still getting
their their porn Hub because remember Texas said you had
to do ID, and Pornhub pulled out of all states
that are requiring identifications.
Speaker 4 (09:15):
So now give people that are going, I'll just use
my VPN.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
That's exactly what they're doing to make it look like
they're coming from somewhere else. So my concern here also
is this, if I'm worried that I'm going to get
busted for doing this stuff at home, or if I'm
worried that I'm gonna hit certain thresholds when I'm at home,
why don't I just take my laptop to work? Can
you imagine if somebody catches on to Tim Conway Junior
(09:46):
downloading a bunch of movies on the iHeart Internet, and
all of a sudden we lose our Internet because the
Internet service paradery goes oh oh, somebody's pirrating things at
the radio station. Can you imagine, Because they're only going
to know that it came from our our user address,
that's it. They're gonna know that it came from from
our IP and as a result, they're done. You know, well,
(10:08):
we can't. We can't risk another billion dollar lawsuit shut
them off. And it's not just us, right, I mean
we would still go on. What if it's the hospital,
What if it's your power company. What if it's somebody
else who absolutely has to have that Internet. What if
you've got and I know this is gonna blow your mind,
what if you've got a cop who's doing these things
(10:30):
and then takes his laptop into the precinct in order
to try to download the stuff surreptitiously so as.
Speaker 4 (10:35):
To not get caught at home.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
Something like that would never happen, I'm sure, Firefighter, And
all of a sudden they lose their internet.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
Oh, we've got a blaze. We're gonna need that map. Yeah, sorry,
the internet's down. Why is the internet down? Well? Dan
was downloading a bunch of.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Christmas movies again, Dan, Yeah, this is where I worry
about the consequences of it. The repercussions. But I'm not
exactly somebody that goes, well, you ought to be able
to break the law if if the consequences are too bad.
That brings us back to the too big to fail
argument from years back. Oh, they broke the law, they
(11:16):
were doing things wrong. Yeah, but they're too big to fail.
We have to let them do it. It drives me
nuts when Pgene gets away with crap because well, they're
too big.
Speaker 4 (11:22):
We can't let them do it. But the truth is, I.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
Don't know how you can hold I don't know how
you can hold the road responsible for the drunk driver
driving on it.
Speaker 4 (11:33):
That's where I have issues with it.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
All right, Netflix, Right, that's that place where you can
escape or put on a Show's a safe background noise.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
Not anymore.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
The studio is dropping something that is sure to be
a chart topper, and it might make them the biggest
dog in the block.
Speaker 4 (11:46):
It's next. I'm Chris Meryl.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
Mark and I are just talking off air about the
streaming services. We'll get into one of those that's making
the headlines in here. Just a moment was discussing the
Supreme court case in which internet service provider Cox is
battling against a billion dollar judgment where lower courts have
ruled that because they had customers who were pirting music, movies,
(12:20):
and the like illegally, Cox is responsible. Now right now,
Cox knows if you're going over, they think you're pirrating things,
they're gonna send you what amounts to a season desist letter.
Speaker 4 (12:30):
They're gonna go knock it off. But they're not cutting
anybody off yet.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
And if the judgment goes against them, Cox is gonna
and all internet service providers for that matter, are gonna
have some They're gonna have some some questions to answer.
Are we gonna shut off the Internet for people that
are abusing it? Boy, that's scary. Can you imagine if
you're somebody who works remotely and all of a sudden,
your teenage kid has been downloading a bunch of music
(12:56):
and videos and you didn't even know it, then your
Internet gets shut off or worse.
Speaker 4 (13:02):
That's not great.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
I think if I had a teenager, Yeah, we'd go amish,
there'd be there'd be no internet in that.
Speaker 4 (13:08):
That's just smart in general.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
Yeah, Yeah, go outside and churn some butter. You're you're
not getting on the internet.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
Yeah, and you're only getting a bath on Saturday night
because we basically don't want anyone to find your genitals attractive.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
Yes, and you must remain partially clothed for the bath
the whole time. Yeah, put on your bloomers for that,
all right? From the talk back, Oh, because I said,
I said, you know what are people are gonna do.
They're gonna go to work to do this, so they're
gonna get busted at home. And then all of a sudden,
we got a bunch of.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
Businesses that are having their their internet shut off from
the talkbacks here.
Speaker 9 (13:37):
Back in the nineties, I had a buddy of mine
that was producing, uh, you know, movies with adults.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
Yeah, okay, so like action flicks or what does he
mean when he says movies with adult.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
Like My Dinner with Andre that kind of movie. I guess, okay,
I don't know what else it would be. Well, oh,
you got clip.
Speaker 4 (14:04):
Carry on and yeah.
Speaker 9 (14:06):
He was using the bandwidth over at his job overrad Disney,
and he made it a point since he was in
the I T department, he went there every day to
delete all of his progress and everything else.
Speaker 4 (14:22):
Wow.
Speaker 6 (14:24):
Wow, that's awesome.
Speaker 4 (14:27):
No, it's inappropriate. I've been watching from the corner the
whole time.
Speaker 10 (14:32):
Come on, goofy, You're gonna get sued by Disney for
doing that impersonation.
Speaker 4 (14:38):
No, no, no, no, no no. That was the steamboat
Willie version Mortimer Mouse.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
Steamboat Willie version of Mickey, of mee of Mickey.
Speaker 4 (14:50):
Nothing not. Everything's about you.
Speaker 10 (14:52):
You know, I used to work at Disney, so I
like that story from that listener.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
That's not appropriate. That's a many I think we could
do that. So speaking of uh no, nothing has nothing
to do with them. How about Netflix? So Netflix is
getting ready to drop this big documentary on Diddy.
Speaker 4 (15:11):
Ooh, this is gonna be must.
Speaker 11 (15:14):
Watch Netflix overnight. Lawyers for Sean Diddy Combs trying to
stop the release of a Netflix docu series do out today.
Speaker 4 (15:21):
Oh my for ABC News.
Speaker 12 (15:24):
We have to find somebody that to work with us,
that has dealt in the dirtiest of dirty business.
Speaker 11 (15:29):
The series contains never before seen footage of Combe's debating
strategy with his lawyers in the days leading up to
his arrest in New York last year.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
I am gonna let you professionals look at the situation
and come back.
Speaker 4 (15:41):
To me with a solution.
Speaker 11 (15:42):
It also includes video of Comb's greeting fans in Harlem.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
What sounds kind of arrogant? Does Anybody's talking to his
lawyers like, you're gonna look at the problem. You're gonna
find my solution. Uh yeah, the solution is you're gonna
do time Bud Organ College, and.
Speaker 11 (16:01):
Then saying this about the interaction moments later, I need.
Speaker 4 (16:05):
Some handstand the top of it. I got I've been
down the streets amongst the people. Yeah, I gotta take
the bag.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
You like, just like the amount of people that's that
actually I'm coming in contact.
Speaker 11 (16:17):
With, Like, that's the That's what I have to do here.
Speaker 4 (16:24):
It's it's like one hundred and fifty hugs. Okay, he's
a germophobe.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
What kind of guy doesn't host a ton of orgies
with a lot of baby oil? That isn't a germophobe.
You don't want to go you don't want to go
into an orgy with like scabs. I think we can
all agree with that. He's only acting reasonable.
Speaker 13 (16:45):
Now.
Speaker 11 (16:45):
Comb's lawyers are demanding Netflix pull the series, threatening legal
action claiming Netflix is using stolen footage that was never authorized.
For release as part of what they call a shameful
hit piece.
Speaker 4 (16:58):
Okay, so there you go.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
So the docuentaries Sean Combs, the reckoning produced by Fitty.
Speaker 4 (17:03):
Set not flattering.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
In the meantime, Netflix is feeling pretty good about their
financial situation. They just dropped an old cash offer on
Warner Brothers Discovery. No excuse me, mostly cash offer, mostly
cash offer. So Netflix is offering mostly cash, although, according
to Charlie Gasprino New York Post, Paramount Skydance making the
(17:30):
only all cash offer for Wonder Brothers Discovery of any
of the three bidders Netflix is Netflix offer is heavily
weighted on cash. People close to Paramount Skydance reps say
that their offer includes foreign investors with cash, which may
need government approval international, you know, whatever approval.
Speaker 4 (17:51):
They bring the cleanest deal of all three.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
They're looking to buy with cash, and they have an
easier path through Trump's regulators as well, so that that
could play into where Warner Brothers goes.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
Do we have a preference on who ends up with
Warner Brothers? Mark? Do we care? Well?
Speaker 3 (18:09):
We know that all this giant media consolidation one way
or the other sucks for everybody.
Speaker 4 (18:14):
Yeah, because well it's always worked out really well. Take
a look at radio.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
Well, I can't speak to radio so much because I'd
like to keep my job. But you know, in general,
media consolidation leaves people with fewer choices, they pay more
for a wrist product, and they're also subject to the
whims of the person who owns it. So I forget
who runs paramount skuid Dance?
Speaker 4 (18:36):
Do you have that? Yeah? Isn't that Ellison?
Speaker 3 (18:39):
Yeah, that's right, that's right. So you know, whatever that
person's politics are, that's going to be the slam prevailing
for the information that you receive from all of their
media properties, or at least you'll have to wonder.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
I don't want to have to wonder, and you'll have
to wonder. Yeah, yeah, I mean, as long as you've
got competition. You know where Fox stands, right, It's like, okay,
I know where they stand, and you know where ms
now stands. Okay, I know where they stand. I just
want to where they stand so that I can make
my choice. I don't want to have it all just
feels to me. I don't like the consolidation. I don't
(19:12):
like them all coming together. But I guess it's it
was inevitable when we started to see the democratization of
content because you had all not only the studios, but
then you had these upstarts like Netflix and Apple getting
into the game, and others that were getting into the
streaming wars to be Mark's favorite.
Speaker 4 (19:34):
You know that that felt really cool.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
You had Freeform that Amazon bought free Form, right, They
had a bunch of others, and then all of a
sudden they start they they're starting to kind of come together.
So Paramount, sky Dance they're together. Comcast is the other one.
Speaker 4 (19:48):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
The Comcast wants the the the HBO Video library. They
probably want the linear service? Does Netflix want the linear service?
Speaker 4 (19:58):
Hard to say.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
What's really funny is that every time John Oliver talks
about this on his show, he realized that whatever his
new corporate daddy is, he's probably gonna be in trouble.
And then he just plows right ahead and insults him anyway. Yeah, yeah, well,
I mean, is he at the point where he's untouchable?
Speaker 4 (20:17):
He might be.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
He's got some nerve on him. He does, and he
doesn't care it, said British Hubris. Yeah, hey, you're choosing
those for you, Ali, you're choosing your gifts and your
deals all week, but what about choosing to give instead.
The season of spending might flip into the season of
giving back. That's good for Uncle Sam. It's next and
tell you why, Chris Merrill.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
Boy, we were just lamenting about if Netflix, well whomever
buys Warner Brothers Discovery, it's going to mean consolidation. Whether
that's the Paramount skuyd Dance, whether it's Comcast, whether it's Netflix.
Speaker 4 (20:56):
It's going to be in consolidation.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
I think we agree that we kind of la and
more consolidation, because when has that ever gone poorly?
Speaker 4 (21:05):
From the talkbacks?
Speaker 14 (21:06):
Who are those foreign investors in? On top of that,
you realize, hmm, now we're going to be under what
five different media outlets. It's going to become a problem.
And actually a spelled Mark Robert or Ronner so I
can look for him.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
Oh am, I supposed to spell Mark Ronner. I don't
know if that's a good idea.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
Yeah, it gives me pause too, but I guess it
kind of comes with the territory. It's our a h
N E R.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
Yeah, But hold on, I don't think, but I think
that's a different guy than wanted to see nicky model
underwear for him, though, well they probably all it is
no different guy.
Speaker 4 (21:46):
Listen, this was I agree with her.
Speaker 5 (21:48):
I think that socks and undies are a perfect gift
and I would love to get those for her if
she would try them on in front of me.
Speaker 4 (21:56):
That's a different voice.
Speaker 6 (21:57):
I didn't want to say to that.
Speaker 4 (21:59):
Noah, see my temporary restraining order, that's what you say?
Speaker 2 (22:04):
Yeah again again, God, so many temporary restraining.
Speaker 6 (22:10):
Orders, so many diamonds in the post for me as well.
Speaker 4 (22:13):
I don't know what that means.
Speaker 6 (22:15):
True story.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
Okay, I don't know. I'm going to need an interpreter
on this one. Okay, more talkbacks.
Speaker 9 (22:22):
You had sixty seven different outlets for news and media,
but after that eight it was consolidated into six because
of Clinton.
Speaker 4 (22:31):
Look it up.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
Well, no, I'm quite familiar to telecommunications at nineteen ninety six.
Speaker 4 (22:36):
I'm yeah, I don't have to look it up. I
know it.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
That's what That's what erased limitations on radio ownership. So
I'm pretty familiar with that, and I think Clinton should
have vetoed the thing. But you know, who was speaking
out against it back in the nineties, Ralph Nader.
Speaker 4 (22:53):
You know who's for it.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
The Republicans in Congress and the Democrats have signed it.
So I think both political parties were way off on that. Nator,
who was always kind of considered a bit of a
kook boy, I think he was right on it. He
was right on it.
Speaker 3 (23:11):
There's just something that doesn't sit well with me about
maybe five or six giant companies controlling almost everything we
see here and read.
Speaker 4 (23:18):
I mean, that's an oligarchy, right right, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
I think we're probably, at this point the most propagandized
nation outside of North Korea on the planet.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
I'm not gonna go that far because you do have
some mother well, you've got any any communist leaning country,
So you got China, you got North Korea.
Speaker 4 (23:36):
I'm gonna say Venezuela.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
In the last two decades we've become quite competitive on
that front.
Speaker 4 (23:42):
Though.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
Yeah, well we've definitely stepped up our game. Yeah, I'll
agree with you on that. Yeah, I mean, we're it's
all about well, but but what do we know? Division cells?
In fact, I think I have something to I do
I do I was looking at Tomorrow's stories and I
have something tomorrow sacifically. I'm glad you brought this up. Mark,
thank you for that. I'm glad you brought this up
to me. So tomorrow I've got a story about how
(24:08):
gen Z dislikes news media and we'll dive into that
a little bit. But not only that, you have multiple
attempts from different actors who are trying to manipulate the
media narrative. So that's fun. We got that going for us.
A downer, Let's go back to the other fun stuff.
(24:34):
Let's go back to weird people calling and asking Nikki
to model underwear for them. As gross as that was,
it was actually more interesting.
Speaker 6 (24:41):
It was innocent.
Speaker 4 (24:44):
Okay, that's fun.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
Hey, today is Giving Tuesday, and we're not quite done
with Giving Tuesday yet. Now there's there's definitely somewhere I
could go that would extend the underwear modeling for.
Speaker 4 (24:57):
It was just about going to do it.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
Yeah, both of us are We've read too much time
around each other.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
It is so funny because I could tell Mark and
I were both weighing do we make this comment or not?
Speaker 4 (25:09):
Do we go with it or no? Fifteenth annuel O
Kfi Pastathon is still going on.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
Of course, we did the live broadcast from the White
House in Anaheim today all day long.
Speaker 4 (25:20):
Our total is up close to a million dollars.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
In fact, we think once we get the numbers in
from Smart and Final and Wendy's, we're gonna be up
over a million dollars. Chef Brunos charity Katerina's Club providing
more than twenty five thousand meals every week to kids
in need insun California. And thanks to you and your generosity,
that's why it happens. You can still go to any
Smart and Final and donate any amount at checkout, go
to any Wendy's restaurant in southern California, you make a
(25:43):
five dollars donation, you're gonna get a coupon book. And
you can still go to KFI AM six forty dot
com slash pastathon to make a donation or to bid
on the auction items that we have up there, including
a backyard barbecue with handle where he promises to be
only half curmudgeon.
Speaker 4 (25:59):
So are you stepping up? I gotta give him credit.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
Oh, speaking of giving Tuesday, wanted to throw a little
love out there to Paul Walker's charity and I love when.
I'm a big fan of when celebrities pass away that
their name lives on in perpetuity because of their benevolence.
I love it, I do, and so I'm a big
fan of that. And a great story from maybec seven
about the Paul Walker charity.
Speaker 13 (26:23):
Reach Out Worldwide is a disaster relief organization founded by
the late actor Paul Walker fifteen years ago. The organization
has serviced more than two thousand families since the Eton
and Palace Griers.
Speaker 4 (26:33):
Look at that.
Speaker 13 (26:34):
Today with Ikea, they're completely furnishing the Pasmino's new home.
Speaker 12 (26:39):
They wanted to go wall to wall to for a
family before the holidays, and so today we get to
move into a family who had lost everything, and all
the way from their kitchen supplies to the art on
the wall, to the beds, to the sofas, to the
Christmas decorations.
Speaker 4 (26:54):
That's so cool.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
I love that, And I'm a little sad because those
kids are never going to sleep on those beds because
those little wrenches, you can never put the stupid things together.
Speaker 4 (27:02):
But you know, it's the thought that counts.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
Can you imagine Ikea pulls up with a bunch of
boxes and you have to start trying to assemble him
with those little, those mini Allen wrenches that they put
in all the all the crates.
Speaker 3 (27:15):
I still haven't hit the big time because I still
have to assemb all my own furniture.
Speaker 4 (27:18):
That's what you do with Akiya. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
My wife wants hired an old man to come in
and put Ikea together. I was working. It was when
I was working jobs in different markets, so I was
gone for the week and she's like, oh, I got
this bookshelf. I just hired somebody to can put it together.
I go, you hired somebody because I don't want to
deal with the Ikea furniture.
Speaker 4 (27:35):
You're nuts?
Speaker 6 (27:36):
Was he Swedish?
Speaker 4 (27:39):
Here we go, Here we.
Speaker 6 (27:40):
Go ike Swedish company?
Speaker 4 (27:43):
Yes, so he would be.
Speaker 10 (27:44):
And she hired a subject matter expert. Your wife is
as smart. No, she hired an old man subject meta expert.
Speaker 4 (27:51):
It doesn't have to be sweetish, just old man with tools.
Speaker 6 (27:54):
I love old men with tools.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
Very okay, all right, hang on listen to me, Ali.
If Nicky pipes up, don't ever, don't ever use the
word balls in front of her when she's talking about
loving old men with tools. Okay, it's it's just a
it's a it's just a it's a bridge too far.
She can't help herself.
Speaker 4 (28:15):
If that scenario comes up again. Yeah, don't.
Speaker 3 (28:17):
Just just I'll remember nice knowing everybody put that little
post in the back.
Speaker 6 (28:21):
Of your hand the way.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
Okay, okay, all right, well it was nice working with you.
We'll check with George Norri and uh. Also, you've got
a bond with your dog. You think it's harmless, then
you find out just how peep how deep some people
are taking their bonds. Boy, why do I get the
feeling somebody's gonna bring up sheep in the next segment?
Speaker 4 (28:44):
All right, we'll find out.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
It's next Chris Meryl, you're listening to KFI AM sixty
on demand.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
Will be joined by the legend George Norrie, host of
Coast to Coast AM. George, what can we expect on
the program this evening?
Speaker 5 (29:02):
My friend, You're gonna teach people how to feel a
little better from our friends at Critical Healthnews dot com.
And then later on we're gonna dabble with the supernatural
on Coast to Coast.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
I love the supernatural. I hear peptides are are hot
right now. Peptides are supposed to make me better.
Speaker 5 (29:20):
That's what I hear too. I'll find out.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
Okay, I'm looking forward that, all right, George Norria Coast
to Coast talk about the supernatural and how the supernatural
will make you feel better about your peptides. Maybe not
quite and we'll just blend them all together speaking of
the supernatural. Not sure if you're a big fan of
the concept of soulmates. Got a new an argument about
this with a with a coworker this week because I'm
(29:44):
not a big fan of the idea of soulmates.
Speaker 4 (29:46):
I just feel like a soulmate is kind.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
Of this romantic version of Look I found love, they're
my soul mat And how do you know that they're
your soulmate? Well you have a connection. Well that's great,
that's wonderful. Well, there's eight billion people on Earth. Chances
are you're going to have a chemical composition that is
somewhat similar to someone else's chemical composition, and you're going
(30:11):
to find.
Speaker 4 (30:12):
That connection and hopefully you've experienced that. I have.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
I would call it hitting it off with people, not
necessarily romantically. A male female hit it off. Boy, you know,
I was. I met up with some friends and we
went together. Oh and there was this guy and he
was in from Cleveland, and oh, what a great dude.
Love to spend some more time with him. We hit
it off, right. I've been in a situation. I go
(30:36):
to college and you meet a bunch of new people
and I, you know, going to class and you sit
next to a girl and you're like, Wow, this is
we're really vibing.
Speaker 4 (30:42):
You're hitting it off, You've got a connection. Does that
mean your soulmates? No?
Speaker 2 (30:48):
No, oh, but we're soulmates. We're star crossed lover, We're
meant to be together.
Speaker 4 (30:56):
Oh Boloni. You know who pushes the idea of soulmates dudes?
Speaker 2 (31:04):
Dudes do because women believe it.
Speaker 4 (31:07):
It's not that we believe it, we just lean into it.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
For instance, a few years ago, I was looking for
an anniversary gift from my wife and I got her.
I got her star map of exactly what the sky
looked like from the location on the date that we
were married. And she's like, that is so romantic, and
it says something like it was always in our stars.
Speaker 4 (31:34):
We didn't fall for that crap all the time. I
didn't no such thing as sole me.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
However, this is interesting more than half of dog owners
believe that their pop is their soulmate. Two thousand dog
owners Survey Survey says eighty one percent felt like it
was fate that they ended up with their particular dog.
Three quarters say that their dog mirror them in key
(32:00):
traits like energy, social habits, and emotional sensitivity. I think
some of that's projection and some of it probably is
learned behavior that your dog picked up from being around you.
And more than half say that their dog is their soulmate.
Two thirds say their dog is their emotional twin. Look
I've had I've had a few dogs in my life,
(32:22):
and I'm a dog guy. I love them. When my
last one passed away, I just went through the two
year anniversary of my dog dying this last month, and I,
to be honest, I had I had a rough couple
of days because he was on my mind.
Speaker 4 (32:35):
In fact, total transparency.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
During tonight's show, in between in between segments, I was
flipping through some photos on my phone waiting for the
commercials to end so it'd come back, and I ran
across some old photos my dog, who is my best
buddy in the whole wide world, and I loved him
and when he died, I was wrecked.
Speaker 4 (32:59):
I mean I bawled like a child.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
I had to take a couple of days off work,
and even when I came back to work, it was
still everything I could do to hold it together.
Speaker 4 (33:10):
I don't wish that pain on anyone.
Speaker 2 (33:14):
The dog was not my soulmate, no, because the soulmate
stuff is just made up. My dog was my best friend,
and he was there for me, and we had lots
of adventures together, and he was a wonderful part of
my life. And I only hope that somewhere, somehow, Although
(33:34):
I don't believe it, but I'd like to think it's
true that he knows just how much he meant to me,
That he's looking down on me from some wide open
field full of sticks that he's running around in and
he goes Dad misses me. God, I would love that.
I don't believe it to be true, but God, would
I love that. There's no such thing as soulmates. I
(33:57):
don't mean to rein on your parade. I don't mean
to ruin everything for you. I don't mean to be
the dead Debbie Downer here. But you know what, love
those dogs will you got them? Love them like they're
the best thing in the whole wide world because they're
super duper. But there is no metaphysical trait that your
animals bringing to the table, because here's what happens. That
(34:17):
animal is gonna pass away, and you're gonna find another
animal and you're gonna love that animal.
Speaker 4 (34:22):
It's gonna bond with you. And then what, oh no,
this is my soulmate.
Speaker 2 (34:27):
How disrespectful to the one that passed away? How dare
you do that? And I'm just standing up for your
dead dog, George nor Coast to Coast is next Mark,
Love you, buddy, love you back you.
Speaker 4 (34:41):
Nikki.
Speaker 2 (34:41):
You terrify me. I have a feeling you're gonna be
the end of my career. And Ali, Buddy, I don't
know why they still have you training anymore. I think
you're crushing it. You're absolutely one of the best and
one of my favorite guys to work with. And I
trust you, and that's the highest compliment I can pay
to somebody in your position.
Speaker 4 (34:57):
You trust you with my career.
Speaker 3 (34:59):
NICKI has some much practice with that dumb button dolly
practice that.
Speaker 4 (35:04):
Yeah. Oh, Nikki's offended. Oh boy, we're talking tomorrow night.
Speaker 1 (35:08):
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