November 27, 2025 • 33 mins
There’s a big snowstorm presently pummeling Michigan this Thanksgiving. What’s everyone streaming over the turkey-day break? Warner Bros. Discovery is moving forward with its potential sale, looking for potential bids from buyers including Paramount, Comcast and Netflix. Eminem is involved in a trademark war – with two Real Housewives of Potomac. According to the trademark infringement lawsuit, former Housewife star Robyn Dixon and Gizelle Bryant have a podcast called “The Reasonably Shady Podcast.” It’s the night before Thanksgiving, hence it’s Drinksgiving, also known as Blackout Wednesday. Liquor sales tonight may spike as much as 150% over normal Wednesday sales. Be careful of drunk drivers when on the roads tonight. Bianca Adler, a 17-year-old explorer who attempted to climb Mt. Everest with her dad, talked about traversing back down the mountain while carrying bags of trash and her own poop.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
For those that listen, know that my wife is in
northern Michigan right now and we have a place up there.
My parents live up there. We had a my aunt
was in a bad car accident. My wife has been
helping out with the family and things like that. So
she's up there. And Mark, you had a story earlier
about travel and how this storm is going through and
(00:27):
you actually mentioned a couple of cities. One you said,
Traverse City down to Kalamazoo. Ah. Yeah, I don't know
if you remember doing the story. It was earlier in
the show. I do not have COVID brain damage. I
remember it. You do, Okay, good. So I went to
college in Kalamazoo, actually one of the many colleges i'
dropped out of. And our place is basically dead center,
right in the middle of that that from Traversity to Klamazoo.
(00:48):
We're kind of right in the middle of that is
where we are. So I'm talking to my wife about
quarter after three today, as I do every day. I
talked to her in the morning, in the afternoon, and
because I'm you know, I'm in love, and all of
a sudden, she just goes, oh no, what crap crap, crap, crap, crap,
crap crap, Oh god ow, And I thought, I thought, okay,
(01:12):
either she dropped something, she got a foot cramp. She
also makes those same noises when she gets foot cramps,
or you know, third option is just other and what
is this? She goes, we just lost power. So she
showed me video and the wind was crazy. H it was,
I mean, really stirring things up. And I've seen some
other posts online of Lake Michigan. It's the kind of
(01:34):
storm no joke. I looked at this on the radar.
In fact, Mary and I were talking about this. I
looked at this in the radar and it's swirling over
Lake Superior. Now where are our places off of Lake Michigan.
But it's swirling over Lake Superior, very similar to what
it did when it sunk the Edmund Fitzgerald fifty years ago.
It's got that same swirl to it, right. So she
was showing me this stuff powers out and I keep
(01:54):
getting updates from the power Companies's not gonna be on
until you know, one o'clock two thirty in the morning.
I'll keep getting delayed longer and longer and longer. So
I guess just be glad that we're not dealing with
any of that crap. And I have to be I
have to be very cautious because you know, she's it's
it's it's not easy, right, it's a pain. She's there
by herself, she got a big fat dog, Her internet's out,
(02:16):
she has no power. There's that means no power means
no heat, right, and it's cold, and so she's just
curled up under the blankets with the dog right now.
She needs to We've got we've got some backups in
place because it is it is the Great White North,
so we've got some backups. But she doesn't want to
deal with it. And I have to be very cautious
not to go, Oh, that's too bad. It's really nice here.
(02:36):
I think I might just go put on a sweatshirt.
Oh boy, you know there's no snow around us. Oh,
it's actually a really nice night to go for a walk.
I have to be very cautious not to do that. Yeah,
tomorrow is going to be a short stay. It's going
to be around eighty Yeah, I can't say that there.
See I can't do that. Well, you could, I know.
(02:57):
The thing is, I've been that. I've been that guy
enough times that she kind of expects it. But you know,
kind of my brand is to keep people guessing. So
the minute I become predictable, then I'm boring. So I
guess maybe I'll just kind of be nice to her
for a little while throw her off. Yeah, okay, that's
what I'm thinking. I mean, it works with you sometimes.
(03:17):
I know I'm nice to you and you don't know
what to say. No, no, it really stops me in
my try, it does. It does. I try to keep
you on your toes. Huh. Hey, that's right in your
wheelhouse because I know you and I talk about we
talk about what's streaming all by the way, Pluribus on
Apple Plus. I'm loving it so far.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
I'm not gonna watch that until the whole thing is
out and I can just chain watch it all, just
like I did with Breaking Bad.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
It's another Gilligan chair. It is, it is, it is. Yeah.
And Ria Sehorn is amazing and it She's really incredible.
I mean, she was amazing in a better Call Saul,
and she's just I mean, her talent is is top notch.
But I would I would recommend that I'm having great
conversations at work with someone who's a gen Z that says, oh,
(04:01):
this is about AI. And I went, I'm not picking
that up. And I said, I'm thinking that this is
about someone finding their place in society and not conforming
but also having expectations. And she goes, no, no, this
is about AI. And I went, that's funny because I said, now,
maybe this is old school of me because I look
at things. I look at all all theater, theater, film,
(04:24):
whatever it is, right, I go, is about human relationships,
all of it is. That's what it's about, right, I mean, Mark,
you Wright, you write a lot. Everything you write is
in some way, shape or form about human relationships.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
Well, I think Faulkner said it best. He said, it's
about the human heart and conflict with itself.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Yeah. Now that doesn't mean AI can't be a character
in that conflict, but it all has to be about
the human the human condition, of course. So I not
even considered the AI. So I'm curious when you watch it,
if you see it the way that she does and goes, oh, yeah,
this is commentary and AI, or if if this is
more about you know, no, this is about relationship, absorb
(05:01):
or finding our place in society.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
I'll have to get to it soon because I've seen
a lot of comparisons to the nineteen sixty seven show
The Prisoner, which is one of my favorites. And I
just got booked to do a chapter in a book
about The Prisoner's sixtieth anniversary. So it's kind of homework
for me at this point. Boy, that's gonna be a
best seller. There's baby. So now are you switching it
up now again? Are you going mean?
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Now? No? No, I'm just I can't wait. Do you
want me to send you an autograph copy? Is that
what you? I do? I want to be the guy
that has copy number seven when it hits the New
York Times Bestseller though, oh look at the time, Oh crap,
we got a few minutes left. So Warner Now, as
(05:44):
we talk about streamers, Warner Brothers Discovery is moving forward
this according to Barrett Media, with their potential sale, they're
looking now for higher second round bids from any interested buyers.
That according to multiple reports, So Water Discovery, as we
all know, they've gotten, uh, they've gotten some I don't
know if they've been official bids or inquiries or whatever
(06:04):
it is. But but Paramount sky Dances what everybody keeps
talking about. Uh, they say, they're the ones that have
not only the backing, but they're gonna have the federal
backing as well. They're gonna they're gonna be able to
clear any sort of u FC not fcc U, the
financials hurdles, the SEC. Excuse me that I couldn't come
(06:25):
up with it for whatever reason, the SEC hurdles and
any other hurdles that they might have to because of
the relationship with the Ellisons and the Trump So they go.
Paramount seems to be the one that that is kind
of the top dog, and Paramount would likely keep Warner
and Discovery both the film and the linear model together,
so that's the thinking by the media experts. However, Comcast
(06:47):
is also interested, as is Netflix, and one might believe
that Comcasts would look for that linear model the Discovery
that the television product, whereas Netflix may want to tap
into the Warner library. So we don't know exactly how
this is gonna pan but what we do know is
that Warner is moving forward. Bloomberg News first report of
the deadline for the second round submissions. The company could
enter exclusive negotiations with one bidder once the new proposals
(07:10):
are received. First round offers submitted a week ago last
Thursday by those three, and now they go, great, we've
got it. What's your next offer? So it sounds like
Warner is not only moving quickly on this, but they
are also and I don't know if this seems oddly
public to me for a merger acquisition. Paramouse bid was
(07:34):
for twenty three to fifty a share eighty percent cash,
twenty percent stock that was rejected by Warner Brothers Discovery.
The company submitted a first round bid similar to the
prior offer back by the Ellison family, including Oracle founder
Larry Ellison, along with Redbird Capital. YadA, YadA YadA. Details
of the bids from all parties remain unconfirmed, so we
don't know exactly what it is. What we do know, though,
(07:55):
is that round one is done. Hey, we got your bids, guys,
Now who wants it more?
Speaker 4 (08:01):
So?
Speaker 2 (08:02):
I guess I guess they've started bidding war for Warner Discovery.
So there you are. They don't have pluribus. That's on
apple Stoe all right. You think trademark fights are going
on in boardrooms right. Oh, we've got a trademark fight. That'
sounds boring, it's not. In fact, this trademark fight could
lead to a Grammy. I'll tell you why that is. Next.
(08:24):
I'm Chris Merrill KFI AM six forty live everywhere in
the iHeartRadio.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand?
Speaker 2 (08:34):
What hold on? Where's my Oh? Yeah, hear it?
Speaker 5 (08:38):
This here is we had this, We had this talkback
Mark you like this, mister Marrow. You're definitely worth listening to.
And you are an indicate guy. Because the anti dude
I had to break out the sativa. I needed a
little more uplifting. Wow, you you're cool. I like you,
just nice and meldow. Okay, so you got to hand that.
(09:00):
Should I send that to Andy?
Speaker 6 (09:02):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Yes, Andy would like that. Send it to all the bosses. Oh,
I love Andy. I I always like I like listening
to Andy's show. I told so, Andy first started doing
stuff on the weekends, and he would do things on
Sunday Sunday afternoon, and I would take over Sunday evening
and I just I remember thinking, I God, I can't
(09:26):
stand it when these guys they come off TV and
they step into a radio studio and they're good. You know,
I just oh drives me nuts because it's not like
I can just walk out of a radio studio and
onto a TV set and suddenly I'm good and TV ready.
But Andy's oh, he sounds good, and not everybody can
do that. By the way, Andy has a he has
(09:46):
a particular set of skills. And anyway, I think Andy
does a great job.
Speaker 6 (09:51):
So he's got that hair too.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
He's amazed. I mean, he's an amazingly good looking man.
Speaker 6 (09:55):
He's called Princess die hair. It's beautiful that.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
I mean that. The was my first thought too.
Speaker 6 (10:01):
It's like a wave.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Yeah. Are you saying he's a little end trogynous? Whoa?
Speaker 3 (10:06):
Hang on, well, hold on, I'm not the one who
whipped out Princess Dying.
Speaker 6 (10:11):
Okay, I'll revise that he looks like George Michael and
wham with that hair.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
Well I don't know about that either, So I'm just
being ay better. Yeah, never forget I said anything.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
No, I'm just saying he looks like Annie Lennox and
it's still not still.
Speaker 6 (10:27):
More and doing it.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Yeah, not really helping this early bowie Okay, nailed it. Yeah,
that's where I was going next.
Speaker 6 (10:35):
To in Orlando.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
Oh yeah, it definitely looks like you're not You're not.
You're not doing a many favors here, all right, moving on? Okay,
So m em and m is involved in a trademark
war and it's all about slim shady baby. If you
(10:58):
haven't heard, this is continued to take twist after turn
after turn after twist, which means it is a long
and winding road. My friends, Eminem is not happy with
a couple of Real Housewives stars. Why well, according to
the lawsuit, and forgive me for not knowing this ahead
of time, I did not know that the Real Housewives
of Potomac had begun their own podcast called The Reasonably
(11:24):
Shady Podcast. Yeah, Giselle Bryant and former castmate Robin Dixon.
According to Eminem, Marshall Mathers, if you will, are harassing
him over a deposition tied to their long simmering trademark fight.
So they wanted to do this podcast, a real life podcast.
Oh my gosh, you must be a celebrity. So they're
(11:45):
doing a real life podcast. Oh, I can't wait to listen.
I bet they have so much to say. And they
call it this reasonably Shady, which he says is a
playoff of his shady trademark real slim, shady, reasonably shady. Right, Okay, However,
they're saying, no, it isn't. We're just shady people, and
so this is a reasonably shady podcast. That's their stick.
(12:08):
He goes, no, no, you can't do that. I've already
I've already trademarked shady for entertainment related things. All right,
So what's going on now is he's suing them for
basically trademark infringement. Now they're mad, and we've got it.
The chapter is evolving. Now they're mad because he is
not really sitting down for a deposition in a timely manner.
(12:30):
He's doing a lot of negotiating. I can do two
hours of a deposition and it has to be at
two pm. And they're like, why are you being so difficult?
And he says, why are you guys being such real housewives?
I mean probably different words. But then the claim is
that he's working on new music. Ooh, he can only
(12:51):
sit down for a deposition at two pm because he's
working all morning on new music. I don't believe that,
but I'm no No, it's not that I don't believe
that he's that he's working on new music. I don't
believe that he's working early in the morning on new
music because as a musician, musicians notoriously don't get up early.
(13:13):
They're not exactly early risers, and so it would seem
to me that he's far more likely to be working
on new music starting about starting about two or three
o'clock in the afternoon. That could be totally wrong. I mean,
I don't know the guy. Maybe he's like, oh whoo,
six thirty, gotta go up and take my run. Oh,
then I can't wait to get to the lab. Maybe
that's the case. In fact, I'm kind of hoping that
(13:36):
he is working on new music because if he is,
I know anything about Eminem, there's gonna be a banger
on the new album that's gonna be all about these
real housewives of the Potomac, And I absolutely cannot wait
to see how petty he gets with it, because he's
(13:56):
gonna burn him. They are gonna go to there. They
just caddy right, But Shady is clever. Shady will write
an entire opus around them in ways that confuse them.
It's entirely possible. He does an absolute slam track on
these women and they think it's somehow a compliment. I
(14:16):
could see it playing out exactly like that. However, I've
also seen him do some music that just goes right
for the throat. Either way, I'm kind of looking forward
to it. Huge part of me looking forward to to
a dis track and if it's good. Remember remember Kendrick
Lamar had the dis track on Drake that won all
(14:37):
the awards. One of the odds, he cuts a dis
track about the Real Housewives and this thing ends up
becoming a Grammy winner. God would that be great?
Speaker 6 (14:44):
Do me also have a disk track against Machine Gun Kelly?
Speaker 2 (14:48):
Yeah? I think you did. I think you're right. Yeah, yeah,
oh god, he would just well M's dis tracks. He
ripped into his mom on a number of those two.
He was just ripping her apart. Kim. I'll never forget
his mom's name was Kim because he was who.
Speaker 6 (15:05):
But maybe he does get up early now because he's
about to be your grandfather.
Speaker 7 (15:10):
Yeah maybe, but I'm not buying it. Yeah, I don't
think so. I don't think that's that happening. Again, I
don't know the guy. Maybe I'm totally wrong.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
Maybe maybe your maybe your explanation is perfectly reasonable.
Speaker 6 (15:26):
He seems like a nice family man. He's got like
three daughters to adopted, I believe.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (15:33):
Cool, sweet he adopted his ex wife's daughter from another relationship.
That's a good guy.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Okay, I had no problems with that. That's great. But
I think he'll tell you that early on he loved
his daughter a lot, but he wasn't really there for
I mean, that's listen to a decent amount of eminem.
I think he kind of he kind of works through
some of those some of those faults through his music.
But then he also does some dis tracks and that's
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what I'm looking forward to. All Right, enough of that,
because I have to tell you you're doing something wrong
and it could cost you biglely. You think you're just
grabbing a little pre turkey drinky drink with your old friends,
so you've got one too many in YOUA it snaps
you into weakend wide chaos, and it's not you. It's
happening so often. Experts have a name for it. You'll
(16:22):
find out what it is next. Chris Merrill I am
six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
I hope that your Thanksgiving is off to a wonderful start,
and I do hope that you're being safe. And I
mean that because it's not just Thanksgiving, it's also Drunksgiving.
Today is known as Blackout Wednesday or Drinksgiving. It's one
of the busiest bar nights of the year, and it
(16:54):
comes with, of course, the risks heavy drinking, d UIs
memory lapses, wrecked holiday plans, and we I do know
that HP is sepic up enforcement. We know that they do
this whenever there's a holiday weekend. And this will not
be the last time. You know darn well that as
we get closer to Christmas, there's gonna be TV stories. Heck,
(17:14):
I'll probably try to fill some time as well talking
about DUI checkpoints, CHP, enhanced to patrols, this kind of stuff.
It's gonna happen around Christmas, It's gonna happen around New
Year's These are these are stories you can count on
once we once we get to November, you can count
on Person of the Year stories, Year in recap stories,
(17:36):
best films of the Year, Best music of the year,
Spotify playlists of the year, you talk about travel? What
else am I missing here? Mark Dy checkpoints? These are
all all of them, family issues, food recipes. These are
all things you're gonna see on TV, here, on radio, reading,
in your in your blogs, whatever it is, right, all
of these things. These are the go to topics around
(17:58):
the holidays, all of them. So what'll be the last
time you hear about this? But today is interesting because
it really kicks off what I'd like to think of
is alcohol season. Now, for some of us complete pros,
we go thank you. Alcohol season is year round. We
(18:21):
practice for this very occasion. But the thing is, if
you've been doing it in a while, you know not
to get behind the wheel right. Liquor sales tonight may
spike as much as one hundred and fifty six percent
above normal wednesdays, beer and cocktails jumping over sixty percent.
(18:42):
So people are going to the spirits. They like their beers,
they like their cocktails. That's going to go up, But
they're going to the liquors, and that is that is
key because a lot of people who don't normally drink liquor,
And based on what we're seeing is liquor is increasing
far more than beer and cock tales, which means not
normal Wednesday night liquor drinkers are doing it. And if
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you're normally a cocktailer a beer drinker, and all of
a sudden you're gonna start doing shots, it may hit
you a lot faster than you realize. All right, not
only that, but Mark, this is for you. Because I
work from my home student, I feel personally attacked already.
Oh you should. But this part is for you, Okay,
this is this is actually because of my concern for you,
(19:26):
because you're I consider you a friend. See, I'm pulling
out the nice throw you for a loop news to me.
Thank you. No, I think of you as a friend,
I see, yeah, because I convince you about anything. Uh,
the risk of encounter and I would help you move
if you asked. And a drive to the airport. What
are we at that level? Give it some thought? Go ahead, borderline,
(19:46):
All right, we're borderline. The risk of encountering a drunk
driver increases by about fifty five percent on this night
compared with the average. So your normal Wednesday driving home,
you may see some more drunks on the road when
you get out. What time you got out tonight midnight?
Speaker 3 (19:58):
Yeah, yeah, I taking the side roads. It's amateur and
I just like Saint Patrick's day. You really, if you
are a complete pro, you don't want to be out
on a night like this.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Somehow we're one to one accusing ourselves as being complete
pros instead of the other person. Ooh that's great. Yeah, yeah,
so you do the side roads. I'm always worried about
the side roads because I have in my mind that
if somebody's buzzed, if they're drunk, they're not really in
the right mind at all. But if they're buzzed, and
as we all know, buzz driving is drunk driving in
(20:30):
there in my mind, if somebody's buzzed, they might be thinking,
I'm going to avoid potential DUI checkpoints. I'm going to
take side roads or surface streets. And so that's what
worries me about that, Like, am I safer on the
freeway because at least there's a lot of other people
out there, and the drunks aren't gonna want to you know,
they don't want to take they don't want to be
in a precarious position. They might be taking the side roads.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
Well, the calculation is would you rather get hit a
thirty miles an hour or seventy miles in Yeah, that's.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
A good point, and you can you can probably if
you're on a freeway and you look around, you can
probably spot one hundred cars at once, and how many
of them are drunks. Whereas if you're on a side road,
you might see three cars, and your chance of identifying
the drunk driver in those three cars might be a
whole lot easier too.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
I suppose I don't know what your experience is, but
when I go home after midnight, and you know, often
at one or later, I can see people weaving around
on the highway freeway and you know, you know to
give them a wide berth, and that might be harder
on a side road.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
That's true.
Speaker 4 (21:28):
Do you have.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
Do you have a problem? I have this problem right now.
It used to be if you saw somebody who was
kind of weaving a little bit, like when I first
started to learn to drive. But we always warned about
watching for drunk drivers. Obviously, they kept telling us, don't
be a drunk driver, but then watch for drunk drivers.
And I always had trouble seeing a drunk driver unless
they were really riding the rail as some people, you
(21:52):
know what, riding the rail is riding for thank you
riding the rails when you put your tire on the
yellow line and you go, if I'm on the yellow line,
that means I'm going straight. So they ride the rail okay,
because otherwise they're worried the road is shifting in front
of them. Right, their eyes are deceiving them. So if
I can get my tire on that, if I can
ride the rail, then I'm okay. So, but I always
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in trouble seeing the drunk drivers unless it was really obvious.
Now I have problems. I can't tell if somebody's drunk
or if they're just texting. That's exactly it.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
Yeah, yeah, but it doesn't make any difference because you
don't want to be near them in either case, because
if they're clueless enough to be texting behind the wheel,
they're still dangerous.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
And then you get that special combination, and it happens
on nights like this where you get the person who's
drunk doesn't think they're they're that drunk, right, I'm probably okay.
I've only had a couple. I'm probably okay, right, And
then because they're probably okay, they're going to text people
to let them know they're on their way home while
they're driving. Right, that's the one where you've got somebody
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who's pretty buzzed or drunk and texting. Oh god, please,
don't you.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
That texting, having a phone call. Uh, screwing around with
the radio, leaving leaving a talk back for you.
Speaker 6 (23:06):
Smoking a doube.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
Oh that escalated quickly.
Speaker 6 (23:10):
Oh, this is California, so you know people are getting
high and then getting behind the wheel.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
That's illegal. So what does that have to do with California.
It can happen anywhere, and you can.
Speaker 6 (23:18):
But you can tell the Stones drivers because they drive really,
really slowly.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
Your producers admitting she enjoys a little hot boxing.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
Now what I do?
Speaker 6 (23:28):
I cannot do that, as you.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
Can't roll a hot box.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
I don't do that.
Speaker 6 (23:32):
I do not do that. I'll get attention.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
If I do.
Speaker 6 (23:36):
I promise I don't do that.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
She seems like the kind who could get out of
a ticket. Don't you think we should try to figure
stop it? We should do it over under on how
long before Nikki gets deported? Oh?
Speaker 6 (23:51):
Gosh, okay, on what grounds though?
Speaker 2 (23:55):
Any grounds? Yeah?
Speaker 6 (23:57):
Uh, this is harassing a police officer.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
Yeah, boy, we could be really onto something here. Are
we allowed to put a thumb on the scale?
Speaker 6 (24:08):
No?
Speaker 2 (24:09):
Uh ooh boy, depends on how much he upsets you
one night. I see, yeah, I would say no, not
allowed to put a thumb on the stade. This has
to be all of her own doing.
Speaker 6 (24:18):
I can get myself into trouble very easily.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
Right, I can see you getting pulled over. No office,
Isn't there anything I can do about that?
Speaker 6 (24:26):
You get pulled over. I got pulled over two weeks ago,
and I have a ticket.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
Oh it didn't work.
Speaker 6 (24:39):
I crossed the line apparently.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
I bet you did multiple lines.
Speaker 6 (24:52):
Crossing lines yet?
Speaker 2 (24:56):
Uh oh boy? Oh baby? All right. You think you
know about tough decisions, right, Try making a tough decision
when your body is shutting down, with the air is
thinning and now you've got to go potty. The most
extreme decisions. Where to go next? Chris, maryl I AM
six forty five everywhere in the iHeartRadio.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
George, you've had a lot of great shows this week.
What are we doing tonight, my friend?
Speaker 4 (25:30):
For coming up, We're going to talk about how ancient
wisdom and science meld together, and then later on the
power of gratitude on this Thanksgiving Eve, And we're live
tomorrow night too, Chris.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
Just so everybody knows, that is great news. I'd love
to hear that, and in fact, I will make sure
that I'm listening. It will be part of my evening, George,
as it always is. Thank you so much, my friend.
Speaker 4 (25:50):
Have a great Thanksgiving, you too.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
Happy Thanksgiving. George northon Radio Legend, Just get tingles whenever
get a chance to talk to Georgia, I just don't
want to upset him. I don't want to say something
dumb that makes him go, why don't I.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
Have to talk to this moron? Yeah, you don't feel
like that ship's kind of sailed?
Speaker 2 (26:09):
I mean, honestly, yes, okay, but I don't want to
make it worse because maybe I'm maybe I'm mistaken and
he doesn't think I have a complete boob. But you know,
I don't want to I don't want to remove all doubt,
you know. So I get nervous when I talk to
George Norri. I think a lot of people fanboy out
on George I do. I do not, And I think
(26:32):
a lot of people do, because you know, he does
a lot of the stuff that's a little a little
bit of the woo woo. But I just think he's
an incredible broadcast talent. I mean, he's doing it for
so long and he just does it. He's just locked in,
and I just think he's got the perfect night show.
He just understands his audience, he understands his day part,
he understands so many of the things that take years
(26:55):
to master, and he just he gets it. He knows
what his lane is, and he just he does it
better than anybody. I I have so much respect, so
much respect.
Speaker 3 (27:06):
I think we're overdue for a lunch with George. This
has been promised for literally years now.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
Oh is that right?
Speaker 3 (27:12):
Yeah, George? If you're listening, you're picking up the tab.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
What do we get with George? Does he take us?
Is it gonna be something normal or is he gonna
take us something He's like, guys, I've got this great
alien cafe, right, will be fantastic. We'll have our hopes
all built up and then we'll just greet with pinks.
That's fine with me too, Yea, do some we do
some selfies there they'd be all right, well we could
call it. Oh you know what if we did we
(27:39):
go to Pinks and then uh we could we could
get like a George Nori special, like the Probe Dog. Yeah,
they'll name a hot dog after him. That would be great,
It would be amazing. I love that. I was reading
up on this story about a seventeen year old climber
on Mount Everest. She's a fan fascinating girl and she
(28:01):
was tiktoking it, so she became a bit of a celebrity.
People Magazine actually was reporting on her, and Bianka Adler
is her name, and she's actually been climbing. Her parents
are climbers, which is how she got started so young,
and she's been climbing and setting records for being the
youngest female to climb different peaks around the world. So
obviously she got money. But she tried to climb Everest
(28:24):
and she was climbing with her father, who again is
another climber and has climbed Everest in the past. And
I'm just reading about this and how you go from
base camp to Camp one, to Camp two to Camp
three and or maybe it's space camp Camp two, three,
whatever it is, and then you kind of up and
down to acclimate your body, because you can't be over
a certain altitude for too long or else it really
(28:46):
messes with you. So you actually have to go up
for a little while, come back down. Go up, stay
a little longer, come back down. Go up, stay a
little bit longer, come back down. And I didn't realize that. See,
I thought that all these climbers, they basically did a
lot of exercising, They did a lot of deeping. Probably
have I don't know, those weird cans of O two
you can buy it lows, you know, in their backpacks
(29:08):
or something. I didn't realize that. You mean people buy
those for things other than hangovers? Dude, what do they?
What else? I mean? I see those and I go,
who buys these things? It's that's got to be it? Right, Well,
now you know it's got to be. There's no other
reason to buy that.
Speaker 3 (29:23):
But also you've really added a bonus to something that
sounds laborious and life threatening. You have to acclimate yourself
to it in addition to all that, yeah, and the
extreme cost of it.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
So get this. She is doing this stuff and her
dad gets sick, not like death, leel or anything, but
he falls sick. But she's seventeen. There's a couple of sherpas.
She's done other claims before, and they're basically like, hey,
go on, you can do this, you can hit the summit.
So she said she did, like all this training, and
she's tiktoking the thing and a storm sets in and
(29:59):
so she's she's getting close. She's above eight thousand meters.
You can't survive very long above eight thousand meters. Your
body just won't do. Even if you've aclimated. You're not
acclimating enough unless I guess you're a sure. But shirper's
are amazing. And as she goes up there, she gets
hit by the cold, she gets hit by the weather.
She's four hundred meters shy of the summit of Mount Everest,
(30:21):
and they had to make the decision to turn around
and come back.
Speaker 3 (30:23):
Down after the shirp has pressured her into this. You've
you've had how many people have had shirpa pressure? Nobody
that's she's the only one. Other seventeen year olds is like,
who are you going to go to.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
The dance with? But in this case, she's got shirpas
that are like, you can do it, Yeah, try to do.
Your free will is gone. It's gone, totally gone. In
an interview though, we got a little bit of insight,
So if you're unfamiliar, the climbers have been going up
and down on Everest for what long? Almost was it
(30:56):
nineteen thirty two, I think was the first one to summit,
if I if I'm not mistaken. So what I think
is really fascinating is that you may have heard the
stories that there are dead bodies marking the trail up
and down Everest, and that is because people will, you know,
die and nobody's going to bring them down, like they're
having enough trouble getting them their own selves down without
(31:20):
ending up next to the corpse that's already there. So
these corpses end up freezing pretty quickly and then they
just stay there. So if you've ever you know, banged this,
you're going to find this, like this trail of corpses
up and down Everest. It's really interesting. But also what
happens is they get going and they start throwing trash out.
So evidently the trails up and down Everest are littered
(31:43):
with litter, covered with trash and human excrement. So there's
new rules. If you want to sum at everest, you
have to go up and when you come back down,
you have to come down with about eighteen pounds of
trash to prove that you've brought your trash back with you.
That includes your poopolo and peepee.
Speaker 3 (32:03):
Doesn't anybody just watch two be anymore? Can you just
watch some TV? Why would you do that when you've
got three to b in the hotel?
Speaker 2 (32:11):
Why would you? Why would you try to climb them out?
And I don't understand it. No, I guess they actually
make They make bags. And then I think to myself,
do you keep the bag thought or do you keep
that on the outside and just let it freeze up?
Speaker 3 (32:23):
Because yeah, I wouldn't do that for a dog. I
wouldn't do it for my grandmother. You think I'm gonna
get it myself.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
I'm not carrying around a bag of my own number two,
thank you. But you have to do it. That's the rules.
Speaker 3 (32:36):
So is it like a like a sandwich bag or
a hefty bag?
Speaker 2 (32:40):
They didn't go into detail on it. I might have
to do. We might have to do a part two
on this, so there could be a sequel to the
wag bag. They call us a waste bag. Well, people
need to know this. I think they do. I think
this is I think we've edified people tonight beyond their
own expectations. I have a have a blessed and safe
Thanksgiving evening. Mario, good job in the back end there, man,
(33:01):
you're doing it. You're doing a fine job. I love
working with your pal, Nikki. If there's one thing I
can say, it's that you keep us on our toes.
Speaker 6 (33:07):
I love that for me and.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
For you and for all of us. Right Mark, we
can FaceTime tomorrow if you need to. We can. You
are a complete pro. You're a complete pro, all right, buddy.
And I've decided I would give you a ride to
the airport. Oh and it told me make me cry
right before I have to do the news. I would
do it before I have a happy Thanksgiving. I'm Chris
(33:29):
Merril kay if I am six forty. We're live everywhere
in the iHeartRadio
Speaker 1 (33:32):
App kf I AM six forty on demand
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
For those that listen, know that my wife is in
northern Michigan right now and we have a place up there.
My parents live up there. We had a my aunt
was in a bad car accident. My wife has been
helping out with the family and things like that. So
she's up there. And Mark, you had a story earlier
about travel and how this storm is going through and
(00:27):
you actually mentioned a couple of cities. One you said,
Traverse City down to Kalamazoo. Ah. Yeah, I don't know
if you remember doing the story. It was earlier in
the show. I do not have COVID brain damage. I
remember it. You do, Okay, good. So I went to
college in Kalamazoo, actually one of the many colleges i'
dropped out of. And our place is basically dead center,
right in the middle of that that from Traversity to Klamazoo.
(00:48):
We're kind of right in the middle of that is
where we are. So I'm talking to my wife about
quarter after three today, as I do every day. I
talked to her in the morning, in the afternoon, and
because I'm you know, I'm in love, and all of
a sudden, she just goes, oh no, what crap crap, crap, crap, crap,
crap crap, Oh god ow, And I thought, I thought, okay,
(01:12):
either she dropped something, she got a foot cramp. She
also makes those same noises when she gets foot cramps,
or you know, third option is just other and what
is this? She goes, we just lost power. So she
showed me video and the wind was crazy. H it was,
I mean, really stirring things up. And I've seen some
other posts online of Lake Michigan. It's the kind of
(01:34):
storm no joke. I looked at this on the radar.
In fact, Mary and I were talking about this. I
looked at this in the radar and it's swirling over
Lake Superior. Now where are our places off of Lake Michigan.
But it's swirling over Lake Superior, very similar to what
it did when it sunk the Edmund Fitzgerald fifty years ago.
It's got that same swirl to it, right. So she
was showing me this stuff powers out and I keep
(01:54):
getting updates from the power Companies's not gonna be on
until you know, one o'clock two thirty in the morning.
I'll keep getting delayed longer and longer and longer. So
I guess just be glad that we're not dealing with
any of that crap. And I have to be I
have to be very cautious because you know, she's it's
it's it's not easy, right, it's a pain. She's there
by herself, she got a big fat dog, Her internet's out,
(02:16):
she has no power. There's that means no power means
no heat, right, and it's cold, and so she's just
curled up under the blankets with the dog right now.
She needs to We've got we've got some backups in
place because it is it is the Great White North,
so we've got some backups. But she doesn't want to
deal with it. And I have to be very cautious
not to go, Oh, that's too bad. It's really nice here.
(02:36):
I think I might just go put on a sweatshirt.
Oh boy, you know there's no snow around us. Oh,
it's actually a really nice night to go for a walk.
I have to be very cautious not to do that. Yeah,
tomorrow is going to be a short stay. It's going
to be around eighty Yeah, I can't say that there.
See I can't do that. Well, you could, I know.
(02:57):
The thing is, I've been that. I've been that guy
enough times that she kind of expects it. But you know,
kind of my brand is to keep people guessing. So
the minute I become predictable, then I'm boring. So I
guess maybe I'll just kind of be nice to her
for a little while throw her off. Yeah, okay, that's
what I'm thinking. I mean, it works with you sometimes.
(03:17):
I know I'm nice to you and you don't know
what to say. No, no, it really stops me in
my try, it does. It does. I try to keep
you on your toes. Huh. Hey, that's right in your
wheelhouse because I know you and I talk about we
talk about what's streaming all by the way, Pluribus on
Apple Plus. I'm loving it so far.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
I'm not gonna watch that until the whole thing is
out and I can just chain watch it all, just
like I did with Breaking Bad.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
It's another Gilligan chair. It is, it is, it is. Yeah.
And Ria Sehorn is amazing and it She's really incredible.
I mean, she was amazing in a better Call Saul,
and she's just I mean, her talent is is top notch.
But I would I would recommend that I'm having great
conversations at work with someone who's a gen Z that says, oh,
(04:01):
this is about AI. And I went, I'm not picking
that up. And I said, I'm thinking that this is
about someone finding their place in society and not conforming
but also having expectations. And she goes, no, no, this
is about AI. And I went, that's funny because I said, now,
maybe this is old school of me because I look
at things. I look at all all theater, theater, film,
(04:24):
whatever it is, right, I go, is about human relationships,
all of it is. That's what it's about, right, I mean, Mark,
you Wright, you write a lot. Everything you write is
in some way, shape or form about human relationships.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
Well, I think Faulkner said it best. He said, it's
about the human heart and conflict with itself.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Yeah. Now that doesn't mean AI can't be a character
in that conflict, but it all has to be about
the human the human condition, of course. So I not
even considered the AI. So I'm curious when you watch it,
if you see it the way that she does and goes, oh, yeah,
this is commentary and AI, or if if this is
more about you know, no, this is about relationship, absorb
(05:01):
or finding our place in society.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
I'll have to get to it soon because I've seen
a lot of comparisons to the nineteen sixty seven show
The Prisoner, which is one of my favorites. And I
just got booked to do a chapter in a book
about The Prisoner's sixtieth anniversary. So it's kind of homework
for me at this point. Boy, that's gonna be a
best seller. There's baby. So now are you switching it
up now again? Are you going mean?
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Now? No? No, I'm just I can't wait. Do you
want me to send you an autograph copy? Is that
what you? I do? I want to be the guy
that has copy number seven when it hits the New
York Times Bestseller though, oh look at the time, Oh crap,
we got a few minutes left. So Warner Now, as
(05:44):
we talk about streamers, Warner Brothers Discovery is moving forward
this according to Barrett Media, with their potential sale, they're
looking now for higher second round bids from any interested buyers.
That according to multiple reports, So Water Discovery, as we
all know, they've gotten, uh, they've gotten some I don't
know if they've been official bids or inquiries or whatever
(06:04):
it is. But but Paramount sky Dances what everybody keeps
talking about. Uh, they say, they're the ones that have
not only the backing, but they're gonna have the federal
backing as well. They're gonna they're gonna be able to
clear any sort of u FC not fcc U, the
financials hurdles, the SEC. Excuse me that I couldn't come
(06:25):
up with it for whatever reason, the SEC hurdles and
any other hurdles that they might have to because of
the relationship with the Ellisons and the Trump So they go.
Paramount seems to be the one that that is kind
of the top dog, and Paramount would likely keep Warner
and Discovery both the film and the linear model together,
so that's the thinking by the media experts. However, Comcast
(06:47):
is also interested, as is Netflix, and one might believe
that Comcasts would look for that linear model the Discovery
that the television product, whereas Netflix may want to tap
into the Warner library. So we don't know exactly how
this is gonna pan but what we do know is
that Warner is moving forward. Bloomberg News first report of
the deadline for the second round submissions. The company could
enter exclusive negotiations with one bidder once the new proposals
(07:10):
are received. First round offers submitted a week ago last
Thursday by those three, and now they go, great, we've
got it. What's your next offer? So it sounds like
Warner is not only moving quickly on this, but they
are also and I don't know if this seems oddly
public to me for a merger acquisition. Paramouse bid was
(07:34):
for twenty three to fifty a share eighty percent cash,
twenty percent stock that was rejected by Warner Brothers Discovery.
The company submitted a first round bid similar to the
prior offer back by the Ellison family, including Oracle founder
Larry Ellison, along with Redbird Capital. YadA, YadA YadA. Details
of the bids from all parties remain unconfirmed, so we
don't know exactly what it is. What we do know, though,
(07:55):
is that round one is done. Hey, we got your bids, guys,
Now who wants it more?
Speaker 4 (08:01):
So?
Speaker 2 (08:02):
I guess I guess they've started bidding war for Warner Discovery.
So there you are. They don't have pluribus. That's on
apple Stoe all right. You think trademark fights are going
on in boardrooms right. Oh, we've got a trademark fight. That'
sounds boring, it's not. In fact, this trademark fight could
lead to a Grammy. I'll tell you why that is. Next.
(08:24):
I'm Chris Merrill KFI AM six forty live everywhere in
the iHeartRadio.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand?
Speaker 2 (08:34):
What hold on? Where's my Oh? Yeah, hear it?
Speaker 5 (08:38):
This here is we had this, We had this talkback
Mark you like this, mister Marrow. You're definitely worth listening to.
And you are an indicate guy. Because the anti dude
I had to break out the sativa. I needed a
little more uplifting. Wow, you you're cool. I like you,
just nice and meldow. Okay, so you got to hand that.
(09:00):
Should I send that to Andy?
Speaker 6 (09:02):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Yes, Andy would like that. Send it to all the bosses. Oh,
I love Andy. I I always like I like listening
to Andy's show. I told so, Andy first started doing
stuff on the weekends, and he would do things on
Sunday Sunday afternoon, and I would take over Sunday evening
and I just I remember thinking, I God, I can't
(09:26):
stand it when these guys they come off TV and
they step into a radio studio and they're good. You know,
I just oh drives me nuts because it's not like
I can just walk out of a radio studio and
onto a TV set and suddenly I'm good and TV ready.
But Andy's oh, he sounds good, and not everybody can
do that. By the way, Andy has a he has
(09:46):
a particular set of skills. And anyway, I think Andy
does a great job.
Speaker 6 (09:51):
So he's got that hair too.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
He's amazed. I mean, he's an amazingly good looking man.
Speaker 6 (09:55):
He's called Princess die hair. It's beautiful that.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
I mean that. The was my first thought too.
Speaker 6 (10:01):
It's like a wave.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Yeah. Are you saying he's a little end trogynous? Whoa?
Speaker 3 (10:06):
Hang on, well, hold on, I'm not the one who
whipped out Princess Dying.
Speaker 6 (10:11):
Okay, I'll revise that he looks like George Michael and
wham with that hair.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
Well I don't know about that either, So I'm just
being ay better. Yeah, never forget I said anything.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
No, I'm just saying he looks like Annie Lennox and
it's still not still.
Speaker 6 (10:27):
More and doing it.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Yeah, not really helping this early bowie Okay, nailed it. Yeah,
that's where I was going next.
Speaker 6 (10:35):
To in Orlando.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
Oh yeah, it definitely looks like you're not You're not.
You're not doing a many favors here, all right, moving on? Okay,
So m em and m is involved in a trademark
war and it's all about slim shady baby. If you
(10:58):
haven't heard, this is continued to take twist after turn
after turn after twist, which means it is a long
and winding road. My friends, Eminem is not happy with
a couple of Real Housewives stars. Why well, according to
the lawsuit, and forgive me for not knowing this ahead
of time, I did not know that the Real Housewives
of Potomac had begun their own podcast called The Reasonably
(11:24):
Shady Podcast. Yeah, Giselle Bryant and former castmate Robin Dixon.
According to Eminem, Marshall Mathers, if you will, are harassing
him over a deposition tied to their long simmering trademark fight.
So they wanted to do this podcast, a real life podcast.
Oh my gosh, you must be a celebrity. So they're
(11:45):
doing a real life podcast. Oh, I can't wait to listen.
I bet they have so much to say. And they
call it this reasonably Shady, which he says is a
playoff of his shady trademark real slim, shady, reasonably shady. Right, Okay, However,
they're saying, no, it isn't. We're just shady people, and
so this is a reasonably shady podcast. That's their stick.
(12:08):
He goes, no, no, you can't do that. I've already
I've already trademarked shady for entertainment related things. All right,
So what's going on now is he's suing them for
basically trademark infringement. Now they're mad, and we've got it.
The chapter is evolving. Now they're mad because he is
not really sitting down for a deposition in a timely manner.
(12:30):
He's doing a lot of negotiating. I can do two
hours of a deposition and it has to be at
two pm. And they're like, why are you being so difficult?
And he says, why are you guys being such real housewives?
I mean probably different words. But then the claim is
that he's working on new music. Ooh, he can only
(12:51):
sit down for a deposition at two pm because he's
working all morning on new music. I don't believe that,
but I'm no No, it's not that I don't believe
that he's that he's working on new music. I don't
believe that he's working early in the morning on new
music because as a musician, musicians notoriously don't get up early.
(13:13):
They're not exactly early risers, and so it would seem
to me that he's far more likely to be working
on new music starting about starting about two or three
o'clock in the afternoon. That could be totally wrong. I mean,
I don't know the guy. Maybe he's like, oh whoo,
six thirty, gotta go up and take my run. Oh,
then I can't wait to get to the lab. Maybe
that's the case. In fact, I'm kind of hoping that
(13:36):
he is working on new music because if he is,
I know anything about Eminem, there's gonna be a banger
on the new album that's gonna be all about these
real housewives of the Potomac, And I absolutely cannot wait
to see how petty he gets with it, because he's
(13:56):
gonna burn him. They are gonna go to there. They
just caddy right, But Shady is clever. Shady will write
an entire opus around them in ways that confuse them.
It's entirely possible. He does an absolute slam track on
these women and they think it's somehow a compliment. I
(14:16):
could see it playing out exactly like that. However, I've
also seen him do some music that just goes right
for the throat. Either way, I'm kind of looking forward
to it. Huge part of me looking forward to to
a dis track and if it's good. Remember remember Kendrick
Lamar had the dis track on Drake that won all
(14:37):
the awards. One of the odds, he cuts a dis
track about the Real Housewives and this thing ends up
becoming a Grammy winner. God would that be great?
Speaker 6 (14:44):
Do me also have a disk track against Machine Gun Kelly?
Speaker 2 (14:48):
Yeah? I think you did. I think you're right. Yeah, yeah,
oh god, he would just well M's dis tracks. He
ripped into his mom on a number of those two.
He was just ripping her apart. Kim. I'll never forget
his mom's name was Kim because he was who.
Speaker 6 (15:05):
But maybe he does get up early now because he's
about to be your grandfather.
Speaker 7 (15:10):
Yeah maybe, but I'm not buying it. Yeah, I don't
think so. I don't think that's that happening. Again, I
don't know the guy. Maybe I'm totally wrong.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
Maybe maybe your maybe your explanation is perfectly reasonable.
Speaker 6 (15:26):
He seems like a nice family man. He's got like
three daughters to adopted, I believe.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (15:33):
Cool, sweet he adopted his ex wife's daughter from another relationship.
That's a good guy.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Okay, I had no problems with that. That's great. But
I think he'll tell you that early on he loved
his daughter a lot, but he wasn't really there for
I mean, that's listen to a decent amount of eminem.
I think he kind of he kind of works through
some of those some of those faults through his music.
But then he also does some dis tracks and that's
(16:01):
what I'm looking forward to. All Right, enough of that,
because I have to tell you you're doing something wrong
and it could cost you biglely. You think you're just
grabbing a little pre turkey drinky drink with your old friends,
so you've got one too many in YOUA it snaps
you into weakend wide chaos, and it's not you. It's
happening so often. Experts have a name for it. You'll
(16:22):
find out what it is next. Chris Merrill I am
six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
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I hope that your Thanksgiving is off to a wonderful start,
and I do hope that you're being safe. And I
mean that because it's not just Thanksgiving, it's also Drunksgiving.
Today is known as Blackout Wednesday or Drinksgiving. It's one
of the busiest bar nights of the year, and it
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comes with, of course, the risks heavy drinking, d UIs
memory lapses, wrecked holiday plans, and we I do know
that HP is sepic up enforcement. We know that they do
this whenever there's a holiday weekend. And this will not
be the last time. You know darn well that as
we get closer to Christmas, there's gonna be TV stories. Heck,
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I'll probably try to fill some time as well talking
about DUI checkpoints, CHP, enhanced to patrols, this kind of stuff.
It's gonna happen around Christmas, It's gonna happen around New
Year's These are these are stories you can count on
once we once we get to November, you can count
on Person of the Year stories, Year in recap stories,
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best films of the Year, Best music of the year,
Spotify playlists of the year, you talk about travel? What
else am I missing here? Mark Dy checkpoints? These are
all all of them, family issues, food recipes. These are
all things you're gonna see on TV, here, on radio, reading,
in your in your blogs, whatever it is, right, all
of these things. These are the go to topics around
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the holidays, all of them. So what'll be the last
time you hear about this? But today is interesting because
it really kicks off what I'd like to think of
is alcohol season. Now, for some of us complete pros,
we go thank you. Alcohol season is year round. We
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practice for this very occasion. But the thing is, if
you've been doing it in a while, you know not
to get behind the wheel right. Liquor sales tonight may
spike as much as one hundred and fifty six percent
above normal wednesdays, beer and cocktails jumping over sixty percent.
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So people are going to the spirits. They like their beers,
they like their cocktails. That's going to go up, But
they're going to the liquors, and that is that is
key because a lot of people who don't normally drink liquor,
And based on what we're seeing is liquor is increasing
far more than beer and cock tales, which means not
normal Wednesday night liquor drinkers are doing it. And if
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you're normally a cocktailer a beer drinker, and all of
a sudden you're gonna start doing shots, it may hit
you a lot faster than you realize. All right, not
only that, but Mark, this is for you. Because I
work from my home student, I feel personally attacked already.
Oh you should. But this part is for you, Okay,
this is this is actually because of my concern for you,
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because you're I consider you a friend. See, I'm pulling
out the nice throw you for a loop news to me.
Thank you. No, I think of you as a friend,
I see, yeah, because I convince you about anything. Uh,
the risk of encounter and I would help you move
if you asked. And a drive to the airport. What
are we at that level? Give it some thought? Go ahead, borderline,
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All right, we're borderline. The risk of encountering a drunk
driver increases by about fifty five percent on this night
compared with the average. So your normal Wednesday driving home,
you may see some more drunks on the road when
you get out. What time you got out tonight midnight?
Speaker 3 (19:58):
Yeah, yeah, I taking the side roads. It's amateur and
I just like Saint Patrick's day. You really, if you
are a complete pro, you don't want to be out
on a night like this.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Somehow we're one to one accusing ourselves as being complete
pros instead of the other person. Ooh that's great. Yeah, yeah,
so you do the side roads. I'm always worried about
the side roads because I have in my mind that
if somebody's buzzed, if they're drunk, they're not really in
the right mind at all. But if they're buzzed, and
as we all know, buzz driving is drunk driving in
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there in my mind, if somebody's buzzed, they might be thinking,
I'm going to avoid potential DUI checkpoints. I'm going to
take side roads or surface streets. And so that's what
worries me about that, Like, am I safer on the
freeway because at least there's a lot of other people
out there, and the drunks aren't gonna want to you know,
they don't want to take they don't want to be
in a precarious position. They might be taking the side roads.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
Well, the calculation is would you rather get hit a
thirty miles an hour or seventy miles in Yeah, that's.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
A good point, and you can you can probably if
you're on a freeway and you look around, you can
probably spot one hundred cars at once, and how many
of them are drunks. Whereas if you're on a side road,
you might see three cars, and your chance of identifying
the drunk driver in those three cars might be a
whole lot easier too.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
I suppose I don't know what your experience is, but
when I go home after midnight, and you know, often
at one or later, I can see people weaving around
on the highway freeway and you know, you know to
give them a wide berth, and that might be harder
on a side road.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
That's true.
Speaker 4 (21:28):
Do you have.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
Do you have a problem? I have this problem right now.
It used to be if you saw somebody who was
kind of weaving a little bit, like when I first
started to learn to drive. But we always warned about
watching for drunk drivers. Obviously, they kept telling us, don't
be a drunk driver, but then watch for drunk drivers.
And I always had trouble seeing a drunk driver unless
they were really riding the rail as some people, you
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know what, riding the rail is riding for thank you
riding the rails when you put your tire on the
yellow line and you go, if I'm on the yellow line,
that means I'm going straight. So they ride the rail okay,
because otherwise they're worried the road is shifting in front
of them. Right, their eyes are deceiving them. So if
I can get my tire on that, if I can
ride the rail, then I'm okay. So, but I always
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in trouble seeing the drunk drivers unless it was really obvious.
Now I have problems. I can't tell if somebody's drunk
or if they're just texting. That's exactly it.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
Yeah, yeah, but it doesn't make any difference because you
don't want to be near them in either case, because
if they're clueless enough to be texting behind the wheel,
they're still dangerous.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
And then you get that special combination, and it happens
on nights like this where you get the person who's
drunk doesn't think they're they're that drunk, right, I'm probably okay.
I've only had a couple. I'm probably okay, right, And
then because they're probably okay, they're going to text people
to let them know they're on their way home while
they're driving. Right, that's the one where you've got somebody
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who's pretty buzzed or drunk and texting. Oh god, please,
don't you.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
That texting, having a phone call. Uh, screwing around with
the radio, leaving leaving a talk back for you.
Speaker 6 (23:06):
Smoking a doube.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
Oh that escalated quickly.
Speaker 6 (23:10):
Oh, this is California, so you know people are getting
high and then getting behind the wheel.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
That's illegal. So what does that have to do with California.
It can happen anywhere, and you can.
Speaker 6 (23:18):
But you can tell the Stones drivers because they drive really,
really slowly.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
Your producers admitting she enjoys a little hot boxing.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
Now what I do?
Speaker 6 (23:28):
I cannot do that, as you.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
Can't roll a hot box.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
I don't do that.
Speaker 6 (23:32):
I do not do that. I'll get attention.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
If I do.
Speaker 6 (23:36):
I promise I don't do that.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
She seems like the kind who could get out of
a ticket. Don't you think we should try to figure
stop it? We should do it over under on how
long before Nikki gets deported? Oh?
Speaker 6 (23:51):
Gosh, okay, on what grounds though?
Speaker 2 (23:55):
Any grounds? Yeah?
Speaker 6 (23:57):
Uh, this is harassing a police officer.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
Yeah, boy, we could be really onto something here. Are
we allowed to put a thumb on the scale?
Speaker 6 (24:08):
No?
Speaker 2 (24:09):
Uh ooh boy, depends on how much he upsets you
one night. I see, yeah, I would say no, not
allowed to put a thumb on the stade. This has
to be all of her own doing.
Speaker 6 (24:18):
I can get myself into trouble very easily.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
Right, I can see you getting pulled over. No office,
Isn't there anything I can do about that?
Speaker 6 (24:26):
You get pulled over. I got pulled over two weeks ago,
and I have a ticket.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
Oh it didn't work.
Speaker 6 (24:39):
I crossed the line apparently.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
I bet you did multiple lines.
Speaker 6 (24:52):
Crossing lines yet?
Speaker 2 (24:56):
Uh oh boy? Oh baby? All right. You think you
know about tough decisions, right, Try making a tough decision
when your body is shutting down, with the air is
thinning and now you've got to go potty. The most
extreme decisions. Where to go next? Chris, maryl I AM
six forty five everywhere in the iHeartRadio.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
George, you've had a lot of great shows this week.
What are we doing tonight, my friend?
Speaker 4 (25:30):
For coming up, We're going to talk about how ancient
wisdom and science meld together, and then later on the
power of gratitude on this Thanksgiving Eve, And we're live
tomorrow night too, Chris.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
Just so everybody knows, that is great news. I'd love
to hear that, and in fact, I will make sure
that I'm listening. It will be part of my evening, George,
as it always is. Thank you so much, my friend.
Speaker 4 (25:50):
Have a great Thanksgiving, you too.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
Happy Thanksgiving. George northon Radio Legend, Just get tingles whenever
get a chance to talk to Georgia, I just don't
want to upset him. I don't want to say something
dumb that makes him go, why don't I.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
Have to talk to this moron? Yeah, you don't feel
like that ship's kind of sailed?
Speaker 2 (26:09):
I mean, honestly, yes, okay, but I don't want to
make it worse because maybe I'm maybe I'm mistaken and
he doesn't think I have a complete boob. But you know,
I don't want to I don't want to remove all doubt,
you know. So I get nervous when I talk to
George Norri. I think a lot of people fanboy out
on George I do. I do not, And I think
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a lot of people do, because you know, he does
a lot of the stuff that's a little a little
bit of the woo woo. But I just think he's
an incredible broadcast talent. I mean, he's doing it for
so long and he just does it. He's just locked in,
and I just think he's got the perfect night show.
He just understands his audience, he understands his day part,
he understands so many of the things that take years
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to master, and he just he gets it. He knows
what his lane is, and he just he does it
better than anybody. I I have so much respect, so
much respect.
Speaker 3 (27:06):
I think we're overdue for a lunch with George. This
has been promised for literally years now.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
Oh is that right?
Speaker 3 (27:12):
Yeah, George? If you're listening, you're picking up the tab.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
What do we get with George? Does he take us?
Is it gonna be something normal or is he gonna
take us something He's like, guys, I've got this great
alien cafe, right, will be fantastic. We'll have our hopes
all built up and then we'll just greet with pinks.
That's fine with me too, Yea, do some we do
some selfies there they'd be all right, well we could
call it. Oh you know what if we did we
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go to Pinks and then uh we could we could
get like a George Nori special, like the Probe Dog. Yeah,
they'll name a hot dog after him. That would be great,
It would be amazing. I love that. I was reading
up on this story about a seventeen year old climber
on Mount Everest. She's a fan fascinating girl and she
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was tiktoking it, so she became a bit of a celebrity.
People Magazine actually was reporting on her, and Bianka Adler
is her name, and she's actually been climbing. Her parents
are climbers, which is how she got started so young,
and she's been climbing and setting records for being the
youngest female to climb different peaks around the world. So
obviously she got money. But she tried to climb Everest
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and she was climbing with her father, who again is
another climber and has climbed Everest in the past. And
I'm just reading about this and how you go from
base camp to Camp one, to Camp two to Camp
three and or maybe it's space camp Camp two, three,
whatever it is, and then you kind of up and
down to acclimate your body, because you can't be over
a certain altitude for too long or else it really
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messes with you. So you actually have to go up
for a little while, come back down. Go up, stay
a little longer, come back down. Go up, stay a
little bit longer, come back down. And I didn't realize that. See,
I thought that all these climbers, they basically did a
lot of exercising, They did a lot of deeping. Probably
have I don't know, those weird cans of O two
you can buy it lows, you know, in their backpacks
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or something. I didn't realize that. You mean people buy
those for things other than hangovers? Dude, what do they?
What else? I mean? I see those and I go,
who buys these things? It's that's got to be it? Right, Well,
now you know it's got to be. There's no other
reason to buy that.
Speaker 3 (29:23):
But also you've really added a bonus to something that
sounds laborious and life threatening. You have to acclimate yourself
to it in addition to all that, yeah, and the
extreme cost of it.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
So get this. She is doing this stuff and her
dad gets sick, not like death, leel or anything, but
he falls sick. But she's seventeen. There's a couple of sherpas.
She's done other claims before, and they're basically like, hey,
go on, you can do this, you can hit the summit.
So she said she did, like all this training, and
she's tiktoking the thing and a storm sets in and
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so she's she's getting close. She's above eight thousand meters.
You can't survive very long above eight thousand meters. Your
body just won't do. Even if you've aclimated. You're not
acclimating enough unless I guess you're a sure. But shirper's
are amazing. And as she goes up there, she gets
hit by the cold, she gets hit by the weather.
She's four hundred meters shy of the summit of Mount Everest,
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and they had to make the decision to turn around
and come back.
Speaker 3 (30:23):
Down after the shirp has pressured her into this. You've
you've had how many people have had shirpa pressure? Nobody
that's she's the only one. Other seventeen year olds is like,
who are you going to go to.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
The dance with? But in this case, she's got shirpas
that are like, you can do it, Yeah, try to do.
Your free will is gone. It's gone, totally gone. In
an interview though, we got a little bit of insight,
So if you're unfamiliar, the climbers have been going up
and down on Everest for what long? Almost was it
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nineteen thirty two, I think was the first one to summit,
if I if I'm not mistaken. So what I think
is really fascinating is that you may have heard the
stories that there are dead bodies marking the trail up
and down Everest, and that is because people will, you know,
die and nobody's going to bring them down, like they're
having enough trouble getting them their own selves down without
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ending up next to the corpse that's already there. So
these corpses end up freezing pretty quickly and then they
just stay there. So if you've ever you know, banged this,
you're going to find this, like this trail of corpses
up and down Everest. It's really interesting. But also what
happens is they get going and they start throwing trash out.
So evidently the trails up and down Everest are littered
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with litter, covered with trash and human excrement. So there's
new rules. If you want to sum at everest, you
have to go up and when you come back down,
you have to come down with about eighteen pounds of
trash to prove that you've brought your trash back with you.
That includes your poopolo and peepee.
Speaker 3 (32:03):
Doesn't anybody just watch two be anymore? Can you just
watch some TV? Why would you do that when you've
got three to b in the hotel?
Speaker 2 (32:11):
Why would you? Why would you try to climb them out?
And I don't understand it. No, I guess they actually
make They make bags. And then I think to myself,
do you keep the bag thought or do you keep
that on the outside and just let it freeze up?
Speaker 3 (32:23):
Because yeah, I wouldn't do that for a dog. I
wouldn't do it for my grandmother. You think I'm gonna
get it myself.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
I'm not carrying around a bag of my own number two,
thank you. But you have to do it. That's the rules.
Speaker 3 (32:36):
So is it like a like a sandwich bag or
a hefty bag?
Speaker 2 (32:40):
They didn't go into detail on it. I might have
to do. We might have to do a part two
on this, so there could be a sequel to the
wag bag. They call us a waste bag. Well, people
need to know this. I think they do. I think
this is I think we've edified people tonight beyond their
own expectations. I have a have a blessed and safe
Thanksgiving evening. Mario, good job in the back end there, man,
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you're doing it. You're doing a fine job. I love
working with your pal, Nikki. If there's one thing I
can say, it's that you keep us on our toes.
Speaker 6 (33:07):
I love that for me and.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
For you and for all of us. Right Mark, we
can FaceTime tomorrow if you need to. We can. You
are a complete pro. You're a complete pro, all right, buddy.
And I've decided I would give you a ride to
the airport. Oh and it told me make me cry
right before I have to do the news. I would
do it before I have a happy Thanksgiving. I'm Chris
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Merril kay if I am six forty. We're live everywhere
in the iHeartRadio
Speaker 1 (33:32):
App kf I AM six forty on demand
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