December 7, 2025 • 38 mins
There's No Business Like Show Business and we are covering the Netflix and Warner Bros Deal, Stranger Things in Theaters, and other streaming service news. PLUS there has been an allowance increase with the kids these days. AND the new millennial dating crisis as we cross with Dr. Wendy Walsh on KFIAM-640.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
There's no business like shelf business. Here's a note from
Cincyltown and Beyond and this week there really is only
one story, and that is all about the massive merger.
Will it even take place? Netflix Warner Brothers mega deal
rattling Hollywood. ABC seven covering that.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Well, it is a mega deal for Hollywood, Netflix acquiring
Warner Brothers for more than eighty billion dollars.
Speaker 4 (00:35):
Witness News reporter Rob Hayes live in Burbank with those details, Rob.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Rob, Yeah, Hollywood? What was that they call him on
his mother's landline? What the heck was that? This's do
that again? Bank?
Speaker 4 (00:49):
With those details, Rob, Yeah, Hollywood.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Is sounds like when somebody calls and they're on speaker
phone and then we're like, let's talk with Robin Burbank
and they said, oh, oh yeah, hey, hey, yes, interview Yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:02):
Gill spinning after this announcement, Netflix is looking to drop
more than eighty two billion.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Dollars to buy Warner Brothers.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
It's a deal that would put a lot of power
in the hands of just one entertainment company. Depending where
you stand, this sound could be considered the Deathnell for
Warner Brothers, or it's Wedding Shaw. Either way, Netflix's offer
to buy up Warner Brothers is way beyond a big deal.
Speaker 5 (01:29):
The amount of content, the amount of platforms, the amount
of eyeballs involved in this is megabox on a mega level.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
Dominic Patten is the executive editor at Deadline dot com.
The offer price of eighty two point seven billion dollars
the biggest sale of a Hollywood studio ever. It combines Netflix,
the world's largest streaming company with more than three hundred
million subscribers, with the third largest streamer, home to HBO,
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and a trove of popular entertainment franchise. It's just like
Batman and Harry Potter.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
I know those are the popular ones. But my son
and I love watching HBO. We do it. But you know,
the crazy thing too, is that it's HBO Discovery. So
we'll watch like really random stuff like Mysteries of the Abandoned, right,
and we love I think I've talked about this before.
We love watching like the house Hunters and then just
(02:25):
making fun of the people and the realtors pretty mercilessly.
That's a good drinking game. So that's the linear product.
Which is not going with this.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
Whether or not this deal would cast a good spell
out of the industry or a bad one is still
up in the air.
Speaker 5 (02:43):
I've talked to a number of people who said this
is the worst thing ever. The former CEO of Warner
Brothers said this is the worst thing ever. But I've
also talked to people who said this could be really
the revitalization that the industry needs after the tough years
of the pandemic, the strikes, and the wildfires.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Consolidation doesn't exactly have a strong history of working out well.
Speaker 4 (03:03):
The Netflix deal comes as a surprise, not just for
its size. For the past several weeks, Warner Brothers has
been in talks with Paramount, the presumed front runner, mostly
because it wanted to buy all of Warner Brothers.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Yeah, keep that in mind. This eighty three billion dollars
is just for the studio products. It's not for CNN
and TNT and Discovery and HGTV and Food Network and
all those other things. It's just for the film product,
all right, continue on.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
Please, unlike Netflix, which is carving out the company's cable assets.
But even with the Netflix announcement, experts say this deal
is far from done, why with some serious anti trust
issues facing them.
Speaker 5 (03:44):
Simply put, you take Netflix, the biggest streamer in the
country and in the world, with the third biggest streamer
in the country, HBO Max, and you do have more
than fifty one percent of the streaming audience.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Yeah, so then the question is does it become basically monopoly?
That's the anti trust issue here.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
Now. Patton says a deal like this could push Hollywood
and its movies further down the streaming line with a
bigger focus on the smaller screens at home instead of
the bigger screens in the theaters. Reporting live in Burbank,
Rob Hayes ABC seven, I witnessed it.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
So what does that mean? Then, here's the concern that
so many people have. In fact that you may have
seen that a number of the different cinema stocks dropped
right away, AMC, Signmark, Regal, They all dropped after this
deal was announced because the concern is that that Netflix
is gonna make these products and then they're gonna turn
around and they're gonna put them up on the streaming platform.
(04:34):
They're gonna say we can bring more people into the
streaming platform. At eight eighteen twenty two, dollars a month,
whatever the package is that you're getting. And if we
can get more people and grow our product, we're gonna
make more money that way than we are by trying
to turn things over into the theater. Here's the problem, though,
that you do reach a point of saturation, which is
(04:57):
why Netflix is not announcing their subscriber numbers anymore. They
go through all of the earnings calls and they don't
talk about new subscribers. They don't talk about those numbers
any longer because you hit a point of peak saturation
in the market. Now with this, you're gonna bring some
people over from HBO that that don't have Netflix. I
(05:20):
might be one of those people, right My wife wants
Netflix for Christmas, and I'm hesitant to do it, but
you know, what she wants, she gets. But then, how
many people already have both of those products? And if
you didn't like paying eighteen dollars for Netflix commercial free,
and you didn't like paying eighteen dollars for HBO commercial free,
(05:41):
how much are you gonna like paying thirty six dollars
for the two of them together? Oh, Chris is not
gonna be like, oh no, it'll be thirty now it'll
be a deal, you'll save money. Bulloony, I'm calling boloney
to start with. Sure, they might start it that way,
but if you take a look at how much the
price has gone up on all the different streaming services
(06:02):
over the course of the last even ten years, you
would see that. Nope, they get you in the door.
They're like crack dealers. First one's on me. Then it's
gonna cost you. So they get you in the door,
and then the prices go up, and they go up,
and they go up and they go up. Now, what
about that anti trust issue? Now, there were questions about
paramount being able to get away with this because Ellison's
(06:25):
are tight with the White House and they thought Trump
will grease the wheels of regulation to get this pushed through.
If it's Paramounts guidance, because the Ellisons are close with
the Trump administration, they'll make that happen. Now we've got
word from Wall Street Journal reported about four point thirty tonight,
President Trump saying that Netflix deal to acquire Warner Brothers
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could be a problem because it would result in a
large market share for the streaming giants, signaling possible government resistance.
In his first public comments since the sale. Now here's
the trouble with President Trump. He always hedges. He's always
very wishy washy on things. He allows you to interpret
whatever he's saying right, and then he moves forward based
on what he decides later on. But here's what he said.
(07:09):
They have a very big market share, and when they
have Warner Brothers, that share goes up a lot. I'll
be involved in that decision. But he's not really telling
us which way. He said, that's a lot. You're gonna
have a lot of market share. I'll be involved. So
now is he sending a message saying, Oh, I'm gonna
scrutinize the stealers. He's sending a message saying, if you
want to get this done, I think we all know
(07:30):
what you're gonna have to do. I'm gonna need Netflix
very first ever Netflix Piece prize, and then I'll approve it.
Speaking of Ted Sarandos, the co chief executive there at Netflix,
he said, I have a lot of respect for him.
He's a great parison. He's done one of the greatest
jobs in the history of movies and other things. But
(07:51):
it's a big market share, There's no question about it.
It could be a problem. Wink wink, where's my Netflix piece? Prize?
I may have added that last part, so we were
going to run into this. Anyway, if Paramount had bought HBO,
it wouldn't have been as big an issue because Netflix
is already the big dog. This would be like Walmart
(08:13):
buying Amazon. Okay, that we feel like that would be
too much of a market share. But what if Target
bought Amazon? Is that better? If Paramount buys out Warner
Brothers and they take they take the not only the
studio product, but also the linear product, the cable services,
(08:35):
and they just merged with sky Dance. Now they're owning
Newline Warner sky Dance, obviously the Paramount studios. Now they've
got all those studios locked up. Is that less of
a regulatory issue? Now they might not have fifty one
percent of the subscribers out there to the streaming services,
but their goal would be to acquire that and in
(08:55):
any in any scenario, Oh, Amazon was a bitter too. Incidentally,
in any scenario, the race for consolidation is on, and
in any scenario, the question is what happens to the
film product? Does it go to streaming? You could make
the argument that Netflix is better off by not putting
(09:16):
everything on their streaming platform, because the only way to
make money on that is one through the ad supported
subscriptions two to bring more people in. But if the
hitting peak saturation, they're not really making any money. They're
just spending money to keep the people that are already
there happy. So is it possible that they do continue
(09:38):
to create products that are specific for the cinema? You
could make that argument. The question is how good are
the product's going to be? How much do they care
as long as they're breaking even does it even have
to be that good? Are we going to see a
lack of innovation? This is always the question when it
comes to anti trust and monopolies. Does this ruin competition?
(09:59):
And if ruins competition, is that ruin innovation? Do we
find stagnation? And if that's the case, if we allow
this to go through, what happens when all of a
sudden you've got Paramount and Amazon going uh oh, this
Netflix Warner deal has left us in the dust. Does
that mean that all of a sudden you've got Paramount
(10:19):
saying Amazon, you guys want to get together, you want
to knock boots calea. Do people still say that No, Okay,
Apple and Peacock, do they go, hey, you want you
wanna saddle up and ride into the sunset? Was that
any better? I felt like that wasn't a whole lot better.
That was actually worse worse.
Speaker 6 (10:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
In other words, are we seeing the beginning of a
race for consolidation? And for those of you that say no,
that can't happen, I mean, prior to Cable we had
three networks. That was it. So the idea that we
could have three or four major streaming conglomerates still make
the argument that actually it's not exactly a monopoly because
(11:05):
you still have all of these you know, there are
still three or four different choices out there. I My
concern here is obviously the creatives, the employees. Consolidation always
costs jobs, and honestly, selfishly, I'm concerned that the what
I think is kind of the revitalized golden era of television,
(11:28):
which I would say started with AMC's productions Mad Men,
Walking Dead, those shows that came out in the twenty tens,
and then on into the streaming wars where we actually
saw good quality streaming products that were being made in
the in the late twenty tens in the early twenty twenties.
I'm afraid this is the beginning of the end of
(11:49):
that era. It was nice while it lasted. Speaking of
the other streamers, I don't know who does Hulu matchup? Oh,
they're already with Disney. Weel he saw Disney Hulu ESPN.
That's already together. Right, So there you go. You got
Disney and Hulu, Apple, Peacock, Paramounse Guide answer they match
up with Amazon? I think it happens. Meanwhile, we're taking
(12:13):
what's on the streaming screen, we're putting it onto the
cinema screen. People are getting excited about it. I'm not
so sure the reviewers are, though. That's next.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
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You guys are Dyna MoU. I always appreciate what you
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Meanwhile? I got hot girls calling me? Okay, all right, yeah,
she's hot. You just sound pervy. Can we get into
the content. You need to just relax a little bit. Uh,
we were just discussing the Netflix Warner Brothers deal and
what does that mean to theaters. Are we going to
see fewer films in the theaters and are they going
(14:38):
to be worth a crap? I mean, the the quality
of content has been a concern for a while. And
also I think that a number of people and I'm
included in this category too, this is one of the
things Netflix says, Oh, this is consumer driven, It's what
the consumers want. I think I made the point that
when the Superman movie came out, I was excited. I
wanted to see the new Superman. I thought it looked
(15:00):
really good. I heard good reviews. I'm a fan of Superman.
When the Superman movie came out, I was like, that
looks amazing. But then again, if I just wait for
like six weeks, then I can just watch it in
my living room. That's what I did. No, I mean,
I don't need to pat myself on the on my back.
I did rent it before it became before it was
(15:23):
free on HBO. I did pay the twenty bucks or
whatever it was, so I did end up throwing a
little money back at the studio. But I think for
a lot of people that go Wow, that looks really good.
I can't wait for it to come out. And there
was a time. This is back when you were just
a wei lass, Kayla, before you knew you liked those
hot accents from Ferners anywhere, a wee lass before then, Okay,
(15:46):
a film would come out and then you'd have to
wait like two years before it hit Blockbuster, at least
a year before I hit Blockbuster, and then got all
excited because it was finally coming out. Okay, so Blockbuster
was a store that used to have tapes vhs. Yeah,
so how do I describe this? Okay, you get the point. Now.
(16:08):
The turnaround is so fast it takes like no time
at all. In fact, get this, I close it. My
wife wants to get to Netflix for Christmas. Right, She's like,
I want Netflix for Christmas. Okay. We've been without it
for like two years because I thought it's kind of crap.
But then we keep hearing about you know, you start
to get that Netflix envy, and you go, oh, the
(16:31):
new Wednesday is coming out, Oh, the new Stranger Things
is coming out. Oh, the new And so if I
end up bending to her will, which of course, you
know I'm gonna end up doing. I go, Okay, you
know what, I'm gonna catch up on the Stranger Things
because I watched through I think I think I only
saw the second season, so I think I'm like two
seasons behind on this thing, right, Okay, I'll watch that.
(16:51):
I get this. If you want to take in the
cinematic experience, According to the Today's Show, you can do it.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
Go big news for fans who've been counting down the
days until this long, long awaited.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Final season after or we've been through.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
Well the two hours season or series finale, Stranger Things
headed to the movie theaters. The episode called The Right
Side Up sets hit Netflix and big screens all across
America on New Year's Eve.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
Okay, on New Year's Eve. Then they went on to
some other crap about one of the stars being on
Kelly Clarkson and I cut the audio. Stranger Things finale
headed to over five hundred theaters across the US and Canada.
This is from uh OC Rigister as well as Southern
California fans getting front row seats to some of the
region's most iconic theaters. So on New Year's Eve, starting
(17:41):
at five PM and running through New Year's Day, you
can catch an experience the final chapter of netflix beloved
nostalgia packed sci fi series for the first time, and
blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. Here we go.
Some of the theaters participating the showings LA's Egyptian Theater, Alimo,
draft Us, Downtown, LA Universe Cinema, AMC at CityWalk, Hollywood, Regal,
(18:02):
La Live, AMC Orange thirty, AMC Tustin fourteen, the District
at the District, excuse me, AMC Dining Fuller teen twenty. Oh,
I'd love those. The dinings, Yeah, Regal Irvine Spectrum, Signe
Marks Century, Huntington Beach and XD, AMC, din In Ontario Mills,
Regal Edwards, Ontario Palace Stadium, AMC Tyler Galleria and more
(18:28):
and more. Those are always my favorite. So that sounds like
a great place to go and experience a series finale
two hours long with a bunch of fans. It's almost like,
what's that thing we did when there would be like
a big like cinema. Oh, it's like going to a movie.
(18:50):
We get all excited because we go all, look, there's
gonna be a bunch of fans. They're watching the same thing.
Experiencing it all together. Yeah, yeah, Look, the idea of
going to the cinema is still alive, but then at
the same time it's gonna drop on Netflix. So what
is the What is the urgency then, other than going
(19:12):
to be with a bunch of other people who are
like minded, and that's that's one of the big draws
to going to the cinema. There's no urgency. If the
only way you could see that until April was to
go to the cinema, it would drive more people to
put their butts in the seats. But if you have
these big conglomerate studios merging and streaming everything, what's the urgency.
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There's no fomo with it anymore. All Right, The second
biggest economy in your household might actually be the little
mouths that you're feeding. There's no reason their GDP should
be higher than yours. But here we are. How your
kids are creating a hall is next. I'm Chris Meryl.
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Featured Segments podcast section of kfi AM six forty dot com.
So if you missed anything, lucky you you can still
catch it. When you were a wee one, you remember
(20:20):
when your parents give you an allowance. Now, for some
of you, you're gonna say, my parents never give me
an allowance. I'm not talking to you then. But if
you had gotten allowance, you remember when your parents gave
me an allowance and he thought, oh look at this,
I've got that that coveted dollar a week. I remember
getting the dollar a week, man. I thought I was
(20:40):
rolling in it. I thought I was living high on
the hog dollar a week, and I used to look
forward to it. My parents used to get paid on Wednesdays.
I know, it's a weird payday. They ran their own business,
so they decided when payday was. It was always Wednesday.
And I remember my parents Wednesday was when we got
our allowance. I wake up in the you know, get
(21:01):
on by allowance. Man. I never forgot. That's what it
got me looking forward to paydays because I knew my
parents pay day was Wednesday. That was also my payday.
I knew it. Got a dollar a week. And then, uh,
you're a little bit older. My parents stopped giving me
that dollar a week, and they said I needed to
earn my keep. I needed to bring my own money in.
(21:21):
My father first started nagging me about a job when
I was nine. It's nine years old. My father's like,
you need to get a job. Start pulling your weight
around here. I did, but it was I just you know,
you're nine years old. You should be doing something, should
be mowing lawns. Not even allowed to touch the lawnmower. Well,
(21:43):
your mother will teach you how to use it. My
mother taught me how to start mowing lawns when I
was nine. I'm pretty sure that's an ocean violation. Probably
could have been mulched. That was back in the day.
We still didn't used to leaded gasoline. We didn't even
have multures a bag or you could not bag. Those
are your choices. That was me nine years old out
(22:05):
there pushing a lawnmore didn't have self propelled either to
push it. By the time I was twelve, I finally
got a paper route. Yeah, I did a lot of
substitute paper routing. I had a couple of buddies at
paper routes. They were the coolest because they got in. Finally,
somebody quit their paper route, and the local newspaper gave
(22:25):
me the paper route. I was rolling in dough. I
was making upwards a seventy dollars a month take that,
mowing lawns in the summertime, delivering newspapers, bought myself a
bike man. That's when I knew I was. I was
(22:46):
doing well. But did I get an allowance at that point? No,
Pops is like, you don't need an allowance. You've got a job.
I don't need to give you handouts. You got a job.
Whole point of getting a job is no more handouts.
He's pretty old school. So imagine when I see that
the average child now gets fifty two dollars a month
(23:07):
and allowance, that is an increase of thirty six dollars
over what their parents got at the same age. And
I'm old enough to be there, not quite parents yet,
but thirty six thirty six dollars. So see, hang on,
So fifty kila, what's the difference here? It's fifty two
(23:27):
dollars a month, it's thirty six dollars more. That means
that we would take we would take fifty two and
we would subtract sixteen thirty six. Hang on, I gotta
borrow from over here and then carry the Do I
carry it to? Or do I borrow? I have to borrow, right,
and then I end up with it's twelve. Hang on,
(23:50):
I gotta take my socks off. Oh Jesus, sixteen dollars.
In other words, their parents were getting about four dollars
a week an allowance, and now the kids these days
(24:12):
are getting like thirteen, fourteen dollars a week. It's wild
to me, it's crazy. I don't even think it's outrageous.
I think I'm just getting old. See, I don't think
that's a crazy, crazy amount depending on their age. I
don't think a five year old needs that much a week.
(24:32):
I think a five year old get like five dollars
a week. That's fine. That's probably about equivalent of me
when I was getting a dollar week back in the day.
It's enough for like a candy bar, right, you get
a candy bar, pack of gum. That's it, whatever it is.
My parents never let me use my allowance for buying candy.
They always told me I had to save it. You
need to save that for what? Oh, then you can
(24:52):
buy something big. You know what I bought with my allowance?
Bought the Ghostbusters soundtrack. Yes, I did. First record I
ever bought Ghostbusters soundtrack, No apologies. Yeah, I danced the
night away to that thing. I loved it, Yes I did.
(25:19):
Isn't that Ray Parker Junior? Do I remember that? Right? Yeah? Yeah? Okay,
thanks to Ally helped me out of that one. Man,
I'm booking down to this thing. I had to say
birthday money and everything for that. I think that record
was like six dollars or something like that. You said,
(25:44):
dance around to that my underwear every Saturday morning. I
loved it. That was the good stuff. But here's where
I think things are getting a little a little trippy.
Instead of giving their kid cash, which I think is
very helpful psychologically. When you're giving your kid cash as allowance,
allows the kid to see the green back, they can
count it in their hands. I think that's important. When
(26:05):
you're talking about a small child who's learning account money,
I think that's an important thing. I also think it
gives them a sense of the practice of trade. In
other words, I'm going to give you this piece of
paper and exchange for something else in return. I think
that the physical machination of doing that has a psychological effect,
(26:28):
it gives that money value. Instead, what parents are doing
is they're sending them money to their kids via apps,
or they're giving their kids pre loaded debit cards for
their allowances. I am actually concerned about money management skills
that the kids are not learning. Part of the reason
foreign allowance is learning money management skills. Instead, what we're
(26:48):
doing is I'll venmo it to you, sweetie. So that
kind of trips me out a little bit. I don't
think that's beneficial. So if you're giving your kids an allowance,
or if you've got the kids that have kids and
they're giving their kids a wall allowance, maybe encourage them
to use cash so that the kids understand the psychological
practice I guess of of trading and the value of
(27:12):
those paper dollars. Now the future, they may be using
their own apps, they may be venmoing, they may be
doing Apple pay, whatever else it is, but they need
to have a ground and base level understanding of what
it means to trade cash for things. Also, stop giving
them like fifteen dollars a month or fifteen dollars a week.
(27:32):
Don't do that. It feels like excessive. Although I suppose
to your kids are like I don't know, in sixth
grade and you're still giving them allowances. Then they could
get a paper route. Ooh, do we even have paper
routes anymore? No, we don't. What do people even line
their bird cages with? Now? I had coupons ad edit
val packs, but the only thing that still gets mailed out.
(27:56):
That's about it. Unbelievable, all right. Imagine you're out there
trying to date and half the goober's and the apps
haven't done this one very basic thing since the Obama years.
Maybe that's why they're still on the apps. Your love
life deserves better than this laziness. What that is next?
Speaker 1 (28:12):
Chris Merrill, you're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 6 (28:24):
From the talkbacks, Chris Merrill, I have been remiss in
saying how wonderful Kayla is as well.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
Whoa whoa, whoa, whoa whoa.
Speaker 6 (28:33):
So I hope she's gonna be on every day in
the upcoming weeks as well.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
She's not. No, her contractor is weekends only. I told
her she should come in, she didn't want to.
Speaker 6 (28:44):
But about allowance, may I just tell you I received
a quarter from my father until he passed away. When
I was nine, and he taught me to hold the
quarter up to the sun and it could block out the.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
Sun at your dog. All right, So she got cut
off again. I think this is the third time she's
called and got cut off every time, although this time
I think she just ran out of time. She likes you, Kayla.
Kyla was out trying to wrestle up. Doctor Wendy.
Speaker 7 (29:15):
I like her too, and I appreciate people wanting me
on with you because I think we make a dynamic duo.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
Yeah, you're all right for a girl. Dr Wendy Walsh
takes over the padded room, coming up here at seven o'clock,
Doctor Wendy, I've been sitting on this one for a while. Girl.
I was reading the story about how men are basically
screwing themselves over in the dating app by not making
(29:44):
enough effort. So here it is. According to Newsweek, straight
millennial men are failing to make enough effort on dating apps,
contributing to what some describe as they brought her dating crisis.
They explained dating app habits over all these different members,
and they said basically that dudes don't update their profiles.
Seven out of ten straight millennial mens surveyed say they
(30:04):
have never or rarely updated their dating profiles since first
creating them, and so they said, that's an obstacle to connection.
Is that one of those deals where in advertising sometimes
we'll have somebody come in and they'll say, hey, the
commercials aren't working. We're not getting the phone calls that
we want. And the first thing that we always do,
taking people behind the scenes. You you already know this
(30:25):
because you've been around me to your whole life. But
the first thing we do is we go, Okay, what's
the message and how do we tinker with the message
to make the message, you know, ring true? Is this
Are they sabotaging themselves by not going, oh, I'm not
getting any dates? They don't know why no women are
reaching out to me. Is it because they're not taking
a look at their messaging here or is it that
they're just lazy? And is that a red flag?
Speaker 8 (30:48):
I think the problem is with the apps and the
way they're structured. I'm actually going to be talking about
this in our show tonight. So the apps are designed
to keep you addicted to the apps, not necessarily to
help you find them. If that were true, they'd be
advertising how many marriages they were responsible for this year,
but you'll never hear that, right, And what they do
is as soon as you have a match, what they
(31:10):
should be doing the apps is cutting you off from
anyone else till you explore that. And in the messaging
side of the app, giving you prompts to help you
build a connection, but they don't do that. They keep
supporting you, supplying you with a new stream of possible mates,
so you can't focus. And we know that men have
trouble focusing.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
Okay, so there we go.
Speaker 8 (31:31):
They're just scrolling on through looking at what possibility could
be there instead of focusing on the bird in the hand.
I hate to individually blame men or women for how
they're using the app, because the apps themselves are not
designed well to have love the mates.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
This is why I brought this up with you, because
I knew that you'd have a beautiful perspective on it.
Speaker 8 (31:53):
So I'm just thinking that having said that, yeah, if
they are swimming in that polluted sea, they might as
well update their profile. And yes, I mean as possible.
Speaker 6 (32:02):
Right.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
Well, I'm just thinking, I'm processing what you just said,
and I'm thinking to myself from a psychological standpoint. Is
it one of those situations where you do you start
dating someone, but you don't delete the app because well,
you know, there might be somebody prettier come along. Right, So,
when you're always comparing them to the next possible thing,
it's not even that you're comparing them to something tangible,
(32:23):
is that you're comparing them to the potential for something
even better out there.
Speaker 8 (32:28):
And the phenomenon that you're describing is something I talk
about on my show regularly, which is paradox of choice.
It's a cognitive bias that says, when the human brain
is presented with too much choice, it has trouble making
a choice. And when it does make a choice, find
a match on an app, it doesn't value that choice
(32:49):
very much. It's always thinking about the bigger, better deal
that might have gotten away.
Speaker 2 (32:54):
So kind of a paralysis situation too.
Speaker 8 (32:56):
Yeah, it's biohacking your brain. My advice to everybody is
never matched with more than two people at once. Ignore
the stream, Never open up the deck and start flipping
through again. Just focus on those two. Get on the phone, talk,
choose one or the other. Have a coffee. If neither
of them work, get rid of both of them and
start over, but just two, because what guys do is
they'll fill their message box with six women and they'll
(33:19):
just be messaging and then they'll be like, I don't
really want to leave my porn hub and go out. Now,
It's fine, I had enough texts.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
Is there an ego gratification that goes with that? For instance,
if I've got one person who's interested in me, I
may not focus on that one person. But if I
can get six people in there, I feel pretty good
about myself. That's very validating that there will be six
different women out there interested in me right now, Well,
I must really be a catch that feels like it.
Speaker 8 (33:44):
And also there's this other problem that the app it
actually tricks women into thinking that they can get a
higher status men than really they can. So what ends
up happening is women match with this very small group
of men who are just inundated with women, and then
(34:06):
these other guys are left out in the cold and
they're rarely getting matches because it's an illusion it creates.
It creates this illusion for women that they can all
get this you know, tall, deep voiced, young, good looking
CEO who's driving a Porsche right and so they're all
going for him, and that guy is going to end
(34:30):
up being a loser because he has so much sexual opportunity.
The last thing he's going to be his commitment oriented.
Speaker 2 (34:35):
Doesn't that happen with dudes too, because dudes are always
chasing the hot blonde swimsuit model and we never really
want to settle for the very normal, down to earth
not crazy chick. I'm going to wash your mouth out
with soap.
Speaker 8 (34:48):
I'm gonna wash wash her. Yes, I'm going to wash
your mouth out with soap. There's a word we never
use in the Doctor Wendy Walsh world, and that is settle.
It's not a step down, it is a step up
to find a commitment oriented person. You know, there's a
trend online on women's feeds. I'm getting a lot of
my feeds that I love women talking about the great
(35:08):
thing about their blue collar man to try to like
up the status.
Speaker 2 (35:13):
And there's one.
Speaker 8 (35:14):
I'm going to try to get her on my show soon.
She's hysterical. She just talks about her blue collar husband
as if he's just so great. She's like, listen, if
anything goes down, the apocalypse, whatever, the zombie apocalypse, the
graide goes down. Your blue collar man's gonna have enough
duct tape and tools in the back of his truck
to fix it, right, He's gonna solve it.
Speaker 2 (35:32):
Yeah. Yeah, Well I was trying to sell my wife
on that too, but she said, I've seen you work
on projects. You'd screw it up. You'd have to go
to home depot again.
Speaker 8 (35:42):
We were at home depo today. My husband and I
were at home depot and all he had to do
is make one cut in one piece of like what
do you call it, not flooring, but the around the
edge that stands up a little bit the baseboard. And
I had to call over three other men. He does
not know I cut this thing.
Speaker 2 (36:03):
Well, I apologize. I didn't. I didn't intend to use
the word settle in the negative context. No, but maybe
the dudes need to just wake up and say, look,
maybe that bikini model is not the one that is
for me.
Speaker 8 (36:16):
Maybe they right, And the women need to say, maybe
the fake guy in the fake Porsche that he doesn't
even own he borrowed from a friend for the picture
is not the guy should be Yeah, no.
Speaker 2 (36:25):
It's not. Why are women so messed up?
Speaker 8 (36:28):
And they no, No, the apps, the apps are biohacking
our brains. They've created this, so I want you to
go back to pre dating apps. If a regular looking
woman who's very high value because she's a woman and
she's carrying four hundred eggs that the guys want access to.
She is a cool woman, but she's regular looking, she
would go into her town, her bar or whatever, and
(36:50):
she would see her regular looking guys. There would be
one or two of them who are the town doctor
or lawyer, and maybe she has a couple of cheerleaning
friends who are vying for them, but she would pick
who she would pick because he makes her happy and
she loves them. Now she goes on an app and
she's like, oh my goodness, this guy looks like George Clooney.
Speaker 2 (37:08):
I could reach out to him. So you see, it's
ruining it for all of us average dudes. Thank god
I got hooked up before all of this.
Speaker 8 (37:17):
Well, it's ruining it for women, yeah, because women keep
ending up in these situationships because the guys are like, oh,
this is cool. All these women I don't really have
to commit. I can say I'm not ready for our
relationship and they'll still give me sex and time, and
can go out with them.
Speaker 2 (37:32):
Is that great? Oh? Thank goodness, my wife settled Doctor
Wendy after Dark starts thread at seven o'clock. Doctor Wendy,
you're the best. Thank you so much. Good to talk
to you. Ollie, You're a fantastic buddy. Behind the scenes,
you were crushing it. He even helped me do some
math on the radio, and I love you for that. Kayla,
you are the ying to my yang. You are the
(37:56):
most above average. Oh, I thank you, Christopher. Nobody is
settling with you. They are knocking out of the park.
You have a good one. Doctor Wendy is next. We'll
talk to you. I'll be back on Tuesday night.
Speaker 1 (38:07):
Chris Merril KFI AM six forty on demand
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
There's no business like shelf business. Here's a note from
Cincyltown and Beyond and this week there really is only
one story, and that is all about the massive merger.
Will it even take place? Netflix Warner Brothers mega deal
rattling Hollywood. ABC seven covering that.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Well, it is a mega deal for Hollywood, Netflix acquiring
Warner Brothers for more than eighty billion dollars.
Speaker 4 (00:35):
Witness News reporter Rob Hayes live in Burbank with those details, Rob.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Rob, Yeah, Hollywood? What was that they call him on
his mother's landline? What the heck was that? This's do
that again? Bank?
Speaker 4 (00:49):
With those details, Rob, Yeah, Hollywood.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Is sounds like when somebody calls and they're on speaker
phone and then we're like, let's talk with Robin Burbank
and they said, oh, oh yeah, hey, hey, yes, interview Yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:02):
Gill spinning after this announcement, Netflix is looking to drop
more than eighty two billion.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Dollars to buy Warner Brothers.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
It's a deal that would put a lot of power
in the hands of just one entertainment company. Depending where
you stand, this sound could be considered the Deathnell for
Warner Brothers, or it's Wedding Shaw. Either way, Netflix's offer
to buy up Warner Brothers is way beyond a big deal.
Speaker 5 (01:29):
The amount of content, the amount of platforms, the amount
of eyeballs involved in this is megabox on a mega level.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
Dominic Patten is the executive editor at Deadline dot com.
The offer price of eighty two point seven billion dollars
the biggest sale of a Hollywood studio ever. It combines Netflix,
the world's largest streaming company with more than three hundred
million subscribers, with the third largest streamer, home to HBO,
(01:57):
and a trove of popular entertainment franchise. It's just like
Batman and Harry Potter.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
I know those are the popular ones. But my son
and I love watching HBO. We do it. But you know,
the crazy thing too, is that it's HBO Discovery. So
we'll watch like really random stuff like Mysteries of the Abandoned, right,
and we love I think I've talked about this before.
We love watching like the house Hunters and then just
(02:25):
making fun of the people and the realtors pretty mercilessly.
That's a good drinking game. So that's the linear product.
Which is not going with this.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
Whether or not this deal would cast a good spell
out of the industry or a bad one is still
up in the air.
Speaker 5 (02:43):
I've talked to a number of people who said this
is the worst thing ever. The former CEO of Warner
Brothers said this is the worst thing ever. But I've
also talked to people who said this could be really
the revitalization that the industry needs after the tough years
of the pandemic, the strikes, and the wildfires.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Consolidation doesn't exactly have a strong history of working out well.
Speaker 4 (03:03):
The Netflix deal comes as a surprise, not just for
its size. For the past several weeks, Warner Brothers has
been in talks with Paramount, the presumed front runner, mostly
because it wanted to buy all of Warner Brothers.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Yeah, keep that in mind. This eighty three billion dollars
is just for the studio products. It's not for CNN
and TNT and Discovery and HGTV and Food Network and
all those other things. It's just for the film product,
all right, continue on.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
Please, unlike Netflix, which is carving out the company's cable assets.
But even with the Netflix announcement, experts say this deal
is far from done, why with some serious anti trust
issues facing them.
Speaker 5 (03:44):
Simply put, you take Netflix, the biggest streamer in the
country and in the world, with the third biggest streamer
in the country, HBO Max, and you do have more
than fifty one percent of the streaming audience.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Yeah, so then the question is does it become basically monopoly?
That's the anti trust issue here.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
Now. Patton says a deal like this could push Hollywood
and its movies further down the streaming line with a
bigger focus on the smaller screens at home instead of
the bigger screens in the theaters. Reporting live in Burbank,
Rob Hayes ABC seven, I witnessed it.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
So what does that mean? Then, here's the concern that
so many people have. In fact that you may have
seen that a number of the different cinema stocks dropped
right away, AMC, Signmark, Regal, They all dropped after this
deal was announced because the concern is that that Netflix
is gonna make these products and then they're gonna turn
around and they're gonna put them up on the streaming platform.
(04:34):
They're gonna say we can bring more people into the
streaming platform. At eight eighteen twenty two, dollars a month,
whatever the package is that you're getting. And if we
can get more people and grow our product, we're gonna
make more money that way than we are by trying
to turn things over into the theater. Here's the problem, though,
that you do reach a point of saturation, which is
(04:57):
why Netflix is not announcing their subscriber numbers anymore. They
go through all of the earnings calls and they don't
talk about new subscribers. They don't talk about those numbers
any longer because you hit a point of peak saturation
in the market. Now with this, you're gonna bring some
people over from HBO that that don't have Netflix. I
(05:20):
might be one of those people, right My wife wants
Netflix for Christmas, and I'm hesitant to do it, but
you know, what she wants, she gets. But then, how
many people already have both of those products? And if
you didn't like paying eighteen dollars for Netflix commercial free,
and you didn't like paying eighteen dollars for HBO commercial free,
(05:41):
how much are you gonna like paying thirty six dollars
for the two of them together? Oh, Chris is not
gonna be like, oh no, it'll be thirty now it'll
be a deal, you'll save money. Bulloony, I'm calling boloney
to start with. Sure, they might start it that way,
but if you take a look at how much the
price has gone up on all the different streaming services
(06:02):
over the course of the last even ten years, you
would see that. Nope, they get you in the door.
They're like crack dealers. First one's on me. Then it's
gonna cost you. So they get you in the door,
and then the prices go up, and they go up,
and they go up and they go up. Now, what
about that anti trust issue? Now, there were questions about
paramount being able to get away with this because Ellison's
(06:25):
are tight with the White House and they thought Trump
will grease the wheels of regulation to get this pushed through.
If it's Paramounts guidance, because the Ellisons are close with
the Trump administration, they'll make that happen. Now we've got
word from Wall Street Journal reported about four point thirty tonight,
President Trump saying that Netflix deal to acquire Warner Brothers
(06:48):
could be a problem because it would result in a
large market share for the streaming giants, signaling possible government resistance.
In his first public comments since the sale. Now here's
the trouble with President Trump. He always hedges. He's always
very wishy washy on things. He allows you to interpret
whatever he's saying right, and then he moves forward based
on what he decides later on. But here's what he said.
(07:09):
They have a very big market share, and when they
have Warner Brothers, that share goes up a lot. I'll
be involved in that decision. But he's not really telling
us which way. He said, that's a lot. You're gonna
have a lot of market share. I'll be involved. So
now is he sending a message saying, Oh, I'm gonna
scrutinize the stealers. He's sending a message saying, if you
want to get this done, I think we all know
(07:30):
what you're gonna have to do. I'm gonna need Netflix
very first ever Netflix Piece prize, and then I'll approve it.
Speaking of Ted Sarandos, the co chief executive there at Netflix,
he said, I have a lot of respect for him.
He's a great parison. He's done one of the greatest
jobs in the history of movies and other things. But
(07:51):
it's a big market share, There's no question about it.
It could be a problem. Wink wink, where's my Netflix piece? Prize?
I may have added that last part, so we were
going to run into this. Anyway, if Paramount had bought HBO,
it wouldn't have been as big an issue because Netflix
is already the big dog. This would be like Walmart
(08:13):
buying Amazon. Okay, that we feel like that would be
too much of a market share. But what if Target
bought Amazon? Is that better? If Paramount buys out Warner
Brothers and they take they take the not only the
studio product, but also the linear product, the cable services,
(08:35):
and they just merged with sky Dance. Now they're owning
Newline Warner sky Dance, obviously the Paramount studios. Now they've
got all those studios locked up. Is that less of
a regulatory issue? Now they might not have fifty one
percent of the subscribers out there to the streaming services,
but their goal would be to acquire that and in
(08:55):
any in any scenario, Oh, Amazon was a bitter too. Incidentally,
in any scenario, the race for consolidation is on, and
in any scenario, the question is what happens to the
film product? Does it go to streaming? You could make
the argument that Netflix is better off by not putting
(09:16):
everything on their streaming platform, because the only way to
make money on that is one through the ad supported
subscriptions two to bring more people in. But if the
hitting peak saturation, they're not really making any money. They're
just spending money to keep the people that are already
there happy. So is it possible that they do continue
(09:38):
to create products that are specific for the cinema? You
could make that argument. The question is how good are
the product's going to be? How much do they care
as long as they're breaking even does it even have
to be that good? Are we going to see a
lack of innovation? This is always the question when it
comes to anti trust and monopolies. Does this ruin competition?
(09:59):
And if ruins competition, is that ruin innovation? Do we
find stagnation? And if that's the case, if we allow
this to go through, what happens when all of a
sudden you've got Paramount and Amazon going uh oh, this
Netflix Warner deal has left us in the dust. Does
that mean that all of a sudden you've got Paramount
(10:19):
saying Amazon, you guys want to get together, you want
to knock boots calea. Do people still say that No, Okay,
Apple and Peacock, do they go, hey, you want you
wanna saddle up and ride into the sunset? Was that
any better? I felt like that wasn't a whole lot better.
That was actually worse worse.
Speaker 6 (10:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
In other words, are we seeing the beginning of a
race for consolidation? And for those of you that say no,
that can't happen, I mean, prior to Cable we had
three networks. That was it. So the idea that we
could have three or four major streaming conglomerates still make
the argument that actually it's not exactly a monopoly because
(11:05):
you still have all of these you know, there are
still three or four different choices out there. I My
concern here is obviously the creatives, the employees. Consolidation always
costs jobs, and honestly, selfishly, I'm concerned that the what
I think is kind of the revitalized golden era of television,
(11:28):
which I would say started with AMC's productions Mad Men,
Walking Dead, those shows that came out in the twenty tens,
and then on into the streaming wars where we actually
saw good quality streaming products that were being made in
the in the late twenty tens in the early twenty twenties.
I'm afraid this is the beginning of the end of
(11:49):
that era. It was nice while it lasted. Speaking of
the other streamers, I don't know who does Hulu matchup? Oh,
they're already with Disney. Weel he saw Disney Hulu ESPN.
That's already together. Right, So there you go. You got
Disney and Hulu, Apple, Peacock, Paramounse Guide answer they match
up with Amazon? I think it happens. Meanwhile, we're taking
(12:13):
what's on the streaming screen, we're putting it onto the
cinema screen. People are getting excited about it. I'm not
so sure the reviewers are, though. That's next.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
Chris Meryl, you're listening to KFI A M six forty
on demand.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
Thanks to everybody that's checked in on the app tonight.
You guys are Dyna MoU. I always appreciate what you
have to say. Uh. We asked a question earlier. If
the housing market crashes, where are you gonna, Where are
you gonna? Where're you gonna move? Where are you moving?
And Chris, this is Peter and I would like to
(12:48):
keep it simple, just like the other guy do. If
the howling market should crash precipitously. I would love to
buy my next home in not in Beverly Hill. Okay, okay,
so there is there it is go uh, it will
(13:12):
be the fresh prince off you go.
Speaker 7 (13:16):
It's a very good accent and a very enjoyable Oh no,
oh my god, very good answer, very enjoyable accent.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
Your pants? No, please, what was that? I was a
very good accent. He's like the voice of my GPS. Please.
It was very nice. It was very nice.
Speaker 6 (13:34):
Just relaxing, Chris Merrill. I promise I won't call again.
But it's great news to hear that you're on every
day this week. So congratulations to KFI for having you.
And if you really couldn't hear my message when.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
She can't cut off again, I think you have to
hold the button down though. Whatever it is.
Speaker 7 (13:54):
Yeah, I'm just giving okay, all right, all right, you
got problems me?
Speaker 2 (14:02):
Yeah? Okay, you get a word about you get all like,
oh that listener, Oh what a great voice?
Speaker 6 (14:11):
What is.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
Meanwhile? I got hot girls calling me? Okay, all right, yeah,
she's hot. You just sound pervy. Can we get into
the content. You need to just relax a little bit. Uh,
we were just discussing the Netflix Warner Brothers deal and
what does that mean to theaters. Are we going to
see fewer films in the theaters and are they going
(14:38):
to be worth a crap? I mean, the the quality
of content has been a concern for a while. And
also I think that a number of people and I'm
included in this category too, this is one of the
things Netflix says, Oh, this is consumer driven, It's what
the consumers want. I think I made the point that
when the Superman movie came out, I was excited. I
wanted to see the new Superman. I thought it looked
(15:00):
really good. I heard good reviews. I'm a fan of Superman.
When the Superman movie came out, I was like, that
looks amazing. But then again, if I just wait for
like six weeks, then I can just watch it in
my living room. That's what I did. No, I mean,
I don't need to pat myself on the on my back.
I did rent it before it became before it was
(15:23):
free on HBO. I did pay the twenty bucks or
whatever it was, so I did end up throwing a
little money back at the studio. But I think for
a lot of people that go Wow, that looks really good.
I can't wait for it to come out. And there
was a time. This is back when you were just
a wei lass, Kayla, before you knew you liked those
hot accents from Ferners anywhere, a wee lass before then, Okay,
(15:46):
a film would come out and then you'd have to
wait like two years before it hit Blockbuster, at least
a year before I hit Blockbuster, and then got all
excited because it was finally coming out. Okay, so Blockbuster
was a store that used to have tapes vhs. Yeah,
so how do I describe this? Okay, you get the point. Now.
(16:08):
The turnaround is so fast it takes like no time
at all. In fact, get this, I close it. My
wife wants to get to Netflix for Christmas. Right, She's like,
I want Netflix for Christmas. Okay. We've been without it
for like two years because I thought it's kind of crap.
But then we keep hearing about you know, you start
to get that Netflix envy, and you go, oh, the
(16:31):
new Wednesday is coming out, Oh, the new Stranger Things
is coming out. Oh, the new And so if I
end up bending to her will, which of course, you
know I'm gonna end up doing. I go, Okay, you
know what, I'm gonna catch up on the Stranger Things
because I watched through I think I think I only
saw the second season, so I think I'm like two
seasons behind on this thing, right, Okay, I'll watch that.
(16:51):
I get this. If you want to take in the
cinematic experience, According to the Today's Show, you can do it.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
Go big news for fans who've been counting down the
days until this long, long awaited.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Final season after or we've been through.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
Well the two hours season or series finale, Stranger Things
headed to the movie theaters. The episode called The Right
Side Up sets hit Netflix and big screens all across
America on New Year's Eve.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
Okay, on New Year's Eve. Then they went on to
some other crap about one of the stars being on
Kelly Clarkson and I cut the audio. Stranger Things finale
headed to over five hundred theaters across the US and Canada.
This is from uh OC Rigister as well as Southern
California fans getting front row seats to some of the
region's most iconic theaters. So on New Year's Eve, starting
(17:41):
at five PM and running through New Year's Day, you
can catch an experience the final chapter of netflix beloved
nostalgia packed sci fi series for the first time, and
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Some of the theaters participating the showings LA's Egyptian Theater, Alimo,
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(18:02):
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at the District, excuse me, AMC Dining Fuller teen twenty. Oh,
I'd love those. The dinings, Yeah, Regal Irvine Spectrum, Signe
Marks Century, Huntington Beach and XD, AMC, din In Ontario Mills,
Regal Edwards, Ontario Palace Stadium, AMC Tyler Galleria and more
(18:28):
and more. Those are always my favorite. So that sounds like
a great place to go and experience a series finale
two hours long with a bunch of fans. It's almost like,
what's that thing we did when there would be like
a big like cinema. Oh, it's like going to a movie.
(18:50):
We get all excited because we go all, look, there's
gonna be a bunch of fans. They're watching the same thing.
Experiencing it all together. Yeah, yeah, Look, the idea of
going to the cinema is still alive, but then at
the same time it's gonna drop on Netflix. So what
is the What is the urgency then, other than going
(19:12):
to be with a bunch of other people who are
like minded, and that's that's one of the big draws
to going to the cinema. There's no urgency. If the
only way you could see that until April was to
go to the cinema, it would drive more people to
put their butts in the seats. But if you have
these big conglomerate studios merging and streaming everything, what's the urgency.
(19:35):
There's no fomo with it anymore. All Right, The second
biggest economy in your household might actually be the little
mouths that you're feeding. There's no reason their GDP should
be higher than yours. But here we are. How your
kids are creating a hall is next. I'm Chris Meryl.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
You're listening to kfi AM six forty on demand, But
ey mean.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
Chris Meryl. Kfi AM six four more stimulating talk and
the program tonight is going to be available on the
Featured Segments podcast section of kfi AM six forty dot com.
So if you missed anything, lucky you you can still
catch it. When you were a wee one, you remember
(20:20):
when your parents give you an allowance. Now, for some
of you, you're gonna say, my parents never give me
an allowance. I'm not talking to you then. But if
you had gotten allowance, you remember when your parents gave
me an allowance and he thought, oh look at this,
I've got that that coveted dollar a week. I remember
getting the dollar a week, man. I thought I was
(20:40):
rolling in it. I thought I was living high on
the hog dollar a week, and I used to look
forward to it. My parents used to get paid on Wednesdays.
I know, it's a weird payday. They ran their own business,
so they decided when payday was. It was always Wednesday.
And I remember my parents Wednesday was when we got
our allowance. I wake up in the you know, get
(21:01):
on by allowance. Man. I never forgot. That's what it
got me looking forward to paydays because I knew my
parents pay day was Wednesday. That was also my payday.
I knew it. Got a dollar a week. And then, uh,
you're a little bit older. My parents stopped giving me
that dollar a week, and they said I needed to
earn my keep. I needed to bring my own money in.
(21:21):
My father first started nagging me about a job when
I was nine. It's nine years old. My father's like,
you need to get a job. Start pulling your weight
around here. I did, but it was I just you know,
you're nine years old. You should be doing something, should
be mowing lawns. Not even allowed to touch the lawnmower. Well,
(21:43):
your mother will teach you how to use it. My
mother taught me how to start mowing lawns when I
was nine. I'm pretty sure that's an ocean violation. Probably
could have been mulched. That was back in the day.
We still didn't used to leaded gasoline. We didn't even
have multures a bag or you could not bag. Those
are your choices. That was me nine years old out
(22:05):
there pushing a lawnmore didn't have self propelled either to
push it. By the time I was twelve, I finally
got a paper route. Yeah, I did a lot of
substitute paper routing. I had a couple of buddies at
paper routes. They were the coolest because they got in. Finally,
somebody quit their paper route, and the local newspaper gave
(22:25):
me the paper route. I was rolling in dough. I
was making upwards a seventy dollars a month take that,
mowing lawns in the summertime, delivering newspapers, bought myself a
bike man. That's when I knew I was. I was
(22:46):
doing well. But did I get an allowance at that point? No,
Pops is like, you don't need an allowance. You've got a job.
I don't need to give you handouts. You got a job.
Whole point of getting a job is no more handouts.
He's pretty old school. So imagine when I see that
the average child now gets fifty two dollars a month
(23:07):
and allowance, that is an increase of thirty six dollars
over what their parents got at the same age. And
I'm old enough to be there, not quite parents yet,
but thirty six thirty six dollars. So see, hang on,
So fifty kila, what's the difference here? It's fifty two
(23:27):
dollars a month, it's thirty six dollars more. That means
that we would take we would take fifty two and
we would subtract sixteen thirty six. Hang on, I gotta
borrow from over here and then carry the Do I
carry it to? Or do I borrow? I have to borrow, right,
and then I end up with it's twelve. Hang on,
(23:50):
I gotta take my socks off. Oh Jesus, sixteen dollars.
In other words, their parents were getting about four dollars
a week an allowance, and now the kids these days
(24:12):
are getting like thirteen, fourteen dollars a week. It's wild
to me, it's crazy. I don't even think it's outrageous.
I think I'm just getting old. See, I don't think
that's a crazy, crazy amount depending on their age. I
don't think a five year old needs that much a week.
(24:32):
I think a five year old get like five dollars
a week. That's fine. That's probably about equivalent of me
when I was getting a dollar week back in the day.
It's enough for like a candy bar, right, you get
a candy bar, pack of gum. That's it, whatever it is.
My parents never let me use my allowance for buying candy.
They always told me I had to save it. You
need to save that for what? Oh, then you can
(24:52):
buy something big. You know what I bought with my allowance?
Bought the Ghostbusters soundtrack. Yes, I did. First record I
ever bought Ghostbusters soundtrack, No apologies. Yeah, I danced the
night away to that thing. I loved it, Yes I did.
(25:19):
Isn't that Ray Parker Junior? Do I remember that? Right? Yeah? Yeah? Okay,
thanks to Ally helped me out of that one. Man,
I'm booking down to this thing. I had to say
birthday money and everything for that. I think that record
was like six dollars or something like that. You said,
(25:44):
dance around to that my underwear every Saturday morning. I
loved it. That was the good stuff. But here's where
I think things are getting a little a little trippy.
Instead of giving their kid cash, which I think is
very helpful psychologically. When you're giving your kid cash as allowance,
allows the kid to see the green back, they can
count it in their hands. I think that's important. When
(26:05):
you're talking about a small child who's learning account money,
I think that's an important thing. I also think it
gives them a sense of the practice of trade. In
other words, I'm going to give you this piece of
paper and exchange for something else in return. I think
that the physical machination of doing that has a psychological effect,
(26:28):
it gives that money value. Instead, what parents are doing
is they're sending them money to their kids via apps,
or they're giving their kids pre loaded debit cards for
their allowances. I am actually concerned about money management skills
that the kids are not learning. Part of the reason
foreign allowance is learning money management skills. Instead, what we're
(26:48):
doing is I'll venmo it to you, sweetie. So that
kind of trips me out a little bit. I don't
think that's beneficial. So if you're giving your kids an allowance,
or if you've got the kids that have kids and
they're giving their kids a wall allowance, maybe encourage them
to use cash so that the kids understand the psychological
practice I guess of of trading and the value of
(27:12):
those paper dollars. Now the future, they may be using
their own apps, they may be venmoing, they may be
doing Apple pay, whatever else it is, but they need
to have a ground and base level understanding of what
it means to trade cash for things. Also, stop giving
them like fifteen dollars a month or fifteen dollars a week.
(27:32):
Don't do that. It feels like excessive. Although I suppose
to your kids are like I don't know, in sixth
grade and you're still giving them allowances. Then they could
get a paper route. Ooh, do we even have paper
routes anymore? No, we don't. What do people even line
their bird cages with? Now? I had coupons ad edit
val packs, but the only thing that still gets mailed out.
(27:56):
That's about it. Unbelievable, all right. Imagine you're out there
trying to date and half the goober's and the apps
haven't done this one very basic thing since the Obama years.
Maybe that's why they're still on the apps. Your love
life deserves better than this laziness. What that is next?
Speaker 1 (28:12):
Chris Merrill, you're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 6 (28:24):
From the talkbacks, Chris Merrill, I have been remiss in
saying how wonderful Kayla is as well.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
Whoa whoa, whoa, whoa whoa.
Speaker 6 (28:33):
So I hope she's gonna be on every day in
the upcoming weeks as well.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
She's not. No, her contractor is weekends only. I told
her she should come in, she didn't want to.
Speaker 6 (28:44):
But about allowance, may I just tell you I received
a quarter from my father until he passed away. When
I was nine, and he taught me to hold the
quarter up to the sun and it could block out the.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
Sun at your dog. All right, So she got cut
off again. I think this is the third time she's
called and got cut off every time, although this time
I think she just ran out of time. She likes you, Kayla.
Kyla was out trying to wrestle up. Doctor Wendy.
Speaker 7 (29:15):
I like her too, and I appreciate people wanting me
on with you because I think we make a dynamic duo.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
Yeah, you're all right for a girl. Dr Wendy Walsh
takes over the padded room, coming up here at seven o'clock,
Doctor Wendy, I've been sitting on this one for a while. Girl.
I was reading the story about how men are basically
screwing themselves over in the dating app by not making
(29:44):
enough effort. So here it is. According to Newsweek, straight
millennial men are failing to make enough effort on dating apps,
contributing to what some describe as they brought her dating crisis.
They explained dating app habits over all these different members,
and they said basically that dudes don't update their profiles.
Seven out of ten straight millennial mens surveyed say they
(30:04):
have never or rarely updated their dating profiles since first
creating them, and so they said, that's an obstacle to connection.
Is that one of those deals where in advertising sometimes
we'll have somebody come in and they'll say, hey, the
commercials aren't working. We're not getting the phone calls that
we want. And the first thing that we always do,
taking people behind the scenes. You you already know this
(30:25):
because you've been around me to your whole life. But
the first thing we do is we go, Okay, what's
the message and how do we tinker with the message
to make the message, you know, ring true? Is this
Are they sabotaging themselves by not going, oh, I'm not
getting any dates? They don't know why no women are
reaching out to me. Is it because they're not taking
a look at their messaging here or is it that
they're just lazy? And is that a red flag?
Speaker 8 (30:48):
I think the problem is with the apps and the
way they're structured. I'm actually going to be talking about
this in our show tonight. So the apps are designed
to keep you addicted to the apps, not necessarily to
help you find them. If that were true, they'd be
advertising how many marriages they were responsible for this year,
but you'll never hear that, right, And what they do
is as soon as you have a match, what they
(31:10):
should be doing the apps is cutting you off from
anyone else till you explore that. And in the messaging
side of the app, giving you prompts to help you
build a connection, but they don't do that. They keep
supporting you, supplying you with a new stream of possible mates,
so you can't focus. And we know that men have
trouble focusing.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
Okay, so there we go.
Speaker 8 (31:31):
They're just scrolling on through looking at what possibility could
be there instead of focusing on the bird in the hand.
I hate to individually blame men or women for how
they're using the app, because the apps themselves are not
designed well to have love the mates.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
This is why I brought this up with you, because
I knew that you'd have a beautiful perspective on it.
Speaker 8 (31:53):
So I'm just thinking that having said that, yeah, if
they are swimming in that polluted sea, they might as
well update their profile. And yes, I mean as possible.
Speaker 6 (32:02):
Right.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
Well, I'm just thinking, I'm processing what you just said,
and I'm thinking to myself from a psychological standpoint. Is
it one of those situations where you do you start
dating someone, but you don't delete the app because well,
you know, there might be somebody prettier come along. Right, So,
when you're always comparing them to the next possible thing,
it's not even that you're comparing them to something tangible,
(32:23):
is that you're comparing them to the potential for something
even better out there.
Speaker 8 (32:28):
And the phenomenon that you're describing is something I talk
about on my show regularly, which is paradox of choice.
It's a cognitive bias that says, when the human brain
is presented with too much choice, it has trouble making
a choice. And when it does make a choice, find
a match on an app, it doesn't value that choice
(32:49):
very much. It's always thinking about the bigger, better deal
that might have gotten away.
Speaker 2 (32:54):
So kind of a paralysis situation too.
Speaker 8 (32:56):
Yeah, it's biohacking your brain. My advice to everybody is
never matched with more than two people at once. Ignore
the stream, Never open up the deck and start flipping
through again. Just focus on those two. Get on the phone, talk,
choose one or the other. Have a coffee. If neither
of them work, get rid of both of them and
start over, but just two, because what guys do is
they'll fill their message box with six women and they'll
(33:19):
just be messaging and then they'll be like, I don't
really want to leave my porn hub and go out. Now,
It's fine, I had enough texts.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
Is there an ego gratification that goes with that? For instance,
if I've got one person who's interested in me, I
may not focus on that one person. But if I
can get six people in there, I feel pretty good
about myself. That's very validating that there will be six
different women out there interested in me right now, Well,
I must really be a catch that feels like it.
Speaker 8 (33:44):
And also there's this other problem that the app it
actually tricks women into thinking that they can get a
higher status men than really they can. So what ends
up happening is women match with this very small group
of men who are just inundated with women, and then
(34:06):
these other guys are left out in the cold and
they're rarely getting matches because it's an illusion it creates.
It creates this illusion for women that they can all
get this you know, tall, deep voiced, young, good looking
CEO who's driving a Porsche right and so they're all
going for him, and that guy is going to end
(34:30):
up being a loser because he has so much sexual opportunity.
The last thing he's going to be his commitment oriented.
Speaker 2 (34:35):
Doesn't that happen with dudes too, because dudes are always
chasing the hot blonde swimsuit model and we never really
want to settle for the very normal, down to earth
not crazy chick. I'm going to wash your mouth out
with soap.
Speaker 8 (34:48):
I'm gonna wash wash her. Yes, I'm going to wash
your mouth out with soap. There's a word we never
use in the Doctor Wendy Walsh world, and that is settle.
It's not a step down, it is a step up
to find a commitment oriented person. You know, there's a
trend online on women's feeds. I'm getting a lot of
my feeds that I love women talking about the great
(35:08):
thing about their blue collar man to try to like
up the status.
Speaker 2 (35:13):
And there's one.
Speaker 8 (35:14):
I'm going to try to get her on my show soon.
She's hysterical. She just talks about her blue collar husband
as if he's just so great. She's like, listen, if
anything goes down, the apocalypse, whatever, the zombie apocalypse, the
graide goes down. Your blue collar man's gonna have enough
duct tape and tools in the back of his truck
to fix it, right, He's gonna solve it.
Speaker 2 (35:32):
Yeah. Yeah, Well I was trying to sell my wife
on that too, but she said, I've seen you work
on projects. You'd screw it up. You'd have to go
to home depot again.
Speaker 8 (35:42):
We were at home depo today. My husband and I
were at home depot and all he had to do
is make one cut in one piece of like what
do you call it, not flooring, but the around the
edge that stands up a little bit the baseboard. And
I had to call over three other men. He does
not know I cut this thing.
Speaker 2 (36:03):
Well, I apologize. I didn't. I didn't intend to use
the word settle in the negative context. No, but maybe
the dudes need to just wake up and say, look,
maybe that bikini model is not the one that is
for me.
Speaker 8 (36:16):
Maybe they right, And the women need to say, maybe
the fake guy in the fake Porsche that he doesn't
even own he borrowed from a friend for the picture
is not the guy should be Yeah, no.
Speaker 2 (36:25):
It's not. Why are women so messed up?
Speaker 8 (36:28):
And they no, No, the apps, the apps are biohacking
our brains. They've created this, so I want you to
go back to pre dating apps. If a regular looking
woman who's very high value because she's a woman and
she's carrying four hundred eggs that the guys want access to.
She is a cool woman, but she's regular looking, she
would go into her town, her bar or whatever, and
(36:50):
she would see her regular looking guys. There would be
one or two of them who are the town doctor
or lawyer, and maybe she has a couple of cheerleaning
friends who are vying for them, but she would pick
who she would pick because he makes her happy and
she loves them. Now she goes on an app and
she's like, oh my goodness, this guy looks like George Clooney.
Speaker 2 (37:08):
I could reach out to him. So you see, it's
ruining it for all of us average dudes. Thank god
I got hooked up before all of this.
Speaker 8 (37:17):
Well, it's ruining it for women, yeah, because women keep
ending up in these situationships because the guys are like, oh,
this is cool. All these women I don't really have
to commit. I can say I'm not ready for our
relationship and they'll still give me sex and time, and
can go out with them.
Speaker 2 (37:32):
Is that great? Oh? Thank goodness, my wife settled Doctor
Wendy after Dark starts thread at seven o'clock. Doctor Wendy,
you're the best. Thank you so much. Good to talk
to you. Ollie, You're a fantastic buddy. Behind the scenes,
you were crushing it. He even helped me do some
math on the radio, and I love you for that. Kayla,
you are the ying to my yang. You are the
(37:56):
most above average. Oh, I thank you, Christopher. Nobody is
settling with you. They are knocking out of the park.
You have a good one. Doctor Wendy is next. We'll
talk to you. I'll be back on Tuesday night.
Speaker 1 (38:07):
Chris Merril KFI AM six forty on demand
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