November 20, 2025 • 31 mins
A talkback suggests younger people who can’t afford to purchase a home should invest in the stock market instead of real estate. When it comes to streaming, Netflix and Amazon Prime are jacking with the ratings system in a bid to sell ads. Both streaming networks have developed a new metric, counting people who watch just one minute of advertising in the entire month as a monthly active viewer. MLB has struck a deal with several outlets to showcase the games. ESPN will get 30 national games over the next season. NBCUniversal will get the Sunday-night lineup, and Peacock gets Sunday morning. Netflix will also start showing baseball games. We’ve now stopped minting the penny, and there is no detailed national plan to manage the existing 250 billion pennies still in jars across the United States.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
You know, I asked earlier. I said, I always love
to know what you're doing when you're listening to the show.
I love it because you got the talk back, you know,
which is cool because you're listening on the app or whatever,
and then you hit that talk back and oh, I'm
chilling out here with one guy that said, you guys
are really great when I'm on the Indica and I
was like, this is my peeps, these are my people.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Yep.
Speaker 4 (00:26):
You you just smoke whatever you want because I am
way more entertaining when you're inebriated.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
So you just do that, all right? If you hit
that talk back, what are you doing?
Speaker 5 (00:39):
Hey, Chris, I listened to KFI on the app at
the gym on Amazon devices at home.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
That's awesome.
Speaker 5 (00:47):
Just on AM radio in the car, We'll say, since
younger people can't build equity by buying a house.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
Oh yeah, we're talking about people under forty your host, totally.
Speaker 5 (00:58):
Host should be investing in the stock market, in broad
market ETFs.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 5 (01:07):
You know the track like the nastec or SMB five hundred.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
I totally agree with you. Totally agree. My son is
my oldest son is thirty.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
And oh, by the way, I got in trouble mark
because you've heard me refer to my wife before, right,
I always said that twice? Yes, well, yeah, I say
I married. I married an old lady with three used kids.
And that's Look. We've been together for twenty one years,
been married for twenty one years, been together for twenty
one years and ten minutes. And she she she evidently
(01:39):
doesn't think that joke is funny anymore. That's been the
joke from the beginning. And she she yelled at me tonight,
she said, you called me old.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
You called me old.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
I said, I'm sure I didn't, and you were just hoping.
She doesn't listen to the show.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
She said, you used to call me pretty, and I said, oh,
you are pretty.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
She says, but you call me old. Nobody wants to
hear you call your lady, your wife old. And I'm like, well,
I mean literally that's what old lady is. But you
know that's fine.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
I know.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
I go, you're right, sweetheart, You're so beautiful. And I said,
of course, in comparison, I mean I'm much younger, so
I mean.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
Tread lightly you're not funny. You're not funny.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
So anyway, I have to I have to make clear
my thirty year old son is my step son. But
it's not because my wife is old. It's because she's pretty.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
You're getting work.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Look, yeah, listen, the math works out in her head.
That's fine. I just had to make sure I mentioned
my wife is prettier. Now I can sleep in my
bed tonight, which will be nice, and you can close
your eyes.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
So my oldest is thirty, and he's like so many
other he's millennial, but you know, he's at the tail
end of millennials born in ninety five and I think
gen Z came around in ninety six or seven, right,
And so he doesn't have a house.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
He's he's renting.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
But to his credit, like this caller said, he's been
investing since he first got his you know, his first
full time job. He's he's really he loves the stock market.
He thinks it's he thinks it's fascinating, and he kind
of loves the excitement of it. So I'm excited to
see that because I agree with the caller that you
may not be able to get into that home, but
you can invest elsewhere.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
So, but don't one percent agree.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
Don't you have to have money to burn to risk
in the stock market because it's gambling, Let's just be clear.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Yeah, well it is. However, I would say this that
you're not likely to lose it. If I sit down
at a poker table and I lose the hand of poker,
I'm gonna lose all that money. Right, it's gone with
the stock market over the course of time if you
invest now, I mean, unless you're investing in something really risky.
But for instance, I've got I've got a few individual stocks,
(03:50):
I've got some ets.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
My biggest investment is Apple.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
It's grown really well since I started buying that twelve
years ago or something. The money that I put into
Apple to start with a couple grand rights has blown up.
And I'm not going to lose that two thousand dollars
of the three thousand. Well, however much I put into it, right,
that's not going to go away. I mean, the stock
market would have to crash and then I would have
to pull my money out for.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Me to lose money.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
If you're being smart about it, I'm not saying there's
not risk, and I'm not saying you couldn't lose your money.
You could, but the it's not gambling like putting your
money in a slot machine.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
So all these people who have invested in AI, they're
not concerned about that bubble bursting.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Well, of course they are. But that's a high risk, right,
I mean, and this is what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
I mean, if you want to if you want to
invest in AI, then you take the money that you
can live without. And this is kind of the point
that I think you were making to start with.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Don't you have to have some assets to be able
to invest to take that risk. Yes, but if you don't,
then you invest in slow growth mutual funds, gotcha, right,
You just you find safer risks. I mean if I
took you to a poker table and I said, look,
this poker table hits ninety percent of the time, but
it does don't hit big. Like you put a dollar
in there, you might win a dollar ten and you go, okay,
(05:05):
well ten cents is in much. I go, oh, I
could take it over to this poker table. It doesn't
hit very often. You put a dollar and you could
get ten thousand dollars and you go, oh, okay, well
that's great. Okay, but now if I told you it
was a ten thousand dollars buy in to win a
million dollars, you go, I don't have ten thousand dollars,
but I can keep putting out a dollar and that
turns into a dollar ten, that turns into a dollar fifty,
that turns into three dollars, that turns into eight dollars,
that turns into ten dollars.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
Anything to avoid you or me winding up in one
of those barrel with suspenders outfits.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
No joke. I know a guy in radio. That's his
whole shtick. What do you mean he goes by barrel boy.
Oh yeah, he works on a country mum. He's a
great guy. It works at a country music station. He
goes around wearing nothing but a barrel, comedy gold all.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
Of the events. Yeah, that's what he does. He's like
the stunt guy. Yeah, that's so funny. He said.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
I bet people have parasocial relations with Oh yes.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Parasocial yes, yeah. One way relationships is celebrity as a machine.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Very very good. All right, from the talkbacks.
Speaker 6 (06:04):
Okay, so I'm in my office full of computers and
recording equipment and a me too. I am putting a
new micro story on my website, which is Goddess of trance.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
I'm sorry dot com.
Speaker 6 (06:24):
Trance as in hypnosis.
Speaker 4 (06:26):
Oh yeah, okay, all right, very good, shameless plug.
Speaker 6 (06:32):
It's kind of a weird little micro story. All right,
but I'm about ready to quit and go take.
Speaker 7 (06:38):
A bubble bath.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
Oh take us with you.
Speaker 4 (06:42):
That wasn't creepy. Wait, she was just getting to the
good parts. Look, we only got thirty seconds on the talkbacks.
That's all you get.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
Thanks. You want to hear drawing the bath right?
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Oh it's just a little warm right now, I'm adding
my bubbles weirdo.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
All right?
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Also from the talkbacks did we get?
Speaker 3 (07:04):
But talkbacks? What is this?
Speaker 4 (07:08):
What is happening right now? What is are we getting?
The talkbacks on a wax cylinder?
Speaker 3 (07:16):
That was amazing? That did sound like an Edison gramophone? There,
didn't it? Watson, come here, I need you.
Speaker 8 (07:25):
That is amazing, Chris, that's exactly what it's about. And
the interest rates are really high. Oh, the prices drop.
That's when you buy. Yes, that's when we were able to.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
Buy a house.
Speaker 8 (07:36):
The price was low, but the interest was high.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Is there anything worse than hearing me in the background. God,
you know the best part about me being me, I
don't have to listen to me.
Speaker 8 (07:47):
Barely bought it, held on to it. The race dropped. Yeah,
the price went way up, and now we're good smart.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
Oh God, he hearing myself listen to that booming voice.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
Hate hearing myself. Hate hearing that so much. God got
into radio.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
I was doing a morning show and I had to
wake up early, so I had the alarm clock set
to my station, and I never forget. Alarm clock went
off one morning and it was one of my commercials
was playing, and it was the most terrifying, surreal thing ever.
Oh God, nothing worse than waking up to your own voice.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
Yeah, this is cool of a rod sterling aspect to
that that I don't like either.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
One hundred percent true. One hundred percent true.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Right, Netflix and Amazon are jacking with the rating system,
which is gonna make things a little weird. If you're
trying to buy advertising with Netflix and Amazon, wait until
you find out who they say is watching all because
they have this one little metric. And I'm going to
tell you what that is in just a moment. I'm
Chris Merrilfi Am six forty Live everywhere.
Speaker 7 (08:52):
On the iHeartRadio you're listening to KFI AM six forty
on demand, Chris Merril sixty more stimulating talk listen anytime
on demand, and the iHeartRadio app. Man, I guess I'm
getting deported now. That's all right, Probably better off that way.
(09:12):
I love when you guys hit us up on the
talkback too.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
I do listen to all the talkbacks, even when they're
scratching and they sound like they were recorded by Edison.
Speaker 9 (09:18):
Hey, guys, just listen in from the Bay Area, Fairview, California.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
Oh, wonderful spaghetti French brit.
Speaker 9 (09:27):
Yeah, yes, I don't think his wife is really gonna
like that if she actually is listening this week.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
Yeah, Mark, but he's actually hilarious.
Speaker 9 (09:38):
And thank you for the entertainment.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
And God bless America, God bless America.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Thank you so much. Appreciate that. Yeah, here's what you
have to understand about my wife. We've been married for
twenty one years. What do you mean, Boston's the dumbest
thing I've said.
Speaker 4 (09:52):
No, you mean twenty one long years. Just say what
you're implying. Good long for her, Yeah, yeah, been brutal
for her. No, she knows what she got into. I'm
very fortunate my wife. My wife understands the game. She's like, look,
everything's going out there. Sometimes it's gonna be funny.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Sometimes sometimes sometimes it doesn't land quite right.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
She just she's like, it wasn't funny today. Okay, you
don't have rules. I get that anything off limits? Nah,
I mean, don't she nah.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
She's very protective of her family, but they also know
like I can have fun, but don't don't punch down.
Does that make sense? Like I tell you that my
mother in law is the best stories. She she accidentally
robbed a bank one time, she accidentally uh trafficked humans
(10:47):
multiple times. She may have accidentally drowned a man one time.
And I and I will tell these stories periodically and
they're great, and we all just kind of laugh with
my mother in law. But we never want her to
feel like like it's all at her expense. And that's
a tough needle to thread sometimes it is. That's why
I'm a professional. Of course you are. Yeah, she knows.
(11:11):
I talk about the kids, you know what, there are
some personal things with my kids that that are off limits,
that are that are too personal. I can do general
things like you know, my kids are morons or you know,
it's you know, being a parent is the most difficult
thing I've ever done, mostly because I have dumb kids,
you know, that kind of thing. I can say that.
But if there's something that my kids are going through
(11:33):
that's off limits, I see Yeah, yeah, does that make sense?
So a little taste of Rickles, but not the full Rickles.
I think even Rickles would have had a limitation on things. Yeah, maybe,
I think let's say that, you know, let's say that,
let's say that I'm trying to think, because no, that
(11:53):
wouldn't have been off limits. Let's say that Johnny Carson
had a kid that was in a car accident and
was in ICU. Wrickles when to come out and been like,
you know, poor ICU, you know something like that, You
know what I mean. I think we all know that
there are certain limitations. Also, you never mess with Johnny.
Never mess with Johnny. Yeah, that he's off limits, totally
(12:15):
off limits.
Speaker 4 (12:17):
Johnny ruled the ratings fair to say, Johnny was a
master of the ratings. The ratings game is fickle, it
is tough, and I can tell you this is somebody
whose entire living is based on.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
A metric that has a forty percent error rate.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
However, when it comes to streaming, you can see exactly
how many people are watching, at what time, and how
long they're watching.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
You can do this if you run a website.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
You can see how many people were watching, where they
went after they left your website, what did they go
to next? I mean, the metrics were all there because
you've got cookies and you've got tracking that goes on, right,
it's all there. So Netflix and Amazon know how many
people are watching. And now they're trying to sell ads.
Of course they've they've gotten rid of their their original
streaming systems and they've gone to an ad based system
for somebody places, unless, of course, you fall for the
(13:07):
extortion and you pay the extra for.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
No commercials like I do.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
So Netflix and Amazon have developed this new metric and
it counts anyone who watches at least one minute of
commercials in a month as a monthly active viewer. So
if they are selling and it gets worse than that,
if they're selling advertising. Let's say they go to Coca
(13:34):
Cola just making them, you know, just randomly said they
go to Coca Cola and they go, hey, Coca Cola.
We have three hundred and ten million, actually it's three
hundred and fifteen million viewers monthly active viewers. We have
three hundred and fifteen million monthly active viewers. You want
to get eyes on your product, You're going to do
(13:55):
a new product launch, the new diet Cherry Vanilla Zero
Claus special Edition Coca Cola is coming out, and you
want to get eyes on that. Well, we've got three
hundred and fifteen million people watching Netflix and Amazon, so
you need to buy from us.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
But they don't.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
They have three hundred and fifteen They don't even have
three hundred and fifteen million viewers. What they have are
people who watched one minute of advertising in the entire month.
And then not only that, but they pull the old
newspaper trick and on newspaper used to figure their circulation mark.
You'll know this is an old newspaper guy. They go, well,
we have we have ten thousand subscribers, but there's four
(14:37):
people in the household. That's forty thousand people viewing that
are reading the newspaper. Yeah, the pass along rate, that's
exactly it. So now Netflix and Amazon are using that
same thing. So they go, we have we had one
person in the household watch one minute of commercials, and
there's four people in that household, so that means that
it's four people. So that counts as four now, so
(14:59):
you could watch you're watching Amazon Prime. Say you're watching
Thursday night football on Amazon Prime. You're only interested in
one game, it's your team, and you watch one minute
of the Amazon ads. That's it as far as Amazon
is concerned. Four people are watching their streaming every single night,
(15:19):
and that's what they're selling to Coca Cola.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
That's how they're doing it.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
It is such a joke that they're doing this, especially
when they know how many people are watching based on
the ips and when was the last time, Because this
is not how streaming works. This is not the old
days of come on, kids, grab your TV dinners, Johnny's on.
We're not all sitting around the television. We're not sitting
around the tube watching the single show together. Especially when
(15:45):
it comes to streaming. The kids go to their rooms,
they watch what they want to watch. Dad goes into
his room and he watches, or his office or his
dinner whenever they have the ward clever or I don't
know what people do anymore, and he's watching the football
game and mom is out watching How to Kill Your
Husband and Get Away With It.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
Shows.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
Also on the streaming service, everyone's watching something different, maybe
not even on those services, but it doesn't matter because
that's how they are counting those metrics now. So just
know when you hear that Netflix is breaking new records
and they've got three hundred and fifteen million people watching.
Not so fast, my friend, as Lee Corso would say, however,
(16:25):
ratings still do matter. You have to have eyeballs on
your content. One network is finding out out the hard
way and it is a slow, sad decline. That is
next Chris Merril, I AM six forty live everywhere on
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(18:31):
a number of different outlets to carry the games. And
it's just all over the place. Man, It's just all
over the place. If you are a fan of Major
League Baseball and you want to watch, you know, not
just the Dodgers, but you want to watch I don't know,
maybe you're from another state and you want to watch
your home team as well. ESPN is gonna get thirty
(18:54):
national games through the twenty twenty eight season. They also
get the rights to the mL BE dot TV out
of market package and the local streaming for six clubs.
That includes the Mariners, Diamondbacks, Twins, Guardians, Padres, and Rockies.
So if you're in San Diego listening right now, ESPN
is gonna have that, and I think you're gonna be
able to watch your in You're gonna be able to
(19:15):
watch the home games through the ESPN and I'm guessing
this through the app.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
So ESPN is also gonna gain rights for any additional
teams that join in their initiative as well. MLBtv package
is accessible via both ESPN and Major League platform.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
This is going to be confusing already.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
The annual Little League Classic is going to be remain
a part of the ESPN lineup, all right?
Speaker 3 (19:37):
What else?
Speaker 2 (19:39):
NBC has an arrangement that strengthens the Sunday night sports lineup,
complementing NBA and NFL programming. That network is going to
broadcast the Wildcard Round previously held by ESPN. Peacock is
going to assume Sunday morning streaming packages formerly carried by Roku.
NBC's deal kicks off March twenty sixth in a primetime
matchup between the d Backs and the Dodgers. That is
when they raise the Banner and Chavez Ravine. I think
(20:03):
that's the second game of the year. Netflix is also
going to start carrying some baseball as well. They're going
to get the Home Run Derby and Major League Baseball
season opener. So now if you want to watch it,
it's NBC Universal, Peacock, Netflix, ESPN, and I think there's
(20:25):
another one in there too. I think somebody else has
got an MLB TV. I think there was another place
that I saw that's catching a little bit of this.
It is so hard to keep up with everything, and
I'm telling you sports is the prize right now because
sports and news, they are the only linear programming out
there that people tune in for. Otherwise, they just stream
their shows at their convenience. They don't need to tune
(20:47):
in specifically to watch their favorite show. Don't worry, it'll
be on after dinner. We don't have to stop what
we're doing, or don't worry it'll be on tomorrow. I
can go out with my friends tonight and then I
can catch up tomorrow or the next day or whatever
else is. And so it's the linear programming is the
stuff that has immediacy. I have to watch the game
because I don't want to hear how it ended. I
(21:08):
have to watch it live. It's the only appointment viewing still.
And of course news you want to get whatever's breaking,
you want to get it. You want to get it
in a timely manner. You don't want to feel like
you're falling behind. However, news you can also go to.
You can go to your you know, your streaming apps
to get news. You probably get to pop ups all
over the place.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
I know I do.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
Meanwhile, all this streaming and it's not just you know,
it's not sports. Streaming is hurting everybody turns out. Streaming
killed the video Star.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (21:37):
I remember when MTV came on and they played the
Buggles and video killed the Radio Star.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
That was there?
Speaker 2 (21:43):
Oh, video killed the Radio Star. Yeah, aren't we hilarious? Yeah,
you're hilarious.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
Isn't that great? Yeah, it's so funny. I don't think
it's funny. I don't think it's funny.
Speaker 4 (22:00):
Crappy song, absolute trash, what terrible song, horrible.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
Flip with the stick. I think they're so funny.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
Well, just like you said, just like we said at
the time US radio people in nineteen eighty two, I
think when they aired that as their first video. Oh,
it's a fad, it'll pass. Well, it's happening. I was
reading an article about the long decline and agonizing downfall
of MTV. Rolling Stone had it, and they were talking
(22:44):
about how the network was on top of things, not
only with the videos that they had in the eighties,
but then when they shifted to being basically the first
reality show network. They had Real World, right, and then
they had the VMA's. It was massive. But now you've
got YouTube, you've got TikTok, and people are no longer
(23:05):
discovering new music videos and artists on MTV. They're discovering
them through the algorithms. And so MTV is shifted toward
more reality TV, more more contest type stuff as well,
and they're getting away from their identity. They are alienating
there what is it, fifteen to twenty nine core viewers.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
So MTV is still around, but their brand just isn't
worth what it used to be. It's just not there
any longer, they say.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
It's a story of It's a case study in media disruption.
What happens when a dominant brand fails to anticipate how
audiences shift from TV to on demand and mobile. So
why is anybody gonna go to empt Mark. I know
you're like, what, how dare you? When was the last
name you watched MTV? I couldn't even tell you. Yeah, exactly,
(23:56):
I will. Now you grew, you grew out of the demo,
as did I. Like, we're not in demo anymore.
Speaker 4 (24:00):
No, I think the Gulf gen X and I watched
MTV plenty when I was avoiding homework in high school.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
Right for me, it was always kind of on in
the background. Yeah, if I was watching m TV, it
was on in the background, but that was.
Speaker 4 (24:11):
When I had music on it, and it wasn't all
a bunch of reality showed garbage.
Speaker 3 (24:15):
Yeah, oh, you sound like such an old man.
Speaker 4 (24:17):
No, I mean it's that day I spent. I spent
a weekend at a film festival with one of the
guys from the first season of The Real World Dominic,
the Irish guy, and I got just a full rundown
on everything, and I could never look at the stuff again.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
Oh yeah, right, you don't want to go behind the.
Speaker 4 (24:32):
Scenes on this Now was Dominic in San Francisco in
that season?
Speaker 3 (24:37):
I don't remember that.
Speaker 10 (24:38):
I think that was the second kid this is.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
I'm sorry I didn't yeh, take me. I was a
big fan of the.
Speaker 10 (24:46):
Real World and Headbanger's bull.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
Oh there you go. Okay, all right, now they're both gone.
So basically it's Nicky's fault. Next job, I will concede.
Speaker 4 (24:55):
I will concede to you, Chris that if you're looking
for a Buggles Greatest Hits album, not Real Long.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
Great, the Bugle's Greatest. Hey, yeah, yeah, that's it.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
All right? How about this.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
You've been carrying around those pennies for years, You've been
paying extra taxes by mistake, saving them in jars, and
now that the US mint is abandoning the one cent token,
what is the plan the old ones?
Speaker 3 (25:19):
Your weird spare change Habit just got noticed from the government.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
That is next, Chris Merril k I AM six forty
live everywhere on the iheartradiop.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
Great show last night, by the way, great stuff.
Speaker 9 (25:38):
Thank you.
Speaker 6 (25:39):
Right around the corner, we're going to talk about the
one lost knowledge, what happens to it?
Speaker 5 (25:44):
Like the pyramids?
Speaker 10 (25:44):
Who built them?
Speaker 5 (25:45):
How did it happen?
Speaker 8 (25:46):
And then consciousness on Coast to coast a little bit
of science for.
Speaker 4 (25:50):
The mind and I always wondered, like, how did we
lose that information in the first place?
Speaker 2 (25:54):
So good, so good, A right, all right, George Norrie
Coast to Coast said, coming up right at ten o'clock.
Speaker 3 (26:01):
Thank you very much, George, looking forward to it.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
Chris merrilkaf I am six forty on tomorrow's program. I'm
back again, stuck with me. Sorry, truth is on life support.
It's not a political story that is look forward to that.
It's it's all about AI and how basically basically the
great work that Ken Burns is doing. You'll never believe
the next one. Thanks AI. That and why you can't
(26:27):
afford McDonald's anymore. This is all tomorrow. Oh and that
is if you make it. Because also the next pandemic
may already be here. You're probably gonna be dead by then.
So it's all it's all ahead. That's tomorrow on the program.
Really big stuff, really big stuff, looking forward to that.
Thanks everybody to hit us on the talk back tonight too.
(26:48):
You know, I love listening to those talkbacks. I love
when you guys are telling me all kinds of goofy stuff. Yea,
I just I love the interaction. Thank you so much
for indulging my foolishness. You're the best, Mario. Good job tonight,
batt pal. Mario always been behind the scenes.
Speaker 4 (27:01):
He's editing the podcast and he's gonna have to kind
of slice and dice because we were using again, uh
license music that we're not allowed to repost in the podcast.
Speaker 3 (27:10):
You did it, Okay, good job.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
Yeah, I tech directors hate my guts, but I don't
blame you, not gonna lie. Part of the reason I
do it is because I just love to be a
pest for you.
Speaker 3 (27:21):
So anyway, thank you so much, Mario. You did a
great job. Thank you, Uh Nikki, good job all the
way around. You are you.
Speaker 4 (27:30):
Are Australian at the network you are. You are Tasmanian
devil is what yousmania?
Speaker 3 (27:40):
It doesn't matter, all right? And then Mark, you know
how much I love you, buddy.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
And then you know, Mark and I will continue our
conversation off the air for the next couple of hours.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
And just shooting back and forth. You know, did you
see that? Did you?
Speaker 2 (27:55):
In fact, we were talking about the ken Burns documentary
off the area here earlier. We'll probably continue that because
I gotta watch thing I hear the new Revolutionary War
documentary is really good.
Speaker 4 (28:02):
I love can Burns. I think I'm blurbed on one
of his uh, one of his documentaries that you are.
I think it's the one on National Parks. Look for
that one. And by the way, if you're gonna be
smoking weed while you're listening to a stick to the Indica, yeah,
I think I think we'd be really irritating on the sativa.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
Yeah, I agree with that. That's totally true. Yeah, just uh,
hick the right strain. That's what we need. Let's talk
to the boss.
Speaker 4 (28:27):
What a great marketing idea, the KFI Indica strain gummies?
Speaker 3 (28:31):
Yeah we need uh oh, this is good.
Speaker 10 (28:33):
I'll make them because I do.
Speaker 3 (28:35):
Anyways, what oh you're just now telling us this.
Speaker 4 (28:39):
I'd hang on this to see when talking about the
top the car control.
Speaker 3 (28:43):
I make my own edibles. I bake chocolate truffles at
a two hundred milligram seats.
Speaker 10 (28:47):
Oh my gosh, sake puts you in the couch.
Speaker 4 (28:49):
Looks like you're gonna have to bring some into work.
Of course, I don't believe you, Nikki.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
The only person here who's ever had one of mine
was the.
Speaker 4 (29:00):
Foosh and and look where he is exactly.
Speaker 3 (29:05):
Careful, careful in the hospital.
Speaker 10 (29:07):
Don't drive there you go.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
You know, we stopped minting the penny, and you may
already have jars full of pennies.
Speaker 3 (29:16):
Now what do you do with them? CBS New York.
Speaker 10 (29:19):
The penny is an American symbol packed with history, dating
back to seventeen ninety three, a coin that's changed in.
Speaker 3 (29:25):
Size, designed by Benjamin Franklin.
Speaker 10 (29:28):
I didn't know that and material.
Speaker 11 (29:30):
In eighteen sixty four we went to the bronze material.
Speaker 10 (29:33):
Over more than two hundred and thirty years of production.
Speaker 11 (29:36):
The record for US sense was just, sh I have
a million, a million dollars. There were probably a dozen
or so that are north of six hundred thousand.
Speaker 3 (29:50):
Of a million.
Speaker 10 (29:50):
But those are rare, No, you.
Speaker 3 (29:54):
Mean they're common. They're worth six hundred thousand.
Speaker 10 (29:56):
Come on, and he's once carried enough value to buy candy.
But those times are gone.
Speaker 3 (30:01):
Yeah, I did the math on it.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
A penny at the inception of our country, a penny
in seventeen eighty seven is equivalent to about thirty five
cents today.
Speaker 3 (30:08):
You can't even get candy for thirty five cents today.
Speaker 10 (30:10):
And more Americans now rely on digital wallets. And plastic.
Speaker 3 (30:14):
Yep.
Speaker 10 (30:15):
Trying a mission right now to see how many people
still carry pennies in their pockets.
Speaker 3 (30:19):
Nobody could does on purpose.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
So if you have a bunch of pennies laying around
and you're thinking, what am I going to do with these?
There is no detailed national plan for how to manage
the hundreds of billions of existing pennies. So I guess
leave them in your jars and your drawers and you're
wherever else is, or maybe even better yet, get them
to the bank as quickly as possible before they start
(30:43):
taking them. Stop taking them. Yeah, And I don't know
what we're gonna do with that, give a penny, take
a penny thing at the cash register anymore. I guess
we're just gonna keep giving them away and hope they
empty it so we can get rid of the rest
of them.
Speaker 3 (30:57):
That's the plan, all right.
Speaker 2 (30:59):
The penny for your thoughts not anymore. It's gonna cost
you nickel more of them tomorrow night. Chris Merril KFI
AM six forty on demand any time and everywhere the
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App KFI AM six forty on demand
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
You know, I asked earlier. I said, I always love
to know what you're doing when you're listening to the show.
I love it because you got the talk back, you know,
which is cool because you're listening on the app or whatever,
and then you hit that talk back and oh, I'm
chilling out here with one guy that said, you guys
are really great when I'm on the Indica and I
was like, this is my peeps, these are my people.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Yep.
Speaker 4 (00:26):
You you just smoke whatever you want because I am
way more entertaining when you're inebriated.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
So you just do that, all right? If you hit
that talk back, what are you doing?
Speaker 5 (00:39):
Hey, Chris, I listened to KFI on the app at
the gym on Amazon devices at home.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
That's awesome.
Speaker 5 (00:47):
Just on AM radio in the car, We'll say, since
younger people can't build equity by buying a house.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
Oh yeah, we're talking about people under forty your host, totally.
Speaker 5 (00:58):
Host should be investing in the stock market, in broad
market ETFs.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 5 (01:07):
You know the track like the nastec or SMB five hundred.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
I totally agree with you. Totally agree. My son is
my oldest son is thirty.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
And oh, by the way, I got in trouble mark
because you've heard me refer to my wife before, right,
I always said that twice? Yes, well, yeah, I say
I married. I married an old lady with three used kids.
And that's Look. We've been together for twenty one years,
been married for twenty one years, been together for twenty
one years and ten minutes. And she she she evidently
(01:39):
doesn't think that joke is funny anymore. That's been the
joke from the beginning. And she she yelled at me tonight,
she said, you called me old.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
You called me old.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
I said, I'm sure I didn't, and you were just hoping.
She doesn't listen to the show.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
She said, you used to call me pretty, and I said, oh,
you are pretty.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
She says, but you call me old. Nobody wants to
hear you call your lady, your wife old. And I'm like, well,
I mean literally that's what old lady is. But you
know that's fine.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
I know.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
I go, you're right, sweetheart, You're so beautiful. And I said,
of course, in comparison, I mean I'm much younger, so
I mean.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
Tread lightly you're not funny. You're not funny.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
So anyway, I have to I have to make clear
my thirty year old son is my step son. But
it's not because my wife is old. It's because she's pretty.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
You're getting work.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Look, yeah, listen, the math works out in her head.
That's fine. I just had to make sure I mentioned
my wife is prettier. Now I can sleep in my
bed tonight, which will be nice, and you can close
your eyes.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
So my oldest is thirty, and he's like so many
other he's millennial, but you know, he's at the tail
end of millennials born in ninety five and I think
gen Z came around in ninety six or seven, right,
And so he doesn't have a house.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
He's he's renting.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
But to his credit, like this caller said, he's been
investing since he first got his you know, his first
full time job. He's he's really he loves the stock market.
He thinks it's he thinks it's fascinating, and he kind
of loves the excitement of it. So I'm excited to
see that because I agree with the caller that you
may not be able to get into that home, but
you can invest elsewhere.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
So, but don't one percent agree.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
Don't you have to have money to burn to risk
in the stock market because it's gambling, Let's just be clear.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Yeah, well it is. However, I would say this that
you're not likely to lose it. If I sit down
at a poker table and I lose the hand of poker,
I'm gonna lose all that money. Right, it's gone with
the stock market over the course of time if you
invest now, I mean, unless you're investing in something really risky.
But for instance, I've got I've got a few individual stocks,
(03:50):
I've got some ets.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
My biggest investment is Apple.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
It's grown really well since I started buying that twelve
years ago or something. The money that I put into
Apple to start with a couple grand rights has blown up.
And I'm not going to lose that two thousand dollars
of the three thousand. Well, however much I put into it, right,
that's not going to go away. I mean, the stock
market would have to crash and then I would have
to pull my money out for.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Me to lose money.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
If you're being smart about it, I'm not saying there's
not risk, and I'm not saying you couldn't lose your money.
You could, but the it's not gambling like putting your
money in a slot machine.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
So all these people who have invested in AI, they're
not concerned about that bubble bursting.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Well, of course they are. But that's a high risk, right,
I mean, and this is what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
I mean, if you want to if you want to
invest in AI, then you take the money that you
can live without. And this is kind of the point
that I think you were making to start with.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Don't you have to have some assets to be able
to invest to take that risk. Yes, but if you don't,
then you invest in slow growth mutual funds, gotcha, right,
You just you find safer risks. I mean if I
took you to a poker table and I said, look,
this poker table hits ninety percent of the time, but
it does don't hit big. Like you put a dollar
in there, you might win a dollar ten and you go, okay,
(05:05):
well ten cents is in much. I go, oh, I
could take it over to this poker table. It doesn't
hit very often. You put a dollar and you could
get ten thousand dollars and you go, oh, okay, well
that's great. Okay, but now if I told you it
was a ten thousand dollars buy in to win a
million dollars, you go, I don't have ten thousand dollars,
but I can keep putting out a dollar and that
turns into a dollar ten, that turns into a dollar fifty,
that turns into three dollars, that turns into eight dollars,
that turns into ten dollars.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
Anything to avoid you or me winding up in one
of those barrel with suspenders outfits.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
No joke. I know a guy in radio. That's his
whole shtick. What do you mean he goes by barrel boy.
Oh yeah, he works on a country mum. He's a
great guy. It works at a country music station. He
goes around wearing nothing but a barrel, comedy gold all.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
Of the events. Yeah, that's what he does. He's like
the stunt guy. Yeah, that's so funny. He said.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
I bet people have parasocial relations with Oh yes.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Parasocial yes, yeah. One way relationships is celebrity as a machine.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Very very good. All right, from the talkbacks.
Speaker 6 (06:04):
Okay, so I'm in my office full of computers and
recording equipment and a me too. I am putting a
new micro story on my website, which is Goddess of trance.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
I'm sorry dot com.
Speaker 6 (06:24):
Trance as in hypnosis.
Speaker 4 (06:26):
Oh yeah, okay, all right, very good, shameless plug.
Speaker 6 (06:32):
It's kind of a weird little micro story. All right,
but I'm about ready to quit and go take.
Speaker 7 (06:38):
A bubble bath.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
Oh take us with you.
Speaker 4 (06:42):
That wasn't creepy. Wait, she was just getting to the
good parts. Look, we only got thirty seconds on the talkbacks.
That's all you get.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
Thanks. You want to hear drawing the bath right?
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Oh it's just a little warm right now, I'm adding
my bubbles weirdo.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
All right?
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Also from the talkbacks did we get?
Speaker 3 (07:04):
But talkbacks? What is this?
Speaker 4 (07:08):
What is happening right now? What is are we getting?
The talkbacks on a wax cylinder?
Speaker 3 (07:16):
That was amazing? That did sound like an Edison gramophone? There,
didn't it? Watson, come here, I need you.
Speaker 8 (07:25):
That is amazing, Chris, that's exactly what it's about. And
the interest rates are really high. Oh, the prices drop.
That's when you buy. Yes, that's when we were able to.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
Buy a house.
Speaker 8 (07:36):
The price was low, but the interest was high.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Is there anything worse than hearing me in the background. God,
you know the best part about me being me, I
don't have to listen to me.
Speaker 8 (07:47):
Barely bought it, held on to it. The race dropped. Yeah,
the price went way up, and now we're good smart.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
Oh God, he hearing myself listen to that booming voice.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
Hate hearing myself. Hate hearing that so much. God got
into radio.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
I was doing a morning show and I had to
wake up early, so I had the alarm clock set
to my station, and I never forget. Alarm clock went
off one morning and it was one of my commercials
was playing, and it was the most terrifying, surreal thing ever.
Oh God, nothing worse than waking up to your own voice.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
Yeah, this is cool of a rod sterling aspect to
that that I don't like either.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
One hundred percent true. One hundred percent true.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Right, Netflix and Amazon are jacking with the rating system,
which is gonna make things a little weird. If you're
trying to buy advertising with Netflix and Amazon, wait until
you find out who they say is watching all because
they have this one little metric. And I'm going to
tell you what that is in just a moment. I'm
Chris Merrilfi Am six forty Live everywhere.
Speaker 7 (08:52):
On the iHeartRadio you're listening to KFI AM six forty
on demand, Chris Merril sixty more stimulating talk listen anytime
on demand, and the iHeartRadio app. Man, I guess I'm
getting deported now. That's all right, Probably better off that way.
(09:12):
I love when you guys hit us up on the
talkback too.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
I do listen to all the talkbacks, even when they're
scratching and they sound like they were recorded by Edison.
Speaker 9 (09:18):
Hey, guys, just listen in from the Bay Area, Fairview, California.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
Oh, wonderful spaghetti French brit.
Speaker 9 (09:27):
Yeah, yes, I don't think his wife is really gonna
like that if she actually is listening this week.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
Yeah, Mark, but he's actually hilarious.
Speaker 9 (09:38):
And thank you for the entertainment.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
And God bless America, God bless America.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Thank you so much. Appreciate that. Yeah, here's what you
have to understand about my wife. We've been married for
twenty one years. What do you mean, Boston's the dumbest
thing I've said.
Speaker 4 (09:52):
No, you mean twenty one long years. Just say what
you're implying. Good long for her, Yeah, yeah, been brutal
for her. No, she knows what she got into. I'm
very fortunate my wife. My wife understands the game. She's like, look,
everything's going out there. Sometimes it's gonna be funny.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Sometimes sometimes sometimes it doesn't land quite right.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
She just she's like, it wasn't funny today. Okay, you
don't have rules. I get that anything off limits? Nah,
I mean, don't she nah.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
She's very protective of her family, but they also know
like I can have fun, but don't don't punch down.
Does that make sense? Like I tell you that my
mother in law is the best stories. She she accidentally
robbed a bank one time, she accidentally uh trafficked humans
(10:47):
multiple times. She may have accidentally drowned a man one time.
And I and I will tell these stories periodically and
they're great, and we all just kind of laugh with
my mother in law. But we never want her to
feel like like it's all at her expense. And that's
a tough needle to thread sometimes it is. That's why
I'm a professional. Of course you are. Yeah, she knows.
(11:11):
I talk about the kids, you know what, there are
some personal things with my kids that that are off limits,
that are that are too personal. I can do general
things like you know, my kids are morons or you know,
it's you know, being a parent is the most difficult
thing I've ever done, mostly because I have dumb kids,
you know, that kind of thing. I can say that.
But if there's something that my kids are going through
(11:33):
that's off limits, I see Yeah, yeah, does that make sense?
So a little taste of Rickles, but not the full Rickles.
I think even Rickles would have had a limitation on things. Yeah, maybe,
I think let's say that, you know, let's say that,
let's say that I'm trying to think, because no, that
(11:53):
wouldn't have been off limits. Let's say that Johnny Carson
had a kid that was in a car accident and
was in ICU. Wrickles when to come out and been like,
you know, poor ICU, you know something like that, You
know what I mean. I think we all know that
there are certain limitations. Also, you never mess with Johnny.
Never mess with Johnny. Yeah, that he's off limits, totally
(12:15):
off limits.
Speaker 4 (12:17):
Johnny ruled the ratings fair to say, Johnny was a
master of the ratings. The ratings game is fickle, it
is tough, and I can tell you this is somebody
whose entire living is based on.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
A metric that has a forty percent error rate.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
However, when it comes to streaming, you can see exactly
how many people are watching, at what time, and how
long they're watching.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
You can do this if you run a website.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
You can see how many people were watching, where they
went after they left your website, what did they go
to next? I mean, the metrics were all there because
you've got cookies and you've got tracking that goes on, right,
it's all there. So Netflix and Amazon know how many
people are watching. And now they're trying to sell ads.
Of course they've they've gotten rid of their their original
streaming systems and they've gone to an ad based system
for somebody places, unless, of course, you fall for the
(13:07):
extortion and you pay the extra for.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
No commercials like I do.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
So Netflix and Amazon have developed this new metric and
it counts anyone who watches at least one minute of
commercials in a month as a monthly active viewer. So
if they are selling and it gets worse than that,
if they're selling advertising. Let's say they go to Coca
(13:34):
Cola just making them, you know, just randomly said they
go to Coca Cola and they go, hey, Coca Cola.
We have three hundred and ten million, actually it's three
hundred and fifteen million viewers monthly active viewers. We have
three hundred and fifteen million monthly active viewers. You want
to get eyes on your product, You're going to do
(13:55):
a new product launch, the new diet Cherry Vanilla Zero
Claus special Edition Coca Cola is coming out, and you
want to get eyes on that. Well, we've got three
hundred and fifteen million people watching Netflix and Amazon, so
you need to buy from us.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
But they don't.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
They have three hundred and fifteen They don't even have
three hundred and fifteen million viewers. What they have are
people who watched one minute of advertising in the entire month.
And then not only that, but they pull the old
newspaper trick and on newspaper used to figure their circulation mark.
You'll know this is an old newspaper guy. They go, well,
we have we have ten thousand subscribers, but there's four
(14:37):
people in the household. That's forty thousand people viewing that
are reading the newspaper. Yeah, the pass along rate, that's
exactly it. So now Netflix and Amazon are using that
same thing. So they go, we have we had one
person in the household watch one minute of commercials, and
there's four people in that household, so that means that
it's four people. So that counts as four now, so
(14:59):
you could watch you're watching Amazon Prime. Say you're watching
Thursday night football on Amazon Prime. You're only interested in
one game, it's your team, and you watch one minute
of the Amazon ads. That's it as far as Amazon
is concerned. Four people are watching their streaming every single night,
(15:19):
and that's what they're selling to Coca Cola.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
That's how they're doing it.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
It is such a joke that they're doing this, especially
when they know how many people are watching based on
the ips and when was the last time, Because this
is not how streaming works. This is not the old
days of come on, kids, grab your TV dinners, Johnny's on.
We're not all sitting around the television. We're not sitting
around the tube watching the single show together. Especially when
(15:45):
it comes to streaming. The kids go to their rooms,
they watch what they want to watch. Dad goes into
his room and he watches, or his office or his
dinner whenever they have the ward clever or I don't
know what people do anymore, and he's watching the football
game and mom is out watching How to Kill Your
Husband and Get Away With It.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
Shows.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
Also on the streaming service, everyone's watching something different, maybe
not even on those services, but it doesn't matter because
that's how they are counting those metrics now. So just
know when you hear that Netflix is breaking new records
and they've got three hundred and fifteen million people watching.
Not so fast, my friend, as Lee Corso would say, however,
(16:25):
ratings still do matter. You have to have eyeballs on
your content. One network is finding out out the hard
way and it is a slow, sad decline. That is
next Chris Merril, I AM six forty live everywhere on
the iHeartRadio WEP.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Oh, I got to get to this real fast. Here,
We've got to Pastathanus Back. Is the fifteenth year we've
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today that Major League Baseball just struck a deal with
(18:31):
a number of different outlets to carry the games. And
it's just all over the place. Man, It's just all
over the place. If you are a fan of Major
League Baseball and you want to watch, you know, not
just the Dodgers, but you want to watch I don't know,
maybe you're from another state and you want to watch
your home team as well. ESPN is gonna get thirty
(18:54):
national games through the twenty twenty eight season. They also
get the rights to the mL BE dot TV out
of market package and the local streaming for six clubs.
That includes the Mariners, Diamondbacks, Twins, Guardians, Padres, and Rockies.
So if you're in San Diego listening right now, ESPN
is gonna have that, and I think you're gonna be
able to watch your in You're gonna be able to
(19:15):
watch the home games through the ESPN and I'm guessing
this through the app.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
So ESPN is also gonna gain rights for any additional
teams that join in their initiative as well. MLBtv package
is accessible via both ESPN and Major League platform.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
This is going to be confusing already.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
The annual Little League Classic is going to be remain
a part of the ESPN lineup, all right?
Speaker 3 (19:37):
What else?
Speaker 2 (19:39):
NBC has an arrangement that strengthens the Sunday night sports lineup,
complementing NBA and NFL programming. That network is going to
broadcast the Wildcard Round previously held by ESPN. Peacock is
going to assume Sunday morning streaming packages formerly carried by Roku.
NBC's deal kicks off March twenty sixth in a primetime
matchup between the d Backs and the Dodgers. That is
when they raise the Banner and Chavez Ravine. I think
(20:03):
that's the second game of the year. Netflix is also
going to start carrying some baseball as well. They're going
to get the Home Run Derby and Major League Baseball
season opener. So now if you want to watch it,
it's NBC Universal, Peacock, Netflix, ESPN, and I think there's
(20:25):
another one in there too. I think somebody else has
got an MLB TV. I think there was another place
that I saw that's catching a little bit of this.
It is so hard to keep up with everything, and
I'm telling you sports is the prize right now because
sports and news, they are the only linear programming out
there that people tune in for. Otherwise, they just stream
their shows at their convenience. They don't need to tune
(20:47):
in specifically to watch their favorite show. Don't worry, it'll
be on after dinner. We don't have to stop what
we're doing, or don't worry it'll be on tomorrow. I
can go out with my friends tonight and then I
can catch up tomorrow or the next day or whatever
else is. And so it's the linear programming is the
stuff that has immediacy. I have to watch the game
because I don't want to hear how it ended. I
(21:08):
have to watch it live. It's the only appointment viewing still.
And of course news you want to get whatever's breaking,
you want to get it. You want to get it
in a timely manner. You don't want to feel like
you're falling behind. However, news you can also go to.
You can go to your you know, your streaming apps
to get news. You probably get to pop ups all
over the place.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
I know I do.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
Meanwhile, all this streaming and it's not just you know,
it's not sports. Streaming is hurting everybody turns out. Streaming
killed the video Star.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (21:37):
I remember when MTV came on and they played the
Buggles and video killed the Radio Star.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
That was there?
Speaker 2 (21:43):
Oh, video killed the Radio Star. Yeah, aren't we hilarious? Yeah,
you're hilarious.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
Isn't that great? Yeah, it's so funny. I don't think
it's funny. I don't think it's funny.
Speaker 4 (22:00):
Crappy song, absolute trash, what terrible song, horrible.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
Flip with the stick. I think they're so funny.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
Well, just like you said, just like we said at
the time US radio people in nineteen eighty two, I
think when they aired that as their first video. Oh,
it's a fad, it'll pass. Well, it's happening. I was
reading an article about the long decline and agonizing downfall
of MTV. Rolling Stone had it, and they were talking
(22:44):
about how the network was on top of things, not
only with the videos that they had in the eighties,
but then when they shifted to being basically the first
reality show network. They had Real World, right, and then
they had the VMA's. It was massive. But now you've
got YouTube, you've got TikTok, and people are no longer
(23:05):
discovering new music videos and artists on MTV. They're discovering
them through the algorithms. And so MTV is shifted toward
more reality TV, more more contest type stuff as well,
and they're getting away from their identity. They are alienating
there what is it, fifteen to twenty nine core viewers.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
So MTV is still around, but their brand just isn't
worth what it used to be. It's just not there
any longer, they say.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
It's a story of It's a case study in media disruption.
What happens when a dominant brand fails to anticipate how
audiences shift from TV to on demand and mobile. So
why is anybody gonna go to empt Mark. I know
you're like, what, how dare you? When was the last
name you watched MTV? I couldn't even tell you. Yeah, exactly,
(23:56):
I will. Now you grew, you grew out of the demo,
as did I. Like, we're not in demo anymore.
Speaker 4 (24:00):
No, I think the Gulf gen X and I watched
MTV plenty when I was avoiding homework in high school.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
Right for me, it was always kind of on in
the background. Yeah, if I was watching m TV, it
was on in the background, but that was.
Speaker 4 (24:11):
When I had music on it, and it wasn't all
a bunch of reality showed garbage.
Speaker 3 (24:15):
Yeah, oh, you sound like such an old man.
Speaker 4 (24:17):
No, I mean it's that day I spent. I spent
a weekend at a film festival with one of the
guys from the first season of The Real World Dominic,
the Irish guy, and I got just a full rundown
on everything, and I could never look at the stuff again.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
Oh yeah, right, you don't want to go behind the.
Speaker 4 (24:32):
Scenes on this Now was Dominic in San Francisco in
that season?
Speaker 3 (24:37):
I don't remember that.
Speaker 10 (24:38):
I think that was the second kid this is.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
I'm sorry I didn't yeh, take me. I was a
big fan of the.
Speaker 10 (24:46):
Real World and Headbanger's bull.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
Oh there you go. Okay, all right, now they're both gone.
So basically it's Nicky's fault. Next job, I will concede.
Speaker 4 (24:55):
I will concede to you, Chris that if you're looking
for a Buggles Greatest Hits album, not Real Long.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
Great, the Bugle's Greatest. Hey, yeah, yeah, that's it.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
All right? How about this.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
You've been carrying around those pennies for years, You've been
paying extra taxes by mistake, saving them in jars, and
now that the US mint is abandoning the one cent token,
what is the plan the old ones?
Speaker 3 (25:19):
Your weird spare change Habit just got noticed from the government.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
That is next, Chris Merril k I AM six forty
live everywhere on the iheartradiop.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
Great show last night, by the way, great stuff.
Speaker 9 (25:38):
Thank you.
Speaker 6 (25:39):
Right around the corner, we're going to talk about the
one lost knowledge, what happens to it?
Speaker 5 (25:44):
Like the pyramids?
Speaker 10 (25:44):
Who built them?
Speaker 5 (25:45):
How did it happen?
Speaker 8 (25:46):
And then consciousness on Coast to coast a little bit
of science for.
Speaker 4 (25:50):
The mind and I always wondered, like, how did we
lose that information in the first place?
Speaker 2 (25:54):
So good, so good, A right, all right, George Norrie
Coast to Coast said, coming up right at ten o'clock.
Speaker 3 (26:01):
Thank you very much, George, looking forward to it.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
Chris merrilkaf I am six forty on tomorrow's program. I'm
back again, stuck with me. Sorry, truth is on life support.
It's not a political story that is look forward to that.
It's it's all about AI and how basically basically the
great work that Ken Burns is doing. You'll never believe
the next one. Thanks AI. That and why you can't
(26:27):
afford McDonald's anymore. This is all tomorrow. Oh and that
is if you make it. Because also the next pandemic
may already be here. You're probably gonna be dead by then.
So it's all it's all ahead. That's tomorrow on the program.
Really big stuff, really big stuff, looking forward to that.
Thanks everybody to hit us on the talk back tonight too.
(26:48):
You know, I love listening to those talkbacks. I love
when you guys are telling me all kinds of goofy stuff. Yea,
I just I love the interaction. Thank you so much
for indulging my foolishness. You're the best, Mario. Good job tonight,
batt pal. Mario always been behind the scenes.
Speaker 4 (27:01):
He's editing the podcast and he's gonna have to kind
of slice and dice because we were using again, uh
license music that we're not allowed to repost in the podcast.
Speaker 3 (27:10):
You did it, Okay, good job.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
Yeah, I tech directors hate my guts, but I don't
blame you, not gonna lie. Part of the reason I
do it is because I just love to be a
pest for you.
Speaker 3 (27:21):
So anyway, thank you so much, Mario. You did a
great job. Thank you, Uh Nikki, good job all the
way around. You are you.
Speaker 4 (27:30):
Are Australian at the network you are. You are Tasmanian
devil is what yousmania?
Speaker 3 (27:40):
It doesn't matter, all right? And then Mark, you know
how much I love you, buddy.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
And then you know, Mark and I will continue our
conversation off the air for the next couple of hours.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
And just shooting back and forth. You know, did you
see that? Did you?
Speaker 2 (27:55):
In fact, we were talking about the ken Burns documentary
off the area here earlier. We'll probably continue that because
I gotta watch thing I hear the new Revolutionary War
documentary is really good.
Speaker 4 (28:02):
I love can Burns. I think I'm blurbed on one
of his uh, one of his documentaries that you are.
I think it's the one on National Parks. Look for
that one. And by the way, if you're gonna be
smoking weed while you're listening to a stick to the Indica, yeah,
I think I think we'd be really irritating on the sativa.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
Yeah, I agree with that. That's totally true. Yeah, just uh,
hick the right strain. That's what we need. Let's talk
to the boss.
Speaker 4 (28:27):
What a great marketing idea, the KFI Indica strain gummies?
Speaker 3 (28:31):
Yeah we need uh oh, this is good.
Speaker 10 (28:33):
I'll make them because I do.
Speaker 3 (28:35):
Anyways, what oh you're just now telling us this.
Speaker 4 (28:39):
I'd hang on this to see when talking about the
top the car control.
Speaker 3 (28:43):
I make my own edibles. I bake chocolate truffles at
a two hundred milligram seats.
Speaker 10 (28:47):
Oh my gosh, sake puts you in the couch.
Speaker 4 (28:49):
Looks like you're gonna have to bring some into work.
Of course, I don't believe you, Nikki.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
The only person here who's ever had one of mine
was the.
Speaker 4 (29:00):
Foosh and and look where he is exactly.
Speaker 3 (29:05):
Careful, careful in the hospital.
Speaker 10 (29:07):
Don't drive there you go.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
You know, we stopped minting the penny, and you may
already have jars full of pennies.
Speaker 3 (29:16):
Now what do you do with them? CBS New York.
Speaker 10 (29:19):
The penny is an American symbol packed with history, dating
back to seventeen ninety three, a coin that's changed in.
Speaker 3 (29:25):
Size, designed by Benjamin Franklin.
Speaker 10 (29:28):
I didn't know that and material.
Speaker 11 (29:30):
In eighteen sixty four we went to the bronze material.
Speaker 10 (29:33):
Over more than two hundred and thirty years of production.
Speaker 11 (29:36):
The record for US sense was just, sh I have
a million, a million dollars. There were probably a dozen
or so that are north of six hundred thousand.
Speaker 3 (29:50):
Of a million.
Speaker 10 (29:50):
But those are rare, No, you.
Speaker 3 (29:54):
Mean they're common. They're worth six hundred thousand.
Speaker 10 (29:56):
Come on, and he's once carried enough value to buy candy.
But those times are gone.
Speaker 3 (30:01):
Yeah, I did the math on it.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
A penny at the inception of our country, a penny
in seventeen eighty seven is equivalent to about thirty five
cents today.
Speaker 3 (30:08):
You can't even get candy for thirty five cents today.
Speaker 10 (30:10):
And more Americans now rely on digital wallets. And plastic.
Speaker 3 (30:14):
Yep.
Speaker 10 (30:15):
Trying a mission right now to see how many people
still carry pennies in their pockets.
Speaker 3 (30:19):
Nobody could does on purpose.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
So if you have a bunch of pennies laying around
and you're thinking, what am I going to do with these?
There is no detailed national plan for how to manage
the hundreds of billions of existing pennies. So I guess
leave them in your jars and your drawers and you're
wherever else is, or maybe even better yet, get them
to the bank as quickly as possible before they start
(30:43):
taking them. Stop taking them. Yeah, And I don't know
what we're gonna do with that, give a penny, take
a penny thing at the cash register anymore. I guess
we're just gonna keep giving them away and hope they
empty it so we can get rid of the rest
of them.
Speaker 3 (30:57):
That's the plan, all right.
Speaker 2 (30:59):
The penny for your thoughts not anymore. It's gonna cost
you nickel more of them tomorrow night. Chris Merril KFI
AM six forty on demand any time and everywhere the
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