December 10, 2025 • 35 mins
To more on Hollywood consolidation and the Netflix purchase of Warner Bros. Discovery, “combining their synergy for the ultimate customer experience.” Jimmy Kimmel’s contract with ABC has been renewed by ABC for another year. Gene Simmons got horny and flirty on air while talking to a TV news anchor. Imagine taking a DNA test to find out about your ethnic background — and instead, you inherit a lawsuit. Surprise heirs are showing up because they took a DNA test and are demanding inheritance from deceased estates. Planet Earth is basically surrounded by flying garbage. For that reason, we humans may never travel into outer space.
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Mark as Played
Transcript
Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
But Chris Merril KFI AM six forty more stimulating talk
and on demand anytime the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
But if you're on that app, you hit that talkback button.
Hasn't let us know what you think.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
If you've got something to say about the the program,
you've got something to say about the content.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Love to hear your your thoughts on it, good, bad
and different.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Mark, somebody called for you, By the way, I always
love it when your fans call.
Speaker 4 (00:32):
Are they fans? Is that the word you want to use? Well,
you decide. Here's what she's said.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
A right, you, sir, are an idiot yet off the radio?
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Okay, oh maybe that was a dude. I don't know.
Speaker 4 (00:42):
No, that sounds like a fan. Yeah, yes, f.
Speaker 5 (00:46):
You sir are an idiot yet off the radio.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
I might save that one. Is there a reason or
is it just general idiocy?
Speaker 4 (00:55):
No?
Speaker 3 (00:55):
That was all they said.
Speaker 4 (00:56):
Oh well okay, yeah, I'll take it personally.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
Thank you for that. I had.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Uh I had somebody called years ago. I was in
Kansas I was in Kansas City, and uh do I
still have this? Sometimes they're so good that you just
have to save them.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Here, here's a couple of them. I had to say,
these are so good. This one was apologizing for calling
me a moron.
Speaker 6 (01:20):
Oh, I don't like the metal show.
Speaker 7 (01:24):
Metal is the kind of of an eth York really
Sammy savvy.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
Savvy, Wow, instant regret kind of any idiot. Sorry, sorry,
sorry that just slipped out.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
I think that one was about I was in Phoenix.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
This is a kids because I told you I've been
fired from some of the best places in the country.
Here's uh, here's h this one to say. I had
to save this one. This is one of my favorite
of all time.
Speaker 8 (01:51):
You're the most stupidest bonehead I've ever heard on the radio.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
That's legit, right to the point, most stupidest, the most
opidest bonehead heard. You're the dad burned a stupid stupidest Okay, Oh,
I love that one.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
I loved it. That's a keeper.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
So last week, Mark, we were talking about Netflix and
they're they're buy out of Warner.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
And oh my gosh, the sky was falling.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
We were hearing you know, oh this, you know, these
people are worried and the studios are worried that you know,
other studios are worried about it, and you've got cinemas
are worried about it. They're opposing it, and the unions
are mad about it. And then I was just seeing
hold on, there's one here. Uh yeah, Washington Post MAGA
influencers urging Trump to kill the Netflix deal.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Uh so, Maga was mad about it. It seemed like.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Everybody was upset about Netflix and Warner Brothers Discovery. My
biggest turnoff to it, and wait before you jump me,
my biggest turn off to it is I want to
see the linear products stay with Warner Brothers. I want
to see the Warner Discovery stay together. So the TNT,
the CNN and the Discovery Channel, the HGTV, all that stuff.
(03:02):
I want to see all that stay with the Warner stuff. So,
but you know, I'm not gonna get my way whatever
it is. And I know what you're gonna say, that's
your biggest problem. Your biggest problem should be. Consolidation is
ruining creativity. And it's it's turn to what I sound like,
Is it all right? Have you been colluding with the
collar that you played?
Speaker 4 (03:21):
Yeahs are an idiot off the radio?
Speaker 2 (03:26):
No, So I think that's probably the argument. And it
makes perfect sense to me that I guess what where
I where? I don't acknowledge that argument is it doesn't matter.
It's going to happen. The consolidation is going to happen.
It's already begun with Disney, Hulu, ESPN done deal. Apple
(03:47):
has now gotten together with a billing partnership with Peacock.
And if all of a sudden, you've got Netflix and
Warner Brothers, the largest and third largest streamers. They get
together and you know they're gonna start packaging things together.
So now you're gonna have Amazon, Apple paramount. You know,
Disney and Hulu were already together. You're gonna have all
these people scrambling to try to merge and in order
(04:10):
to combine their synergies for the most effective customer experience.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
I have synergy, and consumers always get hosed with the
costs of this. They may promise that they're gonna have
a discount in the immediate in the immediate future, but
it always works out that with less competition, they charge
you more.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
That's just the cool effectively.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
Cannot debate this, but I hate to admit this, but
you are on track about one thing, which is that
Ted Sarandos. The guy who runs Netflix has no appreciation
for film or theaters. They they don't play any movies
on Netflix that are like pre nineteen seventy five. The
guy was bragging about how his no, no, no, the guy
was this is this is aious. The guy was bragging
(04:48):
about how his son watched Lawrence of Arabia on his
phone and it was no big deal. And if somebody
said that in front of me, I'm not sure I
could be responsible for what I did.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
And whatever I did would take three and half hours
and you wouldn't remember much of that, but you'd say
it was the greatest experience of your life.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
I mean, how do you communicate with the guy who
thinks that you can watch Lawrence of Arabia on a
phone and it doesn't mean anything.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
There's no problem with that. I mean, yeah, I get you.
I get you.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
But now Paramount's talking about this hostile takeover bid and
for those I'm familiar, a quick quick prime around this
from maybec seven.
Speaker 9 (05:24):
Hollywood may be known for its epic battles, but even
though it's latest fight has no special effects or pricey stars,
it is shaping up to be the most expensive and
possibly one of the most important battles in Hollywood history.
Speaker 6 (05:38):
A hundred and eight billion dollars is one hundred and
eight billion dollars.
Speaker 9 (05:42):
Deadline dot Com executive editor Dominic Patton has been following
the battle for Warner Brothers, up for sale, thought to
have fallen into the hands of Netflix, which cut an
eighty two point seven billion dollar deal for most of
the entertainment giant last week, but today news that Paramount
is trying to outflow Netflix, the entertainment company making a
(06:03):
rogue and some would say outlandishly larger offer for Warner Brothers.
Speaker 10 (06:08):
They want to mould these two studios legendary studios to
have a true superpower in Hollywood, something that can be
at the level of a Netflix, or, perhaps more importantly
for the twenty first century, a level of YouTube.
Speaker 9 (06:19):
But while the Netflix deal can present some possible antitrust
concerns due to the sheer size of its streaming operations,
Patton says a Paramount deal may more easily get federal
approval because one of the investors involved is Jared Kushner,
whose wife is President Trump's daughter his son in law.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
Yeah, and he's also like the envoy to Ukraine now right, also.
Speaker 6 (06:41):
Has a little bit of cash on the table in
this Paramount deal. So I think the Trump, who's a
family man in the best and worst ways, I think
he might finally be putting his finger on the scale here,
even if it's.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
In the background a little bit.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Okay, So Paramount, if they do it, they'll buy the
whole thing. Warner does a Warner Discovery, they all stay together, Okay,
so that you'd get the w dB, the WBD package,
the whole thing stays together.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
I'd like to see them all stay together. But now
you have people.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
That are upset about that, and they're like, oh, you
can't do this, you can't have them together.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
This is this is this is not cool and and
uh and and and and and.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
It's unscrupulous because now you've got the president's son in
law stands to make a profit on this.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Then that this comes out too Washington.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Uh, I'm sorry, Wall Street Journal reporting During a visit
to Washington in recent days, David Ellison offered Ellison's ahead
of Paramount Skydance.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
Now it's Larry Ellison's son.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
David Ellison offered assurances to Trump administration officials that if
he bought Warner, he'd make sweeping changes to CNN, a
common target of President Trump's ire, People familiar with the
matter said Trump has told people close to him that
he wants new ownership of CNN as well as changes
to CNN programming.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
So now you're gonna have people that are going you
can't sell the paramount.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
This is nothing more than an inside able to give
the president what he wants. And this is a freedom
of speech, and he's silencing the media that disagrees with him.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
And how could you do such a thing.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
And I got to tell you, nobody's gonna be happy
on this because anyway the wind blows on this, it's
going to hurt our traditional cinema going experience. Now I
think Paramoun would hurt it a whole lot less than Netflix,
but I think it's I think in any case, it's
going to have an impact on our cinema going experience.
(08:30):
Mark I think those those days are the golden era
of the silver screen or will behind.
Speaker 4 (08:35):
Yeah, bring on the asteroid. It's kind of a poop
sandwich no matter which side wins this because look at
the Ellison family and the massive number of media things
that they control, right You've mentioned that Larry Ellison told
Trump he was going to influence the programming. Look at
that through all the different things. I mean, I don't
care what your ideology or your politics are. You don't
(08:57):
want one person controlling all all of that. No, you
want to.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
Little you know, you know, a little freedom, little diversity, And.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
I think that that makes it better for everyone, including
the performers, right, yes, including the businesses.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
It makes it.
Speaker 4 (09:11):
It makes it better when you've got a little competition,
whatever side you think you're on. Just imagine if somebody
on the other side had that much control and you're
not gonna want.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
It, absolutely, one hundred percent agree.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
So then what happens when all of a sudden you've
got President Newsome and Netflix wants to merge with.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
Amazon, right, exactly right, Then you're not gonna like that.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
So my concern is I'm not I'm not crazy about
thumbs on the scale one way or another, but honestly,
I'm just kind of watching the drama, and my biggest
concern is how this is going to impact future mergers,
because honestly, I think we'd all be happier if it just.
Speaker 4 (09:49):
Stayed the way it was, right, But you mentioned Kushner,
and also when you bring him into the picture, he's
got his Saudi investors.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
Who have well that's where the investments coming from.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
Yeah, they have an outsized influence on decisions. You've got
to factor all that in. It's not just like, hey,
they're gonna save movies. No, no, no, no, it's gonna
come with the cost. But and this is where to me,
I just lament. I wish I wish Warner just didn't
want to sell right. I just wish it would stay
the way it is right now. But just not going
to just is not gonna happen, all right, So you
(10:21):
might be wondering if Hollywood has any backbone left. There
are a few positive signs though.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
The network heads are not kissing the ground that every
one of their favorite politicians are walking on. Some are
doing it just in time. Who's got the moxie to
flash that personality? It's next, Chris Meryl.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Boy, it feels like we've got more and more politics
entering into the realm of entertainment.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
Now. Some of that's because you have politicians injecting themselves.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Sometimes that's because you have entertainers injecting themselves into politics,
like Jimmy Kimmel did earlier this year, but it doesn't
seem to have hurt his career from Fox LA late.
Speaker 11 (11:03):
Night host Jimmy Kimmel is back for another year. The
comedian who often gets political, signed a one year extension
with ABC to continue hosting Jimmy Kimmel Live through May
of twenty twenty seven. Comes after that turbulent time for Kimmel,
who faced suspension in September following controversial remarks in the
wake of the murder of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
The fifty seven year old.
Speaker 11 (11:26):
First started hosting the show in two thousand and three,
making him the longest tenured currents late night host in
the US.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
Wow, I didn't realize he had been on since two
thousand and three. Yeah, twenty three years, man, oh man,
I didn't realize it was that long. But then again,
I'm not very good with time. Like, for instance, earlier tonight,
I was talking with Foush and I thought, I think
Fousch was here when I first started doing stuff for
CAMFI and he said, no, I've only been here like
four years. I swear Foush was with me like the
first time I was on the air.
Speaker 4 (11:55):
That's so funny. Oh, radio time is different than normal
Earth time. It's like being on the event horizon of
a black hole. It seems longer.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
I went back because I shad I save my show
notes from every show I do, and I have these
going back to I think twenty eleven something like that. Really, yeah,
that was be a warehouse. It is, you know, I
pay for extra drive space.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
So I pulled up the first show notes that I
have for KFI and it was February twenty fourth, twenty thirteen,
and I pulled up on there to see who I
had shared my notes with. Uh, and it was my
producer in San Diego who was with at the time.
And then Adam O'Neill must have been must have been
(12:36):
the tech director on our end on KFI isand wow,
And I don't I don't know if I ever worked
with that guy. Again, I don't know anything about the guy.
Maybe just because he was wearing cargo shorts, he had
some kind of energy in it.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
That could be it. Maybe he just had that look, yeah,
he had that look. Yeah. Yeah, I don't know. I've
just isn't that weird?
Speaker 4 (12:55):
Well, there is somewhat of a higher turnover rate in
our Industry's true. The last station I was at in
Seattle where I had my own show, nobody there's like
one person still there who was there when I was there.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
Isn't that creaty? We're talking twenty fifteen, just ten years?
But do you know who does tend to last longer?
Speaker 2 (13:12):
Tech directors. Something about tech directors, they just survive. Man,
it's the cargo shorts, is that what it is? It
must be good for the circulation. And it's also like
having a Batman utility belt, but slovenly.
Speaker 5 (13:28):
Yeah, it really is. Honestly, keep everything. Everything's got its
own place and snacks.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
Mack, you're not exactly a slick dresser. Quiet, please cut
her mic please boom. Well, it was like Nikki's been
really good tonight, have you noticed? And it was like
she just couldn't hold back. Now you can't stand it,
delicate tonight. I gotta get in there, She's like, I
gotta defend Foosh. I gotta get in there. Absolutely justice
(13:58):
for the justice for the food. Anyway. Yeah, evidently I
have no concept of time.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
So Kimmel's been on the air for twenty three years,
twenty four years almost and uh and Fush has only
been here for four So I don't know.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
I guess everything for me just to runs together.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
Oh so.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
I told Nicky, I said, Nikki.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
You behave tonight and I will play the horny Gene
Simmons audio and she says, okay deal.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
So if you miss this, Gene Simmons is talking.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
With a news anchor from Scripts, Maritza Georgio. Is that
how you say your name, Georgio? So he's doing this
interview with her. And if you're recall, he was just
at wasn't he at the like the White House? He
was at the Kennedy Center and things like that. He
was getting some award. So Gene Simmons is talking with
her and they're they're getting ready to wrap up the interview.
(14:50):
And so TMZ found the audio. Here it is and
again I think this must have come from Scripts. So
Gene Simmons from Kiss.
Speaker 12 (14:58):
Here, Gene Simmons, gratulations on your honor, sir. We appreciate
you being with us, one of the founding members of
By the way, Kiss, Thank you so much.
Speaker 7 (15:06):
Yes, by the way, are you still modeling what are
you still modeling?
Speaker 3 (15:12):
Modeling?
Speaker 12 (15:12):
I don't model, sir.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
So there's obviously like she goes, oh no, my guest
is mistaking me for someone else. I want to make
sure that I'm not rude to him. I don't want
to embarrass him. Uh you know, is that awkward? And
she's like, she's like, oh no, it's okay, you know
all this kind of stuff, you know.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
So I feel kind of bad for her because he's like,
oh are you still modeling? And it sounds like, oh no,
you've got me confused with someone else. You must have
spoken to right. Let me just rewind it a little bit.
Speaker 7 (15:40):
Listen here, Yes, by the way, are you still modeling?
What are you still modeling?
Speaker 3 (15:46):
Modeling?
Speaker 12 (15:46):
I don't model, sir, oh I assumed. Well, I appreciate that,
We appreciate your time, enjoy your time in Washington, will
be watching you on the hill tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
All the best.
Speaker 4 (16:00):
It it's not as bad asking about her only fans page.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
It's the way he said it. It's the way he said.
I mean, he was waiting for her to say I
don't model, so that he could say, oh, I assumed
she's a lucky gal.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
Oh I assumed, like, ooh, you've walked into my web.
Your mine now? Oh? I assumed, Oh, I assumed. I
assumed I thought maybe we could meet up.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
Oh, I assume so well. I appreciate that we we've
I appreciate that.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
She sounds terrified. Oh oh oh, I assumed. Oh, what
made you a drink? Got the recipe from Bill Cosby.
I assume you would want to sit down for a drink?
Oh oh, It's like, uh, when Joe Namath was drunk
(17:16):
at the football game and he's like, I didn't even
care how the team is a gym and I just
wanted to kiss you.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
You remember that.
Speaker 4 (17:23):
I think I had that audio somewhere. I got to
try to find it. I'm a big fan of drunk
celebrity outtakes.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
God, it was so great. You're never gonna beat Orson Wells.
What was his?
Speaker 4 (17:34):
He was doing a wine commercial and decided he didn't
want to take direction.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
And he just got.
Speaker 4 (17:42):
The each take gets funnier and funny. Oh that's excellent. Yeah,
I don't have that cute up here. Look for that
when you when you're off the air.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
Yeah, okay, hang on, I got the what just happened? Oh?
Speaker 2 (17:55):
Stupid thing. Just try to organize itself. Technology is making
me dumber.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
I swear, wasn't.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
Dean Martin, also famous for being fabulously drunk.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
Oh no, that was an act. He wasn't.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
Yeah, he played that up all lot. All right, hang on,
here's we gotta get the break. But here's the here's
the Joe name with him.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
Kiss you.
Speaker 4 (18:14):
I couldn't care less about the team struggling, straggling.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
I want to kiss you. I like that one. I
want to give you.
Speaker 4 (18:23):
Draggling, king, struggling, struggling, draggling.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
It's great, all right.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Imagine you take a cute little DNA test and learn
whether you're Irish or whatever it Instead, you would inherit
a lawsuit from somebody you didn't even know existed. Your
family tree is about to lawyer up next, Chris Merrill.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
Pleasure spending time.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
But do you remember the podcast for tonight's program is
going to be found on the featured podcast section of
KFI AM six forty dot com. We will talk in
just moments about why it is that you will never, ever,
ever ever be able to travel in space. That right
after we talked with George Norri. We're just about the
(19:08):
ten or fifteen minutes away from that first mark.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
I did look up Orson Wells, drunk outtakes, Comedy gold.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
Well, the French of the Champagne Paul my sign. Yeah
a bottle, really good stuff. Thank you for tipping me
off of that. That's a that's excellent. And he was
already wasted on the first take. Yeah, it's not as
though he just you know, kept sipping the wine and
the day went on, right, it was like, oh he
(19:40):
came into that, he came into the job spit faced.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
Well, that's Orson Blank.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
Talking about I just can't stop me. Have you ever
done one of those DNAs asks you're probably afraid.
Speaker 4 (20:00):
Well, yeah, when you find out about how they sell
your information, Yeah, of course.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Yeah they do. They got sued for that. So true story.
Found a relative on the twenty three and me had
a cousin we didn't know about, including my uncle who
didn't know about his son and found him through his
(20:24):
son found him a twenty three and me and he's
now become part of the family.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
He worked out really well. It's a happy ending story.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
But yeah, that was an interesting one where my uncle,
who was in the Air Force, was stationed and I'm
not going to give too many details here was stationed
in one area and then was was sent packing and
she never told him that, hey, before you left.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
Yeah, so surprise. Anyway, I've done a.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
Pretty good job of trying to build a relationship some
thirty odd years later, but definitely an awkward converse.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
Aation went twenty three and meters shows up and it happens.
It's happening quite a bit.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
So side note, my father's retired, but that he's not
slowing down physically slowing down a little bit, still trying
to stay active, but he really took on. It's not
a second career, but it's definitely a hobby that occupies
all of his time.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
And I think we all know retirees that do this.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
Either you just kind of slow down and you go,
I'm going to play golf, or I'm just gonna kind
of chill out and not do anything, or you've got
those people that are like, I'm retired, but I'm gonna
be busier than ever.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
That's my father.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
So, my father's retired and he decided he wanted to
get into genealogy. Now he'd been into genealogy for a while,
but now genealogy has taking this twist with DNA being
used all over the place, and it is it is
the most transformative thing to happen to the study of
family history since people started writing down their family history
(21:55):
and come to find out, the DNA testing is revealing
a lot of really really interesting like no one is
pure anymore. Right, If a lot of snoody Europeans are like,
oh I am one hundred percent French. Yeah, you know what,
come to find out, no, you're not. Nobody is like,
there is no purity unless you are on an island
(22:15):
in the Pacific that has not been seen by.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
Settlers.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
Nobody's pure anymore, right, those remote tribes in South America maybe,
but otherwise no, everyone is mixed. The other thing we
find is there's gonna sound a bit slatious, and I
don't just mean for it.
Speaker 3 (22:34):
To be a factual.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
Inbreeding happened a lot and continues to happen a lot
in this country, and not just in the South, not
just following those stereotypes. It is shocking how much inbreeding
goes on, truly surprising, and they found that out through
you know, through DNA testing where they go, wait a minute, you.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
Guys, uh you uh, your.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
Your your your mother and your father also have some
weird shared genetics that looks like they should actually be
you know, father daughter not you know what I mean,
like related before they made babies.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
So that happens.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
A lot that was that was discovered, and of course
you end up finding lost family members and similar to
my own family experience where my my cousin was revealed
to the rest of us shocker, and by the way,
that was found by my father doing research into into
our family and my father ran across it.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
When my cousin.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
Uploaded his his SPIT test, it popped up as a
match on my on my dad's stuff, and my dad
tracked it all down.
Speaker 3 (23:47):
Then he tracked this person down. He ended up making
it happen.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
So Christmas is coming around and a lot of people
like to do the tests for the DNA. They want
to know their nationality and they want to see if
they've got other relatives out there. But you should know
that there are some privacy concerns. Some of these places
have been have been accused of selling your information. There's
also concerns that these places could be bought and sold.
And if they are bought and sold, what does that
(24:10):
do with your DNA that they are keeping. So suppose
you don't like pick a company Mark, pick a major
company that people at Walmart. There you go, I did
it for that. Thank you. Okay, you're welcome. So suppose
you don't like Walmart. Walmart's got fans, Walmart has detractors.
Let's just suppose you don't like Walmart.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
Now what if Walmart all.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
Of a sudden decides that they see an opportunity to
buy twenty three and me, But your DNA is with
twenty three and me. Well, now Walmart owns what access
to your DNA? Walmart owns your family tree? How much
do you want? And you didn't sign up for that
with Walmart, but they bought it out. So now all
of a sudden you're like, oh, this is a problem.
So there are some concerns. You should know that going in.
(24:53):
You should also know that if anyone in your family
may be a serial killer, they could track them down
using your DNA by triangulating the distance from your relationship
to that individual Golden State killer.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
That's how they got that guy.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
But here's where it gets interesting is that now surprise heirs,
according to the Wall Street Journal, are showing up and they're
demanding inheritance from different estates. So surprise airrors are popping
up because of these DNA test kits, and they're wreaking
havoc for families that are handling their loved ones of states.
States are grappling with how to rewrite laws to address
(25:29):
the issue. Lawyers are encouraging people to rethink their estate plans.
They said, in the death of one person's father, it
was extraordinarily traumatic, as you could imagine, that was compounded
by this putative air all of a sudden showing up
and demanding money.
Speaker 3 (25:44):
The case eventually was settled.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
In many states, genetics determine who can make a claim
on inheritance in the absence of a will or a trust.
So if you don't have a will, you don't have
a trust, but you got goods, some rando could show
up and take your stuff simply by saying, oh, no,
look at this, I got a DNA test.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
Yeah, and here you thought that she just ghosted you
after prom night.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
Nope, come to find out she's been raising your kid
all along, and now you're dead. The kids showing up
and trying to take all over the kids that you raised,
trying to take all their inheritance. People can inherit from
their biological father even if he never knew them. Other
states consider factors such as if there was a relationship
with the deceased, But it also matters how long after
the death that claim is made, even if there's a
will or a trust. Common phrases like to my descendants
(26:32):
or to my children in the will right to my children,
I have bestow right that can open the door for
a surprise relative to step in and make a claim.
So just no, before you take a DNA test, if
there's any chance that you have a RANDO out there,
they could come and make a claim out of your
state and then take stuff from the kids that you raise. Also,
(26:53):
you should know if you never knew your your parent,
go take a DNA test. Who knows you might be
we're gonna make a steak on their claim or a
steak on their estate.
Speaker 3 (27:04):
That could be you.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
You could be the one jumping in and wreaking havoc
a few million dollars. I'm willing to REAKAVC for a
little while. All right, you worry about all that clutter
in your garage. Now take all that clutter and multiply
it by one hundred million. You are living in a
moment right now where the planet is basically surrounded by
(27:26):
flying shrapnel. There are clean up opportunities out there, but sadly,
all of this comes down basically to us, specifically in California.
You're gonna find out why we are the reason humans
may never travel into outer space.
Speaker 3 (27:43):
Next, I'm Chris Merrilan.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
Chris meryl I am six forty more stimulating talk to
Org Nory, host of Coast to Coast, set to take
over ten o'clock. George, what have you tonight, my friend?
Speaker 8 (28:03):
We've brought a classic show tonight, Chris. We're going to
talk about new electronics and how they heal people. And
then later on in the program, why is everybody experiencing
deja vu and intuition and permanitions? We'll talk about that
too on Coast to Coast.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
It's always the later out of the program stuff I
live for. That's the good stuff, all right.
Speaker 3 (28:23):
George Norway Coast to Coast George, thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
My friend, Very good All right. Here's the thing too.
I saved this specifically for now. Now there's another SpaceX
launch going on tonight. Is my understanding. Twenty seven Starlight
excuse me, Starlink satellites set to launch low Earth orbit.
Speaker 3 (28:40):
The launch window is a four hour window. It starts
about midnight.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
And so if you see the rocket taking off tonight,
that's what it is.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
It's not aliens.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
Every time the rocket takes off from Vandenburg, everybody thinks
it's aliens.
Speaker 3 (28:52):
It's not, so it's taking off.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
The thing is that every time we launch these rockets
out there, we're basically adding a bunch more crap to
the low Earth orbit. And it is remarkable just how
much crap there is floating around over our heads.
Speaker 13 (29:09):
Right now, Earth is surrounded by one hundred trillion tons
of space junk.
Speaker 3 (29:13):
One hundred trillion tons of space junk, and it's rapidly
getting worse.
Speaker 13 (29:19):
Every rocket launch and broken satellite adds to a growing
cloud of debris orbiting our planet. While NASA tracts thousands
of objects, most are too small to monitor but still
incredibly dangerous, traveling over fifteen thousand miles per hour, fasting
out for even a paint chip to puncture metal experts
born of a potential Kessler syndrome, where debris collisions cause
a chain reaction, making space travel and satellite launches nearly
(29:41):
impossible for decades if we don't act soon.
Speaker 2 (29:44):
Exactly, which means that the starlinks that are going up
right and we're not even gonna be able to launch
those because there's so much crap floating around that even
something in the size of a paint chip could punch
a hole in it and your toast.
Speaker 3 (29:55):
So have you thought, oh, one day we're going to
inhabit Mars. No, we can't even get it. We built
our it was a cage.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
We can't get to Mars because we're so surrounded by
our own crap that we can't even get out of here.
And I know what you're thinking, one hundred trillion tons
is an exaggeration. Okay, that's not all of our space crap.
Sometimes the space junk that they're referring to the one
hundred million Excuse me that the one hundred trillion tons
(30:22):
that also includes other space dust and debris that has
traveled here from elsewhere. So it's not just all of
our junk that's up there. But the heavier stuff, that's
all our junk, man, it's all our crap. Hey, speaking
of we've got Foosh, by the way, is is here tonight?
Speaker 3 (30:42):
Fosh? How did your first day back go? You do?
All right? Went really well? Man? Good? You hull up?
Speaker 2 (30:49):
Okay, you get tired, you get too exhausted. You wanna
you wanna like a sippy cup? I kind of you know,
sippy cup, you know, put a little Hennessy in there. Okay,
all right, yeah, yeah, look I am exactly four minutes
from doing that myself. So yeah, Fush, I was thinking
about this. For those unfamiliar Fush. Fush has been with
the company for I think twenty eight years, is what
we discovered tonight. And Fush had this horrendous car accident,
(31:12):
didn't make it into work one day. Obviously we docked
his pay for that, but we didn't know what happened
to the guy, and so everybody was looking for him.
And he was a John Doe at a hospital or
as we learned earlier during Conway Show, they referred him
as Iowa, which is kind of insulting, very weird.
Speaker 3 (31:27):
Yeah, why did they pick Iowa?
Speaker 5 (31:30):
I could not tell you. It was really weird at
least in Kia, Florida or Ohio. Yeah, right, right, that
would have been bad. But so I was okay, yeah,
all right.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
So I was thinking about this because you know, your
car got your car got.
Speaker 3 (31:45):
Smashed, it was told it was on fire.
Speaker 2 (31:46):
Heroes came, you know, just they came by and they
just pulled you out of this car, which is amazing.
And as we're getting near the end of the show,
when we were talking about talking to George nor and
he talks about consciousness in deja vus and this sort
of stuff which is.
Speaker 3 (31:58):
Coming up in his show tonight.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
Do you are you ever having like flashbacks or nightmares
or PTSD or anything from that or did you just
black out?
Speaker 3 (32:07):
None of it registered? No, it's it's weird.
Speaker 5 (32:09):
I never I never had any like dreams or anything
or flashbacks because I was conscious the whole time. But
the only thing I didn't get correct was I thought
the car rolled itself back, but the guys did it.
But that's so that's the only part I really can't
I can't comprehend with with vision because I wasn't. I
was kind of out of it. Yeah, like I said,
(32:30):
I was sitting there and I was looking at the
inside of my arm like I could see inside of it.
It looked like a scene out of Saw. Like it
was real bad. But the adrenaline I think, was running
so high I didn't even feel anything, so you know,
that was it. But yeah, I didn't have I mean,
I was kind of lucky in that way that I
didn't have any flashbacks or anything like that.
Speaker 3 (32:48):
Did you watch your arm get injured?
Speaker 5 (32:51):
No, that see, that's the other part because I it
when I flipped, it hit it so hard that it
kind of, I don't think knocked me out, but I
just didn't feel my arm go under it, so I
didn't even know it was there. And then they were
the ones saying that, oh the fire already, that didn't start,
but the gas was dripping and that's what was causing
the fire to to, you know, to take off the
way it did.
Speaker 2 (33:11):
So then your arm was pinned under the car and
that's why they had to flip it to get you
out exactly. And so that's why the first I think
it was the first four surgeries, it was just cleaning
the inside of my arm because there was so much
crap that it picked up.
Speaker 3 (33:23):
You know, did they take pictures.
Speaker 5 (33:25):
Oh yeah, okay, they have I think I have them
or well, no, I didn't have record. You know, my
parents have them, but I didn't because I didn't have
a phone at the time. Oh that's right, because your
phone got lost in the.
Speaker 3 (33:37):
In the saying in the fire. Yep.
Speaker 5 (33:39):
So yeah, I didn't have the but you know they
do exist. And I was telling Conway, it looks like
the the prop prop cut arms that they used for
movies when someone kissing an accident. That's what it looked
like when they were put when they were testing all
the skin to put it together, because you know, they
had to use a synthetic and then some of my
skin the graft to combine it.
Speaker 3 (33:58):
Yeah, so it was a lot fish. I'm so glad
you're back by me. He too.
Speaker 2 (34:02):
Man, You're just uh, you're just you're You're one of
the guys. That's just the heartbeat of the station. We
just just love you. You're too sweet. We just love
you. You are you are what we would consider to be
a core player. I appreciate that. Yeah, I did have
some anxiety coming in today. I was like, how am
I going to do the drive? How's it going to be?
When I get there. Am I gonna be able to
run the board? Am I running the board? I had
(34:23):
no idea what was happening? And then I couldn't even
log in, so I was like, well, I guess it
answers that question. But it was kind of good, just
kind of hanging out and seeing because you know, there's
been some changes here and there with tech on the
tech side, so we've been counting it down. Yeah, we
really have. Thanks, we've been counted down all right to talk.
So happy that Fos is back, yes, and he'll be
back again tomorrow, so we're excited about that.
Speaker 3 (34:44):
All.
Speaker 2 (34:44):
A great job tonight too, you know, I, you know,
you've been pressed me early on. I think you're a
great dude. So you know, he's a good egg. He's
he's a good egg, and I you may not have
known this. He's been here eleven years and I just
now met the guy. Yeah, yeah, how about all right, Nicky,
nice job tonight. You didn't embarrass us.
Speaker 3 (35:02):
I don't think we're gonna have an HR call. So
that's pretty great.
Speaker 2 (35:05):
At first, Mark the state down and then Mark is
always it's just like it's like hanging out with a
long lost.
Speaker 3 (35:12):
Brother approaching my fortieth year here for yeah, forty years. Wow, Wow, amazing.
You're really holding up well too. Thank you. You're doing great.
Speaker 4 (35:20):
Yeah, I have the skin of a fetus. It's wonderful.
Speaker 3 (35:24):
Love you guys. I'll talk to you tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (35:26):
Kf I am six forty on demand
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
But Chris Merril KFI AM six forty more stimulating talk
and on demand anytime the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
But if you're on that app, you hit that talkback button.
Hasn't let us know what you think.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
If you've got something to say about the the program,
you've got something to say about the content.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Love to hear your your thoughts on it, good, bad
and different.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Mark, somebody called for you, By the way, I always
love it when your fans call.
Speaker 4 (00:32):
Are they fans? Is that the word you want to use? Well,
you decide. Here's what she's said.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
A right, you, sir, are an idiot yet off the radio?
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Okay, oh maybe that was a dude. I don't know.
Speaker 4 (00:42):
No, that sounds like a fan. Yeah, yes, f.
Speaker 5 (00:46):
You sir are an idiot yet off the radio.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
I might save that one. Is there a reason or
is it just general idiocy?
Speaker 4 (00:55):
No?
Speaker 3 (00:55):
That was all they said.
Speaker 4 (00:56):
Oh well okay, yeah, I'll take it personally.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
Thank you for that. I had.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Uh I had somebody called years ago. I was in
Kansas I was in Kansas City, and uh do I
still have this? Sometimes they're so good that you just
have to save them.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Here, here's a couple of them. I had to say,
these are so good. This one was apologizing for calling
me a moron.
Speaker 6 (01:20):
Oh, I don't like the metal show.
Speaker 7 (01:24):
Metal is the kind of of an eth York really
Sammy savvy.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
Savvy, Wow, instant regret kind of any idiot. Sorry, sorry,
sorry that just slipped out.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
I think that one was about I was in Phoenix.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
This is a kids because I told you I've been
fired from some of the best places in the country.
Here's uh, here's h this one to say. I had
to save this one. This is one of my favorite
of all time.
Speaker 8 (01:51):
You're the most stupidest bonehead I've ever heard on the radio.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
That's legit, right to the point, most stupidest, the most
opidest bonehead heard. You're the dad burned a stupid stupidest Okay, Oh,
I love that one.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
I loved it. That's a keeper.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
So last week, Mark, we were talking about Netflix and
they're they're buy out of Warner.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
And oh my gosh, the sky was falling.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
We were hearing you know, oh this, you know, these
people are worried and the studios are worried that you know,
other studios are worried about it, and you've got cinemas
are worried about it. They're opposing it, and the unions
are mad about it. And then I was just seeing
hold on, there's one here. Uh yeah, Washington Post MAGA
influencers urging Trump to kill the Netflix deal.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Uh so, Maga was mad about it. It seemed like.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Everybody was upset about Netflix and Warner Brothers Discovery. My
biggest turnoff to it, and wait before you jump me,
my biggest turn off to it is I want to
see the linear products stay with Warner Brothers. I want
to see the Warner Discovery stay together. So the TNT,
the CNN and the Discovery Channel, the HGTV, all that stuff.
(03:02):
I want to see all that stay with the Warner stuff. So,
but you know, I'm not gonna get my way whatever
it is. And I know what you're gonna say, that's
your biggest problem. Your biggest problem should be. Consolidation is
ruining creativity. And it's it's turn to what I sound like,
Is it all right? Have you been colluding with the
collar that you played?
Speaker 4 (03:21):
Yeahs are an idiot off the radio?
Speaker 2 (03:26):
No, So I think that's probably the argument. And it
makes perfect sense to me that I guess what where
I where? I don't acknowledge that argument is it doesn't matter.
It's going to happen. The consolidation is going to happen.
It's already begun with Disney, Hulu, ESPN done deal. Apple
(03:47):
has now gotten together with a billing partnership with Peacock.
And if all of a sudden, you've got Netflix and
Warner Brothers, the largest and third largest streamers. They get
together and you know they're gonna start packaging things together.
So now you're gonna have Amazon, Apple paramount. You know,
Disney and Hulu were already together. You're gonna have all
these people scrambling to try to merge and in order
(04:10):
to combine their synergies for the most effective customer experience.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
I have synergy, and consumers always get hosed with the
costs of this. They may promise that they're gonna have
a discount in the immediate in the immediate future, but
it always works out that with less competition, they charge
you more.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
That's just the cool effectively.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
Cannot debate this, but I hate to admit this, but
you are on track about one thing, which is that
Ted Sarandos. The guy who runs Netflix has no appreciation
for film or theaters. They they don't play any movies
on Netflix that are like pre nineteen seventy five. The
guy was bragging about how his no, no, no, the guy
was this is this is aious. The guy was bragging
(04:48):
about how his son watched Lawrence of Arabia on his
phone and it was no big deal. And if somebody
said that in front of me, I'm not sure I
could be responsible for what I did.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
And whatever I did would take three and half hours
and you wouldn't remember much of that, but you'd say
it was the greatest experience of your life.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
I mean, how do you communicate with the guy who
thinks that you can watch Lawrence of Arabia on a
phone and it doesn't mean anything.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
There's no problem with that. I mean, yeah, I get you.
I get you.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
But now Paramount's talking about this hostile takeover bid and
for those I'm familiar, a quick quick prime around this
from maybec seven.
Speaker 9 (05:24):
Hollywood may be known for its epic battles, but even
though it's latest fight has no special effects or pricey stars,
it is shaping up to be the most expensive and
possibly one of the most important battles in Hollywood history.
Speaker 6 (05:38):
A hundred and eight billion dollars is one hundred and
eight billion dollars.
Speaker 9 (05:42):
Deadline dot Com executive editor Dominic Patton has been following
the battle for Warner Brothers, up for sale, thought to
have fallen into the hands of Netflix, which cut an
eighty two point seven billion dollar deal for most of
the entertainment giant last week, but today news that Paramount
is trying to outflow Netflix, the entertainment company making a
(06:03):
rogue and some would say outlandishly larger offer for Warner Brothers.
Speaker 10 (06:08):
They want to mould these two studios legendary studios to
have a true superpower in Hollywood, something that can be
at the level of a Netflix, or, perhaps more importantly
for the twenty first century, a level of YouTube.
Speaker 9 (06:19):
But while the Netflix deal can present some possible antitrust
concerns due to the sheer size of its streaming operations,
Patton says a Paramount deal may more easily get federal
approval because one of the investors involved is Jared Kushner,
whose wife is President Trump's daughter his son in law.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
Yeah, and he's also like the envoy to Ukraine now right, also.
Speaker 6 (06:41):
Has a little bit of cash on the table in
this Paramount deal. So I think the Trump, who's a
family man in the best and worst ways, I think
he might finally be putting his finger on the scale here,
even if it's.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
In the background a little bit.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Okay, So Paramount, if they do it, they'll buy the
whole thing. Warner does a Warner Discovery, they all stay together, Okay,
so that you'd get the w dB, the WBD package,
the whole thing stays together.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
I'd like to see them all stay together. But now
you have people.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
That are upset about that, and they're like, oh, you
can't do this, you can't have them together.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
This is this is this is not cool and and
uh and and and and and.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
It's unscrupulous because now you've got the president's son in
law stands to make a profit on this.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Then that this comes out too Washington.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Uh, I'm sorry, Wall Street Journal reporting During a visit
to Washington in recent days, David Ellison offered Ellison's ahead
of Paramount Skydance.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
Now it's Larry Ellison's son.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
David Ellison offered assurances to Trump administration officials that if
he bought Warner, he'd make sweeping changes to CNN, a
common target of President Trump's ire, People familiar with the
matter said Trump has told people close to him that
he wants new ownership of CNN as well as changes
to CNN programming.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
So now you're gonna have people that are going you
can't sell the paramount.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
This is nothing more than an inside able to give
the president what he wants. And this is a freedom
of speech, and he's silencing the media that disagrees with him.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
And how could you do such a thing.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
And I got to tell you, nobody's gonna be happy
on this because anyway the wind blows on this, it's
going to hurt our traditional cinema going experience. Now I
think Paramoun would hurt it a whole lot less than Netflix,
but I think it's I think in any case, it's
going to have an impact on our cinema going experience.
(08:30):
Mark I think those those days are the golden era
of the silver screen or will behind.
Speaker 4 (08:35):
Yeah, bring on the asteroid. It's kind of a poop
sandwich no matter which side wins this because look at
the Ellison family and the massive number of media things
that they control, right You've mentioned that Larry Ellison told
Trump he was going to influence the programming. Look at
that through all the different things. I mean, I don't
care what your ideology or your politics are. You don't
(08:57):
want one person controlling all all of that. No, you
want to.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
Little you know, you know, a little freedom, little diversity, And.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
I think that that makes it better for everyone, including
the performers, right, yes, including the businesses.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
It makes it.
Speaker 4 (09:11):
It makes it better when you've got a little competition,
whatever side you think you're on. Just imagine if somebody
on the other side had that much control and you're
not gonna want.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
It, absolutely, one hundred percent agree.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
So then what happens when all of a sudden you've
got President Newsome and Netflix wants to merge with.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
Amazon, right, exactly right, Then you're not gonna like that.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
So my concern is I'm not I'm not crazy about
thumbs on the scale one way or another, but honestly,
I'm just kind of watching the drama, and my biggest
concern is how this is going to impact future mergers,
because honestly, I think we'd all be happier if it just.
Speaker 4 (09:49):
Stayed the way it was, right, But you mentioned Kushner,
and also when you bring him into the picture, he's
got his Saudi investors.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
Who have well that's where the investments coming from.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
Yeah, they have an outsized influence on decisions. You've got
to factor all that in. It's not just like, hey,
they're gonna save movies. No, no, no, no, it's gonna
come with the cost. But and this is where to me,
I just lament. I wish I wish Warner just didn't
want to sell right. I just wish it would stay
the way it is right now. But just not going
to just is not gonna happen, all right, So you
(10:21):
might be wondering if Hollywood has any backbone left. There
are a few positive signs though.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
The network heads are not kissing the ground that every
one of their favorite politicians are walking on. Some are
doing it just in time. Who's got the moxie to
flash that personality? It's next, Chris Meryl.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Boy, it feels like we've got more and more politics
entering into the realm of entertainment.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
Now. Some of that's because you have politicians injecting themselves.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Sometimes that's because you have entertainers injecting themselves into politics,
like Jimmy Kimmel did earlier this year, but it doesn't
seem to have hurt his career from Fox LA late.
Speaker 11 (11:03):
Night host Jimmy Kimmel is back for another year. The
comedian who often gets political, signed a one year extension
with ABC to continue hosting Jimmy Kimmel Live through May
of twenty twenty seven. Comes after that turbulent time for Kimmel,
who faced suspension in September following controversial remarks in the
wake of the murder of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
The fifty seven year old.
Speaker 11 (11:26):
First started hosting the show in two thousand and three,
making him the longest tenured currents late night host in
the US.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
Wow, I didn't realize he had been on since two
thousand and three. Yeah, twenty three years, man, oh man,
I didn't realize it was that long. But then again,
I'm not very good with time. Like, for instance, earlier tonight,
I was talking with Foush and I thought, I think
Fousch was here when I first started doing stuff for
CAMFI and he said, no, I've only been here like
four years. I swear Foush was with me like the
first time I was on the air.
Speaker 4 (11:55):
That's so funny. Oh, radio time is different than normal
Earth time. It's like being on the event horizon of
a black hole. It seems longer.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
I went back because I shad I save my show
notes from every show I do, and I have these
going back to I think twenty eleven something like that. Really, yeah,
that was be a warehouse. It is, you know, I
pay for extra drive space.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
So I pulled up the first show notes that I
have for KFI and it was February twenty fourth, twenty thirteen,
and I pulled up on there to see who I
had shared my notes with. Uh, and it was my
producer in San Diego who was with at the time.
And then Adam O'Neill must have been must have been
(12:36):
the tech director on our end on KFI isand wow,
And I don't I don't know if I ever worked
with that guy. Again, I don't know anything about the guy.
Maybe just because he was wearing cargo shorts, he had
some kind of energy in it.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
That could be it. Maybe he just had that look, yeah,
he had that look. Yeah. Yeah, I don't know. I've
just isn't that weird?
Speaker 4 (12:55):
Well, there is somewhat of a higher turnover rate in
our Industry's true. The last station I was at in
Seattle where I had my own show, nobody there's like
one person still there who was there when I was there.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
Isn't that creaty? We're talking twenty fifteen, just ten years?
But do you know who does tend to last longer?
Speaker 2 (13:12):
Tech directors. Something about tech directors, they just survive. Man,
it's the cargo shorts, is that what it is? It
must be good for the circulation. And it's also like
having a Batman utility belt, but slovenly.
Speaker 5 (13:28):
Yeah, it really is. Honestly, keep everything. Everything's got its
own place and snacks.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
Mack, you're not exactly a slick dresser. Quiet, please cut
her mic please boom. Well, it was like Nikki's been
really good tonight, have you noticed? And it was like
she just couldn't hold back. Now you can't stand it,
delicate tonight. I gotta get in there, She's like, I
gotta defend Foosh. I gotta get in there. Absolutely justice
(13:58):
for the justice for the food. Anyway. Yeah, evidently I
have no concept of time.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
So Kimmel's been on the air for twenty three years,
twenty four years almost and uh and Fush has only
been here for four So I don't know.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
I guess everything for me just to runs together.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
Oh so.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
I told Nicky, I said, Nikki.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
You behave tonight and I will play the horny Gene
Simmons audio and she says, okay deal.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
So if you miss this, Gene Simmons is talking.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
With a news anchor from Scripts, Maritza Georgio. Is that
how you say your name, Georgio? So he's doing this
interview with her. And if you're recall, he was just
at wasn't he at the like the White House? He
was at the Kennedy Center and things like that. He
was getting some award. So Gene Simmons is talking with
her and they're they're getting ready to wrap up the interview.
(14:50):
And so TMZ found the audio. Here it is and
again I think this must have come from Scripts. So
Gene Simmons from Kiss.
Speaker 12 (14:58):
Here, Gene Simmons, gratulations on your honor, sir. We appreciate
you being with us, one of the founding members of
By the way, Kiss, Thank you so much.
Speaker 7 (15:06):
Yes, by the way, are you still modeling what are
you still modeling?
Speaker 3 (15:12):
Modeling?
Speaker 12 (15:12):
I don't model, sir.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
So there's obviously like she goes, oh no, my guest
is mistaking me for someone else. I want to make
sure that I'm not rude to him. I don't want
to embarrass him. Uh you know, is that awkward? And
she's like, she's like, oh no, it's okay, you know
all this kind of stuff, you know.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
So I feel kind of bad for her because he's like,
oh are you still modeling? And it sounds like, oh no,
you've got me confused with someone else. You must have
spoken to right. Let me just rewind it a little bit.
Speaker 7 (15:40):
Listen here, Yes, by the way, are you still modeling?
What are you still modeling?
Speaker 3 (15:46):
Modeling?
Speaker 12 (15:46):
I don't model, sir, oh I assumed. Well, I appreciate that,
We appreciate your time, enjoy your time in Washington, will
be watching you on the hill tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
All the best.
Speaker 4 (16:00):
It it's not as bad asking about her only fans page.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
It's the way he said it. It's the way he said.
I mean, he was waiting for her to say I
don't model, so that he could say, oh, I assumed
she's a lucky gal.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
Oh I assumed, like, ooh, you've walked into my web.
Your mine now? Oh? I assumed, Oh, I assumed. I
assumed I thought maybe we could meet up.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
Oh, I assume so well. I appreciate that we we've
I appreciate that.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
She sounds terrified. Oh oh oh, I assumed. Oh, what
made you a drink? Got the recipe from Bill Cosby.
I assume you would want to sit down for a drink?
Oh oh, It's like, uh, when Joe Namath was drunk
(17:16):
at the football game and he's like, I didn't even
care how the team is a gym and I just
wanted to kiss you.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
You remember that.
Speaker 4 (17:23):
I think I had that audio somewhere. I got to
try to find it. I'm a big fan of drunk
celebrity outtakes.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
God, it was so great. You're never gonna beat Orson Wells.
What was his?
Speaker 4 (17:34):
He was doing a wine commercial and decided he didn't
want to take direction.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
And he just got.
Speaker 4 (17:42):
The each take gets funnier and funny. Oh that's excellent. Yeah,
I don't have that cute up here. Look for that
when you when you're off the air.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
Yeah, okay, hang on, I got the what just happened? Oh?
Speaker 2 (17:55):
Stupid thing. Just try to organize itself. Technology is making
me dumber.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
I swear, wasn't.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
Dean Martin, also famous for being fabulously drunk.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
Oh no, that was an act. He wasn't.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
Yeah, he played that up all lot. All right, hang on,
here's we gotta get the break. But here's the here's
the Joe name with him.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
Kiss you.
Speaker 4 (18:14):
I couldn't care less about the team struggling, straggling.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
I want to kiss you. I like that one. I
want to give you.
Speaker 4 (18:23):
Draggling, king, struggling, struggling, draggling.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
It's great, all right.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Imagine you take a cute little DNA test and learn
whether you're Irish or whatever it Instead, you would inherit
a lawsuit from somebody you didn't even know existed. Your
family tree is about to lawyer up next, Chris Merrill.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
Pleasure spending time.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
But do you remember the podcast for tonight's program is
going to be found on the featured podcast section of
KFI AM six forty dot com. We will talk in
just moments about why it is that you will never, ever,
ever ever be able to travel in space. That right
after we talked with George Norri. We're just about the
(19:08):
ten or fifteen minutes away from that first mark.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
I did look up Orson Wells, drunk outtakes, Comedy gold.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
Well, the French of the Champagne Paul my sign. Yeah
a bottle, really good stuff. Thank you for tipping me
off of that. That's a that's excellent. And he was
already wasted on the first take. Yeah, it's not as
though he just you know, kept sipping the wine and
the day went on, right, it was like, oh he
(19:40):
came into that, he came into the job spit faced.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
Well, that's Orson Blank.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
Talking about I just can't stop me. Have you ever
done one of those DNAs asks you're probably afraid.
Speaker 4 (20:00):
Well, yeah, when you find out about how they sell
your information, Yeah, of course.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Yeah they do. They got sued for that. So true story.
Found a relative on the twenty three and me had
a cousin we didn't know about, including my uncle who
didn't know about his son and found him through his
(20:24):
son found him a twenty three and me and he's
now become part of the family.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
He worked out really well. It's a happy ending story.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
But yeah, that was an interesting one where my uncle,
who was in the Air Force, was stationed and I'm
not going to give too many details here was stationed
in one area and then was was sent packing and
she never told him that, hey, before you left.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
Yeah, so surprise. Anyway, I've done a.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
Pretty good job of trying to build a relationship some
thirty odd years later, but definitely an awkward converse.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
Aation went twenty three and meters shows up and it happens.
It's happening quite a bit.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
So side note, my father's retired, but that he's not
slowing down physically slowing down a little bit, still trying
to stay active, but he really took on. It's not
a second career, but it's definitely a hobby that occupies
all of his time.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
And I think we all know retirees that do this.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
Either you just kind of slow down and you go,
I'm going to play golf, or I'm just gonna kind
of chill out and not do anything, or you've got
those people that are like, I'm retired, but I'm gonna
be busier than ever.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
That's my father.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
So, my father's retired and he decided he wanted to
get into genealogy. Now he'd been into genealogy for a while,
but now genealogy has taking this twist with DNA being
used all over the place, and it is it is
the most transformative thing to happen to the study of
family history since people started writing down their family history
(21:55):
and come to find out, the DNA testing is revealing
a lot of really really interesting like no one is
pure anymore. Right, If a lot of snoody Europeans are like,
oh I am one hundred percent French. Yeah, you know what,
come to find out, no, you're not. Nobody is like,
there is no purity unless you are on an island
(22:15):
in the Pacific that has not been seen by.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
Settlers.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
Nobody's pure anymore, right, those remote tribes in South America maybe,
but otherwise no, everyone is mixed. The other thing we
find is there's gonna sound a bit slatious, and I
don't just mean for it.
Speaker 3 (22:34):
To be a factual.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
Inbreeding happened a lot and continues to happen a lot
in this country, and not just in the South, not
just following those stereotypes. It is shocking how much inbreeding
goes on, truly surprising, and they found that out through
you know, through DNA testing where they go, wait a minute, you.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
Guys, uh you uh, your.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
Your your your mother and your father also have some
weird shared genetics that looks like they should actually be
you know, father daughter not you know what I mean,
like related before they made babies.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
So that happens.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
A lot that was that was discovered, and of course
you end up finding lost family members and similar to
my own family experience where my my cousin was revealed
to the rest of us shocker, and by the way,
that was found by my father doing research into into
our family and my father ran across it.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
When my cousin.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
Uploaded his his SPIT test, it popped up as a
match on my on my dad's stuff, and my dad
tracked it all down.
Speaker 3 (23:47):
Then he tracked this person down. He ended up making
it happen.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
So Christmas is coming around and a lot of people
like to do the tests for the DNA. They want
to know their nationality and they want to see if
they've got other relatives out there. But you should know
that there are some privacy concerns. Some of these places
have been have been accused of selling your information. There's
also concerns that these places could be bought and sold.
And if they are bought and sold, what does that
(24:10):
do with your DNA that they are keeping. So suppose
you don't like pick a company Mark, pick a major
company that people at Walmart. There you go, I did
it for that. Thank you. Okay, you're welcome. So suppose
you don't like Walmart. Walmart's got fans, Walmart has detractors.
Let's just suppose you don't like Walmart.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
Now what if Walmart all.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
Of a sudden decides that they see an opportunity to
buy twenty three and me, But your DNA is with
twenty three and me. Well, now Walmart owns what access
to your DNA? Walmart owns your family tree? How much
do you want? And you didn't sign up for that
with Walmart, but they bought it out. So now all
of a sudden you're like, oh, this is a problem.
So there are some concerns. You should know that going in.
(24:53):
You should also know that if anyone in your family
may be a serial killer, they could track them down
using your DNA by triangulating the distance from your relationship
to that individual Golden State killer.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
That's how they got that guy.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
But here's where it gets interesting is that now surprise heirs,
according to the Wall Street Journal, are showing up and they're
demanding inheritance from different estates. So surprise airrors are popping
up because of these DNA test kits, and they're wreaking
havoc for families that are handling their loved ones of states.
States are grappling with how to rewrite laws to address
(25:29):
the issue. Lawyers are encouraging people to rethink their estate plans.
They said, in the death of one person's father, it
was extraordinarily traumatic, as you could imagine, that was compounded
by this putative air all of a sudden showing up
and demanding money.
Speaker 3 (25:44):
The case eventually was settled.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
In many states, genetics determine who can make a claim
on inheritance in the absence of a will or a trust.
So if you don't have a will, you don't have
a trust, but you got goods, some rando could show
up and take your stuff simply by saying, oh, no,
look at this, I got a DNA test.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
Yeah, and here you thought that she just ghosted you
after prom night.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
Nope, come to find out she's been raising your kid
all along, and now you're dead. The kids showing up
and trying to take all over the kids that you raised,
trying to take all their inheritance. People can inherit from
their biological father even if he never knew them. Other
states consider factors such as if there was a relationship
with the deceased, But it also matters how long after
the death that claim is made, even if there's a
will or a trust. Common phrases like to my descendants
(26:32):
or to my children in the will right to my children,
I have bestow right that can open the door for
a surprise relative to step in and make a claim.
So just no, before you take a DNA test, if
there's any chance that you have a RANDO out there,
they could come and make a claim out of your
state and then take stuff from the kids that you raise. Also,
(26:53):
you should know if you never knew your your parent,
go take a DNA test. Who knows you might be
we're gonna make a steak on their claim or a
steak on their estate.
Speaker 3 (27:04):
That could be you.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
You could be the one jumping in and wreaking havoc
a few million dollars. I'm willing to REAKAVC for a
little while. All right, you worry about all that clutter
in your garage. Now take all that clutter and multiply
it by one hundred million. You are living in a
moment right now where the planet is basically surrounded by
(27:26):
flying shrapnel. There are clean up opportunities out there, but sadly,
all of this comes down basically to us, specifically in California.
You're gonna find out why we are the reason humans
may never travel into outer space.
Speaker 3 (27:43):
Next, I'm Chris Merrilan.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
Chris meryl I am six forty more stimulating talk to
Org Nory, host of Coast to Coast, set to take
over ten o'clock. George, what have you tonight, my friend?
Speaker 8 (28:03):
We've brought a classic show tonight, Chris. We're going to
talk about new electronics and how they heal people. And
then later on in the program, why is everybody experiencing
deja vu and intuition and permanitions? We'll talk about that
too on Coast to Coast.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
It's always the later out of the program stuff I
live for. That's the good stuff, all right.
Speaker 3 (28:23):
George Norway Coast to Coast George, thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
My friend, Very good All right. Here's the thing too.
I saved this specifically for now. Now there's another SpaceX
launch going on tonight. Is my understanding. Twenty seven Starlight
excuse me, Starlink satellites set to launch low Earth orbit.
Speaker 3 (28:40):
The launch window is a four hour window. It starts
about midnight.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
And so if you see the rocket taking off tonight,
that's what it is.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
It's not aliens.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
Every time the rocket takes off from Vandenburg, everybody thinks
it's aliens.
Speaker 3 (28:52):
It's not, so it's taking off.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
The thing is that every time we launch these rockets
out there, we're basically adding a bunch more crap to
the low Earth orbit. And it is remarkable just how
much crap there is floating around over our heads.
Speaker 13 (29:09):
Right now, Earth is surrounded by one hundred trillion tons
of space junk.
Speaker 3 (29:13):
One hundred trillion tons of space junk, and it's rapidly
getting worse.
Speaker 13 (29:19):
Every rocket launch and broken satellite adds to a growing
cloud of debris orbiting our planet. While NASA tracts thousands
of objects, most are too small to monitor but still
incredibly dangerous, traveling over fifteen thousand miles per hour, fasting
out for even a paint chip to puncture metal experts
born of a potential Kessler syndrome, where debris collisions cause
a chain reaction, making space travel and satellite launches nearly
(29:41):
impossible for decades if we don't act soon.
Speaker 2 (29:44):
Exactly, which means that the starlinks that are going up
right and we're not even gonna be able to launch
those because there's so much crap floating around that even
something in the size of a paint chip could punch
a hole in it and your toast.
Speaker 3 (29:55):
So have you thought, oh, one day we're going to
inhabit Mars. No, we can't even get it. We built
our it was a cage.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
We can't get to Mars because we're so surrounded by
our own crap that we can't even get out of here.
And I know what you're thinking, one hundred trillion tons
is an exaggeration. Okay, that's not all of our space crap.
Sometimes the space junk that they're referring to the one
hundred million Excuse me that the one hundred trillion tons
(30:22):
that also includes other space dust and debris that has
traveled here from elsewhere. So it's not just all of
our junk that's up there. But the heavier stuff, that's
all our junk, man, it's all our crap. Hey, speaking
of we've got Foosh, by the way, is is here tonight?
Speaker 3 (30:42):
Fosh? How did your first day back go? You do?
All right? Went really well? Man? Good? You hull up?
Speaker 2 (30:49):
Okay, you get tired, you get too exhausted. You wanna
you wanna like a sippy cup? I kind of you know,
sippy cup, you know, put a little Hennessy in there. Okay,
all right, yeah, yeah, look I am exactly four minutes
from doing that myself. So yeah, Fush, I was thinking
about this. For those unfamiliar Fush. Fush has been with
the company for I think twenty eight years, is what
we discovered tonight. And Fush had this horrendous car accident,
(31:12):
didn't make it into work one day. Obviously we docked
his pay for that, but we didn't know what happened
to the guy, and so everybody was looking for him.
And he was a John Doe at a hospital or
as we learned earlier during Conway Show, they referred him
as Iowa, which is kind of insulting, very weird.
Speaker 3 (31:27):
Yeah, why did they pick Iowa?
Speaker 5 (31:30):
I could not tell you. It was really weird at
least in Kia, Florida or Ohio. Yeah, right, right, that
would have been bad. But so I was okay, yeah,
all right.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
So I was thinking about this because you know, your
car got your car got.
Speaker 3 (31:45):
Smashed, it was told it was on fire.
Speaker 2 (31:46):
Heroes came, you know, just they came by and they
just pulled you out of this car, which is amazing.
And as we're getting near the end of the show,
when we were talking about talking to George nor and
he talks about consciousness in deja vus and this sort
of stuff which is.
Speaker 3 (31:58):
Coming up in his show tonight.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
Do you are you ever having like flashbacks or nightmares
or PTSD or anything from that or did you just
black out?
Speaker 3 (32:07):
None of it registered? No, it's it's weird.
Speaker 5 (32:09):
I never I never had any like dreams or anything
or flashbacks because I was conscious the whole time. But
the only thing I didn't get correct was I thought
the car rolled itself back, but the guys did it.
But that's so that's the only part I really can't
I can't comprehend with with vision because I wasn't. I
was kind of out of it. Yeah, like I said,
(32:30):
I was sitting there and I was looking at the
inside of my arm like I could see inside of it.
It looked like a scene out of Saw. Like it
was real bad. But the adrenaline I think, was running
so high I didn't even feel anything, so you know,
that was it. But yeah, I didn't have I mean,
I was kind of lucky in that way that I
didn't have any flashbacks or anything like that.
Speaker 3 (32:48):
Did you watch your arm get injured?
Speaker 5 (32:51):
No, that see, that's the other part because I it
when I flipped, it hit it so hard that it
kind of, I don't think knocked me out, but I
just didn't feel my arm go under it, so I
didn't even know it was there. And then they were
the ones saying that, oh the fire already, that didn't start,
but the gas was dripping and that's what was causing
the fire to to, you know, to take off the
way it did.
Speaker 2 (33:11):
So then your arm was pinned under the car and
that's why they had to flip it to get you
out exactly. And so that's why the first I think
it was the first four surgeries, it was just cleaning
the inside of my arm because there was so much
crap that it picked up.
Speaker 3 (33:23):
You know, did they take pictures.
Speaker 5 (33:25):
Oh yeah, okay, they have I think I have them
or well, no, I didn't have record. You know, my
parents have them, but I didn't because I didn't have
a phone at the time. Oh that's right, because your
phone got lost in the.
Speaker 3 (33:37):
In the saying in the fire. Yep.
Speaker 5 (33:39):
So yeah, I didn't have the but you know they
do exist. And I was telling Conway, it looks like
the the prop prop cut arms that they used for
movies when someone kissing an accident. That's what it looked
like when they were put when they were testing all
the skin to put it together, because you know, they
had to use a synthetic and then some of my
skin the graft to combine it.
Speaker 3 (33:58):
Yeah, so it was a lot fish. I'm so glad
you're back by me. He too.
Speaker 2 (34:02):
Man, You're just uh, you're just you're You're one of
the guys. That's just the heartbeat of the station. We
just just love you. You're too sweet. We just love
you. You are you are what we would consider to be
a core player. I appreciate that. Yeah, I did have
some anxiety coming in today. I was like, how am
I going to do the drive? How's it going to be?
When I get there. Am I gonna be able to
run the board? Am I running the board? I had
(34:23):
no idea what was happening? And then I couldn't even
log in, so I was like, well, I guess it
answers that question. But it was kind of good, just
kind of hanging out and seeing because you know, there's
been some changes here and there with tech on the
tech side, so we've been counting it down. Yeah, we
really have. Thanks, we've been counted down all right to talk.
So happy that Fos is back, yes, and he'll be
back again tomorrow, so we're excited about that.
Speaker 3 (34:44):
All.
Speaker 2 (34:44):
A great job tonight too, you know, I, you know,
you've been pressed me early on. I think you're a
great dude. So you know, he's a good egg. He's
he's a good egg, and I you may not have
known this. He's been here eleven years and I just
now met the guy. Yeah, yeah, how about all right, Nicky,
nice job tonight. You didn't embarrass us.
Speaker 3 (35:02):
I don't think we're gonna have an HR call. So
that's pretty great.
Speaker 2 (35:05):
At first, Mark the state down and then Mark is
always it's just like it's like hanging out with a
long lost.
Speaker 3 (35:12):
Brother approaching my fortieth year here for yeah, forty years. Wow, Wow, amazing.
You're really holding up well too. Thank you. You're doing great.
Speaker 4 (35:20):
Yeah, I have the skin of a fetus. It's wonderful.
Speaker 3 (35:24):
Love you guys. I'll talk to you tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (35:26):
Kf I am six forty on demand
Popular Podcasts
Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang
Ding dong! Join your culture consultants, Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang, on an unforgettable journey into the beating heart of CULTURE. Alongside sizzling special guests, they GET INTO the hottest pop-culture moments of the day and the formative cultural experiences that turned them into Culturistas. Produced by the Big Money Players Network and iHeartRadio.
Crime Junkie
Does hearing about a true crime case always leave you scouring the internet for the truth behind the story? Dive into your next mystery with Crime Junkie. Every Monday, join your host Ashley Flowers as she unravels all the details of infamous and underreported true crime cases with her best friend Brit Prawat. From cold cases to missing persons and heroes in our community who seek justice, Crime Junkie is your destination for theories and stories you won’t hear anywhere else. Whether you're a seasoned true crime enthusiast or new to the genre, you'll find yourself on the edge of your seat awaiting a new episode every Monday. If you can never get enough true crime... Congratulations, you’ve found your people. Follow to join a community of Crime Junkies! Crime Junkie is presented by Audiochuck Media Company.
The Brothers Ortiz
The Brothers Ortiz is the story of two brothers–both successful, but in very different ways. Gabe Ortiz becomes a third-highest ranking officer in all of Texas while his younger brother Larry climbs the ranks in Puro Tango Blast, a notorious Texas Prison gang. Gabe doesn’t know all the details of his brother’s nefarious dealings, and he’s made a point not to ask, to protect their relationship. But when Larry is murdered during a home invasion in a rented beach house, Gabe has no choice but to look into what happened that night. To solve Larry’s murder, Gabe, and the whole Ortiz family, must ask each other tough questions.