December 28, 2025 • 27 mins
In the final hour of the 'best of', Chris Merrill's got a lively discussion going on about the world of streaming services. He's sharing his own experiences with subscription fatigue and the rise of ad-supported tiers. Chris talks about how he's rotating through services to avoid overspending, and how this trend might impact the future of content creation. He also dives into the world of rebooting classic TV shows, discussing the challenges and possibilities of reviving iconic series.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to KFI AM sixty on demand, Chris.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Merril, I am sixty.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
We've got the incomparable doctor Wendy Waals joining us at seven.
Doctor Wendy after dark. She gets dirty after dark, Doctor
Wendy dirty after dark.
Speaker 4 (00:23):
No, I don't think it gets I don't really think
it's dirty.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Now, could you tell her to work on that? No
step upper game a little bit.
Speaker 5 (00:32):
I will not do that now. Sex Cells does it
in five Yeah, stuff out there? Yeah right, and we
got ratings to think about. You know, we all talk
to her.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Yeah, we do, we do.
Speaker 6 (00:49):
Chris Merrill's show is absolutely terrific. Makes sense. They are
barely paying him a living wage. Ratings be damned. He
marches on, Oh.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Yeah, maybe we don't have to worry about ratings.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Work cheap apparently.
Speaker 7 (01:09):
Not, thanks Jim.
Speaker 8 (01:11):
I like that he's concerned about your wages though. That's
been a love that too.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
Yeah sounds like a crush, Like you're like his concerned
that I can't make my pain, but I really care
about it.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Well, you nailed that one too.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
You know what people are doing now to save money
because streaming service is getting They are getting coke, razy,
stupid expensive. They keep jumping up. Every time I turn around,
they're raising the price again. And now I think I
think HBO is like nineteen to eighteen or nineteen dollars
if you want no commercials. Netflix is the same thing
if you want no commercials. And for Pete's sake, there's
(01:48):
so much buzz. And credit to the studios and the
streamers for creating buzz around their products and getting us
all talking about it. But you get this, you get
this fomo right, Like, oh man, I don't want to
miss out on it. So this new show is out,
and I want to miss out on this. Well it
got us. My wife called. She says, you know what
I want for Christmas? And I said, um, gonna guess
it's expensive. She goes, no, it's Netflix. I go, yeah,
(02:10):
that's expensive. So I have Netflix again. But honestly, there
were a bunch of shows that had come out since
I canceled it almost two years ago that I thought, Okay,
well I'd like to see that. So you know, I'm
trying to catch up on Wednesday, and I restarted Stranger
Things out on these things. You did this fomo right,
But the stuff is so stupid expensive. But then as
(02:30):
soon as you drop it, you're like, oh, should I
kept that? Oh maybe I shouldn't have dropped that one.
So actually you can drop it. You can and some
people are employing a new tactics. It's called churning. So
it's the end of fomo subscriptions. You don't feel like
you have to pay for every app just to stay current.
(02:52):
Subscription fatigue is real. Rotating services lets you chase only
what you actually want.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
It makes perfect sense for me.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
I'm always just worried that I end up in one
of those commercials where they're like, did you know you
had three Netflix subscriptions? Like, oh, oh yeah, So instead
of instead of subscribing to all the different streamers, a
lot of people are rotating subscriptions. Subscribers watch the show
or they watch the content, they binge everything they want
on one platform, then they cancel it, then they sign
up for another service, go watch a different show, binge
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that for a while, then cancel them, then sign up
and lather wins, repeat, right, and so what some people
what this is part of the reason you've got the
ads supported tears because they don't like people churning. So
they go, okay, well, you know what rather than signing
up for US for eighteen dollars and then signing up
for HBO for eighteen dollars, and the signing up for
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Paramount for twelve dollars and Hulu.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
For whatever you know, you get it.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
I don't even know how much these things break down
to now, because everything's bundled together with the Disney Hulu
ESPN or you get Disney Hulu Max and I've got
I got Apple and Peacock now offered a bundle together.
So I couldn't even tell you what the breakdown is
on these now. I know that's poor accounting on my part.
I just don't have the energy, and as long as
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my wife is happy, then I just keep it. And
if I don't have any money in the bank at
the end of the month, then I skip something that month.
You know, I walk to work instead of buying gas
or something. Just keep the wife happy, that's the point.
Keep the wife happy. But this is part of the
reason they went to the AD supported tears. I also
think a big reason they went to the AD supported
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tears is so that they could raise the price and
get more money out of us for those of us
that didn't want to watch the ads in the first place.
But we've really gotten to that point where we're almost
back to where we were when.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
We had cable.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
The difference is, for now there are really great original
content programs coming out on the streaming services. My concern
is as we start to see all this consolidation happening
and they start to hit peak subscribership and more and
more people start churning subscriptions, My worry is that it's
(05:07):
going to go downhill fast and if all of a
sudden they go, how do we get a few more
dollars out of these people that they're gonna start saying, Man,
we don't need to put so much money into our production.
Maybe we don't pay those good directors, Maybe we don't
pay those great writers.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Maybe we would just come up with more reality shows,
love Island for everyone.
Speaker 9 (05:29):
Yeah, I've actually got a bigger fit. I've actually got
a fair as well that go on with So I
have an AMC pass typically, but I just canceled it,
and I think, you know, allowed to resubscribe to AMC
like AMC to see movies in the theater for six months,
and I always right, I worried that the streaming services
will eventually do that and not let you cancel in
(05:51):
and out as easily, because I do the churning thing
interesting myself.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
I'm really interested. Boy would they do that? And if
they all did that at once, that would look like collusion,
which is a no no in the free market system
that we have. However, man, are they willing to chase
(06:20):
seven dollars this month and seven dollars three months from now?
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Or are they willing to say you can't come back? Oh? Boy,
that's good.
Speaker 8 (06:30):
It's a tough question because people start making the deal,
like I really want to see strange of things, right,
I guess I'll I guess I'll subscribe for six months,
even though I can get through it in two weeks.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Yeah, huh, that's interesting that they would do that.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
I have noticed that anytime I go to subscribe dump
a subscription, they an't offer me a cheaper price.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
That just happened to me with Peacock because I had
a I had it last year.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
They were offering it for two dollars a month, and
so I set my I do this, I set my
calendar in to remind me to cancel it, and I did,
And then they now offer it as a package with
Apple TV. So I picked it up through Apple TV
and it basically cost me about the same again. However,
when I went to cancel it, they said, oh, did
(07:16):
we tell you we were gonna charge one hundred dollars
next year? Well what if we made that like forty dollars?
And it's like okay, So a lot of these places
will give you a discount if you if you threaten
to cancel.
Speaker 8 (07:26):
Which makes me think that, oh that they were overcharging
me to begin with, one.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Hundred percent agree with you. Absolutely.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
It irks me when I get those those deals because
then I'm like, why'd you writ me off for the
last year?
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Then turds?
Speaker 3 (07:42):
All right, more of your your talkbacks on what is
the show you'd like to see rebooted?
Speaker 2 (07:47):
That is next we continue. There's no business like shelf business.
It's Chris Merril.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
On the talkback tonight, if you're on the iHeartRadio, I
put that talkback button and let us know what is
the show you would love to see rebooted?
Speaker 2 (08:05):
If we have a Netflix, Warner.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
New Merger conglomeration, whatever you want to call it, or
Warner Brothers paramount. And let's say that you got a
bunch of creative sitting around going, how are we gonna
watch this thing? What can we do you to make
a splash? How do we make some money real fast?
What is it you would like to see them reboot?
Speaker 10 (08:22):
Hi, Chris, I left your message earlier.
Speaker 7 (08:24):
I thought of one more that is right up there
on my list, which would be six feet under.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Oh yeah, right, huh?
Speaker 3 (08:34):
And hey, you guys are talking about remakes of television programs.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Yeah, the one.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
That I think i'd like to see really happen is Bewitched,
a modern day version of Bewitched.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
You can put some cool actress in there and have
all kind of crazy things going on. Yeah, they did
the movie, right, Who would we have play?
Speaker 5 (08:54):
Would Margot Robbie playgot Robbie?
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Right?
Speaker 7 (08:58):
Yeah, Margot Robbi would be perfect.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Man, I hate it when you when I think of like,
I think we've been working to go to that is dangerous.
Speaker 7 (09:07):
Well, she would be perfect. I think that's just undeni. Yeah,
if you think anybody else just I don't know what
you're doing.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
Isla Fisher, Oh, Isla Fisher would be good. Isla Fisher
would be good. Actually, I can think of a few.
Speaker 7 (09:21):
I have to calm down, like Robbie and then stop.
Fisher's good.
Speaker 8 (09:27):
Well, you could put Margot Robby in anything. That'd be amazing.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
That's true.
Speaker 11 (09:30):
Yeah, Chris, Yes, let's go last name, first, first name,
last Okay, narrow, Christmas.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
Meryl, Christmas, everybody.
Speaker 11 (09:43):
And Chris is very full of care for all that's
right and those of you who have listened to talk
radio for a while. Yes, those about his hidden talents
and the interviews he used to do.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Way back when I think that I have no idea.
They were awesome. Oh I have a good one, thank you.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
I don't know what he's talking about, christ on us.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (10:09):
Is this like code language? Like is your secret talent
in interviews? Like meaning something else like an innuendo or something.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Interview means porn? No, it is not.
Speaker 7 (10:18):
I was just trying to get to the bottom interviews.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
They were very long. Yeah, uh no, what interviews did
I do?
Speaker 7 (10:31):
I got you some good ones you did.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
I do like doing interviews.
Speaker 7 (10:37):
You're great at them.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
I like doing interviews, especially when I can interview somebody
about themselves. I'd like to do more biographical interviews. But yeah,
that has to be interesting people.
Speaker 11 (10:48):
Than watching a show called Joan of Arcadia.
Speaker 12 (10:53):
I really love it.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
That was fun.
Speaker 11 (10:54):
Also, Twin Peaks is showing on the same channels because
me be pleasant very good?
Speaker 3 (11:03):
Yeah, is it me TV Plus? Isn't that like the
it's the free over the ear channel?
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Hey, Chris, hey need to do a reboot of Emergency.
We need a little more Johnny and Roy in our lives.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
Oh, there you go. You're going to old school. There's
like a seventies medical drama, Tayla. It's right up your alley.
Speaker 7 (11:22):
Yeah, man, I gotta check that one out.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
I'll tell you what. You are a millennial. You're in
a millennial body. But you're you're obviously a boomer.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
You're a boomer. Yes you are? Yeah, I am, Yeah
you are.
Speaker 7 (11:33):
No argument.
Speaker 8 (11:33):
But going Back to the Pit just came out, So
I feel like that's, oh.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
Yeah, that's basically reboot, yeah with a modern twist.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
Yeah, although Emergency was they were paramedics, so it's it'd
be more like a Chicago fire or something.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
Okay, one of those.
Speaker 12 (11:53):
Hey, Chris, I finally thought of a TV show like
come Back and it is. Yeah, children, I mean, who
doesn't love al Bundy.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
Who Yeah, everybody loves al Bundy.
Speaker 12 (12:04):
Probably a new cast though I don't know if you'd
supporth to do with the same cast, but definitely that
show in that format should come back.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
The trouble with a show like that, and for many
of you, you're listing shows that are great, they're iconic.
I think the hard part with rebooting an iconic show
is that you're forever comparing the reboot to the original,
And so either you do it exactly like the original
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and you have actors that knock it out of the park,
or you put a twist on it and we all go,
that's not that's not how they did it in the original.
That's not how they did it. Doing a good reboot
is hard, really hard to do. Like, for instance, could
your reboot Cheers? I don't know that you could. I
(12:55):
don't know that you can reboot Cheers. Could you reboot Seinfeld?
Forget the argument that, oh, you could never do Seinfeld today?
Yeah you could. You can redo anything you want as
long as there's ratings. You're gonna have people complaining about
whatever you put on the air. Somebody's gonna say it's
too woke, somebody's gonna say it's not woke enough. Doesn't matter,
you're gonna have complaints. It's all about are people watching it?
Are you getting eyeballs on it? Is it making you money?
(13:17):
But I don't think you could reboot Seinfeld today because
you couldn't get someone who like Jason Alexander, who played
George Costanza the way that he did. You couldn't find
another Cramer. You couldn't find another uh uh uh uh?
Speaker 2 (13:31):
What was their name?
Speaker 12 (13:32):
Not?
Speaker 2 (13:32):
All I'm thinking is Eileen? Now? What was that?
Speaker 3 (13:35):
What was Julian leuied Riifus's character's name, Kayla in Seinfeld? Elaine, Elaine.
All I can think was Eileen.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Eileen just left? Okay.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
Sometimes sometimes you surprise me. Sometimes you surprised me in
a bad way. I don't know how you didn't know
that I was. But then again I didn't know it either.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
Say I can really point at you.
Speaker 13 (13:58):
You, sir, are an get off the radio.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
Yeah that's fair. More of your talkbacks. And we're going
down a dark, dark hole. It starts it's a game
on your phone, and it ends with you living in
a box. Now, researchers are warning this game is turning
very dark and it's it's growing for a group of
young men. Find out what it is next, Chris Merrill.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
You're listening to KFI AM sixty on demand.
Speaker 14 (14:28):
Under the tree.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
Oh, you can't play this on you can't play this. No,
you can't do this one. This is how dare you?
You can't do this?
Speaker 12 (14:38):
Christmas is not the same anymore.
Speaker 11 (14:39):
You know all those gingerbread houses you used to make, Well,
now they have an ad a gingerbread ADU on the back.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
I kind of like that one. Actually.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
I mean they're charging thirty two hundred bucks a month
rent on it. But yeah, they've got the gingerbread ADU
in the back. Totally U, absolutely true.
Speaker 12 (15:01):
All right, more bumper music suggestions.
Speaker 8 (15:05):
How about Santa Baby?
Speaker 2 (15:06):
No, we can't do that. No, all they just played that.
I told him he can't play Santa Baby?
Speaker 8 (15:11):
What was wrong with Santa Baby?
Speaker 2 (15:12):
It's that's the rape song Santa Baby. Oh no, that's
the cold outside, isn't it? Yeah? That's Wowaby is just
a super sexy one. Right.
Speaker 8 (15:23):
I was like, we could play this.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
What's going on? Sorry I boned that one up.
Speaker 7 (15:29):
Yeah, but it's okay.
Speaker 4 (15:30):
Maybe it is inappropriate Santa Baby, slip it one under
about what.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
That's right crazy? You know what?
Speaker 3 (15:37):
That's inappropriate too, and banning that one all love songs
about all love songs are banned.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
Wasn't Santa Baby? Was that earth of kit It was?
She has a sexiest voice. God, she had a sexy voice.
Wasn't she she was a catwoman or something too? And
she was? I got that right?
Speaker 8 (15:57):
Yeah, the Autumn West one, yeah, right, right right.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
It's a good looking lady right there, good looking lady.
All right? From the talkbacks, you.
Speaker 12 (16:08):
Got some kind of the speech and panim it you
sound like a great.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
What Cayla? Did you swipe left on that guy? Is
that the problem?
Speaker 7 (16:19):
That guy is not somebody that's fun to be a right.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
He does not. He's not in the festive Christmas spirit.
Speaker 7 (16:25):
I bet everybody probably swipes left on him. He's pretty nasty.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Ye.
Speaker 14 (16:32):
Good evening, Chris and Company at air. My most enjoyable
evenings for Christmas would be after I have been doing
shopping at Frederick of Hollywood for my girlfriend and we
had a fashion show in the store. We opened a
couple of bottles of my best champagne and start the insanity. Ah, yes,
(16:57):
good times indeed.
Speaker 15 (17:04):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
Kayla, did you you ever do a little you take
your bottle of champagne and go do a fashion show
without actually buying the lingerie?
Speaker 7 (17:13):
Yeah, we're playing Dracula and Dracula's wife. When we did it,
you did? It was so much fun.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Come on, you did, didn't you?
Speaker 11 (17:21):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (17:21):
Yeah? Who hasn't?
Speaker 2 (17:23):
Do you know? That reminds me of this story.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
It's not a it's not a Halloween store or excuse me,
a holiday story.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
My wofe drags me into the Hallmark store.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
Now you have to understand I am every bit as
a miserable person in real life as I am on
the air. I am just absolutely a curmudgeon, and my
poor wife deals with me. But also i'd begrudgingly go
along with whatever nonsense she wants to do. So she goes, well,
let's go into the Hallmark store. And I just go, No,
that sounds like absolute hell to me, and she goes,
(17:56):
it is get and I guess, ma'am, so I go.
But it's brutal. So we're walking around the Hallmark store.
She's looking at nick Knacks and other crap, and and
I start wandering around, which I have to do, and
I go and I find some card, some mushy, lovey
(18:19):
dovey crap card. And so I picked this card up
and I put it in an envelope and I took
it over to my wife and I said, sweetheart, I
got you a card, but I want to save us
some money, so I'm not going to buy it. And
she read the card and she's like, that was really sweet.
And you know me, you know that we didn't need
to spend money on that card.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
That was so sweet.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
And I thought, I'm just doing this thing to be obnoxious,
and somehow it backfired and I turned out to be
a great guy. God that stinks, because you know the
next time, she's been like, let's go to Hallmark again
and you can do something sweet for me one more.
Speaker 4 (18:56):
Time, because you are a great guy, Christopher. No matter
how much you try to.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
No, it's not there. Sorry, you can keep trying, is
just not there. No. In fact, I believe I believe.
Speaker 7 (19:07):
You, sir, are an idiot.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
That's right.
Speaker 7 (19:11):
That's what I'm God bless that person.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
That's what I'm all about.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
So yeah, when he said that, I was like, he
was talking about going into Fredericks of Ollywood and just
taking champagne with him. That's outstanding. You cheap pervert. Oh
the only thing worse than a pervert is a cheap pervert.
You nailed it, my friend, man after my own heart
kind of like that, dude. Uh Cale, what's the deal
(19:37):
with the doctor Wendy? Is she ready to go tonight?
Speaker 7 (19:39):
She was born ready to go tonight?
Speaker 2 (19:40):
Okay, I just.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
Want to make sure because Ali's been on me all
night about being late to my commercial breaks.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
I thought, I thought, I thought.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
You know what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna I'm
gonna actually be on time and make sure I've got
extra time for doctor Wendy as long as she's ready.
Speaker 4 (19:53):
She think she's pretty ready.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
I have a heck of a I have a heck
of a question for her tonight.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
You thought swiping left and right was exhausting, There is
something you can do to take some the stress off
of the dating apps. You get someone else to manage
your dating life. That's where some burned out singles have
ended up in the age of Bumble and Tinder and
only ematch Mingle. But it's who they're putting in charge.
It's giving the hinge cringe.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
That is next you're listening to KFI AM six forty
on demand.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
You guys have been doing a really good job tonight
with the talkbacks. I always love it when you hit
the talkbacks. Let us know what you're thinking, questions, comments, quips, quotes, criticisms, compliments,
and if you play along, that's a lot of fun too.
Speaker 15 (20:40):
Hi, Chris, Hi, What I think about those individuals who
call up saying nasty things? They are insecure, petty, miserable
little people who enjoy tearing other people down. But you
were absolutely phenomenal.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
I mean, she's kind of describing my personality there for
a while.
Speaker 15 (21:00):
You're witty, you're smart, you're entertaining, and I love your politics.
Speaker 10 (21:05):
You want marry Mary Christmas?
Speaker 3 (21:07):
Yeah, everybody loves your policy. Everybody loves somebody else in
politics till you hear something they don't like.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
So but I love you. Thank you so much. You're
the best.
Speaker 13 (21:14):
I've had enough of Christmas. The sentimentality, the sadness, the
gift buy Yes, I'm going pagan from now on. You'll
season it starts tonight, twelve days and it seems like
it's gonna be a lot of fun. Light some candles, yeah,
make some information, Yeah, dance in the moonlight one night naked.
I'm going totally pagan I'm done with Christmas.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
All right, I'd give it a shot. Yeah, let's do
some naked moonlight dancing. Of course the cities you see me,
you're going to write back to Christianity and you're gonna
be the biggest prude you ever saw. Like whoa Paganism
means seeing that guy naked dancing in the moonlight.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
That ain't pretty? And where was the shadow on that thing?
Speaker 3 (21:57):
At seven o'clock tonight, you are to hear the whimsical
musings of one doctor Wendy Walsh.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
She joins us. Right now, doctor Wendy, I gotta get something.
Speaker 10 (22:07):
Did you say whimsical?
Speaker 2 (22:08):
You're whimsical?
Speaker 3 (22:10):
You got something out of the way here real quick,
because uh uh, you know, I think kill and I
figured we've been together like three years or something, three
four years something.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
I have no idea. Is she not the best? I
know you've been with her even a little bit longer,
but I absolutely will.
Speaker 16 (22:23):
You don't even know. This woman is worth her weight
in gold. So she keeps losing weight, but the gold
value goes up.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
Yeah, we give her a hard time because she posts
on her Instagram her workouts, which usually has there's a
huge amount of vanity there, but she takes it like
a champ when I give.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
Her a hand.
Speaker 10 (22:41):
Now she's just working out and the camera happens to
be there.
Speaker 7 (22:44):
Wendy, I just want to most but you don't.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
Yeah, well you don't, and you look great and you're
doing fantastic and I love you to death.
Speaker 7 (22:49):
I love you, Christopher, thank you.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
Yeah, I don't know where this show would deal there.
Speaker 10 (22:53):
I'm adopting her, that's fine.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
And then Allie is absolutely been one of the greatest
additions that we've had of twenty twenty five. He's say,
he's one of the things I'm thankful for this year.
So Ollie, thanks pal, you're you're doing that than you? Yeah,
you say that.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
Now wait until you screw it up and I get
your ask hannd Hey, you know of christ he would
not do that.
Speaker 3 (23:15):
I would absolutely do it first chance I get. Nothing
makes me happier than other people's misery.
Speaker 10 (23:19):
He is lying.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
I am lying. I'm totally lying. I was reading the
story and I wanted to run this by you, doctor, Wendy.
Singles are getting burned out and they're tired of doing
the whole online dating thing, which I totally get. But
they don't want to necessarily get out of the online
dating pool, so they're actually turning to other people to
run their.
Speaker 10 (23:37):
Profiles, like AI.
Speaker 3 (23:40):
Well, that would actually make more sense to me. And
in some cases you'd think that they would go to
their friends. No, many are going to their family members.
So they're having weekly family swiping sessions in creating that Yes,
heated debates, grammar policing, and veto power on different matches.
I like going match with this guy and mom doesn't
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like him. This kind of stuff. Some parents are even
springing for premium app features to help weed out the
riff raff.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
The parents are paying for the dating stuff, nice, they say.
Speaker 3 (24:11):
Parental involvement has in some cases led to real relationships,
like a dad approved hinge match that sparked a move over.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
Seas Oh yeah.
Speaker 3 (24:20):
One participant compares the family process to an interactive bachelorette,
suggesting the dating apps are less about romance and more about.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
The group critique.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
Sounds to me like they're all just sitting around and
that's basically the dating life has become the reality show
for the family.
Speaker 16 (24:34):
I'm saying, you loved it you, I love it, and
I'll tell you why please. So, first of all, we're
in a mating crisis, big old mating crisis, and we
actually are not replacing the population, have not been for
a while. Parents are upset because they don't have grandkids.
The government's upset because they're not having young there in
a few years, not enough young workers paying into the
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system to help the older people. And I've always said
relationships are a bridge between tribes, and the best relationships
begin within the tribe. In the olden days, you lived
in a small town or village and there was a
small dating pool and it was kind of tribe approved
in some way. And so now it's a weird thing
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to meet a stranger who is not part of your tribe,
not part of anything.
Speaker 10 (25:21):
And so it's it's good the more people can weigh.
Speaker 16 (25:23):
In, because the other thing is when somebody has a crush,
it's like they put on rose colored glasses. Love really
is a delusion, and they can't see. They just go,
oh my god, there's a gorgeous and they're are texting
me so nicely. I love that, and they're like, uh,
he doesn't have a job. Okay, you're not dating it right,
So I love this. The more people get involved the best.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
So that feels like.
Speaker 3 (25:44):
As much as you're so positive about relationships, that feels
like a very dark take on.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
Somebody's tell you go on.
Speaker 16 (25:54):
Relationships are the most important decision you will ever make
in your lifespan.
Speaker 10 (26:00):
And as much as love.
Speaker 16 (26:01):
Is filled with joy and pleasure, it can equally be
filled with danger. It can be dark. First of all,
one in four women will become victims of domestic violence.
When a woman is murdered, the most likely suspect is
her intimate partner. This is a life or death decision.
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Don't make light of it, Chris.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
I'm certainly not making light of it.
Speaker 3 (26:28):
Indeed, however, I feel as though you're putting too much
darkness on something that I think is very beautiful. I mean,
I can't disagree with the statistics, and they are terrifying.
Please let me preface it by saying that. But at
the same time, had my wife been overly scrutinius of
our early relationship, we wouldn't have been together for twenty
one years because she would have very quickly said this
guy's moron, which.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
She probably should have done.
Speaker 10 (26:49):
Yeah, but okay, have you cheated on her?
Speaker 8 (26:52):
Be honest?
Speaker 7 (26:52):
Okay?
Speaker 16 (26:53):
Have you gone into deep bankruptcy with her money and
spend her money wildly in a casino?
Speaker 12 (26:59):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (26:59):
No?
Speaker 10 (27:00):
Have you hit her?
Speaker 12 (27:01):
No?
Speaker 10 (27:01):
Have you abused the children?
Speaker 12 (27:03):
No?
Speaker 10 (27:04):
She chose.
Speaker 3 (27:04):
Well, that's a pretty low bar. Do I fulfill her emotionally?
Do I match her when she needs me?
Speaker 8 (27:15):
Do you know what?
Speaker 2 (27:16):
I'm constantly looking too much?
Speaker 10 (27:18):
We ask too much of our relationships. We ask too much.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
So really, the.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
Bar is so low that what we're going to let
invite our family in to make it a reality.
Speaker 10 (27:26):
Let's and still most men can't pass it.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
Well, that's all right. Doctor Wenday after Dark starts right
up at seven o'clock. Hey, I have a happy year.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
KFI AM sixty on demand
You're listening to KFI AM sixty on demand, Chris.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Merril, I am sixty.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
We've got the incomparable doctor Wendy Waals joining us at seven.
Doctor Wendy after dark. She gets dirty after dark, Doctor
Wendy dirty after dark.
Speaker 4 (00:23):
No, I don't think it gets I don't really think
it's dirty.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Now, could you tell her to work on that? No
step upper game a little bit.
Speaker 5 (00:32):
I will not do that now. Sex Cells does it
in five Yeah, stuff out there? Yeah right, and we
got ratings to think about. You know, we all talk
to her.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Yeah, we do, we do.
Speaker 6 (00:49):
Chris Merrill's show is absolutely terrific. Makes sense. They are
barely paying him a living wage. Ratings be damned. He
marches on, Oh.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Yeah, maybe we don't have to worry about ratings.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Work cheap apparently.
Speaker 7 (01:09):
Not, thanks Jim.
Speaker 8 (01:11):
I like that he's concerned about your wages though. That's
been a love that too.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
Yeah sounds like a crush, Like you're like his concerned
that I can't make my pain, but I really care
about it.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Well, you nailed that one too.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
You know what people are doing now to save money
because streaming service is getting They are getting coke, razy,
stupid expensive. They keep jumping up. Every time I turn around,
they're raising the price again. And now I think I
think HBO is like nineteen to eighteen or nineteen dollars
if you want no commercials. Netflix is the same thing
if you want no commercials. And for Pete's sake, there's
(01:48):
so much buzz. And credit to the studios and the
streamers for creating buzz around their products and getting us
all talking about it. But you get this, you get
this fomo right, Like, oh man, I don't want to
miss out on it. So this new show is out,
and I want to miss out on this. Well it
got us. My wife called. She says, you know what
I want for Christmas? And I said, um, gonna guess
it's expensive. She goes, no, it's Netflix. I go, yeah,
(02:10):
that's expensive. So I have Netflix again. But honestly, there
were a bunch of shows that had come out since
I canceled it almost two years ago that I thought, Okay,
well I'd like to see that. So you know, I'm
trying to catch up on Wednesday, and I restarted Stranger
Things out on these things. You did this fomo right,
But the stuff is so stupid expensive. But then as
(02:30):
soon as you drop it, you're like, oh, should I
kept that? Oh maybe I shouldn't have dropped that one.
So actually you can drop it. You can and some
people are employing a new tactics. It's called churning. So
it's the end of fomo subscriptions. You don't feel like
you have to pay for every app just to stay current.
(02:52):
Subscription fatigue is real. Rotating services lets you chase only
what you actually want.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
It makes perfect sense for me.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
I'm always just worried that I end up in one
of those commercials where they're like, did you know you
had three Netflix subscriptions? Like, oh, oh yeah, So instead
of instead of subscribing to all the different streamers, a
lot of people are rotating subscriptions. Subscribers watch the show
or they watch the content, they binge everything they want
on one platform, then they cancel it, then they sign
up for another service, go watch a different show, binge
(03:22):
that for a while, then cancel them, then sign up
and lather wins, repeat, right, and so what some people
what this is part of the reason you've got the
ads supported tears because they don't like people churning. So
they go, okay, well, you know what rather than signing
up for US for eighteen dollars and then signing up
for HBO for eighteen dollars, and the signing up for
(03:44):
Paramount for twelve dollars and Hulu.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
For whatever you know, you get it.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
I don't even know how much these things break down
to now, because everything's bundled together with the Disney Hulu
ESPN or you get Disney Hulu Max and I've got
I got Apple and Peacock now offered a bundle together.
So I couldn't even tell you what the breakdown is
on these now. I know that's poor accounting on my part.
I just don't have the energy, and as long as
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my wife is happy, then I just keep it. And
if I don't have any money in the bank at
the end of the month, then I skip something that month.
You know, I walk to work instead of buying gas
or something. Just keep the wife happy, that's the point.
Keep the wife happy. But this is part of the
reason they went to the AD supported tears. I also
think a big reason they went to the AD supported
(04:32):
tears is so that they could raise the price and
get more money out of us for those of us
that didn't want to watch the ads in the first place.
But we've really gotten to that point where we're almost
back to where we were when.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
We had cable.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
The difference is, for now there are really great original
content programs coming out on the streaming services. My concern
is as we start to see all this consolidation happening
and they start to hit peak subscribership and more and
more people start churning subscriptions, My worry is that it's
(05:07):
going to go downhill fast and if all of a
sudden they go, how do we get a few more
dollars out of these people that they're gonna start saying, Man,
we don't need to put so much money into our production.
Maybe we don't pay those good directors, Maybe we don't
pay those great writers.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Maybe we would just come up with more reality shows,
love Island for everyone.
Speaker 9 (05:29):
Yeah, I've actually got a bigger fit. I've actually got
a fair as well that go on with So I
have an AMC pass typically, but I just canceled it,
and I think, you know, allowed to resubscribe to AMC
like AMC to see movies in the theater for six months,
and I always right, I worried that the streaming services
will eventually do that and not let you cancel in
(05:51):
and out as easily, because I do the churning thing
interesting myself.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
I'm really interested. Boy would they do that? And if
they all did that at once, that would look like collusion,
which is a no no in the free market system
that we have. However, man, are they willing to chase
(06:20):
seven dollars this month and seven dollars three months from now?
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Or are they willing to say you can't come back? Oh? Boy,
that's good.
Speaker 8 (06:30):
It's a tough question because people start making the deal,
like I really want to see strange of things, right,
I guess I'll I guess I'll subscribe for six months,
even though I can get through it in two weeks.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Yeah, huh, that's interesting that they would do that.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
I have noticed that anytime I go to subscribe dump
a subscription, they an't offer me a cheaper price.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
That just happened to me with Peacock because I had
a I had it last year.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
They were offering it for two dollars a month, and
so I set my I do this, I set my
calendar in to remind me to cancel it, and I did,
And then they now offer it as a package with
Apple TV. So I picked it up through Apple TV
and it basically cost me about the same again. However,
when I went to cancel it, they said, oh, did
(07:16):
we tell you we were gonna charge one hundred dollars
next year? Well what if we made that like forty dollars?
And it's like okay, So a lot of these places
will give you a discount if you if you threaten
to cancel.
Speaker 8 (07:26):
Which makes me think that, oh that they were overcharging
me to begin with, one.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Hundred percent agree with you. Absolutely.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
It irks me when I get those those deals because
then I'm like, why'd you writ me off for the
last year?
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Then turds?
Speaker 3 (07:42):
All right, more of your your talkbacks on what is
the show you'd like to see rebooted?
Speaker 2 (07:47):
That is next we continue. There's no business like shelf business.
It's Chris Merril.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
On the talkback tonight, if you're on the iHeartRadio, I
put that talkback button and let us know what is
the show you would love to see rebooted?
Speaker 2 (08:05):
If we have a Netflix, Warner.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
New Merger conglomeration, whatever you want to call it, or
Warner Brothers paramount. And let's say that you got a
bunch of creative sitting around going, how are we gonna
watch this thing? What can we do you to make
a splash? How do we make some money real fast?
What is it you would like to see them reboot?
Speaker 10 (08:22):
Hi, Chris, I left your message earlier.
Speaker 7 (08:24):
I thought of one more that is right up there
on my list, which would be six feet under.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Oh yeah, right, huh?
Speaker 3 (08:34):
And hey, you guys are talking about remakes of television programs.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Yeah, the one.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
That I think i'd like to see really happen is Bewitched,
a modern day version of Bewitched.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
You can put some cool actress in there and have
all kind of crazy things going on. Yeah, they did
the movie, right, Who would we have play?
Speaker 5 (08:54):
Would Margot Robbie playgot Robbie?
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Right?
Speaker 7 (08:58):
Yeah, Margot Robbi would be perfect.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Man, I hate it when you when I think of like,
I think we've been working to go to that is dangerous.
Speaker 7 (09:07):
Well, she would be perfect. I think that's just undeni. Yeah,
if you think anybody else just I don't know what
you're doing.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
Isla Fisher, Oh, Isla Fisher would be good. Isla Fisher
would be good. Actually, I can think of a few.
Speaker 7 (09:21):
I have to calm down, like Robbie and then stop.
Fisher's good.
Speaker 8 (09:27):
Well, you could put Margot Robby in anything. That'd be amazing.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
That's true.
Speaker 11 (09:30):
Yeah, Chris, Yes, let's go last name, first, first name,
last Okay, narrow, Christmas.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
Meryl, Christmas, everybody.
Speaker 11 (09:43):
And Chris is very full of care for all that's
right and those of you who have listened to talk
radio for a while. Yes, those about his hidden talents
and the interviews he used to do.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Way back when I think that I have no idea.
They were awesome. Oh I have a good one, thank you.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
I don't know what he's talking about, christ on us.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (10:09):
Is this like code language? Like is your secret talent
in interviews? Like meaning something else like an innuendo or something.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Interview means porn? No, it is not.
Speaker 7 (10:18):
I was just trying to get to the bottom interviews.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
They were very long. Yeah, uh no, what interviews did
I do?
Speaker 7 (10:31):
I got you some good ones you did.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
I do like doing interviews.
Speaker 7 (10:37):
You're great at them.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
I like doing interviews, especially when I can interview somebody
about themselves. I'd like to do more biographical interviews. But yeah,
that has to be interesting people.
Speaker 11 (10:48):
Than watching a show called Joan of Arcadia.
Speaker 12 (10:53):
I really love it.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
That was fun.
Speaker 11 (10:54):
Also, Twin Peaks is showing on the same channels because
me be pleasant very good?
Speaker 3 (11:03):
Yeah, is it me TV Plus? Isn't that like the
it's the free over the ear channel?
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Hey, Chris, hey need to do a reboot of Emergency.
We need a little more Johnny and Roy in our lives.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
Oh, there you go. You're going to old school. There's
like a seventies medical drama, Tayla. It's right up your alley.
Speaker 7 (11:22):
Yeah, man, I gotta check that one out.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
I'll tell you what. You are a millennial. You're in
a millennial body. But you're you're obviously a boomer.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
You're a boomer. Yes you are? Yeah, I am, Yeah
you are.
Speaker 7 (11:33):
No argument.
Speaker 8 (11:33):
But going Back to the Pit just came out, So
I feel like that's, oh.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
Yeah, that's basically reboot, yeah with a modern twist.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
Yeah, although Emergency was they were paramedics, so it's it'd
be more like a Chicago fire or something.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
Okay, one of those.
Speaker 12 (11:53):
Hey, Chris, I finally thought of a TV show like
come Back and it is. Yeah, children, I mean, who
doesn't love al Bundy.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
Who Yeah, everybody loves al Bundy.
Speaker 12 (12:04):
Probably a new cast though I don't know if you'd
supporth to do with the same cast, but definitely that
show in that format should come back.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
The trouble with a show like that, and for many
of you, you're listing shows that are great, they're iconic.
I think the hard part with rebooting an iconic show
is that you're forever comparing the reboot to the original,
And so either you do it exactly like the original
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and you have actors that knock it out of the park,
or you put a twist on it and we all go,
that's not that's not how they did it in the original.
That's not how they did it. Doing a good reboot
is hard, really hard to do. Like, for instance, could
your reboot Cheers? I don't know that you could. I
(12:55):
don't know that you can reboot Cheers. Could you reboot Seinfeld?
Forget the argument that, oh, you could never do Seinfeld today?
Yeah you could. You can redo anything you want as
long as there's ratings. You're gonna have people complaining about
whatever you put on the air. Somebody's gonna say it's
too woke, somebody's gonna say it's not woke enough. Doesn't matter,
you're gonna have complaints. It's all about are people watching it?
Are you getting eyeballs on it? Is it making you money?
(13:17):
But I don't think you could reboot Seinfeld today because
you couldn't get someone who like Jason Alexander, who played
George Costanza the way that he did. You couldn't find
another Cramer. You couldn't find another uh uh uh uh?
Speaker 2 (13:31):
What was their name?
Speaker 12 (13:32):
Not?
Speaker 2 (13:32):
All I'm thinking is Eileen? Now? What was that?
Speaker 3 (13:35):
What was Julian leuied Riifus's character's name, Kayla in Seinfeld? Elaine, Elaine.
All I can think was Eileen.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Eileen just left? Okay.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
Sometimes sometimes you surprise me. Sometimes you surprised me in
a bad way. I don't know how you didn't know
that I was. But then again I didn't know it either.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
Say I can really point at you.
Speaker 13 (13:58):
You, sir, are an get off the radio.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
Yeah that's fair. More of your talkbacks. And we're going
down a dark, dark hole. It starts it's a game
on your phone, and it ends with you living in
a box. Now, researchers are warning this game is turning
very dark and it's it's growing for a group of
young men. Find out what it is next, Chris Merrill.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
You're listening to KFI AM sixty on demand.
Speaker 14 (14:28):
Under the tree.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
Oh, you can't play this on you can't play this. No,
you can't do this one. This is how dare you?
You can't do this?
Speaker 12 (14:38):
Christmas is not the same anymore.
Speaker 11 (14:39):
You know all those gingerbread houses you used to make, Well,
now they have an ad a gingerbread ADU on the back.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
I kind of like that one. Actually.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
I mean they're charging thirty two hundred bucks a month
rent on it. But yeah, they've got the gingerbread ADU
in the back. Totally U, absolutely true.
Speaker 12 (15:01):
All right, more bumper music suggestions.
Speaker 8 (15:05):
How about Santa Baby?
Speaker 2 (15:06):
No, we can't do that. No, all they just played that.
I told him he can't play Santa Baby?
Speaker 8 (15:11):
What was wrong with Santa Baby?
Speaker 2 (15:12):
It's that's the rape song Santa Baby. Oh no, that's
the cold outside, isn't it? Yeah? That's Wowaby is just
a super sexy one. Right.
Speaker 8 (15:23):
I was like, we could play this.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
What's going on? Sorry I boned that one up.
Speaker 7 (15:29):
Yeah, but it's okay.
Speaker 4 (15:30):
Maybe it is inappropriate Santa Baby, slip it one under
about what.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
That's right crazy? You know what?
Speaker 3 (15:37):
That's inappropriate too, and banning that one all love songs
about all love songs are banned.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
Wasn't Santa Baby? Was that earth of kit It was?
She has a sexiest voice. God, she had a sexy voice.
Wasn't she she was a catwoman or something too? And
she was? I got that right?
Speaker 8 (15:57):
Yeah, the Autumn West one, yeah, right, right right.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
It's a good looking lady right there, good looking lady.
All right? From the talkbacks, you.
Speaker 12 (16:08):
Got some kind of the speech and panim it you
sound like a great.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
What Cayla? Did you swipe left on that guy? Is
that the problem?
Speaker 7 (16:19):
That guy is not somebody that's fun to be a right.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
He does not. He's not in the festive Christmas spirit.
Speaker 7 (16:25):
I bet everybody probably swipes left on him. He's pretty nasty.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Ye.
Speaker 14 (16:32):
Good evening, Chris and Company at air. My most enjoyable
evenings for Christmas would be after I have been doing
shopping at Frederick of Hollywood for my girlfriend and we
had a fashion show in the store. We opened a
couple of bottles of my best champagne and start the insanity. Ah, yes,
(16:57):
good times indeed.
Speaker 15 (17:04):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
Kayla, did you you ever do a little you take
your bottle of champagne and go do a fashion show
without actually buying the lingerie?
Speaker 7 (17:13):
Yeah, we're playing Dracula and Dracula's wife. When we did it,
you did? It was so much fun.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Come on, you did, didn't you?
Speaker 11 (17:21):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (17:21):
Yeah? Who hasn't?
Speaker 2 (17:23):
Do you know? That reminds me of this story.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
It's not a it's not a Halloween store or excuse me,
a holiday story.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
My wofe drags me into the Hallmark store.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
Now you have to understand I am every bit as
a miserable person in real life as I am on
the air. I am just absolutely a curmudgeon, and my
poor wife deals with me. But also i'd begrudgingly go
along with whatever nonsense she wants to do. So she goes, well,
let's go into the Hallmark store. And I just go, No,
that sounds like absolute hell to me, and she goes,
(17:56):
it is get and I guess, ma'am, so I go.
But it's brutal. So we're walking around the Hallmark store.
She's looking at nick Knacks and other crap, and and
I start wandering around, which I have to do, and
I go and I find some card, some mushy, lovey
(18:19):
dovey crap card. And so I picked this card up
and I put it in an envelope and I took
it over to my wife and I said, sweetheart, I
got you a card, but I want to save us
some money, so I'm not going to buy it. And
she read the card and she's like, that was really sweet.
And you know me, you know that we didn't need
to spend money on that card.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
That was so sweet.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
And I thought, I'm just doing this thing to be obnoxious,
and somehow it backfired and I turned out to be
a great guy. God that stinks, because you know the
next time, she's been like, let's go to Hallmark again
and you can do something sweet for me one more.
Speaker 4 (18:56):
Time, because you are a great guy, Christopher. No matter
how much you try to.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
No, it's not there. Sorry, you can keep trying, is
just not there. No. In fact, I believe I believe.
Speaker 7 (19:07):
You, sir, are an idiot.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
That's right.
Speaker 7 (19:11):
That's what I'm God bless that person.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
That's what I'm all about.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
So yeah, when he said that, I was like, he
was talking about going into Fredericks of Ollywood and just
taking champagne with him. That's outstanding. You cheap pervert. Oh
the only thing worse than a pervert is a cheap pervert.
You nailed it, my friend, man after my own heart
kind of like that, dude. Uh Cale, what's the deal
(19:37):
with the doctor Wendy? Is she ready to go tonight?
Speaker 7 (19:39):
She was born ready to go tonight?
Speaker 2 (19:40):
Okay, I just.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
Want to make sure because Ali's been on me all
night about being late to my commercial breaks.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
I thought, I thought, I thought.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
You know what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna I'm
gonna actually be on time and make sure I've got
extra time for doctor Wendy as long as she's ready.
Speaker 4 (19:53):
She think she's pretty ready.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
I have a heck of a I have a heck
of a question for her tonight.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
You thought swiping left and right was exhausting, There is
something you can do to take some the stress off
of the dating apps. You get someone else to manage
your dating life. That's where some burned out singles have
ended up in the age of Bumble and Tinder and
only ematch Mingle. But it's who they're putting in charge.
It's giving the hinge cringe.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
That is next you're listening to KFI AM six forty
on demand.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
You guys have been doing a really good job tonight
with the talkbacks. I always love it when you hit
the talkbacks. Let us know what you're thinking, questions, comments, quips, quotes, criticisms, compliments,
and if you play along, that's a lot of fun too.
Speaker 15 (20:40):
Hi, Chris, Hi, What I think about those individuals who
call up saying nasty things? They are insecure, petty, miserable
little people who enjoy tearing other people down. But you
were absolutely phenomenal.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
I mean, she's kind of describing my personality there for
a while.
Speaker 15 (21:00):
You're witty, you're smart, you're entertaining, and I love your politics.
Speaker 10 (21:05):
You want marry Mary Christmas?
Speaker 3 (21:07):
Yeah, everybody loves your policy. Everybody loves somebody else in
politics till you hear something they don't like.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
So but I love you. Thank you so much. You're
the best.
Speaker 13 (21:14):
I've had enough of Christmas. The sentimentality, the sadness, the
gift buy Yes, I'm going pagan from now on. You'll
season it starts tonight, twelve days and it seems like
it's gonna be a lot of fun. Light some candles, yeah,
make some information, Yeah, dance in the moonlight one night naked.
I'm going totally pagan I'm done with Christmas.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
All right, I'd give it a shot. Yeah, let's do
some naked moonlight dancing. Of course the cities you see me,
you're going to write back to Christianity and you're gonna
be the biggest prude you ever saw. Like whoa Paganism
means seeing that guy naked dancing in the moonlight.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
That ain't pretty? And where was the shadow on that thing?
Speaker 3 (21:57):
At seven o'clock tonight, you are to hear the whimsical
musings of one doctor Wendy Walsh.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
She joins us. Right now, doctor Wendy, I gotta get something.
Speaker 10 (22:07):
Did you say whimsical?
Speaker 2 (22:08):
You're whimsical?
Speaker 3 (22:10):
You got something out of the way here real quick,
because uh uh, you know, I think kill and I
figured we've been together like three years or something, three
four years something.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
I have no idea. Is she not the best? I
know you've been with her even a little bit longer,
but I absolutely will.
Speaker 16 (22:23):
You don't even know. This woman is worth her weight
in gold. So she keeps losing weight, but the gold
value goes up.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
Yeah, we give her a hard time because she posts
on her Instagram her workouts, which usually has there's a
huge amount of vanity there, but she takes it like
a champ when I give.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
Her a hand.
Speaker 10 (22:41):
Now she's just working out and the camera happens to
be there.
Speaker 7 (22:44):
Wendy, I just want to most but you don't.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
Yeah, well you don't, and you look great and you're
doing fantastic and I love you to death.
Speaker 7 (22:49):
I love you, Christopher, thank you.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
Yeah, I don't know where this show would deal there.
Speaker 10 (22:53):
I'm adopting her, that's fine.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
And then Allie is absolutely been one of the greatest
additions that we've had of twenty twenty five. He's say,
he's one of the things I'm thankful for this year.
So Ollie, thanks pal, you're you're doing that than you? Yeah,
you say that.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
Now wait until you screw it up and I get
your ask hannd Hey, you know of christ he would
not do that.
Speaker 3 (23:15):
I would absolutely do it first chance I get. Nothing
makes me happier than other people's misery.
Speaker 10 (23:19):
He is lying.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
I am lying. I'm totally lying. I was reading the
story and I wanted to run this by you, doctor, Wendy.
Singles are getting burned out and they're tired of doing
the whole online dating thing, which I totally get. But
they don't want to necessarily get out of the online
dating pool, so they're actually turning to other people to
run their.
Speaker 10 (23:37):
Profiles, like AI.
Speaker 3 (23:40):
Well, that would actually make more sense to me. And
in some cases you'd think that they would go to
their friends. No, many are going to their family members.
So they're having weekly family swiping sessions in creating that Yes,
heated debates, grammar policing, and veto power on different matches.
I like going match with this guy and mom doesn't
(24:01):
like him. This kind of stuff. Some parents are even
springing for premium app features to help weed out the
riff raff.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
The parents are paying for the dating stuff, nice, they say.
Speaker 3 (24:11):
Parental involvement has in some cases led to real relationships,
like a dad approved hinge match that sparked a move over.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
Seas Oh yeah.
Speaker 3 (24:20):
One participant compares the family process to an interactive bachelorette,
suggesting the dating apps are less about romance and more about.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
The group critique.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
Sounds to me like they're all just sitting around and
that's basically the dating life has become the reality show
for the family.
Speaker 16 (24:34):
I'm saying, you loved it you, I love it, and
I'll tell you why please. So, first of all, we're
in a mating crisis, big old mating crisis, and we
actually are not replacing the population, have not been for
a while. Parents are upset because they don't have grandkids.
The government's upset because they're not having young there in
a few years, not enough young workers paying into the
(24:55):
system to help the older people. And I've always said
relationships are a bridge between tribes, and the best relationships
begin within the tribe. In the olden days, you lived
in a small town or village and there was a
small dating pool and it was kind of tribe approved
in some way. And so now it's a weird thing
(25:16):
to meet a stranger who is not part of your tribe,
not part of anything.
Speaker 10 (25:21):
And so it's it's good the more people can weigh.
Speaker 16 (25:23):
In, because the other thing is when somebody has a crush,
it's like they put on rose colored glasses. Love really
is a delusion, and they can't see. They just go,
oh my god, there's a gorgeous and they're are texting
me so nicely. I love that, and they're like, uh,
he doesn't have a job. Okay, you're not dating it right,
So I love this. The more people get involved the best.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
So that feels like.
Speaker 3 (25:44):
As much as you're so positive about relationships, that feels
like a very dark take on.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
Somebody's tell you go on.
Speaker 16 (25:54):
Relationships are the most important decision you will ever make
in your lifespan.
Speaker 10 (26:00):
And as much as love.
Speaker 16 (26:01):
Is filled with joy and pleasure, it can equally be
filled with danger. It can be dark. First of all,
one in four women will become victims of domestic violence.
When a woman is murdered, the most likely suspect is
her intimate partner. This is a life or death decision.
(26:23):
Don't make light of it, Chris.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
I'm certainly not making light of it.
Speaker 3 (26:28):
Indeed, however, I feel as though you're putting too much
darkness on something that I think is very beautiful. I mean,
I can't disagree with the statistics, and they are terrifying.
Please let me preface it by saying that. But at
the same time, had my wife been overly scrutinius of
our early relationship, we wouldn't have been together for twenty
one years because she would have very quickly said this
guy's moron, which.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
She probably should have done.
Speaker 10 (26:49):
Yeah, but okay, have you cheated on her?
Speaker 8 (26:52):
Be honest?
Speaker 7 (26:52):
Okay?
Speaker 16 (26:53):
Have you gone into deep bankruptcy with her money and
spend her money wildly in a casino?
Speaker 12 (26:59):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (26:59):
No?
Speaker 10 (27:00):
Have you hit her?
Speaker 12 (27:01):
No?
Speaker 10 (27:01):
Have you abused the children?
Speaker 12 (27:03):
No?
Speaker 10 (27:04):
She chose.
Speaker 3 (27:04):
Well, that's a pretty low bar. Do I fulfill her emotionally?
Do I match her when she needs me?
Speaker 8 (27:15):
Do you know what?
Speaker 2 (27:16):
I'm constantly looking too much?
Speaker 10 (27:18):
We ask too much of our relationships. We ask too much.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
So really, the.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
Bar is so low that what we're going to let
invite our family in to make it a reality.
Speaker 10 (27:26):
Let's and still most men can't pass it.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
Well, that's all right. Doctor Wenday after Dark starts right
up at seven o'clock. Hey, I have a happy year.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
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