October 9, 2025 • 32 mins
Chris Merrill rejoices in the fact that the reports of the demise of Dolly Parton were greatly exaggerated... Which can only mean one thing... Yesterday's prayers for the safety of Dolly were met! She only has kidney stones, and nothing worse!!! Also, Chris is still befuddled by how versatile YouTube is, especially if you get Premium, so the music doesn't get interrupted...
And Chris is REALLY annoyed by your bumper sticker.
And Chris is REALLY annoyed by your bumper sticker.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Hi there, Chris Merrill.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
Kf I AM six forty more stimulating talk listen on
demand anytime the iHeartRadio app. You didn't think that the
dead would rise to be angry, but sure enough, George
Carlin and Robin Williams are not happy well by proxy,
So evidently the family members of those two greats legends Titans,
(00:32):
are not very happy with AI's Open AI because their
new video generation platform, Sora has been using the likenesses
of Robin Williams and George Carlin. So if you are
a live public figure, you can tell Open AI. Yeah,
I don't want I don't want my stuff on your
I don't want your my stuff on your your video
(00:55):
content generation platform.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Don't want that. But if they're dead, they can't.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
The family said that that desecrates their legacies, according to Axios,
and I can't disagree.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
It's a it's a bit disturbing.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Robin's daughter, Zelda Williams posting on her Instagram yesterday, Please
just stop sending me AI videos of dad. If you've
got any decency, just stop doing this to him and
to me, to everyone, even full stop it's domb it's
a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's
not what he'd want.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
So in many cases.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
I would say that it's not that people are they're
not trying to pay homage. I fully understand. I've seen
some really cool things from AI where you can load
in a photograph. Say, say it was a baby picture
of you and your mother, right, or you know, maybe
it was your first steps or something right, and somebody
happened to take a picture. I'm just imagining, you know,
maybe in Mark's case, something that was in black and white,
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or you know, for me, something that had kind of
that weird orange hue from the nighttime seventies. So this
photo you could load in there and then AI could
potentially make it come to life and look like you're
actually watching a home video rather than just a photograph.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
That's cool, that's Neat'd be.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Like, oh, it takes me back to that time I
was with my mom and this is what it looked like,
and this is this is amazing, right, But that's not what.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Everybody's using it for. They're using it to do like
not great things. You know.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
So you've got recently deceased public figures that are being
used to turn out just slop. In fact, here's what
to here's what Zelda Williams said, to watch the legacies
of real people condense down to this vaguely looks and
sounds like them. So that's enough, just so other people
can churn out horrible TikTok slop. Puppeteering them is maddening.
(02:50):
You're not making art. You're making disgusting overprocessed hot dogs
out of the lives of human beings, out of the
history of art and music, and then shoving them down
someone else's throat, hoping they'll give you a little thumbs
up and like it gross.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
I mean, I'm kind of with her.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Is there a certain sanctity to someone that has that
has gone, someone that has been lost? I hate the
idea of somebody using the likeness of Robin Williams to
do something that just isn't him.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
I don't like it at all.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
George Carlin, you can make George Carlin say all kinds
of things that he would never say. And how many
times have we seen George Carlin used. Somebody will post
a video and like George Carlin saw this coming, and
it will of course they'll take a segment out of
his stand up that matches whatever their perception is, whatever
their whatever their biases, whatever the narrative is that they
want to convey at the time, they'll take that clip
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and they'll go George Carlin nailed it.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Now you're gonna have George Carlin saying.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
That you want You're gonna have George Carlin talk about
the you know, aliens colonizing the moon, and.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
George Carlin nailed it. We got to stop the aliens
from colonizing the moon. What then, I'm using absurd examples,
but you get the point. Anyway.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
I'm one hundred percent behind the Families on this. I
wish Open AIE would take action. What I would rather
have is, instead of an opt out, I'd like to
have an opt in in the same way that if
you're a performer, you might opt in to using cameos
so you can try to make some money on the side, right,
so that people can only access you if you want
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to be a part of that.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
That's what I would like to see. An affirmative.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
What you call it permission right affirmative permission to use
their likeness or the families affirmative permission rather than this
whole Sorry, your dad's dead, he can't do anything about it.
I don't like that at all. Not a big fan
Dolly Parton. By the way, yesterday on this very show,
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we were praying for Dolly because we didn't want to
see her go the way of some of her other
favorite celebrities, I mean true legends, Robert Redford recently passing away,
James Earl Jones, these are some of the greatest of
all time. And then we heard, oh could Dolly go?
Dolly's America's Sweetheart. No bubble wrap Dolly. And then her
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sister said, gotta pray for me, Gotta pray for Dolly,
Gotta pray for her health. So, come to find out,
and maybe you heard Mark talking about this in his news,
Dolly says she's okay.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Well, Hello Dolly.
Speaker 4 (05:30):
A sigh of relief for Dolly Parton fans. The singer
just posted this morning to video to let everyone know
that she's all right.
Speaker 5 (05:37):
I wanted to say, I know lately everybody thinks that
I am sicker than I am. Doll look sick to you.
I'm working hard here anyway. I wanted to put everybody's
mind at ease those of you that seemed to be
real concerned, which I appreciate, and I appreciate your prayers.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Oh she's the best. Oh, I kind of love Dolly Parton.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
Her video comes about a week after the singer, who
was seventy nine, announced she was pushing back her Las
Vegas residency to focus on our health. Then, earlier this week,
her sister posted to social media asking for everyone to
pray for Dolly, causing people to get concerned. Her sister
later clarified her comments, saying she didn't mean to alarm anyone,
but simply ask for prayers because she believes in the
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power of prayer.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
So what's her deal? Mark, did you get to the
bottom of what the deal is?
Speaker 3 (06:32):
You mean, what she's been diagnosed with? Yeah, because she said,
I ain't dead yet. Let's see here kidney stones. Oh,
kidney stones. Okay, but thanks, thanks for the scare, though.
I think maybe she was just suggesting you include Dolly
and your daily prayers anyway, because I think you're right.
Everybody loves Doll. I've never heard anybody say a single
bad word about Dolly.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
No, how could you Your prayers helped her pass the stone? Oh?
Is that right, Yes, the power of prayer. That's that's brilliant.
Who knew? I had no idea? All right, I wonder
if there's I mean, does that always work? Is this a?
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Is this a? Is this the one time?
Speaker 3 (07:19):
Isn't that? Wouldn't that be funny if that were the
way God worked? Like, Oh, I'm sorry, I used up
your one prayer token. Hey, you know people got raptured
a couple of weeks ago, so yeah, well did they though?
Are we just dealing with like their zombie bodies that.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Are left here?
Speaker 6 (07:32):
I'm sorry, there's only like four people around the world
that are apparently they got wrapped here.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Yeah, pure of heart? That went. Yeah, that's it. Yeah,
all right, I'm thinking, Dear Jesus, now that.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
Uh oh, I better clarify Dolly Parton only has kidney stones.
I'm about to use satire because you know, somebody's gonna
tune in and they're gonna be like he just said that.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
Dear Jesus, Dolly Parton has been diagnosed with cancer. Please
save her, Please give everything Jesus. We have to have her.
She's a wonderful example and she spreads your word.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
Please keep Dolly Parton with us and then Jesus is
all like Dolly used up her prayers.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
She passed a kidney stone. Dolly is mine?
Speaker 3 (08:25):
No sorry, No, who's running production on this show? They're terrible,
really doing a horrible job. Someone needs to be fired. Yeah,
somebody's gotta get cut here, somebody's gotta go uh oh
one more real quick here? Oh, actually two more magic.
(08:47):
Johnson has been named the Grand Marshal of the Rose
Parade for next year, so that's pretty cool.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Good on him and Gene Simmons car accident. I guess
what the heck happened? Keiss co founder Gene Simmons from
a Nope, it's from Katla. He says he's.
Speaker 7 (09:02):
Doing fine after a crash along PCH on Tuesday afternoon.
His SUV veered and crashed into a park car near
Ballibu Canyon Road. According to the La County Sheriff's Department,
the seventy six year old lost consciousness behind the wheel
and veered across several lanes before slamming into oh my car.
His wife, Shannon Tweed, told TMZ he had recently been
prescribed new medication and was dehydrated, which caused him to
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black out.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
Track Wow, so Gene Simmons, I guess he's okay, but
that could have ended badly, right.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
I hope he gets whatever it is figured out here.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
Jesus, please protect Gen Simmons as he deals with new medication.
Please keep him from going behind the wheel in wiping
out everyone.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Jesus, Jesus. And now Gene Simmons has passed a kidney stone.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
Dear Jesus, please protect Gene Simmons kidney stones because they
rock and to don't forget the tongue.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Dear Baby Jesus, please protect Geene.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
Simmons tongue because it's it's an American treasure.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Thank you. Amen. Jane used up his prayers in nineteen
seventy four. He's screwed. So hey, there's a celebrity update.
There is another update though. When you are opening up
your your.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
Your tube, I've got good news. California is here to
protect you. You'll find out why next. I'm Chris Merril
KFI six forty live everywhere in your iHeart Radio app
Mark Ronner.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
Oh hang on, yes, I was just thinking what if.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
We Dear Baby Jesus, please help Mark Ronner to pass
that kiddy's stone while he's live from the KFI twenty
four hour news room.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
Those that are interested.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
The Dodgers were down eight to one going into the
bottom of the eighth.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
They did try to rally, but it wasn't enough. They
lose eight to two.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
So anyway, lose eight to two, they still leave that
series two to one best of best of five series,
so they are just still one one win away. One
win away is uh your Dodgers?
Speaker 2 (11:12):
Right?
Speaker 3 (11:14):
There is a new law that I think many of
us feel like is way overdue. And I think when
we some people will complain that this is government overreach.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
But I think even.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
Most of us that don't want a lot of government
in our lives believe that this is exactly what government
was made to do. Government is made to protect us
from irritants, and that's exactly what the State of California
has done.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Near this morning.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
Picture this.
Speaker 8 (11:45):
You're falling asleep on the couch with a streaming show
or moving on and all of a sudden allow commercial jolt.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Chew awake. Right.
Speaker 8 (11:51):
If you've been there, you're not alone. And now the
state of California is getting involved. Governor Knew someone signed
a law this week that'll keep streaming services from airing
at ads louder than shows or movies. Since twenty ten,
cable companies have been following federal guidelines that require the
volume on commercials and programs to be the same.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Oh have they? Because I don't think they have.
Speaker 8 (12:12):
Those same rules will now be extended to streaming services.
What is it is it like to get people's attention
to like, look at that commercial?
Speaker 2 (12:21):
Hope? I hate when TV people ad lib. Yeah, it's
very disruptive.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
Yeah yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Yeah, stop it. Stick to the script.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
Right.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
So here's what we've got.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
This is applying to ads supported services like free ads
supported TV channels and uh mark, I think that means
you're too b that's ad supported, right, it is, but
the ads aren't horribly obnoxious. Others are much worse. Okay,
who's got the worst volume pump for the ads? I
(12:58):
haven't noticed the but the frequency on some of them
is really oppressive. And also the ads kick in when
you want to rewind or fast forward or something feats
you're not available at this time. Oh I hate that
it's too much. Yeah, I have noticed it. I have
noticed it.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
I'm trying to think who I have this AD supported?
I pay?
Speaker 3 (13:19):
Who do I pay for no ads. I've got one
of my pay for no Oh, priame I pay for
no ads. But yeah, Hulu, I do notice it gets
a little bit louder. That's that's irritating.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Ironically, I pay for no ads on YouTube?
Speaker 5 (13:33):
Is that right?
Speaker 2 (13:34):
Isn't that expensive?
Speaker 6 (13:35):
It's like fifteen sixteen bucks a month, and it's I
use it like here at the station. It'd be nice
whenever I'm like airing some audio off of YouTube and
I don't get a just my mystery ad jumping in.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
Oh, I might have to do that.
Speaker 6 (13:48):
Yeah, no, say, it's a game changer when you're at home.
They have a bunch of free movies that you can
get without ads.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
I just watch Sneakers with Robert Redford. Yea great film. Yeah,
for free on YouTube.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
Okay, hold on here, I got a fun Wait a minute,
but that's not I thought YouTube was like eighty bucks
or something.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Is it not? So I'm so bad.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
You guys are teaching me so much about YouTube tonight,
because I was just using to get news clippings and
things like that.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
It is a versatile video app. Oh, YouTube is infinite?
Well yeah, because what do they upload?
Speaker 3 (14:23):
Something like fifteen million videos a second or something like that.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
Crazy. Let me tell you.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
Two weeks ago, I watched an hour long interview of
Dick Cavot talking to Jack Parr. Nothing could have made
me happier. I was free on YouTube. And there's more
where that came from. Okay, add for YouTube, YouTube music backup?
Is this YouTube premium?
Speaker 2 (14:45):
Is that what it is? Oh? Pick your plan?
Speaker 3 (14:47):
Individual plan fourteen dollars annual. It's fourteen dollars a month annual,
twelve months for one forty, say fifteen dollars family plan.
Have to be in my household. Wait a minute, does.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Has work for you at work and at the at home?
It's not like he goes, hey, you've been geolocated. This
is a different place.
Speaker 6 (15:05):
I have it on my TV, and I have it
here on the computer around the right next to me
at the station.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
Hold on, what's this premium light?
Speaker 3 (15:11):
Most videos are added free ad for YouTube, music downloads
and background play. Ads may appear on music content shorts
and when you search or browse. Oh no, I need
that because I search in brows. Okay, huh, all right,
I'm I'm willing to listen to what you have to say.
I appreciate your sales pitch there, Sam, I might be.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
In on that. Glad I could help.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
Also, when Newsom runs for president, don't you think this
should be his entire platform. I mean, if this guy
is gonna run on your ads are too loud, then yes, uh,
you give my vote. I think we're at the point
where we need somebody who can be serious but can
also have some fun. I also think that President Trump
(15:56):
at Mark Snacker like this. I think President Trump has
a lot of fun. I just don't think people get
his sense of humor. I think he's I think he
loves to troll people.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
And what's that got to do with me? Because you're
very serious newsman. Okay.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
And I think when the President says something like we
should jail JB. PRITZKERR and Illinois is very terrible guy,
I think it's like, Wow, the President just said that
we could that we should throw a sitting governor in
jail for disagreeing with him.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
But I think Trump's just trolling. I think that's his
sense of humor. Okay, see, I knew, what what do
you want me to say?
Speaker 3 (16:29):
I mean, no, you know, you have to kind of
put that stuff in perspective in a historical perspective. I
don't disagree with you, but I think if that's your
sense of humor, boy, what a platform to really mess
with people. It's like having Don Rickles.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
Yes, that's it. Who doesn't love an insult comic? That's it.
That's exactly what it is. See that. I think that's
his sense of humor.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
And then when people take him too seriously and he
starts to irritate him, then he's like, you know what
I mean, Tate.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
I think that's what it is, all right.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
There is a new trend happening right now. It's called
bluetooth thing. I thought that this was like sharing headphones
or something. It's not.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
It will kill you.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
You're gonna find out just how you're probably going to
die next. Chris Merril KFI AM six forty live everywhere
in the iHeartRadio.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
On demand anytime the iHeart Radio app. I'm Chris Merrill.
Thanks a lot for making us a part of your evening.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
Mark.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
I did a little more investigating. I know why we
thought YouTube was so expensive. It's the YouTube TV that
is is like eighty three dollars. Okay, that's right.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Yeah, which is that's pretty in line.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
I think my I think I have Hulu Live and
I got Hulu Live, Disney Plus and ESPN with that,
and I think that's about the same price. So I
still feel like YouTube is a little pricer than that.
But I think mine's with ads too though, So anyway,
so I did a little more investigating, But that whole
YouTube premium with no ads for fourteen doesn't sound too bad.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
It's great.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
Yeah, I might let me see what we can do
with that I have. I'm cheap, though, is the problem
just a cheap skate? Well, I know we had something
in common. I use YouTube a ton and so I've
all they have a lot of music on YouTube as well,
and I'll put it on while I'm writing, and few
things are as irritating as a commercial that stops the music. Well,
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the premium that Sam's talking about, there's no commercials on
the music.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
Yep, gotta get it.
Speaker 6 (18:27):
Oh yeah, no, I've I've gone through my all the
writing for my PhD program and everything. I'll listen to
low fi music and I'll put on ten hour mixes
and no commercials ever interrupt.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
It's so nice.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
That's great.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
Wait a minute, when you say low five music is
like people that recorded records onto their YouTube or something.
Speaker 6 (18:44):
But with low fi music, it's like, you know, you could,
you could. It has the warmth of of comme on.
It's it's basically like just beat like nice beats to
with the warmth of old vinyl.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
Mark.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
He's the kind of a guy that calls it a
graphic novel. I do, that's what that's much. You listen
to some vibey, old mellow crap is what you do?
You listen to stoner music.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
Well, I'm sitting there writing endlessly.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
Yeah, okay, all right, so you're just a basically you're tripping.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
It's tripping music. I got you. It's smooth mellow. I'll
dig some up for you. I'm done with it.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
Look, sometimes when i'm prepping, I'll put on some smooth jazz.
So I mean, I use obviously the iHeart Radio app,
you know, because to pay the bills. But you know
that's what I do. Throw a little smooth jazz on
there like that. Oh bad news. I don't know if
you guys got the memo, but this is really tragic, uh,
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come to find out, it's moving the misinformation is moving faster.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
Than that it can possibly be corrected.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
And so now as a result of misinformation and people
thinking everything is going to work out great for those
of you just joining us, we are all going to die.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
Yeah. This is it. It's called bluetoothing. So in the
old days you.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
Used to think, you know what, I think, I'd just
like to shoot up some heroin or some meth. But
now we've taken it a step further.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
What do we do? You You have your friend shoot up.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
Some heroin and then you real quick draw their blood
and then you inject their blood into your body.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
The goal is to share the high and split the cost.
That's a guess.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
Say, yep, yeah, yeah, yeah, this is going to shock you. Yeah,
people are getting HIV.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
Huh.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
HIV cases rose tenfold over the last ten years in Fiji.
In South Africa, eighteen percent of drug injectors surveyed admitted
to bluetoothing Tanzania. In Pakistan, similar practices under the name
like flash blooding and hot spotting.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
Who hot spotting is a good name.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
They're doing this so they say, hey, ding dong blood
has tens of thousands of HIV particles per drop and
of course people aren't sterilizing.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
They're pulling one needle.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
I think what they're doing is they're putting the needle in,
and I don't know enough about needles, so I think
they're putting it in, and then they inject the the
math of the heroin, and then they withdraw the plunger
a little bit right away, right, so then you're getting
the blood heroin mix real fast and then giving it
to the other person, you know, same needle.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
So they.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
Then they're also having problems with people that are injecting
incompatible blood types. So even if they're not having a
viral transmission, like you're not you're not giving somebody hepatitis.
It was nice of you, then you are, they're still
transmitting other issues.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
They say it is the perfect way of spreading HIV.
So HIV is still at it. PIG did declared HIV
outbreak earlier this year, and that, of course, we cut
off all of the foreign aid.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
So take that.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
Many users are unaware of the risk or they believe
that the high is worth it. In some cases, it's
simply because the misinformation about it is moving faster than
we can possibly get corrected information out there, Like Hey,
maybe don't do that because aids. Yeah, they say, we're
seeing young kids dying from hiva, children who have been
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involved in drug use and sex. Bluetoothing is one among
many factors driving the surge, along with the lack of
access to clean needles and high levels of unprotected sex. So,
you know, there are times that I just think that
things are too out of control in America.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
I just think this is just nuts the stuff I'm seeing.
Speaker 3 (22:55):
I turn on the TV and I just don't recognize
what my image of this country should be, and I
think this is just too much. But then I read
a story like this, and I go, God, we got
it pretty good. As much as we don't like some
things that, as much as we have got a lot
of things that are broken, you know, we're not We
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have an issue with the misinformation and AIDS being passed
around and not being able to afford our own, our
own aid to try to get to people so that
they stop doing that. I guess the question here is
not can we afford it? It's do we have the
willingness to try to get people clean needles? Because they're
gonna shoot up anyway. You know, that's always controversial. It
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just is what it is, I guess kind of sickening.
There is there is a chance that as you are,
you're cruising on cruising on the freeway, right, you're on the.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
Four o five and you're like, man, I'm haul and
tail in the four o five. Just kidding.
Speaker 3 (23:52):
So let's say you're on I don't know any freeway
where you actually can move, and uh, you're a little concerned.
If you're like me, you're in the right lane and
you're worried as you know, you drive speed limit. Everybody
else's you idiot, And then you're worried because people can't merge,
or first they're getting ready to miss their exit. So
when does that ever stop somebody from zipping across six
lanes of traffic?
Speaker 2 (24:12):
They do it anyway.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
Or if you're one of those maniacs, you're in the
hov lane and for some reason you think it that
you own it just because you put up a blow
up doll in your passenger seat and you're trying to
get away with something. Here's the deal on that. Come
to find out, there is one way that I could
hate you more. I'll tell you how you can really
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bother people when you're driving like a jerk. Next Chris
Merril KFI AM six forty relive everywhere in the iHeartRadio
AP more stimulating talk on Chris Merrill. Right up here
at ten o'clock, you're gonna hear from the legend George
Norrie Coast to Coast and Georgia was just.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
Proselytizing you. This morning.
Speaker 3 (24:55):
I ran into somebody and they were talking about, oh,
you're on the radio, and I said yes, and I
got to talk.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
To George Norri. So excited about that. I told them
they need to listen to to the Coast to Coast.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
Well, thank you, sir.
Speaker 7 (25:07):
How you being well?
Speaker 2 (25:08):
You know, day in, day out, you know how it goes.
Speaker 6 (25:11):
We've got a great show tonight.
Speaker 7 (25:13):
We're going to talk about ancient prophecy and then later
on Angels. We've got it all on Coast to Coast tonight.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
I love those ancient prophecy ones. Those are my favorite.
Oh my imagination goes wild. It's why I love listening
to George George Norrie Coast to Coast. Looking forward to it.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
Thanks George, see you buddy. All right, body, that's so good?
Am I right? Am? I?
Speaker 3 (25:34):
This is genuine when I tell you how excited I
am about talking with George Nory. It is so genuine
because it is the perfect show to listen.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
To at night. I don't know if you guys ever
feel of it, but I think it's just the perfect show. Oh.
I've been a listener since way back in the Art
Bell days.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
I was going to say, that's how this, that's how
my proselytizing started, is that I was talking about Art
Bell and and and Coast to Coast and I said, now,
George Norri doesn't I said, you really got a listen to.
George is amazing and such a good show. I just
love it.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
This allows your imagination to run wild. Oh I love
it so much.
Speaker 3 (26:08):
Oh wait, that said, Imagine you're driving down the freeway
and you see somebody and you think, what can I
do to really irritate them?
Speaker 2 (26:19):
And so you cut them off like like.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
As normal for somebody that's really trying to aggravate someone else.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
Maybe you flip them the bird whatever it is.
Speaker 3 (26:28):
I mean, they looked at you funny, right, So it
makes perfect sense that you would react in such a way.
But have you considered putting a political bumper sticker on
your car? That will really irritate them. So if you
run into somebody who's driving poorly, like you've got some
jerk who's cutting people off, whatever it is, they make
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you mad. Come to find out, a study was done
and it shows that if you see someone driving poorly
who has the bumper stick around there car supporting the
opposite party of what you support, it will irritate you
way more. You are far more likely to honk and
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you would have a like your blood pressure would go up. However,
if you see somebody driving poorly but they have a
bumper sticker that coincides with the party that you support,
you're more likely to ask for forgiveness. Let me see
sample skewed younger and more democratic effects needed testing in
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real word driving simulators the broader population.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
I think that's probably entirely true. So want you to
think about this.
Speaker 3 (27:39):
Somebody's cruising along and at twenty seventeen Prius. They're in
the far right lane and they're going sixty three in
a sixty five. As we all know, if you're in
a sixty five, you have to go eighty four. Everyone
knows that, except people like me.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
Who drive sixty five. I know I'm the person you hate.
Speaker 3 (27:59):
But if that person the Prius has got that Coexist
sticker or some World Peace crap on there, makes you
want to drive right over him and you're f three point.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
Fifty boom, how dare you driving under the speed limit?
You're hippie.
Speaker 3 (28:14):
But if you are the one in that twenty seventeen
Prius with the Coexist sticker on it, and you come
up on an F three fifty, that's gotta don't tread
on me. An American flag hanging out of the steak
pockets on the back of that truck, and it's got
that massive exhaust and it's been lifted, and it's got
a Revenge Tour twenty twenty four Maga in your face
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bumper sticker and probably one of those American flag decals
across the entire back end of the back.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
Window of that truck.
Speaker 3 (28:46):
That Prius is gonna get very, very angry and immediately
start doing yoga in the driver's seat. But if you
have the massive F three to fifty coming up on
a a giant Silverado thirty five hundred with similar decals
and whatnot, even if they're driving poorly, they go, all right,
(29:07):
I'll give you a pass. This time, and if the
prinus comes up on a Subaru with an equally obnoxious
Coexist sticker on it, then I guess they just kind
of give each other that weird you know, like dreadlock
nod and then they move on. Bumper stickers piss people
off more than you're bad driving. You could be a
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bad driver that'll irritate them, but if you're a bad
driver and you don't see the world through their lens
really pisses them off. Oh, by the way, the the
bumper stickers they used, so they did the study and
they were like, okay, is this a good person, there's
a good driver a bad driver. And the sticker conditions
were no bumper sticker, a neutral bumper sticker. So the
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one that would be like, I don't know, I support rainbows.
I don't know what it did, uh, And then they
had one that would say proud Democratic, one that said
proud Republican.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
That's what they used for the test. And then they
used the.
Speaker 3 (30:03):
Likelihood to honk and then describe how you feel a
warmth meter zero to one hundred on a feelings thermometer.
So that's how they did it. I like how the
co Exist ones the one that triggered you.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
It's all.
Speaker 3 (30:18):
It just irritates me. I mean, but tell me to coexist.
Get out of my way, seriously, A peace sign must
drive you. Oh, you've gotta be kidding me. The nerve
of those people. I'm gonna shove that piece right up
your assay hippies, God, dirty, stinky, probably horrible people.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
You can imagine.
Speaker 3 (30:39):
I'm fine at parties because you would think that the
person who's more moderate would just get along with everyone.
Speaker 2 (30:46):
Come to find out, I just piss everybody off.
Speaker 6 (30:50):
Sounds like you need to do some in car yoga.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
In a lifted f three fifty wherever.
Speaker 3 (30:58):
Right, No, that's me, Like I will do the hippie
crap in my massive pickup truck, or I will you know,
start illegally packing heat in my.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
Ev whatever it is.
Speaker 3 (31:10):
I'm the guy that just straddles the stereotypes, kind of
proud of it, kind of proud of it.
Speaker 2 (31:17):
Sam, you rocked it tonight. Thank you for everything.
Speaker 3 (31:20):
And by the way, I always appreciate the free therapy
you give us on the air.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
What's his name, Mark, Mark Ronnert, You, my friend, stayed upright.
You did great, You did great. Thank you you know.
Speaker 3 (31:32):
How much I look forward to sitting down with you
every single night, and he already took off.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
He had to get to a party. But we do
appreciate Ricky.
Speaker 6 (31:38):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (31:38):
Ricky was our producer tonight and from from here on
forever more will be known as Ricky So back. I
think we're back again tomorrow night too. We'll find out
who knows. I just play it by ear. If the
red light comes on, then I start talking. Chris Merril
kf I AM six fourty. We are live everywhere in
the iHeartRadio
Speaker 1 (31:57):
App, KFI AM six wordy on demand
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Hi there, Chris Merrill.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
Kf I AM six forty more stimulating talk listen on
demand anytime the iHeartRadio app. You didn't think that the
dead would rise to be angry, but sure enough, George
Carlin and Robin Williams are not happy well by proxy,
So evidently the family members of those two greats legends Titans,
(00:32):
are not very happy with AI's Open AI because their
new video generation platform, Sora has been using the likenesses
of Robin Williams and George Carlin. So if you are
a live public figure, you can tell Open AI. Yeah,
I don't want I don't want my stuff on your
I don't want your my stuff on your your video
(00:55):
content generation platform.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Don't want that. But if they're dead, they can't.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
The family said that that desecrates their legacies, according to Axios,
and I can't disagree.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
It's a it's a bit disturbing.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Robin's daughter, Zelda Williams posting on her Instagram yesterday, Please
just stop sending me AI videos of dad. If you've
got any decency, just stop doing this to him and
to me, to everyone, even full stop it's domb it's
a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's
not what he'd want.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
So in many cases.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
I would say that it's not that people are they're
not trying to pay homage. I fully understand. I've seen
some really cool things from AI where you can load
in a photograph. Say, say it was a baby picture
of you and your mother, right, or you know, maybe
it was your first steps or something right, and somebody
happened to take a picture. I'm just imagining, you know,
maybe in Mark's case, something that was in black and white,
(01:53):
or you know, for me, something that had kind of
that weird orange hue from the nighttime seventies. So this
photo you could load in there and then AI could
potentially make it come to life and look like you're
actually watching a home video rather than just a photograph.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
That's cool, that's Neat'd be.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Like, oh, it takes me back to that time I
was with my mom and this is what it looked like,
and this is this is amazing, right, But that's not what.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Everybody's using it for. They're using it to do like
not great things. You know.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
So you've got recently deceased public figures that are being
used to turn out just slop. In fact, here's what
to here's what Zelda Williams said, to watch the legacies
of real people condense down to this vaguely looks and
sounds like them. So that's enough, just so other people
can churn out horrible TikTok slop. Puppeteering them is maddening.
(02:50):
You're not making art. You're making disgusting overprocessed hot dogs
out of the lives of human beings, out of the
history of art and music, and then shoving them down
someone else's throat, hoping they'll give you a little thumbs
up and like it gross.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
I mean, I'm kind of with her.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Is there a certain sanctity to someone that has that
has gone, someone that has been lost? I hate the
idea of somebody using the likeness of Robin Williams to
do something that just isn't him.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
I don't like it at all.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
George Carlin, you can make George Carlin say all kinds
of things that he would never say. And how many
times have we seen George Carlin used. Somebody will post
a video and like George Carlin saw this coming, and
it will of course they'll take a segment out of
his stand up that matches whatever their perception is, whatever
their whatever their biases, whatever the narrative is that they
want to convey at the time, they'll take that clip
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and they'll go George Carlin nailed it.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Now you're gonna have George Carlin saying.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
That you want You're gonna have George Carlin talk about
the you know, aliens colonizing the moon, and.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
George Carlin nailed it. We got to stop the aliens
from colonizing the moon. What then, I'm using absurd examples,
but you get the point. Anyway.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
I'm one hundred percent behind the Families on this. I
wish Open AIE would take action. What I would rather
have is, instead of an opt out, I'd like to
have an opt in in the same way that if
you're a performer, you might opt in to using cameos
so you can try to make some money on the side, right,
so that people can only access you if you want
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to be a part of that.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
That's what I would like to see. An affirmative.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
What you call it permission right affirmative permission to use
their likeness or the families affirmative permission rather than this
whole Sorry, your dad's dead, he can't do anything about it.
I don't like that at all. Not a big fan
Dolly Parton. By the way, yesterday on this very show,
(04:54):
we were praying for Dolly because we didn't want to
see her go the way of some of her other
favorite celebrities, I mean true legends, Robert Redford recently passing away,
James Earl Jones, these are some of the greatest of
all time. And then we heard, oh could Dolly go?
Dolly's America's Sweetheart. No bubble wrap Dolly. And then her
(05:17):
sister said, gotta pray for me, Gotta pray for Dolly,
Gotta pray for her health. So, come to find out,
and maybe you heard Mark talking about this in his news,
Dolly says she's okay.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Well, Hello Dolly.
Speaker 4 (05:30):
A sigh of relief for Dolly Parton fans. The singer
just posted this morning to video to let everyone know
that she's all right.
Speaker 5 (05:37):
I wanted to say, I know lately everybody thinks that
I am sicker than I am. Doll look sick to you.
I'm working hard here anyway. I wanted to put everybody's
mind at ease those of you that seemed to be
real concerned, which I appreciate, and I appreciate your prayers.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Oh she's the best. Oh, I kind of love Dolly Parton.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
Her video comes about a week after the singer, who
was seventy nine, announced she was pushing back her Las
Vegas residency to focus on our health. Then, earlier this week,
her sister posted to social media asking for everyone to
pray for Dolly, causing people to get concerned. Her sister
later clarified her comments, saying she didn't mean to alarm anyone,
but simply ask for prayers because she believes in the
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power of prayer.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
So what's her deal? Mark, did you get to the
bottom of what the deal is?
Speaker 3 (06:32):
You mean, what she's been diagnosed with? Yeah, because she said,
I ain't dead yet. Let's see here kidney stones. Oh,
kidney stones. Okay, but thanks, thanks for the scare, though.
I think maybe she was just suggesting you include Dolly
and your daily prayers anyway, because I think you're right.
Everybody loves Doll. I've never heard anybody say a single
bad word about Dolly.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
No, how could you Your prayers helped her pass the stone? Oh?
Is that right, Yes, the power of prayer. That's that's brilliant.
Who knew? I had no idea? All right, I wonder
if there's I mean, does that always work? Is this a?
(07:15):
Is this a? Is this the one time?
Speaker 3 (07:19):
Isn't that? Wouldn't that be funny if that were the
way God worked? Like, Oh, I'm sorry, I used up
your one prayer token. Hey, you know people got raptured
a couple of weeks ago, so yeah, well did they though?
Are we just dealing with like their zombie bodies that.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Are left here?
Speaker 6 (07:32):
I'm sorry, there's only like four people around the world
that are apparently they got wrapped here.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Yeah, pure of heart? That went. Yeah, that's it. Yeah,
all right, I'm thinking, Dear Jesus, now that.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
Uh oh, I better clarify Dolly Parton only has kidney stones.
I'm about to use satire because you know, somebody's gonna
tune in and they're gonna be like he just said that.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
Dear Jesus, Dolly Parton has been diagnosed with cancer. Please
save her, Please give everything Jesus. We have to have her.
She's a wonderful example and she spreads your word.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
Please keep Dolly Parton with us and then Jesus is
all like Dolly used up her prayers.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
She passed a kidney stone. Dolly is mine?
Speaker 3 (08:25):
No sorry, No, who's running production on this show? They're terrible,
really doing a horrible job. Someone needs to be fired. Yeah,
somebody's gotta get cut here, somebody's gotta go uh oh
one more real quick here? Oh, actually two more magic.
(08:47):
Johnson has been named the Grand Marshal of the Rose
Parade for next year, so that's pretty cool.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Good on him and Gene Simmons car accident. I guess
what the heck happened? Keiss co founder Gene Simmons from
a Nope, it's from Katla. He says he's.
Speaker 7 (09:02):
Doing fine after a crash along PCH on Tuesday afternoon.
His SUV veered and crashed into a park car near
Ballibu Canyon Road. According to the La County Sheriff's Department,
the seventy six year old lost consciousness behind the wheel
and veered across several lanes before slamming into oh my car.
His wife, Shannon Tweed, told TMZ he had recently been
prescribed new medication and was dehydrated, which caused him to
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black out.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
Track Wow, so Gene Simmons, I guess he's okay, but
that could have ended badly, right.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
I hope he gets whatever it is figured out here.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
Jesus, please protect Gen Simmons as he deals with new medication.
Please keep him from going behind the wheel in wiping
out everyone.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Jesus, Jesus. And now Gene Simmons has passed a kidney stone.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
Dear Jesus, please protect Gene Simmons kidney stones because they
rock and to don't forget the tongue.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Dear Baby Jesus, please protect Geene.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
Simmons tongue because it's it's an American treasure.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Thank you. Amen. Jane used up his prayers in nineteen
seventy four. He's screwed. So hey, there's a celebrity update.
There is another update though. When you are opening up
your your.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
Your tube, I've got good news. California is here to
protect you. You'll find out why next. I'm Chris Merril
KFI six forty live everywhere in your iHeart Radio app
Mark Ronner.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
Oh hang on, yes, I was just thinking what if.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
We Dear Baby Jesus, please help Mark Ronner to pass
that kiddy's stone while he's live from the KFI twenty
four hour news room.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
Those that are interested.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
The Dodgers were down eight to one going into the
bottom of the eighth.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
They did try to rally, but it wasn't enough. They
lose eight to two.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
So anyway, lose eight to two, they still leave that
series two to one best of best of five series,
so they are just still one one win away. One
win away is uh your Dodgers?
Speaker 2 (11:12):
Right?
Speaker 3 (11:14):
There is a new law that I think many of
us feel like is way overdue. And I think when
we some people will complain that this is government overreach.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
But I think even.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
Most of us that don't want a lot of government
in our lives believe that this is exactly what government
was made to do. Government is made to protect us
from irritants, and that's exactly what the State of California
has done.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Near this morning.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
Picture this.
Speaker 8 (11:45):
You're falling asleep on the couch with a streaming show
or moving on and all of a sudden allow commercial jolt.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Chew awake. Right.
Speaker 8 (11:51):
If you've been there, you're not alone. And now the
state of California is getting involved. Governor Knew someone signed
a law this week that'll keep streaming services from airing
at ads louder than shows or movies. Since twenty ten,
cable companies have been following federal guidelines that require the
volume on commercials and programs to be the same.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Oh have they? Because I don't think they have.
Speaker 8 (12:12):
Those same rules will now be extended to streaming services.
What is it is it like to get people's attention
to like, look at that commercial?
Speaker 2 (12:21):
Hope? I hate when TV people ad lib. Yeah, it's
very disruptive.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
Yeah yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Yeah, stop it. Stick to the script.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
Right.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
So here's what we've got.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
This is applying to ads supported services like free ads
supported TV channels and uh mark, I think that means
you're too b that's ad supported, right, it is, but
the ads aren't horribly obnoxious. Others are much worse. Okay,
who's got the worst volume pump for the ads? I
(12:58):
haven't noticed the but the frequency on some of them
is really oppressive. And also the ads kick in when
you want to rewind or fast forward or something feats
you're not available at this time. Oh I hate that
it's too much. Yeah, I have noticed it. I have
noticed it.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
I'm trying to think who I have this AD supported?
I pay?
Speaker 3 (13:19):
Who do I pay for no ads. I've got one
of my pay for no Oh, priame I pay for
no ads. But yeah, Hulu, I do notice it gets
a little bit louder. That's that's irritating.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Ironically, I pay for no ads on YouTube?
Speaker 5 (13:33):
Is that right?
Speaker 2 (13:34):
Isn't that expensive?
Speaker 6 (13:35):
It's like fifteen sixteen bucks a month, and it's I
use it like here at the station. It'd be nice
whenever I'm like airing some audio off of YouTube and
I don't get a just my mystery ad jumping in.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
Oh, I might have to do that.
Speaker 6 (13:48):
Yeah, no, say, it's a game changer when you're at home.
They have a bunch of free movies that you can
get without ads.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
I just watch Sneakers with Robert Redford. Yea great film. Yeah,
for free on YouTube.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
Okay, hold on here, I got a fun Wait a minute,
but that's not I thought YouTube was like eighty bucks
or something.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Is it not? So I'm so bad.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
You guys are teaching me so much about YouTube tonight,
because I was just using to get news clippings and
things like that.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
It is a versatile video app. Oh, YouTube is infinite?
Well yeah, because what do they upload?
Speaker 3 (14:23):
Something like fifteen million videos a second or something like that.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
Crazy. Let me tell you.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
Two weeks ago, I watched an hour long interview of
Dick Cavot talking to Jack Parr. Nothing could have made
me happier. I was free on YouTube. And there's more
where that came from. Okay, add for YouTube, YouTube music backup?
Is this YouTube premium?
Speaker 2 (14:45):
Is that what it is? Oh? Pick your plan?
Speaker 3 (14:47):
Individual plan fourteen dollars annual. It's fourteen dollars a month annual,
twelve months for one forty, say fifteen dollars family plan.
Have to be in my household. Wait a minute, does.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Has work for you at work and at the at home?
It's not like he goes, hey, you've been geolocated. This
is a different place.
Speaker 6 (15:05):
I have it on my TV, and I have it
here on the computer around the right next to me
at the station.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
Hold on, what's this premium light?
Speaker 3 (15:11):
Most videos are added free ad for YouTube, music downloads
and background play. Ads may appear on music content shorts
and when you search or browse. Oh no, I need
that because I search in brows. Okay, huh, all right,
I'm I'm willing to listen to what you have to say.
I appreciate your sales pitch there, Sam, I might be.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
In on that. Glad I could help.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
Also, when Newsom runs for president, don't you think this
should be his entire platform. I mean, if this guy
is gonna run on your ads are too loud, then yes, uh,
you give my vote. I think we're at the point
where we need somebody who can be serious but can
also have some fun. I also think that President Trump
(15:56):
at Mark Snacker like this. I think President Trump has
a lot of fun. I just don't think people get
his sense of humor. I think he's I think he
loves to troll people.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
And what's that got to do with me? Because you're
very serious newsman. Okay.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
And I think when the President says something like we
should jail JB. PRITZKERR and Illinois is very terrible guy,
I think it's like, Wow, the President just said that
we could that we should throw a sitting governor in
jail for disagreeing with him.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
But I think Trump's just trolling. I think that's his
sense of humor. Okay, see, I knew, what what do
you want me to say?
Speaker 3 (16:29):
I mean, no, you know, you have to kind of
put that stuff in perspective in a historical perspective. I
don't disagree with you, but I think if that's your
sense of humor, boy, what a platform to really mess
with people. It's like having Don Rickles.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
Yes, that's it. Who doesn't love an insult comic? That's it.
That's exactly what it is. See that. I think that's
his sense of humor.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
And then when people take him too seriously and he
starts to irritate him, then he's like, you know what
I mean, Tate.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
I think that's what it is, all right.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
There is a new trend happening right now. It's called
bluetooth thing. I thought that this was like sharing headphones
or something. It's not.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
It will kill you.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
You're gonna find out just how you're probably going to
die next. Chris Merril KFI AM six forty live everywhere
in the iHeartRadio.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
On demand anytime the iHeart Radio app. I'm Chris Merrill.
Thanks a lot for making us a part of your evening.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
Mark.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
I did a little more investigating. I know why we
thought YouTube was so expensive. It's the YouTube TV that
is is like eighty three dollars. Okay, that's right.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Yeah, which is that's pretty in line.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
I think my I think I have Hulu Live and
I got Hulu Live, Disney Plus and ESPN with that,
and I think that's about the same price. So I
still feel like YouTube is a little pricer than that.
But I think mine's with ads too though, So anyway,
so I did a little more investigating, But that whole
YouTube premium with no ads for fourteen doesn't sound too bad.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
It's great.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
Yeah, I might let me see what we can do
with that I have. I'm cheap, though, is the problem
just a cheap skate? Well, I know we had something
in common. I use YouTube a ton and so I've
all they have a lot of music on YouTube as well,
and I'll put it on while I'm writing, and few
things are as irritating as a commercial that stops the music. Well,
(18:22):
the premium that Sam's talking about, there's no commercials on
the music.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
Yep, gotta get it.
Speaker 6 (18:27):
Oh yeah, no, I've I've gone through my all the
writing for my PhD program and everything. I'll listen to
low fi music and I'll put on ten hour mixes
and no commercials ever interrupt.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
It's so nice.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
That's great.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
Wait a minute, when you say low five music is
like people that recorded records onto their YouTube or something.
Speaker 6 (18:44):
But with low fi music, it's like, you know, you could,
you could. It has the warmth of of comme on.
It's it's basically like just beat like nice beats to
with the warmth of old vinyl.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
Mark.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
He's the kind of a guy that calls it a
graphic novel. I do, that's what that's much. You listen
to some vibey, old mellow crap is what you do?
You listen to stoner music.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
Well, I'm sitting there writing endlessly.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
Yeah, okay, all right, so you're just a basically you're tripping.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
It's tripping music. I got you. It's smooth mellow. I'll
dig some up for you. I'm done with it.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
Look, sometimes when i'm prepping, I'll put on some smooth jazz.
So I mean, I use obviously the iHeart Radio app,
you know, because to pay the bills. But you know
that's what I do. Throw a little smooth jazz on
there like that. Oh bad news. I don't know if
you guys got the memo, but this is really tragic, uh,
(19:50):
come to find out, it's moving the misinformation is moving faster.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
Than that it can possibly be corrected.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
And so now as a result of misinformation and people
thinking everything is going to work out great for those
of you just joining us, we are all going to die.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
Yeah. This is it. It's called bluetoothing. So in the
old days you.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
Used to think, you know what, I think, I'd just
like to shoot up some heroin or some meth. But
now we've taken it a step further.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
What do we do? You You have your friend shoot up.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
Some heroin and then you real quick draw their blood
and then you inject their blood into your body.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
The goal is to share the high and split the cost.
That's a guess.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
Say, yep, yeah, yeah, yeah, this is going to shock you. Yeah,
people are getting HIV.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
Huh.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
HIV cases rose tenfold over the last ten years in Fiji.
In South Africa, eighteen percent of drug injectors surveyed admitted
to bluetoothing Tanzania. In Pakistan, similar practices under the name
like flash blooding and hot spotting.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
Who hot spotting is a good name.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
They're doing this so they say, hey, ding dong blood
has tens of thousands of HIV particles per drop and
of course people aren't sterilizing.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
They're pulling one needle.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
I think what they're doing is they're putting the needle in,
and I don't know enough about needles, so I think
they're putting it in, and then they inject the the
math of the heroin, and then they withdraw the plunger
a little bit right away, right, so then you're getting
the blood heroin mix real fast and then giving it
to the other person, you know, same needle.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
So they.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
Then they're also having problems with people that are injecting
incompatible blood types. So even if they're not having a
viral transmission, like you're not you're not giving somebody hepatitis.
It was nice of you, then you are, they're still
transmitting other issues.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
They say it is the perfect way of spreading HIV.
So HIV is still at it. PIG did declared HIV
outbreak earlier this year, and that, of course, we cut
off all of the foreign aid.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
So take that.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
Many users are unaware of the risk or they believe
that the high is worth it. In some cases, it's
simply because the misinformation about it is moving faster than
we can possibly get corrected information out there, Like Hey,
maybe don't do that because aids. Yeah, they say, we're
seeing young kids dying from hiva, children who have been
(22:31):
involved in drug use and sex. Bluetoothing is one among
many factors driving the surge, along with the lack of
access to clean needles and high levels of unprotected sex. So,
you know, there are times that I just think that
things are too out of control in America.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
I just think this is just nuts the stuff I'm seeing.
Speaker 3 (22:55):
I turn on the TV and I just don't recognize
what my image of this country should be, and I
think this is just too much. But then I read
a story like this, and I go, God, we got
it pretty good. As much as we don't like some
things that, as much as we have got a lot
of things that are broken, you know, we're not We
(23:16):
have an issue with the misinformation and AIDS being passed
around and not being able to afford our own, our
own aid to try to get to people so that
they stop doing that. I guess the question here is
not can we afford it? It's do we have the
willingness to try to get people clean needles? Because they're
gonna shoot up anyway. You know, that's always controversial. It
(23:36):
just is what it is, I guess kind of sickening.
There is there is a chance that as you are,
you're cruising on cruising on the freeway, right, you're on the.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
Four o five and you're like, man, I'm haul and
tail in the four o five. Just kidding.
Speaker 3 (23:52):
So let's say you're on I don't know any freeway
where you actually can move, and uh, you're a little concerned.
If you're like me, you're in the right lane and
you're worried as you know, you drive speed limit. Everybody
else's you idiot, And then you're worried because people can't merge,
or first they're getting ready to miss their exit. So
when does that ever stop somebody from zipping across six
lanes of traffic?
Speaker 2 (24:12):
They do it anyway.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
Or if you're one of those maniacs, you're in the
hov lane and for some reason you think it that
you own it just because you put up a blow
up doll in your passenger seat and you're trying to
get away with something. Here's the deal on that. Come
to find out, there is one way that I could
hate you more. I'll tell you how you can really
(24:34):
bother people when you're driving like a jerk. Next Chris
Merril KFI AM six forty relive everywhere in the iHeartRadio
AP more stimulating talk on Chris Merrill. Right up here
at ten o'clock, you're gonna hear from the legend George
Norrie Coast to Coast and Georgia was just.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
Proselytizing you. This morning.
Speaker 3 (24:55):
I ran into somebody and they were talking about, oh,
you're on the radio, and I said yes, and I
got to talk.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
To George Norri. So excited about that. I told them
they need to listen to to the Coast to Coast.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
Well, thank you, sir.
Speaker 7 (25:07):
How you being well?
Speaker 2 (25:08):
You know, day in, day out, you know how it goes.
Speaker 6 (25:11):
We've got a great show tonight.
Speaker 7 (25:13):
We're going to talk about ancient prophecy and then later
on Angels. We've got it all on Coast to Coast tonight.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
I love those ancient prophecy ones. Those are my favorite.
Oh my imagination goes wild. It's why I love listening
to George George Norrie Coast to Coast. Looking forward to it.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
Thanks George, see you buddy. All right, body, that's so good?
Am I right? Am? I?
Speaker 3 (25:34):
This is genuine when I tell you how excited I
am about talking with George Nory. It is so genuine
because it is the perfect show to listen.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
To at night. I don't know if you guys ever
feel of it, but I think it's just the perfect show. Oh.
I've been a listener since way back in the Art
Bell days.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
I was going to say, that's how this, that's how
my proselytizing started, is that I was talking about Art
Bell and and and Coast to Coast and I said, now,
George Norri doesn't I said, you really got a listen to.
George is amazing and such a good show. I just
love it.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
This allows your imagination to run wild. Oh I love
it so much.
Speaker 3 (26:08):
Oh wait, that said, Imagine you're driving down the freeway
and you see somebody and you think, what can I
do to really irritate them?
Speaker 2 (26:19):
And so you cut them off like like.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
As normal for somebody that's really trying to aggravate someone else.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
Maybe you flip them the bird whatever it is.
Speaker 3 (26:28):
I mean, they looked at you funny, right, So it
makes perfect sense that you would react in such a way.
But have you considered putting a political bumper sticker on
your car? That will really irritate them. So if you
run into somebody who's driving poorly, like you've got some
jerk who's cutting people off, whatever it is, they make
(26:48):
you mad. Come to find out, a study was done
and it shows that if you see someone driving poorly
who has the bumper stick around there car supporting the
opposite party of what you support, it will irritate you
way more. You are far more likely to honk and
(27:10):
you would have a like your blood pressure would go up. However,
if you see somebody driving poorly but they have a
bumper sticker that coincides with the party that you support,
you're more likely to ask for forgiveness. Let me see
sample skewed younger and more democratic effects needed testing in
(27:33):
real word driving simulators the broader population.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
I think that's probably entirely true. So want you to
think about this.
Speaker 3 (27:39):
Somebody's cruising along and at twenty seventeen Prius. They're in
the far right lane and they're going sixty three in
a sixty five. As we all know, if you're in
a sixty five, you have to go eighty four. Everyone
knows that, except people like me.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
Who drive sixty five. I know I'm the person you hate.
Speaker 3 (27:59):
But if that person the Prius has got that Coexist
sticker or some World Peace crap on there, makes you
want to drive right over him and you're f three point.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
Fifty boom, how dare you driving under the speed limit?
You're hippie.
Speaker 3 (28:14):
But if you are the one in that twenty seventeen
Prius with the Coexist sticker on it, and you come
up on an F three fifty, that's gotta don't tread
on me. An American flag hanging out of the steak
pockets on the back of that truck, and it's got
that massive exhaust and it's been lifted, and it's got
a Revenge Tour twenty twenty four Maga in your face
(28:38):
bumper sticker and probably one of those American flag decals
across the entire back end of the back.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
Window of that truck.
Speaker 3 (28:46):
That Prius is gonna get very, very angry and immediately
start doing yoga in the driver's seat. But if you
have the massive F three to fifty coming up on
a a giant Silverado thirty five hundred with similar decals
and whatnot, even if they're driving poorly, they go, all right,
(29:07):
I'll give you a pass. This time, and if the
prinus comes up on a Subaru with an equally obnoxious
Coexist sticker on it, then I guess they just kind
of give each other that weird you know, like dreadlock
nod and then they move on. Bumper stickers piss people
off more than you're bad driving. You could be a
(29:28):
bad driver that'll irritate them, but if you're a bad
driver and you don't see the world through their lens
really pisses them off. Oh, by the way, the the
bumper stickers they used, so they did the study and
they were like, okay, is this a good person, there's
a good driver a bad driver. And the sticker conditions
were no bumper sticker, a neutral bumper sticker. So the
(29:49):
one that would be like, I don't know, I support rainbows.
I don't know what it did, uh, And then they
had one that would say proud Democratic, one that said
proud Republican.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
That's what they used for the test. And then they
used the.
Speaker 3 (30:03):
Likelihood to honk and then describe how you feel a
warmth meter zero to one hundred on a feelings thermometer.
So that's how they did it. I like how the
co Exist ones the one that triggered you.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
It's all.
Speaker 3 (30:18):
It just irritates me. I mean, but tell me to coexist.
Get out of my way, seriously, A peace sign must
drive you. Oh, you've gotta be kidding me. The nerve
of those people. I'm gonna shove that piece right up
your assay hippies, God, dirty, stinky, probably horrible people.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
You can imagine.
Speaker 3 (30:39):
I'm fine at parties because you would think that the
person who's more moderate would just get along with everyone.
Speaker 2 (30:46):
Come to find out, I just piss everybody off.
Speaker 6 (30:50):
Sounds like you need to do some in car yoga.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
In a lifted f three fifty wherever.
Speaker 3 (30:58):
Right, No, that's me, Like I will do the hippie
crap in my massive pickup truck, or I will you know,
start illegally packing heat in my.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
Ev whatever it is.
Speaker 3 (31:10):
I'm the guy that just straddles the stereotypes, kind of
proud of it, kind of proud of it.
Speaker 2 (31:17):
Sam, you rocked it tonight. Thank you for everything.
Speaker 3 (31:20):
And by the way, I always appreciate the free therapy
you give us on the air.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
What's his name, Mark, Mark Ronnert, You, my friend, stayed upright.
You did great, You did great. Thank you you know.
Speaker 3 (31:32):
How much I look forward to sitting down with you
every single night, and he already took off.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
He had to get to a party. But we do
appreciate Ricky.
Speaker 6 (31:38):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (31:38):
Ricky was our producer tonight and from from here on
forever more will be known as Ricky So back. I
think we're back again tomorrow night too. We'll find out
who knows. I just play it by ear. If the
red light comes on, then I start talking. Chris Merril
kf I AM six fourty. We are live everywhere in
the iHeartRadio
Speaker 1 (31:57):
App, KFI AM six wordy on demand
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