July 21, 2025 • 37 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:07):
Well else, all right, Chris rrel Canfi AM six forty
more stimulating talk and there's no business like show business,
sad news. I think we were all very surprised when
we heard this.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
You know something that I found out just last night.
Next year will be our last season. The network will
be ending the Late Show in May.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
And yeah, he felt the same.
Speaker 4 (00:37):
Stephen Colbert, the host of the Late Show, sharing that
announcement with his audience today Paramount, providing a few details
about the decision, but saying they are pulling the plug
on the show for financial reasons. Colbert became the host
back in twenty fifteen, when he took over for David Letterman.
The Late Show franchise will come to a close in
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May of next year.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Okay, hey, Brigida, welcome to the asylum. You think this
was for financial reasons or you think this is political?
Speaker 5 (01:14):
I think it's both. I think it's both.
Speaker 6 (01:16):
I went on a deep dive and yeah, I think
it's a little bit of both because Late Night has
not been making money and they have genuinely cut it
across the board. Granted, his was the most popular but
I mean we see it happening at even our own network,
so it's happening everywhere.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Yeah, it's absolutely I know that those those shows don't
cost a lot to make. Really, there's a lot of
money in the salaries. It's about it, exactly.
Speaker 6 (01:41):
I think that show. Yes, there were a ton of
people on staff, lots of salaries. You know, it's been
on the air for a long time, so those people
have pretty good salaries.
Speaker 5 (01:48):
I'm sure, and Cobet ain't cheap exactly.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
However, it is timing is not great on them.
Speaker 5 (01:56):
No, that's why I do think it's both. But it's okay.
He'll end up on a streamer somewhere, someone else will
pick them up.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
I'll be curious to see if that happens. So if
you're unfamiliar with the background on this, paramount is looking
at are they merging or it's Sky dance buying paramount.
Speaker 5 (02:12):
Yeah, it's another buyout merge, okay.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Buyout so Sky anyway, they need FCC approval on this.
And there's been a lot of speculation about Trump holding
things up, and that's part of the reason that CBS
settled with Trump. Made donations to Trump related charities or
organizations or whatever it is, or PSA, I don't know
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what it was. But all of this because well, Paramount
really needs to they need to make that they need
to get this done for their shareholders. And so sixty
minutes ran a piece used Kamala Harris and they said, well,
it was deceptively edited according to Trump, who sued them,
and they said no, it wasn't, but we'll give you
sixteen million dollars. And he was like, okay, so now
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he's going to claim, yes, it was see I won
the lawsuit, which, of course, if he settles, then there
was never any admission of guilt that you had to
make them go away. But if somebody settles with him,
then he's like, I told you so. Now all of
a sudden, Colbert, who's been a thorn in Trump's side
and a very vocal critic, is losing a show. Trump
comes out the next day and it's like, this is
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great news. He's terrible. Now let's get the others. But
it is interesting that it's Paramount who owns CBS that
does this, So is it really just a financial decision
for Gita also made a really good point though, is
that they are losing.
Speaker 5 (03:33):
Money yeah, I think it's both. It can be both.
Speaker 6 (03:35):
One may have had more weight than the other, but
or it may have just forced the hand quicker than
it would have.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
You know, that's a really great point. That's a super
good point.
Speaker 5 (03:45):
I think that is probably the most likely point.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
So I got into an argument with a friend of mine.
I said, he's a maga dude, and he's like, Colbert
was trash, He's terrible, and I said, no, your boy,
Gutfeld is terrible. I really think that Gutfeld show is unwatchable.
But he's got higher ratings than any of the networks.
Gutfeldt's pulling like three million viewers a night. Colbert was
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number one in broadcast with two point four million viewers
a night. I can't stand the gut Field Show. It's
constantly punching down. I don't find the humor. I don't
know what the I don't know what the punch line is.
It's just like, let's insult people and it's not even clever.
And then they're like, yeah, take that, lib yards, Okay,
(04:31):
good job, wait to go on that one. Hilarious. I
think it gets good ratings because the old farts fall
asleep with it. With Fox still on their TV and
somehow Nielsen counts them, but just the same. The reality is,
you're not pulling five and six million people a night
like when you had three networks. And my buddy, the
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Maga guy, he says, Colbert is no Carson. He's not
pulling Carson numbers. Nobody's pulling Carson numbers. Carson retired in
what ninety two. Cable had only been around for like
ten years. Carson didn't have to compete with any other
late night You didn't have to compete with any It
wasn't a thing as that taking a take away any
of the brilliance of Carson. The man was an absolute genius.
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But there are only three networks, so it wasn't There
wasn't any competition. I mean, he was the best of
There wasn't competition. What were you up against? Tom Snyder?
Tom Snyder terrible. Now all of a sudden, there's competition,
and you've got Cable. And more importantly than this, it's
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not just that you're competing against Cable, you're competing against
TikTok so when it's about that coveted demographic twenty five
to fifty four, because they love to look at total viewership,
and Gutfeld's the winner in total viewership. Yeah, but everybody's
again seventy falling asleep on their sofa watching it when
it comes to that coveny twenty five, fifty four, twenty
(05:59):
five forty nine. In TV, you're competing against all the
other devices. You're not competing against Colbert's not competing against Fallon.
He's not competing against Kimmel. They're all competing against TikTok,
against Instagram, against threads, whatever else. Whatever. The other thing
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is this distracting? So when Burgeta says he'll get picked
up by a streamer, he could actually see higher numbers
if he starts on a streamer because people, for whatever reason,
I think it just has to do with whatever the
fat is, whatever the hot thing is. People go, oh,
you're on Netflix, Now you're legitimate. It's like I opened
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the show earlier. I was talking about when I first
got into radio and it was kind of a big deal.
It's been twenty five years and now people go they
I was giving away Candia Halloween one time, had the
door open. It was a beautiful night, had the door open,
and they could see my studio set up in the
room behind me, just the way that houses laid up.
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And these kids walk up and they and they see
the microphone and they see that I had some lights
on back there, and they go, they said, are you
a YouTuber? I said, no, I'm in radio. Oh I
gotta tell you when I started, you are, I mean,
it would have been mind blown. I still talk to
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more people every day than most influencers do. If you
compare the highest rated radio people with the biggest influencers,
you'll see that the highest rated radio people still talk
to more people than podcasters. Ryan Seacrest talks to more
people every day than Joe Rogan. But they don't think
of it that way because it's not the new trendy thing.
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Same thing with TV. If you're on oh you're on Netflix.
John mulaney has a show on Netflix, they're oh, you're
on Netflix. Oh, that must be huge. I don't think
John Mlaney's numbers are showing what Stephen Colbert's numbers are showing.
But ah, but you're momentum trendy. You're cool. So as
far as the financial decision goes, could Amazon or Apple
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or I mean, HBO already has some things going on.
They certainly could produce another live show. Could we see
it move somewhere else? Yeah, I think it could, and
I think it might actually be bigger somewhere else. Meanwhile,
if you're somebody who likes to go watch, you like
to watch your I don't know what what does PBS
have on at night? Guys? Do you know they're still
(08:33):
doing that? What is it nightline or whatever it was
hour or yeah, newsout, PBS news hour, front line is great, frontline.
I was thinking nightly out frontline.
Speaker 7 (08:41):
Yeah, well that's gone to After the House vote, the
President wrote quote House approves nine billion dollar cuts package,
including atrocious NPR and public broadcasting, where billions of dollars
a year were wasted. Republicans have tried doing this for
forty years and failed, but no more.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
This is big. More than forty years and more than
forty years. They tried it under Reagan, they tried it
under Bush the first, they tried it under Bush the second.
Newk Gingrich gave it a go when he was in
the House. Bob Dole tried when he held power in
the Senate for five decades. Republicans have failed time and
time again to choke off federal funding for public broadcasting.
This from the New York Times. Some were afraid of
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being accused of aviside or killing Big Bird, while others
appreciated their local public stations in the airtime that they
got on those stations, so they stopped short of turning
those threats against PBS and NPR into law. But now
done pulled the funding. Does this mean it's going away?
I don't think so. In fact, they would be smart,
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would PBS and NPR, because they still played by different rules.
They can still take donations and sell advertising, and they
have call sponsorships. I don't think they're going away. I
think they're gonna shift, and when they do, it's going
to take any authority or any of the threats that
Congress had over them completely away. This thought that well,
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you know, NPR, PBS is a liberal bastion. It's a
terrible thing. People in the right would say this terrible thing.
It's in doctrinations, a bunch of you know, tote bag
lovin the Brien Shibbley crowd. But at least you could say,
we got your purse strings. You got to keep it
a little bit fair. Just I think Congress just took
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away any leverage they had, so that's gone now. Meanwhile,
speaking of influencers, one influencer just got SmackDown from the
equivalent of an hoa. And we almost had a major
celebrity die in California almost. I'll tell you who almost
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did next, Chris Merrill, If I Am six forty were
live everywhere in the iHeartRadio. Chris Merril can't if I
Am six forty. More stimulating talk, where the the CEO
that tech company in New York went wrong at the
cold Play concert that is still to come in other words,
how to get away with an affair that is coming
up six thirty. So first, there's no business like show business.
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Livvy Done? You know who Livy Done?
Speaker 8 (11:18):
Is?
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Chayla You do because you're young. She's your friend in
my head? Yeah, oh yeah, So Livy Dunn is a
gymnast who I know from Viory at leisure wear ads. Yes,
she's also an influencer who has a good jillion followers,
and she tried to buy a two bedroom condo in
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New York for cash. It wasn't even super crazy either.
It was very reasonably priced. I think like one point
five million or something. Yeah, one point six one point
six million. Two bedroom, two and a half bath apartment.
Now more context. Not only does she have a gajillion followers,
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she is a sought after influencer, and she is also
dating star of the Pittsburgh Pirates who happens to be
an amazing pitcher who was just in the All Star Game,
Paul Skeens. So she's made millions of dollars through endorsement deals.
She's with this, this highly paid dude as her boyfriend,
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and she tries to buy this two bedroom, two and
a half bath apartment in New York for one point
six million. She probably could have gotten something much bigger,
much fancier, a much more penthousier type place. But instead,
I gotta give her respect for this. She went after
a home that had some history. I kind of love this.
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The apartment she tried to buy used to be used
to belong to George Herman Ruth. Do you know who
that is, Kayla? You know old George?
Speaker 9 (13:01):
Yeah, he's my friend.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
Have you heard of George Herman Ruth? Before?
Speaker 9 (13:04):
Nope?
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Have you heard of Babe Ruth?
Speaker 9 (13:07):
Of course? I love the candy, yeap, No, no baseball
in candy there?
Speaker 2 (13:12):
You just the baseball, all right? Yeah, but yes, so
it was Babe Ruth's apartment. He bought it in nineteen
twenty nine. So I used to live there. So let me.
Donne says, I want to buy this place, and I
got to give her huge props for just buying a
place one point six million, very modest. I looked at
the apartment. Honestly, I don't think it's all that attractive.
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But Babe Ruth lived there, she liked it. Whatever the
thing is is that in New York, you gotta go
through the co op, the condo co op board. It's
kind of like an hoa, but basically the other tenants
in the building can decide whether or not they want
you to live there. Unlike an hoa where you can
buy the house and then the hoa can say you
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have to have your shutters the right shade, and you
have to you can't paint your door this color, that
kind of thing. The co ops can just say we
don't want you to be here anymore. It is the
most clicky goofy thing. But the co op got together
and they said, we don't want Livy Done here. So Kayla,
would you have said no to Livy Done? Your your bff?
Speaker 10 (14:14):
Well, It depends on how much attention she's gonna bring
to my peaceful lifestyle.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
That was the issue. Yeah, you nailed it.
Speaker 9 (14:20):
She's very popular and I like peace, man, I like quiet.
Speaker 10 (14:23):
You know.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
Well, evidently she was so excited about it that she
went on her TikTok and said she wanted this apartment
and she was moving and she just got this place,
and she was so excited. She's paying cash and she's, hey, friends,
I got a place in New York. I'm so excited.
This is gonna be so much fun. I can't wait
for you to see it. Well, the co ops saw
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her TikTok and they got mad and they said, you're
already bringing attention here. We don't want it. You're gonna
bring the paparazzi. We don't want to be walking through
fields of paparazzi while we try to get to our place.
Speaker 9 (14:58):
So, yeah, and she's twenty two.
Speaker 10 (15:00):
She probably do like a lot of posting and a
lot of attention things, because kids do, I mean younger
younger people do, especially like.
Speaker 9 (15:07):
Whoa on the internet.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Pause there, Grandma, what did you just say? That's what
the that's what the kids do? Did you just say
that she is a kid.
Speaker 5 (15:17):
She's twenty two.
Speaker 9 (15:18):
She's a beautiful baby, appreciated.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
You heard it right, Listen, this is the this is
the day Kayla got old and I love it. I
love it. Oh, I love it.
Speaker 10 (15:27):
And go back to twenties and kids these days, they're
on the internets.
Speaker 5 (15:32):
Is a kid though, that's pretty young.
Speaker 10 (15:34):
Yes, she has five you know, but over five million
followers like I don't have time for that, girwl.
Speaker 9 (15:39):
I like quiet, okay.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
I was trying to play off as being young and
hip and all this stuff, and she just pulled out
the kids these days.
Speaker 10 (15:46):
All right, listen, I'm not young. It's all radio shtick.
I'm older than you, Chris.
Speaker 5 (15:50):
I like to.
Speaker 10 (15:52):
Buy socks and watch Judge shows, Judge matthis is my jam.
Speaker 9 (15:55):
So yeah, I'm old on the I'm old for all.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
You might be old on the inside. You compare driver's licenses,
they are different. You're funny. Katy Perry nearly died in California.
Speaker 11 (16:17):
Another close call at a concert. Katy Perry shot concertgoers
after she nearly fell from a suspended prop. It happened
last night during her Lifetime's Tour show at the Chase
Center in San Francisco. The Star was performing Roar when
that giant butterfly she was riding suddenly dropped several feet violently.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
She was riding a giant butterfly. Why not the tiger?
I don't understand why that a tiger.
Speaker 11 (16:39):
After a brief pause from singing, she resumed the song.
No word on what caused this mid air prop mishapen molting?
Speaker 4 (16:48):
Is it?
Speaker 2 (16:49):
This happened? To remember, Beyonce was in an aerial that
had a little hiccup where the cable jostled loose. That's
two megasbrities that almost died in the last I don't know,
a month and a half or whatever from falling from
the sky. So somebody needs to, I don't know, double
(17:10):
check the cabling. But they do have backups, which is
why when one thing gives, both of them were able
to be lowered back down to the ground safely. So
that's good. That's good, All right, good, Katy Perry not
dead one quickie. Here. They are going to write an
anti woke Basic Instinct reboot. Amazon MGM are putting this together.
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This according to the rap, the legendary screenwriter of Basic Instinct,
which had Sharon Stone showing her Huha closing a four
million dollar deal to write a reboot for United Artists
under Amazon MGM, committing Amazon to two million dollar payout
against a potential four million dollars for the if the
movie is made. So if he writes the treatment and
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they don't like it, as two million dollars. If he
writes it and they use it a million dollars anyway,
that's two million dollars at the very least, just just
to entertain the idea of a Basic Instinct reboot. The
difference is Basic Againstinct came out in ninety two, and
there was this famous scene if you're unfamiliar, where Sharon
Stone's being interrogated and then she spreads her legs and
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she's not wearing any anything underneath homos. You didn't know this.
Speaker 9 (18:24):
I've never seen this movie. How old was she?
Speaker 5 (18:26):
You had not seen this movie?
Speaker 9 (18:27):
All right, calm down, all right, I don't.
Speaker 5 (18:30):
Think I've actually seen this. I know I'm supposed to,
but I don't think I have.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
It was a decent, it was okay movie.
Speaker 9 (18:37):
She was young, she was eight, ye she was young.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
She was very beautiful. But the deal is this, you
couldn't really see anything, so everybody's talking. They were all
shocked about how, oh my goodness, she showed her.
Speaker 10 (18:49):
Right, she implied, Well, I mean it, it showed.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
But the thing is is, back in the day, the
clarity of the cameras was not four K, so.
Speaker 5 (19:00):
Oh my gosh, everyone's so perverted, so the hair blocked it.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
I don't even know how to top that. That was
well the seventies. It was maybe the funniest thing you've
ever said, and I love it. My point is, you
couldn't see anything. As much as people were freaking out
that she showed this this nudity, you really couldn't there
really wasn't there. I don't know that they could recreate
that scene today, because I.
Speaker 5 (19:24):
Think Margo Robbie tried, didn't she In Wolf of Wall Street.
Speaker 9 (19:26):
I gotta watch she did.
Speaker 5 (19:28):
I think there was a scene when it was kind
of very similar.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
I'm gonna have to watch that. I haven't seen that.
Speaker 6 (19:33):
And the the cameras also might not have been four
K yet then, but better a little closer.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
Yeah. Anyway, I just don't think they're gonna try to
do that scene, is my point. It nice, how could
you all right? How to cheat and get away with it?
Because evidently somebody needs a lesson. That's next, Chris merrill
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The Great Doctor Wendy Waltsh joins the show here in
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I know that for those who don't know, Cale also
produces Doctor Wendy's show, And I know that she's kind
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of the the expert when it comes to relationships and
some you know, understanding who we are and that kind
of thing. But I feel like I've got a lot
of knowledge when it comes to relationship.
Speaker 5 (20:31):
Do you you feel you feel like that?
Speaker 2 (20:33):
Yes? I do.
Speaker 9 (20:34):
Oh, okay, no, it's it's it's I think that's true. Yeah, sure, yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
First rule of relationships. If someone offers to take you
to a Cold Play concert, say no, that's the truth
because you know it's trouble. No on that moment too
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to do. Okay, here's the delio on this. Uh. If
you are having an affair and I know you want
to go do something together, and I know that you
told your spouses that you were You're just I'm just
going on, Oh you got I'm going just going to
the guys, just going to the kid. We're going to
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the Coldplay. It's just guys you wouldn't like at honey. Besides,
you got to watch our kids. Don't do that. That's
and then you're gonna go with your your date. Uh,
don't do that because you're already running the risk of
being spotted in public. The CEO of the company, Astronomer,
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which is a tech company, uh, has now resigned. And
then there's the video.
Speaker 11 (21:49):
Everyone is still talking about that couple caught on kiss
cam during a cold Play concert outside Boston.
Speaker 8 (21:56):
Turns out they were were colleagues and are now Their
company is respond.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
All right, everyone by.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
Either they're having a fan.
Speaker 3 (22:08):
This gury shut well.
Speaker 8 (22:10):
They wo were identified as Astronomer CEO Andy Byron and
his HR chief Kristin Cabot. The company has issued a
statement saying Byron has tendered his resignation and that the
search will begin for their next CEO. They said, in
part quote, our leaders are expected to set the standard
in both conduct and accountability, and recently that standard was
not met.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
So uncomfortable. So uncomfortable all right, So there's a moral
turpitude kind of thing, and so the board of director says,
you're audit here. He didn't do anything illegal, it's just
untoward and it makes the company look bad, which of
course nobody had heard of this company before now and
now they have. So anyway, this dude is gone. He's
going to get a payout. I'm sure the guy owns
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a ton of owns a ton of it. Yeah, so anyway,
he's going to get a payout. His wife is I'm
probably gonna leave him and she's gonna get a pay out.
No word on what's going on with him and the girl,
the HR director. I know she's like the director of
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people or something like that. It's one of those dumb names.
Or the chief Oh I think she was the chief
people officer is what they called her, The chief people officer.
Stupid anyway, that's just me making fun of corporate culture.
I don't think she's stupid, although she is stupid for
going to the Coldplay concert with him, not because his
cold Play. I know it's easy to bag on Coldplay,
mostly because of this. Look, here's the delio on this.
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I know they went to Boston and they thought, oh,
we're not going to be seen if we're in Boston,
you can't go out at all. If you are high
profile enough that you're worried about being recognized on the
kiss cam, then you can't go out period. You want
to have your affair, you're gonna have to keep it
completely under wraps. There's not gonna be any going out,
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and you're not gonna be able to just check into
some motel. It's not gonna happen. If you believe that
you are high profile enough to be recognized, then you
are high profile enough to be busted. That's what you
have to understand. And the truth is, I don't think
they were. I don't think anybody knew anything about these
two except for the chief people officer's assistant who seemed
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to be there laughing your ass off of the whole thing.
Did you see that part of the video? Oh yeah,
at a friend that is a friend, is it not, Kayla?
Out of curiosity? Yeah, if you were friends with someone
who was having an affair and this and your friend
is married, right, would you go to the concert with them.
Speaker 10 (24:47):
It really depends on the situation. You know, is your
husband nasty to you? Are you not happy in your marriage?
Do you need an escape at a Cold Blake concert. Yeah,
I'll be your friend. I'll be there. But if you're
happy and you're just morally corrupt, than I'd probably have
to distance myself a little bit.
Speaker 5 (25:04):
From This girl was her friend, she was her assistant.
Speaker 9 (25:06):
I heard she didn't even work for the company. Actually,
that was wrong, right, right, it was wrong.
Speaker 10 (25:11):
Yeah, they just said, oh, brunette girl must be this
girl on the website, but it really wasn't.
Speaker 9 (25:16):
She was just there, like, whoa, what's happening?
Speaker 2 (25:18):
Wait? Was she a rando or does she know them?
Speaker 9 (25:20):
She was a raindough you?
Speaker 6 (25:21):
Actually I would bring their assistant to that would be why, Well,
that's what I thought was real. Hr Oh my gosh,
that's like so.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
Many I was so messed up. Okay, all right, I'm
glad you corrected that because I had not. I had
not seen that yet. So that's uh, that's very helpful,
I got you. Yeah, No, that's that's very good. But
the fact is, I don't think anybody would have recognized
them at that concert, And even if they did see
him on the kiss cam. We saw the video. It
wasn't like it was shot in four K right, it
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was blurrier than based Againstinct ninety two. I don't know
that even if somebody did think that they saw them
for the two seconds that they were on the kiss cam,
I don't think any would have been Anybody would have like, hey,
that's Andy Byron right, you know him right, and that's
not his wife. So not only would they have to
recognize him or her, they would also have to know
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them well enough to know that the person that they're
with is not their spouse. So the real issue is, dummies,
you ducked. If you had just held still or covered
your face like you were shy of the camera, that
would have been That would have been fine. But when
you start carrying on and running for the aisles and
and hiding and ducking down and all that, that's where
it went wrong, dummies. So what you have to understand
(26:34):
is you got to prepare for your affair. Can we
agree on that. Prepare for the say it with me now,
Prepare for the affair. Right, It's like Ronco, set it
and forget it, like no again, Caylee, you say that
you're old that you're not that old. You're just you
don't even know. Ronka's said it. Ronko's said it, and
forget it. You got to prepare for the affair done
(26:59):
so that means means self awareness. You're going out in public.
Granted the office is in Boston, is in New York.
They went to Boston. If I again, who knows, maybe
my dad is all screwed up because I thought that
that was his assistant. Still, but they go to this
concert in Boston. They're lying to their spouses. I don't
know where they told him they were. I don't know
if they have their find my phone on or not,
but whatever it is, they go to this concert and uh.
(27:22):
And then when they are spotted, they thought they think
they're high profile enough to be recognized. They're not, but
they think they are, so then all of a sudden
they start playing these games and ducking when the camera
shows on them. Again, if you think you're high profile
enough to be recognized, you can't go to places where
you could run into people that might recognize you. Period
having an.
Speaker 6 (27:41):
Affair that he wasn't like separated from his wife, like
do we know.
Speaker 5 (27:44):
This for sure?
Speaker 2 (27:46):
Well, I mean it's still an affair.
Speaker 5 (27:49):
Or is it an arrangement? Maybe he didn't want his
kids to know she.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
Would you think that was her HR bonus or what?
Speaker 5 (27:58):
Maybe his wife said, Oh, be free now.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
I don't think you resign. I don't think you resign
as the CEO of your own company when it was
all understood. I don't think that happens anyway. My point is,
just do better. Just do better. I mean morally you
should do better, but just do better at preparing. How
do you run a multimillion dollar company and you don't
even know how to have an affair? Good Lord, think
(28:24):
through this stuff. Ask your own AI, how do I
how do I get away with this? Didn't even think
to do that. It's just crap, Hey chat GPT. How
do I get away with cheating at my wife? And
I'm blaming him. I know a lot of people like
to blame the woman, but I blame him. And because
he was the one in the position of power, he
was the one that had something to offer. Right. Here's
(28:46):
the one thing I do want to point out. I've
seen the fallout from people when they're embroiled in an affair,
and what is the spouse who was cheated on always
say I'm so embarrassed. They're so upset that they were embarrassed.
You've embarrassed me. I don't think that the spouses have
(29:06):
anything to be embarrassed about. And as much as this
is playing out in media, like we're talking about it now,
it's been all over the news and everything else, think
about his wife or her husband apparent, what's that?
Speaker 5 (29:20):
I think?
Speaker 2 (29:22):
Oh okay, I thought she was I thought she was okay.
So they all feel they always feel whenever you've been
cheated on, you feel embarrassed. And I don't think they
have any reason to feel embarrassed. I don't. Obviously there's
trouble in the marriage, whatever it was, but they're like,
they didn't do anything wrong. So I never think that
they but they always do. They always feel embarrassed, and
(29:43):
they don't want to see this stuff play out in public,
and every time it plays out in public, they get
even more embarrassed. I just don't think they should be.
I just don't think they should. They don't have to be.
And please don't be embarrassed on our behalf. Don't be
embarrassed because we were talking about your slime ball husband
or your slain ball wife. And I don't care if
it's this affair of the next one, because somebody else
would do it. You didn't do anything. I just don't
(30:04):
like that, right, The Great Doctor Reddy waltsh joins us.
In just a few moments, I have I have to
ask her, is it an indecent proposal? If somebody is
willing to give you money to leave your spouse. That's next.
Chris Merril KFI AM six forty. We're live everywhere on
the iHeartRadio app. No one more time, Good evening, Chris
Merrill k F I am six forty. More stimulating talk
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in the studio. Now the Great Doctor Wenby Walsh, Hey,
how are you? Can you believe how lucky we are?
Speaker 3 (30:35):
We are super lucky.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
I know. We get to work with Kayla, who's a dynamite.
She told me today she's an old lady. Yeah, she
cracked out of the kids these days today.
Speaker 3 (30:45):
My adopted daughter.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
Nope so much. Nope, maybe your adopted sister, but not daughter.
She just declared. She's old. Sam who's been here and
was contributing to the show. He's been to dynamite Brigitta, who,
of course, whenever she walks in those doors. We get
excited we had Eileen earlier. These are my favorite people
or very fortunate when we have all these people we are.
It was interested to see that forty three percent of
people would leave their romantic partner for a million dollars.
Speaker 3 (31:11):
How old were they? I don't know because I saw
this research this week. This is all about gen Z.
Speaker 12 (31:18):
So young people are in the stage of their lives
where they're building. They are you know, I can't remember
what huge statistic I read, but something like twenty five
percent of American parents are supporting kids in their twenties.
Speaker 3 (31:33):
Still they're not launching, right. It's hard.
Speaker 12 (31:36):
Rent things are high, right, yeah, exactly, they're expensive, and
the average parents pay is fifteen hundred to two.
Speaker 3 (31:42):
Thousand a month for these kids, so.
Speaker 12 (31:46):
It makes sense right for them looking for money over
love is about finding freedom and building their material life.
The reason why advertisers really don't advertise to you and I, Chris,
is they go to that eighteen to thirty five if
youeral market because they're spending and they're buying. So they
also live in a time where mates are a dime
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a dozen, they're a thumbswipe away.
Speaker 3 (32:09):
These these digital natives.
Speaker 12 (32:11):
Now, the digital natives have so many dating apps and
they're mating people on Instagram. So for them to go, yeah,
I'd rather have a million dollars because then I can,
you know, break up with that person find somebody else,
you know, no big deal.
Speaker 2 (32:23):
So is it indicative of how many people are just
in relationships that they're not really like they're They're in
the relationship, but they're not in the relationship. In other words,
I love you, but I'm not in love with you.
Speaker 12 (32:35):
Well, that's a big generalization, and I would say that's
a misunderstanding for people who are immature companionate love. I'll
hear them say that to me. You know, I really
I love my husband, but I'm not in love with
my husband anymore.
Speaker 3 (32:48):
Well, I hope not.
Speaker 12 (32:49):
You know, it shouldn't be like swinging from the chandelier's
lust like you had at the beginning. It should be healthy,
mature companionate love. That is good for your mental health
and your fears health.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 12 (33:01):
Now, it also shouldn't be distant roommates. You got to
be emotional and share your emotions.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
Well, that's what I'm wondering if some of the people
that are willing to give up their significant other. They're
in a situation where they're they're kind of you know,
roommates right now, and so giving that up doesn't seem like, Yeah,
a million dollars sounds a whole lot better than that.
Maybe I don't know.
Speaker 12 (33:19):
I mean, i'd have to look at each individual case
and then I'm going to put you on going on.
Speaker 3 (33:26):
And how many people were in this study twenty I mean, like.
Speaker 2 (33:30):
List, It would take me a while. I'd have to
do the research on this.
Speaker 3 (33:32):
And make exactly but I have to know what you're
reporting on.
Speaker 2 (33:35):
I'm not doing that. I think you know me well
enough by now.
Speaker 12 (33:39):
The matter with you, go and look and at least
figure out how many people they had in that study.
Speaker 2 (33:45):
Let's see. Gamb Lizard includes response from two thousand Americans.
Oh that's pretty They examine American's attitudes toward wealth, including
what they would do to obtain it, how they would
spend it, and how they're concerns about sudden financial windfalls
and this this was in there. The study also talked
about people who would if you got hit with sudden wealth,
what would you do? Fifty seven percent would first buy
(34:05):
a home, eighty four percent would donate to charity, thirty
percent would spend slowly. Right, But are we good people?
Speaker 3 (34:11):
Aren't we good people?
Speaker 2 (34:13):
Yeah? I wonder how many people would a charity. Well,
it's a whole lot easier to come up with those
answers when you don't have that decision to actually make.
Speaker 12 (34:19):
I know what people think they'd do and what they'd
actually do.
Speaker 2 (34:24):
This was interesting. There was a movie that came out
years ago and it had to do with a It
was like a button in a box, right, and if
you push the button, you got a million dollars, but
somebody somewhere died. Remember this, Yeah, but not for real.
It was a movie.
Speaker 12 (34:38):
Oh movie, not even a real experiment.
Speaker 2 (34:42):
Okay, no, not a real experiment. But the movie was
really interesting because it allowed you to examine, you know,
morality and these sorts of things. Of course, the twist
at the end of the movie is that the person
pushed the button, they got their million dollars, and then
they they had nightmares and whatnot, But then they moved
on and then the next person got the box. But
what they didn't what they didn't know is that it
was the last person who pushed the button. That is
(35:03):
the random person that dies the next time somebody pushes
the button. Okay, so that's the twist in the moment.
Spoiler alert. But this is interesting. Forty percent of people
would take thirty three million dollars even if it meant
financially ruining somebody else.
Speaker 3 (35:17):
Now, can we talk about gender? Yes, I bet those
are men.
Speaker 2 (35:21):
Interesting.
Speaker 3 (35:22):
There's a lot of research. You know they play that game.
Oh what is that?
Speaker 12 (35:25):
Well, there's the prisoner's dilemma and what is the other game?
There's another game that psychologists use to test out to
see how moral and generous people would be with money,
and in order to win certain amounts, somebody else has
to go broke, et cetera. And men and women play
the game very differently, and that women have more compassion
and they just won't let someone else just you know,
(35:48):
I don't.
Speaker 2 (35:48):
Think I could because I've I've been I've struggled financially
before and I don't want to do it and I'm
not struggling. And you have too bad right now?
Speaker 3 (35:55):
You have anyathy and compassion?
Speaker 6 (35:57):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (35:58):
Guy, you it's tested every Sunday night. Cayleb.
Speaker 3 (36:01):
Yeah, she's not here. I don't know where she went.
Speaker 2 (36:03):
Forget her then the box. Is that what it was called?
The box? I think so? Yeah, okay, yeah, it is
all right, it's slow. But the question they asked was, good, doctor, Wendy,
what do you have going on tonight? I'm sorry I
used to pull your tone.
Speaker 12 (36:20):
Well, I would be remiss if I did not talk
about the cold Play kiss cam scandal. So we will
be breaking down that, not only talking about morality and
cheating and infidelity, but also our expectation of privacy or not.
Speaker 1 (36:32):
Uh.
Speaker 12 (36:32):
And when it comes to digital and what goes viral
around the internet, it made me think like there's so
much research to show that many of us need a
digital detok. So I'm going to talk about ways that
we can just sort of reduce our addiction to all this.
Then we wouldn't even have known about the cold Play
kiss cam.
Speaker 2 (36:52):
I know, but then I wouldn't have known about the
cold Play kiss cam.
Speaker 12 (36:56):
I also want to answer some relationship questions from callers,
and and I put together at a list of how
to spot a high value man. And men should listen
to this too, because these are things that women look
for if they're looking for healthy relationships. Is thee I'm
in the throes of writing a fourth book right now.
It's the title is based on my most viral video
(37:16):
five million views called men Don't Fall in Love Through
Sex and that so it's called men Don't fall in
Love through Sex. But I was writing this chapter this
week about you know, what women really should look for
if they're looking for a long term mate, which is
very different than when you're looking for a short term mate.
I mean, no judgment, no morals here, but if you
are looking for a long term mate, it's a different
(37:36):
kind of set of characteristics.
Speaker 3 (37:37):
So I'm going to go over them so good.
Speaker 2 (37:40):
That's why we listen to doctor Wendy Wallace, Doctor Wendy
after Dark. Always great talking to you.
Speaker 3 (37:44):
Thank you so much talking to you.
Speaker 2 (37:45):
Appreciate you. Have a wonderful weekend. I guess what's left
for the weekend. I have a great week Talk to
you next Sunday. Chris Meryl I AM six forty. We're
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Well else, all right, Chris rrel Canfi AM six forty
more stimulating talk and there's no business like show business,
sad news. I think we were all very surprised when
we heard this.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
You know something that I found out just last night.
Next year will be our last season. The network will
be ending the Late Show in May.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
And yeah, he felt the same.
Speaker 4 (00:37):
Stephen Colbert, the host of the Late Show, sharing that
announcement with his audience today Paramount, providing a few details
about the decision, but saying they are pulling the plug
on the show for financial reasons. Colbert became the host
back in twenty fifteen, when he took over for David Letterman.
The Late Show franchise will come to a close in
(01:00):
May of next year.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Okay, hey, Brigida, welcome to the asylum. You think this
was for financial reasons or you think this is political?
Speaker 5 (01:14):
I think it's both. I think it's both.
Speaker 6 (01:16):
I went on a deep dive and yeah, I think
it's a little bit of both because Late Night has
not been making money and they have genuinely cut it
across the board. Granted, his was the most popular but
I mean we see it happening at even our own network,
so it's happening everywhere.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Yeah, it's absolutely I know that those those shows don't
cost a lot to make. Really, there's a lot of
money in the salaries. It's about it, exactly.
Speaker 6 (01:41):
I think that show. Yes, there were a ton of
people on staff, lots of salaries. You know, it's been
on the air for a long time, so those people
have pretty good salaries.
Speaker 5 (01:48):
I'm sure, and Cobet ain't cheap exactly.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
However, it is timing is not great on them.
Speaker 5 (01:56):
No, that's why I do think it's both. But it's okay.
He'll end up on a streamer somewhere, someone else will
pick them up.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
I'll be curious to see if that happens. So if
you're unfamiliar with the background on this, paramount is looking
at are they merging or it's Sky dance buying paramount.
Speaker 5 (02:12):
Yeah, it's another buyout merge, okay.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Buyout so Sky anyway, they need FCC approval on this.
And there's been a lot of speculation about Trump holding
things up, and that's part of the reason that CBS
settled with Trump. Made donations to Trump related charities or
organizations or whatever it is, or PSA, I don't know
(02:35):
what it was. But all of this because well, Paramount
really needs to they need to make that they need
to get this done for their shareholders. And so sixty
minutes ran a piece used Kamala Harris and they said, well,
it was deceptively edited according to Trump, who sued them,
and they said no, it wasn't, but we'll give you
sixteen million dollars. And he was like, okay, so now
(02:57):
he's going to claim, yes, it was see I won
the lawsuit, which, of course, if he settles, then there
was never any admission of guilt that you had to
make them go away. But if somebody settles with him,
then he's like, I told you so. Now all of
a sudden, Colbert, who's been a thorn in Trump's side
and a very vocal critic, is losing a show. Trump
comes out the next day and it's like, this is
(03:18):
great news. He's terrible. Now let's get the others. But
it is interesting that it's Paramount who owns CBS that
does this, So is it really just a financial decision
for Gita also made a really good point though, is
that they are losing.
Speaker 5 (03:33):
Money yeah, I think it's both. It can be both.
Speaker 6 (03:35):
One may have had more weight than the other, but
or it may have just forced the hand quicker than
it would have.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
You know, that's a really great point. That's a super
good point.
Speaker 5 (03:45):
I think that is probably the most likely point.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
So I got into an argument with a friend of mine.
I said, he's a maga dude, and he's like, Colbert
was trash, He's terrible, and I said, no, your boy,
Gutfeld is terrible. I really think that Gutfeld show is unwatchable.
But he's got higher ratings than any of the networks.
Gutfeldt's pulling like three million viewers a night. Colbert was
(04:11):
number one in broadcast with two point four million viewers
a night. I can't stand the gut Field Show. It's
constantly punching down. I don't find the humor. I don't
know what the I don't know what the punch line is.
It's just like, let's insult people and it's not even clever.
And then they're like, yeah, take that, lib yards, Okay,
(04:31):
good job, wait to go on that one. Hilarious. I
think it gets good ratings because the old farts fall
asleep with it. With Fox still on their TV and
somehow Nielsen counts them, but just the same. The reality is,
you're not pulling five and six million people a night
like when you had three networks. And my buddy, the
(04:51):
Maga guy, he says, Colbert is no Carson. He's not
pulling Carson numbers. Nobody's pulling Carson numbers. Carson retired in
what ninety two. Cable had only been around for like
ten years. Carson didn't have to compete with any other
late night You didn't have to compete with any It
wasn't a thing as that taking a take away any
of the brilliance of Carson. The man was an absolute genius.
(05:14):
But there are only three networks, so it wasn't There
wasn't any competition. I mean, he was the best of
There wasn't competition. What were you up against? Tom Snyder?
Tom Snyder terrible. Now all of a sudden, there's competition,
and you've got Cable. And more importantly than this, it's
(05:38):
not just that you're competing against Cable, you're competing against
TikTok so when it's about that coveted demographic twenty five
to fifty four, because they love to look at total viewership,
and Gutfeld's the winner in total viewership. Yeah, but everybody's
again seventy falling asleep on their sofa watching it when
it comes to that coveny twenty five, fifty four, twenty
(05:59):
five forty nine. In TV, you're competing against all the
other devices. You're not competing against Colbert's not competing against Fallon.
He's not competing against Kimmel. They're all competing against TikTok,
against Instagram, against threads, whatever else. Whatever. The other thing
(06:20):
is this distracting? So when Burgeta says he'll get picked
up by a streamer, he could actually see higher numbers
if he starts on a streamer because people, for whatever reason,
I think it just has to do with whatever the
fat is, whatever the hot thing is. People go, oh,
you're on Netflix, Now you're legitimate. It's like I opened
(06:41):
the show earlier. I was talking about when I first
got into radio and it was kind of a big deal.
It's been twenty five years and now people go they
I was giving away Candia Halloween one time, had the
door open. It was a beautiful night, had the door open,
and they could see my studio set up in the
room behind me, just the way that houses laid up.
(07:01):
And these kids walk up and they and they see
the microphone and they see that I had some lights
on back there, and they go, they said, are you
a YouTuber? I said, no, I'm in radio. Oh I
gotta tell you when I started, you are, I mean,
it would have been mind blown. I still talk to
(07:21):
more people every day than most influencers do. If you
compare the highest rated radio people with the biggest influencers,
you'll see that the highest rated radio people still talk
to more people than podcasters. Ryan Seacrest talks to more
people every day than Joe Rogan. But they don't think
of it that way because it's not the new trendy thing.
(07:44):
Same thing with TV. If you're on oh you're on Netflix.
John mulaney has a show on Netflix, they're oh, you're
on Netflix. Oh, that must be huge. I don't think
John Mlaney's numbers are showing what Stephen Colbert's numbers are showing.
But ah, but you're momentum trendy. You're cool. So as
far as the financial decision goes, could Amazon or Apple
(08:09):
or I mean, HBO already has some things going on.
They certainly could produce another live show. Could we see
it move somewhere else? Yeah, I think it could, and
I think it might actually be bigger somewhere else. Meanwhile,
if you're somebody who likes to go watch, you like
to watch your I don't know what what does PBS
have on at night? Guys? Do you know they're still
(08:33):
doing that? What is it nightline or whatever it was
hour or yeah, newsout, PBS news hour, front line is great, frontline.
I was thinking nightly out frontline.
Speaker 7 (08:41):
Yeah, well that's gone to After the House vote, the
President wrote quote House approves nine billion dollar cuts package,
including atrocious NPR and public broadcasting, where billions of dollars
a year were wasted. Republicans have tried doing this for
forty years and failed, but no more.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
This is big. More than forty years and more than
forty years. They tried it under Reagan, they tried it
under Bush the first, they tried it under Bush the second.
Newk Gingrich gave it a go when he was in
the House. Bob Dole tried when he held power in
the Senate for five decades. Republicans have failed time and
time again to choke off federal funding for public broadcasting.
This from the New York Times. Some were afraid of
(09:21):
being accused of aviside or killing Big Bird, while others
appreciated their local public stations in the airtime that they
got on those stations, so they stopped short of turning
those threats against PBS and NPR into law. But now
done pulled the funding. Does this mean it's going away?
I don't think so. In fact, they would be smart,
(09:43):
would PBS and NPR, because they still played by different rules.
They can still take donations and sell advertising, and they
have call sponsorships. I don't think they're going away. I
think they're gonna shift, and when they do, it's going
to take any authority or any of the threats that
Congress had over them completely away. This thought that well,
(10:06):
you know, NPR, PBS is a liberal bastion. It's a
terrible thing. People in the right would say this terrible thing.
It's in doctrinations, a bunch of you know, tote bag
lovin the Brien Shibbley crowd. But at least you could say,
we got your purse strings. You got to keep it
a little bit fair. Just I think Congress just took
(10:29):
away any leverage they had, so that's gone now. Meanwhile,
speaking of influencers, one influencer just got SmackDown from the
equivalent of an hoa. And we almost had a major
celebrity die in California almost. I'll tell you who almost
(10:50):
did next, Chris Merrill, If I Am six forty were
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Am six forty. More stimulating talk, where the the CEO
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cold Play concert that is still to come in other words,
how to get away with an affair that is coming
up six thirty. So first, there's no business like show business.
(11:16):
Livvy Done? You know who Livy Done?
Speaker 8 (11:18):
Is?
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Chayla You do because you're young. She's your friend in
my head? Yeah, oh yeah, So Livy Dunn is a
gymnast who I know from Viory at leisure wear ads. Yes,
she's also an influencer who has a good jillion followers,
and she tried to buy a two bedroom condo in
(11:44):
New York for cash. It wasn't even super crazy either.
It was very reasonably priced. I think like one point
five million or something. Yeah, one point six one point
six million. Two bedroom, two and a half bath apartment.
Now more context. Not only does she have a gajillion followers,
(12:05):
she is a sought after influencer, and she is also
dating star of the Pittsburgh Pirates who happens to be
an amazing pitcher who was just in the All Star Game,
Paul Skeens. So she's made millions of dollars through endorsement deals.
She's with this, this highly paid dude as her boyfriend,
(12:28):
and she tries to buy this two bedroom, two and
a half bath apartment in New York for one point
six million. She probably could have gotten something much bigger,
much fancier, a much more penthousier type place. But instead,
I gotta give her respect for this. She went after
a home that had some history. I kind of love this.
(12:50):
The apartment she tried to buy used to be used
to belong to George Herman Ruth. Do you know who
that is, Kayla? You know old George?
Speaker 9 (13:01):
Yeah, he's my friend.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
Have you heard of George Herman Ruth? Before?
Speaker 9 (13:04):
Nope?
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Have you heard of Babe Ruth?
Speaker 9 (13:07):
Of course? I love the candy, yeap, No, no baseball
in candy there?
Speaker 2 (13:12):
You just the baseball, all right? Yeah, but yes, so
it was Babe Ruth's apartment. He bought it in nineteen
twenty nine. So I used to live there. So let me.
Donne says, I want to buy this place, and I
got to give her huge props for just buying a
place one point six million, very modest. I looked at
the apartment. Honestly, I don't think it's all that attractive.
(13:32):
But Babe Ruth lived there, she liked it. Whatever the
thing is is that in New York, you gotta go
through the co op, the condo co op board. It's
kind of like an hoa, but basically the other tenants
in the building can decide whether or not they want
you to live there. Unlike an hoa where you can
buy the house and then the hoa can say you
(13:53):
have to have your shutters the right shade, and you
have to you can't paint your door this color, that
kind of thing. The co ops can just say we
don't want you to be here anymore. It is the
most clicky goofy thing. But the co op got together
and they said, we don't want Livy Done here. So Kayla,
would you have said no to Livy Done? Your your bff?
Speaker 10 (14:14):
Well, It depends on how much attention she's gonna bring
to my peaceful lifestyle.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
That was the issue. Yeah, you nailed it.
Speaker 9 (14:20):
She's very popular and I like peace, man, I like quiet.
Speaker 10 (14:23):
You know.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
Well, evidently she was so excited about it that she
went on her TikTok and said she wanted this apartment
and she was moving and she just got this place,
and she was so excited. She's paying cash and she's, hey, friends,
I got a place in New York. I'm so excited.
This is gonna be so much fun. I can't wait
for you to see it. Well, the co ops saw
(14:47):
her TikTok and they got mad and they said, you're
already bringing attention here. We don't want it. You're gonna
bring the paparazzi. We don't want to be walking through
fields of paparazzi while we try to get to our place.
Speaker 9 (14:58):
So, yeah, and she's twenty two.
Speaker 10 (15:00):
She probably do like a lot of posting and a
lot of attention things, because kids do, I mean younger
younger people do, especially like.
Speaker 9 (15:07):
Whoa on the internet.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Pause there, Grandma, what did you just say? That's what
the that's what the kids do? Did you just say
that she is a kid.
Speaker 5 (15:17):
She's twenty two.
Speaker 9 (15:18):
She's a beautiful baby, appreciated.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
You heard it right, Listen, this is the this is
the day Kayla got old and I love it. I
love it. Oh, I love it.
Speaker 10 (15:27):
And go back to twenties and kids these days, they're
on the internets.
Speaker 5 (15:32):
Is a kid though, that's pretty young.
Speaker 10 (15:34):
Yes, she has five you know, but over five million
followers like I don't have time for that, girwl.
Speaker 9 (15:39):
I like quiet, okay.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
I was trying to play off as being young and
hip and all this stuff, and she just pulled out
the kids these days.
Speaker 10 (15:46):
All right, listen, I'm not young. It's all radio shtick.
I'm older than you, Chris.
Speaker 5 (15:50):
I like to.
Speaker 10 (15:52):
Buy socks and watch Judge shows, Judge matthis is my jam.
Speaker 9 (15:55):
So yeah, I'm old on the I'm old for all.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
You might be old on the inside. You compare driver's licenses,
they are different. You're funny. Katy Perry nearly died in California.
Speaker 11 (16:17):
Another close call at a concert. Katy Perry shot concertgoers
after she nearly fell from a suspended prop. It happened
last night during her Lifetime's Tour show at the Chase
Center in San Francisco. The Star was performing Roar when
that giant butterfly she was riding suddenly dropped several feet violently.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
She was riding a giant butterfly. Why not the tiger?
I don't understand why that a tiger.
Speaker 11 (16:39):
After a brief pause from singing, she resumed the song.
No word on what caused this mid air prop mishapen molting?
Speaker 4 (16:48):
Is it?
Speaker 2 (16:49):
This happened? To remember, Beyonce was in an aerial that
had a little hiccup where the cable jostled loose. That's
two megasbrities that almost died in the last I don't know,
a month and a half or whatever from falling from
the sky. So somebody needs to, I don't know, double
(17:10):
check the cabling. But they do have backups, which is
why when one thing gives, both of them were able
to be lowered back down to the ground safely. So
that's good. That's good, All right, good, Katy Perry not
dead one quickie. Here. They are going to write an
anti woke Basic Instinct reboot. Amazon MGM are putting this together.
(17:35):
This according to the rap, the legendary screenwriter of Basic Instinct,
which had Sharon Stone showing her Huha closing a four
million dollar deal to write a reboot for United Artists
under Amazon MGM, committing Amazon to two million dollar payout
against a potential four million dollars for the if the
movie is made. So if he writes the treatment and
(17:57):
they don't like it, as two million dollars. If he
writes it and they use it a million dollars anyway,
that's two million dollars at the very least, just just
to entertain the idea of a Basic Instinct reboot. The
difference is Basic Againstinct came out in ninety two, and
there was this famous scene if you're unfamiliar, where Sharon
Stone's being interrogated and then she spreads her legs and
(18:19):
she's not wearing any anything underneath homos. You didn't know this.
Speaker 9 (18:24):
I've never seen this movie. How old was she?
Speaker 5 (18:26):
You had not seen this movie?
Speaker 9 (18:27):
All right, calm down, all right, I don't.
Speaker 5 (18:30):
Think I've actually seen this. I know I'm supposed to,
but I don't think I have.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
It was a decent, it was okay movie.
Speaker 9 (18:37):
She was young, she was eight, ye she was young.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
She was very beautiful. But the deal is this, you
couldn't really see anything, so everybody's talking. They were all
shocked about how, oh my goodness, she showed her.
Speaker 10 (18:49):
Right, she implied, Well, I mean it, it showed.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
But the thing is is, back in the day, the
clarity of the cameras was not four K, so.
Speaker 5 (19:00):
Oh my gosh, everyone's so perverted, so the hair blocked it.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
I don't even know how to top that. That was
well the seventies. It was maybe the funniest thing you've
ever said, and I love it. My point is, you
couldn't see anything. As much as people were freaking out
that she showed this this nudity, you really couldn't there
really wasn't there. I don't know that they could recreate
that scene today, because I.
Speaker 5 (19:24):
Think Margo Robbie tried, didn't she In Wolf of Wall Street.
Speaker 9 (19:26):
I gotta watch she did.
Speaker 5 (19:28):
I think there was a scene when it was kind
of very similar.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
I'm gonna have to watch that. I haven't seen that.
Speaker 6 (19:33):
And the the cameras also might not have been four
K yet then, but better a little closer.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
Yeah. Anyway, I just don't think they're gonna try to
do that scene, is my point. It nice, how could
you all right? How to cheat and get away with it?
Because evidently somebody needs a lesson. That's next, Chris merrill
I AM six forty live everywhere in the Ieheart Radio app.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
The Great Doctor Wendy Waltsh joins the show here in
about I don't know, fifteen minutes or so whenever we
can wrangle in Doctor Wendy after Dark starts at seven
o'clock KFI AM six forty more stimulating talk. Uh. Cale,
I know that for those who don't know, Cale also
produces Doctor Wendy's show, And I know that she's kind
(20:21):
of the the expert when it comes to relationships and
some you know, understanding who we are and that kind
of thing. But I feel like I've got a lot
of knowledge when it comes to relationship.
Speaker 5 (20:31):
Do you you feel you feel like that?
Speaker 2 (20:33):
Yes? I do.
Speaker 9 (20:34):
Oh, okay, no, it's it's it's I think that's true. Yeah, sure, yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
First rule of relationships. If someone offers to take you
to a Cold Play concert, say no, that's the truth
because you know it's trouble. No on that moment too
(21:01):
to do. Okay, here's the delio on this. Uh. If
you are having an affair and I know you want
to go do something together, and I know that you
told your spouses that you were You're just I'm just
going on, Oh you got I'm going just going to
the guys, just going to the kid. We're going to
(21:21):
the Coldplay. It's just guys you wouldn't like at honey. Besides,
you got to watch our kids. Don't do that. That's
and then you're gonna go with your your date. Uh,
don't do that because you're already running the risk of
being spotted in public. The CEO of the company, Astronomer,
(21:43):
which is a tech company, uh, has now resigned. And
then there's the video.
Speaker 11 (21:49):
Everyone is still talking about that couple caught on kiss
cam during a cold Play concert outside Boston.
Speaker 8 (21:56):
Turns out they were were colleagues and are now Their
company is respond.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
All right, everyone by.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
Either they're having a fan.
Speaker 3 (22:08):
This gury shut well.
Speaker 8 (22:10):
They wo were identified as Astronomer CEO Andy Byron and
his HR chief Kristin Cabot. The company has issued a
statement saying Byron has tendered his resignation and that the
search will begin for their next CEO. They said, in
part quote, our leaders are expected to set the standard
in both conduct and accountability, and recently that standard was
not met.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
So uncomfortable. So uncomfortable all right, So there's a moral
turpitude kind of thing, and so the board of director says,
you're audit here. He didn't do anything illegal, it's just
untoward and it makes the company look bad, which of
course nobody had heard of this company before now and
now they have. So anyway, this dude is gone. He's
going to get a payout. I'm sure the guy owns
(22:50):
a ton of owns a ton of it. Yeah, so anyway,
he's going to get a payout. His wife is I'm
probably gonna leave him and she's gonna get a pay out.
No word on what's going on with him and the girl,
the HR director. I know she's like the director of
(23:11):
people or something like that. It's one of those dumb names.
Or the chief Oh I think she was the chief
people officer is what they called her, The chief people officer.
Stupid anyway, that's just me making fun of corporate culture.
I don't think she's stupid, although she is stupid for
going to the Coldplay concert with him, not because his
cold Play. I know it's easy to bag on Coldplay,
mostly because of this. Look, here's the delio on this.
(23:38):
I know they went to Boston and they thought, oh,
we're not going to be seen if we're in Boston,
you can't go out at all. If you are high
profile enough that you're worried about being recognized on the
kiss cam, then you can't go out period. You want
to have your affair, you're gonna have to keep it
completely under wraps. There's not gonna be any going out,
(24:00):
and you're not gonna be able to just check into
some motel. It's not gonna happen. If you believe that
you are high profile enough to be recognized, then you
are high profile enough to be busted. That's what you
have to understand. And the truth is, I don't think
they were. I don't think anybody knew anything about these
two except for the chief people officer's assistant who seemed
(24:24):
to be there laughing your ass off of the whole thing.
Did you see that part of the video? Oh yeah,
at a friend that is a friend, is it not, Kayla?
Out of curiosity? Yeah, if you were friends with someone
who was having an affair and this and your friend
is married, right, would you go to the concert with them.
Speaker 10 (24:47):
It really depends on the situation. You know, is your
husband nasty to you? Are you not happy in your marriage?
Do you need an escape at a Cold Blake concert. Yeah,
I'll be your friend. I'll be there. But if you're
happy and you're just morally corrupt, than I'd probably have
to distance myself a little bit.
Speaker 5 (25:04):
From This girl was her friend, she was her assistant.
Speaker 9 (25:06):
I heard she didn't even work for the company. Actually,
that was wrong, right, right, it was wrong.
Speaker 10 (25:11):
Yeah, they just said, oh, brunette girl must be this
girl on the website, but it really wasn't.
Speaker 9 (25:16):
She was just there, like, whoa, what's happening?
Speaker 2 (25:18):
Wait? Was she a rando or does she know them?
Speaker 9 (25:20):
She was a raindough you?
Speaker 6 (25:21):
Actually I would bring their assistant to that would be why, Well,
that's what I thought was real. Hr Oh my gosh,
that's like so.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
Many I was so messed up. Okay, all right, I'm
glad you corrected that because I had not. I had
not seen that yet. So that's uh, that's very helpful,
I got you. Yeah, No, that's that's very good. But
the fact is, I don't think anybody would have recognized
them at that concert, And even if they did see
him on the kiss cam. We saw the video. It
wasn't like it was shot in four K right, it
(25:49):
was blurrier than based Againstinct ninety two. I don't know
that even if somebody did think that they saw them
for the two seconds that they were on the kiss cam,
I don't think any would have been Anybody would have like, hey,
that's Andy Byron right, you know him right, and that's
not his wife. So not only would they have to
recognize him or her, they would also have to know
(26:10):
them well enough to know that the person that they're
with is not their spouse. So the real issue is, dummies,
you ducked. If you had just held still or covered
your face like you were shy of the camera, that
would have been That would have been fine. But when
you start carrying on and running for the aisles and
and hiding and ducking down and all that, that's where
it went wrong, dummies. So what you have to understand
(26:34):
is you got to prepare for your affair. Can we
agree on that. Prepare for the say it with me now,
Prepare for the affair. Right, It's like Ronco, set it
and forget it, like no again, Caylee, you say that
you're old that you're not that old. You're just you
don't even know. Ronka's said it. Ronko's said it, and
forget it. You got to prepare for the affair done
(26:59):
so that means means self awareness. You're going out in public.
Granted the office is in Boston, is in New York.
They went to Boston. If I again, who knows, maybe
my dad is all screwed up because I thought that
that was his assistant. Still, but they go to this
concert in Boston. They're lying to their spouses. I don't
know where they told him they were. I don't know
if they have their find my phone on or not,
but whatever it is, they go to this concert and uh.
(27:22):
And then when they are spotted, they thought they think
they're high profile enough to be recognized. They're not, but
they think they are, so then all of a sudden
they start playing these games and ducking when the camera
shows on them. Again, if you think you're high profile
enough to be recognized, you can't go to places where
you could run into people that might recognize you. Period
having an.
Speaker 6 (27:41):
Affair that he wasn't like separated from his wife, like
do we know.
Speaker 5 (27:44):
This for sure?
Speaker 2 (27:46):
Well, I mean it's still an affair.
Speaker 5 (27:49):
Or is it an arrangement? Maybe he didn't want his
kids to know she.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
Would you think that was her HR bonus or what?
Speaker 5 (27:58):
Maybe his wife said, Oh, be free now.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
I don't think you resign. I don't think you resign
as the CEO of your own company when it was
all understood. I don't think that happens anyway. My point is,
just do better. Just do better. I mean morally you
should do better, but just do better at preparing. How
do you run a multimillion dollar company and you don't
even know how to have an affair? Good Lord, think
(28:24):
through this stuff. Ask your own AI, how do I
how do I get away with this? Didn't even think
to do that. It's just crap, Hey chat GPT. How
do I get away with cheating at my wife? And
I'm blaming him. I know a lot of people like
to blame the woman, but I blame him. And because
he was the one in the position of power, he
was the one that had something to offer. Right. Here's
(28:46):
the one thing I do want to point out. I've
seen the fallout from people when they're embroiled in an affair,
and what is the spouse who was cheated on always
say I'm so embarrassed. They're so upset that they were embarrassed.
You've embarrassed me. I don't think that the spouses have
(29:06):
anything to be embarrassed about. And as much as this
is playing out in media, like we're talking about it now,
it's been all over the news and everything else, think
about his wife or her husband apparent, what's that?
Speaker 5 (29:20):
I think?
Speaker 2 (29:22):
Oh okay, I thought she was I thought she was okay.
So they all feel they always feel whenever you've been
cheated on, you feel embarrassed. And I don't think they
have any reason to feel embarrassed. I don't. Obviously there's
trouble in the marriage, whatever it was, but they're like,
they didn't do anything wrong. So I never think that
they but they always do. They always feel embarrassed, and
(29:43):
they don't want to see this stuff play out in public,
and every time it plays out in public, they get
even more embarrassed. I just don't think they should be.
I just don't think they should. They don't have to be.
And please don't be embarrassed on our behalf. Don't be
embarrassed because we were talking about your slime ball husband
or your slain ball wife. And I don't care if
it's this affair of the next one, because somebody else
would do it. You didn't do anything. I just don't
(30:04):
like that, right, The Great Doctor Reddy waltsh joins us.
In just a few moments, I have I have to
ask her, is it an indecent proposal? If somebody is
willing to give you money to leave your spouse. That's next.
Chris Merril KFI AM six forty. We're live everywhere on
the iHeartRadio app. No one more time, Good evening, Chris
Merrill k F I am six forty. More stimulating talk
(30:28):
in the studio. Now the Great Doctor Wenby Walsh, Hey,
how are you? Can you believe how lucky we are?
Speaker 3 (30:35):
We are super lucky.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
I know. We get to work with Kayla, who's a dynamite.
She told me today she's an old lady. Yeah, she
cracked out of the kids these days today.
Speaker 3 (30:45):
My adopted daughter.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
Nope so much. Nope, maybe your adopted sister, but not daughter.
She just declared. She's old. Sam who's been here and
was contributing to the show. He's been to dynamite Brigitta, who,
of course, whenever she walks in those doors. We get
excited we had Eileen earlier. These are my favorite people
or very fortunate when we have all these people we are.
It was interested to see that forty three percent of
people would leave their romantic partner for a million dollars.
Speaker 3 (31:11):
How old were they? I don't know because I saw
this research this week. This is all about gen Z.
Speaker 12 (31:18):
So young people are in the stage of their lives
where they're building. They are you know, I can't remember
what huge statistic I read, but something like twenty five
percent of American parents are supporting kids in their twenties.
Speaker 3 (31:33):
Still they're not launching, right. It's hard.
Speaker 12 (31:36):
Rent things are high, right, yeah, exactly, they're expensive, and
the average parents pay is fifteen hundred to two.
Speaker 3 (31:42):
Thousand a month for these kids, so.
Speaker 12 (31:46):
It makes sense right for them looking for money over
love is about finding freedom and building their material life.
The reason why advertisers really don't advertise to you and I, Chris,
is they go to that eighteen to thirty five if
youeral market because they're spending and they're buying. So they
also live in a time where mates are a dime
(32:07):
a dozen, they're a thumbswipe away.
Speaker 3 (32:09):
These these digital natives.
Speaker 12 (32:11):
Now, the digital natives have so many dating apps and
they're mating people on Instagram. So for them to go, yeah,
I'd rather have a million dollars because then I can,
you know, break up with that person find somebody else,
you know, no big deal.
Speaker 2 (32:23):
So is it indicative of how many people are just
in relationships that they're not really like they're They're in
the relationship, but they're not in the relationship. In other words,
I love you, but I'm not in love with you.
Speaker 12 (32:35):
Well, that's a big generalization, and I would say that's
a misunderstanding for people who are immature companionate love. I'll
hear them say that to me. You know, I really
I love my husband, but I'm not in love with
my husband anymore.
Speaker 3 (32:48):
Well, I hope not.
Speaker 12 (32:49):
You know, it shouldn't be like swinging from the chandelier's
lust like you had at the beginning. It should be healthy,
mature companionate love. That is good for your mental health
and your fears health.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 12 (33:01):
Now, it also shouldn't be distant roommates. You got to
be emotional and share your emotions.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
Well, that's what I'm wondering if some of the people
that are willing to give up their significant other. They're
in a situation where they're they're kind of you know,
roommates right now, and so giving that up doesn't seem like, Yeah,
a million dollars sounds a whole lot better than that.
Maybe I don't know.
Speaker 12 (33:19):
I mean, i'd have to look at each individual case
and then I'm going to put you on going on.
Speaker 3 (33:26):
And how many people were in this study twenty I mean, like.
Speaker 2 (33:30):
List, It would take me a while. I'd have to
do the research on this.
Speaker 3 (33:32):
And make exactly but I have to know what you're
reporting on.
Speaker 2 (33:35):
I'm not doing that. I think you know me well
enough by now.
Speaker 12 (33:39):
The matter with you, go and look and at least
figure out how many people they had in that study.
Speaker 2 (33:45):
Let's see. Gamb Lizard includes response from two thousand Americans.
Oh that's pretty They examine American's attitudes toward wealth, including
what they would do to obtain it, how they would
spend it, and how they're concerns about sudden financial windfalls
and this this was in there. The study also talked
about people who would if you got hit with sudden wealth,
what would you do? Fifty seven percent would first buy
(34:05):
a home, eighty four percent would donate to charity, thirty
percent would spend slowly. Right, But are we good people?
Speaker 3 (34:11):
Aren't we good people?
Speaker 2 (34:13):
Yeah? I wonder how many people would a charity. Well,
it's a whole lot easier to come up with those
answers when you don't have that decision to actually make.
Speaker 12 (34:19):
I know what people think they'd do and what they'd
actually do.
Speaker 2 (34:24):
This was interesting. There was a movie that came out
years ago and it had to do with a It
was like a button in a box, right, and if
you push the button, you got a million dollars, but
somebody somewhere died. Remember this, Yeah, but not for real.
It was a movie.
Speaker 12 (34:38):
Oh movie, not even a real experiment.
Speaker 2 (34:42):
Okay, no, not a real experiment. But the movie was
really interesting because it allowed you to examine, you know,
morality and these sorts of things. Of course, the twist
at the end of the movie is that the person
pushed the button, they got their million dollars, and then
they they had nightmares and whatnot, But then they moved
on and then the next person got the box. But
what they didn't what they didn't know is that it
was the last person who pushed the button. That is
(35:03):
the random person that dies the next time somebody pushes
the button. Okay, so that's the twist in the moment.
Spoiler alert. But this is interesting. Forty percent of people
would take thirty three million dollars even if it meant
financially ruining somebody else.
Speaker 3 (35:17):
Now, can we talk about gender? Yes, I bet those
are men.
Speaker 2 (35:21):
Interesting.
Speaker 3 (35:22):
There's a lot of research. You know they play that game.
Oh what is that?
Speaker 12 (35:25):
Well, there's the prisoner's dilemma and what is the other game?
There's another game that psychologists use to test out to
see how moral and generous people would be with money,
and in order to win certain amounts, somebody else has
to go broke, et cetera. And men and women play
the game very differently, and that women have more compassion
and they just won't let someone else just you know,
(35:48):
I don't.
Speaker 2 (35:48):
Think I could because I've I've been I've struggled financially
before and I don't want to do it and I'm
not struggling. And you have too bad right now?
Speaker 3 (35:55):
You have anyathy and compassion?
Speaker 6 (35:57):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (35:58):
Guy, you it's tested every Sunday night. Cayleb.
Speaker 3 (36:01):
Yeah, she's not here. I don't know where she went.
Speaker 2 (36:03):
Forget her then the box. Is that what it was called?
The box? I think so? Yeah, okay, yeah, it is
all right, it's slow. But the question they asked was, good, doctor, Wendy,
what do you have going on tonight? I'm sorry I
used to pull your tone.
Speaker 12 (36:20):
Well, I would be remiss if I did not talk
about the cold Play kiss cam scandal. So we will
be breaking down that, not only talking about morality and
cheating and infidelity, but also our expectation of privacy or not.
Speaker 1 (36:32):
Uh.
Speaker 12 (36:32):
And when it comes to digital and what goes viral
around the internet, it made me think like there's so
much research to show that many of us need a
digital detok. So I'm going to talk about ways that
we can just sort of reduce our addiction to all this.
Then we wouldn't even have known about the cold Play
kiss cam.
Speaker 2 (36:52):
I know, but then I wouldn't have known about the
cold Play kiss cam.
Speaker 12 (36:56):
I also want to answer some relationship questions from callers,
and and I put together at a list of how
to spot a high value man. And men should listen
to this too, because these are things that women look
for if they're looking for healthy relationships. Is thee I'm
in the throes of writing a fourth book right now.
It's the title is based on my most viral video
(37:16):
five million views called men Don't Fall in Love Through
Sex and that so it's called men Don't fall in
Love through Sex. But I was writing this chapter this
week about you know, what women really should look for
if they're looking for a long term mate, which is
very different than when you're looking for a short term mate.
I mean, no judgment, no morals here, but if you
are looking for a long term mate, it's a different
(37:36):
kind of set of characteristics.
Speaker 3 (37:37):
So I'm going to go over them so good.
Speaker 2 (37:40):
That's why we listen to doctor Wendy Wallace, Doctor Wendy
after Dark. Always great talking to you.
Speaker 3 (37:44):
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