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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Well, there is no business like shell business.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
Yes, all right, how about the news of Note from
Tinseltown and Beyond. Start with a couple of sad notes
like one of the scariest on screen characters I ever
saw it, probably because I was kind of young when
I saw this movie in my teens anyway, and I
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think I think the original Candy Man was rated PG thirteen,
and I probably saw it about that time. I don't
remember exactly when it came out, but Tony Todd played
candy Man, and he was terrifying.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
He had the most.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Amazing baritone voice, and just whatever the director did, when
you saw him, you were just like wow. I mean,
he owned the screen, even as somebody wasn't anywhere close
to the entertainment industry at the time, I just knew.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
But Tony Todd passing away.
Speaker 4 (01:03):
Hollywood mourning the death of actor Tony Todd tonight. Representatives
of the star say he died peacefully at his Marina
del Ray home last night. Todd, who had more than
two hundred and forty film and TV credits spanning some
forty years, was best known for his roles in Candy
Man and Final Destination. Film production company New Line Cinema
releasing a short statement tonight on Instagram, saying, in part,
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we have lost a cherished friend, Rest in peace, Tony.
Speaker 5 (01:29):
Tony Todd was sixty nine.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Oh man. I loved him. I loved seeing him on screen.
Incredible presence. So I was sad to see him see
that news that he had passed away. That made me,
Uh made me recall fondly how terrified I was. That's
just a good It was ninety two, by the way,
Candyman came out, so I guess I was fourteen ninety two.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Eh.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Scary for a fourteen year old watching that and they
tell you how he became the candy Man. They covered
him in Honting and let the bees at him. Oh
it's crazy. I think it was bees.
Speaker 6 (02:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (02:05):
That's one of the things you just still don't see
three times till this day. That and Bloody Mary. Right,
he left an impact.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
You don't say candy Man, candy Man, candy Man.
Speaker 7 (02:13):
You just said it.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Oh gosh, hide behind Raoul.
Speaker 7 (02:18):
Raoul has honey on him.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
They were telling story. I remember that movie vaguely. I
just remember him turning around in a scene and just
his face and I went wow, But there was Wasn't
that the movie and Heather, you can jump in and
help me out here too. Wasn't that the movie where
he had a hook for a hand and they were
telling a story about don't see candy man or he'll
get you with the hook and that it was scraping
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across the top of a car that had broken down
or something.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Am I remember in the right film?
Speaker 8 (02:45):
I think so.
Speaker 9 (02:45):
But I have a terrible admission to make. I don't
like horror movies or anything that scares me, so I've
never seen it.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
That's fair.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
It wasn't It wasn't the I mean, okay, So here's
where I draw the line. I don't mind. I don't
mind thrillers. I don't like horrors. And I've always defined
that as a horror goes for gruesomeness, right, it goes
to show the pain. I don't mind the jump scare.
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I just don't like the witnessing the mechanism of injury.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Does that make sense? Yeah, I don't care for that
at all.
Speaker 9 (03:21):
What's a movie that's in the theater right now. That's
the clown movie. That's really terrifying Oh, I know what
you're talking about. I just try to watch it the
other night, but it was way too gruesome movie. I
can't remember.
Speaker 8 (03:31):
This is so bad. I know, it's right on the
tip of my tongue.
Speaker 9 (03:34):
I think about, Like, do you remember the movie Sleeping
with the Enemy with Julia Roberts.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Yeah, that's like a psychological thriller.
Speaker 9 (03:40):
Yes, yeah, like suspenseful thriller. Stuff like that I can handle.
But anything where it's just like blood terrifying, like terrifier.
That's anything that's just gross and bloody and violent to
be violent is like, it's like not for me.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Okay, I am exactly like you when it comes to
films that are made in that vein. Like my wife
loved horror movies and so Saw came out and she says,
we have to go see Saw, and she had dragged
me to other horror movies in the past, and I
just I don't like it at all. I'm just and
she laughs at me because I don't like it. She's
a horrible person, basically, It's what I'm saying.
Speaker 9 (04:16):
So, by the way, really quickly, our our traffic person,
Trai Alexander today said he saw Terrifire three.
Speaker 8 (04:23):
He's listening and he saw it. Did you like it?
Speaker 9 (04:25):
Trey?
Speaker 8 (04:27):
Can you chi?
Speaker 7 (04:28):
Are you talking to yourself?
Speaker 5 (04:29):
Heather?
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Now?
Speaker 7 (04:29):
Really there there is.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
No I saw it.
Speaker 10 (04:32):
I like it it. I almost throw up a couple
of times.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
See that.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
I'm gonna stay away from you. Like the horror movies?
Oh you love horror?
Speaker 2 (04:43):
I gotcha? Okay, I love that.
Speaker 10 (04:45):
But that one was, uh, that was over the top.
There was stuff there that if there was a line
in the sand, he crossed it.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Yeah, could you watch?
Speaker 7 (04:53):
Could you watch Saw?
Speaker 8 (04:54):
Trey?
Speaker 5 (04:54):
Like, did you see this?
Speaker 6 (04:55):
Saw? I can?
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (04:56):
Saw?
Speaker 4 (04:56):
I saw?
Speaker 2 (04:56):
It's fine.
Speaker 5 (04:57):
This is way worse than something real i've heard.
Speaker 8 (05:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (05:00):
Oh wow.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
The first Saw wasn't nearly as gory. It was more psychological,
but then it just got into torture porn.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
I don't like just watching porn for the sake of porn.
I don't like watching torture for the sake of watching
torture happened?
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Yeah, so I misspoke?
Speaker 9 (05:23):
Can I tell you a secret behind the scene secret here?
So my daughter, who is an actress, was actually asked
to audition for the little girl role in Terrifier three
last year. Yeah, and I said no, rest not even
though it's.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
Kids, they can't go see their own movies. I always
think I got a kick out of that.
Speaker 9 (05:40):
It's not worth it to me to have her in
something like that and be around that and be psychologic
because it is psychologically disturbing, you know. Oh yeah, you
can see this stuff, and even though it's fake and
pretend and stuff, you're still seeing it. You're still acting
out the feelings of being terrified.
Speaker 8 (05:57):
And she was ten, and I was like, uh.
Speaker 7 (06:00):
I respect your boundaries. I love the way you enforce them.
Speaker 8 (06:02):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
You in her career is dead.
Speaker 10 (06:04):
The two say that again, I said, she would be
You would be really upset if you saw what.
Speaker 8 (06:10):
Happened to the little girl.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (06:11):
No, I read the script and I was like, absolutely not.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Oh yeah, okay.
Speaker 9 (06:18):
It's not worth it to me to have her to,
you know, put her in something that will compromise her
safety or her mental health down the road, just to
make a few bucks or.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
No, that's interesting if something bad happens to kids. My
wife draws that line. She loves horror movies, but she
cannot handle something bad happening to kids, So that is
a line in the sand for her.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
So I there is there is.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
Something though about gratuitous violence, like over the top. And
I always I love Quentin Tarantino movies. They're just insanely violent.
They're so non believably violent that I don't have any
problem with my suspension of disbelief.
Speaker 8 (06:59):
My husband calls it cartoon violence.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Yeah, yeah, yes, I would. That's a that's a what
he's so smart.
Speaker 8 (07:05):
He is really smart.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Yeah, that is a wonderful way to put it. Uh.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
The the one that I always think of is in
the movie Machete. There's this scene, Kelly, you might want
to divert your ears. There's this scene in Machete where
he's trying to escape and he ends up cutting somebody open,
like one of the bad guys he's fighting, cuts him open,
grabs his intestines, and jumps out a window and then
uses the intestines like a rope to swing into the
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story below.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
And I died laughing.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
I was like, yeah, it is so over the top, Like,
obviously that's not how guts work.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
It was.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
It was kind of like the ridiculous scenarios from Fast
and the Furious, you know, when they can swing a
car and jump off cliffs and things like that in.
Speaker 8 (07:49):
A car to the moon.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Yeah, obviously not.
Speaker 7 (07:53):
And I met I met Danny Trejo. He was like
one of the nicest guys in the world. So to
watch him me that way.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
Everyone I've ever met that has come in contact with
him says the exact same thing.
Speaker 9 (08:04):
I met him in the elevator here at iHeart one day.
I was on my way into work and I was like,
oh my god, this is Danny Shrejo. I was eating
to get his taco shopper. He just came in and
started hanging out with everybody eating.
Speaker 7 (08:14):
It was so cool.
Speaker 5 (08:16):
Okay, sorry, I love.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
See but this is like the on screen versus off screen,
and I love the cartoon violence. I don't like it
when I start to feel empathy for the characters.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Yeah I like that.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Yeah, yeah, So read me. Somebody's got a little bit
of a throat thing going on tonight. It's me.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
Charges in Liam Payne's death. It sounds like we've got
to three people to be charging the breaking right now.
Speaker 11 (08:43):
Three people have been charging connection with the death of
former One Direction star Liam Payne. The Argentinian Prosecutor's office
said in a statement that pain was not fully conscious
at the time of his fall from a third floor
hotel room balcony. Three people have been charged with crimes
of supplying and facilitating the use of narcotics and abandoned
of a person followed by death.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
They have not yet been named. Yeah, and what was
the stuff he was taking? Like Christall they called it.
I'd never heard that.
Speaker 8 (09:07):
Yeah, I never heard of that either. It was some
kind of specialty.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
Well my understanding is it's like a little bit of everything, yeah,
which sounds like the Long Island iced tea of narcotics.
And I feel like that's not a great thing. So yeah,
whoever gave him that crap? You know, it's like, Matthew Perry,
what are you doing? Don't supply drugs? All those were doctors, right,
don't do that. And I'm all for somebody dies then
the dealer gets busted.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
I'm all for it.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
Yeah, definitely, so good stick it to him. I want
to continue here in just a few moments, and I'm
gonna put Heather Brooker on the spot because once again
she did something amazing and didn't invite any of us.
That is next, Chris Meryl, I am six forty. We
live everywhere in your iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
Welcome back, Chris Merril, I AM six forty more stimulating
talk and there's no businesiness.
Speaker 7 (10:00):
Like shell business.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Thank you to people listening and hitting that talkback button
on the iHeart Radio app letting us know that it
is called pink cocaine. According to one of the talkbacks
that Liam Payne dynam was pink cocaine.
Speaker 5 (10:12):
It's all called doucey deucey t u s I doucy.
How do you know this?
Speaker 12 (10:18):
Because the compound is number two and then see But
in Spanish people don't really know too and let her see,
so they say doucy and it comes from Columbia.
Speaker 5 (10:32):
It's a mixture, a cocktail for sure.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Yeah, it's like the Long Island iced tea of narcotics.
Speaker 5 (10:38):
I've seen it go bad for sure.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
When you say you've seen it go bad, you mean
somebody taking it overdose you somebody you mean like it
hit the expiration date?
Speaker 5 (10:48):
No, like it.
Speaker 12 (10:49):
Yeah, they overdosed and we're like freaking out and like
you know, like we were like, yo, calm down, Oh
really you're gonna survive. You just gotta be calm, don't.
I want to hang out like screaming, like, take me
to the you have the most fun.
Speaker 8 (11:03):
This is like an episode of NCIS or something. This
is wild and it was.
Speaker 5 (11:07):
From a strip club, so that's even more good.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
So it had like stink on it or something.
Speaker 5 (11:15):
Dollar bills.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Okay, we're involved.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
Probably want to rinse that off first, man, I want
to hang out with you. You know. My problem is
I go to bed too early. All the cool stuff
happens after I go to bed. They say, nothing good
ever happens after nine pm. But I'm telling you, nothing memorable,
ever ever, happens before nine pm. All the cool stuff
happens after nine Uh. Speaking of cool once again, I'm
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living vicariously through Heather Brooker's Instagram account.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
That's great. Uh what was going on with you and
the wicked stuff?
Speaker 9 (11:45):
Oh my gosh. Well, first of all, everybody follow me
at the Heather Brooker, thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
Ye know I am That's why I know what's going
on the dark.
Speaker 9 (11:54):
Telling the world. I'm telling the world who's listening that
do not follow me. I was the great people, the
kind people Universal Pictures, inviting me to come and get
a look at some of the set pieces for the
new movie Wicked and some of the props and the wardrobe,
the costumes.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
I also because you were like an influencer and they
wanted all influencers to come spread the work.
Speaker 8 (12:18):
I mean, I think it was part of both.
Speaker 9 (12:19):
I think it was maybe both because there was also
some There was also some people there that are like
TikTokers that were there. And you know, I'm just a
mom who likes to share my life on the internet
and I love talking about movies, as you guys know,
and stuff like that. So it was really cool. They
had like just an amazing setup. Like I was blown away.
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We got to see the oz face, you know, the mask.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
It was so cool.
Speaker 9 (12:51):
I took chan with me. I didn't take Chris with me,
but I took Channing with me and she got to
see it too, and she was just like, this is
so cool. So it was really neat and it excuse
me it. I interviewed the wardrobe uh Stylas, the head
of the wardrobe department who created the pink bubble dress
that Aria Grande wears, and Glinda and all the costumes,
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all the wardrobe, so it was I interviewed some other people.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
And that's one of those movies where the costuming is
kind of the co star.
Speaker 8 (13:21):
Oh for sure.
Speaker 9 (13:22):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, we talked about that and it was Yeah,
it's just a really neat experience.
Speaker 8 (13:27):
And I love the musical. Have you seen the musical?
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Yeah, a long time ago.
Speaker 9 (13:33):
Yeah, I love it. It has such a special place.
Speaker 8 (13:36):
In my heart.
Speaker 9 (13:36):
And I'm I'm I'm love the movie. I think people
are just gonna the Wicked Witch. I felt like, oh
my god, I was the green one at school. I
was never Glinda. I was awkward and weird.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Story of all of our lives. Right, we're in radio.
Speaker 8 (13:54):
That's why we're in news radio.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Oh those guys are cool. Look at you you but
it was cool.
Speaker 8 (14:01):
It was cool.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
Check it out, Pablo looking at people. Raoul Pablo is
a producer I work with during the week, and I
call him Raoul, and then here I am calling Raoul Pablo,
which just makes me sound super racist, super racist.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
Yeah, totally, it is funny.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
Uh So, anyway, by the way, uh, at my other gig,
my buddy Pablo has now my co worker started calling
him Praoul as kind of a hybrid, a hybrid of
the two. Yeah. Uh Portman too. So we got to
Raoul is watching people o D at strip clubs. You're
hanging out with Universal Studios and all the fun stuff,
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And I'm like, nine o'clock, Why I better get my Well,
we're sleep terrible. Let me see what else is going
on here?
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Oh? I like this. Oh I love a good headline.
Speaker 11 (14:57):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
As we continue talking about our show business, I'm gonna
one more chill business segment. But Kayla's not gonna like it.
That is coming up here in just a few moments.
I did want to get to this because I love
a headline that says more sexy.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
I love it.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
Netflix and Lifetime Christmas Movies stripped down with hot Frosty
and more. Oh, here we go. New York Times article
with hot Frosty, the merry gentleman and a carpenter. Christmas
romance Holiday Fair is headed in a shirtless new direction.
Fans of Christmas romance usually know exactly what to expect
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when tuning into any of the dozens of new movies
on cable and streaming platforms each year. Yeah, it'll be Candae, Cameron,
Beer or whatever you say your name in just about everything. Yeah,
for ninety minutes or so they're gonna see a city
slicker return to her immaculately decorated small hometown for the holidays.
Local guy sweeps are off her feet, Scenery, snow covered
music is merry quick peck on the lips, reliably signifying
(15:58):
the lover's happy ending this year, though they're stripping down.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
Oh, I like this.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
I'm seemingly born of the realization that women are a
key viewing demographic of the genre. No, the men are
often shirtless and on display to be aggled by the
female townsfolk. The kisses are passionate, and at least one instance,
the lead characters have s X. All right, I might
watch now this. There's something juicy to get pay attention to.
(16:28):
I know that other nonsense. All right, how about a
celebrity shrug? Yeah, it was a couple of months. Who
cares what they say. We'll continue if there's no business.
Speaker 7 (16:39):
Like shell business.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
It's next.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
Chris Merril Cafi AM six forty. We live everywhere in
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Speaker 3 (16:49):
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More stimulating talk. The Great Doctor Wendy Walsh. Doctor Wendy
after Dark is coming up here in about half an hour,
so we're looking forward to that.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
Oh yeah, I told you I was gonna do another
entertainment thing here.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
But I don't think you guys are gonna necessarily like
this because I'm gonna have to mix entertainment and the politics.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
Sorry.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
So you may have seen Nick Bosa. Are you familiar
with Nick Bosa? Yeah, football player. Somebody was doing a
postgame interview and he popped in with a MAGA hat
and pointed at the hat and said something I don't
remember what it was.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
And people are like, wait.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
A minute, he's doing a political display on the field
and then on TV, and the NFL is pretty strict
about those things, no political displays. And I know, wait
a minute before you get angry with me, don't at
me here, because I know you're saying, well, yeah, but
then they allow this and this and this and this
and this okay, But you didn't see anybody popping up
and being.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
Like, vote Harris.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
I didn't see any of that in politics or in sports.
In fact, Taylor Swift endorsed Harris Travis Kelsey your boyfriend
not a word, and the Kicker for her boyfriend's team, Harrison, Butker,
he said some political things earlier this year.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
He caught grief for it, but he didn't do it
while wearing the uniform. Okay, so.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
Listen, if you felt like these athletes should shut their
mouths and just play football, then you have to be
consistent with that, even when it's somebody who likes the
same person you do. But of course liberals lost their
minds because they went, wait a minute, we canceled the
Colin Kaepernick, but this guy gets off well. Sounds like
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not so much now. The NFL is cracked down.
Speaker 13 (18:33):
The NFL is fine San Francisco forty nine Ers star
Nick Bosa for wearing a hat with a pro Donald
Trump message.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Two weeks ago.
Speaker 13 (18:40):
Bosa barged in on a postgame interview wearing a white
hat with the make America Great against slogan and logo.
The league fined A Posa more than eleven thousand dollars
for violating the league's uniform and equipment policy rules by
wearing a hat that contained that personal message.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
Last week, Posa.
Speaker 13 (18:55):
Said that he knew a fine was possible, but indicated
that he would have no problem problem paying the tab.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
Yeah, so eleven thousand dollars, fine, when you make millions
a year is nothing. It just said dropping the bucket
for them. But I did think this was interesting. I
was reading some some of the post mortem that the
Democrats are going through. They're all pointing fingers at each
other and trying to figure out where they went wrong.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
Well, you you lost an election. Listen, everybody loses.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
You ever notice that an election ends and whoever the
losing team is like, where did we go wrong? As
though they should have won, Like we should have won
this election. Why didn't we win because the other person
got more votes. That's that's what happens. Oh they always
assume that, oh, we did something whatever. But the Democrats
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are gonna reconnoiter her. They're gonna they're gonna take a
look at things. But I did think it was interesting
that you saw Kamala Harris came out of the campaign
trail and she uh took the country by storm. You know,
Biden was out, she was in energy, went through the roof,
and then all of a sudden, she was a rock
star around the country who was touring with rock stars.
Taylor Swift didn't go to any of her events. But
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Taylor Swift did support Harris.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
Mostly it seemed because Jade Vance said something about childless
cat ladies and she took that personally. Beyonce comes out
on stage with her. In Houston, Bruce Springsteen started touring
around the place and and uh and hanging with her.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
George Clooney was following Kamala Harris. On the other side.
The actors weren't the A list actors, but you still
had Scott Bayo, you still had Hulk Hogan, Dana White
from the Ufcuh.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
Who's that golfer Deschampeau? Is that his name? The the uh?
Speaker 3 (20:41):
The golfer that showed up on stage with Trump, the
net that he was giving his victory speech. All of
the Oh, Katie Perry for uh, for Harris are a grande.
All of these people, they're all stepping up. Do the
artists make a lick of difference? So Marie this article
from the Guardian, and it says, back in July, Charlie,
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what's her name?
Speaker 2 (21:07):
Charlie X? It's x c X. Is that Charlie xy sexy?
Is that how you say that? No?
Speaker 7 (21:13):
You said I write the first time?
Speaker 2 (21:14):
What? Oh, you're supposed to Oh okay.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
Somebody told me it was Roman numerals, and I said, well,
that's not how you do Roman numerals because you just
you basically subtracted and added. So that didn't work. So
Charlie XC, how did she come up with that name?
Charlie X. I thought it was Charlie xy sexy. It's
not x sexy.
Speaker 7 (21:32):
I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure you're you're
the wrong one.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
Let's just let's just assume that I'm the wrong one.
That's fair, especially when it comes to you know things. Yeah, exactly.
Uh So she was tweeting about Harris and said that, uh,
Kamala is brat. You remember that this was the summer
of brat, and I guess she said she's brat and
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so everybody.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
Got all excited about it. Well, she's not enough to win.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
According to Ashley Spillane, she authored Celebrities Strengthening Our Culture
of Democracy, which was a Harvard study published back in August.
She said there is robust evidence that celebrities do have
a real impact in promoting overall non partisan civic engagement,
from encouraging voter registration to poll workers sign ups, but
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the same report also found that it was hard to
quantify whether an increased drive of voters to the polls
corresponded with positive outcomes for the endorsed candidate. In other words,
when you have Sabrina Carpenter that says.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
We gotta get out and registered to vote, then people
do what she says.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
But when she says we got to get out and
vote for Harris, then people go, I'm going to get
out and register, but then not vote the way you
want me to, which is bizarre to me because if
it takes a celebrity to convince you to register to vote,
then why aren't you listening what the celebrity says after that?
Speaker 2 (23:02):
Doesn't that seem a little bit odd?
Speaker 3 (23:04):
Like, well, I wasn't really interested in voting until my
favorite celebrity told me I should, and then my favorite
celebrity told me who I should vote for, and I
decided no. So what's the threshold where they stopped listening
to what their celebrity recommends? And isn't it odd how
much the celebrities offer up an endorsement and the politicians
bend over backwards to get those celebrities on stage, and
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yet there's no evidence that a celebrity endorsement corresponds with
more votes for the candidate.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
So why do they work so hard for it? Why
is it such a big deal?
Speaker 3 (23:42):
And I really thought hard on this, and I thought, well,
the first thing is it's it's a vibe check, right,
It's a vibe check. Where are we right now? Who's relevant?
And if relevant people pick this candidate, then this candidate
can say that they are the relevant, the relevant person
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running for office. Then they can say I'm in tune.
The other person is not. I understand the culture today.
The other person does not look at all the people
supporting me. So there's a vibe check. It also helps
build momentum. I mean it's electric. You get Beyonce coming
out on stage, you got Oprah coming out on stage,
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You've got all of these people who are supporting Bruce
Springsteen doing a concert at a campaign rally. It's massive,
and so there is momentum that builds. There's a tension
that's brought to it. It's free advertising. It is word
of mouth. You're getting social clicks. It's why they all
want to do this. Now the Democrats have more a
listers that support them, so they get to do that
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more often. But don't think Trump wasn't marching people out
there on stage, and especially people who were big within
the base, people that support it, Kid Rock Again, Hulk Hogan,
Dana White, these are all really influential people within in
that base. He wanted to say, we're all in this together.
And then of course there's the cool factor, right, everybody
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wants to be cool. No president had a better cool
factor than Obama?
Speaker 2 (25:12):
Right? Is that fair? Are we in agreement on that?
Speaker 3 (25:16):
Like when it came to the cool factor, that was
the guy Biden kind of tried to pull it off
the aviator sunglasses, but then we realized he's basically just
hiding that there's death behind his eyes.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
That's it.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
Otherwise, who was the other cool president? A lot of
people said, I know a lot of people thought it
was cool. I never liked it. That always felt cringe
to me. And I'll tell you what though, he was
doing that when I was fourteen. So that goes back
to how does Jen Alpha see Bruce Springsteen playing for Harris?
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Does that feel cringe to the youngest generation?
Speaker 5 (25:55):
Clinton had swag? Come on, man, yeah he did have swag,
So I just cringed him.
Speaker 8 (26:00):
Reagan was a cowboy he had cowboy swag. He's movie
stars a.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
Different swag, but definitely swag. Definitely. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (26:07):
Reagan, he was an influencer before there were influencer That's true.
Speaker 3 (26:11):
That's true. And then I was thinking JFK was the
other one. Yeah, yeah, all right, So there's the cool factor.
And the trouble of the Democrats have going into this
is that they don't realize the negative effect of it.
And and by that I mean that one of the
criticisms of the party is that they're aloof, that they're elitists,
that they don't have any concept of kitchen table topics,
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they don't know about school safety, job security, wages, inflation, etc.
Now listen, if you're a Democrat, you're saying, yes we do,
Yes we do, Yes we do. But I'm telling you
that's how the electorate looked at the Democrats. This Bernie
Sanders is even saying like we seem out of touch,
and getting George Clooney to vouch for somebody that's already
looked at as being out of touch.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
That only reinforces the stereotype. Right.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
Even the study that I'm quoting comes from the most
aloof and elitist school in America Harvard. So it all
adds up to this problem that the Democrats continue to
face that the common man just doesn't think that they
get it. Whether they do or not, it's gonna be
at least four years before we find out. All right,
in a moment, we'll talk with the great Doctor Wendy Waalsh.
(27:15):
She steps in for Doctor Wendy after Dark. That is next,
and we'll find out about throwning. See if you're familiar
with throwning. Yeah, it's a new term. Better get used
to it.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
It's next.
Speaker 3 (27:27):
Chris Merril KFI AM six forty. We live everywhere on
the iHeart Radio Apple.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 3 (27:34):
Looking forward to Doctor Wendy after Dark. I love that
she makes relationships into strategy. It's like nobody else can
turn a relationship into you sink my battleship more than
doctor Wendy Walsh, Doctor Wendy after Dark, coming up here
at seven o'clock.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
Hey, good to have you. I love talking to you.
Speaker 8 (27:49):
I love talking to you too.
Speaker 3 (27:50):
I do want to say thanks to everybody. I always
run out of time at the end of the show,
so I want to tell everybody how much. I love them, Raoul,
love you, Heatherbrooker, love you, Kayla, love you, Glad you're back.
And uh Andrew who went home already, love you two.
Pel Okay, there we go. I have so much deep
emotion for all of the people around me and I
love them to death. That said doctor Wendy. I had
to ask you about this new term called throwning. You
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know that much. Well, you know how much I love
when gen Z discovers something that's been around since.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
Forever and then you give it a new name. Exactly
what happens. So throwning is a new dating trend.
Speaker 6 (28:24):
And guess what, wait is this s felt thrown like,
step up to the throne, get it, get your crowning.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
Go throwning.
Speaker 3 (28:32):
Yeah, it's just gold digging, that's it, dating up, gold digging,
clout chasing. But now we have to call it something different,
so it's hip.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (28:44):
Well, I always say if there's a woman out there
who does not believe that she is a gold digger,
she's lying to herself. Because if you take two identical
twin males and one's rich and one's poor, which one
is she going to be chasing?
Speaker 2 (29:00):
I mean, all other things being equal. Yeah, definitely you
take the money.
Speaker 6 (29:04):
But and here's why. Okay, in our evolutionary past, during
the vulnerable years of pregnancy, nursing, and raising small kids,
you needed the resources. And even today, when women take
time off from their careers to raise kids, they need
a Dudeho's gonna step up?
Speaker 3 (29:20):
But that makes sense to me, right, I mean we've
known that, like women seek security and right, let's face
it finances equal security, and so I get that.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
There you go, So yeah, that doesn't surprise me.
Speaker 3 (29:38):
But let me also say this though, from a guy's standpoint,
wouldn't we have the exact same reaction if if you
take two women and all other things being equal, Uh,
aren't we taking the one that's got money.
Speaker 6 (29:51):
Well, here's what's interesting. Traditionally, the research has shown that
the more education, the higher up in her career, and
the more money woman has, the harder it is for
her to find a mate because there are a group
of men who are highly intimidated by that woman. In
recent years, as we're heading towards slowly a matriarchy, I know,
(30:13):
we have a little backlash right now, and women are
getting so educated and making money, we're starting to see
young men target young women for their wallets, and that's
a new phenomenon.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
Oh that's interesting.
Speaker 3 (30:27):
See, And I guess I'm just a weirdo because like,
there is nothing sexier to me than smarts.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
That is such a hure.
Speaker 6 (30:35):
You're a sapio sexual.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
I guess. So, yeah, I mean it is such a
turn on to me.
Speaker 6 (30:40):
I mean yeah, but there are a lot of guys
out there who don't have enough self esteem and want to,
you know, be smarter and tougher and richer and everything
so that they feel powerful.
Speaker 3 (30:50):
And let me tell you, I find this in my relationship.
My wife makes great money, she's so very successful. Yeah
all that, and I'm not gonna lie, it's a little
bit intimidating, but I find that the trouble in the
relationship sometimes comes from her expecting me to keep up.
In other words, she says, you know what I say,
(31:12):
you should be making more than me, right.
Speaker 6 (31:15):
So I think the biggest danger of patriarchy, aren't isn't
always like these outright sexist comments or behavior. It's this
internalized sense of I still deserve a prince, okay, because
I educated and I make money, so I need my
prince charming to make even more. Right, there was a sociologist,
(31:39):
I think in Scotland who coined the phrase the George
Clooney effect, and she basically says that the more educated
a woman is, the more she wants a guy who
makes more money than her.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
Okay, that's interesting is that in order to keep.
Speaker 6 (31:54):
Up or no, she still has Cinderell complex in her head.
Now it's like, well, if I'm now making this amount,
he's got to make that much more to be considered
a prince by me.
Speaker 2 (32:05):
Okay, all right, I get that. Yeah, I get that.
Speaker 3 (32:09):
Why can't my wife just be happy with my bad teeth,
my early onset mail pattern, baldness, my obese.
Speaker 6 (32:16):
Well, it's not all about money, you know what you
need to remind her of that relationships are in exchange
of care and care can take many forms and sometimes
yes it is financial care, but it can be sexual care.
It can be domestic responsibility care. Are you doing the laundry,
are you doing the dishes, you mowing the lawn? Okay,
well you need to step it up. Then you got
(32:38):
a choice. You can bring in the paycheck some.
Speaker 3 (32:40):
More, the I do the stuff around the house. And
that was that was kind of an issue. But you know,
thanks to therapy, she realized that I was actually trying.
But I think I think it took us communicating, like
I guess she wasn't getting that I wanted to commit
to like I don't. There were times that I didn't
have a job and because radio and and I would say,
(33:00):
but this is what I like. My job is to
support you right now. And I don't think that that
communication was really clear. But we're on the same page now.
Speaker 6 (33:07):
You know. I have a friend whose husband retired before her.
He retired five years ago. She's still working, and she says,
like he literally took over cooking, cleaning, doing anything, paying
the bills, doing everything. And she said, I never knew
how easy my life was when I have a wife
at home. I realize what men experienced all those years.
(33:30):
Just walk in the house, drop your bag, pick up
a martini, sit down, get your feet rubbed. And she said,
it is so amazing having a retired husband who's taken
over the house.
Speaker 3 (33:41):
Oh I need that. I'm going to try to find
a retired husband. That's my that's my game plan. I'm
throwning for a retired husband. Doctor Wendy after Dark. She
is next Doctor Wendy have a great show, looking forward
to it, says always back again next Sunday, Chris Meryl
k Oh.
Speaker 2 (33:57):
Actually I'm in.
Speaker 3 (33:57):
Fromote this week too, on I think Wednesday, Thursday, Friday,
so hopefully get a chance to talk with you.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
This week. It's Chris Merril kf I AM six forty
live everywhere on the iHeartRadio
Speaker 1 (34:07):
App, KFI AM six forty on demand
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Well, there is no business like shell business.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
Yes, all right, how about the news of Note from
Tinseltown and Beyond. Start with a couple of sad notes
like one of the scariest on screen characters I ever
saw it, probably because I was kind of young when
I saw this movie in my teens anyway, and I
(00:31):
think I think the original Candy Man was rated PG thirteen,
and I probably saw it about that time. I don't
remember exactly when it came out, but Tony Todd played
candy Man, and he was terrifying.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
He had the most.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Amazing baritone voice, and just whatever the director did, when
you saw him, you were just like wow. I mean,
he owned the screen, even as somebody wasn't anywhere close
to the entertainment industry at the time, I just knew.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
But Tony Todd passing away.
Speaker 4 (01:03):
Hollywood mourning the death of actor Tony Todd tonight. Representatives
of the star say he died peacefully at his Marina
del Ray home last night. Todd, who had more than
two hundred and forty film and TV credits spanning some
forty years, was best known for his roles in Candy
Man and Final Destination. Film production company New Line Cinema
releasing a short statement tonight on Instagram, saying, in part,
(01:26):
we have lost a cherished friend, Rest in peace, Tony.
Speaker 5 (01:29):
Tony Todd was sixty nine.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Oh man. I loved him. I loved seeing him on screen.
Incredible presence. So I was sad to see him see
that news that he had passed away. That made me,
Uh made me recall fondly how terrified I was. That's
just a good It was ninety two, by the way,
Candyman came out, so I guess I was fourteen ninety two.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Eh.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Scary for a fourteen year old watching that and they
tell you how he became the candy Man. They covered
him in Honting and let the bees at him. Oh
it's crazy. I think it was bees.
Speaker 6 (02:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (02:05):
That's one of the things you just still don't see
three times till this day. That and Bloody Mary. Right,
he left an impact.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
You don't say candy Man, candy Man, candy Man.
Speaker 7 (02:13):
You just said it.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Oh gosh, hide behind Raoul.
Speaker 7 (02:18):
Raoul has honey on him.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
They were telling story. I remember that movie vaguely. I
just remember him turning around in a scene and just
his face and I went wow, But there was Wasn't
that the movie and Heather, you can jump in and
help me out here too. Wasn't that the movie where
he had a hook for a hand and they were
telling a story about don't see candy man or he'll
get you with the hook and that it was scraping
(02:41):
across the top of a car that had broken down
or something.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Am I remember in the right film?
Speaker 8 (02:45):
I think so.
Speaker 9 (02:45):
But I have a terrible admission to make. I don't
like horror movies or anything that scares me, so I've
never seen it.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
That's fair.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
It wasn't It wasn't the I mean, okay, So here's
where I draw the line. I don't mind. I don't
mind thrillers. I don't like horrors. And I've always defined
that as a horror goes for gruesomeness, right, it goes
to show the pain. I don't mind the jump scare.
(03:14):
I just don't like the witnessing the mechanism of injury.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Does that make sense? Yeah, I don't care for that
at all.
Speaker 9 (03:21):
What's a movie that's in the theater right now. That's
the clown movie. That's really terrifying Oh, I know what
you're talking about. I just try to watch it the
other night, but it was way too gruesome movie. I
can't remember.
Speaker 8 (03:31):
This is so bad. I know, it's right on the
tip of my tongue.
Speaker 9 (03:34):
I think about, Like, do you remember the movie Sleeping
with the Enemy with Julia Roberts.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Yeah, that's like a psychological thriller.
Speaker 9 (03:40):
Yes, yeah, like suspenseful thriller. Stuff like that I can handle.
But anything where it's just like blood terrifying, like terrifier.
That's anything that's just gross and bloody and violent to
be violent is like, it's like not for me.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Okay, I am exactly like you when it comes to
films that are made in that vein. Like my wife
loved horror movies and so Saw came out and she says,
we have to go see Saw, and she had dragged
me to other horror movies in the past, and I
just I don't like it at all. I'm just and
she laughs at me because I don't like it. She's
a horrible person, basically, It's what I'm saying.
Speaker 9 (04:16):
So, by the way, really quickly, our our traffic person,
Trai Alexander today said he saw Terrifire three.
Speaker 8 (04:23):
He's listening and he saw it. Did you like it?
Speaker 9 (04:25):
Trey?
Speaker 8 (04:27):
Can you chi?
Speaker 7 (04:28):
Are you talking to yourself?
Speaker 5 (04:29):
Heather?
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Now?
Speaker 7 (04:29):
Really there there is.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
No I saw it.
Speaker 10 (04:32):
I like it it. I almost throw up a couple
of times.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
See that.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
I'm gonna stay away from you. Like the horror movies?
Oh you love horror?
Speaker 2 (04:43):
I gotcha? Okay, I love that.
Speaker 10 (04:45):
But that one was, uh, that was over the top.
There was stuff there that if there was a line
in the sand, he crossed it.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Yeah, could you watch?
Speaker 7 (04:53):
Could you watch Saw?
Speaker 8 (04:54):
Trey?
Speaker 5 (04:54):
Like, did you see this?
Speaker 6 (04:55):
Saw? I can?
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (04:56):
Saw?
Speaker 4 (04:56):
I saw?
Speaker 2 (04:56):
It's fine.
Speaker 5 (04:57):
This is way worse than something real i've heard.
Speaker 8 (05:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (05:00):
Oh wow.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
The first Saw wasn't nearly as gory. It was more psychological,
but then it just got into torture porn.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
I don't like just watching porn for the sake of porn.
I don't like watching torture for the sake of watching
torture happened?
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Yeah, so I misspoke?
Speaker 9 (05:23):
Can I tell you a secret behind the scene secret here?
So my daughter, who is an actress, was actually asked
to audition for the little girl role in Terrifier three
last year. Yeah, and I said no, rest not even
though it's.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
Kids, they can't go see their own movies. I always
think I got a kick out of that.
Speaker 9 (05:40):
It's not worth it to me to have her in
something like that and be around that and be psychologic
because it is psychologically disturbing, you know. Oh yeah, you
can see this stuff, and even though it's fake and
pretend and stuff, you're still seeing it. You're still acting
out the feelings of being terrified.
Speaker 8 (05:57):
And she was ten, and I was like, uh.
Speaker 7 (06:00):
I respect your boundaries. I love the way you enforce them.
Speaker 8 (06:02):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
You in her career is dead.
Speaker 10 (06:04):
The two say that again, I said, she would be
You would be really upset if you saw what.
Speaker 8 (06:10):
Happened to the little girl.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (06:11):
No, I read the script and I was like, absolutely not.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Oh yeah, okay.
Speaker 9 (06:18):
It's not worth it to me to have her to,
you know, put her in something that will compromise her
safety or her mental health down the road, just to
make a few bucks or.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
No, that's interesting if something bad happens to kids. My
wife draws that line. She loves horror movies, but she
cannot handle something bad happening to kids, So that is
a line in the sand for her.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
So I there is there is.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
Something though about gratuitous violence, like over the top. And
I always I love Quentin Tarantino movies. They're just insanely violent.
They're so non believably violent that I don't have any
problem with my suspension of disbelief.
Speaker 8 (06:59):
My husband calls it cartoon violence.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Yeah, yeah, yes, I would. That's a that's a what
he's so smart.
Speaker 8 (07:05):
He is really smart.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Yeah, that is a wonderful way to put it. Uh.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
The the one that I always think of is in
the movie Machete. There's this scene, Kelly, you might want
to divert your ears. There's this scene in Machete where
he's trying to escape and he ends up cutting somebody open,
like one of the bad guys he's fighting, cuts him open,
grabs his intestines, and jumps out a window and then
uses the intestines like a rope to swing into the
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story below.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
And I died laughing.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
I was like, yeah, it is so over the top, Like,
obviously that's not how guts work.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
It was.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
It was kind of like the ridiculous scenarios from Fast
and the Furious, you know, when they can swing a
car and jump off cliffs and things like that in.
Speaker 8 (07:49):
A car to the moon.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Yeah, obviously not.
Speaker 7 (07:53):
And I met I met Danny Trejo. He was like
one of the nicest guys in the world. So to
watch him me that way.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
Everyone I've ever met that has come in contact with
him says the exact same thing.
Speaker 9 (08:04):
I met him in the elevator here at iHeart one day.
I was on my way into work and I was like,
oh my god, this is Danny Shrejo. I was eating
to get his taco shopper. He just came in and
started hanging out with everybody eating.
Speaker 7 (08:14):
It was so cool.
Speaker 5 (08:16):
Okay, sorry, I love.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
See but this is like the on screen versus off screen,
and I love the cartoon violence. I don't like it
when I start to feel empathy for the characters.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Yeah I like that.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Yeah, yeah, So read me. Somebody's got a little bit
of a throat thing going on tonight. It's me.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
Charges in Liam Payne's death. It sounds like we've got
to three people to be charging the breaking right now.
Speaker 11 (08:43):
Three people have been charging connection with the death of
former One Direction star Liam Payne. The Argentinian Prosecutor's office
said in a statement that pain was not fully conscious
at the time of his fall from a third floor
hotel room balcony. Three people have been charged with crimes
of supplying and facilitating the use of narcotics and abandoned
of a person followed by death.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
They have not yet been named. Yeah, and what was
the stuff he was taking? Like Christall they called it.
I'd never heard that.
Speaker 8 (09:07):
Yeah, I never heard of that either. It was some
kind of specialty.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
Well my understanding is it's like a little bit of everything, yeah,
which sounds like the Long Island iced tea of narcotics.
And I feel like that's not a great thing. So yeah,
whoever gave him that crap? You know, it's like, Matthew Perry,
what are you doing? Don't supply drugs? All those were doctors, right,
don't do that. And I'm all for somebody dies then
the dealer gets busted.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
I'm all for it.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
Yeah, definitely, so good stick it to him. I want
to continue here in just a few moments, and I'm
gonna put Heather Brooker on the spot because once again
she did something amazing and didn't invite any of us.
That is next, Chris Meryl, I am six forty. We
live everywhere in your iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
Welcome back, Chris Merril, I AM six forty more stimulating
talk and there's no businesiness.
Speaker 7 (10:00):
Like shell business.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Thank you to people listening and hitting that talkback button
on the iHeart Radio app letting us know that it
is called pink cocaine. According to one of the talkbacks
that Liam Payne dynam was pink cocaine.
Speaker 5 (10:12):
It's all called doucey deucey t u s I doucy.
How do you know this?
Speaker 12 (10:18):
Because the compound is number two and then see But
in Spanish people don't really know too and let her see,
so they say doucy and it comes from Columbia.
Speaker 5 (10:32):
It's a mixture, a cocktail for sure.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Yeah, it's like the Long Island iced tea of narcotics.
Speaker 5 (10:38):
I've seen it go bad for sure.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
When you say you've seen it go bad, you mean
somebody taking it overdose you somebody you mean like it
hit the expiration date?
Speaker 5 (10:48):
No, like it.
Speaker 12 (10:49):
Yeah, they overdosed and we're like freaking out and like
you know, like we were like, yo, calm down, Oh
really you're gonna survive. You just gotta be calm, don't.
I want to hang out like screaming, like, take me
to the you have the most fun.
Speaker 8 (11:03):
This is like an episode of NCIS or something. This
is wild and it was.
Speaker 5 (11:07):
From a strip club, so that's even more good.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
So it had like stink on it or something.
Speaker 5 (11:15):
Dollar bills.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Okay, we're involved.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
Probably want to rinse that off first, man, I want
to hang out with you. You know. My problem is
I go to bed too early. All the cool stuff
happens after I go to bed. They say, nothing good
ever happens after nine pm. But I'm telling you, nothing memorable,
ever ever, happens before nine pm. All the cool stuff
happens after nine Uh. Speaking of cool once again, I'm
(11:38):
living vicariously through Heather Brooker's Instagram account.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
That's great. Uh what was going on with you and
the wicked stuff?
Speaker 9 (11:45):
Oh my gosh. Well, first of all, everybody follow me
at the Heather Brooker, thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
Ye know I am That's why I know what's going
on the dark.
Speaker 9 (11:54):
Telling the world. I'm telling the world who's listening that
do not follow me. I was the great people, the
kind people Universal Pictures, inviting me to come and get
a look at some of the set pieces for the
new movie Wicked and some of the props and the wardrobe,
the costumes.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
I also because you were like an influencer and they
wanted all influencers to come spread the work.
Speaker 8 (12:18):
I mean, I think it was part of both.
Speaker 9 (12:19):
I think it was maybe both because there was also
some There was also some people there that are like
TikTokers that were there. And you know, I'm just a
mom who likes to share my life on the internet
and I love talking about movies, as you guys know,
and stuff like that. So it was really cool. They
had like just an amazing setup. Like I was blown away.
(12:42):
We got to see the oz face, you know, the mask.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
It was so cool.
Speaker 9 (12:51):
I took chan with me. I didn't take Chris with me,
but I took Channing with me and she got to
see it too, and she was just like, this is
so cool. So it was really neat and it excuse
me it. I interviewed the wardrobe uh Stylas, the head
of the wardrobe department who created the pink bubble dress
that Aria Grande wears, and Glinda and all the costumes,
(13:14):
all the wardrobe, so it was I interviewed some other people.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
And that's one of those movies where the costuming is
kind of the co star.
Speaker 8 (13:21):
Oh for sure.
Speaker 9 (13:22):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, we talked about that and it was Yeah,
it's just a really neat experience.
Speaker 8 (13:27):
And I love the musical. Have you seen the musical?
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Yeah, a long time ago.
Speaker 9 (13:33):
Yeah, I love it. It has such a special place.
Speaker 8 (13:36):
In my heart.
Speaker 9 (13:36):
And I'm I'm I'm love the movie. I think people
are just gonna the Wicked Witch. I felt like, oh
my god, I was the green one at school. I
was never Glinda. I was awkward and weird.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Story of all of our lives. Right, we're in radio.
Speaker 8 (13:54):
That's why we're in news radio.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Oh those guys are cool. Look at you you but
it was cool.
Speaker 8 (14:01):
It was cool.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
Check it out, Pablo looking at people. Raoul Pablo is
a producer I work with during the week, and I
call him Raoul, and then here I am calling Raoul Pablo,
which just makes me sound super racist, super racist.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
Yeah, totally, it is funny.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
Uh So, anyway, by the way, uh, at my other gig,
my buddy Pablo has now my co worker started calling
him Praoul as kind of a hybrid, a hybrid of
the two. Yeah. Uh Portman too. So we got to
Raoul is watching people o D at strip clubs. You're
hanging out with Universal Studios and all the fun stuff,
(14:41):
And I'm like, nine o'clock, Why I better get my Well,
we're sleep terrible. Let me see what else is going
on here?
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Oh? I like this. Oh I love a good headline.
Speaker 11 (14:57):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
As we continue talking about our show business, I'm gonna
one more chill business segment. But Kayla's not gonna like it.
That is coming up here in just a few moments.
I did want to get to this because I love
a headline that says more sexy.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
I love it.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
Netflix and Lifetime Christmas Movies stripped down with hot Frosty
and more. Oh, here we go. New York Times article
with hot Frosty, the merry gentleman and a carpenter. Christmas
romance Holiday Fair is headed in a shirtless new direction.
Fans of Christmas romance usually know exactly what to expect
(15:36):
when tuning into any of the dozens of new movies
on cable and streaming platforms each year. Yeah, it'll be Candae, Cameron,
Beer or whatever you say your name in just about everything. Yeah,
for ninety minutes or so they're gonna see a city
slicker return to her immaculately decorated small hometown for the holidays.
Local guy sweeps are off her feet, Scenery, snow covered
music is merry quick peck on the lips, reliably signifying
(15:58):
the lover's happy ending this year, though they're stripping down.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
Oh, I like this.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
I'm seemingly born of the realization that women are a
key viewing demographic of the genre. No, the men are
often shirtless and on display to be aggled by the
female townsfolk. The kisses are passionate, and at least one instance,
the lead characters have s X. All right, I might
watch now this. There's something juicy to get pay attention to.
(16:28):
I know that other nonsense. All right, how about a
celebrity shrug? Yeah, it was a couple of months. Who
cares what they say. We'll continue if there's no business.
Speaker 7 (16:39):
Like shell business.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
It's next.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
Chris Merril Cafi AM six forty. We live everywhere in
your iHeart.
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Radio app, you're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
They go name to Chris Merril Cafi AM six forty.
More stimulating talk. The Great Doctor Wendy Walsh. Doctor Wendy
after Dark is coming up here in about half an hour,
so we're looking forward to that.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
Oh yeah, I told you I was gonna do another
entertainment thing here.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
But I don't think you guys are gonna necessarily like
this because I'm gonna have to mix entertainment and the politics.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
Sorry.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
So you may have seen Nick Bosa. Are you familiar
with Nick Bosa? Yeah, football player. Somebody was doing a
postgame interview and he popped in with a MAGA hat
and pointed at the hat and said something I don't
remember what it was.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
And people are like, wait.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
A minute, he's doing a political display on the field
and then on TV, and the NFL is pretty strict
about those things, no political displays. And I know, wait
a minute before you get angry with me, don't at
me here, because I know you're saying, well, yeah, but
then they allow this and this and this and this
and this okay, But you didn't see anybody popping up
and being.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
Like, vote Harris.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
I didn't see any of that in politics or in sports.
In fact, Taylor Swift endorsed Harris Travis Kelsey your boyfriend
not a word, and the Kicker for her boyfriend's team, Harrison, Butker,
he said some political things earlier this year.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
He caught grief for it, but he didn't do it
while wearing the uniform. Okay, so.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
Listen, if you felt like these athletes should shut their
mouths and just play football, then you have to be
consistent with that, even when it's somebody who likes the
same person you do. But of course liberals lost their
minds because they went, wait a minute, we canceled the
Colin Kaepernick, but this guy gets off well. Sounds like
(18:31):
not so much now. The NFL is cracked down.
Speaker 13 (18:33):
The NFL is fine San Francisco forty nine Ers star
Nick Bosa for wearing a hat with a pro Donald
Trump message.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Two weeks ago.
Speaker 13 (18:40):
Bosa barged in on a postgame interview wearing a white
hat with the make America Great against slogan and logo.
The league fined A Posa more than eleven thousand dollars
for violating the league's uniform and equipment policy rules by
wearing a hat that contained that personal message.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
Last week, Posa.
Speaker 13 (18:55):
Said that he knew a fine was possible, but indicated
that he would have no problem problem paying the tab.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
Yeah, so eleven thousand dollars, fine, when you make millions
a year is nothing. It just said dropping the bucket
for them. But I did think this was interesting. I
was reading some some of the post mortem that the
Democrats are going through. They're all pointing fingers at each
other and trying to figure out where they went wrong.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
Well, you you lost an election. Listen, everybody loses.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
You ever notice that an election ends and whoever the
losing team is like, where did we go wrong? As
though they should have won, Like we should have won
this election. Why didn't we win because the other person
got more votes. That's that's what happens. Oh they always
assume that, oh, we did something whatever. But the Democrats
(19:44):
are gonna reconnoiter her. They're gonna they're gonna take a
look at things. But I did think it was interesting
that you saw Kamala Harris came out of the campaign
trail and she uh took the country by storm. You know,
Biden was out, she was in energy, went through the roof,
and then all of a sudden, she was a rock
star around the country who was touring with rock stars.
Taylor Swift didn't go to any of her events. But
(20:05):
Taylor Swift did support Harris.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
Mostly it seemed because Jade Vance said something about childless
cat ladies and she took that personally. Beyonce comes out
on stage with her. In Houston, Bruce Springsteen started touring
around the place and and uh and hanging with her.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
George Clooney was following Kamala Harris. On the other side.
The actors weren't the A list actors, but you still
had Scott Bayo, you still had Hulk Hogan, Dana White
from the Ufcuh.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
Who's that golfer Deschampeau? Is that his name? The the uh?
Speaker 3 (20:41):
The golfer that showed up on stage with Trump, the
net that he was giving his victory speech. All of
the Oh, Katie Perry for uh, for Harris are a grande.
All of these people, they're all stepping up. Do the
artists make a lick of difference? So Marie this article
from the Guardian, and it says, back in July, Charlie,
(21:06):
what's her name?
Speaker 2 (21:07):
Charlie X? It's x c X. Is that Charlie xy sexy?
Is that how you say that? No?
Speaker 7 (21:13):
You said I write the first time?
Speaker 2 (21:14):
What? Oh, you're supposed to Oh okay.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
Somebody told me it was Roman numerals, and I said, well,
that's not how you do Roman numerals because you just
you basically subtracted and added. So that didn't work. So
Charlie XC, how did she come up with that name?
Charlie X. I thought it was Charlie xy sexy. It's
not x sexy.
Speaker 7 (21:32):
I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure you're you're
the wrong one.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
Let's just let's just assume that I'm the wrong one.
That's fair, especially when it comes to you know things. Yeah, exactly.
Uh So she was tweeting about Harris and said that, uh,
Kamala is brat. You remember that this was the summer
of brat, and I guess she said she's brat and
(21:56):
so everybody.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
Got all excited about it. Well, she's not enough to win.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
According to Ashley Spillane, she authored Celebrities Strengthening Our Culture
of Democracy, which was a Harvard study published back in August.
She said there is robust evidence that celebrities do have
a real impact in promoting overall non partisan civic engagement,
from encouraging voter registration to poll workers sign ups, but
(22:26):
the same report also found that it was hard to
quantify whether an increased drive of voters to the polls
corresponded with positive outcomes for the endorsed candidate. In other words,
when you have Sabrina Carpenter that says.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
We gotta get out and registered to vote, then people
do what she says.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
But when she says we got to get out and
vote for Harris, then people go, I'm going to get
out and register, but then not vote the way you
want me to, which is bizarre to me because if
it takes a celebrity to convince you to register to vote,
then why aren't you listening what the celebrity says after that?
Speaker 2 (23:02):
Doesn't that seem a little bit odd?
Speaker 3 (23:04):
Like, well, I wasn't really interested in voting until my
favorite celebrity told me I should, and then my favorite
celebrity told me who I should vote for, and I
decided no. So what's the threshold where they stopped listening
to what their celebrity recommends? And isn't it odd how
much the celebrities offer up an endorsement and the politicians
bend over backwards to get those celebrities on stage, and
(23:27):
yet there's no evidence that a celebrity endorsement corresponds with
more votes for the candidate.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
So why do they work so hard for it? Why
is it such a big deal?
Speaker 3 (23:42):
And I really thought hard on this, and I thought, well,
the first thing is it's it's a vibe check, right,
It's a vibe check. Where are we right now? Who's relevant?
And if relevant people pick this candidate, then this candidate
can say that they are the relevant, the relevant person
(24:04):
running for office. Then they can say I'm in tune.
The other person is not. I understand the culture today.
The other person does not look at all the people
supporting me. So there's a vibe check. It also helps
build momentum. I mean it's electric. You get Beyonce coming
out on stage, you got Oprah coming out on stage,
(24:24):
You've got all of these people who are supporting Bruce
Springsteen doing a concert at a campaign rally. It's massive,
and so there is momentum that builds. There's a tension
that's brought to it. It's free advertising. It is word
of mouth. You're getting social clicks. It's why they all
want to do this. Now the Democrats have more a
listers that support them, so they get to do that
(24:46):
more often. But don't think Trump wasn't marching people out
there on stage, and especially people who were big within
the base, people that support it, Kid Rock Again, Hulk Hogan,
Dana White, these are all really influential people within in
that base. He wanted to say, we're all in this together.
And then of course there's the cool factor, right, everybody
(25:07):
wants to be cool. No president had a better cool
factor than Obama?
Speaker 2 (25:12):
Right? Is that fair? Are we in agreement on that?
Speaker 3 (25:16):
Like when it came to the cool factor, that was
the guy Biden kind of tried to pull it off
the aviator sunglasses, but then we realized he's basically just
hiding that there's death behind his eyes.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
That's it.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
Otherwise, who was the other cool president? A lot of
people said, I know a lot of people thought it
was cool. I never liked it. That always felt cringe
to me. And I'll tell you what though, he was
doing that when I was fourteen. So that goes back
to how does Jen Alpha see Bruce Springsteen playing for Harris?
(25:52):
Does that feel cringe to the youngest generation?
Speaker 5 (25:55):
Clinton had swag? Come on, man, yeah he did have swag,
So I just cringed him.
Speaker 8 (26:00):
Reagan was a cowboy he had cowboy swag. He's movie
stars a.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
Different swag, but definitely swag. Definitely. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (26:07):
Reagan, he was an influencer before there were influencer That's true.
Speaker 3 (26:11):
That's true. And then I was thinking JFK was the
other one. Yeah, yeah, all right, So there's the cool factor.
And the trouble of the Democrats have going into this
is that they don't realize the negative effect of it.
And and by that I mean that one of the
criticisms of the party is that they're aloof, that they're elitists,
that they don't have any concept of kitchen table topics,
(26:31):
they don't know about school safety, job security, wages, inflation, etc.
Now listen, if you're a Democrat, you're saying, yes we do,
Yes we do, Yes we do. But I'm telling you
that's how the electorate looked at the Democrats. This Bernie
Sanders is even saying like we seem out of touch,
and getting George Clooney to vouch for somebody that's already
looked at as being out of touch.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
That only reinforces the stereotype. Right.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
Even the study that I'm quoting comes from the most
aloof and elitist school in America Harvard. So it all
adds up to this problem that the Democrats continue to
face that the common man just doesn't think that they
get it. Whether they do or not, it's gonna be
at least four years before we find out. All right,
in a moment, we'll talk with the great Doctor Wendy Waalsh.
(27:15):
She steps in for Doctor Wendy after Dark. That is next,
and we'll find out about throwning. See if you're familiar
with throwning. Yeah, it's a new term. Better get used
to it.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
It's next.
Speaker 3 (27:27):
Chris Merril KFI AM six forty. We live everywhere on
the iHeart Radio Apple.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 3 (27:34):
Looking forward to Doctor Wendy after Dark. I love that
she makes relationships into strategy. It's like nobody else can
turn a relationship into you sink my battleship more than
doctor Wendy Walsh, Doctor Wendy after Dark, coming up here
at seven o'clock.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
Hey, good to have you. I love talking to you.
Speaker 8 (27:49):
I love talking to you too.
Speaker 3 (27:50):
I do want to say thanks to everybody. I always
run out of time at the end of the show,
so I want to tell everybody how much. I love them, Raoul,
love you, Heatherbrooker, love you, Kayla, love you, Glad you're back.
And uh Andrew who went home already, love you two.
Pel Okay, there we go. I have so much deep
emotion for all of the people around me and I
love them to death. That said doctor Wendy. I had
to ask you about this new term called throwning. You
(28:13):
know that much. Well, you know how much I love
when gen Z discovers something that's been around since.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
Forever and then you give it a new name. Exactly
what happens. So throwning is a new dating trend.
Speaker 6 (28:24):
And guess what, wait is this s felt thrown like,
step up to the throne, get it, get your crowning.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
Go throwning.
Speaker 3 (28:32):
Yeah, it's just gold digging, that's it, dating up, gold digging,
clout chasing. But now we have to call it something different,
so it's hip.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (28:44):
Well, I always say if there's a woman out there
who does not believe that she is a gold digger,
she's lying to herself. Because if you take two identical
twin males and one's rich and one's poor, which one
is she going to be chasing?
Speaker 2 (29:00):
I mean, all other things being equal. Yeah, definitely you
take the money.
Speaker 6 (29:04):
But and here's why. Okay, in our evolutionary past, during
the vulnerable years of pregnancy, nursing, and raising small kids,
you needed the resources. And even today, when women take
time off from their careers to raise kids, they need
a Dudeho's gonna step up?
Speaker 3 (29:20):
But that makes sense to me, right, I mean we've
known that, like women seek security and right, let's face
it finances equal security, and so I get that.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
There you go, So yeah, that doesn't surprise me.
Speaker 3 (29:38):
But let me also say this though, from a guy's standpoint,
wouldn't we have the exact same reaction if if you
take two women and all other things being equal, Uh,
aren't we taking the one that's got money.
Speaker 6 (29:51):
Well, here's what's interesting. Traditionally, the research has shown that
the more education, the higher up in her career, and
the more money woman has, the harder it is for
her to find a mate because there are a group
of men who are highly intimidated by that woman. In
recent years, as we're heading towards slowly a matriarchy, I know,
(30:13):
we have a little backlash right now, and women are
getting so educated and making money, we're starting to see
young men target young women for their wallets, and that's
a new phenomenon.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
Oh that's interesting.
Speaker 3 (30:27):
See, And I guess I'm just a weirdo because like,
there is nothing sexier to me than smarts.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
That is such a hure.
Speaker 6 (30:35):
You're a sapio sexual.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
I guess. So, yeah, I mean it is such a
turn on to me.
Speaker 6 (30:40):
I mean yeah, but there are a lot of guys
out there who don't have enough self esteem and want to,
you know, be smarter and tougher and richer and everything
so that they feel powerful.
Speaker 3 (30:50):
And let me tell you, I find this in my relationship.
My wife makes great money, she's so very successful. Yeah
all that, and I'm not gonna lie, it's a little
bit intimidating, but I find that the trouble in the
relationship sometimes comes from her expecting me to keep up.
In other words, she says, you know what I say,
(31:12):
you should be making more than me, right.
Speaker 6 (31:15):
So I think the biggest danger of patriarchy, aren't isn't
always like these outright sexist comments or behavior. It's this
internalized sense of I still deserve a prince, okay, because
I educated and I make money, so I need my
prince charming to make even more. Right, there was a sociologist,
(31:39):
I think in Scotland who coined the phrase the George
Clooney effect, and she basically says that the more educated
a woman is, the more she wants a guy who
makes more money than her.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
Okay, that's interesting is that in order to keep.
Speaker 6 (31:54):
Up or no, she still has Cinderell complex in her head.
Now it's like, well, if I'm now making this amount,
he's got to make that much more to be considered
a prince by me.
Speaker 2 (32:05):
Okay, all right, I get that. Yeah, I get that.
Speaker 3 (32:09):
Why can't my wife just be happy with my bad teeth,
my early onset mail pattern, baldness, my obese.
Speaker 6 (32:16):
Well, it's not all about money, you know what you
need to remind her of that relationships are in exchange
of care and care can take many forms and sometimes
yes it is financial care, but it can be sexual care.
It can be domestic responsibility care. Are you doing the laundry,
are you doing the dishes, you mowing the lawn? Okay,
well you need to step it up. Then you got
(32:38):
a choice. You can bring in the paycheck some.
Speaker 3 (32:40):
More, the I do the stuff around the house. And
that was that was kind of an issue. But you know,
thanks to therapy, she realized that I was actually trying.
But I think I think it took us communicating, like
I guess she wasn't getting that I wanted to commit
to like I don't. There were times that I didn't
have a job and because radio and and I would say,
(33:00):
but this is what I like. My job is to
support you right now. And I don't think that that
communication was really clear. But we're on the same page now.
Speaker 6 (33:07):
You know. I have a friend whose husband retired before her.
He retired five years ago. She's still working, and she says,
like he literally took over cooking, cleaning, doing anything, paying
the bills, doing everything. And she said, I never knew
how easy my life was when I have a wife
at home. I realize what men experienced all those years.
(33:30):
Just walk in the house, drop your bag, pick up
a martini, sit down, get your feet rubbed. And she said,
it is so amazing having a retired husband who's taken
over the house.
Speaker 3 (33:41):
Oh I need that. I'm going to try to find
a retired husband. That's my that's my game plan. I'm
throwning for a retired husband. Doctor Wendy after Dark. She
is next Doctor Wendy have a great show, looking forward
to it, says always back again next Sunday, Chris Meryl
k Oh.
Speaker 2 (33:57):
Actually I'm in.
Speaker 3 (33:57):
Fromote this week too, on I think Wednesday, Thursday, Friday,
so hopefully get a chance to talk with you.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
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