February 16, 2025 • 31 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Chris Merril caf I AM six forty on demand anytime
the iHeartRadio app. Welcome Mark Ronner into the program. Good
to talk to you, buddy. It's been a couple of weeks,
hasn't it. Yeah? Are you? Are you in with mo
all week two? Are you just picking up an extra
shift here? What? I just can't get enough working indoors
in the free heat and air conditioning. Yeah, nothing on
TWOB this weekend? Then, huh oh, there's lots on tub.
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Don't get me started on that, Tooby. Don't even start
me down that road. Yeah. In fact, you probably even
considered watching the super Bowl last week just because it
was on Twoby. Well, in fact, I did not. I
went to a book sale last week because I have
no interest whatsoever in the super Bowl. But if if
it's your bag, you indulge it was on Tooby. I
realize I'm in the minority, so go right ahead. Uh, listener,
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it's good to have you on the program. I'm so
glad that you're here because you know, I love working
with you. Same same we did earlier. We did talk
about some of the important things that the new administration
is doing driving the beast around the Daytona five hundred track.
Nobody else is doing that. Well, it must help somebody
or bring down the price of eggs somehow, exactly. That's
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the kind of important stuff that we're looking for. We
also talked about paving the Rose Garden, which is something
they're considering doing, which we got to see. And instead
of instead of calling it Greenland, there's been a bill
introduced to rename it, at least in all official US
documents and Google maps. I assume red white and Blueland.
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The people there must be thrilled about that. I'm sure
they are, but they really don't have any choice. We
can do whatever we want well, of course, and we
can sort of beat them into submission the same way
that an older brother might dub a nickname on a
younger brother that the younger brother hates. For instance, I
revealed that I still call my little brother Junior, a
name that he picked up from my friends when I
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was in high school. So we're thirty years later and
I still call him Junior. He hates it. So in
the same way, we can just start calling Greenland red
white and Blueland and they can't do anything about it.
Isn't that wonderful? Yeah? Man, maybe we could give Greenland
noogies afterwards. It's exactly what I'm thinking about. Or if
Canada doesn't want to become our fifty first state, maybe
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we just start calling them our fifty first. It's really
it's ungrateful of them not to want that. Don't you say?
They could be? They could be North Montana. We did
get a talk back, and I appreciate everybody that hits
the talkbacks on the iHeartRadio app your thoughts on renaming Canada.
I'm a friend. No, Canada will be north wahmnt Coda.
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It took me a second, but then I realized he
was He was making a portmanteau of Washington, Montana. Dakota's
so walmont Cota. Uh okay. I mean it was a
good first. It was a good attempt. But what if
we just started renaming, renaming everything in Canada? Sort of
we just started calling it upstate, so Canada would be
upstate Maine. Oh are you you want to go to Ontario? No,
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I want to go to upstate Ohio. You see how
we do that? Uh? Upstate Minnesota, upstate with upstate Montana.
Just everything is called upstate now, yeah, I like that,
But just hear me out here East Alaska having I
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think you're on the right track. Having grown up in Spokane,
which is just below the border. It's yeah, it's in
that state that we know is Washington. I like, I
like calling significant parts of Canada Spokane North. Oh there
you go. I'm find with like Spokane with more teeth.
What do you think? Yeah, Saskatchewan becomes uh Spokane, Spokatchewan. Hey, Spokatchewan. Yeah,
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I'm down. Yeah, we got this. How could the Canadian
people even resist? See? This is why it's important to
pay attention to the state of politics. Kayla. I know
you like to tune out of this stuff, but this
is the important stuff that we are. I mean, we're here.
Nobody else is doin this.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
We are, you guys change in the world. I'm so
grateful for you and Mark Ronnerd. Thank you for being
alive and well during these times.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
That doesn't sound sincere me, please Mark, you know me better. Instead,
you've been spending all your time paying attention to that
nonsense entertainment stuff. For our there's no business like show business.
I can't believe you still got her doing that. By
the way, Reorg nice for that.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
In these streets, they're like, are you the show business girl?
Speaker 2 (04:26):
People make you yell that when when you run into
them in the street. Okay, you know it's going to
get awkward when she's on a date. Yeah, right, that's
when it's gonna get weird. Well, it depends on when
the person wants her to yell it. Oh, she says, Okay,
I mean you went there. I was just business. I
mean the show business I was implying, But you went there.
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That's good. By the way, started a little over an
hour ago SNL's fiftieth anniversary. Uh so we're missing that,
and I'm kind of saddened about that because one of
the things that I've read a number of article about
SNL this week is that we all have our favorite
era of SNL, and it all seems to correspond with
when we were in high school. For me, the best
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SNL was the early nineties. The Farley Sandler, David Spade,
Phil Hartman. I mean that was just the best. And
then you talk with other people like, oh, there was
nothing better than the crop after that, the Will Ferrells,
the Chris Katans, the Cherio Terry's that was the best era.
And I talked with somebody that a little bit old, Raoul,
(05:32):
who what was the best era for you? Was it
late eight Was it like John Lovet's and the guys
in the late eighties. That's tough because I remember going
to watching Eddie Murphy and all that. Okay, so I
really like that original and then the mid eighties. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
I think so. Yeah. I talked with some other people
that would say, oh, you know, the Christopher Guest, Billy Crystal,
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that was the best time, and it seemed frankly, I
think they're putting out quality stuff right now. I think
that if you take a look and you talk with
people who are gonna be jen Z or baby millennials,
they will Kila, do you have a favorite, because I'm thinking,
let me guess. I'm gonna say for you, it's the
it's the the Amy Poehler, Tina Fay, Fred Armison, my Rudolph. Yeah,
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actually I find that. Yeah, that's I'll take that. I'll
accept it, Okay, good. I liked, by the way, my
Rudolph was one that was in that Will Ferrell time.
Tim Meadows kind of survived one of the Cullings in
the same way Keenan Thompson seems to hang on after
they do all the different cast changes. So some of
those guys, those are some of our favorites, and I
think it corresponds with the time in our life. It
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was interesting to read about some of that and some
of the impact. In fact, the New York Times actually
did quite a few articles on fifty years of SNL.
I read a really good one today about Lauren Michaels.
Lauren is eighty. SNL has been on for fifty years.
Lauren's been at the hell from the beginning, and every
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time I see that Louren Michaels is still there, I
keep thinking, how old is that guy? So he's eighty,
which means he was younger than all of us when
he started what has become a cultural icon. What the
hell have we done with our lives? Nothing? That's what
nothing but SNL sells out. It's important to remember that
the people that you see on Saturday Night Live are
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actors and comedians and their goal is to make money.
And if they can, if they can take something that
they do well and they can translate that into cashola,
they will, which is why sometimes you see some bad
movies come out starring SNL cast members. Look, they're gonna
give it a shot. There is a new commercial running
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and I don't know if you've seen it though, but
this stars some of my favorites as well, Fred Armison,
Bill Hayter And why is her name is skiving me
right now? But it happens to the oldest of us.
Oh my gosh, Ghostbusters, Bridesmaids. I'm just gonna let him
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hang out there like that, funewing me right now. I'm
seeing her. Why why is his name not coming? I
gotta stop smoking, lay off the vape, stop making your
own syrup, who and your own gravy? What I'm trying?
I don't know who you're trying to think of. She
was People magazine Sexiest Person. I love her. She's Tina f. Krista.
(08:38):
Thank you. That's so hard for me to come up with.
I thought you had it like three times. Roder. You're
on probation right now. I think I showed up on
the wrong day. Should all right? So anyway, they all
sold out and they've got a new commercial with Volkswagen,
but it's based out of Saturday Night Live Bit and
I kind of love.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
It next on the Californians, Paranajavon, Thanks for meeting me
at Malaba Beach off the one of.
Speaker 4 (09:05):
Rowan mustiomous morning and Marina turn but not Melo the
Betchy's morning and Marina to our.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Ann but not now the beach now of a batch.
Oh no, a Stewart, what are you doing here? I'm
not enjoying life in my new Volkswagen ID buzz in here?
(09:38):
What what's an ID buzz this?
Speaker 5 (09:41):
I've been approaching life with positive vibes.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
I know it's rad Devin. I drove up the five,
got on the four or five and took the ten
to the pH.
Speaker 4 (09:50):
It's giving total positive at Wow, these seats are like
California lounge charts.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
We can go far in a single charge. Who knows
where we'll end up, probably on the five or the
one on one the Californians. That was one of those
bits that was so slow moving. The audience did not
get it when it first came out in real time.
Do you remember this? I remember watching The Californians and
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the audience was like, is this a filler? Skit? Is that?
What this is? I freaking love that that sketch and
it took on kind of a life of its own,
and I'm so glad it did. I love it. By
the way, I pulled the audio from YouTube and I
grabbed one of the comments from that, and you know
how people are on the internet where they like this
is stupid, but I love this one. So it's a
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it's the Californians. It's an SNL with obviously Volkswagen, and
it says comment comes it says stop spreading lives SNL.
The PCH has closed at Santa Monica due to the fires.
Stewart would need to take the five to the four
or five to the one on one, then exit Cannon
to reconnect with the PCCh to get to point where
this is filmed. What are you doing? That was hilarious
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and I approve, all right, well, I feel like this
is going over about as well as that bit did
when it first came out The show business. How did
I do that? Good? Please you fell it's just trying
to get caught up. Wow, unbelievable. All right, how about
celebrities behaving badly? There's no business like show business continues
(11:26):
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There's no business, live business, all right, very good. We
were talking about SNL and I asked, uh, you know
what was the best it was the best decade or
what was the best era of SNL. I told you,
for me, A lot of that was the early nineties.
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I was in high school from ninety two to ninety
six high school, so you know, the the Mike Myers,
Dana Carvey's, Phil Hartman, Adam Sandler, David Spade, Chris Farley.
I mean, that was that was right in my wheelhouse.
I loved that stuff. It influenced my humor today. Yeah,
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you're right, I forgot about it. And that was the
good stuff. Man. They were great, but not I mean
not every bit was a winner. But then, you know,
we still quote things from that era. I will still
say things like Rob Schneider had a bit that again
wasn't really all that funny when it came out, but
I will still quote the stupid thing. I will still
go there's no weed in there, man, you don't even
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need to look. And then, of course in the bit
they would the cops would open the whatever it was
and they go, oh, well, I think we'll take a
look anyway, and they'd open it up and they go, well,
what's this and weed? You know. I mean, it was
so dumb, but it was funny for me. I loved
it all right. How about you?
Speaker 6 (12:58):
Hey, the best era the Saturday Night Live was the
first era in the seventies. Ever since then they've just
never quite matched the Norse and tel Aviv of that cast.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Anyway, have a good one, all right, thank you very much,
appreciate that. Yeah, I mean I wasn't there. Obviously, Saturday
Live is older than I am. Really, yeah, I mean, wow,
I know it's tough for you to imagine, isn't it.
I didn't think anything was older than you. No, no, no,
it's true. Yeah, Lord, Michaels is so. I mean, I've
I've seen all the stuff. I know it was, but
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I wasn't there to pick up on it. So for me,
looking back on the original Saturday Night Live is always
it's always through the prism of comparing it to something
that's more familiar to me. Right, So I'm looking at
my sense of humor when I was, for instance, in
high school in the early and mid nineties, and then
I'm trying to apply my sense of humor to what
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was funny in nineteen seventy five, and it's completely different.
It's a totally different beast. I will say, there's stuff
that really holds up today. And another bit that really
wasn't all that funny when you look at it, but
we all quote it. It was cheez burger, cheese burger,
cheese burger. You remember that bit, Mark, I mean, it
was like when that came out, you went, eh, oh,
(14:15):
I mean everybody, I mean, first of all, you're cheeseburger
over again. But no, no, it is kind of funny. Now.
It was hilarious. And I went to that bar in
Chicago as well, the Billy Goat uh and and they
do that stuff there. I think for the caller was
right the those first those first couple of seasons, two, three,
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four seasons with the original cast that Bill Murray, Chevy Chase,
Dan Aykroyd, especially when you're talking about transgressive rock and
roll comedy transported over from National Lampoon to television. I
don't think you can beat those years, those hosts like
Andy Kaufman and George Carlin. I think that's stuffs in
words to make it sound like you're writing a review
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for a paper that I wouldn't read. No, there's no
to get an esten comedy from the from the not transcendent, transgressive,
transgressive meaning like you wouldn't normally see that kind of
stuff on TV. They were tearing it up in those
first few years. I want to give you a weggie
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right now. You wish you could, I could, all right,
I told you I hit the celebrities behaving badly. Well,
we'll extend today's show business segment a little bit longer.
Is that okay with you? Kayla? Make her say it again.
I don't like the way Mark does that. This is
very important work over here. Why are you taking something
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so beautiful and making it so awful that this is support?
I support both of you somehow or other somehow. Oh
that felt very transgressan to me. I'm going to give
him Aggie. I'm locking the door. Well, check out it.
There's no business like there. We got im six forty
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Good evening, Chris Merrill, KFI AM six forty more stimulating
talk on demand anytime on the iHeartRadio app. If you
missed the entertainment news over the weekend. Jay Z is
not happy. He is hopping mad as well as should be.
It sounds like so we know that Diddy has had
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a number of faccusations come out against him because it
sounds like he was like Bill Cosby and Jared from
Subway all wrapped up into one. Is that a fair description? Yeah,
it's evocative, Thank you. I have to look that word
up too, so writing that down, Kayla Wright, Kayler, just
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google it.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
You know, I think that Mark makes this show a
little bit too much with his with his voocabulary.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
Yeah, you're right, it's practically NPR. I'm visiting right. Yeah. Okay,
over there, buddy, Yeah, let's dumb it down. Dumb it down.
Can we transgress this down and not do your business?
I believe in you. Can you can you do that? Okay,
let's go back to Cosby. So there's a civil case
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that accused both Diddy and jay Z of sexually assaulting
a thirteen year old girl that was dismissed on Friday. Uh.
Jay Z not happy about the whole episode from the
very beginning.
Speaker 5 (17:31):
Jay Z is sharing a new statement after the civil
case accusing him and Sean Ditty Combs of raping a
teenager was dismissed. The woman who filed the lawsuit back
in October accusing jay Z, whose real name is Sean Carter,
and Combs of raping her after an awards show in
two thousand when she was thirteen years old. Both Carter
and Combs have denied any wrongdoing. According to a new
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court filing, The case was dismissed yesterday after the accuser's withdrawal.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
In a new.
Speaker 5 (17:57):
Statement shared through Rock Nation, jay Z wrote that the
claim hurt his family and loved ones, writing quote, I
would not wish this experience on anyone, adding the frivolous, fictitious,
and appalling allegations have been dismissed. This civil suit was
without merit and never going anywhere.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
So he said that from the beginning, But that's also
what everybody says when they're accused, right, So, oh, this
is horrible. I can't believe someone would make this up
about me. Hell, that's what did he did? And we
had an elevator, We had a picture of him at
an elevator beating somebody and he's like, uh, the camera
angle is bad. So everybody is deny, deny, right, So
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that comes as no surprise. What was a little bit unique, though,
is that jay Z hadn't been wrapped up into it
in any of Diddy's other messes prior to this, and
so now that it gets dismissed and dismissed with prejudice
means that they can't bring it back. Here's what his
lawyer said, and I love this. I mean, they went
at it here. It is today's complete dismissal by the
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one hundred attorney as yet another confirmation that these lawsuits
are built on falsehoods, not facts. Excuse me. That was
Ditty's legal team. Now Diddy, of course he's in some
hot water because he has lots of people coming out
corroborating evidence. And I think they have receipts for baby
oil that aren't going anywhere. But I love that his
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attorneys just called this. They called the other attorney's one
one hundred attorneys. Oh that's excellent. Jay Z's attorneys said
the false case against jay Z that never should have
been brought has been dismissed with prejudice. By standing up
in the face of heinous and false allegation, jay Z
has done what few can. He pushed back, he never settled,
and he never paid one red penny. He triumphed and
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cleared his name. So there you go. So jay Z
looks like he is clear? Didt he is clear of one?
Congratulations on one. I got a feeling the other ones
are not going to be quite as kind to you.
But this one did make me a little skeptical from
the beginning because it dragged jay Z in the middle
of it, and I just that one felt like maybe
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a money grab. Meanwhile, Tupac Shakur still looking down on
us from above or from Brazil, we don't know for sure.
But the only suspect in his death says, hold on
now before you start pointing fingers at me.
Speaker 4 (20:22):
Shocking new claims from the only person ever charged in
connection with the murder of Tupac Shakur. Dwayne Keith D.
Davis is charged in connection with the nineteen ninety six
murder near the Las Vegas Strip. His case was scheduled
to go to trial next month, but now his defense
attorney says the trial should be pushed back because a
private investigator identified witnesses with new information without presenting evidence.
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Davis's lawyer claims the man responsible for the running of
some of the security operations for Tupac the night of
the shooting is actually responsible.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
For the rapper's death.
Speaker 4 (20:54):
Well again, right now, there is no public evidence supporting
that claim.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
No public evidence, but big if true. Is it possible
that Tupac's murder was an inside job? I mean, yeah,
people turn on people all the time. Totally possible, I suppose. Again,
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I'm just kind of excited to see it play out
because that one happened. I mean when I was a
freshman in college and it feels like there's been no
justice for Tupac and it's about time. Meanwhile, I agree,
I appreciate that. Thank you. You don't even remember when
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he died, do Yeah, Like for you, that was history.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
Well, I was five when it happened. I was pretty
hypt what was going on in the world. But obviously,
you know, you're very hip. Yeah, I'm pretty hip, and
as you grow up in the community, you Tupac is
something that gets passed on from generation to generation.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
So I've seen a lot of his movies. And does
the Kennedy talk a lot about Kirk Cobain. Oh yeah,
we love Kirk. Okay, that's cool. Yeah, yeah, all right,
that's done. Yeah, glad to hear that. Glad to hear
you go. What about the guy from Inaccess? Do they
talk about him at all?
Speaker 1 (22:10):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (22:11):
That one, I mean, that was that was a good warning.
You know, that was one he just wanted to Listen. Kids,
I'm gonna tell you a tale. It's a David Carridine
type story. Uh, just to make sure there's always a
there's always a safe word and somebody you can call
in case of emergency or maybe you get hung up
on that belt in the closet, whatever it is, make
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sure you come out alive. Meanwhile, there is, uh, there's
an awful lot going on where life is imitating art.
It appears that we have our real life succession story
playing out. So if you watch the show Succession, then
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you know what I'm talking about. It was seemed to
be loosely based on the Murdoch family. Uh, if you
didn't watch the show Succession, do it I mean, do
it fair? Yeah, Mark, that has to be one in
your wheelhouse, right, I just never got around to it,
and come on, and now I feel like it's too late.
I feel like it's too late. It's not runner. Come on,
(23:18):
I just got through the second season of The Night Agent.
Now we're on the recruit trying to get through that
pirate show, Black Sales. Who's got the time? But Black
Sales is good? But you didn't watch what is a really?
I mean it was it's like right in your wheelhouse. Okay,
Well sell me on this, because from my point of view,
it just seemed like a soap opera about a bunch
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of despicable people saying and doing terrible things to each
other and with nothing else to recommend it. It's like
you read that from the DVD jacket transgressive too. Yeah,
and yet what is Black Sales? It's like a soap
opera with pirates. Yeah, they're all horrible people who write
and pillage. Hey, yeah, same thing. I mean, you can
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be as reductive as you want. Well, pirates are grandfathered in.
Come on, well, let me you know what. The character
development and the parallels to the society in which we're
living today are remarkable, certainly an eye opening experience that
has an international flare with a side of trump ism.
You don't know who the good guy or the bad
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guy is and changes from week to week. Let me rephrase,
the protagonist and antagonists are constantly in flux, leaving the
viewer to wonder who should I be cheering for this week?
Was that anymore? I mean, did you believe any of
what you just said? Was that just a bunch of words? Salad?
I No, I really like Succession. It, like so many
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good shows, though, is a little bit of a slow burn, right.
I think you and I agree, some shows that are
really good are slow burns. Well, Bad Man was like
that for me. I'll tell you this. I really enjoy
Brian Cox and what a crotchety old guy he's become. Yes,
he absolutely doesn't care what he says about anybody or
who he calls the name. He's brilliant. Yeah, and especially
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if you see him on the British shows where you
can say things on TV that you can't get away
with here, he is vastly entertaining. He's so good, so good,
and on that show he's just as good like Yeah,
and also when you're watching it the whole time, you
expect him to say butt up, but he never does.
I hope he got paid so much for that. It
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is so awkward when you watch an episode of Succession
where he's screaming at people with a little bit of
an Irish accent or Scottish accent. Excuse me, Nope, didn't
mean to be insulting. But then all of a sudden,
you watch that and you have kind of this emotional like, whoa,
that was something. And then you will watch something else
and there's a McDonald's commercial and you just see him
going up. It's weird. I can't even get mad at
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him for being a sellout about that. I hope he
made a ton of money doing yes. Meanwhile, it is
starting to play out. I know, I got to get
a break here. It is starting to play out because
the Rupert Murdoch empire on which they the Succession family
was sort of loosely based. Rupert's trying to figure out
how he can lock some of his kids out of
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his conservative empire while making sure that it goes to
his favorite child. Today anyway, in fact, this has gone
to trial. It's gone to it's gone to some ruthless
name calling in the media's and they say, it's no
secret the succession was inspired by the Murdoch family. That's
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from the New York Times magazine. But when it comes
to the Murdoch's art, hasn't just imitated life, life is
imitated art. While some representatives to the family trust and
then it gives into some specifics about it. They watched
an episode which the family patriarch, Brian Cox, who you
talked about, dies unexpectedly, sending the fictional roy family into chaos.
He panicked, meaning the people who oversaw the actual Murdoch
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Trust started to panic after they saw the character going
through it, and they went, we have to have a
line of succession ready to go. Well, how old is
through print Murdock. He's in his nineties. Wait yet they're
not ready for this before now? Right exactly. It's remarkable
how that's playing out. All right, we will hand things
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over to the great doctor. Wendy Walsh and I got
to talk a little bit about the kids these days,
because instead of just finding someone to go to prom with,
they are finding someone to stay home from prom with.
You may not approve of who they choose. That is next.
Chris Merrill, KF I am six forty. We are live
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Good evening, Chris Merril caf I AM six forty. Before
we get out of here, Raoul, I am so glad
you're back now. Listen. Isabella was in for you last week,
and I love Isabella. She is wonderful. But you know
I miss you. So I'm so glad that you're back here.
That is not a knock on her. That is just
a cop. Admit to you, my friend. Really glad that
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you're back and playing fart sounds during my audio earlier
in the show, which also made me laugh because I
didn't see it coming. Kayla. You surprised me tonight as well,
and you know I love it when you surprise me.
At one point you said, well knowing you or I
don't know, something about me being old, whatever it was,
it just made me laugh because I didn't see it coming.
You dropped it in there, and you keep me on
my toes and I appreciate that. Thank you. Chris Ronert.
(28:25):
I will bring my thesaurus next time you're here. Oh please,
you you make me you. I got to make sure
my rape ear is sharp when you walk into that studio, man,
because you are you're an assassin with those comments, my
friend and I respect the hell out of that. What's
the line from that Jack Nicholson movie? Do I Make
you want to be a better man? Is that it
(28:46):
you do? Yeah? As good as it gets. Okay, I
guess what I'm saying is you make me want to
be a better man? Yeah? Yeah, perfect at that. And
there's nothing even remotely uncomfortable about that between no two men,
you or my Helen Hunt. That's what it is. So
that said, there was a time when you were lonely,
(29:08):
and that meant that you went to the bar and
you would talk up a stranger and if nothing happened,
at least you had the bar. Nowadays, if you're lonely,
you might try a dating app, or you might just
forego that altogether and find yourself a make believe. Yes, well,
(29:33):
we thought we had to find the love of our
life in person. Then we got to dating apps. Now
we've taken it one step even further. Forget the dating apps,
forget even finding someone. Teenagers are falling in love with chatbots.
I'm in love with a chat bot. Young people reporting
epidemic levels of loneliness, some turning to technology. So yeah,
(29:55):
I guess teens among tens of millions using AI chatbot companion,
a number that market forecasters expect to dramatically increase by
the end of the decade. Now before Mark brings up
the the Joaquin Phoenix classic her, wasn't it Phoenix? Did
I get the right star out of that one? You
believe you're correct? And I've never seen that movie? Okay,
(30:17):
it was solid. It seems to be choosing the chatbots
is both responding to and accelerating, accelerating fundamental changes in
how people define love in the twenty first century. Wow.
In fact, you know, marriages used to be transactional. I'll
(30:39):
you know, I'll sell you my daughter for your hand,
for your to marry your your son. You give me
six goats and ten acres of land. Now we marry
for love, lamee. We also divorce for love. But now
we're saying, forget all of that stuff. Now we just
want companionship, and we might as well just go to
the robot because the robot doesn't challenge us. The robot
(31:01):
tells us what we want to hear. The robot reinforces
our preconceived notions. The robot is the perfect mate, which
makes it an imperfect meat. Just the same. Check your
kids browser history. If they're spending a lot of time
on chat GPT, you probably want to get into some
therapy asap. Back next week. Can't wait to talk to
(31:22):
you then. In the meantime, be well, my friends, Stay safe,
Chris Merril I am six forty relive everywhere in the
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Chris Merril caf I AM six forty on demand anytime
the iHeartRadio app. Welcome Mark Ronner into the program. Good
to talk to you, buddy. It's been a couple of weeks,
hasn't it. Yeah? Are you? Are you in with mo
all week two? Are you just picking up an extra
shift here? What? I just can't get enough working indoors
in the free heat and air conditioning. Yeah, nothing on
TWOB this weekend? Then, huh oh, there's lots on tub.
(00:26):
Don't get me started on that, Tooby. Don't even start
me down that road. Yeah. In fact, you probably even
considered watching the super Bowl last week just because it
was on Twoby. Well, in fact, I did not. I
went to a book sale last week because I have
no interest whatsoever in the super Bowl. But if if
it's your bag, you indulge it was on Tooby. I
realize I'm in the minority, so go right ahead. Uh, listener,
(00:48):
it's good to have you on the program. I'm so
glad that you're here because you know, I love working
with you. Same same we did earlier. We did talk
about some of the important things that the new administration
is doing driving the beast around the Daytona five hundred track.
Nobody else is doing that. Well, it must help somebody
or bring down the price of eggs somehow, exactly. That's
(01:10):
the kind of important stuff that we're looking for. We
also talked about paving the Rose Garden, which is something
they're considering doing, which we got to see. And instead
of instead of calling it Greenland, there's been a bill
introduced to rename it, at least in all official US
documents and Google maps. I assume red white and Blueland.
(01:30):
The people there must be thrilled about that. I'm sure
they are, but they really don't have any choice. We
can do whatever we want well, of course, and we
can sort of beat them into submission the same way
that an older brother might dub a nickname on a
younger brother that the younger brother hates. For instance, I
revealed that I still call my little brother Junior, a
name that he picked up from my friends when I
(01:51):
was in high school. So we're thirty years later and
I still call him Junior. He hates it. So in
the same way, we can just start calling Greenland red
white and Blueland and they can't do anything about it.
Isn't that wonderful? Yeah? Man, maybe we could give Greenland
noogies afterwards. It's exactly what I'm thinking about. Or if
Canada doesn't want to become our fifty first state, maybe
(02:13):
we just start calling them our fifty first. It's really
it's ungrateful of them not to want that. Don't you say?
They could be? They could be North Montana. We did
get a talk back, and I appreciate everybody that hits
the talkbacks on the iHeartRadio app your thoughts on renaming Canada.
I'm a friend. No, Canada will be north wahmnt Coda.
(02:35):
It took me a second, but then I realized he
was He was making a portmanteau of Washington, Montana. Dakota's
so walmont Cota. Uh okay. I mean it was a
good first. It was a good attempt. But what if
we just started renaming, renaming everything in Canada? Sort of
we just started calling it upstate, so Canada would be
upstate Maine. Oh are you you want to go to Ontario? No,
(03:00):
I want to go to upstate Ohio. You see how
we do that? Uh? Upstate Minnesota, upstate with upstate Montana.
Just everything is called upstate now, yeah, I like that,
But just hear me out here East Alaska having I
(03:20):
think you're on the right track. Having grown up in Spokane,
which is just below the border. It's yeah, it's in
that state that we know is Washington. I like, I
like calling significant parts of Canada Spokane North. Oh there
you go. I'm find with like Spokane with more teeth.
What do you think? Yeah, Saskatchewan becomes uh Spokane, Spokatchewan. Hey, Spokatchewan. Yeah,
(03:44):
I'm down. Yeah, we got this. How could the Canadian
people even resist? See? This is why it's important to
pay attention to the state of politics. Kayla. I know
you like to tune out of this stuff, but this
is the important stuff that we are. I mean, we're here.
Nobody else is doin this.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
We are, you guys change in the world. I'm so
grateful for you and Mark Ronnerd. Thank you for being
alive and well during these times.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
That doesn't sound sincere me, please Mark, you know me better. Instead,
you've been spending all your time paying attention to that
nonsense entertainment stuff. For our there's no business like show business.
I can't believe you still got her doing that. By
the way, Reorg nice for that.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
In these streets, they're like, are you the show business girl?
Speaker 2 (04:26):
People make you yell that when when you run into
them in the street. Okay, you know it's going to
get awkward when she's on a date. Yeah, right, that's
when it's gonna get weird. Well, it depends on when
the person wants her to yell it. Oh, she says, Okay,
I mean you went there. I was just business. I
mean the show business I was implying, But you went there.
(04:47):
That's good. By the way, started a little over an
hour ago SNL's fiftieth anniversary. Uh so we're missing that,
and I'm kind of saddened about that because one of
the things that I've read a number of article about
SNL this week is that we all have our favorite
era of SNL, and it all seems to correspond with
when we were in high school. For me, the best
(05:11):
SNL was the early nineties. The Farley Sandler, David Spade,
Phil Hartman. I mean that was just the best. And
then you talk with other people like, oh, there was
nothing better than the crop after that, the Will Ferrells,
the Chris Katans, the Cherio Terry's that was the best era.
And I talked with somebody that a little bit old, Raoul,
(05:32):
who what was the best era for you? Was it
late eight Was it like John Lovet's and the guys
in the late eighties. That's tough because I remember going
to watching Eddie Murphy and all that. Okay, so I
really like that original and then the mid eighties. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
I think so. Yeah. I talked with some other people
that would say, oh, you know, the Christopher Guest, Billy Crystal,
(05:54):
that was the best time, and it seemed frankly, I
think they're putting out quality stuff right now. I think
that if you take a look and you talk with
people who are gonna be jen Z or baby millennials,
they will Kila, do you have a favorite, because I'm thinking,
let me guess. I'm gonna say for you, it's the
it's the the Amy Poehler, Tina Fay, Fred Armison, my Rudolph. Yeah,
(06:21):
actually I find that. Yeah, that's I'll take that. I'll
accept it, Okay, good. I liked, by the way, my
Rudolph was one that was in that Will Ferrell time.
Tim Meadows kind of survived one of the Cullings in
the same way Keenan Thompson seems to hang on after
they do all the different cast changes. So some of
those guys, those are some of our favorites, and I
think it corresponds with the time in our life. It
(06:43):
was interesting to read about some of that and some
of the impact. In fact, the New York Times actually
did quite a few articles on fifty years of SNL.
I read a really good one today about Lauren Michaels.
Lauren is eighty. SNL has been on for fifty years.
Lauren's been at the hell from the beginning, and every
(07:03):
time I see that Louren Michaels is still there, I
keep thinking, how old is that guy? So he's eighty,
which means he was younger than all of us when
he started what has become a cultural icon. What the
hell have we done with our lives? Nothing? That's what
nothing but SNL sells out. It's important to remember that
the people that you see on Saturday Night Live are
(07:25):
actors and comedians and their goal is to make money.
And if they can, if they can take something that
they do well and they can translate that into cashola,
they will, which is why sometimes you see some bad
movies come out starring SNL cast members. Look, they're gonna
give it a shot. There is a new commercial running
(07:47):
and I don't know if you've seen it though, but
this stars some of my favorites as well, Fred Armison,
Bill Hayter And why is her name is skiving me
right now? But it happens to the oldest of us.
Oh my gosh, Ghostbusters, Bridesmaids. I'm just gonna let him
(08:11):
hang out there like that, funewing me right now. I'm
seeing her. Why why is his name not coming? I
gotta stop smoking, lay off the vape, stop making your
own syrup, who and your own gravy? What I'm trying?
I don't know who you're trying to think of. She
was People magazine Sexiest Person. I love her. She's Tina f. Krista.
(08:38):
Thank you. That's so hard for me to come up with.
I thought you had it like three times. Roder. You're
on probation right now. I think I showed up on
the wrong day. Should all right? So anyway, they all
sold out and they've got a new commercial with Volkswagen,
but it's based out of Saturday Night Live Bit and
I kind of love.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
It next on the Californians, Paranajavon, Thanks for meeting me
at Malaba Beach off the one of.
Speaker 4 (09:05):
Rowan mustiomous morning and Marina turn but not Melo the
Betchy's morning and Marina to our.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Ann but not now the beach now of a batch.
Oh no, a Stewart, what are you doing here? I'm
not enjoying life in my new Volkswagen ID buzz in here?
(09:38):
What what's an ID buzz this?
Speaker 5 (09:41):
I've been approaching life with positive vibes.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
I know it's rad Devin. I drove up the five,
got on the four or five and took the ten
to the pH.
Speaker 4 (09:50):
It's giving total positive at Wow, these seats are like
California lounge charts.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
We can go far in a single charge. Who knows
where we'll end up, probably on the five or the
one on one the Californians. That was one of those
bits that was so slow moving. The audience did not
get it when it first came out in real time.
Do you remember this? I remember watching The Californians and
(10:18):
the audience was like, is this a filler? Skit? Is that?
What this is? I freaking love that that sketch and
it took on kind of a life of its own,
and I'm so glad it did. I love it. By
the way, I pulled the audio from YouTube and I
grabbed one of the comments from that, and you know
how people are on the internet where they like this
is stupid, but I love this one. So it's a
(10:42):
it's the Californians. It's an SNL with obviously Volkswagen, and
it says comment comes it says stop spreading lives SNL.
The PCH has closed at Santa Monica due to the fires.
Stewart would need to take the five to the four
or five to the one on one, then exit Cannon
to reconnect with the PCCh to get to point where
this is filmed. What are you doing? That was hilarious
(11:05):
and I approve, all right, well, I feel like this
is going over about as well as that bit did
when it first came out The show business. How did
I do that? Good? Please you fell it's just trying
to get caught up. Wow, unbelievable. All right, how about
celebrities behaving badly? There's no business like show business continues
(11:26):
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There's no business, live business, all right, very good. We
were talking about SNL and I asked, uh, you know
what was the best it was the best decade or
what was the best era of SNL. I told you,
for me, A lot of that was the early nineties.
(11:57):
I was in high school from ninety two to ninety
six high school, so you know, the the Mike Myers,
Dana Carvey's, Phil Hartman, Adam Sandler, David Spade, Chris Farley.
I mean, that was that was right in my wheelhouse.
I loved that stuff. It influenced my humor today. Yeah,
(12:18):
you're right, I forgot about it. And that was the
good stuff. Man. They were great, but not I mean
not every bit was a winner. But then, you know,
we still quote things from that era. I will still
say things like Rob Schneider had a bit that again
wasn't really all that funny when it came out, but
I will still quote the stupid thing. I will still
go there's no weed in there, man, you don't even
(12:39):
need to look. And then, of course in the bit
they would the cops would open the whatever it was
and they go, oh, well, I think we'll take a
look anyway, and they'd open it up and they go, well,
what's this and weed? You know. I mean, it was
so dumb, but it was funny for me. I loved
it all right. How about you?
Speaker 6 (12:58):
Hey, the best era the Saturday Night Live was the
first era in the seventies. Ever since then they've just
never quite matched the Norse and tel Aviv of that cast.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Anyway, have a good one, all right, thank you very much,
appreciate that. Yeah, I mean I wasn't there. Obviously, Saturday
Live is older than I am. Really, yeah, I mean, wow,
I know it's tough for you to imagine, isn't it.
I didn't think anything was older than you. No, no, no,
it's true. Yeah, Lord, Michaels is so. I mean, I've
I've seen all the stuff. I know it was, but
(13:32):
I wasn't there to pick up on it. So for me,
looking back on the original Saturday Night Live is always
it's always through the prism of comparing it to something
that's more familiar to me. Right, So I'm looking at
my sense of humor when I was, for instance, in
high school in the early and mid nineties, and then
I'm trying to apply my sense of humor to what
(13:53):
was funny in nineteen seventy five, and it's completely different.
It's a totally different beast. I will say, there's stuff
that really holds up today. And another bit that really
wasn't all that funny when you look at it, but
we all quote it. It was cheez burger, cheese burger,
cheese burger. You remember that bit, Mark, I mean, it
was like when that came out, you went, eh, oh,
(14:15):
I mean everybody, I mean, first of all, you're cheeseburger
over again. But no, no, it is kind of funny. Now.
It was hilarious. And I went to that bar in
Chicago as well, the Billy Goat uh and and they
do that stuff there. I think for the caller was
right the those first those first couple of seasons, two, three,
(14:35):
four seasons with the original cast that Bill Murray, Chevy Chase,
Dan Aykroyd, especially when you're talking about transgressive rock and
roll comedy transported over from National Lampoon to television. I
don't think you can beat those years, those hosts like
Andy Kaufman and George Carlin. I think that's stuffs in
words to make it sound like you're writing a review
(14:56):
for a paper that I wouldn't read. No, there's no
to get an esten comedy from the from the not transcendent, transgressive,
transgressive meaning like you wouldn't normally see that kind of
stuff on TV. They were tearing it up in those
first few years. I want to give you a weggie
(15:18):
right now. You wish you could, I could, all right,
I told you I hit the celebrities behaving badly. Well,
we'll extend today's show business segment a little bit longer.
Is that okay with you? Kayla? Make her say it again.
I don't like the way Mark does that. This is
very important work over here. Why are you taking something
(15:38):
so beautiful and making it so awful that this is support?
I support both of you somehow or other somehow. Oh
that felt very transgressan to me. I'm going to give
him Aggie. I'm locking the door. Well, check out it.
There's no business like there. We got im six forty
(16:00):
live everywhere in the iHeartRadio app.
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You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
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Good evening, Chris Merrill, KFI AM six forty more stimulating
talk on demand anytime on the iHeartRadio app. If you
missed the entertainment news over the weekend. Jay Z is
not happy. He is hopping mad as well as should be.
It sounds like so we know that Diddy has had
(16:29):
a number of faccusations come out against him because it
sounds like he was like Bill Cosby and Jared from
Subway all wrapped up into one. Is that a fair description? Yeah,
it's evocative, Thank you. I have to look that word
up too, so writing that down, Kayla Wright, Kayler, just
(16:53):
google it.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
You know, I think that Mark makes this show a
little bit too much with his with his voocabulary.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
Yeah, you're right, it's practically NPR. I'm visiting right. Yeah. Okay,
over there, buddy, Yeah, let's dumb it down. Dumb it down.
Can we transgress this down and not do your business?
I believe in you. Can you can you do that? Okay,
let's go back to Cosby. So there's a civil case
(17:19):
that accused both Diddy and jay Z of sexually assaulting
a thirteen year old girl that was dismissed on Friday. Uh.
Jay Z not happy about the whole episode from the
very beginning.
Speaker 5 (17:31):
Jay Z is sharing a new statement after the civil
case accusing him and Sean Ditty Combs of raping a
teenager was dismissed. The woman who filed the lawsuit back
in October accusing jay Z, whose real name is Sean Carter,
and Combs of raping her after an awards show in
two thousand when she was thirteen years old. Both Carter
and Combs have denied any wrongdoing. According to a new
(17:52):
court filing, The case was dismissed yesterday after the accuser's withdrawal.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
In a new.
Speaker 5 (17:57):
Statement shared through Rock Nation, jay Z wrote that the
claim hurt his family and loved ones, writing quote, I
would not wish this experience on anyone, adding the frivolous, fictitious,
and appalling allegations have been dismissed. This civil suit was
without merit and never going anywhere.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
So he said that from the beginning, But that's also
what everybody says when they're accused, right, So, oh, this
is horrible. I can't believe someone would make this up
about me. Hell, that's what did he did? And we
had an elevator, We had a picture of him at
an elevator beating somebody and he's like, uh, the camera
angle is bad. So everybody is deny, deny, right, So
(18:36):
that comes as no surprise. What was a little bit unique, though,
is that jay Z hadn't been wrapped up into it
in any of Diddy's other messes prior to this, and
so now that it gets dismissed and dismissed with prejudice
means that they can't bring it back. Here's what his
lawyer said, and I love this. I mean, they went
at it here. It is today's complete dismissal by the
(19:00):
one hundred attorney as yet another confirmation that these lawsuits
are built on falsehoods, not facts. Excuse me. That was
Ditty's legal team. Now Diddy, of course he's in some
hot water because he has lots of people coming out
corroborating evidence. And I think they have receipts for baby
oil that aren't going anywhere. But I love that his
(19:21):
attorneys just called this. They called the other attorney's one
one hundred attorneys. Oh that's excellent. Jay Z's attorneys said
the false case against jay Z that never should have
been brought has been dismissed with prejudice. By standing up
in the face of heinous and false allegation, jay Z
has done what few can. He pushed back, he never settled,
and he never paid one red penny. He triumphed and
(19:43):
cleared his name. So there you go. So jay Z
looks like he is clear? Didt he is clear of one?
Congratulations on one. I got a feeling the other ones
are not going to be quite as kind to you.
But this one did make me a little skeptical from
the beginning because it dragged jay Z in the middle
of it, and I just that one felt like maybe
(20:04):
a money grab. Meanwhile, Tupac Shakur still looking down on
us from above or from Brazil, we don't know for sure.
But the only suspect in his death says, hold on
now before you start pointing fingers at me.
Speaker 4 (20:22):
Shocking new claims from the only person ever charged in
connection with the murder of Tupac Shakur. Dwayne Keith D.
Davis is charged in connection with the nineteen ninety six
murder near the Las Vegas Strip. His case was scheduled
to go to trial next month, but now his defense
attorney says the trial should be pushed back because a
private investigator identified witnesses with new information without presenting evidence.
(20:45):
Davis's lawyer claims the man responsible for the running of
some of the security operations for Tupac the night of
the shooting is actually responsible.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
For the rapper's death.
Speaker 4 (20:54):
Well again, right now, there is no public evidence supporting
that claim.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
No public evidence, but big if true. Is it possible
that Tupac's murder was an inside job? I mean, yeah,
people turn on people all the time. Totally possible, I suppose. Again,
(21:18):
I'm just kind of excited to see it play out
because that one happened. I mean when I was a
freshman in college and it feels like there's been no
justice for Tupac and it's about time. Meanwhile, I agree,
I appreciate that. Thank you. You don't even remember when
(21:39):
he died, do Yeah, Like for you, that was history.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
Well, I was five when it happened. I was pretty
hypt what was going on in the world. But obviously,
you know, you're very hip. Yeah, I'm pretty hip, and
as you grow up in the community, you Tupac is
something that gets passed on from generation to generation.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
So I've seen a lot of his movies. And does
the Kennedy talk a lot about Kirk Cobain. Oh yeah,
we love Kirk. Okay, that's cool. Yeah, yeah, all right,
that's done. Yeah, glad to hear that. Glad to hear
you go. What about the guy from Inaccess? Do they
talk about him at all?
Speaker 1 (22:10):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (22:11):
That one, I mean, that was that was a good warning.
You know, that was one he just wanted to Listen. Kids,
I'm gonna tell you a tale. It's a David Carridine
type story. Uh, just to make sure there's always a
there's always a safe word and somebody you can call
in case of emergency or maybe you get hung up
on that belt in the closet, whatever it is, make
(22:32):
sure you come out alive. Meanwhile, there is, uh, there's
an awful lot going on where life is imitating art.
It appears that we have our real life succession story
playing out. So if you watch the show Succession, then
(22:55):
you know what I'm talking about. It was seemed to
be loosely based on the Murdoch family. Uh, if you
didn't watch the show Succession, do it I mean, do
it fair? Yeah, Mark, that has to be one in
your wheelhouse, right, I just never got around to it,
and come on, and now I feel like it's too late.
I feel like it's too late. It's not runner. Come on,
(23:18):
I just got through the second season of The Night Agent.
Now we're on the recruit trying to get through that
pirate show, Black Sales. Who's got the time? But Black
Sales is good? But you didn't watch what is a really?
I mean it was it's like right in your wheelhouse. Okay,
Well sell me on this, because from my point of view,
it just seemed like a soap opera about a bunch
(23:40):
of despicable people saying and doing terrible things to each
other and with nothing else to recommend it. It's like
you read that from the DVD jacket transgressive too. Yeah,
and yet what is Black Sales? It's like a soap
opera with pirates. Yeah, they're all horrible people who write
and pillage. Hey, yeah, same thing. I mean, you can
(24:02):
be as reductive as you want. Well, pirates are grandfathered in.
Come on, well, let me you know what. The character
development and the parallels to the society in which we're
living today are remarkable, certainly an eye opening experience that
has an international flare with a side of trump ism.
You don't know who the good guy or the bad
(24:23):
guy is and changes from week to week. Let me rephrase,
the protagonist and antagonists are constantly in flux, leaving the
viewer to wonder who should I be cheering for this week?
Was that anymore? I mean, did you believe any of
what you just said? Was that just a bunch of words? Salad?
I No, I really like Succession. It, like so many
(24:45):
good shows, though, is a little bit of a slow burn, right.
I think you and I agree, some shows that are
really good are slow burns. Well, Bad Man was like
that for me. I'll tell you this. I really enjoy
Brian Cox and what a crotchety old guy he's become. Yes,
he absolutely doesn't care what he says about anybody or
who he calls the name. He's brilliant. Yeah, and especially
(25:07):
if you see him on the British shows where you
can say things on TV that you can't get away
with here, he is vastly entertaining. He's so good, so good,
and on that show he's just as good like Yeah,
and also when you're watching it the whole time, you
expect him to say butt up, but he never does.
I hope he got paid so much for that. It
(25:28):
is so awkward when you watch an episode of Succession
where he's screaming at people with a little bit of
an Irish accent or Scottish accent. Excuse me, Nope, didn't
mean to be insulting. But then all of a sudden,
you watch that and you have kind of this emotional like, whoa,
that was something. And then you will watch something else
and there's a McDonald's commercial and you just see him
going up. It's weird. I can't even get mad at
(25:51):
him for being a sellout about that. I hope he
made a ton of money doing yes. Meanwhile, it is
starting to play out. I know, I got to get
a break here. It is starting to play out because
the Rupert Murdoch empire on which they the Succession family
was sort of loosely based. Rupert's trying to figure out
how he can lock some of his kids out of
(26:11):
his conservative empire while making sure that it goes to
his favorite child. Today anyway, in fact, this has gone
to trial. It's gone to it's gone to some ruthless
name calling in the media's and they say, it's no
secret the succession was inspired by the Murdoch family. That's
(26:33):
from the New York Times magazine. But when it comes
to the Murdoch's art, hasn't just imitated life, life is
imitated art. While some representatives to the family trust and
then it gives into some specifics about it. They watched
an episode which the family patriarch, Brian Cox, who you
talked about, dies unexpectedly, sending the fictional roy family into chaos.
He panicked, meaning the people who oversaw the actual Murdoch
(26:56):
Trust started to panic after they saw the character going
through it, and they went, we have to have a
line of succession ready to go. Well, how old is
through print Murdock. He's in his nineties. Wait yet they're
not ready for this before now? Right exactly. It's remarkable
how that's playing out. All right, we will hand things
(27:16):
over to the great doctor. Wendy Walsh and I got
to talk a little bit about the kids these days,
because instead of just finding someone to go to prom with,
they are finding someone to stay home from prom with.
You may not approve of who they choose. That is next.
Chris Merrill, KF I am six forty. We are live
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You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
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Good evening, Chris Merril caf I AM six forty. Before
we get out of here, Raoul, I am so glad
you're back now. Listen. Isabella was in for you last week,
and I love Isabella. She is wonderful. But you know
I miss you. So I'm so glad that you're back here.
That is not a knock on her. That is just
a cop. Admit to you, my friend. Really glad that
(28:01):
you're back and playing fart sounds during my audio earlier
in the show, which also made me laugh because I
didn't see it coming. Kayla. You surprised me tonight as well,
and you know I love it when you surprise me.
At one point you said, well knowing you or I
don't know, something about me being old, whatever it was,
it just made me laugh because I didn't see it coming.
You dropped it in there, and you keep me on
my toes and I appreciate that. Thank you. Chris Ronert.
(28:25):
I will bring my thesaurus next time you're here. Oh please,
you you make me you. I got to make sure
my rape ear is sharp when you walk into that studio, man,
because you are you're an assassin with those comments, my
friend and I respect the hell out of that. What's
the line from that Jack Nicholson movie? Do I Make
you want to be a better man? Is that it
(28:46):
you do? Yeah? As good as it gets. Okay, I
guess what I'm saying is you make me want to
be a better man? Yeah? Yeah, perfect at that. And
there's nothing even remotely uncomfortable about that between no two men,
you or my Helen Hunt. That's what it is. So
that said, there was a time when you were lonely,
(29:08):
and that meant that you went to the bar and
you would talk up a stranger and if nothing happened,
at least you had the bar. Nowadays, if you're lonely,
you might try a dating app, or you might just
forego that altogether and find yourself a make believe. Yes, well,
(29:33):
we thought we had to find the love of our
life in person. Then we got to dating apps. Now
we've taken it one step even further. Forget the dating apps,
forget even finding someone. Teenagers are falling in love with chatbots.
I'm in love with a chat bot. Young people reporting
epidemic levels of loneliness, some turning to technology. So yeah,
(29:55):
I guess teens among tens of millions using AI chatbot companion,
a number that market forecasters expect to dramatically increase by
the end of the decade. Now before Mark brings up
the the Joaquin Phoenix classic her, wasn't it Phoenix? Did
I get the right star out of that one? You
believe you're correct? And I've never seen that movie? Okay,
(30:17):
it was solid. It seems to be choosing the chatbots
is both responding to and accelerating, accelerating fundamental changes in
how people define love in the twenty first century. Wow.
In fact, you know, marriages used to be transactional. I'll
(30:39):
you know, I'll sell you my daughter for your hand,
for your to marry your your son. You give me
six goats and ten acres of land. Now we marry
for love, lamee. We also divorce for love. But now
we're saying, forget all of that stuff. Now we just
want companionship, and we might as well just go to
the robot because the robot doesn't challenge us. The robot
(31:01):
tells us what we want to hear. The robot reinforces
our preconceived notions. The robot is the perfect mate, which
makes it an imperfect meat. Just the same. Check your
kids browser history. If they're spending a lot of time
on chat GPT, you probably want to get into some
therapy asap. Back next week. Can't wait to talk to
(31:22):
you then. In the meantime, be well, my friends, Stay safe,
Chris Merril I am six forty relive everywhere in the
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