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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to KFI AM sixty on demand, SAT.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Anything of my friends, Chris Merrill on demand anytime, the
iHeartRadio app. Heather Brooker, Hagar is nice to hear your voice.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
Thank you. It's nice to be heard.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
You're sweet.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Was that dramatic? It's so nice to be heard?
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Yeah, a little bit, yeah, yeah, a little bit.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Well, I'm excited to be here. I missed you, guys, Well,
we miss you.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
I told Brigida that we need to uh Brigida for
those unfamiliar Brazia uh, normally right now, and so we
got to have Heather Brooker for part of the show,
and we have to have Brigida for part of the show.
Speaker 4 (00:37):
That's right, do a little combo, nice what I said,
taking much deserved, much needed.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Break because the this show spans the the news shifts,
so we uh you know, we're able to talk with
a couple of different news anchors and I think the
world of both of you guys, so like to have more. Yeah,
one of my favorite shoes it's on FX is uh.
It's a show about soccer. I'm sorry, Lucy in the traffic.
(01:05):
That's a football to you, Lucy. You know the the
English I don't like it when you call it soccer.
A little fussy about that, don't they?
Speaker 5 (01:14):
Okay, it's all right.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
One of my favorites is that well Ted Lasso obviously,
but that's not done apple. This one's on fax and
it is welcome to Wrexham you came from and great
news if you're a fan of Wrexham and I am.
They've just been renewed for a fifth season. They're only
(01:36):
in their fourth season now, but they have They've been
renewed for a fifth season. This is the Ryan Reynolds
Rob mclahaney collaboration where they bought the the failing soccer
team and the bottom tier of the the English League.
And if you're unfamiliar, there's make sure I don't screw
this up, guys, because I will. There's five tiers, right,
(02:00):
and the lowest tiers are It's basically like Beer League
softball is here in the United States. But imagine if
you had a let's just call it a Beer League
baseball team, right. I know some guys that play some
Beer League baseball, right, they're grown men, they have real jobs,
but on Sunday afternoon they come out and they play baseball. Now,
(02:20):
imagine if they won their league and then they would
get to move up to the next division. Right, So,
now all of a sudden, you've got some guys that
are playing some beer league baseball, but the competition's a
little bit better. And if you've ever played on the
rec leagues, depending on which leagues you're in, they will
divide you into how good or bad you are. I
played in one for a while. They had the A League,
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the B, the C, and the D. The D was like,
you're just terrible, but you're out here having fun with
your buddies. A was more competitive guys. But imagine if
if as you keep winning, if you keep winning, you
keep getting better, until all of a sudden, you're playing
against the Dodgers. Right, But imagine if the Dodgers were
so we've been through some bad years, right. Imagine if
the Dodgers were so bad that they then get relegated
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to minor league baseball the following year, and that if
they're really bad, they drop down and drop down and
dropped down. And so all of a sudden, you could
have the Los Angeles Dodgers playing on a Sunday afternoon
beer league game, and your Sunday Afternoon beer League. Guys
could be so good that they're playing in the major leagues.
That's how it works with soccer and England if you're unfamiliar.
For you non sports fans, well, the Wrexham teams have
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actually gone from being that Sunday afternoon beer league too.
They're now in spoiler alert, they're now in the Championship League,
which is like Triple A in our baseball analogy. Right,
they're this close to the pinnacle of the major leagues,
which is the Premier League. So it's been fun to
watch them do this and I love the show. It's
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told with a tremendous amount of heart. The documentary storytelling
is spectacular. And now there's going to be a spinoff
and I'm going to mispronounce it. Feel free to laugh
at me and correct me. Is it nikasa, it's a
it's a team. It's a part of the Mexican how's it.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
Spelled n E c A x A nahaka.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Well, that's what I wondered, but I'm not sure this is.
You know, I don't speak Spanish, and I apologize.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Well, I don't either.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
I'm the I'm the widest person here and I don't
know but it sounds like the haka to me.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Okay, don't hold us to it, because the whitest person
here just said that.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
So that's that's really Chris Okay.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Heather Gringo Brooker says that it's nahaka, but what it
could be nikaha. I don't have no idea. Uh Eva
Longoria is part owner of that team, and I know
that the guys also sold part of their Wrexham team
in order to invest some of that money in this team. There,
so there anyway, there's gonna be a spin off and
that will premiere the summer. I'm very excited about that,
(04:52):
all right. Also in our show business news because as
Kayla told us, there's no business likes good. I'm glad
you're on your toes. PBS is suing. They're mad because
they're not getting funding. It's not just PBS, it's NPR
as well.
Speaker 6 (05:06):
National Public Radio and three of its stations sued the
Trump administration. It's all over an executive orders signed this
month to cut federal funding to PBS and INPR radio stations.
The Trump administration wants to eliminate indirect sources of government
support going to the stations. Earlier this month, the president
alleged bias in their reporting. In pr argues the order
(05:27):
violates the First Amendment as it unfairly targets public broadcasting organizations.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Right. It'll also be curious to see how that works
out because Congress sets the budget. But did Congress do
they approve that money specifically go toward the public broadcast
systems or do they allocate that money to be used
at the discretion of the administration. Also interesting is when
we've had agencies from previous administrations use their own discretion
(05:57):
on things, those have been sued by conservative sources. So
for you may have the EPA that says, look, this
is what we're gonna do. This is how we're gonna
enforce the you know, the way that we see things,
and so they can withhold funds. And the Supreme Court
is stepped then and went, Nope, you can't just willy
nearly do that. So they put the kaibosh on the
Obama administration for instance. Will they allow for the Trump
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administration to behave in the way that was problematic when
the Obama administration did it. This is why this is
why those of you that want to go my team's
always right and your team's always wrong, like you're never
always right or always wrong, because if you're if you're
right today, you're gonna try the same shenanigans tomorrow. And
if you're wrong today, then the next time you have power,
you're gonna try those same shenanigans. So it's it's all
(06:43):
this game. So you can't follow and go well, idealistically,
I'm exactly like this, No, no, no, because they don't follow
their ideals. They follow winning and losing. Speaking of winning,
you know who's a winner this week? Taylor Swift just
keeps winning.
Speaker 7 (06:56):
At long last, She's reclaimed her reputation and her name,
Taylor Swift, revealing in a letter shared to her website,
all of the music I've ever made now belongs to me.
The Grammy winner, buying back each of her first six albums,
including the music videos and concert specials from those eras
Taylor writing to say, this is my greatest dream come
true is actually being pretty reserved about it. All of
(07:19):
Taylor's back catalog off limits to her for the last
six years after they were sold against her wishes in
twenty nineteen, purchased by Ithaca Holdings and Scooter Braun. The
Masters then sold to Shamrock Holdings, which just struck this
deal with Taylor.
Speaker 8 (07:32):
Traditionally, in the record business, ownership has been out of
people's grasp. It's been work for hire work, and she
is one of the first who people have quietly made
deals on their masters. But she was the first one
who made it.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
That's great. And remember she was so mad about this
that part of the reason that we have the whole
Heiress tour was because she went back and had to
rerecord all that stuff. She said, you know what, you
have the masters. Fine, I'm going to re record my
own music. I'm going to put out again. So now
I have new masters. But then she bought the originals.
So yeah, I don't know what's gonna happen if she's
(08:07):
going to keep rerecording things. But it seemed to have
worked out, okay. I mean she was able to capitalize
in the Shenanigans. And then finally, as we talk about
the business side of show business, I can see him
over there. Raoul is frantically trying to get in line.
It keeps a refreshing a screen to try to be
the first to buy this new hot product.
Speaker 9 (08:30):
Sidney Sweeney selling her bathwater.
Speaker 5 (08:33):
Crazy experience I've read.
Speaker 9 (08:35):
Yeah, the Star is teaming up with a soap brand
to infuse what they're calling a touch of Sydney's bathtub
drippings into bars of soap fans can buy.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Ew. I don't know why we're adding this musical interlude here,
but we are.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
It's definitely fun. I enjoy now.
Speaker 9 (08:58):
Sydney's only making five thousand of the specialty bars, and
it's unclear if it's actually her legit used water in them.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Has to be here. They'd be false advertising, right.
Speaker 9 (09:09):
Or just the idea of that, But either way, fans
will have to fight to get their hands on the
soap when it goes on sale next week.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
I'm excited for everyone to see it.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Oh right, who's buying it though? Right?
Speaker 3 (09:25):
Creepy do for sure?
Speaker 10 (09:27):
Me?
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Yeah, creepy do buy it. That's what I mean. Raoul
fits that bill. But honestly, the only people who want
that soap are the only people who need that soap.
And by that I mean this is the only way
to get soap onto the kind of person that would
buy it. They are unclean little pervos. They're not the
kind of people that use soap on a regular basis.
(09:47):
They're like, I'm gonna rub this soap. I mean it's
got her bath water and.
Speaker 5 (09:54):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
I hope she farted in the tub.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
Look at He's like, yes, I ka, yeah that guy.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Can we just got a message. Your dude wants to
buy your bath water. I k you are you selling?
Speaker 3 (10:15):
It's quite expensive?
Speaker 2 (10:21):
I kila, Chris, will you bottle it for me? What
do we learn the name of it? Nikasa?
Speaker 3 (10:32):
I was rox It's nick nack Caxa, Nikasa.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
What did I say? Nioxa, Nickoxa, nick Caxa Casa Nickaxa.
All right, Brooker, you were dead wrong.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
I was close. No, you were not even okay, not
even close, not even.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Not even remotely close. All right, we'll continue. There's no
business like show business.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
You're listening to KFI a M six forty on demand talk.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
About Chris Merril. Can't if I am more stimulating, talk
like a fancy voice. Guy just said, all right, we
got the lowdown. Welcome to Wrexham, renewed for the fifth season.
As we continue, there's no business like show business, and
there's a new Wrexham spinoff and we were trying to
figure out how to pronounce it. Nec a x a
Eva Longoria is part owner of this team in Mexico.
Speaker 10 (11:21):
Hey, what's up, Chris Amen? Okay, that Mexican team. It's
called Nick Gaxa, Nick Kaxa. It's out of the city
of Aaca in Mexico, Central Mexico. Nick Goxa, Nick Coaxa.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
I liked his pronunciation better than the one you find
on the internet. He sounds more authenticer. Roll I thought you, honey,
don't you speak Spanish?
Speaker 3 (11:44):
I do, but I grew up in La So it's
like a branch of Spanish.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
Oh okay, what do they call it?
Speaker 3 (11:50):
Wea weda?
Speaker 2 (11:52):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (11:53):
Chicano Chicano brookers stopped trying listen. I'm trying to appeal
to fifty pc of the so how population.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
I get that. I get that broker loves you, I know,
but you're just it's missing.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
Okay, it's totally miss sad.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Yeah, it's really sad. It feels desperate. I'll stop with that.
Speaker 9 (12:11):
As she does better than the Nosabo kids.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
What does that mean?
Speaker 9 (12:17):
Kids are they're they're Mexican, but they don't speak a
lick of Espanol.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
Oh okay, talk talk, Can I get a taco?
Speaker 4 (12:24):
And cheese that Californian accent. Yeah, I've been doing due lingo.
I'm on one hundred and three day streak of my stys.
I know, I might, I might know a few words.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
All right, at least find the banoy very good. That's
all I got. Don't ask me anymore. All right, the
back of the show business and sad time as we
get a chance to reflect back on another great star
from uh seventies and eighties television. You know, George Went.
We talked about last week from Cheers, and this week, unfortunately, we.
Speaker 11 (12:58):
Talk about breaking news Hollywood, more warning, the loss of
beloved actress Loretta Switt. She was best known for her
iconic role as Major Margaret hot lips Hula Han on
the TV series Mash. Switt passed away today at her
home in New York City. She starred in the groundbreaking
series for eleven seasons, earning two Emmy Awards and becoming
a television legend. Fans remember her for bringing strength, humor,
(13:20):
and heart to one of TV's most endearing characters. Switt
was eighty seven.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
Yeah, full life. Good for her, another who had a
full life. And we have sad news on this one. Valerie.
Uh is it Mahaffey? I want to way? Should I
say it correctly?
Speaker 6 (13:38):
Emmy winning actress Valerie Mahaffey It has passed away after
a battle with cancer.
Speaker 5 (13:44):
She was young to leave you behind, Please Please.
Speaker 12 (13:49):
She was best known for her roles in Northern Exposure,
Desperate Housewives, and Young Sheldon. Halfy won a Supporting Actress
Emmy in nineteen ninety two for her trail of Eve,
the hypochondriac wife of Adam Arkins's character in North he
In Exposure. Most recently, she received an Independent Spirit Award
nomination for her role as the optimistic Madame Reynard in
(14:12):
French Exit. Mahaffey was seventy one years old.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
Yeah, she's I mean, seventy one, I guess is not young.
But I feel like I feel like that's young. It
was a life expectancy. Now is like what seventy nine?
For women, it's something like ninety four. So that's young.
That's too young. I feel bad for feel bad for
the family that they had to say goodbye so soon.
I don't like that one dude, I don't feel bad for.
(14:38):
Is this a stalker? Do you see Jennifer Anison's stalker.
He had a day in court. This is the dude
that crashed through her gate.
Speaker 13 (14:45):
Man accues of branding his car into the gate of
actress Jennifer Aniston's I just said that bell Air Home
has been found not mentally competent to stan triut for
a second time. This would delay the criminal proceedings for
Jimmy Wayne Carwhile as he undergoes treatment. A different psychiatrists
previously determined he is midtally competent to stand trial. Carlwill
(15:05):
wanted a second opinion. Now a second doctor has confirmed
he is not Carlwile. He had been accused of harassing
Anniston since twenty twenty three, has been charged with felony, stalking,
vandalism and more for the fifth May fifth incident.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
All right, so he's Uh, he's a cuckoo for Coco Pops,
is what they say. Uh. One more Uh celebrities behaving badly.
I don't know why I do this one. I feel
like I'm obligated to talk about Diddy, But I also
feel like the Diddy trial is such a big deal
that if you want to know about Diddy, you already
(15:40):
know about Ditty. And if you don't want to know
about Ditty. You've been avoiding it, so I'll keep it short.
How's that sound? His assistant was on the stand and
guess what she said? He was super horrible.
Speaker 11 (15:52):
Emotional testimony from a former personal assistant of Sean Ditty Combs.
She claims she was sexually assaulted several times by the
music mogul. The woman identified as Mia, took the stand
this afternoon in Combs's sex trafficking and racketeering trial. She
tearfully recounted multiple instances of alleged assault, including one time
she claims she woke up to Combs raping her inside
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his home.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
Oh my god, Yeah, he's on the mount rushmore of
horrible celebrities, right, Bill Cosby, Diddy, Harvey Weinstein? Who else
are we putting up there? R Kelly?
Speaker 3 (16:31):
R kelly for sure?
Speaker 2 (16:32):
R kelly.
Speaker 11 (16:33):
She also recalled a time Combs allegedly beat his ex girlfriend,
Cassie Ventura during an Oscar's after party at Prince's house.
Speaker 7 (16:40):
Why is this important to the prosecution's case. It's important
because it speaks to the human trafficking due to force
in cooergin.
Speaker 11 (16:48):
Mia said working for Combs was exciting, but chaotic and toxic.
She's set to continue her testimony tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
Yeah, she said that the Prince's security had to step
in save her. Oh there's some stories around prince too,
So if his security is stepping up, it's bad, extra bad.
All right. California is in the middle of this argument
over charter schools. Good bad? What are they gonna do?
What are the limitations on charter schools? But forget about it.
(17:17):
You don't even have to get into an argument about
charter schools. If you do this with your kids instead,
that is next. I'm Chris Meryl kfi AM six forty.
We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
You're listening to kfi AM six forty on demand, could evening.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
My friends, Chris Merril kfi AM six forty on demand
anytime the iHeart Radio app and honored to be with
you as always every Sunday, Sunday Sunday, my friends, Brooker,
you didn't do any of that, the homeschooling nonsense with
your kids, did you? You send them to schools, didn't you?
Speaker 8 (17:50):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (17:50):
Absolutely not. They she goes to school.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
Yeah, what are those high end, fancy private schools.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
Oh not on this salary. Oh not on the KFI budget.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
Yeah. See, I grew up in a rural area where
I mean there was like one private school nearest. There
was a Catholic school that was about twenty five miles away,
but the public schools were fine ish.
Speaker 4 (18:13):
So well, I went to private school, you did, I did,
but I had AFI But.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
I was on scholarship as well. I had two different scholarships.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
Okay, all right. There is a new trend that's happening.
Parents are disillusioned with public school. There's arguments over charter schools.
Speaker 11 (18:34):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
Some states are trying to fight to be able to
use tax dollars to send their kids to private religious schools.
Then you've got the parents to say, we're going to
homeschool our kids because we don't want them to be
in doctor NATed by all that educacation. There's a new
trend and that is what if the kids teach themselves?
(18:56):
My mind is blown. Of course, these children will know
what algebra is. No that they need to know that.
It's called unschooling.
Speaker 14 (19:04):
Molly Bonds, a former grade school teacher for a decade now,
is a twenty four to seven educator for her nine
and eleven year old boys. They're being unschooled at their
Ann Arbor area home.
Speaker 15 (19:15):
Homeschooling, you're educating your child at home. You're usually following
a curriculum versus unschooling. You're actually following your child's desires,
your child's interests.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
Yeah, we should have done more of that in school
because I was not interested in reading or writing or arithmetic.
I was interested in kickball Latin in elementary school, then
dodgeball in junior high, and then screwing around in high school.
Is there a class unscrewing around?
Speaker 15 (19:45):
So you may grab a curriculum to help you with that,
but overall you're really just presenting like a feast for
your child. Think of like a Shmorgas board, a Thanksgiving feast,
and your child is picking and choosing what's interesting to them.
Speaker 5 (19:59):
Lynnett High.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
That's great for a well rounded education. No.
Speaker 14 (20:05):
Lynnette Hines is on the other side of the state
near Grand Rapids.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
This is out of the Detroit by the way, ABC News.
Speaker 14 (20:11):
In Detroit, but she's on the same page with her
three kids.
Speaker 10 (20:14):
Schools.
Speaker 16 (20:15):
The structure of them is set up really well for
certain students, certain learning styles and personalities, but there's a
lot who don't really.
Speaker 5 (20:22):
Fit the box.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
Yeah, I agree with that.
Speaker 14 (20:25):
Of school Michigan doesn't keep tags on how many kids
are enrolled in any kind of homeschool program, and per
the state Department of Education, there are no required tests
for students to take. Giving grades and submitting them to
the state are both voluntary.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
Well, that seems like a really good idea. No, not
a great idea. How do you end up with an
under educated society? It's simple, you don't educate them.
Speaker 5 (20:47):
Tada.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
Well, you know, we were going to educate our kids,
but then we thought did the kids want to be educated?
And then we said, kids, do you want to have
to sit around and read books that you don't like
all day about the things? And they were like no.
We were like, that sounds great to us. So we
thought we would work on more of their education at
the playground. It is interesting to me that you have
(21:12):
trends like this, which honestly, it's a few crackpots doing
this sort of thing, because most homeschoolers are gonna follow
a curriculum, so you got a few crackpots. But the
reason that it picks up any attention, and in this case,
it was a story in USA Today this week that
was like unschooling is the new way, Like, no, it's not.
(21:34):
And it's always somebody who's like, I just want my kid.
I mean, think of the weirdest hippie stereotype from the
nineteen sixties that you can and then add a modern
day twist to it, which usually involves more nose piercings.
Those are the parents now that are like, I'm vegan,
even my nose ring is vegan, and all of my
(21:57):
I got, I got all these different like job many
these characters of tattoos on the inside of my armpit
because I love that. And my kids don't want to
learn like from the man, So we're not gonna We'll
let my kids decide what they want. They're five now,
(22:21):
and they want to be engineers, so we're gonna teach
them to be engineers. The parents who are for these
sorts of things are not the parents of the future
CEOs of America. Generally speaking, now, you may have someone,
as they use the story, who used to be a teacher,
(22:42):
and that teacher, even though she says, well, you don't
have a curriculum, that teacher has a general idea of
what the kids need to learn. The reason is that
was her job. She went to school for that. She
actually has an education in child child psychology. There's some
child development in her educational background. She may not be
(23:03):
a child psychologist, but she's had some courses on it.
She understands the progress of the children. I'm far less
concerned with the former first grade teacher. This says, I'm
gonna homeschool my kids and We're gonna kind of have
a losey goosey curriculum because I have more faith that
the teacher with the experience is more likely to understand
the kids have to understand, have to know the basics
AB's and c's. But a lot of these kicktockers that
(23:25):
are making this sort of thing popular now they're influencers
and we're gonna ride our bikes through every RV park
in America and that's their education. They're the most crackpot
parents you could imagine. They have not been wildly successful
in life until they found TikTok. And then the fact
(23:49):
that they are eccentric makes them interesting, and that's why
people watch. And then they do eccentric things, and then
people watch them do eccentric things. It's the same reason
we watch reality shows on Bravo. Nutty people doing nutty things.
That's it. And so all of a sudden, the nutty
(24:12):
people find other nutty people, and then the nutting people
create communities, and then the nutty people catch the attention
of mainstream and then we all say, look at this
new trend. This person is totally normal and had their
butt cheeks pierced together, is now teaching their kids how
to be well adjusted. It don't. They don't poop because
(24:33):
the butt cheeks are pierced together. It's called unpooping. That's
not normal, it's not beneficial to society, it's not good
for the child. And yet, because of the reach of
social media and the entertainment aspect of everything in our
lives now, it's become popular enough that we're giving it
(24:57):
some sort of credence. So I guess what I'm saying is,
please don't do that to your kids. Please, dear God,
don't don't do that. Look, I don't like all the
things my kids are doing, and honestly, I'm a little
concerned that for one of my three adult children, there's
a chance they would try this, because they're the kind
(25:18):
of person that would be like, I'm doing this unthing
because it's not normal, and I'm gonna be different just
like everyone else that's different. We're totally different than everyone else,
all of us that are doing the same thing. We're
different and the same, but different together as one. So
I'm really hoping that she grows out of that before
(25:39):
she starts procreating his fingers crossed. It's being honest with you,
just hoping the great Doctor Wendy Walsh and Doctor Wendy
after Dark will give us some insight into all things
related to our relationships and maybe tell us what's something
(26:02):
that I have no idea? What do we Oh? Yes,
bad parenting one on one, letting your kids watch porn
and then blaming the porn. That is next. Chris Merril
KFI AM six forty live everywhere on the iHeart Radio app.
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Love working with my friend every week. I look forward
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Hi Kayla, Hi Kela.
Speaker 5 (26:34):
She walked away as doctor Wendy.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
I'm getting to you. And of course Brooker in the
hisel tonight, and I love I love me some Heather
Brooker too. All right, Doctor Wendy, you know I didn't
know if you were there too. I annoyed.
Speaker 5 (26:45):
I'm always well. I appreciate you got your women with you.
Don't worry.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
That's the important stuff, right, all right, So doctor Wendy
wats Doctor Weddy after dog starts at to seven o'clock.
And as we know, I like to talk with doctor Wendy,
uh and I like to pick her brain about things.
Happy to see a story out of one of the
states that I hold near and dear to my heart,
the state of Kansas. I lived there for seven years
and I loved every second of it. It's a beautiful place.
(27:11):
And I know Kansas gets a bad rap, has been
a fly over state. It's a great place. Loved it.
But there's a woman in Kansas who is suing porn
sites now after her fourteen year old used an old
laptop to watch adult content. She says one hundred and
eighteen times, I think she's underestimating it. Claims that porn
(27:31):
sites violated Kansas age verification laws. So they're saying that
the porn sites are the problem and they didn't do
what they were supposed to do. And Kansas law says
that any site where adult content represents a quarter of
total content can be held liable if they don't take
measures to ensure that miners can't access their sites. They say, however,
(27:54):
that the law essentially lumps other sites like Twitter together
with porn sites, even if distributed porn is not their
main mission. This has been my argument over the age
of verification stuff on some of these websites anyway, and
other states continue to sign on, and I understand why
they do. It's to limit the kids from access to
the pornography. But what's the point when you're only going
to do it to the sites that have one third,
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or one half or one quarter or pornography. And then
you've got X And I mean, for Pete's sake, as
we know from this, more than a quarter of what
you find on Twitter X is pornography, Stepchat, all these
other sites that are easily accessible. And I just think
we're blaming we're blaming Penthouse for the kids looking at it.
(28:38):
Back in the old days in the nineteen hundreds, remember
those days, doctor Wendy. Okay, yeah, if I got a
hold of my dad's Playboy, it wasn't Hefner's fault. It
wasn't the fault of the Zephyr station on the corner
of Broadway and State, which was the only place within
walking distance that sold smut from my house.
Speaker 16 (28:58):
Oh oh wait, wait, diference is that that your dad
had to bring it into the house. Now it's available
in every child's phone. It's well, well, who gave my
kid the phone? I mean, ultimately, are your parents Let
me just say, yes, I got three of them, and
I'm a terrible parent. Yeah, and you think you can
control their use of Let me tell you the kids
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who came over to mys in middle school who were
not allowed to have phones, The first thing they do
is pick up any device or walk to any computer
and log onto all their accounts.
Speaker 5 (29:29):
They all still have accounts.
Speaker 16 (29:31):
It's worse for those parents because the parents didn't know
that their kids had all these social media accounts.
Speaker 2 (29:37):
All right, I get that it's tougher to police the
kid's activities right than it ever has been before, But
that doesn't mean that parents don't have any responsibility. It
doesn't mean that the parents can be like, this is
this is porn Hub's fault for my kid looking at post.
Speaker 16 (29:52):
So let's talk about the kind of pornography. There's one thing.
If your dad had some Playboy soft porn, cute little
air brushed young women.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
Right, you can't find that anymore.
Speaker 16 (30:04):
No, Now we see violence, we see misogyny. Young boys
are growing up to believe that this is love and
this is sex. They assume that young girls want to
be choked, all because of the messages being sent by porn.
This is very, very serious and it's all so highly addictive.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
I don't agree. I don't disagree with anything that you've
just said. I fully understand.
Speaker 16 (30:29):
And I'm a big believer that it takes a village. Now,
having been a single mom for twenty years, and I
see how our culture loves to pathologize parenthood, like, oh,
it must be the parents terrible to parents. We are
in a village together, and there are many things that
influence our children. Parents only have so much influence that yeah,
(30:50):
they drop the genetic bomb in the kid's head. But
and they try to model being a good person, but
they are It is so easy to undo a good
parenting through things like pal pressure and the Internet in
a heartbeat.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
Again, I agree with what you're saying. My issue is
that this kid found an old laptop and then access
the pornography in his own home.
Speaker 5 (31:19):
He accessed it, It's does matter the.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
Same way that I had to find it. I had
to find my dad's stuff under the bed, in the
same way that this kid was able to find a
laptop that his parents didn't didn't take care of it,
but he.
Speaker 16 (31:30):
Was able to access it because the porn side opened
the door and let him in.
Speaker 2 (31:36):
All right, if you are not adult enough to know
how to set up restrictions on your own Internet, then
you shouldn't be having kids.
Speaker 5 (31:43):
Flat out, you're pathologizing parenthood.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
I am a parent. I have to take accountability. What
I'm not doing is shirking that responsibility as a parent.
I will tell you that the flaws in my children
are largely my fault. Really, I do think that.
Speaker 16 (31:59):
I think our culture at large also has a huge impact.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
But I'm not going to blame other people.
Speaker 5 (32:05):
Forcing hypothetical question.
Speaker 16 (32:08):
In a few weeks, I'm having a UCLA's lead cannabis
researcher on the show here, and he told me that
up to two percent of Americans are addicted to THHC
and cannabis, and it is you know, we're talking about
millions of people.
Speaker 3 (32:23):
It is legal.
Speaker 16 (32:24):
There are myths about it that cannabis, for instance, isn't addictive,
which is a myth. There are myths that because it's legal,
it's safe. Uh, there are myths that it's not a
gateway drug it is, et cetera. We're going to talk
to him about that. So if your kid became addicted
to weed as a teenager, is that your fault?
Speaker 2 (32:44):
I mean, I understand that this is legal.
Speaker 5 (32:46):
It's available in every corner.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
It is not legal for children. So neither is porn
what neither are cinnarettes. And yet somehow people get.
Speaker 3 (32:54):
It right parents for the porn.
Speaker 2 (32:57):
If I find if I find my kid is smoking,
I don't go sue Philip Morris. I correct that parentally.
So I don't say, my goodness, we're all victims here.
I have problems with that. I mean, I'm not saying
that didn't do wrong. They did. That's fine.
Speaker 16 (33:16):
I think that we all need to take responsibility as
a society and as a culture to make the world
safer for minders wholly agree, but.
Speaker 2 (33:27):
I don't think that starts with saying not my fault,
somebody else's fault. That's where that's.
Speaker 16 (33:32):
Where well, I think there's a difference between saying not
my fault and saying shared responsibility.
Speaker 5 (33:39):
Let's work together to solve these problems.
Speaker 2 (33:41):
We'll look at you finding some nice middle counter you
being the adult in the room. I don't like it.
I love talking to you, I really do. I love it.
This is why I listened to Doctor Wendy after dark
and she starts here at seven o'clock. Have a wonderful show.
I hope I got you. Hope I got you. Warmed
up a little bit.
Speaker 5 (33:59):
I'm warmed up. Let it go, it fired up? Alright,
love it all right, all right.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
We will talk to you next weekend as well. Chris
Merril every Sunday, four o'clock right up until we hear
from doctor Wendy. She is next. It's KFI A M
six forty. We're live everywhere in the iHeartRadio
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Anything of my friends, Chris Merrill on demand anytime, the
iHeartRadio app. Heather Brooker, Hagar is nice to hear your voice.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
Thank you. It's nice to be heard.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
You're sweet.
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Was that dramatic? It's so nice to be heard?
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Yeah, a little bit, yeah, yeah, a little bit.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Well, I'm excited to be here. I missed you, guys, Well,
we miss you.
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I told Brigida that we need to uh Brigida for
those unfamiliar Brazia uh, normally right now, and so we
got to have Heather Brooker for part of the show,
and we have to have Brigida for part of the show.
Speaker 4 (00:37):
That's right, do a little combo, nice what I said,
taking much deserved, much needed.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Break because the this show spans the the news shifts,
so we uh you know, we're able to talk with
a couple of different news anchors and I think the
world of both of you guys, so like to have more. Yeah,
one of my favorite shoes it's on FX is uh.
It's a show about soccer. I'm sorry, Lucy in the traffic.
(01:05):
That's a football to you, Lucy. You know the the
English I don't like it when you call it soccer.
A little fussy about that, don't they?
Speaker 5 (01:14):
Okay, it's all right.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
One of my favorites is that well Ted Lasso obviously,
but that's not done apple. This one's on fax and
it is welcome to Wrexham you came from and great
news if you're a fan of Wrexham and I am.
They've just been renewed for a fifth season. They're only
(01:36):
in their fourth season now, but they have They've been
renewed for a fifth season. This is the Ryan Reynolds
Rob mclahaney collaboration where they bought the the failing soccer
team and the bottom tier of the the English League.
And if you're unfamiliar, there's make sure I don't screw
this up, guys, because I will. There's five tiers, right,
(02:00):
and the lowest tiers are It's basically like Beer League
softball is here in the United States. But imagine if
you had a let's just call it a Beer League
baseball team, right. I know some guys that play some
Beer League baseball, right, they're grown men, they have real jobs,
but on Sunday afternoon they come out and they play baseball. Now,
(02:20):
imagine if they won their league and then they would
get to move up to the next division. Right, So,
now all of a sudden, you've got some guys that
are playing some beer league baseball, but the competition's a
little bit better. And if you've ever played on the
rec leagues, depending on which leagues you're in, they will
divide you into how good or bad you are. I
played in one for a while. They had the A League,
(02:42):
the B, the C, and the D. The D was like,
you're just terrible, but you're out here having fun with
your buddies. A was more competitive guys. But imagine if
if as you keep winning, if you keep winning, you
keep getting better, until all of a sudden, you're playing
against the Dodgers. Right, But imagine if the Dodgers were
so we've been through some bad years, right. Imagine if
the Dodgers were so bad that they then get relegated
(03:05):
to minor league baseball the following year, and that if
they're really bad, they drop down and drop down and
dropped down. And so all of a sudden, you could
have the Los Angeles Dodgers playing on a Sunday afternoon
beer league game, and your Sunday Afternoon beer League. Guys
could be so good that they're playing in the major leagues.
That's how it works with soccer and England if you're unfamiliar.
For you non sports fans, well, the Wrexham teams have
(03:26):
actually gone from being that Sunday afternoon beer league too.
They're now in spoiler alert, they're now in the Championship League,
which is like Triple A in our baseball analogy. Right,
they're this close to the pinnacle of the major leagues,
which is the Premier League. So it's been fun to
watch them do this and I love the show. It's
(03:48):
told with a tremendous amount of heart. The documentary storytelling
is spectacular. And now there's going to be a spinoff
and I'm going to mispronounce it. Feel free to laugh
at me and correct me. Is it nikasa, it's a
it's a team. It's a part of the Mexican how's it.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
Spelled n E c A x A nahaka.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Well, that's what I wondered, but I'm not sure this is.
You know, I don't speak Spanish, and I apologize.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Well, I don't either.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
I'm the I'm the widest person here and I don't
know but it sounds like the haka to me.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Okay, don't hold us to it, because the whitest person
here just said that.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
So that's that's really Chris Okay.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Heather Gringo Brooker says that it's nahaka, but what it
could be nikaha. I don't have no idea. Uh Eva
Longoria is part owner of that team, and I know
that the guys also sold part of their Wrexham team
in order to invest some of that money in this team. There,
so there anyway, there's gonna be a spin off and
that will premiere the summer. I'm very excited about that,
(04:52):
all right. Also in our show business news because as
Kayla told us, there's no business likes good. I'm glad
you're on your toes. PBS is suing. They're mad because
they're not getting funding. It's not just PBS, it's NPR
as well.
Speaker 6 (05:06):
National Public Radio and three of its stations sued the
Trump administration. It's all over an executive orders signed this
month to cut federal funding to PBS and INPR radio stations.
The Trump administration wants to eliminate indirect sources of government
support going to the stations. Earlier this month, the president
alleged bias in their reporting. In pr argues the order
(05:27):
violates the First Amendment as it unfairly targets public broadcasting organizations.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Right. It'll also be curious to see how that works
out because Congress sets the budget. But did Congress do
they approve that money specifically go toward the public broadcast
systems or do they allocate that money to be used
at the discretion of the administration. Also interesting is when
we've had agencies from previous administrations use their own discretion
(05:57):
on things, those have been sued by conservative sources. So
for you may have the EPA that says, look, this
is what we're gonna do. This is how we're gonna
enforce the you know, the way that we see things,
and so they can withhold funds. And the Supreme Court
is stepped then and went, Nope, you can't just willy
nearly do that. So they put the kaibosh on the
Obama administration for instance. Will they allow for the Trump
(06:17):
administration to behave in the way that was problematic when
the Obama administration did it. This is why this is
why those of you that want to go my team's
always right and your team's always wrong, like you're never
always right or always wrong, because if you're if you're
right today, you're gonna try the same shenanigans tomorrow. And
if you're wrong today, then the next time you have power,
you're gonna try those same shenanigans. So it's it's all
(06:43):
this game. So you can't follow and go well, idealistically,
I'm exactly like this, No, no, no, because they don't follow
their ideals. They follow winning and losing. Speaking of winning,
you know who's a winner this week? Taylor Swift just
keeps winning.
Speaker 7 (06:56):
At long last, She's reclaimed her reputation and her name,
Taylor Swift, revealing in a letter shared to her website,
all of the music I've ever made now belongs to me.
The Grammy winner, buying back each of her first six albums,
including the music videos and concert specials from those eras
Taylor writing to say, this is my greatest dream come
true is actually being pretty reserved about it. All of
(07:19):
Taylor's back catalog off limits to her for the last
six years after they were sold against her wishes in
twenty nineteen, purchased by Ithaca Holdings and Scooter Braun. The
Masters then sold to Shamrock Holdings, which just struck this
deal with Taylor.
Speaker 8 (07:32):
Traditionally, in the record business, ownership has been out of
people's grasp. It's been work for hire work, and she
is one of the first who people have quietly made
deals on their masters. But she was the first one
who made it.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
That's great. And remember she was so mad about this
that part of the reason that we have the whole
Heiress tour was because she went back and had to
rerecord all that stuff. She said, you know what, you
have the masters. Fine, I'm going to re record my
own music. I'm going to put out again. So now
I have new masters. But then she bought the originals.
So yeah, I don't know what's gonna happen if she's
(08:07):
going to keep rerecording things. But it seemed to have
worked out, okay. I mean she was able to capitalize
in the Shenanigans. And then finally, as we talk about
the business side of show business, I can see him
over there. Raoul is frantically trying to get in line.
It keeps a refreshing a screen to try to be
the first to buy this new hot product.
Speaker 9 (08:30):
Sidney Sweeney selling her bathwater.
Speaker 5 (08:33):
Crazy experience I've read.
Speaker 9 (08:35):
Yeah, the Star is teaming up with a soap brand
to infuse what they're calling a touch of Sydney's bathtub
drippings into bars of soap fans can buy.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Ew. I don't know why we're adding this musical interlude here,
but we are.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
It's definitely fun. I enjoy now.
Speaker 9 (08:58):
Sydney's only making five thousand of the specialty bars, and
it's unclear if it's actually her legit used water in them.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Has to be here. They'd be false advertising, right.
Speaker 9 (09:09):
Or just the idea of that, But either way, fans
will have to fight to get their hands on the
soap when it goes on sale next week.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
I'm excited for everyone to see it.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Oh right, who's buying it though? Right?
Speaker 3 (09:25):
Creepy do for sure?
Speaker 10 (09:27):
Me?
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Yeah, creepy do buy it. That's what I mean. Raoul
fits that bill. But honestly, the only people who want
that soap are the only people who need that soap.
And by that I mean this is the only way
to get soap onto the kind of person that would
buy it. They are unclean little pervos. They're not the
kind of people that use soap on a regular basis.
(09:47):
They're like, I'm gonna rub this soap. I mean it's
got her bath water and.
Speaker 5 (09:54):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
I hope she farted in the tub.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
Look at He's like, yes, I ka, yeah that guy.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Can we just got a message. Your dude wants to
buy your bath water. I k you are you selling?
Speaker 3 (10:15):
It's quite expensive?
Speaker 2 (10:21):
I kila, Chris, will you bottle it for me? What
do we learn the name of it? Nikasa?
Speaker 3 (10:32):
I was rox It's nick nack Caxa, Nikasa.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
What did I say? Nioxa, Nickoxa, nick Caxa Casa Nickaxa.
All right, Brooker, you were dead wrong.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
I was close. No, you were not even okay, not
even close, not even.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Not even remotely close. All right, we'll continue. There's no
business like show business.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
You're listening to KFI a M six forty on demand talk.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
About Chris Merril. Can't if I am more stimulating, talk
like a fancy voice. Guy just said, all right, we
got the lowdown. Welcome to Wrexham, renewed for the fifth season.
As we continue, there's no business like show business, and
there's a new Wrexham spinoff and we were trying to
figure out how to pronounce it. Nec a x a
Eva Longoria is part owner of this team in Mexico.
Speaker 10 (11:21):
Hey, what's up, Chris Amen? Okay, that Mexican team. It's
called Nick Gaxa, Nick Kaxa. It's out of the city
of Aaca in Mexico, Central Mexico. Nick Goxa, Nick Coaxa.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
I liked his pronunciation better than the one you find
on the internet. He sounds more authenticer. Roll I thought you, honey,
don't you speak Spanish?
Speaker 3 (11:44):
I do, but I grew up in La So it's
like a branch of Spanish.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
Oh okay, what do they call it?
Speaker 3 (11:50):
Wea weda?
Speaker 2 (11:52):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (11:53):
Chicano Chicano brookers stopped trying listen. I'm trying to appeal
to fifty pc of the so how population.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
I get that. I get that broker loves you, I know,
but you're just it's missing.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
Okay, it's totally miss sad.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Yeah, it's really sad. It feels desperate. I'll stop with that.
Speaker 9 (12:11):
As she does better than the Nosabo kids.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
What does that mean?
Speaker 9 (12:17):
Kids are they're they're Mexican, but they don't speak a
lick of Espanol.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
Oh okay, talk talk, Can I get a taco?
Speaker 4 (12:24):
And cheese that Californian accent. Yeah, I've been doing due lingo.
I'm on one hundred and three day streak of my stys.
I know, I might, I might know a few words.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
All right, at least find the banoy very good. That's
all I got. Don't ask me anymore. All right, the
back of the show business and sad time as we
get a chance to reflect back on another great star
from uh seventies and eighties television. You know, George Went.
We talked about last week from Cheers, and this week, unfortunately, we.
Speaker 11 (12:58):
Talk about breaking news Hollywood, more warning, the loss of
beloved actress Loretta Switt. She was best known for her
iconic role as Major Margaret hot lips Hula Han on
the TV series Mash. Switt passed away today at her
home in New York City. She starred in the groundbreaking
series for eleven seasons, earning two Emmy Awards and becoming
a television legend. Fans remember her for bringing strength, humor,
(13:20):
and heart to one of TV's most endearing characters. Switt
was eighty seven.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
Yeah, full life. Good for her, another who had a
full life. And we have sad news on this one. Valerie.
Uh is it Mahaffey? I want to way? Should I
say it correctly?
Speaker 6 (13:38):
Emmy winning actress Valerie Mahaffey It has passed away after
a battle with cancer.
Speaker 5 (13:44):
She was young to leave you behind, Please Please.
Speaker 12 (13:49):
She was best known for her roles in Northern Exposure,
Desperate Housewives, and Young Sheldon. Halfy won a Supporting Actress
Emmy in nineteen ninety two for her trail of Eve,
the hypochondriac wife of Adam Arkins's character in North he
In Exposure. Most recently, she received an Independent Spirit Award
nomination for her role as the optimistic Madame Reynard in
(14:12):
French Exit. Mahaffey was seventy one years old.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
Yeah, she's I mean, seventy one, I guess is not young.
But I feel like I feel like that's young. It
was a life expectancy. Now is like what seventy nine?
For women, it's something like ninety four. So that's young.
That's too young. I feel bad for feel bad for
the family that they had to say goodbye so soon.
I don't like that one dude, I don't feel bad for.
(14:38):
Is this a stalker? Do you see Jennifer Anison's stalker.
He had a day in court. This is the dude
that crashed through her gate.
Speaker 13 (14:45):
Man accues of branding his car into the gate of
actress Jennifer Aniston's I just said that bell Air Home
has been found not mentally competent to stan triut for
a second time. This would delay the criminal proceedings for
Jimmy Wayne Carwhile as he undergoes treatment. A different psychiatrists
previously determined he is midtally competent to stand trial. Carlwill
(15:05):
wanted a second opinion. Now a second doctor has confirmed
he is not Carlwile. He had been accused of harassing
Anniston since twenty twenty three, has been charged with felony, stalking,
vandalism and more for the fifth May fifth incident.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
All right, so he's Uh, he's a cuckoo for Coco Pops,
is what they say. Uh. One more Uh celebrities behaving badly.
I don't know why I do this one. I feel
like I'm obligated to talk about Diddy, But I also
feel like the Diddy trial is such a big deal
that if you want to know about Diddy, you already
(15:40):
know about Ditty. And if you don't want to know
about Ditty. You've been avoiding it, so I'll keep it short.
How's that sound? His assistant was on the stand and
guess what she said? He was super horrible.
Speaker 11 (15:52):
Emotional testimony from a former personal assistant of Sean Ditty Combs.
She claims she was sexually assaulted several times by the
music mogul. The woman identified as Mia, took the stand
this afternoon in Combs's sex trafficking and racketeering trial. She
tearfully recounted multiple instances of alleged assault, including one time
she claims she woke up to Combs raping her inside
(16:13):
his home.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
Oh my god, Yeah, he's on the mount rushmore of
horrible celebrities, right, Bill Cosby, Diddy, Harvey Weinstein? Who else
are we putting up there? R Kelly?
Speaker 3 (16:31):
R kelly for sure?
Speaker 2 (16:32):
R kelly.
Speaker 11 (16:33):
She also recalled a time Combs allegedly beat his ex girlfriend,
Cassie Ventura during an Oscar's after party at Prince's house.
Speaker 7 (16:40):
Why is this important to the prosecution's case. It's important
because it speaks to the human trafficking due to force
in cooergin.
Speaker 11 (16:48):
Mia said working for Combs was exciting, but chaotic and toxic.
She's set to continue her testimony tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
Yeah, she said that the Prince's security had to step
in save her. Oh there's some stories around prince too,
So if his security is stepping up, it's bad, extra bad.
All right. California is in the middle of this argument
over charter schools. Good bad? What are they gonna do?
What are the limitations on charter schools? But forget about it.
(17:17):
You don't even have to get into an argument about
charter schools. If you do this with your kids instead,
that is next. I'm Chris Meryl kfi AM six forty.
We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
You're listening to kfi AM six forty on demand, could evening.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
My friends, Chris Merril kfi AM six forty on demand
anytime the iHeart Radio app and honored to be with
you as always every Sunday, Sunday Sunday, my friends, Brooker,
you didn't do any of that, the homeschooling nonsense with
your kids, did you? You send them to schools, didn't you?
Speaker 8 (17:50):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (17:50):
Absolutely not. They she goes to school.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
Yeah, what are those high end, fancy private schools.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
Oh not on this salary. Oh not on the KFI budget.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
Yeah. See, I grew up in a rural area where
I mean there was like one private school nearest. There
was a Catholic school that was about twenty five miles away,
but the public schools were fine ish.
Speaker 4 (18:13):
So well, I went to private school, you did, I did,
but I had AFI But.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
I was on scholarship as well. I had two different scholarships.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
Okay, all right. There is a new trend that's happening.
Parents are disillusioned with public school. There's arguments over charter schools.
Speaker 11 (18:34):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
Some states are trying to fight to be able to
use tax dollars to send their kids to private religious schools.
Then you've got the parents to say, we're going to
homeschool our kids because we don't want them to be
in doctor NATed by all that educacation. There's a new
trend and that is what if the kids teach themselves?
(18:56):
My mind is blown. Of course, these children will know
what algebra is. No that they need to know that.
It's called unschooling.
Speaker 14 (19:04):
Molly Bonds, a former grade school teacher for a decade now,
is a twenty four to seven educator for her nine
and eleven year old boys. They're being unschooled at their
Ann Arbor area home.
Speaker 15 (19:15):
Homeschooling, you're educating your child at home. You're usually following
a curriculum versus unschooling. You're actually following your child's desires,
your child's interests.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
Yeah, we should have done more of that in school
because I was not interested in reading or writing or arithmetic.
I was interested in kickball Latin in elementary school, then
dodgeball in junior high, and then screwing around in high school.
Is there a class unscrewing around?
Speaker 15 (19:45):
So you may grab a curriculum to help you with that,
but overall you're really just presenting like a feast for
your child. Think of like a Shmorgas board, a Thanksgiving feast,
and your child is picking and choosing what's interesting to them.
Speaker 5 (19:59):
Lynnett High.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
That's great for a well rounded education. No.
Speaker 14 (20:05):
Lynnette Hines is on the other side of the state
near Grand Rapids.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
This is out of the Detroit by the way, ABC News.
Speaker 14 (20:11):
In Detroit, but she's on the same page with her
three kids.
Speaker 10 (20:14):
Schools.
Speaker 16 (20:15):
The structure of them is set up really well for
certain students, certain learning styles and personalities, but there's a
lot who don't really.
Speaker 5 (20:22):
Fit the box.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
Yeah, I agree with that.
Speaker 14 (20:25):
Of school Michigan doesn't keep tags on how many kids
are enrolled in any kind of homeschool program, and per
the state Department of Education, there are no required tests
for students to take. Giving grades and submitting them to
the state are both voluntary.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
Well, that seems like a really good idea. No, not
a great idea. How do you end up with an
under educated society? It's simple, you don't educate them.
Speaker 5 (20:47):
Tada.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
Well, you know, we were going to educate our kids,
but then we thought did the kids want to be educated?
And then we said, kids, do you want to have
to sit around and read books that you don't like
all day about the things? And they were like no.
We were like, that sounds great to us. So we
thought we would work on more of their education at
the playground. It is interesting to me that you have
(21:12):
trends like this, which honestly, it's a few crackpots doing
this sort of thing, because most homeschoolers are gonna follow
a curriculum, so you got a few crackpots. But the
reason that it picks up any attention, and in this case,
it was a story in USA Today this week that
was like unschooling is the new way, Like, no, it's not.
(21:34):
And it's always somebody who's like, I just want my kid.
I mean, think of the weirdest hippie stereotype from the
nineteen sixties that you can and then add a modern
day twist to it, which usually involves more nose piercings.
Those are the parents now that are like, I'm vegan,
even my nose ring is vegan, and all of my
(21:57):
I got, I got all these different like job many
these characters of tattoos on the inside of my armpit
because I love that. And my kids don't want to
learn like from the man, So we're not gonna We'll
let my kids decide what they want. They're five now,
(22:21):
and they want to be engineers, so we're gonna teach
them to be engineers. The parents who are for these
sorts of things are not the parents of the future
CEOs of America. Generally speaking, now, you may have someone,
as they use the story, who used to be a teacher,
(22:42):
and that teacher, even though she says, well, you don't
have a curriculum, that teacher has a general idea of
what the kids need to learn. The reason is that
was her job. She went to school for that. She
actually has an education in child child psychology. There's some
child development in her educational background. She may not be
(23:03):
a child psychologist, but she's had some courses on it.
She understands the progress of the children. I'm far less
concerned with the former first grade teacher. This says, I'm
gonna homeschool my kids and We're gonna kind of have
a losey goosey curriculum because I have more faith that
the teacher with the experience is more likely to understand
the kids have to understand, have to know the basics
AB's and c's. But a lot of these kicktockers that
(23:25):
are making this sort of thing popular now they're influencers
and we're gonna ride our bikes through every RV park
in America and that's their education. They're the most crackpot
parents you could imagine. They have not been wildly successful
in life until they found TikTok. And then the fact
(23:49):
that they are eccentric makes them interesting, and that's why
people watch. And then they do eccentric things, and then
people watch them do eccentric things. It's the same reason
we watch reality shows on Bravo. Nutty people doing nutty things.
That's it. And so all of a sudden, the nutty
(24:12):
people find other nutty people, and then the nutting people
create communities, and then the nutty people catch the attention
of mainstream and then we all say, look at this
new trend. This person is totally normal and had their
butt cheeks pierced together, is now teaching their kids how
to be well adjusted. It don't. They don't poop because
(24:33):
the butt cheeks are pierced together. It's called unpooping. That's
not normal, it's not beneficial to society, it's not good
for the child. And yet, because of the reach of
social media and the entertainment aspect of everything in our
lives now, it's become popular enough that we're giving it
(24:57):
some sort of credence. So I guess what I'm saying is,
please don't do that to your kids. Please, dear God,
don't don't do that. Look, I don't like all the
things my kids are doing, and honestly, I'm a little
concerned that for one of my three adult children, there's
a chance they would try this, because they're the kind
(25:18):
of person that would be like, I'm doing this unthing
because it's not normal, and I'm gonna be different just
like everyone else that's different. We're totally different than everyone else,
all of us that are doing the same thing. We're
different and the same, but different together as one. So
I'm really hoping that she grows out of that before
(25:39):
she starts procreating his fingers crossed. It's being honest with you,
just hoping the great Doctor Wendy Walsh and Doctor Wendy
after Dark will give us some insight into all things
related to our relationships and maybe tell us what's something
(26:02):
that I have no idea? What do we Oh? Yes,
bad parenting one on one, letting your kids watch porn
and then blaming the porn. That is next. Chris Merril
KFI AM six forty live everywhere on the iHeart Radio app.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
You're listening to kfi AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
Is Chris Merril kfi AM six forty on demand anytime
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Love working with my friend every week. I look forward
to that. Kayla, Hi Kayla, Tayla, Hi Kayla, Hi Kayla,
Hi Kayla, Hi Kela.
Speaker 5 (26:34):
She walked away as doctor Wendy.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
I'm getting to you. And of course Brooker in the
hisel tonight, and I love I love me some Heather
Brooker too. All right, Doctor Wendy, you know I didn't
know if you were there too. I annoyed.
Speaker 5 (26:45):
I'm always well. I appreciate you got your women with you.
Don't worry.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
That's the important stuff, right, all right, So doctor Wendy
wats Doctor Weddy after dog starts at to seven o'clock.
And as we know, I like to talk with doctor Wendy,
uh and I like to pick her brain about things.
Happy to see a story out of one of the
states that I hold near and dear to my heart,
the state of Kansas. I lived there for seven years
and I loved every second of it. It's a beautiful place.
(27:11):
And I know Kansas gets a bad rap, has been
a fly over state. It's a great place. Loved it.
But there's a woman in Kansas who is suing porn
sites now after her fourteen year old used an old
laptop to watch adult content. She says one hundred and
eighteen times, I think she's underestimating it. Claims that porn
(27:31):
sites violated Kansas age verification laws. So they're saying that
the porn sites are the problem and they didn't do
what they were supposed to do. And Kansas law says
that any site where adult content represents a quarter of
total content can be held liable if they don't take
measures to ensure that miners can't access their sites. They say, however,
(27:54):
that the law essentially lumps other sites like Twitter together
with porn sites, even if distributed porn is not their
main mission. This has been my argument over the age
of verification stuff on some of these websites anyway, and
other states continue to sign on, and I understand why
they do. It's to limit the kids from access to
the pornography. But what's the point when you're only going
to do it to the sites that have one third,
(28:16):
or one half or one quarter or pornography. And then
you've got X And I mean, for Pete's sake, as
we know from this, more than a quarter of what
you find on Twitter X is pornography, Stepchat, all these
other sites that are easily accessible. And I just think
we're blaming we're blaming Penthouse for the kids looking at it.
(28:38):
Back in the old days in the nineteen hundreds, remember
those days, doctor Wendy. Okay, yeah, if I got a
hold of my dad's Playboy, it wasn't Hefner's fault. It
wasn't the fault of the Zephyr station on the corner
of Broadway and State, which was the only place within
walking distance that sold smut from my house.
Speaker 16 (28:58):
Oh oh wait, wait, diference is that that your dad
had to bring it into the house. Now it's available
in every child's phone. It's well, well, who gave my
kid the phone? I mean, ultimately, are your parents Let
me just say, yes, I got three of them, and
I'm a terrible parent. Yeah, and you think you can
control their use of Let me tell you the kids
(29:19):
who came over to mys in middle school who were
not allowed to have phones, The first thing they do
is pick up any device or walk to any computer
and log onto all their accounts.
Speaker 5 (29:29):
They all still have accounts.
Speaker 16 (29:31):
It's worse for those parents because the parents didn't know
that their kids had all these social media accounts.
Speaker 2 (29:37):
All right, I get that it's tougher to police the
kid's activities right than it ever has been before, But
that doesn't mean that parents don't have any responsibility. It
doesn't mean that the parents can be like, this is
this is porn Hub's fault for my kid looking at post.
Speaker 16 (29:52):
So let's talk about the kind of pornography. There's one thing.
If your dad had some Playboy soft porn, cute little
air brushed young women.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
Right, you can't find that anymore.
Speaker 16 (30:04):
No, Now we see violence, we see misogyny. Young boys
are growing up to believe that this is love and
this is sex. They assume that young girls want to
be choked, all because of the messages being sent by porn.
This is very, very serious and it's all so highly addictive.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
I don't agree. I don't disagree with anything that you've
just said. I fully understand.
Speaker 16 (30:29):
And I'm a big believer that it takes a village. Now,
having been a single mom for twenty years, and I
see how our culture loves to pathologize parenthood, like, oh,
it must be the parents terrible to parents. We are
in a village together, and there are many things that
influence our children. Parents only have so much influence that yeah,
(30:50):
they drop the genetic bomb in the kid's head. But
and they try to model being a good person, but
they are It is so easy to undo a good
parenting through things like pal pressure and the Internet in
a heartbeat.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
Again, I agree with what you're saying. My issue is
that this kid found an old laptop and then access
the pornography in his own home.
Speaker 5 (31:19):
He accessed it, It's does matter the.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
Same way that I had to find it. I had
to find my dad's stuff under the bed, in the
same way that this kid was able to find a
laptop that his parents didn't didn't take care of it,
but he.
Speaker 16 (31:30):
Was able to access it because the porn side opened
the door and let him in.
Speaker 2 (31:36):
All right, if you are not adult enough to know
how to set up restrictions on your own Internet, then
you shouldn't be having kids.
Speaker 5 (31:43):
Flat out, you're pathologizing parenthood.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
I am a parent. I have to take accountability. What
I'm not doing is shirking that responsibility as a parent.
I will tell you that the flaws in my children
are largely my fault. Really, I do think that.
Speaker 16 (31:59):
I think our culture at large also has a huge impact.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
But I'm not going to blame other people.
Speaker 5 (32:05):
Forcing hypothetical question.
Speaker 16 (32:08):
In a few weeks, I'm having a UCLA's lead cannabis
researcher on the show here, and he told me that
up to two percent of Americans are addicted to THHC
and cannabis, and it is you know, we're talking about
millions of people.
Speaker 3 (32:23):
It is legal.
Speaker 16 (32:24):
There are myths about it that cannabis, for instance, isn't addictive,
which is a myth. There are myths that because it's legal,
it's safe. Uh, there are myths that it's not a
gateway drug it is, et cetera. We're going to talk
to him about that. So if your kid became addicted
to weed as a teenager, is that your fault?
Speaker 2 (32:44):
I mean, I understand that this is legal.
Speaker 5 (32:46):
It's available in every corner.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
It is not legal for children. So neither is porn
what neither are cinnarettes. And yet somehow people get.
Speaker 3 (32:54):
It right parents for the porn.
Speaker 2 (32:57):
If I find if I find my kid is smoking,
I don't go sue Philip Morris. I correct that parentally.
So I don't say, my goodness, we're all victims here.
I have problems with that. I mean, I'm not saying
that didn't do wrong. They did. That's fine.
Speaker 16 (33:16):
I think that we all need to take responsibility as
a society and as a culture to make the world
safer for minders wholly agree, but.
Speaker 2 (33:27):
I don't think that starts with saying not my fault,
somebody else's fault. That's where that's.
Speaker 16 (33:32):
Where well, I think there's a difference between saying not
my fault and saying shared responsibility.
Speaker 5 (33:39):
Let's work together to solve these problems.
Speaker 2 (33:41):
We'll look at you finding some nice middle counter you
being the adult in the room. I don't like it.
I love talking to you, I really do. I love it.
This is why I listened to Doctor Wendy after dark
and she starts here at seven o'clock. Have a wonderful show.
I hope I got you. Hope I got you. Warmed
up a little bit.
Speaker 5 (33:59):
I'm warmed up. Let it go, it fired up? Alright,
love it all right, all right.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
We will talk to you next weekend as well. Chris
Merril every Sunday, four o'clock right up until we hear
from doctor Wendy. She is next. It's KFI A M
six forty. We're live everywhere in the iHeartRadio
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