August 10, 2025 • 31 mins
News of note from Tinsel Town and beyond. Exclusive | Howard Stern staffers prepping for show's demise, withholding best material as future uncertain. Right-Wing Influence Shaped the Sydney Sweeney Ad Debate - Stop taking the rage bait. Vandalized billboard on 91 Freeway in Corona references Sydney Sweeney's American Eagle jeans ad. Stories that make you say “Hmmmm?” that didn’t fit neatly into any other spot on the show.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Hi Chris Merril, KFI AM sixty more stimulating talk Bridge
the Dagga Steno.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
In the house.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Hey, happy Sunday, Uh, Happy Sunday to you Tomorrow someone
will wish you a.
Speaker 4 (00:21):
Happy Monday and so forth and so on.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
And when they do, I want you to punch them. Okay,
all right, that's all I want. There's no such thing
happy Monday. No, no such thing, just a bunch of nonsense.
And also do we not every day is uh is
a holiday? Right? So why do we stay? When did
(00:44):
this whole happy whatever the day is.
Speaker 5 (00:46):
We gotta give ourselves a little joy before we sit
down to work.
Speaker 6 (00:49):
Okay, tell these lies.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Happy Tuesday, Happy Wednesday. Stop with that. I don't understand it.
When did this start?
Speaker 6 (01:02):
I think Brigida's onto something? Yeah, how would you like
me to agree? He's such a mudgeon, Brigitta, what's up?
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Or at least at least step it up a little bit,
be like.
Speaker 6 (01:16):
Grand Rising on this on this Sunday. Grand Rising, you
would hate us even more. Literally, you would let me.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Just uh.
Speaker 7 (01:29):
Happened happen?
Speaker 2 (01:43):
That's what Next time somebody wishes me a happy whatever
the day is, I'm just gonna go, oh happy.
Speaker 6 (01:49):
I like that. I think we should make that a trend.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
And then punch him.
Speaker 6 (01:52):
Oh wow, okay, well you almost had me.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Alright. Question on the talk back, what is the craze
you never you never understood, or what is the crazy
you wish would come back? Somebody stole seven thousand dollars
worth of La Boo boos, which are weird little decorative toys.
I'm guessing Brigitta's got a couple of these. Heck no, no, okay,
they are really creepy.
Speaker 6 (02:17):
I don't get it. I would never spend money on them.
Speaker 8 (02:19):
So who is supporting this trend? I don't know anybody
that hasn't personally, and I see them everywhere.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
I well, I see people with them and they put
them on expensive purses.
Speaker 6 (02:27):
So weird.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
It is weird.
Speaker 5 (02:30):
So and my sister are both these people, and they're
also Disney adults, so discussed.
Speaker 6 (02:35):
Yeah, okay, Disney and bos.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Wow, okay, yeah, but Disney adults. No, that's got to stop.
It's one thing if you like, oh I like the cartoons,
but when your whole identity is Disney characters, no, that's
too much. Yeah, all right, so that's our talk about
question today. And what was the one that you you
didn't understand?
Speaker 9 (02:56):
Hi, Chris, Hey, the craze that never made sense to
me is NFTs. I assume it was the crypto connection.
But it's not cryptocurrency. It's just a digital image that
you own. But also anyone can saved JPEG copy of it. Yes,
I mean, it's no wonder why that market just crashed.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Yeah, I wholeheartedly agree with you. I never understood the NFTs. Yeah,
but you own the image. Yeah, but I somebody else
could just snag the image. Yeah, but then you could
sue them. Okay, all right, so you own the image
and you're gonna spend all your time suing people on
the internet who copied and pasted your image. That seems
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like a great way to not have any money in
the end. But they were paying outrageous prices for him too.
So yeah, no, I'm with you, great calling that one.
There is no business lie. Let's start today with oh
Disney who just sold half the crap to the NFL.
Speaker 10 (03:57):
Big story coming into us, major breaking news in the
sports and media world. It's official now ESPN is acquiring
the NFL Network and other media assets. That means the
league's Red Zone channel will join our parent company, the
Walt Disney's linear networks. ESPN Fantasy Football will also combine
with NFL Fantasy. In exchange, the NFL will get a
ten percent equity stake in ESPN.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
All right, so now the NFL is going to own
a ten percent steak in the Disney property that is ESPN.
Speaker 11 (04:27):
Cool.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
I can see that playing out really well. At no
point will there ever be any sort of conflict of
interest when the media company that is charged with reporting
on the league is owned in part by the league. Nope,
never would that be a problem.
Speaker 12 (04:49):
From News Nation, a new direct to consumer streaming service
from ESPN launches August twenty first.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Oh, we gotta buy more crap. Now we have to
have another streaming.
Speaker 12 (05:01):
The price twenty nine to ninety nine a month what
watch soccer? Or just under three hundred and sixty dollars
a year. It comes after ESPN's parent company, Disney, acquired
NFL media assets, including NFL Network and Red Zone.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Okay, I love red Zone, that's my jam.
Speaker 12 (05:19):
And as part of that deal, the NFL now owns
ten percent of ESPN. The bottom line, to watch every game,
viewers may have to stack multiple services and that adds
up fast.
Speaker 13 (05:31):
It's actually nine hundred and forty for the year if
you include all the ways we have to watch football. No, no, no, no,
all the other networks besides this, what the NFL has.
We have Peacock which has their games. We have Paramount
which has its games. Oh, you also have you know
everyone else who's involved. And NFL Sunday Ticket still has
a contract till twenty thirty, so you have all those games. Oh,
(05:53):
you have the NFL games. Oh and Amazon Prime. I
think the NFL fans are actually getting delraw ticket the complex.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
You think this could end up killing the league. Really,
they may be a victim of their own success in
this case where all of a sudden they want to
start doing a money grab on everything they possibly can.
But at some point, when it's so fractured and it's
so hard to watch, it's gonna start feeling like we're
being punished. It's sort of like tipping culture. You just
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said that tipping is down in Las Vegas by fifty
percent right now. A lot of that has to do
with people not going to Las Vegas because they're worried
about the economy. But people are feeling overwhelmed by tipping,
and so they're not tipping as much because every time
we turn around, somebody's asking for a tip. Every time
we turn around, the NFL is asking for more money. Well,
you gotta watch it on Peacock. Well, you gotta watch
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it on Paramount. Ay, you gotta watch it on Amazon Prime. Now,
you gotta watch it. Now, you gotta have the standalone
ESPN app. All this other nonsense, it's starting to get
It's at some point we're gonna go can't can't do it,
can't do it.
Speaker 12 (06:54):
Plants aren't just about cost, though, Some media watchdogs say
the NFL's ownership stake and opens up the door to
dangerous conflicts of interest. Could the network still investigate concussions,
labor disputes, or scandals if it's partially owned by the league,
it covers.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
No, nothing like that. Whatever. Oh yeah.
Speaker 12 (07:15):
The NFL says the deal won't compromise ESPN's journalistic standards.
Speaker 14 (07:20):
Sure, well, absolutely not. They'll have complete journalistic integrity. They
will program all these assets like they do today with
their content that'll be under their discretion. And they are
singularly in control of that.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Put it in writing, put that in writing.
Speaker 12 (07:37):
But sports analyst Eric Mitchell says he's already seen a
shift with more entertainment showmanship of the NFL over the
past few years.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
All right, He's just and then they go on to
talk about marketing. Basically, that's there. It's all about the
sizzle and not the stake so much and out thirty
bucks for a standalone app. I hope I don't have
to get that on top of anything else, do I.
I already have Disney Plus and Hulu in ESPN and
I have UH and I got the Hulu package so
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I can watch my local channel so I can see
the local games. And I got the I've got Prime
and I've got Peacock. I don't have Paramount. So you
know I'm gonna miss those games. Oh I just can't, man,
I can't.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
Joining us now is for from NewsNation.
Speaker 15 (08:20):
Former NFL QB and sports analyst Lester Ricard Junior roll.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
I'll give you ten dollars if you can tell me
where Lester Ricard Junior played football Michigan. I have no idea.
They're like, oh, former QB, I have no idea. Uh.
He was signed by the Jags as an undrafted free
agent in seven. He was also a member of the
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Panthers and then he played for the Edmonton Eskimos Okay.
Speaker 15 (08:50):
Lester, great to see you. So, first off, NFL owners
still need to sign off on this. If the deal
goes through, what will all of this mean for consumers?
What's your read?
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Yeah, if the deal goes through, what do you think
the owners are gonna say? No, we don't want the money.
Speaker 7 (09:06):
So if you're the owners, you're looking at big business.
Speaker 16 (09:09):
ESPN obviously is coming in and they've bought everything from
WWE to college football from the SEC on Saturday nights
now ESPN obviously if Disney has a lot of money
that they're putting towards they're broadcasting. What this means is
now that these salary caps will be going on. So
when the Collective Bargain Agreement expires with the current deal
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with the National Football League, now owners will have more.
Speaker 7 (09:34):
Stake and that they will make more money.
Speaker 16 (09:36):
That organizations and teams will make more money, which means
that players will make more money. So because Roger Gondale
can get on TV and talk all league wants that
the Red Zone channel will look no different than what
it did on the NFL network. It's going to change
why because ESPN is going to be selling ads, They're
going to be selling commercials, and they know we are
always climbing for more and more football, so they're going
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to capitalize.
Speaker 7 (09:59):
On it and make this about money.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
For those of you unfamiliar, the red zone just pops
around from game to game, whichever games are on, they
just keep popping around and they never play commercials. If
the game goes to a commercial break, they come back
and then they go to a different game. It's fantastic.
It's the best way to watch football. I love it.
But Ricardo here says, oh no, uh, they're gonna start
(10:23):
selling ads, dad gum it, and it's all gonna get
more expensive. Whether you watch the NFL or any other
sports for that matter, it doesn't matter because they have
to pay for the massive contracts, and they can do
that by digging everybody and then claiming, yeah, but we're
providing so so much more. That is exactly what the
old model was for cable TV. It's a lot like insurance.
(10:46):
My house didn't burn down, Why are my rates going
up because we have to pay for the other ones?
Speaker 9 (10:49):
That do.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
I don't watch NFL. Why is my cost of cable
going up or my cost of ESPN going up or
Disney Plus or whatever. Well, because we've got this massive
contract that we have to pay for to make sure
that the owners stay happy, it's all going up. We
just can't have nice things. We'll continue in a moment.
There's no business like tell business. Including one actor who
(11:12):
seems to have a new gig next, Chris Merril k
I AM six forty. We live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Kyo Chris Merril kf I AM six forty. More stimulating
talk ah politics meets Hollywood Now. Normally when you say that,
people go, oh, what are the Hollywood liberals up to?
Speaker 9 (11:37):
Now?
Speaker 2 (11:37):
Not this time, Nope. Now it's Dean kin.
Speaker 17 (11:41):
Former Superman actor Dean Kaine is confirmed he's joining Ice.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
What.
Speaker 17 (11:47):
Former Superman actor Dean Kaine is confirmed he's joining Ice.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
Wow? I mean, I knew that their recruiting incentives were good,
but he.
Speaker 18 (11:57):
Told Fox News yesterday that he'll be sworn in as
an agent asap.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
It came just.
Speaker 18 (12:02):
Hours after Kane posted an informal recruiting video on Instagram
asking people to sign up to work for ICE. He
said after that he spoke with officials at Eisen decided
he wanted to join as well.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Yeah, they're doing like a fifty thousand dollars sign on bonus,
aren't the thing?
Speaker 6 (12:19):
Yeah, there is a price if you sign up.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
Yeah, it's like fifty thousand dollars sign on bonus and
then they're paying. What it was like, it was a
lot of money. Wasn't it like one hundred fifty grand
a year or something?
Speaker 6 (12:28):
Definitely? Uh, six figures.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
I six figures, And I thought I could be racist
for six hours a day, eight hours a.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
Day, Chris, that's a lot of money.
Speaker 7 (12:39):
Jesus.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
Look, if we're just if we're weighing things, I mean,
sixteen hours a day, I'm not, and then eight hours
a day I am. And I make a lot of
money for the other sixteen hours. Just throwing it out.
Speaker 17 (12:52):
Ballance Online Security Secretary Christy Nomes says she's received eighty
thousand applications for new agents.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
Who's gonna pay all that? Oh, that's right, it we are.
Speaker 17 (13:01):
That's many more than the ten thousand the agency plans
to hire nome. Also, the agent says the agency is
removing the age gap age cap, I should say, for agents,
which typically maxed out at thirty seven.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
Oh so did you see that the the arrests are
way down to now some of us because people are
self deporting, and some of that's because people have gone
into hiding, and some of that's because the crossings at
the border are down. And so is it possible that
we're actually hiring more agents than we're deporting people? Meanwhile,
(13:39):
John Leguizamo had some not very nice things to say
about Dean Kin, former actor who played Superman.
Speaker 9 (13:46):
What kind of.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
Loser volunteers to be an ICE officer?
Speaker 7 (13:51):
What a moron?
Speaker 9 (13:52):
Dan k?
Speaker 2 (13:53):
Your pronouns are has been, Your pronouns are has been,
Your pronouns are has been? Oh yeah, say it a
few more times. H all right, Although you gotta admit,
if ICE is coming after you and all of a
(14:14):
sudden Superman gets out, that would be pretty cool, wuldn't it. Well, Honestly,
if you've got to be arrested, you might as well
be arrested by you know, pseudo celebrity. I got a rumba. No, right,
(14:36):
it's not cool Merril and I think that was very funny.
Speaker 4 (14:40):
The Superman's an alien, so it makes sense.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Uh, isn't that? Wasn't that the big argument in the
last the last movie or yeah, when the movie came
out they made it a point about him being an
alien or something.
Speaker 4 (14:56):
I don't watch Superman's stuff. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
Nikki. Will you do me a favor?
Speaker 4 (15:03):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (15:04):
Will you just say? Nothing beats a jet too holiday.
Speaker 4 (15:08):
Nothing beats a jet to holiday.
Speaker 6 (15:10):
All right, nothing beats it jet to you holiday.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
Nothing beats the jet to holiday.
Speaker 6 (15:18):
That's very good, Nikki.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
That's you, isn't it.
Speaker 4 (15:22):
Nothing beats it jet to you holiday? And right now
you can say fifty pounds per person?
Speaker 2 (15:29):
How much is that?
Speaker 12 (15:29):
If there's four of us, that's two hundred pounds off
for a family of four.
Speaker 4 (15:37):
Family.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
Why do I feel like there's a bit laying here
for us to do? Kayla? I want you to write
up a good bit. I'm out next week. I want
you to write up a good bit. Have it ready
for me when I get back. I want the new
jet to holiday. Nothing bezza jet to holiday. And right now,
a family of three can travel for one hundred and
fifty pounds take Marril with you, it'd be two hundred right.
Speaker 6 (15:56):
Something bid okam one at maryl right.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
Kind of like where that's going. I feel like doing
a little more show biz, So let's do that, including
including a little radio showbiz. That's got well, it's politics
and showbiz again. You know how that goes. That's next.
Chris Merril KFI AM six forty were live everywhere on
the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
Huh, I'm Chris Merril. This is KFI AM six forty
more stimulating talk. Sydney Sweeney is getting all kinds of
attention because why do we know why she's actually getting attention?
Oh because she didn't add and then the internet lost
(16:44):
its mind. So there was there was a study that
was done about who was actually saying that Sidney Sweeney's
American hold on. What was the company?
Speaker 6 (16:56):
American Eagle?
Speaker 2 (16:57):
It was American Eagle. So Sidney Sweeney does this ad
for American Eagle and it's like, how'd the guy sound?
Do you remember? It was really bad? Sidney Sweeney has
great gens. It was so horrible. It just it sounded
like me trying to do a voiceovers, Sydney Sweeney has
great genes, and then and they were like, oh, they're saying,
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because Sidney Sweeney is white and blond and blue eyes,
it's a Nazi propaganda. But no, like, nobody, nobody of
note actually said that. Criticism of this from the New
York Times, of course it is offering cover. Criticism of
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the ad campaign had come almost entirely from a smattering
of accounts with relatively few followers. Conversation about the ad
did not escalate online or in traditional media until days later,
after right leaning influencers and flowen size broadcasters and politicians
began criticizing what they described as a wave of progressive outrage.
What no, you're kidding, that's crazy. In fact, by the
(18:06):
time right wing users were in an uproar, only a
few thousand posts and x actually mentioned miss Sweeney. According
to data by Tweetbinder, a fewer than ten percent of
those expressing clear criticism of the actress or ad and
the Times, which used artificial intelligence to help flag posts
for review. Overall, there were three times as many posts
supportive of the campaign and Miss Sweeney on X as
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there were posts critical of them. In the days after
the ad campaign began and the people that were critical
had like ten followers each. But then the right reacts, right,
so the right finds some extreme they find like a
few nutters, and then they're like, ah, look what all
(18:50):
the left is doing, and this is what we do
in politics today. We just we just if you're in
that group, then the whole group it's all group think.
And they counter that with their own group think. And
we've seen this before too, War on Christmas, and the
left as this, they're like, oh, they're the right way,
Oh fascis right all. So now now that you've got
Fox News responding, then all of a sudden you have
(19:12):
those who are group think on the left that are like, yeah,
Fox Fox is missing and it is Nazis. Stop stop
taking the rage bait. In fact, if you were in Corona,
maybe you saw the billboard that somebody vandalized. What I
joke that one robbers on.
Speaker 11 (19:28):
The ninety one freeway in Corona heading toward Orange County
this morning, no doubt taking note of this billboard, or
rather the banner placed over top of it, referencing a
recent American Eagle advertisement with the words quote proud Boys
Love Sydney Sweeney, she has the best blue jeans. Brandy
from Corona sent us, okay, this picture on her way
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to work this morning.
Speaker 4 (19:52):
I was pretty shocked to read that.
Speaker 6 (19:54):
Angry, scared, disappointed. I guess a mix of a feelings.
Speaker 11 (19:59):
The banner is referencing this ad from American Eagle Sidney Sweeney,
the person in the.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Video Janser Pastaan from parents to Offspring. It's so bad,
like if there's any reason to criticize, it's just the
way the whole ad is done. James A Pasta from Uh,
she's not that bad an actress. Don't make her do
dumb things. Jans A Pasta from parents to osparing, often
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determining traits like her color, personality.
Speaker 6 (20:28):
Yeah, have an eye color.
Speaker 8 (20:30):
Yeah, it's almost from most like, okay, so everyone should
look like this, should have blond.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
Hair, blue eyes, because that's the grape.
Speaker 6 (20:38):
Gen, you know what I mean.
Speaker 11 (20:39):
President Donald Trump weighing in on a social earlier this week,
saying that quote, Sidney Sweeney, a registered Republican, has the
hottest ad out there.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
I'm actually gonna get blacklisted. That's it, all right, Sidney Sweeney,
you might as well just join Dean Kane. Yep. You
got no future in Hollywood now, just if you go
put on your Ice uniform, you and Dean King and
start becoming immigration officers.
Speaker 11 (21:06):
American Eagle responding by posting this statement on social media
earlier this week, saying, quote, Sidney Sweeney has great gens
is and always was about the genes, her jeans, her story.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
How much does American Eagle love this? Oh? They love
this so much because now you're gonna get Bycotts. I
see that's the opposite of Boycott's You're gonna we have
to buy it to support American Eagle. They believe in
our cause. What all of a sudden, American Eagle has
become a conservative company. No, the ad was always about
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the genes. They literally put out a statement saying it's
about the jens. She's wearing denim. Nope. Now they are
a symbol of American conservatism.
Speaker 11 (21:53):
Will continue to celebrate how everyone wears their AE jeens
with confidence, their way. Great jeens look good on everyone.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
As for whose.
Speaker 11 (22:01):
Restriding the past, it's unclear whether anyone from the Proud
Boys had anything to do with it, or whether it
was someone just trying to stir division.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
Yeah, I'm pretty sure the Proud Boys did not, but yeah, whatever,
I guess you couldn't verify that they didn't. So there
that's what we have now. And then in politics, and
this trips me out too, because did you see that
there's all these stories about Howard Stern, who for the
longest time but the man shaped radio, right, the man
shaped the entire industry. And he's seventy one years old.
(22:33):
His latest contract which is reported at five hundred million dollars. Now,
he's always said that all these reports are fogus. I
don't know if they are not, but I do know
that he was lured away from terrestrial radio to go
to satellite for it was a lot of money. He's
been doing it for twenty years in satellite. So he
goes to satellite, helps grow satellite radio, which was was
(22:54):
a fledgling company at the time. There were two of them.
You had XMN Serious at the time, and he goes
to Serious, which was the underdog. XM was by far
the big one, and it was a big boon. All
of a sudden, Serious started exploding. People followed him, they
paid their subscription fees, all this kind of stuff. So,
I mean, he helped, not only did he change terrestrial radio,
and we stopped being announcers and we started being people.
(23:17):
But then he goes to satellite radio and actually kind
of builds up an entire genre, which is now, you know,
competing with other audio sources. So he said the end
of this contract. He signed the last contract five years ago,
and he said, this is it. This is my last contract.
I'm not signing out again. He said that five years ago,
and for the last five years he's been saying things like,
(23:39):
I've only got X amount of time left, I'm only
gonna be here for another year, blah blah blah blah blah.
I gotta get through all my great bits. I've got
so many things I have to get through because there's
only so much time. And then I'm retiring. I'm retiring.
I'm retiring. I'm retiring. He's seventy one, he'll turn seventy
two in January's contract's up the end of this year,
and reports are coming out from quote unquote insiders that
say Serious is not gonna offer him as much money. Well, no,
(24:01):
they're not. They're not gonna offer him this much money. Nay,
it works three days a week and he has anything
three or four months of vacation. It's a sweet deal.
But they wanted his brand, they wanted his name. So
now the guy's looking at retiring and is his turn political?
Go woke, go broke. Oh good lord. He did an
interview with Kamala Harris and he has disavowed his friendship
(24:26):
with President Trump. Go woke, go broke. Stern fired. I
gotta tell you this. First of all, if serious is
offering him any contract, that's not being fired. Second, he
has said for years he's not signing another contract. And
third there's a lot of like where could he land.
(24:46):
I'm telling you I could be way off on this.
I don't think we hear much about him again. I
maybe he does some some other projects where he's like
an executive producer of something. But I think he would
wants to enjoy his retirement. He's got a wife that's
twenty years younger than him. He's got a house in
the Hampton, he's got him one in Florida. I don't
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think he's I don't I don't think he's going, Oh man,
I really got to end up somewhere. Maybe iHeart will
hire me. I don't think so. I mean, we'd love
to have him, but I don't think he cares go
WHOA go broke at some point this whole my politics
are better than your politics, and my company survives because
(25:29):
of my politics and yours fails because of your politics.
That stuff's gotta stop. It's just the dumbest thing, but
we all take the bait. The great Doctor Wendy Walsh.
Doctor Wendy after Dark starts at seven o'clock. We'll talk
with Doctor Wendy about something she said this week that
I thought really showed which gender is superior. That is next,
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Chris Merrill, I am six forty. We live everywhere on
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Speaker 1 (25:55):
You're listening to KFI AM sixty on demand.
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Chris Merril k IF I AM six forty, more stimulating talk.
An hour ago, we were telling you about our colleague
Foushe the Fush is one of the tech directors here.
You heard him on this show a couple of weeks ago.
He is one of the good people in our industry.
He's the kind of guy that shows up for work
and doesn't look for another job and then leave us
high and dry like somebody else did. He already leave
(26:25):
the building? Kayla, is Raoul gone? Already. He just bail
on us.
Speaker 6 (26:33):
Oh I was talking to her.
Speaker 3 (26:34):
Oh okay, we're doing technical stuff.
Speaker 6 (26:37):
Yeah, trying to get Wendy set sabotaging things.
Speaker 9 (26:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
So anyway, Fush is uh. Fush is in the hospital
because he was in a bad car accident this week
on his way to work and then he didn't show
up for work. So we we've docked his pay, which
is good, and we've penalized him and knocked him down
to so he loosened to some of his seniority. Uh.
But he was in ICU, he was intubated, his idea
burned up in the car accident. Fortunately, some good Samaritans
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pulled him out, administered first aid on the scene until
the ambulance got there, and then they took him to
the took him to the hospital.
Speaker 8 (27:14):
Also, Chris, although your text message to Foosh did suck,
that's undeniable.
Speaker 6 (27:19):
This phone actually burned up as well. So that's why
he you not because.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
It's all good. He doesn't have to get it.
Speaker 6 (27:24):
He doesn't have to get it exactly.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
It was, yeah, because my text message was like, hey,
I just heard OMG thinking about your bud. Okay, yeah,
it's cringe, but what do you say? What did you say?
Did you even send him one?
Speaker 6 (27:38):
Of course, I said, I mean, let me open it up,
because I am one prayer.
Speaker 5 (27:42):
No, of course mine is almost verbatim. Yours is that, bruise.
Speaker 8 (27:49):
I said, I love you, foosh. You won't believe all
the support and love you're getting. Your deeply cherished and
valued were praying for you through this hear heartheart.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
Well that's the kind of thing a chick would send. Yeah, okay,
all right, I think we know why. All right. So anyway,
Tiffany Hobbes visited him in the hospital. God bless her
for doing that, because I hate seeing people in the hospital.
Hate that. So Tiffany, thanks for taking one for the team.
And she recorded a message and she posted it on
her Instagram and I am going to steal that without
her permission right now. So this is a foosh. He's
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not on a breathing tube any longer.
Speaker 19 (28:25):
Hey, guys, is Stephan the foosh.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
I'm doing a lot better.
Speaker 19 (28:30):
It's been a rough couple of days and there's gonna
be a rough couple more days ahead of me. But
I'm healing really well and they're taking really good care
of me. I miss you all, and I can't begin
to thank you enough for all the donations, all the love,
all the prayers. It's been just unbelievably humbling. And I
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can't wait to get back in the studio and start,
you know, partying with you all again.
Speaker 11 (28:56):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
I love you guys, love you, Buddy, love you, Foosh,
love you, thank you, thank you. Speaking of love, Doctor
Wendy Walsh is joining the program. She has a Doctor
Wendy after Dark starting at seven. She is not joining
the program. Doctor Wendy will be doing her own program
because technical disc issues. I happen to see an Instagram
(29:19):
post to hers this week, and I'm really curious about it.
Says that women fall in I thought about this and
I thought, oh, that makes sense. Women fall in love
through They fall in love through sex. Men fall in
love through trust. And I'm paraphrasing right now. And so women,
if they have sex, they will fall in love with
their mate, whereas men to fall in love they have
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to trust their their partner. Sex is not something that says, oh,
now we're bonded for dudes. I thought it was really
interesting and she said that, you know, guys could fall
in love and you have sex with them, and you
you know, guys can fall in love, but often times
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a guy will look at a girl who who I
don't know. How do you say? This is quick in
the sack, quick to get to the sack. Friendly and yep,
friendly very good. Yeah, and uh and they don't trust
them because of that. I thought that was really interesting
as a guy.
Speaker 6 (30:17):
Is that true? I think you can speak to that.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
Yeah, it is, yes, Okay, I have bonded though, like
if it's been a long time, been one person for
a very long time. But if I think back to
those days, and by those days, I mean back when
I used to have sex because I've been married twenty
one years now. I do bond through through intimacy, but
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trust is key, and it was always had to get
to know somebody first before I like I was the
one holding back. Yep, I play hard to get. But
also if you want him to love you, play hard
to get. It is basically what I heard. Anyway, I'm
curious if she expands on that tonight because I thought
it was a really interesting post that I saw of hers.
Thanks for hanging out. I'm going to go to Vegas
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next weekend, so I will see you in a couple
of weeks. Raul, love you man. I hope you get
fired and have to come back here on your knees
begging for your job back. I'm doing everything I can
to make that happen so that that we have more
of you.
Speaker 3 (31:19):
And lay off Mahomes man. Give him a break please.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
Oh yeah? Oh? Your last words are you're gonna fight
for Patrick Mahomes. Huh.
Speaker 3 (31:26):
I don't want to see I don't want to see
him kissing people.
Speaker 9 (31:29):
Please?
Speaker 2 (31:31):
Oh yeah, I send him memes with Patrick Mahomes kissing people.
Speaker 11 (31:36):
All right.
Speaker 2 (31:36):
I love you pal, Kayla. Nice job tonight. You really
help me keep the energy up. And Nicky, nothing beats
a jet to holiday as talk to you a couple
of weeks. Chris MERRILM six forty. We live everywhere in
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Hi Chris Merril, KFI AM sixty more stimulating talk Bridge
the Dagga Steno.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
In the house.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Hey, happy Sunday, Uh, Happy Sunday to you Tomorrow someone
will wish you a.
Speaker 4 (00:21):
Happy Monday and so forth and so on.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
And when they do, I want you to punch them. Okay,
all right, that's all I want. There's no such thing
happy Monday. No, no such thing, just a bunch of nonsense.
And also do we not every day is uh is
a holiday? Right? So why do we stay? When did
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this whole happy whatever the day is.
Speaker 5 (00:46):
We gotta give ourselves a little joy before we sit
down to work.
Speaker 6 (00:49):
Okay, tell these lies.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Happy Tuesday, Happy Wednesday. Stop with that. I don't understand it.
When did this start?
Speaker 6 (01:02):
I think Brigida's onto something? Yeah, how would you like
me to agree? He's such a mudgeon, Brigitta, what's up?
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Or at least at least step it up a little bit,
be like.
Speaker 6 (01:16):
Grand Rising on this on this Sunday. Grand Rising, you
would hate us even more. Literally, you would let me.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Just uh.
Speaker 7 (01:29):
Happened happen?
Speaker 2 (01:43):
That's what Next time somebody wishes me a happy whatever
the day is, I'm just gonna go, oh happy.
Speaker 6 (01:49):
I like that. I think we should make that a trend.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
And then punch him.
Speaker 6 (01:52):
Oh wow, okay, well you almost had me.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Alright. Question on the talk back, what is the craze
you never you never understood, or what is the crazy
you wish would come back? Somebody stole seven thousand dollars
worth of La Boo boos, which are weird little decorative toys.
I'm guessing Brigitta's got a couple of these. Heck no, no, okay,
they are really creepy.
Speaker 6 (02:17):
I don't get it. I would never spend money on them.
Speaker 8 (02:19):
So who is supporting this trend? I don't know anybody
that hasn't personally, and I see them everywhere.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
I well, I see people with them and they put
them on expensive purses.
Speaker 6 (02:27):
So weird.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
It is weird.
Speaker 5 (02:30):
So and my sister are both these people, and they're
also Disney adults, so discussed.
Speaker 6 (02:35):
Yeah, okay, Disney and bos.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Wow, okay, yeah, but Disney adults. No, that's got to stop.
It's one thing if you like, oh I like the cartoons,
but when your whole identity is Disney characters, no, that's
too much. Yeah, all right, so that's our talk about
question today. And what was the one that you you
didn't understand?
Speaker 9 (02:56):
Hi, Chris, Hey, the craze that never made sense to
me is NFTs. I assume it was the crypto connection.
But it's not cryptocurrency. It's just a digital image that
you own. But also anyone can saved JPEG copy of it. Yes,
I mean, it's no wonder why that market just crashed.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Yeah, I wholeheartedly agree with you. I never understood the NFTs. Yeah,
but you own the image. Yeah, but I somebody else
could just snag the image. Yeah, but then you could
sue them. Okay, all right, so you own the image
and you're gonna spend all your time suing people on
the internet who copied and pasted your image. That seems
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like a great way to not have any money in
the end. But they were paying outrageous prices for him too.
So yeah, no, I'm with you, great calling that one.
There is no business lie. Let's start today with oh
Disney who just sold half the crap to the NFL.
Speaker 10 (03:57):
Big story coming into us, major breaking news in the
sports and media world. It's official now ESPN is acquiring
the NFL Network and other media assets. That means the
league's Red Zone channel will join our parent company, the
Walt Disney's linear networks. ESPN Fantasy Football will also combine
with NFL Fantasy. In exchange, the NFL will get a
ten percent equity stake in ESPN.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
All right, so now the NFL is going to own
a ten percent steak in the Disney property that is ESPN.
Speaker 11 (04:27):
Cool.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
I can see that playing out really well. At no
point will there ever be any sort of conflict of
interest when the media company that is charged with reporting
on the league is owned in part by the league. Nope,
never would that be a problem.
Speaker 12 (04:49):
From News Nation, a new direct to consumer streaming service
from ESPN launches August twenty first.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Oh, we gotta buy more crap. Now we have to
have another streaming.
Speaker 12 (05:01):
The price twenty nine to ninety nine a month what
watch soccer? Or just under three hundred and sixty dollars
a year. It comes after ESPN's parent company, Disney, acquired
NFL media assets, including NFL Network and Red Zone.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Okay, I love red Zone, that's my jam.
Speaker 12 (05:19):
And as part of that deal, the NFL now owns
ten percent of ESPN. The bottom line, to watch every game,
viewers may have to stack multiple services and that adds
up fast.
Speaker 13 (05:31):
It's actually nine hundred and forty for the year if
you include all the ways we have to watch football. No, no, no, no,
all the other networks besides this, what the NFL has.
We have Peacock which has their games. We have Paramount
which has its games. Oh, you also have you know
everyone else who's involved. And NFL Sunday Ticket still has
a contract till twenty thirty, so you have all those games. Oh,
(05:53):
you have the NFL games. Oh and Amazon Prime. I
think the NFL fans are actually getting delraw ticket the complex.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
You think this could end up killing the league. Really,
they may be a victim of their own success in
this case where all of a sudden they want to
start doing a money grab on everything they possibly can.
But at some point, when it's so fractured and it's
so hard to watch, it's gonna start feeling like we're
being punished. It's sort of like tipping culture. You just
(06:19):
said that tipping is down in Las Vegas by fifty
percent right now. A lot of that has to do
with people not going to Las Vegas because they're worried
about the economy. But people are feeling overwhelmed by tipping,
and so they're not tipping as much because every time
we turn around, somebody's asking for a tip. Every time
we turn around, the NFL is asking for more money. Well,
you gotta watch it on Peacock. Well, you gotta watch
(06:40):
it on Paramount. Ay, you gotta watch it on Amazon Prime. Now,
you gotta watch it. Now, you gotta have the standalone
ESPN app. All this other nonsense, it's starting to get
It's at some point we're gonna go can't can't do it,
can't do it.
Speaker 12 (06:54):
Plants aren't just about cost, though, Some media watchdogs say
the NFL's ownership stake and opens up the door to
dangerous conflicts of interest. Could the network still investigate concussions,
labor disputes, or scandals if it's partially owned by the league,
it covers.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
No, nothing like that. Whatever. Oh yeah.
Speaker 12 (07:15):
The NFL says the deal won't compromise ESPN's journalistic standards.
Speaker 14 (07:20):
Sure, well, absolutely not. They'll have complete journalistic integrity. They
will program all these assets like they do today with
their content that'll be under their discretion. And they are
singularly in control of that.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Put it in writing, put that in writing.
Speaker 12 (07:37):
But sports analyst Eric Mitchell says he's already seen a
shift with more entertainment showmanship of the NFL over the
past few years.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
All right, He's just and then they go on to
talk about marketing. Basically, that's there. It's all about the
sizzle and not the stake so much and out thirty
bucks for a standalone app. I hope I don't have
to get that on top of anything else, do I.
I already have Disney Plus and Hulu in ESPN and
I have UH and I got the Hulu package so
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I can watch my local channel so I can see
the local games. And I got the I've got Prime
and I've got Peacock. I don't have Paramount. So you
know I'm gonna miss those games. Oh I just can't, man,
I can't.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
Joining us now is for from NewsNation.
Speaker 15 (08:20):
Former NFL QB and sports analyst Lester Ricard Junior roll.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
I'll give you ten dollars if you can tell me
where Lester Ricard Junior played football Michigan. I have no idea.
They're like, oh, former QB, I have no idea. Uh.
He was signed by the Jags as an undrafted free
agent in seven. He was also a member of the
(08:46):
Panthers and then he played for the Edmonton Eskimos Okay.
Speaker 15 (08:50):
Lester, great to see you. So, first off, NFL owners
still need to sign off on this. If the deal
goes through, what will all of this mean for consumers?
What's your read?
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Yeah, if the deal goes through, what do you think
the owners are gonna say? No, we don't want the money.
Speaker 7 (09:06):
So if you're the owners, you're looking at big business.
Speaker 16 (09:09):
ESPN obviously is coming in and they've bought everything from
WWE to college football from the SEC on Saturday nights
now ESPN obviously if Disney has a lot of money
that they're putting towards they're broadcasting. What this means is
now that these salary caps will be going on. So
when the Collective Bargain Agreement expires with the current deal
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with the National Football League, now owners will have more.
Speaker 7 (09:34):
Stake and that they will make more money.
Speaker 16 (09:36):
That organizations and teams will make more money, which means
that players will make more money. So because Roger Gondale
can get on TV and talk all league wants that
the Red Zone channel will look no different than what
it did on the NFL network. It's going to change
why because ESPN is going to be selling ads, They're
going to be selling commercials, and they know we are
always climbing for more and more football, so they're going
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to capitalize.
Speaker 7 (09:59):
On it and make this about money.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
For those of you unfamiliar, the red zone just pops
around from game to game, whichever games are on, they
just keep popping around and they never play commercials. If
the game goes to a commercial break, they come back
and then they go to a different game. It's fantastic.
It's the best way to watch football. I love it.
But Ricardo here says, oh no, uh, they're gonna start
(10:23):
selling ads, dad gum it, and it's all gonna get
more expensive. Whether you watch the NFL or any other
sports for that matter, it doesn't matter because they have
to pay for the massive contracts, and they can do
that by digging everybody and then claiming, yeah, but we're
providing so so much more. That is exactly what the
old model was for cable TV. It's a lot like insurance.
(10:46):
My house didn't burn down, Why are my rates going
up because we have to pay for the other ones?
Speaker 9 (10:49):
That do.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
I don't watch NFL. Why is my cost of cable
going up or my cost of ESPN going up or
Disney Plus or whatever. Well, because we've got this massive
contract that we have to pay for to make sure
that the owners stay happy, it's all going up. We
just can't have nice things. We'll continue in a moment.
There's no business like tell business. Including one actor who
(11:12):
seems to have a new gig next, Chris Merril k
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You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Kyo Chris Merril kf I AM six forty. More stimulating
talk ah politics meets Hollywood Now. Normally when you say that,
people go, oh, what are the Hollywood liberals up to?
Speaker 9 (11:37):
Now?
Speaker 2 (11:37):
Not this time, Nope. Now it's Dean kin.
Speaker 17 (11:41):
Former Superman actor Dean Kaine is confirmed he's joining Ice.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
What.
Speaker 17 (11:47):
Former Superman actor Dean Kaine is confirmed he's joining Ice.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
Wow? I mean, I knew that their recruiting incentives were good,
but he.
Speaker 18 (11:57):
Told Fox News yesterday that he'll be sworn in as
an agent asap.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
It came just.
Speaker 18 (12:02):
Hours after Kane posted an informal recruiting video on Instagram
asking people to sign up to work for ICE. He
said after that he spoke with officials at Eisen decided
he wanted to join as well.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Yeah, they're doing like a fifty thousand dollars sign on bonus,
aren't the thing?
Speaker 6 (12:19):
Yeah, there is a price if you sign up.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
Yeah, it's like fifty thousand dollars sign on bonus and
then they're paying. What it was like, it was a
lot of money. Wasn't it like one hundred fifty grand
a year or something?
Speaker 6 (12:28):
Definitely? Uh, six figures.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
I six figures, And I thought I could be racist
for six hours a day, eight hours a.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
Day, Chris, that's a lot of money.
Speaker 7 (12:39):
Jesus.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
Look, if we're just if we're weighing things, I mean,
sixteen hours a day, I'm not, and then eight hours
a day I am. And I make a lot of
money for the other sixteen hours. Just throwing it out.
Speaker 17 (12:52):
Ballance Online Security Secretary Christy Nomes says she's received eighty
thousand applications for new agents.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
Who's gonna pay all that? Oh, that's right, it we are.
Speaker 17 (13:01):
That's many more than the ten thousand the agency plans
to hire nome. Also, the agent says the agency is
removing the age gap age cap, I should say, for agents,
which typically maxed out at thirty seven.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
Oh so did you see that the the arrests are
way down to now some of us because people are
self deporting, and some of that's because people have gone
into hiding, and some of that's because the crossings at
the border are down. And so is it possible that
we're actually hiring more agents than we're deporting people? Meanwhile,
(13:39):
John Leguizamo had some not very nice things to say
about Dean Kin, former actor who played Superman.
Speaker 9 (13:46):
What kind of.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
Loser volunteers to be an ICE officer?
Speaker 7 (13:51):
What a moron?
Speaker 9 (13:52):
Dan k?
Speaker 2 (13:53):
Your pronouns are has been, Your pronouns are has been,
Your pronouns are has been? Oh yeah, say it a
few more times. H all right, Although you gotta admit,
if ICE is coming after you and all of a
(14:14):
sudden Superman gets out, that would be pretty cool, wuldn't it. Well, Honestly,
if you've got to be arrested, you might as well
be arrested by you know, pseudo celebrity. I got a rumba. No, right,
(14:36):
it's not cool Merril and I think that was very funny.
Speaker 4 (14:40):
The Superman's an alien, so it makes sense.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Uh, isn't that? Wasn't that the big argument in the
last the last movie or yeah, when the movie came
out they made it a point about him being an
alien or something.
Speaker 4 (14:56):
I don't watch Superman's stuff. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
Nikki. Will you do me a favor?
Speaker 4 (15:03):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (15:04):
Will you just say? Nothing beats a jet too holiday.
Speaker 4 (15:08):
Nothing beats a jet to holiday.
Speaker 6 (15:10):
All right, nothing beats it jet to you holiday.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
Nothing beats the jet to holiday.
Speaker 6 (15:18):
That's very good, Nikki.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
That's you, isn't it.
Speaker 4 (15:22):
Nothing beats it jet to you holiday? And right now
you can say fifty pounds per person?
Speaker 2 (15:29):
How much is that?
Speaker 12 (15:29):
If there's four of us, that's two hundred pounds off
for a family of four.
Speaker 4 (15:37):
Family.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
Why do I feel like there's a bit laying here
for us to do? Kayla? I want you to write
up a good bit. I'm out next week. I want
you to write up a good bit. Have it ready
for me when I get back. I want the new
jet to holiday. Nothing bezza jet to holiday. And right now,
a family of three can travel for one hundred and
fifty pounds take Marril with you, it'd be two hundred right.
Speaker 6 (15:56):
Something bid okam one at maryl right.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
Kind of like where that's going. I feel like doing
a little more show biz, So let's do that, including
including a little radio showbiz. That's got well, it's politics
and showbiz again. You know how that goes. That's next.
Chris Merril KFI AM six forty were live everywhere on
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Speaker 2 (16:23):
Huh, I'm Chris Merril. This is KFI AM six forty
more stimulating talk. Sydney Sweeney is getting all kinds of
attention because why do we know why she's actually getting attention?
Oh because she didn't add and then the internet lost
(16:44):
its mind. So there was there was a study that
was done about who was actually saying that Sidney Sweeney's
American hold on. What was the company?
Speaker 6 (16:56):
American Eagle?
Speaker 2 (16:57):
It was American Eagle. So Sidney Sweeney does this ad
for American Eagle and it's like, how'd the guy sound?
Do you remember? It was really bad? Sidney Sweeney has
great gens. It was so horrible. It just it sounded
like me trying to do a voiceovers, Sydney Sweeney has
great genes, and then and they were like, oh, they're saying,
(17:22):
because Sidney Sweeney is white and blond and blue eyes,
it's a Nazi propaganda. But no, like, nobody, nobody of
note actually said that. Criticism of this from the New
York Times, of course it is offering cover. Criticism of
(17:45):
the ad campaign had come almost entirely from a smattering
of accounts with relatively few followers. Conversation about the ad
did not escalate online or in traditional media until days later,
after right leaning influencers and flowen size broadcasters and politicians
began criticizing what they described as a wave of progressive outrage.
What no, you're kidding, that's crazy. In fact, by the
(18:06):
time right wing users were in an uproar, only a
few thousand posts and x actually mentioned miss Sweeney. According
to data by Tweetbinder, a fewer than ten percent of
those expressing clear criticism of the actress or ad and
the Times, which used artificial intelligence to help flag posts
for review. Overall, there were three times as many posts
supportive of the campaign and Miss Sweeney on X as
(18:29):
there were posts critical of them. In the days after
the ad campaign began and the people that were critical
had like ten followers each. But then the right reacts, right,
so the right finds some extreme they find like a
few nutters, and then they're like, ah, look what all
(18:50):
the left is doing, and this is what we do
in politics today. We just we just if you're in
that group, then the whole group it's all group think.
And they counter that with their own group think. And
we've seen this before too, War on Christmas, and the
left as this, they're like, oh, they're the right way,
Oh fascis right all. So now now that you've got
Fox News responding, then all of a sudden you have
(19:12):
those who are group think on the left that are like, yeah,
Fox Fox is missing and it is Nazis. Stop stop
taking the rage bait. In fact, if you were in Corona,
maybe you saw the billboard that somebody vandalized. What I
joke that one robbers on.
Speaker 11 (19:28):
The ninety one freeway in Corona heading toward Orange County
this morning, no doubt taking note of this billboard, or
rather the banner placed over top of it, referencing a
recent American Eagle advertisement with the words quote proud Boys
Love Sydney Sweeney, she has the best blue jeans. Brandy
from Corona sent us, okay, this picture on her way
(19:50):
to work this morning.
Speaker 4 (19:52):
I was pretty shocked to read that.
Speaker 6 (19:54):
Angry, scared, disappointed. I guess a mix of a feelings.
Speaker 11 (19:59):
The banner is referencing this ad from American Eagle Sidney Sweeney,
the person in the.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Video Janser Pastaan from parents to Offspring. It's so bad,
like if there's any reason to criticize, it's just the
way the whole ad is done. James A Pasta from Uh,
she's not that bad an actress. Don't make her do
dumb things. Jans A Pasta from parents to osparing, often
(20:25):
determining traits like her color, personality.
Speaker 6 (20:28):
Yeah, have an eye color.
Speaker 8 (20:30):
Yeah, it's almost from most like, okay, so everyone should
look like this, should have blond.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
Hair, blue eyes, because that's the grape.
Speaker 6 (20:38):
Gen, you know what I mean.
Speaker 11 (20:39):
President Donald Trump weighing in on a social earlier this week,
saying that quote, Sidney Sweeney, a registered Republican, has the
hottest ad out there.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
I'm actually gonna get blacklisted. That's it, all right, Sidney Sweeney,
you might as well just join Dean Kane. Yep. You
got no future in Hollywood now, just if you go
put on your Ice uniform, you and Dean King and
start becoming immigration officers.
Speaker 11 (21:06):
American Eagle responding by posting this statement on social media
earlier this week, saying, quote, Sidney Sweeney has great gens
is and always was about the genes, her jeans, her story.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
How much does American Eagle love this? Oh? They love
this so much because now you're gonna get Bycotts. I
see that's the opposite of Boycott's You're gonna we have
to buy it to support American Eagle. They believe in
our cause. What all of a sudden, American Eagle has
become a conservative company. No, the ad was always about
(21:43):
the genes. They literally put out a statement saying it's
about the jens. She's wearing denim. Nope. Now they are
a symbol of American conservatism.
Speaker 11 (21:53):
Will continue to celebrate how everyone wears their AE jeens
with confidence, their way. Great jeens look good on everyone.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
As for whose.
Speaker 11 (22:01):
Restriding the past, it's unclear whether anyone from the Proud
Boys had anything to do with it, or whether it
was someone just trying to stir division.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
Yeah, I'm pretty sure the Proud Boys did not, but yeah, whatever,
I guess you couldn't verify that they didn't. So there
that's what we have now. And then in politics, and
this trips me out too, because did you see that
there's all these stories about Howard Stern, who for the
longest time but the man shaped radio, right, the man
shaped the entire industry. And he's seventy one years old.
(22:33):
His latest contract which is reported at five hundred million dollars. Now,
he's always said that all these reports are fogus. I
don't know if they are not, but I do know
that he was lured away from terrestrial radio to go
to satellite for it was a lot of money. He's
been doing it for twenty years in satellite. So he
goes to satellite, helps grow satellite radio, which was was
(22:54):
a fledgling company at the time. There were two of them.
You had XMN Serious at the time, and he goes
to Serious, which was the underdog. XM was by far
the big one, and it was a big boon. All
of a sudden, Serious started exploding. People followed him, they
paid their subscription fees, all this kind of stuff. So,
I mean, he helped, not only did he change terrestrial radio,
and we stopped being announcers and we started being people.
(23:17):
But then he goes to satellite radio and actually kind
of builds up an entire genre, which is now, you know,
competing with other audio sources. So he said the end
of this contract. He signed the last contract five years ago,
and he said, this is it. This is my last contract.
I'm not signing out again. He said that five years ago,
and for the last five years he's been saying things like,
(23:39):
I've only got X amount of time left, I'm only
gonna be here for another year, blah blah blah blah blah.
I gotta get through all my great bits. I've got
so many things I have to get through because there's
only so much time. And then I'm retiring. I'm retiring.
I'm retiring. I'm retiring. He's seventy one, he'll turn seventy
two in January's contract's up the end of this year,
and reports are coming out from quote unquote insiders that
say Serious is not gonna offer him as much money. Well, no,
(24:01):
they're not. They're not gonna offer him this much money. Nay,
it works three days a week and he has anything
three or four months of vacation. It's a sweet deal.
But they wanted his brand, they wanted his name. So
now the guy's looking at retiring and is his turn political?
Go woke, go broke. Oh good lord. He did an
interview with Kamala Harris and he has disavowed his friendship
(24:26):
with President Trump. Go woke, go broke. Stern fired. I
gotta tell you this. First of all, if serious is
offering him any contract, that's not being fired. Second, he
has said for years he's not signing another contract. And
third there's a lot of like where could he land.
(24:46):
I'm telling you I could be way off on this.
I don't think we hear much about him again. I
maybe he does some some other projects where he's like
an executive producer of something. But I think he would
wants to enjoy his retirement. He's got a wife that's
twenty years younger than him. He's got a house in
the Hampton, he's got him one in Florida. I don't
(25:07):
think he's I don't I don't think he's going, Oh man,
I really got to end up somewhere. Maybe iHeart will
hire me. I don't think so. I mean, we'd love
to have him, but I don't think he cares go
WHOA go broke at some point this whole my politics
are better than your politics, and my company survives because
(25:29):
of my politics and yours fails because of your politics.
That stuff's gotta stop. It's just the dumbest thing, but
we all take the bait. The great Doctor Wendy Walsh.
Doctor Wendy after Dark starts at seven o'clock. We'll talk
with Doctor Wendy about something she said this week that
I thought really showed which gender is superior. That is next,
(25:52):
Chris Merrill, I am six forty. We live everywhere on
the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
You're listening to KFI AM sixty on demand.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
Chris Merril k IF I AM six forty, more stimulating talk.
An hour ago, we were telling you about our colleague
Foushe the Fush is one of the tech directors here.
You heard him on this show a couple of weeks ago.
He is one of the good people in our industry.
He's the kind of guy that shows up for work
and doesn't look for another job and then leave us
high and dry like somebody else did. He already leave
(26:25):
the building? Kayla, is Raoul gone? Already. He just bail
on us.
Speaker 6 (26:33):
Oh I was talking to her.
Speaker 3 (26:34):
Oh okay, we're doing technical stuff.
Speaker 6 (26:37):
Yeah, trying to get Wendy set sabotaging things.
Speaker 9 (26:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
So anyway, Fush is uh. Fush is in the hospital
because he was in a bad car accident this week
on his way to work and then he didn't show
up for work. So we we've docked his pay, which
is good, and we've penalized him and knocked him down
to so he loosened to some of his seniority. Uh.
But he was in ICU, he was intubated, his idea
burned up in the car accident. Fortunately, some good Samaritans
(27:05):
pulled him out, administered first aid on the scene until
the ambulance got there, and then they took him to
the took him to the hospital.
Speaker 8 (27:14):
Also, Chris, although your text message to Foosh did suck,
that's undeniable.
Speaker 6 (27:19):
This phone actually burned up as well. So that's why
he you not because.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
It's all good. He doesn't have to get it.
Speaker 6 (27:24):
He doesn't have to get it exactly.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
It was, yeah, because my text message was like, hey,
I just heard OMG thinking about your bud. Okay, yeah,
it's cringe, but what do you say? What did you say?
Did you even send him one?
Speaker 6 (27:38):
Of course, I said, I mean, let me open it up,
because I am one prayer.
Speaker 5 (27:42):
No, of course mine is almost verbatim. Yours is that, bruise.
Speaker 8 (27:49):
I said, I love you, foosh. You won't believe all
the support and love you're getting. Your deeply cherished and
valued were praying for you through this hear heartheart.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
Well that's the kind of thing a chick would send. Yeah, okay,
all right, I think we know why. All right. So anyway,
Tiffany Hobbes visited him in the hospital. God bless her
for doing that, because I hate seeing people in the hospital.
Hate that. So Tiffany, thanks for taking one for the team.
And she recorded a message and she posted it on
her Instagram and I am going to steal that without
her permission right now. So this is a foosh. He's
(28:22):
not on a breathing tube any longer.
Speaker 19 (28:25):
Hey, guys, is Stephan the foosh.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
I'm doing a lot better.
Speaker 19 (28:30):
It's been a rough couple of days and there's gonna
be a rough couple more days ahead of me. But
I'm healing really well and they're taking really good care
of me. I miss you all, and I can't begin
to thank you enough for all the donations, all the love,
all the prayers. It's been just unbelievably humbling. And I
(28:52):
can't wait to get back in the studio and start,
you know, partying with you all again.
Speaker 11 (28:56):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
I love you guys, love you, Buddy, love you, Foosh,
love you, thank you, thank you. Speaking of love, Doctor
Wendy Walsh is joining the program. She has a Doctor
Wendy after Dark starting at seven. She is not joining
the program. Doctor Wendy will be doing her own program
because technical disc issues. I happen to see an Instagram
(29:19):
post to hers this week, and I'm really curious about it.
Says that women fall in I thought about this and
I thought, oh, that makes sense. Women fall in love
through They fall in love through sex. Men fall in
love through trust. And I'm paraphrasing right now. And so women,
if they have sex, they will fall in love with
their mate, whereas men to fall in love they have
(29:39):
to trust their their partner. Sex is not something that says, oh,
now we're bonded for dudes. I thought it was really
interesting and she said that, you know, guys could fall
in love and you have sex with them, and you
you know, guys can fall in love, but often times
(30:00):
a guy will look at a girl who who I
don't know. How do you say? This is quick in
the sack, quick to get to the sack. Friendly and yep,
friendly very good. Yeah, and uh and they don't trust
them because of that. I thought that was really interesting
as a guy.
Speaker 6 (30:17):
Is that true? I think you can speak to that.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
Yeah, it is, yes, Okay, I have bonded though, like
if it's been a long time, been one person for
a very long time. But if I think back to
those days, and by those days, I mean back when
I used to have sex because I've been married twenty
one years now. I do bond through through intimacy, but
(30:40):
trust is key, and it was always had to get
to know somebody first before I like I was the
one holding back. Yep, I play hard to get. But
also if you want him to love you, play hard
to get. It is basically what I heard. Anyway, I'm
curious if she expands on that tonight because I thought
it was a really interesting post that I saw of hers.
Thanks for hanging out. I'm going to go to Vegas
(31:02):
next weekend, so I will see you in a couple
of weeks. Raul, love you man. I hope you get
fired and have to come back here on your knees
begging for your job back. I'm doing everything I can
to make that happen so that that we have more
of you.
Speaker 3 (31:19):
And lay off Mahomes man. Give him a break please.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
Oh yeah? Oh? Your last words are you're gonna fight
for Patrick Mahomes. Huh.
Speaker 3 (31:26):
I don't want to see I don't want to see
him kissing people.
Speaker 9 (31:29):
Please?
Speaker 2 (31:31):
Oh yeah, I send him memes with Patrick Mahomes kissing people.
Speaker 11 (31:36):
All right.
Speaker 2 (31:36):
I love you pal, Kayla. Nice job tonight. You really
help me keep the energy up. And Nicky, nothing beats
a jet to holiday as talk to you a couple
of weeks. Chris MERRILM six forty. We live everywhere in
the iHeartRadio
Speaker 1 (31:51):
Kf I AM sixty on demand
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