April 27, 2025 • 37 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:05):
Chris Merril can't f i AM six forty more stimulating
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the website Iam six forty dot com. There's no business,
lie show business? How don't I have you caught this?
The Pope died? Did you hear about that?
Speaker 3 (00:29):
So?
Speaker 4 (00:30):
Funny story not funny.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
We do the show on Sunday of week last and
we talked about JD Vance showing up and talking with
the Pope and he's there on Easter and it was
kind of a surprise visit, and the Pope gave jd
Vance a necktie and a rosary and then more rosaries
for him to take to his family.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
And we laughed about how.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
The Pope didn't know jd was coming, so he just
sent somebody down to the gift shop. Right, we get
off the air and it's just a few hours later
that the Pope is dead. Just did not see that
coming because the Pope had just beaten the double pneumonia
and all the other stuff that he had, So anyway,
(01:16):
that sucks.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
What's interesting.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
How there's a show business twist on this is that
if you haven't seen it, the number of people that
have gone to watch Conclave since then has skyrocketed.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
The Oscar winning film Conclave offers a Hollywood window into
the secret of world of selecting the next pope. Following
the death of Pope Francis. Many now wondering how accurate
the political thriller is.
Speaker 5 (01:39):
What I was impressed with, though, was how well they
described the electoral process within the Sistine Chapel.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Kurt Martin's, a canon law expert, in self described Conclave Nerves,
says the film got a lot right, especially the need
for the cardinals to be sealed off from the outside world.
No cell phones, newspapers or TV.
Speaker 6 (01:59):
Oh.
Speaker 5 (02:00):
The cardinals can have before their eyes is the good
of the Church, assisted by the Holy Spirit, that's all,
and they should not be influenced by anything external.
Speaker 7 (02:11):
He says.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
The so called politicking begins before the conclave as they
gather for the funeral and other events, all getting to
know each other and learning about the political candidates being
proposed by others.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
That was really well done in the film too.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
If you haven't seen it, spoiler alert, The Pope dies,
but then they go through this whole conclave and it
is Ralph finds it amazing, but it is. It is
a very intriguing look behind the scenes.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
It's been more than a decade since the world watched
and waited for the white smoke coming from the Vatican
signaling a decision. It was just over twenty four hours
for Pope Francis. This time it may be longer simply
because of the number of cardinals and the need to
have a two thirds majority.
Speaker 5 (02:52):
We have one hundred and thirty five cardinal electors. It
is one hundred and thirty five cardinals that were under
the age of eighty the day before the death of
the Roman pontiff. That is the largest conclave if all participates,
in history.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
The conclict must beginning fifteen to twenty days after papal vacancy.
Martin says the earliest would be May seventh. Leegian suitor
ABC seven Eyewitness All right, thank you very.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
Much, Leanne. We appreciate that good reporting. As always.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
The spike from the people watching conclave was what two
hundred and eighty three percent or something like that. Wow, Yeah,
two hundred and eighty three percent between Sunday and Monday
when the news of his death broke, Uh, the ordship
jump two hundred and eighty three percent compared to Monday
and Tuesday of the prior week. I believe, yes, if
(03:45):
I'm looking at this correctly, thirty two hundred percent spike
because nobody was watching movies on Mondays and Tuesdays, and
then everybody wanted to watch Conclave on Monday and Tuesday
because Poop's dead. And then they go through and they
start measuring it by minutes. I feel like that's cheating
when it comes to ratings. The film's US streaming viewership
(04:07):
hit eighteen point three million minutes.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
Watched, and that was on Tuesday.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Why on Tuesday, because on Monday it was six point
nine million. Well, because on Tuesday it hit Amazon Prime Video.
So all of a sudden you opened up and you
had a lot more access to people. Somebody else had Conclave.
Do you guys know, was it did Peacock have Conclave?
Or was it with Peacock? Right, okay, Peacock. That's where
(04:35):
I watched it, Yeah, same here? Okay, yeah, so Peacock
had it. But then obviously when Amazon Prime has it,
now you've got I think Amazon Prime is the second
largest streamer behind Netflix. If I'm not mistaken, so all
of a sudden you open it up to it a
massive new audience. Timing is just, you know, fortuitous, I
guess from a streaming standpoint. When it comes to ratings, though,
(04:57):
I think this is garbage. I hate this streaming viewership
hit eighteen point three million minutes, and now I don't
want to know how many I want to know how
many people watched it. I don't care how many minutes
were viewed. I want to know how many people watched it,
how many people finished it. This is one of the
things that drives me nuts.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
It's like, do you realize to get ratings with TikTok,
somebody has to view your video for two seconds. That's it.
Two seconds.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
In other words, if the video starts playing, that counts
as a view Your video could be absolute garbage. But
if the algorithms pick it up, book counts hate that
hate that. It should be how many people watch the movie,
not how many minutes were streamed. But they want to
take credit for people that shut it off halfway through
and didn't come back, which is garbage. Average fail of
(05:49):
viewership of the film April eleventh to the seventeenth was
one point seven million minutes watched. Obviously, eighteen point three
is many more. It's not the only one, incidentally, that
saw a bump. In fact, if you didn't notice the
resemblance in the past between Pope Benedict and Jonathan Price,
(06:10):
excuse me, Pope Francis and Jonathan Price, my apologies the
the I mean we're talking doppelganger here. Francis not looking
very he's a little puffy in his later years. But
early on Jonathan Price spit an image of Pope Francis,
and I guess the two Popes, which was on Netflix.
(06:31):
That saw a bump of four hundred and seventeen percent,
So lots of people going to watch.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
Pope movies. So that's happening.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Have you ever considered shifting gears, totally shifting gears here,
because we're in our show business segment and I have
lost to get through. Have you ever considered getting a
foot in the door at Universal Studios? And maybe you
hadn't considered how to do it before I'm thinking about this.
Universal Studios is doing an open call. They've got open
(07:05):
call auditions for the role for Studio tour guide.
Speaker 4 (07:11):
So that could be you.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
You could be a studio tour guide, gregarious and curious
with an interest in and knowledge of the entertainment industry,
and dynamic storytellers with an appreciation for the studio tour.
I mean, maybe you've got a script that you want
to get in the hands of a good director, and
maybe as you're giving tours.
Speaker 4 (07:32):
You can just.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Hey, there's Francis Sport. Just throw it out, Martin Scorsese,
throw your script at him. You don't know, stranger things
have happened, no idea. You have to have a reading
from a passage of the official studio tour script in
your audition. Upon reviewing all submissions in person, callbacks will
(07:54):
be made to those who qualify. The job also affords
team members the welcomed ability for broad job flexibility.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
They say.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Guides who have landed roles in a play, movie, or
commercial may require time off from their role.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
As studio tour guides.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
It's the same job flexibility many performers require when they
opt for posts at restaurants, wait staff or car service drivers,
for example.
Speaker 4 (08:16):
So there you go.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Gig economy, get your gig inside the studio, foot in
the door, at least somebody's gonna recognize your face. You
never know, that could be your big break. I'm thinking
about it because Lord knows my break hasn't come organically.
All right, Still to continue, there's no business like sel business.
Bad celebrities behaving very badly. Next Chris MERYLFI AM six
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Speaker 4 (08:49):
There's no business.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
Live shel business.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
We've talked about the Pope he's dead now and the
Spike and people viewing conclave as well as two Popes,
which stars Anthony Hopkins and Jonathan Price.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
Jonathan Price a dead ringer for h Pope Francis.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
I got a few feedbacks here on the talk back line.
Speaker 4 (09:10):
Shall be Pope Peter? Are we are we doing bets
on that? What's the do we? You know?
Speaker 2 (09:19):
They all they picked their own pope name? What is
the pope you wouldn't want to be? Are we going
to see a new pope name? Or are we gonna
go back to classic pope names like you know Francis,
Benedict John Paul that kind of thing.
Speaker 4 (09:33):
Are we gonna go like like Pope Rashad. I'd be
in for that. I hope it's not something super modern though,
like Pope Dakota. The first Pope Bill Well, I go,
Pope William. That's fine. Oh not William though, just Bill
(09:54):
Bill Bob, Pope Bob. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
Uh, what if it's something really hip like Pope Fresh?
Speaker 4 (10:05):
I like that Pope Fresh. The second I dig that.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
The one that was kind of weird was pious, like pious.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
I think that's because you're a pious individual, isn't it? Well, Pope,
but there was a Pope Pious. There were like ten
of them, weren't they? Yeah, exactly. Well, the intrigue continues.
All right, what else do we have here? Oh? More popiness?
I think? Hey, Chris, it's a big one from Orange County. Hey, buddy,
(10:34):
how are we here a hunching the beach ding dong
with you?
Speaker 2 (10:37):
Listen, we're stealing all of Tim Conway's good bits minutes.
Speaker 4 (10:41):
I'm with you. Oh yeah, okay, hang on.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
So if you missed it, they were measuring the increase
in viewership on the Conclave running on Paramount and then
on Amazon Prime and they were saying, well, this streaming
was up over eighteen million minutes.
Speaker 4 (10:58):
I hate that. How many minutes people watched?
Speaker 2 (11:01):
I wont to know how many views were there, how
many people watched it, how many view I don't want
to know how many people started watching it and then
tuned out after the first five minutes.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
That's garbage. I hate that. That is not a rating system.
I don't like that at all. Minutes. I'm with you, that's bull.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
Yep, they need to you know, how many households, how
many accounts?
Speaker 4 (11:24):
Amen? Five million accounts?
Speaker 2 (11:26):
Yes, three million households, yes, whatever, yep, not people not
even minutes?
Speaker 4 (11:31):
What the bloody hell? What the bloody hell?
Speaker 1 (11:34):
Anyway, happy Sunday pal made good choices this coming.
Speaker 4 (11:38):
Week, very good.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Can you imagine if newspaper circulation was measured in how
many letters were read? I mean, they don't even measure
it in hours, it's how many minutes were viewed. No,
how many words of the newspaper were read that determines
their circulation. Yeah, absolute garbage. All right, celebrities behaving badly.
(12:05):
You maybe heard Mo Kelly teasing that they're going to
talk a little bit about Shannon Sharp.
Speaker 4 (12:10):
Shannon Sharp says he's going to put a pause on things.
Speaker 8 (12:12):
Football Hall of Famer and broadcaster Shannon Sharp says he's
stepping aside from his job at ESPN in light of
new rape allegations. On Sunday, a woman filed a fifty
million dollar.
Speaker 4 (12:22):
Civil lawsuit in the state of Nevada.
Speaker 8 (12:24):
It accuses the fifty four year old of raping her
multiple times. The claim says the pair was in a
quote rocky consensual relationship for nearly two years, and Sharp
was allegedly frequently aggressive, and she says raped her. Sharp
says he needs time away from ESPN to be with
his family and.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
Fight the quote false allegations.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Yeah, Plus, his lawyers probably told him, you need to
get out of the public spotlight because they're going to
use anything against you. Kind of like if you are
involved in any sort of a court case, I don't
care if you're the plintiver, the defendant, if you're the
prosecuting attorney, or if if you are the purp doing
the walk.
Speaker 4 (13:02):
Get off social media. Fact, just get off social media
because they're gonna use it against you.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
So if you're involved in a civil suit, get off
social media, get off TV.
Speaker 4 (13:17):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
Flat out. Let me see, Kayla, you love Kanye? Is
he gotten to any sayer lately?
Speaker 4 (13:29):
No? Oh okay, let's not response. She's mad at me. Now,
I'm not lumping you in. I just thought you liked
yay yay. No, yes not.
Speaker 6 (13:38):
This nondescript warehouse is the center of noise and other complaints, and,
according to multiple neighbors, is used by rapper Yea also
known as Kanye West, for parties, rehearsals, and casting calls.
Police have responded here multiple times in the past. LAPD
confirmed they received seven noise complaints since the beginning of
the year, but no action was ultimately taken.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
I would love to have an extra warehouse. Don't that's
sound like fun? Oh you guys are like Raoul. Would
you back me up on this? Should be fun to
have an extra warehouse.
Speaker 4 (14:12):
Yeah, I'd throw parties kidding.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
There would never be a reason for me not to
buy the newest tool at home depot because I would
have room for it. I'd start filling up with not
very classic cars. I'd basically turn into a total redneck
if I.
Speaker 4 (14:28):
Had a warehouse, turn into one.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
You shush, I would not have that. For instance, my folks,
live in a really red necky area. And uh, there's
a house that you pass, I say, house that's generous
because it started as a trailer. Then they parked another
trailer next to it and welded it together into a
double wide. And then they built a roof over the
top with four by four posts and leftover plywood. But
(14:54):
they have no joke. I Google map of this because
you can't see them all from the road. They had
like a line of semi truck semi trailers, and I
went and what are they keeping them there?
Speaker 4 (15:03):
And we just assumed dead bodies.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
But you also see that they they're always dragging in
another old beat up car. It looks like a junkyard.
I pulled it up on Google Maps, you know the
aerial view. Oh my gosh, they must have three hundred
cars in there. I mean they're stuffed back.
Speaker 4 (15:17):
In the woods. They've got like a burm built up
so you can't see them all from the road. It's crazy.
They treat those things like treasures.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
And I just think, what kind of redneck keeps a
bunch of cars out in the field. You know, what
kind of redneck keeps a bunch of cars out in
the field. A redneck that doesn't have a warehouse. If
you had a warehouse, you'd keep them in the warehouse.
That's what I would do.
Speaker 6 (15:38):
Police were also called out to the area near Kingsley
and Beverly after a swastika was spray painted on the
white walls of this building. Neighbors say, the music, you.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
Know, if it's Yay's warehouse, though, you kind of wonder
was somebody tagging it with a bunch of racist stuff
or was Kanye decorating?
Speaker 6 (15:54):
Is blaring from speakers sometimes late at night. Yay is
no stranger to controversy has been accused of making anti
Semitic comments before. Last month, a flyer with Ya's name
on it was circulated seeking all male volunteers for a
quote hooligan choir. In both letters it read quote no
fat people and must be comfortable wearing swastikas and had oh.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
So no fat people and must be comfortable wearing swastikas. Okay, Well,
now you narrowed your choices. You usually you can get
one or the.
Speaker 6 (16:24):
Other becaus and had this location listed. Neighbors say this
has been going on for the past few months, sometimes
multiple days in a row, and sometimes a few times
a week. One neighbor told me that he did try
and talk to the security guards at this location, but
nothing was done. Reporting live. You're in East Hollywood, Kimberly
Chang k Taly five.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
I thank you, Kimberly. We appreciate that. All right, Well,
good luck. I guess Yay's looking for some guys to
hang out with. If you're skinny and have Nazi tendencies,
maybe it's a fun hang for you.
Speaker 4 (17:00):
I don't know, all right.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
Parenting is changing globally, not so much in the United
States unless you're a mother in Texas who's trying to
make sure their fifth grader is the coolest one in school.
Speaker 4 (17:11):
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Speaker 2 (17:12):
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Speaker 4 (17:39):
We asked earlier in the show.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
For those of you that have been listening for a while,
you know that we said we were gonna do a
story about spanking and were you spanked as a child,
and then did you or do you spank your kids?
And I think everybody that called said that they did
get spanked as a child. I don't think we had
anybody call that said otherwise. Right, nobody left mess said Nope,
I wasn't spank but I wish I had been, or no,
(18:02):
I wasn't spanked, and thank goodness, I wasn't.
Speaker 5 (18:04):
There was nothing like that, none of the I wish
I had been, so for sure, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
It turned into more of a oh yeah, well my
spanking was so bad, right, It turned into my mother
broke this item on my butt, so we had yardstick
and wooden spoons and that kind of thing, you know.
Volvos so my I have a couple of stories about this.
But the reason I talk about it is I was
(18:29):
I was reading I don't know if you've ever been
to study finds. Kala is great for show prep studyfines
dot org, and so there's this study about spanking, and
worldwide we're seeing the the instances of spanking changing. In
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the United States, we still have the majority of adults
say spanking is fine, but globally it is changing. Sixty
eight countries have banned the hitting of children in any form,
including spanking. It started in nineteen seventy nine. Speden banned
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all forms of physical punishment, including spanking, in any setting
and including in the family home. So not even just
wopping your kid for misbehaving in the grocery store, even
at home. You can't spank your kid in Sweeden. And
we did have We had somebody called that said, I
wish we had more spanking because the kids these days
they need to they need to have more respect and fear.
(19:35):
And I mean, I understand the sentiment, and I don't
disagree because I'm getting old, which means that I always
think my generation was better than the last generation. But
I don't know that we would say all of the
other countries are morally bankrupt. So when we talk about
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the number of countries that have banned spanking, do we
think of.
Speaker 4 (20:03):
Thailand as being somehow.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
Lenient when you think of misbehaving youngsters, Does Turkmenistan come
to mind? Probably not, probably not, But I mean this
is why I said at the time, when by the way,
I'm not not criticizing what anybody's viewpoint was here, because
(20:27):
I certainly understand how you came to that. I just
think we have to be careful when we start saying
that the correlation equals causation. If you feel like upcoming
generations are morally bankrupt and then you say, well, it's
because of spanking, well, Japan doesn't allow spanking either, So
do we think, man, those Japanese kids, they're just completely
(20:48):
out of control?
Speaker 4 (20:49):
Probably not. Probably don't think that.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
So there may be some other things as far as
shifting generational divide. In the United States, did you know
it is legal in every state to allow Every state
allows spanking, but there are different child abuse laws. The
one thing that all states have in common. Every state
allows you to hit your kid if you don't leave
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an injury or a mark, which pro tip is why
you should always wap your kid upside the head with
your left hand because your left hand is where you.
Speaker 4 (21:26):
Have your ring finger. So just it's behind the hair,
you know what I mean, A little funk behind the hair.
I remember that I taught you about chanklas you didn't
know about Channklas, I did not, but chocolates. Yeah. In fact,
do you know what I found out?
Speaker 2 (21:41):
One of the guys I worked with, I said something
about Chonkola's and he's just started laughing because he knew it.
Speaker 4 (21:45):
He's Hispanic. And I go, I learned about Chanklas and
he goes, he goes, oh, yeah, the flying Chonklass. Then
I find out that there's a minor league baseball team
called the Chonklass. Did you know this? No? I didn't. Yeah,
it's in Texas. So I ordered him a hat. I
can't remember if it's Elpaso or whatever it is they've got.
It's like a.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
Picture of a flip flop flying through the air. That's
their logo. The chocolate where you know, Madre would remove
the chocolate and whip it at their kid. Somehow it
was like a heat seeking missile, right, that's what you
were describing, absolutely missile. Somehow Madre was able to toss
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that chocolate. It was it was able to make ninety
degree turns. You couldn't hide around a corner because the
chocolate would still somehow hit you. It's my understanding on that.
What about the switch, did you ever have to go
pick a switch. No, no, no, I didn't either. I
had a teacher that threatened it at a teacher that
threatened to paddle us. She did end up paddling one
kid in class, wasn't me uh, And then she would
(22:47):
threaten people to go get a switch. And that's when
I learned that a switch is just a small branch
or you know, you just snap a small and and
then I talked to some kids who did have to
have the switch, and they said they would get They
would actually get larger ones. The bigger the diameter of
that of that branch, the better because the small ones
(23:07):
stung more. They said, I would have thought that the
big ones would give more more haf but no, they said,
the small ones really stung.
Speaker 4 (23:15):
So anyway, you're allowed to do that.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
In some states you can use a switch, like Oklahoma,
I know you can use a switch. That's what I remember.
The running back Adrian Peterson. He got in trouble for
switching his kid. Remember when he was rung. They were
chasing him down on child abuse charges and all that stuff. Yeah, yeah,
and it was because he had, yeah, used a switch.
So anyway, I thought that was interesting as the rest
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of the world is moving beyond that.
Speaker 4 (23:40):
I have a couple of thoughts on this. First is
a quick story.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
I mentioned earlier that my mother broke a wooden spoon
on my butt, and I think she went through two
or three of those, and then she finally got tired
of that. We were having some remodeling done. She asked
the carpenter to take a scrap piece of wood and
make her a paddle. So she had a custom paddle made.
Now it wasn't like it was tailor to her hand
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or I mean, he basically just cut out the paddle
shape and then gave it to her out of a
piece of press boarder, plywood or something.
Speaker 4 (24:12):
But she named it. That was Peter Paddle. He sat
on top of the refrigerator.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
All Mom had to do is walk toward the fridge
and raise her hand like she was reaching on top.
Speaker 4 (24:18):
And that was it. We shut up. That was it.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
Then we did not want Peter Paddle. But one of
my favorite stories about spanking is this. My brother he
loves it when I tell this story too, because I
revealed the whole world. My brother was a bedwetter, and
so he must have been on He was probably four.
I was seven, and we had done something and Mom
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went and got Peter Paddle, and there was You hated
Peter Paddle. You really hated being second. You did not
want your brother to go first. I just had one brother.
I hated when he went first because that was just
it was the anxiety rose. I mean, there's one thing
about being grabbed, you know, picked up by the arm,
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thrown over your knee, and the next thing you know,
you're being paddled.
Speaker 4 (25:05):
That's one thing.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
But when you have to stand there and waits psychological torture.
So anyway, we got in trouble this one time and
my brother and I we had bedrooms on the second floor.
At the base of the stairs was a doorway, and
that doorway took us into the rest of the house
so my parents could close that door. The bottom of
the house was closed off. It was an older house
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and uh kind of an old farmhouse that we lived in.
And I don't know if the second story was added
later what. But anyway, so I get to spanking screwed,
you know, and I'm crying and it hurts. She says,
now go to bed.
Speaker 4 (25:47):
So I grabbed my button.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
I'm doing the I'm doing the whole you know, running
on my tiptoes dance because my butt hurts so bad.
And I get to that door and I and I
uh and I.
Speaker 4 (25:58):
Run up the stairs.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
And now the other advantage of being first is that
you got to hear your brother get it. So I'm
sitting at the top of the stairs, and if there's
anything that makes that pain go away, it's hearing whack
my little brother, who I'm pretty sure was probably the
(26:19):
reason we were getting paddled in the first place. A
little instigating turd and then whack slowly, my my sadness
is turning into a little bit of a smile. Third whack.
Now go to bed. My brother grabs his button, he said.
(26:40):
He gets to the bottom of the stairs and my
parents slammed the door. My brother's another going as soon
as that door slamy and he stopped and he looked
up the stairs and he said, didn't hurt. Had my
diaper on that little son.
Speaker 4 (27:00):
For that?
Speaker 2 (27:02):
Now, I never spanked my kids, And the reason is
there's step kids and the contentious relationship that my wife
had with her X.
Speaker 4 (27:14):
He always said, if.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
He ever lays a hand in my kids, have him
called the cops. Whatever so we just avoided the whole situation.
So obviously there were times that my kids needed to
be disciplined, and you know what, I found it required
me to be more measured and more disciplined.
Speaker 4 (27:29):
I wasn't always good at it though. Sometimes I would
just turn to yelling.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
I tried to intimidate the kids, because really, when we're spanking,
that's what we're doing, right, We're intimidating the kids. We're
creating fear. And so I have a very big voice,
and I would I would do that. I can't say
I'm proud of it. I'm not saying that it was great.
But I was at my wits end, and I realized
that the times that I wanted to spank my kids
are the times I didn't.
Speaker 4 (27:50):
Know what else to do.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
I didn't know how else to parents, and so I
went back to the way that my parents did it.
Speaker 4 (27:59):
They hit me right.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
And so what I realized is that when I wasn't
allowed to spank the kids because I didn't want to
deal with the ex husband calling the cops all that
other mallarchy, it forced me to be more creative. And
so I can't say I'm a fan of spanking. I
don't condemn you if you did, because my parents did.
I turned out okay. Well, I mean I'm probably an
(28:24):
example why you shouldn't. But I don't condemn you if
you spank your kids. I don't have any problem if
you spank your kids. I would have a problem if
you lose control or if you're spanking your kids because
you don't know any other way, that would challenge you
to find a better way. All Right, I'm gonna tell
you about this Texas mother who tried to be the
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coolest mom in her fifth grader's class. It didn't work
out very well. Maybe she needs a spanking, and then
we'll talk with the great doctor Wendy Walsh for our
short free counseling session before she takes over with doctor
Wendy after dark.
Speaker 4 (28:58):
That is next.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
Chris Merril k AM six forty were lilive everywhere in
your iHeartRadio ABB.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand, Chris Berrel.
Speaker 4 (29:07):
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
It's more stimulating talk Kyla, I didn't listen to this.
You sent me another talk back here? Can I play this?
Speaker 4 (29:15):
Well? Maybe just get ready with the dump button because
I haven't listened to this, so I don't know if
they say anything. You're good? Are you ready on this? Okay?
I just wanted to make.
Speaker 7 (29:23):
Sure I'm from generation X. And I also had a
parent who used a wooden paddle on me. Yeah, it
was the paddle that was used when they made the
polenta from Italian descent, and they actually ended up breaking
in and have my dad with a little new one. Also,
I went to Catholic school and I remember we used
to have a teacher that whenever you didn't pay attention,
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he would pick you up white from your sideburn.
Speaker 4 (29:50):
Wow, Oh my gosh, I'm not a fan of that.
He's picking you up by the sideburn. It's is that right?
How about this?
Speaker 2 (29:59):
We got a mother in tech, Teresa Bernal. She's thirty three.
Sounds like she was trying to be cool. She was
in charge of bringing in treats for the Christmas party.
I don't know why it took four months with the
story to hit the mainstream, but it did. So she
went to a home business that she found on Facebook,
(30:20):
and I got these little cups full of jello, brought
them in for the kids. Laid him out at a
table along with all the other treats that the kids
brought to share. But then the kids, the kids ate
the little, the little solo cups of jello, and they
started having stomach aches and headaches.
Speaker 4 (30:42):
One student vomited twice at school that day.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
Another one passed out because they were, of course, jello shots.
Speaker 4 (30:51):
I don't know. I guess the mother's in trouble.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
Now, she's incostody her kids might get taken away. Sounds
like a bunch of nonsense to me, just because she's
the coolest mom there sarcasm. I always have to say that,
Doctor Wendy Walsh, Doctor Wendy after Dark joining Us. Doctor Wendy, Hey,
I shouldn't even have to say sarcasm. When I say
(31:14):
things like that. You think people would get it, but
they don't. I always gonna you're promoting kids getting drunk.
I always get that.
Speaker 9 (31:19):
Well, some people don't have the perception to pick up
this idea of sarcasm, so it's nice to qualify it,
although I say a kind of sarcastic things.
Speaker 4 (31:29):
Did you see the.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
Story this week, doctor Wendy, that George and Namal Clooney
say that they never fight. They've been together for ten years,
and they were talking with I don't know. I think
they were talking. Oh, you know, who's the one that
just went to the space that Gail King Oprah's front. Yeah,
they were talking with Gil King a couple of years
ago and they said that they had never fought, never
(31:51):
had to fight over anything. And so then they went
back last week and they were talking about his new
Broadway show or whatever, and she asked about it, and
he says, no, we still haven't.
Speaker 4 (32:01):
We're trying to find something to fight about.
Speaker 5 (32:02):
Huh huh huh.
Speaker 4 (32:04):
No, Well, is that even healthy to not fight?
Speaker 9 (32:09):
Well, we can't judge because we're not inside the relationship.
Speaker 4 (32:12):
I can.
Speaker 9 (32:12):
I will say that in general, I have I am
of the personal opinion that you if you never have
a disagreement and you never have intimacy, right, so you Yeah.
On the other hand, there are some people that are
pretty darn compatible, Like Julio and I have been together
five years and we've only had I think two fights,
(32:33):
maybe three. He takes off on his motorcycle not a
good idea when he's mad, and I take off power
walking around them both times. That's what happened when we
had our little fight. Then we came back together, like
an hour later, but.
Speaker 4 (32:44):
You had to have your space.
Speaker 9 (32:46):
Yeah, cool off, Yeah exactly, and then we're fine.
Speaker 4 (32:49):
That sounds right to me. And I'm not even as
smart as you.
Speaker 9 (32:52):
But maybe George Clooney believes happy wife, happy life, and
therefore he's a good husband and goes, yes, dear, you
haven't learned that yet, happy wife, happy life.
Speaker 4 (33:08):
You know what I've learned? What I don't need to
die in every hill?
Speaker 9 (33:12):
Yeah exactly.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
And that's tough for me because I U, I don't
know what it is. My father's argumentative. My brother is
terribly argumentative, which I'm fraid it's from him. My mother
is very stubborn, but she turns very passive aggressive, and
she just shuts down and goes, okay, if that's what
you want, and then.
Speaker 4 (33:27):
You're supposed to come begging her for whatever.
Speaker 2 (33:30):
So I mean, I still work on it where I
just want to I want to argue about things because
I you know.
Speaker 4 (33:37):
That's how are you were raised to argue? Yeah, yeah,
kinda like you have to load the dishwasher this way
because if you do it that way, it's not gonna
get clean. Makes perfect.
Speaker 9 (33:48):
My sweet Julio used to criticize the way I loaded
the dishwasher and the way I washed dishes, and so
I just quietly sat down and boored myself another glass
of wine. I haven't touched a dish since because doing
it wrong. So he does dishes everybody.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
That doesn't go both ways because if and I'm gonna
be this is gender stereotyping. But if I'm vacuuming wrong,
then my wife I can't say, Okay, well will you
vacuum that that?
Speaker 5 (34:13):
Hey?
Speaker 4 (34:13):
You can?
Speaker 2 (34:14):
You're not helping around here? Well I don't do it right,
and it turns into a fight.
Speaker 4 (34:18):
On his own.
Speaker 9 (34:19):
Yeah, Well, it doesn't have to be a fight. You
can literally turn and say would you prefer that I
continue to vacuum or would you like to take over
the vacuuming so it will be done better?
Speaker 4 (34:30):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (34:31):
Well, when it comes to the dishwasher, I just do it,
do it myself because I'm gonna have to do it
anyway when those dishes don't come clean.
Speaker 4 (34:36):
Unbelievable. What are you going on today?
Speaker 3 (34:38):
Oh?
Speaker 9 (34:38):
We got to talk about Shannon Sharp. Oh, I know,
accused of rape, fifty million dollars civil suit. There's a
lot of he says, she says going on here? But
there's some background on him that I dug up on
the old internet. We'll talk about. Also, I read this
interesting article written by a dude talking about how great
(35:04):
it is to be forty and single because he has
technically avoided his first divorce, and he goes through all
these pulled cherry picks, the research, all these reasons why
he's happy, and he's so lucky that he saves so
much money and so much emotional pain and really great.
He's basically saying, don't worry if you end up still
(35:27):
single in your forties, it's okay. But he's a dude.
This doesn't work for a woman who wants to reproduce.
Speaker 2 (35:34):
No, women are reproducing now, we're done with that.
Speaker 4 (35:37):
That's the previous generation.
Speaker 2 (35:39):
Also, did you see that new number that women more
women over forty have are having babies.
Speaker 4 (35:43):
Than teenage women under twenty. Yeah, yeah, yeah, of course that's crazy.
Speaker 9 (35:46):
Yeah, because teenage pregnancy rates have been going down because
of the advent of birth control, and women have been
delaying childbirths. So yeah, makes sense. I had my second
one at age forty one, really, and I'm tired, Yeah, exhausting.
They kept me young, you know, it's funny, like when
I first became a mom, I would kind of hide
(36:09):
it because I felt like it aged me somehow. Let's
say I was going to an audition or a meeting
or something. I wouldn't make sure I had a babysitter,
and no one ever knew. By the time I got
to the second, I wore that baby on my hip
everywhere because it made me look young.
Speaker 4 (36:23):
Oh nice, I like that was in my.
Speaker 9 (36:25):
Forties with this baby going, Oh say, I'm just thirty two.
Speaker 4 (36:28):
Can't wait till the next PTA meeting. This is gonna
be great.
Speaker 2 (36:32):
Love it, Doctor Wendy after dark. I'm looking forward to
doctor Wendy Walsh.
Speaker 4 (36:35):
Thank you so much. You're the best. Kayla, another great week,
well done. Loved your work this week.
Speaker 2 (36:40):
Raoul Man, you kept me calm because I uh, I
was freaking out about a sound I had on my
microphone and rose like, everything's cool, Man, Everything's cool.
Speaker 4 (36:48):
You're the best. Brigina, love seeing you again.
Speaker 2 (36:52):
If you haven't watched Brigita's insta is fire, you gotta
follow it.
Speaker 4 (36:55):
Can I use that word right? I appreciate it. You did?
I did? Okay? All right?
Speaker 2 (37:00):
Too old to be saying there you guys have a
great week. I'll be back next Sunday. H kf I
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the website Iam six forty dot com. There's no business,
lie show business? How don't I have you caught this?
The Pope died? Did you hear about that?
Speaker 3 (00:29):
So?
Speaker 4 (00:30):
Funny story not funny.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
We do the show on Sunday of week last and
we talked about JD Vance showing up and talking with
the Pope and he's there on Easter and it was
kind of a surprise visit, and the Pope gave jd
Vance a necktie and a rosary and then more rosaries
for him to take to his family.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
And we laughed about how.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
The Pope didn't know jd was coming, so he just
sent somebody down to the gift shop. Right, we get
off the air and it's just a few hours later
that the Pope is dead. Just did not see that
coming because the Pope had just beaten the double pneumonia
and all the other stuff that he had, So anyway,
(01:16):
that sucks.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
What's interesting.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
How there's a show business twist on this is that
if you haven't seen it, the number of people that
have gone to watch Conclave since then has skyrocketed.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
The Oscar winning film Conclave offers a Hollywood window into
the secret of world of selecting the next pope. Following
the death of Pope Francis. Many now wondering how accurate
the political thriller is.
Speaker 5 (01:39):
What I was impressed with, though, was how well they
described the electoral process within the Sistine Chapel.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Kurt Martin's, a canon law expert, in self described Conclave Nerves,
says the film got a lot right, especially the need
for the cardinals to be sealed off from the outside world.
No cell phones, newspapers or TV.
Speaker 6 (01:59):
Oh.
Speaker 5 (02:00):
The cardinals can have before their eyes is the good
of the Church, assisted by the Holy Spirit, that's all,
and they should not be influenced by anything external.
Speaker 7 (02:11):
He says.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
The so called politicking begins before the conclave as they
gather for the funeral and other events, all getting to
know each other and learning about the political candidates being
proposed by others.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
That was really well done in the film too.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
If you haven't seen it, spoiler alert, The Pope dies,
but then they go through this whole conclave and it
is Ralph finds it amazing, but it is. It is
a very intriguing look behind the scenes.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
It's been more than a decade since the world watched
and waited for the white smoke coming from the Vatican
signaling a decision. It was just over twenty four hours
for Pope Francis. This time it may be longer simply
because of the number of cardinals and the need to
have a two thirds majority.
Speaker 5 (02:52):
We have one hundred and thirty five cardinal electors. It
is one hundred and thirty five cardinals that were under
the age of eighty the day before the death of
the Roman pontiff. That is the largest conclave if all participates,
in history.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
The conclict must beginning fifteen to twenty days after papal vacancy.
Martin says the earliest would be May seventh. Leegian suitor
ABC seven Eyewitness All right, thank you very.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
Much, Leanne. We appreciate that good reporting. As always.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
The spike from the people watching conclave was what two
hundred and eighty three percent or something like that. Wow, Yeah,
two hundred and eighty three percent between Sunday and Monday
when the news of his death broke, Uh, the ordship
jump two hundred and eighty three percent compared to Monday
and Tuesday of the prior week. I believe, yes, if
(03:45):
I'm looking at this correctly, thirty two hundred percent spike
because nobody was watching movies on Mondays and Tuesdays, and
then everybody wanted to watch Conclave on Monday and Tuesday
because Poop's dead. And then they go through and they
start measuring it by minutes. I feel like that's cheating
when it comes to ratings. The film's US streaming viewership
(04:07):
hit eighteen point three million minutes.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
Watched, and that was on Tuesday.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Why on Tuesday, because on Monday it was six point
nine million. Well, because on Tuesday it hit Amazon Prime Video.
So all of a sudden you opened up and you
had a lot more access to people. Somebody else had Conclave.
Do you guys know, was it did Peacock have Conclave?
Or was it with Peacock? Right, okay, Peacock. That's where
(04:35):
I watched it, Yeah, same here? Okay, yeah, so Peacock
had it. But then obviously when Amazon Prime has it,
now you've got I think Amazon Prime is the second
largest streamer behind Netflix. If I'm not mistaken, so all
of a sudden you open it up to it a
massive new audience. Timing is just, you know, fortuitous, I
guess from a streaming standpoint. When it comes to ratings, though,
(04:57):
I think this is garbage. I hate this streaming viewership
hit eighteen point three million minutes, and now I don't
want to know how many I want to know how
many people watched it. I don't care how many minutes
were viewed. I want to know how many people watched it,
how many people finished it. This is one of the
things that drives me nuts.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
It's like, do you realize to get ratings with TikTok,
somebody has to view your video for two seconds. That's it.
Two seconds.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
In other words, if the video starts playing, that counts
as a view Your video could be absolute garbage. But
if the algorithms pick it up, book counts hate that
hate that. It should be how many people watch the movie,
not how many minutes were streamed. But they want to
take credit for people that shut it off halfway through
and didn't come back, which is garbage. Average fail of
(05:49):
viewership of the film April eleventh to the seventeenth was
one point seven million minutes watched. Obviously, eighteen point three
is many more. It's not the only one, incidentally, that
saw a bump. In fact, if you didn't notice the
resemblance in the past between Pope Benedict and Jonathan Price,
(06:10):
excuse me, Pope Francis and Jonathan Price, my apologies the
the I mean we're talking doppelganger here. Francis not looking
very he's a little puffy in his later years. But
early on Jonathan Price spit an image of Pope Francis,
and I guess the two Popes, which was on Netflix.
(06:31):
That saw a bump of four hundred and seventeen percent,
So lots of people going to watch.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
Pope movies. So that's happening.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Have you ever considered shifting gears, totally shifting gears here,
because we're in our show business segment and I have
lost to get through. Have you ever considered getting a
foot in the door at Universal Studios? And maybe you
hadn't considered how to do it before I'm thinking about this.
Universal Studios is doing an open call. They've got open
(07:05):
call auditions for the role for Studio tour guide.
Speaker 4 (07:11):
So that could be you.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
You could be a studio tour guide, gregarious and curious
with an interest in and knowledge of the entertainment industry,
and dynamic storytellers with an appreciation for the studio tour.
I mean, maybe you've got a script that you want
to get in the hands of a good director, and
maybe as you're giving tours.
Speaker 4 (07:32):
You can just.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Hey, there's Francis Sport. Just throw it out, Martin Scorsese,
throw your script at him. You don't know, stranger things
have happened, no idea. You have to have a reading
from a passage of the official studio tour script in
your audition. Upon reviewing all submissions in person, callbacks will
(07:54):
be made to those who qualify. The job also affords
team members the welcomed ability for broad job flexibility.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
They say.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Guides who have landed roles in a play, movie, or
commercial may require time off from their role.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
As studio tour guides.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
It's the same job flexibility many performers require when they
opt for posts at restaurants, wait staff or car service drivers,
for example.
Speaker 4 (08:16):
So there you go.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Gig economy, get your gig inside the studio, foot in
the door, at least somebody's gonna recognize your face. You
never know, that could be your big break. I'm thinking
about it because Lord knows my break hasn't come organically.
All right, Still to continue, there's no business like sel business.
Bad celebrities behaving very badly. Next Chris MERYLFI AM six
(08:40):
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Speaker 1 (08:42):
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Speaker 4 (08:49):
There's no business.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
Live shel business.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
We've talked about the Pope he's dead now and the
Spike and people viewing conclave as well as two Popes,
which stars Anthony Hopkins and Jonathan Price.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
Jonathan Price a dead ringer for h Pope Francis.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
I got a few feedbacks here on the talk back line.
Speaker 4 (09:10):
Shall be Pope Peter? Are we are we doing bets
on that? What's the do we? You know?
Speaker 2 (09:19):
They all they picked their own pope name? What is
the pope you wouldn't want to be? Are we going
to see a new pope name? Or are we gonna
go back to classic pope names like you know Francis,
Benedict John Paul that kind of thing.
Speaker 4 (09:33):
Are we gonna go like like Pope Rashad. I'd be
in for that. I hope it's not something super modern though,
like Pope Dakota. The first Pope Bill Well, I go,
Pope William. That's fine. Oh not William though, just Bill
(09:54):
Bill Bob, Pope Bob. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
Uh, what if it's something really hip like Pope Fresh?
Speaker 4 (10:05):
I like that Pope Fresh. The second I dig that.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
The one that was kind of weird was pious, like pious.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
I think that's because you're a pious individual, isn't it? Well, Pope,
but there was a Pope Pious. There were like ten
of them, weren't they? Yeah, exactly. Well, the intrigue continues.
All right, what else do we have here? Oh? More popiness?
I think? Hey, Chris, it's a big one from Orange County. Hey, buddy,
(10:34):
how are we here a hunching the beach ding dong
with you?
Speaker 2 (10:37):
Listen, we're stealing all of Tim Conway's good bits minutes.
Speaker 4 (10:41):
I'm with you. Oh yeah, okay, hang on.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
So if you missed it, they were measuring the increase
in viewership on the Conclave running on Paramount and then
on Amazon Prime and they were saying, well, this streaming
was up over eighteen million minutes.
Speaker 4 (10:58):
I hate that. How many minutes people watched?
Speaker 2 (11:01):
I wont to know how many views were there, how
many people watched it, how many view I don't want
to know how many people started watching it and then
tuned out after the first five minutes.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
That's garbage. I hate that. That is not a rating system.
I don't like that at all. Minutes. I'm with you, that's bull.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
Yep, they need to you know, how many households, how
many accounts?
Speaker 4 (11:24):
Amen? Five million accounts?
Speaker 2 (11:26):
Yes, three million households, yes, whatever, yep, not people not
even minutes?
Speaker 4 (11:31):
What the bloody hell? What the bloody hell?
Speaker 1 (11:34):
Anyway, happy Sunday pal made good choices this coming.
Speaker 4 (11:38):
Week, very good.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Can you imagine if newspaper circulation was measured in how
many letters were read? I mean, they don't even measure
it in hours, it's how many minutes were viewed. No,
how many words of the newspaper were read that determines
their circulation. Yeah, absolute garbage. All right, celebrities behaving badly.
(12:05):
You maybe heard Mo Kelly teasing that they're going to
talk a little bit about Shannon Sharp.
Speaker 4 (12:10):
Shannon Sharp says he's going to put a pause on things.
Speaker 8 (12:12):
Football Hall of Famer and broadcaster Shannon Sharp says he's
stepping aside from his job at ESPN in light of
new rape allegations. On Sunday, a woman filed a fifty
million dollar.
Speaker 4 (12:22):
Civil lawsuit in the state of Nevada.
Speaker 8 (12:24):
It accuses the fifty four year old of raping her
multiple times. The claim says the pair was in a
quote rocky consensual relationship for nearly two years, and Sharp
was allegedly frequently aggressive, and she says raped her. Sharp
says he needs time away from ESPN to be with
his family and.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
Fight the quote false allegations.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Yeah, Plus, his lawyers probably told him, you need to
get out of the public spotlight because they're going to
use anything against you. Kind of like if you are
involved in any sort of a court case, I don't
care if you're the plintiver, the defendant, if you're the
prosecuting attorney, or if if you are the purp doing
the walk.
Speaker 4 (13:02):
Get off social media. Fact, just get off social media
because they're gonna use it against you.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
So if you're involved in a civil suit, get off
social media, get off TV.
Speaker 4 (13:17):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
Flat out. Let me see, Kayla, you love Kanye? Is
he gotten to any sayer lately?
Speaker 4 (13:29):
No? Oh okay, let's not response. She's mad at me. Now,
I'm not lumping you in. I just thought you liked
yay yay. No, yes not.
Speaker 6 (13:38):
This nondescript warehouse is the center of noise and other complaints, and,
according to multiple neighbors, is used by rapper Yea also
known as Kanye West, for parties, rehearsals, and casting calls.
Police have responded here multiple times in the past. LAPD
confirmed they received seven noise complaints since the beginning of
the year, but no action was ultimately taken.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
I would love to have an extra warehouse. Don't that's
sound like fun? Oh you guys are like Raoul. Would
you back me up on this? Should be fun to
have an extra warehouse.
Speaker 4 (14:12):
Yeah, I'd throw parties kidding.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
There would never be a reason for me not to
buy the newest tool at home depot because I would
have room for it. I'd start filling up with not
very classic cars. I'd basically turn into a total redneck
if I.
Speaker 4 (14:28):
Had a warehouse, turn into one.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
You shush, I would not have that. For instance, my folks,
live in a really red necky area. And uh, there's
a house that you pass, I say, house that's generous
because it started as a trailer. Then they parked another
trailer next to it and welded it together into a
double wide. And then they built a roof over the
top with four by four posts and leftover plywood. But
(14:54):
they have no joke. I Google map of this because
you can't see them all from the road. They had
like a line of semi truck semi trailers, and I
went and what are they keeping them there?
Speaker 4 (15:03):
And we just assumed dead bodies.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
But you also see that they they're always dragging in
another old beat up car. It looks like a junkyard.
I pulled it up on Google Maps, you know the
aerial view. Oh my gosh, they must have three hundred
cars in there. I mean they're stuffed back.
Speaker 4 (15:17):
In the woods. They've got like a burm built up
so you can't see them all from the road. It's crazy.
They treat those things like treasures.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
And I just think, what kind of redneck keeps a
bunch of cars out in the field. You know, what
kind of redneck keeps a bunch of cars out in
the field. A redneck that doesn't have a warehouse. If
you had a warehouse, you'd keep them in the warehouse.
That's what I would do.
Speaker 6 (15:38):
Police were also called out to the area near Kingsley
and Beverly after a swastika was spray painted on the
white walls of this building. Neighbors say, the music, you.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
Know, if it's Yay's warehouse, though, you kind of wonder
was somebody tagging it with a bunch of racist stuff
or was Kanye decorating?
Speaker 6 (15:54):
Is blaring from speakers sometimes late at night. Yay is
no stranger to controversy has been accused of making anti
Semitic comments before. Last month, a flyer with Ya's name
on it was circulated seeking all male volunteers for a
quote hooligan choir. In both letters it read quote no
fat people and must be comfortable wearing swastikas and had oh.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
So no fat people and must be comfortable wearing swastikas. Okay, Well,
now you narrowed your choices. You usually you can get
one or the.
Speaker 6 (16:24):
Other becaus and had this location listed. Neighbors say this
has been going on for the past few months, sometimes
multiple days in a row, and sometimes a few times
a week. One neighbor told me that he did try
and talk to the security guards at this location, but
nothing was done. Reporting live. You're in East Hollywood, Kimberly
Chang k Taly five.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
I thank you, Kimberly. We appreciate that. All right, Well,
good luck. I guess Yay's looking for some guys to
hang out with. If you're skinny and have Nazi tendencies,
maybe it's a fun hang for you.
Speaker 4 (17:00):
I don't know, all right.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
Parenting is changing globally, not so much in the United
States unless you're a mother in Texas who's trying to
make sure their fifth grader is the coolest one in school.
Speaker 4 (17:11):
It's all next.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
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Speaker 1 (17:16):
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Speaker 4 (17:20):
The Legend of Doctor Wendy Walsh joins us. Coming up
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Speaker 2 (17:24):
A fifteen minutes and we'll find out what she's got
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Speaker 4 (17:39):
We asked earlier in the show.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
For those of you that have been listening for a while,
you know that we said we were gonna do a
story about spanking and were you spanked as a child,
and then did you or do you spank your kids?
And I think everybody that called said that they did
get spanked as a child. I don't think we had
anybody call that said otherwise. Right, nobody left mess said Nope,
I wasn't spank but I wish I had been, or no,
(18:02):
I wasn't spanked, and thank goodness, I wasn't.
Speaker 5 (18:04):
There was nothing like that, none of the I wish
I had been, so for sure, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
It turned into more of a oh yeah, well my
spanking was so bad, right, It turned into my mother
broke this item on my butt, so we had yardstick
and wooden spoons and that kind of thing, you know.
Volvos so my I have a couple of stories about this.
But the reason I talk about it is I was
(18:29):
I was reading I don't know if you've ever been
to study finds. Kala is great for show prep studyfines
dot org, and so there's this study about spanking, and
worldwide we're seeing the the instances of spanking changing. In
(18:49):
the United States, we still have the majority of adults
say spanking is fine, but globally it is changing. Sixty
eight countries have banned the hitting of children in any form,
including spanking. It started in nineteen seventy nine. Speden banned
(19:11):
all forms of physical punishment, including spanking, in any setting
and including in the family home. So not even just
wopping your kid for misbehaving in the grocery store, even
at home. You can't spank your kid in Sweeden. And
we did have We had somebody called that said, I
wish we had more spanking because the kids these days
they need to they need to have more respect and fear.
(19:35):
And I mean, I understand the sentiment, and I don't
disagree because I'm getting old, which means that I always
think my generation was better than the last generation. But
I don't know that we would say all of the
other countries are morally bankrupt. So when we talk about
(19:56):
the number of countries that have banned spanking, do we
think of.
Speaker 4 (20:03):
Thailand as being somehow.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
Lenient when you think of misbehaving youngsters, Does Turkmenistan come
to mind? Probably not, probably not, But I mean this
is why I said at the time, when by the way,
I'm not not criticizing what anybody's viewpoint was here, because
(20:27):
I certainly understand how you came to that. I just
think we have to be careful when we start saying
that the correlation equals causation. If you feel like upcoming
generations are morally bankrupt and then you say, well, it's
because of spanking, well, Japan doesn't allow spanking either, So
do we think, man, those Japanese kids, they're just completely
(20:48):
out of control?
Speaker 4 (20:49):
Probably not. Probably don't think that.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
So there may be some other things as far as
shifting generational divide. In the United States, did you know
it is legal in every state to allow Every state
allows spanking, but there are different child abuse laws. The
one thing that all states have in common. Every state
allows you to hit your kid if you don't leave
(21:15):
an injury or a mark, which pro tip is why
you should always wap your kid upside the head with
your left hand because your left hand is where you.
Speaker 4 (21:26):
Have your ring finger. So just it's behind the hair,
you know what I mean, A little funk behind the hair.
I remember that I taught you about chanklas you didn't
know about Channklas, I did not, but chocolates. Yeah. In fact,
do you know what I found out?
Speaker 2 (21:41):
One of the guys I worked with, I said something
about Chonkola's and he's just started laughing because he knew it.
Speaker 4 (21:45):
He's Hispanic. And I go, I learned about Chanklas and
he goes, he goes, oh, yeah, the flying Chonklass. Then
I find out that there's a minor league baseball team
called the Chonklass. Did you know this? No? I didn't. Yeah,
it's in Texas. So I ordered him a hat. I
can't remember if it's Elpaso or whatever it is they've got.
It's like a.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
Picture of a flip flop flying through the air. That's
their logo. The chocolate where you know, Madre would remove
the chocolate and whip it at their kid. Somehow it
was like a heat seeking missile, right, that's what you
were describing, absolutely missile. Somehow Madre was able to toss
(22:24):
that chocolate. It was it was able to make ninety
degree turns. You couldn't hide around a corner because the
chocolate would still somehow hit you. It's my understanding on that.
What about the switch, did you ever have to go
pick a switch. No, no, no, I didn't either. I
had a teacher that threatened it at a teacher that
threatened to paddle us. She did end up paddling one
kid in class, wasn't me uh, And then she would
(22:47):
threaten people to go get a switch. And that's when
I learned that a switch is just a small branch
or you know, you just snap a small and and
then I talked to some kids who did have to
have the switch, and they said they would get They
would actually get larger ones. The bigger the diameter of
that of that branch, the better because the small ones
(23:07):
stung more. They said, I would have thought that the
big ones would give more more haf but no, they said,
the small ones really stung.
Speaker 4 (23:15):
So anyway, you're allowed to do that.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
In some states you can use a switch, like Oklahoma,
I know you can use a switch. That's what I remember.
The running back Adrian Peterson. He got in trouble for
switching his kid. Remember when he was rung. They were
chasing him down on child abuse charges and all that stuff. Yeah, yeah,
and it was because he had, yeah, used a switch.
So anyway, I thought that was interesting as the rest
(23:38):
of the world is moving beyond that.
Speaker 4 (23:40):
I have a couple of thoughts on this. First is
a quick story.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
I mentioned earlier that my mother broke a wooden spoon
on my butt, and I think she went through two
or three of those, and then she finally got tired
of that. We were having some remodeling done. She asked
the carpenter to take a scrap piece of wood and
make her a paddle. So she had a custom paddle made.
Now it wasn't like it was tailor to her hand
(24:06):
or I mean, he basically just cut out the paddle
shape and then gave it to her out of a
piece of press boarder, plywood or something.
Speaker 4 (24:12):
But she named it. That was Peter Paddle. He sat
on top of the refrigerator.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
All Mom had to do is walk toward the fridge
and raise her hand like she was reaching on top.
Speaker 4 (24:18):
And that was it. We shut up. That was it.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
Then we did not want Peter Paddle. But one of
my favorite stories about spanking is this. My brother he
loves it when I tell this story too, because I
revealed the whole world. My brother was a bedwetter, and
so he must have been on He was probably four.
I was seven, and we had done something and Mom
(24:42):
went and got Peter Paddle, and there was You hated
Peter Paddle. You really hated being second. You did not
want your brother to go first. I just had one brother.
I hated when he went first because that was just
it was the anxiety rose. I mean, there's one thing
about being grabbed, you know, picked up by the arm,
(25:03):
thrown over your knee, and the next thing you know,
you're being paddled.
Speaker 4 (25:05):
That's one thing.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
But when you have to stand there and waits psychological torture.
So anyway, we got in trouble this one time and
my brother and I we had bedrooms on the second floor.
At the base of the stairs was a doorway, and
that doorway took us into the rest of the house
so my parents could close that door. The bottom of
the house was closed off. It was an older house
(25:27):
and uh kind of an old farmhouse that we lived in.
And I don't know if the second story was added
later what. But anyway, so I get to spanking screwed,
you know, and I'm crying and it hurts. She says,
now go to bed.
Speaker 4 (25:47):
So I grabbed my button.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
I'm doing the I'm doing the whole you know, running
on my tiptoes dance because my butt hurts so bad.
And I get to that door and I and I
uh and I.
Speaker 4 (25:58):
Run up the stairs.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
And now the other advantage of being first is that
you got to hear your brother get it. So I'm
sitting at the top of the stairs, and if there's
anything that makes that pain go away, it's hearing whack
my little brother, who I'm pretty sure was probably the
(26:19):
reason we were getting paddled in the first place. A
little instigating turd and then whack slowly, my my sadness
is turning into a little bit of a smile. Third whack.
Now go to bed. My brother grabs his button, he said.
(26:40):
He gets to the bottom of the stairs and my
parents slammed the door. My brother's another going as soon
as that door slamy and he stopped and he looked
up the stairs and he said, didn't hurt. Had my
diaper on that little son.
Speaker 4 (27:00):
For that?
Speaker 2 (27:02):
Now, I never spanked my kids, And the reason is
there's step kids and the contentious relationship that my wife
had with her X.
Speaker 4 (27:14):
He always said, if.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
He ever lays a hand in my kids, have him
called the cops. Whatever so we just avoided the whole situation.
So obviously there were times that my kids needed to
be disciplined, and you know what, I found it required
me to be more measured and more disciplined.
Speaker 4 (27:29):
I wasn't always good at it though. Sometimes I would
just turn to yelling.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
I tried to intimidate the kids, because really, when we're spanking,
that's what we're doing, right, We're intimidating the kids. We're
creating fear. And so I have a very big voice,
and I would I would do that. I can't say
I'm proud of it. I'm not saying that it was great.
But I was at my wits end, and I realized
that the times that I wanted to spank my kids
are the times I didn't.
Speaker 4 (27:50):
Know what else to do.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
I didn't know how else to parents, and so I
went back to the way that my parents did it.
Speaker 4 (27:59):
They hit me right.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
And so what I realized is that when I wasn't
allowed to spank the kids because I didn't want to
deal with the ex husband calling the cops all that
other mallarchy, it forced me to be more creative. And
so I can't say I'm a fan of spanking. I
don't condemn you if you did, because my parents did.
I turned out okay. Well, I mean I'm probably an
(28:24):
example why you shouldn't. But I don't condemn you if
you spank your kids. I don't have any problem if
you spank your kids. I would have a problem if
you lose control or if you're spanking your kids because
you don't know any other way, that would challenge you
to find a better way. All Right, I'm gonna tell
you about this Texas mother who tried to be the
(28:45):
coolest mom in her fifth grader's class. It didn't work
out very well. Maybe she needs a spanking, and then
we'll talk with the great doctor Wendy Walsh for our
short free counseling session before she takes over with doctor
Wendy after dark.
Speaker 4 (28:58):
That is next.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
Chris Merril k AM six forty were lilive everywhere in
your iHeartRadio ABB.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand, Chris Berrel.
Speaker 4 (29:07):
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
It's more stimulating talk Kyla, I didn't listen to this.
You sent me another talk back here? Can I play this?
Speaker 4 (29:15):
Well? Maybe just get ready with the dump button because
I haven't listened to this, so I don't know if
they say anything. You're good? Are you ready on this? Okay?
I just wanted to make.
Speaker 7 (29:23):
Sure I'm from generation X. And I also had a
parent who used a wooden paddle on me. Yeah, it
was the paddle that was used when they made the
polenta from Italian descent, and they actually ended up breaking
in and have my dad with a little new one. Also,
I went to Catholic school and I remember we used
to have a teacher that whenever you didn't pay attention,
(29:46):
he would pick you up white from your sideburn.
Speaker 4 (29:50):
Wow, Oh my gosh, I'm not a fan of that.
He's picking you up by the sideburn. It's is that right?
How about this?
Speaker 2 (29:59):
We got a mother in tech, Teresa Bernal. She's thirty three.
Sounds like she was trying to be cool. She was
in charge of bringing in treats for the Christmas party.
I don't know why it took four months with the
story to hit the mainstream, but it did. So she
went to a home business that she found on Facebook,
(30:20):
and I got these little cups full of jello, brought
them in for the kids. Laid him out at a
table along with all the other treats that the kids
brought to share. But then the kids, the kids ate
the little, the little solo cups of jello, and they
started having stomach aches and headaches.
Speaker 4 (30:42):
One student vomited twice at school that day.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
Another one passed out because they were, of course, jello shots.
Speaker 4 (30:51):
I don't know. I guess the mother's in trouble.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
Now, she's incostody her kids might get taken away. Sounds
like a bunch of nonsense to me, just because she's
the coolest mom there sarcasm. I always have to say that,
Doctor Wendy Walsh, Doctor Wendy after Dark joining Us. Doctor Wendy, Hey,
I shouldn't even have to say sarcasm. When I say
(31:14):
things like that. You think people would get it, but
they don't. I always gonna you're promoting kids getting drunk.
I always get that.
Speaker 9 (31:19):
Well, some people don't have the perception to pick up
this idea of sarcasm, so it's nice to qualify it,
although I say a kind of sarcastic things.
Speaker 4 (31:29):
Did you see the.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
Story this week, doctor Wendy, that George and Namal Clooney
say that they never fight. They've been together for ten years,
and they were talking with I don't know. I think
they were talking. Oh, you know, who's the one that
just went to the space that Gail King Oprah's front. Yeah,
they were talking with Gil King a couple of years
ago and they said that they had never fought, never
(31:51):
had to fight over anything. And so then they went
back last week and they were talking about his new
Broadway show or whatever, and she asked about it, and
he says, no, we still haven't.
Speaker 4 (32:01):
We're trying to find something to fight about.
Speaker 5 (32:02):
Huh huh huh.
Speaker 4 (32:04):
No, Well, is that even healthy to not fight?
Speaker 9 (32:09):
Well, we can't judge because we're not inside the relationship.
Speaker 4 (32:12):
I can.
Speaker 9 (32:12):
I will say that in general, I have I am
of the personal opinion that you if you never have
a disagreement and you never have intimacy, right, so you Yeah.
On the other hand, there are some people that are
pretty darn compatible, Like Julio and I have been together
five years and we've only had I think two fights,
(32:33):
maybe three. He takes off on his motorcycle not a
good idea when he's mad, and I take off power
walking around them both times. That's what happened when we
had our little fight. Then we came back together, like
an hour later, but.
Speaker 4 (32:44):
You had to have your space.
Speaker 9 (32:46):
Yeah, cool off, Yeah exactly, and then we're fine.
Speaker 4 (32:49):
That sounds right to me. And I'm not even as
smart as you.
Speaker 9 (32:52):
But maybe George Clooney believes happy wife, happy life, and
therefore he's a good husband and goes, yes, dear, you
haven't learned that yet, happy wife, happy life.
Speaker 4 (33:08):
You know what I've learned? What I don't need to
die in every hill?
Speaker 9 (33:12):
Yeah exactly.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
And that's tough for me because I U, I don't
know what it is. My father's argumentative. My brother is
terribly argumentative, which I'm fraid it's from him. My mother
is very stubborn, but she turns very passive aggressive, and
she just shuts down and goes, okay, if that's what
you want, and then.
Speaker 4 (33:27):
You're supposed to come begging her for whatever.
Speaker 2 (33:30):
So I mean, I still work on it where I
just want to I want to argue about things because
I you know.
Speaker 4 (33:37):
That's how are you were raised to argue? Yeah, yeah,
kinda like you have to load the dishwasher this way
because if you do it that way, it's not gonna
get clean. Makes perfect.
Speaker 9 (33:48):
My sweet Julio used to criticize the way I loaded
the dishwasher and the way I washed dishes, and so
I just quietly sat down and boored myself another glass
of wine. I haven't touched a dish since because doing
it wrong. So he does dishes everybody.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
That doesn't go both ways because if and I'm gonna
be this is gender stereotyping. But if I'm vacuuming wrong,
then my wife I can't say, Okay, well will you
vacuum that that?
Speaker 5 (34:13):
Hey?
Speaker 4 (34:13):
You can?
Speaker 2 (34:14):
You're not helping around here? Well I don't do it right,
and it turns into a fight.
Speaker 4 (34:18):
On his own.
Speaker 9 (34:19):
Yeah, Well, it doesn't have to be a fight. You
can literally turn and say would you prefer that I
continue to vacuum or would you like to take over
the vacuuming so it will be done better?
Speaker 4 (34:30):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (34:31):
Well, when it comes to the dishwasher, I just do it,
do it myself because I'm gonna have to do it
anyway when those dishes don't come clean.
Speaker 4 (34:36):
Unbelievable. What are you going on today?
Speaker 3 (34:38):
Oh?
Speaker 9 (34:38):
We got to talk about Shannon Sharp. Oh, I know,
accused of rape, fifty million dollars civil suit. There's a
lot of he says, she says going on here? But
there's some background on him that I dug up on
the old internet. We'll talk about. Also, I read this
interesting article written by a dude talking about how great
(35:04):
it is to be forty and single because he has
technically avoided his first divorce, and he goes through all
these pulled cherry picks, the research, all these reasons why
he's happy, and he's so lucky that he saves so
much money and so much emotional pain and really great.
He's basically saying, don't worry if you end up still
(35:27):
single in your forties, it's okay. But he's a dude.
This doesn't work for a woman who wants to reproduce.
Speaker 2 (35:34):
No, women are reproducing now, we're done with that.
Speaker 4 (35:37):
That's the previous generation.
Speaker 2 (35:39):
Also, did you see that new number that women more
women over forty have are having babies.
Speaker 4 (35:43):
Than teenage women under twenty. Yeah, yeah, yeah, of course that's crazy.
Speaker 9 (35:46):
Yeah, because teenage pregnancy rates have been going down because
of the advent of birth control, and women have been
delaying childbirths. So yeah, makes sense. I had my second
one at age forty one, really, and I'm tired, Yeah, exhausting.
They kept me young, you know, it's funny, like when
I first became a mom, I would kind of hide
(36:09):
it because I felt like it aged me somehow. Let's
say I was going to an audition or a meeting
or something. I wouldn't make sure I had a babysitter,
and no one ever knew. By the time I got
to the second, I wore that baby on my hip
everywhere because it made me look young.
Speaker 4 (36:23):
Oh nice, I like that was in my.
Speaker 9 (36:25):
Forties with this baby going, Oh say, I'm just thirty two.
Speaker 4 (36:28):
Can't wait till the next PTA meeting. This is gonna
be great.
Speaker 2 (36:32):
Love it, Doctor Wendy after dark. I'm looking forward to
doctor Wendy Walsh.
Speaker 4 (36:35):
Thank you so much. You're the best. Kayla, another great week,
well done. Loved your work this week.
Speaker 2 (36:40):
Raoul Man, you kept me calm because I uh, I
was freaking out about a sound I had on my
microphone and rose like, everything's cool, Man, Everything's cool.
Speaker 4 (36:48):
You're the best. Brigina, love seeing you again.
Speaker 2 (36:52):
If you haven't watched Brigita's insta is fire, you gotta
follow it.
Speaker 4 (36:55):
Can I use that word right? I appreciate it. You did?
I did? Okay? All right?
Speaker 2 (37:00):
Too old to be saying there you guys have a
great week. I'll be back next Sunday. H kf I
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