December 21, 2025 • 32 mins
There's no business like show business. Chris is covering the latest with Rob and Michelle Reiner, TikTok making a deal with the USA, and Gen Z and the work place. That and so much more on KFIAM-640.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:07):
Hang it in and Chris Merril I AM six forty
more stimulating talk on demand anytime in the eye Heart
Radio app. When you're on that app, you see that
little talkback button. If you hit that, click on the
talk back gives you thirty seconds and then you can
tell us what the best part about the holidays is
and what is the worst part about the holidays? And
good feedback where Kayler revealed the best part about the
holidays for her is the cookies. Nice job, Kayler, really
(00:30):
really well done. Felt like that one was a bit obvious,
but that's fine. Do you do like the sugar cookies
with just a like a half inch of frosting on top?
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Do I hate that? Oh you do?
Speaker 4 (00:42):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (00:43):
I'm a chocolate chippy girl.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Okay, all right, I'm actually with you on that one.
I feel like the sugar cookies is just it's too much.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
What about gingerbread?
Speaker 2 (00:51):
So gingerbread is a funny one because you never eat
it any other time of the year, you know, and
it's it's got a very unique.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
Yeah, it's really tough for me to gage gingerbread cookies.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
If I'm being totally honest, because it's one of those
deals where you're like, this is okay right now, but
then also it's kind of like, uh, this is too
much right now.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
I would never want this any other time. That's how
I am on it.
Speaker 5 (01:19):
That was to never have another gingerbread cookie for the
rest of my life.
Speaker 6 (01:22):
I'd be a Okay, you haven't tried my gingerbread cookies.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Okay, I'm a great gingerbread That's what everybody says. That's
true that your Is that in your Hinge profile? He should?
Oh he has a girl put that in there.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Oh okay, sorry, is that in your Tinder profile?
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Okay? It would be so the thing the other I
have a problem.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
With gingerbread too, because when I was in sixth grade,
I had an assignment.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
We were supposed to make a model of.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Champlain's Fort, which is in Canada, and so we came
up with this ambuster idea to make a gingerbread house
that was the fort, and I got an A plus
on it.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
My teacher loved it. The whole class ate the gingerbread.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
But we cooked so much gingerbread, made all these little
square I mean, we're basically making dry wall gingerbread, and
I ate so much of it I got, and so
whenever I smell gingerbread.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
Now I just kind of have the rule.
Speaker 5 (02:21):
It's always the worst when, like one experience from way back,
when life even really matter, ruins things when it does matter.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
Yeah, gingerbread.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
That's the other problem I have with the ginger Yeah,
all right, is that your go to? I'lli gingerbread cookies.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
Okay. I love making them. I love eating them. Okay.
I used to give them out to people in school.
Do you ever hurl from eating too many of them? Never? O? Never?
Speaker 5 (02:45):
Fine, Ali, bring me some cookies.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
I'll take it.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
There we go, all right, very good, welcome, all right,
this conversation is useless.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
Uh, there's no business like shell business.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
The most devastating show business news this week is not
that Warner rejected Paramount's bid, because honestly, doesn't matter who
buys Warner, we're all gonna get hosed out of that deal.
The most devastating news, of course, is everything they had
to do with Rob and Michelle Singer, riiners, horrible deaths,
horrible deaths. That news broke about a week ago, almost
(03:17):
exactly a week ago, we were doing the show and
I remember it was about a six thirty commercial break
where all of a sudden I got the alert and
it was like, you gotta be kidding me.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
This can't be true.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
And it was like they found bodies at the home
of the Riiners, and in your mind, you're going just
please let it not be them, Please let it not
be them, Please let it not be them. And then
of course, obviously it turned out in a way that
we didn't like. Yeah, So here we are a week later,
and we know, all right, it was probably the sun. Again,
(03:48):
it is until proven guilty, but there's a lot of
evidence it seems against him.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
And so then the question is why did he do it?
And was he was he out of his mind?
Speaker 2 (04:00):
And I think this is going to be key to
the defense because the more you hear about what was happening,
the more you think, oh, they're going to try to
run with an insanity plea. So there's an addiction specialist
talking with Entertainment tonight. His name is Richard Tait, and
he was talking about this revelation this week that came
out that Nick Reiner, accused of killing his parents, was schizophrenic.
Speaker 7 (04:22):
As for Nick's mental state, I just read a report
that was saying that he had schizophrenia and that the
medications made him dangerous.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
I wonder what the addiction specialist says about that. How
many times do you hear people saying, oh, that was
the medication, they did it. I always have trouble believing
that the medication made someone worse. But also, I'm not
a pharmacist, I'm not a doctor. I don't know. But
oftentimes you'll have somebody that'll be on like an antidepressant,
and then they'll do something and then they say, well,
(04:52):
it was the antidepressant's fault, and you go, was it really?
Because I feel like if they hadn't been taking it,
that they were in a not great spot either.
Speaker 6 (04:59):
You don't get you don't jibe with that.
Speaker 8 (05:01):
Now, listen, when you change your meds, it typically takes
six weeks for it even to start working, okay, and
all of a sudden, you know, he's diagnosed with schizophrenia.
I mean, look, what other defense does he have.
Speaker 7 (05:15):
Is it true, though, that using drugs like cocaine or
amphetamines can increase the risk of developing schizophrenia?
Speaker 6 (05:23):
Is that true?
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Does she know the answer to that question? I feel
like she does.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
I mean, a good reporter typically knows the answer to
a question like that before they ask the expert.
Speaker 8 (05:35):
Schizophrenia like symptoms that are hard to distinguish from schizophrenia.
That's a more accurate statement.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
That feels like we're splitting hairs. Could he have so?
Is he schizophrenic?
Speaker 4 (05:50):
No?
Speaker 3 (05:50):
He just acts like it what Wait a minute, what
is it? H Do you have lung cancer?
Speaker 2 (05:58):
No, but you have some lung cancer looking spots on
your lungs and you're coughing up and you're dying. It
feels like lung cancer.
Speaker 6 (06:03):
Then could he have snapped? If he relapsed?
Speaker 8 (06:06):
It depends, right, the circumstances have to support it.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
I feel like this addiction specialist is really good at
his job. Genuinely, he's really good, and he doesn't want
to get pinned down on black and white binary choices.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
Is it good? Is it bad?
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Like he sees the nuance in addiction. It's not great
for news clips though.
Speaker 8 (06:29):
So in this case, what I've been reading is he
was at this party and he was exhibiting bizarre and
aberrant behavior.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
That was the.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
That was the Colin O'Brien party, right where they were
like everybody was reporting or they got into a fight.
Speaker 8 (06:43):
They arrested him in the south central Los Angeles area,
in an area where people score dope there.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
People well, that feels like, no, that's accurate. People buy
drugs there.
Speaker 6 (06:55):
A new report today claims party.
Speaker 7 (06:56):
Goers wanted to call nine one one, but host Conan
O'Brien and talk them out of it.
Speaker 6 (07:01):
Conan hasn't commented and what could have been the motive.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Yeah, before we get to that, imagine you're having a party.
Just imagine you're having a big blowout. You're a celebrity,
You got a bunch of celebrities around you, and then
there's an argument between one of the biggest in Hollywood.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
And his son who has had trouble for years.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Right, Imagine that's your party, and then imagine that somebody
else comes up to you and says we should call
nine one one. I mean, the last thing you want
is for all of a sudden, your party ends up
lastered all over page six and the Hollywood Reporter to
talk about how, oh, Conan's party goes off the rails.
Conan loses control of his own party. Conan this Conan
(07:42):
that so I totally understand why Conan O'Brian would say, whoh,
maybe we don't call nine one one. Let's let's figure
out how we can kind of we don't need to
draw attention to this, right And you've got a number
of other celebrities there that are like, look, I'm here
and discretion is going to be key, and don't go
to these Hollywood parties because I want to end up
in the police blotterer as a witness to something. So yeah,
(08:05):
let's maybe not call nine one one. I totally understand
why Conan would not do it. I would be interested
in talking him today to find out what's going on
in his head because I don't second guess that decision
not to call the authorities at his party. That makes
sense to me in the moment. In hindsight, however, you
(08:25):
have to wonder if he's thinking, man, if I had
called nine one one, what if?
Speaker 3 (08:30):
Right?
Speaker 6 (08:32):
One theory sheer anger fueled by drugs.
Speaker 7 (08:35):
Nick, who was living in the family guest house, was
reportedly under the care of a psychiatrist after recent alarming behavior.
Our source says he was lonely and unhappy and didn't
regularly attend AA yah.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
So people it works for other people. It doesn't work,
and it's a process. You know, we last the part recovery. Yeah.
Speaker 7 (08:56):
Do you see addicts that may have been on different
types of drugs that have ever blacked out, have gotten
violent and.
Speaker 6 (09:04):
Just simply have no idea what they've done.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
That's a really good question. Can he walk into a
courtroom and say, my defense is I don't remember any
of it. I was so not in my right mind
that I know more about it from the news than
I do for my own memory.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
Twice twice he.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
Said, can you think of a time that it's happened?
Speaker 3 (09:26):
He said twice twice.
Speaker 6 (09:28):
Could he have been having hallucinations?
Speaker 8 (09:30):
If you're up for longer than three days, you hallucinate
all the time, and you're gonna be paranoid.
Speaker 9 (09:38):
There were disagreements, arguments, and times that was really rough.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
All right, So you're hearing more of that anyway, So
expect to hear the the insanity plea not in his
right mind. It seems like TikTok's future was living in
a perpetual maybe limbo. Now we've got a signed deal,
we've got a deadline, got a board full of a Amerrikans,
and still the same questions about who really is controlling
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your feed that Jacob is next.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
From the talkbacks.
Speaker 4 (10:13):
You should check out Carolina. That's with the k Prosenko's
version of All I Want for Christmas's you. She's about
five years old at the time. She's a violin savant
and the version of her playing that is her violin version,
(10:34):
very very terrific. Carolina Protsenko, Kyla, you heard of her now.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
I looked it up on the YouTube and I found
a version where she was on the street and he's right,
she's about five. And then I found a version she
looks like she's about nine, so obviously she's honed her
skills a little bit. Doesn't sound like such a five
year old playing anymore. This is what like a nine
year old sounds like.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
Fun.
Speaker 10 (11:36):
That's not her on saxophone. That's pretty good.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
I mean I could do that, you know, but I'm
not nying either, So I got a lot of years
of experience and I could probably definitely do that.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
I think it probably take a couple lessons. I probably
have that nailed down.
Speaker 6 (12:02):
Yep, yep, No, I think a nine year old is.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
Better than you.
Speaker 7 (12:07):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
Probably pretty good at that. Okay.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Actually, according to this YouTube, which this was posted uh
four years ago, says she lives in Simmy Valley.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
All right, well, somebody tell us she made it on
the radio. I get excited. I get to be on
the radio. Fun for me. I'm sure that's one of
those things that just blows up on TikTok. It's just huge, huge.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
On the TikTok. Everybody loves kids and pats on the
TikTok love that.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
I thought we were getting.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
Rid of TikTok. I thought I thought we were said
to No, that was un American. You can't have TikTok anymore.
It's un American. In fact, I believe that it was
President forty five that said we have to get rid
of TikTok because the Chinese Communist Party is spying on
everybody and they really terrible, and we have to get
rid of it. And then we pass as the law
that said you're getting rid of TikTok and they're bad,
(13:04):
and then forty seven came around. Anyway, TikTok is great.
TikTok helped me get reelected. TikTok is great with the
young people's We have to find a way to keep them,
and then the deadline Campan He's like, deadlines don't matter,
We're gonna on deadline, and then another deadline. Company's like, no, seriously,
no deadline. We need to find good American owners that
are going to donate to me to buy TikTok. Well,
(13:24):
it finally happens, so we've got a TikTok deal.
Speaker 8 (13:26):
The apps parent company by Dance has signed binding agreements
to create a joint venture.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
Binding joint venture huge majority owned by American investors. NBC
Savannah Sellers joins us now with more to explain this.
It's from NBC News. By the way, Savana, could this
signal the end to that?
Speaker 2 (13:43):
I guess there's been years long fight about the ownership
of TikTok and America.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
What do we know about the investors here in the US?
Been a big fight. It's another war I ended. Make
it nine, it's nine.
Speaker 11 (13:52):
Wars have ended now, it really could, Tom And that's
a big deal because we've had so few details and
nothing really concrete here.
Speaker 6 (13:58):
I mean, here's what we know about the investors so far.
There's gon three.
Speaker 11 (14:01):
Major ones that they named Oracle, Silver Lake, and MGX
they're each going to take a fifteen percent in this
new company it's called TikTok USDs joint.
Speaker 6 (14:09):
Venture, and then a thirty percent.
Speaker 11 (14:11):
This is what's interesting, will be existing investors of Byte
Dance that is that parent company of TikTok that is
Chinese company, and that has been the major concern here.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
And then also okay, so they still own it. Oh,
I mean, why would bitte Dance want to divest. That's
where their money's coming in. So they don't want to
get rid of the thing. They still want to make
money on it. But also isn't the whole idea that
we get all the hands from anybody that has any
connection to the Chinese Communist.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
Party away from it.
Speaker 6 (14:37):
To comply with a lot.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
Honestly, we don't care. As long as we get to scroll.
That's it. We really don't. We are I can't believe
the Chinese.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
The chi coms, the chi comms are coming to take
our kids dance moves.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
No, we have to stop them. We were like, yeah,
but I'm going to keep scrolling. Okay.
Speaker 11 (14:53):
And then also to comply with a lot, just under
twenty percent they say will remain Bite Dance ownership.
Speaker 6 (14:59):
That's exactly what law said.
Speaker 11 (15:01):
Only twenty percent of either Chinese Byte Dance or any
foreign adversaries could own a piece of this.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
So that's okay.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
So we've got thirty percent Byte Dance investors in twenty
percent actual Byte Dance.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
Now that definitely feels like it's American owned. Now, that's
that's very good. Yep, that feels like American ownership. Yes,
definitely right now.
Speaker 11 (15:23):
It leaves a lot of questions, though, Tom, about a
lot of big numbers. Who's going to make up the
rest of those percentages?
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Do we know anything about the personal data because that
was the big concern by many members of Congress, including
some of the Trump administration. Right now, well, that's going
to continue to be sold, but now we're going to
make American dollars on it.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
Whether the Chinese could use this to spy on American absolutely.
Speaker 11 (15:42):
Was actually President Trump that brought it up himself in
his first term as a concern, and he also we
saw it pass out of committees with total bipartisan support
when any of this legislation was on the hill. So
it's a great question what they say they're going to
do about that, And again details are scarce but the
company does say that there's going to be a trusted
security partner. They're called it to essentially do an audit
on the data, and then after that step is completed,
(16:04):
Larry Ellison's Oracle, who's already been managing the data for
American users, will take that over in a more robust way.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
That's you know what this might be where Paramount screwed up.
Paramount probably should have pitched to Warner Brothers, Look, don't
go to Netflix, come to us. We're going to give
you more per share, and you're gonna have access to TikTok.
Right there was the whole deal Ellison and Larry Ellison
and then David Ellison, David Ellison's over Paramount, now Larry
Ellison's over Oracle.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
They could have swung a deal going on right there.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
They could have greased the wheels and told the told
Warner look, we're on the biggest, the biggest social media platform.
You want to be on the biggest social media platform,
Let's make it happen. But if you Stone Wallace, We're
going to figure out a way to make sure that
none of your crap ever gets retweeted, retalked, reticked, it
doesn't get ticked off.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
I don't know what they call it. I'm tragically square,
no doubt.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
Continue to ask you this, What is the best and
worst part about the holidays? We'll get your responses to
that here in just a moment. I'm Chris Merril.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
Oh you can't play this on me. You can't play this. No,
you can't do this one. This is how dare you?
Speaker 12 (17:20):
Baby?
Speaker 3 (17:21):
You can't do this.
Speaker 13 (17:22):
Christmas is not the same anymore.
Speaker 4 (17:23):
You know all those gingerbread houses you used to make, Well,
now they have.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
An ad a gingerbread adu on the back.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
I kind of like that one, actually, I mean they're
charging thirty two hundred bucks a month rent on it.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
But yeah, they've got the gingerbread adu in the back.
Totally absolutely true.
Speaker 4 (17:45):
All right, more bumper music suggestions. How about Santa Baby?
Speaker 3 (17:50):
No, we can't do that. No all they just played that.
I told him he can't play Santa Baby? What's wrong
with sona Baby? It's that's the rape song Santa Baby.
Oh No, that's the cold outside, isn't it. Yeah? That's wow,
just a super sexy one, right, I was like, we
can play this. What's going on? Sorry? I boned that
(18:11):
one up. Yeah, but it's okay.
Speaker 5 (18:14):
Maybe it is inappropriate, Santa Baby, slip it one under
about what?
Speaker 3 (18:18):
That's right? Crazy? You know what? That's inappropriate too. I'm
banning that one. All love songs about all love songs
are banned. Wasn't Santa Baby? Was that earth of kit
It was?
Speaker 2 (18:29):
Oh, she has the sexiest voice. God, she had a
sexy voice, wasn't she? She was like catwoman or something too?
And she was I got that right?
Speaker 3 (18:41):
Yeah, the Autumn West one, yeah, right, right right.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
It was a good looking lady, right there, good looking lady.
All right, the talkbacks, give me your best and your worst? Uh,
what you love the best about the holidays and what
you like the least about the holidays.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
Hey, Chris, I'm so with you about that gingerbread thing.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
When you get sick. That happened to me with old
English eight hundred.
Speaker 4 (19:02):
Can't even get near it anymore.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
It's been like forty years.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Yeah, I don't, No, I think when I'm talking about
a sixth grade project where I made a gingerbread house
or a gingerbread fort and I got sick, I think
that's different than you and your old English.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
But you know what, I'll allow it. That's fine. I
don't know.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
We both did different things in sixth grade. For me
it was gingerbread for you, that's fine. Whatever, that's cool, totally.
Caleb put him on.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
The on the list naughty list. Yeah, he's going on
the naughty list. That's not great, all right. From the talkbacks, you.
Speaker 14 (19:35):
Got some kind of the speech and panim it, whoa
you sound like a three?
Speaker 3 (19:43):
What Cayla? Did you swipe left on that guy? Is
that the problem?
Speaker 5 (19:47):
That guy is not somebody that's fun to be a right, he.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
Does not have He's not in the festive Christmas spirit.
Speaker 5 (19:53):
I bet everybody probably swipes left on him. He's pretty nasty.
Speaker 8 (19:59):
Ye.
Speaker 15 (20:00):
Good evening, Chris and Company at AD. My most enjoyable
evenings for Christmas would be after I have been doing
shopping at Frederick of Hollywood for my girlfriend and we
had a fashion show in store. We owned a couple
of bottles of my best champagne and start the insanity. Ah, yes,
(20:25):
good times.
Speaker 16 (20:25):
Indeed, Uh Kayla, did you you ever do a little
You take a babble of champagne and go do a
fashion show without actually buying the lungerie.
Speaker 5 (20:40):
Yeah, we're playing Dracula and Dracula's wife when we did it,
and it was so much fun.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
Come on, you did, didn't you?
Speaker 1 (20:48):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (20:48):
Yeah, who hasn't? Do you know? That reminds me of
this story.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
It's a it's not a Halloween story, or excuse me,
a holiday story.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
My wife drags me into the Hallmark store.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
Now you have to understand I am every bit as
a miserable person in real life as I am on
the air. I am just absolutely a curmudgeon. And my
poor wife deals with me, but also I begrudgingly go
along with whatever nonsense she wants to do.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
So she goes, well, let's go into the Hallmark store.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
And I just go, No, that sounds like absolute hell
to me, and she goes, it is get and I guess, ma'am,
So I go, but it's brutal. So we're walking around
the Hallmark store. She's looking at nick Knacks and other
crap and I and I start wandering around, which I
have to do. And I go and I find some card,
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some mushy, lovey dovey crap card, and so I picked
this card up and I put it in an envelope
and I took it over to my wife and I said, sweetheart,
I got you a card, but I want to save
us some money, so I'm not gonna buy it. And
she read the card and she's like, that was really sweet.
(22:05):
And you know me, you know that we didn't need
to spend money on that card.
Speaker 3 (22:08):
That was so sweet.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
And I thought, I'm just doing this thing to be obnoxious,
and somehow at backfired and I turned out to be
a great guy.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
God that stinks, because you.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Know the next time, she's be like, let's go to
Hallmark again and you can do something sweet for me
one more.
Speaker 6 (22:23):
Time, because you are a great guy, Christopher.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
No matter how much you try to fight it, no,
it's not there. Oh sorry, you can keep trying. It's
just not there, all right.
Speaker 7 (22:32):
No, in fact, I believe I believe you, sir, are
an idiot.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
That's right, Yeah, Radio, That's what I'm God bless that person.
That's what I'm all about.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
So yeah, when he said that, I was like, he
was talking about going into Fredericks of Hollywood and just
taking champagne with him. That's outstanding, you cheap pervert.
Speaker 3 (22:54):
Oh. The only thing worse than a pervert is a
cheap pervert?
Speaker 2 (22:57):
You nailed it, my friend, man after my own and
hard kind of like that. Dude, Uh Cale, what's the
deal with the Doctor Wendy? Is she ready to go tonight?
Speaker 3 (23:06):
She was born ready to go tonight.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
I just want to make sure because Ali's been on
me all night about being late to my commercial breaks.
I thought, I thought, I thought, you know what I'm
gonna do is I'm gonna I'm gonna actually be on
time and make sure I've got extra time for doctor
Wendy as long as she's ready.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
She I think she's pretty ready. You're right now. I
have a heck of a I have a heck of
a question for her tonight.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
You you thought swiping left and right was exhausting, There
is something you can do to take some the stress
off of the dating apps. You get someone else to
manage your dating life. That's where some burned out singles
have ended up in the age of Bumble and Tinder
and only e match Mingle. But it's who they're putting
in charge. It's giving the hinge cringe.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
That is next.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
You're listening to KFI AM sixty on demand.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
You guys have been doing a really good job tonight
with the talkbacks.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
I always love it when you hit the talkbacks let
us know what you're thinking, questions, comments, quips, quotes, criticisms, compliments,
and if you play along, that's a lot of fun too,
where we ask what is the best part about the
holidays and what is the worst part?
Speaker 9 (24:10):
Hi, Chris, Hi, I want to wish you a merry Christmas.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
Meryl Christmas to you as.
Speaker 9 (24:16):
Well, and to also tell you what I think about
those individuals who call up saying nasty things. They are insecure, petty,
miserable little people who enjoy tearing other people down. But
you were absolutely phenomenal.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
I mean, she's kind of describing my personality there for
a while.
Speaker 9 (24:38):
You're witty, you're smart, you're entertaining, and I love your politics.
Oh you won't marry Mary Christmas?
Speaker 2 (24:45):
Yeah, everybody loves they Everybody loves somebody else's politics till
you hear something they don't like.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
So but I love you, Thank you so much. You're
the best. Appreciate your Meryl Christmas.
Speaker 14 (24:54):
I've had enough of Christmas, the sentimentality, the sadness, the
gift buy Yes, I'm going pagan from now on you'll season.
It starts tonight, twelve days, and it seems like it's
gonna be a lot of fun. Like some candles, Yeah,
make some information. Yeah, dance in the moonlight one night naked.
I'm going totally pagan I'm done with Christmas.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
All right, I'd give it a shot. Yeah, let's do
some naked moonlight dancing.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
Of course, the ston as you see me, you're gonna
write back to Christianity and you're gonna be the biggest
prude you ever saw. Like whoa Paganism means seeing that
guy naked dancing in the moonlight.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
That ain't pretty? And where was the shadow on that thing? Oh?
Speaker 8 (25:35):
Lee?
Speaker 2 (25:37):
At seven o'clock tonight, you are going to hear the
whimsical musings of one doctor Wendy Walsh.
Speaker 3 (25:43):
She joins us. Right now, doctor Wendy, I gotta get something.
Speaker 13 (25:47):
Did you see whimsical?
Speaker 3 (25:48):
You're whimsical?
Speaker 2 (25:49):
You got something out of the way here real quick
before because uh uh, you know, I think kill and
I figured we've been together like three years or something,
three four years something. I have no idea. Is she
not the best? I know you've been with her even
a little bit longer, But I absolutely will know.
Speaker 13 (26:03):
You don't even know.
Speaker 12 (26:04):
This woman is worth her weight in gold, So she
keeps losing weight, but the gold value goes up.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
Yeah, we give her a hard time because she posts
on her Instagram her workouts, which usually has there's a
huge amount of vanity.
Speaker 13 (26:18):
There, but no, not in her case.
Speaker 3 (26:20):
She takes it like a champ when I give.
Speaker 13 (26:21):
Her a hand. Now she's just working out and the
camera happens to be there.
Speaker 5 (26:24):
It's windy. I just want to motivate other people that
you don't die. You just it feels like you're going
to get very close, but you don't.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
Yeah, well you don't, and you look great and you're
doing fantastic and I love you to death.
Speaker 3 (26:33):
I love you, Christopher, thank you. Yeah, I don't know
where this show is steal there.
Speaker 13 (26:37):
I'm adopting her.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
That's fine, ye.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
And then Ali has absolutely been one of the greatest
additions that we've had of twenty twenty five. He's said
he's one of the things I'm thankful for this year.
So Ollie, thanks Pal, you're you're doing that.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
Thank you. I'm thankful of you. Yeah, you said that.
Now wait until you screw it up and I get
your ask hand. Hey, now, of course she would not
do that.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
I would do it first chance, I get. Nothing makes
me happier than other people's misery.
Speaker 13 (27:03):
He is lying, I am lying.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
I'm totally lying. I was reading the story and I
wanted to run this by you, Doctor Wendy. Singles are
getting burned out and they're tired of doing the whole
online dating thing, which I totally get. But they don't
want to necessarily get out of the online dating pool,
so they're actually turning to other people to run their.
Speaker 13 (27:21):
Profiles, like AI.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
Well, that would actually make more sense to me. And
in some cases you'd think that they would go to
their friends. No, many are going to their family members,
so they're having weekly family swiping sessions increasing that Yes,
heated debates, grammar policing, and veto power on different matches.
I like going match with this guy. Mom doesn't like him.
(27:45):
This kind of stuff. Some parents are even springing for
premium app features to help weed out.
Speaker 3 (27:50):
The riff raft.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
The parents are paying for the dating stuff, nice.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
They say.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
Parental involvement has in some cases led to real relationships,
like a dad approved hinge map that sparked a move
over seats oh yeah. One participate compares the family process
to an interactive bachelorette, suggesting the dating apps are less
about romance and more about.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
The group critique.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
Sounds to me like they're all just sitting around and
that's basically the dating life has become the reality show
for the family.
Speaker 3 (28:19):
But you kept saying you loved it.
Speaker 13 (28:21):
I love it, and I'll tell you why please.
Speaker 12 (28:23):
So first of all, we're in a mating crisis, big
old mating crisis, and we actually are not replacing the population,
have not been for a while. Parents are upset because
they don't have grandkids. The government's upset because they're not
having young there in a few years, not enough young
workers paying into the system to help the older people.
Speaker 13 (28:42):
And I've always said relationships are.
Speaker 12 (28:44):
A bridge between tribes, and the best relationships begin within
the tribe. In the olden days, you lived in a
small town or village and there was a small dating
pool and it was kind of tribe approved in some way.
And so now it's a weird thing to meet a
stranger who is not part of your tribe, not part
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of anything. And so it's good the more people can
weigh in, because the other thing is when somebody has
a crush, it's like they put on rose colored glasses.
Love really is a delusion, and they can't see. They
just go, oh my god, there's a gorgeous and they've
been texting me so nicely.
Speaker 6 (29:21):
I love that.
Speaker 12 (29:21):
And they're like, uh, he doesn't have a job. Okay,
you're not dating it, right, So I love this. The
more people get involved.
Speaker 3 (29:28):
The better. So that feels like.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
As much as you're so positive about relationships, that feels
like a very dark take on.
Speaker 3 (29:37):
Somebody's early tell you go on.
Speaker 12 (29:40):
Relationships are the most important decision you will ever make
in your lifespan. And as much as love is filled
with joy and pleasure, it can equally be filled with danger.
Speaker 13 (29:53):
It can be dark.
Speaker 12 (29:54):
First of all, one in four women will become victims
of domestic violence.
Speaker 13 (30:00):
No woman is murdered, the.
Speaker 12 (30:01):
Most likely suspect is her intimate partner. This is a
life or death decision. Don't make light of it, Chris.
Speaker 3 (30:11):
I'm certainly not making a light of it.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
Indeed, however, I feel as though you're putting too much
darkness on something that I think is very beautiful. I mean,
I can't disagree with the statistics, and they are terrifying.
Please let me preface it by saying that. But at
the same time, had my wife been overly scrutinius of
our early relationship, we wouldn't have been together for twenty
one years because she would have very quickly said this
guy's moron, which she probably should have done.
Speaker 13 (30:35):
Yeah, but okay, have you cheated on her?
Speaker 1 (30:37):
Be honest?
Speaker 13 (30:38):
Okay?
Speaker 12 (30:39):
Have you gone into deep bankruptcy with her money and
spend her money wildly in a Casinoh?
Speaker 3 (30:45):
No?
Speaker 13 (30:45):
Have you hit her?
Speaker 3 (30:46):
No?
Speaker 13 (30:47):
Have you abused the children?
Speaker 3 (30:49):
No?
Speaker 13 (30:50):
She chose.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
Well, that's a pretty low bar. Do I fulfill her emotionally?
Do I match her and she needs me?
Speaker 3 (31:01):
You know what? I'm constantly orry too much.
Speaker 13 (31:03):
We ask too much of our relationships. We ask too much.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
So really, the bar is so low that what we're
going to let invite our family in to make it
a reality?
Speaker 12 (31:11):
Of God's so low and still most men can't pass it.
Speaker 2 (31:17):
Well, that's all right, doctor, Wendy. What are you have
going on tonight?
Speaker 12 (31:21):
Well, going home for the holidays. I normally talk about
how to deal with difficult relatives and revisiting people of
your early childhood trauma. I am going a different direction
this year. I have found research to support why going
home for the holidays, even if you don't want to,
is good for your mental health. And also I want
(31:42):
to talk about men and friendships and how male friendships
between males are so different than females and female friendships.
And I want to give some tips for our listeners
to guys, the guys who are listening on how they
can make friends in the new year.
Speaker 2 (31:55):
I love that. Actually I love that. This whole thing
about getting together with that's terrible, but I do love
the whole friendship thing.
Speaker 12 (32:02):
Oh and also I have a psychotherapist and historian. He's
both who explains why we are basically held bent on
recreating our bad history and what we can do about
it. He talks about collective trauma and how it's passed down.
It's actually really interesting, all.
Speaker 2 (32:16):
Right, Historical therapist on with doctor Wendy Wilsh Doctor Wendy
after Dark starts right up at seven o'clock. Hey, have
a very Merril Christmas and a happy New Year as well.
Speaker 13 (32:27):
Mary.
Speaker 3 (32:27):
I love you guys all, and we'll talk to you
hopefully in the new year.
Speaker 1 (32:31):
KFI AM six forty on demand
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Hang it in and Chris Merril I AM six forty
more stimulating talk on demand anytime in the eye Heart
Radio app. When you're on that app, you see that
little talkback button. If you hit that, click on the
talk back gives you thirty seconds and then you can
tell us what the best part about the holidays is
and what is the worst part about the holidays? And
good feedback where Kayler revealed the best part about the
holidays for her is the cookies. Nice job, Kayler, really
(00:30):
really well done. Felt like that one was a bit obvious,
but that's fine. Do you do like the sugar cookies
with just a like a half inch of frosting on top?
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Do I hate that? Oh you do?
Speaker 4 (00:42):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (00:43):
I'm a chocolate chippy girl.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Okay, all right, I'm actually with you on that one.
I feel like the sugar cookies is just it's too much.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
What about gingerbread?
Speaker 2 (00:51):
So gingerbread is a funny one because you never eat
it any other time of the year, you know, and
it's it's got a very unique.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
Yeah, it's really tough for me to gage gingerbread cookies.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
If I'm being totally honest, because it's one of those
deals where you're like, this is okay right now, but
then also it's kind of like, uh, this is too
much right now.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
I would never want this any other time. That's how
I am on it.
Speaker 5 (01:19):
That was to never have another gingerbread cookie for the
rest of my life.
Speaker 6 (01:22):
I'd be a Okay, you haven't tried my gingerbread cookies.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Okay, I'm a great gingerbread That's what everybody says. That's
true that your Is that in your Hinge profile? He should?
Oh he has a girl put that in there.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Oh okay, sorry, is that in your Tinder profile?
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Okay? It would be so the thing the other I
have a problem.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
With gingerbread too, because when I was in sixth grade,
I had an assignment.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
We were supposed to make a model of.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Champlain's Fort, which is in Canada, and so we came
up with this ambuster idea to make a gingerbread house
that was the fort, and I got an A plus
on it.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
My teacher loved it. The whole class ate the gingerbread.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
But we cooked so much gingerbread, made all these little
square I mean, we're basically making dry wall gingerbread, and
I ate so much of it I got, and so
whenever I smell gingerbread.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
Now I just kind of have the rule.
Speaker 5 (02:21):
It's always the worst when, like one experience from way back,
when life even really matter, ruins things when it does matter.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
Yeah, gingerbread.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
That's the other problem I have with the ginger Yeah,
all right, is that your go to? I'lli gingerbread cookies.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
Okay. I love making them. I love eating them. Okay.
I used to give them out to people in school.
Do you ever hurl from eating too many of them? Never? O? Never?
Speaker 5 (02:45):
Fine, Ali, bring me some cookies.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
I'll take it.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
There we go, all right, very good, welcome, all right,
this conversation is useless.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
Uh, there's no business like shell business.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
The most devastating show business news this week is not
that Warner rejected Paramount's bid, because honestly, doesn't matter who
buys Warner, we're all gonna get hosed out of that deal.
The most devastating news, of course, is everything they had
to do with Rob and Michelle Singer, riiners, horrible deaths,
horrible deaths. That news broke about a week ago, almost
(03:17):
exactly a week ago, we were doing the show and
I remember it was about a six thirty commercial break
where all of a sudden I got the alert and
it was like, you gotta be kidding me.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
This can't be true.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
And it was like they found bodies at the home
of the Riiners, and in your mind, you're going just
please let it not be them, Please let it not
be them, Please let it not be them. And then
of course, obviously it turned out in a way that
we didn't like. Yeah, So here we are a week later,
and we know, all right, it was probably the sun. Again,
(03:48):
it is until proven guilty, but there's a lot of
evidence it seems against him.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
And so then the question is why did he do it?
And was he was he out of his mind?
Speaker 2 (04:00):
And I think this is going to be key to
the defense because the more you hear about what was happening,
the more you think, oh, they're going to try to
run with an insanity plea. So there's an addiction specialist
talking with Entertainment tonight. His name is Richard Tait, and
he was talking about this revelation this week that came
out that Nick Reiner, accused of killing his parents, was schizophrenic.
Speaker 7 (04:22):
As for Nick's mental state, I just read a report
that was saying that he had schizophrenia and that the
medications made him dangerous.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
I wonder what the addiction specialist says about that. How
many times do you hear people saying, oh, that was
the medication, they did it. I always have trouble believing
that the medication made someone worse. But also, I'm not
a pharmacist, I'm not a doctor. I don't know. But
oftentimes you'll have somebody that'll be on like an antidepressant,
and then they'll do something and then they say, well,
(04:52):
it was the antidepressant's fault, and you go, was it really?
Because I feel like if they hadn't been taking it,
that they were in a not great spot either.
Speaker 6 (04:59):
You don't get you don't jibe with that.
Speaker 8 (05:01):
Now, listen, when you change your meds, it typically takes
six weeks for it even to start working, okay, and
all of a sudden, you know, he's diagnosed with schizophrenia.
I mean, look, what other defense does he have.
Speaker 7 (05:15):
Is it true, though, that using drugs like cocaine or
amphetamines can increase the risk of developing schizophrenia?
Speaker 6 (05:23):
Is that true?
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Does she know the answer to that question? I feel
like she does.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
I mean, a good reporter typically knows the answer to
a question like that before they ask the expert.
Speaker 8 (05:35):
Schizophrenia like symptoms that are hard to distinguish from schizophrenia.
That's a more accurate statement.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
That feels like we're splitting hairs. Could he have so?
Is he schizophrenic?
Speaker 4 (05:50):
No?
Speaker 3 (05:50):
He just acts like it what Wait a minute, what
is it? H Do you have lung cancer?
Speaker 2 (05:58):
No, but you have some lung cancer looking spots on
your lungs and you're coughing up and you're dying. It
feels like lung cancer.
Speaker 6 (06:03):
Then could he have snapped? If he relapsed?
Speaker 8 (06:06):
It depends, right, the circumstances have to support it.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
I feel like this addiction specialist is really good at
his job. Genuinely, he's really good, and he doesn't want
to get pinned down on black and white binary choices.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
Is it good? Is it bad?
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Like he sees the nuance in addiction. It's not great
for news clips though.
Speaker 8 (06:29):
So in this case, what I've been reading is he
was at this party and he was exhibiting bizarre and
aberrant behavior.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
That was the.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
That was the Colin O'Brien party, right where they were
like everybody was reporting or they got into a fight.
Speaker 8 (06:43):
They arrested him in the south central Los Angeles area,
in an area where people score dope there.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
People well, that feels like, no, that's accurate. People buy
drugs there.
Speaker 6 (06:55):
A new report today claims party.
Speaker 7 (06:56):
Goers wanted to call nine one one, but host Conan
O'Brien and talk them out of it.
Speaker 6 (07:01):
Conan hasn't commented and what could have been the motive.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Yeah, before we get to that, imagine you're having a party.
Just imagine you're having a big blowout. You're a celebrity,
You got a bunch of celebrities around you, and then
there's an argument between one of the biggest in Hollywood.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
And his son who has had trouble for years.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Right, Imagine that's your party, and then imagine that somebody
else comes up to you and says we should call
nine one one. I mean, the last thing you want
is for all of a sudden, your party ends up
lastered all over page six and the Hollywood Reporter to
talk about how, oh, Conan's party goes off the rails.
Conan loses control of his own party. Conan this Conan
(07:42):
that so I totally understand why Conan O'Brian would say, whoh,
maybe we don't call nine one one. Let's let's figure
out how we can kind of we don't need to
draw attention to this, right And you've got a number
of other celebrities there that are like, look, I'm here
and discretion is going to be key, and don't go
to these Hollywood parties because I want to end up
in the police blotterer as a witness to something. So yeah,
(08:05):
let's maybe not call nine one one. I totally understand
why Conan would not do it. I would be interested
in talking him today to find out what's going on
in his head because I don't second guess that decision
not to call the authorities at his party. That makes
sense to me in the moment. In hindsight, however, you
(08:25):
have to wonder if he's thinking, man, if I had
called nine one one, what if?
Speaker 3 (08:30):
Right?
Speaker 6 (08:32):
One theory sheer anger fueled by drugs.
Speaker 7 (08:35):
Nick, who was living in the family guest house, was
reportedly under the care of a psychiatrist after recent alarming behavior.
Our source says he was lonely and unhappy and didn't
regularly attend AA yah.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
So people it works for other people. It doesn't work,
and it's a process. You know, we last the part recovery. Yeah.
Speaker 7 (08:56):
Do you see addicts that may have been on different
types of drugs that have ever blacked out, have gotten
violent and.
Speaker 6 (09:04):
Just simply have no idea what they've done.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
That's a really good question. Can he walk into a
courtroom and say, my defense is I don't remember any
of it. I was so not in my right mind
that I know more about it from the news than
I do for my own memory.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
Twice twice he.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
Said, can you think of a time that it's happened?
Speaker 3 (09:26):
He said twice twice.
Speaker 6 (09:28):
Could he have been having hallucinations?
Speaker 8 (09:30):
If you're up for longer than three days, you hallucinate
all the time, and you're gonna be paranoid.
Speaker 9 (09:38):
There were disagreements, arguments, and times that was really rough.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
All right, So you're hearing more of that anyway, So
expect to hear the the insanity plea not in his
right mind. It seems like TikTok's future was living in
a perpetual maybe limbo. Now we've got a signed deal,
we've got a deadline, got a board full of a Amerrikans,
and still the same questions about who really is controlling
(10:04):
your feed that Jacob is next.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
From the talkbacks.
Speaker 4 (10:13):
You should check out Carolina. That's with the k Prosenko's
version of All I Want for Christmas's you. She's about
five years old at the time. She's a violin savant
and the version of her playing that is her violin version,
(10:34):
very very terrific. Carolina Protsenko, Kyla, you heard of her now.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
I looked it up on the YouTube and I found
a version where she was on the street and he's right,
she's about five. And then I found a version she
looks like she's about nine, so obviously she's honed her
skills a little bit. Doesn't sound like such a five
year old playing anymore. This is what like a nine
year old sounds like.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
Fun.
Speaker 10 (11:36):
That's not her on saxophone. That's pretty good.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
I mean I could do that, you know, but I'm
not nying either, So I got a lot of years
of experience and I could probably definitely do that.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
I think it probably take a couple lessons. I probably
have that nailed down.
Speaker 6 (12:02):
Yep, yep, No, I think a nine year old is.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
Better than you.
Speaker 7 (12:07):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
Probably pretty good at that. Okay.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Actually, according to this YouTube, which this was posted uh
four years ago, says she lives in Simmy Valley.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
All right, well, somebody tell us she made it on
the radio. I get excited. I get to be on
the radio. Fun for me. I'm sure that's one of
those things that just blows up on TikTok. It's just huge, huge.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
On the TikTok. Everybody loves kids and pats on the
TikTok love that.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
I thought we were getting.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
Rid of TikTok. I thought I thought we were said
to No, that was un American. You can't have TikTok anymore.
It's un American. In fact, I believe that it was
President forty five that said we have to get rid
of TikTok because the Chinese Communist Party is spying on
everybody and they really terrible, and we have to get
rid of it. And then we pass as the law
that said you're getting rid of TikTok and they're bad,
(13:04):
and then forty seven came around. Anyway, TikTok is great.
TikTok helped me get reelected. TikTok is great with the
young people's We have to find a way to keep them,
and then the deadline Campan He's like, deadlines don't matter,
We're gonna on deadline, and then another deadline. Company's like, no, seriously,
no deadline. We need to find good American owners that
are going to donate to me to buy TikTok. Well,
(13:24):
it finally happens, so we've got a TikTok deal.
Speaker 8 (13:26):
The apps parent company by Dance has signed binding agreements
to create a joint venture.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
Binding joint venture huge majority owned by American investors. NBC
Savannah Sellers joins us now with more to explain this.
It's from NBC News. By the way, Savana, could this
signal the end to that?
Speaker 2 (13:43):
I guess there's been years long fight about the ownership
of TikTok and America.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
What do we know about the investors here in the US?
Been a big fight. It's another war I ended. Make
it nine, it's nine.
Speaker 11 (13:52):
Wars have ended now, it really could, Tom And that's
a big deal because we've had so few details and
nothing really concrete here.
Speaker 6 (13:58):
I mean, here's what we know about the investors so far.
There's gon three.
Speaker 11 (14:01):
Major ones that they named Oracle, Silver Lake, and MGX
they're each going to take a fifteen percent in this
new company it's called TikTok USDs joint.
Speaker 6 (14:09):
Venture, and then a thirty percent.
Speaker 11 (14:11):
This is what's interesting, will be existing investors of Byte
Dance that is that parent company of TikTok that is
Chinese company, and that has been the major concern here.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
And then also okay, so they still own it. Oh,
I mean, why would bitte Dance want to divest. That's
where their money's coming in. So they don't want to
get rid of the thing. They still want to make
money on it. But also isn't the whole idea that
we get all the hands from anybody that has any
connection to the Chinese Communist.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
Party away from it.
Speaker 6 (14:37):
To comply with a lot.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
Honestly, we don't care. As long as we get to scroll.
That's it. We really don't. We are I can't believe
the Chinese.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
The chi coms, the chi comms are coming to take
our kids dance moves.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
No, we have to stop them. We were like, yeah,
but I'm going to keep scrolling. Okay.
Speaker 11 (14:53):
And then also to comply with a lot, just under
twenty percent they say will remain Bite Dance ownership.
Speaker 6 (14:59):
That's exactly what law said.
Speaker 11 (15:01):
Only twenty percent of either Chinese Byte Dance or any
foreign adversaries could own a piece of this.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
So that's okay.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
So we've got thirty percent Byte Dance investors in twenty
percent actual Byte Dance.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
Now that definitely feels like it's American owned. Now, that's
that's very good. Yep, that feels like American ownership. Yes,
definitely right now.
Speaker 11 (15:23):
It leaves a lot of questions, though, Tom, about a
lot of big numbers. Who's going to make up the
rest of those percentages?
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Do we know anything about the personal data because that
was the big concern by many members of Congress, including
some of the Trump administration. Right now, well, that's going
to continue to be sold, but now we're going to
make American dollars on it.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
Whether the Chinese could use this to spy on American absolutely.
Speaker 11 (15:42):
Was actually President Trump that brought it up himself in
his first term as a concern, and he also we
saw it pass out of committees with total bipartisan support
when any of this legislation was on the hill. So
it's a great question what they say they're going to
do about that, And again details are scarce but the
company does say that there's going to be a trusted
security partner. They're called it to essentially do an audit
on the data, and then after that step is completed,
(16:04):
Larry Ellison's Oracle, who's already been managing the data for
American users, will take that over in a more robust way.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
That's you know what this might be where Paramount screwed up.
Paramount probably should have pitched to Warner Brothers, Look, don't
go to Netflix, come to us. We're going to give
you more per share, and you're gonna have access to TikTok.
Right there was the whole deal Ellison and Larry Ellison
and then David Ellison, David Ellison's over Paramount, now Larry
Ellison's over Oracle.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
They could have swung a deal going on right there.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
They could have greased the wheels and told the told
Warner look, we're on the biggest, the biggest social media platform.
You want to be on the biggest social media platform,
Let's make it happen. But if you Stone Wallace, We're
going to figure out a way to make sure that
none of your crap ever gets retweeted, retalked, reticked, it
doesn't get ticked off.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
I don't know what they call it. I'm tragically square,
no doubt.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
Continue to ask you this, What is the best and
worst part about the holidays? We'll get your responses to
that here in just a moment. I'm Chris Merril.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
Oh you can't play this on me. You can't play this. No,
you can't do this one. This is how dare you?
Speaker 12 (17:20):
Baby?
Speaker 3 (17:21):
You can't do this.
Speaker 13 (17:22):
Christmas is not the same anymore.
Speaker 4 (17:23):
You know all those gingerbread houses you used to make, Well,
now they have.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
An ad a gingerbread adu on the back.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
I kind of like that one, actually, I mean they're
charging thirty two hundred bucks a month rent on it.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
But yeah, they've got the gingerbread adu in the back.
Totally absolutely true.
Speaker 4 (17:45):
All right, more bumper music suggestions. How about Santa Baby?
Speaker 3 (17:50):
No, we can't do that. No all they just played that.
I told him he can't play Santa Baby? What's wrong
with sona Baby? It's that's the rape song Santa Baby.
Oh No, that's the cold outside, isn't it. Yeah? That's wow,
just a super sexy one, right, I was like, we
can play this. What's going on? Sorry? I boned that
(18:11):
one up. Yeah, but it's okay.
Speaker 5 (18:14):
Maybe it is inappropriate, Santa Baby, slip it one under
about what?
Speaker 3 (18:18):
That's right? Crazy? You know what? That's inappropriate too. I'm
banning that one. All love songs about all love songs
are banned. Wasn't Santa Baby? Was that earth of kit
It was?
Speaker 2 (18:29):
Oh, she has the sexiest voice. God, she had a
sexy voice, wasn't she? She was like catwoman or something too?
And she was I got that right?
Speaker 3 (18:41):
Yeah, the Autumn West one, yeah, right, right right.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
It was a good looking lady, right there, good looking lady.
All right, the talkbacks, give me your best and your worst? Uh,
what you love the best about the holidays and what
you like the least about the holidays.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
Hey, Chris, I'm so with you about that gingerbread thing.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
When you get sick. That happened to me with old
English eight hundred.
Speaker 4 (19:02):
Can't even get near it anymore.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
It's been like forty years.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Yeah, I don't, No, I think when I'm talking about
a sixth grade project where I made a gingerbread house
or a gingerbread fort and I got sick, I think
that's different than you and your old English.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
But you know what, I'll allow it. That's fine. I
don't know.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
We both did different things in sixth grade. For me
it was gingerbread for you, that's fine. Whatever, that's cool, totally.
Caleb put him on.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
The on the list naughty list. Yeah, he's going on
the naughty list. That's not great, all right. From the talkbacks, you.
Speaker 14 (19:35):
Got some kind of the speech and panim it, whoa
you sound like a three?
Speaker 3 (19:43):
What Cayla? Did you swipe left on that guy? Is
that the problem?
Speaker 5 (19:47):
That guy is not somebody that's fun to be a right, he.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
Does not have He's not in the festive Christmas spirit.
Speaker 5 (19:53):
I bet everybody probably swipes left on him. He's pretty nasty.
Speaker 8 (19:59):
Ye.
Speaker 15 (20:00):
Good evening, Chris and Company at AD. My most enjoyable
evenings for Christmas would be after I have been doing
shopping at Frederick of Hollywood for my girlfriend and we
had a fashion show in store. We owned a couple
of bottles of my best champagne and start the insanity. Ah, yes,
(20:25):
good times.
Speaker 16 (20:25):
Indeed, Uh Kayla, did you you ever do a little
You take a babble of champagne and go do a
fashion show without actually buying the lungerie.
Speaker 5 (20:40):
Yeah, we're playing Dracula and Dracula's wife when we did it,
and it was so much fun.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
Come on, you did, didn't you?
Speaker 1 (20:48):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (20:48):
Yeah, who hasn't? Do you know? That reminds me of
this story.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
It's a it's not a Halloween story, or excuse me,
a holiday story.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
My wife drags me into the Hallmark store.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
Now you have to understand I am every bit as
a miserable person in real life as I am on
the air. I am just absolutely a curmudgeon. And my
poor wife deals with me, but also I begrudgingly go
along with whatever nonsense she wants to do.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
So she goes, well, let's go into the Hallmark store.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
And I just go, No, that sounds like absolute hell
to me, and she goes, it is get and I guess, ma'am,
So I go, but it's brutal. So we're walking around
the Hallmark store. She's looking at nick Knacks and other
crap and I and I start wandering around, which I
have to do. And I go and I find some card,
(21:44):
some mushy, lovey dovey crap card, and so I picked
this card up and I put it in an envelope
and I took it over to my wife and I said, sweetheart,
I got you a card, but I want to save
us some money, so I'm not gonna buy it. And
she read the card and she's like, that was really sweet.
(22:05):
And you know me, you know that we didn't need
to spend money on that card.
Speaker 3 (22:08):
That was so sweet.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
And I thought, I'm just doing this thing to be obnoxious,
and somehow at backfired and I turned out to be
a great guy.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
God that stinks, because you.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Know the next time, she's be like, let's go to
Hallmark again and you can do something sweet for me
one more.
Speaker 6 (22:23):
Time, because you are a great guy, Christopher.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
No matter how much you try to fight it, no,
it's not there. Oh sorry, you can keep trying. It's
just not there, all right.
Speaker 7 (22:32):
No, in fact, I believe I believe you, sir, are
an idiot.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
That's right, Yeah, Radio, That's what I'm God bless that person.
That's what I'm all about.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
So yeah, when he said that, I was like, he
was talking about going into Fredericks of Hollywood and just
taking champagne with him. That's outstanding, you cheap pervert.
Speaker 3 (22:54):
Oh. The only thing worse than a pervert is a
cheap pervert?
Speaker 2 (22:57):
You nailed it, my friend, man after my own and
hard kind of like that. Dude, Uh Cale, what's the
deal with the Doctor Wendy? Is she ready to go tonight?
Speaker 3 (23:06):
She was born ready to go tonight.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
I just want to make sure because Ali's been on
me all night about being late to my commercial breaks.
I thought, I thought, I thought, you know what I'm
gonna do is I'm gonna I'm gonna actually be on
time and make sure I've got extra time for doctor
Wendy as long as she's ready.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
She I think she's pretty ready. You're right now. I
have a heck of a I have a heck of
a question for her tonight.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
You you thought swiping left and right was exhausting, There
is something you can do to take some the stress
off of the dating apps. You get someone else to
manage your dating life. That's where some burned out singles
have ended up in the age of Bumble and Tinder
and only e match Mingle. But it's who they're putting
in charge. It's giving the hinge cringe.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
That is next.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
You're listening to KFI AM sixty on demand.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
You guys have been doing a really good job tonight
with the talkbacks.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
I always love it when you hit the talkbacks let
us know what you're thinking, questions, comments, quips, quotes, criticisms, compliments,
and if you play along, that's a lot of fun too,
where we ask what is the best part about the
holidays and what is the worst part?
Speaker 9 (24:10):
Hi, Chris, Hi, I want to wish you a merry Christmas.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
Meryl Christmas to you as.
Speaker 9 (24:16):
Well, and to also tell you what I think about
those individuals who call up saying nasty things. They are insecure, petty,
miserable little people who enjoy tearing other people down. But
you were absolutely phenomenal.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
I mean, she's kind of describing my personality there for
a while.
Speaker 9 (24:38):
You're witty, you're smart, you're entertaining, and I love your politics.
Oh you won't marry Mary Christmas?
Speaker 2 (24:45):
Yeah, everybody loves they Everybody loves somebody else's politics till
you hear something they don't like.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
So but I love you, Thank you so much. You're
the best. Appreciate your Meryl Christmas.
Speaker 14 (24:54):
I've had enough of Christmas, the sentimentality, the sadness, the
gift buy Yes, I'm going pagan from now on you'll season.
It starts tonight, twelve days, and it seems like it's
gonna be a lot of fun. Like some candles, Yeah,
make some information. Yeah, dance in the moonlight one night naked.
I'm going totally pagan I'm done with Christmas.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
All right, I'd give it a shot. Yeah, let's do
some naked moonlight dancing.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
Of course, the ston as you see me, you're gonna
write back to Christianity and you're gonna be the biggest
prude you ever saw. Like whoa Paganism means seeing that
guy naked dancing in the moonlight.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
That ain't pretty? And where was the shadow on that thing? Oh?
Speaker 8 (25:35):
Lee?
Speaker 2 (25:37):
At seven o'clock tonight, you are going to hear the
whimsical musings of one doctor Wendy Walsh.
Speaker 3 (25:43):
She joins us. Right now, doctor Wendy, I gotta get something.
Speaker 13 (25:47):
Did you see whimsical?
Speaker 3 (25:48):
You're whimsical?
Speaker 2 (25:49):
You got something out of the way here real quick
before because uh uh, you know, I think kill and
I figured we've been together like three years or something,
three four years something. I have no idea. Is she
not the best? I know you've been with her even
a little bit longer, But I absolutely will know.
Speaker 13 (26:03):
You don't even know.
Speaker 12 (26:04):
This woman is worth her weight in gold, So she
keeps losing weight, but the gold value goes up.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
Yeah, we give her a hard time because she posts
on her Instagram her workouts, which usually has there's a
huge amount of vanity.
Speaker 13 (26:18):
There, but no, not in her case.
Speaker 3 (26:20):
She takes it like a champ when I give.
Speaker 13 (26:21):
Her a hand. Now she's just working out and the
camera happens to be there.
Speaker 5 (26:24):
It's windy. I just want to motivate other people that
you don't die. You just it feels like you're going
to get very close, but you don't.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
Yeah, well you don't, and you look great and you're
doing fantastic and I love you to death.
Speaker 3 (26:33):
I love you, Christopher, thank you. Yeah, I don't know
where this show is steal there.
Speaker 13 (26:37):
I'm adopting her.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
That's fine, ye.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
And then Ali has absolutely been one of the greatest
additions that we've had of twenty twenty five. He's said
he's one of the things I'm thankful for this year.
So Ollie, thanks Pal, you're you're doing that.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
Thank you. I'm thankful of you. Yeah, you said that.
Now wait until you screw it up and I get
your ask hand. Hey, now, of course she would not
do that.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
I would do it first chance, I get. Nothing makes
me happier than other people's misery.
Speaker 13 (27:03):
He is lying, I am lying.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
I'm totally lying. I was reading the story and I
wanted to run this by you, Doctor Wendy. Singles are
getting burned out and they're tired of doing the whole
online dating thing, which I totally get. But they don't
want to necessarily get out of the online dating pool,
so they're actually turning to other people to run their.
Speaker 13 (27:21):
Profiles, like AI.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
Well, that would actually make more sense to me. And
in some cases you'd think that they would go to
their friends. No, many are going to their family members,
so they're having weekly family swiping sessions increasing that Yes,
heated debates, grammar policing, and veto power on different matches.
I like going match with this guy. Mom doesn't like him.
(27:45):
This kind of stuff. Some parents are even springing for
premium app features to help weed out.
Speaker 3 (27:50):
The riff raft.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
The parents are paying for the dating stuff, nice.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
They say.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
Parental involvement has in some cases led to real relationships,
like a dad approved hinge map that sparked a move
over seats oh yeah. One participate compares the family process
to an interactive bachelorette, suggesting the dating apps are less
about romance and more about.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
The group critique.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
Sounds to me like they're all just sitting around and
that's basically the dating life has become the reality show
for the family.
Speaker 3 (28:19):
But you kept saying you loved it.
Speaker 13 (28:21):
I love it, and I'll tell you why please.
Speaker 12 (28:23):
So first of all, we're in a mating crisis, big
old mating crisis, and we actually are not replacing the population,
have not been for a while. Parents are upset because
they don't have grandkids. The government's upset because they're not
having young there in a few years, not enough young
workers paying into the system to help the older people.
Speaker 13 (28:42):
And I've always said relationships are.
Speaker 12 (28:44):
A bridge between tribes, and the best relationships begin within
the tribe. In the olden days, you lived in a
small town or village and there was a small dating
pool and it was kind of tribe approved in some way.
And so now it's a weird thing to meet a
stranger who is not part of your tribe, not part
(29:05):
of anything. And so it's good the more people can
weigh in, because the other thing is when somebody has
a crush, it's like they put on rose colored glasses.
Love really is a delusion, and they can't see. They
just go, oh my god, there's a gorgeous and they've
been texting me so nicely.
Speaker 6 (29:21):
I love that.
Speaker 12 (29:21):
And they're like, uh, he doesn't have a job. Okay,
you're not dating it, right, So I love this. The
more people get involved.
Speaker 3 (29:28):
The better. So that feels like.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
As much as you're so positive about relationships, that feels
like a very dark take on.
Speaker 3 (29:37):
Somebody's early tell you go on.
Speaker 12 (29:40):
Relationships are the most important decision you will ever make
in your lifespan. And as much as love is filled
with joy and pleasure, it can equally be filled with danger.
Speaker 13 (29:53):
It can be dark.
Speaker 12 (29:54):
First of all, one in four women will become victims
of domestic violence.
Speaker 13 (30:00):
No woman is murdered, the.
Speaker 12 (30:01):
Most likely suspect is her intimate partner. This is a
life or death decision. Don't make light of it, Chris.
Speaker 3 (30:11):
I'm certainly not making a light of it.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
Indeed, however, I feel as though you're putting too much
darkness on something that I think is very beautiful. I mean,
I can't disagree with the statistics, and they are terrifying.
Please let me preface it by saying that. But at
the same time, had my wife been overly scrutinius of
our early relationship, we wouldn't have been together for twenty
one years because she would have very quickly said this
guy's moron, which she probably should have done.
Speaker 13 (30:35):
Yeah, but okay, have you cheated on her?
Speaker 1 (30:37):
Be honest?
Speaker 13 (30:38):
Okay?
Speaker 12 (30:39):
Have you gone into deep bankruptcy with her money and
spend her money wildly in a Casinoh?
Speaker 3 (30:45):
No?
Speaker 13 (30:45):
Have you hit her?
Speaker 3 (30:46):
No?
Speaker 13 (30:47):
Have you abused the children?
Speaker 3 (30:49):
No?
Speaker 13 (30:50):
She chose.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
Well, that's a pretty low bar. Do I fulfill her emotionally?
Do I match her and she needs me?
Speaker 3 (31:01):
You know what? I'm constantly orry too much.
Speaker 13 (31:03):
We ask too much of our relationships. We ask too much.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
So really, the bar is so low that what we're
going to let invite our family in to make it
a reality?
Speaker 12 (31:11):
Of God's so low and still most men can't pass it.
Speaker 2 (31:17):
Well, that's all right, doctor, Wendy. What are you have
going on tonight?
Speaker 12 (31:21):
Well, going home for the holidays. I normally talk about
how to deal with difficult relatives and revisiting people of
your early childhood trauma. I am going a different direction
this year. I have found research to support why going
home for the holidays, even if you don't want to,
is good for your mental health. And also I want
(31:42):
to talk about men and friendships and how male friendships
between males are so different than females and female friendships.
And I want to give some tips for our listeners
to guys, the guys who are listening on how they
can make friends in the new year.
Speaker 2 (31:55):
I love that. Actually I love that. This whole thing
about getting together with that's terrible, but I do love
the whole friendship thing.
Speaker 12 (32:02):
Oh and also I have a psychotherapist and historian. He's
both who explains why we are basically held bent on
recreating our bad history and what we can do about
it. He talks about collective trauma and how it's passed down.
It's actually really interesting, all.
Speaker 2 (32:16):
Right, Historical therapist on with doctor Wendy Wilsh Doctor Wendy
after Dark starts right up at seven o'clock. Hey, have
a very Merril Christmas and a happy New Year as well.
Speaker 13 (32:27):
Mary.
Speaker 3 (32:27):
I love you guys all, and we'll talk to you
hopefully in the new year.
Speaker 1 (32:31):
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