December 12, 2025 • 30 mins
People are concerned that a Warner Bros merger with Netflix, or Paramount, will cost jobs in Hollywood following the consolidation. Reports claim 74% of consumers have canceled streaming services this past year because they’re too expensive, or they’re moving to an ad-supported platform. Actor Andy Dick OD’d on a Hollywood street and thankfully survived, and filmmaker Carl Rinsch, who directed “47 Ronan,” has been convicted of fraud and money laundering, ripping Netflix to the tune of $55 million. A new poll suggests 63% of people believe a four-year college degree ain’t worth it anymore. It would appear that Elon Musk does not have enough money, as his company SpaceX is moving forward with an initial public offering, or IPO. There’s 100 trillion tons of space junk floating above our heads.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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the air. A question tonight was what's the goofy thing
you believed when you were a little kid?
Speaker 3 (00:27):
And it all started when I was telling a.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Story about how when I was little, I used to
think the babies came out of mom's feet.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
That was just a weird kid. And you guys have
been great, had been great.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
One guy was telling us he thought that he had
little Martian antennas in his hands.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
By the way, we didn't know.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
He says, there were two black spots in my hands,
and I thought there were Martian antennas. So he eventually
dug one out, but he didn't tell us what they were.
He called back to say that he got like slivers
in there of some sort, so he just had slivers
and he so actually picking one out with them with
a pin was probably the right thing to do. Otherwise
I thought he was naming himself, like digging out moles
or something like that. So we asked, what's what's the
(01:06):
goofy thing that you believe when you were a kid? Yeah,
I distinctly recall believing that monkeys controlled traffic lights.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
That's awesome. I think that takes the cake right there. Yeah,
that's pretty great. Just a little kid thinking that there's
trained monkeys out there, red light, green light. That's pretty great.
I love that. Very good, very good.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
This comes as a surprise to no one, and that
is that there are concerns that any Warner Brothers merger is.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Going to cost jobs.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Weird, right, So strange that in a town that's based
on the entertainment industry you would have entertainers that are
concerned that a giant merger could be a threat to
your career. You are one hundred correct to fear that
one correct. In fact, Fox eleven was talking about either
(02:04):
the Netflix or the Paramount deal. We don't know which
one ultimately, or who knows, there could be a dark
horse we don't even know yet could come through and
uh and disrupt things.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
They were at Fox eleven. They were talking with Michael Schneider.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
He's the executive editor of TV for Variety, and they
were they were asking him about the jobs, and you know,
is one better or worse for our region?
Speaker 5 (02:29):
There is a difference in these offers? Is one deal?
Speaker 3 (02:33):
Oh yeah?
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Because the difference is this Netflix wants the Warner Studio properties.
They don't want anything to do with the linear product
the Discovery properties, the CNN, the TNT, the Discovery HGCV
that Netflix doesn't care about that stuff.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Paramount says, we'll take the whole thing.
Speaker 5 (02:52):
Feel better for Hollywood then the other.
Speaker 6 (02:55):
They're both terrible for Hollywood. Clear this is not going
to be good either way. Whenever you have a merger
like this or an acquisition, there are jobs to be lost,
there's efficiencies to be had, which means f your productions.
You know, each side, of course will say that they
have the better deal, that they are willing to do
more productions, more movies. Paramount argues that Netflix isn't going
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to put movies to the theaters anymore. Netflix disagrees. There's
also a question of monopoly. But then again, if Netflix
takes over, then what happens to HBO Max. But if
Paramount takes over, what happens to Warner Brothers the studio. Again,
that's why both sides have a lot to remain desired.
Speaker 5 (03:37):
But will one for sure happen, meaning will the DOJ
or FTC? This requires their approval, so surely they will
choose one of the deals.
Speaker 6 (03:49):
You never know with this administration.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
In particular, it was it Comcast in the bidding too.
Comcasts just kind of totally fell out of there, didn't
they It was their budget? Yeah, no kidding.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Well, that's the other thing too, is that Netflix is
offering a large, largely cash deal. Paramount's pulling a total
cash deal, but it's using a number of different funding mechanisms,
including foreign investors from other countries.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Things like that.
Speaker 6 (04:17):
Been very volatile, and you know, the question is what
does the Trump administration think. You know, they've been kind
of vocal so far and saying that the Netflix deal
wouldn't be good, But I'm not sure they think the
Paramount deal would be good either. But of course, both
sides have been lobbying the Trump administration. Trump is close
with the Ellison family, which owns Paramount, sky Dance, but
(04:37):
ted Sarandos, the head of Netflix, just had a great
meeting with the White House the other day. So it
also comes down to a question of who lobbies this administration.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
Boy, we have already seen so many job cuts.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Paramount merged with Skydance and immediately cut a ton of jobs,
and analysts predict that Paramount is still going to cut
a total of six thousand jobs.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
And the same thing happened when Disney bought the Fox,
the studio property stuff, right, I mean, Disney started trimming
the fat, so to speak. There's nothing nothing better than
your company merging and you're being told you're the fat.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
Oh good, I was the problem the whole time. Who knew?
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Yeah, So we have already seen the mergers begin Disney
Fox and then Disney with their ABC properties as well,
and that happened, of course years ago. And when it
comes to streaming at Disney, Hulu and ESPN are all
on the streaming platforms together. But yeah, they you know,
Disney bought the the.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
The Marvel properties, the Fox properties, all those things.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
And you know Amazon's been been acquiring different properties here
and there, and the consolidation is going to continue to happen.
The question is how long will the market stand for it,
because inevitably you're going to see concis, you're gonna see mergers,
you're gonna see the consolidation, you're going to see conveniences.
(06:06):
So let's suppose that Netflix buys Hbo.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
Eventually you'll have the HBO products end up on the
Netflix platform. Right, So if you've got Netflix Boom, you're
gonna have it.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
They're gonna say, look, you're can have access to the
HBO library as well. You're paying eighteen bucks in now,
eighteen bucks a month. Now we'll give you all the
HBO stuff too. It'll be twenty bucks a month. And
you're like, wow, that's really that's a great deal. And
you go two bucks more than I get all the
HBO stuff. I mean, in the past, I was paying
eighteen for HBO and eighteen for Netflix. This is a
(06:36):
good deal. Those deals will not last long. So at
first it's gonna seem like a good deal, and then
they're gonna jack that price up.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Then they're gonna go.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Oh, we realized twenty dollars wasn't another twenty four but look,
you're still saving so much money over what you used
to have to pay, and you're going, oh, I guess
twenty four is still pretty good, and then it's gonna
be like thirty dollars.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
Then you're going, oh, thirty dollars is still better, and
then it's gonna be forty dollars, and all of a sudden,
you've already heard people grumbling that we're already back to
what we were when we had cable.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
We all complained about cable. Cable was so expensive. If
you wanted anything that cable was just outrageously expensive. And
so we started cutting the cord because we wanted to
save money. And we had to decide, are we gonna
cut the linear product? Are we gonna cut the live
TV channels and then get the streaming product? And now
we're at the point where I think it's something like
(07:25):
seventy percent of people, Yeah, they do.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
But get this.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Now we're at the point where seventy four percent of
consumers have canceled a streaming service in the past year
because of the rising prices, or they switch to a cheaper,
ad supported option. Three quarters have said it's already too expensive,
I have to cut it. And now we're at a
point where they're doing what they call churning. Are you
familiar with this? I guess I did this in the past,
(07:52):
and I didn't even realize I was doing it. It's
I'm gonna use this and I've watched the stuff on
the platform. I'm gonna drop this platform, and now I'm
gonna go pick this one up for me. I started
with Netflix. And when I got Netflix, and I've gotten
through it, and I'm paying a lot, and you know what,
I'm gonna bail on Netflix. I'm gonna see what Hulu has,
so I did. I got Hulu and then I dropped Netflix,
and I get going through Hulu and I will how
much of this? And maybe I don't need Hulu anymore.
(08:16):
And I got Apple TV and I like Apple TV
a lot. I think it's the best value streamer out there.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
I got that. Well, you know, I've watched the stuff.
They're not coming out with new stuff. Maybe I'll drop
Apple TV for a little while.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
The new season of ted Lasso comes out, then maybe
I'll pick it up again. But in the meantime i'll
drop that. Oh maybe I'll take the money I was
spending an Apple and I'll pick up Paramount. Then I'll
watch that and I'll watch the stuff on there, and
then when I'm not watching it so much more, I'll
drop Paramount and I'll and I'll pick up Peacock. Right,
So people are churning, and then they're just basically watching
the libraries that are available and then dropping it and
going on to the next one.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
That's how they're saving money right now. And I don't
blame them.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
It's another one of the reasons that these streamers have
stopped dropping everything all at once, and they've gone to
basically seasons where new episode every week to keep you
on the hook every week and to create continuous buzz
about their product too.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
Yeah, think about the parties that we've all heard about
in Hollywood too.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
They get they get crazy, right, Some of these parties
end up with videos, videos of somebody collapsing in a bathroom.
Sometimes you end up with somebody at a party and
you find out that, oh, they're on their way to
prison for what, blowing through millions of dollars they never had.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
I've got stars behaving badly.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Next, you're listening to KFI A six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
We were asking to talk about question, what was that
goofy thing you believe when you were a little kid,
we all did. We all believed just goofy things. And
we look back at we like, man, this goofy little kid.
Truth is we were all goofy little kids.
Speaker 4 (09:47):
Hey, Chris, goofy thing I believed as a kid. Well,
when I was three years old, my parents took me
to see some family up in Seattle. And then when
we got back from the trip, my parents when I
started crying hysterically because I said, I never saw Addel.
(10:10):
I thought Adel was a real person.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
That's pretty funny. That's a super cute story, isn't it.
From You're from Washington. Did you ever when you were
a little kid, did you ever think that.
Speaker 7 (10:29):
You were gonna go see Attle? I lived in Seattle
twenty years and I have never heard that joke. I
had never heard that before.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
I thought it was funny.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
My Uh, that reminds me of My grandparents were from Maine,
and when I was six, we were we went out
to Maine to see family and my dad said that
they spoke a different language in me, that I wouldn't
be able to understand them, uh, and that he told
me that they were all many acts right, and that
that I wouldn't understand it. So I was terrified that
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I was going to a place where they didn't speak English.
And he was kind of referring to the New England accent.
But he says, oh, yeah, they all they talked different
up there. You can't understand them. But when I was
a little kid, I thought that meant a different language,
and I was I was paranoid. I was worried. I
didn't have any trouble understanding them at all. I knew
exactly what they were saying.
Speaker 8 (11:26):
I'd go in the kitchen and ask my mother after
the show are we on TV?
Speaker 5 (11:31):
My brother when we lived at the beach.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
Used to go in the kitchen and ask my mother, mom,
what time did they turn the waves on? We No,
you were like in a Truman show. That's great. I
love that.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
Oh you guys are fantastic. Thank you so much. I
just love the naivete of kids.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
They were wonderful.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
It's great. Know I get older now you have tave
wears off. Then we discovered crack. See Andy Dick found crack.
He was doing this interview, so Fox Love was covering this,
and then he was doing this interview with TMZ and
wait until you hear what he was telling TMZ anything
odeed on crack and listen to listen to this.
Speaker 9 (12:18):
Speaking to TMZ from his Hollywood home, the fifty nine
year old comedian an actor admitted he met a man
on the street who offered him the drug. Dick said
he accepted, claiming he quote doesn't mind using crack occasionally.
When asked about his condition, he responded sarcastically, He's one
hundred percent fine.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
Doesn't even look like I'm one hundred percent fire. Oh
my gosh, he's having a Charlie Sheen moment. I'm one
hundred and ten percent fine, and we're gonna hear tiger
blood here. Shortly, and he was.
Speaker 10 (12:50):
On the sidewalk, him in my house, sick with you,
and then he whipped.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
Out, I'm sorry, but crack, and I'm like, you know,
I might need a little bit that.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
I wanted to see what he was doing, and also
I don't mind doing cracker renown.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
So Andy Dick sees some random guy sitting on the
sidewalk and he thinks, I'm gonna sit down next to him.
I want to see what he's all about. And the
guy says some crack and Andy, Dick goes, you know,
I would like some crack, and then lo and behold,
Crack's not good for you.
Speaker 9 (13:27):
So this is an interview obtained by TMZ this afternoon
showing Dick speaking from his home in Hollywood again said
he's fine, admitted to the drug use, the latest in
a long line of incidents that have led to him
being in and out of rehab and occasionally jail. This
is Dick slumped on the stairs with his glasses on
the ground from yesterday afternoon.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
Witnesses say his friends ran up to him.
Speaker 9 (13:48):
You heard him try to revive him, someone administering narcan
that's the drug that counteracts the effects of overdoses. In
an interview this afternoon, doctor Drew Pinsky we all know him,
who has.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
Treated Dick in the past and even did.
Speaker 9 (14:00):
A TV show with him about his addictions, says this
is just a very dangerous reminder of the power of
drugs and alcohol, which take control of the brain.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Is there is there anyone out there that doubts the
power of crack because I feel at this point we
probably all know cracks not good for you. Yeah, I
think we're onto it. Meanwhile, the guy that directed what
was the Ronan show?
Speaker 3 (14:32):
Mark?
Speaker 7 (14:33):
Oh yeah, item coming up about that at nine. But
you go go ahead and say, I'm still a little
bit of your thunder because listen, nobody can listen to
me for more than ten to fifteen minutes at a time.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
So don't worry. They're in the car. We're not repeating
too many people. Eric Rinch is the guy's name. So
he directed the film forty seven Ronan. He just got
convicted of wire fraud, money laundering and other charges. So
here's evidently what happened. So he got hired to do
a sci fi show called White Horse, and Netflix gave
him forty four million dollars to do this show. And
(15:08):
then he was like, you know what, I need more
money to do this, and they go, okay, here's another
eleven million dollars. So the show is the show still
unfinished as far as I know it is. Instead of
putting the money toward the show, he took the money.
He lost about half of the eleven million dollars in
a couple of months, according to prosecutors, and failed investments.
(15:30):
Then he put the remaining funds into crypto. He actually
made some money on that, and then the money that
he did make on that he put into his own account.
Then came lavish purchases. This from CBS News. Prosecutor said
that with Rinch he bought five rolls Royces and a
Ferrari and six hundred and fifty two thousand dollars. He
(15:51):
spent on watches and clothes so he had the drip.
He also bought and this.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
Blew my mind.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
He bought two mattresses for six hundred and thirty eight
thousand dollars, and he spent another three hundred thousand on
luxury betting and linens. I have never in my life
heard of a mattress that is three hundred thousand dollars
or sheets that are one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
(16:19):
I don't know what could possibly be. Are the mattresses
made from hookers?
Speaker 7 (16:24):
What?
Speaker 2 (16:24):
I don't understand what it is that's in a mattress
that makes it worth three hundred thousand dollars.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
And he was like, I better have a backup, give
me two of those. I mean, my mind is blown
about directing stressful. You need a good night's sleep.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
Okay, well, then go get yourself a sleep number or
a temper pedic and save yourself about two hundred and
ninety five thousand dollars install of a pretty nice mattress
just blows my mind speaking of spending money, and awful
lot of people are saying this very common thing that
our parents all told us we needed is just too much.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
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Speaker 3 (17:05):
Talking to you guys.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
I am six forty more stimulating talking on demand anytime
in the iHeartRadio app. So I tossed out the question,
we all believed goofy things when we were kids, right,
what's that goofy thing that you believed when you were little? Well,
we've had some really good answers tonight, Like the little
kid who parents took him to Seattle. Then he was
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crying because he never met he never got to see Attel.
I mean, I can see that when you're a little kid.
Mark laughs, like that's like that's a bad joke from Seattle,
but I had never heard it before.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
I think it's.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
Funny comedy gold. I mean, I can actually see a
little kid falling for that, can't you. Oh yeah, I
could see adults falling for it. Yeah, Okay, sadly I
agree with you. All right from the talkbacks.
Speaker 10 (17:53):
Really, I think mine's the best. Twelve years old mood
to California, Cornado. My mom sent me tovice cigarettes said
the machine come back, She's where are they go? I
couldn't do Mom. The machine says, no miners may operate
the machine. I really thought it wouldn't. I really thought
it wouldn't take my money and would know I was
a minor. Thank you so much. I fkfi and Chris
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Merrill and Mark Renner and fush.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
Fosh little love for Foosh to die. Now love that
love he now love that nice job. That's funny. I
think I was.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
I was pretty old as a miner before I knew
what a miner was. I didn't really get that. I
was gonna say the same thing. I didn't really know
what that was until I was older. Yeah, I think
I was probably like fourteen or fifteen before I knew
what a miner was. It was probably I was probably
junior high. And I heard about one of my friend's
older siblings getting a minor in possession and I had
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to they had to be explained to me what that meant,
and I.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
Like, oh, blurtr dirp out a bright kid yea.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
A new poll from NBC News showing that Americans are
turning against the idea of a four year degree.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
It's just not worth the cost.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
Nbcn is reporting two thirds say the four year degree
isn't worth it. Only thirty percent say that a bachelor's
degree actually leads to better jobs and higher earnings. Stats
would say, no, you're still better off to go get
your degree. It still pays for itself. The trouble is
there's such sticker shock, and also I think that there
are more options now for degrees that it's really easy
(19:34):
to pick a bad one. And it doesn't help that
we have made education or just attaining education a political
argument right where you've got people that are like, oh,
you went to college, that makes you dumb, Like, what
come on, stop?
Speaker 3 (19:55):
I went to I was a freshman in college.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
I had just gotten there, and I think I told
us before I majored in theater and my first audition
I got a call back.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
But I was not very good. By the way, I
didn't get the role I was. I was very bad.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
I think I was only in one main stage production
and I was an ancillary character.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
I was just not very good. But but I you know,
I was chasing my dream.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
So I audition and I get a call back and
the callback was on Friday night. Well, it just happened
that my friend from high school was getting married. This
was like Labor Day weekend or something, right, and he
was getting married. His girlfriend had a kid in high school.
They're still maried to this day. By the way, he
married his high school sweetheart and I was the best
(20:36):
man in his wedding. And I was like, well, I
got to get back. It's a rehearsal dinner. And they go, yeah,
you can skip callback. I mean, you're probably never going
to get another call back again if you don't show up.
And I felt horrible and I thought, I got I got,
I got to show up. So I skipped my buddies,
you know, I skipped my buddies uh dinner. And I'm
(20:57):
looking back on it now and I'm like, what in
the hell did I do? You know, I skipped my
buddy's rehearsal dinner for his wedding so that I go
to a callback for a theater to degree What a
waste that was. That was a bad decision. But I
remember sitting there at the I remember before the wedding
began because we had the rehearsal dinner was the night before,
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but then we also had kind of a gathering before
the wedding itself, and I remember one of his uncles
or something going, oh, you're the college boy.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
You're the college boy. I mean it was like I
was out of some sort of a deliverance re enactment.
Oh you're the college boy. What are you doing at college?
What are they going to teach there? The college boy? Oh,
I'm gonna be made feel bad because college it's a
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little muffled, little alien sounding.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
Yeah, you're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
Right In the meantime, it would appear that Elon Musk
does not have enough money, so he's going to try
to find a way to get some more. SpaceX is
moving ahead with plans for an IPO. Get ready, you
too could own just a little piece of space, and
(22:23):
who doesn't want a little piece of Elon Musk's space.
Speaker 8 (22:26):
SpaceX is pursuing an initial public offering next year, That's
what a source told Reuters on Tuesday. They said Elon
Musk's firm wants to raise more than twenty five billion
dollars with evaluation of more than one trillion dollars.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
Whoa wow, valuation near one point five trillion Woo.
Speaker 8 (22:50):
The source further added SpaceX has begun to talk with
banks about the public listing, which could be around June
or July. Musk said five years ago SpaceX plan to
list Starling in the future, but only once it's revenue
growth became what he called smooth and predictable. SpaceX didn't
immediately respond to my request for comment. Bloomberg reported SpaceX
(23:11):
expects to use funds from the listing to develop space
based data centers. That includes buying the chips needed to
run them. If further reported, the company is expected to
make around fifteen billion dollars in revenue this year, without
rising to between twenty two billion and twenty four billion
next year.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
Okay, wait a minute, space based data centers. So all
that we've been hearing about data centers and all the
different arguments people are having about data centers and the
power suck that is going to come from data centers
and the water that is going to use, especially in
the desert southwest communities where they want to put some
of these data centers, All of those are different arguments,
(23:48):
but we're saying now we're just going to we're going
to put them in space. What does Let me just
process that. I don't know that. I hate it. It's
just different. It takes me a minute to just think
this through. First of all, how are you gonna get
the power? Are we gonna have power generations in space
as well? We're gonna use solar. Now, cooling to me
(24:10):
makes a lot of sense because cooling would basically just
do it itself.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
So I'm done with that. You wouldn't you wouldn't really
have to worry about water for cooling, or if you did,
you could probably have very high efficiency in reusing the
water for any sort of cooling that you would have
to do with the data centers. But what does that
do then when it comes to the infrastructure for transmitting
the data? Wouldn't that mean that all.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
Data transfers would then effectively have to go through starlink?
You would have to go to some sort of a
satellite connection. Right, So Elon musk Is, I can't tell
if this is genius or if it's evil genius. He's
basically saying, look, the best place to put a data
center is in space. The best way to access that
(24:59):
is through my net work, which I've already put into space.
The entire world will be dependent on me for all
of the transmission of all of their information. Ooh, that
part worries me. That feels very much galactic monopoly. Like, yeah,
that part worries me that I don't Yeah, that worries
(25:20):
me because we already saw what happened when Elon Musk
said that he was going to offer starlink to, for instance,
Ukraine when it was popular to be pro Ukraine in
the battle against Russia.
Speaker 3 (25:34):
Now that's completely flipped on its head.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
And so then he was saying, oh, no, we're gonna
We're gonna send you a bill. Right, So then he
sends a bill to Ukraine, and today you owe me
for all that star linking that I did.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
Yeah, that felt slimy.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
So what happens when all of a sudden we become
dependent And maybe it's not Elon Musk, maybe it's somebody else,
maybe one of his like forty one kids, who takes
over the business.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
What happens when they say, good.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
Now that we control all of the data, Now we
are going to raise the price to a point where
countries are going to roughly be held hostage. No, I'm
not saying it's going to happen. I'm just saying that
the potential is there, and I don't like the risk.
I don't think the risk is worth the reward. That
worries me. Now, if you could take it out of
his hands. How do we feel about data centers in space? Well,
(26:27):
we did a story earlier this week on the radical
amounts of space junk that's floating above our heads. One
hundred trillion tons of space junk. Now, a lot of
that has to do with it's not just man made junk.
Some of that's just a dust and particulate that's traveling
through space itself. But I still don't know how crazy
(26:48):
I am about the whole idea of putting, of making
our reliance, which, let's be honest, we're all reliant in
a place that feels very, very vulnerable.
Speaker 3 (27:04):
Yeah, initial initial reaction here is.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
A little bit of concern. What about the idea of
starlink or excuse me, SpaceX. They worth one and a
half trillion dollars to start with, though, Holy cow, And
now the idea is Starlink's rapid expansion into mobile service
and international markets, which means instead of Verizon AT and
(27:27):
T and T Mobile, now you could end up with
Starlink as one of your possible providers. A full disclosure.
I had Starlink early on. This is back before I
have told the story before. My wife and I were
trying to save money, and so we sold our house
and we moved into an RV. My parents have a
few acres and we built an rvpad on their property
(27:49):
so we didn't have to pay any rent. They were
kind enough to allow us to do that, and so
we lived in a fifth wheel trailer on my parents
At my parents' place, trouble is, because they're so remote,
internet there was really sketched. We had what they call
fixed wireless max speed thirty megasecond, and as you might imagine,
(28:10):
it's kind of tough to do a radio show. For
Pete's sake, I got one gig at my place right now,
and I'm having trouble tonight with the with maintaining. Imagine
if we were at the mercy of the wind blowing
too strong and all of a sudden, my wireless connection
goes down. So I thought, you know what this this
Starlink seems like a great solution. So I was one
of the I got on the waiting lists, and I
was one of the early dobters and it showed up.
Speaker 3 (28:32):
But the trouble is our our.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
Fifth wheel was in the woods, and the canopy was
of the trees, which is one of the great things
about being there was too much for starlink. I could
never get a decent signal, so I hadn't ended up
having to send it back. My understanding is that's getting better.
But just wondering if you've got a satellite based mobile service,
what happens if you're downtown and the buildings are too
(28:55):
tall and the service isn't getting to your phone?
Speaker 3 (28:59):
Can you hear me?
Speaker 4 (28:59):
Now? No?
Speaker 2 (29:00):
No, no, And that's a problem. That's an issue, all right, gang,
Thank you for bearing with me there at the end.
I appreciate that, and I will flog whomever is in
charge of my internet. Perhaps it is just a group
of small monkeys inside my modem that are connecting the
(29:22):
wires and playing operator. I don't know for sure. At yeah,
that's what I'm gonna do anyway. Foosh, dude, it's getting
to the point where seeing you here every day is
it's feeling very normal again. And I can't tell you
how long we've all waited for the feeling of Foush
is back and it feels normal, like normalcy.
Speaker 7 (29:42):
Yeah, yeah, I know what I'm looking forward to being
able to take him for granted again.
Speaker 3 (29:47):
Isn't that the nicest part about Fush.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
It's the best part, right, It's really easy to overlook
it really is.
Speaker 3 (29:53):
Yeah. And then Ali behind the scenes as well.
Speaker 2 (29:55):
Ali, your input, your thought, your creativity is always appreciated.
You make the show better every time that you're in here.
And Nikky you're here too.
Speaker 3 (30:03):
That's good. Thanks.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
Actually your insight tonight too. Yeah, go back to Ali.
Your insight tonight was actually very helpful. And I loved
your story about about what you thought soap was going
to kill you when you were little. I thought that
was that was wonderful and super cute.
Speaker 3 (30:20):
It's ironic because now I'm just a dirty girl. So yep, yep,
so yep, we almost we almost did it. And Mark,
I always feel like, if this ship is sinking, you're
gonna go down with me. So uh.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
I always love having a partner in crime or at
least uh, at least somebody that is somebody that is
going to take the heat and sit in the office
with me when the boss is yelling.
Speaker 7 (30:45):
It is kind of a little radio suicide murder suicide pack,
isn't it.
Speaker 3 (30:49):
Yeah, all right back tomorrow night.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
I have a great evening, Chris Merrill can if I
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on what's happening, and if it's good, we'll play on
the air. A question tonight was what's the goofy thing
you believed when you were a little kid?
Speaker 3 (00:27):
And it all started when I was telling a.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Story about how when I was little, I used to
think the babies came out of mom's feet.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
That was just a weird kid. And you guys have
been great, had been great.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
One guy was telling us he thought that he had
little Martian antennas in his hands.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
By the way, we didn't know.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
He says, there were two black spots in my hands,
and I thought there were Martian antennas. So he eventually
dug one out, but he didn't tell us what they were.
He called back to say that he got like slivers
in there of some sort, so he just had slivers
and he so actually picking one out with them with
a pin was probably the right thing to do. Otherwise
I thought he was naming himself, like digging out moles
or something like that. So we asked, what's what's the
(01:06):
goofy thing that you believe when you were a kid? Yeah,
I distinctly recall believing that monkeys controlled traffic lights.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
That's awesome. I think that takes the cake right there. Yeah,
that's pretty great. Just a little kid thinking that there's
trained monkeys out there, red light, green light. That's pretty great.
I love that. Very good, very good.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
This comes as a surprise to no one, and that
is that there are concerns that any Warner Brothers merger is.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Going to cost jobs.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Weird, right, So strange that in a town that's based
on the entertainment industry you would have entertainers that are
concerned that a giant merger could be a threat to
your career. You are one hundred correct to fear that
one correct. In fact, Fox eleven was talking about either
(02:04):
the Netflix or the Paramount deal. We don't know which
one ultimately, or who knows, there could be a dark
horse we don't even know yet could come through and
uh and disrupt things.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
They were at Fox eleven. They were talking with Michael Schneider.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
He's the executive editor of TV for Variety, and they
were they were asking him about the jobs, and you know,
is one better or worse for our region?
Speaker 5 (02:29):
There is a difference in these offers? Is one deal?
Speaker 3 (02:33):
Oh yeah?
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Because the difference is this Netflix wants the Warner Studio properties.
They don't want anything to do with the linear product
the Discovery properties, the CNN, the TNT, the Discovery HGCV
that Netflix doesn't care about that stuff.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Paramount says, we'll take the whole thing.
Speaker 5 (02:52):
Feel better for Hollywood then the other.
Speaker 6 (02:55):
They're both terrible for Hollywood. Clear this is not going
to be good either way. Whenever you have a merger
like this or an acquisition, there are jobs to be lost,
there's efficiencies to be had, which means f your productions.
You know, each side, of course will say that they
have the better deal, that they are willing to do
more productions, more movies. Paramount argues that Netflix isn't going
(03:19):
to put movies to the theaters anymore. Netflix disagrees. There's
also a question of monopoly. But then again, if Netflix
takes over, then what happens to HBO Max. But if
Paramount takes over, what happens to Warner Brothers the studio. Again,
that's why both sides have a lot to remain desired.
Speaker 5 (03:37):
But will one for sure happen, meaning will the DOJ
or FTC? This requires their approval, so surely they will
choose one of the deals.
Speaker 6 (03:49):
You never know with this administration.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
In particular, it was it Comcast in the bidding too.
Comcasts just kind of totally fell out of there, didn't
they It was their budget? Yeah, no kidding.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Well, that's the other thing too, is that Netflix is
offering a large, largely cash deal. Paramount's pulling a total
cash deal, but it's using a number of different funding mechanisms,
including foreign investors from other countries.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Things like that.
Speaker 6 (04:17):
Been very volatile, and you know, the question is what
does the Trump administration think. You know, they've been kind
of vocal so far and saying that the Netflix deal
wouldn't be good, But I'm not sure they think the
Paramount deal would be good either. But of course, both
sides have been lobbying the Trump administration. Trump is close
with the Ellison family, which owns Paramount, sky Dance, but
(04:37):
ted Sarandos, the head of Netflix, just had a great
meeting with the White House the other day. So it
also comes down to a question of who lobbies this administration.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
Boy, we have already seen so many job cuts.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Paramount merged with Skydance and immediately cut a ton of jobs,
and analysts predict that Paramount is still going to cut
a total of six thousand jobs.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
And the same thing happened when Disney bought the Fox,
the studio property stuff, right, I mean, Disney started trimming
the fat, so to speak. There's nothing nothing better than
your company merging and you're being told you're the fat.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
Oh good, I was the problem the whole time. Who knew?
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Yeah, So we have already seen the mergers begin Disney
Fox and then Disney with their ABC properties as well,
and that happened, of course years ago. And when it
comes to streaming at Disney, Hulu and ESPN are all
on the streaming platforms together. But yeah, they you know,
Disney bought the the.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
The Marvel properties, the Fox properties, all those things.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
And you know Amazon's been been acquiring different properties here
and there, and the consolidation is going to continue to happen.
The question is how long will the market stand for it,
because inevitably you're going to see concis, you're gonna see mergers,
you're gonna see the consolidation, you're going to see conveniences.
(06:06):
So let's suppose that Netflix buys Hbo.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
Eventually you'll have the HBO products end up on the
Netflix platform. Right, So if you've got Netflix Boom, you're
gonna have it.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
They're gonna say, look, you're can have access to the
HBO library as well. You're paying eighteen bucks in now,
eighteen bucks a month. Now we'll give you all the
HBO stuff too. It'll be twenty bucks a month. And
you're like, wow, that's really that's a great deal. And
you go two bucks more than I get all the
HBO stuff. I mean, in the past, I was paying
eighteen for HBO and eighteen for Netflix. This is a
(06:36):
good deal. Those deals will not last long. So at
first it's gonna seem like a good deal, and then
they're gonna jack that price up.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Then they're gonna go.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Oh, we realized twenty dollars wasn't another twenty four but look,
you're still saving so much money over what you used
to have to pay, and you're going, oh, I guess
twenty four is still pretty good, and then it's gonna
be like thirty dollars.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
Then you're going, oh, thirty dollars is still better, and
then it's gonna be forty dollars, and all of a sudden,
you've already heard people grumbling that we're already back to
what we were when we had cable.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
We all complained about cable. Cable was so expensive. If
you wanted anything that cable was just outrageously expensive. And
so we started cutting the cord because we wanted to
save money. And we had to decide, are we gonna
cut the linear product? Are we gonna cut the live
TV channels and then get the streaming product? And now
we're at the point where I think it's something like
(07:25):
seventy percent of people, Yeah, they do.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
But get this.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Now we're at the point where seventy four percent of
consumers have canceled a streaming service in the past year
because of the rising prices, or they switch to a cheaper,
ad supported option. Three quarters have said it's already too expensive,
I have to cut it. And now we're at a
point where they're doing what they call churning. Are you
familiar with this? I guess I did this in the past,
(07:52):
and I didn't even realize I was doing it. It's
I'm gonna use this and I've watched the stuff on
the platform. I'm gonna drop this platform, and now I'm
gonna go pick this one up for me. I started
with Netflix. And when I got Netflix, and I've gotten
through it, and I'm paying a lot, and you know what,
I'm gonna bail on Netflix. I'm gonna see what Hulu has,
so I did. I got Hulu and then I dropped Netflix,
and I get going through Hulu and I will how
much of this? And maybe I don't need Hulu anymore.
(08:16):
And I got Apple TV and I like Apple TV
a lot. I think it's the best value streamer out there.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
I got that. Well, you know, I've watched the stuff.
They're not coming out with new stuff. Maybe I'll drop
Apple TV for a little while.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
The new season of ted Lasso comes out, then maybe
I'll pick it up again. But in the meantime i'll
drop that. Oh maybe I'll take the money I was
spending an Apple and I'll pick up Paramount. Then I'll
watch that and I'll watch the stuff on there, and
then when I'm not watching it so much more, I'll
drop Paramount and I'll and I'll pick up Peacock. Right,
So people are churning, and then they're just basically watching
the libraries that are available and then dropping it and
going on to the next one.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
That's how they're saving money right now. And I don't
blame them.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
It's another one of the reasons that these streamers have
stopped dropping everything all at once, and they've gone to
basically seasons where new episode every week to keep you
on the hook every week and to create continuous buzz
about their product too.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
Yeah, think about the parties that we've all heard about
in Hollywood too.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
They get they get crazy, right, Some of these parties
end up with videos, videos of somebody collapsing in a bathroom.
Sometimes you end up with somebody at a party and
you find out that, oh, they're on their way to
prison for what, blowing through millions of dollars they never had.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
I've got stars behaving badly.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Next, you're listening to KFI A six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
We were asking to talk about question, what was that
goofy thing you believe when you were a little kid,
we all did. We all believed just goofy things. And
we look back at we like, man, this goofy little kid.
Truth is we were all goofy little kids.
Speaker 4 (09:47):
Hey, Chris, goofy thing I believed as a kid. Well,
when I was three years old, my parents took me
to see some family up in Seattle. And then when
we got back from the trip, my parents when I
started crying hysterically because I said, I never saw Addel.
(10:10):
I thought Adel was a real person.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
That's pretty funny. That's a super cute story, isn't it.
From You're from Washington. Did you ever when you were
a little kid, did you ever think that.
Speaker 7 (10:29):
You were gonna go see Attle? I lived in Seattle
twenty years and I have never heard that joke. I
had never heard that before.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
I thought it was funny.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
My Uh, that reminds me of My grandparents were from Maine,
and when I was six, we were we went out
to Maine to see family and my dad said that
they spoke a different language in me, that I wouldn't
be able to understand them, uh, and that he told
me that they were all many acts right, and that
that I wouldn't understand it. So I was terrified that
(11:05):
I was going to a place where they didn't speak English.
And he was kind of referring to the New England accent.
But he says, oh, yeah, they all they talked different
up there. You can't understand them. But when I was
a little kid, I thought that meant a different language,
and I was I was paranoid. I was worried. I
didn't have any trouble understanding them at all. I knew
exactly what they were saying.
Speaker 8 (11:26):
I'd go in the kitchen and ask my mother after
the show are we on TV?
Speaker 5 (11:31):
My brother when we lived at the beach.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
Used to go in the kitchen and ask my mother, mom,
what time did they turn the waves on? We No,
you were like in a Truman show. That's great. I
love that.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
Oh you guys are fantastic. Thank you so much. I
just love the naivete of kids.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
They were wonderful.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
It's great. Know I get older now you have tave
wears off. Then we discovered crack. See Andy Dick found crack.
He was doing this interview, so Fox Love was covering this,
and then he was doing this interview with TMZ and
wait until you hear what he was telling TMZ anything
odeed on crack and listen to listen to this.
Speaker 9 (12:18):
Speaking to TMZ from his Hollywood home, the fifty nine
year old comedian an actor admitted he met a man
on the street who offered him the drug. Dick said
he accepted, claiming he quote doesn't mind using crack occasionally.
When asked about his condition, he responded sarcastically, He's one
hundred percent fine.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
Doesn't even look like I'm one hundred percent fire. Oh
my gosh, he's having a Charlie Sheen moment. I'm one
hundred and ten percent fine, and we're gonna hear tiger
blood here. Shortly, and he was.
Speaker 10 (12:50):
On the sidewalk, him in my house, sick with you,
and then he whipped.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
Out, I'm sorry, but crack, and I'm like, you know,
I might need a little bit that.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
I wanted to see what he was doing, and also
I don't mind doing cracker renown.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
So Andy Dick sees some random guy sitting on the
sidewalk and he thinks, I'm gonna sit down next to him.
I want to see what he's all about. And the
guy says some crack and Andy, Dick goes, you know,
I would like some crack, and then lo and behold,
Crack's not good for you.
Speaker 9 (13:27):
So this is an interview obtained by TMZ this afternoon
showing Dick speaking from his home in Hollywood again said
he's fine, admitted to the drug use, the latest in
a long line of incidents that have led to him
being in and out of rehab and occasionally jail. This
is Dick slumped on the stairs with his glasses on
the ground from yesterday afternoon.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
Witnesses say his friends ran up to him.
Speaker 9 (13:48):
You heard him try to revive him, someone administering narcan
that's the drug that counteracts the effects of overdoses. In
an interview this afternoon, doctor Drew Pinsky we all know him,
who has.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
Treated Dick in the past and even did.
Speaker 9 (14:00):
A TV show with him about his addictions, says this
is just a very dangerous reminder of the power of
drugs and alcohol, which take control of the brain.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Is there is there anyone out there that doubts the
power of crack because I feel at this point we
probably all know cracks not good for you. Yeah, I
think we're onto it. Meanwhile, the guy that directed what
was the Ronan show?
Speaker 3 (14:32):
Mark?
Speaker 7 (14:33):
Oh yeah, item coming up about that at nine. But
you go go ahead and say, I'm still a little
bit of your thunder because listen, nobody can listen to
me for more than ten to fifteen minutes at a time.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
So don't worry. They're in the car. We're not repeating
too many people. Eric Rinch is the guy's name. So
he directed the film forty seven Ronan. He just got
convicted of wire fraud, money laundering and other charges. So
here's evidently what happened. So he got hired to do
a sci fi show called White Horse, and Netflix gave
him forty four million dollars to do this show. And
(15:08):
then he was like, you know what, I need more
money to do this, and they go, okay, here's another
eleven million dollars. So the show is the show still
unfinished as far as I know it is. Instead of
putting the money toward the show, he took the money.
He lost about half of the eleven million dollars in
a couple of months, according to prosecutors, and failed investments.
(15:30):
Then he put the remaining funds into crypto. He actually
made some money on that, and then the money that
he did make on that he put into his own account.
Then came lavish purchases. This from CBS News. Prosecutor said
that with Rinch he bought five rolls Royces and a
Ferrari and six hundred and fifty two thousand dollars. He
(15:51):
spent on watches and clothes so he had the drip.
He also bought and this.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
Blew my mind.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
He bought two mattresses for six hundred and thirty eight
thousand dollars, and he spent another three hundred thousand on
luxury betting and linens. I have never in my life
heard of a mattress that is three hundred thousand dollars
or sheets that are one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
(16:19):
I don't know what could possibly be. Are the mattresses
made from hookers?
Speaker 7 (16:24):
What?
Speaker 2 (16:24):
I don't understand what it is that's in a mattress
that makes it worth three hundred thousand dollars.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
And he was like, I better have a backup, give
me two of those. I mean, my mind is blown
about directing stressful. You need a good night's sleep.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
Okay, well, then go get yourself a sleep number or
a temper pedic and save yourself about two hundred and
ninety five thousand dollars install of a pretty nice mattress
just blows my mind speaking of spending money, and awful
lot of people are saying this very common thing that
our parents all told us we needed is just too much.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand love.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
Talking to you guys.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
I am six forty more stimulating talking on demand anytime
in the iHeartRadio app. So I tossed out the question,
we all believed goofy things when we were kids, right,
what's that goofy thing that you believed when you were little? Well,
we've had some really good answers tonight, Like the little
kid who parents took him to Seattle. Then he was
(17:27):
crying because he never met he never got to see Attel.
I mean, I can see that when you're a little kid.
Mark laughs, like that's like that's a bad joke from Seattle,
but I had never heard it before.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
I think it's.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
Funny comedy gold. I mean, I can actually see a
little kid falling for that, can't you. Oh yeah, I
could see adults falling for it. Yeah, Okay, sadly I
agree with you. All right from the talkbacks.
Speaker 10 (17:53):
Really, I think mine's the best. Twelve years old mood
to California, Cornado. My mom sent me tovice cigarettes said
the machine come back, She's where are they go? I
couldn't do Mom. The machine says, no miners may operate
the machine. I really thought it wouldn't. I really thought
it wouldn't take my money and would know I was
a minor. Thank you so much. I fkfi and Chris
(18:15):
Merrill and Mark Renner and fush.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
Fosh little love for Foosh to die. Now love that
love he now love that nice job. That's funny. I
think I was.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
I was pretty old as a miner before I knew
what a miner was. I didn't really get that. I
was gonna say the same thing. I didn't really know
what that was until I was older. Yeah, I think
I was probably like fourteen or fifteen before I knew
what a miner was. It was probably I was probably
junior high. And I heard about one of my friend's
older siblings getting a minor in possession and I had
(18:53):
to they had to be explained to me what that meant,
and I.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
Like, oh, blurtr dirp out a bright kid yea.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
A new poll from NBC News showing that Americans are
turning against the idea of a four year degree.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
It's just not worth the cost.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
Nbcn is reporting two thirds say the four year degree
isn't worth it. Only thirty percent say that a bachelor's
degree actually leads to better jobs and higher earnings. Stats
would say, no, you're still better off to go get
your degree. It still pays for itself. The trouble is
there's such sticker shock, and also I think that there
are more options now for degrees that it's really easy
(19:34):
to pick a bad one. And it doesn't help that
we have made education or just attaining education a political
argument right where you've got people that are like, oh,
you went to college, that makes you dumb, Like, what
come on, stop?
Speaker 3 (19:55):
I went to I was a freshman in college.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
I had just gotten there, and I think I told
us before I majored in theater and my first audition
I got a call back.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
But I was not very good. By the way, I
didn't get the role I was. I was very bad.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
I think I was only in one main stage production
and I was an ancillary character.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
I was just not very good. But but I you know,
I was chasing my dream.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
So I audition and I get a call back and
the callback was on Friday night. Well, it just happened
that my friend from high school was getting married. This
was like Labor Day weekend or something, right, and he
was getting married. His girlfriend had a kid in high school.
They're still maried to this day. By the way, he
married his high school sweetheart and I was the best
(20:36):
man in his wedding. And I was like, well, I
got to get back. It's a rehearsal dinner. And they go, yeah,
you can skip callback. I mean, you're probably never going
to get another call back again if you don't show up.
And I felt horrible and I thought, I got I got,
I got to show up. So I skipped my buddies,
you know, I skipped my buddies uh dinner. And I'm
(20:57):
looking back on it now and I'm like, what in
the hell did I do? You know, I skipped my
buddy's rehearsal dinner for his wedding so that I go
to a callback for a theater to degree What a
waste that was. That was a bad decision. But I
remember sitting there at the I remember before the wedding
began because we had the rehearsal dinner was the night before,
(21:18):
but then we also had kind of a gathering before
the wedding itself, and I remember one of his uncles
or something going, oh, you're the college boy.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
You're the college boy. I mean it was like I
was out of some sort of a deliverance re enactment.
Oh you're the college boy. What are you doing at college?
What are they going to teach there? The college boy? Oh,
I'm gonna be made feel bad because college it's a
(21:49):
little muffled, little alien sounding.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
Yeah, you're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
Right In the meantime, it would appear that Elon Musk
does not have enough money, so he's going to try
to find a way to get some more. SpaceX is
moving ahead with plans for an IPO. Get ready, you
too could own just a little piece of space, and
(22:23):
who doesn't want a little piece of Elon Musk's space.
Speaker 8 (22:26):
SpaceX is pursuing an initial public offering next year, That's
what a source told Reuters on Tuesday. They said Elon
Musk's firm wants to raise more than twenty five billion
dollars with evaluation of more than one trillion dollars.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
Whoa wow, valuation near one point five trillion Woo.
Speaker 8 (22:50):
The source further added SpaceX has begun to talk with
banks about the public listing, which could be around June
or July. Musk said five years ago SpaceX plan to
list Starling in the future, but only once it's revenue
growth became what he called smooth and predictable. SpaceX didn't
immediately respond to my request for comment. Bloomberg reported SpaceX
(23:11):
expects to use funds from the listing to develop space
based data centers. That includes buying the chips needed to
run them. If further reported, the company is expected to
make around fifteen billion dollars in revenue this year, without
rising to between twenty two billion and twenty four billion
next year.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
Okay, wait a minute, space based data centers. So all
that we've been hearing about data centers and all the
different arguments people are having about data centers and the
power suck that is going to come from data centers
and the water that is going to use, especially in
the desert southwest communities where they want to put some
of these data centers, All of those are different arguments,
(23:48):
but we're saying now we're just going to we're going
to put them in space. What does Let me just
process that. I don't know that. I hate it. It's
just different. It takes me a minute to just think
this through. First of all, how are you gonna get
the power? Are we gonna have power generations in space
as well? We're gonna use solar. Now, cooling to me
(24:10):
makes a lot of sense because cooling would basically just
do it itself.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
So I'm done with that. You wouldn't you wouldn't really
have to worry about water for cooling, or if you did,
you could probably have very high efficiency in reusing the
water for any sort of cooling that you would have
to do with the data centers. But what does that
do then when it comes to the infrastructure for transmitting
the data? Wouldn't that mean that all.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
Data transfers would then effectively have to go through starlink?
You would have to go to some sort of a
satellite connection. Right, So Elon musk Is, I can't tell
if this is genius or if it's evil genius. He's
basically saying, look, the best place to put a data
center is in space. The best way to access that
(24:59):
is through my net work, which I've already put into space.
The entire world will be dependent on me for all
of the transmission of all of their information. Ooh, that
part worries me. That feels very much galactic monopoly. Like, yeah,
that part worries me that I don't Yeah, that worries
(25:20):
me because we already saw what happened when Elon Musk
said that he was going to offer starlink to, for instance,
Ukraine when it was popular to be pro Ukraine in
the battle against Russia.
Speaker 3 (25:34):
Now that's completely flipped on its head.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
And so then he was saying, oh, no, we're gonna
We're gonna send you a bill. Right, So then he
sends a bill to Ukraine, and today you owe me
for all that star linking that I did.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
Yeah, that felt slimy.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
So what happens when all of a sudden we become
dependent And maybe it's not Elon Musk, maybe it's somebody else,
maybe one of his like forty one kids, who takes
over the business.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
What happens when they say, good.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
Now that we control all of the data, Now we
are going to raise the price to a point where
countries are going to roughly be held hostage. No, I'm
not saying it's going to happen. I'm just saying that
the potential is there, and I don't like the risk.
I don't think the risk is worth the reward. That
worries me. Now, if you could take it out of
his hands. How do we feel about data centers in space? Well,
(26:27):
we did a story earlier this week on the radical
amounts of space junk that's floating above our heads. One
hundred trillion tons of space junk. Now, a lot of
that has to do with it's not just man made junk.
Some of that's just a dust and particulate that's traveling
through space itself. But I still don't know how crazy
(26:48):
I am about the whole idea of putting, of making
our reliance, which, let's be honest, we're all reliant in
a place that feels very, very vulnerable.
Speaker 3 (27:04):
Yeah, initial initial reaction here is.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
A little bit of concern. What about the idea of
starlink or excuse me, SpaceX. They worth one and a
half trillion dollars to start with, though, Holy cow, And
now the idea is Starlink's rapid expansion into mobile service
and international markets, which means instead of Verizon AT and
(27:27):
T and T Mobile, now you could end up with
Starlink as one of your possible providers. A full disclosure.
I had Starlink early on. This is back before I
have told the story before. My wife and I were
trying to save money, and so we sold our house
and we moved into an RV. My parents have a
few acres and we built an rvpad on their property
(27:49):
so we didn't have to pay any rent. They were
kind enough to allow us to do that, and so
we lived in a fifth wheel trailer on my parents
At my parents' place, trouble is, because they're so remote,
internet there was really sketched. We had what they call
fixed wireless max speed thirty megasecond, and as you might imagine,
(28:10):
it's kind of tough to do a radio show. For
Pete's sake, I got one gig at my place right now,
and I'm having trouble tonight with the with maintaining. Imagine
if we were at the mercy of the wind blowing
too strong and all of a sudden, my wireless connection
goes down. So I thought, you know what this this
Starlink seems like a great solution. So I was one
of the I got on the waiting lists, and I
was one of the early dobters and it showed up.
Speaker 3 (28:32):
But the trouble is our our.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
Fifth wheel was in the woods, and the canopy was
of the trees, which is one of the great things
about being there was too much for starlink. I could
never get a decent signal, so I hadn't ended up
having to send it back. My understanding is that's getting better.
But just wondering if you've got a satellite based mobile service,
what happens if you're downtown and the buildings are too
(28:55):
tall and the service isn't getting to your phone?
Speaker 3 (28:59):
Can you hear me?
Speaker 4 (28:59):
Now? No?
Speaker 2 (29:00):
No, no, And that's a problem. That's an issue, all right, gang,
Thank you for bearing with me there at the end.
I appreciate that, and I will flog whomever is in
charge of my internet. Perhaps it is just a group
of small monkeys inside my modem that are connecting the
(29:22):
wires and playing operator. I don't know for sure. At yeah,
that's what I'm gonna do anyway. Foosh, dude, it's getting
to the point where seeing you here every day is
it's feeling very normal again. And I can't tell you
how long we've all waited for the feeling of Foush
is back and it feels normal, like normalcy.
Speaker 7 (29:42):
Yeah, yeah, I know what I'm looking forward to being
able to take him for granted again.
Speaker 3 (29:47):
Isn't that the nicest part about Fush.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
It's the best part, right, It's really easy to overlook
it really is.
Speaker 3 (29:53):
Yeah. And then Ali behind the scenes as well.
Speaker 2 (29:55):
Ali, your input, your thought, your creativity is always appreciated.
You make the show better every time that you're in here.
And Nikky you're here too.
Speaker 3 (30:03):
That's good. Thanks.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
Actually your insight tonight too. Yeah, go back to Ali.
Your insight tonight was actually very helpful. And I loved
your story about about what you thought soap was going
to kill you when you were little. I thought that
was that was wonderful and super cute.
Speaker 3 (30:20):
It's ironic because now I'm just a dirty girl. So yep, yep,
so yep, we almost we almost did it. And Mark,
I always feel like, if this ship is sinking, you're
gonna go down with me. So uh.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
I always love having a partner in crime or at
least uh, at least somebody that is somebody that is
going to take the heat and sit in the office
with me when the boss is yelling.
Speaker 7 (30:45):
It is kind of a little radio suicide murder suicide pack,
isn't it.
Speaker 3 (30:49):
Yeah, all right back tomorrow night.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
I have a great evening, Chris Merrill can if I
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