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October 16, 2025 39 mins
Apple TV Subtracts the + in a Quiet Rebrand //Reality TV production in L.A. drops, leading to nearly 21% decrease in TV shoot days 
D’Angelo showed us what the 21st century should sound like + Mel Gibson’s ‘Resurrection of the Christ’ + ‘Tron’ May Mark End of Jared Leto’s Franchise-Leading Days 
Movie Night: The Last Safe Screen- Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt told parents at the World Mental Health Day Festival that not all screen time is created equal. 
Six, Seven Math Meltdown, Math teachers around the world are struggling to explain why 6 × 7 equals 42—because students increasingly want to know why, not just what. 
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
Pretty great when you and I get to hang out.
It is for me anyway, hopefully it is for you
as well. So anyway, thanks for being a part of
the show. Tomorrow, Gary and Shan, I gotta be at
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Beach one sixty sixty Beach Boulevard, Food, fun and prizes,

(00:24):
wonderful prizes, massive change in one of the great streaming services.
I've said it before, I'll say it again. The best
bang for your buck when you're paying full price. Now
and I talk about intros because right now I'm paying
two dollars a month for Peacock.

Speaker 3 (00:40):
That's pretty good bank for my buck.

Speaker 2 (00:43):
By the way, do you know if Peacock will extend
that for me if I cancel come December? When I
send up for it. Last year, I got one year
for two dollars a month. Well, that's what I always do.

Speaker 4 (00:52):
I get it when there's a sale, and then when
they raise prices, I cancel and I wait for another
deal to come along because I'm not paying six bucks
for peacock.

Speaker 3 (00:59):
But they do they offer you like a retention special
or anything.

Speaker 4 (01:03):
I don't think so I just go through the same
tedious ritual month after month.

Speaker 2 (01:07):
Okay, how long do you have to be away from
it before they offer you a sale again?

Speaker 4 (01:10):
I don't know that, but I was afraid you were
going to say that Twob was gonna start charging, and
then I was just gonna have a complete meltdown.

Speaker 3 (01:16):
No didn't. Isn't Twob's whole thing like always free forever? Yeah,
God bless him.

Speaker 2 (01:20):
Yeah, that is until they get bought out, Like free
V Freebe used to be always free forever until Amazon
bought im, and now they're gone.

Speaker 4 (01:28):
And they had some good stuff on there too. I
was plowing my way through the Rockford Files on freeb I.

Speaker 2 (01:32):
Think that you can still watch the free V content
on Amazon Prime, but you're going to be inundated with
all of their you know, sign up now kind of crap.

Speaker 3 (01:41):
Oh well, I think so.

Speaker 2 (01:44):
There's been a massive rebrand though, best best bang for
the buck for full price in my opinion, Apple TV Plus.

Speaker 3 (01:52):
I've said this numerous times.

Speaker 2 (01:54):
If they don't have a large quantity of original material,
but they have high quality original material.

Speaker 3 (02:03):
Mark. You've talked about Slow Horses. It's still in my queue.

Speaker 2 (02:05):
I haven't watched it yet, but I'm going to based
on your recommendations.

Speaker 3 (02:08):
Oh, you got to get on the ball with that.
I know, I know, and I.

Speaker 2 (02:12):
Have HBO to HBO Max and I had a buddy
that's like, you know, have you seen Entourage and said no,
I haven't.

Speaker 3 (02:18):
He says, you have to watch it.

Speaker 4 (02:20):
This is not in the same category as Entourage, with
by the way, has aged terribly. To me.

Speaker 3 (02:26):
It's great. Entourage, Yeah, I mean.

Speaker 4 (02:28):
It was a thing when it came out, but I
think if you watch it now, it has not aged well.

Speaker 3 (02:32):
But Slow Horses.

Speaker 4 (02:34):
What's not to like about Gary Oldman insulting everybody and
farting constantly.

Speaker 3 (02:39):
It sounds it sounds great, Yeah right, I mean I
love that.

Speaker 2 (02:42):
But anyway, it's just a show for all mankind. Another
fantastic show. Apple TV plus Zephyrnce. We know that Ted Lasso.
I mean, these are all these are all shows that
when they come out, people buzz about them. And Apple
TV plus it was under ten bucks. I think now
I think it's over ten dollars. I don't recall for sure.

(03:02):
I don't work for Apple. This isn't a plug. I
don't care. Because Apple now has completely rebranded their streaming service,
total change. I don't know if you're even gonna be
able to find it anymore. Here fourth and forever more,
Apple TV Plus will be known as.

Speaker 3 (03:22):
Apple TV. What are you gonna do? I don't know.

Speaker 2 (03:27):
I was watching I was watching a video from Decoding TV,
and they broke it down what this really means to
Apple TV plus viewers.

Speaker 5 (03:34):
Apple TV plus is becoming Apple TV with what Apple
says is a vibrant new brand identity. Here's the new
brand identity. You can decide for yourself how vibrant it
is now. This creates a really interesting scenario because now
there is a set top hardware box called Apple TV.

Speaker 3 (03:48):
By the way, it's the total rebrand. You know.

Speaker 2 (03:51):
It used to be the Apple logo, the letters TV,
apple TV, and then I had a plus sign.

Speaker 3 (03:58):
The new rebrand radically different.

Speaker 2 (04:01):
It's the Apple TV logo in the words TV and
no plus sign. So I don't even know how'm gonna
find it on my streaming service anymore. You know, my Roku,
I have no idea.

Speaker 5 (04:12):
It's a top hardware box called Apple TV, an app
called Apple TV, and a streaming service called Apple TV.

Speaker 3 (04:18):
So this means you can.

Speaker 5 (04:19):
Watch Apple TV shows on your Apple TV app on
your Apple TV box. Perfect, So you can watch Apple
TV on Apple TV on Apple TV, but Apple TV.

Speaker 3 (04:27):
It's like we're in an Apple inception. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (04:29):
This is like Elon Musk changing Twitter X and A
mean at least one kid X and X.

Speaker 3 (04:35):
What's going on this? Yeah? Mix it up a little.
What if?

Speaker 2 (04:39):
What if Elon Musk's kid X rides his spaces X
rocket and then X is about it and then gets
into X rated movies?

Speaker 3 (04:47):
Oh wow?

Speaker 5 (04:49):
But the Apple TV app is also available on non
Apple TV boxes, so like a Roku or a smart TV. Yeah,
so you can also watch Apple TV shows on your
Apple TV app, not on your Apple TV box. So
you can watch Apple TV on Apple TV, but not
on Apple TV.

Speaker 3 (05:02):
You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 5 (05:03):
You can also buy movies and TV shows on your
Apple TV app, but sometimes they won't show up if
you're not using an Apple product. So you can buy
movies and TV shows on your Apple TV tv and
also watch Apple TV watch shows on your Apple TV. Okay,
and you can say those on your Apple TV device
port sometimes not on your Apple but then nice got it?
Oh wait, did I mention, by the way, that Apple
is really well known for branding. Anyway, I hope you
enjoy watching your Apple TV stuff on your Apple TV

(05:24):
on your Apple TV, and I will do the same,
and probably by the time you watch this video, they're
going to change everything.

Speaker 3 (05:32):
You know.

Speaker 2 (05:32):
Normally I find these schmucks, they do these sorts of
little quick videos on YouTube or whatever to be obnoxious.

Speaker 3 (05:38):
I actually really enjoyed that.

Speaker 2 (05:39):
One because I not only did he you know, rattle
off the Apple TV on the Apple TV on the
Apple TV. I listened to it a few times and
everything he said was accurate, So he wasn't just randomly
saying Apple TV app like he was right, your Apple
TV on your Apple TV, on your Apple TV device.
He did it. It's great kudos to UH Decoding TV.

(06:02):
And you know me, I don't give kudos to these
these videos very often. No, you don't just hand them
out for nothing, No, I don't. I liked what he
had to do.

Speaker 3 (06:11):
Bad news.

Speaker 2 (06:12):
If you've ever wanted to be on UH Love Island LA,
do we have Love Island LA?

Speaker 4 (06:19):
I if we do, I have not been a patron.
Would that be love Love Island Catalina. There's a there's
a Love drive through count me in.

Speaker 3 (06:28):
Oh, very good, that'd be Love Island Randy's Donuts.

Speaker 4 (06:34):
Oh, Love Island in and out, Love Island pinks. That
sounds dirty.

Speaker 3 (06:39):
I oh, oh, why wasn't I paying attention? I've lost
right over your punchline.

Speaker 4 (06:44):
I I withdraw it now. That sounds dirty too. Everything
sounds dirty now.

Speaker 3 (06:48):
I know. I'm so sorry.

Speaker 2 (06:49):
I didn't mean to. I didn't mean to gloss over it.
I sounded like I was trying to one up you,
and I should have listened better.

Speaker 3 (06:54):
I'm sorry. It's not a competition, Chris Real. No, no,
we're the same team.

Speaker 2 (06:58):
Reality TV filming days in LA they've dropped forty two
percent year over year, according to Film La Crap.

Speaker 3 (07:06):
That's not great.

Speaker 2 (07:08):
They say it's the rising costs and the post strike
uncertainty pushing producers to make cheaper markets like Georgia and overseas.
Everything I watch now has got that made in Georgia
tag on it. So you got shows like The Bachelor,
Real Housewives. They are filming outside California to cut expenses
streaming platforms shifting focus to scripted series and docuseries, which

(07:28):
squeezes traditional reality formats. Thank god, how long have we
been screaming to have less reality crap? Give us something
that is scripted, which is great, that puts writers to
work until AI steals their jobs. Industry insiders say that

(07:49):
LA's grip on unscripted production is slipping fast. However, in
large part this is data that came out before new
film tax incentives came about. So now that we have
some more tax incentives that are coming about, we should
see some of these some of this filming coming back.

(08:11):
Hopefully that doesn't mean we have more more reality crap.
Hopefully that means we just have more filming going on
in California, employing more Californians in the industry that is
as California as anything else.

Speaker 3 (08:24):
Hopefully. All right, we lost a really good one.

Speaker 2 (08:29):
I mean, one of the really, really great musicians of
a generation passed away far too soon. If you are unfamiliar,
you're gonna hear it next. Chris Meryl.

Speaker 1 (08:39):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.

Speaker 2 (08:43):
Mark you've done it ten? Or do you have to
stick around longer? I'm here till midnight every night. Oh
you are. I just want you to know that by
ten oh five, when you are done with your ten
o'clock newscast, I will already have my three fingers of
Gentlemen Jack port.

Speaker 3 (09:00):
It's your drink of choice. That's uh. I feel like
that's a good uh good, uh good.

Speaker 2 (09:07):
Middle ground for taste versus cost Okay, the judges will
accept that. I like a nice look, it was my choice.
I take a nice McCallum eighteen year. Okay, but I
don't have enough money to be thrown at that all
the time. So I go get a handle of Gentleman
Jack at about sixty five dollars.

Speaker 4 (09:26):
All right, since we're in that price range. Have you
ever tried a kind of Scotch called oh bamban?

Speaker 3 (09:32):
Yep?

Speaker 2 (09:32):
Well you know where you can get that? Uh Costco?
Sometimes Costco has a killer deal on it. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
I've I have. It's a ten year, but I have
taken advantage of that more than once. The other one
that is under the radar that I like and look,
I am, by no means highly well versed in this,
but you know, more than a new But yeah, I.

Speaker 4 (09:51):
Like how you're trying to feign innocence on the booze.
That's yeah. I'm a fan of monkey shoulder, and uh
is that a position? What are you talking about? I'm
telling you it's solid, solid Scott. It's taking a word
called monkey shoulder.

Speaker 2 (10:06):
Okay, and it's I've seen it's starting to pop up
more places. I was introduced to this from my favorite
cigar bar in San Diego years back, and they go,
you gotta try this, and I go, hey, that's pretty good.

Speaker 4 (10:17):
Apparently Tony has experienced a monkey shouldering at some point
he's not in his head.

Speaker 3 (10:22):
Yeah, it's pretty good. You get a good while, good
solid monkey shouldering. Yeah, I like monkey shoulder. It's good.
Oh wow, I give that a shot.

Speaker 2 (10:30):
We really should be getting paid for these endorsement, shouldn't we.
I mean, I'm basically, you know, pitching somebody's brand here.

Speaker 3 (10:37):
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (10:37):
There may be ethical concerns there, but I'm going to
leave that for you. I worried about I have no ethics.
I think we're I think we know that by now.

Speaker 3 (10:45):
Well, save time.

Speaker 2 (10:46):
Yeah, we're going to tell you about the last safe
screen for your kids that is coming up here after
marks nine thirty News. But I did want to share
this with you, and that is that the loss of
DiAngelo far too soon. Guy was in his early fifties.
Fifty one years old, D'Angelo passed away. I thought ABC
seven did a real nice kind of tribute to him

(11:14):
twenty five years Yeah that sounds that just sounds. It
Isn't that just music that you put on on a
Saturday when you're just doing whatever.

Speaker 3 (11:20):
Just just chilling. I'm gonna do some cooking. Got a
little music in the background. Oh so good. He's gonna
relax in my recliner. Put something on. Yeah that's some
baby music. It is baby making music. Yeah, that's what
I meant. I love that love it sounds good.

Speaker 6 (11:40):
There's ago untitled how Does It Feel?

Speaker 7 (11:42):
And the provocative music video that went with it got
DiAngelo a lot of attention. It also got him a
Grammy for Best Male R and B Performance, and the
second one for.

Speaker 6 (11:52):
Voodoo, named is the year's Best R and B Album.

Speaker 7 (11:55):
In all, DiAngelo would be nominated for fourteen Grammys during
his career, winning four times.

Speaker 3 (12:02):
But he only had three albums. That's wild.

Speaker 7 (12:07):
His debut album, Brown Sugar, was released in nineteen ninety
five drown Sugar Bag.

Speaker 8 (12:14):
I guess high up your.

Speaker 2 (12:17):
Little eight little hip hop in there, right, but it's
not over the top, and he never really gets into
like the the vocal acrobatics that a lot of R
and B singers in the nineties were trying to get into,
where it was like, how many, how many trills? How
much vibrato can I put into this? It's like he
found the limit and then came right back.

Speaker 7 (12:38):
The album went platinum thanks to hits like Lady My Lane.

Speaker 6 (12:44):
The early success of Right.

Speaker 9 (12:45):
I mean, he could have gone here my Lady, but
he didn't.

Speaker 7 (12:56):
Brown Sugar made it clear that DiAngelo was a new
original voice in R and B.

Speaker 6 (13:01):
It was.

Speaker 3 (13:13):
You know who charted with that song, Gwyneth Paltrow, what Yep,
We'll get up. She did a movie with Huey Lewis.

Speaker 2 (13:23):
I think the movie was called Cruising, and they charted
it yep, exactly what it was. And they did that
song and it charted the soundtrack.

Speaker 7 (13:33):
Billboard notes, yes, he only released three albums in twenty years,
but each drop was seismic. His third album was Black Messiah,
which Billboard said became the soundtrack to a socially volatile
moment as police killings and political reckonings changed the landscape.

Speaker 2 (13:56):
Oh listen to that jazz behind him. It's like this
franticness that it embodied the moment.

Speaker 3 (14:02):
Ah so good.

Speaker 6 (14:04):
Reaction to his passing has poured in.

Speaker 7 (14:07):
DJ rapper and record producer d Nice went live on
Instagram and Jamie Fox said he knows God doesn't make mistakes,
but d'angelo's death hurts like hell.

Speaker 2 (14:23):
Maybe God just needed new music. Maybe that was the
whole deal. Maybe God's like, you know what they had
you bring that back up here?

Speaker 3 (14:35):
There? He is anyway, really sad, really sad. But I
don't do this very often.

Speaker 2 (14:44):
Usually when somebody dies, all of a sudden, their their
music starts to climb on the charts, right, they have
like a resurgence record sales after they die, that kind
of thing. And I'm normally I'm normally the guy goes,
don't do that. If you didn't listen to him before,
I don't listen to him now. Actually I might on
this case. I might in this case because I just think, man,
that's just some good music. Might have to go to

(15:04):
the Hey, we can just do that with iHeart can't wait.
Just have iHeart created DiAngelo Station. Let's do that all
right after the show, though, just wait until after the show.
All right, you've banned TikTok, you block YouTube, you threaten
to throw the tablet in the pool. But now a
psychologist says, there is one screen that might actually help
your kid. It's the one that you forgot to fight.

(15:27):
Welcome to the last safe space. Next, I'm Chris Marrilyan.

Speaker 1 (15:32):
You're listening to KFI AM sixty on demand.

Speaker 2 (15:36):
Do we have Is there a sixty seven road? Seems
like there's one in Is there one in San Diego County?
I'm trying to remember, it's been a while since I
lived in San Diego County. Where's the closest sixty seven?
Because every time a teenager drives on sixty seven, they
must be going absolutely bunk?

Speaker 3 (15:54):
Yeah there is, Okay, I was right. It goes through Lakeside.

Speaker 2 (15:57):
It's East County San Diego, between Ramona and basically Santea.

Speaker 3 (16:03):
Yeah. I've driven that.

Speaker 2 (16:06):
All every time with teenagers on there, and the must
be going crazy. You're gonna find out why they love
sixty seven so much. For the longest time, I thought
sixty seven. Swear to you this is not a bit,
I swear to you. I kept hearing about sixty seven
and I thought it was like a new sexual position.
And I was trying to google it because I wanted

(16:26):
to see how it was done, and I couldn't find it,
and I think this is driving me mad. Boy, Boy
was I disappointed when I found out what it really was.
And if you're not up to speed on it, you'll
find out too. That's coming up after we talk with Jordanri.
Of course, your kids. You're doing everything you can as

(16:48):
a parent, right You want your kids to grow up.
You want them to be successful. You want them to
be able to accomplish things. You want them to be
able to focus and study in school. But you don't
want to take everything away from them, because they certainly
have to have some shared experiences with their peers, which
is why juggling the whole screen time thing can be
very challenging. I get it, I get it. There may

(17:11):
be a hack. What if they could have their screen
time and not turn into total dolts. There is a
middle ground, and it actually could lead to some dare
I say, decent parenting.

Speaker 3 (17:29):
There's a social psychologist.

Speaker 2 (17:31):
His name is Jonathan hat Jonathan hat was on a
podcast with Michelle Obama and Craig Robinson. It's called the
The Imo Podcast. Two things about this One, the message
that he has is very interesting. Two, you're gonna learn
why not anybody can do a podcast. Everybody thinks you

(17:53):
put a microphone in front of your face and suddenly
you know your bill handled. No, it takes years and
years and years of training and being told how terrible
you are to finally get good enough that you shut
up when somebody else is talking.

Speaker 10 (18:08):
Humans are storytelling animals. That's who we are. Every culture
we tell stories. We raise our kids on stories, we
have myths, we have religions. So stories are good, and
a TV screen is a pretty good way to present stories.
And so if you so, here's the best thing you
could do, watch a ninety minute movie with your kid,

(18:30):
or yeah, yeah, let him talk the siblings together, So
watching a long story in.

Speaker 2 (18:43):
A So let me tell you now, how I learned
this lesson the hard way is that I would interview
somebody and our newsroom would turn that interview around and
make it into a news story, and they would say
so and sell from such and such agencies says this right,
And then they'll play the clip and it'll be you know,

(19:05):
the big wig I mean governor or somebody, right, and
they're saying, you know, we have to get to the
bottom of this, and we plan on doing everything we
possibly can. But me, I'm engaged in the conversation when
it's happening in real time, and I would say I
would say wait a minute, though, right, I half interrupt them,
and then that would end up on the You just
hear me getting cut off while I'm trying to talk

(19:26):
to them. The most embarrassing I was talking with the
late Senator John McCain before he was late, and there
was a story he was there was a question about
Ted Cruz and whether or not he would be eligible
to run for president. And so I was interviewing John
McCain and I said, let's go know with this Ted

(19:46):
Cruise thing, is that is that something we need to
run up the flagpole and have the Supreme Court talk about?

Speaker 3 (19:51):
And he says, well, I think it makes sense. Right.

Speaker 2 (19:53):
So you've got John McCain, the chair of the Armed
Services Committee, the former presidential nominee for the Republican Party,
who says that we should test the law and see
if if if Ted Cruz is actually even eligible to
be the president. And I even framed the question. I said,
you know, you weren't born on you a soil, were
born in Panama. Of course that was you know, that

(20:14):
was considered US soil. You were a citizen at the time.
Ted Cruz was born in Canada, but he was born
to an American mother. Is this something that that is
even questionable as far as his eligibility to be president?
He responded saying something like, I think it makes perfect
sense that we that we take a look at the law,
that we challenge the law, and that we that we
have a final ruling on the law, and then if
he is eligible, and then good luck to him, right,

(20:35):
something of that sort.

Speaker 3 (20:38):
And uh, and I in the middle of.

Speaker 2 (20:39):
It sort of went, oh, the National Networks picked that
up radio television. It was used on like Meet the
Press or something like that. And my stupid mug right
over the top of John McCain saying I think it
makes me and I'm going, okay, shut up.

Speaker 3 (21:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (21:01):
See, you gotta screw these things up a lot before
you learn your lessons. And Michelle Obama and Craig Robinson
is still learning the social setting on a TV Back
to this dude, because I got sidetracked on my own story. Uh,
you know who I love to talk about. So the
dude's talking about, sit down in front of a TV
screen with your kids and watch a movie, not the iPad,

(21:22):
not the tablet, watch.

Speaker 10 (21:23):
A movie, Watch a ninety minute movie with your kid
or the siblings together. So watching a long story in
a social setting on a TV set, that's great. I'm
not saying five hours a day, but you know, even
an hour or two a day is probably fine. Not
for two three year olds, but you know by seven
eight fine. Here's what's really bad.

Speaker 3 (21:44):
Okay, what is it?

Speaker 10 (21:47):
Not a TV screen but a touch screen device, which
is not just entertainment, it's training your child because they touch,
they get a reward, They gets the dope. They touch,
they get a reward, and before you know it, they're addicted.
So touch screen device is much worse than the TV.
Watching it alone is much worse than watching it with
a friend. Oh and watching short stuff and moving around

(22:08):
a lot is fragmenting your attention, whereas watching a movie
is teaching you to pay attention to a story for
ninety minutes. So what I would say is, don't think
about screen time, Okay, think about story time and fragmenting.

Speaker 3 (22:20):
Time, Michelle.

Speaker 2 (22:24):
So that is it's really fascinating because these these algorithms,
they don't want you to do that. The algorithms want
you to flit around and become addicted. That's their whole point, right,
that's the whole idea. And so you got kids, and

(22:44):
you got teens, and their screen time is rising, and
they are they're they're not spending as much time socializing
with their friends and parents are they don't.

Speaker 3 (22:53):
Look, this is uncharted territory. We don't know what to do.

Speaker 2 (22:56):
As much as we had a number of stories on
this Evening's program, if you missed it, you'd be able
to the podcast KFIAM six to forty dot com.

Speaker 3 (23:02):
It's under the featured podcast.

Speaker 2 (23:03):
We talked about gen Z and gen Z is the
burned out generation. They're already entering the workforce and they're
burning out. They're having trouble keeping jobs. But I'm telling
you they're not all like that. It's very individual and
some gen Zers are doing great. Some gen Zers graduated college.
They are eager, they are motivated, they are go getters.

(23:24):
And I work with a number of these people, and
I find them to be refreshing. They give me an
old man energy that I need just to get through
the day. They challenge me, and I love that I do.
Some of them, being that they are in their mid
to late twenties, are starting families, and the gen Zers

(23:46):
are both the cohort that is addicted to screen time
and also now raising small children and trying to make
sure they don't get addicted to screen time. And honestly,
the gen Z parents don't know how because they're addicted.
So how would they possibly be able to raise their

(24:08):
kids to be proficient with the use of the screens
and the computer and social media, which are things that
as we all know, Look, our job requires us to
social media. You have to engage in it to some
degree most of the time. If you don't, good for you,
God bless you.

Speaker 3 (24:23):
I'm jealous. But how in the world would they know how.

Speaker 2 (24:28):
To raise children without them becoming addicted to screens because
they were addicted to screens.

Speaker 3 (24:34):
There's no playbook.

Speaker 2 (24:35):
Being a parent now is tougher than it was for
previous generations, and the last generation it was tougher for
them than it was for the generation.

Speaker 3 (24:43):
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But I was thinking, wouldn't have been cool if we
were like six seventy then we would be like six seven.

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Oh oh oh seven.

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Six seven.

Speaker 16 (32:54):
I mean, kids can't get enough of and teachers can't
get away from.

Speaker 3 (32:58):
We are not saying the word sixty seven anymore.

Speaker 17 (33:01):
If you do, you have to write a sixty seven
word essay.

Speaker 2 (33:06):
Wait a minute, sixty seven word essay. We take like
about sixty seven minutes.

Speaker 16 (33:16):
Some schools even banning the phrasen classrooms.

Speaker 3 (33:19):
You are no longer allowed to say. What number do
you think I'm gonna say?

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Caitlin Soriano is a seventh grade math teacher.

Speaker 13 (33:26):
How much are you hearing and seeing six seven in
your classroom? All day, every day.

Speaker 17 (33:34):
It is non stop throughout my class, the hallways, the cafeterias.

Speaker 3 (33:39):
So what does it mean?

Speaker 2 (33:40):
She says.

Speaker 16 (33:41):
She banned the term last year after it became distracting
for students, but now she and other teachers are leaning in.

Speaker 5 (33:47):
And we hope that if it is embarrassing enough for
the adults to be doing it, that maybe they stop.

Speaker 3 (33:53):
Yeah, we've we've crossed that.

Speaker 2 (33:54):
If we're talking about it on talk radio, it's already
gone to that point.

Speaker 3 (34:00):
It's it's.

Speaker 2 (34:04):
So we have a couple of In music radio, you
introduce a song, right, and then as the song gains traction,
you start to have you start to have a higher rotation,
and then you start to have recognition, right, And the
more it's recognized and then the more it's appreciated. But

(34:26):
there's a peak. So as the song builds up, think
of it like a like a bell curve. So as
the song builds up in popularity, uh, it builds and builds,
it builds, and then you have this moment that that
intersects where you have recognition and uh popularity.

Speaker 3 (34:44):
Eventually you have what's called burn.

Speaker 2 (34:46):
So think about a song that's that you've heard on
the radio, before and uh, and then it's on the
rate and maybe you heard it at first and you're like,
that's great, that's a banger, and then eventually you're like, god,
every song is play something different, right, you get so frustrated.
That means that you have hit that point of burn.
And so after the majority of the audience hits the

(35:07):
point of burn, the radio stations start to back down.
They don't play that song as often. But as long
as it's still building up on familiarity recognition, right, and
then the appreciation of that song, as long as the
bell curve is still on the way up, even if
you're burned out, you're still in the minority, so they're
going to continue to play it an awful lot. But

(35:28):
once that burnout hits the majority, now you've hit the
tipping point and starts to change. This six' seven, craze
which if you're, Unfamiliar i'm spoiling it for.

Speaker 3 (35:39):
Everyone it means.

Speaker 2 (35:41):
Nothing it is random af and because we know what it,
means and we can start laughing at the kids and
we can start turning it on. Them now it's. Uncool
it's a lot Like. Facebook everybody had to Have. Facebook

(36:02):
facebook was the coolest. Thing you had to have an
invite and you had to be a college, student just
starre with. Them then they opened it up and then
everybody that was under the age of forty was Getting,
facebook AND i was. Great now who Uses? Facebook?

Speaker 3 (36:13):
Unks? Anks thank? You it is so. Cringe unks are Using.

Speaker 2 (36:21):
Facebook if you are fifteen and Using, facebook you're only
doing it to keep up with What MEMA's planning on
For thanksgiving.

Speaker 3 (36:30):
Dinner that is.

Speaker 2 (36:31):
It you're Using, snap you're Using, insta you're using, well
nobody even uses.

Speaker 3 (36:39):
What was the one Oh?

Speaker 2 (36:40):
Tumblr tumblr was hot for a little while, too nobody's using.
That so now that we know what you're doing with six,'
seven which, means nothing and it's just kind. Of FUN
and i appreciate the abstract nature, OF it i. REALLY
do i get the teenagers love. Abstract things it's funny because.

(37:01):
It's nonsensical. That's awesome good. For you keep using. YOUR imaginations,
I mean i don't, get it but the FACT that
i don't get it means, it's funny AND.

Speaker 3 (37:11):
That I get i. GET it i GET that i don't,
get it and, it's funny so. Be funny. That's great
but now we're using it so now. It's Old. It's ohio.
Thank you, i'm glad thank you for. The.

Speaker 8 (37:29):
Courtesy laugh you're. Very kind it was an AUTOMATIC button.
I pressed i was, All right i'm. Just kidding, All, Right,
hey ricky you did a.

Speaker 3 (37:38):
Great job.

Speaker 2 (37:38):
Thank, YOU yeah i Appreciate that ricky was working behind
the scenes here pull an audio as the show was.
Going on people couldn't see his hard work that he
was putting. Into It but i'm so appreciative made the.
Show better THAT'S all i ever asked for out of.
A producer you. Did it you, nailed. It buddy, Thank.
You sarah tony such a.

Speaker 3 (37:54):
Good man TONY and i just laugh about really really. Agro,
stuff yeah like, a podcast like in.

Speaker 8 (38:03):
BETWEEN breaks i feel like your your conversations between everything
that you guys. Talk about it should be like its
own podcast on, the side.

Speaker 2 (38:09):
Which we should pitch that we should get, it sponsored
like two guys talking about things they don't understand after.

Speaker 3 (38:17):
The, Show, right yeah like we could. Do, it mark
you're still.

Speaker 4 (38:21):
With us i'm Gonna have conway invite, you someplace. Will,
you yeah he is so creeped out. By me the
fact that he is not actually found for a restraining
order is a. LITTLE bizarre, I mean i've never actually
shown up at his house before because he won't tell
me where, he lives and he changed his phone number
the LAST time i.

Speaker 3 (38:38):
Got it but you know it would be amazing if
you do that. For me, of course anything, for, you
hey have a.

Speaker 2 (38:43):
GREAT evening i want you to know that in the
next SEVEN minutes i will be three fingers deep and. A.

Speaker 3 (38:47):
Gentleman jack you will still.

Speaker 2 (38:49):
Be working glad you added that last word to, the
SENTENCE but i Will still i'll still be thinking, of,
You buddy so thank you.

Speaker 3 (38:56):
For that. ALL right I think i'm back with you
guys again, next Week so i'm looking for. That too
have a. Great evening talk to, YOU.

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