October 30, 2025 • 32 mins
Mark Thompson opens up the phone lines for Dodgers fans still recovering from tonight’s heartbreak, including one caller stuck in post-game traffic outside the stadium giving a raw, boots-on-the-ground report. Things quickly take a strange turn when another caller blames the government for the loss 🤔. Then, Mark dives into the best Halloween and horror movies of all time, joined by KFI’s own horror expert Mark Rahner and board op Tony Sorrentino. The phones light up as listeners call in with their favorite scary movies. Mark wraps the hour with some light crosstalk with Coast-to-Coast AM’s George Noory and the surprising news that 13 air routes between the U.S. and Mexico have just been cancelled.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Mark Thompson hanging out here Live Everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 3 (00:07):
Glad you could be with us.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Heartbreaking loss for the Dodgers, just never could really get
off to snide. It was just one of those nights,
dominating pitching from the Blue Jays six to one the final.
If you're leaving Dodger Stadium, you can try. I'd love to.
I feel your pain. You can, you can share it.
You're going to be in that line leaving Dodger Stadium
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for a time. Eight hundred five two oh one, five
three four call us tell us. I'm also curious how
you and we were doing the story earlier, and you
guys were at the game, those of you who are
leaving Dodgers tatum, so you didn't hear it. I was
talking about how much tickets were I was there last night.
I paid five hundred and that was a good deal.
I got loads tickets for five hundred apiece. By the way,
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that's a lot of money to me. I'm just like, oh,
you know, but I later saw those same tickets for
between twenty three hundred and three thousand apiece. Anyway, eight
hundred five to one, five three four. I'm curious as
to what you paid for your tickets. But more to
the point, how it was at Dodger Stadium tonight. It
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had to be a really tough ride because the pitching, well,
first of all, top of the first there were leadoff homers.
I mean, you know, you're you're down to nothing before
the game even gets into the second inning or the
bottom of the first inning. So it was tough to
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be a fan of Dodger Stadium tonight because it was
just so demoralizing. I'm guessing, certainly as a viewer, if
you're a Dodger fan a terribly demoralizing night, you know,
never really in it. It wasn't Please don't misunderstand me.
You always felt as though the Dodgers could come back.
I mean, that is a murderer's row of hitters. Dodgers
(02:00):
could come back, certainly from a three to one deficit,
four to one.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
I mean, even as things seemed to be.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Getting out of hand and getting away, it seemed as
though the Dodgers could launch a comeback mount, some kind
of comeback. But again, dominating pitching just left the Dodgers
out of things and So Michael and Catherine at Dodger
Stadium in traffic. Welcome to KFI.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
Thank you so much for having us. I can't believe
we got through.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
That's really cool. So tell us about the night at
Dodger Stadium.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
Oh goodness, well, ambulance. It was awesome. The crowd is awesome.
Everything was cool. We just couldn't get off the ground.
As far as batting is concerned. Toronto's pitching was on plane.
You know just what it is.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Yeah, I mean it was a record performance from their
rookie pitchers, so I mean, really really impressive.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
And you know, it's funny you mentioned the electricity because
I was there last night. The electricity in the stadium
is insane. I mean, it is so exciting it I
went because of Otani and history and wanting to be
there and to be part of it. And even though
they dropped the game last night, I felt all of
those things. It was a really exciting place to be,
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you know.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
Oh yeah, everybody was very I mean just the pitching itself,
you know, like the crowd was so interactive with the
pitching and responsive and trying to rally the picture to
just you know, create energy to see off of, but
we just couldn't get it done tonight.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
So yeah, yeah, do.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
You have season tickets? How did you get their tickets
to the game, Catherine? How did you get those tickets?
Speaker 4 (03:45):
I just bought them online from.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
You stub hubbed it or you whatever, see geeked it.
Speaker 5 (03:54):
No.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
I tried to get seats in foul ball territory, but
no touch fuck unfortunately.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Yeah that would be good. Did you see who caught
the uh homer the other night Tony? You saw that right?
The uh? That was crazy? It was a camera guy,
camera guy out in the bleacher?
Speaker 3 (04:11):
Where was he? Where were the center field? Centerfield?
Speaker 6 (04:14):
That's although that camera scrum is for that that behind
that wall, and one of the guys just caught it.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
We were trying to decide Michael and Catherine are joining
us from Dodger Stadium some KFI listeners who called in
after this heartbreaking loss. We're trying to decide whether he
will likely I mean, that's a million dollar ball he's caught.
Will he he does he have ownership of the ball
or will the company that he was employed by will
they have ownership?
Speaker 4 (04:41):
I don't know, but somebody get that guy a contract
as a great Cat.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Thanks guys, better luck, Thanks so much for calling in
and uh say right home. Thanks Michael and Catherine at
Dodger Stadium tonight. Yeah, if you're in traffic, heartbreak eight
hundred and five too, oh one, five three four. I
know it's a s ride after a loss like this one,
but we'd love to talk to you here at KFI.
I mean, I don't see, man, that's bad pub if
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you take that the rights to that baseball away from
that guy, right, I mean, do you want to be
the big bad company that takes away the rights of
that guy to that to sell that baseball. I'm going
to find his what was his name, Matt, do you
have it? Baseball TV photographer Otani? It was the Freeman
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hit ball, wasn't it?
Speaker 3 (05:41):
It was? Yeah, it was Freeman's shot. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Let me just yeah in that eighteen inning marathon. A
TV photographer, the cameraman, let me just see, thank you.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
Even a cool name. His name is Zeke Hernandez.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
I love that he's a diehard Dodgers fan, and I
mean he gets the walk off home run ball. I
have to you know, usually what they do is they
it depends, it depends on what historic ball from what game?
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But won't they sometimes go and say, hey, we're going
to give you a ball. We'll give you season tickets,
but give us that ball because it's too historic for
us to have a fan, Isn't that right, Tony?
Speaker 6 (06:36):
Did you see the one the guy who caught a
Trout's four hundredth home run or yeah, he's just like, hey,
can I just play catch with him after the game?
Speaker 3 (06:44):
And he's okay, and he just through the ballack. Yeah,
he was like, that's it. I'm cool.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Oh my jaw, that is you know. I'm sure he
took grief from friends for that.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
But which money?
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Yeah that was But I mean, this one the end
of the longest World Series game in history. This ball
is worth some real money. Kathy in Dodger Stadium, longtime listener.
Not at the game, it says, but a Dodgers fan.
I'm sure not feeling great tonight. Hi, Kathy, you're on Kofi.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
Oh No, I can't believe it.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
I can't believe it.
Speaker 4 (07:28):
They lost. You know what, it's probably because they're upset.
Speaker 5 (07:34):
About the government.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
The government is.
Speaker 4 (07:38):
Crashing and they feel bad about that and they're feeling
the sorrow of the government.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Wow, that Kathy, thank you, because that is an analysis
that I have not heard from anyone, and I'm going
to even venture to say that is an analysis I
will not hear from anyone. You may have shared the
most specific analysis over the World Series and Dodgers loss
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in all of America tonight, that the Dodgers loss because
of the government and the fact that they are bummed
out and preoccupied with the government. And I presume you
mean the government shutdown. Wow, Well, that's what makes taking
calls so much fun. Mark Thompson on Wednesday night, after
(08:30):
a heartbreaking loss at Dodger Stadium, Dodgers drop to the
Blue Jays six to one, and now Dodger fans have
to get it done.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
The team has to get it done in Toronto, and
you know what they can.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
Mark Thompson, just sitting in for this one night on
KFI Wednesday night. It was a night that we watched
a heartbreak at Dodger Stadium. Dodgers lose to Toronto six
to one. They go back to Toronto now and we'll
have to win the World Series.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
On the road. It is Halloween.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
People seem pretty committed to a lot of the scary,
the goblins, the Halloween decorations, been very impressed thus far. Historically,
Southern California represents the Halloween season. We represent because we
are show business. We're special effects people. We know how
to blow fog into the yard. We know how to
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set up those tombstones and the animatronic goblins.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
We do that.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
That's what we do as show people in Southern California. Now,
what has happened is the retail profession has made everybody
sort of special effects editors. So you can buy a
lot of this stuff now that you used to be
able to. Even ten years ago, you couldn't get a
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lot of the stuff you can get now now it's
sort of more affordable, and it's kind of made Halloween fun.
You know, everybody's yard, or everybody's window in the apartment,
whatever it might be. Everybody's doorway is adorned in one
way or the other. But the other part of Halloween
is the movies, the scary movies, the horror movies, or
just scary movies, just eerie.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
Movies, suspense movies.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
And so I've seen a bunch of lists of the
scariest movies or the best movies for Halloween. And I'm curious.
I know, Mark, you're a big movie person. You really
know the world of cinema film also big horror movie fan.
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Oh that's just great. That's really great, Tony. I think also,
I believe he's not a you're not a horror movie guy.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
No.
Speaker 5 (10:46):
Wait, what he's trying to tell you sign language is
that he's a godless coward.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
Yeah, well, I I can relate.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
It's a it's a it's it's a tough watch if
you're not like you know, you have that steal constitution
so you can there and you know, watch these bloody
gory things.
Speaker 5 (11:02):
Well, it's like food. You got your comfort foods, you
got your spicy food. I like the spicy food.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Well, uh, I'm curious as to know what you think
might be the best movies and when the kids are
out trigger treating, if you had to put a movie on,
you know what you might consider to be among the best.
I'm also wondering if there are people in radio land
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who would like to share their favorites. Eight hundred five
two oh one five three four eight hundred five two
oh one five three four, eight hundred five two oh
fifteen thirty four. So I turned to you, what are
your fabes when it comes to these kinds of eerie, scary,
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maybe even Halloween themed movies, Mark Runner.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
Well, you got your favorites.
Speaker 5 (11:57):
I also always try to catch up on things that
I've somehow missed. This week I watched an early seventies
thriller called Let's Scare Jessica to Death. I think it's
free on twob It is terrific, A moody, little independent thing.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
Now, how do they scare Jessica? You want me to
spoil it? I don't think you do.
Speaker 5 (12:14):
It's worth a watch, and it's very odd and it's
not the kind of thing you would see today.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
Oh really?
Speaker 5 (12:20):
Last night I watched another movie out of England called
The Comeback, in which Jack Jones, the love Boat Singer,
is being terrorized by a mask killer with a syve.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (12:33):
I say Jack Jones the love Boat singer as opposed
to Jack Jones the actor because he can't act.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
Or so you are rooting for the guy with the side,
that's what you're telling. Well, I kind of was. Yes.
Speaker 5 (12:45):
Welcome to Darry just started with its first episode on HBO.
That's pretty promising that takes place in the Stephen king
It universe and also is pulling in elements from the
Shining Universe. I mean, we've all got our favorites as
well that we've seen countless time, Like The Exorcist is
a stone cold masterpiece. Sure, I love Donna the Dead
and pretty much anything George Romero ever did. You can't
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go wrong with John Carpenter, with The Thing or Prince
of Darkness. You don't have any favorites of your own.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
Yeah, well, you just mentioned one of my favorites because
to me, one of the greatest horror movies, suspense thriller
movies ever. And I have shared this with others in
doing my show. I used to have a regular, a
horror expert named Jeff Dixon, I as a writer director,
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and he is, like he does a whole countdown for
Halloween every year, and I asked him for his favorites.
Everybody's got their favorites, everybody's reorganizing their top ten.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
I like what you've done.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
You've mixed in some contemporaries and you've gone back and
gotten some classics, et cetera. But he mentioned this movie
as his number two favorite horror film ever.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
And it's the Thing.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
John Carpenter, and that John Carpenter movie, The Thing, to
me is absolutely a ten.
Speaker 5 (14:06):
Yeah, it was a flop when it was released, and
it really crushed poor John Carpenter, who is always ahead
of his time. And I can't tell you how many
times I've watched that. There have been a couple new
ones this year that I thought were outstanding and would
be on my ten best list, whether they were horror
or not. One is called Weapons, which I think has
just come on to streaming. I forget what channel, what
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the service that it's on, but you can find that
Weapons is terrific. Also bring her Back. I don't want
to tell you anything going into that, but it will
get your attention. Well, is it super scary or is
it just eerie? It is quite unsettling. It is jarring. Okay,
not for everyone. Wow, In fact, maybe for no one.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
It is one thing about scary movies or disturbing movies,
or eerie movies or psychological thriller films, is they stay
with you, like the half life can be really really intense.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
Uh yeah, you know.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
That's that's maybe one of the reasons that some people
don't go for it, don't have an appetite for it.
Speaker 5 (15:16):
Well, yeah, they're they're meant to be kind of like
a carnival ride that gets your blood pressure up, but
you know you're safe, you're gonna you're gonna get off
the ride if you trust the carnies who assemble the ride. Uh,
they're a lot of fun. And I think I don't
I don't know what attracted me to them, apart from
being traumatized when I was too young to see them
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as a child. And so you know, I don't want
to get too in the weeds in terms of psychology.
But you can fetishize the things that traumatize you. Sure,
I see that's interesting.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
All right.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Well, if you have a fave, share it with us.
Eight hundred five two oh fifteen thirty four, eight hundred
five two oh one five three four A favorite horror movie,
scary movie, eerie movie. It might be a suspensed thrill.
But this Halloween? What would be your favorites? So, by
the way, where do you rank Halloween? The original Halloween?
On the list? All time you put.
Speaker 5 (16:09):
It up there, it's so familiar you kind of have
to reset yourself to understand the impact it had. But yeah,
it's another masterpiece from John Carpenter. The sequels not so much,
except let me say this Halloween three, which doesn't have
any Michael Myers in it. That's another little minor masterpiece
there that was in the eighties. The Halloween three. Yeah,
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it's terrific. It's got Tom Atkins investigating a Halloween mask
maker that has a really diabolical plan for the children.
And if you haven't seen that, I cannot recommend it
highly enough.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
The Nightmare Before Christmas.
Speaker 5 (16:44):
Oh, that's the stop motion Tim Burton one. Yeah, that's
fun for kids. I enjoyed it, and people enjoyed a
lot more than me. People really have turned that into
a cult classic. That's exactly right.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
That's got an incredible following, of course, and they do
now live performances and musical performance as Eltman does live stuff.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
I think I've seen one of those shows, did it?
I believe at the Hollywood Bowl or some big arena
forget where where it was. Now.
Speaker 5 (17:11):
If you like that, let me recommend something that's kind
of similar, but just an absolute classic for more for kids.
But I still love it, and it's also got a
terrific score, soundtrack, Mad Monster Party. It's a stop motion
puppet cartoon with Phyllis Diller in it, and you know
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a Dracula, Frankenstein, Mummy, Werewolf puppets. Look up Mad Monster
Party and you absolutely can't go wrong. I love it well.
This is the advantage of having Runner in. He knows
his stuff. Mad Monster Party noted. I don't get out much.
What's your favorite for the Halloween season? Give us a
ring at KOFI eight hundred and five to two oh
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fifteen thirty four, eight hundred and five to two oh
one five three four again a heartbreak for the Dodgers.
It was its own verse of horror, six to one,
dominating Toronto Pitching. We'll force this series back to Toronto
where the Dodgers will have to win it on the road.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
We're just finishing up discussions of movies that feel good
for the Halloween season. Mark Thompson sitting in on this
Wednesday night following a Dodgers loss six to one dominating
performance by Toronto Pitching. And we jump on the line
quickly as we wrap this up. Richard, thanks for holding.
Welcome to KOFI. Richard, your favorite or recommended film for Halloween.
Speaker 7 (18:43):
Probably Tusk.
Speaker 4 (18:44):
Tusk.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
Let me turn to Mark Ronner, who is our resident
movie expert.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
Which old choice?
Speaker 5 (18:51):
It's a bold choice, that's the Isn't that the Kevin
Smith movie with Justin Long?
Speaker 7 (18:56):
I'm not sure. I just saw it just the other night.
I watch I watch a lot of garbage. I have
a Midnight Pulp subscription. So garbage.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
How is that midnight pulp? Do you like that? Is
it worth the money?
Speaker 5 (19:11):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (19:11):
Yeah it is.
Speaker 7 (19:12):
It's like six bucks a month and I can give
you know, one movie every month or so if that's
worth it. Yeah, and I think it's worth it.
Speaker 5 (19:19):
I subscribe to Shutter and Arrow and both are absolutely terrific.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
Wow, give me a shot.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
All right, you two studs, uh meeting around Tusk and
talking about subscriptions.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
I love it. Thanks Richard, thanks for the call.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
And finally, Mark and Lancaster, as you wrap it up,
go ahead, you're live on KFI.
Speaker 8 (19:40):
Hi, Mark, Hey, Mark? What's going on?
Speaker 3 (19:43):
Man?
Speaker 8 (19:43):
Jeepers, creepers? Whatever that thing was? I was driving around
in an old milk truck and then at the same
time flying around snatching your eyes. And at the very
end he's sitting here whistling deepers, creep, where'd you get
those eyes? That was crazy?
Speaker 2 (20:04):
That was around us? That was like twenty years ago.
When was Javers Grievers out? It was twenty years ago,
wasn't it?
Speaker 3 (20:10):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (20:10):
And there's kind of an upsetting backstory to that. The
director of that, Victor Salvo, was convicted for child molestation,
and so I tend to avoid all of his God
always killing the party, Mark Ronner, I hate to be
the turn in the punch bowl, but I'm not the
one that touched the child.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
Okay, all right, but Mark, you're still allowed to watch
the film and be creeped out by it. Thanks for
the call tonight on Kofi Wow, way to bring us down?
Speaker 3 (20:34):
Did I do that?
Speaker 8 (20:35):
Man?
Speaker 2 (20:36):
You want to get on to Woody Allen next? Kind
of kill all that for us? Listen, I'm not the
bad guy here.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
Who else? Let's just do the let's do the list.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
Of directors embattled in some kind of sexual harassment or
other crimes and allegations.
Speaker 5 (20:50):
Well, there's always Roman Polanski Lanski classic. Sure, and Rosemary's
Baby is one of the all time best horror film.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
Of course, that's actually a really great example of one
that maybe overshadowed by what you're talking about. Show business
is interesting because in the old days that that whole
world of the casting couch and everything that was kind
of just understood in Hollywood. I'm not saying it was cool,
but it was not the kind of thing that would
get a studio had fired. I mean, there were many
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of these studio heads that you know that just came
with the territory. Well not with children, no, no, no, no, no,
I'm just talking about the me too movement.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
No no, I get you.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
No, I mean, yeah, you're right, the Plansky thing and
the and the first director you mentioned, yeah, Victor South
of these are yeah, of course, that's just you.
Speaker 5 (21:39):
Know, I mean I knew people who had Victor Salva
clauses in their contracts because they felt so strongly about
that situation.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
Wow, Walt Disney finalizing their deal to acquire a majority
stake in Fubu Fubo TV, and now Fubo is going
to be part of this Disney empire. Hulu and Fubo
(22:08):
will make this bundle the nation's sixth largest PayTV service
nearly six million domestic subscribers. So this is like DirectTV,
YouTube TV, Charter Spectrum Hulu Plus what they'll call Live TV,
and Fubo distribute traditional channels including ABC, CBS cable channels,
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Fox News, Bravo, ESPN. The company will be overseen by
a nine member board. Brad Bird, the former chair of
Walt Disney International, will lead that board. The farm will
still offer Fubo and Hulu plus Live TV as separate services,
available through their respective apps. Disney's investment plans, of course,
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announced in January after the much smaller Fubo sued Disney
and two other media companies because they had plans to
launch a high profile streaming joint venture, VNU Sports. Fubu said, hey,
the collaboration of Disney, Fox, and Warner Brothers Discovery is
a sports cartel, and that would put them out of business.
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And the judge agreed on those basic anti trust concerns
that it was just too big a merger, and they
blocked for the development of Venu. So Disney's deal to
acquire seventy percent of Fubo ended that litigation, and now
the combined business will be led by Fubo Chief executive
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David Gandler. He co founded the service, and Fubo's management team.
Fubo was founded a decade ago. You may see it
in different home screens when you first log on. And
now with Disney behind them, I mean, now they join
the Disney family, they'll have a lot of money, They'll
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have the Disney sales team. They will be poised to
really take a dominant foothold in the market. If you're
interested in the stock, it's publicly traded under the Fubo
Fubo ticker and shares were up today one point four
percent to just over three and a half dollars. That's
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the latest on the merger and acquisition from Disney. We
talked to Nori for a minute or two when we
come back. Mark Thompson on a Wednesday night after a
heartbreaking Dodger loss. Dodgers never could really get it going,
gave up two homers at the very start of the game,
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and while they seemed as though they were in striking
distance dominating Toronto, pitching tonight six to one loss.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
Toronto leads the series three to two.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
You're listening to K six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
La to Mexico flights are changing thirteen different airline routes
terminated by the Trump administration. The US government canceling thirteen
existing and planned routes connecting the US and the Felipe
and Elis International Airport AIFA.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
Throwing little accent just to try to impress all of you.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
Yeah, the cancelations are going to affect airlines like Viva,
Aerobus and Aero Mexico and are crackdown on the alleged
violations of a bilateral air transport agreement. Mexican President Claudia
Scheinbaum disagreeing with this unilateral action that we're just taking
that without any kind of negotiation. She's going to request
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a meeting with the US Secretary of State to discuss
this decision. Most affected routes canceled with the one airline
Austin and Dallas, Denver, New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles, Miami,
and Orlando. In addition to these cancelations, the Transportation Department
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has proposed borrowing Mexican passenger airlines from carrying air cargo
between Mexican and US airports. I mean, it's really a
frosty relationship that is getting frostier by the hour. LA
flights that are at risk, well, I mean, I don't
(26:38):
need to tell you everything going on with air traffic
controllers already making life difficult. But there is a freeze again.
This is from the Department of Transportation. The current Department
of Transportation is freezing any expansion of Mexican airlines routes
between Benito Juarez International air Pace and the US. This
(27:03):
is the Department of Transportation accusing Mexico of illegally canceling
and freezing US carrier flights for three years without any consequences,
and they're saying, all right, we can freeze your flights too,
and staff shortages forcing a temporary ground stop at LAX.
(27:24):
Today the LAX Terminal five is closing for demolition. These
are all things that are happening at the same time
as these official actions to restrict travel to and from
Mexico on certain flights. A lost laptop on a flight
(27:44):
forced a United flight to turn around. This flight carried
more than two hundred people from northern Virginia to Rome,
and they were still near the US coast and a
passenger dropped their laptop.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
Couldn't retrieve it.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
It fell behind a cabin walls panel and through this
small gap that leads to the cargo hold. I'm always
amazed when there's some little gap or other aspect of
the plane that I didn't know about, never heard about before.
It turns out it turns into a major crisis of
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something drops down there, and that's exactly what happened. They
turned the flight back around as a precaution because they
couldn't get to it. They couldn't see whether there had
been a crack in this piece of technology, and that
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might have led to, you know, a lithium battery explosion.
Speaker 3 (28:45):
Right.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
And when it's down in the cargo hold, it's in
an area that's not there normal area that they were
to have a fire suppression system loaded. So you get
a fire down there, and that's real additional trouble that
you can't control. The air traffic controller who was dealing
with the flight said, I've never heard of anything like
(29:07):
this before. This is a good story to tell. At
the pilot's lounge, maintenance crews were able to find the
laptop and the flight left for Rome after an inspection.
The plane took off some time later, and it got
into Rome four and a half hours later than scheduled.
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I dropped on a long flight from South America. This
wasn't that long ago, actually, I think it was last year,
I was sleeping. It was a really long flight from Chile,
and I had an iPad and when I turned, I
guess I rolled or turned to my side.
Speaker 3 (29:50):
The iPad slipped down between.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
The reclining seat and the wall. But it lodged in
the reclining seat, like in the armrest and the cushion
in that somewhere in that mechanical area. And I couldn't
reach it. I mean I could touch it, but it
wouldn't move. It was there like wedged in. So I
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tried to move the seat up to free it up,
and then I heard crack. Oh no, I mean it
was a big crack too, I mean I could hear it.
And then I called the flight attendants over, and man,
it was it was Defcon City.
Speaker 3 (30:36):
They were in position.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
Don't touch anything, don't touch anything, don't move that chair again,
don't and they had everybody had a Latino accident. They're
all from South America. So on I'm going to say
it was maybe another couple hours.
Speaker 3 (30:54):
I'm there.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
And on approach when you have to put your seat
up up, they said for landing you'll have to move back.
I was in first class. By the way I played,
I spent all my magic beans on first class from Chile.
Speaker 3 (31:12):
Because it's a long flight.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
They said, you'll have to move to a coach because
we need your chair in the complete you know, upright,
And I said, sure, no problem. So I moved back
to coach and so of the last I don't know,
maybe half hour of the flight, I was back during coach.
But that's not the best part. The best part was
I had to wait till everybody got off the plane
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and then they bring in this squat team of guys
and this crew which is kind of exotic. They're all
speaking Spanish. It was very cool, and they get this thing.
They took the entire seat out before they could get
this iPad out, this broken iPad and there it was shattered,
and they gave it back to me. I asked the
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entire crew to sign it with a selfie what I mean, sharpie,
and we were. So that's my cheating death story. And
I think it's a great way to finish up a
disappointing loss for the Los Angeles Dodgers tonight at Dodgers
Stadium to a dominating pitching performance from Toronto. Back to
Toronto to try to win it there. Thanks everybody at KFI,
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all of you kids, great help, Matt, Mark, Tony, Tony,
I'll see you on my show on YouTube on Monday,
The Mark Thompson Show. There we're KFI AM six forty.
I want to mention George Norri next has a great
show planned. Enjoy KFI AM six forty live everywhere on
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Speaker 1 (32:38):
App, KFI AM six forty on demand
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Mark Thompson hanging out here Live Everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 3 (00:07):
Glad you could be with us.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Heartbreaking loss for the Dodgers, just never could really get
off to snide. It was just one of those nights,
dominating pitching from the Blue Jays six to one the final.
If you're leaving Dodger Stadium, you can try. I'd love to.
I feel your pain. You can, you can share it.
You're going to be in that line leaving Dodger Stadium
(00:30):
for a time. Eight hundred five two oh one, five
three four call us tell us. I'm also curious how
you and we were doing the story earlier, and you
guys were at the game, those of you who are
leaving Dodgers tatum, so you didn't hear it. I was
talking about how much tickets were I was there last night.
I paid five hundred and that was a good deal.
I got loads tickets for five hundred apiece. By the way,
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that's a lot of money to me. I'm just like, oh,
you know, but I later saw those same tickets for
between twenty three hundred and three thousand apiece. Anyway, eight
hundred five to one, five three four. I'm curious as
to what you paid for your tickets. But more to
the point, how it was at Dodger Stadium tonight. It
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had to be a really tough ride because the pitching, well,
first of all, top of the first there were leadoff homers.
I mean, you know, you're you're down to nothing before
the game even gets into the second inning or the
bottom of the first inning. So it was tough to
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be a fan of Dodger Stadium tonight because it was
just so demoralizing. I'm guessing, certainly as a viewer, if
you're a Dodger fan a terribly demoralizing night, you know,
never really in it. It wasn't Please don't misunderstand me.
You always felt as though the Dodgers could come back.
I mean, that is a murderer's row of hitters. Dodgers
(02:00):
could come back, certainly from a three to one deficit,
four to one.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
I mean, even as things seemed to be.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Getting out of hand and getting away, it seemed as
though the Dodgers could launch a comeback mount, some kind
of comeback. But again, dominating pitching just left the Dodgers
out of things and So Michael and Catherine at Dodger
Stadium in traffic. Welcome to KFI.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
Thank you so much for having us. I can't believe
we got through.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
That's really cool. So tell us about the night at
Dodger Stadium.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
Oh goodness, well, ambulance. It was awesome. The crowd is awesome.
Everything was cool. We just couldn't get off the ground.
As far as batting is concerned. Toronto's pitching was on plane.
You know just what it is.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Yeah, I mean it was a record performance from their
rookie pitchers, so I mean, really really impressive.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
And you know, it's funny you mentioned the electricity because
I was there last night. The electricity in the stadium
is insane. I mean, it is so exciting it I
went because of Otani and history and wanting to be
there and to be part of it. And even though
they dropped the game last night, I felt all of
those things. It was a really exciting place to be,
(03:18):
you know.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
Oh yeah, everybody was very I mean just the pitching itself,
you know, like the crowd was so interactive with the
pitching and responsive and trying to rally the picture to
just you know, create energy to see off of, but
we just couldn't get it done tonight.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
So yeah, yeah, do.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
You have season tickets? How did you get their tickets
to the game, Catherine? How did you get those tickets?
Speaker 4 (03:45):
I just bought them online from.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
You stub hubbed it or you whatever, see geeked it.
Speaker 5 (03:54):
No.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
I tried to get seats in foul ball territory, but
no touch fuck unfortunately.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Yeah that would be good. Did you see who caught
the uh homer the other night Tony? You saw that right?
The uh? That was crazy? It was a camera guy,
camera guy out in the bleacher?
Speaker 3 (04:11):
Where was he? Where were the center field? Centerfield?
Speaker 6 (04:14):
That's although that camera scrum is for that that behind
that wall, and one of the guys just caught it.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
We were trying to decide Michael and Catherine are joining
us from Dodger Stadium some KFI listeners who called in
after this heartbreaking loss. We're trying to decide whether he
will likely I mean, that's a million dollar ball he's caught.
Will he he does he have ownership of the ball
or will the company that he was employed by will
they have ownership?
Speaker 4 (04:41):
I don't know, but somebody get that guy a contract
as a great Cat.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Thanks guys, better luck, Thanks so much for calling in
and uh say right home. Thanks Michael and Catherine at
Dodger Stadium tonight. Yeah, if you're in traffic, heartbreak eight
hundred and five too, oh one, five three four. I
know it's a s ride after a loss like this one,
but we'd love to talk to you here at KFI.
I mean, I don't see, man, that's bad pub if
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you take that the rights to that baseball away from
that guy, right, I mean, do you want to be
the big bad company that takes away the rights of
that guy to that to sell that baseball. I'm going
to find his what was his name, Matt, do you
have it? Baseball TV photographer Otani? It was the Freeman
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hit ball, wasn't it?
Speaker 3 (05:41):
It was? Yeah, it was Freeman's shot. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Let me just yeah in that eighteen inning marathon. A
TV photographer, the cameraman, let me just see, thank you.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
Even a cool name. His name is Zeke Hernandez.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
I love that he's a diehard Dodgers fan, and I
mean he gets the walk off home run ball. I
have to you know, usually what they do is they
it depends, it depends on what historic ball from what game?
(06:25):
But won't they sometimes go and say, hey, we're going
to give you a ball. We'll give you season tickets,
but give us that ball because it's too historic for
us to have a fan, Isn't that right, Tony?
Speaker 6 (06:36):
Did you see the one the guy who caught a
Trout's four hundredth home run or yeah, he's just like, hey,
can I just play catch with him after the game?
Speaker 3 (06:44):
And he's okay, and he just through the ballack. Yeah,
he was like, that's it. I'm cool.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Oh my jaw, that is you know. I'm sure he
took grief from friends for that.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
But which money?
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Yeah that was But I mean, this one the end
of the longest World Series game in history. This ball
is worth some real money. Kathy in Dodger Stadium, longtime listener.
Not at the game, it says, but a Dodgers fan.
I'm sure not feeling great tonight. Hi, Kathy, you're on Kofi.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
Oh No, I can't believe it.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
I can't believe it.
Speaker 4 (07:28):
They lost. You know what, it's probably because they're upset.
Speaker 5 (07:34):
About the government.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
The government is.
Speaker 4 (07:38):
Crashing and they feel bad about that and they're feeling
the sorrow of the government.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Wow, that Kathy, thank you, because that is an analysis
that I have not heard from anyone, and I'm going
to even venture to say that is an analysis I
will not hear from anyone. You may have shared the
most specific analysis over the World Series and Dodgers loss
(08:08):
in all of America tonight, that the Dodgers loss because
of the government and the fact that they are bummed
out and preoccupied with the government. And I presume you
mean the government shutdown. Wow, Well, that's what makes taking
calls so much fun. Mark Thompson on Wednesday night, after
(08:30):
a heartbreaking loss at Dodger Stadium, Dodgers drop to the
Blue Jays six to one, and now Dodger fans have
to get it done.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
The team has to get it done in Toronto, and
you know what they can.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
Mark Thompson, just sitting in for this one night on
KFI Wednesday night. It was a night that we watched
a heartbreak at Dodger Stadium. Dodgers lose to Toronto six
to one. They go back to Toronto now and we'll
have to win the World Series.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
On the road. It is Halloween.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
People seem pretty committed to a lot of the scary,
the goblins, the Halloween decorations, been very impressed thus far. Historically,
Southern California represents the Halloween season. We represent because we
are show business. We're special effects people. We know how
to blow fog into the yard. We know how to
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set up those tombstones and the animatronic goblins.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
We do that.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
That's what we do as show people in Southern California. Now,
what has happened is the retail profession has made everybody
sort of special effects editors. So you can buy a
lot of this stuff now that you used to be
able to. Even ten years ago, you couldn't get a
(09:57):
lot of the stuff you can get now now it's
sort of more affordable, and it's kind of made Halloween fun.
You know, everybody's yard, or everybody's window in the apartment,
whatever it might be. Everybody's doorway is adorned in one
way or the other. But the other part of Halloween
is the movies, the scary movies, the horror movies, or
just scary movies, just eerie.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
Movies, suspense movies.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
And so I've seen a bunch of lists of the
scariest movies or the best movies for Halloween. And I'm curious.
I know, Mark, you're a big movie person. You really
know the world of cinema film also big horror movie fan.
(10:38):
Oh that's just great. That's really great, Tony. I think also,
I believe he's not a you're not a horror movie guy.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
No.
Speaker 5 (10:46):
Wait, what he's trying to tell you sign language is
that he's a godless coward.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
Yeah, well, I I can relate.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
It's a it's a it's it's a tough watch if
you're not like you know, you have that steal constitution
so you can there and you know, watch these bloody
gory things.
Speaker 5 (11:02):
Well, it's like food. You got your comfort foods, you
got your spicy food. I like the spicy food.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Well, uh, I'm curious as to know what you think
might be the best movies and when the kids are
out trigger treating, if you had to put a movie on,
you know what you might consider to be among the best.
I'm also wondering if there are people in radio land
(11:30):
who would like to share their favorites. Eight hundred five
two oh one five three four eight hundred five two
oh one five three four, eight hundred five two oh
fifteen thirty four. So I turned to you, what are
your fabes when it comes to these kinds of eerie, scary,
(11:52):
maybe even Halloween themed movies, Mark Runner.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
Well, you got your favorites.
Speaker 5 (11:57):
I also always try to catch up on things that
I've somehow missed. This week I watched an early seventies
thriller called Let's Scare Jessica to Death. I think it's
free on twob It is terrific, A moody, little independent thing.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
Now, how do they scare Jessica? You want me to
spoil it? I don't think you do.
Speaker 5 (12:14):
It's worth a watch, and it's very odd and it's
not the kind of thing you would see today.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
Oh really?
Speaker 5 (12:20):
Last night I watched another movie out of England called
The Comeback, in which Jack Jones, the love Boat Singer,
is being terrorized by a mask killer with a syve.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (12:33):
I say Jack Jones the love Boat singer as opposed
to Jack Jones the actor because he can't act.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
Or so you are rooting for the guy with the side,
that's what you're telling. Well, I kind of was. Yes.
Speaker 5 (12:45):
Welcome to Darry just started with its first episode on HBO.
That's pretty promising that takes place in the Stephen king
It universe and also is pulling in elements from the
Shining Universe. I mean, we've all got our favorites as
well that we've seen countless time, Like The Exorcist is
a stone cold masterpiece. Sure, I love Donna the Dead
and pretty much anything George Romero ever did. You can't
(13:07):
go wrong with John Carpenter, with The Thing or Prince
of Darkness. You don't have any favorites of your own.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
Yeah, well, you just mentioned one of my favorites because
to me, one of the greatest horror movies, suspense thriller
movies ever. And I have shared this with others in
doing my show. I used to have a regular, a
horror expert named Jeff Dixon, I as a writer director,
(13:36):
and he is, like he does a whole countdown for
Halloween every year, and I asked him for his favorites.
Everybody's got their favorites, everybody's reorganizing their top ten.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
I like what you've done.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
You've mixed in some contemporaries and you've gone back and
gotten some classics, et cetera. But he mentioned this movie
as his number two favorite horror film ever.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
And it's the Thing.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
John Carpenter, and that John Carpenter movie, The Thing, to
me is absolutely a ten.
Speaker 5 (14:06):
Yeah, it was a flop when it was released, and
it really crushed poor John Carpenter, who is always ahead
of his time. And I can't tell you how many
times I've watched that. There have been a couple new
ones this year that I thought were outstanding and would
be on my ten best list, whether they were horror
or not. One is called Weapons, which I think has
just come on to streaming. I forget what channel, what
(14:29):
the service that it's on, but you can find that
Weapons is terrific. Also bring her Back. I don't want
to tell you anything going into that, but it will
get your attention. Well, is it super scary or is
it just eerie? It is quite unsettling. It is jarring. Okay,
not for everyone. Wow, In fact, maybe for no one.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
It is one thing about scary movies or disturbing movies,
or eerie movies or psychological thriller films, is they stay
with you, like the half life can be really really intense.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
Uh yeah, you know.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
That's that's maybe one of the reasons that some people
don't go for it, don't have an appetite for it.
Speaker 5 (15:16):
Well, yeah, they're they're meant to be kind of like
a carnival ride that gets your blood pressure up, but
you know you're safe, you're gonna you're gonna get off
the ride if you trust the carnies who assemble the ride. Uh,
they're a lot of fun. And I think I don't
I don't know what attracted me to them, apart from
being traumatized when I was too young to see them
(15:38):
as a child. And so you know, I don't want
to get too in the weeds in terms of psychology.
But you can fetishize the things that traumatize you. Sure,
I see that's interesting.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
All right.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Well, if you have a fave, share it with us.
Eight hundred five two oh fifteen thirty four, eight hundred
five two oh one five three four A favorite horror movie,
scary movie, eerie movie. It might be a suspensed thrill.
But this Halloween? What would be your favorites? So, by
the way, where do you rank Halloween? The original Halloween?
On the list? All time you put.
Speaker 5 (16:09):
It up there, it's so familiar you kind of have
to reset yourself to understand the impact it had. But yeah,
it's another masterpiece from John Carpenter. The sequels not so much,
except let me say this Halloween three, which doesn't have
any Michael Myers in it. That's another little minor masterpiece
there that was in the eighties. The Halloween three. Yeah,
(16:30):
it's terrific. It's got Tom Atkins investigating a Halloween mask
maker that has a really diabolical plan for the children.
And if you haven't seen that, I cannot recommend it
highly enough.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
The Nightmare Before Christmas.
Speaker 5 (16:44):
Oh, that's the stop motion Tim Burton one. Yeah, that's
fun for kids. I enjoyed it, and people enjoyed a
lot more than me. People really have turned that into
a cult classic. That's exactly right.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
That's got an incredible following, of course, and they do
now live performances and musical performance as Eltman does live stuff.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
I think I've seen one of those shows, did it?
I believe at the Hollywood Bowl or some big arena
forget where where it was. Now.
Speaker 5 (17:11):
If you like that, let me recommend something that's kind
of similar, but just an absolute classic for more for kids.
But I still love it, and it's also got a
terrific score, soundtrack, Mad Monster Party. It's a stop motion
puppet cartoon with Phyllis Diller in it, and you know
(17:32):
a Dracula, Frankenstein, Mummy, Werewolf puppets. Look up Mad Monster
Party and you absolutely can't go wrong. I love it well.
This is the advantage of having Runner in. He knows
his stuff. Mad Monster Party noted. I don't get out much.
What's your favorite for the Halloween season? Give us a
ring at KOFI eight hundred and five to two oh
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fifteen thirty four, eight hundred and five to two oh
one five three four again a heartbreak for the Dodgers.
It was its own verse of horror, six to one,
dominating Toronto Pitching. We'll force this series back to Toronto
where the Dodgers will have to win it on the road.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
We're just finishing up discussions of movies that feel good
for the Halloween season. Mark Thompson sitting in on this
Wednesday night following a Dodgers loss six to one dominating
performance by Toronto Pitching. And we jump on the line
quickly as we wrap this up. Richard, thanks for holding.
Welcome to KOFI. Richard, your favorite or recommended film for Halloween.
Speaker 7 (18:43):
Probably Tusk.
Speaker 4 (18:44):
Tusk.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
Let me turn to Mark Ronner, who is our resident
movie expert.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
Which old choice?
Speaker 5 (18:51):
It's a bold choice, that's the Isn't that the Kevin
Smith movie with Justin Long?
Speaker 7 (18:56):
I'm not sure. I just saw it just the other night.
I watch I watch a lot of garbage. I have
a Midnight Pulp subscription. So garbage.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
How is that midnight pulp? Do you like that? Is
it worth the money?
Speaker 5 (19:11):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (19:11):
Yeah it is.
Speaker 7 (19:12):
It's like six bucks a month and I can give
you know, one movie every month or so if that's
worth it. Yeah, and I think it's worth it.
Speaker 5 (19:19):
I subscribe to Shutter and Arrow and both are absolutely terrific.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
Wow, give me a shot.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
All right, you two studs, uh meeting around Tusk and
talking about subscriptions.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
I love it. Thanks Richard, thanks for the call.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
And finally, Mark and Lancaster, as you wrap it up,
go ahead, you're live on KFI.
Speaker 8 (19:40):
Hi, Mark, Hey, Mark? What's going on?
Speaker 3 (19:43):
Man?
Speaker 8 (19:43):
Jeepers, creepers? Whatever that thing was? I was driving around
in an old milk truck and then at the same
time flying around snatching your eyes. And at the very
end he's sitting here whistling deepers, creep, where'd you get
those eyes? That was crazy?
Speaker 2 (20:04):
That was around us? That was like twenty years ago.
When was Javers Grievers out? It was twenty years ago,
wasn't it?
Speaker 3 (20:10):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (20:10):
And there's kind of an upsetting backstory to that. The
director of that, Victor Salvo, was convicted for child molestation,
and so I tend to avoid all of his God
always killing the party, Mark Ronner, I hate to be
the turn in the punch bowl, but I'm not the
one that touched the child.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
Okay, all right, but Mark, you're still allowed to watch
the film and be creeped out by it. Thanks for
the call tonight on Kofi Wow, way to bring us down?
Speaker 3 (20:34):
Did I do that?
Speaker 8 (20:35):
Man?
Speaker 2 (20:36):
You want to get on to Woody Allen next? Kind
of kill all that for us? Listen, I'm not the
bad guy here.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
Who else? Let's just do the let's do the list.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
Of directors embattled in some kind of sexual harassment or
other crimes and allegations.
Speaker 5 (20:50):
Well, there's always Roman Polanski Lanski classic. Sure, and Rosemary's
Baby is one of the all time best horror film.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
Of course, that's actually a really great example of one
that maybe overshadowed by what you're talking about. Show business
is interesting because in the old days that that whole
world of the casting couch and everything that was kind
of just understood in Hollywood. I'm not saying it was cool,
but it was not the kind of thing that would
get a studio had fired. I mean, there were many
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of these studio heads that you know that just came
with the territory. Well not with children, no, no, no, no, no,
I'm just talking about the me too movement.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
No no, I get you.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
No, I mean, yeah, you're right, the Plansky thing and
the and the first director you mentioned, yeah, Victor South
of these are yeah, of course, that's just you.
Speaker 5 (21:39):
Know, I mean I knew people who had Victor Salva
clauses in their contracts because they felt so strongly about
that situation.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
Wow, Walt Disney finalizing their deal to acquire a majority
stake in Fubu Fubo TV, and now Fubo is going
to be part of this Disney empire. Hulu and Fubo
(22:08):
will make this bundle the nation's sixth largest PayTV service
nearly six million domestic subscribers. So this is like DirectTV,
YouTube TV, Charter Spectrum Hulu Plus what they'll call Live TV,
and Fubo distribute traditional channels including ABC, CBS cable channels,
(22:33):
Fox News, Bravo, ESPN. The company will be overseen by
a nine member board. Brad Bird, the former chair of
Walt Disney International, will lead that board. The farm will
still offer Fubo and Hulu plus Live TV as separate services,
available through their respective apps. Disney's investment plans, of course,
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announced in January after the much smaller Fubo sued Disney
and two other media companies because they had plans to
launch a high profile streaming joint venture, VNU Sports. Fubu said, hey,
the collaboration of Disney, Fox, and Warner Brothers Discovery is
a sports cartel, and that would put them out of business.
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And the judge agreed on those basic anti trust concerns
that it was just too big a merger, and they
blocked for the development of Venu. So Disney's deal to
acquire seventy percent of Fubo ended that litigation, and now
the combined business will be led by Fubo Chief executive
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David Gandler. He co founded the service, and Fubo's management team.
Fubo was founded a decade ago. You may see it
in different home screens when you first log on. And
now with Disney behind them, I mean, now they join
the Disney family, they'll have a lot of money, They'll
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have the Disney sales team. They will be poised to
really take a dominant foothold in the market. If you're
interested in the stock, it's publicly traded under the Fubo
Fubo ticker and shares were up today one point four
percent to just over three and a half dollars. That's
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the latest on the merger and acquisition from Disney. We
talked to Nori for a minute or two when we
come back. Mark Thompson on a Wednesday night after a
heartbreaking Dodger loss. Dodgers never could really get it going,
gave up two homers at the very start of the game,
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and while they seemed as though they were in striking
distance dominating Toronto, pitching tonight six to one loss.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
Toronto leads the series three to two.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
You're listening to K six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
La to Mexico flights are changing thirteen different airline routes
terminated by the Trump administration. The US government canceling thirteen
existing and planned routes connecting the US and the Felipe
and Elis International Airport AIFA.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
Throwing little accent just to try to impress all of you.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
Yeah, the cancelations are going to affect airlines like Viva,
Aerobus and Aero Mexico and are crackdown on the alleged
violations of a bilateral air transport agreement. Mexican President Claudia
Scheinbaum disagreeing with this unilateral action that we're just taking
that without any kind of negotiation. She's going to request
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a meeting with the US Secretary of State to discuss
this decision. Most affected routes canceled with the one airline
Austin and Dallas, Denver, New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles, Miami,
and Orlando. In addition to these cancelations, the Transportation Department
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has proposed borrowing Mexican passenger airlines from carrying air cargo
between Mexican and US airports. I mean, it's really a
frosty relationship that is getting frostier by the hour. LA
flights that are at risk, well, I mean, I don't
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need to tell you everything going on with air traffic
controllers already making life difficult. But there is a freeze again.
This is from the Department of Transportation. The current Department
of Transportation is freezing any expansion of Mexican airlines routes
between Benito Juarez International air Pace and the US. This
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is the Department of Transportation accusing Mexico of illegally canceling
and freezing US carrier flights for three years without any consequences,
and they're saying, all right, we can freeze your flights too,
and staff shortages forcing a temporary ground stop at LAX.
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Today the LAX Terminal five is closing for demolition. These
are all things that are happening at the same time
as these official actions to restrict travel to and from
Mexico on certain flights. A lost laptop on a flight
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forced a United flight to turn around. This flight carried
more than two hundred people from northern Virginia to Rome,
and they were still near the US coast and a
passenger dropped their laptop.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
Couldn't retrieve it.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
It fell behind a cabin walls panel and through this
small gap that leads to the cargo hold. I'm always
amazed when there's some little gap or other aspect of
the plane that I didn't know about, never heard about before.
It turns out it turns into a major crisis of
(28:19):
something drops down there, and that's exactly what happened. They
turned the flight back around as a precaution because they
couldn't get to it. They couldn't see whether there had
been a crack in this piece of technology, and that
(28:40):
might have led to, you know, a lithium battery explosion.
Speaker 3 (28:45):
Right.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
And when it's down in the cargo hold, it's in
an area that's not there normal area that they were
to have a fire suppression system loaded. So you get
a fire down there, and that's real additional trouble that
you can't control. The air traffic controller who was dealing
with the flight said, I've never heard of anything like
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this before. This is a good story to tell. At
the pilot's lounge, maintenance crews were able to find the
laptop and the flight left for Rome after an inspection.
The plane took off some time later, and it got
into Rome four and a half hours later than scheduled.
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I dropped on a long flight from South America. This
wasn't that long ago, actually, I think it was last year,
I was sleeping. It was a really long flight from Chile,
and I had an iPad and when I turned, I
guess I rolled or turned to my side.
Speaker 3 (29:50):
The iPad slipped down between.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
The reclining seat and the wall. But it lodged in
the reclining seat, like in the armrest and the cushion
in that somewhere in that mechanical area. And I couldn't
reach it. I mean I could touch it, but it
wouldn't move. It was there like wedged in. So I
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tried to move the seat up to free it up,
and then I heard crack. Oh no, I mean it
was a big crack too, I mean I could hear it.
And then I called the flight attendants over, and man,
it was it was Defcon City.
Speaker 3 (30:36):
They were in position.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
Don't touch anything, don't touch anything, don't move that chair again,
don't and they had everybody had a Latino accident. They're
all from South America. So on I'm going to say
it was maybe another couple hours.
Speaker 3 (30:54):
I'm there.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
And on approach when you have to put your seat
up up, they said for landing you'll have to move back.
I was in first class. By the way I played,
I spent all my magic beans on first class from Chile.
Speaker 3 (31:12):
Because it's a long flight.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
They said, you'll have to move to a coach because
we need your chair in the complete you know, upright,
And I said, sure, no problem. So I moved back
to coach and so of the last I don't know,
maybe half hour of the flight, I was back during coach.
But that's not the best part. The best part was
I had to wait till everybody got off the plane
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and then they bring in this squat team of guys
and this crew which is kind of exotic. They're all
speaking Spanish. It was very cool, and they get this thing.
They took the entire seat out before they could get
this iPad out, this broken iPad and there it was shattered,
and they gave it back to me. I asked the
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entire crew to sign it with a selfie what I mean, sharpie,
and we were. So that's my cheating death story. And
I think it's a great way to finish up a
disappointing loss for the Los Angeles Dodgers tonight at Dodgers
Stadium to a dominating pitching performance from Toronto. Back to
Toronto to try to win it there. Thanks everybody at KFI,
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all of you kids, great help, Matt, Mark, Tony, Tony,
I'll see you on my show on YouTube on Monday,
The Mark Thompson Show. There we're KFI AM six forty.
I want to mention George Norri next has a great
show planned. Enjoy KFI AM six forty live everywhere on
the iHeartRadio
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