Paris Jackson received $65 million from the Michael Jackson estate, which is a drop in the ocean compared to what his estate is worth, which is said to be more than $2 billion. The controversy surrounding California politician and gubernatorial hopeful Katie Porter continues, after her trainwreck TV interview last week and the viral videos showing her berating staff. She’s given her first interview in which she takes accountability for being a petty tyrant. President Donald Trump does not like his cover on TIME Magazine. He posted to Truth Social about his issue with the photo, which he said maybe “the worst of all time.”
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand, if
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Thompson's sitting in on a Tuesday night, Wet's wet. Dodgers
win it in convincing fashion five to one. The final
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Nikki just came a running in here with a breaking
news breaking Jackson family news breaking, Michael Jackson benefits from
Jackson estate news. Apparently Paris Jackson getting sixty five million
in benefits from Michael Jackson's estate. Now that she is gorgeous,
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that is Michael Jackson's.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Child, stunning girl. But I don't know.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
I mean she's named as his daughter, right, yes, yeah,
that's his daughter.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
But like, I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
You're saying she doesn't look like Michael Jackson.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
There is no family resemblance there.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Well, she's got a point there, Actually, Sam, there's no
family resemblance.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
But according to reports, his estate is estimated to be
worth around two point five billion.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Yeah, so sixty five million is just a little bit
of a spinoff. It's kind of a rounding error.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Yeah, where's all the money gone?
Speaker 1 (01:29):
She raised concerns over what she was calling premium payouts
made by the estate for attorney time that was unrecorded.
The estate said that the attorneys were instrumental and critical
in getting unprecedented results for this two billion dollar estate.
So you can imagine with all that money, there are attorneys,
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they're investment lawyers there. I mean, there are so many
lawyers associated with all of this that there is an industry,
if you want to think of it that way, associated
with the Michael Jackson estate. So she and we only
know this because of a public court filing, has received
sixty five dollars in sixty five million dollars in benefits
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from her father's estate. But because of this legal tangle
and it being an open court, we see a little
bit more of what is one of the most valuable
celebrity estates in history. Right, So, Paris Jackson getting sixty
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five million dollars in benefits from her father's estate really
isn't a lot. And this is part of her legal
attempt to challenge the control and the transparency over payouts
from twenty eighteen. Here's what she said in the filing.
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Few have benefited more from the executor's business judgment then
the petitioner herself, who has received sixty five million from
the estate and benefits. I see, I'm sorry, the petitioner
is a Paris. But what you're reading is the response
to the petition. In other words, she's suing, but this
is the response. And so they say, look, few have
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benefited more from the business judgment of the executors, all
these lawyers. In other words, few have benefited more than
she has. But she's gotten sixty five million as well.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
She should.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
She was his only daughter.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
The two billion dollar estate is certainly one that you
would think would spend off more than sixty five I mean,
it's a lot of money. But how old is Paris Jackson,
you may be wondering. I mean, it seems like just yesterday,
but it wasn't. It was a lot of Yesterday's twenty
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seven years old. Now. So she's filing a petition saying
that there is excessive gifting and gratuities paid to these
law firms. And she's saying, you're not building for time,
this is just skimming, this is grifting.
Speaker 5 (04:18):
She has two siblings as well. Yeah, I thought she's
not an only child.
Speaker 6 (04:23):
Yeah, she has Prince and Blanket.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Oh yeah, what's the story on Prince and Blanket. They're
not mentioned.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Here are different mothers.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
I believe that's the way to do it. I don't know.
I don't see Prince and Blanket mentioned. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Do you remember when Blanket was dangled out the off
the balcony.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
That was scary, That really was scary.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Yeah, that was wild.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Man. You know what was weird to me about some
of the stuff that had to do with Michael Jackson.
I mean, there's so much with Michael Jackson that his strained, perverse,
odd and ultimately mysterious. But one of the things I
would say is that I remember, toward the end of
his run in this world, he was struggling with debt.
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I thought, didn't he run up a lot of debt?
Speaker 2 (05:27):
I think he was worth just five hundred million at
one point.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
I mean, his intellectual property was of immense value, and
he owned the Beatles catalog too. Didn't they sell him that? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (05:41):
Yeah, after he recorded with Paul McCartney, and then he
pulled like a bait and switch on Paul McCartney when
the catalog went up for sale. I think Paul McCartney
mentioned it to him, and so Michael swooped in and
bought the music.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Isn't that wild crazy. At the time of his death, indeed,
he was over five hundred million dollars in debt. That
was because of his spending also legal battles high interest loans.
So the executors restructured that loan and most of that
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was paid off. But he was five hundred million dollars
in debt when he died. So when you look at
his pot of gold of two billion dollars, it may
not actually be two billion dollars. But either way, this
court case has pulled back the curtain on what's going
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on with it. And Paris Jackson gets sixty five million
from her father's estate. That's the latest.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Well, it's because Sony Music purchased his catalog and it
was valued at one point two billion.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
I see, So that just immediately took care of all
the debtors about all the and he turned into a
net positive.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
After his passing.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
After his passing, I see interesting. I've got to admit,
Nicky knows her entertainment.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
I used to be an entertainment editor and reporter.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
I see, I see well, I mean it shows it
really does.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
This just handed to me. As the government continues in
its thirteenth day of shutdown. Marjorie Taylor Green is breaking
from most of her Republican colleagues on the issue at
the center of the standoff, which is healthcare. She is
siding with Democrats to preserve the Affordable Care Act subsidies,
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and that is drawing attention inside and outside her district.
She's saying, I'm getting phone calls. This is a quote
from people that are saying, if the ACA tax credits expire,
that's of course, you know, Affordable Care Act Obamacare. If
they expire, they aren't going to be able to have
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health insurance. They're going to have to drop it. She
understands what she can do and can't do, said one
of her Republican Party colleagues. About seventy four thousand people
in her district receive coverage through the Affordable Care Act,
and nearly all of them get tax credits to help
lower their monthly premiums. Again, a Republican colleague said, I
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think she's looking out for her constituents. We just can't
let premiums double for those who are using it. She
won reelection now, Marjorie Teddy Green's one of those people
where you think, gosh, she's like, you know, problematic figure.
She's kind of a lightning rod for controversy. She won
reelection with sixty five percent of the vote, and she
did it with the UH. Well, her general plank is
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I support Donald Trump no matter what. And these subsidies
directly affect her voters, so she now is seeing how
they're going to be affected by this government shutdown and
the lack of the supplement for ACA. So in any case,
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she is certainly one of the higher profile mouthpieces, you know,
and she may actually be a sign that on the
Republican side, things are beginning to crack in terms of solidarity.
But the government shutdown enters its third week. Mark Thompson
sitting it on Tuesday night. We're k if I am
six forty Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. This is
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the theme to Tic Tac dough love it. Wow, that's
a strong that's a strong reach man. Ok if I
Am six forty Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. Mark
Thompson sitting it on Tuesday night.
Speaker 5 (09:46):
I would just sit in here and I was like,
I really want to actually play that theme song.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Why should week? If we can go through, let's just
go game show themes from here till the end of
the show.
Speaker 5 (09:54):
I'm not gonna go gameshow, but I did take a
TV show theme song recommendation, so I think that just
want im going to close eyes.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
I like that.
Speaker 6 (10:01):
I like that, give me a TV show theme as
we bump in every time.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
I love it. Good stuff, all right. So you know,
you're aware of the controversy involving Katie Porter, and it's
significant and super relevant because she was a front runner
in the gubernatorial race and she's a real populist. You know,
Katie Porter is she did the white erase board thing.
People really feel as though Katie Porter is an advocate
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for them, especially when it comes to representing the people
against special interests. She's you know, she feels like she
speaks truth to power, and that's something that's quite unusual.
And also in Sacramento, a place which is controlled by Democrats,
and you could say, you know, sort of the corporate
toocracy of politics is seated in Sacramento. She doesn't feel
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like a corporate tool. So for all of these reasons
and more, she's got a lot of popular support. So
when she has this back and forth with this reporter
from ke Cow and she she didn't leave the interview.
She and by the way, I'm not a Katie's Reporter supporter.
I like the fact that she speaks truth to power.
(11:13):
I like the fact that she, you know, talks smack
to a bunch of corporate interests. I like all those things.
I think it's hard to find those things in the candidate.
You find candidates that talk, that talk, but few that
want walk the walk. But anyway, so when she gets
in this back and forth with this cakew reporter, it's
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it's a bad look. And then it opens up this
can of worms about her temper and the fact that
there have been complaints about her temper before. And I
also feel like, just to be honest, if she were
a guy, we probably might be looking about at this
a different way. Now you can say, well, still a
guy would take some heat for some of these moves,
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you know, throwing potatoes at her ex and this kind
of thing. But now she's speaking out publicly. And by
the way, she didn't get up because like, this interview
is over, Like they play that part over and over,
and I thought the interview was over, but then I
was reading No. She went on for twenty minutes with
that sit down. It continued for twenty minutes, but that
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was the last I'd heard of it. And then, of
course I've seen the clips played over and over again,
and now I've seen all the different incidents related in
different news stories. Here she is speaking out publicly for
the first time since that incident.
Speaker 7 (12:30):
So this is your first time speaking publicly since the
now to viral videos. What do you want people to
know about you? And do you have the temperament to
be the next governor of California.
Speaker 4 (12:41):
When I look at those videos, I want people to
know that I understand that I could have handled things better.
I think I'm known as someone who's able to handle
tough questions, who's willing to answer questions, and I want
people to know that I really value the incredible work
that my staff can do. I think I can. People
who know me know I can be tough, but I
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need to do a better job expressing appreciation for the
amazing work that my team does.
Speaker 7 (13:07):
Should California voters feel confident that there aren't any more
Katie Porter videos out there, well, what.
Speaker 4 (13:15):
I know is that I could have done better in
those moments. I'm going to be focused on earning their
votes and earning their trust. That's true in every election.
I've only ever had tough elections. So I'm absolutely aware
that I'm going to have to continue to show them.
I'm going to have to answer every question. I'm glad
I got to continue that interview and finish that interview
and answer all her questions. And that's what I'm going
to continue to do to show Californians not only that
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I understand their problems, but that I have the will
and the strength of character to actually get something done
about them.
Speaker 7 (13:45):
But not just the CBS interview, the interview with the staffer.
Can voters be confident that there won't be another one
of those videos that's going to come to light?
Speaker 4 (13:54):
What I do know is that I could have done
better in that situation. That's not a no.
Speaker 7 (13:57):
So is there potentially another video that we're gonna see, Nikki.
Speaker 4 (14:01):
I'm gonna be honest with you. I know that that
video and that video was several years ago, as you know,
and apologize to this offer that's super important to me,
and will continue to try to hold myself to do better.
That's that's what I can promise.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
I got to say one thing. I think the the
follow up here is a little bit obnoxious. You know,
I again, am I wrong?
Speaker 6 (14:25):
Ron Or you're you're you're a news guy, Melani responding
as a journalist, you can't help. But notice she seems
to be held to a different standard. I mean, did
she call the journalist the enemy of the American people?
Just before I left for work today, I saw the
President say he wasn't gonna call on ABC fake news.
So I think if you're gonna if you're gonna call
out Katie Porter, you've got to look at the big picture.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
It's a it's a changing face of journalism, it seems,
I don't know. I mean, look, when you're running for anything,
they're gonna dust off everything they can and find every
bit of opo that they can find on you, and
you're going to see it. And now she's had to
own it. But you know, she's in a tough spot
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because you know she's thinking, I imagine, I don't think
there's anything else out there. But if I say there's
nothing else and then they find something else, It's like,
so you knew something else when I was out there,
and yet you told us there was nothing else out there.
It's a little bit of a trick follow up question.
Speaker 6 (15:25):
Now it makes you wish that you were in the
seat of the journalist questioning her, because she's not responding
very well at all, and she's on message, and when
the reporter tried to get her off message, she glitched obviously, And.
Speaker 4 (15:38):
I apologize to the staffer that's super important to me,
and will continue to try to hold myself to do better.
That's what I can promise.
Speaker 7 (15:46):
But not that there's not going to be any more videos,
because that's what people are wondering. Are we going to
see something.
Speaker 4 (15:52):
Else like that? I can tell you what I've told you,
which is that I am taking responsibility for this situation,
and I'm also not going to back down from from
fighting back for California, from being tough. I don't think
this is a moment where the same old, same old
is going to cut it. But that doesn't change the
fact that what I did to that stuff her was wrong.
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I've acknowledged it to her in that moment, and I'm
acknowledging it. Now.
Speaker 7 (16:17):
Have you heard from any other Democrats? Have they reached
out to you?
Speaker 4 (16:19):
Yes? Of course?
Speaker 7 (16:20):
Who has reached out to you?
Speaker 4 (16:21):
Oh? I couldn't tell you at the top of my
at the top of my top of my head, because
I've gotten.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
Because I'm so filled with anger over this entire thing.
I get. I can't think clearly is the problem.
Speaker 4 (16:31):
Lots of text messages in the last as you might expect.
What did they say? Words of support?
Speaker 7 (16:36):
Can you give me anything specific?
Speaker 4 (16:37):
You know? Well, I mean, as you've seen a.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
Couple of them called you a couple of names just
now you mentioned, and I just I mean, if you're
forcing me that I can show you the time.
Speaker 4 (16:45):
I mean, as you've seen publicly, many of the groups
that support me, groups like the Teamsters, have said that
they're proud to stand with me because they know I'm
going to fight for California, that they know I'm going
to be tough, that they think what's needed is a
level of strength of character in this moment. So I
think there's been a lot of those comments. I think
everybody understands, and I've certainly acknowledged to everyone who's reached
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out to me as I am now that I could
have done better. But I'm in this race to make
sure that we have a governor who's not going to
sit back, who's not going to sit quietly because we
are in a moment where we have to tackle our
affordability crisis and we have to withstand the harms that
Trump is throwing at California.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 5 (17:25):
Why are they got to ask the question like they
found an OnlyFans video of it?
Speaker 1 (17:28):
No, I agree, It's like I almost was thinking I
would have said, yeah, I really am sorry and apologize
to that staffer. That toughness that I expressed there, that's
the toughness that you need out of your governor when
it comes to dealing with corporate interests that have taken Sacramento.
This state is swimming upstream against a strong current of
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corporate interests, and instead of selling out, I hold them
to account. And yeah, I have worked on my attitude, dude,
and my general disposition toward staff and those who I
need to work with more closely. But my toughness can
also be a good thing. And let's not I mean,
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maybe that's jiu jitsuing it too much. I don't know,
but I would just say, you're right, it's not like
they it's not like they caught her in some sex video.
It's just that she blew up at a staffer. And you know, again,
if she were a guy, she probably would have gotten
away with it.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
Yeah, she should lean into the fact that she's a
tough bitch. It might help her.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
I don't know. I mean, it's a it's a high
wire act and she's a front runner, so you don't
want to, you know, reverse too much. Probably contrition like
is what she's doing. Like, I'm sorry, I realize it.
That's probably not a bad way to go. But I
also think, you know, Sam makes a great point, which
is just like, you know, guys, let's settle down. I
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mean again, this isn't a snuff film that they found
her in. She's not doing feet stuff.
Speaker 5 (18:57):
It's not it's not something you're gonna find on only
fans or porn hub.
Speaker 6 (19:02):
Oh what's wrong with feet stuff? Come on, Tarantino has
made a career out of feet stuff. Wow, I didn't
know that. Maybe we can follow that up and we continue.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
Yeah, it's Tuesday night in Los Angeles, as we dry
out here on KFI AM six forty, Mark Thompson sitting in.
We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 6 (19:20):
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you're in Warmer. Oh man, it feels sixties detectively maybe.
Speaker 6 (19:42):
Or listen to that music. Doesn't it make you feel
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Speaker 4 (19:46):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (19:46):
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Speaker 1 (19:50):
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Man, that's really impressive. It did sound westerning to me,
but I knew gunsmokers the fifties, I thought, or early sixties,
and I don't know of another Western. Wow, wow, West
I guess was in the sixties.
Speaker 6 (20:13):
Uh yeah, that was kind of more that was sort
of steampunk spy fi.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
Yeah, that's right. When was Bonanza? Oh Bonanza? Of course
that must have. But that was also sixties, right, Yeah,
that ran forever though it ran into the seventies. That
would then ran for like seventeen seasons. Wow wow.
Speaker 6 (20:31):
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for one season with.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
You, I guess the theme for a for a western
that ran for one season.
Speaker 6 (20:41):
Nobody likes a sore loser, nobody.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
How dare you?
Speaker 6 (20:45):
That theme song must have really stuck in your head.
Won some awards.
Speaker 4 (20:48):
You go.
Speaker 6 (20:49):
Montenegro wrote it. It's a terrific theme. All right, that's
that's legit, fantastic show. I urge everyone to check it out.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
Wow. Wow, I'd like a more guessable theme, though, maybe
a coming back. It's not too much trouble, jeez. President
Trump is angry. He's coming off that big uh caes
fire deal and he's still irritated. Yeah, he doesn't like
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even though a big cover of Time magazine. This is
a legit cover he's got, and it's I think of plaudits,
you know, it's like compliments, and it's very favorable coverage.
The titles are His Triumph, The Leader, Israel Needed, and
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How Gaza Heals? Those are the three titles. But the
thing that he's annoyed about is the photo. The photo
of Trump is taken from low down with the sun
creating a halo effect where his hair kind of blurs
into the light. I guess you could look at it
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and see he sort of looks like balding or isn't
that sort of the way in which you could interpret this,
And I think it's the way he interprets it. It's
not a flattering photo. But to be fair, nobody looks
good from that angle.
Speaker 6 (22:13):
No.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
And this is a tip to all of us and
to all of you who give your camera phone to
someone to take a pick. What do you need to
tell them? And constantly be reminded hold it up higher, higher.
Everybody wants to go low with the shot. Now, the
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lower the camera, the more chins. Yeah, everything looks worse
from underneath.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
Yeah, he looks like a turkey.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
So he also agrees with you that he doesn't look good.
And he is the president of the United States. He
has a large megaphone which he dusts off and gets
going on that social platform that he runs and owns
a huge piece of truth social And so as he
flew back to the US from Egypt, he took time
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out to criticize the picture. Here is what the President
of the United States said. Quote. Time magazine wrote a
relatively good story about me, but the picture may be
the worst of all time. They disappeared my hair and
then had something floating on top of my head. That
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looked like a floating crown, but an extremely small one.
Really weird. I never liked taking pictures from underneath angles,
but this is a super bad picture and it deserves
to be called out. What are they doing and.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
Why he's such a bitch?
Speaker 1 (23:50):
Well?
Speaker 2 (23:50):
Please in a good way, Yessney, There you go. He
makes me laugh. I'm a non voter. Yea, it makes
me laugh.
Speaker 6 (23:58):
Well, I mean he has a point, but all so,
maybe could have taken the high road on this one thing. Yeah,
I think you know, the more you're talking about it,
the more you're you know, kicking and screaming about it,
the more people are going, oh, I want to see
that picture. Now? What do they call that? The streisand
now known as the Kimmel effect.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (24:14):
Of all the things he's complained about, though, this is
the one that I think is most legitimate. You might
be right, Come on, anybody knows you don't take a
picture for that ang.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
We all agree with you, mister Trump, mister president. But
it is really really a bad shot.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
He looks like one of those men in black aliens,
the bull Chinian.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
Wow, it's only getting worse. Well, it's our way of
saying We're with you, mister President. We're with you here
at KFI. Mark Thompson hanging out on Tuesday Night, KIM
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My old pal, George Norri. What's up, George, Mark?
Speaker 4 (25:04):
How you been.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
Everything's good, my friend, everything's good. I listen to your
show and ever i can. I'm always intrigued, always riveted.
For real.
Speaker 6 (25:13):
We've got a great one tonight.
Speaker 7 (25:14):
For the first couple hours, we're going to talk about
what it.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
Takes to be kind to people.
Speaker 6 (25:18):
It's kind of a different twist.
Speaker 4 (25:20):
And then later on in the show, demons on Coast
to Coast.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
Oh, I love that. I remember kindness too. It was
it was a while back, but I would love to
see it to make a comeback. Yeah, me too, gry
to get it that good stuff. George Norri, We're with you.
We'll talk to you after ten o'clock or listening after ten.
I noted with interest today you saw that story about
that Beyond Meat company. It was a very high profile
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substitute burger meat that was plant based, and it opened.
It was the Darling of Wall Street. I mean it
opened like it was one of those things like I
was getting because I'm a vegan, right and so I
am active with a lot of people who are in
that community. And I got a lot of these calls
or text going, were you in on the IPO for
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Beyond Meat okay, which was insane. It was like one
of those dot com now ai you know, fill in
the blank hot IPOs, and I forget what the IPO was,
but I mean, it was an incredible week that they
had this. Beyond Meat was a burger and is a
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burger that tastes like a burger. It kind of like
even has sort of a I don't know how they
do it, if it's beats or whatever, but there's sort
of a soilent green. It's soilent green exactly, so it
looks burgery, you know, but and it was delicious. So anyway,
it had this Darling of Wall Street thing going on.
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And then and this was in twenty nineteen, it was trading.
The stuff was upwards of two hundred and thirty dollars
a share. And again this is because there was a
drive to plant based meat alternatives. A lot of health
conscious consumers investors wanted to be part of it. But
(27:14):
that changed and this week, yesterday the shares fell below
a dollar for the first time, and the future ain't bright.
They had a low of eighty five cents yesterday eighty
(27:35):
eight cents today. So what's happened? I mean, the world
has fallen out of love with this alternative meat and
I think that there are more competitors in that space.
And apparently they did a debt swap. They tried to
(27:57):
save the company, and that's where they are now, just
hanging on tight. But for me and for those who
were watching this space, it's incredible they were listen, they
were a ten billion dollar company. This isn't just something
that you know, is of interest to those who had
(28:19):
plant based diets are looking to change their diets. This
was a real relevant company from the standpoint of its
valuation on Wall Street. And they had celebrity endorsements. They
had a partnership with Carls Junior, and they were the
first into the space in a big way. But they
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never turned an annual profit. Imagine that valuation. I described
ten billion dollars and never turning a profit. So they've
had revenue declining at at eight percent a year for
the past couple of years. At most recent quarter, revenue
fell nearly twenty percent, and you just it's over. You know,
(29:03):
it's really over.
Speaker 3 (29:04):
Did you ever get Linda McCartney's brand over here, Paul
McCartney's deceased wife. No, she did Linda McCartney foods because
she was a vegetarian or vegan, and it's huge for
years in the UK. And you're much better than Impossible
and beyond. I'll bet, I'll bet, and I'm a vegetarian
(29:25):
and I don't eat beyond meat or impossible. I think
it's gross and overprocessed and that's probably why it's fallen
out of favor and flavor.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
Yeah, you know something I think you're on to what
is talked about increasingly, especially people that are health conscious,
that the processed nature of these plant based meat substitutes
is a real concern.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
Yeah, it's not a good trade off.
Speaker 3 (29:47):
It might be non animal based, but it's full of
just stuff that you don't want in your system.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
It's not that healthy.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
Yeah, I mean, it's still maybe a net winner if
you're comparing meat or not. But that's up to whatever.
But I would say that the idea that you're eating
the processed food is definitely a bad one. But the
Linda McCartney line, they didn't know about. She does this
Linda McCartney Foods, and they have a lot of vegetarian
and vegan foods like burgers, sausages, pies. I'm just seeing
(30:17):
it here. Yeah, And they do have these, you know,
sausages and sausage rolls, and there are a lot of
them out there. And I got to tell you something,
this stuff tastes great. I get it, it's processed. But
you know when you're at Dodger Stadium and you're eating
a Dodger dog and going, well, you know this is
you know, it's in a hot dog. I don't need
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to tell you, but you're not thinking about it. You're
thinking it's really great. I like all these spices and
the way the other stuff that they put in besides
the you know, the stuff that I don't want to mention.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
Sausages are just made of lips and buttholes and.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
All right, that's what I didn't want to mention.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
I didn't say yeah, but I mean.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
Okay, I try, I try, you kids, and still you
go to it.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
Kind of help myself, my god.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
Anyway, the point is you're not thinking about that stuff
when you're chewing on the Dodger dog. And similarly, when
you're eating some of the plant based substitutes, you're not
thinking about the fact that the process. You're thinking about
the fact that they're great. The plant based sausages. Oh
they are great. They are just great. Now, there's none
(31:27):
of that stuff that you were just talking about, but
it is processed stuff. So there's a lot of salt,
a lot of other stuff that are added to kind
of give it that, you know, to round out the feel.
But all right, I thought we're going to have one
more TV theme and you just ended up with the
Nori thing.
Speaker 5 (31:46):
But no, that was a theme song to uh oh yeah, yes,
Stranger Things. You're right, but I can. I will do
this because NICKI was asking so kindly. Yes, I have
to do this for her.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
Yeah, all right, here we go. Oh yeah, Cotter, welcome back.
Your dreams were your ticket.
Speaker 6 (32:09):
This is a great song. Best so I think the
song charted. I think that released it as a single.
Speaker 2 (32:16):
It's not my Spotify love it.
Speaker 6 (32:22):
But those dreams.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
All right, crank it up, we'll go out with it.
Thanks everybody, Great night, Nordy. Next Mark Thompson kf I
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Thompson's sitting in on a Tuesday night, Wet's wet. Dodgers
win it in convincing fashion five to one. The final
(00:21):
Nikki just came a running in here with a breaking
news breaking Jackson family news breaking, Michael Jackson benefits from
Jackson estate news. Apparently Paris Jackson getting sixty five million
in benefits from Michael Jackson's estate. Now that she is gorgeous,
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that is Michael Jackson's.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Child, stunning girl. But I don't know.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
I mean she's named as his daughter, right, yes, yeah,
that's his daughter.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
But like, I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
You're saying she doesn't look like Michael Jackson.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
There is no family resemblance there.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Well, she's got a point there, Actually, Sam, there's no
family resemblance.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
But according to reports, his estate is estimated to be
worth around two point five billion.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Yeah, so sixty five million is just a little bit
of a spinoff. It's kind of a rounding error.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Yeah, where's all the money gone?
Speaker 1 (01:29):
She raised concerns over what she was calling premium payouts
made by the estate for attorney time that was unrecorded.
The estate said that the attorneys were instrumental and critical
in getting unprecedented results for this two billion dollar estate.
So you can imagine with all that money, there are attorneys,
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they're investment lawyers there. I mean, there are so many
lawyers associated with all of this that there is an industry,
if you want to think of it that way, associated
with the Michael Jackson estate. So she and we only
know this because of a public court filing, has received
sixty five dollars in sixty five million dollars in benefits
(02:14):
from her father's estate. But because of this legal tangle
and it being an open court, we see a little
bit more of what is one of the most valuable
celebrity estates in history. Right, So, Paris Jackson getting sixty
(02:35):
five million dollars in benefits from her father's estate really
isn't a lot. And this is part of her legal
attempt to challenge the control and the transparency over payouts
from twenty eighteen. Here's what she said in the filing.
(02:56):
Few have benefited more from the executor's business judgment then
the petitioner herself, who has received sixty five million from
the estate and benefits. I see, I'm sorry, the petitioner
is a Paris. But what you're reading is the response
to the petition. In other words, she's suing, but this
is the response. And so they say, look, few have
(03:21):
benefited more from the business judgment of the executors, all
these lawyers. In other words, few have benefited more than
she has. But she's gotten sixty five million as well.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
She should.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
She was his only daughter.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
The two billion dollar estate is certainly one that you
would think would spend off more than sixty five I mean,
it's a lot of money. But how old is Paris Jackson,
you may be wondering. I mean, it seems like just yesterday,
but it wasn't. It was a lot of Yesterday's twenty
(04:00):
seven years old. Now. So she's filing a petition saying
that there is excessive gifting and gratuities paid to these
law firms. And she's saying, you're not building for time,
this is just skimming, this is grifting.
Speaker 5 (04:18):
She has two siblings as well. Yeah, I thought she's
not an only child.
Speaker 6 (04:23):
Yeah, she has Prince and Blanket.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Oh yeah, what's the story on Prince and Blanket. They're
not mentioned.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Here are different mothers.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
I believe that's the way to do it. I don't know.
I don't see Prince and Blanket mentioned. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Do you remember when Blanket was dangled out the off
the balcony.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
That was scary, That really was scary.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Yeah, that was wild.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Man. You know what was weird to me about some
of the stuff that had to do with Michael Jackson.
I mean, there's so much with Michael Jackson that his strained, perverse,
odd and ultimately mysterious. But one of the things I
would say is that I remember, toward the end of
his run in this world, he was struggling with debt.
(05:23):
I thought, didn't he run up a lot of debt?
Speaker 2 (05:27):
I think he was worth just five hundred million at
one point.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
I mean, his intellectual property was of immense value, and
he owned the Beatles catalog too. Didn't they sell him that? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (05:41):
Yeah, after he recorded with Paul McCartney, and then he
pulled like a bait and switch on Paul McCartney when
the catalog went up for sale. I think Paul McCartney
mentioned it to him, and so Michael swooped in and
bought the music.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Isn't that wild crazy. At the time of his death, indeed,
he was over five hundred million dollars in debt. That
was because of his spending also legal battles high interest loans.
So the executors restructured that loan and most of that
(06:17):
was paid off. But he was five hundred million dollars
in debt when he died. So when you look at
his pot of gold of two billion dollars, it may
not actually be two billion dollars. But either way, this
court case has pulled back the curtain on what's going
(06:40):
on with it. And Paris Jackson gets sixty five million
from her father's estate. That's the latest.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Well, it's because Sony Music purchased his catalog and it
was valued at one point two billion.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
I see, So that just immediately took care of all
the debtors about all the and he turned into a
net positive.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
After his passing.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
After his passing, I see interesting. I've got to admit,
Nicky knows her entertainment.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
I used to be an entertainment editor and reporter.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
I see, I see well, I mean it shows it
really does.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
This just handed to me. As the government continues in
its thirteenth day of shutdown. Marjorie Taylor Green is breaking
from most of her Republican colleagues on the issue at
the center of the standoff, which is healthcare. She is
siding with Democrats to preserve the Affordable Care Act subsidies,
(07:41):
and that is drawing attention inside and outside her district.
She's saying, I'm getting phone calls. This is a quote
from people that are saying, if the ACA tax credits expire,
that's of course, you know, Affordable Care Act Obamacare. If
they expire, they aren't going to be able to have
(08:02):
health insurance. They're going to have to drop it. She
understands what she can do and can't do, said one
of her Republican Party colleagues. About seventy four thousand people
in her district receive coverage through the Affordable Care Act,
and nearly all of them get tax credits to help
lower their monthly premiums. Again, a Republican colleague said, I
(08:27):
think she's looking out for her constituents. We just can't
let premiums double for those who are using it. She
won reelection now, Marjorie Teddy Green's one of those people
where you think, gosh, she's like, you know, problematic figure.
She's kind of a lightning rod for controversy. She won
reelection with sixty five percent of the vote, and she
did it with the UH. Well, her general plank is
(08:53):
I support Donald Trump no matter what. And these subsidies
directly affect her voters, so she now is seeing how
they're going to be affected by this government shutdown and
the lack of the supplement for ACA. So in any case,
(09:13):
she is certainly one of the higher profile mouthpieces, you know,
and she may actually be a sign that on the
Republican side, things are beginning to crack in terms of solidarity.
But the government shutdown enters its third week. Mark Thompson
sitting it on Tuesday night. We're k if I am
six forty Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. This is
(09:35):
the theme to Tic Tac dough love it. Wow, that's
a strong that's a strong reach man. Ok if I
Am six forty Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. Mark
Thompson sitting it on Tuesday night.
Speaker 5 (09:46):
I would just sit in here and I was like,
I really want to actually play that theme song.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Why should week? If we can go through, let's just
go game show themes from here till the end of
the show.
Speaker 5 (09:54):
I'm not gonna go gameshow, but I did take a
TV show theme song recommendation, so I think that just
want im going to close eyes.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
I like that.
Speaker 6 (10:01):
I like that, give me a TV show theme as
we bump in every time.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
I love it. Good stuff, all right. So you know,
you're aware of the controversy involving Katie Porter, and it's
significant and super relevant because she was a front runner
in the gubernatorial race and she's a real populist. You know,
Katie Porter is she did the white erase board thing.
People really feel as though Katie Porter is an advocate
(10:28):
for them, especially when it comes to representing the people
against special interests. She's you know, she feels like she
speaks truth to power, and that's something that's quite unusual.
And also in Sacramento, a place which is controlled by Democrats,
and you could say, you know, sort of the corporate
toocracy of politics is seated in Sacramento. She doesn't feel
(10:53):
like a corporate tool. So for all of these reasons
and more, she's got a lot of popular support. So
when she has this back and forth with this reporter
from ke Cow and she she didn't leave the interview.
She and by the way, I'm not a Katie's Reporter supporter.
I like the fact that she speaks truth to power.
(11:13):
I like the fact that she, you know, talks smack
to a bunch of corporate interests. I like all those things.
I think it's hard to find those things in the candidate.
You find candidates that talk, that talk, but few that
want walk the walk. But anyway, so when she gets
in this back and forth with this cakew reporter, it's
(11:34):
it's a bad look. And then it opens up this
can of worms about her temper and the fact that
there have been complaints about her temper before. And I
also feel like, just to be honest, if she were
a guy, we probably might be looking about at this
a different way. Now you can say, well, still a
guy would take some heat for some of these moves,
(11:55):
you know, throwing potatoes at her ex and this kind
of thing. But now she's speaking out publicly. And by
the way, she didn't get up because like, this interview
is over, Like they play that part over and over,
and I thought the interview was over, but then I
was reading No. She went on for twenty minutes with
that sit down. It continued for twenty minutes, but that
(12:16):
was the last I'd heard of it. And then, of
course I've seen the clips played over and over again,
and now I've seen all the different incidents related in
different news stories. Here she is speaking out publicly for
the first time since that incident.
Speaker 7 (12:30):
So this is your first time speaking publicly since the
now to viral videos. What do you want people to
know about you? And do you have the temperament to
be the next governor of California.
Speaker 4 (12:41):
When I look at those videos, I want people to
know that I understand that I could have handled things better.
I think I'm known as someone who's able to handle
tough questions, who's willing to answer questions, and I want
people to know that I really value the incredible work
that my staff can do. I think I can. People
who know me know I can be tough, but I
(13:01):
need to do a better job expressing appreciation for the
amazing work that my team does.
Speaker 7 (13:07):
Should California voters feel confident that there aren't any more
Katie Porter videos out there, well, what.
Speaker 4 (13:15):
I know is that I could have done better in
those moments. I'm going to be focused on earning their
votes and earning their trust. That's true in every election.
I've only ever had tough elections. So I'm absolutely aware
that I'm going to have to continue to show them.
I'm going to have to answer every question. I'm glad
I got to continue that interview and finish that interview
and answer all her questions. And that's what I'm going
to continue to do to show Californians not only that
(13:38):
I understand their problems, but that I have the will
and the strength of character to actually get something done
about them.
Speaker 7 (13:45):
But not just the CBS interview, the interview with the staffer.
Can voters be confident that there won't be another one
of those videos that's going to come to light?
Speaker 4 (13:54):
What I do know is that I could have done
better in that situation. That's not a no.
Speaker 7 (13:57):
So is there potentially another video that we're gonna see, Nikki.
Speaker 4 (14:01):
I'm gonna be honest with you. I know that that
video and that video was several years ago, as you know,
and apologize to this offer that's super important to me,
and will continue to try to hold myself to do better.
That's that's what I can promise.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
I got to say one thing. I think the the
follow up here is a little bit obnoxious. You know,
I again, am I wrong?
Speaker 6 (14:25):
Ron Or you're you're you're a news guy, Melani responding
as a journalist, you can't help. But notice she seems
to be held to a different standard. I mean, did
she call the journalist the enemy of the American people?
Just before I left for work today, I saw the
President say he wasn't gonna call on ABC fake news.
So I think if you're gonna if you're gonna call
out Katie Porter, you've got to look at the big picture.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
It's a it's a changing face of journalism, it seems,
I don't know. I mean, look, when you're running for anything,
they're gonna dust off everything they can and find every
bit of opo that they can find on you, and
you're going to see it. And now she's had to
own it. But you know, she's in a tough spot
(15:09):
because you know she's thinking, I imagine, I don't think
there's anything else out there. But if I say there's
nothing else and then they find something else, It's like,
so you knew something else when I was out there,
and yet you told us there was nothing else out there.
It's a little bit of a trick follow up question.
Speaker 6 (15:25):
Now it makes you wish that you were in the
seat of the journalist questioning her, because she's not responding
very well at all, and she's on message, and when
the reporter tried to get her off message, she glitched obviously, And.
Speaker 4 (15:38):
I apologize to the staffer that's super important to me,
and will continue to try to hold myself to do better.
That's what I can promise.
Speaker 7 (15:46):
But not that there's not going to be any more videos,
because that's what people are wondering. Are we going to
see something.
Speaker 4 (15:52):
Else like that? I can tell you what I've told you,
which is that I am taking responsibility for this situation,
and I'm also not going to back down from from
fighting back for California, from being tough. I don't think
this is a moment where the same old, same old
is going to cut it. But that doesn't change the
fact that what I did to that stuff her was wrong.
(16:13):
I've acknowledged it to her in that moment, and I'm
acknowledging it. Now.
Speaker 7 (16:17):
Have you heard from any other Democrats? Have they reached
out to you?
Speaker 4 (16:19):
Yes? Of course?
Speaker 7 (16:20):
Who has reached out to you?
Speaker 4 (16:21):
Oh? I couldn't tell you at the top of my
at the top of my top of my head, because
I've gotten.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
Because I'm so filled with anger over this entire thing.
I get. I can't think clearly is the problem.
Speaker 4 (16:31):
Lots of text messages in the last as you might expect.
What did they say? Words of support?
Speaker 7 (16:36):
Can you give me anything specific?
Speaker 4 (16:37):
You know? Well, I mean, as you've seen a.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
Couple of them called you a couple of names just
now you mentioned, and I just I mean, if you're
forcing me that I can show you the time.
Speaker 4 (16:45):
I mean, as you've seen publicly, many of the groups
that support me, groups like the Teamsters, have said that
they're proud to stand with me because they know I'm
going to fight for California, that they know I'm going
to be tough, that they think what's needed is a
level of strength of character in this moment. So I
think there's been a lot of those comments. I think
everybody understands, and I've certainly acknowledged to everyone who's reached
(17:07):
out to me as I am now that I could
have done better. But I'm in this race to make
sure that we have a governor who's not going to
sit back, who's not going to sit quietly because we
are in a moment where we have to tackle our
affordability crisis and we have to withstand the harms that
Trump is throwing at California.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 5 (17:25):
Why are they got to ask the question like they
found an OnlyFans video of it?
Speaker 1 (17:28):
No, I agree, It's like I almost was thinking I
would have said, yeah, I really am sorry and apologize
to that staffer. That toughness that I expressed there, that's
the toughness that you need out of your governor when
it comes to dealing with corporate interests that have taken Sacramento.
This state is swimming upstream against a strong current of
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corporate interests, and instead of selling out, I hold them
to account. And yeah, I have worked on my attitude, dude,
and my general disposition toward staff and those who I
need to work with more closely. But my toughness can
also be a good thing. And let's not I mean,
(18:11):
maybe that's jiu jitsuing it too much. I don't know,
but I would just say, you're right, it's not like
they it's not like they caught her in some sex video.
It's just that she blew up at a staffer. And you know, again,
if she were a guy, she probably would have gotten
away with it.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
Yeah, she should lean into the fact that she's a
tough bitch. It might help her.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
I don't know. I mean, it's a it's a high
wire act and she's a front runner, so you don't
want to, you know, reverse too much. Probably contrition like
is what she's doing. Like, I'm sorry, I realize it.
That's probably not a bad way to go. But I
also think, you know, Sam makes a great point, which
is just like, you know, guys, let's settle down. I
(18:50):
mean again, this isn't a snuff film that they found
her in. She's not doing feet stuff.
Speaker 5 (18:57):
It's not it's not something you're gonna find on only
fans or porn hub.
Speaker 6 (19:02):
Oh what's wrong with feet stuff? Come on, Tarantino has
made a career out of feet stuff. Wow, I didn't
know that. Maybe we can follow that up and we continue.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
Yeah, it's Tuesday night in Los Angeles, as we dry
out here on KFI AM six forty, Mark Thompson sitting in.
We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 6 (19:20):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
Can you name the show? It feels very sixties to me, yep,
you're in Warmer. Oh man, it feels sixties detectively maybe.
Speaker 6 (19:42):
Or listen to that music. Doesn't it make you feel
like you're riding a horse?
Speaker 4 (19:46):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (19:46):
No, it does feel yeah, but is it gunsmokey kind
of thing or whatever?
Speaker 1 (19:50):
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (19:50):
You're in Warmer. It's the Outcasts from nineteen sixty eight.
I don't even know this show. It's a magnificent show.
Are you kidding? No, No, I'm not kidding. It's great.
It's on Uh, that's streaming. You can find it.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
Man, that's really impressive. It did sound westerning to me,
but I knew gunsmokers the fifties, I thought, or early sixties,
and I don't know of another Western. Wow, wow, West
I guess was in the sixties.
Speaker 6 (20:13):
Uh yeah, that was kind of more that was sort
of steampunk spy fi.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
Yeah, that's right. When was Bonanza? Oh Bonanza? Of course
that must have. But that was also sixties, right, Yeah,
that ran forever though it ran into the seventies. That
would then ran for like seventeen seasons. Wow wow.
Speaker 6 (20:31):
The Outcast was a nineteen sixty eight Western that ran
for one season with.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
You, I guess the theme for a for a western
that ran for one season.
Speaker 6 (20:41):
Nobody likes a sore loser, nobody.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
How dare you?
Speaker 6 (20:45):
That theme song must have really stuck in your head.
Won some awards.
Speaker 4 (20:48):
You go.
Speaker 6 (20:49):
Montenegro wrote it. It's a terrific theme. All right, that's
that's legit, fantastic show. I urge everyone to check it out.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
Wow. Wow, I'd like a more guessable theme, though, maybe
a coming back. It's not too much trouble, jeez. President
Trump is angry. He's coming off that big uh caes
fire deal and he's still irritated. Yeah, he doesn't like
(21:16):
even though a big cover of Time magazine. This is
a legit cover he's got, and it's I think of plaudits,
you know, it's like compliments, and it's very favorable coverage.
The titles are His Triumph, The Leader, Israel Needed, and
(21:37):
How Gaza Heals? Those are the three titles. But the
thing that he's annoyed about is the photo. The photo
of Trump is taken from low down with the sun
creating a halo effect where his hair kind of blurs
into the light. I guess you could look at it
(21:59):
and see he sort of looks like balding or isn't
that sort of the way in which you could interpret this,
And I think it's the way he interprets it. It's
not a flattering photo. But to be fair, nobody looks
good from that angle.
Speaker 6 (22:13):
No.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
And this is a tip to all of us and
to all of you who give your camera phone to
someone to take a pick. What do you need to
tell them? And constantly be reminded hold it up higher, higher.
Everybody wants to go low with the shot. Now, the
(22:33):
lower the camera, the more chins. Yeah, everything looks worse
from underneath.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
Yeah, he looks like a turkey.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
So he also agrees with you that he doesn't look good.
And he is the president of the United States. He
has a large megaphone which he dusts off and gets
going on that social platform that he runs and owns
a huge piece of truth social And so as he
flew back to the US from Egypt, he took time
(23:05):
out to criticize the picture. Here is what the President
of the United States said. Quote. Time magazine wrote a
relatively good story about me, but the picture may be
the worst of all time. They disappeared my hair and
then had something floating on top of my head. That
(23:29):
looked like a floating crown, but an extremely small one.
Really weird. I never liked taking pictures from underneath angles,
but this is a super bad picture and it deserves
to be called out. What are they doing and.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
Why he's such a bitch?
Speaker 1 (23:50):
Well?
Speaker 2 (23:50):
Please in a good way, Yessney, There you go. He
makes me laugh. I'm a non voter. Yea, it makes
me laugh.
Speaker 6 (23:58):
Well, I mean he has a point, but all so,
maybe could have taken the high road on this one thing. Yeah,
I think you know, the more you're talking about it,
the more you're you know, kicking and screaming about it,
the more people are going, oh, I want to see
that picture. Now? What do they call that? The streisand
now known as the Kimmel effect.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (24:14):
Of all the things he's complained about, though, this is
the one that I think is most legitimate. You might
be right, Come on, anybody knows you don't take a
picture for that ang.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
We all agree with you, mister Trump, mister president. But
it is really really a bad shot.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
He looks like one of those men in black aliens,
the bull Chinian.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
Wow, it's only getting worse. Well, it's our way of
saying We're with you, mister President. We're with you here
at KFI. Mark Thompson hanging out on Tuesday Night, KIM
six forty. We're live everywhere on the iHeart Radio app.
Six forty Live everywhere on the iHeart Radio app. Mark
Thompson hanging out on Tuesday Night. I know that music anywhere.
(25:01):
My old pal, George Norri. What's up, George, Mark?
Speaker 4 (25:04):
How you been.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
Everything's good, my friend, everything's good. I listen to your
show and ever i can. I'm always intrigued, always riveted.
For real.
Speaker 6 (25:13):
We've got a great one tonight.
Speaker 7 (25:14):
For the first couple hours, we're going to talk about
what it.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
Takes to be kind to people.
Speaker 6 (25:18):
It's kind of a different twist.
Speaker 4 (25:20):
And then later on in the show, demons on Coast
to Coast.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
Oh, I love that. I remember kindness too. It was
it was a while back, but I would love to
see it to make a comeback. Yeah, me too, gry
to get it that good stuff. George Norri, We're with you.
We'll talk to you after ten o'clock or listening after ten.
I noted with interest today you saw that story about
that Beyond Meat company. It was a very high profile
(25:46):
substitute burger meat that was plant based, and it opened.
It was the Darling of Wall Street. I mean it
opened like it was one of those things like I
was getting because I'm a vegan, right and so I
am active with a lot of people who are in
that community. And I got a lot of these calls
or text going, were you in on the IPO for
(26:08):
Beyond Meat okay, which was insane. It was like one
of those dot com now ai you know, fill in
the blank hot IPOs, and I forget what the IPO was,
but I mean, it was an incredible week that they
had this. Beyond Meat was a burger and is a
(26:30):
burger that tastes like a burger. It kind of like
even has sort of a I don't know how they
do it, if it's beats or whatever, but there's sort
of a soilent green. It's soilent green exactly, so it
looks burgery, you know, but and it was delicious. So anyway,
it had this Darling of Wall Street thing going on.
(26:54):
And then and this was in twenty nineteen, it was trading.
The stuff was upwards of two hundred and thirty dollars
a share. And again this is because there was a
drive to plant based meat alternatives. A lot of health
conscious consumers investors wanted to be part of it. But
(27:14):
that changed and this week, yesterday the shares fell below
a dollar for the first time, and the future ain't bright.
They had a low of eighty five cents yesterday eighty
(27:35):
eight cents today. So what's happened? I mean, the world
has fallen out of love with this alternative meat and
I think that there are more competitors in that space.
And apparently they did a debt swap. They tried to
(27:57):
save the company, and that's where they are now, just
hanging on tight. But for me and for those who
were watching this space, it's incredible they were listen, they
were a ten billion dollar company. This isn't just something
that you know, is of interest to those who had
(28:19):
plant based diets are looking to change their diets. This
was a real relevant company from the standpoint of its
valuation on Wall Street. And they had celebrity endorsements. They
had a partnership with Carls Junior, and they were the
first into the space in a big way. But they
(28:40):
never turned an annual profit. Imagine that valuation. I described
ten billion dollars and never turning a profit. So they've
had revenue declining at at eight percent a year for
the past couple of years. At most recent quarter, revenue
fell nearly twenty percent, and you just it's over. You know,
(29:03):
it's really over.
Speaker 3 (29:04):
Did you ever get Linda McCartney's brand over here, Paul
McCartney's deceased wife. No, she did Linda McCartney foods because
she was a vegetarian or vegan, and it's huge for
years in the UK. And you're much better than Impossible
and beyond. I'll bet, I'll bet, and I'm a vegetarian
(29:25):
and I don't eat beyond meat or impossible. I think
it's gross and overprocessed and that's probably why it's fallen
out of favor and flavor.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
Yeah, you know something I think you're on to what
is talked about increasingly, especially people that are health conscious,
that the processed nature of these plant based meat substitutes
is a real concern.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
Yeah, it's not a good trade off.
Speaker 3 (29:47):
It might be non animal based, but it's full of
just stuff that you don't want in your system.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
It's not that healthy.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
Yeah, I mean, it's still maybe a net winner if
you're comparing meat or not. But that's up to whatever.
But I would say that the idea that you're eating
the processed food is definitely a bad one. But the
Linda McCartney line, they didn't know about. She does this
Linda McCartney Foods, and they have a lot of vegetarian
and vegan foods like burgers, sausages, pies. I'm just seeing
(30:17):
it here. Yeah, And they do have these, you know,
sausages and sausage rolls, and there are a lot of
them out there. And I got to tell you something,
this stuff tastes great. I get it, it's processed. But
you know when you're at Dodger Stadium and you're eating
a Dodger dog and going, well, you know this is
you know, it's in a hot dog. I don't need
(30:38):
to tell you, but you're not thinking about it. You're
thinking it's really great. I like all these spices and
the way the other stuff that they put in besides
the you know, the stuff that I don't want to mention.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
Sausages are just made of lips and buttholes and.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
All right, that's what I didn't want to mention.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
I didn't say yeah, but I mean.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
Okay, I try, I try, you kids, and still you
go to it.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
Kind of help myself, my god.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
Anyway, the point is you're not thinking about that stuff
when you're chewing on the Dodger dog. And similarly, when
you're eating some of the plant based substitutes, you're not
thinking about the fact that the process. You're thinking about
the fact that they're great. The plant based sausages. Oh
they are great. They are just great. Now, there's none
(31:27):
of that stuff that you were just talking about, but
it is processed stuff. So there's a lot of salt,
a lot of other stuff that are added to kind
of give it that, you know, to round out the feel.
But all right, I thought we're going to have one
more TV theme and you just ended up with the
Nori thing.
Speaker 5 (31:46):
But no, that was a theme song to uh oh yeah, yes,
Stranger Things. You're right, but I can. I will do
this because NICKI was asking so kindly. Yes, I have
to do this for her.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
Yeah, all right, here we go. Oh yeah, Cotter, welcome back.
Your dreams were your ticket.
Speaker 6 (32:09):
This is a great song. Best so I think the
song charted. I think that released it as a single.
Speaker 2 (32:16):
It's not my Spotify love it.
Speaker 6 (32:22):
But those dreams.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
All right, crank it up, we'll go out with it.
Thanks everybody, Great night, Nordy. Next Mark Thompson kf I
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