January 6, 2026 • 31 mins
Mark Thompson recalls his neighborly interaction with Johnny Depp when he lived in West Hollywood. He also used to play tennis with Harve Bennet, producer of “Star Trek,” “The Six Million Dollar Man” and “Mod Squad.” Mark plays listener talkbacks from fans who are both concerned and titillated by Hollywood actor Mickey Rourke’s rental woes. A wild incident at Disneyland saw a man and his family cut the line for a ride, followed by a confrontation and a beatdown resulting in stitches to a father’s face after the line-cutting man and family beat him up. It all happened as they waited to board the Indiana Jones ride. The McRib class-action lawsuit is on! Will you get a cut of that sweet, sweet McDonald’s moolah? The boneless patty shaped like ribs does not contain pig meat, and now porky eaters are up in arms about the ham-fisted bacon bait ’n’ switch.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
The manager for the doors my next door neighbors, the
old doors with the Jim Morrison. Yeah, it was like
all I could do the first couple of months not
to go. Can you tell me a couple of stories
about the doors and you managing them? Man, I would
have done the same thing. I just have so many
of those moments. I've had to kind of check out
(00:27):
of so many different situations because I want to dude, dude,
can you tell me some stories from from the movie
set k IF I am six forty. We're live everywhere
on the iHeartRadio app. Mark Thompson here, and yeah, it's uh,
it's just cool, you know, and you swim in the
entertainment business world and you just don't want to be
that guy, but you still are.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
At least I am still.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
That permissible you You are allowed to ask permission to
ask questions about the Lizard King.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Yeah, so, uh, here's one for you. When I moved
to LA I lived first in West Hollywood, just up
the road from actually across the street from Johnny Depp.
You know, Johnny Depp lives in this huge castle that
was talked about in the Johnny Depp trial. And I
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lived right across the street, and I didn't have any
interaction with Johnny Depp.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
We had one.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
We crossed each other in the street, like you know.
I was driving down the street, he was driving up
the street and it's a really tight street, windy street,
and he did the coolest thing, which is he and
he was in a Porsche, and he backed down the
street so that I could come down the street because
there wasn't room for us both too. And so I thought,
based on that, and only that I've had no other
(01:44):
interaction with him, I thought, well, he seems like a
reasonably cool guy.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
You're siding with him against Amberhard.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
I don't know about that. I don't know, you know.
I'm just saying that was a generous moment that he
offered me. But when I moved Brentwood, which I did
after the West Hollywood thing, I met and played tennis
regularly with a guy named Harve Bennett. Not yeah, Harve
(02:13):
Bennett became like a really good friend of mine.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
Oh my god, I'm on the Star Trek three Blu
Ray interviewing Harve Bennett. Bless his soul's he's been gone
for a while now.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Yeah, and had no idea and a wonderful guy, I mean,
just a wonderful guy. And we played tennis at like
roughly the same level. And of course he had a
tennis court in his house and we used to play
at his house. He played doubles, you played singles. And
Harve Bennett, this is what Mark's saying. He was behind
Star Trek and the Mod Squad and The Mod Squad.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Which was one of my favorite shows. Yes, and six
Million Dollar Man. I had no idea. This is really impressive. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
So so Harve Bennett is behind some of these shows
that were formative.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
You know, in Who I Am.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
And rather than pump Harve Bennett for information like hey,
can you tell me a story about Pete Lincoln Julie
from the Mod Squad? Or can you tell me about
you know, what was William Shatner like or whatever?
Speaker 3 (03:14):
Whatever.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
I didn't ask any of those questions because I didn't
want to be, you know that guy. So Harv told
me one story from The Six Million Dollar Man, which
I you know, was unsolicited, but it was great. He
did tell me some stuff along the way, and as
I've seen little clips from Hart Bennett and interviews from
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HARB Bennett, and some of the stuff I think that
you're talking about has been excerpted and now it's on YouTube.
Some of these stories actually were in some of those interviews.
So it's cool that some of the stuff that he
told me you're now hearing also because I'm going, oh yeah,
Harf told me about that. And the thing he told
me about with six million dollar Man, which was cool,
was they needed a way with six million dollar man.
(04:00):
And for those who don't know the premise of six
million dollar Man, you'll help me mark a little bit.
But you know, guy's in a big accident. He was
like some super astronaut type dude, and you know he
was just you know, in the accident, just wrecked right physically,
so they had to rebuild him. And back back then,
you for the six million dollars, you could rebuild a
lot of people. Now six million dollars probablyouldn't you know, Yeah,
(04:21):
six million doesn't buy what it used to. Yeah, you
know maybe maybe you know a couple of months at cedars.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
You couldn't even cover Richard Anderson's hair piece for six
million at this thank you that Richard Anderson was the
guy in the show and he did wear a hair
piece Oscar Goldman.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Yeah, so very good knowledge. Again, So so Harve Bennett
said we needed a and Harve created it with the
probably with somebody else, I don't know, but anyway, we
needed a way to show that the six million dollar man,
now with all of these you know parts, you know,
man made parts, right, he's now got all this stuff.
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He can jump higher, he can run faster, he can
he's stronger because he got all this stuff in him.
Lee Majors is the actor who played him. We need
a way to show that he can run faster. Like
everything else, we pretty well can cheat one way or another.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
But the running we really were challenged with.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
And we're he was telling me, and we're really like
going through all the different options if we make if
we speed it up, it looks like many hill, you know,
like he's running.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
It looks comical, you know.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
And he said, so we're sitting around and he said,
I was watching NFL films one day and NFL films
had highlights of a running back named Gail Sayers, one
of the great running backs in the NFL from the
Chicago Bears. Yeah, Brian song was the story that really,
you know, chronicled the the life of was it Brian Piccolo?
(05:50):
Brian Piccolough who was his good friend, and so Gail sayers,
they're showing all these highlights of him running as a
running back, and it's in slow motion, and Harve said,
and it just occurred to me, wait a minute, we
don't need to speed him up. We need to slow
him down. And we'll show him running, but we'll show
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him running in slow motion with some sound effects or
some kind of way to indicate he's running at a
super high speed. But we're just depicting it in slow motion.
And that's the cheat that they used throughout the series.
So when even when he jumped, he jumped in slow
motion and they had that special sound of him jumping
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or whatever it was that you know, blah blah blah
bla blah bah bah blah bump type thing, and I
thought that was so clever. And that's the closest I
ever came with Harv to you know, feeling like, oh wow,
that's a cool thing, Like you've told me that the
genesis of that story came that way. But Harv last thing,
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and this is how I felt special because I knew
how special Hart Bennett was. Don't get me wrong, I
just didn't want to ask many questions that would make me,
you know, seem like that guy, you know, like Harv
tell me, you know in season three, episode eleven of
Star Trek when they beamed down to the planet, I mean,
how did Spock survive in that alien environment?
Speaker 3 (07:17):
The atmosphere was so thin? So killing me.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
So I had a subscription, I guess through Direct TV
to the UCLA games. And Harv was a UCLA grat
or at least a fan. I think his daughter went
to UCLA as well, or whatever, big UCLA booster, and
he said, I can't get the UCLA games at my house.
I'm thinking, are you kidding me? This house, this palatial estate,
(07:43):
I mean, it's unbelievable. The gate opens and you go
up and it's a big circular driveway and there's this
American flag out front, and you walk into. There's a quality,
a grandeur, a command of Harve Bennett's home that it just,
you know, really impressive. And somehow though he didn't get
the UCLA games on television. So he said, well, listen,
(08:05):
I'm doing the news at Fox. You go ahead and
I'll leave the house unlocked. You're gonna just go ahead
and watch it on. I get him, I get all
the UCLA games. So he watched all the UCLA basketball
games at my home, and you'd have people join him
from time to time up there. It was very funny.
But I always felt like that was so special, that
(08:26):
I have something that this great guy, legendary producer Harve
Bennett doesn't have.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
He just invited friends over to your pad a couple
of times. I don't think he did. He probably ran
over and it sounded like this, that's it, that's the
sixth minion running.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
You beat me too at Foosh. I just had that
teed up. You're allowed to ask people like that questions.
They don't. They don't expect to be completely untouchable if
they've done something that has that big an impact on
the culture.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Yeah, I guess you're right.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
But I've always sort of just held back on that,
And you're right, I shouldn't.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
I really shouldn't.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
I think it shows some respect and appreciation for what
they've achieved if you show an interest in it, I mean,
without being just a slavering fanboy. No, you're right, it
has to be done the right way, and I think
I realized that now, But even as I realized it,
I don't think I can do it. I'm just not
good with But now I will say, hey, I'm such
a fan of what you do, and blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
You know, unfortunately I literally say blah blah blah blah,
so it takes a little something off the compliment.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
He was a sharp guy and he was not a
fan of Star Trek, which makes his involvement in the
biggest success they had up to that point I think
even more interesting because he was able to put a
fresh set eyes on it.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
That's such a good point.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
In fact, Wrath of Khan, which was their hugely successful
Star Trek, was born of a moment that Harv Bennett found.
It was born of an episode that Harv Bennett at Paramount.
He sat in a dark room and watched all the
Star Trek episodes and he found one that you could
continue and in some way amplify in a feature film way,
(10:06):
and that was the Wrath of Khan Space Seed.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
It was an inspired choice. Love it and now you
know the rest of the story.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
We have a talkback feature on that iHeartRadio app. You know,
when you're on the iHeart Radio app and the upper
right hand part of the screen on your device there's
a microphone. Why do they give you thirty seconds, foosh?
I think it's thirty seconds that you have to leave
your message.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
I believe so.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
Yeah, And so we were talking. These messages are in
relation to what I've forgotten on Nicky, I'm so sorry,
Mickey Rourke. Thank you're talking about Mickey Rourke and the
fact that you know he's out of money. He's going
to be evicted, and they started this gofundmet campaign for
him and he needs sixty thousand bucks to get out
(10:58):
from underpast rent. They've raised fifty five thousand so far.
And then the word comes out from Mickey Rourke. I
had nothing to do with this. I don't know what
this is. This is humiliating, this is embarrassing. Sure, I've
got money problems, but I'll find a way out of them.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
And so.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
These are all in relation to that. On the talk
back man, I don't know.
Speaker 5 (11:19):
Something doesn't make sense here, Something doesn't mat Mark Thompson,
something doesn't fit. Mickey Rourke has sad retirement much and
then he's got some security and I.
Speaker 4 (11:32):
Just don't get it.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
Yeah, that's true. I mean, you're right.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
I mean it's not just residuals, and it's not just
money from his movies.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
He does have those.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Pensions associated with the fact that he was an actor
who paid into those pension funds for decades, and he's
got social security.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
You're right.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
I mean this again may have to do. And these
are really things that Mickey work is admitted to to
ways in which he has mismanaged money to the point
that he may just be in serious debt. And so
while you're right that he might have revenue sources, they
may not just be sufficient to cure his debt.
Speaker 6 (12:14):
Here was another one, Hey, Mark, Mark is right. Let's
let's get Mickey caught up. And then it is mandatory
for him to receive that money for him to move
into a fifteen hundred dollars a month apartment. I don't
care if it's a studio or a one bedroom and
van eyes whatever, but dude, you know what, you gotta
(12:35):
wise up, you gotta be real. Anyways, then he can
pay for more plastic surgery.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
Some tough love to them.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
Wow wow, Yeah, don't let the door hit you on
the way out. That guy's saying, I love it. That's
good tough love. Yeah, yeah, here's the money. I'm glad
we could help you out now.
Speaker 6 (12:57):
Anyways, then he can pay for more plastics.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
Wow, it's true. Yeah, that's our Mickey. He's had some
work done, no question about. I don't need to be
mean about it. Eating them out. Yeah, well, to be
fair to the fair of the talkback person, it's considerable.
I mean, you know, he's really had a lot of
work done. But you're right, I mean, you know, kick
(13:23):
a guy while he's down. No, it's true.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
Yeah, anyway, that was that Mickey work comment. And then
uh there was uh this one as well. If I
think these were in.
Speaker 7 (13:35):
Order of good evening's Kimmy B. Levey, Mark and Kimmy Be.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
Everybody come on on your feet for Kimmy B.
Speaker 7 (13:42):
Good evenings, Kimmy B. Levey Mark and KFI family.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
I want to start with that every time I'm here,
I'm Kimmy B.
Speaker 7 (13:52):
Good evenings, Kimmy B.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
Yeah, I just like that, as in kim basing Er.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
Yes, as in Kim Basinger. And so you let's let's
let's start. Thank you, Kim. I'm sorry to blow your cover,
but Kimmy Be is Kim Basinger, regular listener on the
iHeart radio app. Yes, exactly, which is why we should
listen to this.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
So here we go.
Speaker 8 (14:15):
Hey, good Evening's Kimmy b Love you, Mark and on
KFI Family. I just had a suggestion for Mickey work,
try on fans. I mean, that's a lot of went
to pay a month, so if he's a negative shape,
you know, yeah, just a suggestion.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
Sure, Jimmy good.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Yes, have you new year to you, Kimmy Be? And
that is not a bad idea. You know, hey, look
in the wrestler he kind of had that kind of body, right.
Speaker 4 (14:44):
Does your only fans generate much income?
Speaker 3 (14:47):
Mark?
Speaker 2 (14:47):
Well, not yet, but I'm really hoping for a late
inning rally once that uh pretty much personal trainer really
starts kicking it. Yeah, really haven't considered the only fans revenue?
Speaker 3 (15:00):
Do you only feet? Uh? Is that a site? Is
that an app? Only feet?
Speaker 4 (15:05):
It is?
Speaker 3 (15:06):
Now? I wouldn't be surprised if it exists.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
Yeah, well, look I think within only fans, they're probably
is every kind of kink that you want. Oh yeah, yeah,
so if you if that's your jam, I'm sure you
can find it in only fans. I mean, if you
pay enough money, I'm sure they'll do whatever you want.
You know, so you can, you know, wrap all of
your kink into one request. It's that kind of society, Nick,
(15:32):
It's that kind of society. So you can get on it,
do it, figure it out. I got Keimmy b you
got your stuff. Yeah, come on, you'll be MARKI t
like Marky Mark. I like that it could work. That
was some very good stuff from the talkback Family.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
Anything you have, you can leave it on the iHeartRadio app.
Upper right hand part of the screen is a mike
and we will share your comments when we come back.
A major lawsuit and you may be part of it.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
There's been a pretty wild incident at Disneyland.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
This is brutal.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
I mean literally, it's one of these situations in which
there is a confrontation. I'm kind of surprised this stuff
doesn't happen more frequently, where somebody cuts line and there's
a confrontation and then there was a beatdown. This is
last week. I mean imagine you know you're in line.
It's the holidays for the Indiana Jones Adventure ride. It's
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one of the marquee rides at Disneyland. And according to cops,
a group of people who are waiting in line at
this ride and another group cut through the line to
catch up with other family members just again at this
Indiana Jones ride, and it turned into a confrontation thirty
second fight between two guys, and it was brutal. The
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man whose family cut into the line brutally beat the
other man, who was visiting the part from Washington State
with his family. There were several people intervening to stop
the guy. This is a quote from a witness. He
managed to get some hits in even with people blocking.
(17:33):
Then he stepped back a bit, so others did also,
and that's when the guy who cut line and who
got the initial blows in jumped in again for one
last sucker punch that drew blood, and then that guy
ran off with his family.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
Imagine being in that family. You know this can't be
the first confrontation this dude's had.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
You know, Dad, you do this? We you know, honey,
why do you do this? Everywhere we go? Oh my god,
he's lost it again. Whatever, So the kids and the
family run off with this guy. They run out of
the park and they don't have a suspect in custody
(18:22):
fled Disneyland remains at large. And you say, well, it's
suspecting custody mark. Is it really that bad yet? It's
guy had his face busted open, he has stitches. The victim,
whose name was not released, treated by Disneyland's first aid
staff for injuries, including this large gash on his face
that did require stitches. By the way, when you want
(18:43):
stitches on your face, you don't want to get him
at Disneyland. I mean, no offense. I'm sure they've got
really good medical people that I am not being facetious.
I'm sure they really do have good They have good
everything at Disneyland.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
But I mean, it's not where it's your face.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
I'm saying you need to get to a plastic surgeon
or someone who you know has some sense of But
by the same token, I'm sure they're saying, hey, look,
we just needed to show it up. Then he can
go to a plastic surgeon. You know that's in Tomorrowland.
That's not here. They don't have tomorrow Land anymore, do they?
Tomorrow Land used to be. Now it's like yesterday Land.
(19:21):
Then no, that's right, it's like frontier Land.
Speaker 9 (19:24):
Yeah right, well no, because tomorrow Land is basically referencing
now essentially.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
Yeah, you know the all electric household.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
Yeah right, that's exactly right. Anyway, they need, yeah, they
need some kind of professional help for this guy, and
he'll get it, I'm sure in any case. Apparently, and
this is the last sort of detail that again makes
(19:52):
this victim even more of the victim. He refused to
hit back, apparently because he didn't want the rest of
the family to get kicked out or to get blacklisted,
so he kind of let this guy whoop him this way,
and as a result, he's.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
In pretty bad shape.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
This was the second incident they note that day. That
same day, at the Indiana Jones attraction, a four hundred
pound inflatable boulder prop. I don't know how many of
you've been to the Disneyland attraction Indiana Jones Ride, but
it is pretty cool. They have this huge boulder from
the movie. It recreates that moment and this huge boulder
(20:39):
rolls down onto you and then I forget what stops
at the last second, obviously or whatever it is. But
it's a pretty cool illusion. I mean it's literally a boulder.
This isn't you know, some kind of CGI. But that
same day that this beatdown happened, this four hundred pounds
inflatable boulder rolled off its track and a park employee
(21:05):
stepped in front of it to keep it from bouncing
into the crowd, and that employee was injured. So some
bad mojo around the Indiana Jones Ride, That's all I'm saying.
Very very tricky.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
Now.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
I know you're saying, Mark, you must have an Indiana
Jones ride story, and I don't really accept for the
fact that I was there and what was one of
the first people to ride the Indiana Jones ride because
it was open to who the press when they were
trying to give it a push when it first opened. Cool,
(21:42):
So they invite you down to the park. It was
on the morning show at that point. I was doing
Good Day La and they invite you down there. And
the cool thing was that it's a cool ride and
you can ride it as many times as you want.
There's nobody else there. You just go out and ride
it again. I'm gonna ride again. I'm gonna ride it again.
I must have been and Danna Jones ride six times.
(22:02):
It was just great. Yeah, let's ride it again. Let's
ride it again. It was me and the producer and
you know, and you know all that. And by the way,
that's the only time I've been on the ride was
those six times. And that was whenever it was when
itever Is opened and you were never in any danger
from the boulder.
Speaker 3 (22:19):
There was the illusion. And that's all you need is
the illusion.
Speaker 9 (22:22):
I will say, it's still it still has quite a
grip on you because it's like, like you said, it's
no CGI, it's not a screen, it's an actual something there.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
Yeah, goes right under it. It's it's still pretty cool.
Speaker 7 (22:35):
No.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
And and by the way, as we learned from the story,
it literally can hurt you if it hits you. It
injured it park employee, you know, stopped it from hitting
some some theme park goers. So, uh, that's your Disneyland rep.
I like to give you a Disneyland rep when we
come back. We'll check in with Nori, who follows this show,
(23:00):
and I will fill you in on the McDonald's lawsuit
that you may benefit from as we continue.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
One of my favorite guilty pleasures is listening to the
Norri Show now almost every night because I'm coming back
late from cards a broken man, having lost most of
my pension in some illegal card game. Mark Thompson here
on KFI AM six forty. We are live everywhere in
the R Radio app And I mentioned Norri because he's
on the line.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
Now, what's up, George, Mark?
Speaker 5 (23:34):
We got a great show tonight, one of those classic
coast to coast shows.
Speaker 7 (23:37):
That's all I'm gonna say.
Speaker 6 (23:39):
You gotta listen to hear the program.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
I will be there, bring it home, baby, George Norri,
thank you all right, my friend. Yes, indeed, a classic
Nordy show. Well, I mentioned that there is a lawsuit underway.
Might you get something from this lawsuit? It's called the
McRib lawsuit, and I'm guessing it a couple of you
have have been involved with a McRib in your time.
Speaker 10 (24:04):
Pork water, salt, dextros and rosemary extract.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
Oh that's great, that sounds terrific, is that?
Speaker 5 (24:10):
What?
Speaker 3 (24:11):
Yeah? Yum yum yum.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
But when you put the McRib name on it and
you put a jingle behind it, it just feels better.
Speaker 10 (24:17):
A lawsuit is leaving McDonald's in a pretty sticky situation.
A class action lawsuit accuses the company of misleading customers
into believing that the McRib contains actual pork rib meat.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
Oh my god, you can sue over that now. I
thought this was America. Of course, it doesn't have any
rib pork meat in it.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
My questions.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
Yeah, listen, this is the wrong country for you if
you've got an issue with that. It's a mccribb. It's
a bit's a sales thing. Who knows what's in it.
It's some pressed stuff from a factory. You enjoy it,
No harm done.
Speaker 10 (24:57):
Class action lawsuit accuses the company of misleading customers into
believing that the McRib contains actual pork rib meat. Although
the meat is shaped like a slab of ribs, the
patty is boneless. The lawsuit, which was filed in Illinois,
says it is not right for the meat patty to
resemble a cooked rack of pork ribs when there's no
meaningful amount of premium cut pork there at all.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
Oh my god, I mean again, I was raised in
this country on I don't know what, it was super
middle class. My mother fed us dextros and corn syrup
and pressed crap, mostly hot dogs. I mean, what are
hot dogs if not every bit of refuse from the factory.
(25:46):
I'll just call it the processing of these creatures. And
they throw some spices and stuff in there. And as
a kid it turned out fine. The McRib people they
found a way to press together a certain number of
substances and chemicals there at the McDonald's chemical plant. They
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put some ribbish type stuff on it. They call it
the McRib. They saturate the airwaves during my football games
with ads about the McRib being available, and we buy it.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
Well not we. I wouldn't eat one of those at gunpoint.
Well I don't need it. I don't need any meat.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
But I'm just saying, all right, you know what, guys,
I have a premise here.
Speaker 3 (26:34):
If everybody's just going to come in.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
And say, I'm sorry, McRib, thank you very much.
Speaker 4 (26:40):
Would you agree that that sauce does a lot of
heavy lifting.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
Of course, it's all sauce.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
Yeah, But when you know, when they come to you
with these fine dining restaurants and they say, yeah, we
have the Brenzeno tonight. The Brenzeno, the Brenzino, the Brenzeno.
Every restaurant's got the Brenzeno, the Chile and sea bass,
every restaurant's got that. Why, because it's a neutral fish
to take the sauce.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
It's always about the sauceage.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
So in a way, McDonald's is doing, really I think
some highbrow work when they put these sauces together in
their laboratories of death or whatever they're you know what,
you know, I'm just saying, i don't know what the
complaint is here.
Speaker 3 (27:20):
I'm on team McDonald's.
Speaker 10 (27:21):
Although the meat is shaped like a slab of ribs,
the patty is boneless. The lawsuit, which was filed in Illinois,
says it is not right for the meat patty to
resemble a cooked rack of pork ribs when there's no
meaningful amount of premium cut pork there at all.
Speaker 3 (27:36):
So McDonald says it.
Speaker 10 (27:37):
Does use boneless pork, water, salt, dextros, and rosemary extract.
You can still buy a McRib in Saint Louis, by
the way, for a limited time.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
Yeah, that's they do cycle them in and out, they do. Yeah, well,
I know, I'm seeing it too. Do you see this?
Do you see a little alert thing? And I hope
the people are able to hear us. I'm seeing a
thing here in the studio. Yeah, say something offensive and
see if we get to talk about KFI audio fail.
(28:07):
I don't know what the I'm going to keep talking
as though we're actually being heard, but you may have
experienced an interruption. The the interesting thing to me about
the McDonald's situation is the way in which McDonald's has
actually gone the opposite direction of the McRib They've got Now,
(28:27):
you know, Salad's in there telling you how many calories
and things, and just a different McDonald's experience. You know,
I like just going in back when I did eat
that stuff and just shoving those burgers and big Macs
and you know, the the the Big Mac was probably
the true decadent play that I remember making at McDonald's,
(28:51):
especially late at night. I mean, that's that's the time
that you really want to just megaloade McDonald's when you've
had a couple of cocktail. Yeah exactly. You know, now
you've got more options. You know, back when I was
coming up as a late night cruiser of fast food joints,
you didn't have as many options. Now you've got you know,
(29:11):
Del Taco, Taco Bell, and there are all kinds of
ways in which you can you know, McDonald's is now
doing its thing. It was McDonald's and Burger King and
now you just have many more options. And to be fair,
and this is one of the things I like about
a big city. You've got just in places. You've got
some little late night place in the city that's opened
(29:33):
late as well. So in all of these ways you
can kind of scratch your itch. But if you are
a McRib devote and there is a group of people
that are really committed to the McRib because they complain
when mcrib's not on the menu, they complain that the
mcribs should be on longer, and mccribb is a seasonal thing,
(29:54):
you may be part of this. This is a class
action lawsuit. So the idea is there are people here
who feel deceived, and if you've thought there was actual
meat product there, high end meat product, you are one
of those people who may be entitled to whatever resolution
might come from this should McDonald's have to settle, But
(30:18):
we will see. So this is quite a night at
Kfire Radio. We've done a lot, and I'm not even
sure that the last five minutes has been heard on
the air, but we will find out soon enough. I'll
be listening and I'll be listening through the night with Nori.
(30:39):
Thank you all who have contributed tonight, Thank you and Nikki,
thank you, Mark, thank you, Steph.
Speaker 3 (30:46):
And I will see you tomorrow with Conway. I'll be on.
Speaker 9 (30:50):
And also, don't be disappointed if you didn't hear it,
because it will be on the podcast.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
Oh yeah, all of this will be on the podcast.
Good cool, All right, my friends. That is it. That
is all we are. Kf I Am six forty live everywhere,
on the iHeartRadio app, k if
Speaker 1 (31:09):
I Am six forty on demand,
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
The manager for the doors my next door neighbors, the
old doors with the Jim Morrison. Yeah, it was like
all I could do the first couple of months not
to go. Can you tell me a couple of stories
about the doors and you managing them? Man, I would
have done the same thing. I just have so many
of those moments. I've had to kind of check out
(00:27):
of so many different situations because I want to dude, dude,
can you tell me some stories from from the movie
set k IF I am six forty. We're live everywhere
on the iHeartRadio app. Mark Thompson here, and yeah, it's uh,
it's just cool, you know, and you swim in the
entertainment business world and you just don't want to be
that guy, but you still are.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
At least I am still.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
That permissible you You are allowed to ask permission to
ask questions about the Lizard King.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Yeah, so, uh, here's one for you. When I moved
to LA I lived first in West Hollywood, just up
the road from actually across the street from Johnny Depp.
You know, Johnny Depp lives in this huge castle that
was talked about in the Johnny Depp trial. And I
(01:16):
lived right across the street, and I didn't have any
interaction with Johnny Depp.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
We had one.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
We crossed each other in the street, like you know.
I was driving down the street, he was driving up
the street and it's a really tight street, windy street,
and he did the coolest thing, which is he and
he was in a Porsche, and he backed down the
street so that I could come down the street because
there wasn't room for us both too. And so I thought,
based on that, and only that I've had no other
(01:44):
interaction with him, I thought, well, he seems like a
reasonably cool guy.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
You're siding with him against Amberhard.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
I don't know about that. I don't know, you know.
I'm just saying that was a generous moment that he
offered me. But when I moved Brentwood, which I did
after the West Hollywood thing, I met and played tennis
regularly with a guy named Harve Bennett. Not yeah, Harve
(02:13):
Bennett became like a really good friend of mine.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
Oh my god, I'm on the Star Trek three Blu
Ray interviewing Harve Bennett. Bless his soul's he's been gone
for a while now.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Yeah, and had no idea and a wonderful guy, I mean,
just a wonderful guy. And we played tennis at like
roughly the same level. And of course he had a
tennis court in his house and we used to play
at his house. He played doubles, you played singles. And
Harve Bennett, this is what Mark's saying. He was behind
Star Trek and the Mod Squad and The Mod Squad.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Which was one of my favorite shows. Yes, and six
Million Dollar Man. I had no idea. This is really impressive. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
So so Harve Bennett is behind some of these shows
that were formative.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
You know, in Who I Am.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
And rather than pump Harve Bennett for information like hey,
can you tell me a story about Pete Lincoln Julie
from the Mod Squad? Or can you tell me about
you know, what was William Shatner like or whatever?
Speaker 3 (03:14):
Whatever.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
I didn't ask any of those questions because I didn't
want to be, you know that guy. So Harv told
me one story from The Six Million Dollar Man, which
I you know, was unsolicited, but it was great. He
did tell me some stuff along the way, and as
I've seen little clips from Hart Bennett and interviews from
(03:38):
HARB Bennett, and some of the stuff I think that
you're talking about has been excerpted and now it's on YouTube.
Some of these stories actually were in some of those interviews.
So it's cool that some of the stuff that he
told me you're now hearing also because I'm going, oh yeah,
Harf told me about that. And the thing he told
me about with six million dollar Man, which was cool,
was they needed a way with six million dollar man.
(04:00):
And for those who don't know the premise of six
million dollar Man, you'll help me mark a little bit.
But you know, guy's in a big accident. He was
like some super astronaut type dude, and you know he
was just you know, in the accident, just wrecked right physically,
so they had to rebuild him. And back back then,
you for the six million dollars, you could rebuild a
lot of people. Now six million dollars probablyouldn't you know, Yeah,
(04:21):
six million doesn't buy what it used to. Yeah, you
know maybe maybe you know a couple of months at cedars.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
You couldn't even cover Richard Anderson's hair piece for six
million at this thank you that Richard Anderson was the
guy in the show and he did wear a hair
piece Oscar Goldman.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Yeah, so very good knowledge. Again, So so Harve Bennett
said we needed a and Harve created it with the
probably with somebody else, I don't know, but anyway, we
needed a way to show that the six million dollar man,
now with all of these you know parts, you know,
man made parts, right, he's now got all this stuff.
(04:55):
He can jump higher, he can run faster, he can
he's stronger because he got all this stuff in him.
Lee Majors is the actor who played him. We need
a way to show that he can run faster. Like
everything else, we pretty well can cheat one way or another.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
But the running we really were challenged with.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
And we're he was telling me, and we're really like
going through all the different options if we make if
we speed it up, it looks like many hill, you know,
like he's running.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
It looks comical, you know.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
And he said, so we're sitting around and he said,
I was watching NFL films one day and NFL films
had highlights of a running back named Gail Sayers, one
of the great running backs in the NFL from the
Chicago Bears. Yeah, Brian song was the story that really,
you know, chronicled the the life of was it Brian Piccolo?
(05:50):
Brian Piccolough who was his good friend, and so Gail sayers,
they're showing all these highlights of him running as a
running back, and it's in slow motion, and Harve said,
and it just occurred to me, wait a minute, we
don't need to speed him up. We need to slow
him down. And we'll show him running, but we'll show
(06:11):
him running in slow motion with some sound effects or
some kind of way to indicate he's running at a
super high speed. But we're just depicting it in slow motion.
And that's the cheat that they used throughout the series.
So when even when he jumped, he jumped in slow
motion and they had that special sound of him jumping
(06:34):
or whatever it was that you know, blah blah blah
bla blah bah bah blah bump type thing, and I
thought that was so clever. And that's the closest I
ever came with Harv to you know, feeling like, oh wow,
that's a cool thing, Like you've told me that the
genesis of that story came that way. But Harv last thing,
(06:55):
and this is how I felt special because I knew
how special Hart Bennett was. Don't get me wrong, I
just didn't want to ask many questions that would make me,
you know, seem like that guy, you know, like Harv
tell me, you know in season three, episode eleven of
Star Trek when they beamed down to the planet, I mean,
how did Spock survive in that alien environment?
Speaker 3 (07:17):
The atmosphere was so thin? So killing me.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
So I had a subscription, I guess through Direct TV
to the UCLA games. And Harv was a UCLA grat
or at least a fan. I think his daughter went
to UCLA as well, or whatever, big UCLA booster, and
he said, I can't get the UCLA games at my house.
I'm thinking, are you kidding me? This house, this palatial estate,
(07:43):
I mean, it's unbelievable. The gate opens and you go
up and it's a big circular driveway and there's this
American flag out front, and you walk into. There's a quality,
a grandeur, a command of Harve Bennett's home that it just,
you know, really impressive. And somehow though he didn't get
the UCLA games on television. So he said, well, listen,
(08:05):
I'm doing the news at Fox. You go ahead and
I'll leave the house unlocked. You're gonna just go ahead
and watch it on. I get him, I get all
the UCLA games. So he watched all the UCLA basketball
games at my home, and you'd have people join him
from time to time up there. It was very funny.
But I always felt like that was so special, that
(08:26):
I have something that this great guy, legendary producer Harve
Bennett doesn't have.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
He just invited friends over to your pad a couple
of times. I don't think he did. He probably ran
over and it sounded like this, that's it, that's the
sixth minion running.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
You beat me too at Foosh. I just had that
teed up. You're allowed to ask people like that questions.
They don't. They don't expect to be completely untouchable if
they've done something that has that big an impact on
the culture.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Yeah, I guess you're right.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
But I've always sort of just held back on that,
And you're right, I shouldn't.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
I really shouldn't.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
I think it shows some respect and appreciation for what
they've achieved if you show an interest in it, I mean,
without being just a slavering fanboy. No, you're right, it
has to be done the right way, and I think
I realized that now, But even as I realized it,
I don't think I can do it. I'm just not
good with But now I will say, hey, I'm such
a fan of what you do, and blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
You know, unfortunately I literally say blah blah blah blah,
so it takes a little something off the compliment.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
He was a sharp guy and he was not a
fan of Star Trek, which makes his involvement in the
biggest success they had up to that point I think
even more interesting because he was able to put a
fresh set eyes on it.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
That's such a good point.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
In fact, Wrath of Khan, which was their hugely successful
Star Trek, was born of a moment that Harv Bennett found.
It was born of an episode that Harv Bennett at Paramount.
He sat in a dark room and watched all the
Star Trek episodes and he found one that you could
continue and in some way amplify in a feature film way,
(10:06):
and that was the Wrath of Khan Space Seed.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
It was an inspired choice. Love it and now you
know the rest of the story.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
We have a talkback feature on that iHeartRadio app. You know,
when you're on the iHeart Radio app and the upper
right hand part of the screen on your device there's
a microphone. Why do they give you thirty seconds, foosh?
I think it's thirty seconds that you have to leave
your message.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
I believe so.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
Yeah, And so we were talking. These messages are in
relation to what I've forgotten on Nicky, I'm so sorry,
Mickey Rourke. Thank you're talking about Mickey Rourke and the
fact that you know he's out of money. He's going
to be evicted, and they started this gofundmet campaign for
him and he needs sixty thousand bucks to get out
(10:58):
from underpast rent. They've raised fifty five thousand so far.
And then the word comes out from Mickey Rourke. I
had nothing to do with this. I don't know what
this is. This is humiliating, this is embarrassing. Sure, I've
got money problems, but I'll find a way out of them.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
And so.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
These are all in relation to that. On the talk
back man, I don't know.
Speaker 5 (11:19):
Something doesn't make sense here, Something doesn't mat Mark Thompson,
something doesn't fit. Mickey Rourke has sad retirement much and
then he's got some security and I.
Speaker 4 (11:32):
Just don't get it.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
Yeah, that's true. I mean, you're right.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
I mean it's not just residuals, and it's not just
money from his movies.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
He does have those.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Pensions associated with the fact that he was an actor
who paid into those pension funds for decades, and he's
got social security.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
You're right.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
I mean this again may have to do. And these
are really things that Mickey work is admitted to to
ways in which he has mismanaged money to the point
that he may just be in serious debt. And so
while you're right that he might have revenue sources, they
may not just be sufficient to cure his debt.
Speaker 6 (12:14):
Here was another one, Hey, Mark, Mark is right. Let's
let's get Mickey caught up. And then it is mandatory
for him to receive that money for him to move
into a fifteen hundred dollars a month apartment. I don't
care if it's a studio or a one bedroom and
van eyes whatever, but dude, you know what, you gotta
(12:35):
wise up, you gotta be real. Anyways, then he can
pay for more plastic surgery.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
Some tough love to them.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
Wow wow, Yeah, don't let the door hit you on
the way out. That guy's saying, I love it. That's
good tough love. Yeah, yeah, here's the money. I'm glad
we could help you out now.
Speaker 6 (12:57):
Anyways, then he can pay for more plastics.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
Wow, it's true. Yeah, that's our Mickey. He's had some
work done, no question about. I don't need to be
mean about it. Eating them out. Yeah, well, to be
fair to the fair of the talkback person, it's considerable.
I mean, you know, he's really had a lot of
work done. But you're right, I mean, you know, kick
(13:23):
a guy while he's down. No, it's true.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
Yeah, anyway, that was that Mickey work comment. And then
uh there was uh this one as well. If I
think these were in.
Speaker 7 (13:35):
Order of good evening's Kimmy B. Levey, Mark and Kimmy Be.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
Everybody come on on your feet for Kimmy B.
Speaker 7 (13:42):
Good evenings, Kimmy B. Levey Mark and KFI family.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
I want to start with that every time I'm here,
I'm Kimmy B.
Speaker 7 (13:52):
Good evenings, Kimmy B.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
Yeah, I just like that, as in kim basing Er.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
Yes, as in Kim Basinger. And so you let's let's
let's start. Thank you, Kim. I'm sorry to blow your cover,
but Kimmy Be is Kim Basinger, regular listener on the
iHeart radio app. Yes, exactly, which is why we should
listen to this.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
So here we go.
Speaker 8 (14:15):
Hey, good Evening's Kimmy b Love you, Mark and on
KFI Family. I just had a suggestion for Mickey work,
try on fans. I mean, that's a lot of went
to pay a month, so if he's a negative shape,
you know, yeah, just a suggestion.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
Sure, Jimmy good.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Yes, have you new year to you, Kimmy Be? And
that is not a bad idea. You know, hey, look
in the wrestler he kind of had that kind of body, right.
Speaker 4 (14:44):
Does your only fans generate much income?
Speaker 3 (14:47):
Mark?
Speaker 2 (14:47):
Well, not yet, but I'm really hoping for a late
inning rally once that uh pretty much personal trainer really
starts kicking it. Yeah, really haven't considered the only fans revenue?
Speaker 3 (15:00):
Do you only feet? Uh? Is that a site? Is
that an app? Only feet?
Speaker 4 (15:05):
It is?
Speaker 3 (15:06):
Now? I wouldn't be surprised if it exists.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
Yeah, well, look I think within only fans, they're probably
is every kind of kink that you want. Oh yeah, yeah,
so if you if that's your jam, I'm sure you
can find it in only fans. I mean, if you
pay enough money, I'm sure they'll do whatever you want.
You know, so you can, you know, wrap all of
your kink into one request. It's that kind of society, Nick,
(15:32):
It's that kind of society. So you can get on it,
do it, figure it out. I got Keimmy b you
got your stuff. Yeah, come on, you'll be MARKI t
like Marky Mark. I like that it could work. That
was some very good stuff from the talkback Family.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
Anything you have, you can leave it on the iHeartRadio app.
Upper right hand part of the screen is a mike
and we will share your comments when we come back.
A major lawsuit and you may be part of it.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
There's been a pretty wild incident at Disneyland.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
This is brutal.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
I mean literally, it's one of these situations in which
there is a confrontation. I'm kind of surprised this stuff
doesn't happen more frequently, where somebody cuts line and there's
a confrontation and then there was a beatdown. This is
last week. I mean imagine you know you're in line.
It's the holidays for the Indiana Jones Adventure ride. It's
(16:44):
one of the marquee rides at Disneyland. And according to cops,
a group of people who are waiting in line at
this ride and another group cut through the line to
catch up with other family members just again at this
Indiana Jones ride, and it turned into a confrontation thirty
second fight between two guys, and it was brutal. The
(17:10):
man whose family cut into the line brutally beat the
other man, who was visiting the part from Washington State
with his family. There were several people intervening to stop
the guy. This is a quote from a witness. He
managed to get some hits in even with people blocking.
(17:33):
Then he stepped back a bit, so others did also,
and that's when the guy who cut line and who
got the initial blows in jumped in again for one
last sucker punch that drew blood, and then that guy
ran off with his family.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
Imagine being in that family. You know this can't be
the first confrontation this dude's had.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
You know, Dad, you do this? We you know, honey,
why do you do this? Everywhere we go? Oh my god,
he's lost it again. Whatever, So the kids and the
family run off with this guy. They run out of
the park and they don't have a suspect in custody
(18:22):
fled Disneyland remains at large. And you say, well, it's
suspecting custody mark. Is it really that bad yet? It's
guy had his face busted open, he has stitches. The victim,
whose name was not released, treated by Disneyland's first aid
staff for injuries, including this large gash on his face
that did require stitches. By the way, when you want
(18:43):
stitches on your face, you don't want to get him
at Disneyland. I mean, no offense. I'm sure they've got
really good medical people that I am not being facetious.
I'm sure they really do have good They have good
everything at Disneyland.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
But I mean, it's not where it's your face.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
I'm saying you need to get to a plastic surgeon
or someone who you know has some sense of But
by the same token, I'm sure they're saying, hey, look,
we just needed to show it up. Then he can
go to a plastic surgeon. You know that's in Tomorrowland.
That's not here. They don't have tomorrow Land anymore, do they?
Tomorrow Land used to be. Now it's like yesterday Land.
(19:21):
Then no, that's right, it's like frontier Land.
Speaker 9 (19:24):
Yeah right, well no, because tomorrow Land is basically referencing
now essentially.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
Yeah, you know the all electric household.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
Yeah right, that's exactly right. Anyway, they need, yeah, they
need some kind of professional help for this guy, and
he'll get it, I'm sure in any case. Apparently, and
this is the last sort of detail that again makes
(19:52):
this victim even more of the victim. He refused to
hit back, apparently because he didn't want the rest of
the family to get kicked out or to get blacklisted,
so he kind of let this guy whoop him this way,
and as a result, he's.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
In pretty bad shape.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
This was the second incident they note that day. That
same day, at the Indiana Jones attraction, a four hundred
pound inflatable boulder prop. I don't know how many of
you've been to the Disneyland attraction Indiana Jones Ride, but
it is pretty cool. They have this huge boulder from
the movie. It recreates that moment and this huge boulder
(20:39):
rolls down onto you and then I forget what stops
at the last second, obviously or whatever it is. But
it's a pretty cool illusion. I mean it's literally a boulder.
This isn't you know, some kind of CGI. But that
same day that this beatdown happened, this four hundred pounds
inflatable boulder rolled off its track and a park employee
(21:05):
stepped in front of it to keep it from bouncing
into the crowd, and that employee was injured. So some
bad mojo around the Indiana Jones Ride, That's all I'm saying.
Very very tricky.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
Now.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
I know you're saying, Mark, you must have an Indiana
Jones ride story, and I don't really accept for the
fact that I was there and what was one of
the first people to ride the Indiana Jones ride because
it was open to who the press when they were
trying to give it a push when it first opened. Cool,
(21:42):
So they invite you down to the park. It was
on the morning show at that point. I was doing
Good Day La and they invite you down there. And
the cool thing was that it's a cool ride and
you can ride it as many times as you want.
There's nobody else there. You just go out and ride
it again. I'm gonna ride again. I'm gonna ride it again.
I must have been and Danna Jones ride six times.
(22:02):
It was just great. Yeah, let's ride it again. Let's
ride it again. It was me and the producer and
you know, and you know all that. And by the way,
that's the only time I've been on the ride was
those six times. And that was whenever it was when
itever Is opened and you were never in any danger
from the boulder.
Speaker 3 (22:19):
There was the illusion. And that's all you need is
the illusion.
Speaker 9 (22:22):
I will say, it's still it still has quite a
grip on you because it's like, like you said, it's
no CGI, it's not a screen, it's an actual something there.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
Yeah, goes right under it. It's it's still pretty cool.
Speaker 7 (22:35):
No.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
And and by the way, as we learned from the story,
it literally can hurt you if it hits you. It
injured it park employee, you know, stopped it from hitting
some some theme park goers. So, uh, that's your Disneyland rep.
I like to give you a Disneyland rep when we
come back. We'll check in with Nori, who follows this show,
(23:00):
and I will fill you in on the McDonald's lawsuit
that you may benefit from as we continue.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
One of my favorite guilty pleasures is listening to the
Norri Show now almost every night because I'm coming back
late from cards a broken man, having lost most of
my pension in some illegal card game. Mark Thompson here
on KFI AM six forty. We are live everywhere in
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on the line.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
Now, what's up, George, Mark?
Speaker 5 (23:34):
We got a great show tonight, one of those classic
coast to coast shows.
Speaker 7 (23:37):
That's all I'm gonna say.
Speaker 6 (23:39):
You gotta listen to hear the program.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
I will be there, bring it home, baby, George Norri,
thank you all right, my friend. Yes, indeed, a classic
Nordy show. Well, I mentioned that there is a lawsuit underway.
Might you get something from this lawsuit? It's called the
McRib lawsuit, and I'm guessing it a couple of you
have have been involved with a McRib in your time.
Speaker 10 (24:04):
Pork water, salt, dextros and rosemary extract.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
Oh that's great, that sounds terrific, is that?
Speaker 5 (24:10):
What?
Speaker 3 (24:11):
Yeah? Yum yum yum.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
But when you put the McRib name on it and
you put a jingle behind it, it just feels better.
Speaker 10 (24:17):
A lawsuit is leaving McDonald's in a pretty sticky situation.
A class action lawsuit accuses the company of misleading customers
into believing that the McRib contains actual pork rib meat.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
Oh my god, you can sue over that now. I
thought this was America. Of course, it doesn't have any
rib pork meat in it.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
My questions.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
Yeah, listen, this is the wrong country for you if
you've got an issue with that. It's a mccribb. It's
a bit's a sales thing. Who knows what's in it.
It's some pressed stuff from a factory. You enjoy it,
No harm done.
Speaker 10 (24:57):
Class action lawsuit accuses the company of misleading customers into
believing that the McRib contains actual pork rib meat. Although
the meat is shaped like a slab of ribs, the
patty is boneless. The lawsuit, which was filed in Illinois,
says it is not right for the meat patty to
resemble a cooked rack of pork ribs when there's no
meaningful amount of premium cut pork there at all.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
Oh my god, I mean again, I was raised in
this country on I don't know what, it was super
middle class. My mother fed us dextros and corn syrup
and pressed crap, mostly hot dogs. I mean, what are
hot dogs if not every bit of refuse from the factory.
(25:46):
I'll just call it the processing of these creatures. And
they throw some spices and stuff in there. And as
a kid it turned out fine. The McRib people they
found a way to press together a certain number of
substances and chemicals there at the McDonald's chemical plant. They
(26:08):
put some ribbish type stuff on it. They call it
the McRib. They saturate the airwaves during my football games
with ads about the McRib being available, and we buy it.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
Well not we. I wouldn't eat one of those at gunpoint.
Well I don't need it. I don't need any meat.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
But I'm just saying, all right, you know what, guys,
I have a premise here.
Speaker 3 (26:34):
If everybody's just going to come in.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
And say, I'm sorry, McRib, thank you very much.
Speaker 4 (26:40):
Would you agree that that sauce does a lot of
heavy lifting.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
Of course, it's all sauce.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
Yeah, But when you know, when they come to you
with these fine dining restaurants and they say, yeah, we
have the Brenzeno tonight. The Brenzeno, the Brenzino, the Brenzeno.
Every restaurant's got the Brenzeno, the Chile and sea bass,
every restaurant's got that. Why, because it's a neutral fish
to take the sauce.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
It's always about the sauceage.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
So in a way, McDonald's is doing, really I think
some highbrow work when they put these sauces together in
their laboratories of death or whatever they're you know what,
you know, I'm just saying, i don't know what the
complaint is here.
Speaker 3 (27:20):
I'm on team McDonald's.
Speaker 10 (27:21):
Although the meat is shaped like a slab of ribs,
the patty is boneless. The lawsuit, which was filed in Illinois,
says it is not right for the meat patty to
resemble a cooked rack of pork ribs when there's no
meaningful amount of premium cut pork there at all.
Speaker 3 (27:36):
So McDonald says it.
Speaker 10 (27:37):
Does use boneless pork, water, salt, dextros, and rosemary extract.
You can still buy a McRib in Saint Louis, by
the way, for a limited time.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
Yeah, that's they do cycle them in and out, they do. Yeah, well,
I know, I'm seeing it too. Do you see this?
Do you see a little alert thing? And I hope
the people are able to hear us. I'm seeing a
thing here in the studio. Yeah, say something offensive and
see if we get to talk about KFI audio fail.
(28:07):
I don't know what the I'm going to keep talking
as though we're actually being heard, but you may have
experienced an interruption. The the interesting thing to me about
the McDonald's situation is the way in which McDonald's has
actually gone the opposite direction of the McRib They've got Now,
(28:27):
you know, Salad's in there telling you how many calories
and things, and just a different McDonald's experience. You know,
I like just going in back when I did eat
that stuff and just shoving those burgers and big Macs
and you know, the the the Big Mac was probably
the true decadent play that I remember making at McDonald's,
(28:51):
especially late at night. I mean, that's that's the time
that you really want to just megaloade McDonald's when you've
had a couple of cocktail. Yeah exactly. You know, now
you've got more options. You know, back when I was
coming up as a late night cruiser of fast food joints,
you didn't have as many options. Now you've got you know,
(29:11):
Del Taco, Taco Bell, and there are all kinds of
ways in which you can you know, McDonald's is now
doing its thing. It was McDonald's and Burger King and
now you just have many more options. And to be fair,
and this is one of the things I like about
a big city. You've got just in places. You've got
some little late night place in the city that's opened
(29:33):
late as well. So in all of these ways you
can kind of scratch your itch. But if you are
a McRib devote and there is a group of people
that are really committed to the McRib because they complain
when mcrib's not on the menu, they complain that the
mcribs should be on longer, and mccribb is a seasonal thing,
(29:54):
you may be part of this. This is a class
action lawsuit. So the idea is there are people here
who feel deceived, and if you've thought there was actual
meat product there, high end meat product, you are one
of those people who may be entitled to whatever resolution
might come from this should McDonald's have to settle, But
(30:18):
we will see. So this is quite a night at
Kfire Radio. We've done a lot, and I'm not even
sure that the last five minutes has been heard on
the air, but we will find out soon enough. I'll
be listening and I'll be listening through the night with Nori.
(30:39):
Thank you all who have contributed tonight, Thank you and Nikki,
thank you, Mark, thank you, Steph.
Speaker 3 (30:46):
And I will see you tomorrow with Conway. I'll be on.
Speaker 9 (30:50):
And also, don't be disappointed if you didn't hear it,
because it will be on the podcast.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
Oh yeah, all of this will be on the podcast.
Good cool, All right, my friends. That is it. That
is all we are. Kf I Am six forty live everywhere,
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