Summary
The Power Trip morning show hosts conduct a $50 NASCAR betting pool on the Daytona 500, with team members calling in from various locations to select drivers. The episode features casual banter, Olympic coverage updates, and celebrity news including James Van Der Beek's death and Disney's financial losses.
Insights
- Live remote participation creates engagement but technical challenges (audio/video issues) when coordinating distributed teams
- Entertainment industry contracts often disadvantage early-career talent, leaving them vulnerable financially despite career success
- Streaming services face profitability pressures even with acclaimed original content, requiring strategic IP and production decisions
- Sports betting and fantasy gaming drive listener engagement through interactive, real-time participation mechanics
- Media companies struggle with content strategy when flagship properties underperform despite significant investment
Trends
Streaming services shifting away from expensive IP acquisitions toward original content developmentLive sports betting integration becoming standard radio engagement toolRemote/distributed team broadcasting becoming normalized with technical infrastructure improvements neededCelebrity financial vulnerability despite career success due to unfavorable contract structuresOlympics generating strong viewership through niche content (curling, figure skating) on streaming platformsEntertainment industry reconsidering CEO leadership from operational/parks backgrounds rather than contentPodcast advertising maintaining strong presence across iHeartRadio ecosystemPrestige TV shows facing pressure to extend beyond natural story arcs for revenue maximization
Topics
NASCAR Daytona 500 betting poolDisney CEO leadership transitionStreaming service profitability and IP strategyEntertainment industry contract practicesJames Van Der Beek cancer and financial impactSeverance TV series renewal strategyOlympic Games coverage and viewershipFigure skating quad rotationsPuppy Bowl viewership metricsValentine's Day spending trendsColorectal cancer treatment costsFake ID detection in barsRemote broadcast coordination
Companies
Disney
Lost $170M on Snow White remake; new CEO from parks division shifting away from IP acquisitions
Apple
Produces Severance series; facing decisions on multi-season commitments for streaming profitability
ESPN
Disney subsidiary with high overhead costs; company considering spin-off as separate entity
iHeartRadio
Podcast distribution platform hosting multiple sponsored shows and The Power Trip broadcast
NBC
Olympic Games broadcaster; criticized for not showing live content during peak viewing hours
Netflix
Mentioned in context of Stranger Things animated spin-off series between seasons
Peacock
NBC streaming service providing Olympic Games coverage including curling and figure skating
People
James Van Der Beek
Actor died at 48 from colorectal cancer; left family of 6 with depleted savings from treatment costs
Sharon Stone
Claimed she was misled about nudity in Basic Instinct; raises questions about director decision-making
Dave Chappelle
Comedian performing at Grand Casino Arena February 16; discussed contract and residual payment issues
Lionel Richie
Performing at Grand Casino Arena June 24; tickets on sale through KFAN calendar
Brad Pitt
Star of F1 movie getting sequel; discussed naming conventions for franchise continuation
Samuel L. Jackson
Participated in 1969 Morehouse College student protest; featured in The A-Building podcast
Tiger Woods
Son Charlie committed to play golf for Florida State; daughter attending Stanford
Quotes
"NLP was used on me to access my subconscious."
Mind Games podcast advertisement•Pre-roll ad
"She claims that she was told that the nudity was never going to appear in the film and then they used it anyway."
Host discussing Sharon Stone•Mid-show
"Colorectal cancer treatment is the second most expensive and most of his livelihood in the last couple of years has been wiped away fighting this."
Host discussing James Van Der Beek•Headlines segment
"If you're Apple and you got something here, everybody loves Severance, well then how do we keep making money off it?"
Host discussing streaming strategy•Headlines segment
"The heroes that come out of it that you didn't even know a week ago."
Host discussing Olympic athletes•Olympics segment
Full Transcript
This is Special Agent Regal, Special Agent Bradley Hall. In 2018, the FBI took down a ring of spies working for China's Ministry of State Security, one of the most mysterious intelligence agencies in the world. The Sixth Bureau podcast is a story of the inner workings of the MSS and how one man's ambition and mistakes opened its vault of secrets. Listen to The Sixth Bureau on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Amanda Knox, and in the new podcast Doubt, the case of Lucy Letby we unpack the story of an unimaginable tragedy that gripped the UK in 2023 but what if we didn't get the whole story I've just been made to fit the moment you look at the whole picture the case collapsed what if the truth was disguised by a story we chose to believe oh my god, I think she might be innocent listen to Doubt, the case of Lucy Letby on the iHeartRadio app Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Nancy Glass, host of the Burden of Guilt Season 2 podcast. This is a story about a horrendous lie that destroyed two families. Late one night, Bobby Gumpright became the victim of a random crime. The perpetrator was sentenced to 99 years until a confession changed everything. I was a monster. Listen to Burden of Guilt Season 2 on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. NLP was used on me to access my subconscious. Mind Games, a new podcast exploring NLP, a.k.a. neurolinguistic programming. Is it a self-help miracle, a shady hypnosis scam, or both? Listen to Mind Games on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Sorry, Zach, I didn't know you were back there. I thought you were in the main studio. What was the forecast again? Sunny skies, high of 44 today. There you go. 804 Power Trip Morning Show. About to do some betting over here. So I'm guessing it's coming up through your pot there, Zeco Directo? Yes, sir. All right. And I'm looking up at kfan.com slash watch. And Parker Fox, John Bonas, Marty Gelner. There's Tommy. There's JK. I saw Parker just posted on Instagram that he was in Latvia. I wonder if he's still there. We can ask him in a second. I don't know if he's in Latvia or Italy. Who knows? The guy's a world traveler. He's a big deal. Following his fiance around the world playing hockey. There he goes. We're betting on NASCAR, Zachary. We are. We are. And we have, I believe, almost everybody's still waiting on Parrish, I believe. Hey, there's Tim. What up, Tim? He's got his pants on. Tim's the best. And we can talk to anybody if you guys want to talk to anybody in particular. I don't care for that. Talk to Parker. Hi, Parker. Hey, guys. Are you in a hotel lobby? Where are you right now? At the Palm Fronds. I am in a random mall here in Riga, Latvia. You're in Latvia. Yeah, Rosie's spot. Yeah, Rosie loves this spot. It's actually very environmentally friendly here. Thanks for doing your part. You're in a mall? Of course. I'm in a mall. Yeah. Oh my God, he is. There we go. Do they have any Ann's pretzels in Latvia? I don't think they do. So you wouldn't like this place. And there's a lot of green on people's plates. So you really wouldn't like this place. How's Latvia in general? I don't know anything about it. It's cold, but it's beautiful. A lot of historic European buildings. And like right out here behind me, you got, I don't know, some sort of big building. But it's nice. Yeah, my brother's been playing professional basketball over here. And his season's just wrapping up. So, time to leave Latvia, but it's nice. It's snow on the ground now. No snow in Milan. So, it was kind of a switch up coming up here. I didn't know your brother played pro basketball over there. It's something. Hey, is Tommy driving right now? Yes. Always. Yeah. I just parked. I just parked. I'm good. I just parked. I just parked. It's good. It's either a treadmill or he's driving. Hey, Parker, how's the dude such in Latvia? Okay. A lot of dudes here, man. A lot of dudes. Europeans. Go get down with your Thomas. Prove it. Prove it. Prove it. Hey, Tommy. Tommy, before you left, we never really broke down how your wife is obsessed with the Captain Billy Hildebrand. Yeah. Okay. It's not easy. It's not my wife. It's my wife's friend. It's my wife's friend. I thought you said Sess. I thought you said Sess. No, no, no, no, no. Her name's Steph. I'm sure she loves this right now. Yeah, she's a big fan of K-Fan Outdoors. She listens to it all the time driving into work. She says the captain has a really soothing voice, quote unquote. My God. She asked if I had any nudes with the captain. I go, no, I'm just passed. Oh, my God. Jesus. I'm done long, very long. Woo! I'm done long, very long. Even Parrish is disappointed. Everybody wants to go back to bed. All right, Zach, before we start pulling everybody up and getting their picks, explain how this is going to work. So a $50 bet, we're all going to pick a driver order determined by the wheel. And then if we win, the bet hits. If one of our drivers doesn't win, it's a wash. So basically, if your guy crashes early on, you can just root for every other non-picked driver to not have to pay. But yeah, it'll be fun. We have a good field this year. Let's do it. So Parrish, Parker, Marnie, Tommy, Ben, John, Creasel, Bonus, Sauce, Hawk, Corey, and me. I think we got everybody, right? I think so. It looks like everybody's there. Speak now, forever hold your peace. Spin that wheel. Here we go. Spinning, it's spinning. Come on now. Ben, maybe first. Lieber. Lieber with the first pick. Ben Lieber. Finally something good. Yeah, finally something good. You needed a break. I'm going to go Joey Logano. Oh, I almost swore. Is that? Yeah, that's a good pick for sure. Good pick. Joey Logano goes number one. Thank you. 12 to one on the draft, please. Pick two goes to Perisher Parker. Parker. Almost Perisher. The Latvian kid. Parker. You can hear me here? Yeah, we got you. All right, I'm just going to go with the favorite because I know absolutely nothing about NASCAR. So I think Danny Hamlin was the favorite. So I'm taking him. There you go. You got it. Great pick. Let's go. All right, buddy. Have fun. See ya. See you guys. Bye, buddy. Enjoy the mall. Miss you already. Miss you. Pick three goes to Marnie or Tommy. Marnie. It's Marnie Gellner. Marnie Gellner. Sweet. I'm going down my widely researched list. It's Ryan Blaney. Oh, man. He's a fast driver. Does he turn? He's very quick. Just speaking on behalf of those of us who are dialed in, we can't hear Zach. Oh, sorry. You're welcome. You're not missing much. Hi, Tommy. I see your cheeks. Don't say it like that. Are you guys liking the crotch shot from Paris he's given us? I mean, he's like, really, man? Really man spreading. Man spreading with the dog. Is that better? Can you get in there a little tighter, please? There you go. Tommy only needs two more wishes. I'll see your crotch. Buddy, that's a good looking dog. Tommy! Where'd you get that? Oh, Jesus. Tommy! Sorry. Look at Tommy. Looks like a goblin shark. Oh, man. Parrish, I don't know if I'd seen that dog. That's a good-looking dog, man. Rocko, yeah. Yeah, this one, the white one. Yeah, little Rocko. Yeah, he's our little pocket pity. He's our little toddler. He thinks he's a little baby, comes up and jumps into our arms and snuggles all day long. Oh, he's cute, man. And he loves him. Yeah, this one's Turner's. And we got the big Thor over there who likes... He's shy. He doesn't like to be on camera. Understood, man. All right. Sweet. All right, let's spin the wheel again so far. Joey Logano, Denny Hamlin, and Ryan Blaney off the board. Pick four goes to... Oh, that's rigged. That was rigged. Alverson, who do you want? Oh, man. I'm going to go with... Jeez. Let's go... Man, Christopher Bell. Who? Yeah. I'm going to go with Christopher Bell. Isn't he an actor? Yes, she's an actress. Alright. She's an actress. Pick five. Looks like Bonus. Hanging on. Hi, Johnny Bones. Hi, kids. How we doing? Look at the baseball field behind you. John, give us the 20 second recap of the Kunan and Trail from Minneapolis to Pennsylvania to the New Yorkish area down to Florida. Hell of a drive. Long ass drive. Killed three, four people. Just took care of business. Wow. You made it. Yeah, exactly right. Pitchers and catchers report today. It's my favorite day of the year. So, where there's still hope today. For the driver, I will go with... For today, I will go with Kyle Bush. I will head for the mountains. Bush. Good pick. I like it. Oh, Bush. Johnny, can you hear me? Yeah, I can, Tommy. Johnny, show us your T-words. Okay. Come on. Did you get drunk after you left here? John's in a great dude suit. John, go in the locker room. Prove it that you're in spring training. Go watch him stretch. All right, Zach's been the wheel. All right, Zach's been the wheel. Joey Logano, Denny Hamlin, Ryan Blaney, Christopher Bell, whoever the hell that is, and then Kyle Busch. But Kreisel picks sixth. What up, Kreisel? John Kreisel. Hi, John. Oh, he's on mute. Let's get Johnny K up there. Hi, Johnny. You're on mute, brother. Do I have to? There you go, there you go. There we go. We got you. Thank you, bud. Thank you. obviously I did a ton of research tons I logged on about five minutes ago and started looking I'm going to go with William Byron or as we call him Bill Billy Byron yeah that's a good bit you know your stuff Johnny K we'll see you tomorrow right you're in tomorrow yes I will be wearing a shirt and I will be in but I won't be wearing pants perfect Perfect. All right, Tommy. Prove it. Sense. Sense. My God. All right, JK. See you tomorrow, buddy. Bye, JK. Bye. Love you guys. Love you, buddy. All right, pick seven. That one's Parrish. There we go. No more rigged wheel spins, Marky Parrish. Who do you want? I hope you guys can hear me because all the sound just vanished off my mic and I can't hear you guys. We got you. I didn't hear the last pick. So, is Lord William Byron still available? No, he just got picked. All right. I'll move down the list. Thank you, Corey. Is Austin Sindrick still available? Yes. Austin Sindrick's my man. There you go There he goes All right Austin Sindrick goes seventh to Parrish See you tomorrow buddy Bye bud Thank you There goes Mark Parrish All right You got to wave Corey you got to wave Bye, Mark. There he goes. Bye. There he goes. All right. That's me. Cute dog. Jesus. Yeah. Wow. Corey Cove. I'll go way off the board. Not way off the board. I'm going to go Bubba Wallace at 22 to 1. Corey! You love Bubba. Yeah. Apparently that was Tommy's guy. Where is he right now, Tom? I'm sitting outside of Lifetime Fitness. Just watching the dude sit? Can't wait to go to the sauna. Can't wait. Do you work out or just go sit in the sauna? A little calm A, a little calm B. We're down at Tommy, Hawk, and Sauce, right? Those are the only three remaining on the wheel. Let's see. Spin it. Sauce. Okay, somebody had to have taken Kyle Larson, right? Meat sauce. No. All right, I'll take Kyle Larson. Larson at 11-1. That's a good pick for him to still be left. It's pretty good. Thank you. Yeah. All right, we're down to Hawk and Tommy Olsen. Me and you, Tommers. Brilliant. It goes to Tommy. Tommy. He's going to take my eye. Can we? Okay, so you have to win the whole thing to win, right? Yes. So that's this whole game of the game? Yeah, that's the race winner, yeah. Okay, so I'll go Austin Dillon. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Who's Austin Dillon? He's 45 to 1. All right, Austin Dillon. Why'd you pick him? He's 12 on the ball, or 12 on the pole. Whoa. Wow. I did a little research. Sounds like me and college. Good times, great old. He's calling away. Now I hope he wins. Are you okay? Oh, my God. Honestly, what happened? He was mostly reeled in on the show and then has become unhinged in the lifetime parking lot. What happened? I don't know. I get a little Randy before I go work out. It's good times. Good times, great old man. T.O., you also said you woke up in a panic because you overslept, and you said your whole day was going to be thrown off, and now at 8.17 you're already off the rails. Corey, you go face adversity head on, and now we're here. I got all the overthinking out of the way. Now we're good. We're good times. All right, buddy. See you later. Okay. I'm taking Chase Elliott. So long. Bye, buddy. Chase Elliott goes last. Chase Elliott for me, yeah. I'm happy to take him last. All right, so Logano, Hamlin, Blaney, Bell, Bush, Byron, Sindrick, Wallace, Larson, Dylan, Elliott. If it's anybody else, it's a push. Yeah. That's right. So we can sweat the field if your driver crashes. All right. Sweet. Gambling. Tommy. Tommy's going to sweat the field. Yeah. Yep. We'll bet here. That guy. I don't know what happened. It's like he said he got up and he was scrambling. And so he didn't turn into Tommy until he left here because he's a little behind. But, I mean, when you guys first flashed him up on the screen, he looked like Ice Cube cruising through the hood. He had his hat on backwards, and I don't think he could be laid farther back in the seat than he was. And whoever said, did you get drunk after you left here is probably pretty close. He's something else. He's something else. There you go. Oh, hey, Rose. All right. Good luck to you boys. All right, buddy. Best of luck to you as well. All right. One final segment of the Power Show Morning Show. We'll do headlines after. I'm Nancy Glass, host of the Burden of Guilt Season 2 podcast. This is a story about a horrendous lie that destroyed two families. Late one night, Bobby Gumpright became the victim of a random crime. He pulls the gun, tells me to lie down on the ground. He identified Jermaine Hudson as the perpetrator. Jermaine was sentenced to 99 years. I'm like, Lord, this can't be real. I thought it was a mistaken identity. The best lie is partial truth. For 22 years, only two people knew the truth. until a confession changed everything. I was a monster. Listen to Burden of Guilt Season 2 on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. What if mind control is real? If you could control the behavior of anybody around you, what kind of life would you have? Can you hypnotically persuade someone to buy a car? When you look at your car, you're going to become overwhelmed. with such good feelings. Can you hypnotize someone into sleeping with you? I gave her some suggestions to be sexually aroused. Can you get someone to join your cult? NLP was used on me to access my subconscious. NLP, aka Neuro Linguistic Programming, is a blend of hypnosis, linguistics, and psychology. Fans say it's like finally getting a user manual for your brain. It's about engineering consciousness. Mind Games is the story of NLP. its crazy cast of disciples, and the fake doctor who invented it at a New Age commune and sold it to guys in suits. He stood trial for murder and got acquitted. The biggest mind game of all? NLP might actually work. This is wild. Listen to Mind Games on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. 1969, Malcolm and Martin are gone. America is in crisis. And at Morehouse College, the students make their move. These students, including a young Samuel L. Jackson, locked up the members of the Board of Trustees, including Martin Luther King Sr. It's the true story of protest and rebellion in Black American history that you'll never forget. I'm Hans Charles. I'm Menelik Lamumba. Listen to The A-Building on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. What do you do when the headlines don't explain what's happening inside of you? I'm Ben Higgins, and if you can hear me, it's where culture meets the soul. A place for real conversation. Each episode, I sit down with people from all walks of life. Celebrities, thinkers, and everyday folks. And we go deeper than the polished story. We talk about what drives us, what shapes us, and what gives us hope. We get honest about the big stuff. Identity when you don't recognize yourself anymore. Loss that changes you. Purpose when success isn't enough. Peace when your mind won't slow down. Faith when it's complicated. Some guests have answers. Most are still figuring it out. If you've ever felt like there has to be more to the story, this show is for you. Listen to If You Can Hear Me on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. There's On The Fan. KFAN, welcome some great shows to Grand Casino Arena in the next year, including Dave Chappelle, February 16th. That's just this Monday. And Lionel Richie on June 24. Tickets are on sale now. Get all these details at KFAN.com keyword calendar. Duh. Final segment of the show for today. Tommy is in the lifetime fitness right now. How great would it have been if we just let him keep streaming and they lock the doors when they know he's on the way? Like, sir, we can't allow you. We saw the stream. I'm not sure what city you have in the world. I'm just saying that's a good dude sitch here. Did he say which lifetime it was? No, but he showed it. I think it's like... The internet sleuths, no? Yeah, it's not hard to figure out. You can geolocate where he's at. Wow. The thing is, he's made such a... We'll call it a bit out of this whole thing, right? Quote, unquote, bit. If he's going to go to this lifetime and somebody just hears him talking about this. If he actually ends up in the sauna. Oh, he's definitely going to end up in the sauna. He's not kidding about that. If he ends up in the sauna, do you think that some other dude's going to pull a basic instinct on him sitting across from him? Well said. Maybe that's what he wants. I don't know. Speaking of basic instinct, do you know Sharon Stone has claimed for years, I guess, that she was told that the nudity was never going to be in the movie? Which I have a lot of questions about. So then she wasn't wearing any underwear. That was always my comeback in my head. It was like, well, then why did you go sans panties for that shot if they weren't going to use it anyway? But she claims that she was told that the nudity was never going to appear in the film and then they used it anyway. I have a lot of questions. Wayne, yeah. If you're the director and that happens, of course you're going to keep that in. Duh. Yep. It's aggressive. That is aggressive if she didn't know. She didn't know. That's not fair. Headlines. Alright, headlines. Here we go. Final segment of the show. Try this. According to a new study, what percentage of Americans would say if you had a chance to live on a colony on the moon for the rest of your life, would you say yes? If there was an actual up-and-running moon colony, and they said free tickets, here you go, do you want to go? What percentage of Americans claim they'd say, sure, I'm in. 10. I think there's a lot of people that don't really think about it, and they just think it'd be cool to say yes. So I'm going to say like 35%. But without actually breaking it down and thinking the logistics, and you're never coming back to earth kind of a thing. So you said 10. You said 35, Zach? Three. Three. Chris? Seven. Seven percent said definitely. 12 said probably. So they basically said 19% say they would be in. I'm a no. I'm a no for sure. I think that's stupid. No. Anybody? Yeah, no. Hell no. No. Hell no. And I think that, like Ben said, that number would go down drastically if it was laid out. Oh. They're like, oh, okay, like, really, here's your ticket. Like, we leave in a week. You'd be like, nope, I'm not doing this. Asking for a friend. What's the dude sitch? Yeah, exactly. It's probably good dude sitch. Grandma's not coming. I mean, she's not going to make it up there. She didn't get the invite? No. I mean, I'd take the trip. I'd go with you guys to drop you off. It's like sending a kid to college. I'd be like, hey, I'll take the ride up here. This will be fun. What if you get up there in your seat and you're like, this is sick. Yeah, no. And you got to turn around. No. All right. According to a new study, the average Valentine's Day date costs how much money? A lot of people probably making last second plans today for Saturday. A lot of restaurants probably already booked. Average date now costs how much for Valentine's Day? $35. $20,000! $110. I think that's a little much, but I admire the crowd reaction. $557. Going to Manny's or what? $127. Zach's technically the closest. $189 is now the average Valentine's Day date. That's the average across the United States? Thank you. Well, that's aggressively high. It's higher because it's on a Saturday, I would imagine, this year, right? It says it's up 12.5%, I think, from last year because of dinner, drinks, and people doing things that are higher end than movies. Like they mentioned things like Topgolf or going to events like that. It's more expensive than just going to Applebee's, getting the modsticks after nine. It's perfectly dropped every time. It just makes you laugh. Hopefully, you know. Brad Pitt's movie F1 is getting a sequel. F2? If they call it F2, we should just shut down Hollywood. They can't. That's a lower level. They can't call it F1-2. What about... Got it. They definitely can't call it that. What if they called it F1 Deuce? That's a terrible name. What if they call it F Pit? Yeah. They'll probably say like F1 and it'll be like the name of one of the tracks like Silverstone. Yeah see that brilliant Well done Thanks Or like championship or just like Grand Prix or something like that F me Your mic on Because it like Top Gun Maverick right Yeah. It'd be like F1 Dude Sitch. Dubai. Yeah. F1 back to back. Wow. F1 and the other. F1 Brokeback Mountain. F1 Ringworm. Oh my, mate. Hey, man. I love it, Tommy. He was like, I wanted Ringworm. We're like, you mean tapeworm. You mean tapeworm. Forum says that Disney lost $170 million on last year's Snow White remake. Creepers. $170 million the wrong way. Yikes. I don't know anyone that saw it. And I have kids. I don't know one person that saw that movie. I forgot it existed. Yeah. And I don't know one person that's come in. Like, all right, I skipped in the theater, but I'll watch it on Disney+. Don't know one person that did that either. Not one. didn't on the press junket, didn't the main actor, didn't she totally crap on the film? Yeah, she had a really bad press run that did not help at all. She couldn't get out of her own way and that didn't help any momentum. It didn't have a lot of momentum before that, but man, that was not good for the whole film. My guess is Disney was not thrilled with her. No, they were not. Great leadership by the Walt Disney Company, man. And they're getting a new CEO now. Do you have an opinion on the new guy or not? because he comes from the parks. What's his name, Hawk? Well, Freudian slip-a-gee. And here's the thing. Well, one thing we know about Freudian slip-a-gee is that, as you mentioned, he's the leader of the parks, which is the only moneymaker in that whole company now. Really? Oh, yeah. Well, I mean, The Avengers movies don't make any money. What's that? I don't know. How about the, I believe it's the new CEO basically said they're going to stop buying IP. Yeah. Like they're done loading up on Marvel and Star Wars. Yes. What does that mean? Intellectual property. So they're going to find their own stuff. He claims they're done buying other people's property, that they've wasted money or spent too much money. They're not down with OPP anymore? I guess not. The Marvel thing could not have been a waste of money, right? That has to have been a huge win for them. So we're talking like everything across the board, ABC, ESPN, all that stuff. and that doesn't make money. The problem with ESPN is there's so much overhead. They've got to pay so much for rights fees and they're trying to do this ESPN unlimited subscription stuff that could work out, but they've talked about spinning off ESPN as a separate company. Amazing hot rods. All right, hot TV take. I'm going to read this sentence and we can react. When Severance first came out, I think a lot of us that really love that show were like, this has got to be a show that can't be 10 seasons. It's got to be tight. You've got to wrap this thing up. You've got to do it the right way. Well, I don't know how I feel about this. The creators and showrunners and all this stuff for Severance. Severance will run at least four seasons. Don't like the word at least or the phrase at least. It feels like two more is enough. But at least four seasons with the possibility of a prequel or sequel series. But back to what we were just talking about with Disney and finding something, right? If you're Apple and you're like, oh man, we got something here. Everybody loves Severance. Well then, if it only runs three or four seasons, they're like, well then how do we keep making money off it? Right? So that's the part that sucks is that if they have a home run, they're not just going to let it go away after three or four years. We're already seeing that with Stranger Things, right? They're running like the cartoon version now. What? Yeah, it's, I mean, comes out, I think, pretty soon. Anyway, so Severance, at least four seasons, possibility of prequel or sequel. Yes, Paul, your hands up. Like the cartoon version of the same show? Or like a spin-off? No, the Stranger Things cartoon, I think, is like between seasons two and three, like a side story that happened. Like a side quest. Yep, same universe, same bit. I think it's just animated in between two and three or something like that. Who's in it, Hawk? Tara Lipinski. Oh, good for her. Good pull. Benjamin, we talked about it to open the show, but James Van Der Beek died at the age of 48 after a battle with cancer, colorectal cancer. Your thoughts on The Beek? Was a fan, only just from, you know, I did not watch Dawson's Creek, but definitely Friday Night Lights. You mean Varsity Blues? Varsity Blues, I mean, yeah. I was like, I knew when I said that. I was like, that's not right. Varsity Blues is the best. Varsity Blues. Yeah, I mean, I didn't follow his career tightly, but it's super sad. I mean, six kids to be still so young. I mean, he's he's my age. You know, how about this? By the way, speaking of super sad, I know a lot of people have posted about this on social media in the last 24 hours. There's a GoFundMe for the Vanderbeek family, right? Six kids and a wife that he's leaving behind ages four to 15, according to this story. So the initial reaction was like, well, why are we handing money to a Hollywood star? I'm sure he's doing fine. And, well, what people are reporting is that colorectal cancer treatment is, I think they said, the second most expensive. And that most of his livelihood in the last couple of years has been wiped away fighting this. So he has not much left. And there was a Vanderbeek Post talking about the struggles with cancer and his struggles as, like, when he was weak, he struggled to be a father, struggled to be a husband. And then he said something about, like, struggled to be a provider. and I'm like man so he was even hinting like I can't help anybody so it sounds like they don't have a ton of money left which is really sad for a guy that probably if he had been healthy had been mostly set for life but uh pretty much sucks that a cancer fight wipes away your entire life savings yeah that sucks so I guess as of the uh the time of this story uh the GoFundMe had surpassed 1.1 million yeah that's good good for the family he seems like a really good dude he seems like he was trying to live life the right way. Zach, you probably have heard this or you know this because you're more in tune to this. Was there some sort of thing with the rights fees or something like that, the royalties on some of the things that he's done? Because somebody was talking about how, I don't know, one of the agencies or one of the, like Hollywood, I'll just say, did some of these people dirty by not with some of their contracts and some of the residuals. Yeah, it says here James Vanderbeek received almost no residual money from his iconic role in Dawson's Creek to an unfavorable contract signed at age 20. Despite the show's massive success, the lack of long-term financial payoff from the series led him to auction off memorabilia in late 2025 to help cover cancer treatment costs. So that's like an agent thing then. I mean, I think every corporation is going to try to get theirs, right? But you've got to have an agent that's going to fight for you. I mean, Chappelle's talked about how it works out there and how it's just everybody's out there to screw you. That's too bad, man. We're on that time, too. On a much lighter note, did you guys see a couple days ago, I think I got tweeted this about 9 billion times, that group of thieves that tried to rob the armored car on the middle of a highway in the middle of the day. It was awesome. Terrifying and illegal and scary, but awesome. Man, the ball's on those guys. Just to be like, let's block off this road and try to do it right here, right now. They blew off the doors. It looked like the movie Heat, did it not? It was real-life heat. Couldn't believe it. It was kind of crazy. This story is the opposite. Oh, no. A jewelry thief in Turkey Used a forklift to break into a shop And then fled on a donkey The slowest escape ever Breaks in with a forklift Which is pretty slow Fled on a donkey That's an ass backwards plan But again That's just a headline It doesn't say they caught him It just says he fled on a donkey It doesn't say they caught him. I mean, we could Google it and find out, but what if it worked? And we don't know if this was like what time of day. What if he did this at night? Exactly. Then you got all night to write it on. Make it all the way to Bethlehem. Yeah. Bring the myrrh. Ben's got to go in like two minutes. Ben, you can go first on this one. Do this. There's a family in Illinois, or as Mike Grimm calls it, Illinois, that has a pet cockatiel. Calm down. Tommy at Lifetime. The cockatiel's name is Sunny. And according to people, they believe it is officially the oldest bird of his species. They think it's the oldest one that's going right now. I don't know how old cockatiels live, so I don't even know what I would have guessed. But how old do you think Sunny is? What they believe to be the oldest cockatiel on the planet. Celebrate his birthday, Jan 10. Anybody ever had a bird? You guys ever had a bird as a pet? No. 70. 55. Yeah, I wouldn't even know. Yeah, I wouldn't know. How long did it live? I don't know. It's probably like three. What did you say, Chris? 33. Nailed it. I was going to say 30. 33 is the exact age. He turned 33 Jan 10. Wow. I'm so tired. Man. I am tired. It is crazy. Some of those, like, you know, lifespan in the wild versus lifespan in captivity. But there's so many species. I have zero idea how long they live. Peace out. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. Like, isn't there some shark, like some Greenland shark that's like 300 years old? Yeah. Super old. Real ugly, too. Right. Real ugly. Turtles live, some turtles live 100 plus. Tortoises live 100 plus. but outside of that again I don't know how long a bird in the wild lives I don't know if it's 90 billion years or two weeks no idea aren't there like animals in the arctic that are like 400 years old they think the shark is 392 years old the Greenland shark he's dead no it's a woman you know how bored that son of a bitch is he just swims he barely swims though he just kind of floats along I love you guys. Have a great weekend. I'll see you on Monday. Thanks for coming in. Twin Cities Live, 3-4. Thank you. His guest yesterday was your guy, Johnny Randall. He's the best. He's the best. He was in a putting contest or something like that. Did he win? Probably. Oh, you won. I won. Took down the Hall of Famer. A bar owner in Philadelphia is blaming chat GPT and TikTok for a surge in fake IDs. Like one that has Benjamin Franklin's photo on it. That's funny. So the bar's response has been they have started banning all drinkers under the age of 25. Oh, don't do that. I would say don't do that, but that's the response. I would say just check IDs better, but... What are you, a rental car? Yeah, we'll play it. Murder. Still some scary updates in the Nancy Guthrie kidnapping, right? The Bitcoin demands and ransom notes and verifying ransom notes and verifying dropped gloves and whatever. That story gets worse and worse every day. This is a hostage situation that's less interesting. But a 26-year-old man in Japan has been arrested after taking a woman's four parakeets hostage until she agreed to meet with him. What? That is never the start of a torrid love affair. Taking someone's birds hostage and going, you got to meet with me or these birds are going to get it. A lot of bird stories today. Maybe he misunderstood a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. Yeah, well said. You need to do a lap. Yeah, same. 15% of people who classify Self-classify as overweight Say they are thriving In their ideal diet Thoughts? I mean I'm overweight Self-classified? Yeah I think I snack too much Like David brought over the PubMix He's an enabler? yeah you're about it you're a good weight right now aren't you this is about where you want to be isn it yeah I wish I was like 40 pounds lighter well we all do not you there be nothing left of you I mean we all wish you were Or God Or God Papa, no, or gone Papa So you would be lighter If Dov hadn't brought over the PubMix I've eaten about half of it In four days Did he eat zero of it? He just brought it over to feed you? He ate a little bit of it What are you going to do for Valentine's Day? My wife and I are going to go out to eat. Oh, thanks for the invite. Just going to leave the boy home by himself. For your part. We have a babysitter. I thought you were the babysitter. No, I am. You left yesterday saying you had to babysit. Yeah, and today I have to babysit. What time? What do you get paid an hour to babysit? Love. Is that like zero in tennis? Yes. A man was arrested at an Atlanta airport for having 42 pounds of marijuana in his bag. He did have it under the 50-pound limit, so I think he thought he was going to get away with it. 42 pounds of weed in a bag at an airport. Zach, any comments on this story? What airport? Atlanta. It just says an Atlanta airport. Wouldn't it be the Atlanta airport? Yeah, Hartsfield. Probably. Jackson, whatever. Yeah, no, don't do that. That's dumb. that's incredibly dumb the women are winning in the seventh end right now in curling have you guys been watching this? yes and Corey's out there no he's right there oh hi Corey oh it's Corey from the men and women's squad? yes she's right in the back there so Zach the other day when this was on and it didn't say live I walked right into that trap is this the same thing? is this live? Why is NBC not saying it's live? It might not be live. Was this recently, though? Because I haven't seen a score, like a final score. ASA Curling. I'm going to spoil it to myself here. Like Hawk said, this says 3-2 in the seventh. Yeah. U.S. over Korea. It's a full count. Is it already over, though? That is not live. There is U.S.-Switzerland, which is live. I don't know what channel that's on. So then when was this game? This was, it doesn't say, but it is completed. Well, then spoil it if it's completed. Spoiler, if you don't want to know, I guess. Was it yesterday, though, or this morning? When was this? Is it men or women playing Switzerland? Men are playing Switzerland right now, and that is not looking good. But women, 8-4 final win. 8-4. Can I ask a question? This is the first game? Yes. Yes, Sauce. how has NBC the home of the Olympics run out of live stuff at 845 like why don't they just show more live stuff you know what I mean like it's weird like it might be done for the day over there no it's only like 4 o'clock yeah what's on NBC right now let's see here days of our lives you watch that show right hard used to today's show I don't know what's going on I don't know what channel this means. It's got to be on, hopefully not just Peacock. Yeah, who knows? But yeah, I don't know. There's got to be something live. It probably happened earlier today, and they're like, well, we'll just replay it in a more digestible time. Very popular. Well, shout out to the ladies. Good start. Tyler George yesterday said both teams have uphill battles, right? That they are not in any way remotely close to being the favorites. They're going to need a lot of things to go their way. Good start, why not? Way to go, ladies. Tiger Woods' son has made his decision he's going to play golf for Florida State. Yeah, that's sweet. Tiger went to Stanford. I guess Tiger's daughter is going to Stanford. So I think some people assumed Charlie was going to Stanford, but he goes to Florida State. And I guess the number one ranked kid is also a Florida State golfer. So I guess they're amassing a pretty good team. That's pretty good. Charlie's 21st in the American Junior Golf Association rankings. Yeah. It's pretty freaking good. Yeah, it's pretty good. Even if your dad's Tiger Woods, being top 21 in the country is pretty awesome. That's really good, yeah. Yeah, whoever the first place kid is from Florida, so it makes more sense that he's staying in Florida. Yeah. 22nd annual Puppy Bowl had the best viewership since 2018. The program pulled in 15.3 million viewers across Animal Planet, TBS, True TV, and Max on Sunday. News of the viewership came one day after the Super Bowl numbers were released. Head of content for Discovery Channel Joseph Boyle says it delivered its strongest performance in nearly a decade. And it highlights their ability to unite audience around content that feels good and does good. I'm Mark Mayfield. Plus, it was not a great Super Bowl. No, it was not. So I think this is one of the first years I didn't check in on the Puppy Bowl even for a second. You guys watch it at all? No. No. Normally I have it on at least pre-game, right? Because they run it for like, don't they run it for 24 hours straight just on a loop? It's pretty close to that, yeah. I think so, yeah. They run old ones and new ones and old ones and new ones. Yeah, didn't see a second of it. I saw some video on social media of a dog like that was terrified that was just standing in the corner, like didn't want to get in the mix, and they gave him some participation award or something, or like a courage award, but he just sat there. It's like all my sauce Lambert. Yep, just sat there shaking. I am tired. Didn't want to get involved. Buddy. It's hard to talk him into it, right? It's a big spot. The whole world's watching. A lot of dogs. Yeah. A lot of dogs. A prosthetic leg lost by a swimmer in England was found when it washed up 10 months later on a beach 14 miles away. Yeah! Gary. Why is Gary so excited about that? I've been to every city of Mexico. Came across an unclaimed piece of meat in Baja. Turned out to be Rosie. Oh. In case you picked a knife fight with somebody better. One of the great movies of all time. Keanu found it? Found the prosthetic leg. Gary loves it. I don't know what is wrong with Busey, but man, watching him on social media is a hard watch. He looks like he died a few years. It truly looks like he's dead, and it looks like he has no idea what universe he's in. Looks like I feel right now. It's a tough watch. Yeah. Angelo Pappas. Three months! Via Contillos. Yeah, poor. That guy was working undercover for three months until Utah and Pappas blew it. Yeah. Three months. That's not that long to work undercover. That would be a waste of time. That's the worst acting in a movie. Say that to Anthony Kiedis' face. That's so bad. What are you talking about? He got shot in the foot. That's terrible. That would be a waste of time. Okay. See, already he did it better than you. Yeah, I have to admit that was worse than him. Okay, you're right. All right, so Zach's trying to work the old gold zone on Peacock. We got men's curling, USA versus Switzerland. Wow, this is what the gold zone looks like? Yeah, man. This is awesome. Yeah, this is sweet. Then Norway versus Germany, Great Britain versus Sweden, Finland versus Canada, women's hockey. The quad gods. Oh, that's why you put it on is because they have figure skating practice and quad gods doing laps. I was listening to Stern yesterday and Robin kept calling him the quad king and I don't think she knew that she was making a mistake but nobody corrected her either and I'm just like, okay, well you're close is he the quad king or the quad god, Zachary? he's the quad god, man does he have nice quads? because obviously the quad is in relation to the number of spins as in like a quad axle I thought it was because he had really bulky legs. Maybe it's both. It's definitely because he does four rotations. That's the fourth thing. Yeah, right. But maybe he's got nice legs, too. Who knows? If you're called the quad guy, you better have both. They always wear all these grand outfits. It's hard to tell, which is good. Well, right now he looks like just some Spanx on during practice, some black Spanx. He's doing well. Look at him. How could you not? Well, isn't he leading after the first night? Yeah, he's definitely having the best practice of anybody out there. That's the only thing you're watching. Five things on the screen, Zach's watching Quad God. Had you heard of him before this started? No. No. Probably should have. I would think so, yeah. But that's the nice thing about the Olympics is just... Don't get choked up. It's okay. I'm sorry. The heroes that come out of it that you didn't even know a week ago. Maybe even two days ago. No. They're famous and talking to Snoop Dogg. The Gus Bus got out to a hot Olympic start as he led Sweden to a win over Italy. Yeah, and it looked a little shaky early, but they got the win. And then Slovakia, a guy who I called, Samuel Holave, who was the goaltender for the Iowa Wild, who was out freezing his butt off in Hastings at Hockey Day, goes up and helps pull off an upset over the fins yesterday. That's great for the Wild. Not only do we have Gus, we have Volsad, but now we have Valave who is doing pretty well for himself as well. Trade bait? Which one? Whoever. Put it in your password. USA men versus Latvia at 210. Can't wait. We're supposed to crush them. Yeah, I think about 3.5 is the line. Alright, best of luck to the US. The Olympics are the best. Best of luck to all of you. It's a good morning of downhill skiing, snowboarding, Tommy, curling, now with quad god practicing. Not a bad day at the old Olympic Village. Gold zone on Peacock, I guess. We're back tomorrow, 530 to 9. Initials at 815. $109,500 up for grabs with the St. Paul Federal Credit Union initials. Jackpot. Creasel tomorrow. Parrish tomorrow. Marnie tomorrow. Probably Mr. Z tomorrow. 9 to noon is next. See you tomorrow. See you tomorrow. And how the days begin, no one can say. Everybody have a wonderful day. You too happy to have it. Take care of yourself, baby girl. All the questions and surprises. All the answers in disguise. This is Special Agent Regal, Special Agent Bradley Hall. 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