The Schloss-Blog is examining the debut of King Charles on CNN, SI's use of AI and Elon mouthing off, per usual.
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Anyone else watch the debut of "(Gayle) King Charles (Barkley)" on CNN last Wednesday, the network's next attempt at finding a hit weekday prime time show.
The new twist featured these media stars as the hosts of their own, play-it-by-ear, criticize-all, no-holds-barred, hour-long show about anything out there and everything relevant. Or irrelevant.
To me, the show was irrelevant. Sir Charles provided nothing like his irreverent persona on the TNT/TBS NBA studio show, where he mouths off freely with Kenny Smith, Shaq and Ernie Johnson.
That Charles was not there on sister network CNN. The show had the potential to be as irreverent as its lead characters can be when they want to be, what with King's subtle witticism capabilities and Barkley's capability not to do such.
If I'm going to watch Charles, I want to see him as irreverent as Elon, without being Elon, tempered by King's ability to rein him in.
She never had to. He never showed up. Stay tuned for next Wednesday.
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Trump wants to do away with the 1st Amendment, the 5th Amendment and 14th Amendment. In other words, good-bye free speech and due process for all.
There are some people out there who believe there was fraud in the 2020 election because Trump says so.
If Trump is elected, those people will be the first to complain when they lose their free speech and their due process.
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Sports Illustrated has become the next media outlet to be tainted by AI. Supposedly, the once great bastion of sports journalism has been using AI-generated articles.
Although the Bears, Giants, Commanders and Cardinals are using AI-generated offense.
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OK, so what's this about?
Daryl Hall has filed a restraining order against once pop-partner recording artist John Oates, allegedly over plans to ... sell interests in their musical rights?
Isn't it always the money when partners break up?
Enjoy the next Hall and Hall concert you go to.
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Many of the same Republican representatives who voted to remove George Santos from the House for his incessant lying that got him elected in the first place are the same Republicans who voted to overturn the 2020 presidential election results which were a product of Donald Trump's incessant lying.
You can have it both ways if you're a Republican.
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Elon Musk told his major advertisers, at a public forum sponsored by the NY Times, to go 'F' themselves, for all intents and purposes, after they abandoned 'X' (nee, Twitter) in the wake of an antisemitic post he put up. But Disney CEO Bob Iger, at the same forum, revealed the same sentiment as many major media companies who pulled their advertising from 'X:' "And by him taking the position that he took in quite a public manner, we just felt that the association with that position and Elon Musk and X was not necessarily a positive one for us, and we decided we would pull our advertising."
Antisemitism does not pay.
If you want to tell off Elon on 'X,' do so quickly - you never know - you could wake up tomorrow with the cash-strapped platform shut down.
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Nobody knows what it will do, but the world's largest iceberg is afloat after breaking off in the Antarctic. It is three times the size of New York City.
Awaiting the next Titanic to come along.
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Black Friday (almost $10 billion) and Cyber Monday (~$12 billion) set records for consumer online purchases this year.
Don't know about you, but I haven't been to a mall, not even Woodfield, since before the pandemic.
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Good night, Mrs. Calabash. Here's to you, Yocheved Lipschitz.
More Sunday night on my Radio Free Phoenix rock 'n' roll show.
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