Mattel suing ‘Coffee with Ken’ podcast is some David vs. Goliath-style bullying

ANOTHER nice little story. Mattel is suing political podster Ken Biberaj, Realtor and former Manhattan Chamber of Commerce chair. Why? Such a good question. Because Ken is using his name, Ken — his own legal name — hung on him in the hospital incubator by his own birth mother, but not allowed as per Mattel.

Why, you ask? His show is “Coffee With Ken.” Mattel insists Ken’s name is associated with Barbie’s squeaky clean boyfriend. And could cause “confusion.” This gigantic cockamamie company — in whose movie “Ken” was Ryan Gosling — is suing, saying Biberaj’s Ken would “damage” its brand. What it might damage is their brain. Lawyers need something to do besides defending the Menendez brothers.

I have spoken with Biberaj who is forging ahead despite its David vs. Goliath bullying. Biberaj’s family owns the Russian Tea Room. If Mattel doesn’t back off, Putin could send his troops over for some chicken Kiev.

A man with killer instincts

Physician and forensic pathologist Dr. Michael Baden is reissuing his updated 2023 book “American Autopsy.”

Former NY chief medical examiner and chief forensic pathologist, he’s consulted on the autopsies of George Floyd, Eric Garner, O.J. Simpson, Martin Luther King Jr., JFK, Medgar Evers and hosted HBO’s “Autopsy” for 14 years.

Baden: “AI will have big input into future diagnoses by utilizing the genetic table. That’s new science.”

About NYC: “Cultural and socioeconomic changes hit everyone. The city’s changed. Moves to the suburbs left behind the working class who struggled to make a living. Some turned to drugs to lighten their burden while landlords stopped making costly repairs to old buildings.

“Police claimed illicit drug abuse was a problem. It’s not new drugs. Six thousand years ago, Neolithic people knew that sap of the poppy seed capsule — opium — killed pain.”

Crime scene: “Plastic body bags are a problem. A body in a bag? Trace evidence — like blood drops on O.J.’s wife Nicole’s back — rub off. Reused bags contaminate newer evidence.”

Baden met Marlon Brando when his son Christian was charged with murder: “Marlon was then not the young, cool Method actor of the ’50s when I saw him. He weighed about 300, wore a muumuu and kept eating a carton of vanilla ice cream.”

JFK, age 46, who died at Dallas’ Parkland Memorial Hospital. “There were conspiracy theories. Like the hit was ordered by mob bosses at JFK and on his brother Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy for cracking down on organized crime. Or, Cuban dictator Fidel Castro, seething over plans to overthrow his communist regime, ordered the hit.”

“American Autopsy.” Nice little bedtime read.

Heading out of town? A summer retreat perhaps. Need an upgrade? Call the mayor, he has some miles left over. 

Only in New York, kids, only in New York.