1 00:00:00,320 --> 00:00:03,760 Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI A six forty on demand. 2 00:00:05,519 --> 00:00:08,280 Speaker 2: Mark Thompson sitting in on this Thursday night, Thank you 3 00:00:08,320 --> 00:00:11,080 Speaker 2: for being part of things. Got the whole crew here. 4 00:00:11,160 --> 00:00:14,000 Speaker 2: Richie is producing the show. Do you have any issues 5 00:00:14,040 --> 00:00:16,720 Speaker 2: of the show? Richie is the name that you need 6 00:00:16,760 --> 00:00:21,000 Speaker 2: to remember. Steph, of course, is all over the board. 7 00:00:21,760 --> 00:00:28,760 Speaker 2: The wonderful Foosh Whoop got famous working here then really 8 00:00:28,800 --> 00:00:32,000 Speaker 2: punched through kind of a breakout moment for him was 9 00:00:32,040 --> 00:00:35,400 Speaker 2: when his car flipped and burst into flames and he 10 00:00:35,520 --> 00:00:39,159 Speaker 2: was pulled from burning wreckage literally within an inch of 11 00:00:39,159 --> 00:00:42,480 Speaker 2: his life. It was one of the most heart stopping 12 00:00:43,360 --> 00:00:46,520 Speaker 2: periods in all of our lives and we weren't even 13 00:00:46,680 --> 00:00:48,320 Speaker 2: in the middle of all that that I just described. 14 00:00:48,400 --> 00:00:53,080 Speaker 2: Imagine how he felt. And since then he's achieved a 15 00:00:53,159 --> 00:00:57,320 Speaker 2: level of notoriety. And it's not a way that I'd 16 00:00:57,320 --> 00:01:02,720 Speaker 2: recommend people achieve a level of notorieting, but I'd say 17 00:01:02,760 --> 00:01:07,640 Speaker 2: that there's been a love for you, step that you 18 00:01:08,520 --> 00:01:12,640 Speaker 2: now realize is uh, it's probably kind of heartwarming, you know. 19 00:01:12,959 --> 00:01:16,959 Speaker 3: I can't I can't overstate the gratitude I have for 20 00:01:17,040 --> 00:01:21,880 Speaker 3: the for the love and the outpouring of you know, emotion, 21 00:01:22,280 --> 00:01:26,480 Speaker 3: to me because you know, there's another guy I listened 22 00:01:26,480 --> 00:01:28,679 Speaker 3: to and he always talks about you know, is anyone 23 00:01:28,720 --> 00:01:30,679 Speaker 3: even listening to us like that type of thing, because 24 00:01:30,840 --> 00:01:34,000 Speaker 3: you know, I see you, I see Mark, I see Richie. 25 00:01:34,200 --> 00:01:36,520 Speaker 2: That's all I see. So I don't see these people. 26 00:01:36,680 --> 00:01:40,760 Speaker 3: So when I got all this affection letters and you know, 27 00:01:42,560 --> 00:01:45,160 Speaker 3: like talkbacks type of thing, I'm just like, oh, people 28 00:01:45,160 --> 00:01:47,040 Speaker 3: do listen and people do care. And so it was 29 00:01:47,120 --> 00:01:50,000 Speaker 3: it was really I mean it was humbling and heartwarming. 30 00:01:50,120 --> 00:01:53,200 Speaker 2: Sure, yeah, sure, And some of those moments that we've 31 00:01:53,840 --> 00:01:57,680 Speaker 2: we've seen along the lines of you being reunited with 32 00:01:57,720 --> 00:02:01,240 Speaker 2: the guys who pulls you out of the car, I mean, 33 00:02:01,400 --> 00:02:03,800 Speaker 2: these are you know, passers by who didn't just like 34 00:02:03,960 --> 00:02:06,920 Speaker 2: record it and posted to their Instagram. These are people 35 00:02:06,920 --> 00:02:10,120 Speaker 2: who actually decided, hey, I can make a difference here maybe, 36 00:02:10,240 --> 00:02:13,120 Speaker 2: and there's somebody in that car that's on fire, and 37 00:02:13,200 --> 00:02:16,280 Speaker 2: to see you reunited with them, that White House event 38 00:02:16,400 --> 00:02:19,440 Speaker 2: was really something. To see you heal up and you 39 00:02:19,560 --> 00:02:21,320 Speaker 2: still got a ways to go, but you've, you know, 40 00:02:21,440 --> 00:02:25,040 Speaker 2: really so much of the way you've come. And then, 41 00:02:25,200 --> 00:02:27,880 Speaker 2: as you've said, the outpouring is incredible. There's a gofund 42 00:02:27,960 --> 00:02:29,400 Speaker 2: me there was a I mean, there was a there 43 00:02:29,440 --> 00:02:34,000 Speaker 2: are ways to help you out because of the insane 44 00:02:34,080 --> 00:02:35,760 Speaker 2: setback that the whole thing really was. 45 00:02:36,040 --> 00:02:38,360 Speaker 3: And people reached out to me that I hadn't talked 46 00:02:38,360 --> 00:02:42,480 Speaker 3: to in years, and even they either donated or they 47 00:02:42,520 --> 00:02:45,840 Speaker 3: would just like send their blessings, and I'm like, wow, yeah, 48 00:02:45,880 --> 00:02:48,720 Speaker 3: so you know it really it shows well, one, it 49 00:02:48,720 --> 00:02:50,960 Speaker 3: shows the power of KFI, like the reach it has, 50 00:02:51,440 --> 00:02:54,280 Speaker 3: but it also just shows the humanity in people. And 51 00:02:54,320 --> 00:02:56,959 Speaker 3: it's just like, yeah, I can't overstate how grateful I 52 00:02:57,000 --> 00:02:57,480 Speaker 3: am for that. 53 00:02:57,560 --> 00:02:59,760 Speaker 2: Every day. Usually people reach out to you in this 54 00:02:59,800 --> 00:03:01,880 Speaker 2: bitiness if they find out that you've gotten a big 55 00:03:02,000 --> 00:03:04,680 Speaker 2: job that you might be able to, you know, throw 56 00:03:04,720 --> 00:03:08,280 Speaker 2: them a bone on you know that that's really what 57 00:03:08,320 --> 00:03:11,480 Speaker 2: this business is about. Got that big job at Warner Brothers. 58 00:03:11,520 --> 00:03:14,839 Speaker 2: That's terrific. Hey, congratulations, listen. I hope it's not too early, 59 00:03:14,880 --> 00:03:16,960 Speaker 2: but I'm just gonna send you over some stuff. I've 60 00:03:16,960 --> 00:03:20,240 Speaker 2: got a couple of pitches that yeah, that's sort of 61 00:03:20,280 --> 00:03:24,640 Speaker 2: the typical Hollywood dance. But yeah, and then of course 62 00:03:24,680 --> 00:03:29,040 Speaker 2: Mark Ronner is running the news game for us tonight. 63 00:03:29,160 --> 00:03:31,239 Speaker 2: I was hoping you could hook me up with something. Yeah, 64 00:03:32,480 --> 00:03:34,480 Speaker 2: you've been kind of remiss on that front. I'm trying 65 00:03:34,480 --> 00:03:36,040 Speaker 2: to hook me up with something. I don't even know 66 00:03:36,040 --> 00:03:39,320 Speaker 2: what the something is, and I'm trying to hook me up. Okay. Yeah. 67 00:03:39,360 --> 00:03:45,640 Speaker 2: The California Zone zero landscaping law has a lot to 68 00:03:45,720 --> 00:03:49,000 Speaker 2: do with what we experienced a year ago in southern California, 69 00:03:49,040 --> 00:03:54,800 Speaker 2: and that is the fires, and it is controversial. Here 70 00:03:54,880 --> 00:03:56,920 Speaker 2: are a couple of the details that I think you'll 71 00:03:57,680 --> 00:04:00,400 Speaker 2: you'll find interesting, just from the standpoint of, on the 72 00:04:00,400 --> 00:04:03,680 Speaker 2: one hand, realizing why they're important, on the other why 73 00:04:04,080 --> 00:04:06,640 Speaker 2: it might be, as I say, a little bit of 74 00:04:06,640 --> 00:04:07,400 Speaker 2: a controversy. 75 00:04:07,560 --> 00:04:11,120 Speaker 4: Following last year's wildfires, a battle is raging over how 76 00:04:11,120 --> 00:04:14,800 Speaker 4: to prevent future catastrophic fires in California and whether new 77 00:04:14,840 --> 00:04:18,880 Speaker 4: regulations could help homeowners get insured. Although thousands of homes 78 00:04:18,880 --> 00:04:22,520 Speaker 4: in Los Angeles exist in very high fire zones, every 79 00:04:22,560 --> 00:04:26,080 Speaker 4: neighborhood is different, which has some concerned about a one 80 00:04:26,160 --> 00:04:30,120 Speaker 4: size fits all law called zone zero, the newest iteration 81 00:04:30,240 --> 00:04:34,919 Speaker 4: of California's defensible space requirements. Zone zero is the area 82 00:04:35,240 --> 00:04:38,640 Speaker 4: closest to a homes perimeter, the space from zero to 83 00:04:38,760 --> 00:04:43,279 Speaker 4: five feet. The goal to create an ember resistant defensible zone. 84 00:04:43,400 --> 00:04:45,719 Speaker 5: I live in an urban, dense neighborhood and they're applying 85 00:04:46,440 --> 00:04:51,400 Speaker 5: rural wildfire zone regulations to me, and the fire risks 86 00:04:51,440 --> 00:04:54,400 Speaker 5: here in the conditions are not the same. They're absolutely different. 87 00:04:54,440 --> 00:04:57,520 Speaker 5: And I know from the scientists we've talked to. Science 88 00:04:57,520 --> 00:05:00,960 Speaker 5: shows that in southern California and wind driven fires, homes 89 00:05:01,000 --> 00:05:03,960 Speaker 5: burn not because of my hydrate of vegetation, but because 90 00:05:04,000 --> 00:05:06,400 Speaker 5: of embers and building vulnerabilities. 91 00:05:06,520 --> 00:05:08,200 Speaker 2: I mean, I hate to say it, but she makes 92 00:05:08,200 --> 00:05:11,320 Speaker 2: a lot of sense. I mean, I don't even know 93 00:05:11,360 --> 00:05:12,720 Speaker 2: why I said I hate to say it. I think 94 00:05:12,720 --> 00:05:16,560 Speaker 2: that she makes a lot of sense. Straight up, you're 95 00:05:16,600 --> 00:05:20,520 Speaker 2: trying to build around these homes and structures defensible space. 96 00:05:21,000 --> 00:05:24,760 Speaker 2: But as she says, many of these fires don't have 97 00:05:24,800 --> 00:05:27,479 Speaker 2: to do with the lack of defensible space. They have 98 00:05:27,560 --> 00:05:30,080 Speaker 2: to do with these embers being blown caught under eaves, 99 00:05:30,160 --> 00:05:35,960 Speaker 2: and before you know it, fires can hopscotch and huge, 100 00:05:36,080 --> 00:05:38,240 Speaker 2: huge conflagrations can become even bigger. 101 00:05:38,320 --> 00:05:46,599 Speaker 6: It's an extreme reaction that is completely unnecessary and misplaced, 102 00:05:46,760 --> 00:05:50,520 Speaker 6: because to put the blame just on plants is insane. 103 00:05:50,800 --> 00:05:54,240 Speaker 4: Zones zero regulations remain in a draft phase, but could 104 00:05:54,320 --> 00:05:59,160 Speaker 4: require removing combustible materials adjacent to a structure, removing dead 105 00:05:59,240 --> 00:06:02,839 Speaker 4: leaves and flammable plants from your yard, roof and gutters, 106 00:06:03,160 --> 00:06:06,960 Speaker 4: trimming overhanging branches to at least ten feet from chimneys, 107 00:06:07,320 --> 00:06:10,279 Speaker 4: and maintaining space between trees and shrubs. 108 00:06:10,760 --> 00:06:14,800 Speaker 7: The January wildfires almost a year ago, really put a 109 00:06:14,839 --> 00:06:18,880 Speaker 7: finer point on the need for zone zero because you know, 110 00:06:18,960 --> 00:06:21,960 Speaker 7: what we saw, of course in the Palisades and Eden fires, 111 00:06:22,040 --> 00:06:26,039 Speaker 7: quite tragically, is what we call like urban conflagration, where 112 00:06:26,160 --> 00:06:28,599 Speaker 7: you know, the fire came from outside the community, but 113 00:06:28,640 --> 00:06:33,320 Speaker 7: then once inside the community, the fire was jumping from 114 00:06:33,360 --> 00:06:38,839 Speaker 7: from home to home, oftentimes you know, connected by combustible 115 00:06:39,320 --> 00:06:40,719 Speaker 7: material between the homes. 116 00:06:41,000 --> 00:06:44,120 Speaker 2: Thousands have engaged. I have to say, though, that you 117 00:06:44,160 --> 00:06:48,640 Speaker 2: can't tell me that had this zone zero been in 118 00:06:48,720 --> 00:06:50,479 Speaker 2: effect at the time, that it would have had an 119 00:06:50,480 --> 00:06:53,440 Speaker 2: appreciable impact on the kind of destruction that we're talking 120 00:06:53,480 --> 00:06:56,160 Speaker 2: about from a year ago. I just think that that 121 00:06:56,279 --> 00:07:01,599 Speaker 2: might be a reach. Again, don't know, and just another opinion, 122 00:07:01,800 --> 00:07:06,560 Speaker 2: but if you look at the widespread devastation, it's hard 123 00:07:06,600 --> 00:07:09,440 Speaker 2: for me to ascribe a lot of that too. Somehow, 124 00:07:10,160 --> 00:07:16,360 Speaker 2: the presence of combustible material, It seemed to me that 125 00:07:16,840 --> 00:07:21,440 Speaker 2: these homes and neighborhoods were devastated by winds that supercharged 126 00:07:22,760 --> 00:07:27,520 Speaker 2: the fire after it started. So once that ignition has begun, 127 00:07:27,840 --> 00:07:29,680 Speaker 2: and again in the case of the Eton fire, it 128 00:07:29,760 --> 00:07:32,560 Speaker 2: was power lines. In the case of the Palisades fire, 129 00:07:32,720 --> 00:07:40,680 Speaker 2: it likely was that kind of dormant amber or two 130 00:07:41,080 --> 00:07:44,160 Speaker 2: or however many there were that were associated with that 131 00:07:44,440 --> 00:07:50,120 Speaker 2: fire from New Year's Day. In any case, once the 132 00:07:50,160 --> 00:07:54,320 Speaker 2: fire started, it was driven by those winds now. Again, 133 00:07:55,000 --> 00:07:57,440 Speaker 2: that's not to say that there isn't important work to 134 00:07:57,480 --> 00:07:59,960 Speaker 2: be done in terms of clearing around many of these structures. 135 00:08:00,120 --> 00:08:03,680 Speaker 2: You can actually remove a lot of these combustible materials 136 00:08:03,720 --> 00:08:05,560 Speaker 2: that are adjacent to structures, and maybe it would make 137 00:08:05,560 --> 00:08:09,080 Speaker 2: a difference. But I'm just saying to point to this 138 00:08:11,480 --> 00:08:15,520 Speaker 2: at least as it was relevant to what happened a 139 00:08:15,600 --> 00:08:18,200 Speaker 2: year ago. I think that feels like a reach to me, 140 00:08:18,560 --> 00:08:20,160 Speaker 2: but I'm open to take a meeting on it. 141 00:08:20,400 --> 00:08:25,320 Speaker 1: You know, you're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand. 142 00:08:28,400 --> 00:08:33,000 Speaker 2: You can join us. Not only listening, you can participate. 143 00:08:33,640 --> 00:08:37,040 Speaker 2: That's right. You have the iHeartRadio app talkback feature upper 144 00:08:37,080 --> 00:08:41,640 Speaker 2: right hand part of the phone. Whatever device you're listening on, 145 00:08:43,200 --> 00:08:45,959 Speaker 2: there's a microphone. You hit that microphone and you've got 146 00:08:45,960 --> 00:08:49,400 Speaker 2: a thirty second window to leave your thoughts whatever you'd like, 147 00:08:50,520 --> 00:08:53,360 Speaker 2: So go for it, and we'll share a couple there 148 00:08:53,480 --> 00:08:58,320 Speaker 2: was there were one or two, I think maybe even 149 00:08:58,360 --> 00:09:00,000 Speaker 2: three or four that we'll get to in a little while. 150 00:09:00,080 --> 00:09:02,200 Speaker 2: I just wanted to round out what we were talking 151 00:09:02,200 --> 00:09:05,880 Speaker 2: about because we're talking about the fires and this new proposal, 152 00:09:05,960 --> 00:09:07,600 Speaker 2: and the fires, of course from a year ago have 153 00:09:08,000 --> 00:09:11,520 Speaker 2: been transformational, I mean in a bad way as far 154 00:09:11,559 --> 00:09:16,280 Speaker 2: as southern California is concerned. The Palisades Altadena and the 155 00:09:16,320 --> 00:09:19,400 Speaker 2: ways in which insurance companies were already pulling out of 156 00:09:19,640 --> 00:09:24,760 Speaker 2: insuring properties in southern California, and now you see that continuing, 157 00:09:24,840 --> 00:09:28,200 Speaker 2: and then insurance companies demanding certain concessions on the part 158 00:09:28,200 --> 00:09:31,800 Speaker 2: of homeowners in addition to more money. They're looking at 159 00:09:31,880 --> 00:09:35,080 Speaker 2: landscaping and landscaping laws, and they're attending all of these 160 00:09:35,160 --> 00:09:39,679 Speaker 2: assembly meetings that have any number of different suggestions that 161 00:09:39,760 --> 00:09:43,160 Speaker 2: may address a lot of these fire concerns. So here 162 00:09:43,160 --> 00:09:47,640 Speaker 2: we are a year out and California's zone zero landscaping law, 163 00:09:47,679 --> 00:09:52,640 Speaker 2: which limits brush around homes, is creating all of this debate. 164 00:09:53,240 --> 00:09:54,440 Speaker 2: And we were in the middle of it, and I 165 00:09:54,520 --> 00:09:57,800 Speaker 2: just wanted to at least round it out by explaining 166 00:09:57,840 --> 00:10:00,880 Speaker 2: that insurance companies are a big component of this too, 167 00:10:00,960 --> 00:10:04,160 Speaker 2: So you just can't blow this off because on some 168 00:10:04,360 --> 00:10:08,160 Speaker 2: level you need these insurance companies to have sufficient confidence 169 00:10:08,760 --> 00:10:11,079 Speaker 2: that they move in and ensure a lot of these 170 00:10:11,120 --> 00:10:13,199 Speaker 2: areas that it would otherwise be uninsurable. 171 00:10:13,360 --> 00:10:15,960 Speaker 4: Thousands have engaged with the Border Forestry, and the release 172 00:10:16,000 --> 00:10:18,760 Speaker 4: of the final zones of your regulations have been pushed 173 00:10:18,760 --> 00:10:22,520 Speaker 4: to the spring. Once approved, homeowners would have three years 174 00:10:22,559 --> 00:10:26,400 Speaker 4: to implement them. Enforcement would be through education and outreach, 175 00:10:26,640 --> 00:10:29,880 Speaker 4: and local jurisdictions would be able to adopt their own rules. 176 00:10:30,080 --> 00:10:34,520 Speaker 2: And again, just to reiterate, so you'd remove combustible materials 177 00:10:34,559 --> 00:10:38,200 Speaker 2: adjacent to where you live. You'd remove dead leaves and 178 00:10:38,240 --> 00:10:43,280 Speaker 2: flammable plants from the yard, the roof, the gutters. They'd 179 00:10:43,280 --> 00:10:46,560 Speaker 2: make us trim overhanging branches to at least ten feet 180 00:10:46,640 --> 00:10:52,800 Speaker 2: from chimneys and maintain space between trees and also any shrubbery. 181 00:10:53,480 --> 00:10:56,760 Speaker 2: So this doesn't feel like, you know, too rough a 182 00:10:56,840 --> 00:11:03,400 Speaker 2: wish list, but that's the kind of overall broad brush 183 00:11:03,559 --> 00:11:07,800 Speaker 2: of zone zero, and certain municipalities might have more specifics 184 00:11:07,800 --> 00:11:08,880 Speaker 2: that might be more onerous. 185 00:11:09,120 --> 00:11:10,920 Speaker 8: The challenge for us in government is how do we 186 00:11:11,559 --> 00:11:16,280 Speaker 8: come up with a policy that is as least restrictive 187 00:11:16,320 --> 00:11:19,880 Speaker 8: as possible to respect people's property rights and aesthetic needs 188 00:11:19,880 --> 00:11:23,800 Speaker 8: and decisions, while also taking the steps necessary to dramatically 189 00:11:23,880 --> 00:11:24,600 Speaker 8: reduce fire risk. 190 00:11:24,880 --> 00:11:27,440 Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what I'm saying. So you know, again the 191 00:11:27,440 --> 00:11:30,559 Speaker 2: broad strokes after you respected, but it actually could be 192 00:11:31,240 --> 00:11:36,960 Speaker 2: even tougher, and you're having to on some level chill out. 193 00:11:36,960 --> 00:11:40,960 Speaker 2: The insurance companies that are leaving California and those that 194 00:11:41,000 --> 00:11:46,200 Speaker 2: aren't leaving are jacking up our insurance prices to levels 195 00:11:46,200 --> 00:11:48,840 Speaker 2: that make it very tough oftentimes to ensure your place 196 00:11:48,880 --> 00:11:49,200 Speaker 2: at all. 197 00:11:49,280 --> 00:11:51,280 Speaker 8: I really want to ground this in fire science, but 198 00:11:51,360 --> 00:11:54,320 Speaker 8: it's clear to me that just telling everyone to cut 199 00:11:54,320 --> 00:11:56,680 Speaker 8: back all their plans within five feet of their homes, 200 00:11:57,040 --> 00:12:00,760 Speaker 8: with no mention given of the of the of the plant, 201 00:12:00,760 --> 00:12:03,120 Speaker 8: the type of plant, the maintenance of the plant, all 202 00:12:03,120 --> 00:12:05,720 Speaker 8: those kinds of things, seems a little over the top. 203 00:12:05,880 --> 00:12:11,480 Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean that's also not taking stock of where 204 00:12:11,480 --> 00:12:14,880 Speaker 2: the structure is. Where is this home? I mean, is 205 00:12:14,880 --> 00:12:16,880 Speaker 2: it in an area that is likely to burn? There? 206 00:12:16,880 --> 00:12:22,079 Speaker 2: Shouldn't there be different restrictions and different regulations for different areas. 207 00:12:22,520 --> 00:12:24,680 Speaker 2: So this is a good point. I mean, not only 208 00:12:24,720 --> 00:12:27,040 Speaker 2: is the kind of vegetation right, not all vegetation is 209 00:12:27,080 --> 00:12:31,640 Speaker 2: the same, Not all vegetation is equally flammable, and not 210 00:12:31,880 --> 00:12:34,920 Speaker 2: all homes are located in the same kind of way 211 00:12:35,080 --> 00:12:36,760 Speaker 2: or situated in the same kind of way. 212 00:12:36,880 --> 00:12:39,480 Speaker 5: The insurance industry shows up at every meeting and says, no, 213 00:12:40,200 --> 00:12:43,240 Speaker 5: everything must go, everything must go. So who do they 214 00:12:43,280 --> 00:12:46,480 Speaker 5: listen to? The scientists at UCLA who advise me, or 215 00:12:46,520 --> 00:12:49,280 Speaker 5: the insurance company that is holding California hostage. 216 00:12:49,320 --> 00:12:52,760 Speaker 2: I'm telling you this is exactly right. These insurance companies 217 00:12:52,840 --> 00:12:56,800 Speaker 2: are holding California hostage. You can't sell a house if 218 00:12:56,840 --> 00:12:57,600 Speaker 2: you can't insure it. 219 00:12:58,160 --> 00:13:03,000 Speaker 4: Following zones zero regulations won't guarantee insurance. The Border Forestry 220 00:13:03,080 --> 00:13:06,680 Speaker 4: says Zone zero will affect about two million structures, which 221 00:13:06,720 --> 00:13:11,319 Speaker 4: is seventeen percent of all structures in California. For Yael Pardez, 222 00:13:11,320 --> 00:13:14,760 Speaker 4: who's lived in Mount Washington for almost thirty years and 223 00:13:14,920 --> 00:13:18,080 Speaker 4: like so many Angelinos, has stayed because of the beauty 224 00:13:18,120 --> 00:13:21,120 Speaker 4: and wildlife so close to the second largest city in 225 00:13:21,160 --> 00:13:24,200 Speaker 4: the country, she says Zone zero could force her to leave. 226 00:13:24,559 --> 00:13:28,800 Speaker 6: These rules are so contra to our lives here, to 227 00:13:29,040 --> 00:13:33,360 Speaker 6: our environment, to our birds, to the heat, to the shade. 228 00:13:33,720 --> 00:13:38,320 Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it's not wrong. You're here for a reason. 229 00:13:38,840 --> 00:13:45,800 Speaker 2: You're here for the magnificent kind of in some areas 230 00:13:45,840 --> 00:13:50,920 Speaker 2: this verdant, you know, green wondrous place. In other areas 231 00:13:50,960 --> 00:13:53,400 Speaker 2: sort of a desert scape and you can sort of 232 00:13:53,440 --> 00:13:55,400 Speaker 2: pick the kind of landscaping you want to do. In 233 00:13:55,400 --> 00:13:59,040 Speaker 2: southern California, it's a very friendly area when it comes 234 00:13:59,120 --> 00:14:03,520 Speaker 2: to all sorts of plantings and all sorts of wondrous 235 00:14:03,600 --> 00:14:09,200 Speaker 2: things you can do with a garden. It's now become 236 00:14:09,240 --> 00:14:11,320 Speaker 2: one of those things where sacrifices are going to have 237 00:14:11,360 --> 00:14:15,960 Speaker 2: to be made. I mean, it sucks, but it's just true. 238 00:14:16,360 --> 00:14:18,880 Speaker 2: I do think when it comes to trees and some 239 00:14:18,960 --> 00:14:25,040 Speaker 2: of these overhangs and some of the vegetation that is 240 00:14:25,320 --> 00:14:27,920 Speaker 2: flammable and close to your house, it does represent a risk. 241 00:14:28,120 --> 00:14:29,840 Speaker 2: I told you what happened in Brentwood. We lost our 242 00:14:29,880 --> 00:14:36,560 Speaker 2: house to fire. And before the fire, by about a year, 243 00:14:37,440 --> 00:14:41,440 Speaker 2: we had this magnificent tree that grew up right alongside 244 00:14:41,480 --> 00:14:43,720 Speaker 2: the deck. The deck had a big view, and the 245 00:14:43,760 --> 00:14:46,800 Speaker 2: deck was there and was sort of a place where 246 00:14:46,840 --> 00:14:48,800 Speaker 2: a lot of people congregated and where I used to 247 00:14:48,880 --> 00:14:51,280 Speaker 2: just sit every morning, and I was always so grateful 248 00:14:51,320 --> 00:14:55,760 Speaker 2: for it, always, always, always, and this huge tree was 249 00:14:55,840 --> 00:14:58,400 Speaker 2: part of it. It shaded what otherwise would be a 250 00:14:58,400 --> 00:15:02,560 Speaker 2: really hot space. Well, it got to some beetles. What's 251 00:15:02,600 --> 00:15:05,640 Speaker 2: the beetle that destroys all of the trees. There's a 252 00:15:06,000 --> 00:15:09,480 Speaker 2: kind of beetle that's very common, and it got a 253 00:15:09,480 --> 00:15:11,960 Speaker 2: hold of this tree and it just it cord it out. 254 00:15:12,080 --> 00:15:18,560 Speaker 2: And the landscape tree experts said, the tree's going to die, 255 00:15:18,720 --> 00:15:21,760 Speaker 2: and yawt to cop it, cut it down. It would 256 00:15:21,760 --> 00:15:24,160 Speaker 2: to me, I mean I literally choked up when we 257 00:15:24,240 --> 00:15:26,640 Speaker 2: cut that tree down. It was so much a part 258 00:15:26,760 --> 00:15:31,600 Speaker 2: of everything, of the soul of the house, if you will. Well, 259 00:15:32,200 --> 00:15:36,240 Speaker 2: when the fire hit, the fire screamed up the side 260 00:15:36,480 --> 00:15:44,360 Speaker 2: of the mountain, and it would have immediately ignited that tree. 261 00:15:44,440 --> 00:15:52,280 Speaker 2: And the tree was so so present and did tower 262 00:15:52,320 --> 00:15:55,160 Speaker 2: over the house. It definitely would have caused the house 263 00:15:55,200 --> 00:15:57,920 Speaker 2: to burn down. Now, the house was damaged by fire 264 00:15:58,000 --> 00:16:00,560 Speaker 2: substantially enough that we had to leave, but the house 265 00:16:00,640 --> 00:16:03,040 Speaker 2: wasn't destroyed by fire, and it would have been destroyed 266 00:16:03,080 --> 00:16:06,200 Speaker 2: probably had that tree been there. So we have this 267 00:16:06,280 --> 00:16:10,320 Speaker 2: sort of love of these trees and all the vegetation 268 00:16:10,480 --> 00:16:14,880 Speaker 2: and the kind of wondrous southern California environment and California 269 00:16:14,960 --> 00:16:19,200 Speaker 2: environment generally northern and southern. That is just I think 270 00:16:19,280 --> 00:16:23,080 Speaker 2: it's singular in all the world. But there are concessions 271 00:16:23,120 --> 00:16:27,480 Speaker 2: we have to make to this threat and this fire danger. 272 00:16:27,760 --> 00:16:29,320 Speaker 2: And so I mean, I don't know if it's this 273 00:16:29,440 --> 00:16:33,880 Speaker 2: zone zero and this is just a general pitch, but 274 00:16:33,960 --> 00:16:36,800 Speaker 2: I know that it's getting tougher and tougher for us 275 00:16:36,920 --> 00:16:40,360 Speaker 2: just to plant whatever we want and have whatever we 276 00:16:40,400 --> 00:16:44,160 Speaker 2: want wherever we want, without regard to the fire danger. 277 00:16:44,560 --> 00:16:50,400 Speaker 2: So when we come back viral outbreaks on the horizon, 278 00:16:50,920 --> 00:16:58,080 Speaker 2: Oh my god, good news. Everybody viruses, infectious diseases, we 279 00:16:58,240 --> 00:17:03,040 Speaker 2: have it all. You got your influenzas, maybe your influenza A. 280 00:17:03,800 --> 00:17:06,800 Speaker 2: I'll see your influenza A and I will raise you 281 00:17:07,800 --> 00:17:12,080 Speaker 2: an mpox virus details. 282 00:17:12,640 --> 00:17:17,520 Speaker 1: Next, you're listening to KFI AM sixty on demand. 283 00:17:19,320 --> 00:17:22,320 Speaker 2: Mark Thompson's sitting in on Thursday night at the Big 284 00:17:22,400 --> 00:17:26,840 Speaker 2: iHeart mother Ship in Burbank, California. And this is where 285 00:17:27,920 --> 00:17:35,000 Speaker 2: Ryan Seacrest comes every day. Yeah, right, Could Ryan find 286 00:17:35,000 --> 00:17:37,240 Speaker 2: this place if he had to? Yeah? Oh yeah, is 287 00:17:37,280 --> 00:17:41,480 Speaker 2: he here? Yeah, this is EJ, the DJ from Kiss FM. Hi, guys, 288 00:17:42,280 --> 00:17:44,480 Speaker 2: I just assume that Ryan does it from home or something. 289 00:17:44,520 --> 00:17:47,719 Speaker 2: Am I wrong? Are you kidding me? He comes in, 290 00:17:47,880 --> 00:17:49,880 Speaker 2: I'll tell you what I know. All right, Well that's 291 00:17:49,880 --> 00:17:53,920 Speaker 2: impressive then then Ryan, I owe you an apology. Stack 292 00:17:53,960 --> 00:17:56,200 Speaker 2: it onto the other apologies that I've offered you through 293 00:17:56,200 --> 00:18:00,000 Speaker 2: the year. So EJ the DJ from from from Kiss FM. 294 00:18:00,320 --> 00:18:05,560 Speaker 2: You you I see doing other stuff besides that, Like 295 00:18:05,600 --> 00:18:07,560 Speaker 2: they bring you in on Access? Is it Access? 296 00:18:07,600 --> 00:18:10,480 Speaker 9: Where are they Access Daily? I was there actually earlier today. 297 00:18:11,080 --> 00:18:16,080 Speaker 2: That was fun. Yeah, so you're on that's NBC, right, yeah, yeah, 298 00:18:16,240 --> 00:18:17,639 Speaker 2: And so what were you talking? We talk about the 299 00:18:17,640 --> 00:18:18,080 Speaker 2: Golden Globes. 300 00:18:18,119 --> 00:18:20,680 Speaker 9: We're talking about the Golden Globes and how just the 301 00:18:21,200 --> 00:18:24,240 Speaker 9: pop culture and everything that's being intertwined with the Golden 302 00:18:24,280 --> 00:18:27,320 Speaker 9: Globes with kip hop, Demon Hunters, how that's nominated for 303 00:18:27,320 --> 00:18:31,560 Speaker 9: a song Miley Cyrus is nominated with Avatar, and and 304 00:18:32,040 --> 00:18:33,200 Speaker 9: we talked about centers. 305 00:18:33,200 --> 00:18:35,960 Speaker 2: We talked about a lot of things. That's really cool. So, yeah, 306 00:18:36,000 --> 00:18:39,720 Speaker 2: as you look at the Golden Globes, how do you 307 00:18:39,720 --> 00:18:41,919 Speaker 2: look at them? Is it really just to be in 308 00:18:41,960 --> 00:18:45,600 Speaker 2: the conversation? Does it help the careers and help franchises, 309 00:18:46,000 --> 00:18:47,879 Speaker 2: or do you have to win a Golden Globe? I mean, 310 00:18:48,080 --> 00:18:51,680 Speaker 2: in other words, I look at all these shows in 311 00:18:51,960 --> 00:18:54,639 Speaker 2: a different way, Like I think, just to be nominated 312 00:18:54,680 --> 00:18:56,760 Speaker 2: for an Oscar it helps your career, right. 313 00:18:56,880 --> 00:18:58,359 Speaker 9: You know what's funny because you hear a lot of 314 00:18:58,400 --> 00:19:01,000 Speaker 9: people say that Oscar did nothing of their career, you 315 00:19:01,000 --> 00:19:01,520 Speaker 9: know what I mean? 316 00:19:01,720 --> 00:19:03,560 Speaker 2: No, I don't hear a lot of that. I felt. 317 00:19:04,920 --> 00:19:07,880 Speaker 9: I feel like I've read articles and things like that 318 00:19:07,920 --> 00:19:10,399 Speaker 9: where the Oscar like essentially didn't do it. 319 00:19:10,640 --> 00:19:13,119 Speaker 2: Can know if people could be disappointed they didn't do 320 00:19:13,280 --> 00:19:13,639 Speaker 2: enough for them. 321 00:19:13,720 --> 00:19:15,520 Speaker 9: Yes, I know a lot of people feel like that 322 00:19:15,520 --> 00:19:18,560 Speaker 9: they want to do more since they feel like the 323 00:19:18,560 --> 00:19:20,680 Speaker 9: calls would come in a lot more when you get 324 00:19:20,680 --> 00:19:22,800 Speaker 9: an Oscar. But you know what's interesting, I am not 325 00:19:22,840 --> 00:19:25,320 Speaker 9: necessarily an award show watcher, you know what I mean. 326 00:19:25,720 --> 00:19:28,639 Speaker 9: Back in the day when Twitter first started and Twitter 327 00:19:28,680 --> 00:19:31,119 Speaker 9: was first popping, I would watch the awards just so 328 00:19:31,200 --> 00:19:34,560 Speaker 9: I can talk about things that would happening in the awards. 329 00:19:34,600 --> 00:19:37,159 Speaker 2: Sure, you know what I mean. Yeah, that's pop culture 330 00:19:37,200 --> 00:19:39,399 Speaker 2: that's being connected to the culture at the moment. 331 00:19:39,600 --> 00:19:42,800 Speaker 9: We would live tweet the award shows and that's how 332 00:19:42,840 --> 00:19:44,000 Speaker 9: I feel like I would watch it. 333 00:19:44,119 --> 00:19:44,280 Speaker 2: Now. 334 00:19:44,359 --> 00:19:46,239 Speaker 9: You can't sit me down to get to watch it 335 00:19:46,359 --> 00:19:49,240 Speaker 9: unless it's the iHeart Awards or something like that. 336 00:19:49,280 --> 00:19:51,480 Speaker 2: I'm not watching an award show. Yeah, but you're right, though, 337 00:19:51,480 --> 00:19:55,720 Speaker 2: there was a collective viewing experience of the Oscars, especially 338 00:19:55,720 --> 00:19:59,959 Speaker 2: when Twitter was kind of at its peak, you know, absolutely, 339 00:20:00,040 --> 00:20:01,840 Speaker 2: but everybody was there and there was before there was 340 00:20:01,840 --> 00:20:04,440 Speaker 2: the politics and all of that. There was this sense 341 00:20:04,440 --> 00:20:07,480 Speaker 2: that we can all, you know, talk like community. Yes, 342 00:20:07,720 --> 00:20:08,720 Speaker 2: it was community. 343 00:20:08,920 --> 00:20:09,080 Speaker 10: You know. 344 00:20:09,119 --> 00:20:12,280 Speaker 9: What's interesting when it came to like the BET Awards 345 00:20:12,280 --> 00:20:14,560 Speaker 9: and the MTV Awards and American Music Awards and things 346 00:20:14,600 --> 00:20:18,680 Speaker 9: like that, it felt like community because everybody had something 347 00:20:18,720 --> 00:20:21,479 Speaker 9: to say. Everybody has something to say, what people were wearing, 348 00:20:21,920 --> 00:20:24,959 Speaker 9: what they were performing, what they were on stage saying. 349 00:20:25,119 --> 00:20:25,520 Speaker 2: And that. 350 00:20:25,520 --> 00:20:28,280 Speaker 9: That was probably my favorite era of awards shows. But 351 00:20:28,320 --> 00:20:30,159 Speaker 9: I feel like that doesn't happen. I agree, and I 352 00:20:30,600 --> 00:20:32,440 Speaker 9: agree also that it's not happening anymore. And I don't 353 00:20:32,440 --> 00:20:36,359 Speaker 9: know why. I mean, you had the Joan River, Yeah, 354 00:20:36,600 --> 00:20:39,280 Speaker 9: maybe that's it. It might be attention spans. I think 355 00:20:39,320 --> 00:20:42,280 Speaker 9: also there's such a proliferation of this stuff, like you 356 00:20:42,320 --> 00:20:45,880 Speaker 9: don't need to go to TV for that Joan Rivers 357 00:20:46,520 --> 00:20:50,560 Speaker 9: cappin on the white people were dressing. It's all over Instagram, 358 00:20:50,600 --> 00:20:55,840 Speaker 9: it's all over people's individual social media accounts, it's on TikTok. 359 00:20:56,000 --> 00:20:57,840 Speaker 2: Yeah. I guess what I'm saying is there's so many 360 00:20:57,880 --> 00:21:01,080 Speaker 2: different outlets commenting that maybe at some point you kind 361 00:21:01,080 --> 00:21:05,080 Speaker 2: of lose the community. Yeah, because not everybody's going to 362 00:21:05,119 --> 00:21:05,879 Speaker 2: the same place. 363 00:21:06,280 --> 00:21:09,399 Speaker 9: You know what's interesting when it comes to people like 364 00:21:09,680 --> 00:21:13,520 Speaker 9: Joan Rivers, I would absolutely flock to that TV show 365 00:21:13,560 --> 00:21:16,320 Speaker 9: because she thought she was hilarious and what she was 366 00:21:16,359 --> 00:21:19,199 Speaker 9: saying about these people to outfits and just like you know, 367 00:21:19,400 --> 00:21:22,600 Speaker 9: super what's the word bold in what she was saying, 368 00:21:22,600 --> 00:21:27,400 Speaker 9: and she exactly did not care about these people's feelings. 369 00:21:27,720 --> 00:21:30,040 Speaker 9: But I think now there's just so much you know, 370 00:21:30,240 --> 00:21:32,919 Speaker 9: opportunities and places and outlets where you can go and 371 00:21:32,960 --> 00:21:33,920 Speaker 9: get that stuff from otherwhere? 372 00:21:34,119 --> 00:21:36,239 Speaker 2: Do you think now that we've become more fearful like 373 00:21:36,359 --> 00:21:39,679 Speaker 2: now it's harder to I don't think. And you know, 374 00:21:39,840 --> 00:21:41,960 Speaker 2: coming from Access or coming from any of these other 375 00:21:42,040 --> 00:21:47,520 Speaker 2: shows where they day after review everybody's look, I don't 376 00:21:47,560 --> 00:21:50,720 Speaker 2: think you've got the cheeky nastiness that you used to have. 377 00:21:50,880 --> 00:21:54,000 Speaker 2: I think now people are afraid of insulting or am 378 00:21:54,040 --> 00:21:56,760 Speaker 2: I wrong, or being canceled or saying something wrong. 379 00:21:56,960 --> 00:21:59,560 Speaker 9: I think it's not the same like how it once was, 380 00:21:59,560 --> 00:22:02,480 Speaker 9: because you can see somebody tell a joke and it's like, well, 381 00:22:02,800 --> 00:22:05,240 Speaker 9: back in the day, that joke would not fly, you 382 00:22:05,240 --> 00:22:05,720 Speaker 9: know what I mean? 383 00:22:05,840 --> 00:22:09,639 Speaker 2: Yeah, I think there are many back in the day 384 00:22:09,720 --> 00:22:13,159 Speaker 2: jokes that wouldn't fly today. Absolutely, absolutely, one hundred percent. 385 00:22:13,280 --> 00:22:14,960 Speaker 9: Just I don't know if you do the same thing, 386 00:22:14,960 --> 00:22:18,560 Speaker 9: but watching like old TV shows or old interviews. 387 00:22:18,280 --> 00:22:22,040 Speaker 2: And you're alive, yes, what this absolutely would not fly. 388 00:22:22,520 --> 00:22:26,400 Speaker 2: Watch those shows in the seventies, man, I mean it's crazy. 389 00:22:26,480 --> 00:22:30,840 Speaker 2: I mean everything words that are used that you would 390 00:22:30,880 --> 00:22:33,440 Speaker 2: never you know, you know, that would get you canceled 391 00:22:33,480 --> 00:22:37,159 Speaker 2: before you got the second syllable out, you know, uh, 392 00:22:37,200 --> 00:22:41,000 Speaker 2: and subject matter that is just like what are you? 393 00:22:41,080 --> 00:22:43,480 Speaker 2: How could that guy say that to her? I'm trying 394 00:22:43,480 --> 00:22:44,560 Speaker 2: to what. 395 00:22:44,760 --> 00:22:48,000 Speaker 9: Was I watching? I was watching something and I was like, 396 00:22:48,080 --> 00:22:50,040 Speaker 9: I cannot believe that that was said. 397 00:22:50,640 --> 00:22:51,200 Speaker 2: It's crazy. 398 00:22:51,200 --> 00:22:51,360 Speaker 11: Oh. 399 00:22:51,480 --> 00:22:53,439 Speaker 9: You know a lot of people on Twitter they talk 400 00:22:53,480 --> 00:22:56,879 Speaker 9: about like the interviews that Barbara Walters had, you know 401 00:22:56,960 --> 00:22:59,960 Speaker 9: how Barbara would just say whatever, it's the person's face. 402 00:23:00,119 --> 00:23:02,159 Speaker 9: And I think a lot of people think that that 403 00:23:02,200 --> 00:23:05,000 Speaker 9: would not fly right here right now, you know. 404 00:23:05,000 --> 00:23:05,440 Speaker 3: What I mean? 405 00:23:05,600 --> 00:23:07,800 Speaker 2: Well, all those specials that she used to do. Sure. 406 00:23:07,800 --> 00:23:11,960 Speaker 2: In fact, just on this point, before the Oscars, there 407 00:23:12,040 --> 00:23:16,080 Speaker 2: was a big interview that Barbara Walters did was Sean Connery, 408 00:23:16,200 --> 00:23:19,720 Speaker 2: the original James Bond. He was there obviously went on 409 00:23:19,840 --> 00:23:22,280 Speaker 2: from James Bond, did a bunch of stuff and Barbara 410 00:23:22,280 --> 00:23:27,080 Speaker 2: Walters is talking to him and he talked about raising 411 00:23:27,160 --> 00:23:30,120 Speaker 2: a hand and smacking his wife. 412 00:23:30,480 --> 00:23:30,560 Speaker 12: What. 413 00:23:31,080 --> 00:23:34,200 Speaker 2: Yeah, he talked about it in the interview when they 414 00:23:34,240 --> 00:23:36,000 Speaker 2: get out a line. I think you can find the 415 00:23:36,040 --> 00:23:39,320 Speaker 2: audio probably when they get out of line, meaning the 416 00:23:39,359 --> 00:23:42,880 Speaker 2: women sometimes you gotta you know, smack him to get 417 00:23:42,920 --> 00:23:45,320 Speaker 2: them back in line. I imagine saying that, imagine thinking it, 418 00:23:45,480 --> 00:23:49,320 Speaker 2: saying it on this incredibly high profile interview show and 419 00:23:49,400 --> 00:23:52,720 Speaker 2: doing it before the Oscars. He's nominated by he's watching it. 420 00:23:52,840 --> 00:23:57,960 Speaker 2: He's nominated for an Oscar. Okay, And did it affect 421 00:23:58,040 --> 00:24:00,399 Speaker 2: Mark Roner? I ask you did it affect him that 422 00:24:00,520 --> 00:24:02,960 Speaker 2: year at the Oscars? Is that the year he won 423 00:24:03,040 --> 00:24:05,880 Speaker 2: for Untouchables? Exactly? He won the Oscar. 424 00:24:06,160 --> 00:24:09,879 Speaker 9: Well, here's the thing I mean that interview was probably taped, 425 00:24:10,240 --> 00:24:12,400 Speaker 9: but more than advance, so you know what I mean, 426 00:24:12,720 --> 00:24:14,640 Speaker 9: maybe like they can give it back, take it back. 427 00:24:14,720 --> 00:24:18,600 Speaker 2: Yeah, I didn't. My recollection is it didn't do him 428 00:24:18,640 --> 00:24:21,880 Speaker 2: a lot of reputational damage, Isn't that right? Mark? No? 429 00:24:22,119 --> 00:24:24,080 Speaker 2: And I think the way he phrased it was that 430 00:24:24,119 --> 00:24:26,680 Speaker 2: he'd smack her the same way as he'd smack a guy, 431 00:24:26,920 --> 00:24:29,200 Speaker 2: and he didn't back down from it at all. Do 432 00:24:29,720 --> 00:24:33,840 Speaker 2: we remember what year this was? Around the nineteen eighty Wow? Yeah, 433 00:24:33,880 --> 00:24:36,640 Speaker 2: I'm just saying it wasn't like nineteen forty five. No, 434 00:24:37,280 --> 00:24:40,920 Speaker 2: I'm just saying, yeah, So it's kind of what you're 435 00:24:40,960 --> 00:24:45,480 Speaker 2: talking about though, you know, these these shows that precede 436 00:24:45,520 --> 00:24:48,720 Speaker 2: the oscars, around the oscars, and then the other thing 437 00:24:48,720 --> 00:24:50,879 Speaker 2: that you're talking about, which is you know you couldn't 438 00:24:50,920 --> 00:24:53,399 Speaker 2: say that and shouldn't say that. I need to go 439 00:24:53,440 --> 00:24:56,320 Speaker 2: watch this interview now, Oh yeah, I mean it's easily 440 00:24:56,359 --> 00:24:58,480 Speaker 2: found on YouTube. Follow it up with an old Dean 441 00:24:58,520 --> 00:25:00,119 Speaker 2: Martin roast while you're at it. Yeah, I mean, if 442 00:25:00,119 --> 00:25:02,600 Speaker 2: you want to see some other stuff that's you know, 443 00:25:02,720 --> 00:25:05,440 Speaker 2: that's inappropriate. What's your story? Can you hand? You got 444 00:25:05,440 --> 00:25:08,399 Speaker 2: a run? I guess I'm good are you EJ the 445 00:25:08,520 --> 00:25:13,240 Speaker 2: DJ from Kiss FM, hanging out in between his You 446 00:25:13,240 --> 00:25:17,160 Speaker 2: know you're like a Ryan seacrest ish guy because you're 447 00:25:17,200 --> 00:25:19,880 Speaker 2: doing all this other stuff in the middle of television radio. 448 00:25:19,880 --> 00:25:22,920 Speaker 2: It's great that you stopped through, like you no, thank you? 449 00:25:22,960 --> 00:25:25,960 Speaker 2: All right, more with EJ as we continue. 450 00:25:25,800 --> 00:25:29,639 Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand. 451 00:25:30,880 --> 00:25:33,720 Speaker 2: EJ the DJ from Kiss FM, rolling through. It's kind 452 00:25:33,720 --> 00:25:36,920 Speaker 2: of a party. What can I tell you? You know, it's 453 00:25:37,000 --> 00:25:41,920 Speaker 2: just that kind of thing we're talking before, also about 454 00:25:41,960 --> 00:25:44,760 Speaker 2: Disneyland and getting caught on rides. They had to evacuate 455 00:25:44,840 --> 00:25:48,040 Speaker 2: the monorail at Disneyland, so guy is talking to you. 456 00:25:48,040 --> 00:25:49,960 Speaker 2: Have you ever been on a Disneyland ride where you 457 00:25:50,000 --> 00:25:53,240 Speaker 2: know something's happened? You had to get off the Disneyland 458 00:25:53,320 --> 00:25:57,920 Speaker 2: ride because of it? And on the talkback and Talkback 459 00:25:57,960 --> 00:26:01,439 Speaker 2: features a feature of the iHeartRadio app. You hit that 460 00:26:01,520 --> 00:26:03,760 Speaker 2: microphone and you can leave us a message. I think 461 00:26:03,800 --> 00:26:06,080 Speaker 2: thirty seconds is the length. But anyway, we got to 462 00:26:06,400 --> 00:26:09,040 Speaker 2: somebody I think caught well, I haven't heard that. It's 463 00:26:09,040 --> 00:26:10,879 Speaker 2: just says Space Mountain. Let's give it a listit hy. 464 00:26:11,000 --> 00:26:15,120 Speaker 10: This is Brianna from Malibu and I had a very 465 00:26:15,160 --> 00:26:19,080 Speaker 10: similar experience like Steffuche, where when I was a kid, 466 00:26:19,240 --> 00:26:19,520 Speaker 10: by the. 467 00:26:19,480 --> 00:26:21,480 Speaker 2: Way, I always felt like I was going to marry 468 00:26:21,480 --> 00:26:23,879 Speaker 2: a Brianna from Malibu. That was my dream when I 469 00:26:23,920 --> 00:26:26,760 Speaker 2: came to California. Yeah, I came from the East Coast 470 00:26:26,760 --> 00:26:29,600 Speaker 2: and it just felt like when I watched television and 471 00:26:29,640 --> 00:26:32,000 Speaker 2: it was sunny and warm and I was freezing in 472 00:26:32,080 --> 00:26:34,639 Speaker 2: the East. I thought, Man, I'm gonna move to Malibu 473 00:26:34,680 --> 00:26:36,720 Speaker 2: and I'm going to meet a Brianna. That does sound 474 00:26:36,760 --> 00:26:40,520 Speaker 2: like a very la type. Yeah, exactly, so Ry, this. 475 00:26:40,480 --> 00:26:42,960 Speaker 10: Is Brianna from Malibu. 476 00:26:42,640 --> 00:26:44,880 Speaker 2: And I like she was Brianna, not Brianna. I mean, 477 00:26:45,080 --> 00:26:46,840 Speaker 2: she's a Brianna from Malibu. All right, I want to 478 00:26:46,840 --> 00:26:48,919 Speaker 2: interrupt again. Go ahead, Brianna, Sorry, guy, this. 479 00:26:48,880 --> 00:26:53,280 Speaker 10: Is Brianna from Malibu. And I had a very similar 480 00:26:53,640 --> 00:26:57,440 Speaker 10: experience like Steffuche, where when I was a kid, we 481 00:26:57,440 --> 00:27:04,439 Speaker 10: were on Space Mountain and I remember them stopping us 482 00:27:04,520 --> 00:27:06,920 Speaker 10: and turning all the lights on, and it was very 483 00:27:07,040 --> 00:27:10,640 Speaker 10: naked and not as pretty as you wanted it to. 484 00:27:10,680 --> 00:27:13,040 Speaker 8: Be, but it took all the fear out of. 485 00:27:12,960 --> 00:27:13,760 Speaker 10: It, that's for sure. 486 00:27:13,920 --> 00:27:16,400 Speaker 2: Yeah. And it's true that we were talking before because 487 00:27:16,680 --> 00:27:21,320 Speaker 2: stef Fusch's on a ride and it again stopped in 488 00:27:21,320 --> 00:27:23,720 Speaker 2: the middle and they had to to. 489 00:27:23,800 --> 00:27:27,199 Speaker 3: Put on this the basically the studio lights. Yeah, so 490 00:27:27,480 --> 00:27:29,879 Speaker 3: it strips the illusion of where you're going. 491 00:27:29,720 --> 00:27:31,720 Speaker 2: Right the bar at the end of the night. It's 492 00:27:31,760 --> 00:27:35,280 Speaker 2: one of those things. Yeah, very very funny. The uh, 493 00:27:37,160 --> 00:27:40,560 Speaker 2: the fact is those are really wonderful, magical rides. But 494 00:27:40,680 --> 00:27:43,480 Speaker 2: when they stop and they've got to, you know, some 495 00:27:43,520 --> 00:27:46,000 Speaker 2: guy who's a you know, a union worker, has to 496 00:27:46,040 --> 00:27:47,720 Speaker 2: scoop you up and pick you off, it takes a 497 00:27:47,720 --> 00:27:49,320 Speaker 2: little bit of the romance out of it, but it 498 00:27:49,320 --> 00:27:54,879 Speaker 2: does give you a good story. Well, thank you, Wow, yeah, 499 00:27:55,000 --> 00:27:59,360 Speaker 2: thank you. Okay, Yeah, I don't know. I don't normally 500 00:27:59,400 --> 00:28:02,600 Speaker 2: listen to k Okay, that's that's a good could I 501 00:28:02,600 --> 00:28:03,400 Speaker 2: get that as a drop? 502 00:28:03,600 --> 00:28:05,520 Speaker 11: I don't normally listen to KFI. 503 00:28:08,800 --> 00:28:11,200 Speaker 2: Great start, I'd love that as a drop. Just always 504 00:28:11,200 --> 00:28:12,159 Speaker 2: start every show with that. 505 00:28:12,280 --> 00:28:15,359 Speaker 11: I don't normally listen to KFI in the evening, in 506 00:28:15,440 --> 00:28:19,000 Speaker 11: the evening conway and then out. But anyway, I had 507 00:28:19,040 --> 00:28:20,960 Speaker 11: to walk the dog tonight, so I'm thinking, here, what 508 00:28:21,080 --> 00:28:24,119 Speaker 11: the hell I'll turn on KFI when I'm walking the pooch. 509 00:28:24,680 --> 00:28:28,920 Speaker 2: But I hear it, Thompson. Hell yes, hell yeah. I 510 00:28:29,000 --> 00:28:31,080 Speaker 2: love Thompson. Thompson. 511 00:28:31,200 --> 00:28:32,640 Speaker 11: Why aren't you there every night? 512 00:28:32,920 --> 00:28:36,240 Speaker 2: Come on, I heart brass. I've got a dog walk 513 00:28:36,359 --> 00:28:39,080 Speaker 2: that's the answer. I can't. I can't be here every night, 514 00:28:39,840 --> 00:28:42,720 Speaker 2: I really can't. But I really love the I like that. 515 00:28:43,120 --> 00:28:45,040 Speaker 2: I like the reason he's listening is because he had 516 00:28:45,040 --> 00:28:47,520 Speaker 2: to walk the dog. I know, I thought there was 517 00:28:47,520 --> 00:28:49,640 Speaker 2: the most relatable, relatable part of it. 518 00:28:49,760 --> 00:28:51,120 Speaker 11: I hear it, Thompson. 519 00:28:51,520 --> 00:28:53,920 Speaker 12: Yeah, he walked the dog and got us surprise. 520 00:28:54,600 --> 00:29:02,400 Speaker 2: Yeah, very very cool, Conway, and then on out and 521 00:29:04,840 --> 00:29:06,720 Speaker 2: let me just check this one too. I don't know 522 00:29:06,760 --> 00:29:07,200 Speaker 2: what this is. 523 00:29:07,480 --> 00:29:10,600 Speaker 8: That's right, Mark, A top tier colebrity like yourself shouldn't 524 00:29:10,600 --> 00:29:12,000 Speaker 8: be dancing on a minor network. 525 00:29:12,080 --> 00:29:14,320 Speaker 2: Thank you nice. Stop standing up for yourself. That was 526 00:29:14,400 --> 00:29:16,800 Speaker 2: in relation to the fact that that's the reason the 527 00:29:16,920 --> 00:29:20,240 Speaker 2: dancing started, because I didn't want to, but they wanted 528 00:29:20,240 --> 00:29:23,560 Speaker 2: me to stay for an extra hour, go over it 529 00:29:23,800 --> 00:29:28,320 Speaker 2: across the hall and do Channel eleven weather on Channel thirteen, 530 00:29:28,760 --> 00:29:30,880 Speaker 2: so I did. I'd already done the Channel eleven weather. 531 00:29:31,480 --> 00:29:34,560 Speaker 2: They wanted me then to go to Channel thirteen because 532 00:29:34,760 --> 00:29:38,840 Speaker 2: Fox bought all at that time. They were called the 533 00:29:38,920 --> 00:29:42,760 Speaker 2: Crisscraft stations, and Channel thirteen was one of them. So 534 00:29:42,960 --> 00:29:47,479 Speaker 2: in Los Angeles, Fox owned eleven and thirteen, and so 535 00:29:48,160 --> 00:29:50,120 Speaker 2: they get the weather guy from Channel eleven. That's me 536 00:29:50,520 --> 00:29:52,640 Speaker 2: to go to the weather on Channel thirteen. It's like, hey, 537 00:29:52,960 --> 00:29:54,880 Speaker 2: you know, for no more money, and I'm staying here 538 00:29:54,960 --> 00:29:57,160 Speaker 2: an extra hour. Now I'm getting out of here at midnight. 539 00:29:58,000 --> 00:29:59,440 Speaker 2: That's not you know that. 540 00:30:00,040 --> 00:30:01,800 Speaker 3: Honestly, until now, I didn't know that that was the 541 00:30:01,840 --> 00:30:02,880 Speaker 3: reason that you started the dancing. 542 00:30:02,920 --> 00:30:05,760 Speaker 2: Yeah. I did it in sort of like a knocking, 543 00:30:06,200 --> 00:30:09,880 Speaker 2: not not a full on fu but a sort of 544 00:30:10,920 --> 00:30:14,160 Speaker 2: you know, like sticking it to them. I'm yeah, I 545 00:30:14,200 --> 00:30:16,080 Speaker 2: don't have to stand here and give you you know. 546 00:30:16,920 --> 00:30:19,880 Speaker 2: But it turned and turned into a phenomenon. Is there 547 00:30:19,920 --> 00:30:22,440 Speaker 2: footage of this on YouTube that I can see? Yes, 548 00:30:22,440 --> 00:30:24,920 Speaker 2: there's too much Okay, I need to see that. Yeah, 549 00:30:25,000 --> 00:30:29,920 Speaker 2: it exists. There's way too much of that. And uh, 550 00:30:29,960 --> 00:30:32,880 Speaker 2: this I don't know what this is, but this is 551 00:30:32,920 --> 00:30:36,120 Speaker 2: the Uh, it's just there's voiceover. I don't know. 552 00:30:36,160 --> 00:30:36,760 Speaker 10: Hey, man, I. 553 00:30:36,720 --> 00:30:38,360 Speaker 2: Wonder how many people know you did a lot of 554 00:30:38,440 --> 00:30:41,280 Speaker 2: voiceover work in the day. I've seen you on TV 555 00:30:41,360 --> 00:30:44,600 Speaker 2: shows and movies or heard your voice anyway. No, yeah, 556 00:30:44,600 --> 00:30:48,600 Speaker 2: thank you, that's nice. You're right. I did have a 557 00:30:48,680 --> 00:30:52,840 Speaker 2: period during which I was doing a lot. Now I 558 00:30:52,880 --> 00:30:56,120 Speaker 2: get stuff here and there, I audition. You know, the 559 00:30:56,160 --> 00:30:59,880 Speaker 2: thing when you're auditioning is you want to audition more. 560 00:31:00,640 --> 00:31:03,280 Speaker 2: You know, that's the thing. It's just uh and and 561 00:31:03,360 --> 00:31:07,560 Speaker 2: performers and actors. Maybe maybe there's some listening tonight, you 562 00:31:07,640 --> 00:31:10,560 Speaker 2: know what I'm saying, like, just give me a chance 563 00:31:10,880 --> 00:31:14,120 Speaker 2: at that. And then when you hear the spot that 564 00:31:14,200 --> 00:31:16,880 Speaker 2: you audition for, and a lot of spots I audition 565 00:31:16,960 --> 00:31:19,280 Speaker 2: for a run during sports or you know, you'll get 566 00:31:19,320 --> 00:31:22,400 Speaker 2: a chance to see them. You'll think, oh, I see 567 00:31:22,400 --> 00:31:26,120 Speaker 2: what they were looking for there, or oh they cast 568 00:31:26,120 --> 00:31:29,200 Speaker 2: an entirely different kind of person. My question to you, though, 569 00:31:29,240 --> 00:31:31,520 Speaker 2: as somebody who's done plenty of voice work of my own, 570 00:31:31,600 --> 00:31:34,840 Speaker 2: is you still have to audition after everything you've done. Well, 571 00:31:34,840 --> 00:31:37,640 Speaker 2: thank you, That's exactly how I feel. Okay, all right, 572 00:31:37,440 --> 00:31:40,920 Speaker 2: my job for that, I'm off her only damn it. Yeah, 573 00:31:40,960 --> 00:31:43,320 Speaker 2: I mean it's a real question. What's what's the deal on? No, 574 00:31:43,400 --> 00:31:45,640 Speaker 2: of course you do, because you're up against people who 575 00:31:45,720 --> 00:31:50,520 Speaker 2: are wonderfully talented, more talented than myself. I mean, with 576 00:31:50,520 --> 00:31:54,360 Speaker 2: with tremendous or differently talented might be an I don't 577 00:31:54,360 --> 00:31:58,000 Speaker 2: want to seem like falsely modest, but I mean sure 578 00:31:58,160 --> 00:32:01,560 Speaker 2: I can sound great for certain kinds of things, and 579 00:32:01,600 --> 00:32:05,360 Speaker 2: there are others who sound great for other certain kinds 580 00:32:05,360 --> 00:32:09,080 Speaker 2: of things. And so when there is a spot that's 581 00:32:09,160 --> 00:32:12,880 Speaker 2: offered up, they're not Sometimes the producers short as to 582 00:32:13,320 --> 00:32:17,400 Speaker 2: which one of these highly skilled voiceover performers they want. 583 00:32:17,600 --> 00:32:19,840 Speaker 2: They have to hear them, and they they'll listen to 584 00:32:19,920 --> 00:32:23,360 Speaker 2: fifty one hundred, one hundred and fifty voices, and all 585 00:32:23,400 --> 00:32:26,200 Speaker 2: of these voices doing the same read. And it's also 586 00:32:26,280 --> 00:32:29,040 Speaker 2: not just your voice. It's your take on the copy. 587 00:32:29,160 --> 00:32:31,160 Speaker 2: You know, it's where you pause, it's whether you do 588 00:32:31,200 --> 00:32:33,520 Speaker 2: it with a smile or a wry smile or a 589 00:32:33,560 --> 00:32:37,040 Speaker 2: big smile. There's so many different subtle aspects to it. 590 00:32:36,800 --> 00:32:40,720 Speaker 3: It's still kind of a mind blow to me. For 591 00:32:41,280 --> 00:32:46,720 Speaker 3: you know, you were kind of my over over a 592 00:32:46,800 --> 00:32:51,320 Speaker 3: childhood voiceover. Essentially, you know, magic's biggest secret. So when 593 00:32:51,360 --> 00:32:54,720 Speaker 3: animals go wid like, I was just like, you know, 594 00:32:54,800 --> 00:32:56,600 Speaker 3: and then I could wreck because you had such a 595 00:32:56,680 --> 00:32:59,080 Speaker 3: recognizable voice. Then you'd be on and I'm like, oh, 596 00:32:59,120 --> 00:33:02,240 Speaker 3: that's the same guy. You know, so that is funny 597 00:33:02,520 --> 00:33:05,480 Speaker 3: all over the right. That's when when when good pets 598 00:33:05,520 --> 00:33:07,280 Speaker 3: go bad. Yeah. 599 00:33:07,480 --> 00:33:09,880 Speaker 12: My biggest thing was when I was watching The Simple Life. Yeah, 600 00:33:10,080 --> 00:33:12,160 Speaker 12: not too long ago, when I first started working here. 601 00:33:12,360 --> 00:33:14,360 Speaker 12: At the time, I was like, why does that voice 602 00:33:14,400 --> 00:33:17,320 Speaker 12: sound so familiar? And then I looked and looked and listened, 603 00:33:17,360 --> 00:33:20,640 Speaker 12: and I'm like, holy, you know it's Mark Thompson's voice 604 00:33:20,960 --> 00:33:22,120 Speaker 12: narrating The Simple Life. 605 00:33:22,240 --> 00:33:24,640 Speaker 2: The Simple Life was so much fun. Give us a preview, 606 00:33:24,760 --> 00:33:27,200 Speaker 2: or like, give us The Simple Life was just basically 607 00:33:27,280 --> 00:33:32,040 Speaker 2: everyone was, uh, you know, Nicole's doing work and Paris 608 00:33:32,160 --> 00:33:35,000 Speaker 2: is doing nothing. So it would be stuff like, you know, 609 00:33:35,320 --> 00:33:39,280 Speaker 2: well it's noon and Nicole is preparing the kids lunches 610 00:33:39,360 --> 00:33:43,560 Speaker 2: and setting up the picnic tables. Paris is still enjoying 611 00:33:43,600 --> 00:33:46,920 Speaker 2: some sleep. I mean it was, you know, it was 612 00:33:46,960 --> 00:33:48,600 Speaker 2: that kind of It was that sort of thing. I 613 00:33:48,640 --> 00:33:50,640 Speaker 2: can see it too. That's what's so funny. You know, 614 00:33:50,840 --> 00:33:52,320 Speaker 2: you can search it up on YouTube. 615 00:33:52,360 --> 00:33:54,600 Speaker 12: Just search The Simple Life for it till Death do 616 00:33:54,720 --> 00:33:57,520 Speaker 12: his part and you can hear Mark Thompson very funny show. 617 00:33:57,600 --> 00:33:59,400 Speaker 2: It's so funny. I mean the stuff that we really 618 00:33:59,440 --> 00:34:01,840 Speaker 2: did that that I thought was a Lot of Fun 619 00:34:02,040 --> 00:34:05,040 Speaker 2: was all the most shocking and most daring they called them. 620 00:34:05,320 --> 00:34:07,080 Speaker 2: I also think they changed the name of the show 621 00:34:07,120 --> 00:34:11,839 Speaker 2: to Top twenty most Top twenty most Daring, I think 622 00:34:11,880 --> 00:34:17,960 Speaker 2: it was. And those shows were all sort of it's 623 00:34:18,000 --> 00:34:23,200 Speaker 2: a quiet Friday night in this convenience store in suburban Dallas. 624 00:34:24,440 --> 00:34:28,000 Speaker 2: Typically nothing happens on a Friday night in Dallas, but 625 00:34:28,120 --> 00:34:32,640 Speaker 2: tonight it would all be different. It was. It was 626 00:34:32,680 --> 00:34:35,600 Speaker 2: always that nothing's happening, and now it's gonna but tonight 627 00:34:35,920 --> 00:34:42,080 Speaker 2: everything's happening. Yeah, very very cool. EJ the DJ, Hey, 628 00:34:42,320 --> 00:34:45,440 Speaker 2: get back in here. We'll talk to you after this break. 629 00:34:46,080 --> 00:34:48,600 Speaker 1: Kf I Am six on demand