1 00:00:00,480 --> 00:00:03,880 Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand. 2 00:00:03,960 --> 00:00:05,920 Speaker 2: Thanks for being with us tonight. As always, you can 3 00:00:05,960 --> 00:00:07,440 Speaker 2: reach me on the iHeartRadio app. 4 00:00:07,440 --> 00:00:08,720 Speaker 3: If you want to. 5 00:00:08,320 --> 00:00:10,160 Speaker 2: Send a message, you can pull it up there and 6 00:00:10,160 --> 00:00:11,520 Speaker 2: look for the talkback button. 7 00:00:11,560 --> 00:00:12,799 Speaker 3: It's a little microphone. 8 00:00:13,280 --> 00:00:15,120 Speaker 2: Just hold that button and you can leave a message 9 00:00:15,120 --> 00:00:18,440 Speaker 2: for thirty seconds and we'll play it on the show. 10 00:00:19,440 --> 00:00:23,960 Speaker 2: I think, Ronner, we're legally obligated to play it on 11 00:00:24,000 --> 00:00:24,760 Speaker 2: the show. 12 00:00:25,079 --> 00:00:28,240 Speaker 3: Are we. That's the rules. I don't make them. 13 00:00:28,400 --> 00:00:31,000 Speaker 2: Well, I certainly believe in following the rules. Wait to 14 00:00:31,400 --> 00:00:33,919 Speaker 2: only follow the rules here. That's why people like us 15 00:00:33,920 --> 00:00:34,279 Speaker 2: so much. 16 00:00:34,360 --> 00:00:35,440 Speaker 3: Yes, by all means, proceed. 17 00:00:35,800 --> 00:00:37,720 Speaker 2: So I wanted to tell you though, because I didn't 18 00:00:37,760 --> 00:00:39,880 Speaker 2: get into it in the last last hour. 19 00:00:40,080 --> 00:00:42,720 Speaker 3: The Shatner situation. Well, yeah, I want to hear that. 20 00:00:43,720 --> 00:00:46,480 Speaker 2: I love William Shatner. I've always been a big fan same. 21 00:00:46,560 --> 00:00:48,600 Speaker 2: I was a big old Nerd growing up. I know 22 00:00:48,680 --> 00:00:50,440 Speaker 2: that's a big surprise to everybody. 23 00:00:50,840 --> 00:00:54,160 Speaker 3: No, no, this is my You can trace my current 24 00:00:54,240 --> 00:00:56,000 Speaker 3: hair directly to William Shatner. 25 00:00:59,000 --> 00:01:01,720 Speaker 2: That's really funny like that. It's and I now that 26 00:01:01,760 --> 00:01:03,360 Speaker 2: I see it, I get it. I totally get it. 27 00:01:03,440 --> 00:01:05,440 Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean he's a handsome guy. Young, a young 28 00:01:05,480 --> 00:01:07,959 Speaker 3: Captain Kirk, A young captain Kirk has you actually have 29 00:01:08,080 --> 00:01:10,200 Speaker 3: a little bit of a young Captain Kirk vibe going 30 00:01:10,240 --> 00:01:12,839 Speaker 3: on Ron It's in the vocal delivery as well. Oh 31 00:01:12,880 --> 00:01:15,199 Speaker 3: my goodness, that's great. 32 00:01:15,200 --> 00:01:18,600 Speaker 2: You know Rick Chambers who's a Katla anchor reporter and 33 00:01:18,720 --> 00:01:21,399 Speaker 2: also does the voice of Marongo good Times. You know 34 00:01:21,480 --> 00:01:25,400 Speaker 2: that guy. Everybody knows that guy. Okay, so he mimicked 35 00:01:26,000 --> 00:01:30,000 Speaker 2: Bill Curtis growing up. Yeah, newsman Bill Curtis, you know 36 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:31,920 Speaker 2: who cut also has that cud of voice. 37 00:01:31,959 --> 00:01:34,880 Speaker 3: What do they talk like this? He had a magnificent voice. 38 00:01:34,720 --> 00:01:37,680 Speaker 2: Unbelievable voice. He's still around, He's still he's still doing radio. 39 00:01:37,800 --> 00:01:40,679 Speaker 2: Does wait wait, don't tell me on NPR. And I 40 00:01:40,760 --> 00:01:43,240 Speaker 2: have messaged him on Instagram to try to because he's 41 00:01:43,280 --> 00:01:45,000 Speaker 2: got a book out, I think, to try to get 42 00:01:45,080 --> 00:01:45,839 Speaker 2: him to come on the show. 43 00:01:46,360 --> 00:01:47,760 Speaker 3: I'll let you know what he says. Oh please do. 44 00:01:47,800 --> 00:01:50,600 Speaker 2: But let me go back to Shatner. I've I met 45 00:01:50,640 --> 00:01:53,720 Speaker 2: him ten years ago, eleven twelve years ago. I was 46 00:01:53,720 --> 00:01:55,680 Speaker 2: working at a place called Ora TV, which is where 47 00:01:55,680 --> 00:02:02,680 Speaker 2: I worked with Brigitta Dagostino, then Santos and Larry King's 48 00:02:02,720 --> 00:02:04,200 Speaker 2: production company had a bunch of deals. 49 00:02:04,440 --> 00:02:05,640 Speaker 3: The show with Jesse Ventura. 50 00:02:05,680 --> 00:02:08,760 Speaker 2: He had a deal with William Shatner, and I got 51 00:02:08,760 --> 00:02:12,200 Speaker 2: to direct this show that was a wine tasting show 52 00:02:12,680 --> 00:02:14,720 Speaker 2: called William Shatner's Brown Bag Wine Tasting. 53 00:02:14,919 --> 00:02:16,720 Speaker 3: I hope you didn't try to tell him how to 54 00:02:16,720 --> 00:02:20,079 Speaker 3: say the word sabotage. No, I would never, that's a 55 00:02:20,120 --> 00:02:21,760 Speaker 3: deep cut. I didn't. I didn't tell him how to 56 00:02:21,800 --> 00:02:23,440 Speaker 3: say sabotage. Okay. 57 00:02:23,560 --> 00:02:26,000 Speaker 2: But I did also direct the show and then edited 58 00:02:26,040 --> 00:02:29,240 Speaker 2: a few episodes, and I will say there is some 59 00:02:29,280 --> 00:02:32,080 Speaker 2: good stuff that did not make it into the final episode, 60 00:02:32,160 --> 00:02:32,800 Speaker 2: just because. 61 00:02:32,560 --> 00:02:34,880 Speaker 3: You know he's he's an eccentric guy. You never know 62 00:02:34,880 --> 00:02:36,040 Speaker 3: where he'll go with some stuff. 63 00:02:36,040 --> 00:02:38,680 Speaker 2: But we did probably like forty episodes of this show, 64 00:02:39,440 --> 00:02:41,880 Speaker 2: and it was great, and we had all kinds of guests, 65 00:02:41,960 --> 00:02:43,920 Speaker 2: like real, real, big deal guests, and we would go 66 00:02:43,919 --> 00:02:46,880 Speaker 2: to these cool locations and the whole premise was here's 67 00:02:46,919 --> 00:02:50,600 Speaker 2: a mystery bottle of wine, everybody drinks it together, and 68 00:02:50,639 --> 00:02:55,680 Speaker 2: then you describe the wine based on your either personality 69 00:02:55,800 --> 00:03:02,440 Speaker 2: or your occupation. So how does an outfielder just this 70 00:03:02,520 --> 00:03:05,440 Speaker 2: Cabernet seven young? It's a home run, right, that's the premise. 71 00:03:05,600 --> 00:03:07,119 Speaker 2: Was it a good show? I mean, it's fun because 72 00:03:07,120 --> 00:03:10,800 Speaker 2: it's Shatner and Shatner talking to strangers. So I did 73 00:03:10,880 --> 00:03:13,200 Speaker 2: these episodes, and I really worked hard on this, and 74 00:03:13,240 --> 00:03:15,720 Speaker 2: I had, I thought, a pretty good relationship with Shatner. 75 00:03:17,440 --> 00:03:20,359 Speaker 2: And I will say one time we were doing a 76 00:03:20,400 --> 00:03:22,400 Speaker 2: show and it was like seven in the morning, and 77 00:03:22,440 --> 00:03:24,720 Speaker 2: the man ten years ago, he was probably in his 78 00:03:25,720 --> 00:03:28,919 Speaker 2: almost eighty maybe We were at the Grand Central Market 79 00:03:28,919 --> 00:03:31,600 Speaker 2: and we're getting ready to shoot and we're gonna shoot 80 00:03:31,600 --> 00:03:34,960 Speaker 2: at this place called Bell Campo, which is a cafe. 81 00:03:36,120 --> 00:03:39,080 Speaker 2: You know, they did like meet and made burgers, and 82 00:03:39,400 --> 00:03:41,840 Speaker 2: then also it was kind of fancy, right. So I 83 00:03:41,880 --> 00:03:45,080 Speaker 2: saw this man eat one Porterhouse stuck. I got probably 84 00:03:45,160 --> 00:03:48,240 Speaker 2: probably like a seven out steak, like a pretty good 85 00:03:48,400 --> 00:03:50,920 Speaker 2: size steak, and then he's like, what's seven in the morning. 86 00:03:50,920 --> 00:03:52,840 Speaker 2: He's like, I want another one. So they bring him 87 00:03:52,840 --> 00:03:54,400 Speaker 2: another and then he's like, I want another. I saw 88 00:03:54,440 --> 00:03:57,480 Speaker 2: him three steaks before we filmed at seven thirty in 89 00:03:57,480 --> 00:04:00,480 Speaker 2: the morning, and he got up there he drank like 90 00:04:00,520 --> 00:04:02,520 Speaker 2: four bottles of wine, did not miss a beat. 91 00:04:02,600 --> 00:04:04,760 Speaker 3: I mean he had a sip. He had a sip 92 00:04:04,760 --> 00:04:06,040 Speaker 3: on each one, but he didn't miss a beat and 93 00:04:06,040 --> 00:04:07,200 Speaker 3: did the whole show. And I was like, man, this 94 00:04:07,240 --> 00:04:11,160 Speaker 3: guy he's just a tank. He's incredible. That is impressive, 95 00:04:11,160 --> 00:04:13,760 Speaker 3: and I would expect the shat to be a man 96 00:04:13,800 --> 00:04:15,680 Speaker 3: of large appetites in every front. 97 00:04:16,240 --> 00:04:18,000 Speaker 2: We had Alton Brown on the show, and Alton made 98 00:04:18,080 --> 00:04:20,719 Speaker 2: him some of his grandmother's mom's biscuits, I think, and 99 00:04:20,760 --> 00:04:22,200 Speaker 2: he loved him, and you know, it was great. It 100 00:04:22,240 --> 00:04:24,800 Speaker 2: was a really fun thing. And you know, there's you know, 101 00:04:24,839 --> 00:04:28,080 Speaker 2: the people maybe said to me going into this, you know, 102 00:04:28,279 --> 00:04:31,200 Speaker 2: he don't not always meet your heroes. But I had 103 00:04:31,240 --> 00:04:32,680 Speaker 2: a really good time with him and it was a 104 00:04:32,760 --> 00:04:37,120 Speaker 2: very positive experience. And the show wrapped and then I'm looking, 105 00:04:37,360 --> 00:04:39,359 Speaker 2: like I don't know, going through Twitter or whatever, and 106 00:04:39,400 --> 00:04:40,440 Speaker 2: I want to look him up. 107 00:04:41,080 --> 00:04:42,359 Speaker 3: And he's not on Twitter anymore. 108 00:04:42,920 --> 00:04:44,919 Speaker 2: What And I was like, I was following him. I 109 00:04:44,960 --> 00:04:47,719 Speaker 2: was like, this man, this man tweeted all the time. 110 00:04:47,880 --> 00:04:49,719 Speaker 2: I haven't seen his tweets in a while. His tweets 111 00:04:49,760 --> 00:04:51,800 Speaker 2: are really funny too, They're hilarious. And he would like 112 00:04:52,040 --> 00:04:54,039 Speaker 2: live tweet the Bachelor, you know what I mean, Like 113 00:04:54,120 --> 00:04:55,599 Speaker 2: he really is into it and he's funny. 114 00:04:55,640 --> 00:04:58,200 Speaker 3: Well, he also had some pretty witty smackdowns of people 115 00:04:58,240 --> 00:05:00,560 Speaker 3: who dared to get up in his grill. Absolute, the 116 00:05:00,680 --> 00:05:02,440 Speaker 3: man is a smart dude. 117 00:05:02,480 --> 00:05:08,040 Speaker 2: Yeah, and this guy blocked me on Twitter. I couldn't 118 00:05:08,080 --> 00:05:11,600 Speaker 2: see his Twitter account because he blocked me. 119 00:05:11,680 --> 00:05:14,520 Speaker 3: What did you do? I don't know. You had to 120 00:05:14,560 --> 00:05:18,159 Speaker 3: have done something you would think to this day, I 121 00:05:18,360 --> 00:05:22,080 Speaker 3: still have no idea why William Shatner has blocked me 122 00:05:22,160 --> 00:05:24,440 Speaker 3: on Twitter. You gotta tread lightly around that guy. You 123 00:05:24,440 --> 00:05:27,000 Speaker 3: don't just shoot off your mouth around Shatner. I mean 124 00:05:27,040 --> 00:05:30,480 Speaker 3: I can only imagine. I what what could I have said? 125 00:05:30,520 --> 00:05:34,440 Speaker 3: But obviously everything. Did you say something about his hair? No, 126 00:05:34,720 --> 00:05:37,520 Speaker 3: that's the easy stuff. No, I would have never criticized him. 127 00:05:37,520 --> 00:05:39,240 Speaker 2: I thought he was really fun and it was you know, 128 00:05:39,320 --> 00:05:42,440 Speaker 2: I mean, listen, once you work with somebody like that, like, 129 00:05:42,560 --> 00:05:45,000 Speaker 2: you're not going to be intimidated by anybody else. Maybe 130 00:05:45,080 --> 00:05:47,280 Speaker 2: John Tesh, maybe John Tesh will we'll get the blood 131 00:05:47,320 --> 00:05:49,840 Speaker 2: pumping a little bit. But I think it was such 132 00:05:49,839 --> 00:05:52,120 Speaker 2: a great thing that like, after that, I was like, Okay, well, 133 00:05:52,120 --> 00:05:53,360 Speaker 2: who's going to be bigger than him? 134 00:05:53,400 --> 00:05:54,480 Speaker 3: Who's bigger than Larry King? 135 00:05:55,080 --> 00:05:58,719 Speaker 2: And so I still think about it, and I'm still 136 00:05:58,760 --> 00:06:00,800 Speaker 2: sad about it, and I'm kind of having anxiety about 137 00:06:01,040 --> 00:06:03,120 Speaker 2: why does William Shatner not like me. 138 00:06:03,240 --> 00:06:04,840 Speaker 3: I'm looking right now to see if he's blocked me 139 00:06:04,880 --> 00:06:06,840 Speaker 3: as well. Now I'm sure he's like. 140 00:06:06,920 --> 00:06:08,480 Speaker 2: I will go to Twitter, I will post this on 141 00:06:08,520 --> 00:06:11,640 Speaker 2: my Instagram account at andy ktla what it looks like 142 00:06:11,680 --> 00:06:14,679 Speaker 2: when I look for William Shatner, because it just comes 143 00:06:14,760 --> 00:06:16,200 Speaker 2: up with nothing. 144 00:06:17,720 --> 00:06:18,520 Speaker 3: Okay, here we go. 145 00:06:19,480 --> 00:06:24,800 Speaker 2: Wait, there's been a development. Yes, I believe I am 146 00:06:24,880 --> 00:06:26,400 Speaker 2: unblocked by William Shatner. 147 00:06:26,480 --> 00:06:30,760 Speaker 3: Now I see, so he's he's come around on me. 148 00:06:30,839 --> 00:06:34,080 Speaker 2: Maybe he can be volatile then, yeah, I'm talking for 149 00:06:34,120 --> 00:06:37,800 Speaker 2: it over a ten year period. Sure, maybe it like 150 00:06:37,839 --> 00:06:40,040 Speaker 2: to blox reset at a certain point. 151 00:06:40,440 --> 00:06:44,040 Speaker 3: No, you just never know what Shatner is going to do. 152 00:06:45,800 --> 00:06:50,000 Speaker 2: I was always worried that I had sabotaged myself. 153 00:06:50,160 --> 00:06:54,960 Speaker 3: One does not want to engage in self sabotage. No, indeed, 154 00:06:55,279 --> 00:06:58,400 Speaker 3: because I'm a rocket man. Now listen, I saw that 155 00:06:58,480 --> 00:07:00,760 Speaker 3: when I was a kid on TV. And maybe you 156 00:07:00,839 --> 00:07:03,440 Speaker 3: should kind of set the stage for people who don't 157 00:07:03,440 --> 00:07:05,479 Speaker 3: know what the hell we're talking about, because that was 158 00:07:05,480 --> 00:07:08,120 Speaker 3: an immortal and iconic moment and you can find it 159 00:07:08,160 --> 00:07:08,599 Speaker 3: on YouTube. 160 00:07:08,680 --> 00:07:10,680 Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe we'll play it sometime later in the show. 161 00:07:10,720 --> 00:07:12,840 Speaker 2: We only have like what two and a half, almost 162 00:07:13,600 --> 00:07:15,080 Speaker 2: an hour and forty five in charge. 163 00:07:15,120 --> 00:07:17,120 Speaker 3: You can break the rules. No, I'm saying, we got 164 00:07:17,120 --> 00:07:18,000 Speaker 3: plenty of time. We could. 165 00:07:18,040 --> 00:07:20,160 Speaker 2: We'll find I'll play it over and over again. Heck, 166 00:07:20,240 --> 00:07:22,640 Speaker 2: we'll just rerack my John Tesh interview if we really want. 167 00:07:23,800 --> 00:07:27,559 Speaker 3: Okay, So there was some sci fi TV Awards show 168 00:07:28,200 --> 00:07:30,880 Speaker 3: and Shatner comes out where I'm pulling it. I'll pulling 169 00:07:30,880 --> 00:07:32,480 Speaker 3: it up, but you set it up. He comes out 170 00:07:32,480 --> 00:07:35,600 Speaker 3: wearing some sort of formal wear with a bow tie 171 00:07:35,760 --> 00:07:39,679 Speaker 3: and smoking a cigarette with one foot up on a stool. 172 00:07:40,000 --> 00:07:44,560 Speaker 3: Casual cool, and he does a spoken word version of 173 00:07:44,680 --> 00:07:48,440 Speaker 3: rocket Man and nobody had ever seen anything like it. 174 00:07:48,480 --> 00:07:52,080 Speaker 2: Everybody's jaw to this day dropped. Yeah, it's really one 175 00:07:52,080 --> 00:07:53,160 Speaker 2: of the most incredible. 176 00:07:53,240 --> 00:07:53,640 Speaker 3: Here we go. 177 00:07:54,280 --> 00:07:57,040 Speaker 2: Audio restored. Also, well, I hope we are here. We're 178 00:07:57,040 --> 00:08:00,000 Speaker 2: going to give a kind of advertisement. So this must 179 00:08:00,040 --> 00:08:04,440 Speaker 2: have been what nineteen seventy late seventy eight, right after 180 00:08:04,480 --> 00:08:06,640 Speaker 2: I obviously have to come out after Goodbye yelebrig Road 181 00:08:09,000 --> 00:08:12,000 Speaker 2: and this is it started a whole a whole genre 182 00:08:12,120 --> 00:08:14,400 Speaker 2: of Shatner's spoken words songs. 183 00:08:14,520 --> 00:08:20,400 Speaker 3: And by that you mean Magneticide last Night, pre fled O. 184 00:08:23,280 --> 00:08:23,880 Speaker 4: Zero hour. 185 00:08:25,480 --> 00:08:25,640 Speaker 5: Nine. 186 00:08:25,640 --> 00:08:28,880 Speaker 3: I am a full tux. 187 00:08:30,200 --> 00:08:30,800 Speaker 5: I'm gonna be. 188 00:08:35,240 --> 00:08:39,160 Speaker 3: With the with the weird synthesizer of the Best Night. 189 00:08:42,640 --> 00:08:54,679 Speaker 5: Heck, yeah, missed the earth so much, we missed my wine. 190 00:08:54,880 --> 00:08:58,800 Speaker 3: Listen to the way he sells that, miss moll and listen, 191 00:08:58,880 --> 00:09:01,960 Speaker 3: of course this line. 192 00:09:03,400 --> 00:09:06,040 Speaker 2: I'm actually kind of surprised that Captain Kirk threw away 193 00:09:06,559 --> 00:09:09,080 Speaker 2: it's lonely out in space. Maybe he thought it was 194 00:09:09,080 --> 00:09:10,280 Speaker 2: too obvious and too on the nose. 195 00:09:10,400 --> 00:09:13,120 Speaker 3: And Elton John wishes he could have done this song 196 00:09:13,240 --> 00:09:15,160 Speaker 3: that well, Yeah, I mean it was. This is obviously 197 00:09:15,240 --> 00:09:16,160 Speaker 3: the superior version. 198 00:09:16,240 --> 00:09:20,520 Speaker 1: Please, you're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand. 199 00:09:20,600 --> 00:09:23,520 Speaker 3: If I'm remembering that right, there are multiple versions of 200 00:09:23,559 --> 00:09:26,360 Speaker 3: Shatner on the screen talking to me, singing, talking to 201 00:09:26,400 --> 00:09:26,760 Speaker 3: each other. 202 00:09:26,880 --> 00:09:31,000 Speaker 2: The gift, as it were, that you receive for watching this, 203 00:09:32,160 --> 00:09:34,320 Speaker 2: or observing this through its. 204 00:09:34,520 --> 00:09:36,520 Speaker 3: Full three four four four. 205 00:09:36,320 --> 00:09:41,280 Speaker 2: Minutes and forty nine seconds of experience, is indeed not one, 206 00:09:41,360 --> 00:09:46,160 Speaker 2: not two, but three Shatner's, the third of which has 207 00:09:46,240 --> 00:09:49,360 Speaker 2: taken off his bow tie, draped it around his neck, 208 00:09:49,480 --> 00:09:57,240 Speaker 2: undone his corsage. The cumber mine has been removed and 209 00:09:57,280 --> 00:10:00,600 Speaker 2: there he is just having a moment. By the way, 210 00:10:00,640 --> 00:10:04,000 Speaker 2: an update, I posted it on my Instagram at Andy Ktla. 211 00:10:05,080 --> 00:10:07,760 Speaker 2: I am still blocked by William Shatner. I thought things 212 00:10:07,760 --> 00:10:10,360 Speaker 2: were different, but apparently when the new Elon version of 213 00:10:10,360 --> 00:10:13,200 Speaker 2: Twitter on X you're able to see public posts, but 214 00:10:13,240 --> 00:10:13,959 Speaker 2: you cannot be. 215 00:10:16,040 --> 00:10:19,760 Speaker 3: You cannot respond, So well, you must have done something 216 00:10:19,800 --> 00:10:21,360 Speaker 3: to offend the great man. 217 00:10:21,480 --> 00:10:24,000 Speaker 2: You know, I neg never tweet and I never tweeted 218 00:10:24,040 --> 00:10:28,600 Speaker 2: even back then, so I think you know who's to say. 219 00:10:28,720 --> 00:10:32,800 Speaker 2: I was trying to get Conway on on the show. 220 00:10:33,240 --> 00:10:35,600 Speaker 2: This is again like ten years ago, and I wasn't 221 00:10:35,600 --> 00:10:37,439 Speaker 2: able to make that happen. I did come on on 222 00:10:37,480 --> 00:10:40,760 Speaker 2: his on Conway's show and talk about the Shatner Show. 223 00:10:41,400 --> 00:10:44,400 Speaker 3: But I'm very proud of that show. We had a 224 00:10:44,440 --> 00:10:44,959 Speaker 3: lot of fun. 225 00:10:46,040 --> 00:10:48,520 Speaker 2: Adam Carolla was on there and he brought his mangria, 226 00:10:49,320 --> 00:10:53,440 Speaker 2: and I still have that bottle of mangrea that Corolla and. 227 00:10:53,360 --> 00:10:56,680 Speaker 3: The Shatner shared. That sounds repulsive. What is that? It's 228 00:10:56,679 --> 00:11:00,240 Speaker 3: sang gria, but for men? What makes it? For men? 229 00:11:00,520 --> 00:11:04,160 Speaker 3: It's called mangrea. I think some things are going a 230 00:11:04,160 --> 00:11:06,640 Speaker 3: bit circular here. So I guess I could just drop 231 00:11:06,679 --> 00:11:11,240 Speaker 3: it if that's what you want. I don't know exactly 232 00:11:11,679 --> 00:11:14,000 Speaker 3: why he did this. Maybe it was like a I 233 00:11:14,040 --> 00:11:15,920 Speaker 3: think it was a bit. I think it was a joke. 234 00:11:15,960 --> 00:11:18,040 Speaker 2: He liked cangria, but he felt it was too girly, 235 00:11:18,160 --> 00:11:21,920 Speaker 2: so he decided instead to make mangria. You know, obviously 236 00:11:22,080 --> 00:11:25,040 Speaker 2: Corolla and Kimmel did The Man Show, and maybe that's 237 00:11:25,080 --> 00:11:27,080 Speaker 2: what it was. But he had a he had a 238 00:11:28,840 --> 00:11:32,080 Speaker 2: whole brand making mangrea. By the way, if you'd like to, 239 00:11:32,120 --> 00:11:35,080 Speaker 2: you can still buy it for ten dollars and forty 240 00:11:35,160 --> 00:11:36,600 Speaker 2: nine cents a bottle, or you can get a case 241 00:11:36,600 --> 00:11:39,440 Speaker 2: of twelve for one hundred and twenty five bucks. 242 00:11:39,480 --> 00:11:40,640 Speaker 3: Hard pass, so to speak. 243 00:11:42,920 --> 00:11:46,400 Speaker 2: It's an original orange Mangrea cocktail, offering intense BlackBerry and 244 00:11:46,400 --> 00:11:50,720 Speaker 2: cranberry aromatics, full body texture, and a citrusy but smooth finish. 245 00:11:51,000 --> 00:11:53,600 Speaker 3: Oh you're calling it mangria, but it sounds pretty fruity. 246 00:11:53,920 --> 00:12:00,000 Speaker 3: M it was. I remember it being kind of good, 247 00:12:00,080 --> 00:12:01,120 Speaker 3: but you know, I was like. 248 00:12:01,040 --> 00:12:05,199 Speaker 2: Twenty six years old, so this is this is back 249 00:12:05,240 --> 00:12:05,640 Speaker 2: in the day. 250 00:12:06,160 --> 00:12:08,760 Speaker 3: People the Statute of limitations runs out because at that 251 00:12:08,800 --> 00:12:12,280 Speaker 3: age you're drinking, you're drinking zemas. Yeah, you're drinking Bartles 252 00:12:12,280 --> 00:12:15,800 Speaker 3: and James. It doesn't make any little arbor missed little boones. 253 00:12:16,640 --> 00:12:18,560 Speaker 3: Oh Bartles and James is funny. I haven't heard you know. 254 00:12:18,600 --> 00:12:20,520 Speaker 2: I was too young to drink Bartles and James when 255 00:12:20,559 --> 00:12:22,840 Speaker 2: it was popular, but I remember it as a kid 256 00:12:22,920 --> 00:12:25,560 Speaker 2: like understanding what it was and thinking like, that's exciting. 257 00:12:25,559 --> 00:12:28,839 Speaker 2: That looks like I thought adults did that. I've thought 258 00:12:29,120 --> 00:12:33,040 Speaker 2: Mike's Hard lemonade was was a serious beverage because of 259 00:12:33,080 --> 00:12:33,640 Speaker 2: the commercial. 260 00:12:34,240 --> 00:12:37,000 Speaker 3: Yeah, I just I've never been comfortable going into a 261 00:12:37,040 --> 00:12:40,640 Speaker 3: place and saying, give me a Mike's Hard. They have it, 262 00:12:40,320 --> 00:12:40,480 Speaker 3: do you? 263 00:12:40,679 --> 00:12:42,200 Speaker 2: Is your Mike's Hard on tap or is it in 264 00:12:42,240 --> 00:12:45,480 Speaker 2: the it's in the bottle. Yeah, that's cool, I'll take it. 265 00:12:45,640 --> 00:12:48,559 Speaker 3: I prefer in anti green springs. Oh what is that. 266 00:12:48,960 --> 00:12:50,760 Speaker 3: I'm just kind of a fan of all these old 267 00:12:50,800 --> 00:12:55,320 Speaker 3: school like stuff from my mom's or yeah, like Virginia 268 00:12:55,480 --> 00:12:58,320 Speaker 3: Slims and that kind of stuff. Yeah, Virginia Slims are 269 00:12:58,400 --> 00:12:59,160 Speaker 3: are hilarious. 270 00:12:59,240 --> 00:13:00,640 Speaker 2: Like that's a good That's a good thing to put 271 00:13:00,640 --> 00:13:02,240 Speaker 2: in a If you're writing a sketch and you need 272 00:13:02,240 --> 00:13:05,600 Speaker 2: to punch up a line about cigarettes, calling Virginia slims. 273 00:13:05,640 --> 00:13:09,320 Speaker 3: Yeah, as you know, you write dialogue, I have yes, 274 00:13:09,400 --> 00:13:12,160 Speaker 3: and I just I love all this obscure, especially stuff 275 00:13:12,160 --> 00:13:16,080 Speaker 3: from like late sixties and early seventies that seems horrifically awkward. 276 00:13:16,160 --> 00:13:21,320 Speaker 3: Now yeah, like like William Shatner's music career. Well, I won't. 277 00:13:21,360 --> 00:13:23,400 Speaker 3: I won't tolerate me mockery of Shatner. 278 00:13:23,480 --> 00:13:27,000 Speaker 2: Okay, I know I'm still a fan, even though he is. 279 00:13:27,559 --> 00:13:31,080 Speaker 2: He has blocked me, forgotten me, written me off to 280 00:13:31,200 --> 00:13:36,160 Speaker 2: the universe, gotten up on his spaceship, and latchkeyed me 281 00:13:36,240 --> 00:13:39,240 Speaker 2: where watching him, watching him go out for smokes and 282 00:13:39,320 --> 00:13:40,079 Speaker 2: never come back. 283 00:13:40,840 --> 00:13:43,960 Speaker 3: That's Shatner, Frank. Maybe you're like the romulent Commander and 284 00:13:44,040 --> 00:13:46,480 Speaker 3: in a different reality you could have been friends, but 285 00:13:46,600 --> 00:13:47,840 Speaker 3: in this one not so much. 286 00:13:48,000 --> 00:13:49,240 Speaker 4: Yeah. 287 00:13:49,440 --> 00:13:54,600 Speaker 2: Yeah, my heart in peace is But first coffee is 288 00:13:54,679 --> 00:13:55,360 Speaker 2: in trouble. 289 00:13:55,440 --> 00:13:55,960 Speaker 3: Do you know this? 290 00:13:56,559 --> 00:13:59,240 Speaker 2: I know it's more expensive, Yeah, forty percent more expensive 291 00:13:59,240 --> 00:14:02,360 Speaker 2: compared to last year. There's a place in Beverly Hills 292 00:14:02,360 --> 00:14:05,480 Speaker 2: called Leora. It's a trendy cafe and it is located 293 00:14:05,480 --> 00:14:09,800 Speaker 2: in the loading dock of UTA. This is not an exaggeration. 294 00:14:10,320 --> 00:14:14,079 Speaker 2: You walk around the building into where the trash is 295 00:14:14,280 --> 00:14:17,640 Speaker 2: and there are thirty twenty two year old influencers sitting 296 00:14:17,640 --> 00:14:21,520 Speaker 2: there drinking their expensive coffees, taking pictures of themselves. The 297 00:14:21,560 --> 00:14:23,640 Speaker 2: cost of coffee everywhere is going up. There's a fifty 298 00:14:23,680 --> 00:14:26,920 Speaker 2: percent tariff on Brazil, twenty percent tariff on Vietnam. Those 299 00:14:26,920 --> 00:14:29,480 Speaker 2: countries make more than half of the world's coffee beans. 300 00:14:31,000 --> 00:14:33,440 Speaker 2: You also got climate change, fires, flooding, droughts, and more. 301 00:14:33,560 --> 00:14:36,080 Speaker 2: It's a real buzzkill, and things are getting so dire 302 00:14:36,160 --> 00:14:39,520 Speaker 2: or Congress is stepping in to kill tariffs on coffee. 303 00:14:40,520 --> 00:14:43,280 Speaker 2: It's called the No Coffee Tax Act. It was introduced 304 00:14:43,280 --> 00:14:48,040 Speaker 2: by California Democrat Rocana along with Don Bacon, a Republican 305 00:14:48,040 --> 00:14:50,360 Speaker 2: for Nebraska coffee and Bacon. 306 00:14:50,440 --> 00:14:51,840 Speaker 3: Bacon's more expensive. 307 00:14:51,440 --> 00:14:53,720 Speaker 2: Bacon is also Yeah, it's harder to bring home the 308 00:14:53,720 --> 00:14:57,720 Speaker 2: bacon these days. The Atlantic says, on any given day, 309 00:14:57,760 --> 00:15:01,320 Speaker 2: an American is likelier to drink coffee than they are exercise, pray, 310 00:15:01,920 --> 00:15:06,600 Speaker 2: or read for pleasure as opposed to reading for torture. 311 00:15:08,440 --> 00:15:11,040 Speaker 2: Maru coffee is also in Beverly Hills. Their signature drink 312 00:15:11,080 --> 00:15:15,360 Speaker 2: costs six to seventy five. It's a relative deal at 313 00:15:15,400 --> 00:15:18,400 Speaker 2: arawon the Cafe Latte is seven dollars and seventy five cents. 314 00:15:18,480 --> 00:15:22,840 Speaker 2: Alfred's Vanilla Latte eight dollars and forty cents. But the 315 00:15:22,880 --> 00:15:26,360 Speaker 2: most expensive coffee in La County is that a chain 316 00:15:26,920 --> 00:15:29,760 Speaker 2: in the San Gabriel Valley called Clatch Coffee. They have 317 00:15:29,800 --> 00:15:33,800 Speaker 2: a specialty latte that'll set you back seventy eight dollars. 318 00:15:33,880 --> 00:15:35,440 Speaker 3: Is this that stuff made from the civet? 319 00:15:35,440 --> 00:15:41,400 Speaker 2: No, it's not the cat sque coffee. I know, it's 320 00:15:41,560 --> 00:15:45,840 Speaker 2: just fancy beans. A real bean crisis here. 321 00:15:49,760 --> 00:15:50,320 Speaker 3: Coming up. 322 00:15:52,280 --> 00:15:55,000 Speaker 2: If if you're if you're thinking that some you hope 323 00:15:55,000 --> 00:15:59,560 Speaker 2: that your your girlfriend will match your freak. Eh, maybe 324 00:15:59,560 --> 00:16:05,280 Speaker 2: that's so not that's not so great. Also, Hollywood apparently 325 00:16:05,360 --> 00:16:09,160 Speaker 2: loves influencers. Now great, And we'll ask why does everybody 326 00:16:09,160 --> 00:16:11,880 Speaker 2: seemingly hate the Valley? I love the Valley, but sometimes 327 00:16:11,920 --> 00:16:13,040 Speaker 2: people don't like it very much. 328 00:16:13,880 --> 00:16:18,120 Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand, little. 329 00:16:17,920 --> 00:16:22,800 Speaker 2: Ska throwing it back to the early nineties. Sounds like 330 00:16:22,880 --> 00:16:26,600 Speaker 2: music you might play at a val party. We're talking 331 00:16:26,600 --> 00:16:30,560 Speaker 2: about the valley, and for some reason, people still don't 332 00:16:30,840 --> 00:16:31,320 Speaker 2: like it. 333 00:16:32,320 --> 00:16:35,960 Speaker 3: I don't get it. Why do people hate the valley? 334 00:16:37,520 --> 00:16:40,880 Speaker 2: It is a question posed by sf Gate, a publication 335 00:16:41,040 --> 00:16:45,680 Speaker 2: from the Bay Area. Sure it is a little clickbaity, 336 00:16:46,120 --> 00:16:48,920 Speaker 2: but the article, I think is a pretty incredible look 337 00:16:49,000 --> 00:16:51,800 Speaker 2: at the San Fernando Valley and the history of it, 338 00:16:52,520 --> 00:16:54,720 Speaker 2: and why is it that there's always so much scorn 339 00:16:55,720 --> 00:17:00,040 Speaker 2: for America's most famous suburb. It can be only a 340 00:16:59,920 --> 00:17:02,680 Speaker 2: few minutes over the hill, but the psychology of a mountain, 341 00:17:02,720 --> 00:17:06,440 Speaker 2: for some reason, makes certain people on the other side 342 00:17:06,480 --> 00:17:09,480 Speaker 2: of it think it's far away and lesser than. 343 00:17:10,880 --> 00:17:11,000 Speaker 4: Now. 344 00:17:11,040 --> 00:17:12,840 Speaker 2: If you live on the I have to say this 345 00:17:12,920 --> 00:17:15,119 Speaker 2: side of it because we're in Burbank. But if you 346 00:17:15,160 --> 00:17:16,960 Speaker 2: live in the valley and you work out of the valley, 347 00:17:17,000 --> 00:17:19,800 Speaker 2: you cross it multiple times a day, it's not a 348 00:17:19,800 --> 00:17:21,160 Speaker 2: big deal to you anymore. 349 00:17:21,840 --> 00:17:23,280 Speaker 3: I do it all the time. I don't even think 350 00:17:23,320 --> 00:17:23,720 Speaker 3: about it. 351 00:17:24,400 --> 00:17:26,760 Speaker 2: San Francisco Gate says the practice of hating in the 352 00:17:26,800 --> 00:17:30,080 Speaker 2: valley stretches far beyond the Southland. A perception has become 353 00:17:30,200 --> 00:17:34,159 Speaker 2: so profoundly entrenched in American life that many people who 354 00:17:34,240 --> 00:17:36,840 Speaker 2: have never set foot in California are aware of the 355 00:17:36,920 --> 00:17:41,720 Speaker 2: valley and have opinions about it. I love the valley 356 00:17:41,760 --> 00:17:44,600 Speaker 2: so much that I named my dumb band after it. 357 00:17:45,760 --> 00:17:50,040 Speaker 2: The band is called Andy and the Valley because I 358 00:17:50,080 --> 00:17:52,399 Speaker 2: am so uninteresting that the thing I had to do 359 00:17:52,480 --> 00:17:54,720 Speaker 2: with my music was but the city, this is the 360 00:17:54,760 --> 00:17:56,680 Speaker 2: place I live in it. 361 00:17:56,680 --> 00:17:58,960 Speaker 3: It's like local band one oh one move. 362 00:18:00,280 --> 00:18:02,560 Speaker 2: Many people think of the valley as a cultural wasteland. 363 00:18:02,560 --> 00:18:06,520 Speaker 2: It's just strip malls and vapid teenage girls. That, of 364 00:18:06,560 --> 00:18:08,960 Speaker 2: course is because of movies and TV shows in the seventies, 365 00:18:08,960 --> 00:18:12,680 Speaker 2: in the eighties and maybe the nineties, showing the valley 366 00:18:12,680 --> 00:18:15,720 Speaker 2: as a kind of rotting suburbia. They say the eight 367 00:18:15,720 --> 00:18:20,000 Speaker 2: one to eight was a lesser place. Did you know 368 00:18:20,000 --> 00:18:23,240 Speaker 2: Frank Zappa actually invented the or coined the term valley 369 00:18:23,280 --> 00:18:26,720 Speaker 2: girl in nineteen eighty two based on his daughter's experience 370 00:18:26,800 --> 00:18:29,560 Speaker 2: going to the malls in the valley. 371 00:18:29,600 --> 00:18:32,960 Speaker 3: Like totally as if, as if. 372 00:18:33,440 --> 00:18:36,080 Speaker 2: But that was nineteen eighty two. The valley as we 373 00:18:36,119 --> 00:18:39,480 Speaker 2: know it now it's far different. You're less likely to 374 00:18:39,480 --> 00:18:41,760 Speaker 2: see a valley girl and more likely to see a 375 00:18:41,760 --> 00:18:48,960 Speaker 2: work boot, warehouse advertisement, Still rich in culture, still very 376 00:18:49,200 --> 00:18:55,680 Speaker 2: la expensive, fancy, hole in the wall, grungy. I don't 377 00:18:55,680 --> 00:18:58,800 Speaker 2: know anywhere else where you could see an adult film 378 00:18:58,840 --> 00:19:04,919 Speaker 2: actress breaking I read with a child influencer not at 379 00:19:04,920 --> 00:19:08,240 Speaker 2: the same table let us hope at a restaurant owned 380 00:19:08,240 --> 00:19:13,000 Speaker 2: by a former reality TV star who's like in prison. Now, 381 00:19:13,520 --> 00:19:16,359 Speaker 2: that is just like the valley. We got it all baby. 382 00:19:17,280 --> 00:19:19,800 Speaker 2: I will say this though, from having lived there for 383 00:19:19,920 --> 00:19:23,359 Speaker 2: as long as I did and here living here, I 384 00:19:23,400 --> 00:19:26,479 Speaker 2: definitely got more dating matches when I set my location 385 00:19:26,600 --> 00:19:33,240 Speaker 2: on my app to Los feelis whoops, speaking of La 386 00:19:34,359 --> 00:19:41,959 Speaker 2: October seventeenth. October seventeenth, nineteen ninety nine, something very special 387 00:19:42,000 --> 00:19:44,720 Speaker 2: happened here in Los Angeles? Does anybody know what that was? 388 00:19:46,200 --> 00:19:49,199 Speaker 3: Can you guess? Ronner? I'm coming up blank. 389 00:19:49,640 --> 00:19:51,720 Speaker 2: It's a terrible setup that I just named a random 390 00:19:51,800 --> 00:19:53,480 Speaker 2: date and was like, what happened that day? 391 00:19:53,640 --> 00:19:56,760 Speaker 3: Answer me, Mack Schnell, how dare you? 392 00:19:56,800 --> 00:19:57,040 Speaker 4: Sir? 393 00:19:57,119 --> 00:19:59,280 Speaker 3: It's related to sports take away? And then I really 394 00:19:59,280 --> 00:19:59,879 Speaker 3: wouldn't know it. 395 00:20:02,520 --> 00:20:04,639 Speaker 4: You are about to witness what everyone hopes will be 396 00:20:04,680 --> 00:20:07,879 Speaker 4: the rebirth of downtown Los Angeles, and this is the 397 00:20:07,920 --> 00:20:09,719 Speaker 4: magnet that's attracting the crowd. 398 00:20:10,080 --> 00:20:15,400 Speaker 3: Golly, welcome to Staples Center. So in nineteen ninety nine, 399 00:20:15,480 --> 00:20:17,360 Speaker 3: they were still saying you were. 400 00:20:17,320 --> 00:20:19,840 Speaker 4: About to witness what everyone hopes will be the rebirth 401 00:20:20,160 --> 00:20:21,679 Speaker 4: of downtown Los Angeles. 402 00:20:21,720 --> 00:20:24,720 Speaker 2: Have you been there lately? No, in the past twenty 403 00:20:24,760 --> 00:20:28,320 Speaker 2: six years. I lived down there about before I move 404 00:20:28,400 --> 00:20:32,359 Speaker 2: the valley, so like twenty thirteen. I always wanted to 405 00:20:32,400 --> 00:20:36,720 Speaker 2: live in a big city, great place, very exciting. I'll 406 00:20:36,760 --> 00:20:39,600 Speaker 2: tell you stories about that later. Let's listen into the 407 00:20:39,600 --> 00:20:44,080 Speaker 2: Staples Crypto originally Staples Center. 408 00:20:46,280 --> 00:20:49,399 Speaker 4: They believe it's a cut above any other arenate in 409 00:20:49,480 --> 00:20:49,840 Speaker 4: the world. 410 00:20:50,000 --> 00:20:51,800 Speaker 5: What great. 411 00:20:56,040 --> 00:20:59,280 Speaker 4: Come inside the four hundred million dollar bowl of dreams. 412 00:20:59,480 --> 00:21:02,960 Speaker 4: It's conceit the taj Mahall of sports and entertainment complexes 413 00:21:03,280 --> 00:21:07,320 Speaker 4: spelled in bold red letters Staples Center. The mayor says, 414 00:21:07,359 --> 00:21:09,160 Speaker 4: it sends a clear message. 415 00:21:09,359 --> 00:21:13,320 Speaker 5: Los Angeles is still number one with Staples. 416 00:21:13,320 --> 00:21:18,120 Speaker 3: Los Angeles Mayor Reardon still number one with Staples. 417 00:21:18,160 --> 00:21:20,840 Speaker 4: Los Angeles hopes to pump new life blood into downtown 418 00:21:21,119 --> 00:21:23,480 Speaker 4: and if today's street party and concerts are a good 419 00:21:23,480 --> 00:21:25,720 Speaker 4: measuring stick, the crowds will come. 420 00:21:25,800 --> 00:21:29,040 Speaker 3: If they like what they see looks beautiful. It makes 421 00:21:29,080 --> 00:21:32,159 Speaker 3: downtown just come alive. Definitely, hopefully it'll it'll live in 422 00:21:32,200 --> 00:21:32,720 Speaker 3: downtown up. 423 00:21:32,760 --> 00:21:34,359 Speaker 6: Bring a few more people down here on a regular 424 00:21:34,400 --> 00:21:36,520 Speaker 6: basis to attend the events that they have. 425 00:21:36,640 --> 00:21:40,159 Speaker 2: And this guy does not exist in La anymore. This 426 00:21:40,200 --> 00:21:41,800 Speaker 2: guy sounds like I grew up with him. I went 427 00:21:41,840 --> 00:21:42,600 Speaker 2: to high school with him. 428 00:21:42,600 --> 00:21:45,120 Speaker 6: Indiana, live in downtown up, bring a few more people 429 00:21:45,119 --> 00:21:47,679 Speaker 6: down here on a regular basis to attend the events 430 00:21:47,680 --> 00:21:49,840 Speaker 6: that they have, and you know, kind of refresh the 431 00:21:49,840 --> 00:21:52,200 Speaker 6: area and start a renaissance from downtown. 432 00:21:54,280 --> 00:21:55,800 Speaker 3: If only they knew what was coming. 433 00:21:56,480 --> 00:21:57,600 Speaker 6: Renaissance from downtown. 434 00:21:57,960 --> 00:21:59,280 Speaker 3: Of course, it's wonderful. 435 00:21:59,560 --> 00:22:04,760 Speaker 4: Yes, it's cool as darkness overtook the sunny sky over Staples. 436 00:22:04,960 --> 00:22:08,240 Speaker 4: Crowd's got a nice send off from recording artists Chris Isaac. 437 00:22:08,480 --> 00:22:17,240 Speaker 3: What about. 438 00:22:17,280 --> 00:22:19,520 Speaker 2: How about that they had Chris Isaac at the opening 439 00:22:19,520 --> 00:22:20,480 Speaker 2: of the Staples Center. 440 00:22:20,560 --> 00:22:22,239 Speaker 3: Now that really dates this story, doesn't it. 441 00:22:22,280 --> 00:22:25,800 Speaker 2: This is from KTLA from nineteen ninety nine October seventeenth, 442 00:22:25,920 --> 00:22:28,960 Speaker 2: nineteen ninety nine, about the debut of a Staples Center 443 00:22:29,000 --> 00:22:33,639 Speaker 2: down there. I also, you gotta wonder this package is 444 00:22:33,720 --> 00:22:37,280 Speaker 2: done perfectly. The editing is excellent. There's a great natural sound, 445 00:22:37,560 --> 00:22:42,520 Speaker 2: there's great sound with people in the area. The reporter 446 00:22:42,600 --> 00:22:47,199 Speaker 2: track is excellent, so well written. It must have been 447 00:22:47,200 --> 00:22:49,359 Speaker 2: a timing issue, because why you would choose this Chris 448 00:22:49,400 --> 00:22:59,760 Speaker 2: Isaac song to put I guess it's got a beat 449 00:22:59,760 --> 00:23:01,080 Speaker 2: and you can dance to it. But like what we 450 00:23:01,119 --> 00:23:03,480 Speaker 2: all want to hear, wicked game? 451 00:23:03,600 --> 00:23:05,439 Speaker 3: Right? True? 452 00:23:06,920 --> 00:23:09,040 Speaker 4: All right, one of my favorites, Chris Isaacs doing his 453 00:23:09,119 --> 00:23:11,320 Speaker 4: thing here. The party here is winding down in downtown. 454 00:23:11,400 --> 00:23:14,000 Speaker 3: Do you believe that? Do you believe that it was 455 00:23:14,000 --> 00:23:15,280 Speaker 3: one of hiss of my favorites? 456 00:23:15,400 --> 00:23:18,040 Speaker 4: Yeah, all right, one of my favorites, Chris Isaacs doing 457 00:23:18,040 --> 00:23:20,000 Speaker 4: his thing here. The party here is winding down in 458 00:23:20,040 --> 00:23:22,960 Speaker 4: downtown Los Angeles. But there is much more to come, 459 00:23:23,000 --> 00:23:26,440 Speaker 4: more concerts and a big, big bowl of sports marta 460 00:23:26,480 --> 00:23:29,160 Speaker 4: downtown LA they hope is the place to be back 461 00:23:29,200 --> 00:23:30,280 Speaker 4: to you in Hollywood. 462 00:23:30,040 --> 00:23:32,240 Speaker 3: Big ball of sports. I will give them this much. 463 00:23:32,760 --> 00:23:35,440 Speaker 2: That area, which now is called South Park of downtown 464 00:23:35,440 --> 00:23:37,919 Speaker 2: Los Angeles, it is a pretty cool, fun place to 465 00:23:37,920 --> 00:23:39,840 Speaker 2: hang out. And I think that they the sports and 466 00:23:39,880 --> 00:23:43,040 Speaker 2: the convention center and the theaters and all the other 467 00:23:43,080 --> 00:23:47,639 Speaker 2: activities with the music venue, that's all. That's all I 468 00:23:47,640 --> 00:23:50,320 Speaker 2: think is really revolutionized that part of downtown. Is that 469 00:23:50,320 --> 00:23:52,479 Speaker 2: truly a big ball of sports, A big ball of sports. 470 00:23:52,600 --> 00:23:54,199 Speaker 2: It doesn't want a big ball of sports? Do you 471 00:23:54,280 --> 00:23:57,960 Speaker 2: know that doctors recommend a big ball of sports is 472 00:23:57,960 --> 00:23:59,600 Speaker 2: part of a balance BREAKFA as well as four out 473 00:23:59,640 --> 00:24:04,720 Speaker 2: of five they agree that fifth Dennis kind of a jerk. 474 00:24:04,920 --> 00:24:05,760 Speaker 2: He's an a hole. 475 00:24:06,200 --> 00:24:08,679 Speaker 3: We don't like it. Kind of the RFK junior of 476 00:24:08,720 --> 00:24:11,320 Speaker 3: Dennis doesn't recommend that he's not on board with any 477 00:24:11,359 --> 00:24:11,920 Speaker 3: of this stuff. 478 00:24:12,080 --> 00:24:15,520 Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand. 479 00:24:15,920 --> 00:24:18,080 Speaker 2: This portion of the show is not pre recorded. It's 480 00:24:18,119 --> 00:24:21,240 Speaker 2: eight forty nine and thirty three seconds here in Burbank, California, 481 00:24:21,320 --> 00:24:22,920 Speaker 2: on this Thursday, October sixteenth. 482 00:24:23,400 --> 00:24:26,600 Speaker 3: Be with you for a little bit there quickly. 483 00:24:27,200 --> 00:24:30,040 Speaker 2: I'm much anticipated, depending on who you talk to, extension 484 00:24:30,040 --> 00:24:33,160 Speaker 2: of one of LA's Metros or La Metro rathers underground 485 00:24:33,240 --> 00:24:38,520 Speaker 2: subways has been delayed to next year due to issues 486 00:24:38,520 --> 00:24:42,560 Speaker 2: with testing the first of three Metro d Line extensions 487 00:24:42,560 --> 00:24:46,680 Speaker 2: into West LA that was scheduled to open later this year, 488 00:24:47,640 --> 00:24:52,479 Speaker 2: which would expand the formerly I think Purple Line metro 489 00:24:54,160 --> 00:24:58,040 Speaker 2: nearly four miles along Wilshire Boulevard to the west from 490 00:24:58,119 --> 00:25:02,800 Speaker 2: Koreatown towards Beverly Hills on Wilshire mid City. If you've 491 00:25:02,840 --> 00:25:06,639 Speaker 2: listened to Billy Joel talk about the Miracle Mile, that's 492 00:25:06,800 --> 00:25:11,280 Speaker 2: that's what he's referring to there construction of Section one 493 00:25:11,359 --> 00:25:13,679 Speaker 2: of the extension is ninety eight percent this week, but 494 00:25:13,760 --> 00:25:16,800 Speaker 2: earlier than this ninety eight percent complete excuse me, But 495 00:25:16,880 --> 00:25:19,800 Speaker 2: earlier this week, Metro officials announced testing of the next 496 00:25:19,840 --> 00:25:24,920 Speaker 2: extension took longer, and it looks like it presumably will 497 00:25:24,960 --> 00:25:30,320 Speaker 2: be early next year Winter twenty twenty six. I don't 498 00:25:30,359 --> 00:25:34,760 Speaker 2: know who's to say. We always say undo it live 499 00:25:34,800 --> 00:25:38,919 Speaker 2: and five Live that the catchphrase for Metro should be 500 00:25:38,920 --> 00:25:40,840 Speaker 2: taking you from where you're not to where you don't 501 00:25:40,840 --> 00:25:41,240 Speaker 2: want to be. 502 00:25:43,720 --> 00:25:45,640 Speaker 3: Also, are you looking to date someone who's a freak 503 00:25:45,760 --> 00:25:46,000 Speaker 3: like you? 504 00:25:47,240 --> 00:25:47,359 Speaker 5: Oh? 505 00:25:47,400 --> 00:25:50,159 Speaker 2: I should have had you play freak like me or 506 00:25:50,359 --> 00:25:52,440 Speaker 2: Freak on a leash or freak only. There's a lot 507 00:25:52,480 --> 00:25:54,640 Speaker 2: of there's a lot of freak songs out there. Freak 508 00:25:54,640 --> 00:25:59,320 Speaker 2: azoid freak azoid. Freak matching is a trend on social 509 00:25:59,359 --> 00:26:03,720 Speaker 2: media that some users are embracing, posting videos about wanting 510 00:26:03,760 --> 00:26:07,320 Speaker 2: someone to match their freak, somebody who shares their brand 511 00:26:07,320 --> 00:26:10,800 Speaker 2: of weird. It could mean unusual habits, strange hobbies, or 512 00:26:10,880 --> 00:26:18,080 Speaker 2: niche obsessions. Mark Ronner really likes reading about serial killers. Well, 513 00:26:19,359 --> 00:26:21,680 Speaker 2: that's a cool thing. I'm into trains. 514 00:26:22,720 --> 00:26:25,439 Speaker 3: Oh, everybody loves tutu trains. I mean they're the best. 515 00:26:25,640 --> 00:26:27,560 Speaker 3: I mean in the fact, I just was talking to 516 00:26:27,600 --> 00:26:31,600 Speaker 3: a guy last night who's in an Amtrak dispatcher and Providence, 517 00:26:31,680 --> 00:26:34,359 Speaker 3: Rhode Island. I was just buying a book from him 518 00:26:34,359 --> 00:26:36,360 Speaker 3: and he told me what he did, and I'm like, oh, 519 00:26:36,400 --> 00:26:37,720 Speaker 3: I got to find out about it this. 520 00:26:38,080 --> 00:26:40,680 Speaker 2: Wait, how did you buy a book from a guy 521 00:26:40,680 --> 00:26:42,240 Speaker 2: in Providence, Rhode Island last night? 522 00:26:42,280 --> 00:26:42,399 Speaker 4: Oh? 523 00:26:42,440 --> 00:26:45,480 Speaker 3: We were in a Facebook group that the fans of 524 00:26:45,480 --> 00:26:48,440 Speaker 3: a certain kind of book, like old horror magazine. I 525 00:26:48,520 --> 00:26:50,040 Speaker 3: knew it was horror. I knew it. 526 00:26:51,080 --> 00:26:53,600 Speaker 2: So some of the freaks that they are talking about 527 00:26:53,880 --> 00:26:57,360 Speaker 2: matching in this article at least, are surprisingly tame quirks, 528 00:26:57,400 --> 00:26:59,479 Speaker 2: such as laughing at horror movies. 529 00:27:00,320 --> 00:27:02,840 Speaker 3: Wow, if you love those and you can get a 530 00:27:02,880 --> 00:27:06,560 Speaker 3: girlfriend who will watch those with you? Yeah, snare that? 531 00:27:07,119 --> 00:27:10,080 Speaker 3: How about this one watching sunsets on the beach? How unique? 532 00:27:10,440 --> 00:27:10,600 Speaker 4: Oh? 533 00:27:10,640 --> 00:27:12,560 Speaker 3: Forgot in soft focus? I don't think so. 534 00:27:13,080 --> 00:27:15,399 Speaker 2: There are enough of these videos to start the horror 535 00:27:15,440 --> 00:27:18,560 Speaker 2: movie Laughers Club, apparently, But then there also are some 536 00:27:18,680 --> 00:27:22,440 Speaker 2: genuinely bizarre ones, solving math problems in your dreams, making 537 00:27:22,520 --> 00:27:26,920 Speaker 2: personalized shampoo bottles, or more. 538 00:27:27,600 --> 00:27:32,160 Speaker 3: God, this generation man personalized shampoo bottles now is a thing. 539 00:27:32,400 --> 00:27:33,240 Speaker 3: Apparently it is. 540 00:27:33,359 --> 00:27:36,760 Speaker 2: Okay, Look, I'm not here to yuck anybody's youm I 541 00:27:36,800 --> 00:27:38,880 Speaker 2: just want your young to be at least like interesting, 542 00:27:38,960 --> 00:27:42,760 Speaker 2: you know. Dating coach Sabrina Zohar says it's backlash against 543 00:27:42,800 --> 00:27:45,879 Speaker 2: the algorithm driven dating prevalent among gen z youth. 544 00:27:46,960 --> 00:27:48,520 Speaker 3: Freak matching is. 545 00:27:48,480 --> 00:27:52,320 Speaker 2: The rebellion against the algo forget your resume? Do you 546 00:27:52,520 --> 00:27:58,000 Speaker 2: also think the Snuggy infomercial was iconic? So it's all 547 00:27:58,040 --> 00:28:04,320 Speaker 2: related to branding, I guess brands. One user says, when 548 00:28:04,320 --> 00:28:06,160 Speaker 2: I met my now boyfriend, one of the first things 549 00:28:06,160 --> 00:28:08,800 Speaker 2: we bonded over was our hatred for running scrambled eggs. 550 00:28:09,000 --> 00:28:11,879 Speaker 2: We're both big brunch people, especially together, explained Laura. 551 00:28:15,280 --> 00:28:19,159 Speaker 3: Wow. Does that define them as as people their runny 552 00:28:19,160 --> 00:28:24,680 Speaker 3: egg hatred? Apparently it did enough for them to start dating. However, 553 00:28:24,840 --> 00:28:28,600 Speaker 3: freak matching, you gotta watch this go figure. This doesn't 554 00:28:28,640 --> 00:28:31,400 Speaker 3: necessarily mean it'll lead to eternal love. Because someone named 555 00:28:31,440 --> 00:28:34,840 Speaker 3: Katie learned this the hard way. We went for brunch 556 00:28:34,880 --> 00:28:36,960 Speaker 3: and I had to reveal I only drink coffee with 557 00:28:37,040 --> 00:28:42,040 Speaker 3: cold milk. Oh my god, So no lattes or cappuccinos 558 00:28:43,120 --> 00:28:44,280 Speaker 3: and she does the same thing. 559 00:28:44,440 --> 00:28:48,720 Speaker 2: I thought we might be soulmates just from that. We weren't. 560 00:28:50,240 --> 00:28:52,640 Speaker 2: This is what happens when people are raised on television 561 00:28:53,120 --> 00:28:55,760 Speaker 2: or the internet and they have no interaction with other people. 562 00:28:58,040 --> 00:29:02,920 Speaker 2: A twenty seventeen study unsurprisingly found trait based matching, including 563 00:29:02,960 --> 00:29:05,760 Speaker 2: shared interest in quirks, almost has no predictive power for 564 00:29:05,840 --> 00:29:12,240 Speaker 2: relationship success. What actually matters communication how you handle conflict, 565 00:29:12,920 --> 00:29:17,120 Speaker 2: how you repair after fights. The dating expert says, we 566 00:29:17,200 --> 00:29:19,800 Speaker 2: have to be honest about how much weight we're putting 567 00:29:19,800 --> 00:29:23,200 Speaker 2: on someone remembering the same SpongeBob quotes. You need someone 568 00:29:23,240 --> 00:29:26,960 Speaker 2: who can have hard conversations at two am. Hey now, 569 00:29:27,200 --> 00:29:29,880 Speaker 2: not just someone who laughs at the same memes. Okay, 570 00:29:31,400 --> 00:29:31,920 Speaker 2: that's good. 571 00:29:32,200 --> 00:29:35,640 Speaker 3: One day you think you've found your runny scrambled eggs soulmate. 572 00:29:35,840 --> 00:29:38,840 Speaker 3: The next day you realize they're a monster. It's right, 573 00:29:39,840 --> 00:29:40,560 Speaker 3: that's true. 574 00:29:40,680 --> 00:29:43,400 Speaker 2: Though, I do think that there is something about these 575 00:29:43,520 --> 00:29:49,520 Speaker 2: deeply seeded passions, Like if I found somebody else who 576 00:29:49,520 --> 00:29:53,040 Speaker 2: also loved the golden era of jet travel to the 577 00:29:53,080 --> 00:29:56,719 Speaker 2: point where they wanted to like put you know, metal 578 00:29:56,760 --> 00:30:00,600 Speaker 2: models of DC eights in the house. You know, my 579 00:30:00,680 --> 00:30:05,560 Speaker 2: whole sense of normalcy is that I want these things, 580 00:30:05,840 --> 00:30:08,000 Speaker 2: Like if I had my way, I would put a 581 00:30:08,000 --> 00:30:13,000 Speaker 2: classic car in the living room. Thank God that I 582 00:30:13,080 --> 00:30:16,520 Speaker 2: have a partner who would not let that happen, because 583 00:30:16,560 --> 00:30:18,520 Speaker 2: you need a check and you need a balance in life. 584 00:30:18,960 --> 00:30:21,840 Speaker 3: Well, there's certain things though that it would be suspicious 585 00:30:21,920 --> 00:30:24,640 Speaker 3: if your partner was also into those, Like wait a minute, 586 00:30:24,840 --> 00:30:27,520 Speaker 3: you want to watch this Western TV show from the 587 00:30:27,560 --> 00:30:30,360 Speaker 3: sixties with me? What's wrong with you? There's something going 588 00:30:30,400 --> 00:30:33,120 Speaker 3: on here? Yeah? Did you just google me? You just 589 00:30:33,160 --> 00:30:34,840 Speaker 3: see what I said on a show or something or not. 590 00:30:34,960 --> 00:30:37,400 Speaker 3: You're just doing it because I'd do it. Yeah. And 591 00:30:37,400 --> 00:30:41,719 Speaker 3: there's also the play of you know, the back and 592 00:30:41,760 --> 00:30:44,720 Speaker 3: forth of trying to get somebody in a relationship to 593 00:30:45,000 --> 00:30:47,000 Speaker 3: do that and if they make it too easy, that's right, 594 00:30:47,040 --> 00:30:48,480 Speaker 3: that takes all the sport out of it. 595 00:30:48,600 --> 00:30:50,680 Speaker 2: That's like the Lebowski test, where you play the Big 596 00:30:50,760 --> 00:30:53,080 Speaker 2: Lebowski or something that you really like for somebody and 597 00:30:53,120 --> 00:30:54,920 Speaker 2: maybe they like it, or maybe they don't like it. 598 00:30:55,120 --> 00:30:57,160 Speaker 2: I also think that there's a thing about this generation 599 00:30:57,240 --> 00:31:00,560 Speaker 2: where they think that it is absent. And I think 600 00:31:00,600 --> 00:31:02,680 Speaker 2: I say this with a lot of things, not just dating, 601 00:31:02,960 --> 00:31:05,880 Speaker 2: but they think it's absolutely necessary for their partner to 602 00:31:06,360 --> 00:31:07,800 Speaker 2: mirror them identically. 603 00:31:08,000 --> 00:31:11,479 Speaker 3: Now that's boring and suspicious, and you want to have 604 00:31:11,560 --> 00:31:13,880 Speaker 3: like the kind of back and forth. Will Okay, we 605 00:31:13,960 --> 00:31:16,200 Speaker 3: did this thing. We went to the restaurant you liked, 606 00:31:16,280 --> 00:31:17,800 Speaker 3: So now we're going to go home and watch an 607 00:31:17,800 --> 00:31:21,000 Speaker 3: episode of cull Shack The night Stalker and you're gonna 608 00:31:21,080 --> 00:31:24,400 Speaker 3: like it. I'm not going to say I worry about you. 609 00:31:26,320 --> 00:31:27,200 Speaker 3: Don't make it personal. 610 00:31:27,280 --> 00:31:30,760 Speaker 2: But yeah, yeah, I agree with you. I agree one 611 00:31:30,800 --> 00:31:33,040 Speaker 2: hundred percent. We need a little spicy life. How boring 612 00:31:33,080 --> 00:31:34,400 Speaker 2: is it to just look at a mirror all the time. 613 00:31:34,400 --> 00:31:36,120 Speaker 2: But I think that's what happens when you grow up 614 00:31:36,280 --> 00:31:40,840 Speaker 2: with social media. This generation just gets their own whatever 615 00:31:40,960 --> 00:31:43,360 Speaker 2: fed back to them, and I think that they get 616 00:31:43,960 --> 00:31:47,520 Speaker 2: a customed and they learn that that is how they 617 00:31:47,560 --> 00:31:50,280 Speaker 2: should be, and they get this myopic worldview, and anybody 618 00:31:50,320 --> 00:31:52,560 Speaker 2: who challenges that is bad. And I think that it 619 00:31:52,600 --> 00:31:55,440 Speaker 2: goes for obviously political things, but also it goes for 620 00:31:55,960 --> 00:32:00,760 Speaker 2: very meaningless things, except for nineteen sixties models of DC 621 00:32:00,920 --> 00:32:04,480 Speaker 2: eight pan Am aircraft that is not meaningless. Coming up 622 00:32:04,480 --> 00:32:07,280 Speaker 2: in the next hour, mortgage broker James Reddick is coming in. 623 00:32:08,040 --> 00:32:09,960 Speaker 2: He'll be asked, We'll be asking him if it's time 624 00:32:09,960 --> 00:32:13,280 Speaker 2: to refinance. Rates are going down, what should you do? 625 00:32:13,320 --> 00:32:15,440 Speaker 2: Plus where should you be eating? If you want a 626 00:32:15,520 --> 00:32:19,640 Speaker 2: nice dinner for fifty bucks a person? Isn't it amazing 627 00:32:19,680 --> 00:32:22,760 Speaker 2: that that's now a deal? Fifty dollars per person for dinner. 628 00:32:23,800 --> 00:32:25,720 Speaker 2: You're getting off easy if it's only fifty. 629 00:32:25,680 --> 00:32:26,479 Speaker 3: I know, I know. 630 00:32:26,600 --> 00:32:28,640 Speaker 2: So we got a whole list fifty restaurants under fifty 631 00:32:28,640 --> 00:32:31,760 Speaker 2: bucks a person. And then influences are now bigger than 632 00:32:31,880 --> 00:32:36,320 Speaker 2: movie stars, but something is in the waters threatening to 633 00:32:36,480 --> 00:32:42,920 Speaker 2: disrupt their dominance. That's all coming up next hour. KFI 634 00:32:43,040 --> 00:32:45,440 Speaker 2: AM six forty Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio 635 00:32:45,440 --> 00:32:53,000 Speaker 1: App, KFI AM six forty on demand