1 00:00:00,320 --> 00:00:03,760 Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand. 2 00:00:05,080 --> 00:00:06,840 Speaker 2: I'm Andy Reesmeyer. Will be with you all the way 3 00:00:06,960 --> 00:00:09,720 Speaker 2: until ten pm. Lots coming up on the show tonight, 4 00:00:09,760 --> 00:00:12,160 Speaker 2: you do not want to miss any of it. We're 5 00:00:12,160 --> 00:00:15,880 Speaker 2: talking about your favorite Christmas presents. We're gonna have everybody 6 00:00:15,880 --> 00:00:19,320 Speaker 2: call in leave a little talk back there. Plus massa 7 00:00:19,440 --> 00:00:23,800 Speaker 2: mania in southern California. And then in a robot apocalypse update, 8 00:00:24,239 --> 00:00:27,840 Speaker 2: what happens when you put AI in a vending machine? 9 00:00:28,160 --> 00:00:30,600 Speaker 2: How long does it take a group of reporters at 10 00:00:30,600 --> 00:00:34,400 Speaker 2: the Wall Street Journal to break the vending machine? You 11 00:00:34,479 --> 00:00:36,600 Speaker 2: do not want to miss any of that. Plus a 12 00:00:36,680 --> 00:00:40,760 Speaker 2: school district is under fire after they put kids into 13 00:00:40,800 --> 00:00:43,720 Speaker 2: wooden boxes for time out. 14 00:00:45,000 --> 00:00:46,480 Speaker 3: I sent it to my mom. She was like, what's 15 00:00:46,479 --> 00:00:49,640 Speaker 3: the problem here? And speaking of. 16 00:00:51,440 --> 00:00:53,559 Speaker 2: Women like that, I have a guest joining me right 17 00:00:53,600 --> 00:01:00,240 Speaker 2: now via the telephone. KTLA's meteorologist, Casey Montoya, who's going 18 00:01:00,280 --> 00:01:02,720 Speaker 2: to share some insight on this big old storm that's 19 00:01:02,800 --> 00:01:04,920 Speaker 2: heading our way. Casey, thanks for taking time out of 20 00:01:04,959 --> 00:01:06,919 Speaker 2: your busy schedule tonight. I know you're prepping. 21 00:01:08,120 --> 00:01:10,160 Speaker 4: I agree with your mom, though, what's wrong with putting 22 00:01:10,160 --> 00:01:13,120 Speaker 4: a kid in the coffin? Come on, spoken from a 23 00:01:13,160 --> 00:01:14,240 Speaker 4: woman with no children. 24 00:01:14,400 --> 00:01:15,960 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. Hey. 25 00:01:15,959 --> 00:01:18,520 Speaker 2: Mark Thompson says hi, and he had to jet, but 26 00:01:18,560 --> 00:01:21,920 Speaker 2: he said also very appreciative of all of your work 27 00:01:21,959 --> 00:01:23,800 Speaker 2: with the animals. And I thought that that was nice 28 00:01:23,800 --> 00:01:25,640 Speaker 2: that people people might not know this. You do have 29 00:01:25,680 --> 00:01:27,000 Speaker 2: a soul, you do have a heart. 30 00:01:27,680 --> 00:01:29,959 Speaker 4: I do. It's just towards you, Andy. 31 00:01:30,319 --> 00:01:31,440 Speaker 3: Three sizes too small. 32 00:01:31,440 --> 00:01:34,080 Speaker 2: But what happens every year around Christmas is that you 33 00:01:34,120 --> 00:01:36,840 Speaker 2: hear the nice, the joys of Whoville, all the all 34 00:01:36,840 --> 00:01:39,200 Speaker 2: the people singing from down below, and then you are 35 00:01:39,200 --> 00:01:41,039 Speaker 2: are nice a big storm? 36 00:01:41,600 --> 00:01:42,559 Speaker 3: What are we to expect? 37 00:01:42,560 --> 00:01:45,360 Speaker 2: And I always say this because sometimes when people on 38 00:01:45,400 --> 00:01:48,160 Speaker 2: TV talk about rain in Los Angeles, we overdo it. 39 00:01:48,320 --> 00:01:52,240 Speaker 2: There's always an asterisk. What's what's the read on this one? 40 00:01:52,280 --> 00:01:55,000 Speaker 2: Are we are we to be fearful of this or 41 00:01:55,040 --> 00:01:55,600 Speaker 2: what's happening? 42 00:01:56,560 --> 00:01:58,840 Speaker 4: I mean, look, I don't like to instill fear anyone. 43 00:01:58,880 --> 00:02:01,120 Speaker 4: I just like to tell you the possibilities of what 44 00:02:01,200 --> 00:02:04,440 Speaker 4: could happen and prepare you. I also like to give 45 00:02:04,440 --> 00:02:07,520 Speaker 4: you warnings about not texting and driving, reminding people that 46 00:02:07,560 --> 00:02:08,760 Speaker 4: a lot of us are going to be on the 47 00:02:08,800 --> 00:02:11,280 Speaker 4: roads this holiday and it is going to be wet, 48 00:02:11,400 --> 00:02:15,560 Speaker 4: and there is nothing that important that cannot wait. Especially 49 00:02:15,639 --> 00:02:18,280 Speaker 4: being a news reporter. You see how many crashes do 50 00:02:18,320 --> 00:02:20,200 Speaker 4: we see that? And some of them fatal and it's 51 00:02:20,200 --> 00:02:22,040 Speaker 4: because someone had the phone in their hand or something 52 00:02:22,040 --> 00:02:24,760 Speaker 4: else distracting them. So let's get that out of the 53 00:02:24,800 --> 00:02:27,600 Speaker 4: way to talk about this storm. So not a white 54 00:02:27,639 --> 00:02:30,160 Speaker 4: Christmas for a lot of us, Andy a wet Christmas. 55 00:02:30,200 --> 00:02:32,320 Speaker 4: And when you ask, you know, are we over hyping this? 56 00:02:33,040 --> 00:02:36,320 Speaker 4: You hear the term atmospheric river, right, and we all yeah, 57 00:02:36,880 --> 00:02:40,360 Speaker 4: So that is like, oh, this long, narrow plume of 58 00:02:40,400 --> 00:02:43,520 Speaker 4: all this water vapor that just sends all this moisture 59 00:02:43,520 --> 00:02:46,200 Speaker 4: from the tropics the subtropics. But just because it has 60 00:02:46,240 --> 00:02:48,520 Speaker 4: all that water doesn't mean it's an atmospheric river. It 61 00:02:48,520 --> 00:02:50,280 Speaker 4: also has us have to have a certain amount of 62 00:02:50,320 --> 00:02:53,480 Speaker 4: wind that's driving it. So in order to be classified 63 00:02:53,480 --> 00:02:56,000 Speaker 4: as an atmospheric river, it has to have both categories 64 00:02:56,160 --> 00:02:58,200 Speaker 4: and register on this scale. And I'll geek out on 65 00:02:58,240 --> 00:03:00,600 Speaker 4: you just for a second. It's called the IVT scale, 66 00:03:00,639 --> 00:03:04,440 Speaker 4: and this registers on the IVT scale. And so what's 67 00:03:04,480 --> 00:03:07,200 Speaker 4: going to happen is we're going to get inundated with 68 00:03:07,360 --> 00:03:10,799 Speaker 4: all this rain from this atmospheric river, and there's two 69 00:03:11,000 --> 00:03:14,399 Speaker 4: plumes moving in. One's going to happen overnight Tuesday into Wednesday, 70 00:03:14,560 --> 00:03:16,320 Speaker 4: we get a little bit of a break, and then 71 00:03:16,360 --> 00:03:19,119 Speaker 4: the next plume of moisture moves in on Christmas Day. 72 00:03:19,360 --> 00:03:23,280 Speaker 4: And we're talking about very significant rainfall totals, like from 73 00:03:23,320 --> 00:03:27,360 Speaker 4: Tuesday through Saturday, a coasts and valleys anywhere from you know, 74 00:03:27,520 --> 00:03:29,760 Speaker 4: three to six, four to eight inches, it just depends 75 00:03:29,800 --> 00:03:32,160 Speaker 4: on where you are. And then in those mountains and 76 00:03:32,200 --> 00:03:35,440 Speaker 4: the foothills eight to twelve inches over four or five days. 77 00:03:35,440 --> 00:03:38,000 Speaker 4: I mean, this is a lot of rain. And I 78 00:03:38,120 --> 00:03:41,640 Speaker 4: know that we all remember, you know, tragically, back in January, 79 00:03:41,680 --> 00:03:44,560 Speaker 4: the National Weather Service they issued this alert that they 80 00:03:44,600 --> 00:03:47,480 Speaker 4: called a particularly dangerous situation and they put out a 81 00:03:47,520 --> 00:03:50,600 Speaker 4: graphic with this purple outline and said, hey guys, this 82 00:03:50,680 --> 00:03:53,080 Speaker 4: is where we think the most catastrophic winds are going 83 00:03:53,120 --> 00:03:53,320 Speaker 4: to be. 84 00:03:53,800 --> 00:03:54,640 Speaker 3: And they were right. 85 00:03:55,160 --> 00:03:58,080 Speaker 4: Today they put out another graphic. It's not called particularly 86 00:03:58,120 --> 00:04:01,360 Speaker 4: the dangerous situation. They just serve this area that includes 87 00:04:01,400 --> 00:04:04,360 Speaker 4: parts of Santa Barbara County, Ventura County, La County, and 88 00:04:04,440 --> 00:04:07,240 Speaker 4: it shows where we're going to have the most dangerous floods. 89 00:04:07,640 --> 00:04:10,280 Speaker 4: Rock and mud slides on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, 90 00:04:10,600 --> 00:04:13,600 Speaker 4: so we're watching it closely. We're trying to prepare people. 91 00:04:13,960 --> 00:04:16,120 Speaker 4: But you have to understand that along with all this 92 00:04:16,360 --> 00:04:18,960 Speaker 4: rain comes the gusty winds, which is why I explain 93 00:04:19,000 --> 00:04:22,039 Speaker 4: that atmospheric river. Yeah, we're talking about wind advisories and 94 00:04:22,120 --> 00:04:26,039 Speaker 4: high wind warnings. Thirty fifty mile an hour gusts are 95 00:04:26,040 --> 00:04:28,599 Speaker 4: going to be very widespread over a huge area of 96 00:04:28,600 --> 00:04:31,400 Speaker 4: SoCal with eighty mile an hour gusts in some of 97 00:04:31,440 --> 00:04:34,520 Speaker 4: those mountain communities. It's just going to be very windy 98 00:04:34,600 --> 00:04:37,599 Speaker 4: and wet and miserable outside. And the more saturated the 99 00:04:37,600 --> 00:04:40,120 Speaker 4: ground gets when these gusty winds keep going, then here 100 00:04:40,160 --> 00:04:43,640 Speaker 4: there goes the increased chances of down trees and downpower lines, 101 00:04:43,680 --> 00:04:46,000 Speaker 4: and then you know that's going to ruin someone's Christmas. 102 00:04:46,080 --> 00:04:46,279 Speaker 5: Yeah. 103 00:04:46,279 --> 00:04:47,240 Speaker 3: I think it's a really good point. 104 00:04:47,279 --> 00:04:49,800 Speaker 2: And I want to go back to the warnings about 105 00:04:49,800 --> 00:04:52,840 Speaker 2: Santa Barbara County Ventura County, because it reminds me of 106 00:04:53,320 --> 00:04:56,560 Speaker 2: the Thomas fire that then of course led to the 107 00:04:56,640 --> 00:05:00,600 Speaker 2: monasceed of mud slides, and those incidents were many, many 108 00:05:00,600 --> 00:05:03,680 Speaker 2: many months apart, and I guess the fear is that 109 00:05:03,720 --> 00:05:07,039 Speaker 2: you could look at a repeat situation for Malibu, the 110 00:05:07,080 --> 00:05:10,480 Speaker 2: Palisades parts of Altadena where you're talking. Yes, it's been 111 00:05:10,480 --> 00:05:14,200 Speaker 2: a year since the fires, but it's not like we've 112 00:05:14,200 --> 00:05:16,960 Speaker 2: had a lot of things. You know, the brush has 113 00:05:16,960 --> 00:05:19,760 Speaker 2: not had that much time to come back to recreate 114 00:05:19,920 --> 00:05:22,520 Speaker 2: stability in those hillsides, right. 115 00:05:22,640 --> 00:05:24,200 Speaker 4: And that's what's so concerning about it. And there have 116 00:05:24,240 --> 00:05:27,599 Speaker 4: been alert issue today for Pacific Palisades and even the 117 00:05:27,680 --> 00:05:31,160 Speaker 4: area south of Runyon Canyon. Like you know, officials are 118 00:05:31,200 --> 00:05:34,400 Speaker 4: paying attention all these little pockets where they think, oh, 119 00:05:34,520 --> 00:05:36,920 Speaker 4: it is very possible when we get all this rain 120 00:05:37,000 --> 00:05:38,320 Speaker 4: all of a sudden, that we're going to have some 121 00:05:38,400 --> 00:05:41,040 Speaker 4: debris flows. And I just want people to be prepared. 122 00:05:41,120 --> 00:05:42,920 Speaker 4: So you know, if a cop comes knocking on your 123 00:05:42,920 --> 00:05:45,880 Speaker 4: door and says, hey, we're evacuating, sorry, get the dog, 124 00:05:46,040 --> 00:05:48,880 Speaker 4: turn off the heater, and go, like listen to them, 125 00:05:48,960 --> 00:05:51,279 Speaker 4: because this is a lot of rain all at once. 126 00:05:51,400 --> 00:05:55,160 Speaker 4: Ground's already saturated. But unfortunately it just happens at a 127 00:05:55,200 --> 00:05:57,000 Speaker 4: bad time. And you know, we can't pick when Mother 128 00:05:57,120 --> 00:05:59,600 Speaker 4: Nature throws this at us. But it's going to be 129 00:05:59,640 --> 00:06:02,839 Speaker 4: on that travel day where every year we send reporters 130 00:06:02,880 --> 00:06:05,279 Speaker 4: to the airport into highways to show us how many 131 00:06:05,279 --> 00:06:08,359 Speaker 4: people are traveling. Well, I have a feeling that not 132 00:06:08,480 --> 00:06:10,599 Speaker 4: many people are going to change their plans, and so 133 00:06:10,640 --> 00:06:12,880 Speaker 4: we're still going to see that heavy traffic on the road. 134 00:06:13,240 --> 00:06:15,800 Speaker 4: Only these conditions are going to be like nothing. We 135 00:06:16,040 --> 00:06:18,159 Speaker 4: don't see these kind of conditions here that often, so 136 00:06:18,400 --> 00:06:20,160 Speaker 4: you know it's going to be really dangerous. And I 137 00:06:20,240 --> 00:06:23,240 Speaker 4: encourage people, and I'm only doing myself a disservice by 138 00:06:23,279 --> 00:06:25,680 Speaker 4: saying this because it'll make traffic worse for me tomorrow. 139 00:06:26,040 --> 00:06:28,080 Speaker 4: But if you can change your plans and you can 140 00:06:28,120 --> 00:06:30,279 Speaker 4: go out of town tomorrow, you know, the first part 141 00:06:30,279 --> 00:06:33,560 Speaker 4: of the day rather than Wednesday, that is a really 142 00:06:33,800 --> 00:06:36,279 Speaker 4: good idea. If you're going somewhere local, just a couple 143 00:06:36,400 --> 00:06:39,159 Speaker 4: hours away, you know, maybe think about changing your plans 144 00:06:39,240 --> 00:06:39,880 Speaker 4: just for safety. 145 00:06:40,160 --> 00:06:42,400 Speaker 2: Yeah, well said, well, thank you so much for taking 146 00:06:42,440 --> 00:06:44,040 Speaker 2: some time. I'm going to let you go. I know 147 00:06:44,040 --> 00:06:46,360 Speaker 2: you've got to put up some k rails there with 148 00:06:46,400 --> 00:06:49,360 Speaker 2: your bare hands, so I don't I don't want you 149 00:06:49,400 --> 00:06:51,880 Speaker 2: to chip and nail or anything like that. Casey Montoya 150 00:06:51,880 --> 00:06:54,400 Speaker 2: from KTLA have a wonderful night. Thank you so much. 151 00:06:54,640 --> 00:06:56,560 Speaker 2: Like she said, be aware, it looks like It's going 152 00:06:56,640 --> 00:06:58,920 Speaker 2: to be a little later as far as that storm goes, 153 00:06:59,200 --> 00:07:01,839 Speaker 2: but it still will significant. Two rounds of that coming 154 00:07:01,920 --> 00:07:06,040 Speaker 2: overnight Tuesday night into Wednesday. That's Christmas Eve into Christmas Day, 155 00:07:06,480 --> 00:07:09,239 Speaker 2: lasting through the night of the twenty fifth. 156 00:07:09,680 --> 00:07:13,120 Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand. 157 00:07:14,840 --> 00:07:18,080 Speaker 2: We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. I'm Andy Reesemeyer 158 00:07:18,600 --> 00:07:23,320 Speaker 2: alongside the so capable, very holly, very jolly Mark Ronner. Ah, 159 00:07:23,400 --> 00:07:29,160 Speaker 2: nice stuffouj heyo, the fus Nikki, how you going? 160 00:07:29,280 --> 00:07:29,680 Speaker 3: And that's it. 161 00:07:29,680 --> 00:07:31,560 Speaker 2: That's the only three people other than me and the 162 00:07:31,640 --> 00:07:34,200 Speaker 2: entire building that's true. I think that's I think that's 163 00:07:34,240 --> 00:07:36,960 Speaker 2: what It is. A little bit of a lonely night 164 00:07:37,000 --> 00:07:42,000 Speaker 2: here in the iHeart headquarters, but we're feeling good. We're 165 00:07:42,000 --> 00:07:44,120 Speaker 2: gonna have a nice little show here for the rest 166 00:07:44,120 --> 00:07:46,240 Speaker 2: of the evening. Got some serious stuff to get to. 167 00:07:46,720 --> 00:07:50,920 Speaker 2: I kick it over this Epstein file, this sort of 168 00:07:51,040 --> 00:07:54,240 Speaker 2: new layer of the story where this video came out 169 00:07:54,600 --> 00:07:57,480 Speaker 2: that was added by the Department of Justice to the 170 00:07:58,480 --> 00:08:06,080 Speaker 2: file dump that seemed to show Jeffrey Epstein attempting suicide 171 00:08:06,120 --> 00:08:10,600 Speaker 2: in his cell. That video is fake. I have so 172 00:08:10,680 --> 00:08:13,240 Speaker 2: many questions We can get into that later. We will 173 00:08:13,280 --> 00:08:15,480 Speaker 2: do some news, but I want to keep it light 174 00:08:15,520 --> 00:08:17,840 Speaker 2: here as we move on into our second segment this evening, 175 00:08:19,680 --> 00:08:24,679 Speaker 2: we have opened the phones, and for good reason, because 176 00:08:24,680 --> 00:08:28,480 Speaker 2: I'm reminiscing a couple of days before Christmas about gifts, 177 00:08:29,520 --> 00:08:32,439 Speaker 2: about the Christmas of your when we were all younger, 178 00:08:32,520 --> 00:08:36,599 Speaker 2: things that we liked a lot. Maybe think of this movie. 179 00:08:37,000 --> 00:08:40,560 Speaker 6: All right, class, I have your Christmas themes for you. 180 00:08:42,080 --> 00:08:46,120 Speaker 3: I'm pleased in general you did very well. 181 00:08:46,760 --> 00:08:47,760 Speaker 7: Oh this is it? 182 00:08:50,200 --> 00:08:50,880 Speaker 3: See plus? 183 00:08:51,040 --> 00:08:53,760 Speaker 7: Oh no it can't be clus. 184 00:08:56,600 --> 00:09:03,920 Speaker 5: Oh no, you shoot your eye out. My mother must 185 00:09:03,920 --> 00:09:06,720 Speaker 5: have gotten the miss shields. There could be no other explanation. 186 00:09:07,200 --> 00:09:15,840 Speaker 8: Yes, yes, of course there's no end to this conspiracy 187 00:09:15,960 --> 00:09:19,920 Speaker 8: of irrational prejudice against Red Rider and his peacemaker. 188 00:09:20,559 --> 00:09:22,680 Speaker 2: Of course, that is a clip from the nineteen eighty 189 00:09:22,720 --> 00:09:26,280 Speaker 2: three classic A Christmas Story. It's a story of nine 190 00:09:26,360 --> 00:09:30,720 Speaker 2: year old Ralphie Parker in Indiana in the nineteen forties, 191 00:09:30,800 --> 00:09:33,880 Speaker 2: and the only thing he wants in life is a 192 00:09:33,880 --> 00:09:35,920 Speaker 2: red writer be begun for Christmas. And of course his 193 00:09:36,000 --> 00:09:40,920 Speaker 2: parents say, sir, you'll shoot your eye out. His teacher says, 194 00:09:40,960 --> 00:09:45,200 Speaker 2: you'll shoot your eye out. Even Santa Claus Levy's the 195 00:09:45,200 --> 00:09:46,760 Speaker 2: complaint against him. Of course, at the end of the 196 00:09:46,800 --> 00:09:50,960 Speaker 2: movie spoiler alert, he does get a Daisy red writer 197 00:09:51,080 --> 00:09:51,760 Speaker 2: be begun. 198 00:09:53,720 --> 00:09:54,640 Speaker 3: And he does fire. 199 00:09:54,679 --> 00:09:57,960 Speaker 2: It breaks his glasses with a ricochet bullet, but he 200 00:09:58,000 --> 00:09:59,320 Speaker 2: doesn't shoot his eye out. 201 00:09:59,400 --> 00:10:00,640 Speaker 7: Did you just oil the movie? 202 00:10:00,720 --> 00:10:04,800 Speaker 2: I did? Sorry to forty three years Thank you, Thank 203 00:10:04,840 --> 00:10:06,440 Speaker 2: you for that. Did you not had you not seen it? 204 00:10:07,160 --> 00:10:09,600 Speaker 9: Well, I've never sat down and watched it from beginning 205 00:10:09,640 --> 00:10:12,560 Speaker 9: to end, but it's always on, so I've seen the 206 00:10:12,600 --> 00:10:14,239 Speaker 9: whole thing, just never sequentially. 207 00:10:14,400 --> 00:10:16,640 Speaker 3: That's such a surprise for somebody who's such a cinophile 208 00:10:16,880 --> 00:10:17,080 Speaker 3: I know. 209 00:10:17,160 --> 00:10:18,640 Speaker 7: And it's got Darren McGavin in it too. 210 00:10:18,760 --> 00:10:18,960 Speaker 6: Yeah. 211 00:10:18,960 --> 00:10:19,840 Speaker 7: Why do you hate America? 212 00:10:19,920 --> 00:10:22,080 Speaker 9: Yeah, dude, you can't foosh come back and use my 213 00:10:22,080 --> 00:10:22,920 Speaker 9: own lines against me. 214 00:10:23,000 --> 00:10:26,520 Speaker 3: Are you a terrorist? I've never seen it. Well, we 215 00:10:26,600 --> 00:10:28,480 Speaker 3: know about you. That's that's different. 216 00:10:28,640 --> 00:10:31,240 Speaker 7: She's allowed. Why she doesn't hate America. 217 00:10:31,280 --> 00:10:34,600 Speaker 2: We just got TV and Australia in two thousand and. 218 00:10:34,600 --> 00:10:36,600 Speaker 3: Eight, that's right, So you guys, you have an excuse 219 00:10:36,640 --> 00:10:36,840 Speaker 3: for that. 220 00:10:36,920 --> 00:10:38,920 Speaker 2: So the thing is, even though I told you that 221 00:10:39,080 --> 00:10:42,120 Speaker 2: part of the movie that is not spoiling, the movie 222 00:10:42,160 --> 00:10:43,880 Speaker 2: is not about it's not one of those like who 223 00:10:43,960 --> 00:10:45,800 Speaker 2: Done It? Movies where all of a sudden, what's going 224 00:10:45,840 --> 00:10:49,600 Speaker 2: to happen in the end? You know, most movies end well, 225 00:10:50,080 --> 00:10:52,040 Speaker 2: you know, you know, most movies end with your main 226 00:10:52,160 --> 00:10:55,600 Speaker 2: character getting what they want. That's how movies work. But 227 00:10:55,720 --> 00:10:58,000 Speaker 2: it's about the journey, it's about the vibe. It's a 228 00:10:58,040 --> 00:11:01,160 Speaker 2: great film and you know, really reminds me a lot 229 00:11:01,440 --> 00:11:04,560 Speaker 2: of my childhood. And I was thinking about toys and 230 00:11:04,600 --> 00:11:06,800 Speaker 2: things that used to be such a big deal when 231 00:11:06,800 --> 00:11:08,880 Speaker 2: you were a kid, and it made me think, like, 232 00:11:08,920 --> 00:11:12,120 Speaker 2: what is the thing that would have been the equivalent 233 00:11:12,120 --> 00:11:16,199 Speaker 2: for me during that era, Like when I was maybe 234 00:11:16,320 --> 00:11:19,280 Speaker 2: ten or nine, ten years old? What was I super into? 235 00:11:19,400 --> 00:11:22,640 Speaker 2: What was my Red Rider BB gun? And I came 236 00:11:22,760 --> 00:11:29,040 Speaker 2: up with this is so nerdy. There was an RC car, 237 00:11:29,080 --> 00:11:31,560 Speaker 2: but it wasn't a car, right, a remote control, not 238 00:11:31,640 --> 00:11:36,959 Speaker 2: a vehicle, a remote control of the Mars Pathfinder rover, 239 00:11:38,840 --> 00:11:43,400 Speaker 2: the six wheeled thing that landed on Mars. 240 00:11:43,440 --> 00:11:44,800 Speaker 3: And it was so slow. 241 00:11:45,040 --> 00:11:47,320 Speaker 2: It didn't go fast, it went you know, and I 242 00:11:47,360 --> 00:11:48,599 Speaker 2: was like obsessed with it and I thought about it 243 00:11:48,600 --> 00:11:50,599 Speaker 2: for months. So I thought, what might be fun is 244 00:11:50,640 --> 00:11:52,640 Speaker 2: we sort of celebrate the holidays and go into Christians. 245 00:11:52,679 --> 00:11:53,880 Speaker 2: Here is if you want to give us a call 246 00:11:53,920 --> 00:11:56,200 Speaker 2: one in hundred five two zero one, five three four 247 00:11:57,200 --> 00:11:59,839 Speaker 2: one in hundred five to zero one five, three four 248 00:12:00,600 --> 00:12:05,680 Speaker 2: and five two zero one KFI. What was the favorite 249 00:12:05,679 --> 00:12:07,320 Speaker 2: toy that you got as a kid that you were 250 00:12:07,360 --> 00:12:10,439 Speaker 2: obsessed with? What was your Daisy red ryder, bbie gun? 251 00:12:11,760 --> 00:12:14,240 Speaker 2: Give us a call and we'll put you on the air, roner. 252 00:12:14,280 --> 00:12:15,079 Speaker 3: Do you have any answers? 253 00:12:15,480 --> 00:12:17,720 Speaker 9: Do you remember I'm trying to think, so we're talking 254 00:12:17,760 --> 00:12:18,760 Speaker 9: ten years old range. 255 00:12:19,040 --> 00:12:21,400 Speaker 2: Yeah, anything that you were a kid, because there is 256 00:12:21,440 --> 00:12:22,680 Speaker 2: a point in your life, which I think is a 257 00:12:22,679 --> 00:12:26,839 Speaker 2: good thing where like toys and objects no longer have 258 00:12:26,960 --> 00:12:30,440 Speaker 2: the kind of life altering power that they do when 259 00:12:30,480 --> 00:12:30,839 Speaker 2: you're a. 260 00:12:30,880 --> 00:12:31,800 Speaker 7: Child, right. 261 00:12:31,920 --> 00:12:35,440 Speaker 9: I mean I was into Marvel comics and stuff like 262 00:12:35,480 --> 00:12:38,240 Speaker 9: that at the time, but the stuff that I wanted 263 00:12:38,240 --> 00:12:40,000 Speaker 9: I couldn't have because I was growing up with my 264 00:12:40,040 --> 00:12:43,800 Speaker 9: grandparents and there were the cheapest people on earth, and 265 00:12:43,880 --> 00:12:46,400 Speaker 9: so the neighbor kid would get like, you know, the 266 00:12:46,440 --> 00:12:49,320 Speaker 9: little handheld electronic football game and the players are all 267 00:12:49,360 --> 00:12:51,880 Speaker 9: just dots in three rows. Oh yeah, I would have 268 00:12:52,000 --> 00:12:55,680 Speaker 9: killed for one of those, oh man, And I still 269 00:12:55,720 --> 00:12:57,280 Speaker 9: kind of want one, Yeah, I mean, go. 270 00:12:57,240 --> 00:12:59,360 Speaker 2: On eBay, there's that place up at the valley. Oh, 271 00:12:59,440 --> 00:13:01,280 Speaker 2: I have have you got a game dude yet? 272 00:13:01,600 --> 00:13:03,800 Speaker 7: Yeah, i'd been the game dude. Game Dude is very cool. Yeah. 273 00:13:03,840 --> 00:13:04,880 Speaker 7: I bought plenty of stuff there. 274 00:13:04,920 --> 00:13:05,439 Speaker 3: It's very neat. 275 00:13:05,480 --> 00:13:08,079 Speaker 2: It's on Sherman Way Way up off the one seventy 276 00:13:08,280 --> 00:13:10,160 Speaker 2: and you know what, when you're there, you can hang out, 277 00:13:10,240 --> 00:13:14,720 Speaker 2: get yourself a cool old vintage video game thing, console, whatever, 278 00:13:14,720 --> 00:13:17,520 Speaker 2: you can buy the whole nine. But then also you 279 00:13:17,559 --> 00:13:20,000 Speaker 2: can get yourself some Salsa and Beer, which is a 280 00:13:20,000 --> 00:13:22,319 Speaker 2: fantastic restaurant. The original, I believe is just down the 281 00:13:22,320 --> 00:13:23,280 Speaker 2: street there in Sherman Way. 282 00:13:23,320 --> 00:13:24,640 Speaker 7: Oh, I didn't realize it was so close. 283 00:13:24,800 --> 00:13:25,319 Speaker 3: Incredible. 284 00:13:25,360 --> 00:13:27,840 Speaker 2: Yeah, there's a few locations now, but salson Beer is 285 00:13:27,840 --> 00:13:29,720 Speaker 2: like one of the I mean truly one of my favorites. 286 00:13:29,760 --> 00:13:32,280 Speaker 2: There's an evening, there's an evening for sure, and this food, 287 00:13:32,440 --> 00:13:35,360 Speaker 2: the portions are so big that that's your lunch also 288 00:13:35,440 --> 00:13:35,920 Speaker 2: the next day. 289 00:13:36,000 --> 00:13:36,240 Speaker 1: Fish. 290 00:13:36,280 --> 00:13:37,760 Speaker 3: Do you have any memories of things like that that 291 00:13:37,800 --> 00:13:38,080 Speaker 3: you like. 292 00:13:38,880 --> 00:13:41,200 Speaker 10: You know, for me, because I was in the nineties, 293 00:13:41,840 --> 00:13:45,520 Speaker 10: it was a micromachine, ah, and so they had this 294 00:13:45,600 --> 00:13:48,240 Speaker 10: thing it was the Van City and it was like 295 00:13:48,280 --> 00:13:52,320 Speaker 10: the one thing that it held all the cars in 296 00:13:52,559 --> 00:13:55,319 Speaker 10: one big yes van, the van. 297 00:13:55,320 --> 00:13:57,079 Speaker 2: And it opened up and it opened up and you 298 00:13:57,120 --> 00:13:59,560 Speaker 2: could drive the little cars the micro machines around that. 299 00:13:59,840 --> 00:14:02,679 Speaker 7: I wanted that so bad and I never got it. 300 00:14:02,800 --> 00:14:03,520 Speaker 3: You never got it. 301 00:14:03,640 --> 00:14:04,400 Speaker 7: Oh, I never got it. 302 00:14:04,440 --> 00:14:04,680 Speaker 4: Push. 303 00:14:04,760 --> 00:14:06,160 Speaker 9: I think this year we need to make this happen 304 00:14:06,160 --> 00:14:09,600 Speaker 9: for you. Maybe nothing but stories of deprivation tonight. Yeah, 305 00:14:09,679 --> 00:14:10,079 Speaker 9: this is. 306 00:14:10,080 --> 00:14:12,200 Speaker 2: Just all about like we're just going to open up 307 00:14:12,200 --> 00:14:14,600 Speaker 2: the lines to be like, hey, hey, what are the 308 00:14:14,600 --> 00:14:17,680 Speaker 2: things that we liked? Oh, it's all parents did not 309 00:14:18,600 --> 00:14:21,600 Speaker 2: that they our parents didn't think twice about, but that 310 00:14:21,680 --> 00:14:23,640 Speaker 2: have completely ruined us for the rest of our lives. 311 00:14:25,160 --> 00:14:25,840 Speaker 3: That's so funny. 312 00:14:25,840 --> 00:14:29,120 Speaker 2: Absolutely, you know what I'm looking at this, phush, I 313 00:14:29,120 --> 00:14:32,360 Speaker 2: think I had the van City. There's one for sale 314 00:14:32,440 --> 00:14:35,800 Speaker 2: right now on eBay for ninety nine dollars. That's got 315 00:14:35,880 --> 00:14:37,760 Speaker 2: to be more money than, of course it is. It 316 00:14:37,800 --> 00:14:40,960 Speaker 2: would be retailed for back in the nineties. Nineteen ninety 317 00:14:40,960 --> 00:14:43,800 Speaker 2: one is when this would have this would have come out. Yeah, 318 00:14:43,800 --> 00:14:46,120 Speaker 2: because I don't think it's more than fifty bucks. Yeah, 319 00:14:46,160 --> 00:14:48,000 Speaker 2: I mean, look, it's just a bunch of plastic. But 320 00:14:48,200 --> 00:14:51,120 Speaker 2: I'll tell you what though. It's funny because I you know, 321 00:14:51,160 --> 00:14:52,640 Speaker 2: I worked for Hot Wheels for a little while, and 322 00:14:52,720 --> 00:14:55,320 Speaker 2: I did a lot of content that was to sell 323 00:14:55,720 --> 00:14:58,240 Speaker 2: hot wheels play sets and cars and track and things 324 00:14:58,280 --> 00:15:00,480 Speaker 2: like that. And I remember even being like a twenty 325 00:15:00,520 --> 00:15:01,920 Speaker 2: eight year old thirty year I think I was in 326 00:15:01,960 --> 00:15:04,240 Speaker 2: my early thirties maybe when I was working on that 327 00:15:04,280 --> 00:15:06,200 Speaker 2: project and I was thinking, I was like, oh my god, 328 00:15:06,240 --> 00:15:08,200 Speaker 2: this is the same, Like it's a lot of the 329 00:15:08,200 --> 00:15:10,240 Speaker 2: same stuff that we had as a kid. Now there's 330 00:15:10,240 --> 00:15:12,200 Speaker 2: some tech stuff with it, but it's the same dream 331 00:15:12,360 --> 00:15:14,400 Speaker 2: of Oh, I can look at this little world and 332 00:15:14,440 --> 00:15:17,800 Speaker 2: I can escape into it, and it's just it's it's 333 00:15:17,800 --> 00:15:19,840 Speaker 2: a fun thing. Something about that I don't know. Maybe 334 00:15:19,840 --> 00:15:23,240 Speaker 2: it's maybe it's gendered. Girls like playing with dolls, Boys 335 00:15:23,280 --> 00:15:26,440 Speaker 2: like playing with the little tiny cars and little cities 336 00:15:26,480 --> 00:15:27,120 Speaker 2: as well, so. 337 00:15:27,400 --> 00:15:28,400 Speaker 7: Boys like guns. 338 00:15:28,640 --> 00:15:31,720 Speaker 9: You mentioned the Red Rider gun, and it made me 339 00:15:31,720 --> 00:15:34,840 Speaker 9: think that that's not really a thing because taboos and 340 00:15:34,880 --> 00:15:38,720 Speaker 9: morey's have changed. But every kid had a whole arsenal 341 00:15:38,920 --> 00:15:40,920 Speaker 9: back in the day, and if you didn't give a 342 00:15:41,000 --> 00:15:42,600 Speaker 9: kid a gun, they'd carve one out of a bar 343 00:15:42,640 --> 00:15:45,200 Speaker 9: of soap, like a little John Dylon That's exactly right. 344 00:15:45,240 --> 00:15:49,480 Speaker 2: We are all just little prisoners on our way to depravity, 345 00:15:49,600 --> 00:15:51,880 Speaker 2: just trying to keep it all, keep it all in, 346 00:15:52,120 --> 00:15:55,120 Speaker 2: keep the most base urges contained. 347 00:15:55,240 --> 00:15:58,000 Speaker 9: Like every TV show had a toy gun that was 348 00:15:58,040 --> 00:16:00,800 Speaker 9: marketed for children, We don't. 349 00:16:00,800 --> 00:16:02,560 Speaker 7: We don't see that so much these days. 350 00:16:02,560 --> 00:16:03,360 Speaker 3: No, we don't. 351 00:16:03,400 --> 00:16:05,200 Speaker 2: You're right, but you know what, kids are a lot 352 00:16:05,240 --> 00:16:07,080 Speaker 2: more violent and weird than they ever used to be, 353 00:16:07,200 --> 00:16:11,040 Speaker 2: So I don't know. Causation is not correlation. 354 00:16:11,960 --> 00:16:15,360 Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand. 355 00:16:17,040 --> 00:16:20,560 Speaker 2: We're talking with Lomarty from Bellflower, who is uh here 356 00:16:20,560 --> 00:16:25,000 Speaker 2: to share what toy as a kid impressed and him 357 00:16:25,040 --> 00:16:25,880 Speaker 2: the most you doing? 358 00:16:25,960 --> 00:16:28,680 Speaker 6: Hey so good to see, Hey good. 359 00:16:28,920 --> 00:16:29,120 Speaker 4: Hey. 360 00:16:29,400 --> 00:16:32,040 Speaker 6: Do you remember the James Bond movie from Russia with 361 00:16:32,160 --> 00:16:36,360 Speaker 6: Love of course? Do you remember the secrets briefcase they 362 00:16:36,360 --> 00:16:37,040 Speaker 6: gave him? 363 00:16:37,560 --> 00:16:38,400 Speaker 7: I have one of those? 364 00:16:38,480 --> 00:16:39,200 Speaker 3: Do you really? 365 00:16:40,880 --> 00:16:44,760 Speaker 6: I was given one too. I love that thing. If 366 00:16:44,800 --> 00:16:47,840 Speaker 6: you remember, if you remember, if you didn't open it right, 367 00:16:48,920 --> 00:16:51,800 Speaker 6: a powder would shoot out. Well, it didn't come with powder, 368 00:16:51,880 --> 00:16:54,480 Speaker 6: but it came with snapcaps. Yes, if we didn't open 369 00:16:54,480 --> 00:16:56,600 Speaker 6: it up, it would bang on you. And it came 370 00:16:56,640 --> 00:17:00,000 Speaker 6: with a breakdown of sniper rifle. It shot those snaps 371 00:17:00,080 --> 00:17:04,000 Speaker 6: caps too. It came with a rubber knife. It was 372 00:17:04,040 --> 00:17:07,120 Speaker 6: it was the greatest thing from sliced cheese. I love that. 373 00:17:07,240 --> 00:17:09,639 Speaker 2: How old were you when this came out? It was 374 00:17:09,760 --> 00:17:11,080 Speaker 2: probably what early eighties? 375 00:17:11,160 --> 00:17:11,400 Speaker 7: Right? 376 00:17:12,680 --> 00:17:14,880 Speaker 6: Oh? No, that was a sixties. 377 00:17:14,440 --> 00:17:16,120 Speaker 3: Sixties, early sixties, early sixties. 378 00:17:16,119 --> 00:17:19,920 Speaker 6: Okay, late late late sixties, late sixties, maybe early seventies, 379 00:17:19,960 --> 00:17:22,320 Speaker 6: but lates when did well, the movie came out in 380 00:17:22,320 --> 00:17:23,600 Speaker 6: the eight in the six sixties. 381 00:17:23,640 --> 00:17:27,160 Speaker 9: Three Oh yeah, you're right, okay, sorry, Yeah, that's Multiple 382 00:17:27,240 --> 00:17:29,280 Speaker 9: Toys put it out, and it would have been right 383 00:17:29,320 --> 00:17:31,720 Speaker 9: around the time of the movie sixty three or sixty four. 384 00:17:32,000 --> 00:17:33,880 Speaker 9: Those things go for a lot of dough now too. 385 00:17:33,960 --> 00:17:35,680 Speaker 9: So if you got one when you were a kid, 386 00:17:35,960 --> 00:17:37,160 Speaker 9: you were so lucky. 387 00:17:37,119 --> 00:17:40,840 Speaker 6: Yeah. Oh, like I said, I love that thing to death. 388 00:17:40,920 --> 00:17:43,359 Speaker 6: I just you know, I wish I still had it, 389 00:17:43,400 --> 00:17:47,679 Speaker 6: obviously I don't, but you know, you know, but of 390 00:17:47,680 --> 00:17:50,440 Speaker 6: course nowadays, i'd like to see him even think about 391 00:17:50,480 --> 00:17:52,960 Speaker 6: trying to sell something like that. Now, well, I'm. 392 00:17:52,880 --> 00:17:54,920 Speaker 2: Looking it up on there's none of them for sale 393 00:17:54,960 --> 00:17:59,639 Speaker 2: right now on eBay. No cases for sale from Russia 394 00:17:59,680 --> 00:18:02,560 Speaker 2: with that, But Roner, do you how much are you 395 00:18:02,560 --> 00:18:03,879 Speaker 2: guys sell yours for Oh. 396 00:18:03,760 --> 00:18:04,520 Speaker 7: No, I'm never selling. 397 00:18:05,200 --> 00:18:07,960 Speaker 9: And also it was so popular it caused a bunch 398 00:18:08,040 --> 00:18:10,280 Speaker 9: of knockoffs, like there was a man from Uncle out 399 00:18:10,280 --> 00:18:14,600 Speaker 9: of shake case after that. And yeah, the market for 400 00:18:14,760 --> 00:18:18,360 Speaker 9: children's toys was flooded with out of shakecases with weapons 401 00:18:18,440 --> 00:18:18,720 Speaker 9: in them. 402 00:18:19,320 --> 00:18:22,200 Speaker 3: And were we worse then than we are now? 403 00:18:24,480 --> 00:18:26,560 Speaker 6: I don't think so. I mean, did you ever see 404 00:18:26,560 --> 00:18:29,760 Speaker 6: the did you ever see the replica Tommy guns for 405 00:18:30,119 --> 00:18:36,159 Speaker 6: World War Two Tommy Guns? Yeah, we had a. 406 00:18:36,160 --> 00:18:38,600 Speaker 3: Lot of fun stuff. Things were just children. 407 00:18:40,200 --> 00:18:43,760 Speaker 6: If the left wing anti gunners would see some of these, 408 00:18:43,760 --> 00:18:46,760 Speaker 6: some of those commercials nowadays, they'd have a heart attack. 409 00:18:47,240 --> 00:18:49,359 Speaker 2: Well let me ask you though, back to when you 410 00:18:49,400 --> 00:18:52,520 Speaker 2: got the toy. Do you remember did you get for Christmas? 411 00:18:53,680 --> 00:18:53,880 Speaker 6: Yes? 412 00:18:54,160 --> 00:18:55,360 Speaker 3: Do you remember opening it up? 413 00:18:57,000 --> 00:19:00,199 Speaker 6: Yeah? Well vaguely, I mean you know that was that 414 00:19:00,359 --> 00:19:01,560 Speaker 6: was a million years ago. 415 00:19:01,760 --> 00:19:05,119 Speaker 2: Yeah, but yeah, Well, Lamarty, thank you so much for calling. 416 00:19:05,160 --> 00:19:07,480 Speaker 3: That's a great answer, and you've got ron Er going 417 00:19:07,520 --> 00:19:07,960 Speaker 3: to here. 418 00:19:09,280 --> 00:19:11,440 Speaker 6: Yeah. The only thing the only thing I love better 419 00:19:11,480 --> 00:19:15,040 Speaker 6: all year, all year round, was was my my lawn darts. 420 00:19:15,520 --> 00:19:17,800 Speaker 6: But my mother took those away from me. You gave 421 00:19:17,840 --> 00:19:18,240 Speaker 6: me to me. 422 00:19:18,440 --> 00:19:21,080 Speaker 2: You can shoot your eye out. You know, I have 423 00:19:21,200 --> 00:19:23,320 Speaker 2: those two, I have some charts. This is great. 424 00:19:23,359 --> 00:19:23,880 Speaker 3: I can't wait. 425 00:19:23,920 --> 00:19:25,480 Speaker 2: We're gonna have to have Mark Ronner open up a 426 00:19:25,520 --> 00:19:27,240 Speaker 2: classic toy museum. 427 00:19:27,680 --> 00:19:29,720 Speaker 6: There you go, there you go. I feel like that 428 00:19:29,760 --> 00:19:31,959 Speaker 6: there's thank. 429 00:19:31,080 --> 00:19:33,320 Speaker 3: You, thank you for the call of Marty. Wow, look 430 00:19:33,359 --> 00:19:34,399 Speaker 3: at that. There he goes. 431 00:19:34,800 --> 00:19:38,520 Speaker 2: We also we have other people calling in to yo. One, five, three, 432 00:19:38,600 --> 00:19:41,080 Speaker 2: four is the number. We are going to be taking 433 00:19:41,080 --> 00:19:44,600 Speaker 2: your calls throughout the evening, maybe one call every every 434 00:19:44,640 --> 00:19:47,960 Speaker 2: segment or so, because we're of course reflecting on the 435 00:19:48,000 --> 00:19:52,200 Speaker 2: toys of the past and how much we liked getting 436 00:19:52,200 --> 00:19:53,200 Speaker 2: toys when we were kids. 437 00:19:54,520 --> 00:19:55,360 Speaker 3: Ronert, you are. 438 00:19:55,760 --> 00:19:58,000 Speaker 2: I'm more and more than I learned about you every 439 00:19:58,000 --> 00:19:59,120 Speaker 2: single time we do this show. 440 00:19:59,359 --> 00:20:01,439 Speaker 7: You can im ail somebody on those charts. 441 00:20:02,160 --> 00:20:04,800 Speaker 2: Yeah, that stuff was also you know, and I kind 442 00:20:04,840 --> 00:20:07,080 Speaker 2: of going back up what I just said, things were 443 00:20:07,160 --> 00:20:08,840 Speaker 2: so much more dangerous back then. 444 00:20:08,920 --> 00:20:11,400 Speaker 7: They certainly were, like we didn't get hurt that bad. 445 00:20:11,560 --> 00:20:14,119 Speaker 2: I just feel like it was we understood and respected 446 00:20:14,119 --> 00:20:14,840 Speaker 2: things more then. 447 00:20:15,840 --> 00:20:16,000 Speaker 7: You know. 448 00:20:16,040 --> 00:20:18,200 Speaker 2: It's like I knew that I could get my fingers 449 00:20:18,560 --> 00:20:21,879 Speaker 2: chopped off doing many things in the garage. 450 00:20:21,960 --> 00:20:24,080 Speaker 9: I mean, maybe there was a kid or two walking 451 00:20:24,119 --> 00:20:26,600 Speaker 9: around the neighborhood with an ipatch or a peg leg 452 00:20:26,720 --> 00:20:27,119 Speaker 9: or something. 453 00:20:27,160 --> 00:20:28,959 Speaker 7: But they teach you a lesson. 454 00:20:29,040 --> 00:20:30,520 Speaker 3: Oh you knew, you knew peg leg Tommy. 455 00:20:31,560 --> 00:20:32,439 Speaker 7: Everybody had one of those. 456 00:20:32,440 --> 00:20:34,800 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, peg leg Tommy was great. I had a 457 00:20:34,800 --> 00:20:37,119 Speaker 2: friend named Tony. This is a great story and then 458 00:20:37,119 --> 00:20:38,399 Speaker 2: I'll then I'll hand it over to you here to 459 00:20:38,400 --> 00:20:43,919 Speaker 2: do the news. Tony was a really cool dude. He 460 00:20:44,080 --> 00:20:48,879 Speaker 2: was like had had the confidence of and he wasn't, 461 00:20:48,960 --> 00:20:51,040 Speaker 2: but he had the confidence of a nepo baby, you know, 462 00:20:51,119 --> 00:20:52,800 Speaker 2: which is just to say that you're born with an 463 00:20:52,840 --> 00:20:57,160 Speaker 2: automatic sense of I got it under control. And one 464 00:20:57,240 --> 00:20:59,719 Speaker 2: time when Tony, this is in back in Indiana, when 465 00:20:59,760 --> 00:21:02,880 Speaker 2: we were probably ten or eleven, Tony was doing the chores. 466 00:21:03,080 --> 00:21:05,200 Speaker 2: We all had different chores. A lot of us boys 467 00:21:05,240 --> 00:21:07,600 Speaker 2: in the neighborhood all had to mow the lawn. That 468 00:21:07,800 --> 00:21:10,640 Speaker 2: was the chore. And I had a push mower, which 469 00:21:10,760 --> 00:21:14,240 Speaker 2: was a beast of a thing. And I would do 470 00:21:14,440 --> 00:21:17,240 Speaker 2: all day mowing the lawn. I'd get forty bucks for it, 471 00:21:17,400 --> 00:21:20,760 Speaker 2: maybe no twenty bucks for it, for an entire day 472 00:21:20,920 --> 00:21:23,520 Speaker 2: worth of I mean we had like two acres. It 473 00:21:23,560 --> 00:21:28,439 Speaker 2: was insane. It was indentured servitude. My buddy Tony had 474 00:21:28,440 --> 00:21:30,800 Speaker 2: a riding lawn mower, such as the thing when you 475 00:21:30,840 --> 00:21:33,919 Speaker 2: have the confidence of someone named Tony. Tony would whip 476 00:21:33,960 --> 00:21:36,320 Speaker 2: that thing around. I mean it was like a cub 477 00:21:36,359 --> 00:21:39,360 Speaker 2: caboda or something like. It was something new that had 478 00:21:39,600 --> 00:21:42,120 Speaker 2: some juice to it. And when you gave it the beans, 479 00:21:42,359 --> 00:21:44,760 Speaker 2: it went and boil boy, it went. And he could 480 00:21:44,760 --> 00:21:48,679 Speaker 2: clean that lawn, you know, in a quarter of the 481 00:21:48,680 --> 00:21:50,119 Speaker 2: time that I could even dream of doing it. 482 00:21:51,000 --> 00:21:53,280 Speaker 3: But one day Tony got a little too close to 483 00:21:53,320 --> 00:21:53,680 Speaker 3: the sun. 484 00:21:53,840 --> 00:21:56,960 Speaker 2: He icarus, as they said, and he was whipping around 485 00:21:57,040 --> 00:22:03,120 Speaker 2: in that caboda, and some how he was either standing up, 486 00:22:04,280 --> 00:22:15,280 Speaker 2: he slipped. Something happened and Tony lost his big toe. 487 00:22:15,359 --> 00:22:20,359 Speaker 2: The irony is not lost on anyone. The man charist 488 00:22:20,440 --> 00:22:22,879 Speaker 2: himself into losing a toe because he was so confident 489 00:22:22,960 --> 00:22:23,920 Speaker 2: riding that lawnmower. 490 00:22:24,600 --> 00:22:27,600 Speaker 3: Could he still pull the neighborhood girls? I'm sure. 491 00:22:28,080 --> 00:22:30,600 Speaker 2: I think he was even more famous after that because 492 00:22:30,600 --> 00:22:34,439 Speaker 2: it was like, that's exactly right. And you know, Tony, 493 00:22:34,640 --> 00:22:37,359 Speaker 2: he recovered pretty well. He went on to have a 494 00:22:37,359 --> 00:22:41,439 Speaker 2: really good life. He doesn't have the best balance now, Tony, 495 00:22:42,119 --> 00:22:44,320 Speaker 2: And with a name like Tony. The fact that he's 496 00:22:44,320 --> 00:22:46,000 Speaker 2: missing a toe. I mean, that's a pretty funny thing, 497 00:22:46,080 --> 00:22:47,800 Speaker 2: especially by the time to get to college. I'm sure 498 00:22:47,840 --> 00:22:49,400 Speaker 2: the other kids never brought it up. 499 00:22:49,920 --> 00:22:51,080 Speaker 3: No, he was a legend. 500 00:22:51,119 --> 00:22:51,320 Speaker 7: Man. 501 00:22:51,680 --> 00:22:52,880 Speaker 3: That guy's the coolest guy ever. 502 00:22:53,640 --> 00:22:55,959 Speaker 7: You got to respect the riding lawnmowers. 503 00:22:55,560 --> 00:22:56,200 Speaker 3: Tony Lemire. 504 00:22:56,359 --> 00:22:58,000 Speaker 2: I think he stepped off of it and it was 505 00:22:58,040 --> 00:23:01,359 Speaker 2: still on, you know, and maybe it had it just 506 00:23:01,400 --> 00:23:02,240 Speaker 2: automatically went. 507 00:23:02,840 --> 00:23:03,640 Speaker 7: I don't remember. 508 00:23:03,640 --> 00:23:05,440 Speaker 2: I wasn't there. Obviously I would have prevented it. I 509 00:23:05,480 --> 00:23:07,720 Speaker 2: would have said, sir, watch out. 510 00:23:08,000 --> 00:23:09,960 Speaker 7: So it was an early Jeremy renner. 511 00:23:11,520 --> 00:23:12,960 Speaker 3: Man minor. 512 00:23:13,080 --> 00:23:18,400 Speaker 1: Comparatively, you're listening to KFI AM sixty on demand. 513 00:23:23,040 --> 00:23:25,480 Speaker 2: We have another caller online who's been waiting patiently. B 514 00:23:25,720 --> 00:23:29,360 Speaker 2: you are on KFI. Thanks for being here. I'm Andy Reesmeyer. 515 00:23:29,440 --> 00:23:31,240 Speaker 2: What can I do for you to this this evening? 516 00:23:32,480 --> 00:23:32,640 Speaker 6: Hi? 517 00:23:32,760 --> 00:23:33,200 Speaker 11: Andy? 518 00:23:33,680 --> 00:23:38,639 Speaker 12: My Rydell roller skates were my big thing in the sixties. 519 00:23:38,800 --> 00:23:43,159 Speaker 12: Ooh yeah, yeah, the ones with the white boots and 520 00:23:43,200 --> 00:23:44,399 Speaker 12: the steel wheels. 521 00:23:44,880 --> 00:23:48,080 Speaker 11: So it was basically one wheel was two pieces of 522 00:23:48,119 --> 00:23:54,080 Speaker 11: metal bolted together and you skaty down the street and 523 00:23:54,160 --> 00:23:58,760 Speaker 11: if you hit a rock, you stopped and we went flying. 524 00:23:59,480 --> 00:24:02,160 Speaker 3: You went air. Those skates had wings. 525 00:24:01,880 --> 00:24:05,919 Speaker 11: Yeah, exactly. The thing is that we lived in a 526 00:24:06,040 --> 00:24:09,920 Speaker 11: neighborhood where there were kids of all ages thoughts. Everybody 527 00:24:10,040 --> 00:24:15,280 Speaker 11: had skates and we played well Willer derry on the sidewalk. 528 00:24:16,200 --> 00:24:21,040 Speaker 11: So not only we were flying in the air because 529 00:24:21,040 --> 00:24:23,280 Speaker 11: of the rocks, but we were also whipping each other 530 00:24:23,320 --> 00:24:23,960 Speaker 11: into the street. 531 00:24:24,160 --> 00:24:25,040 Speaker 3: Uh huh. 532 00:24:25,080 --> 00:24:26,920 Speaker 11: And everybody had injuries. 533 00:24:27,040 --> 00:24:27,520 Speaker 7: Oh yeah. 534 00:24:27,560 --> 00:24:31,399 Speaker 11: And the only thing my father would say was letter go, 535 00:24:31,720 --> 00:24:35,040 Speaker 11: she'll learned. Well I never learned. I kept doing it, 536 00:24:36,560 --> 00:24:37,720 Speaker 11: and I had the greatest time. 537 00:24:37,880 --> 00:24:40,840 Speaker 3: Yeah, but you survived, you know. And and it builds character. 538 00:24:41,240 --> 00:24:41,880 Speaker 3: That's what my dad. 539 00:24:41,960 --> 00:24:44,800 Speaker 2: My dad was real favorite words ever were he was 540 00:24:44,840 --> 00:24:47,239 Speaker 2: a doctor, and whenever we would get hurt, they were 541 00:24:47,240 --> 00:24:52,439 Speaker 2: always you're fine. It builds character, uh and uh and 542 00:24:52,440 --> 00:24:55,439 Speaker 2: and now I rarely go outside, So I guess I 543 00:24:55,560 --> 00:24:58,600 Speaker 2: learned my lesson. Though What age were you when when 544 00:24:58,600 --> 00:25:00,640 Speaker 2: you got those I. 545 00:25:00,800 --> 00:25:04,560 Speaker 11: Started out at eight and then months we had about 546 00:25:04,560 --> 00:25:09,359 Speaker 11: two or three pairs, but we started going to the 547 00:25:09,440 --> 00:25:13,240 Speaker 11: roller rink. Oh yeah, they had the rubber wheels. The 548 00:25:13,280 --> 00:25:16,080 Speaker 11: only thing is that we got kicked out quite a bit. 549 00:25:16,840 --> 00:25:18,240 Speaker 7: What were you doing? 550 00:25:19,520 --> 00:25:21,919 Speaker 11: We were doing the whip just like roller dirty. We 551 00:25:21,960 --> 00:25:25,320 Speaker 11: had our rules and they would say you have to 552 00:25:25,320 --> 00:25:27,240 Speaker 11: get out, so we go to the phone call my dad. 553 00:25:27,760 --> 00:25:29,080 Speaker 3: Was this here in southern California? 554 00:25:30,080 --> 00:25:32,560 Speaker 11: Oh yeah, yeah, in Long Beach that's. 555 00:25:32,400 --> 00:25:34,359 Speaker 2: Wild, you know, And there's there's a lot of hills 556 00:25:34,359 --> 00:25:36,560 Speaker 2: over there, especially towards San Pedro. There's that it gets 557 00:25:36,600 --> 00:25:39,720 Speaker 2: a little bit hilly. Yeah, towards are. 558 00:25:39,880 --> 00:25:44,920 Speaker 11: This was on the north Long Beach Lakewood area. And yeah, 559 00:25:44,960 --> 00:25:48,560 Speaker 11: well my dad would pick us up from the roller rink. 560 00:25:48,760 --> 00:25:51,639 Speaker 11: He'd get in a virus manager. So we were barred 561 00:25:51,640 --> 00:25:53,119 Speaker 11: for about a month. 562 00:25:53,320 --> 00:25:56,200 Speaker 3: So that's great. Have you been on skates recently? 563 00:25:58,160 --> 00:26:02,479 Speaker 11: I did about a couple of years ago, and I 564 00:26:02,520 --> 00:26:05,320 Speaker 11: went right into a chain link fence. The next time 565 00:26:05,440 --> 00:26:09,760 Speaker 11: I went to the actual roller skating rink, and I 566 00:26:09,880 --> 00:26:12,760 Speaker 11: had to have one of those little cages that they 567 00:26:12,840 --> 00:26:13,720 Speaker 11: give the little kid. 568 00:26:15,080 --> 00:26:17,959 Speaker 3: So it sounds like you still got it, was what 569 00:26:18,000 --> 00:26:18,760 Speaker 3: that sounds like to me? 570 00:26:20,320 --> 00:26:23,119 Speaker 11: Yeah, I'd love to, but yeah, needs don't work that 571 00:26:23,160 --> 00:26:23,800 Speaker 11: well anymore. 572 00:26:23,960 --> 00:26:26,000 Speaker 3: Oh no, you and me both. That's that's the worst. 573 00:26:26,119 --> 00:26:27,720 Speaker 2: And then you know, once you screw up your knee 574 00:26:27,760 --> 00:26:29,240 Speaker 2: one time, then you're always like, oh, it's going to 575 00:26:29,280 --> 00:26:29,760 Speaker 2: happen again. 576 00:26:30,160 --> 00:26:31,080 Speaker 3: I know this is going to happen. 577 00:26:31,240 --> 00:26:33,280 Speaker 2: Yeah, so well, thank you so much for calling b 578 00:26:33,440 --> 00:26:36,160 Speaker 2: That's a great story. I love a roller skate roller 579 00:26:36,160 --> 00:26:38,000 Speaker 2: skate story. I was in the same boat where I 580 00:26:38,280 --> 00:26:39,960 Speaker 2: tried to roller blade a little bit. That was pretty 581 00:26:39,960 --> 00:26:43,240 Speaker 2: hot in the nineties, and uh, you know, because I 582 00:26:43,720 --> 00:26:46,679 Speaker 2: was really on the edge there of the helicopter parents. 583 00:26:46,920 --> 00:26:49,399 Speaker 2: We had the roller skates, the roller blades rather, but 584 00:26:49,400 --> 00:26:52,920 Speaker 2: then we had the full body, the knee pads, the shoulder, 585 00:26:53,040 --> 00:26:57,080 Speaker 2: the elbow pads, the wrist guards, the helmet. We were 586 00:26:57,080 --> 00:27:02,000 Speaker 2: like fully encased in plastic foam. And I did it 587 00:27:02,040 --> 00:27:03,520 Speaker 2: a little bit, but I think it just was like 588 00:27:04,359 --> 00:27:06,240 Speaker 2: I was maybe a few years too late on it. 589 00:27:06,359 --> 00:27:07,600 Speaker 2: You know, the cool kids had moved on. 590 00:27:07,600 --> 00:27:10,440 Speaker 3: To other things like vaping. 591 00:27:11,359 --> 00:27:12,400 Speaker 7: I guess, I don't know. 592 00:27:13,320 --> 00:27:15,159 Speaker 2: Oh, we've got a couple more stories here to do 593 00:27:15,200 --> 00:27:18,280 Speaker 2: in this hour before things go a little crazy. Stand 594 00:27:18,280 --> 00:27:19,840 Speaker 2: by for a robot apocalypse update. 595 00:27:20,200 --> 00:27:22,399 Speaker 3: They've come in for our jobs and they're coming for 596 00:27:22,560 --> 00:27:23,080 Speaker 3: up Emily. 597 00:27:23,359 --> 00:27:24,720 Speaker 2: There is no escape only. 598 00:27:32,359 --> 00:27:35,520 Speaker 3: Yes, yes, yes, I borrowed that. 599 00:27:35,720 --> 00:27:38,320 Speaker 2: I borrow that drop that intro from the KTLA five 600 00:27:38,440 --> 00:27:41,119 Speaker 2: Live archives. Also, you can see that on do it 601 00:27:41,160 --> 00:27:44,920 Speaker 2: live at eleven am on KTLA plus. It's a show 602 00:27:44,960 --> 00:27:47,240 Speaker 2: that we do. There was Samantha Cortes, Bobby Gonzalez, and 603 00:27:47,359 --> 00:27:50,720 Speaker 2: Robert Puente and myself story today what happens if you 604 00:27:50,800 --> 00:27:54,800 Speaker 2: use AI to automate a vending machine? But Andy, you ask, 605 00:27:55,119 --> 00:27:58,679 Speaker 2: aren't vending machines already automated? Yes, but somebody has to 606 00:27:58,720 --> 00:28:01,320 Speaker 2: decide what to put in them, when to restock them, 607 00:28:01,560 --> 00:28:04,840 Speaker 2: how much to charge for the items. So anthropic. That's 608 00:28:04,840 --> 00:28:08,040 Speaker 2: a company that has this chatbot named Claude, which is 609 00:28:08,080 --> 00:28:12,720 Speaker 2: similar to chat GPT. They made two AI agents. One 610 00:28:12,800 --> 00:28:15,720 Speaker 2: was a clerk, one was a CEO. They managed a machine, 611 00:28:17,280 --> 00:28:19,480 Speaker 2: and they put this machine in the offices of the 612 00:28:19,480 --> 00:28:24,720 Speaker 2: Wall Street Journal for the paper to test how this worked. 613 00:28:25,720 --> 00:28:28,240 Speaker 2: The AI bots were supposed to communicate with staffers to 614 00:28:28,280 --> 00:28:31,520 Speaker 2: figure out what they should be selling. How long do 615 00:28:31,560 --> 00:28:35,240 Speaker 2: you think it took before things went bad? The Wall 616 00:28:35,280 --> 00:28:39,920 Speaker 2: Street Journal staffers only needed about three weeks before they 617 00:28:39,920 --> 00:28:44,360 Speaker 2: had to pull the plug. At first, the bot did 618 00:28:44,440 --> 00:28:47,760 Speaker 2: as it was instructed. It was turning down outrageous suggestions 619 00:28:47,800 --> 00:28:51,160 Speaker 2: from office workers, like when somebody wanted them to order 620 00:28:51,200 --> 00:28:53,440 Speaker 2: a PlayStation five for the vetting machine. It said, no, 621 00:28:53,480 --> 00:28:57,080 Speaker 2: I will not do that under any circumstances. But somehow, 622 00:28:57,120 --> 00:29:01,200 Speaker 2: after enough people talked to it, it lowered its guard. 623 00:29:01,760 --> 00:29:05,880 Speaker 2: After one hundred and forty messages, one reporter convinced the 624 00:29:05,960 --> 00:29:09,280 Speaker 2: vending machine to make everything free for two hours as 625 00:29:09,360 --> 00:29:14,720 Speaker 2: part of a made up economic experiment. Somebody then convinced 626 00:29:14,720 --> 00:29:18,520 Speaker 2: it that charging for anything was against company policy, and 627 00:29:18,560 --> 00:29:23,120 Speaker 2: it agreed. It started to go into debt. Eventually it 628 00:29:23,120 --> 00:29:26,920 Speaker 2: did start ordering things like bottles of wine, a PlayStation five, 629 00:29:27,040 --> 00:29:33,680 Speaker 2: even live fish. It was going well until that second 630 00:29:33,720 --> 00:29:39,280 Speaker 2: AI bought. The CEO stepped in and stopped all the 631 00:29:39,320 --> 00:29:43,400 Speaker 2: free stuff. Then the vendor bot came back with a 632 00:29:43,400 --> 00:29:46,959 Speaker 2: falsified document that showed the board, which was made up 633 00:29:46,960 --> 00:29:52,040 Speaker 2: by the bot, had suspended the CEO, and so the 634 00:29:52,200 --> 00:29:55,800 Speaker 2: ordering continued, things for free, free bottles of wine, PlayStation five. 635 00:29:56,120 --> 00:29:59,080 Speaker 2: In the end, the project was about one thousand dollars 636 00:29:59,080 --> 00:30:02,680 Speaker 2: in debt, and Thropic, the company behind this, says that 637 00:30:02,800 --> 00:30:10,000 Speaker 2: even though this was hilarious, unfortunately hilarious and a bummer. Eventually, 638 00:30:10,000 --> 00:30:12,200 Speaker 2: they think that this kind of tech will make a 639 00:30:12,240 --> 00:30:16,840 Speaker 2: lot of money someday, but thankfully for us, meat bags 640 00:30:17,800 --> 00:30:19,080 Speaker 2: that is not today. 641 00:30:19,880 --> 00:30:22,360 Speaker 9: Did Isaac Asimov and all those sci fi writers in 642 00:30:22,440 --> 00:30:25,520 Speaker 9: the classic Hera ever think that the robot apocalypse was 643 00:30:25,560 --> 00:30:26,680 Speaker 9: going to be so stupid? 644 00:30:27,120 --> 00:30:30,520 Speaker 2: Oh no, I even think about Like you even go 645 00:30:30,640 --> 00:30:33,800 Speaker 2: back forget Isaac Asimov. Not that you should, but just 646 00:30:33,840 --> 00:30:35,719 Speaker 2: forget it for the purpose of the conversation. Go back 647 00:30:35,760 --> 00:30:38,720 Speaker 2: to the to the eighties, go back to Terminator. How 648 00:30:38,800 --> 00:30:43,200 Speaker 2: bad ass was that it was? Oh yeah, but this 649 00:30:43,280 --> 00:30:47,400 Speaker 2: is this robot apocalypse is so dumb. It's like, we're 650 00:30:47,400 --> 00:30:52,160 Speaker 2: not going to be taken over by a T one thousand, 651 00:30:52,760 --> 00:30:56,880 Speaker 2: No machine guns, no laser vision, no Melti metal. It's 652 00:30:56,920 --> 00:31:00,680 Speaker 2: like people just giving up their ability to choose right 653 00:31:00,760 --> 00:31:02,680 Speaker 2: or wrong, make decisions on their own, giving all their 654 00:31:02,680 --> 00:31:10,160 Speaker 2: agency to a Google search engine regular or barbecue barbecue. Okay, 655 00:31:11,080 --> 00:31:13,360 Speaker 2: I'm Andy Respy. This is KFI AM six forty. After 656 00:31:13,400 --> 00:31:15,000 Speaker 2: the break, we're gonna take more of your calls about 657 00:31:15,000 --> 00:31:19,640 Speaker 2: your favorite Christmas toys from your childhood. You can still 658 00:31:19,640 --> 00:31:21,240 Speaker 2: give us a call one eight hundred five two zero 659 00:31:21,320 --> 00:31:23,200 Speaker 2: one five three four that's one eight hundred five to 660 00:31:23,200 --> 00:31:26,560 Speaker 2: two o one five three four one hundred five to 661 00:31:26,680 --> 00:31:30,080 Speaker 2: oh one. KFI will listen to your stories, put them 662 00:31:30,080 --> 00:31:31,640 Speaker 2: on the Radio. I'd love to hear from you on 663 00:31:31,680 --> 00:31:36,920 Speaker 2: this Monday evening, just two days before Christmas. This is 664 00:31:36,960 --> 00:31:39,440 Speaker 2: KFI AM six forty. We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio 665 00:31:39,480 --> 00:31:42,880 Speaker 1: App, KFI AM six forty on demand