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Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.

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Speaker 2: I'm Andy Reesmeyer. Nice to see you this afternoon, evening morning.

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Speaker 2: I have lost complete concept of time. I don't know

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Speaker 2: when it is. I don't know who I am, I

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Speaker 2: don't know what I'm doing or where I'm going. But

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Speaker 2: I'm happy to be here. If you want to find me,

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Speaker 2: you can find me on the internet at Andy KTLA.

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Speaker 2: Always look forward to hearing from you there on Instagram

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Speaker 2: or Twitter x. You could, also, of course leave us

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Speaker 2: a talk back on the iHeartRadio app. Look for that microphone.

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Speaker 2: Leave a little message up to thirty seconds and we

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Speaker 2: will play it on the show. I guarantee you. Alongside

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Speaker 2: mister Oliver Boone on the Ones and Twoes, we've got

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Speaker 2: Sam also in there. We've got Matt Tofler tonight, and

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Speaker 2: of course the one and only Mark Ronerd.

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Speaker 3: You have a nice Thanksgiving, Andy, I.

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Speaker 2: Had a great Thanksgiving. Really yeah, it was awesome. I

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Speaker 2: feel like I've been celebrating Thanksgiving for a week and

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Speaker 2: a half. I am so swollen, I'm so bloated that

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Speaker 2: my shoes don't even fit.

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Speaker 3: You still look like an ectomorph though. If we're just

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Speaker 3: going by body type. It's the pleats. Okay, it's the police.

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Speaker 3: Are they forgiving?

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Speaker 2: The pleets are very forgiven. A couple of things. Did

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Speaker 2: you just see Trump cut a haircut? What a silly

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Speaker 2: thing that is. I don't know if you've seen him late?

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Speaker 3: What know? What does it look like when he gets one?

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Speaker 3: He's still it's very cropped. It looks like he's like

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Speaker 3: it looks like he's going back to school pictures or

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Speaker 3: something like that. Wild President Trump with the haircut there.

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Speaker 2: I just thought out of the corner of my eye,

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Speaker 2: lots coming on the show tonight, IMiD the craziness of

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Speaker 2: holiday travel, would it make it worse to know how

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Speaker 2: rich people actually fly these days? Not people rich enough

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Speaker 2: to fly private. These are people who are slumming it

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Speaker 2: still with you and me going to the TSA, having

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Speaker 2: to walk by the chilies to go. But they end

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Speaker 2: up in first class. And I'll break down what airlines

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Speaker 2: are doing to invest into making the first class even

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Speaker 2: more opulent. And it's amazing because a lot of the

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Speaker 2: stuff that they're bringing to the first class passengers are

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Speaker 2: just things that they used to have in the golden

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Speaker 2: age of flying. We'll get into that. Then, why are

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Speaker 2: people po'ed at Target? A free thing that they expected

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Speaker 2: was not good enough? And now they're all on social

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Speaker 2: media yelling at Target? Is Target off the mark? Why

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Speaker 2: are people saying Target is cooked? And if you like

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Speaker 2: being famous or you were hoping you would be famous,

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Speaker 2: unfortunately can shorten your lifespan, especially if you're a singer,

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Speaker 2: life expectancy will be a lot shorter. And we're going

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Speaker 2: to take your calls on Thanksgiving leftovers, your leftover stories,

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Speaker 2: anything you didn't get to talk about at Thanksgiving, Anything

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Speaker 2: you want to share that surprised you from this week.

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Speaker 2: Did you go on a cousin walk.

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Speaker 3: Mark runner?

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Speaker 4: How was your Thanksgiving?

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Speaker 3: Well? I was here for it, but the night of Yeah,

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Speaker 3: but before I left, we had some delicious Portos Thanksgiving

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Speaker 3: turkey and gravy balls. Yeah, they lived up to my expectations.

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Speaker 2: Oh, I'm so happy to hear that the good the

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Speaker 2: people of Portos are are are fantastic, And I think

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Speaker 2: you know, I'm glad that you're not disappointed because the expectation,

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Speaker 2: I imagine is pretty.

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Speaker 3: High and they reheat well in an air fryer. They're terrific.

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Speaker 4: Oh, a little crunchy on the outside.

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Speaker 3: First rate balls. I gotta tell you that's good. Did

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Speaker 3: you feel like you were a celebrity. I never really

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Speaker 3: felt like that, but you're You're the one who's on

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Speaker 3: the fancy TV.

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Speaker 2: Can I tell you? Yesterday was one of the most

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Speaker 2: exciting things I've ever done in my life.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: I got to be in the Hollywood Christmas Parade.

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Speaker 3: And did people throw beads at you?

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Speaker 2: All the beads? I took it all off ron Okay,

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Speaker 2: the Hollywood Christmas Parade is a fantastic thing. It's like

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Speaker 2: been going for ninety three years. The only two years

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Speaker 2: that it hasn't happened was like World War Two, and

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Speaker 2: I think maybe COVID, so they've been doing it. They've

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Speaker 2: lot of other things in Los Angeles that have been

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Speaker 2: going on for that long. Here's a little breakdown of

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Speaker 2: what the experience was like yesterday. Well, outside, I did

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Speaker 2: something that I never thought that I would ever get

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Speaker 2: Hollywood Christmas Parade on board in nineteen sixty five Chevy

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Speaker 2: and Palalo Rider. We went KJLA, Samantha Cortes, Robert Plente

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Speaker 3: They made Bobby work last night.

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Speaker 2: Isn't that the craziest thing in the world. I do

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Speaker 2: this little show on the weekend. I love it very much.

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Speaker 2: It's called Do It Live. It's a little talk show

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Speaker 2: where we talk about stuff that's going on in the news.

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Speaker 2: There's a video component that is literally the only thing

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Speaker 2: that makes it different than radio. But Bobby Gonzalez, Robert Plente,

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Speaker 2: Samantha Cortese, myself have been doing some version of this

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Speaker 2: show for like seven years for KTLA a long time,

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Speaker 2: and we finally, I feel like, got the recognition and

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Speaker 2: the appreciation that we have always deserved. We always used

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Speaker 2: to say five Live was the show that KTLA didn't

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Speaker 2: want you to see because well, it was a little

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Speaker 2: rough around the edges, nothing is new. There wasn't a

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Speaker 2: ton of promotion for it, that's for dang sure. But

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Speaker 2: we finally got an opportunity to ride in the parade.

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Speaker 2: And would you believe Bobby Gonzalez, who also produces the

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Speaker 2: weekend evening news as one of the producers, could not

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Speaker 2: get his shift covered to go ride in the parade.

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Speaker 2: Isn't that the craziest thing that you like, what are

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Speaker 2: we doing here? The man could have been in the

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Speaker 2: parade and we couldn't. We couldn't find somebody for him

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Speaker 2: along Hollywood and then standing on Sunset Boulevard, floats marching bands.

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Speaker 4: But doesn't she look great?

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Speaker 3: Real shiny? Yeah? It was a sparkly number ronner. I'm

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Speaker 3: a sucker for a crampus sweater. Oh yeahs is very festive.

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Speaker 3: Can you let the babies know about the crampis? It's

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Speaker 3: kind of a Christmas demon that hauls away children and

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Speaker 3: Eastern European yet festive.

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Speaker 2: A great thing that I think more people need to

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Speaker 2: celebrate these days. The Christmas makes it upside, steals the children.

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Speaker 2: Shiny yeah, marching bands, balloons, movie cars and more.

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Speaker 4: Look at the celebrities, there's one right there. This year's

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Speaker 4: Grand Marshall was a.

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Speaker 2: Very newly blonde Luke Wilson.

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Speaker 4: Have you seen photos of him?

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Speaker 3: Fully like bleached blonde.

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Speaker 2: Don't know if the new dew is possibly for an

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Speaker 2: upcoming role or he's just having a moment. Either way,

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Speaker 2: very excited for him. The parade was hosted by Eric

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Speaker 2: Strata of Chips. Of course, Stanton and Laura mackenzie were

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Speaker 2: out there as well. We were there waving some even

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Speaker 2: wave back and said, hey, it's the tech guy.

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Speaker 3: It's a true guy.

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Speaker 2: A lot of people think I'm Rich Damiro. I listen,

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Speaker 2: that's a handsome man. If I'm going to be confused

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Speaker 2: with anybody, I'd rather be him than many people in

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Speaker 2: the world.

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Speaker 3: People seem to like him. Yes, he's very likable.

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Speaker 2: He's likable in the way that, like, you know, everybody

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Speaker 2: likes vanilla ice cream.

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Speaker 3: But what I'm saying is that you should run with

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Speaker 3: it and just let people believe that that's who you are.

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Speaker 3: You know, even if I didn't want to.

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Speaker 2: At some point it becomes difficult because people are just

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Speaker 2: insistent that I am him. I was waiting in line

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Speaker 2: in downtown LA for an event that I was covering,

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Speaker 2: and when I was standing in line with the camera

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Speaker 2: with the photographer, I think I had my KTLA jacket

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Speaker 2: on and somebody come up came up to me and

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Speaker 2: was like, hey, Rich, Rich how you doing. You know

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Speaker 2: Rich Damia. I was like, oh, hey Andy ktlay whatever,

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Speaker 2: and the guy was like, no, I have I've taken

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Speaker 4: I was like, okay, cool, And he gets on his

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Speaker 4: phone and he shows.

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Speaker 3: Me pictures of him with the rich. To me, Hey,

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Speaker 3: the customer's always right.

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Speaker 4: I just like, I was just like, well, whatever, who cares?

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Speaker 3: Why not costs you nothing?

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Speaker 2: I mean the thing is that, like I feel like

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Speaker 2: the major issue is that I am not a tenth

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Speaker 2: as intelligent and well versed in technology matters as rich

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Speaker 2: to Miro. So the problem becomes is when people come

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Speaker 2: up to me with their broken eyepads and they say,

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Speaker 2: how do I do a hard reset? How do I

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Speaker 2: clear my cash? How do I check my cookies? I

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Speaker 2: don't know what to do?

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Speaker 3: Fake it? You'd be like, how about that game boy?

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Speaker 3: Fake it?

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Speaker 2: Like, open up your Venmo, put in this phone number,

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Speaker 2: it's my phone number, send them one hundred and fifty

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Speaker 2: bucks and it'll fix all your problems. By Chevy, there

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Speaker 2: many hours, many out in power. Really cool to get

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Speaker 2: outside the bubble of the studio and see people.

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Speaker 3: Now how long was the route? Like how long were

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Speaker 3: you on the back of the Chevy? There many hours,

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Speaker 3: many hours? But you know, I mean, what am I doing?

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Speaker 2: I did not know the good the good people had

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Speaker 2: a nice and low for us before before we left up.

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Speaker 2: So I had never been to the Hollywood Christmas Parade.

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Speaker 2: As much of an la web that I am, I

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Speaker 2: I didn't know really that it existed, and I was

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Speaker 2: so shocked at how many people go to this. I

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Speaker 2: was thinking, if I was invited, if I'm going to

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Speaker 2: go to a thing, it probably won't be well. I

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Speaker 2: just based on my own history. I tried to be

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Speaker 2: in a band. You know, I kind of got the

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Speaker 2: expectation was set pretty low. But we got there and

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Speaker 2: it was really happening. To take you upstairs into this

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Speaker 2: like holding room where they got you know, little little

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Speaker 2: glasses of wine and some petty fours.

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Speaker 4: It was very fancy. It was much fancier than anything

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Speaker 4: I'd ever been a part of.

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Speaker 3: So you got all liquored up before you went out there.

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Speaker 3: I had a glass of red wine. Well, I don't

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Speaker 3: know what your tolerance is. That could just make you

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Speaker 3: sloppy drunk. That's true.

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Speaker 2: As an ectomorph with pleated pants, it goes far. No,

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Speaker 2: I would say my limit is far more than one

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Speaker 2: glass of red wine. I see, Okay, Yeah, Unfortunately, when

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Speaker 2: I think about that, I think man in the good

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Speaker 2: old days when I used to be able to like

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Speaker 2: be a real cheap date. I could just have a

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Speaker 2: glass or to a wine and be like, that's it

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Speaker 2: for me. Everybody.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that'm're low though. That'll eat the enamel right off

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Speaker 3: your teeth.

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Speaker 4: You know, it was free. Who am I gonna like?

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Speaker 5: What?

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Speaker 3: Okay, what do I care? I don't know.

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Speaker 4: Freeze perfect, freeze free.

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Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.

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Speaker 2: I'm Andy Reesemeyer. The number is one hundred five two

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Speaker 2: zero one five three four. That's one hundred five two

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Speaker 2: zero one KFI. If you'd like to give us a call,

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Speaker 2: tell us how your Thanksgiving went, What went well for you,

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Speaker 4: I was talking to Mark Chrisky today. He asked me

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Speaker 2: And he said, oh, it was great, best Thanksgiving ever.

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Speaker 2: Something that was a surprise for some, maybe some in

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Speaker 2: Thanksgiving set air travel records. Busiest days at the airport

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Speaker 2: Maybe you could probably say going home. November thirtieth narrowly

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Speaker 2: of the longest government shut down in history. Are they

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Speaker 4: Sure they thought they were gonna die.

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Speaker 2: I could hear somebody, is that Sam Sam hop up

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Speaker 4: What are you drinking champagne? What are you eating?

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Speaker 2: Caviar, beef, tenderloin, heirloom carrots, scallops, panseared salmon, poached lobster.

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Speaker 4: Is that how you say it?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you're on your own, just carrying out, push through

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Speaker 4: Got a finger injury. Hate to see it. I'm Andy Reesemeyer.

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Speaker 2: Give us a call one hundred five two zero one

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Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.

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Speaker 2: I I'm Andy Reesemeyer. Nice to see you this evening

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Speaker 2: on this Monday, December first, just past seven point thirty

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Speaker 2: seven or so Chargers versus Raiders. Yesterday, Chargers pull out

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Speaker 2: in with KTLA's and also the mister worldwide broadcaster Steve Hartman.

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Speaker 4: Good evening, Hey Annie, how you doing man?

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Speaker 5: Yeah? The Justin Herbert situation, he had the surgery on

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Speaker 5: Andy are brutal, brutal. They play the Super Bowl champion

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Speaker 5: Well actually, with New England winning tonight, a team that's

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, he's been hurt before. I believe his on his

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Speaker 2: It seemed like there was a I know, I know

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Speaker 5: Well, first, he's not the only guy that gets hurt.

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Speaker 5: We'll see. Obviously it's not his throwing hands, so I

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Speaker 3: I know that.

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Speaker 2: For Chargers fans though, which I think there's there's still

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Speaker 3: I don't know.

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Speaker 2: You might have been interesting watching so far last night.

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Speaker 5: Game, they play. Yeah, you know, look this this is

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Speaker 5: the honest truth about this, Andy, and I'm gonna be

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Speaker 5: as honest as I possibly can. Nobody in LA wanted

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Speaker 5: NFL fan, who's your favorite team? Raiders?

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Speaker 4: Of course the Raiders.

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Speaker 5: The Raiders still more as bad as the Raiders are.

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Speaker 5: The Raiders still have more fans in LA than there

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Speaker 5: are Ram fans and Charger fans, which obviously showed up.

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Speaker 5: But almost every single home game that the Chargers have,

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Speaker 5: the opposing team has more fans in the stands and

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Speaker 5: the Chargers. And that's just the fact and the people

443
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Speaker 5: in San Diego felt completely abandoned. You know, they were

444
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Speaker 5: begging people to come up from San Diego, and the

445
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Speaker 5: San Diego fans said, yeah, rag my ass up to

446
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Speaker 5: LA right away. You left goodbye. Don't let the door

447
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Speaker 5: hit you on the way out.

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Speaker 2: So what do you think that means for, if anything,

449
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Speaker 2: a future of these franchises in Los Angeles.

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Speaker 5: Any That is a great question. The NFL is desperate

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Speaker 5: to get LA to respond. I mean, look in any

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Speaker 5: other city in this country where there is an NFL team,

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Speaker 5: even if there's a Major League Baseball team or NHL

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Speaker 5: team or an NBA team, the NFL rules. That is

455
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Speaker 5: not the case in LA. You know that the Dodgers

456
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Speaker 5: and the Lakers are one A and one B. L

457
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Speaker 5: control the sports market here and nothing is going to

458
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Speaker 5: change that. So I don't know. I mean, it's been

459
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Speaker 5: ten years now since the Rams moved backs, nine years

460
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Speaker 5: since the Chargers have been here, and nothing has really changed.

461
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Speaker 5: And I know there's Ram fans. Are Charger fans listening

462
00:24:21,760 --> 00:24:23,840
Speaker 5: right now screaming, Oh are you a fans? I'm like,

463
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Speaker 5: I'm not talking about you, I'm not talking about the

464
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Speaker 5: die hards. My son is a die hard Charger fan,

465
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Speaker 5: one my youngest son. So there are fans, but they're

466
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Speaker 5: not growing their fan base. It's not like, you know,

467
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Speaker 5: the whole city is suddenly buzzing about the Rams or

468
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Speaker 5: the Charge all the Rams Citty where they are.

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Speaker 2: Right now, right, And isn't that a surprise given the

470
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Speaker 2: fact that, like the teams are not doing terribly.

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Speaker 4: I mean, you could be doing a lot worse.

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Speaker 5: No, I mean, the Rams are nine and three, the

473
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Speaker 5: Chargers are eight and four right now, but they are

474
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Speaker 5: both in the playoffs. These are good teams. They have

475
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Speaker 5: great quarterbacks. You know, they have great coaches. I mean,

476
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Speaker 5: the hiring of Jim Harbor was a coup for the Chargers.

477
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Speaker 5: You know, Sean McVay obviously one of the best coaches

478
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Speaker 5: in the league for a Ram, So they've they've done

479
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Speaker 5: everything they can. I don't know what it is. I mean,

480
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Speaker 5: Sofi Stadium. I don't know if you've been out to

481
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Speaker 5: Sobach Stadium, you know, I mean it's I'm not a

482
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Speaker 5: huge fan of Sofi Stadium, but certainly it's not one

483
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Speaker 5: of the worst places. You know, It's hosted Super Bowls

484
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Speaker 5: and everything else. So I'm not quite sure what it is.

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Speaker 5: It's just the fact that this city is so married

486
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Speaker 5: to the Dodgers and the Lakers that just doesn't seem

487
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Speaker 5: enough room for everyone to, you know, really jump in

488
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Speaker 5: and just go. You know absolutely, you know, all In

489
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Speaker 5: Well already a fan to begin.

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Speaker 4: With, that's right.

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Speaker 2: And if you keep winning World Series, especially all the

492
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Speaker 2: way deep into October, all the way almost to November,

493
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Speaker 2: you're gonna be taking a little bit of that thunder

494
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Speaker 2: from anybody who's doing anything on a football field. So

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Speaker 2: Steve Hartman, thank you so much for being with us tonight.

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Speaker 2: I always appreciate you. I'll let you go. I know

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Speaker 2: you're a busy man. Go Chargers. Let's see December eighth

498
00:26:04,640 --> 00:26:07,440
Speaker 2: against the Eagles, Monday night football. That gives Justin Herbert

499
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Speaker 2: a full week to recover at least a little bit.

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Speaker 5: And my guess is he will play Andy. I mean,

501
00:26:15,359 --> 00:26:17,440
Speaker 5: it's too big of a game. They need him out there.

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Speaker 5: He's a battler, I have no question. I mean, Herbert's

503
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Speaker 5: an elite quarterback. He will make sure that he is

504
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Speaker 5: out on the field for that money.

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Speaker 2: And I came well said, and you can listen to

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Speaker 2: that all right here on. I am six forty Steve Hartman,

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Speaker 2: thanks for being with us.

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Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.

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Speaker 2: Tomorrow is the big pasta Thon day, as you heard

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Speaker 2: Gary and Channon talking about in that look Ahead promo.

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Speaker 4: I'll be down there tomorrow.

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Speaker 2: I'm heading up after the KTLA Morning News wraps up

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Speaker 2: at eleven am, head on down the five Freeway. If

514
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Speaker 2: I leave at eleven am from Hollywood to go down

515
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Speaker 2: to Anaheim, will I make it by Conway's show?

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Speaker 3: Maybe? I think you will.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you think so.

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Speaker 3: Oh. The one time that I went, it was a

519
00:27:11,840 --> 00:27:16,119
Speaker 3: bit of an odyssey getting there, Oh, buddy, because you

520
00:27:16,160 --> 00:27:18,320
Speaker 3: get off the Five, it's like an apocalypse. Now, you'd

521
00:27:18,359 --> 00:27:19,359
Speaker 3: never get off the boat.

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Speaker 2: You tried to do a little jog around on the

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Speaker 2: surface street.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, And I mean, I live to tell about it,

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00:27:27,560 --> 00:27:28,480
Speaker 3: but I think just barely.

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Speaker 2: It's really crazy that, you know, the stretch from in

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00:27:33,920 --> 00:27:37,600
Speaker 2: Los Angeles County, from downtown LA to Orange County is

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00:27:37,680 --> 00:27:42,359
Speaker 2: one of the most harrowing and like you guaranteed miserable

529
00:27:42,359 --> 00:27:46,440
Speaker 2: experiences of being in southern California. Harrowing is a perfect

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00:27:46,480 --> 00:27:49,919
Speaker 2: word for that drive. I was heading out way. I

531
00:27:49,920 --> 00:27:52,160
Speaker 2: went out to Riverside County this weekend and I got stuck,

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Speaker 2: I think in Redlands. Backed up all the way to

533
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Speaker 2: Redlands from Cabazon on Friday. It took me four hours

534
00:28:00,280 --> 00:28:05,040
Speaker 2: in thirty minutes to drive one hundred and twenty miles.

535
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Speaker 2: Did that give you adequate time for self reflection? I've

536
00:28:08,800 --> 00:28:11,320
Speaker 2: reflected so many times that like I've solved all my

537
00:28:11,400 --> 00:28:13,240
Speaker 2: issues and then I created new ones.

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Speaker 3: Oh well, you don't want that.

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00:28:14,640 --> 00:28:15,920
Speaker 4: No, it's a terrible thing.

540
00:28:16,840 --> 00:28:19,199
Speaker 2: A lot of time spent thinking about yourself, especially if

541
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Speaker 2: you're someone who wants to be famous, but being famous

542
00:28:23,800 --> 00:28:29,000
Speaker 2: can shorten your lifespan. We are dying for attention quite literally.

543
00:28:29,359 --> 00:28:31,439
Speaker 2: A WHO study found that being famous comes at a cost,

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Speaker 2: a higher risk of death for famous singers compared to

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Speaker 2: singers who have not made it. Scientists got a list

546
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Speaker 2: of three hundred and twenty four music stars, people like

547
00:28:45,320 --> 00:28:49,160
Speaker 2: Elvis Presley, Kurt Cobain, Sam Cook, Channis Joplin. Then they

548
00:28:49,200 --> 00:28:52,520
Speaker 2: match the heavy hitters with three hundred and twenty four

549
00:28:53,120 --> 00:28:57,600
Speaker 2: twin musicians that were not household names but otherwise had

550
00:28:57,640 --> 00:29:05,880
Speaker 2: many similar characteristics like gender, nationality, genre, Right around same birthday.

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00:29:06,000 --> 00:29:08,200
Speaker 2: They wanted to compare the life spans of A listers

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Speaker 2: and B listers to isolate the extent to which fame

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Speaker 2: itself is a mortality risk. Higher risk for death for

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Speaker 2: famous singers compared to ones who don't make it. Never

555
00:29:18,160 --> 00:29:20,040
Speaker 2: thought I'd be so happy to have been has been.

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Speaker 2: Famous singers have a four year shorter life expectancy than

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Speaker 2: those who do not achieve stardom. Factors are unsurprisingly lifestyle,

558
00:29:30,480 --> 00:29:32,680
Speaker 2: but even singers who are working in the music business

559
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Speaker 2: fair better than the ones who are famous. The risk

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00:29:36,600 --> 00:29:41,560
Speaker 2: of death gets higher after they become famous. They say

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00:29:41,560 --> 00:29:45,080
Speaker 2: that being famous gives you a unique kind of stress,

562
00:29:45,280 --> 00:29:51,400
Speaker 2: intense scrutiny, performance pressure, no privacy, and a whole host

563
00:29:51,440 --> 00:29:56,280
Speaker 2: of harmful coping mechanisms. You think of the twenty seven

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Speaker 2: club artists who don't make it past the age of

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Speaker 2: twenty seven, like I said Kurt Cobain, Jim Morrison, Jimmy Hendrix,

566
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Speaker 2: Amy Winehouse, Janis Joplin. Weirdly, though, being part of a

567
00:30:07,760 --> 00:30:10,400
Speaker 2: band was linked to a twenty six percent lower risk

568
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Speaker 2: of death compared to going solo. Smoking The gates this,

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Speaker 2: by the way, completely so if you smoke, you have

570
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Speaker 2: a thirty four percent higher risk of death.

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Speaker 4: No matter what.

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Speaker 3: Neat. I'm not saying I don't want you to hit

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Speaker 3: the big time. I'm just saying don't want you to

574
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Speaker 3: die on the toilet in your forties eating a ham sandwich.

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Speaker 3: Well you're yeah, Tom MoMA cast went right. Well that's

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Speaker 3: the that's the legend. I don't know how true that.

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Speaker 2: You know, there are a preponderance of rumors about famous

578
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Speaker 2: musicians dying young involving sandwiches.

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Speaker 3: Well, you got to be careful handling a sandwich, I guess.

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Speaker 3: So is that why you've moved on to the portho's balls. Yeah,

581
00:30:53,240 --> 00:30:56,080
Speaker 3: it's hard to hard to mess those up. These they're

582
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Speaker 3: rarely lethal, the portho's balls, right, Easier to handle those, yeah,

583
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Speaker 3: than a sandway. You just reminded me that the blind

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Speaker 3: melon guy, Shannon Hoon died when he was twenty eight,

585
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Speaker 3: and I think I did the final interview with him.

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Speaker 4: Did you really?

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Speaker 3: I think I did.

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Speaker 2: Was he in a state when you talk to him

589
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Speaker 2: or did any indication that he was?

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Speaker 3: No, he indicated that he was on the straight and narrow,

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00:31:17,160 --> 00:31:19,080
Speaker 3: and that very quickly turned out to be.

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Speaker 4: Maybe, oh man, not so true. Did you interview him

593
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Speaker 4: up in Seattle?

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Speaker 3: No, it was in Indiana. I believe he was from there. Oh,

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Speaker 3: that's kind of cool.

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Speaker 4: He was a hoosier. I didn't know that. Yeah, a

597
00:31:29,800 --> 00:31:31,440
Speaker 4: fellow hoosier with you, that's right.

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Speaker 3: And I think he was a little annoyed that the

599
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Speaker 3: girl in the bee outfit was getting so much attention

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Speaker 3: from you. No, No, a bit young for me. I

601
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Speaker 3: don't know who you think you're talking to. I don't

602
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Speaker 3: know that that was thirty years ago. I know, I

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Speaker 3: know we're so old. How could he have been a

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Speaker 3: bit young? How could they have been a bit young

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Speaker 3: for you? That doesn't the math doesn't even. I can't

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Speaker 3: even believe that you were working well, it was. It

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Speaker 3: was my first newspaper. I was going to say, you

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Speaker 3: must have been a young cob reporter and so, you know,

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Speaker 3: you get thrown into these situations, but you never know

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Speaker 3: you I'm sure you've interviewed lots of celebrities as well.

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Speaker 3: Some have gone on to achieve greatness, others have crashed

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Speaker 3: and burned. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we always say on KTLA we get him on

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Speaker 2: the way up.

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Speaker 3: And the way down. Yeah yeah. I interviewed Mel Gibson.

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Speaker 3: Was one of my first interviews, and I'm not sure

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Speaker 3: how to characterize where he is right now. He's had

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Speaker 3: his ups and downs.

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Speaker 2: Well these days it's like up and down doesn't mean

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Speaker 2: what it used to, you know, because you can kind

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Speaker 2: of like live on the fringes and do okay these days.

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Speaker 3: Well, he certainly didn't join the twenty seven club. He

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Speaker 3: did not, you could say that at the very least,

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Speaker 3: at the very least.

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Speaker 2: We've got lots more coming up in the next hour,

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Speaker 2: including last chance for some cyber Monday deals that's kind

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Speaker 2: of fun, and freezing temperatures are back in the forecast.

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Speaker 4: So much for seventies runner

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