Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2: I'm Andy Reesmeyer. Thanks for joining us on this Sunday,
Speaker 2: March second. It is just past three o'clock here, and
Speaker 2: I'm so excited for it to be the Oscars. Actually,
Speaker 2: we had Mike Capes on the last hour. Give it
Speaker 2: up for Mike Capes. Everybody, can we get a little
Speaker 2: applause for Mike Capes. He's a funny guy. He's very funny,
Speaker 2: and I'm excited for him going forward. He's just amazing
Speaker 2: to be able to make a movie, you know, to
Speaker 2: have an idea out of nowhere, and then be able
Speaker 2: to not only during a pandemic and then also a strike,
Speaker 2: be able to go out there, get the funding for it,
Speaker 2: funding fall through a couple times, and then get more
Speaker 2: funding for it, actually make the darn thing, put it together,
Speaker 2: and then see it out. So Invisible Raptor is the
Speaker 2: movie something you won't see tonight at the Oscars. Though
Speaker 2: Harrison Ford he was gonna be presenting, but he was
Speaker 2: diagnosed with shingles. I gotta tell you, shingles is maybe
Speaker 2: one of the words. I thankfully have not had it,
Speaker 2: but everybody who I know who has had it. My
Speaker 2: aunt had it a long time ago.
Speaker 3: I had it. You had it, yeah, my early twenties. Really. Yeah,
Speaker 3: so that's how usual.
Speaker 2: Well that's how stressed I was, because you know, it's
Speaker 2: like you have chicken pox, you have the virus. In
Speaker 2: my case, a lot of stress kind of like activated it.
Speaker 2: Oh that was not fun. Everybody who I've spoken to
Speaker 2: said that it was like the worst pain that they've
Speaker 2: ever been.
Speaker 3: That's correct.
Speaker 2: I actually was cursing at the at the doctor that
Speaker 2: was going to diagnose me, because I you know, I
Speaker 2: played Doctor Google by that point, right, And I remember
Speaker 2: like letting out the biggest F bomb because I was
Speaker 2: in so much pain, and she said, Yep, it's definitely shingles,
Speaker 2: and I'm like, well obviously, but there were some other
Speaker 2: words that were in there.
Speaker 4: It was.
Speaker 2: It was very painful because you just knew because it
Speaker 2: And how long did it last? About two and a
Speaker 2: half to three weeks. Does it come back?
Speaker 3: Ever?
Speaker 2: Is that a chance that you could? So if I
Speaker 2: get stressed too much, it could come back?
Speaker 4: Ye?
Speaker 2: Yeah, thankfully you don't do anything like working in a
Speaker 2: stressful job. No, of course, not just it's la right,
Speaker 2: living in a place that is stressful with a lot
Speaker 2: of traffic and no parking. Yeah, by the way, I'm
Speaker 2: glad you brought that up. We are still taking calls.
Speaker 2: You can reach us two different ways one hundred and
Speaker 2: five to two one KFI. That's one eight hundred five
Speaker 2: two zero one five three four And let us know
Speaker 2: what you think the worst parking lot in Los Angeles is.
Speaker 2: We're just sort of enjoying the couple of days Post
Speaker 2: American at brands, Memes bracket and CAA bracket.
Speaker 3: They came up with the bracket.
Speaker 2: It's showing we're gonna we are going to crown the
Speaker 2: worst parking lot in Los Angeles and we can all
Speaker 2: be a part of that.
Speaker 3: Uh and uh. We're also talking about the oscars.
Speaker 2: We're also talking about LA There's a story that I
Speaker 2: did earlier this week that I want to go back
Speaker 2: to because there is an update. It is the story
Speaker 2: of the epic Sherman Oaks tree House. That's what the
Speaker 2: La Times called it, an epic tree house. It is
Speaker 2: really incredible. It's been there for twenty five years and
Speaker 2: it is going to be torn down. So here is
Speaker 2: the first little background. Then I'll bring you in on
Speaker 2: an update. Here in a second econic treehouse in a
Speaker 2: Sherman Oaks neighborhood celebrated its last few days on Earth Saturday.
Speaker 2: The owner decided it was time to tear it down
Speaker 2: after a long legal battle with the city. But as
Speaker 2: of yesterday it was still there and with it a
Speaker 2: little bit of hope for its survival.
Speaker 5: This is a town built on creativity, It embraces it.
Speaker 5: It just seems like you would want to keep things
Speaker 5: like this up.
Speaker 3: That's owner Rick Polisi.
Speaker 2: He built the three story for his daughters twenty four
Speaker 2: years ago.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 2: Rick tells me the trouble started when a neighbor got
Speaker 2: fed up with the attention and reported him. He said,
Speaker 2: the city is calling it an a to u and
Speaker 2: then he doesn't have the right permit.
Speaker 3: But Rick says he's been trying to make the.
Speaker 2: Treehouse legal forever, even though the city is not having it.
Speaker 5: Over fifty thousand dollars and it's been going on for
Speaker 5: seven years. It's a criminal case. We went to the
Speaker 5: pre trial last month. It was just so frustrating. We
Speaker 5: did not get to have our say. When we left,
Speaker 5: I just said I am not going back to this trial.
Speaker 5: I'll tear it down so that the case gets dismissed.
Speaker 2: If the family held an informal farewell for the treehouse
Speaker 2: Saturday night, warning it could be torn down this week.
Speaker 6: But an update now.
Speaker 2: Rick says that the office of council member Nthia Rahman
Speaker 2: has reached out saying that they want to help. He
Speaker 2: says they said the same thing to him last year,
Speaker 2: but nothing came of it. He said, it's now a
Speaker 2: criminal charge, a misdemeanor. And if you posted on any updates, all.
Speaker 3: Right, so here is that update.
Speaker 2: By the way, this is in Sherman Oaks near the freeway,
Speaker 2: the one to one freeway in Cold Water Canyon. So
Speaker 2: it's in that neighborhood south of the freeway, and it's
Speaker 2: you can if you google it, you can see it.
Speaker 2: It is essentially three stumps or three trunks of trees
Speaker 2: that Rick Polizzi, who you heard, they're the owner. He
Speaker 2: and a friend shaved the truncks down and then they
Speaker 2: built these three decks.
Speaker 3: I mean it's big.
Speaker 2: This thing is three or four stories with a little
Speaker 2: roof deck on top of it, and you got a
Speaker 2: good view of the neighborhood. And like he said, it's
Speaker 2: always just been a place that people have come and
Speaker 2: hung out. La, as you know, doesn't have a ton
Speaker 2: of community. These kinds of things are very important to
Speaker 2: people in places like the San Fernando Valley that's very suburban,
Speaker 2: and so he always thought it was gonna be great.
Speaker 2: And like you heard there, a neighbor said no, look,
Speaker 2: you got to tear it down. They ratted on him,
Speaker 2: essentially said that they were running a cafe.
Speaker 3: They weren't running a cafe.
Speaker 2: The city got involved, and over a course of seven
Speaker 2: years now it's to a point where they're saying, look,
Speaker 2: you've got to tear it down, and there's a criminal
Speaker 2: charge for a treehouse. Now, as you probably would imagine,
Speaker 2: most comments on this this video that we did are
Speaker 2: doesn't LA have anything better to do. There's a lot
Speaker 2: of that, and there's a lot of and it's a
Speaker 2: little crass, but a lot of If it was a
Speaker 2: homeless encampment, it would be allowed to stay.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 2: He even says Rick pil Isy, the owner, he would
Speaker 2: like to get it legal and he's trying to figure
Speaker 2: out it out. The Only Times has an update here.
Speaker 2: They reached out to the office of City council member
Speaker 2: Nithia Rahman. She represents Sherman Oaks. She said her office
Speaker 2: had worked hard with Rick and city departments in the
Speaker 2: past to try to save this beloved staple of the
Speaker 2: Sherman Oaks community. That's what she told the La Times.
Speaker 2: Rick says a year ago her office had reached out
Speaker 2: and said, we'll do anything to help you make this
Speaker 2: make sense. We'll try to find a way to get
Speaker 2: you the right permit. And then nothing ever came of that.
Speaker 2: And so now, because the latest that we have is
Speaker 2: that it's still a criminal charge, he says, I don't
Speaker 2: want to deal with that.
Speaker 3: I don't want to have a misdemeanor.
Speaker 2: I don't want to be convicted of a criminal offense
Speaker 2: for having a tree house.
Speaker 3: So he's going to tear it down. I believe it
Speaker 3: is still there.
Speaker 2: Like I said, I went there about a week ago
Speaker 2: and it was supposed to be torn down last week.
Speaker 2: But I think all of the media attention has helped
Speaker 2: to at least maybe buy it some extra time. Another
Speaker 2: thing it's amazing from this La Times article that I
Speaker 2: read is that former La Mayor Eric Garcetti and his
Speaker 2: daughter have visited the tree top hang in the past,
Speaker 2: so everybody knows that it's cool. Everybody likes it, and
Speaker 2: you just think someone must be there aware, in the
Speaker 2: city or at LA Department of Building in Safety to
Speaker 2: try and make this thing, make make this thing work.
Speaker 2: The actual chargers were from the City Attorney, Highly Feldstein Soto.
Speaker 2: Her office didn't respond when The La Times asked for
Speaker 2: comment KTLA. I reached out through KTLA to try to
Speaker 2: get a comment from her office. They didn't respond to me.
Speaker 2: The case is with the City Attorney's office. But and
Speaker 2: this is again, I'm already bored even just talking about this,
Speaker 2: because it's so many different departments and it's so hard
Speaker 2: to just do something. And you look at this and
Speaker 2: everybody has the same reaction, which is this thing should
Speaker 2: just be able to stay for a good to make legal.
Speaker 2: But keep it there because it does it helps contribute
Speaker 2: to the essence of the creativity of this place. Where
Speaker 2: I'm from in Indiana, we have a lot of great stuff,
Speaker 2: but you don't have the kind of quirky, funky strange
Speaker 2: stuff like this all the time. You got other kind
Speaker 2: of quirky strange stuff, which we could get into at
Speaker 2: another time, but you don't have stuff like this. And
Speaker 2: I think it's a shame. It's a real shame that
Speaker 2: if this isn't able to be worked out. But hopefully
Speaker 2: somebody over there is paying attention. And you know, I
Speaker 2: think that the city, especially post fires, they.
Speaker 3: Need a win.
Speaker 2: It'd be nice for them to be able to get
Speaker 2: a win. So there, that is all right. Coming up,
Speaker 2: we're gonna talk a little bit more about those fires
Speaker 2: before and after on PCH really really very different. Why
Speaker 2: a lot of that A lot of those homes are
Speaker 2: still uncleared. There's too much of something that's keeping all
Speaker 2: of the debris from the Palisades fire and the Eating
Speaker 2: fires from being hauled out of here by the LA
Speaker 2: by rather the Army Corps engineers will talk about that plush.
Speaker 2: We'll check in and see if there's any more calls
Speaker 2: there as we head into the three o'clock hour here
Speaker 2: for this Oscar Sunday.
Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2: Hey, we have another caller here on KFI. I believe
Speaker 2: it is Katla's Samantha Cortese who's on the Ones and Twoes.
Speaker 3: Sam, can you hear me?
Speaker 7: I can hi? Andy?
Speaker 3: Hey, how are things going with you? I know you're
Speaker 3: a first longtime caller, first time listener.
Speaker 7: Hey, congratulations, this is another fun hat to add to
Speaker 7: the code rack of the employment you have. You know
Speaker 7: you're doing a great job. Thank you, Sana Kfi And
Speaker 7: I know this must be very fun for you. So
Speaker 7: it is great job.
Speaker 3: It is.
Speaker 2: And and I'm joking a little bit, but I was
Speaker 2: a little nervous, but I'm really thankful that people have
Speaker 2: been very nice to me.
Speaker 3: They've been very kind.
Speaker 2: I think we picked some good stories and you know,
Speaker 2: like you said, it's another way to stay busy here.
Speaker 2: And truly, what I'm trying to do is at least
Speaker 2: as far as everybody else is concerned, one up Kirk
Speaker 2: Hawkins just at one other thing. You know, we've done
Speaker 2: a lot of the same stuff, but I have not
Speaker 2: seen him do any radio yet, So you're moved.
Speaker 7: Well, now he's going to because he said that I.
Speaker 2: Should also start selling houses. I feel like this might
Speaker 2: be not a great time to do that. What do
Speaker 2: you have to on this Sunday afternoon? Have you got
Speaker 2: a big Oscars party planned or what's happening?
Speaker 7: No, I'm in the forty percent who hasn't seen any
Speaker 7: of the astronams. But I did want to call because
Speaker 7: you said everyone's been really nice. Everyone is responding really well.
Speaker 7: I also did something this weekend that I've never done before,
Speaker 7: and I played the role of an auctioneer for a
Speaker 7: gala hey, and I thought it well, Yes, I thought
Speaker 7: it went really well until afterward when everyone had suggestions
Speaker 7: for how I can do it next year. And I'm
Speaker 7: just you know, maybe right after the show ends. I
Speaker 7: think you're on for another forty five or so. Everyone's
Speaker 7: a great job, happy for you.
Speaker 3: Then well they'll start giving me the notes. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: well that's that's okay, you know, not natural, it'll happen.
Speaker 2: I'm scheduled for today and next Sunday, and if I
Speaker 2: don't get invited back after that, that's fine. Like I'll
Speaker 2: never hit my stride, that's okay, you know, I'll go
Speaker 2: back to my regular job if if that, if it
Speaker 2: doesn't work out, So tell what hold on Before we
Speaker 2: go any further here, I want to know more about
Speaker 2: this auction. And you were an auctioneer. Did you have
Speaker 2: like a little pattern? Did you like a four? Forty five, five, five, six?
Speaker 2: Can I do say seven? Did you do any of that?
Speaker 7: So I did my best. This was the Sacred Heart
Speaker 7: School fundraiser the twenty fourth something like that, and I'm
Speaker 7: an alumna Sacred Heart in Palm Desert, California, in my hometown,
Speaker 7: so they asked me to come back host to thank
Speaker 7: Usually they have that guy, but they didn't this year,
Speaker 7: and it was up to me, which was incredibly awkward
Speaker 7: asking people for money who've already, you know, spent hundreds
Speaker 7: of dollars to be at this event. But when people
Speaker 7: put their paddles up at the same time, I don't
Speaker 7: know what to do. I don't know who to call,
Speaker 7: who to give the thing to, who to give the
Speaker 7: money to. So I got plenty of suggestions for next year.
Speaker 7: We did auction off a puppy, which I feel like
Speaker 7: Peter may not be super no, but the puppy is
Speaker 7: Pomeranian and went for five thousand dollars.
Speaker 3: You're kidding me?
Speaker 7: A little five thousand dollars puppies?
Speaker 3: Is that the going rate for I don't know.
Speaker 2: I've never bought a dog before.
Speaker 7: The name of charity, so I don't really think there's
Speaker 7: a standard. Wow, right, So I'm told this woman has
Speaker 7: purchased puppies at this event in the past, and they're
Speaker 7: in her home with her kids.
Speaker 2: We're with Kati al Samantha Cortese here right now on CAFI.
Speaker 2: So that you were doing an auction out in the
Speaker 2: desert and that's where.
Speaker 7: You're from, right, Yes, I'm from Palm Desert's super fun,
Speaker 7: But hey, Andy, I really just wanted to say how
Speaker 7: far we've come since the days of KKLA A five Live,
Speaker 7: the digital show over at KTLA's right, And it's really
Speaker 7: such a shame that streaming medium never really took off.
Speaker 2: It's crazy that people just don't stream. They just say,
Speaker 2: I like terrestrial radio, I like cable, but streaming isn't
Speaker 2: for me.
Speaker 3: No, maybe some other day.
Speaker 2: You know what I think we should do is you
Speaker 2: know we had Mike Capes earlier on He's a good friend.
Speaker 2: Next week, with your permission, we should if you're if
Speaker 2: you're busy, I understand your your big time anchor at KTL.
Speaker 7: I think i'm I'm I think I'm feeling sick.
Speaker 2: Next Sunday, you and Bobby and Robert from five Live
Speaker 2: should come in here and we should do a little
Speaker 2: a little reunion.
Speaker 7: Okay, you're gonna make fun of me, but I do
Speaker 7: actually have a haircut scheduled.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, do you guys hear this? This is
Speaker 2: what TV people are like. I mean, the cell phone works.
Speaker 7: I'll happily do no. No, I would even move the haircut.
Speaker 7: I think it's so find five Live and KFI feel
Speaker 7: like our kindred spirit. Yeah, we look at the news
Speaker 7: through kind of a different lens, just kind of talk
Speaker 7: about it like people would in an Uber. I heard
Speaker 7: you were riding an uber driver earlier, so that was
Speaker 7: the fun thing to say on the internet and on
Speaker 7: the radio app.
Speaker 2: On the internet, we're on the radio, Sam, We're fifty thousands.
Speaker 7: I'm streaming through the website.
Speaker 2: I forgot that they do they not? Do they not
Speaker 2: get AM radio where you are?
Speaker 7: My car is ridiculous. I literally sat in there trying
Speaker 7: to figure it out. And I guess some new cars
Speaker 7: don't do AM radio.
Speaker 3: Oh it is really an electric vehicle illegal? Yeah, no,
Speaker 3: it seems partially, it seems tough.
Speaker 2: But what that means is that when the world ends
Speaker 2: and the only thing that you can listen to to
Speaker 2: tell you what you need to do to get out
Speaker 2: of Dodge is AM radio, all the electric car people
Speaker 2: are going to be stuck.
Speaker 7: Well, I know that I'll be a fifty eight hundred
Speaker 7: sonset boulevard.
Speaker 6: Yep, that is all going down.
Speaker 7: Well.
Speaker 2: I so appreciate you calling. You do a fantastic job.
Speaker 2: You really kept us all safe during the fires, and
Speaker 2: I'm sure that you have a great future ahead of you,
Speaker 2: and we'd love to have you back here. We'd love
Speaker 2: to have you back here next week. Samantha from KTLA
Speaker 2: everybody where? Can people find you on the internet?
Speaker 7: Thank you can sign me at KTLA Sam on Instagram,
Speaker 7: But really it's not you.
Speaker 2: Andy.
Speaker 7: Congrat good job having fun listening to you on KFI.
Speaker 3: Thank you. That's very sweet. There, she goes, Samantha, everybody.
Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2: Thanks for being here with us on this Sunday. I
Speaker 2: got to say an apology to Andrew Caravella. I'm man
Speaker 2: enough to say it in public on air. I've been
Speaker 2: saying his name with an O and I am so sorry.
Speaker 3: That's okay.
Speaker 2: I have a collection of media personalities that butcher my name. Well,
Speaker 2: you're just the next line up, just another notch in
Speaker 2: your bedpost. All right, interesting, Okay, Well, we have another
Speaker 2: caller here, Gary Feed calling us from Oh maha, Bra,
Speaker 2: that's amazing.
Speaker 3: Gary. How you doing.
Speaker 6: Very well? Andy? How are you?
Speaker 3: And well? Gary?
Speaker 2: I know that you are a longtime viewer of five Live.
Speaker 2: That was the show I used to do with Samantha
Speaker 2: on KTLA. And you are you're an LA guy though
Speaker 2: originally right, an Orange County.
Speaker 6: Guy lives in Orange County, Yes, for several years and
Speaker 6: so forth and up and down the coast actually in California.
Speaker 2: And I know you get back here a lot and
Speaker 2: you wanted to call and put your two cents in
Speaker 2: on the worst parking lot in Los Angeles.
Speaker 6: Yes, there is. There is a lot. It's a valet lot,
Speaker 6: and it's underground. It's over on Orange just north of
Speaker 6: the Hollywood Boulevard, and it's a one way in, one
Speaker 6: way out type deal. And you go underground and it's
Speaker 6: like it's so narrow. I don't know how we get
Speaker 6: any cars in there without scraping the walls and damaging cars.
Speaker 6: And then the scariest thing is coming out and hoping
Speaker 6: somebody is not coming in at the same time.
Speaker 2: Terrible, you know, is it one of those where they
Speaker 2: have that I never really understood this. The the head
Speaker 2: in only parking do you know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 2: Where they say you can only park head and you
Speaker 2: can't back into the space.
Speaker 3: Is what that means?
Speaker 6: Well?
Speaker 2: True?
Speaker 6: And the thing is, though, this is a this is
Speaker 6: a true valet deal. So you go down about on
Speaker 6: a one or two levels and then they take your
Speaker 6: car from you and you climb a stairway coming out
Speaker 6: in the kind of the plaza area where the where
Speaker 6: the theater is there? Man?
Speaker 2: Or is that the Hollywood in Highland where you go
Speaker 2: like six stories down underground?
Speaker 6: Uh? No, no, oranges west of.
Speaker 2: The That one is also. That one is also bad.
Speaker 2: And I'll tell you what they're there. That one is hot.
Speaker 2: Andrew's yah. That parking garage is just I've been there.
Speaker 2: It is a thickly hot the air there is discussing. Well, Gary,
Speaker 2: thank you for calling. How its thing doing out there
Speaker 2: in Omaha?
Speaker 6: Not too bad. It's a showy day, but at least
Speaker 6: it's sunny about fifty five.
Speaker 2: Well, thank you so much for Colin. Thanks for being
Speaker 2: a fan of this show, being a fan of the
Speaker 2: other shows too. I really really appreciate it. And it's
Speaker 2: it's it's wonderful to hear from you, and wonderful to
Speaker 2: talk to you in person, because I think I only
Speaker 2: ever knew you on our Facebook group. But thank you
Speaker 2: for listening, and we'll talk to you soon.
Speaker 1: Gary.
Speaker 6: There he goes, Okay, thank you.
Speaker 2: Alrighty. How about that Omaha, Nebraska. See, I hope the
Speaker 2: suits at KFI are listening. We got Reach, Yeah, Midwest,
Speaker 2: this show is at Reach. We got an Indiana caller.
Speaker 2: We had a call from Omaha. Yeah, this is what's next. Oklahoma, Oklahoma, Oka,
Speaker 2: l Hma, Nope, can't, can't do it. If you're in Oklahoma,
Speaker 2: give us a call. The number is twenty hundred five
Speaker 2: to oh one KFI. That's one hundred and five to
Speaker 2: oh one five three four. I want to do a
Speaker 2: quick story here while we still have a little bit
Speaker 2: of time we do.
Speaker 3: It's about our friend Evan love It. Evan love It.
Speaker 2: You might not know his name, you probably do, but
Speaker 2: if you don't, he's the guy who does LA.
Speaker 3: In a minute, let's get into it.
Speaker 2: Evan love It was the victim of burglary in Los
Speaker 2: Angeles last night.
Speaker 8: Listen, Hey, I just came home from my son's baseball
Speaker 8: game tonight to this. We had a break in in
Speaker 8: our house and luckily everybody's safe, but things were stolen. Clearly,
Speaker 8: it's safe with everything that my dad gave me after
Speaker 8: he passed away coins, valuables.
Speaker 2: We didn't preview that clip. Maybe he said this stuff
Speaker 2: is unnerving, it's not cool. He was a social media personality,
Speaker 2: of course, behind that popular LA in a Minute podcast.
Speaker 2: One of the biggest cheerleaders for LA, unfortunately was the
Speaker 2: victim then of a break in on Friday night. It
Speaker 2: wasn't Saturday, it was Friday night. He arrived home, like
Speaker 2: you said, he was at his little league game for
Speaker 2: one of his first son, and this is in I
Speaker 2: think we were saying.
Speaker 3: It was in Studio City.
Speaker 2: The glass for his back door was shattered, the safe
Speaker 2: was missing. You heard him there talking about how awful
Speaker 2: he feels. And I think one of the biggest things
Speaker 2: that's wild about this is that he said that he
Speaker 2: was on hold with nine to one one for nearly
Speaker 2: an hour. What is going on in this city? What
Speaker 2: are we doing here? Where you called nine one one?
Speaker 2: I don't know if I texted him last night and
Speaker 2: I wanted to get some clarity on this. I don't
Speaker 2: know if he called and they said, hey, is this like,
Speaker 2: do you need emergency services right now, or is the
Speaker 2: danger passed and then they put him on hold, or
Speaker 2: if nobody even answered, and then he just sat there
Speaker 2: for forty four I mean, you could have if you
Speaker 2: were in an emergency where there was somebody who was
Speaker 2: you know, you needed the police to stop. Forty nine
Speaker 2: minutes that's too long. And Evan is a big supporter
Speaker 2: of LA He was an LA Times writer. He's been
Speaker 2: on KTLA a lot. I believe he does some work
Speaker 2: for another radio station in town. But you of course
Speaker 2: know him from his social media posts, which are all
Speaker 2: about celebrating the culture and the stories of Los Angeles.
Speaker 2: And the LA Time says, look, we need more people,
Speaker 2: or the LA excuse me, I's at the LA Times.
Speaker 2: The Los Angeles Police Department says, look, we need more people.
Speaker 3: To work here for us.
Speaker 2: They acknowledged the department was a victim to understaffing. And
Speaker 2: it's interesting because it's the same day I believe the
Speaker 2: breaking happened. If it was on Friday, would have been
Speaker 2: the same day that Evan did a podcast about the
Speaker 2: vibe of Los Angeles and the feeling of LA being
Speaker 2: sad since the fires, how we've all felt a little
Speaker 2: bit on edge or a little bit like LA doesn't
Speaker 2: feel like LA, and then for that to happen to him,
Speaker 2: Oh boy, not good stuff. So lots of love to
Speaker 2: Evan and hope he can, hope he can feel some
Speaker 2: kind of safety. You know, you can't get that stuff back.
Speaker 2: It's not even that it's valuable things, even though there
Speaker 2: were some valuable things. There are valuables, but like things
Speaker 2: that come from late family members. Both of his parents
Speaker 2: have passed away. His items from his wife's grandmother. I
Speaker 2: mean they took the safe, they took all that stuff.
Speaker 3: That's it. It's gone awful. All right.
Speaker 2: Coming up, we're gonna quiz all of the KFI staff
Speaker 2: here on how well they've been paying attention during the week.
Speaker 3: It is the weekend News quiz is coming up.
Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2: I'm Andy Reesemeyer. Thanks for joining us here on this Sunday.
Speaker 2: You made it so easy for me to just pop
Speaker 2: on in here and say hello, I will be with
Speaker 2: you next Sunday. Before we go, I wanted to test
Speaker 2: everybody's knowledge and see how well they've been paying attention.
Speaker 2: So we've got Andrew Caravella. We've got Robin, We've got Richie,
Speaker 2: and I believe we.
Speaker 3: Also have Chris Merrill. Is he with us yet? Hey,
Speaker 3: big hello, big hello to Chris. What's coming up on
Speaker 3: the big show for you?
Speaker 4: A really big show. Let me talk some of the fires,
Speaker 4: some of the argument between the mayor and the former
Speaker 4: fire chief. We'll talk about Newsom's recall, of course, we'll
Speaker 4: talk la law and we'll get into it.
Speaker 3: Let's get into it.
Speaker 4: Let's get coming up just in the first hour alone,
Speaker 4: and then Pope watch goes on. And it wouldn't be
Speaker 4: it wouldn't be an entertaining show if we didn't talk
Speaker 4: about the Oscars happening. Yes, of course, so we got
Speaker 4: that going on. I do want to warn you, though,
Speaker 4: when TV people cover the shift that you're in right now,
Speaker 4: they generally get accosted by what's his name over there?
Speaker 4: Are gone Carvila.
Speaker 3: Oh gosh, stop it, stop it. That fella.
Speaker 4: He's blessing cost you and he will mug you for
Speaker 4: all the selfies you can.
Speaker 3: You know, a nick watch yourself.
Speaker 2: Swimicello is an incredible news voice, really incredible. Chris, will
Speaker 2: you join us for this little Oscars game? All right,
Speaker 2: all right, can we kick off a little bit of
Speaker 2: music to the set its tone?
Speaker 3: All right, here we go.
Speaker 2: So the way we'll do this is I'll ask a
Speaker 2: question and then you just shout out your name if
Speaker 2: you get the answer.
Speaker 1: Oh okay.
Speaker 2: The very first Oscars was held back in nineteen twenty
Speaker 2: nine at this iconic Hollywood hotel. It was also the
Speaker 2: inspiration for Hotel California. Does anybody know isn't that the
Speaker 2: Beverly Hilton?
Speaker 3: It is not, but you got a shout out your name?
Speaker 2: Oh, Andrew Davis, Chris Merrill, that's me.
Speaker 3: Hey, any other guesses it's the Richie Richie W.
Speaker 2: That was not the W hotel issue was not built nine.
Speaker 3: Rich would say there.
Speaker 2: It's probably one of the most famous hotels in Hollywood.
Speaker 2: Chie cecil, Yeah, Elizabelt Hotel. Hey, Richie is correct. It's
Speaker 2: a I don't know if you get a point for that,
Speaker 2: but it is the Hotel Rosa.
Speaker 3: I had my prom there. Okay, that's good. How'd that
Speaker 3: go for?
Speaker 7: You?
Speaker 3: Were you? You were the king?
Speaker 5: Right?
Speaker 3: I started the prom dance, you started to dance. That's wonderful.
Speaker 2: Next question, what was the first sequel to ever win
Speaker 2: Best Picture. If you don't Caryl, Chris Merril, He's right.
Speaker 2: Meryl's points on the board. There all of us quoted
Speaker 2: this famous line from Sally Field from her speech after
Speaker 2: rich Meryl.
Speaker 4: You love me, you really love me?
Speaker 2: Almost, Oh, you don't necessarily it's a less less enthusiastic
Speaker 2: than love Richie, Richie me love you long time.
Speaker 3: That's not even close. Wow, that's not even close. Dark
Speaker 3: from half a point. I think Merril gets it. It's
Speaker 3: you like me, you really liked me. I think right.
Speaker 2: Oh, I'm gonna have to fact check that. Maybe Meryl
Speaker 2: gets the full point. He's on the board with two, Ritchie,
Speaker 2: I guess has one and a half. Let's see what's next.
Speaker 2: The nineteen ninety nine Oscars face controversy after the Best
Speaker 2: Picture did not go to Saving Private Ryan. Instead, it
Speaker 2: went to this Gwyneth Paltrow movie nineteen ninety nine.
Speaker 4: Chris Merril, Shakespeare in Love.
Speaker 3: Chris Merrill is killing it. You guys.
Speaker 2: I know, Richie, you were born ten years after that,
Speaker 2: So that's it's not your fault, all right. And finally,
Speaker 2: Fade Dounaway and Warren Beatty incorrectly first gave Moonlight's best
Speaker 2: picture Oscar to what Damien Chazelle film.
Speaker 4: Oh that's a deep cup.
Speaker 3: Oh that's that's easy. Andrew Carravell, it's Lala Land. He's right.
Speaker 2: Andrew Carravella gets one point, Richie with one point, Chris
Speaker 2: with one and because I guess we'll see if we
Speaker 2: can solidify this. We got a question here that's not
Speaker 2: related to the Oscars. Oh no, I do have a
Speaker 2: last the last Oscar question for you. Titanic won Best
Speaker 2: Picture at the Oscars in nineteen ninety eight. Who was
Speaker 2: the man of mystery who presented the award?
Speaker 3: Austin Powers for Richie.
Speaker 2: Ritchie, it's we had This is something if you had
Speaker 2: been listening to the show about an.
Speaker 3: Hour ago, I was taking call, you were taking calls.
Speaker 3: That's true.
Speaker 2: Does anybody remember he was one of the most famous
Speaker 2: James Bonds, if not the most famous James Bond Son Connory.
Speaker 2: That is correct. Andrew Caravella gets that. Okay, we have
Speaker 2: a tie here. What are we gonna do for a tie?
Speaker 2: Break all the points? All the points here? Last question.
Speaker 2: This is from the news this week. A man in
Speaker 2: Denver was recently caught selling something highly questionable and flammable
Speaker 2: in large bags. Richie, Richie meth. Oh well, Richie, it
Speaker 2: wasn't meth. That wouldn't be a news story.
Speaker 3: Give us a hint.
Speaker 2: It's highly flammable and without it you would not be
Speaker 2: able to park that car in the garage.
Speaker 3: Oh h, gasoline, that's right.
Speaker 2: Hello, we have a tie here, Andrew Caravalen, Chris Merril,
Speaker 2: thank you for being here.
Speaker 3: We so appreciate you guys. I'm Andy Reestmeyer. What's KFI?
Speaker 3: Stay tuned for Chris Merril
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