Speaker 1: This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI
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Speaker 2: Six forty, the Gary and Shannon Show on demand on
Speaker 2: the iHeartRadio app. Already in the hallways, people are dying
Speaker 2: to tell us about your sandwiches.
Speaker 1: So just everybody get ready for that.
Speaker 2: That's the first time I think we've heard people in
Speaker 2: the hallways say that we're about to be blown away
Speaker 2: by the sandwiches. Adam Gertler and Shane Lyons are co
Speaker 2: founders of Vesty. I want to read to you just
Speaker 2: what they have right there on their marketing package. We
Speaker 2: take the best cured meats, punchy cheeses, and tasty spreads
Speaker 2: and tuck them between our baked to order for Kacia.
Speaker 1: That's poetry right there.
Speaker 3: Huh.
Speaker 1: Welcome you guys, Welcome, thank you. Where do we start?
Speaker 1: What's where did Vesty come from?
Speaker 4: Well, Vesty, I think was a quick random Google search
Speaker 4: on Shane's part over there and Africa.
Speaker 3: What were you looking at?
Speaker 4: It was right before a trip to Italy when we
Speaker 4: started making the sandwiches, and then we were going to
Speaker 4: go to Italy and do like a little sandwich pilgrimage,
Speaker 4: and Shane looked up and came up with vesty and
Speaker 4: apparently it's like an Italian slang for well dressed, and
Speaker 4: we thought that that was really fitting because this is
Speaker 4: what we try to do. We try to take a
Speaker 4: sandwich and we try to make it beautifully dressed, beautifully curated,
Speaker 4: beautifully tailored.
Speaker 3: That's why I'm wearing a suit right now.
Speaker 4: When I bring these sandwiches to people, I usually dress
Speaker 4: up because the sandwich is made to be enjoyed as
Speaker 4: we prepared it. It's not over stuffed with meat. It's
Speaker 4: the perfect amount of fillings. And really the bread is
Speaker 4: the thing. It's got to be the perfect fluffy, light
Speaker 4: bread that you look at it and you're like, oh,
Speaker 4: that's a lot of bread, and you bite it and
Speaker 4: it's like biting into a cloud.
Speaker 3: But yeah, do you remember what you looked up and
Speaker 3: found vesty? Yeah, I think we were working out of a.
Speaker 4: We were in the back of a pizza shop and
Speaker 4: now defund pizza shop.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: So Adam and I actually met each other in combat
Speaker 5: on the Next Food Network Star we were on fifteen
Speaker 5: years ago and.
Speaker 3: Two thousand and eight, I think that error.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and we immediately aligned forces and realized we were
Speaker 5: more similar than we were different, and through since then
Speaker 5: we found every opportunity we could to work with each other.
Speaker 5: We both went our different paths. I mean, Adam had
Speaker 5: a great career in media for many years. I went
Speaker 5: more of the traditional chef route. Ended up opening up
Speaker 5: a restaurant in Manhattan in New York and working with
Speaker 5: a fantastic restaurant restaurant tours or in your Plant and
Speaker 5: did that for as long as I think someone you
Speaker 5: know can do it for about ten years and we
Speaker 5: were pretty successful. But both Adam and I have been
Speaker 5: on the end of running restaurants, owning them and going, hey,
Speaker 5: this is this is really hard it.
Speaker 2: Listen, I don't know enough about the restaurant business. Our
Speaker 2: sandwiches look down upon. I mean there's every every every
Speaker 2: culture has its own version of some kind of bread,
Speaker 2: some kind of filling.
Speaker 4: Funny, you know, I think the sandwich is probably the
Speaker 4: kind of thing that a lot of the best chefs
Speaker 4: in the best restaurants are going to want to eat.
Speaker 4: They're going to be taking their ingredients that are all
Speaker 4: refined and prepared with elaborate lines and many chefs, but
Speaker 4: at the end of it going to take that meat
Speaker 4: and that sauce and that's spread. It's going to end
Speaker 4: up on some bread because they're still working and often
Speaker 4: they don't think about eating, and they're having some of
Speaker 4: the best sandwiches known to man, which is kind of
Speaker 4: like how this happened, you know, like Shane is a
Speaker 4: really well trained shaft.
Speaker 3: I'm I'm a chef, but I'm more.
Speaker 4: Of an aficionado of food. I love the craft. You know,
Speaker 4: I've worked with Doghouse for the past ten years doing
Speaker 4: all their sausages. I got really into making sausages and
Speaker 4: hot dogs, so you know, that's what I've been doing,
Speaker 4: and then we kind of developed the bread part of it,
Speaker 4: and we're like, this is perfect because there's always going
Speaker 4: to be a place for a sandwich, and at this
Speaker 4: point we kind of feel like there is a bar
Speaker 4: that should be higher for the sandwich. And you know,
Speaker 4: I like a Jersey Mikes as much as anyone else,
Speaker 4: but you know what that is, and it's ubiquitous, and
Speaker 4: it's we think there's room for a sandwich to be
Speaker 4: a little bit more special, a little bit more premium
Speaker 4: if you care a little bit, and it's very accessible.
Speaker 4: You can have a great sandwich and it's approachable. It's
Speaker 4: not like having paragoid truffles shaved onto, you know, a
Speaker 4: veal cheek.
Speaker 3: I don't know, is that right?
Speaker 4: Is that addition you would amaze del actually sounds but
Speaker 4: we could make a sandwich of that.
Speaker 3: You know what we've learned.
Speaker 5: You can make anything a sandwich, you really can. You
Speaker 5: just stick it between bread, that's a sandwich. But the
Speaker 5: thing is is I think Adam and I really we
Speaker 5: started with the idea of going, we want to work together,
Speaker 5: which is number one. We we we we are good
Speaker 5: partners for each other. We communicate really well, we know
Speaker 5: each other's strength and each other's weaknesses, and so that
Speaker 5: was the first step. And then it was like, what
Speaker 5: are we going to do because you know, we talked
Speaker 5: about I think at one point a diner or something
Speaker 5: like that, and it came back to us like, we
Speaker 5: really don't want to follow the traditional path of restaurant touring.
Speaker 5: We've both lived in that world for a very long
Speaker 5: time and despite all the best best efforts, energies, tons
Speaker 5: of capital, it's really really challenging, as we all know,
Speaker 5: and restaurants are closing every single day, and I fear
Speaker 5: they will continue to because the model itself is broken
Speaker 5: and has been for years. My parents were restaurant tours.
Speaker 5: I grew up in the industry and I've seen me
Speaker 5: any of the flaws for for a long long time.
Speaker 5: So I think a lot of the inception of Vesti
Speaker 5: was going, well, how do we make a food business
Speaker 5: that we can scale, that we can make actually profitable
Speaker 5: for ourselves, for our families, for hopefully anyone we bring
Speaker 5: on board in terms of other partners or investors. And
Speaker 5: I think that's the starting point. In some ways, this
Speaker 5: is a business. You know, we've had a lot of hobbies,
Speaker 5: but this is something we want to look at that generationally,
Speaker 5: hopefully our sons will run.
Speaker 1: Is it strictly catering, is it?
Speaker 3: Well, actually no.
Speaker 4: We started as the first of the year doing orders
Speaker 4: through door dash and grub hubs and people can come
Speaker 4: pick up.
Speaker 3: We don't have a traditional storefront.
Speaker 2: Eat vest dot com is where you're gonna find a
Speaker 2: website and if you're not hungry yet, you look at
Speaker 2: the website, you'll you'll eat everything.
Speaker 1: E A, t V, E S, T I, eatvestd dot com.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so on the website you can pick up. You
Speaker 4: can also deliver if you're anywhere in the LA area,
Speaker 4: will deliver. We just delivered to Sketches yesterday.
Speaker 3: You know, we'll we'll go anywhere.
Speaker 4: And that's the thing is, like you can see we
Speaker 4: have these large boxes of sandwiches hold either ten wrapped
Speaker 4: sandwiches or they're unwrapped, like we brought to the people
Speaker 4: here at iHeart, and we have them cut into twenty
Speaker 4: four shareables, and that's going to be great for like,
Speaker 4: you know, the big game when you're having people over.
Speaker 4: It's almost like the new version of the six foot Hero.
Speaker 4: That's a very shareable. You just grab one and you
Speaker 4: can get different varieties and try different sandwiches. They wrapped
Speaker 4: and stamped are great for wholesale or if we're in
Speaker 4: maybe a law office or an agency where they're a
Speaker 4: little bit more buttoned up and people want to take
Speaker 4: their sandwiches and go back. But we figure in a
Speaker 4: city like Los Angeles, there's got to be a thousand
Speaker 4: people a day that want to eat these sandwiches, and
Speaker 4: if we could start there, that's a pretty good place
Speaker 4: to start. And so we have our own, like we
Speaker 4: like to call it a sandwich factory. I'm bacon bread
Speaker 4: all the time. I'm burning my arms. I'm loving it.
Speaker 4: You know, just these loaves of love. Each one of
Speaker 4: them comes out and like I know them, I remember
Speaker 4: stretching them out, and then you know we've also had.
Speaker 1: Bred the name all of them that would take so much.
Speaker 4: Time, but a few of them, but you know, that
Speaker 4: was a whole process. Then we had a period where
Speaker 4: the bread wasn't right and we were.
Speaker 3: Like what are we doing?
Speaker 4: And you know, we threw out hundreds of loaves of bread,
Speaker 4: and you know when you come out on the other
Speaker 4: end of it and you're like, ah, we've refound the bread.
Speaker 4: You know, we wanted to make a sandwich that would
Speaker 4: make you stop and say that's freaking good, freaking yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes,
Speaker 4: not the internal rights, yes, but yes, you know, like
Speaker 4: a sandwich where you take a bite and you're you're
Speaker 4: at your office or whatever your work day is, and
Speaker 4: you take a bite and you have to take a minute,
Speaker 4: like it grabs your attention just for a second, and
Speaker 4: it elevates your day. I've worked in offices, I know
Speaker 4: lunch is the best part of the day, right, And
Speaker 4: it's like, we love nothing more than people to be like,
Speaker 4: oh sandwiches, okay, that's where we want your level of expectation.
Speaker 2: I mean, the sandwich and the menu itself, from the
Speaker 2: Italian turkey, the spicy guy, the muffaletta. You've got a
Speaker 2: whole vegan option here with the let's not meet, the
Speaker 2: capraise a salad sandwich, the Bolognian cheese, I mean, and
Speaker 2: then the chips and the cookies, the caramel corn, the
Speaker 2: crackling caramel corn that you left in front of me,
Speaker 2: which I can't believe I haven't eaten yet. All of
Speaker 2: these are available on the website. Again, it's eatfesti dot com.
Speaker 2: You guys also helped out. We have partnered with the
Speaker 2: Dream Center LA obviously to help fire recovery efforts that
Speaker 2: are going on.
Speaker 1: How did that go well?
Speaker 4: You know, I live in Highland Park with my wife
Speaker 4: and my two children, Moe and Poppy, and you know,
Speaker 4: when the fires happened, we're pretty close and the air
Speaker 4: was bad, so we had to leave, and it was
Speaker 4: very close to home. My wife, Andrea, is from California,
Speaker 4: and so she immediately just started like behind diapers and
Speaker 4: water and just trying to take it to places. And
Speaker 4: I reached out to Dave. You know, I've done a
Speaker 4: lot of work with Doghouse. We've been here and we've
Speaker 4: been great partners before, and Dave's like, I'm at the
Speaker 4: Dream Center all week. We could take sandwiches here, So,
Speaker 4: you know, not like it was a lot that we did,
Speaker 4: but we brought a couple of hundred sandwiches a couple
Speaker 4: of days to really feed the volunteers. And it really
Speaker 4: was really an honor for us because seeing all those
Speaker 4: hundreds of volunteers and people sorting the clothes and just
Speaker 4: everybody putting everything aside to just know what they do
Speaker 4: and to unify kind of purpose. To feel like just
Speaker 4: that we were bringing a few sandwiches, I gotta tell
Speaker 4: you a mint all that tragedy, it felt really really good.
Speaker 4: So you guys should feel incredible for what you organized there.
Speaker 4: And people were just the cars coming through. It was
Speaker 4: really really amazing. And I know that the money is
Speaker 4: still pouring in and Dave is an incredible guy and that's.
Speaker 3: Great, and so we were really lucky that he was like, yeah,
Speaker 3: bring some sandwiches by and come on and talk about them.
Speaker 3: We know we're you know, we really appreciate it.
Speaker 2: Well, we thank you for helping out that that effort
Speaker 2: it's it's been big around here, so glad and again
Speaker 2: people in the hallways talking about the sandwiches that you
Speaker 2: guys left upstairs for everybody. So I can't wait to
Speaker 2: get into one, but I can't do while I'm talking
Speaker 2: to you guys.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's not great radio, so no, it's not our.
Speaker 2: Adam and Shane, thanks for coming in. Eat Vesty dot
Speaker 2: com is the website. Plan your party and then call
Speaker 2: these guys and they'll they'll bring your sandwiches. Thank you
Speaker 2: guys again, appreciate it.
Speaker 3: Thanks for having all right.
Speaker 2: I thought this was a great story and I had
Speaker 2: never heard this before. Do you have any I who
Speaker 2: Florence Hinton is. Florence Hinton in the twenties and thirties
Speaker 2: was a pretty well known opera singer, to the point
Speaker 2: where she met and married a guy named Charles Hinton,
Speaker 2: and she, Florence Hinton, toured with their own artistic company
Speaker 2: that performed in shows alongside orchestras and dancers and singers,
Speaker 2: and they made the rounds in the Orpheum circuit, the
Speaker 2: name given to a bunch of different theaters, of course,
Speaker 2: including the Orpheum Theater here in La They played host
Speaker 2: to vaudeville variety shows. Well, one night, Florence Hinton is
Speaker 2: on tour in nineteen thirty six, and a kid comes
Speaker 2: to the show. But the kid doesn't have any money
Speaker 2: to buy a ticket. However, and this is one of
Speaker 2: many questions I have about this story that makes you
Speaker 2: question the veracity of it, but this kid is carrying
Speaker 2: two squirrels with him, which he promptly trades for or
Speaker 2: a ticket to go see the Florence Hinton show. Well,
Speaker 2: not too long after that, that would have been nineteen
Speaker 2: thirty six. Not too long after that, Florence Hinton loses
Speaker 2: her voice and she couldn't carry on a singing career.
Speaker 2: But these squirrels that she had exchanged for a ticket,
Speaker 2: all of a sudden became a money making opportunity. So
Speaker 2: she trained the squirrels to do a bunch of tricks,
Speaker 2: including taking a bath on command and playing dead on command.
Speaker 2: This is what one of the newsreels sounded like from
Speaker 2: back in the nineteen fifties.
Speaker 1: This is what you might call a squirrely story. Meet
Speaker 1: Mss Florence Hinton of Grover City, California, who has trained
Speaker 1: a small platoon of the bushy tailed little rodents into
Speaker 1: amiability and a desire to please snookums.
Speaker 3: Here is a motherly, little old.
Speaker 1: Lady squirrel with quite a talent for baby city that's
Speaker 1: holding a little baby doll. Now, all of this was
Speaker 1: going well. She was making money.
Speaker 2: She was making a tour around all over California showing
Speaker 2: off these squirrels. One day she's at the KTLA lot,
Speaker 2: and she's there because she wants one of the squirrels,
Speaker 2: named Susa after John Phillips Susa to come out waving
Speaker 2: a little tiny flag wagging its tail. But she was
Speaker 2: told by the crew to take a step back so
Speaker 2: that the cameras wouldn't see her. She tripped and fell
Speaker 2: and actually hurt herself to the point where she couldn't
Speaker 2: carry the big cage necessary for her squirrel act.
Speaker 1: So she sued the.
Speaker 2: Parent company of KTLA, Paramount Television Productions, for about thirty
Speaker 2: two thousand bill thirty two thousand dollars for medical bills
Speaker 2: and damages. She was awarded about fifteen thousand and a
Speaker 2: half of what she asked for would have been about
Speaker 2: one hundred and seventy five grand. Now, she kept performing
Speaker 2: until the sixties. They said she ultimately faded into obscurity,
Speaker 2: but her legacy lives on. In One Quirky Squirrel Act
Speaker 2: continues to make waves In One Deeply Patriotic Day in
Speaker 2: October of twenty sixteen, the National Archives and Records Administrations
Speaker 2: turned it into a jiff that you could send via
Speaker 2: social media.
Speaker 1: Funny little story.
Speaker 5: Damn Gary, that's cold.
Speaker 2: You picked a day that Shannon wasn't there to discuss
Speaker 2: Deli sandwiches.
Speaker 1: Oh man, tell me you hate Shannon without telling me
Speaker 1: you hate Shannon.
Speaker 5: Good luck tomorrow when.
Speaker 1: She gets back, buddy, you'll be fine.
Speaker 2: No those because this was an unexpected outage, an unexpected absence. Today,
Speaker 2: she had to have some just to get her root
Speaker 2: canal fixed or something like that. In the meantime, it's oh,
Speaker 2: eat Vesty, that's a eat Vesty dot com.
Speaker 1: It's the sandwich Place. It's time for strange science.
Speaker 3: Strange Sawyer.
Speaker 5: It's like weird science, but strange.
Speaker 2: The European Space Agency says that it's now monitoring an
Speaker 2: asteroid about the size of a football.
Speaker 1: Field that could hit Earth.
Speaker 2: This asteroid is called twenty twenty four y R four,
Speaker 2: estimated to have a one in eighty three chance of
Speaker 2: a direct hit. I think they said that's about a
Speaker 2: one point two percent chance of a direct hit, but
Speaker 2: they do know when it would be. They say it
Speaker 2: would be if it does hit Earth. Wednesday, December twenty second,
Speaker 2: twenty thirty two. They said, most likely it's going to
Speaker 2: be a near miss. The asteroid would pass within a
Speaker 2: few thousand miles. That's considered a near miss astronomically speaking.
Speaker 2: The Space Mission Planning Advisory Group, which is chaired by ESA,
Speaker 2: will discuss the latest observations at a meeting in Vienna
Speaker 2: next week. They said, if the impact risk is confirmed,
Speaker 2: it makes official recommendations to the UN and they may
Speaker 2: have to begin options for a new Bruce Willis Billy
Speaker 2: Bob Thornton movie or a spacecraft based response to the
Speaker 2: potential hazard.
Speaker 1: Is the way they put it.
Speaker 2: Doctor Simeon Barber is a space scientist and said we
Speaker 2: shouldn't be overly worried, at least not yet. That's because
Speaker 2: our early detection systems quite often overestimate the likelihood of
Speaker 2: an impact with Earth. Just a couple of years ago,
Speaker 2: NASA was able to smash a spacecraft into a pretty
Speaker 2: big asteroid, a little bit larger than this one.
Speaker 1: They say.
Speaker 2: The dimorphose and successfully changed its orbit. Bill Nelson, administrator
Speaker 2: of NASA at the time, said, all of us have
Speaker 2: a responsibility to protect our home planet. After all, it's
Speaker 2: the only one we have. This new asteroid, or I
Speaker 2: should say near Earth asteroid is what they're calling it.
Speaker 2: First spotted by a telescope in Chile right around Christmas time.
Speaker 2: Since the start of January, they've been tracking the asteroid
Speaker 2: to try to gauge its size and its movement and
Speaker 2: see if they can calculate any better whether or not
Speaker 2: it's going to actually hit the Earth. But again, right
Speaker 2: now they say it's about a one point two percent
Speaker 2: chance of clobbering into somewhere on the Earth, and that
Speaker 2: it would be just before Christmas of twenty thirty two.
Speaker 2: Put that in your calendar. I guess all right, Shannon's
Speaker 2: back tomorrow. John Cobelt Show is coming up next, and
Speaker 2: we'll see you tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Stay dry, everybody, Oh love God much. Gary and Shannon.
Speaker 1: You're watching it.
Speaker 3: You're holding your breath.
Speaker 1: We were, I know, I kind of got chills. I'm like,
Speaker 1: come on, buddy, get all disturbed in the beginning.
Speaker 4: But it's true.
Speaker 1: You're down.
Speaker 3: But you know, get back up.
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