WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.520 --> 00:00:03.120 Hey, it's Niel Sevedra. You're listening to kfi EM six 2 00:00:03.240 --> 00:00:06.839 forty the four Report on demand on the iHeartRadio app. 3 00:00:07.240 --> 00:00:11.640 How do you do? Thanks for hanging out. Man. It's 4 00:00:12.080 --> 00:00:15.599 an overcasty Saturday, but I still love it. I'll take 5 00:00:15.640 --> 00:00:18.480 it a little cool, maybe a little snuggle time. Know 6 00:00:18.519 --> 00:00:21.879 what I'm saying. It's perfect because when it's cold, but 7 00:00:21.960 --> 00:00:24.879 it's not rainy, at least not here right now. Maybe 8 00:00:24.920 --> 00:00:28.079 in your area that these are great times to be 9 00:00:28.160 --> 00:00:31.039 grilling because that grill can get up to seven hundred 10 00:00:31.079 --> 00:00:34.200 degrees and change and you get a little warm there. 11 00:00:34.240 --> 00:00:36.840 I can still do it in my shorts. Get out there, 12 00:00:36.920 --> 00:00:44.000 do some grilling and enjoy yourself this wonderful, overcasty Saturday. 13 00:00:44.719 --> 00:00:48.240 All right, So a lot of issues going on with 14 00:00:48.399 --> 00:00:53.560 restaurants and fast food. Still, if you're fast food, you 15 00:00:53.600 --> 00:00:56.560 have a fast food location, whether it's franchise or what 16 00:00:56.719 --> 00:01:00.679 have you out in Southern California or California at you 17 00:01:00.759 --> 00:01:06.879 got kicked in the scrot another time with the minimum 18 00:01:06.879 --> 00:01:11.000 wage hike. Now, listen, I'm all for people making more money. 19 00:01:11.519 --> 00:01:15.040 I just think there are certain jobs out there that 20 00:01:16.519 --> 00:01:20.760 are the demand is different. You don't have to have 21 00:01:20.840 --> 00:01:25.799 an education per se, and anytime that's where you land, 22 00:01:26.439 --> 00:01:28.480 the demand is not going to be much. I don't 23 00:01:28.480 --> 00:01:30.359 care if you're unionized. I don't care if you're not. 24 00:01:30.680 --> 00:01:34.719 It doesn't matter. Eventually, if they can replace you with 25 00:01:34.799 --> 00:01:38.200 something else, they will. That's robotics, that's with the Kiosk. 26 00:01:38.719 --> 00:01:41.879 Whatever it is, it's going to happen. In addition to that, 27 00:01:41.920 --> 00:01:46.400 there's other things that get expensive. The ingredients get expensive. 28 00:01:47.040 --> 00:01:53.079 But for one particular fast food restaurant that was the biggest, 29 00:01:53.519 --> 00:01:57.120 it continues to shrink. Now, this shrinking started long before 30 00:01:57.200 --> 00:02:02.840 the twenty dollars, you know, minim wage. But those things 31 00:02:02.879 --> 00:02:07.280 don't help, and it continues to compound compound rather So 32 00:02:07.400 --> 00:02:11.159 Subway just shut down over six hundred stores, and this 33 00:02:11.199 --> 00:02:14.759 has been going on for a while. They were the 34 00:02:14.919 --> 00:02:19.120 biggest fast food chain in the US by number of locations, 35 00:02:19.280 --> 00:02:21.199 and I don't know a lot of people know that. 36 00:02:21.319 --> 00:02:23.599 I think if you were to guess, you probably would 37 00:02:23.599 --> 00:02:27.960 have said McDonald's, but that's not the truth. So by 38 00:02:28.039 --> 00:02:32.000 number of locations, they were the king for a long time. 39 00:02:32.639 --> 00:02:36.319 So they shut down a ton of their restaurants last year. 40 00:02:36.360 --> 00:02:39.840 That's sick, about six hundred and thirty one restaurants that 41 00:02:39.879 --> 00:02:44.479 they shut down last year alone, so that could very 42 00:02:44.479 --> 00:02:47.919 well have been affected by, you know, the rays of 43 00:02:48.960 --> 00:02:53.199 minimum wage. Back in twenty fifteen, Subway had around twenty 44 00:02:53.360 --> 00:02:57.479 seven thousand stores across the country. It's not internationally or 45 00:02:57.479 --> 00:03:02.159 anything like that, just in the US. By the end 46 00:03:02.159 --> 00:03:05.759 of twenty twenty four, that number has fallen below twenty 47 00:03:05.879 --> 00:03:10.280 thousand for the first time in decades. Now it's at 48 00:03:10.280 --> 00:03:14.240 about nineteen to five something like that. Some of the 49 00:03:14.280 --> 00:03:20.120 closures hit hard were in Oregon, and they had twenty 50 00:03:20.159 --> 00:03:23.879 three Subway locations shut down suddenly, leaving over two hundred 51 00:03:23.879 --> 00:03:29.680 employees jobless without warning. One store manager, Joanne Kennedy, said 52 00:03:29.719 --> 00:03:33.639 she and her team were completely blindsided. That happens now. 53 00:03:35.520 --> 00:03:41.759 That obviously doesn't tie into that. But the overall juggling 54 00:03:42.240 --> 00:03:48.159 of this is the cost of product along with serving 55 00:03:48.199 --> 00:03:53.280 it to you is a battle with fast food because 56 00:03:53.319 --> 00:04:02.039 by definition definition fast food is to be quickly served inexpensively. Now, 57 00:04:02.120 --> 00:04:06.560 we were told by Subway that a five dollars foot long, 58 00:04:08.319 --> 00:04:10.159 even if it was a discount or pick you a 59 00:04:10.400 --> 00:04:13.479 particular day of the week, whatever it was, that was 60 00:04:13.560 --> 00:04:17.079 kind of the norm. Well, now they're somewhere between thirteen 61 00:04:17.120 --> 00:04:21.040 and fifteen bucks. I think so even in your mind, 62 00:04:21.160 --> 00:04:23.519 you always still have the song playing in your head 63 00:04:23.519 --> 00:04:26.120 that it's a five dollars foot long and it's not anymore. 64 00:04:26.600 --> 00:04:28.800 It can be very expensive. I walked out of a 65 00:04:28.839 --> 00:04:35.879 subway with three foot long sandwiches, one soda, two bags 66 00:04:35.959 --> 00:04:44.720 of chips, and it was thirty seven dollars almost forty bucks. Right, 67 00:04:46.560 --> 00:04:49.959 So the battle's going to continue with these fast food 68 00:04:50.079 --> 00:04:54.279 places in getting you what it can for the best 69 00:04:54.319 --> 00:04:57.839 price possible. And there's just a point where we won't. 70 00:04:57.959 --> 00:05:01.160 It's hard. Sandwiches are great, man. I love sandwiches. I 71 00:05:01.160 --> 00:05:05.199 love Subway, among others. I think you are great sandwich 72 00:05:05.240 --> 00:05:10.439 places out there, and you've got Jersey Mics, which is wonderful. 73 00:05:11.680 --> 00:05:15.319 You've got these places, but to have good ingredients is 74 00:05:15.360 --> 00:05:20.680 expensive and it's hard to wrap your brain around a 75 00:05:20.759 --> 00:05:26.920 fifteen dollars sandwich at a quick stop. Now, as far 76 00:05:26.920 --> 00:05:29.720 as making money, McDonald's is still the king. McDonald's has 77 00:05:29.800 --> 00:05:33.360 fewer US stores in you know, in the past year 78 00:05:33.439 --> 00:05:37.959 or so, about thirteen to five, but it does make 79 00:05:38.000 --> 00:05:42.000 the most revenue. Starbucks was in second place, if you 80 00:05:42.000 --> 00:05:45.040 can believe it. It seems like they have four on every 81 00:05:45.079 --> 00:05:50.759 corner with just over sixteen thousand, So things are slowing 82 00:05:50.800 --> 00:05:53.240 down in the US. Subway has been expanding, They're doing 83 00:05:53.480 --> 00:05:58.160 more international stuff, updating restaurants with new looks, a different 84 00:05:58.279 --> 00:06:01.079 vibe in some of them. They tend to be very 85 00:06:01.120 --> 00:06:05.959 clean places. That's been my experience. Focusing on what they 86 00:06:06.000 --> 00:06:11.519 refer to as smart growth, That means they're very strategic 87 00:06:12.120 --> 00:06:14.480 about where they're putting stores. They're going to put them 88 00:06:14.480 --> 00:06:19.800 in the best spots, run by the right people and 89 00:06:19.839 --> 00:06:22.720 with a better customer experience. Their hope is, you know, 90 00:06:24.040 --> 00:06:26.720 even if they have to close some locations or move 91 00:06:26.759 --> 00:06:29.519 some locations, that they're going to make more in the 92 00:06:29.560 --> 00:06:35.920 long run by doing that. Nearly thirty percent of subway 93 00:06:35.959 --> 00:06:39.439 locations in the US have shut down in less than 94 00:06:39.480 --> 00:06:45.480 ten years. So this is a battle that is not 95 00:06:45.720 --> 00:06:50.480 going to be one or lost by one particular decision. 96 00:06:51.480 --> 00:06:54.199 But as we look at the wars going on with 97 00:06:54.360 --> 00:06:57.720 fast food and our dollars, those of us that spend 98 00:06:57.800 --> 00:07:01.040 money going to fast food restare runts. Our dollars are 99 00:07:01.079 --> 00:07:11.319 being uh, you know, battling if they're going to be 100 00:07:11.680 --> 00:07:14.720 you know, battling for your dollars. They have to find 101 00:07:14.759 --> 00:07:24.439 ways to, you know, take care of us. The battle 102 00:07:24.480 --> 00:07:28.680 continues for your fast food dollars. And here in California 103 00:07:28.720 --> 00:07:36.079 we have the extra edition of the higher minimum wage. 104 00:07:36.560 --> 00:07:39.519 And I know, listen, it sounds horrible. I know, we get, 105 00:07:40.000 --> 00:07:44.759 we've gotten so emotional in the US. We can't. We 106 00:07:44.800 --> 00:07:52.439 don't like reason anymore. Oh great, my wife, former producer 107 00:07:52.480 --> 00:07:55.560 at KFI by the way, is now texting me what 108 00:07:55.680 --> 00:08:01.759 have you done? Thanks Kayla in front of my wife 109 00:08:01.759 --> 00:08:04.759 of these seventeen years. Well yeah, Tracy, Tracy really gets 110 00:08:04.800 --> 00:08:05.279 you to listen. 111 00:08:05.319 --> 00:08:06.920 So I love when she When she backs me up, 112 00:08:07.040 --> 00:08:08.560 it makes me makes me super happy. 113 00:08:08.600 --> 00:08:11.399 I feel supported. Thank you, Tracy. I don't need you 114 00:08:11.399 --> 00:08:13.319 guys to team up on me. It's my favorite thing. 115 00:08:13.680 --> 00:08:16.600 One wife is fine, thank you. I don't need a 116 00:08:16.639 --> 00:08:20.319 harem of people telling me when I do wrong AnyWho 117 00:08:21.199 --> 00:08:24.800 as I would. I don't even care now, I don't. 118 00:08:24.879 --> 00:08:28.600 I mean, I've complete I seriously, I did something similar 119 00:08:29.079 --> 00:08:34.360 recently and I don't know why. Yeah, is it that time? 120 00:08:37.559 --> 00:08:40.120 Oh my gosh, I think the beachfest thing just threw 121 00:08:40.159 --> 00:08:41.679 us through a loop. But it's just been a crazy week. 122 00:08:41.759 --> 00:08:44.960 It did, But I don't. That's not an Okay, I 123 00:08:44.960 --> 00:08:46.320 tried it. Yeah, we thought we were going to be 124 00:08:46.320 --> 00:08:50.320 out somewhere. That's not an excuse anyway. Okay, I was 125 00:08:50.360 --> 00:08:53.519 talking about being way too overly emotional. The point is 126 00:08:53.600 --> 00:08:57.080 this that we're looking at things through our heart, and 127 00:08:57.120 --> 00:08:59.159 I get it. It's you want people to be able 128 00:08:59.200 --> 00:09:01.759 to make more money, but the system breaks down. It 129 00:09:01.799 --> 00:09:08.600 can only handle so much. I mean literally, it's like, Oh, 130 00:09:08.639 --> 00:09:12.120 this person's hungry, why don't you dump four hundred pounds 131 00:09:12.120 --> 00:09:15.080 of food on them. Well, then they'll be crushed and dead. 132 00:09:15.120 --> 00:09:18.440 But I just want to feed them. And we're looking 133 00:09:18.559 --> 00:09:21.919 at a breakdown in a system that can only work 134 00:09:22.360 --> 00:09:27.919 if the food is quickly served and inexpensive. And when 135 00:09:27.960 --> 00:09:34.200 you're at the point of paying fourteen dollars for i'll 136 00:09:34.200 --> 00:09:37.080 say two sandwiches, I think that's more fair. I guess 137 00:09:37.159 --> 00:09:42.279 because a foot long sandwich is a big sandwich. You know, 138 00:09:42.399 --> 00:09:44.759 I can go for a foot long, no problem, But 139 00:09:44.799 --> 00:09:46.960 your average person. I don't think Kayla's going in there 140 00:09:46.960 --> 00:09:49.799 and throwing back a foot long. I don't think Andrew's 141 00:09:49.840 --> 00:09:53.960 doing that or Robin's doing that. You know, you put 142 00:09:54.120 --> 00:09:57.080 half away in the fridge, so let's say that still 143 00:09:58.120 --> 00:10:00.720 it's getting expensive, and when you're to do it with 144 00:10:00.759 --> 00:10:05.039 the best ingredients possible, and especially when you see it 145 00:10:05.039 --> 00:10:06.879 put together right in front of you, I think that 146 00:10:06.879 --> 00:10:09.600 that's going to be a difficult path for Subway to 147 00:10:09.639 --> 00:10:12.679 get over. I think the things that they've tried, I 148 00:10:12.720 --> 00:10:15.240 think they're doing the nachos, the foot long nachos right 149 00:10:15.279 --> 00:10:19.360 now with Dorito's. They did the foot long specials with 150 00:10:22.000 --> 00:10:28.679 the pretzel, with the chocolate chip cookie, the churo, which 151 00:10:28.960 --> 00:10:31.519 none of those I liked. I didn't think any of 152 00:10:31.600 --> 00:10:36.120 them were very good. Quite frankly, they just weren't that tasting. Now, 153 00:10:36.120 --> 00:10:39.919 the wraps that they do with the cheese and chicken 154 00:10:39.960 --> 00:10:43.320 and stuff, those are very tasty. But that battle is 155 00:10:43.320 --> 00:10:47.360 going to continue for them and for other fast food restaurants. 156 00:10:47.360 --> 00:10:49.639 And we're going to be seeing this now. This may 157 00:10:49.679 --> 00:10:52.159 have started, you know, within the last decade and is 158 00:10:52.240 --> 00:10:57.399 being topped off now for Subway, but ultimately across the board, 159 00:10:57.679 --> 00:11:00.679 this is happening. We're seeing more closures, we're seeing more 160 00:11:00.720 --> 00:11:03.360 tech getting involved, and we're going to be looking at 161 00:11:03.399 --> 00:11:06.960 restaurants with very few people in them at all running 162 00:11:06.960 --> 00:11:09.919 them soon. I'm telling you that's just what it's going 163 00:11:10.000 --> 00:11:10.559 to come down to. 164 00:11:10.919 --> 00:11:13.879 You're listening to the Fork Report with Nil Savedra on 165 00:11:14.000 --> 00:11:16.480 demand from KFI AM six forty. 166 00:11:17.519 --> 00:11:19.960 Jack in the Box is tying into our last discussion 167 00:11:20.200 --> 00:11:24.200 announced Jack on Track, which is what their clever name 168 00:11:24.240 --> 00:11:27.679 I guess for this long term financial goal. So they're 169 00:11:27.679 --> 00:11:31.120 going to be mixing things around as well. It includes 170 00:11:31.159 --> 00:11:34.799 closing one hundred and fifty to two hundred underperforming restaurants. 171 00:11:35.159 --> 00:11:36.759 And this is the other thing. A lot of these 172 00:11:36.799 --> 00:11:41.159 places own more than one chain. They're potentially looking at 173 00:11:41.200 --> 00:11:46.159 selling Del Taco off as well. So the chain currently 174 00:11:46.200 --> 00:11:50.759 working with Bank of America Securities and they want to 175 00:11:50.799 --> 00:11:56.440 lower their debt, create some sort of strategy, and look 176 00:11:56.480 --> 00:11:59.559 around as what they need to do. Now. The reason 177 00:11:59.559 --> 00:12:03.039 why I'm telling you these things is because I am 178 00:12:03.080 --> 00:12:07.840 a big believer that the entirety of the food ecosystem 179 00:12:09.320 --> 00:12:13.639 is having issues. I have said that. One of the 180 00:12:13.679 --> 00:12:17.000 reasons that my very first show over a decade ago 181 00:12:17.440 --> 00:12:21.799 on the Fork Report was telling you that the local 182 00:12:22.080 --> 00:12:29.159 economy rises and falls on hospitality, on going out to eat, 183 00:12:29.519 --> 00:12:34.519 even fast food, so fast food chain restaurants, mom and 184 00:12:34.679 --> 00:12:42.480 pop shops, little towns with different cultures, and foods where 185 00:12:42.679 --> 00:12:46.360 they're bringing foods from countries that they used to live in, 186 00:12:46.720 --> 00:12:53.360 or their heritage restaurant, chefy forward places, whatever it may be. 187 00:12:53.919 --> 00:12:57.960 All you know, vendors, street vendors. We don't want to 188 00:12:57.960 --> 00:13:01.480 forget them because all of that food, this is all 189 00:13:01.639 --> 00:13:07.720 part of the very important ecosystem that is creates the 190 00:13:08.080 --> 00:13:17.759 protection of the economy locally. It just is. And so 191 00:13:17.879 --> 00:13:21.080 these things may not seem like they're that big of 192 00:13:21.120 --> 00:13:23.240 a deal, or it's like, oh, well people aren't just 193 00:13:23.279 --> 00:13:25.440 aren't eating in as much or whatever it is, or 194 00:13:26.039 --> 00:13:36.159 big deal. This This is predicting something, pointing to something, 195 00:13:36.600 --> 00:13:39.039 shining a light on something that I feel we should 196 00:13:39.039 --> 00:13:42.279 be looking at. That's why I don't know exactly what 197 00:13:42.320 --> 00:13:45.519 it means at this point. But all these kind of 198 00:13:45.600 --> 00:13:48.679 rolling of the eyes saying oh, this won't matter much, 199 00:13:48.759 --> 00:13:54.480 or this won't matter, or from shutting down the state 200 00:13:55.080 --> 00:14:01.320 for COVID, all these things are not political. It's not 201 00:14:01.480 --> 00:14:05.200 about the politics of it. It's about about the actual 202 00:14:05.559 --> 00:14:09.480 tangible repercussions of it. And again we've gotten so emotional 203 00:14:09.840 --> 00:14:12.159 that you know, it's the if you're not with me, 204 00:14:12.200 --> 00:14:17.440 you're against me thing, And that's not true. If you're 205 00:14:17.480 --> 00:14:21.200 part of a political party. I'm not anymore. I am independent, 206 00:14:21.320 --> 00:14:26.960 completely judge everything independently based on its merits. I've said 207 00:14:26.960 --> 00:14:29.639 this before. If the devil told me two plus two 208 00:14:29.679 --> 00:14:34.159 equals for it, he'd be right. So to kind of 209 00:14:34.200 --> 00:14:36.840 look at these things and say, how is this ultimately 210 00:14:36.879 --> 00:14:39.639 going to end up? Instead of going It's almost like 211 00:14:39.639 --> 00:14:42.360 we're spending someone else's money and sometimes that's the way 212 00:14:42.360 --> 00:14:45.279 it works and we think it'll just work out. Well, yeah, 213 00:14:45.320 --> 00:14:47.159 but it might not work out in your favor, might 214 00:14:47.200 --> 00:14:48.759 not work out the way you think, and there are 215 00:14:48.840 --> 00:14:50.200 unintended consequences. 216 00:14:50.480 --> 00:14:53.399 You're listening to The Fork Report with Nil Sevedra on 217 00:14:53.559 --> 00:14:56.000 demand from KFI AM six forty. 218 00:14:56.279 --> 00:14:59.360 How do you do? Thanks for hanging it out today. 219 00:14:59.399 --> 00:15:02.320 Don't forget Tiffany Hobbes coming up at five o'clock, so 220 00:15:02.440 --> 00:15:05.480 go know where. We were supposed to be at Beach 221 00:15:05.559 --> 00:15:09.720 Live Festival today but had some technical issues or something 222 00:15:09.759 --> 00:15:14.320 and put us back in studio. So for those of 223 00:15:14.360 --> 00:15:18.519 you who have never been, man, what an amazing event. 224 00:15:18.679 --> 00:15:22.159 They referred to it as Southern California's premier live music, 225 00:15:22.279 --> 00:15:25.559 art and culinary event, and they aren't kidding. It really 226 00:15:25.799 --> 00:15:29.440 is a wonderful experience. If you haven't been in the 227 00:15:29.480 --> 00:15:32.759 lineup has been insane. So this is a sixth year 228 00:15:32.840 --> 00:15:39.759 taken over Redondo Beach's picturesque waterfront, the second through the fourth, 229 00:15:39.840 --> 00:15:43.480 so it goes through tomorrow, and you know that it's 230 00:15:43.679 --> 00:15:47.759 just it's on the sand. We were there last year 231 00:15:47.960 --> 00:15:51.279 and it was my son's first concert and he got 232 00:15:51.279 --> 00:15:53.480 to see Devo, So I was thrilled about that, as 233 00:15:53.600 --> 00:15:56.799 was his mom, and it was just cool. They have reggae, 234 00:15:56.840 --> 00:16:01.480 and you know that just is one of those things, reggae. 235 00:16:01.799 --> 00:16:05.039 If you're not smiling and enjoying it, then there's something 236 00:16:05.080 --> 00:16:08.679 wrong with you. At pop, indie rock, everything all mixed together. 237 00:16:08.720 --> 00:16:12.440 This year. They got Letting Kravitz out there, Sublime out there, 238 00:16:12.559 --> 00:16:16.879 Alanis Morris set, you have the Pretender's Cake, Jackson Brown, 239 00:16:17.039 --> 00:16:22.720 just tons of great performers out there. Beachlifefestival dot com, 240 00:16:22.759 --> 00:16:29.159 Beachliffestival dot com if you're interested. All right. So, more 241 00:16:29.200 --> 00:16:34.759 and more we're reading about things going on in the 242 00:16:34.799 --> 00:16:38.120 food industry, and as I said, people are coming up, 243 00:16:38.759 --> 00:16:41.519 whether it's fast food or anything else, just to get 244 00:16:41.559 --> 00:16:43.840 you in there, come up with creative ways to do that. 245 00:16:44.879 --> 00:16:48.000 I wonder if we're at the point where maybe we've 246 00:16:48.120 --> 00:16:52.240 peaked when it comes to avocados, because it's always, oh, 247 00:16:52.279 --> 00:16:55.559 avocado on this, avocado on that, and you think, oh, well, 248 00:16:55.639 --> 00:16:59.240 what else are they going to do with avocado? Well, 249 00:17:00.159 --> 00:17:03.240 this one sounded like an April Fool's joke, but it 250 00:17:03.360 --> 00:17:10.200 is not. Apparently. Food Beast talks about the new combination 251 00:17:10.599 --> 00:17:14.319 of and partnership between avocados from Mexico, which I used 252 00:17:14.319 --> 00:17:17.319 to be a spokesman for. The great Product by the way, 253 00:17:19.079 --> 00:17:22.559 has partnered with witch Witch, which if you haven't tried 254 00:17:22.599 --> 00:17:26.160 their sandwiches, they're bombed. They're just I think they're excellent. 255 00:17:27.160 --> 00:17:32.200 So now they have something called the avo Witch. Okay, 256 00:17:32.440 --> 00:17:35.039 so what does this mean? Where are they putting it? 257 00:17:35.920 --> 00:17:40.279 They're using it as the bread, so instead of bread, 258 00:17:40.559 --> 00:17:45.799 they're avocado slices. I know, right, But I'm trying to 259 00:17:45.839 --> 00:17:49.440 put that in my flavor bank. I got it. Okay, 260 00:17:49.440 --> 00:17:52.720 I'm with Young Flavor Bank. I get it. They cover, 261 00:17:52.920 --> 00:17:55.160 they put the top on the top. There they have 262 00:17:55.240 --> 00:17:59.759 this ava witch seasoning that looks great, you know, so 263 00:18:00.240 --> 00:18:02.400 I know that's going to give you this texture and 264 00:18:02.559 --> 00:18:04.880 a little bit of crunch on the top. Of the avocado. 265 00:18:05.319 --> 00:18:10.079 But they're using ripe avocados, and the only thought that 266 00:18:10.160 --> 00:18:14.920 comes to mind is that texture. I don't know that 267 00:18:14.920 --> 00:18:17.240 that's the first texture I want to experience on the 268 00:18:17.279 --> 00:18:21.039 outside of something. I mean, maybe i'd cut it with 269 00:18:21.079 --> 00:18:23.559 a fork or mash it up and just have it 270 00:18:23.599 --> 00:18:26.839 as a salady thing, because it essentially is their classic 271 00:18:26.880 --> 00:18:32.680 Turkey club. So you've got turkey, ham, bacon, lettuce, tomatoes, 272 00:18:32.839 --> 00:18:36.319 cheddar cheese, mayo, and honey mustard. I mean, all of 273 00:18:36.359 --> 00:18:40.440 that sounds excellent. And like I said, which Witch has 274 00:18:40.559 --> 00:18:46.960 great sandwiches, But you wrap your hands around that and 275 00:18:47.000 --> 00:18:54.440 you've got ripe, creamy avocado. I'm curious what kind of 276 00:18:54.519 --> 00:19:01.920 doesn't say if it's like forte or it's has or 277 00:19:02.039 --> 00:19:10.119 hass avocados. It doesn't say because some are a little 278 00:19:10.119 --> 00:19:17.480 more dense and fleshy than others. And I'm thinking, right right, avocado. 279 00:19:19.319 --> 00:19:21.839 You know, I love bananas. I don't know that i'd 280 00:19:21.839 --> 00:19:26.160 want to eat a sandwich between two bananas, especially ripe ones. 281 00:19:26.200 --> 00:19:27.640 You know what I'm saying, Like. 282 00:19:27.640 --> 00:19:29.240 A peanut butter and banana sandwich. 283 00:19:29.960 --> 00:19:32.720 Oh yeah, a little bit of Elvis Presley throws some 284 00:19:32.759 --> 00:19:37.200 bacon on there. Not bad. Are you familiar with that? Yeah, 285 00:19:37.240 --> 00:19:45.519 that was Elvis's jam. Well, yeah, that a horrible amount 286 00:19:45.599 --> 00:19:51.079 of copious amounts of drugs that. Yeah, that backed up 287 00:19:51.119 --> 00:19:57.960 his backside. Unfortunately, those appetizers will do that. Yeah, that'll 288 00:19:58.000 --> 00:20:02.559 do it. But you know, Andrew, like, when you think 289 00:20:02.599 --> 00:20:06.960 about that, does that speak to you? Avocado part is 290 00:20:07.000 --> 00:20:11.359 a bun. I'm down to try it because I like avocado. 291 00:20:11.400 --> 00:20:15.160 It's good. I love avocados. But they're you know, as 292 00:20:15.240 --> 00:20:18.119 as we've said many times before, toxicity is in the dose. 293 00:20:18.759 --> 00:20:24.319 And sometimes there are foods that I like that too 294 00:20:24.359 --> 00:20:29.640 much of them would would freak me out. Like have 295 00:20:29.720 --> 00:20:33.480 you ever seen someone crack open an ostrich egg? 296 00:20:34.920 --> 00:20:35.000 No. 297 00:20:35.839 --> 00:20:39.799 I love eggs, but they're so big that when I 298 00:20:39.880 --> 00:20:42.960 see them, the thought of someone cooking that like sunnyside 299 00:20:43.039 --> 00:20:46.519 up and piercing that yoke creeps me out. It's just 300 00:20:46.559 --> 00:20:50.119 like too much of the yolk. I don't know, it's 301 00:20:50.160 --> 00:20:54.319 just they're like sometimes the size or the amount of 302 00:20:54.359 --> 00:21:00.480 something you know, can change its experience, Like ratio are 303 00:21:00.640 --> 00:21:04.359 super important food to me, and when a chef balances 304 00:21:04.400 --> 00:21:06.720 them or hits them right, like the right amount of 305 00:21:06.960 --> 00:21:12.160 protein to the vegetables on a sandwich makes a perfect sandwich. 306 00:21:12.519 --> 00:21:14.759 I mean, some people go, you just keep putting more 307 00:21:14.759 --> 00:21:17.400 protein on it. That doesn't necessarily make it better to me, 308 00:21:17.960 --> 00:21:23.039 because the dances with the crunch of the lettuce, you know, 309 00:21:23.079 --> 00:21:25.920 a little bit of the acid from the tomato, whatever 310 00:21:25.960 --> 00:21:29.519 it is that you're putting in there, spinachs that herbaceous 311 00:21:29.680 --> 00:21:33.880 kind of that green is how I refer to it. 312 00:21:33.880 --> 00:21:37.000 It's not grassy, but just brighten or base. That all 313 00:21:37.640 --> 00:21:41.279 makes for a great sandwich. And then you you that 314 00:21:41.400 --> 00:21:47.759 bread that gives you that toothy deliverily delivery, you know 315 00:21:48.000 --> 00:21:50.799 it just I don't know. I don't want to bite 316 00:21:50.799 --> 00:21:54.799 into something and have it go. So I'm gonna have 317 00:21:54.880 --> 00:21:56.559 to try it because I do like witch witch. And 318 00:21:56.559 --> 00:22:00.039 we'll have to see if the avo, which removes the 319 00:22:00.079 --> 00:22:04.440 bread and uses two slices of avocado as the bread, 320 00:22:05.039 --> 00:22:07.160 is any good. We'll just have to find that out. 321 00:22:07.400 --> 00:22:10.559 All right, we come back, we're gonna chat with Andrew 322 00:22:10.599 --> 00:22:15.599 Caravella a bit. He didn't even know that, but this 323 00:22:15.720 --> 00:22:18.480 is his last day with us. He'll be leaving KFI 324 00:22:19.039 --> 00:22:22.000 and just want to chat with him before he goes. 325 00:22:22.039 --> 00:22:25.200 And of course Tiffany will come aboard as says, she 326 00:22:25.559 --> 00:22:28.039 is going to be taking things over at five o'clock. 327 00:22:28.480 --> 00:22:29.799 So go no where. 328 00:22:30.240 --> 00:22:33.240 You're listening to the Fork Report with Nil Savedra on 329 00:22:33.359 --> 00:22:35.799 demand from KFI AM six forty. 330 00:22:35.799 --> 00:22:38.119 How do you do? Thanks for hanging with us today. 331 00:22:38.680 --> 00:22:41.160 I invite you to join me on social media at 332 00:22:41.240 --> 00:22:44.359 fork Reporter. At fork Reporter where I put on goofy 333 00:22:44.400 --> 00:22:49.039 stuff and fun food things occasionally go live there and 334 00:22:49.279 --> 00:22:51.680 if you like the arts or making or anything like that. 335 00:22:52.200 --> 00:22:56.440 I have a new social media on Instagram and that 336 00:22:56.680 --> 00:23:02.920 is at Savco Industry. That's s A A v COO 337 00:23:03.319 --> 00:23:06.960 Industries and that's just me making stuff three D printing. 338 00:23:08.279 --> 00:23:12.359 Some of my drawings are on there too, just all 339 00:23:12.440 --> 00:23:16.920 kinds of things that deal with that love for sci fi, 340 00:23:17.119 --> 00:23:21.880 pop culture, Star Wars, Indiana Jones, things that I make. 341 00:23:23.039 --> 00:23:26.480 It was originally for my small business where I make 342 00:23:26.920 --> 00:23:30.720 promotional items, but that's not really open. I don't sell 343 00:23:30.759 --> 00:23:34.599 to the general public right now at least, so so 344 00:23:34.680 --> 00:23:36.480 really just started using that as a place to put 345 00:23:36.680 --> 00:23:42.839 art stuff. So check that out Savco Industries on Instagram. 346 00:23:43.599 --> 00:23:46.000 So I brought Tiffany in because we want to talk 347 00:23:46.000 --> 00:23:49.400 about what's going on with her. But I thought Tiffany 348 00:23:49.400 --> 00:23:53.200 and I could ask Andrew some questions because Andrew Caravella 349 00:23:53.279 --> 00:23:59.279 this is our last show with him. So I'll start 350 00:23:59.480 --> 00:24:04.160 and we'll have Tiffany jump in. But so let's find out, 351 00:24:04.240 --> 00:24:06.920 first of all, how you got into radio. 352 00:24:07.440 --> 00:24:11.759 How I got into radio? Oh my gosh, which casting 353 00:24:11.799 --> 00:24:12.920 couch was that that I was on? 354 00:24:13.119 --> 00:24:16.039 Oh my lord, I don't know where to be again? 355 00:24:16.839 --> 00:24:16.920 No. 356 00:24:17.079 --> 00:24:20.279 I I got started in radio actually out in the 357 00:24:20.279 --> 00:24:24.440 Inland Empire through a little station called k c A A. 358 00:24:25.000 --> 00:24:28.400 They did like NBC news affiliation. It was suic talk station, 359 00:24:28.920 --> 00:24:32.200 and the GM out there had like his own oldies 360 00:24:32.240 --> 00:24:36.240 station called KQLH, and they had Rick D's who had 361 00:24:36.240 --> 00:24:38.480 a syndicated show on there. And I started doing like 362 00:24:38.640 --> 00:24:43.160 entertainment news for for the morning drive. And from there 363 00:24:43.920 --> 00:24:45.839 I ended up staying for a few years and then 364 00:24:45.880 --> 00:24:50.519 moving into like the NPR type of world and moved 365 00:24:50.519 --> 00:24:55.039 over into San Bernardino over at KVCR. Had a had 366 00:24:55.079 --> 00:24:58.799 a news director position a little after that at a 367 00:24:58.839 --> 00:25:02.759 string of radio stations up in the High Desert and 368 00:25:02.799 --> 00:25:06.279 in Arizona, because they had they were like a franchise. 369 00:25:06.720 --> 00:25:09.319 And during that time, it was during the pandemic, I 370 00:25:09.519 --> 00:25:15.440 auditioned my second time for KFI, and former news director 371 00:25:15.480 --> 00:25:18.880 Chris Little thought I was decent enough to give me 372 00:25:18.920 --> 00:25:22.319 a shot at KFI, and the rest is history. I've 373 00:25:22.640 --> 00:25:26.240 I've been covering news in TV and in radio in 374 00:25:26.240 --> 00:25:30.680 southern California now for ten years, in my fifth year 375 00:25:30.839 --> 00:25:35.359 now with KFI here in La though, and it's been 376 00:25:35.400 --> 00:25:37.200 a fantastic ride. 377 00:25:37.480 --> 00:25:40.119 Well, we certainly will miss you, tiff Any thoughts. 378 00:25:40.359 --> 00:25:44.599 Oh, I'm a little glassy eyed over here because you 379 00:25:44.759 --> 00:25:47.079 saw me when I came into the booth. Andrew, I 380 00:25:47.200 --> 00:25:50.039 just I'm replete, but I'm so proud of you. And 381 00:25:50.079 --> 00:25:53.240 my question would be, who would you say are your 382 00:25:53.240 --> 00:25:56.039 biggest inspirations in this field? 383 00:25:56.279 --> 00:25:57.079 In this field? 384 00:25:57.759 --> 00:26:00.000 Oh my gosh. 385 00:26:00.079 --> 00:26:03.319 You know he's never gonna hear this because he's famous now, 386 00:26:03.400 --> 00:26:05.599 But there was a time when I first started in 387 00:26:05.720 --> 00:26:08.119 radio that I had friends in the in the acting 388 00:26:08.160 --> 00:26:11.079 world that said they wanted me to replace Ryan Seacrest. 389 00:26:12.720 --> 00:26:15.920 I can see that, so who knows, maybe he'll retire 390 00:26:15.920 --> 00:26:20.319 one day, right, you know. Michael Krozier was my mentor 391 00:26:20.359 --> 00:26:22.720 when I when I first got here to KFI, and 392 00:26:23.200 --> 00:26:27.680 I really grew under under his wing and it really 393 00:26:27.759 --> 00:26:30.319 kind of helped show me how to grow not just 394 00:26:30.480 --> 00:26:33.359 as a a sound, you know, as a as a 395 00:26:33.400 --> 00:26:37.640 personality on the radio, but as a journalist. Stephen Gregory 396 00:26:37.759 --> 00:26:40.200 and also Chris Little, like they really kind of honed 397 00:26:40.359 --> 00:26:43.640 helped me, hone in my skills. And I was working 398 00:26:43.680 --> 00:26:46.759 at other radio places while I was at KFI, and 399 00:26:46.920 --> 00:26:49.359 I became an award winning personality. I have my own 400 00:26:49.359 --> 00:26:51.720 golden mic from some of the news documentary stuff that 401 00:26:51.759 --> 00:26:54.519