Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2: We're here with very lucky Irish folk Richie Robin Heather.
Speaker 2: Thanks for being here today. Of course, do you get
Speaker 2: a hazard pay for working on the Sunday before? I
Speaker 2: feel like the Hazzard pa would probably come the Tuesday after. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: it would definitely be the day after. Yeah, like the
Speaker 2: super Bowl.
Speaker 3: Remember how there was like a movement for a while
Speaker 3: for people to make the day after the super Bowl
Speaker 3: like an automatic holiday where people didn't have to go
Speaker 3: into work.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't think it caught on.
Speaker 2: There's plenty of people there in Sacramento and up in Washington,
Speaker 2: d C. They've seem like they've got a lot of
Speaker 2: time and they've passed stuff all the time. I don't
Speaker 2: know why they can't just roll that in there. We
Speaker 2: would all universally agree on that make it a national holiday. Indeed,
Speaker 2: Saint Patrick's Day tomorrow not a national holiday, but of
Speaker 2: course originally began as a religious feast day commemorating the
Speaker 2: efforts of Saint Patrick to bring Christianity to Ireland way
Speaker 2: back in the fifth century. And if you've checked lately,
Speaker 2: he was pretty successful. Irish Catholic. They're very, very very
Speaker 2: common rather, I guess in the Irish community to be
Speaker 2: Catholic over time. Though of course it's a broader celebration
Speaker 2: of Irish culture. There are parades, you wear green, you
Speaker 2: drink green beer. There are different kinds of festivities worldwide.
Speaker 2: Of course, in Chicago they dye the river green there
Speaker 2: and people are wearing green, and I guess the reason
Speaker 2: is because Ireland is green. It's the emerald dial. That's
Speaker 2: sort of where the green came from. Leprechauns wear green.
Speaker 2: I guess they see people and they pinch them, and
Speaker 2: if they're not wearing green, that makes you invisible to leprechauns,
Speaker 2: preventing them from pitching. Can you is this so normal
Speaker 2: to us because we've done this forever? But can you
Speaker 2: imagine if someone just came up with this today and
Speaker 2: we're like, all right, you wear green tomorrow, and you
Speaker 2: go there's these little there's leprechauns. They're like fairies, but
Speaker 2: they're mischievous and they're going to pinch you. They have
Speaker 2: gold at the pot end of a rainbow. I don't know.
Speaker 2: We drink a lot. You'd be like, okay, great, I'm
Speaker 2: on board. Historically, Saint Patrick's Day was a solemn day
Speaker 2: in Ireland and it was actually a dry holiday in
Speaker 2: Ireland in nineteen oh three, which is such a surprise
Speaker 2: if you've ever been to Ireland, pubs were actually legally
Speaker 2: required to close. And then obviously that's not the same
Speaker 2: way that it is, but it was up, I guess
Speaker 2: until the late twentieth century before anybody started celebrating the
Speaker 2: way we celebrate now, especially in America. Irish American communities
Speaker 2: have embraced pub culture. Saint Patrick's Day associated with beer,
Speaker 2: whiskey and more, and drinking is a big part of
Speaker 2: the celebration.
Speaker 4: It's been that way for basically one hundred and fifty years.
Speaker 2: Green beer in America, though it is an American innovation,
Speaker 2: an invention. You would not see this at a traditional
Speaker 2: Irish pub. No green beer. And there's actually a bar
Speaker 2: over in South Pasadena called Griffins of Kinsale which has
Speaker 2: no TVs. There's no sports on TV because there are
Speaker 2: no TVs at Griffin's of Kinsale in South Pass. It's
Speaker 2: right on mission there by the train tracks. And they
Speaker 2: also of course don't have green beer. Now they say
Speaker 2: you can show up and bring your little dye of
Speaker 2: green food die if you want to put it in
Speaker 2: your beer, but don't expect to order anything there. Heather,
Speaker 2: do you have any local haunts that you like to
Speaker 2: hit up for Saint Patrick's Day? Any recommendations?
Speaker 5: You know?
Speaker 3: There used to be a place in Glendale called Clancy's.
Speaker 4: Oh, that was a lot of fun that was back
Speaker 4: in the day.
Speaker 3: And that's a nice little Irish seafood spot.
Speaker 4: It was oh, Irish seafood.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, I mean it was like seafood, but it
Speaker 3: was like an Irish bar.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 3: And then there's a place into Luca Lake. I can't
Speaker 3: think of the name of it.
Speaker 2: Is it's out of business now, right, it might be yeah,
Speaker 2: it was like, well, no, there's Missus Robinson's Irish Pub,
Speaker 2: which is what is closed now.
Speaker 4: But there was something over there that was that was
Speaker 4: Mormons for.
Speaker 1: Is good.
Speaker 4: That's that's right, that is still there. And then there's
Speaker 4: also Catcher in the Rye, which is.
Speaker 2: Great, very fun. Those are great valley hangs. Are you
Speaker 2: local to the valley?
Speaker 4: I am. I live in the Glendale. Hey, I love
Speaker 4: the Glendale. The two freeways.
Speaker 2: Shout out Chevy Chase, Idol hours great I don't know
Speaker 2: that that's a that's an Irish pub, but it's a
Speaker 2: great one. It's a great place bar. Give me a
Speaker 2: Molly Malone's Molly Malone Tom Burgens.
Speaker 3: Some of those are so far away though, because I
Speaker 3: am an SGV gal and it's a little far to commit,
Speaker 3: especially if I'm going to be drinking at all.
Speaker 2: Oh, I hear you. I went out last night in
Speaker 2: Santa Monica. Had to visit some friends over there at
Speaker 2: the Bungalow, which, by the way, I am far too
Speaker 2: old for. I went there and uh, you know, the uber.
Speaker 4: Was eighty dollars. Oh my gosh, two there just one
Speaker 4: way you think.
Speaker 3: They increased the pricing? Where is it? Like, how do
Speaker 3: I pricing that they do?
Speaker 2: You got to think it's a busy weekend. That's probably
Speaker 2: part of it. And that's brutal, but it is.
Speaker 4: It's brutal.
Speaker 2: It's tough to do that. But I guess you know,
Speaker 2: it beats it beats a dui that alternative.
Speaker 4: Yeah, for sure, everyone please take a new Berg driver.
Speaker 2: Especially this weekend. There are I think it's one of
Speaker 2: those things, like my mom was always you don't even
Speaker 2: go out on Saint Patrick's because people are so crazy.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, you don't even want to be on
Speaker 4: the roads at all.
Speaker 2: So I hate to be that way, and that's such
Speaker 2: a sad POV to have on what's supposed to be
Speaker 2: a fun thing.
Speaker 3: But I'll definitely be wearing green, okay, And it's actually
Speaker 3: my favorite color is green, and so I always love
Speaker 3: this time of year because I am Irish. I have
Speaker 3: Irish Scottish roots, so it's just kind of fun, you know,
Speaker 3: fun little tradition that's great.
Speaker 4: I agree.
Speaker 2: Well, there's another tradition happening in the San Fernando Valley
Speaker 2: that's not so great.
Speaker 4: Have you heard of this key cloning?
Speaker 2: No police warning residents of a rise in key cloner
Speaker 2: car thefts in the San Fernando Valley. So basically what
Speaker 2: happens is there's this device that they have that remotely
Speaker 2: scans for a key fob signal. So you know how
Speaker 2: your keyfob is always emitting some kind of signal to
Speaker 2: let your key the car rather know that you're near,
Speaker 2: and that's how you get that cordless opening or whatever.
Speaker 2: So you can remotely scan for a keyfob apparently, and
Speaker 2: they make a clone key, so they make a digital
Speaker 2: version of the key, and this is according to the
Speaker 2: Burbank Police Department. This is happening a lot though, where
Speaker 2: they're using the signature of your key to then open
Speaker 2: your car and turn it on and steal it. This
Speaker 2: happened to me. I had somebody break into my car
Speaker 2: a couple of years back. I live in the valley,
Speaker 2: also not Burbank, but not far and it was a
Speaker 2: rental car, and I was told by the LAPD that
Speaker 2: they do this where they figure out a way to
Speaker 2: mimic the key, the key signature, and then they open
Speaker 2: the car and take whatever is inside. And it was
Speaker 2: crazy because what you'll know you've been broken into. At
Speaker 2: least I've experienced this a couple times in the valley
Speaker 2: because the door will still be open because they of
Speaker 2: course don't want to make noise when they steal something
Speaker 2: they pull it out of there.
Speaker 4: They don't want to they want to shut the door
Speaker 4: and wake you up.
Speaker 2: And if they steal it in the middle of the night,
Speaker 2: so anytime you go outside and you see your car
Speaker 2: and the door is open. At least in my case,
Speaker 2: this happened I think two or three times. That's what happens.
Speaker 2: So no good there. This is how you get around it.
Speaker 2: Do you love this? This is what they say. Tips
Speaker 2: include parking in a secure area, as if we can't
Speaker 2: generally always park wherever we park, using motion sensing lights
Speaker 2: and security cameras in areas where one typically parks.
Speaker 4: Also, I feel like something that okay?
Speaker 2: And then they say this, store your keyfob in a
Speaker 2: signal blocking pouch. I don't know what a signal blocking
Speaker 2: pouch is. We'll have to look that up and find
Speaker 2: that out. But they also say that people should check
Speaker 2: in with dealerships to see if they have any updates
Speaker 2: for your cars.
Speaker 1: There.
Speaker 2: I don't know if that's a good's it's sort of
Speaker 2: unsettling to just put it in a lead pouch.
Speaker 6: I guess.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 3: I think I feel like somebody's made like workout pants
Speaker 3: or like Lululemon pants or something that have a little
Speaker 3: pouch like that.
Speaker 4: Maybe I don't know, like for a signal blocking workout. Yeah,
Speaker 4: did I just invent this is so great?
Speaker 2: Let's look hold on, here we go, signal blocking work
Speaker 2: out pants.
Speaker 3: There must be something like that where because the they
Speaker 3: have like little pouches.
Speaker 4: Yeah, in shorts, you're so right.
Speaker 2: So there's a place called uh well, I don't know
Speaker 2: if this is real Shield signal proof apparel. This is
Speaker 2: not an advertisement for Shield. By the way, we have
Speaker 2: just discovered Shield. They have EMF protective headwear, so I
Speaker 2: get if you have an EMF issue with your head.
Speaker 2: EMF is like we'll disable electronics. So I don't know
Speaker 2: what's going on in your head that you need to
Speaker 2: protect it from EMF phrase. But it's very sci fi.
Speaker 2: Though this is very sci fi. We'll have to get
Speaker 2: to the bottom of this.
Speaker 1: You're listening to Kfi AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2: There's a lot of stuff that that TV does that
Speaker 2: I feel like is a little unnecessary, though I will
Speaker 2: say not having to wear makeup is one of the
Speaker 2: highlights of this, isn't it fab It's so nice. I
Speaker 2: don't I don't just suck in. I don't have to
Speaker 2: sit up straight. I can just be a slob. I
Speaker 2: didn't shower. I haven't showered in weeks. We know that. No,
Speaker 2: I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding, but I want to.
Speaker 4: I want to tell you.
Speaker 3: By the way, Amy King hosts a wake Up Call,
Speaker 3: just messaged me and said she's listening in. She said
Speaker 3: she's going to be wearing her one green item of
Speaker 3: clothing tomorrow. Hey, And I told her, I said, you
Speaker 3: need to get more green, lady.
Speaker 2: She's a redhead like me. That's our signature color. Green's
Speaker 2: a great color on people. Green's basically a neutral. So
Speaker 2: I am told, according to TikTok that I see. Huh,
Speaker 2: I don't know anything. I mean listen as I mean,
Speaker 2: I may have said this before I moved recently. And
Speaker 2: this is just how the internet works. They find out
Speaker 2: you move, and then you just get a million videos
Speaker 2: about why everything in your house is wrong and needs
Speaker 2: to be redone like home renovation, home renovation stuff, and
Speaker 2: this is out.
Speaker 4: Oh you have a white kitchen. Why white kitchens are
Speaker 4: out great?
Speaker 3: I know. I saw that and I was like, I've
Speaker 3: been wanting a white kitchen forever. Now I'm like, I
Speaker 3: guess I better not rather.
Speaker 4: No, we are wrong. Yeah, I can't like things. I
Speaker 4: just love.
Speaker 2: The trends are just we got to stop with the trends.
Speaker 2: There's just too much happening here.
Speaker 4: Just live your life, people, do what makes you happy.
Speaker 2: That's so right. I want to jump down here, Richie.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, I'm going to do this to you. I
Speaker 2: know that we said we were going to do something else,
Speaker 2: but we're going to I'm going to call an audible.
Speaker 4: But I think that it's.
Speaker 2: Because I'm thinking about trends and I was thinking about you,
Speaker 2: specifically with this new gen Z dating trend. Oh yeah,
Speaker 2: have you heard of this flood lighting before? Do you
Speaker 2: and your gen Z friends say flood Oh yeah, that
Speaker 2: met guy totally flood lighted me. No, But I just
Speaker 2: heard about it like recently, like before we did the show, Yes,
Speaker 2: like maybe two nights before. I was scrolling on TikTok
Speaker 2: and that came about. But break it away. So one
Speaker 2: of these things that happens. And we do a lot
Speaker 2: of trends on KTLA. I cover a lot of trends.
Speaker 2: That's sort of my beat. And I think the thing
Speaker 2: that's so tough is discerning between what's really a trend
Speaker 2: and what's just something that's fun to talk about on
Speaker 2: the internet. But I don't know about this one. Let's
Speaker 2: try to figure this out. Flood Lighting is apparently, when
Speaker 2: in dating, someone floods someone with vulnerability in a way
Speaker 2: that feels more like a test rather than an attempt
Speaker 2: at genuine connection. When I was growing up, this was
Speaker 2: called gaslighting. This was called being kind of a sociopath.
Speaker 2: But now they have a thing called flood lighting. Apparently
Speaker 2: it's a real thing. People are oversharing their personal traumas
Speaker 2: with the purpose for another person to then share their
Speaker 2: personal traumas so that I guess you can really get
Speaker 2: to know who they are quickly.
Speaker 4: Like trauma dumping on a first date.
Speaker 2: It's trauma dumping on a first date, but with the
Speaker 2: intention that they will also trauma dump back, so I
Speaker 2: guess you can have something to hold over someone else's so.
Speaker 4: Like trauma bonding. Maybe, yeah, though I guess it's a
Speaker 4: little bit hack. I don't know.
Speaker 2: I mean they say though, instead of strengthening bonds, oversharing
Speaker 2: can make the other person take a stat back, which
Speaker 2: actually creates an emotional distance rather than closeness. Is that
Speaker 2: because all of us think that everyone needs to know
Speaker 2: everything that we've ever done?
Speaker 4: I mean maybe, yeah. Social media has a big part
Speaker 4: of it. Is there's so many people that I want
Speaker 4: to do that because we want some dy to be
Speaker 4: proud of us.
Speaker 2: Ooh, you guys, I'm this is the best therapy that
Speaker 2: I've ever had.
Speaker 4: Is get working through problems on live radio.
Speaker 2: But I think that you're right about the social media thing, saying,
Speaker 2: look like, if we just got rid of all social media,
Speaker 2: I think eighty percent of our psychological issues would go away.
Speaker 2: So what we're saying is just watch terrestrial television and
Speaker 2: listen to terrestrial radio.
Speaker 4: That's all we're saying. Is that such a crime to ask?
Speaker 2: No, unless you want to listen to of course, the
Speaker 2: iHeartRadio app you can keep that one. You can keep
Speaker 2: the KTLA plus app, but everything else, please, we're done
Speaker 2: with it unplugged. And I think that that's also part
Speaker 2: of this sort of bigger problem with social media dating
Speaker 2: apps Richie. I know that you're on the apps. You
Speaker 2: told me recently went up to Do you want to
Speaker 2: say where you went?
Speaker 7: Oh?
Speaker 8: Oh, well I was in Seattle. So I was in Seattle.
Speaker 8: And you know, when I'm in a new town, I'm shopping,
Speaker 8: you know, But what are you shopping for? Friendship?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is what's wrong with your generation. By the way,
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna you continue, but I'll just so.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 8: So, like I use this app called Hinge, and for
Speaker 8: years I've had it. It's kind of there. I use
Speaker 8: it whenever I'm bored or whatever, you know. And then
Speaker 8: again I was in Seattle, so I checked it out,
Speaker 8: you know, scoping the scene, you.
Speaker 2: Know, scoping the scene. Exactly what are you looking for
Speaker 2: in this scene? And you're telling me because here's the
Speaker 2: thing that I always thought with And I haven't been
Speaker 2: on dating apps for a while, but I remember, and
Speaker 2: I think that I I confirmed this in a report
Speaker 2: at some point over the past couple of years, that
Speaker 2: the reason that they're so awful, that it feels so
Speaker 2: awful to be on a dating app is because they'll
Speaker 2: show you people who they know that you will almost
Speaker 2: really like, they'll show you enough people to keep you
Speaker 2: coming back, because at the end of the day, what
Speaker 2: they want is for users to be using their app.
Speaker 2: This makes sense. Even if they say Hinge designed to
Speaker 2: be deleted. I think it's still is a business. They
Speaker 2: still got to have people coming through the doors. They
Speaker 2: still want to have people using this. But you're saying
Speaker 2: things are a little.
Speaker 8: Different now, Yeah, Like I don't know, like I feel
Speaker 8: like it's I don't know, I don't I'm not really
Speaker 8: a fan of it. There's this new thing that Hinge introduced.
Speaker 8: It's called your turn limits. It's pretty much a feature.
Speaker 2: Limit, like you have to run your only eight years
Speaker 2: of hinge and then you're done.
Speaker 4: You pretty much right now.
Speaker 8: Yeah, it's like a new feature that restricts users from
Speaker 8: liking you matches. For instance, like if I have more
Speaker 8: than aid unanswered messages, it won't allow me to go
Speaker 8: further or you know, swipe whatever side or message them
Speaker 8: or get a message back. I need to literally send
Speaker 8: a message and then it gives me the opportunity to
Speaker 8: you know, reply to another. So basically it encourages us
Speaker 8: to seek more of a connection than just like the
Speaker 8: next wipe, et cetera.
Speaker 2: So you're not allowed to just message people at random
Speaker 2: at will forever infinity. Personally, I'm pretty popular on the app,
Speaker 2: so I'm limited really quickly.
Speaker 6: So that's why I don't like it.
Speaker 4: Robin. I know you're you're married, Heather, do you have.
Speaker 2: Any insight on dating app stuff?
Speaker 4: I don't.
Speaker 3: I'm an old married lady and have not ever had
Speaker 3: to be on the apps. I have a lot of
Speaker 3: single friends though, who've had hit or mis experiences on
Speaker 3: the apps.
Speaker 2: Nobody likes it. There should be no one's like man,
Speaker 2: I just love being on dating apps. That's a pretty good.
Speaker 2: That's a pretty good.
Speaker 4: Indians like it. It gives them a lot of material
Speaker 4: to work. Maybe that's the problem is that the too
Speaker 4: many comedians on data.
Speaker 3: Apps where every comedy show I go to, someone's like, hey,
Speaker 3: anybody else on the dating apps?
Speaker 4: And you're like, oh my gosh.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't ever necessarily call myself a comedian because I
Speaker 2: was never paid to be a comedian. But I know
Speaker 2: a lot of them, and I will say that they
Speaker 2: are a bit of a sad bunch, a bit of
Speaker 2: quite a few. And I have a lot of friends
Speaker 2: who are comics that I would say, if they're asking
Speaker 2: if anybody's on the dating apps, it's because they're curious
Speaker 2: if they can find anyone, anyone else, if there's anyone
Speaker 2: to hook up. But that's exactly right.
Speaker 3: I am a comedian and I've been to a lot
Speaker 3: of comedy shows, and almost every comic is just that's
Speaker 3: their spring well of launching off point for jokes is
Speaker 3: the dating apps.
Speaker 4: I don't know. Do you do stand up?
Speaker 7: I do?
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: My next show's coming out May tenth at the Ice House.
Speaker 3: Everybody passadis come and see me. I got jokes and
Speaker 3: I swear a little.
Speaker 4: Oh, I love that FI. After hours, there you go, KFIF.
Speaker 4: I hate to put you on the spot.
Speaker 2: But when we come back after this break, do you
Speaker 2: want to like just run us through one of your bits.
Speaker 4: No, I'm not gonna give you my bits. You all
Speaker 4: gotta pay for that period.
Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2: Gorgeous day here at the KFI studios in Burbank, beautiful
Speaker 2: view of the Verdugo Mountains and probably Jay Leno. I'm
Speaker 2: Andy Reesmyer. Thank you for being here on this Sunday.
Speaker 2: It is absolutely gorgeous outside. And look at this earlier
Speaker 2: a shout out from cafi's very own Amy King. I
Speaker 2: hear on the wake up Call show every day here
Speaker 2: from five to six am, right before handle. I'm generally
Speaker 2: on my way to the studios in Hollywood, the Sunset
Speaker 2: Bronson Studio where we do the KTLA morning news. So
Speaker 2: that's really awesome that she's listening. I hear she's looking
Speaker 2: for some green clothing and Heather, I did some investigation here,
Speaker 2: all right, I think we can get her a signal
Speaker 2: blocking jacket.
Speaker 4: What is that? Oh? Yes, yes, if.
Speaker 2: We can get a green one. It's one hundred and
Speaker 2: ninety dollars. So let's figure out a change dot org
Speaker 2: petition maybe or a GoFundMe.
Speaker 6: I don't know.
Speaker 2: We need to get this woman some more green because
Speaker 2: she can't be. She can't be without green. Tomorrow Safe
Speaker 2: and Stylish for five to six am tomorrow on KFI
Speaker 2: for the wake Up Call show, and then of course
Speaker 2: Bill Handle from six to nine am.
Speaker 4: It's cool.
Speaker 2: I go to work and I listen to Amy in
Speaker 2: the morning, and then when I'm on my way home,
Speaker 2: generally it is Gary and Shannon, and then I will
Speaker 2: catch Conway while I nap.
Speaker 4: It is just past the count If you have a
Speaker 4: green tattoo.
Speaker 2: Boo, I'm not the Heather's the Irish for you? Yeah? Great,
Speaker 2: good to know, all right. So we had a marathon today.
Speaker 2: Of course there was another race down there in Long Beach.
Speaker 2: We love Long Beach, the Port of La see San
Speaker 2: Pedro down there as well. It's the Rolex Los Angeles
Speaker 2: Sail Grand Prix or Sail GP. They roll around at
Speaker 2: different cities all over the world, twelve teams from different
Speaker 2: countries battling it out in identical fifty foot foiling catamarans.
Speaker 2: They go sixty miles an hour. And when we say
Speaker 2: foiling catamarans, that's not that we're fooling them. They literally
Speaker 2: come up out of the water and glide over the
Speaker 2: water a few feet out of the water. It's really
Speaker 2: something to see. They just wrapped up this weekend. They're
Speaker 2: gonna be up at San Francisco next weekend. Joining us
Speaker 2: live on the phone, Andy Thompson, who is the managing
Speaker 2: director at sale GP.
Speaker 4: You're on KFI. Thanks for being here today.
Speaker 5: Hey, Andy, it's great to bear. How are you guys?
Speaker 4: I'm so good now.
Speaker 2: Judging from your accent, it sounds like you might be
Speaker 2: from Ohio, Is that correct?
Speaker 5: Yeah? London, Ohio. Yeah, I'm over here from the UK.
Speaker 5: I think I bought a bit of the British weather
Speaker 5: with me earlier this week. But the weekend turned out great.
Speaker 5: We've had an awesome time down here, as you said,
Speaker 5: some great racing right in front of the packed grandstands
Speaker 5: down here at the Port of la.
Speaker 4: Is it too late or too early to ask who
Speaker 4: has won?
Speaker 5: Well, it's too late. Yeah. We just wrapped here and
Speaker 5: unfortunately US sports fans will they didn't the US team
Speaker 5: didn't take it home. US finished and eighth position, and
Speaker 5: your neighbors to the north Canada brought it at home
Speaker 5: and won the final at just about thirty minutes ago.
Speaker 4: Well, we're happy for them, you know they needed a win.
Speaker 5: Yeah, well, yeah, we haven't won a s LGP race
Speaker 5: for two years, so they were due on and yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 5: the obviously Canadian sports is doing pretty well right now.
Speaker 2: So when you go around the world, it's the same teams,
Speaker 2: I'm assuming with these giant catamorans, I mean, these are huge.
Speaker 2: They're not ships, they're boats, right or how do you
Speaker 2: describe them? And they do they kind of float over
Speaker 2: the water.
Speaker 5: Yeah, they're boats, but they're almost like flying racing machines.
Speaker 5: It is how I would describe them. There, As you
Speaker 5: accurately said earlier that these boats hydrofoil above the water.
Speaker 5: They're going almost sixty miles per hour. It's a really
Speaker 5: short course here, and this isn't conventional sailing. This is
Speaker 5: you know that the racing is right in front of
Speaker 5: the shoreline, so you know, the fans can see the
Speaker 5: whole race evolve. And yeah, there's some crashes, there's some
Speaker 5: thrills and spills. Our Danish team hit one of our
Speaker 5: hit one of our race marks yesterday and they crashed
Speaker 5: out for the rest of the week weekend. Then we
Speaker 5: were just just fortunate enough that there wasn't any more
Speaker 5: damage amongst our teams.
Speaker 2: What happens to these guys that are on Guys and
Speaker 2: girls that are on these catamarans. There's how many of
Speaker 2: them and they're all running back and forth from one
Speaker 2: side of the boat to the other. They're going sixty
Speaker 2: miles an hour, and I'm not really sure I understand
Speaker 2: how any of it actually works.
Speaker 5: Yeah, well, well there's six positions on board that there's
Speaker 5: a driver, you know, so the drivers drive in like
Speaker 5: you with a race car. You have a wing trimmer
Speaker 5: who's almost on the accelerator pedal, and then you've got
Speaker 5: you've got two grinders up front who are generating the
Speaker 5: power for that for that wing. And then there's a
Speaker 5: flight controller that's that's controlling the flight of the boat
Speaker 5: out of the water. And so yeah, these yeah, these
Speaker 5: are real athletes, and the g forces on these boats
Speaker 5: are incredible. So you know, you see the athletes look close,
Speaker 5: they's huge, you know, as you expect an athlete in
Speaker 5: any other professional sport.
Speaker 4: Is there anything special about the race in Long Beach?
Speaker 5: I guess you know, it's so close to the water here.
Speaker 5: You know, we've set it up here at the Port
Speaker 5: of La because we can get our facilities right to
Speaker 5: the edge of the shoreline and we have a technical area.
Speaker 5: So if you think about NASCAR or Formula One, the
Speaker 5: kind of pit row, let's just say it's right. It's
Speaker 5: right here on the water side. So all the fans
Speaker 5: can go and see the boats getting put together, see
Speaker 5: kind of mingle with the athletes. So yeah, it's been
Speaker 5: an awesome, awesome race weekend. And yeah, the wing conditions
Speaker 5: here here down here have been really good for our
Speaker 5: style of racing.
Speaker 2: It's a fun place to go sailing. I've done it
Speaker 2: once before it was absolutely terrifying, but I'm sure it's
Speaker 2: very fun with professionals. And I know you guys are
Speaker 2: going to go up to San Francisco next week. When
Speaker 2: will you be back in Los Angeles or the LA
Speaker 2: area where people can see again.
Speaker 5: Yeah, well, we're currently working with the authorities down here
Speaker 5: just to see when we can come back next. We're
Speaker 5: figuring now at twenty twenty sixth calendar right now, so
Speaker 5: so watch this space. We'd we'd love to get a
Speaker 5: race back here in twenty six or twenty seven, so
Speaker 5: likely to be kind of similar similar Tarpic Tomas year
Speaker 5: than we have this year.
Speaker 4: Well, thank you so much. Best of luck to you
Speaker 4: guys next weekend.
Speaker 2: And of course, if you want to see more about
Speaker 2: the Rolex sale GP Championship, where can people find you online?
Speaker 5: It's a wwwslgp dot com. Pretty simple.
Speaker 4: There he is, Andy, thank you so much for talking.
Speaker 2: Andy Thompson, sale GP Managing Director, joining us live here
Speaker 2: on KFI this afternoon.
Speaker 4: Very very exciting stuff.
Speaker 2: Really, you can watch a lot of the recaps and
Speaker 2: things like that on their YouTube channel and if you
Speaker 2: want to go see. Of course we got it. That's
Speaker 2: what we got to do. We got to get Heather,
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, excuse me, Heather. We have to get the
Speaker 2: Amy King some green clothing. Yes, and we've got to
Speaker 2: get the sale GP back to Long Beach next year.
Speaker 4: There you go, we have a plan.
Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 4: I'm Andy Reesmeyer.
Speaker 2: Thanks for joining us on this Sunday, the day before
Speaker 2: Saint Patrick's Day. Just coming to the end of our
Speaker 2: show here we do have a couple of talkbacks. I
Speaker 2: believe we call them, and I also think Meryll just
Speaker 2: stop by? Are you there, Chris?
Speaker 4: Yeah, Hi, buddy? How you doing it?
Speaker 6: I'm doing well. They'm a freend.
Speaker 4: I missed I missed you last week.
Speaker 6: Oh, I missed you and.
Speaker 2: I and I thought about it really NonStop, and so
Speaker 2: I'm glad that you're still you're sticking around.
Speaker 4: What's coming up on the big show for you today?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 9: Well, you know, we're going to talk about the big
Speaker 9: storms with another tornado coming through? Is that two tornadoes
Speaker 9: that we've had this year? Which is kind of crazy.
Speaker 4: You're in La.
Speaker 6: What trip? Isn't that wild? Yeah?
Speaker 9: And then State Farm's gonna get their twenty two percent
Speaker 9: uh RT hike, but they have to tell everybody why
Speaker 9: uh yeah, okay, wow, that'll be tough because we're broke
Speaker 9: right right. And then how about fifty million dollars for
Speaker 9: hot coffee in your lap?
Speaker 2: That is such an unbelievable story. I'm glad you brought
Speaker 2: that up. And I don't you know, if you've got
Speaker 2: the good stuff for your show, I don't don't waste
Speaker 2: it on me.
Speaker 6: Oh no, go ahead, Yeah, but it's not a waste.
Speaker 6: Everybody loves his story.
Speaker 2: This LA resident, we love we love LA resident in
Speaker 2: local news. Not just a person who lives in Los Angeles,
Speaker 2: He's an LA resident. The man just well see if
Speaker 2: he actually ends up getting the money. But he was
Speaker 2: awarded a fifty million dollars judgment against Starbucks because of
Speaker 2: some tea that had spilled in his lap. Now, on
Speaker 2: first glance, you might say, okay, well I'd take that
Speaker 2: for fifty million dollars, but we've got reports of severe
Speaker 2: burns to his genitalia.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and it's awkward when you have to put cream
Speaker 6: on that.
Speaker 4: I said, don't use that good stuff for this show.
Speaker 6: I'm sorry.
Speaker 4: What I had this conversation earlier today with somebody.
Speaker 2: I said, what would you do it to take it
Speaker 2: for fifty million dollars?
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean for fifty million, you'd probably do it.
Speaker 9: But the this comes back to this will be a
Speaker 9: case just like the McDonald's coffee case from the night.
Speaker 9: Remember that this is gonna be one of the people
Speaker 9: talk about, like fifty million dollars because your coffee was
Speaker 9: too hot. And in both cases there's some liability on
Speaker 9: the part of the of the company. In this case,
Speaker 9: Starbucks didn't put the lid on it with McDonald's didn't
Speaker 9: put the lid out, and they were superheating the coffee.
Speaker 9: So uh, I mean there's more to the story. As always,
Speaker 9: remember it's a jury of peers, not a jury of.
Speaker 6: People you hate.
Speaker 4: So I love that.
Speaker 9: Yeah, So what we do is we tend to say
Speaker 9: I disagree with this jury.
Speaker 10: So uh.
Speaker 9: The lawyers are terrible, the court system is terrible. Everyone's
Speaker 9: out to get somebody. But if you were on the jury,
Speaker 9: obviously this jury agreed.
Speaker 2: So one of the right One of the things that
Speaker 2: I see here is that the original offer was what
Speaker 2: three million, and then they later at Starbucks later offered
Speaker 2: thirty million when they, I guess, saw where the wind
Speaker 2: was blowing with this one. And then so the thirty million,
Speaker 2: the fifty million judge, fifty million dollar judgment. Excuse me,
Speaker 2: they say, we're still not that seems a little excessive.
Speaker 2: But this guy, though according to his attorney, suffered horrific
Speaker 2: burn injuries. It required multiple surgeries, permanent disfiguration to his
Speaker 2: grow So it sounds really terrible. And I think that's
Speaker 2: a similar thing with that nineties case that you were
Speaker 2: just talking about that we talk about all the time,
Speaker 2: which is, oh, well, she just spilled some coffee on her.
Speaker 4: It's like, no, she was really hurt by yeah.
Speaker 6: Bad.
Speaker 9: Yeah, it was a bad thing. And nobody wants to
Speaker 9: get skin grafts on their genitals. And that's an awkward
Speaker 9: thing for you know, party conversation. That's right, you want
Speaker 9: to all right, well we have a little talk back
Speaker 9: to talk about that. I would love your input on
Speaker 9: as well. We were talking about key cloning in the
Speaker 9: San Fernando Valley earlier, where the bad guys are able
Speaker 9: to clone your keyfob.
Speaker 6: I heard you say that happened to your rental car.
Speaker 6: That's crazy, isn't that wild?
Speaker 2: And then I thought the police said it was that's
Speaker 2: what happened, And I wondered, was it somebody on the
Speaker 2: inside of the rental car company who is from I
Speaker 2: don't know at all. I'm not going to put it.
Speaker 2: I'm not you know, who's to say. But I did
Speaker 2: lose a bike and that was a bummer. Then I
Speaker 2: learned to never put a bike in a car. But
Speaker 2: here's what one of our listeners had to say about
Speaker 2: the what you could do to protect yourself.
Speaker 7: It's called a Sara day box that blocks the signal
Speaker 7: and it comes with two pouches for your car keys.
Speaker 7: It has a really.
Speaker 11: Nice hangar on the pouch so you can hang it
Speaker 11: by the door without the thief scamming the code for
Speaker 11: your car. Karen Bass and Gavin News need to do.
Speaker 7: Their job, and we wouldn't have to do this.
Speaker 4: It's called Is that rita? That's rita? Is that Rita?
Speaker 2: Calling back again with some more I yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2: It seems like carrying around a box would be a
Speaker 2: big deal. But I guess if you have a little
Speaker 2: pocket that you can put your keyfob into it. But
Speaker 2: then if all, if it's always in the key in
Speaker 2: the package, I don't even know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 4: Does it work? You can't use it as a key
Speaker 4: fob anymore.
Speaker 2: Kind of if he's the purpose out of the box,
Speaker 2: take it out, which is like, that's not convenient.
Speaker 6: Yeah. I love that.
Speaker 9: I love when all of our callers are like, hey,
Speaker 9: here's a neat little tip to help you out.
Speaker 6: And let's also say, Karen, I try to know some
Speaker 6: other reason for all things.
Speaker 2: Well, you know, it's like I said, the wind, the
Speaker 2: way the wind is blown here. Yeah, it's interesting since
Speaker 2: the fires, I think there's been a lot more public
Speaker 2: sentiment about that kind of thing. Sort of feels like
Speaker 2: people are are not talking about it as much. Like
Speaker 2: I said in the group chat, it's really all about
Speaker 2: the eagles this week, not so much about people dissatisfied
Speaker 2: with the local government.
Speaker 4: But you know, your mileage may vary. I guess.
Speaker 2: All right, here's another one, a talk back from another listener.
Speaker 2: We were talking about dating apps, Merril, Were you ever
Speaker 2: on the apps?
Speaker 6: No, I'm like, I'm like Heather, I'm an old lady. Yeah,
Speaker 6: me too.
Speaker 4: Yeah to married lady, consider yourself so very lucky.
Speaker 6: I am too. I've got friends that are on the
Speaker 6: apps and they say it's just miserable.
Speaker 9: And I love that everyone uses a dating app like
Speaker 9: it's an Amazon shopping cart. They just click all the
Speaker 9: things that they want and they're like, oh, I'm sorry,
Speaker 9: I wanted six foot. Yeah, you got a great job,
Speaker 9: Sure you're healthy, you love your mother, but you're only five.
Speaker 6: Eleven, so you're out. Yeah.
Speaker 2: And also, just like Amazon, when it arrives at your house,
Speaker 2: you're maybe not sure that you wanted what you want.
Speaker 6: Yeah, let's not open that box.
Speaker 7: It's called a Sarah Day.
Speaker 10: Sunday afternoon radio.
Speaker 4: That's Eastern time.
Speaker 1: Okay, dating apps.
Speaker 10: My dating app was at eight and a half eleven
Speaker 10: piece of paper, hard coffy, I think it was four
Speaker 10: or five pages long, and I had a magic marker
Speaker 10: and a pen and I just circle him and then
Speaker 10: give him a call. And there were two matchmakers, and
Speaker 10: they just give me another couple of hard coffee sheets,
Speaker 10: five hard copy sheets, once every about two weeks. And
Speaker 10: then they say, well, how to go okay, son.
Speaker 6: That's great love that he sounds like Conway.
Speaker 4: How did you go DG dong with? They were great?
Speaker 6: Outstanding?
Speaker 4: Yeah, all right, very good.
Speaker 2: Well, Merril, I really appreciate you taking the time with me,
Speaker 2: and I know it last time I left you with
Speaker 2: a little bit too much time. So now I got
Speaker 2: to come up with something to talk about for two minutes.
Speaker 2: Is there anything that surprised you at the La Marathon today?
Speaker 6: Uh?
Speaker 4: None, No, sur no surprises you You were looking forward?
Speaker 6: I was I was wrapped.
Speaker 9: I certainly wasn't watching basketball and not paying attention to the.
Speaker 2: Marrita of course not. Oh yeah, I tell you what
Speaker 2: I went out last night. I will not be shy
Speaker 2: about this. It was Saturday night. I know I worked today,
Speaker 2: but I worked at two pm today, so everyone hold
Speaker 2: your calls. And I went out and I woke up
Speaker 2: today and I had had a maybe a martini or two,
Speaker 2: and to sit there sort of in my stupor and
Speaker 2: watch the world come back as others were running twenty
Speaker 2: six point two miles.
Speaker 6: Oh my gosh.
Speaker 9: Right makes you question life choices, and then it makes
Speaker 9: you question their life choices.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's you know, there's nothing.
Speaker 2: It's a real gut punch, and you're like, look at
Speaker 2: these people, and they're showing you all these stories of
Speaker 2: people who have I you know, I have no excuse.
Speaker 6: See, and I look at it the other way. I think,
Speaker 6: what's wrong with these people? Right?
Speaker 9: They could have spent their Saturday night enjoying a martini
Speaker 9: or seven, that's right, and instead they got up early
Speaker 9: so they could run.
Speaker 6: These are the kids that loved pe class.
Speaker 4: That's so right, all of that. These are the kids
Speaker 4: who asked, do we have any homework?
Speaker 6: Oh my gosh, the worst.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they are showing off. You're right, you know what
Speaker 2: to heck with all those marathon.
Speaker 6: Rights, right, that's right? You guys, forget them.
Speaker 4: You're just trying to make us feel bad.
Speaker 9: Right, And I won't do it because tomorrow is green
Speaker 9: Beer Day, so we're not gonna We're not gonna feel
Speaker 9: bad about ourselves thanks of these marathoners.
Speaker 2: Last question for you, mister Merrick this, do you do
Speaker 2: anything for good luck?
Speaker 6: Oh that's a really great question. I Oh, I'm sure
Speaker 6: I do.
Speaker 9: But I'm one of these guys that if there's a
Speaker 9: if they're superstition, I I kind of rebuke the superstition
Speaker 9: out of principle, right, but I'm sure.
Speaker 2: That there are because we're just generally leery of any
Speaker 2: kind of authority, even if it's super superstition supernatural.
Speaker 6: That absolutely absolutely.
Speaker 9: But I've got friends that are sports fans and they
Speaker 9: have to wear the same sweatshirt or their team will lose.
Speaker 6: You know, They're kind of crazy that way. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 6: so I tend to look at those things.
Speaker 9: In fact, I majored in theater, and I used to
Speaker 9: really upset all the other actors because before every show
Speaker 9: would be getting ready, you know, you'd have your your
Speaker 9: your meeting, like I don't know, just after call, and
Speaker 9: then everybody gets together and maybe do your vocal warm
Speaker 9: ups and and.
Speaker 4: You know what you need unique New York.
Speaker 9: Yeah right, And then I would leave and I'd go,
Speaker 9: all right, good luck Macbeth, good luck Macbeth, good luck Macbeth,
Speaker 9: good luck Macbeth.
Speaker 2: Which all the way around people who don't know. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's bad luck to say Macbeth in the.
Speaker 6: Theater, and it's bad luck to say good luck.
Speaker 4: That's right, that's right.
Speaker 6: Yeah, So I would always say goodluck Macbeth, good luck Macbeth.
Speaker 4: And then everyone was like, god stop their skin.
Speaker 2: Their skins started such a loser, Like, okay, hey, I
Speaker 2: just Chris is never I don't like the superstition stuff.
Speaker 4: What are they doing now though?
Speaker 6: Probably marathons?
Speaker 4: Probably, Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 6: See, thanks for the lob on that one. I appreciate.
Speaker 4: Have a great show.
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