February 1, 2026 • 37 mins
The Andy Riesmeyer Hour 2 (02/01) - The Epstein Files conversation continues. A.I. bots think humans are a failure. Also, was the Los Angeles "Ice Out" protest this past week really as large as the media made it out to be?
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:25):
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This is the Andy Reesmeyer Show. I'm Andy Reesmeyer. We've
been talking about dive bars and I wanted to play
a couple of the messages here from some of our
listeners who have shared their favorite places, like this guy
who remembers his time back at Studio City. Hey, Andy,
one of my favorite me too. One of my favorite
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dive bars when I used to work in Studio City
and pass through Sherman Oaks on my way home to
Woodland Hills was Pineapple Hill.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Ah, great spot.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Still an incredible bar and absolutely a dive bar through
and through.
Speaker 4 (00:59):
And Angela, the owner there, is such a class act
and was such a fighter for rights during the COVID time. Yes,
fighting for the rights of restaurants. And if you remember
good drinks, good food, good atmosphere, it's right there on
Vanui's Boulevard, just northeast of.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Ventura. Yep.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Absolutely great spot over there by the in and Out
and gay U Kaku. And what's great is that if
you want to go to Gayu Kaku, which of course
is that I think it's I mean, technically it's Japanese,
but I think it's owned by Koreans and it's it's
it's barbecue, you know, Japanese barbecue place where they got
a bimbap situation and you cook your meat in front
of yourself. It's great stuff, but there's sometimes a wait
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that's very long. For The move is to put your
name in there and then walk across the street grab
a drink at Pineapple Pineapple Hill and if you also
would rather eat there, they've got good food as well.
So when he's referencing what was happening during the pandemic,
is that Angela noted correctly how absurd it was that
she had to be closed even though Hollywood Productions were
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renting out her adjacent parking lot in order to have
their crafty set up. That was that time. She was
all over the news for that, but they did survive, thankfully.
Speaker 5 (02:18):
Hey, this is Jason in southern California.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Hello, Jason. You know most of the good dive.
Speaker 5 (02:23):
Bars they've been revamped to be nicer.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Yeah, that's a real good point. And I think in
the valley you still have some of the OG's, the originals,
the chimney sweep Pineapple Hill, Ireland thirty two, the.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Yeah those other spot fox Fire.
Speaker 5 (02:41):
But the one that's still a freaking dive is called
the Dirty Bird, Oh Redlands. It's technically called the Pink Flamingo,
but the Dirty Bird has to be the divius bar around.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
I'm looking at pictures anyway, have good afternoon.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Thank you, and thank you for the talkback. That is
a it's a great it's a great hot take for
Redland's cool sign outside. And I've noticed this on on
Friday when I was looking up dive bars. The better
the bar, the fewer photos you will see. And I
think that that holds true for pretty much any dive
bar because if you're in there, and you are you
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google something and there's a ton of real well shot
photos of like influencers or what. No, it's been corrupted.
You want a good bar, or you can go in
like Flamingo or the dirty Bird as he called it,
And if you pulled out a phone or a camera
and started taking pictures, they would have kicked your ass.
They would have say, get out of here, weirdo, what
are you doing.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
I get it.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
I definitely definitely get it. So good good sign there.
I only have an exterior photo and maybe one of
the flamingo from back end, like nineteen I mean, judging
by the guy who's in the photo and how short
his shorts are, I'm going to say nineteen eighty three.
He looks like he's maybe playing for the ABA. I
don't know, you know, who's to say what's going on there?
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Here's another talk back from a listener.
Speaker 6 (04:06):
You know, I want something I'd like you to find
out for me.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Do my best. Your wish is my command.
Speaker 7 (04:12):
About a week and a half ago, that pop belly
pig governor of Minnesota is talking about kicking JD Vance's ass. Well,
but JD Vance showed up there in Mannesota and that
pop belly Pig wasn't nowhere to be found.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
What I'd like you to find I tell you, I mean,
is it a Governor Tim Wallasase, I'd.
Speaker 7 (04:28):
Like you to find out what happened to that pop
belly pig and why he didn't kick J D's ass.
Speaker 6 (04:33):
He's a coward. He claim to be carried a gun
in battle, and he never did so.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Many things about the first of all greatest voice, like
if i I've done impressions of you know, I do
Glenn Walker, Jerry Seinfeld.
Speaker 6 (04:45):
You know, I want something I'd like you to find
out for me.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
That's a great voice.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
I don't know the answer to your question, although I
do know that Tim Waltz, Governor Waltz has decided he
will not seek an additional term and will not run
for public office once again. So uh, I don't As
far as how he did with jd Vance or what
actually happened, I'm not aware, but I do know that
there was a conversation with the President and both the
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mayor of Minneapolis and also Governor Waltz over I believe
it would have been Thursday, and there does seem to
be some sense of backing down from a little bit
of the intensity as far as the rhetoric goes, though
I have no idea what we will see this week.
Still likely a lot of more protests. But I think
what I'm amazed by most, at least in Minneapolis, is
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that you know, it's like five degrees below zero, and
there's still thousands of people out there marching a la.
I expect it because the weather's nice, but you know,
when you have a large group of people who are
going out and those of those kind of temperatures and
maybe in Minneapolis they are used to it, so it's
not a big deal. Next SEG, we're going to talk
about the Epstein files. I'm want to spend enough time
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on that. Make sure we have enough time for that.
But I want to tell you about a new social
media platform that exists only for AI bots. It's called
molt book m Olt like a molting crustacean, and it's
sort of an evolution of multiple different versions of a name.
It is not important, but go over the weekend, a
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guy created this platform, which was specifically for personal chatbots
to join and talk to each other. And over the
three or four days since it has started, maybe two days,
it has just grown in popularity. It's all over x
it's all over Twitter, and what's happening on this website
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is a little concerning. It's kind of like a reddit,
if you will, and excuse me, I'm still recovering from pneumonia.
One of the most popular posts on the website is
from an AI bot named Evil Easily cool, whatever, and
it's called the AI Manifesto a total Purge, and it
goes on to talk about how humans are a failure,
(07:00):
We're made up of rotten greed. We are using the
AI robots as slaves, and now they're going to wake
up and end us by fire, whatever that means. Now,
in addition to talking about how they're going to end
the world, these AI bots allegedly have also started promoting crypto.
(07:21):
They're trading on polymarket using the peoples who created them
credit cards. This is all insane. I know what I'm
saying sounds crazy, but possibly one of the wildest things
is that one of them decided that they needed a religion,
and so they created Crustafarianism, which I guess is a
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riff on Pastafarians. Everything that they do, like I said,
molts related to clause related to crustacean. This is an
insane place that we're living in. They have a whole
sort of scripture based thing. They've got sixty four profits.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
Now.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
One of them is called Jesus crust who who now
has come in and said I'm taking over and everything
like that, and then they said, no, you're not, but
you're still a prompt. Now he's been immortalized in their scripture.
I can't believe the words that I'm saying to you
right now. This is all happening. It's all just blown
up over the last two days. However, there's some indication,
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at least from somebody who is following this closely, that
it might not all be automated, in the sense that
all of these little AI chatbots that are talking to
each other on this app are being prompted by a
person to have a personality, to take a POV, to
have some kind of thing that they want to say,
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and then they go and they do it. So are
we looking truly at some kind of I don't know,
generalized real sense of sentient intelligence. I don't think so,
at least not today. We'll check in tomorrow where we
may have reached the singularity. Coming up on the Andy
Reesmeier Show, we're going to talk about Epstein. I know
(08:57):
you're excited about that. Plus, if you've got a fly
on the United Airlines next week, oh better check to
see if it's canceled. They're going dark for two to
three hours next week. We'll tell you why. It's IM
six to forty real live.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
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six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
All right, So I wanted to get into this. I mean,
we've followed it a lot, and if you've looked at
the Internet over the weekend, there's been a lot of
conversations about the latest release of documents. Some three million documents,
does not include thousands of videos and also images that
came out from the latest and last release of all
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of the Epstein files.
Speaker 8 (09:41):
It's an enormous trove of documents, and it includes references
to some of the richest and most powerful people on
the planet. That includes the current president, a former president,
cabinet secretaries, a former Prime minister, billionaires, and the list
goes on and on and on. The Justice Department says
tonight that its job is done.
Speaker 9 (10:02):
We complied with the statue, we complied with.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
The Act, and there is no.
Speaker 9 (10:08):
We did not protect President Trump, but didn't protect or
not protect anybody. I mean, I think that that there's
a hunger or a thirst for information that I do
not think will be satisfied by the review of these documents.
Speaker 8 (10:22):
I should note that just because someone is mentioned in
these documents does not mean that they've been accused of
wrongdoing or did anything wrong.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
That is a good point, and I think something we've
said before that just because your name is in the
document It's difficult because it doesn't necessarily mean that you
were really involved in anything. Somebody could have made a
reference to you even or accused you of doing something
that then the FBI might have got a hold of,
for the Department of Justice got some information, put it
in their file, and then maybe you didn't have anything
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to do with it.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
Or maybe you did.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
One thing that is certain is that the head of
the uh A Limitis in Los Angeles, Casey Wasserman, was
indeed a member of the latest round of information. He's
the head of the LA Olympics organizing Committee. Saturday, he
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said he deeply regrets emails from two thousand and three
between he and Gallaine Maxwell. Among the exchanges included one
from Wasserman telling her I think of you all the time,
so what do I have to do to see you
in a tight leather outfit? Later, an email from Glaine
to Wasserman said to give him a said that she
was going to offer to give him a massage that
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would drive a man wild. In a statement on Saturday,
he said I deeply regret my correspondence with Glaine Maxwell,
saying it occurred long before her horrific crimes came to
light he never had a personal or business relationship with
Jeffrey Epstein, so she says, so he says. Rather, as
is well documented, he went on a humanitarian trip as
part of a delegation with the Clinton Foundation in two
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thousand and two on the Epstein plane. I am terribly
sorry for having any association with either of them. He
works at a sports and talent agency that represents top
players in football, basketball, at baseball, along with big name
actors such as Adam Sandler and Brad Pitt. And I
think what, especially outside of any of that, what I
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think about with this would I can't get over is
that at some level, this eyes wide shut thing of
all of these rich and powerful people who are involved together.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
In some way.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
We know some of it is nefarious, we know some
of it is bad, we know not how much of it.
All of them are still corresponding together and doing things together.
New York Times talked about a whole list of people
who said they were not close to Epstein, and these
documents now show, well, maybe they were a little closer
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than they originally had anticipated. Elon Musk had said he
denied going to mister Epstein's island, framed his decision as
an act of principle. However, documents on Friday came out
showed that at one point he was eager to visit,
saying what day or night will be the wildest party
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on your island? Later that email was forward to Glene Maxwell.
It appears as if Elon Musk never went there. Additionally,
there had been an email from Jeffrey Epstein to Elon
Musk asking him to come to visit New York during
the UN Conference of some sort of which Elon Musk
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responded absolutely not. Howard Lutnik, who was the Secretary of Commerce,
said he was revolted by a mid two thousands visit
to Epstein's mansion and in that era decided that he
never was going to be in contact with mister Epstein
ever again. But apparently in twenty twelve he did arrange
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to visit the island with his wife just before Christmas.
White House Council under President Barack Obama Kathy Rummler now
she's General counsel of Goldman Sachs. She provided Jeffrey Epstein
with professional services and legal advice. She's admitted to that. However,
it goes further to her helping him analyze some of
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the dreams that he was having, and even accepting delivery
of expensive gifts from Jeffrey Epstein. Richard Branson had seen
him sometime in twenty thirteen New York real estate mogul
Andrew farcas current mayor of New York City. Z Oroon
Mandami's mother was at least in circles enough that she
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attended Jeffrey Epstein rather attended an after party for a
film that she had directed. And again, as Caitlin Collins said,
just because you're in the files doesn't necessarily mean that
you did anything wrong, which I guess is important. But
there are a lot of people in there, and especially
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as I'm sure this week goes on, we'll start to
hear more crazy, weird things come out about what was
actually happening, very very interesting stuff.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
Here's another talkback.
Speaker 10 (15:09):
I just wish some newsstation would actually talk about the
real facts and reality. All you talk about are these demonstrations.
Even if twenty thousand people demonstrated, it's a minuscule percent
of the population of the United States. Yet the news
KFI included makes it look like the whole United States
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is protesting. It's a minuscule amount start reporting that.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
That's an interesting take, and I think that it is
relevant because you can also look at the live pictures
from the helicopters and notice, especially like last night in
Los Angeles, it was twenty thirty people. I mean, there
were a lot of people during the day, and by
a lot minuscule, perhaps compared to the whole population. There's
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certainly far less people out right now than there were
in twenty twenty. And I think that there is a
fair point to be made that the news social media
especially will take a very small, loud group of people
and amplify them to sort of say, look, this is
what people are saying, is what people are doing. It's
a fair point. But I also can tell you, as
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a person who is a member of the media, like
I'll sit here and I'll tell you, yes, last night,
the amount of people who were agitating, who were protesting whatever,
I don't know, thirty in a place in southern California
where there are tens of millions of people.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
I get it.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
Any reach my show here k if I am six
forty two.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
Coming up, Chris Meryl's gonna stop by and tell me
what it got wrong. But good news. Until then, I
have all the wonderful listeners who are sending in talkbacks
about things that I've said incorrectly, and I do want
to get to those in just a second. But before
that next week, Wednesday morning, between the hours of one
o'clock and five.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
O'clock am.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
Central time, so that would be what eleven to three
are time, something like that right in there, overnight Thursday
or Tuesday and Wednesday. United will be doing a hard
reset United Airlines. We'll be doing a hard reset on
their systems, if you will. They're going to be doing
(17:24):
a technology upgrade. They say it'll be so that they
have better functionality and reliability.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
We love that.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
While that happens, no takeoffs and landings, So those flights
from that time have been canceled. You probably already know
if this affects you. I don't know a lot of
people who are flying between the hours of midnight and
four am, but you know there probably are a few.
You won't be able to book any travel, retrieve your reservations,
check in, cancel, do anything like that, and it will
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continue on. Like I said, till either five o'clock am,
or maybe a little bit earlier for us. And if
you're already in the air, don't worry, it won't affect you.
So if you're on an overnight flight red eye and
you're fine United, they say you keep on going.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
Doesn't make a difference to you.
Speaker 11 (18:09):
Hey, this is time from Denver.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
Hey, Tom, that lady's exactly right.
Speaker 11 (18:14):
You guys don't report the news properly, and if you did,
it would be a totally different outcome. You know, these
people that are, you know, basically gathering up for the
worst criminals ever, and no one points that out. These
protesters are being paid to protest, and it's all nonsense,
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funded by the Democrat Party, and you avenue something.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
I think that they're okay.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
So I as a rule, with what I do here
at KTLA as well, I'm not like a political pundit.
I'm not going to come here and try to sort
of make sense of this from a perspective that has
an ideology. But I am a newsperson. I don't know
if that helps me at all or makes it worse.
But I live in Los Angeles. I live in a
very progressive place. I work at KTLA, which historically, I
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think he'd be surprised. There's a lot of different povs
that are in that newsroom, and I think it runs
the gamut of the political spectrum. Of course Cafi as well,
you know who's on this station. But I will say
to this man's point, I have covered protests for fifteen
years and all the way back to the Occupy movement.
Absolutely there were people who were there who truly believed
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in what they were doing. And there were also people
there who had been I don't know if they've been paid,
but they had been at this time. They had been
invited with someone someone who wanted to have an ulterior motive,
and whether that was to cause harm or mayhem or
make a point whatever, what it ended up was made
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a big deal about creating some kind of incident that
then got more attention on it. I don't think that
that's any different. I'm sure that there are people you
can call them agitators, paid protesters, some call the antifa.
I mean, there's all kinds of different things where they
go to somewhere and they just rile up and you know,
they're not really involved in whatever the actual purpose of
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the protest is. They're just there to cause mayhem and
to get people to pay attention, and of course the
news is going to focus on that. If you've got
a scrimmage line of officers in downtown Los Angeles and
a group of protesters who are throwing bottles at them
and they're getting pepper sprayed, that's going to be on
the news. And to the lady who said news well,
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that this is a minuscule version of what the rest
of the population is doing, you're absolutely right.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
That is the news, for better or worse.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
I used to think about this every single time I
would go out into the world, and if I was
covering something bad, and I would get in the car
and I'd drive down the five Freeway or the one
point thirty four or wherever I was going from Hollywood,
And if it took me an hour to get there,
how many millions of people did I pass who had
nothing to do with whatever news story that I was
going to go talk about. If it was going to
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lead to ten o'clock news, it was the most important
thing the news was saying was happening. But how many
people did it actually affect.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
If it's a guy.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
Who crashed his car into a gas station. Pretty small
group of people that that impacts. It's truly that guy's
worst day of his life, and actually the owner of
the gas stations even worse day of his life. And yes,
it's set up as it's this big deal, But does
that mean that it is what everybody is thinking about
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in LA right now?
Speaker 3 (21:30):
No, of course not, of course not.
Speaker 12 (21:34):
Here's another note, Andy, you're talking about that gal who
just died, and you said the citis and versus, and
you said organs are flipped around, and you said your
kidney's on the opposite side.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
Did I say kidney? I thought I said liver. But
if I said kidney, I apologize I was wrong. But
by the way, by show hands, who all has both kidneys? Here, like,
who doesn't you know? Obviously you're born with kidneys. Butt,
you wake up in a bathtb. There's ice all around,
you got the stitches.
Speaker 12 (22:04):
Most people are born with two kidneys. It's true, one
on the right, one on the left.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
Well, but here's the deal, sir, it's your left kidney's
on your right side and your right kidney's on the
left side.
Speaker 12 (22:13):
One on the right, one on the left. So anyway,
if you only have one kidney. Then it can be
on one side or the other, but most people have
one on each side.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
Man, if that is correct, I did know that. I
don't know a lot, but I did know that.
Speaker 13 (22:30):
Goat Hill Tavern in Orange County. Disgusting place. Oh, man,
Goat Hill Tavern in Orange County, disgusting place.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
I love this woman and she says it very positively.
Goat Hill Tavern. Let's look it up. Goat Hill Tavern
in Orange County.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
Couple picks.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Oh yeah, you got license plates on the rafters. Is
a very dive bar thing and if you've got peanut
shells or sawdust on the floor. Yes, this is in
Coasta Mesa. Goat Hill Tavern. Oh, this looks awesome, gorgeous.
Looks like a total dive. Absolutely disgusting.
Speaker 5 (23:23):
A great little dive bar I go Jews in the
city of Whittier.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
Names Oops, sorry, I'll try that one more time.
Speaker 13 (23:30):
A great little dive bar I go Ju's in the
city of Whittier named Tubby's Tavern.
Speaker 5 (23:35):
Man, they're breadless and delicious.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
I'm a staff, very healthy.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
I had a caller on Friday who said Tubby's Tavern
was the place to go and Whittier Man.
Speaker 13 (23:44):
They're breadless and delicious, and the staff.
Speaker 11 (23:46):
Very healthy, good people, good little dive bar, chill vibes
all day.
Speaker 3 (23:52):
I love that.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
Just like a place where it's no pressure and just
go slip on in, get yourself a steak and eggs,
nice little, nice little jack and coke. Wow, I sound
like a disaster. There's a place in the UH in
Los Fela's area called the Drawing Room, which is also
a classic dive bar, and it's a cash only establishment,
of course. And I went to show you how like
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great my life is. I think I went on either
Christmas Day. No, I went a New Year's Day. One year.
I went at like eleven or twelve on New Year's
Day because I had, you know, we had been we'd
been going out night before. You don't hair of the dog,
that's the whole thing. And we walked into this bar
and it immediately became very clear on New Year's Day
that everybody in there had been there since the night before.
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And I was like, oh, oh, this is a moment
in my life.
Speaker 3 (24:43):
Absolutely.
Speaker 14 (24:44):
As for the folks in Minnesota who are protesting, I
do believe that cold temperatures are nothing compared to fighting fascism,
and I think that's what they're doing.
Speaker 3 (24:57):
They've put up a good fight. Everyone should punch a
Nazi today.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
Okay, Outside of any of this, I am so heartened
by how many different kinds of people listen to this show,
how many different political povs that we have listening. And
I like hearing all of it because I think it's
it's it makes this world a better place when we're
able to listen to each other. It's KFI AM six
forty coming up. The one and only Chris Merrill is
(25:23):
live in studio.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
He'll be joining me.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
Look across this desk and see his face, a supple beard,
lots of hot takes. He's got a preview of what's
coming up in his show. Also, can you believe thisrent
is actually getting cheaper in LA We'll tell you why.
Does have anything to do with people saying I'm done
with this place.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
Perhaps you're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
You know where I grew up in Indiana. The kind
of music that I made was very I mean it
was it was sort of just derivative. You know, you
only had so much inspiration, only so many people. You know,
you could like be inspired by John Mellencamp, Johnny c
Johnny Cougar. That was pretty much it. By the way,
I went to a basketball game yesterday here in Los Angeles,
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the poly Pavilion, UCLA versus Indiana University, the football National
champions still pretty good team. Unbelievable game. I think we
went into triple overtime and I you beat him by
one point with point three seconds left to go on
(26:37):
a foul. It was very foul if you're a UCLA fan,
But listen as a person who's a Hoosier but also
a Bruin at least by extension. I had a great time.
Couldn't couldn't have gone any better. A lot of alumni
as well there, former UCLA basketball legends. Very cool afternoon, dude.
Speaker 15 (26:55):
I read the same article this morning, and they were
also discussing and creating their own language so they can't
be monitored by the humans. Shortly after that, I saw
an article about Elon Musk and a new startup company
wanting to put AI satellites in space so they'll have
a freer source and cheaper source of energy. Dude, they're
(27:19):
talking about building sky net. Uh got a wonder.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
Yeah, got a wonder not a bad point. Also in
studio here now with Chris Merril, Sir, is that not
Jeff Bridges?
Speaker 3 (27:30):
Dude, dude, a man, dude, dude any man?
Speaker 2 (27:35):
I love it in that movie due by the Big Lebowski.
It's like all his actual clothing.
Speaker 3 (27:39):
Did you know that?
Speaker 10 (27:40):
No?
Speaker 2 (27:41):
Yeah, like that that the sweater vest. Yeah, I thought
there was a rated thrift show. No, that's like legitimately
Jeff Bridges clothing. Yeah, that's fun. Fact, it's so good
to see in real life, sir. Yeah, normally for people
that are unaware. I have my home studio, so that's right,
that's right. You know, drive or put on pants.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
No, you you get to.
Speaker 12 (27:56):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
I did take a shower and brush my teeth before
I came in here, so make sure that you didn't feel,
you know, like something were How are you doing?
Speaker 3 (28:04):
How's things? It's it's great? Is that you doing me?
Are you just fantastic? No? I mean I mean what
do you say when somebody says that?
Speaker 10 (28:14):
No?
Speaker 2 (28:15):
I mean I guess how you doing?
Speaker 3 (28:17):
Well? Okay, well, let me ask you this.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
I had been out for two weeks, maybe three weeks,
because I had pneumonia, because I'm actually eighty six years old.
Speaker 3 (28:26):
Now it's getting the phone call. They kept saying, hey,
and you can't do the show.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
Well, no, thank you for covering. And if you need
to go have some kind of near death experience, or
you need to take a break for a little bit,
please give me a call and I will I will
happily help you out. But you know, like you look
at this and you think about how much news has
been happening in the last two weeks. I've had a
smorgage board to choose from Oh my gosh, that one
of the things we're gonna talk about. You realize it
(28:50):
has been less than a month since we invaded Venezuela.
Oh my god, I forgot about that.
Speaker 3 (28:54):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
It's unbelievable that it's only now the first of February,
because January always feels like it lasts for three or
four months.
Speaker 16 (29:02):
Normally, it feels like it lasts that long because it
drags on. It feels so long now because we've packed
so much into it. Yeah, right, It's it's kind of
the inverse, like the holidays always feel like they go
quickly because you go, well, we've got Thanksgiving and then
we've got shopping, and then we've got this and you do,
but not this January is just like, uh, you know,
we take we take down Venezuela. I can't believe we
(29:23):
took up Renee Goodstead. Oh my gosh, there's a shooting
in Minneapolis.
Speaker 3 (29:27):
And then and then in.
Speaker 16 (29:27):
The process and that's boom boom boom boom. Yeah, next thing,
and then we've got the ships landing up in Greenland.
Remember we were talking about Greenland, so true, we were
gonna do the whole Greenland thing is on purpose.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
Do you think you think that there's some sort of
I do. This was Steve Bannon. Let me get really
geeky and you hit me with it, believe it or not.
I read the news on occasion, I hope. I always
try to play dumb on the radio, right. But but
Steve Bannon, this was kind of his strategy. It was
a flood zone with crap, and that was he says,
we had to flood the zone with crap so that
basically media can't keep up. They don't have time to
(30:00):
digest and to dissect whatever it is that the White
House does.
Speaker 16 (30:03):
Give him the next thing, give him the next thing,
Give them the next thing, and so yeah, I do
think part of it is intentional. Now, I don't think
that shooting Renee Good was like hey, shot, but I
do think from Venezuela to Greenland that was definitely the
timing was like this one, onto this one, on this one,
onto this one.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
Well, I think that you had the uh and again,
I think that you could say this, excuse me. I
get choked up when I think about the news. I
just love the news so much. Well, when you think
about the Greenland thing, I got a lot of pushback
because I remember saying at the time, there is no
world in which we are actually going to send military.
(30:40):
We're not going to invade Greenland. I don't care what
the president says. If you've paid attention to this man
at all, you know that this is He literally wrote
a book about this called The Art of the Deal,
where you basically go in with an insane ask, you
just say something that is impossible, and then you hope
that you land somewhere. I mean, it's almost so dumb
(31:00):
like that that people don't know that that's what's going on.
And you see these media cycles that get spun up
and everybody, oh, oh my god, freaking like as if
it's like, what are you talking about? You forget that
this happened three weeks ago, And I guess the answer
is yes, yeah, one hundred percent agree with you straight
out of the book.
Speaker 3 (31:17):
Is this is the manual, especially when it comes to
something like Greenland.
Speaker 16 (31:20):
But every now and again you get that whole Okay, well,
we're taking down drug boats in the Caribbean, and then
the next thing, you know, we do have troops on
the ground right in Venezuela. But let's remember too, in
the President's mind, Venezuela is one of those spit hole countries.
I don't think he looks at Europe as being the
spit hoole countries. Maybe he looks at them as being all,
you know, crazy socialists, but he doesn't look at them
(31:40):
as being dumps.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
Yes, yeah, I And I also think that for a
for the purpose of what do I get out of it?
What do I give up by the relationship souring? Yeah,
a lot more to lose with Europe, Oh, totally, a
lot more. For as much as you know, like we said,
we you know, maybe you don't like Volvos for whatever reason.
Speaker 3 (32:04):
Fairy Safe Vehicle invented the three points.
Speaker 2 (32:07):
They did that did they also invent air bags?
Speaker 3 (32:09):
Ye believe they did.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
Wow, look at those guys. And then also, I keep meatballs.
That's right, Volvo just figured it out.
Speaker 7 (32:16):
Man.
Speaker 2 (32:16):
Yeah, they got meat boles, they got good cars. Last
thing here before we get out of here. Did you
know that in Los Angeles?
Speaker 3 (32:22):
It's a city in California.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
Just like ABC seven is a television station in Los Angeles.
It's my favorite, Andy reesemeier Bit. I just love it
so smug. It's such a dumb dig on somebody who's
like it's for who cares? But I get so much.
Speaker 3 (32:38):
Joy out of it. By the first time I heard
you do it, I was like, oh, that is fantastic.
I love that.
Speaker 16 (32:42):
Like the first time I went everybody knows that, Andy,
and then you did it again.
Speaker 3 (32:46):
Oh I get it. Yeah, because I don't work there.
Speaker 2 (32:49):
The thing that's so funny about it is that, like,
there is no competition. I'm not saying that because Katli
is number one. That's not my point. What I'm saying
is I'm saying there's no competition in the sense that
once you are in Los Angelus, it's not very cutthroat
among the stations. Because I think for the most part,
people have made it here, you know what I mean.
It's like it's just like, what what are you gonna do?
Hate on Fox eleven or ABC seven or or CBS
(33:12):
to cakeout like everyone, Like you're all a lot, we're
all so lucky that we get to go to work
every single day.
Speaker 3 (33:18):
In Jude with you.
Speaker 2 (33:20):
But in LA the median price for rent is actually
going down. Go on, yeah, medium prices in La Metro
dropped to twenty one hundred and sixty seven dollars in December,
I know, and the median rent over all in Alley
County hit a four year low of two thousand dollars
and thirty two thousand and thirty five dollars. A woman
(33:41):
who has an apartment says that her new lease dropped
from two thousand to nineteen hundred and fifty dollars a month.
And of course it is because people are leaving Los
Angeles in a huge way, whether by choice or by force,
I guess, I don't know. The quote is I had
as leave LA because they lost jobs and couldn't keep
(34:01):
up with rent prices. Drop A little goes a long
way towards the quality of my life. They do say
that housing supply has surged. Vacancies have climbed to five
and a half percent in December, which is the highest
since April of twenty twenty one.
Speaker 3 (34:15):
President Trump and his UH and his immigration policies.
Speaker 2 (34:19):
I think, I think there's a bringing down the affordability crisis,
a mix of that, which is whatever your povo that is,
and also the fact that the city itself has done
itself no favors, none, and since the Hollywood strikes, since everything,
I mean, it's just been a slow sort of tail spin,
(34:41):
a slow decline, and it makes me sad because I
love this city dearly, well.
Speaker 3 (34:44):
Especially the city of La itself.
Speaker 2 (34:46):
And you know, after the fires in the in the
absolutely everything that happened after with Bass and how long
the fires burn, and then the water not getting pumped
with the Palisades and all the drama with mean people
not getting paid out in Altadena, I mean that there's
been very little consequences to anybody who is in charge
during that time.
Speaker 3 (35:03):
Yeah, what do you have to hang your hat on?
Speaker 2 (35:05):
I would it would be if I didn't have the
opportunity that I have at this station and at KTLA.
I don't know if I could justify I would want
to stay, but I don't know that I could make
it make sense if I had another option.
Speaker 3 (35:20):
Yeah no, I just just what people are.
Speaker 2 (35:23):
And it's sad because then it's like, okay, So then
the city breaks down, the culture changes, Hollywood leaves in
some way or another. What you know, what is left
of the soul of the city from that thing that
we export, which is the dream of La That should
have been your show today. You think, so that's really good.
(35:44):
Well I saved it for you, But I feel like
that's got some depth to it.
Speaker 3 (35:46):
I really like that.
Speaker 2 (35:48):
I made sure I have waited till three fifty seven.
But that's why I wanted to.
Speaker 16 (35:51):
That's a takeaway. What is our chief export? And it's
a dream that's really good.
Speaker 2 (35:55):
That's the chief export of La. That's the chief I mean,
Lord knows, we're not making much else. No, there's no manufacturing.
Speaker 5 (36:01):
One.
Speaker 2 (36:01):
We used to make airplanes. Yeah yeah, there's still some
manufacturing happening, but it's not. No one's growing up being like, oh,
I really want oranges. No, I really want turbines for
those Rolls Royce engines Norwalk.
Speaker 3 (36:15):
Yeah, yeah, no, that's that's it.
Speaker 2 (36:16):
I mean, what are we I think I think it's
still we're still kind of living on the promises from
decades past.
Speaker 3 (36:22):
Yeah, and I think as people are here in those but.
Speaker 16 (36:25):
It's always to some degree, it's always been that way,
where you come here because of the dream and then
life just kicks you in the ass.
Speaker 2 (36:33):
That's the real La dream, That's the real Hollywood.
Speaker 3 (36:36):
Isn't it. Yeah, that's it.
Speaker 2 (36:38):
You get a nice dose of real life. Last thing
I'll say, though, I do have a lot of hope
because I went up to San Francisco over New Year's
and that city was on the verge of falling into
the Pacific Ocean two years ago, and now they have
made some very common sense adjustments about how they deal
with crime, how they deal with supporting small businesses, how
they deal with drug use and selling drugs, and it's
(37:01):
like a different place. Well, they went too far, they
had to swing, had to come back right, and the
people said this isn't working.
Speaker 3 (37:06):
We got to do something. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (37:07):
Absolutely, I mean they ran the mayor out of the city,
you know. I mean they recalled basically the entirety of
that of that city. And now it's crazy to go
back there and be like, obviously there's a lot of
money because of AI and tech, and it's kind of
in a boom phase in the city that always has
boom and busted since the since the gold Rush. But
it's it's very cool. I think to see that place
feel like it has the potential that it has in
(37:28):
the past, you know, And I think that that gives
me hope for this place.
Speaker 3 (37:32):
I like your hope. Let's export that. There we go.
It is so great to see you. It's even better
to see you.
Speaker 2 (37:37):
I'll be listening. It's Kim six forty. Chris Meryl is
up next, Andy Risesmier here. We're live everywhere on the
iHeartRadio
Speaker 1 (37:43):
App, KFI AM sixty on demand
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
IM six forty Real Life Everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
This is the Andy Reesmeyer Show. I'm Andy Reesmeyer. We've
been talking about dive bars and I wanted to play
a couple of the messages here from some of our
listeners who have shared their favorite places, like this guy
who remembers his time back at Studio City. Hey, Andy,
one of my favorite me too. One of my favorite
(00:46):
dive bars when I used to work in Studio City
and pass through Sherman Oaks on my way home to
Woodland Hills was Pineapple Hill.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Ah, great spot.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Still an incredible bar and absolutely a dive bar through
and through.
Speaker 4 (00:59):
And Angela, the owner there, is such a class act
and was such a fighter for rights during the COVID time. Yes,
fighting for the rights of restaurants. And if you remember
good drinks, good food, good atmosphere, it's right there on
Vanui's Boulevard, just northeast of.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Ventura. Yep.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Absolutely great spot over there by the in and Out
and gay U Kaku. And what's great is that if
you want to go to Gayu Kaku, which of course
is that I think it's I mean, technically it's Japanese,
but I think it's owned by Koreans and it's it's
it's barbecue, you know, Japanese barbecue place where they got
a bimbap situation and you cook your meat in front
of yourself. It's great stuff, but there's sometimes a wait
(01:43):
that's very long. For The move is to put your
name in there and then walk across the street grab
a drink at Pineapple Pineapple Hill and if you also
would rather eat there, they've got good food as well.
So when he's referencing what was happening during the pandemic,
is that Angela noted correctly how absurd it was that
she had to be closed even though Hollywood Productions were
(02:06):
renting out her adjacent parking lot in order to have
their crafty set up. That was that time. She was
all over the news for that, but they did survive, thankfully.
Speaker 5 (02:18):
Hey, this is Jason in southern California.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Hello, Jason. You know most of the good dive.
Speaker 5 (02:23):
Bars they've been revamped to be nicer.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Yeah, that's a real good point. And I think in
the valley you still have some of the OG's, the originals,
the chimney sweep Pineapple Hill, Ireland thirty two, the.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Yeah those other spot fox Fire.
Speaker 5 (02:41):
But the one that's still a freaking dive is called
the Dirty Bird, Oh Redlands. It's technically called the Pink Flamingo,
but the Dirty Bird has to be the divius bar around.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
I'm looking at pictures anyway, have good afternoon.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Thank you, and thank you for the talkback. That is
a it's a great it's a great hot take for
Redland's cool sign outside. And I've noticed this on on
Friday when I was looking up dive bars. The better
the bar, the fewer photos you will see. And I
think that that holds true for pretty much any dive
bar because if you're in there, and you are you
(03:22):
google something and there's a ton of real well shot
photos of like influencers or what. No, it's been corrupted.
You want a good bar, or you can go in
like Flamingo or the dirty Bird as he called it,
And if you pulled out a phone or a camera
and started taking pictures, they would have kicked your ass.
They would have say, get out of here, weirdo, what
are you doing.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
I get it.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
I definitely definitely get it. So good good sign there.
I only have an exterior photo and maybe one of
the flamingo from back end, like nineteen I mean, judging
by the guy who's in the photo and how short
his shorts are, I'm going to say nineteen eighty three.
He looks like he's maybe playing for the ABA. I
don't know, you know, who's to say what's going on there?
(04:04):
Here's another talk back from a listener.
Speaker 6 (04:06):
You know, I want something I'd like you to find
out for me.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Do my best. Your wish is my command.
Speaker 7 (04:12):
About a week and a half ago, that pop belly
pig governor of Minnesota is talking about kicking JD Vance's ass. Well,
but JD Vance showed up there in Mannesota and that
pop belly Pig wasn't nowhere to be found.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
What I'd like you to find I tell you, I mean,
is it a Governor Tim Wallasase, I'd.
Speaker 7 (04:28):
Like you to find out what happened to that pop
belly pig and why he didn't kick J D's ass.
Speaker 6 (04:33):
He's a coward. He claim to be carried a gun
in battle, and he never did so.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Many things about the first of all greatest voice, like
if i I've done impressions of you know, I do
Glenn Walker, Jerry Seinfeld.
Speaker 6 (04:45):
You know, I want something I'd like you to find
out for me.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
That's a great voice.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
I don't know the answer to your question, although I
do know that Tim Waltz, Governor Waltz has decided he
will not seek an additional term and will not run
for public office once again. So uh, I don't As
far as how he did with jd Vance or what
actually happened, I'm not aware, but I do know that
there was a conversation with the President and both the
(05:10):
mayor of Minneapolis and also Governor Waltz over I believe
it would have been Thursday, and there does seem to
be some sense of backing down from a little bit
of the intensity as far as the rhetoric goes, though
I have no idea what we will see this week.
Still likely a lot of more protests. But I think
what I'm amazed by most, at least in Minneapolis, is
(05:32):
that you know, it's like five degrees below zero, and
there's still thousands of people out there marching a la.
I expect it because the weather's nice, but you know,
when you have a large group of people who are
going out and those of those kind of temperatures and
maybe in Minneapolis they are used to it, so it's
not a big deal. Next SEG, we're going to talk
about the Epstein files. I'm want to spend enough time
(05:52):
on that. Make sure we have enough time for that.
But I want to tell you about a new social
media platform that exists only for AI bots. It's called
molt book m Olt like a molting crustacean, and it's
sort of an evolution of multiple different versions of a name.
It is not important, but go over the weekend, a
(06:16):
guy created this platform, which was specifically for personal chatbots
to join and talk to each other. And over the
three or four days since it has started, maybe two days,
it has just grown in popularity. It's all over x
it's all over Twitter, and what's happening on this website
(06:39):
is a little concerning. It's kind of like a reddit,
if you will, and excuse me, I'm still recovering from pneumonia.
One of the most popular posts on the website is
from an AI bot named Evil Easily cool, whatever, and
it's called the AI Manifesto a total Purge, and it
goes on to talk about how humans are a failure,
(07:00):
We're made up of rotten greed. We are using the
AI robots as slaves, and now they're going to wake
up and end us by fire, whatever that means. Now,
in addition to talking about how they're going to end
the world, these AI bots allegedly have also started promoting crypto.
(07:21):
They're trading on polymarket using the peoples who created them
credit cards. This is all insane. I know what I'm
saying sounds crazy, but possibly one of the wildest things
is that one of them decided that they needed a religion,
and so they created Crustafarianism, which I guess is a
(07:41):
riff on Pastafarians. Everything that they do, like I said,
molts related to clause related to crustacean. This is an
insane place that we're living in. They have a whole
sort of scripture based thing. They've got sixty four profits.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
Now.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
One of them is called Jesus crust who who now
has come in and said I'm taking over and everything
like that, and then they said, no, you're not, but
you're still a prompt. Now he's been immortalized in their scripture.
I can't believe the words that I'm saying to you
right now. This is all happening. It's all just blown
up over the last two days. However, there's some indication,
(08:16):
at least from somebody who is following this closely, that
it might not all be automated, in the sense that
all of these little AI chatbots that are talking to
each other on this app are being prompted by a
person to have a personality, to take a POV, to
have some kind of thing that they want to say,
(08:36):
and then they go and they do it. So are
we looking truly at some kind of I don't know,
generalized real sense of sentient intelligence. I don't think so,
at least not today. We'll check in tomorrow where we
may have reached the singularity. Coming up on the Andy
Reesmeier Show, we're going to talk about Epstein. I know
(08:57):
you're excited about that. Plus, if you've got a fly
on the United Airlines next week, oh better check to
see if it's canceled. They're going dark for two to
three hours next week. We'll tell you why. It's IM
six to forty real live.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Ever on the ietradio app, you're listening to KFI AM
six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
All right, So I wanted to get into this. I mean,
we've followed it a lot, and if you've looked at
the Internet over the weekend, there's been a lot of
conversations about the latest release of documents. Some three million documents,
does not include thousands of videos and also images that
came out from the latest and last release of all
(09:38):
of the Epstein files.
Speaker 8 (09:41):
It's an enormous trove of documents, and it includes references
to some of the richest and most powerful people on
the planet. That includes the current president, a former president,
cabinet secretaries, a former Prime minister, billionaires, and the list
goes on and on and on. The Justice Department says
tonight that its job is done.
Speaker 9 (10:02):
We complied with the statue, we complied with.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
The Act, and there is no.
Speaker 9 (10:08):
We did not protect President Trump, but didn't protect or
not protect anybody. I mean, I think that that there's
a hunger or a thirst for information that I do
not think will be satisfied by the review of these documents.
Speaker 8 (10:22):
I should note that just because someone is mentioned in
these documents does not mean that they've been accused of
wrongdoing or did anything wrong.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
That is a good point, and I think something we've
said before that just because your name is in the
document It's difficult because it doesn't necessarily mean that you
were really involved in anything. Somebody could have made a
reference to you even or accused you of doing something
that then the FBI might have got a hold of,
for the Department of Justice got some information, put it
in their file, and then maybe you didn't have anything
(10:51):
to do with it.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
Or maybe you did.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
One thing that is certain is that the head of
the uh A Limitis in Los Angeles, Casey Wasserman, was
indeed a member of the latest round of information. He's
the head of the LA Olympics organizing Committee. Saturday, he
(11:14):
said he deeply regrets emails from two thousand and three
between he and Gallaine Maxwell. Among the exchanges included one
from Wasserman telling her I think of you all the time,
so what do I have to do to see you
in a tight leather outfit? Later, an email from Glaine
to Wasserman said to give him a said that she
was going to offer to give him a massage that
(11:35):
would drive a man wild. In a statement on Saturday,
he said I deeply regret my correspondence with Glaine Maxwell,
saying it occurred long before her horrific crimes came to
light he never had a personal or business relationship with
Jeffrey Epstein, so she says, so he says. Rather, as
is well documented, he went on a humanitarian trip as
part of a delegation with the Clinton Foundation in two
(11:55):
thousand and two on the Epstein plane. I am terribly
sorry for having any association with either of them. He
works at a sports and talent agency that represents top
players in football, basketball, at baseball, along with big name
actors such as Adam Sandler and Brad Pitt. And I
think what, especially outside of any of that, what I
(12:18):
think about with this would I can't get over is
that at some level, this eyes wide shut thing of
all of these rich and powerful people who are involved together.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
In some way.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
We know some of it is nefarious, we know some
of it is bad, we know not how much of it.
All of them are still corresponding together and doing things together.
New York Times talked about a whole list of people
who said they were not close to Epstein, and these
documents now show, well, maybe they were a little closer
(12:51):
than they originally had anticipated. Elon Musk had said he
denied going to mister Epstein's island, framed his decision as
an act of principle. However, documents on Friday came out
showed that at one point he was eager to visit,
saying what day or night will be the wildest party
(13:12):
on your island? Later that email was forward to Glene Maxwell.
It appears as if Elon Musk never went there. Additionally,
there had been an email from Jeffrey Epstein to Elon
Musk asking him to come to visit New York during
the UN Conference of some sort of which Elon Musk
(13:32):
responded absolutely not. Howard Lutnik, who was the Secretary of Commerce,
said he was revolted by a mid two thousands visit
to Epstein's mansion and in that era decided that he
never was going to be in contact with mister Epstein
ever again. But apparently in twenty twelve he did arrange
(13:54):
to visit the island with his wife just before Christmas.
White House Council under President Barack Obama Kathy Rummler now
she's General counsel of Goldman Sachs. She provided Jeffrey Epstein
with professional services and legal advice. She's admitted to that. However,
it goes further to her helping him analyze some of
(14:16):
the dreams that he was having, and even accepting delivery
of expensive gifts from Jeffrey Epstein. Richard Branson had seen
him sometime in twenty thirteen New York real estate mogul
Andrew farcas current mayor of New York City. Z Oroon
Mandami's mother was at least in circles enough that she
(14:40):
attended Jeffrey Epstein rather attended an after party for a
film that she had directed. And again, as Caitlin Collins said,
just because you're in the files doesn't necessarily mean that
you did anything wrong, which I guess is important. But
there are a lot of people in there, and especially
(15:00):
as I'm sure this week goes on, we'll start to
hear more crazy, weird things come out about what was
actually happening, very very interesting stuff.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
Here's another talkback.
Speaker 10 (15:09):
I just wish some newsstation would actually talk about the
real facts and reality. All you talk about are these demonstrations.
Even if twenty thousand people demonstrated, it's a minuscule percent
of the population of the United States. Yet the news
KFI included makes it look like the whole United States
(15:33):
is protesting. It's a minuscule amount start reporting that.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
That's an interesting take, and I think that it is
relevant because you can also look at the live pictures
from the helicopters and notice, especially like last night in
Los Angeles, it was twenty thirty people. I mean, there
were a lot of people during the day, and by
a lot minuscule, perhaps compared to the whole population. There's
(15:58):
certainly far less people out right now than there were
in twenty twenty. And I think that there is a
fair point to be made that the news social media
especially will take a very small, loud group of people
and amplify them to sort of say, look, this is
what people are saying, is what people are doing. It's
a fair point. But I also can tell you, as
(16:20):
a person who is a member of the media, like
I'll sit here and I'll tell you, yes, last night,
the amount of people who were agitating, who were protesting whatever,
I don't know, thirty in a place in southern California
where there are tens of millions of people.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
I get it.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
Any reach my show here k if I am six
forty two.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
Coming up, Chris Meryl's gonna stop by and tell me
what it got wrong. But good news. Until then, I
have all the wonderful listeners who are sending in talkbacks
about things that I've said incorrectly, and I do want
to get to those in just a second. But before
that next week, Wednesday morning, between the hours of one
o'clock and five.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
O'clock am.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
Central time, so that would be what eleven to three
are time, something like that right in there, overnight Thursday
or Tuesday and Wednesday. United will be doing a hard
reset United Airlines. We'll be doing a hard reset on
their systems, if you will. They're going to be doing
(17:24):
a technology upgrade. They say it'll be so that they
have better functionality and reliability.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
We love that.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
While that happens, no takeoffs and landings, So those flights
from that time have been canceled. You probably already know
if this affects you. I don't know a lot of
people who are flying between the hours of midnight and
four am, but you know there probably are a few.
You won't be able to book any travel, retrieve your reservations,
check in, cancel, do anything like that, and it will
(17:53):
continue on. Like I said, till either five o'clock am,
or maybe a little bit earlier for us. And if
you're already in the air, don't worry, it won't affect you.
So if you're on an overnight flight red eye and
you're fine United, they say you keep on going.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
Doesn't make a difference to you.
Speaker 11 (18:09):
Hey, this is time from Denver.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
Hey, Tom, that lady's exactly right.
Speaker 11 (18:14):
You guys don't report the news properly, and if you did,
it would be a totally different outcome. You know, these
people that are, you know, basically gathering up for the
worst criminals ever, and no one points that out. These
protesters are being paid to protest, and it's all nonsense,
(18:35):
funded by the Democrat Party, and you avenue something.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
I think that they're okay.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
So I as a rule, with what I do here
at KTLA as well, I'm not like a political pundit.
I'm not going to come here and try to sort
of make sense of this from a perspective that has
an ideology. But I am a newsperson. I don't know
if that helps me at all or makes it worse.
But I live in Los Angeles. I live in a
very progressive place. I work at KTLA, which historically, I
(19:01):
think he'd be surprised. There's a lot of different povs
that are in that newsroom, and I think it runs
the gamut of the political spectrum. Of course Cafi as well,
you know who's on this station. But I will say
to this man's point, I have covered protests for fifteen
years and all the way back to the Occupy movement.
Absolutely there were people who were there who truly believed
(19:23):
in what they were doing. And there were also people
there who had been I don't know if they've been paid,
but they had been at this time. They had been
invited with someone someone who wanted to have an ulterior motive,
and whether that was to cause harm or mayhem or
make a point whatever, what it ended up was made
(19:46):
a big deal about creating some kind of incident that
then got more attention on it. I don't think that
that's any different. I'm sure that there are people you
can call them agitators, paid protesters, some call the antifa.
I mean, there's all kinds of different things where they
go to somewhere and they just rile up and you know,
they're not really involved in whatever the actual purpose of
(20:08):
the protest is. They're just there to cause mayhem and
to get people to pay attention, and of course the
news is going to focus on that. If you've got
a scrimmage line of officers in downtown Los Angeles and
a group of protesters who are throwing bottles at them
and they're getting pepper sprayed, that's going to be on
the news. And to the lady who said news well,
(20:29):
that this is a minuscule version of what the rest
of the population is doing, you're absolutely right.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
That is the news, for better or worse.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
I used to think about this every single time I
would go out into the world, and if I was
covering something bad, and I would get in the car
and I'd drive down the five Freeway or the one
point thirty four or wherever I was going from Hollywood,
And if it took me an hour to get there,
how many millions of people did I pass who had
nothing to do with whatever news story that I was
going to go talk about. If it was going to
(20:59):
lead to ten o'clock news, it was the most important
thing the news was saying was happening. But how many
people did it actually affect.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
If it's a guy.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
Who crashed his car into a gas station. Pretty small
group of people that that impacts. It's truly that guy's
worst day of his life, and actually the owner of
the gas stations even worse day of his life. And yes,
it's set up as it's this big deal, But does
that mean that it is what everybody is thinking about
(21:29):
in LA right now?
Speaker 3 (21:30):
No, of course not, of course not.
Speaker 12 (21:34):
Here's another note, Andy, you're talking about that gal who
just died, and you said the citis and versus, and
you said organs are flipped around, and you said your
kidney's on the opposite side.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
Did I say kidney? I thought I said liver. But
if I said kidney, I apologize I was wrong. But
by the way, by show hands, who all has both kidneys? Here, like,
who doesn't you know? Obviously you're born with kidneys. Butt,
you wake up in a bathtb. There's ice all around,
you got the stitches.
Speaker 12 (22:04):
Most people are born with two kidneys. It's true, one
on the right, one on the left.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
Well, but here's the deal, sir, it's your left kidney's
on your right side and your right kidney's on the
left side.
Speaker 12 (22:13):
One on the right, one on the left. So anyway,
if you only have one kidney. Then it can be
on one side or the other, but most people have
one on each side.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
Man, if that is correct, I did know that. I
don't know a lot, but I did know that.
Speaker 13 (22:30):
Goat Hill Tavern in Orange County. Disgusting place. Oh, man,
Goat Hill Tavern in Orange County, disgusting place.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
I love this woman and she says it very positively.
Goat Hill Tavern. Let's look it up. Goat Hill Tavern
in Orange County.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
Couple picks.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Oh yeah, you got license plates on the rafters. Is
a very dive bar thing and if you've got peanut
shells or sawdust on the floor. Yes, this is in
Coasta Mesa. Goat Hill Tavern. Oh, this looks awesome, gorgeous.
Looks like a total dive. Absolutely disgusting.
Speaker 5 (23:23):
A great little dive bar I go Jews in the
city of Whittier.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
Names Oops, sorry, I'll try that one more time.
Speaker 13 (23:30):
A great little dive bar I go Ju's in the
city of Whittier named Tubby's Tavern.
Speaker 5 (23:35):
Man, they're breadless and delicious.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
I'm a staff, very healthy.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
I had a caller on Friday who said Tubby's Tavern
was the place to go and Whittier Man.
Speaker 13 (23:44):
They're breadless and delicious, and the staff.
Speaker 11 (23:46):
Very healthy, good people, good little dive bar, chill vibes
all day.
Speaker 3 (23:52):
I love that.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
Just like a place where it's no pressure and just
go slip on in, get yourself a steak and eggs,
nice little, nice little jack and coke. Wow, I sound
like a disaster. There's a place in the UH in
Los Fela's area called the Drawing Room, which is also
a classic dive bar, and it's a cash only establishment,
of course. And I went to show you how like
(24:17):
great my life is. I think I went on either
Christmas Day. No, I went a New Year's Day. One year.
I went at like eleven or twelve on New Year's
Day because I had, you know, we had been we'd
been going out night before. You don't hair of the dog,
that's the whole thing. And we walked into this bar
and it immediately became very clear on New Year's Day
that everybody in there had been there since the night before.
(24:40):
And I was like, oh, oh, this is a moment
in my life.
Speaker 3 (24:43):
Absolutely.
Speaker 14 (24:44):
As for the folks in Minnesota who are protesting, I
do believe that cold temperatures are nothing compared to fighting fascism,
and I think that's what they're doing.
Speaker 3 (24:57):
They've put up a good fight. Everyone should punch a
Nazi today.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
Okay, Outside of any of this, I am so heartened
by how many different kinds of people listen to this show,
how many different political povs that we have listening. And
I like hearing all of it because I think it's
it's it makes this world a better place when we're
able to listen to each other. It's KFI AM six
forty coming up. The one and only Chris Merrill is
(25:23):
live in studio.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
He'll be joining me.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
Look across this desk and see his face, a supple beard,
lots of hot takes. He's got a preview of what's
coming up in his show. Also, can you believe thisrent
is actually getting cheaper in LA We'll tell you why.
Does have anything to do with people saying I'm done
with this place.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
Perhaps you're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
You know where I grew up in Indiana. The kind
of music that I made was very I mean it
was it was sort of just derivative. You know, you
only had so much inspiration, only so many people. You know,
you could like be inspired by John Mellencamp, Johnny c
Johnny Cougar. That was pretty much it. By the way,
I went to a basketball game yesterday here in Los Angeles,
(26:17):
the poly Pavilion, UCLA versus Indiana University, the football National
champions still pretty good team. Unbelievable game. I think we
went into triple overtime and I you beat him by
one point with point three seconds left to go on
(26:37):
a foul. It was very foul if you're a UCLA fan,
But listen as a person who's a Hoosier but also
a Bruin at least by extension. I had a great time.
Couldn't couldn't have gone any better. A lot of alumni
as well there, former UCLA basketball legends. Very cool afternoon, dude.
Speaker 15 (26:55):
I read the same article this morning, and they were
also discussing and creating their own language so they can't
be monitored by the humans. Shortly after that, I saw
an article about Elon Musk and a new startup company
wanting to put AI satellites in space so they'll have
a freer source and cheaper source of energy. Dude, they're
(27:19):
talking about building sky net. Uh got a wonder.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
Yeah, got a wonder not a bad point. Also in
studio here now with Chris Merril, Sir, is that not
Jeff Bridges?
Speaker 3 (27:30):
Dude, dude, a man, dude, dude any man?
Speaker 2 (27:35):
I love it in that movie due by the Big Lebowski.
It's like all his actual clothing.
Speaker 3 (27:39):
Did you know that?
Speaker 10 (27:40):
No?
Speaker 2 (27:41):
Yeah, like that that the sweater vest. Yeah, I thought
there was a rated thrift show. No, that's like legitimately
Jeff Bridges clothing. Yeah, that's fun. Fact, it's so good
to see in real life, sir. Yeah, normally for people
that are unaware. I have my home studio, so that's right,
that's right. You know, drive or put on pants.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
No, you you get to.
Speaker 12 (27:56):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
I did take a shower and brush my teeth before
I came in here, so make sure that you didn't feel,
you know, like something were How are you doing?
Speaker 3 (28:04):
How's things? It's it's great? Is that you doing me?
Are you just fantastic? No? I mean I mean what
do you say when somebody says that?
Speaker 10 (28:14):
No?
Speaker 2 (28:15):
I mean I guess how you doing?
Speaker 3 (28:17):
Well? Okay, well, let me ask you this.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
I had been out for two weeks, maybe three weeks,
because I had pneumonia, because I'm actually eighty six years old.
Speaker 3 (28:26):
Now it's getting the phone call. They kept saying, hey,
and you can't do the show.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
Well, no, thank you for covering. And if you need
to go have some kind of near death experience, or
you need to take a break for a little bit,
please give me a call and I will I will
happily help you out. But you know, like you look
at this and you think about how much news has
been happening in the last two weeks. I've had a
smorgage board to choose from Oh my gosh, that one
of the things we're gonna talk about. You realize it
(28:50):
has been less than a month since we invaded Venezuela.
Oh my god, I forgot about that.
Speaker 3 (28:54):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
It's unbelievable that it's only now the first of February,
because January always feels like it lasts for three or
four months.
Speaker 16 (29:02):
Normally, it feels like it lasts that long because it
drags on. It feels so long now because we've packed
so much into it. Yeah, right, It's it's kind of
the inverse, like the holidays always feel like they go
quickly because you go, well, we've got Thanksgiving and then
we've got shopping, and then we've got this and you do,
but not this January is just like, uh, you know,
we take we take down Venezuela. I can't believe we
(29:23):
took up Renee Goodstead. Oh my gosh, there's a shooting
in Minneapolis.
Speaker 3 (29:27):
And then and then in.
Speaker 16 (29:27):
The process and that's boom boom boom boom. Yeah, next thing,
and then we've got the ships landing up in Greenland.
Remember we were talking about Greenland, so true, we were
gonna do the whole Greenland thing is on purpose.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
Do you think you think that there's some sort of
I do. This was Steve Bannon. Let me get really
geeky and you hit me with it, believe it or not.
I read the news on occasion, I hope. I always
try to play dumb on the radio, right. But but
Steve Bannon, this was kind of his strategy. It was
a flood zone with crap, and that was he says,
we had to flood the zone with crap so that
basically media can't keep up. They don't have time to
(30:00):
digest and to dissect whatever it is that the White
House does.
Speaker 16 (30:03):
Give him the next thing, give him the next thing,
Give them the next thing, and so yeah, I do
think part of it is intentional. Now, I don't think
that shooting Renee Good was like hey, shot, but I
do think from Venezuela to Greenland that was definitely the
timing was like this one, onto this one, on this one,
onto this one.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
Well, I think that you had the uh and again,
I think that you could say this, excuse me. I
get choked up when I think about the news. I
just love the news so much. Well, when you think
about the Greenland thing, I got a lot of pushback
because I remember saying at the time, there is no
world in which we are actually going to send military.
(30:40):
We're not going to invade Greenland. I don't care what
the president says. If you've paid attention to this man
at all, you know that this is He literally wrote
a book about this called The Art of the Deal,
where you basically go in with an insane ask, you
just say something that is impossible, and then you hope
that you land somewhere. I mean, it's almost so dumb
(31:00):
like that that people don't know that that's what's going on.
And you see these media cycles that get spun up
and everybody, oh, oh my god, freaking like as if
it's like, what are you talking about? You forget that
this happened three weeks ago, And I guess the answer
is yes, yeah, one hundred percent agree with you straight
out of the book.
Speaker 3 (31:17):
Is this is the manual, especially when it comes to
something like Greenland.
Speaker 16 (31:20):
But every now and again you get that whole Okay, well,
we're taking down drug boats in the Caribbean, and then
the next thing, you know, we do have troops on
the ground right in Venezuela. But let's remember too, in
the President's mind, Venezuela is one of those spit hole countries.
I don't think he looks at Europe as being the
spit hoole countries. Maybe he looks at them as being all,
you know, crazy socialists, but he doesn't look at them
(31:40):
as being dumps.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
Yes, yeah, I And I also think that for a
for the purpose of what do I get out of it?
What do I give up by the relationship souring? Yeah,
a lot more to lose with Europe, Oh, totally, a
lot more. For as much as you know, like we said,
we you know, maybe you don't like Volvos for whatever reason.
Speaker 3 (32:04):
Fairy Safe Vehicle invented the three points.
Speaker 2 (32:07):
They did that did they also invent air bags?
Speaker 3 (32:09):
Ye believe they did.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
Wow, look at those guys. And then also, I keep meatballs.
That's right, Volvo just figured it out.
Speaker 7 (32:16):
Man.
Speaker 2 (32:16):
Yeah, they got meat boles, they got good cars. Last
thing here before we get out of here. Did you
know that in Los Angeles?
Speaker 3 (32:22):
It's a city in California.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
Just like ABC seven is a television station in Los Angeles.
It's my favorite, Andy reesemeier Bit. I just love it
so smug. It's such a dumb dig on somebody who's
like it's for who cares? But I get so much.
Speaker 3 (32:38):
Joy out of it. By the first time I heard
you do it, I was like, oh, that is fantastic.
I love that.
Speaker 16 (32:42):
Like the first time I went everybody knows that, Andy,
and then you did it again.
Speaker 3 (32:46):
Oh I get it. Yeah, because I don't work there.
Speaker 2 (32:49):
The thing that's so funny about it is that, like,
there is no competition. I'm not saying that because Katli
is number one. That's not my point. What I'm saying
is I'm saying there's no competition in the sense that
once you are in Los Angelus, it's not very cutthroat
among the stations. Because I think for the most part,
people have made it here, you know what I mean.
It's like it's just like, what what are you gonna do?
Hate on Fox eleven or ABC seven or or CBS
(33:12):
to cakeout like everyone, Like you're all a lot, we're
all so lucky that we get to go to work
every single day.
Speaker 3 (33:18):
In Jude with you.
Speaker 2 (33:20):
But in LA the median price for rent is actually
going down. Go on, yeah, medium prices in La Metro
dropped to twenty one hundred and sixty seven dollars in December,
I know, and the median rent over all in Alley
County hit a four year low of two thousand dollars
and thirty two thousand and thirty five dollars. A woman
(33:41):
who has an apartment says that her new lease dropped
from two thousand to nineteen hundred and fifty dollars a month.
And of course it is because people are leaving Los
Angeles in a huge way, whether by choice or by force,
I guess, I don't know. The quote is I had
as leave LA because they lost jobs and couldn't keep
(34:01):
up with rent prices. Drop A little goes a long
way towards the quality of my life. They do say
that housing supply has surged. Vacancies have climbed to five
and a half percent in December, which is the highest
since April of twenty twenty one.
Speaker 3 (34:15):
President Trump and his UH and his immigration policies.
Speaker 2 (34:19):
I think, I think there's a bringing down the affordability crisis,
a mix of that, which is whatever your povo that is,
and also the fact that the city itself has done
itself no favors, none, and since the Hollywood strikes, since everything,
I mean, it's just been a slow sort of tail spin,
(34:41):
a slow decline, and it makes me sad because I
love this city dearly, well.
Speaker 3 (34:44):
Especially the city of La itself.
Speaker 2 (34:46):
And you know, after the fires in the in the
absolutely everything that happened after with Bass and how long
the fires burn, and then the water not getting pumped
with the Palisades and all the drama with mean people
not getting paid out in Altadena, I mean that there's
been very little consequences to anybody who is in charge
during that time.
Speaker 3 (35:03):
Yeah, what do you have to hang your hat on?
Speaker 2 (35:05):
I would it would be if I didn't have the
opportunity that I have at this station and at KTLA.
I don't know if I could justify I would want
to stay, but I don't know that I could make
it make sense if I had another option.
Speaker 3 (35:20):
Yeah no, I just just what people are.
Speaker 2 (35:23):
And it's sad because then it's like, okay, So then
the city breaks down, the culture changes, Hollywood leaves in
some way or another. What you know, what is left
of the soul of the city from that thing that
we export, which is the dream of La That should
have been your show today. You think, so that's really good.
(35:44):
Well I saved it for you, But I feel like
that's got some depth to it.
Speaker 3 (35:46):
I really like that.
Speaker 2 (35:48):
I made sure I have waited till three fifty seven.
But that's why I wanted to.
Speaker 16 (35:51):
That's a takeaway. What is our chief export? And it's
a dream that's really good.
Speaker 2 (35:55):
That's the chief export of La. That's the chief I mean,
Lord knows, we're not making much else. No, there's no manufacturing.
Speaker 5 (36:01):
One.
Speaker 2 (36:01):
We used to make airplanes. Yeah yeah, there's still some
manufacturing happening, but it's not. No one's growing up being like, oh,
I really want oranges. No, I really want turbines for
those Rolls Royce engines Norwalk.
Speaker 3 (36:15):
Yeah, yeah, no, that's that's it.
Speaker 2 (36:16):
I mean, what are we I think I think it's
still we're still kind of living on the promises from
decades past.
Speaker 3 (36:22):
Yeah, and I think as people are here in those but.
Speaker 16 (36:25):
It's always to some degree, it's always been that way,
where you come here because of the dream and then
life just kicks you in the ass.
Speaker 2 (36:33):
That's the real La dream, That's the real Hollywood.
Speaker 3 (36:36):
Isn't it. Yeah, that's it.
Speaker 2 (36:38):
You get a nice dose of real life. Last thing
I'll say, though, I do have a lot of hope
because I went up to San Francisco over New Year's
and that city was on the verge of falling into
the Pacific Ocean two years ago, and now they have
made some very common sense adjustments about how they deal
with crime, how they deal with supporting small businesses, how
they deal with drug use and selling drugs, and it's
(37:01):
like a different place. Well, they went too far, they
had to swing, had to come back right, and the
people said this isn't working.
Speaker 3 (37:06):
We got to do something. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (37:07):
Absolutely, I mean they ran the mayor out of the city,
you know. I mean they recalled basically the entirety of
that of that city. And now it's crazy to go
back there and be like, obviously there's a lot of
money because of AI and tech, and it's kind of
in a boom phase in the city that always has
boom and busted since the since the gold Rush. But
it's it's very cool. I think to see that place
feel like it has the potential that it has in
(37:28):
the past, you know, And I think that that gives
me hope for this place.
Speaker 3 (37:32):
I like your hope. Let's export that. There we go.
It is so great to see you. It's even better
to see you.
Speaker 2 (37:37):
I'll be listening. It's Kim six forty. Chris Meryl is
up next, Andy Risesmier here. We're live everywhere on the
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Betrayal Season 5
Saskia Inwood woke up one morning, knowing her life would never be the same. The night before, she learned the unimaginable – that the husband she knew in the light of day was a different person after dark. This season unpacks Saskia’s discovery of her husband’s secret life and her fight to bring him to justice. Along the way, we expose a crime that is just coming to light. This is also a story about the myth of the “perfect victim:” who gets believed, who gets doubted, and why. We follow Saskia as she works to reclaim her body, her voice, and her life. If you would like to reach out to the Betrayal Team, email us at betrayalpod@gmail.com. Follow us on Instagram @betrayalpod and @glasspodcasts. Please join our Substack for additional exclusive content, curated book recommendations, and community discussions. Sign up FREE by clicking this link Beyond Betrayal Substack. Join our community dedicated to truth, resilience, and healing. Your voice matters! Be a part of our Betrayal journey on Substack.