January 14, 2026 • 36 mins
Genre-creating Grateful Dead sadly lost its co-founder Bob Weir this weekend at the age of 78. Weir and his iconic band embodied the sound of 1960s counterculture jam bands. Palate expanders are back. It’s a little barbaric bar that’s placed in the top of your mouth and turned with a little key to make your mouth wider if you’re dealing with overcrowding. Following last week’s killing of American protester Renee Nicole Good at the hands of an ICE agent in Minneapolis, there’s as many as 1000 protests scheduled across the country, including DTLA, West Hollywood and Beverly Hills. A new Instagram page from a Catholic priest influencer, Father Solomon Grea, offers sage advice to followers. But it’s not real. That’s right, folks, the priest is AI. Which brings us to our robot apocalypse update: KTLA’s Rich DeMuro headed to CES 2026 in Las Vegas to check out the latest tech. CHP and the DMV are launching a program targeting speeding drivers who exceed 100mph, in which they send the ticket directly to the DMV.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
This is the Andy Reesmeier Show. We are always talking
about music stuff, or at least I tried to. You know,
I'm a big fan of the music industry and especially
the history of music. I think before the Internet, there
was a real, uh, something real special about being able
to make it and be big. For the computers sort
of came around and changed everything. And if you look back,
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there's a couple of bands that defined music and a
genre of music, and very few of them actually could
take credit for creating an entire genre. And I think
The Grateful Dead is one hundred percent one of them.
Just this weekend, saying goodbye to Bob we Or, who
was the co founder of the Dead who passed away
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at seventy eight.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
He was the music icon who helped transform a jam
band into an American institution, embodying the sound of nineteen
sixties counterculture and spreading its spirit for more than half
a century. This morning, the music world is mourning the
loss of Bob Weir, guitarist, singer, songwriter and founding force
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behind The Grateful Dead, at seventy eight years old. His family,
sharing in a statement late Saturday. It is with profound
sadness that we share the passing of Bobby Weir. He
transitioned peacefully, surrounded by loved ones after courageously beating cancer
as only Bobby could. Unfortunately, he succumbed to underlying lung issues.
Weir was raised by adoptive parents in San Francisco and
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started playing guitar when he was thirteen years old. In
nineteen sixty five, he joined Jerry Garcia's jug band, which
would transform into an electric group named The Warlocks, ultimately
renamed The Grateful Dead. With its blend of blues, folk
and improvisation, the Dead would reshape American rock, galvanizing one
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of the most devoted fan bases in music, generations of
followers known as Deadheads, who would follow the band wherever
they went, camping out, showing up in a sea of
tie die, and trading their concert recordings. Weir was known
for his improvisation and served as the mastermind behind some
of the group's greatest classics, like playing in the band together.
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The band would perform over twenty three hundred concerts, sell
over thirty five million albums, and become Hall of Fame
inductees up until Garcia's death in nineteen ninety five, but
even after the band ended, we Are kept performing. He
linked up with his former bandmates to create Dead in
Company in twenty fifteen, a modern incarnation of the rock
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group that culminated in a final tour in twenty twenty
three and two residencies at the Sphere.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
It's a real shock because Bob Weir was performing. I
think the last show was in August of last year
in San Francisco near hate Ashbury. And I think about
the Sphere being such a current thing, and remember people
go into Vegas not long ago saying you gotta go
see the dead guys to see Dead and Co at
the Sphere. And he was only diagnosed with cancer, I believe,
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last summer. So I think it is fair to say
that this is a shock. And listen, seventy eight. I
would love it if I make it to seventy eight.
Heck yeah. But this is a guy who was still
very active and still felt very alive and still you know,
it's not an artist where you think, well, you know,
you've kind of been out of the spotlight for a while.
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And I think that that's a big shock. Lou Parker,
who is the Dayside anchor Monday through Friday at KTLA
lewn Glenn Walker. I texted her when I heard, because
I know she's a huge Deadhead and you might not
know this, but she used to go on tour with
the band, like followed them around back in the early nineties.
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And she said that of course she's bummed and part
of our innocence and fun go with him, which I
think is a really sweet sentiment and sad sort of
true thing, especially for people who grew up and lived
with this person who from the nineteen sixties. I mean,
you think about how much culture has changed since then,
and how many things that the Grateful Dead is inspired.
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How many other artists in the jam band world fish
will coo to Billy Strings, to the National Vampire Weekend,
war on drugs, My Morning Jack. I mean, none of
these other artists John Mayer would exist in the way
that they do without that kind of influence and the
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sort of like embodiment of counterculture of San Francisco, of
hippie but not in a way that I think is
like cheesy.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
They returned to San Francisco's Golden Gate Park last August,
celebrating sixty years of The Grateful Dead in front of
some sixty thousand fans over three days.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
The worst stranger.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
Those would be Weir's final performances, played in his hometown.
Unknown to the rest of the world, he had begun
his cancer treatment just weeks prior, his family remembering the icon,
writing that he often spoke of a three hundred year legacy,
determined to ensure the songbook would endure long after him.
May that dream live on through future generations of dead Heads.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
I think something really speaks to you as a as
a as a music listener when you listen to The
Grateful Dead and you listen to Jerry Garcia and Bob Weir,
and that puts you in this place where music can
be transcendental. And I think that that's no part to
say that it doesn't have anything to do with the
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psychedelic psychedelics that were associated with that era of music,
But I think that it really it is a there's
a unifying sense of we've left reality as we know it,
but we're all going together in a way that's gonna
be fine, and we're going to get there together in
a cool way.
Speaker 5 (06:25):
A song is a living creator. If I'm a wax
hitting metaphysical for you. The characters in those songs are real.
They live in some other world and they come and
visit us through the musicians.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
See they are busy.
Speaker 5 (06:43):
And inviting those creators from other worlds to come and
visit our world if they want to meet us and
we meet them.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
I've always said, I think I've probably told you this before.
I think back in the Renaissance, maybe you know, when
a lot of the are its abilities about art started,
at least in our current era, there was this idea
that the muse, creativity, productivity, whatever, was not really something
you could take credit for. It was just sort of
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in the walls, and every once in a while, if
you were feeling inspired, the mews have decided to pick
you and visit you. And I feel like that's something
that is so universal to creating music for everybody, is
that that's just a thing that will just come and
get you. It'll just it'll just inspire you in some way.
Speaker 5 (07:32):
That's what we do.
Speaker 6 (07:42):
New York Tournament.
Speaker 7 (07:43):
That's all in the same stream.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Dream Bob. We were there dead at seventy eight. All right,
coming up, We've got lots to talk about. Still here
we are looking into the protests that are going on
right now this afternoon in Los Angeles. Uh I ice
protests still happening in LA in both downtown West Hollywood
and Beverly Hills. Additionally, we're going to check in on
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some a new program that might be revoking your license
if your speed, it's a robot apocalypse. It is all
coming up here on the Andy Reesemeyer Show.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
One of the things that I remember from a lot
of the years of my childhood. Now, Nikki, I'm sure
you're in the same way. Tried to forget a considerable
part of my childhood.
Speaker 7 (08:35):
My childhood rule.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
Yeah, I guess you know.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
I wouldn't have expected that based on, you know, meeting.
Speaker 7 (08:41):
You because I'm sour. Yeah, you just have a thing,
you know, like, where is this going?
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Oh okay, Well, did you ever have orthodontia?
Speaker 8 (08:51):
I've had orthodontics three times in my life. The last
time and this was clever during COVID when we all
had to wear.
Speaker 7 (08:59):
Masks in visil line.
Speaker 9 (09:02):
That was my third.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
That is clever.
Speaker 8 (09:03):
I had braces as a teenager. I had a plate
in my twenties or thirties, and then I had in
visil line in my forties. Wow, now my teeth are.
Speaker 7 (09:11):
Great, Aileen.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Have you have you done a lot of braces in
your life or no.
Speaker 10 (09:14):
I actually tried to do in visi line probably about
the same time during COVID and I Smile It was
actually Smile Direct.
Speaker 7 (09:22):
And then they went out of business. Oh no, that's
now my teeth are still crooked.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
It's like really leaving you in the lurch.
Speaker 7 (09:28):
Yeah, did you get your money back?
Speaker 9 (09:30):
No?
Speaker 7 (09:30):
I need to look into class section lisuit.
Speaker 4 (09:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
You could get about eighteen bucks back for that.
Speaker 7 (09:35):
Sure right, Yeah, that's great, Oliver.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
How about you? I mean that I know that England
is not known for a orthodontia, never had braces. I'm
very proud of my teeth. I can again I go
against the stereotide. Yeah, you have nice teeth, Thank you.
I have had. I had braces. It's probably not surprise.
I didn't have head gear, even though I do seem
like the kind of kid who probably what have. But
what I did have was an expander, A palette expander.
Speaker 7 (09:57):
What does that do? That was painful?
Speaker 2 (09:59):
It is when they put a hmm. I think you
could call it a tiny little dungeon rack on your
molars on the top of your mouth, and it's a
little bar between connecting the two with a crank hole
in it, and you stick a little key in there
every night and you crank the key and it expands
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your palate.
Speaker 7 (10:23):
Is that for the top?
Speaker 2 (10:24):
For the top and the bottom comes along with it?
Speaker 7 (10:27):
Was that painful?
Speaker 2 (10:28):
Yes, it was horrible. I hated It started like five
years of torture that I'm definitely over. But apparently expanders
are more popular than ever. Well, there's one article from
the Atlantic, I think, or the Wall Street Journal or
the Atlantic. One of that basically was saying, look, I
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went to go I have a kid. I was talking
to my kid. All my kids friends have expanders. Every
child has expander. It's the same way in the nineties
that every kid was on riddling. It seems to be
this thing that is happening for everybody. It's seven, eight,
nine years old, when kids still have baby teeth. They
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stick this barbaric machine in your mouth. They cement it
to your teeth so that then you can expand your
palette if you have overcrowding. This is, I guess a
more humane idea than what they used to do in
the seventies, which was just pull all your teeth if
you had a mouth that was too small. Now the
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question is why are our mouths too small and why
are our teeth too big? I don't know. Back in
the day, I guess you just had a goofy mouth.
But they stopped pulling teeth in the nineteen seventies because
there were fears about the side effects of all of
those extractions disorders of the TMJ sort, infections, absenses, etc.
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Some orthodonists eventually claims that expanders have another benefit, which
would be to pry open your palette so then you
could breathe better and it can prevent sleep apnea. But now,
according to this article, there's a lot of debate over
whether any of that is true. The current president of
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the American Associations of Orthodonics is a guy named Steven Siegel,
and he says that no, it's a positive thing. The
recent increase has not been that dramatic, even though it
does seem like that, and there are some abuses, but
for the most part, even though there have been criticisms
from other orthodonists that it's not necessary to put everybody
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through this expanding process. He said, no, I have respect
for other people, but I don't agree that it's not needed.
And he says, I believe there's some kind of con traversy.
Then the trend probably developed from the late nineteen eighties
until the two thousands twenty twenties. But on one recent
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visit to the orthodontist, this writer and her daughter found
a handful of children about her age nine or ten,
seated in a line of dental chairs, with technicians leaning
over of each of them to turn the screws of
their expanders, saying it was like we'd all gathered there
for some initiation right for children of the tribe that
dwells on Cobble Hill in Brooklyn, a ritual of widening.
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What's odd about this, I guess, which was sort of
a shock to me, is that because there's very little
you know, nobody dies in orthodontia, there's not a lot
of research into whether or not these things are absolutely
as necessary as they need to be. According to this right,
I had Mapalette widened, didn't have to have any teeth
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taken out. But now I have two jobs to pay
for my property tax. So who knows who knows what's
the right thing. Who knows? Let's talk about what's happening
here in southern California as far as protests go for
ice and we don't hear.
Speaker 6 (14:16):
Anything from our vantage point, but I can tell you
according to reports, there were at least one thousand protests.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
This was a Chris Wolf from KTLAF last.
Speaker 6 (14:26):
Night schedule today across the country, and of course downtown
LA was just one of them. Take a look at
the scene where we are all empty and quiet here
right now. But earlier, around two pm, this intersection of
Pershing Square was covered with people, shutting down traffic. Take
a look at footage from Sky five this afternoon when
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the crowd was a few thousand strong. According to witnesses
and participants, they marched around city Hall and federal government buildings,
and we might see similar activity to tomorrow on this
weekend of action.
Speaker 11 (15:05):
US veterans, we are tired of watching this country go
to hell in a hambasket.
Speaker 6 (15:12):
Their voices and messages loud and clear. Activists and concerned
citizens hit the streets of downtown Los Angeles Saturday to
protest what became a volatile encounter in Minneapolis Wednesday, in
which an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent shot and killed
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a thirty seven year old mother renamed Nicole Good. Cell
Phone footage of the shooting from various angles has emerged
in the last few days. Officials with ICE and the
Trump administration say Good was defiant, interfering with a federal
government operation, and using her car as a weapon against
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the ICE agent, pushing the accelerator instead of getting out
of her vehicle as instructed. The opposition insists the shooting
was murder, unjustified, an unforgivable act of authoritarian rule against
a US citizen.
Speaker 10 (16:10):
Right now, the domestic terriff is ife with the murder
of Renee Good.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
That was sickening, and they try to play it all all.
Speaker 7 (16:20):
She tried to run us over.
Speaker 6 (16:21):
What happens in Minnesota was a tragedy to say the least.
Speaker 7 (16:25):
And we are living in fear in this country right now.
From George fladtil now.
Speaker 10 (16:31):
It is hard that we have that we're still here,
that we haven't made much progress in bringing this country
forward and coming together, that it's so divided and so divisive.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
So as far as today, there were a couple of
protests in West Hollywood, Beverly Hills, and in downtown Los Angeles,
but I believe those have been scheduled to be over.
There might still be some marching happening on in Beverly
Hills at least for the next half hour or so.
I am looking through the KTA emails here to see
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if there's any kind of arrests or any kind of
gatherings or anything like that. We are not we are
not flying it, as they say, meaning the helicopter is
not above it currently, which I think is to say
that you know, we're not gonna be on TV at
least until five PM. So I would imagine if there
was something crazy going on that we would we'd probably
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have something to share with you. But mostly looks to
be like probably a smaller, peaceful protest. I do think
that there's a definite difference, and even though LA the
weather isn't that different, summer protests versus winter protests, major
difference in terms of people who go out for that,
the length that they stay out there, especially you go
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up to Minneapolis right now. Yes, there are thousands of
people who are still marching, but I think that it
is still so cold that it probably discourages some people
from going out. I will say there were some rambunctious
Bears fans last night at the Chasm in Los Angeles.
You know that's the place near Sofi Stadium where they
have the big surround or surround sound surround screen that
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they show events and stuff like. That video shows some
very very aggressive and happy Bears fans running around wrecking shop,
as they say, throwing chairs, throwing their hats, getting kicked out,
very very happy, but very intoxicated. So it appears, and
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then halfway through the video a dude runs by without
his shirt on barrel chested white guy who I swear
is Bert Kershner. I cannot not be in my mind
that man, of course, comedian who's always seen without his
shirt on Oh Man, crazy stuff. Quick break when we
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come back more filming in La. How the city wants
to try to encourage productions to come back on this
Golden Globe Sunday plus three almost three and a half
million dollars for Bluefintuna. It was sold in La. Somebody
bought it where you can get a bite.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
So as many things happen on the internet, and that
we always know with some degree of seriousness and reality,
a new thing, very real fakeness from an unexpected place.
Speaker 10 (19:39):
Three things you should say to yourself every morning, and
your entire day.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
Will look different.
Speaker 10 (19:45):
My child, the first moments after you wake are not
ordinary moments.
Speaker 4 (19:50):
They are a gift.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
Now that sounds fake to me, but if you look
at it with the video, maybe you think that that's real.
In fact, a lot of people seem to think that
it is real. That is a Catholic priest influencer on
Instagram whose name is let me find it. I'll try
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to find it for you. They keep changing it because,
of course I think they're on the run from the
AI police. Who is adding subscribers every single moment. Solomon
Solomon Underscore Gray Father Solomon Gray, who now has forty
eight thousand followers. When I got turned onto this story
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yesterday or the day before, he had something like twenty
thousand followers, is uploading videos of what appears to be
a gray haired priest in the middle of a Catholic church,
a Bible in front of him, even in the foreground,
in front of that of the Catholic missile, giving life advice,
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reading scripture. The issue, of course, is that it's all fake.
Speaker 9 (20:59):
Do know this?
Speaker 2 (21:02):
I don't think so. Majority of the comments are I'm in,
I'm in. I needed to hear this. I love this.
The message is important. You're so right. I've been running
around trying to get some kind of clarity on my
life and this helped. It's just another example of this
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whole era that we're in now where even people who
are savvy media consumers maybe don't know that what they're
watching isn't real. And I think the debate on this becomes, well,
does it matter? I think it does because A you
don't want to be fooled regardless, and B in some
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of the posts there is a link to donate, a
link to buy a book. Four letter word sc A
m fully one hund percent not real. And I think
that people getting taken advantage of for their faith is
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one of the most horrific versions of this, And unfortunately,
I think that that is just where we are as
a people, which brings us to our robot apocalypse update.
They've come in for our jobs and they're coming for
our emily. There is no escape. Only robot mob Papa lives.
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So many things happening here now in California related to AI.
As I said, AI at least has been really good
for San Francisco. The city itself has seen billions of
dollars brought back into the economy. You can definitely feel it.
Billboard's on the way to the city saying we're back baby.
But of course with all that spending, we still don't
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know how it affects us as people. But we do
know that robotic things, smart robots are everywhere. Rich Shamiro
proves it in this year's CES.
Speaker 10 (23:08):
This year's CES in Las Vegas features a lot of robots.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
Rich Chamuro explains in Today's Rich on Tech.
Speaker 12 (23:15):
Here at CES twenty twenty six, I don't think I've
ever seen more robots under one roof in one place.
We've seen robots that dance, We've seen robots at full
laundry playing the piano, and even robots that fight.
Speaker 13 (23:34):
Robots were everywhere at CS twenty twenty six.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
I'm here to assist, entertain, and showcase our general purpose
robots skills.
Speaker 13 (23:44):
This AGI bought recognized me just by looking at my
show batch.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
You're Rich Demurow from the media, and that was.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
From the media. It's so funny because this is exactly
what people say to me when I go out in public, you're.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
Rich de Murow from the media.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
And that was just the beginning. There were robots that dance.
Speaker 13 (24:04):
We saw robots fighting humans, which seems concerning.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
Uh, hedget baby. Rich Muall is one of my favorite
people in the world.
Speaker 13 (24:12):
Fighting humans, which seems concerning.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
Seems concerning.
Speaker 13 (24:15):
Indeed, Booster Robotics showed off an army of robots moving
in perfect unison. Japanese robotic parts supplier Minibia Mitsumi demonstrated
how robotic arms can even double as puppeteers and real hands.
Robots showed precision by playing the piano. Beyond entertainment, there
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were more practical applications like dreams stare, climbing robot vacuum.
Keep in mind many of these products are still concepts.
Dina Robotics is focusing on commercial grade robots.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
They're everywhere, and they're also in the sky in the
form of writing US tickets as drones.
Speaker 11 (24:58):
We have all been there and they really hope. But
this straightforward process really makes a big difference. Out on
our freeways. What happens is if CHP catches you going
triple digits, they're going to automatically send that ticket to
the DMB, who could decide to revoke your license.
Speaker 14 (25:13):
Does it feel like more people are going a whole
lot faster on Los Angeles County freeways.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
When the no the traffic is back, When there's no traffic,
like I would say, late at night is when you
can really see people speeding through.
Speaker 14 (25:27):
If you said, yes, you're not alone. A new program
aims to fix that.
Speaker 4 (25:32):
If you're going one hundred miles an hour, you're zipping
around people and stuff and cutting people off and whatnot.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
No, that needs to be looked at.
Speaker 14 (25:38):
So how that is the problem? Look at these stunning numbers.
Just last year, the CHP sided eighteen thousand drivers for
going over one hundred that's fifty a day, every day,
driving recklessly on our freeways, a number CHP says is
simply too high.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
Now, California has new work zone speed cameras. They are
not drones, they are just regular old cameras. However, across
the country, including in Miami, officers are experimenting with using
drones high up in the sky to automatically write people
tickets for speeding. Yeah, coming up, a couple of predictions
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for the Golden Globes as we move along here towards
the end of the show. Plus very expensive sushi, like
way more than sugarfish. Sugarfish is actually a great deal.
You know, like ten fifteen years ago, when Sugarfish first
came out and they had that that trust Me, it
was like thirty dollars, and I was like, oh my god,
I can't imagine spending that much money on food.
Speaker 7 (26:45):
I love trust Me.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
And now it's like the same price that it used
to be, and everything else is twice as expensive. Sugarfish
is a dang deal. I even do the Nasawa trust Me,
which I think is forty dollars, get a little bit
more fish. This is nothing like that. That is all
coming up. Plus the chargers kicking off at four pm,
which I guess means that we won't be able to
talk to our friend Chris Merrill tonight. Huh Is that right? Yeah,
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that's right. I was so looking forward to shooting this
stuff with him, to yucking it up with my bud.
That's all right.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
You're listening to kf I AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
By Andy Reesmeyer. This is the Andy Reesmeyer Show. We've
got a couple of talkbacks. We want to get to
and I believe I believe they're calling us out Aileen.
Speaker 9 (27:36):
Uh oh, yeah, you might want to have your young
news reporters do a little research. It's hate, Ashbury.
Speaker 7 (27:46):
I knew that. Sometimes words just don't come out right
out of my mouth.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
I get it. It's a weird ten.
Speaker 7 (27:53):
Things going on at once.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
It looks like Hi, yeah, it's h A I g
h T. Yeah, the hate. And I think if you
haven't spent a lot of time up.
Speaker 10 (27:59):
There, apologies, Yeah, I've only been there one But also,
how about this, but I'm also fan of it.
Speaker 9 (28:06):
Yeah, you might want to have your young news report.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
How about that? Actually he was trying to correct your Yeah.
I like this. I'm gonna take out the breath because
it's a little bit young. Yeah, I guess I could.
I just didn't. I took out news, not the young part,
that's the breath part. Hold on, let me see if
I can do this.
Speaker 9 (28:29):
Young news reports.
Speaker 7 (28:30):
Hey, all right, I liked the breathing. Leave it in.
Speaker 10 (28:35):
It's a little creepy. Okay, my apologies to everybody out there.
I sat it wrong.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
I don't have you know, I have a it's so
funny and there is a there's an unspoken part about broadcast,
which is that it exists also not for everybody, but
for people to listen to just to disagree with or
make fun of, Like how many people have the TV on?
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It's like, that's stupid. Yeah, you're saying dumb, you know,
And I think that like the same thing for the radio.
I'm sure people yelling at us all day same. Oh,
shut up, wrong, that's okay. You know you don't have
to listen. We appreciate you do if you do. Anyone.
Speaker 4 (29:19):
Hey, Andy, I'm just sending this to you because I
know you love this kind of information. That was not
Jerry Garcia's Jug Dan Oh. That was Mother McGee's Uptown
Jug Dan Champions. Ooh, and check them out because a
lot of their music is actually it's quite good, I
(29:39):
mean from the musicians standpoint, and it's fun.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
Mother mccree's Uptown Jug Champions. That's the record from It's
it was grateful that records. It came out in the
ninety It was originally recorded in nineteen sixty four. A
record it was Still Jerry Garcia and Bob Weir was
(30:05):
released in nineteen ninety nine, and Jug Band If you
don't if You're not familiar. It's a it's a kind
of folk music genre that has banjo mandolin, I think,
and then like a lot of goofy sort of like
remember you ever go to like Disneylands and you go
to go to the the Uh where all the Bears
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are performing. That's jug band. You know, they got like
a washboard kazoo, fun stuff, just kind of like whatever
you got, what have we gotten? In the back the
back nine, you were sitting on the porch there playing
some music. That's what it is. As the Golden Globes
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get underway, there's some things to watch for. And Aileen,
I know you were saying that there's a lot of
there's there's a heaviness, not so much for the political aspect,
but also just for the fact that like Hollywood is
kind of a weird spot. I understand they're trying to
get production back here and as the City Council comes
back in La here from holiday recess, nine motions introduced
(31:11):
by council member Adrian Nazarian will move through committees and
it will aim to streamline film production and keep film
and TV jobs from leave in la They're going to
reduce fees, standardize filming rules and permit requirements.
Speaker 7 (31:29):
Tax incentives these certain police.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
Right. That's in addition to the seven hundred fifty million
dollar tax incentive expansion that Governor Gavin Newsom signed into
law last year. I guess one of the major issues
when you're trying to film in La is because there's
so many different little cities within La County. You've got
to get approval from all of them. So if you
want to shoot in Burbank and then you cross over
into La or Beverly Hills and West Hollywood, whatever, that's
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so many different departments. And even if you want to
shoot a stupid little web show. This about ten years ago,
I had to go to Hollywood to the Film LA
Permit Building. I went up to the tenth floor of
the building and I had to pay him like eight
hundred bucks so that I could film this. I think
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it was the Larry William Shatner talk Show, which was
filmed at a closed space at a restaurant where nobody
was ever going to see us, and that also paid
for a guy to come out and check it out.
I mean truly, it was like four cameras set up
with two guests and a sound guy that was it,
and so they want to kind of make that more streamline.
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They hope that will help increase production, and it's important
that they do because even recently now, even with all
of the new tax incentives, shoot days in La on
location dropped in the second half of twenty twenty five
compared to twenty twenty four, which was already suffering. Production
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fell thirteen percent compared to the same period from July
to September, a year early. There are also other proposals
related to film production being planned in the coming weeks.
Among them is to make non specialized city owned facilities
such as parking lots and yards available to productions for
a dollar a day. That's kind of cool. And they
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also will waive a spot check fee which productions pay
for fire department compliance reviews and that kind of thing,
so that the fire department will come and make sure
that you're not trying to do anything crazy, which I
guess is good. You never want that. By the way,
the Golden Globes tonight have a podcast category. That's the
first time they'll have that. The Ones nominated Armchair Expert
with Dak Shephard call her Daddy. It's the former Barstool
(33:40):
Sports podcast, Good Hang with Amy Poehler, Mel Robbins podcast,
Let Them of.
Speaker 7 (33:46):
Course my favorite.
Speaker 2 (33:47):
Oh you're let them er? Oh yeah, oh great. My
girlfriend hates it. She was like, she wouldn't even listen.
We had it on audiobook. We're trying to listen to
it driving out on vacation on a road trip, and
I was like, oh, listen, it's good. My brother really
loved it. It helped him a lot inspirational. Yeah. No, she
was like, I can't listen.
Speaker 7 (34:02):
I like call her daddy too. Though. That's totally the
other side of the spectrum.
Speaker 2 (34:06):
By the way, another show, The Studio is nominated for
a few Golden Globes, and of course that's the satire.
One of the episodes of that show did a fake
Golden Globe ceremony in the episode of the first season
three awards. And finally, a five hundred and thirty five
pound blue fin tuna sold for three point two million
(34:29):
dollars on the fifth of January. It is all sold out.
You could buy a really nice Hollywood Hills home for
three point two million dollars. According to Las. It was
sold at the Toyoshu Fish Market for a record five
hundred and ten million yen three point two million dollars.
Speaker 7 (34:50):
Why was it worth so much?
Speaker 2 (34:52):
It was big, six thousand dollars a pound. Thirty pounds
of the hunk of that tuna was flown to a
chain called Sushi Zanmai, which has a location in Koreatown
and the Chapman Plaza. One of the staff from the headquarters,
according to the general manager, brought it by plane. The
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fish was kept fresh with a temperature control, packaging and ice,
so you can go down there and get yourself a bite.
There's around one thousand sushi slices, which amazingly will be
kept low between four dollars and seven dollars apiece. They're
saying it's a New Year's gift, an appreciation to the
people in La. So fun stuff that's not bad, you know,
(35:40):
I mean, you know, looking for a deal anywhere. Thanks
so much for being a part of our show here.
I'll be back with you tomorrow night seven o'clock here
on kf I am six forty, and also see you
on the KTLA Morning News tomorrow starting it to I'll
be there at eight thirty or so doing a couple
of hits. Eileen great to see you again. Great to
see you, mister Boone. Fantastic work. Nikki, the same to you.
Speaker 1 (36:01):
K f I a M six forty on demand
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
This is the Andy Reesmeier Show. We are always talking
about music stuff, or at least I tried to. You know,
I'm a big fan of the music industry and especially
the history of music. I think before the Internet, there
was a real, uh, something real special about being able
to make it and be big. For the computers sort
of came around and changed everything. And if you look back,
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there's a couple of bands that defined music and a
genre of music, and very few of them actually could
take credit for creating an entire genre. And I think
The Grateful Dead is one hundred percent one of them.
Just this weekend, saying goodbye to Bob we Or, who
was the co founder of the Dead who passed away
(00:52):
at seventy eight.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
He was the music icon who helped transform a jam
band into an American institution, embodying the sound of nineteen
sixties counterculture and spreading its spirit for more than half
a century. This morning, the music world is mourning the
loss of Bob Weir, guitarist, singer, songwriter and founding force
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behind The Grateful Dead, at seventy eight years old. His family,
sharing in a statement late Saturday. It is with profound
sadness that we share the passing of Bobby Weir. He
transitioned peacefully, surrounded by loved ones after courageously beating cancer
as only Bobby could. Unfortunately, he succumbed to underlying lung issues.
Weir was raised by adoptive parents in San Francisco and
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started playing guitar when he was thirteen years old. In
nineteen sixty five, he joined Jerry Garcia's jug band, which
would transform into an electric group named The Warlocks, ultimately
renamed The Grateful Dead. With its blend of blues, folk
and improvisation, the Dead would reshape American rock, galvanizing one
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of the most devoted fan bases in music, generations of
followers known as Deadheads, who would follow the band wherever
they went, camping out, showing up in a sea of
tie die, and trading their concert recordings. Weir was known
for his improvisation and served as the mastermind behind some
of the group's greatest classics, like playing in the band together.
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The band would perform over twenty three hundred concerts, sell
over thirty five million albums, and become Hall of Fame
inductees up until Garcia's death in nineteen ninety five, but
even after the band ended, we Are kept performing. He
linked up with his former bandmates to create Dead in
Company in twenty fifteen, a modern incarnation of the rock
(02:45):
group that culminated in a final tour in twenty twenty
three and two residencies at the Sphere.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
It's a real shock because Bob Weir was performing. I
think the last show was in August of last year
in San Francisco near hate Ashbury. And I think about
the Sphere being such a current thing, and remember people
go into Vegas not long ago saying you gotta go
see the dead guys to see Dead and Co at
the Sphere. And he was only diagnosed with cancer, I believe,
(03:16):
last summer. So I think it is fair to say
that this is a shock. And listen, seventy eight. I
would love it if I make it to seventy eight.
Heck yeah. But this is a guy who was still
very active and still felt very alive and still you know,
it's not an artist where you think, well, you know,
you've kind of been out of the spotlight for a while.
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And I think that that's a big shock. Lou Parker,
who is the Dayside anchor Monday through Friday at KTLA
lewn Glenn Walker. I texted her when I heard, because
I know she's a huge Deadhead and you might not
know this, but she used to go on tour with
the band, like followed them around back in the early nineties.
(04:00):
And she said that of course she's bummed and part
of our innocence and fun go with him, which I
think is a really sweet sentiment and sad sort of
true thing, especially for people who grew up and lived
with this person who from the nineteen sixties. I mean,
you think about how much culture has changed since then,
and how many things that the Grateful Dead is inspired.
(04:22):
How many other artists in the jam band world fish
will coo to Billy Strings, to the National Vampire Weekend,
war on drugs, My Morning Jack. I mean, none of
these other artists John Mayer would exist in the way
that they do without that kind of influence and the
(04:49):
sort of like embodiment of counterculture of San Francisco, of
hippie but not in a way that I think is
like cheesy.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
They returned to San Francisco's Golden Gate Park last August,
celebrating sixty years of The Grateful Dead in front of
some sixty thousand fans over three days.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
The worst stranger.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
Those would be Weir's final performances, played in his hometown.
Unknown to the rest of the world, he had begun
his cancer treatment just weeks prior, his family remembering the icon,
writing that he often spoke of a three hundred year legacy,
determined to ensure the songbook would endure long after him.
May that dream live on through future generations of dead Heads.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
I think something really speaks to you as a as
a as a music listener when you listen to The
Grateful Dead and you listen to Jerry Garcia and Bob Weir,
and that puts you in this place where music can
be transcendental. And I think that that's no part to
say that it doesn't have anything to do with the
(06:04):
psychedelic psychedelics that were associated with that era of music,
But I think that it really it is a there's
a unifying sense of we've left reality as we know it,
but we're all going together in a way that's gonna
be fine, and we're going to get there together in
a cool way.
Speaker 5 (06:25):
A song is a living creator. If I'm a wax
hitting metaphysical for you. The characters in those songs are real.
They live in some other world and they come and
visit us through the musicians.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
See they are busy.
Speaker 5 (06:43):
And inviting those creators from other worlds to come and
visit our world if they want to meet us and
we meet them.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
I've always said, I think I've probably told you this before.
I think back in the Renaissance, maybe you know, when
a lot of the are its abilities about art started,
at least in our current era, there was this idea
that the muse, creativity, productivity, whatever, was not really something
you could take credit for. It was just sort of
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in the walls, and every once in a while, if
you were feeling inspired, the mews have decided to pick
you and visit you. And I feel like that's something
that is so universal to creating music for everybody, is
that that's just a thing that will just come and
get you. It'll just it'll just inspire you in some way.
Speaker 5 (07:32):
That's what we do.
Speaker 6 (07:42):
New York Tournament.
Speaker 7 (07:43):
That's all in the same stream.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Dream Bob. We were there dead at seventy eight. All right,
coming up, We've got lots to talk about. Still here
we are looking into the protests that are going on
right now this afternoon in Los Angeles. Uh I ice
protests still happening in LA in both downtown West Hollywood
and Beverly Hills. Additionally, we're going to check in on
(08:09):
some a new program that might be revoking your license
if your speed, it's a robot apocalypse. It is all
coming up here on the Andy Reesemeyer Show.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
One of the things that I remember from a lot
of the years of my childhood. Now, Nikki, I'm sure
you're in the same way. Tried to forget a considerable
part of my childhood.
Speaker 7 (08:35):
My childhood rule.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
Yeah, I guess you know.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
I wouldn't have expected that based on, you know, meeting.
Speaker 7 (08:41):
You because I'm sour. Yeah, you just have a thing,
you know, like, where is this going?
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Oh okay, Well, did you ever have orthodontia?
Speaker 8 (08:51):
I've had orthodontics three times in my life. The last
time and this was clever during COVID when we all
had to wear.
Speaker 7 (08:59):
Masks in visil line.
Speaker 9 (09:02):
That was my third.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
That is clever.
Speaker 8 (09:03):
I had braces as a teenager. I had a plate
in my twenties or thirties, and then I had in
visil line in my forties. Wow, now my teeth are.
Speaker 7 (09:11):
Great, Aileen.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Have you have you done a lot of braces in
your life or no.
Speaker 10 (09:14):
I actually tried to do in visi line probably about
the same time during COVID and I Smile It was
actually Smile Direct.
Speaker 7 (09:22):
And then they went out of business. Oh no, that's
now my teeth are still crooked.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
It's like really leaving you in the lurch.
Speaker 7 (09:28):
Yeah, did you get your money back?
Speaker 9 (09:30):
No?
Speaker 7 (09:30):
I need to look into class section lisuit.
Speaker 4 (09:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
You could get about eighteen bucks back for that.
Speaker 7 (09:35):
Sure right, Yeah, that's great, Oliver.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
How about you? I mean that I know that England
is not known for a orthodontia, never had braces. I'm
very proud of my teeth. I can again I go
against the stereotide. Yeah, you have nice teeth, Thank you.
I have had. I had braces. It's probably not surprise.
I didn't have head gear, even though I do seem
like the kind of kid who probably what have. But
what I did have was an expander, A palette expander.
Speaker 7 (09:57):
What does that do? That was painful?
Speaker 2 (09:59):
It is when they put a hmm. I think you
could call it a tiny little dungeon rack on your
molars on the top of your mouth, and it's a
little bar between connecting the two with a crank hole
in it, and you stick a little key in there
every night and you crank the key and it expands
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your palate.
Speaker 7 (10:23):
Is that for the top?
Speaker 2 (10:24):
For the top and the bottom comes along with it?
Speaker 7 (10:27):
Was that painful?
Speaker 2 (10:28):
Yes, it was horrible. I hated It started like five
years of torture that I'm definitely over. But apparently expanders
are more popular than ever. Well, there's one article from
the Atlantic, I think, or the Wall Street Journal or
the Atlantic. One of that basically was saying, look, I
(10:52):
went to go I have a kid. I was talking
to my kid. All my kids friends have expanders. Every
child has expander. It's the same way in the nineties
that every kid was on riddling. It seems to be
this thing that is happening for everybody. It's seven, eight,
nine years old, when kids still have baby teeth. They
(11:15):
stick this barbaric machine in your mouth. They cement it
to your teeth so that then you can expand your
palette if you have overcrowding. This is, I guess a
more humane idea than what they used to do in
the seventies, which was just pull all your teeth if
you had a mouth that was too small. Now the
(11:37):
question is why are our mouths too small and why
are our teeth too big? I don't know. Back in
the day, I guess you just had a goofy mouth.
But they stopped pulling teeth in the nineteen seventies because
there were fears about the side effects of all of
those extractions disorders of the TMJ sort, infections, absenses, etc.
(12:04):
Some orthodonists eventually claims that expanders have another benefit, which
would be to pry open your palette so then you
could breathe better and it can prevent sleep apnea. But now,
according to this article, there's a lot of debate over
whether any of that is true. The current president of
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the American Associations of Orthodonics is a guy named Steven Siegel,
and he says that no, it's a positive thing. The
recent increase has not been that dramatic, even though it
does seem like that, and there are some abuses, but
for the most part, even though there have been criticisms
from other orthodonists that it's not necessary to put everybody
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through this expanding process. He said, no, I have respect
for other people, but I don't agree that it's not needed.
And he says, I believe there's some kind of con traversy.
Then the trend probably developed from the late nineteen eighties
until the two thousands twenty twenties. But on one recent
(13:09):
visit to the orthodontist, this writer and her daughter found
a handful of children about her age nine or ten,
seated in a line of dental chairs, with technicians leaning
over of each of them to turn the screws of
their expanders, saying it was like we'd all gathered there
for some initiation right for children of the tribe that
dwells on Cobble Hill in Brooklyn, a ritual of widening.
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What's odd about this, I guess, which was sort of
a shock to me, is that because there's very little
you know, nobody dies in orthodontia, there's not a lot
of research into whether or not these things are absolutely
as necessary as they need to be. According to this right,
I had Mapalette widened, didn't have to have any teeth
(13:55):
taken out. But now I have two jobs to pay
for my property tax. So who knows who knows what's
the right thing. Who knows? Let's talk about what's happening
here in southern California as far as protests go for
ice and we don't hear.
Speaker 6 (14:16):
Anything from our vantage point, but I can tell you
according to reports, there were at least one thousand protests.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
This was a Chris Wolf from KTLAF last.
Speaker 6 (14:26):
Night schedule today across the country, and of course downtown
LA was just one of them. Take a look at
the scene where we are all empty and quiet here
right now. But earlier, around two pm, this intersection of
Pershing Square was covered with people, shutting down traffic. Take
a look at footage from Sky five this afternoon when
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the crowd was a few thousand strong. According to witnesses
and participants, they marched around city Hall and federal government buildings,
and we might see similar activity to tomorrow on this
weekend of action.
Speaker 11 (15:05):
US veterans, we are tired of watching this country go
to hell in a hambasket.
Speaker 6 (15:12):
Their voices and messages loud and clear. Activists and concerned
citizens hit the streets of downtown Los Angeles Saturday to
protest what became a volatile encounter in Minneapolis Wednesday, in
which an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent shot and killed
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a thirty seven year old mother renamed Nicole Good. Cell
Phone footage of the shooting from various angles has emerged
in the last few days. Officials with ICE and the
Trump administration say Good was defiant, interfering with a federal
government operation, and using her car as a weapon against
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the ICE agent, pushing the accelerator instead of getting out
of her vehicle as instructed. The opposition insists the shooting
was murder, unjustified, an unforgivable act of authoritarian rule against
a US citizen.
Speaker 10 (16:10):
Right now, the domestic terriff is ife with the murder
of Renee Good.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
That was sickening, and they try to play it all all.
Speaker 7 (16:20):
She tried to run us over.
Speaker 6 (16:21):
What happens in Minnesota was a tragedy to say the least.
Speaker 7 (16:25):
And we are living in fear in this country right now.
From George fladtil now.
Speaker 10 (16:31):
It is hard that we have that we're still here,
that we haven't made much progress in bringing this country
forward and coming together, that it's so divided and so divisive.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
So as far as today, there were a couple of
protests in West Hollywood, Beverly Hills, and in downtown Los Angeles,
but I believe those have been scheduled to be over.
There might still be some marching happening on in Beverly
Hills at least for the next half hour or so.
I am looking through the KTA emails here to see
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if there's any kind of arrests or any kind of
gatherings or anything like that. We are not we are
not flying it, as they say, meaning the helicopter is
not above it currently, which I think is to say
that you know, we're not gonna be on TV at
least until five PM. So I would imagine if there
was something crazy going on that we would we'd probably
(17:23):
have something to share with you. But mostly looks to
be like probably a smaller, peaceful protest. I do think
that there's a definite difference, and even though LA the
weather isn't that different, summer protests versus winter protests, major
difference in terms of people who go out for that,
the length that they stay out there, especially you go
(17:45):
up to Minneapolis right now. Yes, there are thousands of
people who are still marching, but I think that it
is still so cold that it probably discourages some people
from going out. I will say there were some rambunctious
Bears fans last night at the Chasm in Los Angeles.
You know that's the place near Sofi Stadium where they
have the big surround or surround sound surround screen that
(18:09):
they show events and stuff like. That video shows some
very very aggressive and happy Bears fans running around wrecking shop,
as they say, throwing chairs, throwing their hats, getting kicked out,
very very happy, but very intoxicated. So it appears, and
(18:31):
then halfway through the video a dude runs by without
his shirt on barrel chested white guy who I swear
is Bert Kershner. I cannot not be in my mind
that man, of course, comedian who's always seen without his
shirt on Oh Man, crazy stuff. Quick break when we
(18:54):
come back more filming in La. How the city wants
to try to encourage productions to come back on this
Golden Globe Sunday plus three almost three and a half
million dollars for Bluefintuna. It was sold in La. Somebody
bought it where you can get a bite.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
So as many things happen on the internet, and that
we always know with some degree of seriousness and reality,
a new thing, very real fakeness from an unexpected place.
Speaker 10 (19:39):
Three things you should say to yourself every morning, and
your entire day.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
Will look different.
Speaker 10 (19:45):
My child, the first moments after you wake are not
ordinary moments.
Speaker 4 (19:50):
They are a gift.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
Now that sounds fake to me, but if you look
at it with the video, maybe you think that that's real.
In fact, a lot of people seem to think that
it is real. That is a Catholic priest influencer on
Instagram whose name is let me find it. I'll try
(20:12):
to find it for you. They keep changing it because,
of course I think they're on the run from the
AI police. Who is adding subscribers every single moment. Solomon
Solomon Underscore Gray Father Solomon Gray, who now has forty
eight thousand followers. When I got turned onto this story
(20:33):
yesterday or the day before, he had something like twenty
thousand followers, is uploading videos of what appears to be
a gray haired priest in the middle of a Catholic church,
a Bible in front of him, even in the foreground,
in front of that of the Catholic missile, giving life advice,
(20:53):
reading scripture. The issue, of course, is that it's all fake.
Speaker 9 (20:59):
Do know this?
Speaker 2 (21:02):
I don't think so. Majority of the comments are I'm in,
I'm in. I needed to hear this. I love this.
The message is important. You're so right. I've been running
around trying to get some kind of clarity on my
life and this helped. It's just another example of this
(21:24):
whole era that we're in now where even people who
are savvy media consumers maybe don't know that what they're
watching isn't real. And I think the debate on this becomes, well,
does it matter? I think it does because A you
don't want to be fooled regardless, and B in some
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of the posts there is a link to donate, a
link to buy a book. Four letter word sc A
m fully one hund percent not real. And I think
that people getting taken advantage of for their faith is
(22:06):
one of the most horrific versions of this, And unfortunately,
I think that that is just where we are as
a people, which brings us to our robot apocalypse update.
They've come in for our jobs and they're coming for
our emily. There is no escape. Only robot mob Papa lives.
(22:32):
So many things happening here now in California related to AI.
As I said, AI at least has been really good
for San Francisco. The city itself has seen billions of
dollars brought back into the economy. You can definitely feel it.
Billboard's on the way to the city saying we're back baby.
But of course with all that spending, we still don't
(22:53):
know how it affects us as people. But we do
know that robotic things, smart robots are everywhere. Rich Shamiro
proves it in this year's CES.
Speaker 10 (23:08):
This year's CES in Las Vegas features a lot of robots.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
Rich Chamuro explains in Today's Rich on Tech.
Speaker 12 (23:15):
Here at CES twenty twenty six, I don't think I've
ever seen more robots under one roof in one place.
We've seen robots that dance, We've seen robots at full
laundry playing the piano, and even robots that fight.
Speaker 13 (23:34):
Robots were everywhere at CS twenty twenty six.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
I'm here to assist, entertain, and showcase our general purpose
robots skills.
Speaker 13 (23:44):
This AGI bought recognized me just by looking at my
show batch.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
You're Rich Demurow from the media, and that was.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
From the media. It's so funny because this is exactly
what people say to me when I go out in public, you're.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
Rich de Murow from the media.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
And that was just the beginning. There were robots that dance.
Speaker 13 (24:04):
We saw robots fighting humans, which seems concerning.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
Uh, hedget baby. Rich Muall is one of my favorite
people in the world.
Speaker 13 (24:12):
Fighting humans, which seems concerning.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
Seems concerning.
Speaker 13 (24:15):
Indeed, Booster Robotics showed off an army of robots moving
in perfect unison. Japanese robotic parts supplier Minibia Mitsumi demonstrated
how robotic arms can even double as puppeteers and real hands.
Robots showed precision by playing the piano. Beyond entertainment, there
(24:37):
were more practical applications like dreams stare, climbing robot vacuum.
Keep in mind many of these products are still concepts.
Dina Robotics is focusing on commercial grade robots.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
They're everywhere, and they're also in the sky in the
form of writing US tickets as drones.
Speaker 11 (24:58):
We have all been there and they really hope. But
this straightforward process really makes a big difference. Out on
our freeways. What happens is if CHP catches you going
triple digits, they're going to automatically send that ticket to
the DMB, who could decide to revoke your license.
Speaker 14 (25:13):
Does it feel like more people are going a whole
lot faster on Los Angeles County freeways.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
When the no the traffic is back, When there's no traffic,
like I would say, late at night is when you
can really see people speeding through.
Speaker 14 (25:27):
If you said, yes, you're not alone. A new program
aims to fix that.
Speaker 4 (25:32):
If you're going one hundred miles an hour, you're zipping
around people and stuff and cutting people off and whatnot.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
No, that needs to be looked at.
Speaker 14 (25:38):
So how that is the problem? Look at these stunning numbers.
Just last year, the CHP sided eighteen thousand drivers for
going over one hundred that's fifty a day, every day,
driving recklessly on our freeways, a number CHP says is
simply too high.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
Now, California has new work zone speed cameras. They are
not drones, they are just regular old cameras. However, across
the country, including in Miami, officers are experimenting with using
drones high up in the sky to automatically write people
tickets for speeding. Yeah, coming up, a couple of predictions
(26:23):
for the Golden Globes as we move along here towards
the end of the show. Plus very expensive sushi, like
way more than sugarfish. Sugarfish is actually a great deal.
You know, like ten fifteen years ago, when Sugarfish first
came out and they had that that trust Me, it
was like thirty dollars, and I was like, oh my god,
I can't imagine spending that much money on food.
Speaker 7 (26:45):
I love trust Me.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
And now it's like the same price that it used
to be, and everything else is twice as expensive. Sugarfish
is a dang deal. I even do the Nasawa trust Me,
which I think is forty dollars, get a little bit
more fish. This is nothing like that. That is all
coming up. Plus the chargers kicking off at four pm,
which I guess means that we won't be able to
talk to our friend Chris Merrill tonight. Huh Is that right? Yeah,
(27:08):
that's right. I was so looking forward to shooting this
stuff with him, to yucking it up with my bud.
That's all right.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
You're listening to kf I AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
By Andy Reesmeyer. This is the Andy Reesmeyer Show. We've
got a couple of talkbacks. We want to get to
and I believe I believe they're calling us out Aileen.
Speaker 9 (27:36):
Uh oh, yeah, you might want to have your young
news reporters do a little research. It's hate, Ashbury.
Speaker 7 (27:46):
I knew that. Sometimes words just don't come out right
out of my mouth.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
I get it. It's a weird ten.
Speaker 7 (27:53):
Things going on at once.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
It looks like Hi, yeah, it's h A I g
h T. Yeah, the hate. And I think if you
haven't spent a lot of time up.
Speaker 10 (27:59):
There, apologies, Yeah, I've only been there one But also,
how about this, but I'm also fan of it.
Speaker 9 (28:06):
Yeah, you might want to have your young news report.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
How about that? Actually he was trying to correct your Yeah.
I like this. I'm gonna take out the breath because
it's a little bit young. Yeah, I guess I could.
I just didn't. I took out news, not the young part,
that's the breath part. Hold on, let me see if
I can do this.
Speaker 9 (28:29):
Young news reports.
Speaker 7 (28:30):
Hey, all right, I liked the breathing. Leave it in.
Speaker 10 (28:35):
It's a little creepy. Okay, my apologies to everybody out there.
I sat it wrong.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
I don't have you know, I have a it's so
funny and there is a there's an unspoken part about broadcast,
which is that it exists also not for everybody, but
for people to listen to just to disagree with or
make fun of, Like how many people have the TV on?
(29:02):
It's like, that's stupid. Yeah, you're saying dumb, you know,
And I think that like the same thing for the radio.
I'm sure people yelling at us all day same. Oh,
shut up, wrong, that's okay. You know you don't have
to listen. We appreciate you do if you do. Anyone.
Speaker 4 (29:19):
Hey, Andy, I'm just sending this to you because I
know you love this kind of information. That was not
Jerry Garcia's Jug Dan Oh. That was Mother McGee's Uptown
Jug Dan Champions. Ooh, and check them out because a
lot of their music is actually it's quite good, I
(29:39):
mean from the musicians standpoint, and it's fun.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
Mother mccree's Uptown Jug Champions. That's the record from It's
it was grateful that records. It came out in the
ninety It was originally recorded in nineteen sixty four. A
record it was Still Jerry Garcia and Bob Weir was
(30:05):
released in nineteen ninety nine, and Jug Band If you
don't if You're not familiar. It's a it's a kind
of folk music genre that has banjo mandolin, I think,
and then like a lot of goofy sort of like
remember you ever go to like Disneylands and you go
to go to the the Uh where all the Bears
(30:27):
are performing. That's jug band. You know, they got like
a washboard kazoo, fun stuff, just kind of like whatever
you got, what have we gotten? In the back the
back nine, you were sitting on the porch there playing
some music. That's what it is. As the Golden Globes
(30:48):
get underway, there's some things to watch for. And Aileen,
I know you were saying that there's a lot of
there's there's a heaviness, not so much for the political aspect,
but also just for the fact that like Hollywood is
kind of a weird spot. I understand they're trying to
get production back here and as the City Council comes
back in La here from holiday recess, nine motions introduced
(31:11):
by council member Adrian Nazarian will move through committees and
it will aim to streamline film production and keep film
and TV jobs from leave in la They're going to
reduce fees, standardize filming rules and permit requirements.
Speaker 7 (31:29):
Tax incentives these certain police.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
Right. That's in addition to the seven hundred fifty million
dollar tax incentive expansion that Governor Gavin Newsom signed into
law last year. I guess one of the major issues
when you're trying to film in La is because there's
so many different little cities within La County. You've got
to get approval from all of them. So if you
want to shoot in Burbank and then you cross over
into La or Beverly Hills and West Hollywood, whatever, that's
(31:53):
so many different departments. And even if you want to
shoot a stupid little web show. This about ten years ago,
I had to go to Hollywood to the Film LA
Permit Building. I went up to the tenth floor of
the building and I had to pay him like eight
hundred bucks so that I could film this. I think
(32:13):
it was the Larry William Shatner talk Show, which was
filmed at a closed space at a restaurant where nobody
was ever going to see us, and that also paid
for a guy to come out and check it out.
I mean truly, it was like four cameras set up
with two guests and a sound guy that was it,
and so they want to kind of make that more streamline.
(32:33):
They hope that will help increase production, and it's important
that they do because even recently now, even with all
of the new tax incentives, shoot days in La on
location dropped in the second half of twenty twenty five
compared to twenty twenty four, which was already suffering. Production
(32:55):
fell thirteen percent compared to the same period from July
to September, a year early. There are also other proposals
related to film production being planned in the coming weeks.
Among them is to make non specialized city owned facilities
such as parking lots and yards available to productions for
a dollar a day. That's kind of cool. And they
(33:18):
also will waive a spot check fee which productions pay
for fire department compliance reviews and that kind of thing,
so that the fire department will come and make sure
that you're not trying to do anything crazy, which I
guess is good. You never want that. By the way,
the Golden Globes tonight have a podcast category. That's the
first time they'll have that. The Ones nominated Armchair Expert
with Dak Shephard call her Daddy. It's the former Barstool
(33:40):
Sports podcast, Good Hang with Amy Poehler, Mel Robbins podcast,
Let Them of.
Speaker 7 (33:46):
Course my favorite.
Speaker 2 (33:47):
Oh you're let them er? Oh yeah, oh great. My
girlfriend hates it. She was like, she wouldn't even listen.
We had it on audiobook. We're trying to listen to
it driving out on vacation on a road trip, and
I was like, oh, listen, it's good. My brother really
loved it. It helped him a lot inspirational. Yeah. No, she
was like, I can't listen.
Speaker 7 (34:02):
I like call her daddy too. Though. That's totally the
other side of the spectrum.
Speaker 2 (34:06):
By the way, another show, The Studio is nominated for
a few Golden Globes, and of course that's the satire.
One of the episodes of that show did a fake
Golden Globe ceremony in the episode of the first season
three awards. And finally, a five hundred and thirty five
pound blue fin tuna sold for three point two million
(34:29):
dollars on the fifth of January. It is all sold out.
You could buy a really nice Hollywood Hills home for
three point two million dollars. According to Las. It was
sold at the Toyoshu Fish Market for a record five
hundred and ten million yen three point two million dollars.
Speaker 7 (34:50):
Why was it worth so much?
Speaker 2 (34:52):
It was big, six thousand dollars a pound. Thirty pounds
of the hunk of that tuna was flown to a
chain called Sushi Zanmai, which has a location in Koreatown
and the Chapman Plaza. One of the staff from the headquarters,
according to the general manager, brought it by plane. The
(35:16):
fish was kept fresh with a temperature control, packaging and ice,
so you can go down there and get yourself a bite.
There's around one thousand sushi slices, which amazingly will be
kept low between four dollars and seven dollars apiece. They're
saying it's a New Year's gift, an appreciation to the
people in La. So fun stuff that's not bad, you know,
(35:40):
I mean, you know, looking for a deal anywhere. Thanks
so much for being a part of our show here.
I'll be back with you tomorrow night seven o'clock here
on kf I am six forty, and also see you
on the KTLA Morning News tomorrow starting it to I'll
be there at eight thirty or so doing a couple
of hits. Eileen great to see you again. Great to
see you, mister Boone. Fantastic work. Nikki, the same to you.
Speaker 1 (36:01):
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