September 14, 2024 • 31 mins
Technique of the Week: Cheeseburgers. Amy King with URM Information. Real Syrup goes in the fridge.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, it's Neil Savedri.
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Hi, Kayla, you're looking on beautiful.
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I had a business lunch today.
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Oh is that? I mean you always do? But you
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Yeah, Well it looks great and it doesn't look fake.
It's very natural.
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Thank you. Your head looks fake.
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Hey, Klo, what do you call a male cow that
loves to eat hamburgers?
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What a cannibull?
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Like a oh?
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Cannib All right, let's just start.
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How are you you know you I take what the
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what I said. I just thought, you know what, Neil,
(01:01):
you don't have to take that from a peasant. Hey,
coming up, we're gonna have Amy King come on in
a little bit. Why because Amy King and I are
for the Union Rescue Mission going the over the Edge
on September twenty seventh at the held the Universal, something
that my producer Kayla is more worried about than my wife.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
I'm not gonna do anything.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
It's gonna put my wife, myself in danger for my
wife and my boy.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
So I totally try.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
I'm definitely afraid of heights, by the way, and it's
a twenty five story building, so roughly two hundred and
fifty feet and I'm gonna wrapple down.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Repel rap rapple sounds good.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Hey, Can I get a frothy rapple chocolate and you
come off the side and you kind of lower yourself down,
you know, more like like in my head, I'm gonna
be like dune, dun dun, dun, dun, dun, dunny.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
What's holding you up?
Speaker 4 (01:54):
Neil?
Speaker 1 (01:55):
That's what well.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
I think we're all wondering that on a daily basis,
But in this case it'll be ropes and stuff.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
I trust that. But for a great cause.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Amy King is doing it as well from wake Up
Call Monday through Friday starting at five am, and of
course by partner in crime on the Bill Handles Show.
She's gonna come on, We're gonna tell you how you
can donate. We would really love for you to donate.
This is to help homeless people. But I've often complained
about the homeless situation here. I don't think enough is
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being done, and when it is done, I don't think
it's being done in a way that is beneficial. The
cool thing about Union Rescue Mission is they don't get
money government money. And you know why they're not allowed
to get government money or the government does not give
them money because they are a dry organization. That means
you have to want to get sober and want to
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get on drug or get off drugs to be a
part of their programs, which is educational programs, getting back
to work programs, bridge housing, all of those things in
the best way possible. I love the faith based as well.
But I just to me, I was like, how did
I not know about this? I have become a regular
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contributor now I donate. They are part of my donation
group because I was so blown away. So I'm not
asking you to do anything that I wouldn't do. Although
you don't have to repel down the set of a building.
So we'll tell you more about that coming up right now.
For Technique of the Week, I wanted to get into
cheeseburgers because it's National Cheeseburger Day coming up on the
eighteenth next week.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Every day is cheeseburger Day.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
If you ask me, I love myself some cheeseburgers.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Are you cheese? Do you like cheese on your burger?
Speaker 3 (03:39):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (03:40):
My god? Yeah? It took a while to grow on me,
but yeah, I love cheesebergs. What the cheese? Cheese? Growing
on you?
Speaker 4 (03:46):
I just didn't like it with the burger for a
really long time until I grew up in.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Real Is that kids? Wife? All right? Eileen, how's about you? Cheese?
No cheese? If I could have cheese, I would smother
my burger with cheese. But I'm I'm sadly, I'm lactose intolerant.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Oh I know. It's a terrible curse.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Struck me as someone who's very open minded. It's weird
to find out that you're intolerant.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Yes, what is it?
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Is it the color of the cheese? Is it their culture?
What's the problem?
Speaker 3 (04:15):
Culture?
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Well, with cheese? It is the culture. I see.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
My wife does not do dairy either, but she doesn't
do red meat, so she doesn't have to put that
on there and Robin has stepped away from the board,
so I can't ask her. Let's get into it. If
you ever find yourself by the way in Pasadena and
you go to Colorado Boulevard, I think it's like the
fifteen hundred part there Colorado Boulevard and Pasadena, our beloved Pasadena.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Look down on the ground.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
You're going to see a plaque and it reads simply
this on this site. In nineteen twenty four, sixteen year
old Lionel Sternberger put cheese on a hamburger for the
first time, thus inventing the cheese burger.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
That's like Mecca.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
We should go, like all of us get together once
a year and go to Pasadena at the fifteen hundred
block of Colorado Boulevard and just thank the cheeseburger gods.
So this spot used to be a place called right Spot,
and it's where Sternberger apparently got creative and put a
slice of cheese on the burger. Now, this is the story,
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and they don't know whether it was to fix a
cooking mistake or it was just for fun or whatever
it was. But it's been going strong for almost one
hundred years now and thank God for it, or just
about one hundred years now. So you can get all
kinds of cheeseburgers, thick, thin, smashed, double deck, you can
get what they call juicy Lucy's where the meat is
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in the side the burger. They could be made from
all corns, kinds of different ingredients now different funds. I've
seen it on toast. I've been served a beautiful cheeseburger
four in between two grilled cheese sandwhich is as the
bun grill them all, which has some of my favorite burgers,
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by the way, and they're wonderful. Guys haven't been on
the air with us for a while. We got to
get them back and they were in al Hamber. I
think they're now in Long Beach. I think they moved
to Long Beach. But the great guys great burgers, and
that was one of those the first times people started
experimenting with burgers. They were really at the lead in
the forefront of that, along with places like the Oyster
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and the like that are still pumping out just fantastic
burgers to this day. So whether you like it in
different forms, it is just an amalgamation of wonderful meat,
gooey cheese, and a bun and toppings that go together
in this dance that we most of us find a
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love for. Ground beef twenty percent fat is ideal. I
tell people this all the.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Time, Neil.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
I make burgers at home, but they're never as juicy
as when I go out. I said, you probably got
lean beef. You need eighty twenty eighty percent lean, twenty
percent fat. That's what makes it deelicious. Kosher salt, freshly
ground pepper. Cheese, American cheese is fantastic, but there's so
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many wonderful cheeses out there you can go. And then
of course fluffy buns, which was your name in prison.
There you go, ada girl, We come back. We'll get
into patty types and a couple of little simple recipes
and now you can enjoy cheeseburgers at home. Different cooking
methods as well, whether you broil or you grill, or
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you sear them off on the stove.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
We'll get into that soap. Go nowhere.
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Right now, we're talking about cheeseburgers for Technique of the Week,
where the first two segments I break down something that
we can all use as practical information. Burgers are just
one of those great things, you know, and what regardless
of what you like, you like the classic diner style
which is coming back. That's that thick, that juicy, great
contrast between that crispy exterior, that tender, lovely, slightly pink
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on the inside. I mean burgers last night. They were
delicious smash burger. That's that thin, crispy, very flavorful. The
meat is cracking on the outside, leaving that extra caramelized
or extra brown, crunchy, lovely exterior, very straightforward, very simple.
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Usually throw two of them on there with some cheese,
cheese in patty or what they refer to as a
juicy lucy in some parts town. You can mix the
cheese into the meat, or you can put it in
the center. All these things have their you know, their benefit,
and really it comes down to the cooking method, so
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you can bake them. Baking could be a bit of
a let down. Patties don't brown as well that way,
and that's where you get a lot of the flavor.
Air fried, you know what. I had some My brother
in law, Joaquin, made us some burgers when we were
on the East coast at their place in Cape Cod and.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Air freight them. They were perfect. They were so delicious.
Air fried mine yesterday. Did you now are you?
Speaker 2 (10:32):
You had stepped away when we were doing the roundabout
with everybody? You would cheese goal, Robin, you like cheese
on your burger? No fake cheese yes, Oh yeah, I forgot.
You don't do dairy. Yes, okay, fake cheese that comes
in and like and you have that with your near
beer and then you go and get in a faith fight.
That sounds like a lot of fun. Excellent so air fried.
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I did like that. Some people say it dries out
the meat. I have not found that when done properly.
As far as timing broiled, my mom broiled burgers a lot,
and I still have an affinity for it because of that.
I do it on occasion in the house. But you know,
I have a lovely backyard kitchen and I tend to
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really like that high heat and the smell that comes
off of that. But broiled, if done right and turned properly,
you can get wonderful grilled, come on smoky flavor. It
can be a little drier if you're not careful. I
like to undercook them a little bit and then because
that high heat, let it carry over and warm cook
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the remainder stovetop. Seared is beautiful, but what a freaking mess.
It can be splattering all over the place. But you
get a better you'd like the best browned crust. You
can throw the butter on them and baste them in it,
so really you get toss onions in their mushrooms whatever
that That really is.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
A great flavor bomb.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
But man is in a mess and just splatters all
over the place, and it's kind of hard to do
with like four or more burgers, you know, because you're
doing it in a pan. So yeah, if you're if
everybody's gone and you're in your chonies at the house
and you're gonna watch some Netflix or something underwear and
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you're chilling, and you're like, oh, that's you know, I'm
gonna make myself the best burger in the world, then yeah,
knock yourself out. Just make sure you clean all the
grease up. So those are those are your basics when
it comes to that. Keep in mind that when you're
again getting the meat you want it eighty twenty, that
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is going to be that juicy, wonderful. It's the standard
plan on using about six ounces of meat per patty.
If you want that real beefy, beefy burger, you can
make four burgers. Obviously with a pound and a half.
If you're gonna do smash burgers, I usually go about
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three ounces or so, sometimes as low as two ounces.
If I'm smashing them really thin, and I just barely
let the grill them hit the griddle rather very quickly,
just boom boom on your plancha on your flat top,
and very very quickly shape your patties about three quarters
of an inch thick. If you want those, you know,
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old school cookout, barbecue in the backyard type burgers.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
They're just delicious.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
You want them a little, just about almost three quarters
of an inch larger than the bun because they're gonna
shrink up. You can even press the center down with
your thumb. I've seen people even put an ice cube
on top of them so they don't puff up like
a football. The thin patties, man, I use a couple
pieces of parchment or wax paper. I turn a plate
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upside down, another plate upside down. Just make sure they're sturdy.
I've busted one of my mom's plates one time.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
They were one of.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
Those old sets that you got, like it Albertson's or
something back in the day. So I had to track
one down online to replace it.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
So don't do that, now, did you? Did you succeed?
Speaker 5 (14:11):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (14:11):
I got it.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
I felt bad she forgot about it.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
I'm like, hey, I feel really bad, and she's like, oh, okay,
it's replaced.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
I don't want that. Don't want that on my tombstone.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
So you know, you can make a ball about i'd
say four inches four ounces or less three ounce. You
can get a nice spread on that. Press them down,
make sure that you're seasoning the meat just as you're
putting them on. I don't season them the proteins prior
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to too long prior, because they start to have a
reaction to the protein tighten up. If you do that,
then you got to leave them out, probably about forty
five minutes or so, to kind of relax again. Hot grill,
you know, I you know, I think that's the way
to go. I enjoy it. Keep in mind, if you're
using chicken for burgers, the bacteria never put anything cooked
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back on a plate that was that had the raw
burgers on them. Switch that out that Caleb, please tell
me you don't.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
I'm just like, like, if it's medium, right, like rare, okay,
right now? I was just okay, fair, No, you're right,
it's gross.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
It's not gross. It's poisonous. It's poisonous. But why is
it poisonous then?
Speaker 4 (15:26):
But it's not poisonous when it's rare in the middle
of your burger.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Well, first of all, rare in the middle of your burger,
you better know where that. That better not be grocery store. Uh,
you better you have them freshly grinded or something. Here's
the thing quickly, because we gotta go. Here's the thing
with ground beef. If you have a steak rare, it
sears the outside of the steak. That's where a lot
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of the bacteria is. If you grind that steak into
itself when it's raw, now the bacteria is on the
inside too and needs to be cooked properly. So that's
why most people won't eat anything but a well done
burger in somewhere else, high end restaurants and the like.
They'll tell you, hey, we'll cook it anyway you want it. However,
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the best way to do it to be as safe
as possible is this way. So keep that stuff in mind,
all right.
Speaker 5 (16:19):
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I am your well fed host, Neil Savadra had to
eat you. Why are you on this lovely Saturday? Look
at that no one's cooking on the street with eggs
and the like.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Very nice.
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I invited my buddy Amy King from Wake Up Call
Herd Monday through Friday, starting at five am till six am,
and then she joins me in putting a bit in
the mouth of handle and trying to ride that wild
bull every single day Monday through Friday. Amy and I
are going to do something interesting on the twenty seventh.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
Amy, something terrifying, something.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Terrifying, but interesting, but for a fantastic cause.
Speaker 4 (17:09):
That's right, it's for the Union Rescue Mission, as we
all know, because when we drive around we see it
every single day. Homelessness is out of control. And so
we're trying to raise money to help fight homelessness. And
here's what's great about the Union Rescue Mission, and here's
out because we know that there are millions of dollars
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being pumped into this issue and everybody's going it's not
getting any better.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
And I think personally.
Speaker 4 (17:37):
That a lot of times it's because there's a lot
of people who are on the streets who aren't ready
for help.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
They don't want it.
Speaker 4 (17:43):
They're either strung out on drugs, they have mental health issues,
they don't want it. Union Rescue Mission actually helps people
who want help, and they have a couple of things
that are different from a lot of the other programs.
One of them is they have transitional housing that helps
people actually get back on their feet so they can
get back into housing. And another thing that they do
is because they do feed a whole lot of people,
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but when you go into their shelters, they don't allow
any drugs or alcohol. And because of that, they don't
get any government funding. If you can believe that, it's
all private funding, because they're like, we need people who
are serious, we need our shelters to be clean, we
need people to have a safe place to stay, and
so they don't. They don't get any federal funding, so
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they're raising it all on their own. And that's where
you guys come in.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
Weren't you gobsmacked by that truth? That was the first
time I had heard that. Actually, I was doing a
little research on Union Rescue Mission Mission when they approached
us again. As Amy King said, you pass it, you
know it, you've seen it. But you've seen so many
different missions and outreaches and it's hard.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
I have grown not callous, but I.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
Have got to sensitize. Yeah, I just got to the
point where it's like, come on, do something. It is
not the kind way to leave people feral on the streets.
And there are people that want help, and those are
people that know that they have to put themselves forward,
meaning they're going to have to get off drugs, they're
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going to have to stop drinking. And the fact that
our government, the people we vote into power to help
with this problem, won't give money to an organization like
Union Rescue Mission because they run a dry mission that
you have to go. I want help and I am
not looking for handouts. I'm looking to get better, be
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productive again. That that just floored me and I said
I'm in, and they became in my rotation. I started
a monthly rotation with them. Now they are I donate
to them Now, I wouldn't ask you to donate to
something that I wouldn't with my own money. And this
is this thing that Amy and I are part of.
Are not only are we going over the edge on
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the twenty seventh, they're doing it on the twenty seventh
and twenty eighth. Amy and I will be doing the
twenty seventh, which is Friday coming up, and we are
going to go over the edge and we are going
to repel down the side of a twenty five story building.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
Twenty five stories.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
Yeah, and you ordered fifty feet.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
It is the Hilton there off of the off of
the one to one freeway at Universal.
Speaker 4 (20:19):
So it's a big black building and you can see it,
and I think they're going to have a big banner
off the side. But we're going to be repelling off
the side to raise money. And that's where you come
in because we need your donations and we would love
for you to donate whatever you can, if it's fifty bucks,
if it's twenty bucks. Again, we're helping people who actually
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want help.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
So we're not doing a hand up. Nope, we are
doing a hand up. We're not doing a hand out.
We're doing a hand up.
Speaker 4 (20:47):
Which I am a firm believer and I think if
people want help, we should, we should reach out and
we should try to help them. So we would love
your donation. And here's another thing. If you want to
do this, they keep telling me it's really fun. On
If you want to repel off the side of a
twenty five story building, you just need to raise one
thousand dollars yourself, and you can do that by donating
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one thousand dollars, or you can start a team and
raise that money. And the way to find how to
donate is to go to just help one dot org,
which is Union Rescue's specific program for this, and you
can make a donation that way. And we have the
team iHeart. You can donate to us because we want
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to beat all the other teams.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
Yeah, and we've got nothing there right now.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
We're at twenty one hundred dollars and we really want
to blow that away for a couple of reasons. We
want to show them the power of a KFI listener.
And Amy and I are fine to put our butts
on the line literally to get awareness.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
Can you stick around?
Speaker 5 (21:47):
Yep?
Speaker 2 (21:47):
Amy, because you know you came out to the station.
I really want to hammer this home, not only because
I want us to kick ass with raising donations for
this great cause, but I want people to really know
kind of how they're going about this, and that just
help one attitude that I think is powerful.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
All right, stick around.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
Amy King is hanging out with me Amy King from
wake up call Monday through Friday five to six am.
And then of course she is with me being the
Voices of Reason with Bill Handle Monday through Friday starting
at six as well. So go nowhere to stick around.
You've been listening to The Forek Report. You can always
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it's the fore Report, All things food, beverage beyond. Yay,
food beverages, Yaya.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
Here's the food beyond.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
How come no one ever comes here for me? They
come here for the food.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
I came here just for you, Neilday.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
You came for the food.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
Is there food?
Speaker 1 (22:51):
There will be?
Speaker 5 (22:52):
Ooh?
Speaker 3 (22:52):
I might stay.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
Okay, So let's see.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
Oh I just got a great question from Jeff Mather
as the Beaver. Is there a link specific to you
or is a general donation site?
Speaker 1 (23:05):
Also?
Speaker 2 (23:05):
Will you commit to yodling at least once while going
over the edge.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
You know what I wanted to do.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
I want to go as a fat spider man and
get like us. Thank anybody, come over the side, come
on for it's for charities for the children.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
I was thinking we should go as Batman and Robin.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
Oh that is funny. Wait a second remember how they
use which one gets to be Batman?
Speaker 3 (23:27):
I'm Batman.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
I am Batman.
Speaker 3 (23:30):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (23:30):
So the link is just help one dot org and
then you click on donations and then you go to.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
The team's place for the iHeart and go to the
team iHeart.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
It's not Amy or Neil or it's just ihearts.
Speaker 4 (23:43):
But you can you can make a note say, hey,
this one's for Neil. I'm gonna pay I'm gonna pay
an extra hundred bucks for Neil.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
To go over.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
Yeah, or you can just say this is for Neil
and Amy. May he fall first, so she has something
cushy to land on.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
Oh okay, yeah, okay.
Speaker 4 (24:00):
So back to Theion Reunion rescue mission. So we were
talking about how large the problem is. Seventy five thousand
people in La are homeless. I mean that's the size
of a city, right. Oh yeah, And it's daunting, it's
too much, and you can't help everybody, you can't do it.
But if you cut it down into bite sized pieces
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and say, you know what, I can help just one,
we can do that. And if you cut it down
and you see a person, you can help a person.
And that's why we're asking you to just help one.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
That actually comes from a quote from Mother Teresa. She stated,
if you can't feed one hundred people, then just feed one.
And I love that concept. I also am horrified from
the job that has been done by the powers to
be here in Los Angeles and the governor. I really
I think that they've raised so much money and so
little has been done that there are so many parts
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of this veterans. There is no veteran that should be
on the street ever period. Women, children should get up
and they should be taken care of. There's mental health
issues and the like. But what Union Rescue Mission does
is they focus on people who want help, who want
to stop using, who want to stop drinking, and the
government does not give them money.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
Because of that, you cannot be a dry house.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
You cannot be an organization that doesn't allow people to
use drugs in the mission and receive money. So this
is the this. I love this. I will tell you.
I also found out that they were building housing and
the city came in, took the contractors and built started
(25:44):
building and there is verification of this. Started building there
the bridge homes, so it didn't they didn't look bad
by having the Union Rescue Mission build it first. It's
crazy and that pissed me off, quite honestly. It made
me angry that it's about what you look like rather
(26:05):
than what you're doing, so that I probably shouldn't have
said all that, but there's the information to back it up.
Union Rescue Mission is I'm proud to be a part
of this. I'm proud to be doing this too. I
have donated money, not only you know in the monthly,
but also if you give to this, you know that
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at eighty five percent of every dollar, eighty five cents
of every dollar is going to help.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
That is great.
Speaker 4 (26:31):
That's really high because a lot of and whenever you
donate to any charity, you should check them out and
find out exactly how much of the money is going
to the recipients, the people.
Speaker 3 (26:40):
Who are going to bend the charity navigator.
Speaker 4 (26:42):
Yeah, that's that's one of the ones that you can
And eighty five percent is really really great.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
And they Union Rescue Mission Mission has a one hundred percent.
They have a one hundred score on.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
That.
Speaker 4 (26:54):
That means that they're using the money effectively and efficiently. Yeah,
and again we talked to the people from a Union
Rescue Mission and they are passionate about what they do.
They love what they do, and they want to help people.
And they're not just throwing money at a problem and saying, here,
look at all the money we've spent they're throwing.
Speaker 3 (27:12):
They're not throwing it.
Speaker 4 (27:13):
They're putting money to a problem and saying, we're getting results.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
And they're talking about the people. Yeah, not constituents, not
any of these are people. And I really loved the
heart and the attitude. It reminded me of what we
see on this program a lot when a chef brings
you something they made and they're proud of it. They
wanted to share information, they wanted to educate, and you're
going to hear Amy do recorded spots and me do
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recorded spots. You know, fifteen seconds here, fifteen seconds there.
Those are reminders to donate, but you really can't educate.
You really can't explain how they work in that time.
Which is why I asked Amy on today and she
was kind enough to have me on last week as well,
to remind you of this need and that this is
an active way. You are not putting it into a
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black hole. The Union Rescue Mission is taking eighty five
cents of that every dollar you give and they're putting
it into something great.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
They have it. I think they have three campuses.
Speaker 4 (28:11):
And campuses housing, yeah, housing in the apartment complexes where
people also.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
Have educational portals. They have really they are.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
I was very impressed and didn't know it to that
degree what they did, and I was a little embarrassed
being a lifelong Southlander and not knowing these things.
Speaker 4 (28:31):
Again, it's giving people a hand up, so not only
giving them a place to stay, but then also giving
them the tools so they can get back into a
functioning part of society and take care of themselves, because
that's what we all want, right We want to be
able to take care of ourselves, and this gives them
an avenue to do that.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
Very powerful stuff.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
A big fan of the Union Rescue Mission and have
been educated.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
In a way that I didn't expect to.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
So I'm thrilled to be standing next to my buddy
Amy going over the edge on the twenty seventh there
at the Hollywood or at the Hollywood the Universal Hilton
there right off of the one on one. You'll be
able to see us if you want to come and
cheer us on. I think there might even be a
place for that, or you can talk yep. If you
want to go over yourself. If you raise one thousand
(29:24):
dollars or donate a thousand dollars, they will let you
go over on one of those days yourself.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
I hear, it's a blast.
Speaker 4 (29:30):
I know they keep telling us that they keep going.
You guys, it's really fun. We went and did a
site you know, a site check, and both Neil and
I looked over the edge and I went, oh, heck no,
but okay, we're going to do it, so we need
your support to do it.
Speaker 3 (29:45):
Yes, it did.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
I wouldn't stand below me. I'm gonna work diapers. It
should be fun. So two different things to think about,
all for the same thing. Just help one is their
initiative that you know, just got to help that one person.
And if we all kind of take our bit, it
lifts it up. And the over the edge is to
promote that and that is our way of doing it
and hopefully stirring up some press and some some you know,
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social media activity and stuff so that people will donate.
Just help one dot org. Just help one dot org.
Donate look for the iHeart Radio team yep.
Speaker 4 (30:23):
And if you want to take a sneak peek like
we did. Go to there's two different places at amy
K King. Did we have this up on your on
your on your Instagram?
Speaker 2 (30:33):
I put it up in stories, but okay, let's hit
it again.
Speaker 4 (30:35):
Okay, it's at amy K King or at KFI AM
six forty or at the forok Reporter. And we have
a little teaser for you because we went up and
we took a peek over the edge, so you can
see what.
Speaker 3 (30:47):
We're going to do.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
Yeah, and I'll put some more videos up as well.
As I was shooting. It was pretty pretty crazy. But
we thank you in advance for being a part of
this and we're happy to possibly die for a great cost.
Speaker 4 (31:00):
Yes, we're very excited. I told somebody that yesterday. I said,
I'm excited and terrified at the same time. But it's
very great cause helmets, I don't know. I don't think
it would make a difference.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
Okay, all right, buddy, thank you.
Speaker 5 (31:13):
You're listening to The Fork Report with Nil Savedra on
demand from kf I AM six forty
Hey, it's Neil Savedri.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
You're listening to kfi EM six forty the four pport
on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
Hi, Kayla, you're looking on beautiful.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
I had a business lunch today.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
Oh is that? I mean you always do? But you
just have that. Uh, that'll do it.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Yeah, Well it looks great and it doesn't look fake.
It's very natural.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
Thank you. Your head looks fake.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Hey, Klo, what do you call a male cow that
loves to eat hamburgers?
Speaker 1 (00:29):
What a cannibull?
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Like a oh?
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Cannib All right, let's just start.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
How are you you know you I take what the
listeners say seriously, So talkbacks or whatever as long as
it's legitimate, even if it's rude or mean. If I
think it come if it's true, it's true. Right, And
somebody had said something that I was condescending, and I
thought that that's a different one, and then you know
what I said. I just thought, you know what, Neil,
(01:01):
you don't have to take that from a peasant. Hey,
coming up, we're gonna have Amy King come on in
a little bit. Why because Amy King and I are
for the Union Rescue Mission going the over the Edge
on September twenty seventh at the held the Universal, something
that my producer Kayla is more worried about than my wife.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
I'm not gonna do anything.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
It's gonna put my wife, myself in danger for my
wife and my boy.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
So I totally try.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
I'm definitely afraid of heights, by the way, and it's
a twenty five story building, so roughly two hundred and
fifty feet and I'm gonna wrapple down.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Repel rap rapple sounds good.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Hey, Can I get a frothy rapple chocolate and you
come off the side and you kind of lower yourself down,
you know, more like like in my head, I'm gonna
be like dune, dun dun, dun, dun, dun, dunny.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
What's holding you up?
Speaker 4 (01:54):
Neil?
Speaker 1 (01:55):
That's what well.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
I think we're all wondering that on a daily basis,
But in this case it'll be ropes and stuff.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
I trust that. But for a great cause.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Amy King is doing it as well from wake Up
Call Monday through Friday starting at five am, and of
course by partner in crime on the Bill Handles Show.
She's gonna come on, We're gonna tell you how you
can donate. We would really love for you to donate.
This is to help homeless people. But I've often complained
about the homeless situation here. I don't think enough is
(02:25):
being done, and when it is done, I don't think
it's being done in a way that is beneficial. The
cool thing about Union Rescue Mission is they don't get
money government money. And you know why they're not allowed
to get government money or the government does not give
them money because they are a dry organization. That means
you have to want to get sober and want to
(02:46):
get on drug or get off drugs to be a
part of their programs, which is educational programs, getting back
to work programs, bridge housing, all of those things in
the best way possible. I love the faith based as well.
But I just to me, I was like, how did
I not know about this? I have become a regular
(03:09):
contributor now I donate. They are part of my donation
group because I was so blown away. So I'm not
asking you to do anything that I wouldn't do. Although
you don't have to repel down the set of a building.
So we'll tell you more about that coming up right now.
For Technique of the Week, I wanted to get into
cheeseburgers because it's National Cheeseburger Day coming up on the
eighteenth next week.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Every day is cheeseburger Day.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
If you ask me, I love myself some cheeseburgers.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Are you cheese? Do you like cheese on your burger?
Speaker 3 (03:39):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (03:40):
My god? Yeah? It took a while to grow on me,
but yeah, I love cheesebergs. What the cheese? Cheese? Growing
on you?
Speaker 4 (03:46):
I just didn't like it with the burger for a
really long time until I grew up in.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Real Is that kids? Wife? All right? Eileen, how's about you? Cheese?
No cheese? If I could have cheese, I would smother
my burger with cheese. But I'm I'm sadly, I'm lactose intolerant.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Oh I know. It's a terrible curse.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Struck me as someone who's very open minded. It's weird
to find out that you're intolerant.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Yes, what is it?
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Is it the color of the cheese? Is it their culture?
What's the problem?
Speaker 3 (04:15):
Culture?
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Well, with cheese? It is the culture. I see.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
My wife does not do dairy either, but she doesn't
do red meat, so she doesn't have to put that
on there and Robin has stepped away from the board,
so I can't ask her. Let's get into it. If
you ever find yourself by the way in Pasadena and
you go to Colorado Boulevard, I think it's like the
fifteen hundred part there Colorado Boulevard and Pasadena, our beloved Pasadena.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Look down on the ground.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
You're going to see a plaque and it reads simply
this on this site. In nineteen twenty four, sixteen year
old Lionel Sternberger put cheese on a hamburger for the
first time, thus inventing the cheese burger.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
That's like Mecca.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
We should go, like all of us get together once
a year and go to Pasadena at the fifteen hundred
block of Colorado Boulevard and just thank the cheeseburger gods.
So this spot used to be a place called right Spot,
and it's where Sternberger apparently got creative and put a
slice of cheese on the burger. Now, this is the story,
(05:24):
and they don't know whether it was to fix a
cooking mistake or it was just for fun or whatever
it was. But it's been going strong for almost one
hundred years now and thank God for it, or just
about one hundred years now. So you can get all
kinds of cheeseburgers, thick, thin, smashed, double deck, you can
get what they call juicy Lucy's where the meat is
(05:46):
in the side the burger. They could be made from
all corns, kinds of different ingredients now different funds. I've
seen it on toast. I've been served a beautiful cheeseburger
four in between two grilled cheese sandwhich is as the
bun grill them all, which has some of my favorite burgers,
(06:11):
by the way, and they're wonderful. Guys haven't been on
the air with us for a while. We got to
get them back and they were in al Hamber. I
think they're now in Long Beach. I think they moved
to Long Beach. But the great guys great burgers, and
that was one of those the first times people started
experimenting with burgers. They were really at the lead in
the forefront of that, along with places like the Oyster
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and the like that are still pumping out just fantastic
burgers to this day. So whether you like it in
different forms, it is just an amalgamation of wonderful meat,
gooey cheese, and a bun and toppings that go together
in this dance that we most of us find a
(06:57):
love for. Ground beef twenty percent fat is ideal. I
tell people this all the.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Time, Neil.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
I make burgers at home, but they're never as juicy
as when I go out. I said, you probably got
lean beef. You need eighty twenty eighty percent lean, twenty
percent fat. That's what makes it deelicious. Kosher salt, freshly
ground pepper. Cheese, American cheese is fantastic, but there's so
(07:26):
many wonderful cheeses out there you can go. And then
of course fluffy buns, which was your name in prison.
There you go, ada girl, We come back. We'll get
into patty types and a couple of little simple recipes
and now you can enjoy cheeseburgers at home. Different cooking
methods as well, whether you broil or you grill, or
(07:51):
you sear them off on the stove.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
We'll get into that soap. Go nowhere.
Speaker 5 (07:56):
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Right now, we're talking about cheeseburgers for Technique of the Week,
where the first two segments I break down something that
we can all use as practical information. Burgers are just
one of those great things, you know, and what regardless
of what you like, you like the classic diner style
which is coming back. That's that thick, that juicy, great
contrast between that crispy exterior, that tender, lovely, slightly pink
(09:20):
on the inside. I mean burgers last night. They were
delicious smash burger. That's that thin, crispy, very flavorful. The
meat is cracking on the outside, leaving that extra caramelized
or extra brown, crunchy, lovely exterior, very straightforward, very simple.
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Usually throw two of them on there with some cheese,
cheese in patty or what they refer to as a
juicy lucy in some parts town. You can mix the
cheese into the meat, or you can put it in
the center. All these things have their you know, their benefit,
and really it comes down to the cooking method, so
(10:04):
you can bake them. Baking could be a bit of
a let down. Patties don't brown as well that way,
and that's where you get a lot of the flavor.
Air fried, you know what. I had some My brother
in law, Joaquin, made us some burgers when we were
on the East coast at their place in Cape Cod and.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Air freight them. They were perfect. They were so delicious.
Air fried mine yesterday. Did you now are you?
Speaker 2 (10:32):
You had stepped away when we were doing the roundabout
with everybody? You would cheese goal, Robin, you like cheese
on your burger? No fake cheese yes, Oh yeah, I forgot.
You don't do dairy. Yes, okay, fake cheese that comes
in and like and you have that with your near
beer and then you go and get in a faith fight.
That sounds like a lot of fun. Excellent so air fried.
(10:53):
I did like that. Some people say it dries out
the meat. I have not found that when done properly.
As far as timing broiled, my mom broiled burgers a lot,
and I still have an affinity for it because of that.
I do it on occasion in the house. But you know,
I have a lovely backyard kitchen and I tend to
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really like that high heat and the smell that comes
off of that. But broiled, if done right and turned properly,
you can get wonderful grilled, come on smoky flavor. It
can be a little drier if you're not careful. I
like to undercook them a little bit and then because
that high heat, let it carry over and warm cook
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the remainder stovetop. Seared is beautiful, but what a freaking mess.
It can be splattering all over the place. But you
get a better you'd like the best browned crust. You
can throw the butter on them and baste them in it,
so really you get toss onions in their mushrooms whatever
that That really is.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
A great flavor bomb.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
But man is in a mess and just splatters all
over the place, and it's kind of hard to do
with like four or more burgers, you know, because you're
doing it in a pan. So yeah, if you're if
everybody's gone and you're in your chonies at the house
and you're gonna watch some Netflix or something underwear and
(12:19):
you're chilling, and you're like, oh, that's you know, I'm
gonna make myself the best burger in the world, then yeah,
knock yourself out. Just make sure you clean all the
grease up. So those are those are your basics when
it comes to that. Keep in mind that when you're
again getting the meat you want it eighty twenty, that
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is going to be that juicy, wonderful. It's the standard
plan on using about six ounces of meat per patty.
If you want that real beefy, beefy burger, you can
make four burgers. Obviously with a pound and a half.
If you're gonna do smash burgers, I usually go about
(13:02):
three ounces or so, sometimes as low as two ounces.
If I'm smashing them really thin, and I just barely
let the grill them hit the griddle rather very quickly,
just boom boom on your plancha on your flat top,
and very very quickly shape your patties about three quarters
of an inch thick. If you want those, you know,
(13:23):
old school cookout, barbecue in the backyard type burgers.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
They're just delicious.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
You want them a little, just about almost three quarters
of an inch larger than the bun because they're gonna
shrink up. You can even press the center down with
your thumb. I've seen people even put an ice cube
on top of them so they don't puff up like
a football. The thin patties, man, I use a couple
pieces of parchment or wax paper. I turn a plate
(13:51):
upside down, another plate upside down. Just make sure they're sturdy.
I've busted one of my mom's plates one time.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
They were one of.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
Those old sets that you got, like it Albertson's or
something back in the day. So I had to track
one down online to replace it.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
So don't do that, now, did you? Did you succeed?
Speaker 5 (14:11):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (14:11):
I got it.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
I felt bad she forgot about it.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
I'm like, hey, I feel really bad, and she's like, oh, okay,
it's replaced.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
I don't want that. Don't want that on my tombstone.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
So you know, you can make a ball about i'd
say four inches four ounces or less three ounce. You
can get a nice spread on that. Press them down,
make sure that you're seasoning the meat just as you're
putting them on. I don't season them the proteins prior
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to too long prior, because they start to have a
reaction to the protein tighten up. If you do that,
then you got to leave them out, probably about forty
five minutes or so, to kind of relax again. Hot grill,
you know, I you know, I think that's the way
to go. I enjoy it. Keep in mind, if you're
using chicken for burgers, the bacteria never put anything cooked
(15:06):
back on a plate that was that had the raw
burgers on them. Switch that out that Caleb, please tell
me you don't.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
I'm just like, like, if it's medium, right, like rare, okay,
right now? I was just okay, fair, No, you're right,
it's gross.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
It's not gross. It's poisonous. It's poisonous. But why is
it poisonous then?
Speaker 4 (15:26):
But it's not poisonous when it's rare in the middle
of your burger.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Well, first of all, rare in the middle of your burger,
you better know where that. That better not be grocery store. Uh,
you better you have them freshly grinded or something. Here's
the thing quickly, because we gotta go. Here's the thing
with ground beef. If you have a steak rare, it
sears the outside of the steak. That's where a lot
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of the bacteria is. If you grind that steak into
itself when it's raw, now the bacteria is on the
inside too and needs to be cooked properly. So that's
why most people won't eat anything but a well done
burger in somewhere else, high end restaurants and the like.
They'll tell you, hey, we'll cook it anyway you want it. However,
(16:13):
the best way to do it to be as safe
as possible is this way. So keep that stuff in mind,
all right.
Speaker 5 (16:19):
Much more to come, so go know where you're listening
to The Fork Report with Nil Savedra on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
I am your well fed host, Neil Savadra had to
eat you. Why are you on this lovely Saturday? Look
at that no one's cooking on the street with eggs
and the like.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Very nice.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
I invited my buddy Amy King from Wake Up Call
Herd Monday through Friday, starting at five am till six am,
and then she joins me in putting a bit in
the mouth of handle and trying to ride that wild
bull every single day Monday through Friday. Amy and I
are going to do something interesting on the twenty seventh.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
Amy, something terrifying, something.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Terrifying, but interesting, but for a fantastic cause.
Speaker 4 (17:09):
That's right, it's for the Union Rescue Mission, as we
all know, because when we drive around we see it
every single day. Homelessness is out of control. And so
we're trying to raise money to help fight homelessness. And
here's what's great about the Union Rescue Mission, and here's
out because we know that there are millions of dollars
(17:29):
being pumped into this issue and everybody's going it's not
getting any better.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
And I think personally.
Speaker 4 (17:37):
That a lot of times it's because there's a lot
of people who are on the streets who aren't ready
for help.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
They don't want it.
Speaker 4 (17:43):
They're either strung out on drugs, they have mental health issues,
they don't want it. Union Rescue Mission actually helps people
who want help, and they have a couple of things
that are different from a lot of the other programs.
One of them is they have transitional housing that helps
people actually get back on their feet so they can
get back into housing. And another thing that they do
is because they do feed a whole lot of people,
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but when you go into their shelters, they don't allow
any drugs or alcohol. And because of that, they don't
get any government funding. If you can believe that, it's
all private funding, because they're like, we need people who
are serious, we need our shelters to be clean, we
need people to have a safe place to stay, and
so they don't. They don't get any federal funding, so
(18:24):
they're raising it all on their own. And that's where
you guys come in.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
Weren't you gobsmacked by that truth? That was the first
time I had heard that. Actually, I was doing a
little research on Union Rescue Mission Mission when they approached
us again. As Amy King said, you pass it, you
know it, you've seen it. But you've seen so many
different missions and outreaches and it's hard.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
I have grown not callous, but I.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
Have got to sensitize. Yeah, I just got to the
point where it's like, come on, do something. It is
not the kind way to leave people feral on the streets.
And there are people that want help, and those are
people that know that they have to put themselves forward,
meaning they're going to have to get off drugs, they're
(19:12):
going to have to stop drinking. And the fact that
our government, the people we vote into power to help
with this problem, won't give money to an organization like
Union Rescue Mission because they run a dry mission that
you have to go. I want help and I am
not looking for handouts. I'm looking to get better, be
(19:35):
productive again. That that just floored me and I said
I'm in, and they became in my rotation. I started
a monthly rotation with them. Now they are I donate
to them Now, I wouldn't ask you to donate to
something that I wouldn't with my own money. And this
is this thing that Amy and I are part of.
Are not only are we going over the edge on
(19:55):
the twenty seventh, they're doing it on the twenty seventh
and twenty eighth. Amy and I will be doing the
twenty seventh, which is Friday coming up, and we are
going to go over the edge and we are going
to repel down the side of a twenty five story building.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
Twenty five stories.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
Yeah, and you ordered fifty feet.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
It is the Hilton there off of the off of
the one to one freeway at Universal.
Speaker 4 (20:19):
So it's a big black building and you can see it,
and I think they're going to have a big banner
off the side. But we're going to be repelling off
the side to raise money. And that's where you come
in because we need your donations and we would love
for you to donate whatever you can, if it's fifty bucks,
if it's twenty bucks. Again, we're helping people who actually
(20:40):
want help.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
So we're not doing a hand up. Nope, we are
doing a hand up. We're not doing a hand out.
We're doing a hand up.
Speaker 4 (20:47):
Which I am a firm believer and I think if
people want help, we should, we should reach out and
we should try to help them. So we would love
your donation. And here's another thing. If you want to
do this, they keep telling me it's really fun. On
If you want to repel off the side of a
twenty five story building, you just need to raise one
thousand dollars yourself, and you can do that by donating
(21:07):
one thousand dollars, or you can start a team and
raise that money. And the way to find how to
donate is to go to just help one dot org,
which is Union Rescue's specific program for this, and you
can make a donation that way. And we have the
team iHeart. You can donate to us because we want
(21:29):
to beat all the other teams.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
Yeah, and we've got nothing there right now.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
We're at twenty one hundred dollars and we really want
to blow that away for a couple of reasons. We
want to show them the power of a KFI listener.
And Amy and I are fine to put our butts
on the line literally to get awareness.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
Can you stick around?
Speaker 5 (21:47):
Yep?
Speaker 2 (21:47):
Amy, because you know you came out to the station.
I really want to hammer this home, not only because
I want us to kick ass with raising donations for
this great cause, but I want people to really know
kind of how they're going about this, and that just
help one attitude that I think is powerful.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
All right, stick around.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
Amy King is hanging out with me Amy King from
wake up call Monday through Friday five to six am.
And then of course she is with me being the
Voices of Reason with Bill Handle Monday through Friday starting
at six as well. So go nowhere to stick around.
You've been listening to The Forek Report. You can always
hear us live on KFI AM six forty two to
(22:27):
five pm on Saturday and anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio. A. Hey, everybody,
it's the fore Report, All things food, beverage beyond. Yay,
food beverages, Yaya.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
Here's the food beyond.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
How come no one ever comes here for me? They
come here for the food.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
I came here just for you, Neilday.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
You came for the food.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
Is there food?
Speaker 1 (22:51):
There will be?
Speaker 5 (22:52):
Ooh?
Speaker 3 (22:52):
I might stay.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
Okay, So let's see.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
Oh I just got a great question from Jeff Mather
as the Beaver. Is there a link specific to you
or is a general donation site?
Speaker 1 (23:05):
Also?
Speaker 2 (23:05):
Will you commit to yodling at least once while going
over the edge.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
You know what I wanted to do.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
I want to go as a fat spider man and
get like us. Thank anybody, come over the side, come
on for it's for charities for the children.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
I was thinking we should go as Batman and Robin.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
Oh that is funny. Wait a second remember how they
use which one gets to be Batman?
Speaker 3 (23:27):
I'm Batman.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
I am Batman.
Speaker 3 (23:30):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (23:30):
So the link is just help one dot org and
then you click on donations and then you go to.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
The team's place for the iHeart and go to the
team iHeart.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
It's not Amy or Neil or it's just ihearts.
Speaker 4 (23:43):
But you can you can make a note say, hey,
this one's for Neil. I'm gonna pay I'm gonna pay
an extra hundred bucks for Neil.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
To go over.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
Yeah, or you can just say this is for Neil
and Amy. May he fall first, so she has something
cushy to land on.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
Oh okay, yeah, okay.
Speaker 4 (24:00):
So back to Theion Reunion rescue mission. So we were
talking about how large the problem is. Seventy five thousand
people in La are homeless. I mean that's the size
of a city, right. Oh yeah, And it's daunting, it's
too much, and you can't help everybody, you can't do it.
But if you cut it down into bite sized pieces
(24:22):
and say, you know what, I can help just one,
we can do that. And if you cut it down
and you see a person, you can help a person.
And that's why we're asking you to just help one.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
That actually comes from a quote from Mother Teresa. She stated,
if you can't feed one hundred people, then just feed one.
And I love that concept. I also am horrified from
the job that has been done by the powers to
be here in Los Angeles and the governor. I really
I think that they've raised so much money and so
little has been done that there are so many parts
(24:59):
of this veterans. There is no veteran that should be
on the street ever period. Women, children should get up
and they should be taken care of. There's mental health
issues and the like. But what Union Rescue Mission does
is they focus on people who want help, who want
to stop using, who want to stop drinking, and the
government does not give them money.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
Because of that, you cannot be a dry house.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
You cannot be an organization that doesn't allow people to
use drugs in the mission and receive money. So this
is the this. I love this. I will tell you.
I also found out that they were building housing and
the city came in, took the contractors and built started
(25:44):
building and there is verification of this. Started building there
the bridge homes, so it didn't they didn't look bad
by having the Union Rescue Mission build it first. It's
crazy and that pissed me off, quite honestly. It made
me angry that it's about what you look like rather
(26:05):
than what you're doing, so that I probably shouldn't have
said all that, but there's the information to back it up.
Union Rescue Mission is I'm proud to be a part
of this. I'm proud to be doing this too. I
have donated money, not only you know in the monthly,
but also if you give to this, you know that
(26:25):
at eighty five percent of every dollar, eighty five cents
of every dollar is going to help.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
That is great.
Speaker 4 (26:31):
That's really high because a lot of and whenever you
donate to any charity, you should check them out and
find out exactly how much of the money is going
to the recipients, the people.
Speaker 3 (26:40):
Who are going to bend the charity navigator.
Speaker 4 (26:42):
Yeah, that's that's one of the ones that you can
And eighty five percent is really really great.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
And they Union Rescue Mission Mission has a one hundred percent.
They have a one hundred score on.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
That.
Speaker 4 (26:54):
That means that they're using the money effectively and efficiently. Yeah,
and again we talked to the people from a Union
Rescue Mission and they are passionate about what they do.
They love what they do, and they want to help people.
And they're not just throwing money at a problem and saying, here,
look at all the money we've spent they're throwing.
Speaker 3 (27:12):
They're not throwing it.
Speaker 4 (27:13):
They're putting money to a problem and saying, we're getting results.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
And they're talking about the people. Yeah, not constituents, not
any of these are people. And I really loved the
heart and the attitude. It reminded me of what we
see on this program a lot when a chef brings
you something they made and they're proud of it. They
wanted to share information, they wanted to educate, and you're
going to hear Amy do recorded spots and me do
(27:38):
recorded spots. You know, fifteen seconds here, fifteen seconds there.
Those are reminders to donate, but you really can't educate.
You really can't explain how they work in that time.
Which is why I asked Amy on today and she
was kind enough to have me on last week as well,
to remind you of this need and that this is
an active way. You are not putting it into a
(28:00):
black hole. The Union Rescue Mission is taking eighty five
cents of that every dollar you give and they're putting
it into something great.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
They have it. I think they have three campuses.
Speaker 4 (28:11):
And campuses housing, yeah, housing in the apartment complexes where
people also.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
Have educational portals. They have really they are.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
I was very impressed and didn't know it to that
degree what they did, and I was a little embarrassed
being a lifelong Southlander and not knowing these things.
Speaker 4 (28:31):
Again, it's giving people a hand up, so not only
giving them a place to stay, but then also giving
them the tools so they can get back into a
functioning part of society and take care of themselves, because
that's what we all want, right We want to be
able to take care of ourselves, and this gives them
an avenue to do that.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
Very powerful stuff.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
A big fan of the Union Rescue Mission and have
been educated.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
In a way that I didn't expect to.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
So I'm thrilled to be standing next to my buddy
Amy going over the edge on the twenty seventh there
at the Hollywood or at the Hollywood the Universal Hilton
there right off of the one on one. You'll be
able to see us if you want to come and
cheer us on. I think there might even be a
place for that, or you can talk yep. If you
want to go over yourself. If you raise one thousand
(29:24):
dollars or donate a thousand dollars, they will let you
go over on one of those days yourself.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
I hear, it's a blast.
Speaker 4 (29:30):
I know they keep telling us that they keep going.
You guys, it's really fun. We went and did a
site you know, a site check, and both Neil and
I looked over the edge and I went, oh, heck no,
but okay, we're going to do it, so we need
your support to do it.
Speaker 3 (29:45):
Yes, it did.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
I wouldn't stand below me. I'm gonna work diapers. It
should be fun. So two different things to think about,
all for the same thing. Just help one is their
initiative that you know, just got to help that one person.
And if we all kind of take our bit, it
lifts it up. And the over the edge is to
promote that and that is our way of doing it
and hopefully stirring up some press and some some you know,
(30:10):
social media activity and stuff so that people will donate.
Just help one dot org. Just help one dot org.
Donate look for the iHeart Radio team yep.
Speaker 4 (30:23):
And if you want to take a sneak peek like
we did. Go to there's two different places at amy
K King. Did we have this up on your on
your on your Instagram?
Speaker 2 (30:33):
I put it up in stories, but okay, let's hit
it again.
Speaker 4 (30:35):
Okay, it's at amy K King or at KFI AM
six forty or at the forok Reporter. And we have
a little teaser for you because we went up and
we took a peek over the edge, so you can
see what.
Speaker 3 (30:47):
We're going to do.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
Yeah, and I'll put some more videos up as well.
As I was shooting. It was pretty pretty crazy. But
we thank you in advance for being a part of
this and we're happy to possibly die for a great cost.
Speaker 4 (31:00):
Yes, we're very excited. I told somebody that yesterday. I said,
I'm excited and terrified at the same time. But it's
very great cause helmets, I don't know. I don't think
it would make a difference.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
Okay, all right, buddy, thank you.
Speaker 5 (31:13):
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