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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well, it's only been out for a couple of weeks.
Season two of Squid Game already the third most watched
season for a series in the history of Netflix. Let's
bring in Alex Stone from ABC News and uh, Alex,
I don't know have you watched Squid Game?
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Are you from not seen squid Games? I hear it's
good though.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Yeah, so you didn't even see the first one. Okay,
so you're not familiar at well, you're familiar just from
whatever what the reports are on it or whatever.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
You've got, only that it's a squid floating in the ocean.
That's all I do know. I have no idea what
it's about.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
I was like, oh, you've been misled. That is not
accurate at all. Yeah, it is. It's interesting, to say
the least about you know, the way that it's written,
and there's definitely it's you know, depending on who you are,
there's probably a lot of people who are like, ah, man,
it's terrible, blah blah blah. But the fact that one
(00:55):
hundred and fifty two and a half million views and
they're calling the sophomore season of the hit series trailing
only its first from two hundred and sixty five million views,
and yeah, then I don't know. I mean, when you're
talking about two hundred plus million views, clearly there's a
few people watching it.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
And oh, yeah, no, I know what. People love it.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
I thought the first you know, the first installment of
it was good. I watched it, and you know, the
main guy who ends up winning it, he is back
for the second one. I've watched a couple of them already.
But I'm I'm almost It's almost like if you have
(01:38):
a favorite movie and then there's a sequel to it,
and then you feel like it's like, man, I feel
like they're kind of reaching or we're getting a lot
of the same stuff kind of warmed over, like rehashed.
That's kind of how it feels to me a little
bit here with the second series, but the season two.
But they're they're they're saying right now it's the third
most watched season for a season in the history of Netflix,
(02:01):
which is saying something because they've had some some serious
viewing on there.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Oh. Absolutely.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Do you ever have where you're really into a show
and then they take some time off and then you
just can't get back into it. Yes, Like the next
season Yellowstone was a little bit that way to me.
That like I was really into like seasons one and two,
and then I just kind of time went away, and
then they came back and I just couldn't get back
into it, and like you're in the mode where you're
watching it and then all of a sudden, it's like,
all right, you know, you gotta like catch up on
(02:27):
it again because you've forgotten everything going on.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Right, I didn't. I did not watch that. A lot
of people are like, ooh, you missed out.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Oh yeah, that sounds great.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Yeah, see, there it is.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
I mean I just got a little too Yeah, for
a while, they get deep enough into the seasons where
you're like, okay, this is going too far now, you know,
or you're like there's just too much. This family is
way too powerful now.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
I see, Yeah, I mean I see what you're saying.
I think about like Breaking Bad. I consume that in
a pretty short timeframe, but it wasn't right when it dropped.
I was pretty late to that party.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
But sometimes that's better because then you can watch multiple
seasons all at once and you don't have that gap
where you lose it.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Yeah, and I thought that was pretty good, but I
got to tell you. By the end of it, I
was ready for it to be over, but I thought
it was pretty brilliantly written. You know. I didn't have
any trouble with that. I don't know, there's there's a
couple of different kind of to your point. What what
you're saying there is like you go away for a
little bit. Dexter the new installment of Dexter. I don't
(03:28):
know if you watched the first one with I think
it's Michael C. Scott or nothing, Michael Paul or I
don't know something. But I thought that was really really good.
And now he's not back. The original guy, the original
Dexter is not back. It's almost like this is the
prequel or something. I was just trying to follow it
(03:49):
and I started watching it. I'm like, maybe I've been
away from it for too long. So that's almost a
perfect analysis there where you're like, mah, you have to
watch something. You're two way for it, and you go, oh, no,
like it's just not the same thing.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
You know, I don't know, you're just not in the mode.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
It's like you'll be at a certain point in your
life where it's perfect and then you know you've moved on.
And life just isn't the same where you can't sit
down and watch it.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Yeah, I'm like that with below Deck right now, you know,
talking about a real serious deep television. I just can't
get back into below.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Deck right right.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
Absolutely, it's not deep television. It's it's trashy reality TV.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Oh I don't know. I don't I'm not familiar with that.
I was, I'm sorry, taking some time off on it.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Hey, pretty interesting. Earlier on Last Hour, Alex, we had
Royal Oaks on with us. Oh yeah, yeah, and so
he was talking, of course about TikTok and everything going
on with that. So we were talking about it. But
then I got it. I had received a note from
somebody in your organization who said, hey, he and his
wife were able to get back into their home and
(04:49):
and it did not burn down and all that, and
he discribed. So she's like, uh, he's more than willing
to speak about that if you want. So we did
the TikTok and then I brought that up, and he
started talking about he had lived there for thirty nine years,
their kids and so on, but they're able to get
back in there, which I thought was just fantastic. I
love that it's a positive story in the middle of
(05:10):
all of this awful grief, all of these bad things
going on. Not that I'm saying, hey, we need some
really positivity during this, but I just thought it was
a really nice thing, and the fact that you know
who he is and all of that.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
But he was able to get back so evacuated.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Yeah, I got to text them or call him when
we get done, make sure he's doing all right.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
But it sounds like from what you said, he is
he is.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
They're literally back in their home now. And they left,
they were evacuated, and he talked about how he and
his wife had to leave and I said, man, you
must have been really struggling during the time where you're
so anxious, going, oh my gosh, it's my place going
to burn down. And he said, man, it was absolutely
like nothing he had ever experienced before, and so on.
(05:51):
But I think we're going to have a lot of
those stories, and then we're going to obviously have all
of this tragedy, all these stories. Unfortunately, they're probably going
to be the line share of the stories.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
Yeah, this so well, well, a lot of people are
not in the heart of it, but they just lifted
more of the evacuation orders a few minutes ago. Some
more people tonight are going to be able to go
home and kind of the perimeter areas that, yeah, things
are looking so much better now because the winds have
turned around. He probably told you, But now it's how
they should be coming in from the ocean and not
(06:19):
going out toward the ocean from the desert, so things
are not as explosive. But unfortunately this isn't gonna last
long because by Monday, the Santa Anas are again going
to make a return. It's going to be all next week,
so this is it's really short lived. But what they're
hoping to do is to give the firefighters who have
been on the front lines for ten straight days. Now,
(06:40):
they're dirty, they're exhausted, some have lost their own homes.
To give them a few days off because they're being
so augmented by the firefighters that have come in from
all over the country and Canada and Mexico. Israeli firefighters
arrived yesterday. South African firefighters are here, so to give
the local firefighters a couple of days. But it's they've
(07:03):
had quite a fight and it's it's calming down now,
but next week we don't know what it's going to be.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
This is you know. I also was seeing that the
in addition to everything that we are witnessing from, you know,
seeing all the devastation that now you know, with the
possible mud slides and all of that.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
There was one home yesterday because of broken water lines
that melted during the fires that it had water under
the home and it slid down the hill. It survived
the fire and then it broken half and slid down
the hill. But you know, the one thing we're doing,
this thing today called SoCal Strong, really focused on the
community coming together, and there's just so much of it.
(07:46):
All the donations and food trucks that have been lined
up giving out free food, the Rose Bowl parking lot
where huge crowds have showed up to give and to
get diapers and food and clothing, and it's just been incredible.
And the food truck after food truck pulling up giving
away free food.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
This is Wan Diaz. He started it.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
He said they had no idea when they pulled up
to give five hundred hot dogs away. He was going
to turn into this thing with ten thousand people everybody
there trying to help out and getting what they need.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
It feels unreal that all these people are here together
helping one another.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
It feels so special and it's all bit organic.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
At the Palisades Fire World Central Kitchen and Chef Jose
Andres bringing together world class chefs Michelin star level chefs
to cook for the firefighters and for the evacuees, like
yellow curry over rice. And they can come up and
pull their engine up and say, hey, we've got twenty
guys out on the line, we need twenty meals. And
they get twenty hot meals cooked by high end chefs
(08:48):
who then they can take the restaurant style meals back
out on the line. It's it's pretty incredible. And then
I mean just so much to talk to Walt Butler,
eighty three years old. His home of sixty years in
Altadena is gone. Embers were raining down on him when
he left, and he told us.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Run it go, give me me getting away from the fire.
It should to happen.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
Yeah, it shouldn't have happened. He didn't think he should
have survived. But he's this guy is known as kind
of the heart and soul of Altadena. And there's a
GoFundMe for him that his kids put up. It's raised
a million dollars. Oh yeah, and he says he's ready
to rebuild and use money to help out his neighbors.
I mean, there's just so much giving in all of this.
Of for Walt Butler, the million dollars that he's got
(09:30):
to help rebuild, the chefs coming together, the food trucks,
the community showing up home Depot today giving three million dollars. Jackerie,
they make the like battery generators, They're giving a bunch
of money, just company after company doing it right now.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
And there's there's a lot of good coming out of
this as well.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Hey, I also wanted to while I had you on
doing this talking about there, because there are a lot
of people speculating that it's like, hey man, all the
people that are affected by this, they're all freaking loaded,
so you know whan they're not. Yeah, and that's just it.
I wanted to make sure that you because I see
that so much on social media. I'm like, no, of course,
you're talking about Malibu and those areas along the Pacific
(10:11):
Coast Highway there and some of the I mean those five.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
Yea in that area. That's the celebrity enclave and whatnot.
Altadena is a different ballgame. These are nineteen hundreds to
nineteen fifties built small bungalows. It is Alta Dina is
actually a place that became a large black community in
one area where many years ago the black community could
(10:37):
buy homes and buy land. And so there's a lot
of history in Altadena. But altadenas a lot of firefighters
live there. Firefighters lost their homes there. They can't live
in Pacific Palisades, they can't afford to live out there,
but they can live in Altadena. You know, it's plumbers,
it's people who work in the behind the scenes in
the movie industry doing carpentry and electrical work. That it
(11:00):
is very much at The homes are probably twelve hundred
square feet. That it's call it yeah, yeah, I mean
it very much. So neighborhood after neighborhood. That these are
people who are not the same crowd as Pacific Palaceades. Look,
losing your home is terrible no matter what, but most
of those in Batibu and Pacific Palasades have more means
in that way. But it's a loss for everybody. But no,
(11:24):
Altadena is a different ballgame. It's really like anywhere in America.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Yeah, very good. It's good to hear some positivity beginning
to kind of surface with this, and I'm sure it's
going to pick up steam here as it looks like
they're pulling together. That's fantastic. Alex Stone, ABC News out
of Los Angeles. Alex, thank you very much.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
Have a great weekend you too, Thanks Mark, Thanks Man,
see you Measure
Well, it's only been out for a couple of weeks.
Season two of Squid Game already the third most watched
season for a series in the history of Netflix. Let's
bring in Alex Stone from ABC News and uh, Alex,
I don't know have you watched Squid Game?
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Are you from not seen squid Games? I hear it's
good though.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Yeah, so you didn't even see the first one. Okay,
so you're not familiar at well, you're familiar just from
whatever what the reports are on it or whatever.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
You've got, only that it's a squid floating in the ocean.
That's all I do know. I have no idea what
it's about.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
I was like, oh, you've been misled. That is not
accurate at all. Yeah, it is. It's interesting, to say
the least about you know, the way that it's written,
and there's definitely it's you know, depending on who you are,
there's probably a lot of people who are like, ah, man,
it's terrible, blah blah blah. But the fact that one
(00:55):
hundred and fifty two and a half million views and
they're calling the sophomore season of the hit series trailing
only its first from two hundred and sixty five million views,
and yeah, then I don't know. I mean, when you're
talking about two hundred plus million views, clearly there's a
few people watching it.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
And oh, yeah, no, I know what. People love it.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
I thought the first you know, the first installment of
it was good. I watched it, and you know, the
main guy who ends up winning it, he is back
for the second one. I've watched a couple of them already.
But I'm I'm almost It's almost like if you have
(01:38):
a favorite movie and then there's a sequel to it,
and then you feel like it's like, man, I feel
like they're kind of reaching or we're getting a lot
of the same stuff kind of warmed over, like rehashed.
That's kind of how it feels to me a little
bit here with the second series, but the season two.
But they're they're they're saying right now it's the third
most watched season for a season in the history of Netflix,
(02:01):
which is saying something because they've had some some serious
viewing on there.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Oh. Absolutely.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Do you ever have where you're really into a show
and then they take some time off and then you
just can't get back into it. Yes, Like the next
season Yellowstone was a little bit that way to me.
That like I was really into like seasons one and two,
and then I just kind of time went away, and
then they came back and I just couldn't get back
into it, and like you're in the mode where you're
watching it and then all of a sudden, it's like,
all right, you know, you gotta like catch up on
(02:27):
it again because you've forgotten everything going on.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Right, I didn't. I did not watch that. A lot
of people are like, ooh, you missed out.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Oh yeah, that sounds great.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Yeah, see, there it is.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
I mean I just got a little too Yeah, for
a while, they get deep enough into the seasons where
you're like, okay, this is going too far now, you know,
or you're like there's just too much. This family is
way too powerful now.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
I see, Yeah, I mean I see what you're saying.
I think about like Breaking Bad. I consume that in
a pretty short timeframe, but it wasn't right when it dropped.
I was pretty late to that party.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
But sometimes that's better because then you can watch multiple
seasons all at once and you don't have that gap
where you lose it.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Yeah, and I thought that was pretty good, but I
got to tell you. By the end of it, I
was ready for it to be over, but I thought
it was pretty brilliantly written. You know. I didn't have
any trouble with that. I don't know, there's there's a
couple of different kind of to your point. What what
you're saying there is like you go away for a
little bit. Dexter the new installment of Dexter. I don't
(03:28):
know if you watched the first one with I think
it's Michael C. Scott or nothing, Michael Paul or I
don't know something. But I thought that was really really good.
And now he's not back. The original guy, the original
Dexter is not back. It's almost like this is the
prequel or something. I was just trying to follow it
(03:49):
and I started watching it. I'm like, maybe I've been
away from it for too long. So that's almost a
perfect analysis there where you're like, mah, you have to
watch something. You're two way for it, and you go, oh, no,
like it's just not the same thing.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
You know, I don't know, you're just not in the mode.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
It's like you'll be at a certain point in your
life where it's perfect and then you know you've moved on.
And life just isn't the same where you can't sit
down and watch it.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Yeah, I'm like that with below Deck right now, you know,
talking about a real serious deep television. I just can't
get back into below.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Deck right right.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
Absolutely, it's not deep television. It's it's trashy reality TV.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Oh I don't know. I don't I'm not familiar with that.
I was, I'm sorry, taking some time off on it.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Hey, pretty interesting. Earlier on Last Hour, Alex, we had
Royal Oaks on with us. Oh yeah, yeah, and so
he was talking, of course about TikTok and everything going
on with that. So we were talking about it. But
then I got it. I had received a note from
somebody in your organization who said, hey, he and his
wife were able to get back into their home and
(04:49):
and it did not burn down and all that, and
he discribed. So she's like, uh, he's more than willing
to speak about that if you want. So we did
the TikTok and then I brought that up, and he
started talking about he had lived there for thirty nine years,
their kids and so on, but they're able to get
back in there, which I thought was just fantastic. I
love that it's a positive story in the middle of
(05:10):
all of this awful grief, all of these bad things
going on. Not that I'm saying, hey, we need some
really positivity during this, but I just thought it was
a really nice thing, and the fact that you know
who he is and all of that.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
But he was able to get back so evacuated.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Yeah, I got to text them or call him when
we get done, make sure he's doing all right.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
But it sounds like from what you said, he is
he is.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
They're literally back in their home now. And they left,
they were evacuated, and he talked about how he and
his wife had to leave and I said, man, you
must have been really struggling during the time where you're
so anxious, going, oh my gosh, it's my place going
to burn down. And he said, man, it was absolutely
like nothing he had ever experienced before, and so on.
(05:51):
But I think we're going to have a lot of
those stories, and then we're going to obviously have all
of this tragedy, all these stories. Unfortunately, they're probably going
to be the line share of the stories.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
Yeah, this so well, well, a lot of people are
not in the heart of it, but they just lifted
more of the evacuation orders a few minutes ago. Some
more people tonight are going to be able to go
home and kind of the perimeter areas that, yeah, things
are looking so much better now because the winds have
turned around. He probably told you, But now it's how
they should be coming in from the ocean and not
(06:19):
going out toward the ocean from the desert, so things
are not as explosive. But unfortunately this isn't gonna last
long because by Monday, the Santa Anas are again going
to make a return. It's going to be all next week,
so this is it's really short lived. But what they're
hoping to do is to give the firefighters who have
been on the front lines for ten straight days. Now,
(06:40):
they're dirty, they're exhausted, some have lost their own homes.
To give them a few days off because they're being
so augmented by the firefighters that have come in from
all over the country and Canada and Mexico. Israeli firefighters
arrived yesterday. South African firefighters are here, so to give
the local firefighters a couple of days. But it's they've
(07:03):
had quite a fight and it's it's calming down now,
but next week we don't know what it's going to be.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
This is you know. I also was seeing that the
in addition to everything that we are witnessing from, you know,
seeing all the devastation that now you know, with the
possible mud slides and all of that.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
There was one home yesterday because of broken water lines
that melted during the fires that it had water under
the home and it slid down the hill. It survived
the fire and then it broken half and slid down
the hill. But you know, the one thing we're doing,
this thing today called SoCal Strong, really focused on the
community coming together, and there's just so much of it.
(07:46):
All the donations and food trucks that have been lined
up giving out free food, the Rose Bowl parking lot
where huge crowds have showed up to give and to
get diapers and food and clothing, and it's just been incredible.
And the food truck after food truck pulling up giving
away free food.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
This is Wan Diaz. He started it.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
He said they had no idea when they pulled up
to give five hundred hot dogs away. He was going
to turn into this thing with ten thousand people everybody
there trying to help out and getting what they need.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
It feels unreal that all these people are here together
helping one another.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
It feels so special and it's all bit organic.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
At the Palisades Fire World Central Kitchen and Chef Jose
Andres bringing together world class chefs Michelin star level chefs
to cook for the firefighters and for the evacuees, like
yellow curry over rice. And they can come up and
pull their engine up and say, hey, we've got twenty
guys out on the line, we need twenty meals. And
they get twenty hot meals cooked by high end chefs
(08:48):
who then they can take the restaurant style meals back
out on the line. It's it's pretty incredible. And then
I mean just so much to talk to Walt Butler,
eighty three years old. His home of sixty years in
Altadena is gone. Embers were raining down on him when
he left, and he told us.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Run it go, give me me getting away from the fire.
It should to happen.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
Yeah, it shouldn't have happened. He didn't think he should
have survived. But he's this guy is known as kind
of the heart and soul of Altadena. And there's a
GoFundMe for him that his kids put up. It's raised
a million dollars. Oh yeah, and he says he's ready
to rebuild and use money to help out his neighbors.
I mean, there's just so much giving in all of this.
Of for Walt Butler, the million dollars that he's got
(09:30):
to help rebuild, the chefs coming together, the food trucks,
the community showing up home Depot today giving three million dollars. Jackerie,
they make the like battery generators, They're giving a bunch
of money, just company after company doing it right now.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
And there's there's a lot of good coming out of
this as well.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Hey, I also wanted to while I had you on
doing this talking about there, because there are a lot
of people speculating that it's like, hey man, all the
people that are affected by this, they're all freaking loaded,
so you know whan they're not. Yeah, and that's just it.
I wanted to make sure that you because I see
that so much on social media. I'm like, no, of course,
you're talking about Malibu and those areas along the Pacific
(10:11):
Coast Highway there and some of the I mean those five.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
Yea in that area. That's the celebrity enclave and whatnot.
Altadena is a different ballgame. These are nineteen hundreds to
nineteen fifties built small bungalows. It is Alta Dina is
actually a place that became a large black community in
one area where many years ago the black community could
(10:37):
buy homes and buy land. And so there's a lot
of history in Altadena. But altadenas a lot of firefighters
live there. Firefighters lost their homes there. They can't live
in Pacific Palisades, they can't afford to live out there,
but they can live in Altadena. You know, it's plumbers,
it's people who work in the behind the scenes in
the movie industry doing carpentry and electrical work. That it
(11:00):
is very much at The homes are probably twelve hundred
square feet. That it's call it yeah, yeah, I mean
it very much. So neighborhood after neighborhood. That these are
people who are not the same crowd as Pacific Palaceades. Look,
losing your home is terrible no matter what, but most
of those in Batibu and Pacific Palasades have more means
in that way. But it's a loss for everybody. But no,
(11:24):
Altadena is a different ballgame. It's really like anywhere in America.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Yeah, very good. It's good to hear some positivity beginning
to kind of surface with this, and I'm sure it's
going to pick up steam here as it looks like
they're pulling together. That's fantastic. Alex Stone, ABC News out
of Los Angeles. Alex, thank you very much.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
Have a great weekend you too, Thanks Mark, Thanks Man,
see you Measure
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Therapy Gecko
An unlicensed lizard psychologist travels the universe talking to strangers about absolutely nothing. TO CALL THE GECKO: follow me on https://www.twitch.tv/lyleforever to get a notification for when I am taking calls. I am usually live Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays but lately a lot of other times too. I am a gecko.