December 21, 2025 • 32 mins
Travel rush is on at LAX. A strong atmospheric system will arrive just in time for the wettest Christmas in SoCal record yet. Plus, what is it like spending Christmas with your significant others' family for the first time? Also, San Francisco is still without power.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to k IF I Am six on demand.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
It is k IF I Am six forty. This is
the Andy Reesmier Show. I am Andy Reesmeyer. Will be
with you all the way till four o'clock tonight. A
nice two hour shift putting in the hard work here
on this Sunday, Go Chargers first and foremost, a handsome win.
There by the h Bolts bolting their way all the
way up through uh what looks like a pretty good
(00:50):
shot now to get into the playoffs. Sitting atop the
wild card pile, and I was watching with a lot
of anticipation this morning. It kind of it up my
day a little bit because I was I was, I'm
invested in this now. As I've told you before, my
girlfriend really likes the Chargers. Therefore I have become a
Chargers fan. Did I really know anything about football beforehand?
Speaker 3 (01:11):
No?
Speaker 2 (01:12):
I did not, This is probably obvious if you look
at me. However, I have now become into it, as
they say. I asked her earlier today, I was like,
do we get Madden? Like, once football is over, should
we get the Madden game and so we can like
play football? And She's like, I'm absolutely not going to
be doing that. I was like, don't worry, I won't
tell anybody that you're into video games. But I was like,
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I want to do I want to do plays. I'm
going to like do strategy. I want to have to
debate whether or not I'm going to do a two
point conversion, if I'm going to go for two, or
I'm going to kick a field goal. You know what
I mean. These are things that now I have opinions about.
And I felt a weird kinship to Taylor Swift because
she was talking about this in the documentary where all
of a sudden, now she's interested in football, and I
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was like, this woman cannot be more relatable to me.
This is embarrassing. Anyway, we got a lot coming up
on the show today. I got already off on a
goofy tangent. Storm is on the way, just in time
for the big holiday travel rush. Thousands are still without
power in San Francisco. We will hear from somebody who
has a newborn baby who's been without power for more
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than a day. Yikes. Plus, at three o'clock, Rob Belushi
will be stopping by. That's kind of exciting, talk about
what projects he's got going on He of course son
of Jim Belushi, a talk show host in his own right,
a game show host, and a valley boy as well.
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You heard Eileen Gonzalez talking about the LAFD report on
the Palisades fire. We'll talk about what was omitted. And
the kind of thing that drives me nuts is like,
not only how things are are removed, right, it's the
whole guilt by a mission thing. What they didn't tell
us about what happened, that they looked at over and
over again through different revisions of this document to say, no,
we can't let the people know that this happened. The
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whole it was to let everybody know what happened. But
they use these this language, this softening, and it drives
me absolutely bonkers to try to make it seem as
if things are not as bad as they as they
really are. If we do have time, which I think
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we will, we will get into what is going on
with the Epstein files, what was omitted there as well.
This is a big old blunder. This is just dumb.
I downloaded all of it on Friday, went through every
single photo. It really freaks you out when you start
to process. I think if you go image by image
by image, document by document, you really start to understand
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something gets lost in translation because we've seen it being
reported on the news. We've seen all of this conversation
about this for so long. It becomes sort of make believe, right,
it becomes not as real for some reason after you
hear it over and over again. This really kind of
opened it up for me. And I'll share with you
what I learned from going through all those documents. And
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we do have a lot of fun on the show today,
like what makes a good Christmas song? It's just in time.
We got four days before Christmas. If you haven't done
your shopping, friends, you got to get out there and
do this. And I'll tell you where it is crazy
right now is the shopping malls as far as the airports.
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With the storm on the way, I'm a little worried
about it. Katla's Alina Abovian was live at LAX yesterday
I think it was yesterday. Does she work on the weekends?
Might have been Friday, talking about all the craziness that's
going on there.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
Well, the busy holiday rush officially starts tomorrow, December twentieth,
but here at LAX, sig a look behind.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
She was her Friday Well, she even said it.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
We are right outside United Airlines Terminal seven. A lot
of people getting a head start on getting out of
town the US. I'm going to from the cold to it.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Also like I love this sound that Elena chose with
this person.
Speaker 5 (05:06):
I'm going to Michigan.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
She's like, serving, I'm going to Michigan.
Speaker 5 (05:11):
I'm going to Michigan.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
It's twenty five degrees below zero there.
Speaker 5 (05:15):
It's never sounded six.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
My mom, My mom lives there, and uh, I've been
up there a bunch. I went up during during the holidays,
Like twenty sixteen was the last time I went up
there during the holidays because it was so dang cold
and I didn't have any of the proper equipment to
be in the cold like that. My nose was froze,
like the snot inside my nose froze in between the
car and the house. Tom, is that to you?
Speaker 6 (05:40):
Min?
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Does that do it? That's where the line is lean.
Speaker 7 (05:45):
I think doesn't like bosh okay, it's a specific thing.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
From the coldlak to San to the warm.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Aspen, Colorado to the notts so enthused.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Wait a minute, did you hear how she had this again.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
From the cold going to San Salvador to the warm Aspen.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
From the cold El Salvador to the warm Aspen, Colorado.
Speaker 5 (06:13):
To then not so enthused.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
The holiday travel season is upon us, and with the
joy comes the inevitable stressors like canceled flights and delays.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Also, I love Alenobovium, but it sounds like Alenobovia might
be in the middle of cold and flu season as well.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
Like canceled flights and delays.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
We had our flight schedule.
Speaker 8 (06:32):
The issue is that I'm trying to get down to
an earlier flight because I want to be with my
family sooner rather than later.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Thank you for that observation, sir.
Speaker 4 (06:42):
This Christmas in New Year's holiday period is expected to
be the busiest on record. According to Triple A, more
than one hundred and twenty two million people are expected
to travel between December twentieth and January first, Why god
eight million people flying within the US United Airlines among
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the most buzzling.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
The difficulties always is that, of course there's nobody here,
and the fact that they seem to be perpetually understaffed. Florida,
that guy is having a day, his name is Lord.
That's his first name is Lord. And he was he
was unhappy. But here's the deal. Had you gone up
to Burbank Airport, this is what you would have found.
Speaker 9 (07:25):
This is the Rendall Car place in Burbank.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
It's Saturday, around five thirty pm, this Saturday before Christmas.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
That, of course is mister Tim Conway Junior who posted
this to his Instagram.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Burbank Airport and nobody's here, say a ghost town? Where
is it? Everybody?
Speaker 8 (07:48):
Everybody leave already Burbank Airport.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Think dog at this airport?
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Dang dong with that airport indeed, And then he went
over to the rental car area.
Speaker 9 (07:57):
This is the Rendall Car place in Burbank.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
It's so quiet you had to whisper.
Speaker 9 (08:04):
There's nobody here. It's Saturday before Christmas? Or where they
all is? Everybody at five point thirty on Saturday.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
I'm going to volunteer Tim for an ASMR record. I
think that we need to hear him doing some more whispering.
I'm into it. We've got lots more coming up here
on KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
If they figured it out, if Gary and Shannon have
the answer, then maybe it'll it'll make for a lot
less stress for everybody going forward here in the holidays.
The thing that I think about a lot, and because
I don't always go home to Indiana, I have gone
to family member's Christmas, which is always an odd thing
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to be that person going for the first time to
your significant other's family for Christmas. I might talk about
that later in the show. Want to get into the
weather and how it's having a major impact on the
entire state. A Pineapple Express barren down on so Cal
will bring us heavy rains and strong winds throughout the
week of Christmas. It's weird because today is definitely one
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of those calm before the storm days. It is absolutely
beautiful outside, a light breeze, feels like the la of
my early days here, like in the early twenty tens,
just like the weather felt a little better. I don't know.
Maybe it's because I lived on the other side of
the hill. Then it could be the stormiest Christmas in
recent memory for so Cal. Downtown La will get two
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inches or more of rain starting Tuesday, going just until
Christmas Day, just till Thursday, so two days you could
get more than two inches of rain in downtown LA.
This whole storm is expected to deliver between three and
six inches all the way to Saturday. That's for La County,
Orange County, the Inland Empire, and more of the high
Desert could see two to three inches of rain up
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in the Antelope Valley there, but the most rain eight
to ten inches is expected, And of course the mountain ranges,
those foothills, and of course that's the concern there what
there would be mud slides and debris flow. Everybody who
lives up there knows that and they fear it. Especially
you've got places where there's been a lot of fire
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activity in the past couple of years. Those rains, those
rains start picking up, that ground starts moving. Yikes. A
meteorologist from the National Weather Service says that they could
expect a half an inch to one inch per hour
between midnight Tuesday and noon on Wednesday, though of course
we're still a couple days out. That might come earlier
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or a little bit later. But basically, if you're traveling
on Tuesday, do it in the morning, try to be
done traveling by the afternoon. Stick where you are stay
put all the way until Friday. The peak of the
system is expected Tuesday through Thursday. We could have a
lot of wind too, gusts in Los Angeles, so up
to thirty one miles an hour Tuesday night. Woodland Hills
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seeing up to forty mile an hour gusts, fifty two
mile an hour winds up in Saint Luis Obispo and
then also Santa Barbara County. Also, everybody always says this
for the weather forecast. They always say the same thing,
which is that you could have mud slides, flooded freeways,
coastal flooding, down power lines, dangerous sea conditions, and swift
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water rescue. Those are things that absolutely we know, but
I think they impact a small percentage of people. But
what is very important, other than even securing your outdoor furniture,
bringing in your plants, your pets, do not park under
a tree. If you don't have to see this all
the time that wind comes and topples. A tree crushed
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my neighborhod This happened where they had their car parked
in front of their house during the fire windstorms those
Santa Anna's in the early part of January this year.
You could forget, but the big fire even fire, Palacines fire,
and the neighbors had a tree and the tree I
guess had had it was dead or something like that,
and the tree fell and then crushed their car. So
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it wasn't even their own tree, so their neighbor's tree
crushed it. And that of course that became a big,
a big deal up there in the neighborhood because they
didn't want to take care of it, and the insurance
company had to get involved. And that's your neighbor, you know,
you got to always live next to that person. So
I feel bad for my neighbor because they were just
the innocent victim in this. By the way, a storm
is also impacting the Bay area. San Francisco is in
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the middle of a ten day stretch of non stop
rain from that same system. But something else is making
life difficult for people up in the Bay. Thousands of
customers are without power after a fire at a PG
and E substation at eighth in Mission in the Mission District.
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It remains under investigation, but the damage in the fire
is significant an extensive. Just after one o'clock on Saturday,
a large part of the northern part of the San
Francisco Peninsula went dark. Without power began to grow in size,
and there are still many thousands of people who do
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not have any any power, including our friend James, who
you've heard on this show before. He lives near the
Golden Gate Park and sent us this note about what's happening.
Speaker 6 (13:31):
It's going on two o'clock here in San Francisco and
our power has been off for twenty five hours. My
wife and I have a three month.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Old newborn oh Man that we.
Speaker 6 (13:46):
Had you know, sound machines and air purifiers and a
moving basinette for and we got to go fully analog
last night with none of it.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
The house really pretty quiet.
Speaker 6 (14:00):
The thing we're most concerned about is like, obviously with
Christmas coming up, it's incredibly difficult to prep anything. So
you know, I'd planned to make a bunch of Christmas
cookies today.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
That can't happen.
Speaker 6 (14:11):
We're probably gonna have to throw out all of the
food in our fridge, so fortunately we hadn't stocked up
too much yet. Also, our entire freezer is full of
saved up breast milk for when my wife has to
come back from leave, so we're hoping that that survives
and that the power is able to be turned back
on here pretty soon, so it's been a challenge, but
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also there's been kind of an upside. I mean, we
pulled out a puzzle. There's no TV, we didn't have
internet most of last night, so we just sat down
and talked and lit some candles and it's been nice
to kind of not be distracted for a while and
not have a lot of noise. So, you know, challenges,
but what we're getting through. Although I do hope they
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get the power back on soon.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
Yeah. Indeed, that's James from San Francisco, who is on
the northern part of the peninsula there near the Golden
Gate Park. Apparently there still is no estimated time for
all of the power to be restored there, but you're
talking about potentially one hundred and thirty thousand customers who
were without power for a good portion of time. Seventy
percent of those people did have power last night, but
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still there are some people in the Presidio in Hayde Ashbury,
Presidio Heights, Lower Pacific Heights, Downtown San Francisco, Richmond, and
Forest Hill they're still without power. So not a good
time to lose power because you got a baby and
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you also are like trying to bake stuff for Christmas.
That's tough, man, that's tough stuff. We were fully in
the holiday spirit, though, and I'll tell the story before
we go to break. I went after the show on
Friday night, popped over to the Smokehouse with my buddy
Jack Brimavera. The Smokehouse is a classic. It's a great steakhouse.
It's one of the oldest restaurants in the valley, and
it is just an excellent place to go during Christmas because,
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of course fully decked out, and they had the band
that usually plays there on Friday night playing jazz Christmas songs.
People hanging out and stuff. So I was walking through
the bar trying to get a spot and somebody said hello, somebody,
and sometimes this happens. It's really nice get to be
on TV. Sometimes people say hello and they've seen us
do our work at Katla and he goes and hey, hey, good,
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come on over, take a picture. I was like, okay, sure.
It's like, oh, I watch you every day. I'm a
huge fan of I was like, oh, that's so awesome.
It's so cool.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
I love it when people say hi. It makes you
feel like, you know, you're doing something that people care about.
And lady was there and took a picture with her
and she introduced me to her husband said hey, I
was whatever, you know, cool, Thank you so much, we'll
see you later. Bye, walk away, and then I come
back and she's like, hey, I want you to meet
my friend. My friend's a big fan of you too,
and she goes, I love what you do, rich, rich,
You're so good. I just I think it's so fun.
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I was like, oh, and I'm like, I don't say anything,
you know, because I know she's This happens all the
time when people think I'm rich to Miro. And then
she talks to her husband. She's like, rich, tell rich
about blah blah Blah's thinking did with the phone. I
was like, I am not rich to Buro. I'm so sorry.
I'm Andy Reesemeyer. She's like, you're not rich to Muro
and I said no, I'm not, and she was like
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mortified and honestly like I don't know if she was
embarrassed or she was like mad. Maybe that I had
like pretended to be rich to Muro was like what
the impression was? Immediately? But it was all good?
Speaker 8 (17:23):
Did she know who you was. I was.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
Eventually I was like, no, I'm Andy that I am
on the show. I definitely. She's like, oh okay, and
it was she was mad that I wasn't rich to
bia pressed. She's like, oh, if I'd known you were Andy,
I wouldn't said hello AI you.
Speaker 6 (17:35):
No.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
She was really nice, and I listen, I get it.
You know, we're two thirty ish something white guy's blonde
hair talking about what's happened on the internet.
Speaker 5 (17:44):
Y'all could pass for brothers?
Speaker 2 (17:46):
Sure, why not? And listen. I think that man's a
pretty good looking dude. And if anybody's gonna say I
look like somebody on TV, that's cool. If somebody came
up to me and was like, you look just like
Larry King, I'd be like, well, maybe I need to
go down to the Boatox place.
Speaker 5 (18:00):
Tell me I look like Amy Waynehouse sometimes, and I'm like, oh.
Speaker 6 (18:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (18:04):
I'm like, if you tell me I sound like her,
I'm gonna be like yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
But I mean I would say you're a lot, you're
a lot healthier, you don't look.
Speaker 7 (18:11):
Like Amy Wyne House at or you're far more attractive.
Speaker 5 (18:14):
I've heard Sanaia Twein before and I like that one.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
Oh that's good. I could see that too.
Speaker 5 (18:18):
I can't Kate beckon sale. I'm not mad about it.
Speaker 8 (18:20):
Nice.
Speaker 5 (18:21):
Yeah, I could see that. I don't see it, but
I like it.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
Do people ever wonder with your name being Nikki and
obviously having an Australian accent with the radio, do they
think that you might be another famous Nicole from Australia
who's moonlighting here on KFI.
Speaker 7 (18:36):
Well, I actually my name's actually Nicole Naomi. So you've
got Nicole Kidman and Naomi Watts.
Speaker 5 (18:42):
Wow.
Speaker 7 (18:43):
Maybe I don't know, but I work with Nicole Kidman
in a in an Apple series.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
That's pretty cool.
Speaker 7 (18:48):
She's beautiful in real life, I'm sure gorgeous. Good facelift. Yeah,
it's settled. Oho, she looks great and her forehead moves.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
Oh good, well, good for her. That's that's great. Beautiful
all right, more uh more to come here on kf
IM six forty.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
You're listening to KFI a M six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
You know, the one thing I wish that I could
do that I don't get really to do here is
hit the post. That's what in FM radio where you like,
do the intro to the song and then you stop
talking right when the chorus comes in or when the
when the first uh verse comes in. It's an art
I'm assuming nowadays there's probably a countdown on the actual
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computer where Ryan Seacrest or the like. Maybe Valentine big Boy.
I don't know if Big Boy does a big Boy
hit the Post. I don't think he does. He's probably
like two. He doesn't need to do that.
Speaker 8 (19:42):
Yeah, he'll talk over it anyway.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
Have you worked a lot FM?
Speaker 8 (19:50):
Yes, previously, just with Karas one on one in k rock.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
That's fun.
Speaker 8 (19:55):
What was your what?
Speaker 2 (19:56):
What do you like the best? Do you like doing
doing music? Do you like AM radio over here? Or
what are your What's what's your favorite?
Speaker 1 (20:03):
Mario A?
Speaker 8 (20:04):
Music radio is definitely you know, up there with familiarity
for sure, But with news radio at least we can
include music, so you know, that's that's a plus for me.
As long as there's music somewhere, I can't I could
work with it. Did you ever try to hit the post?
Did you ever practice that? Not yet?
Speaker 2 (20:20):
Nah, we should probably do that at some point. I
don't know how much we can get away with doing music,
but that's a fun game to play. Eileen, I bet
you could be great at that too. What is it
when you try to hit the post in radio? You
know where you like you talk, you tell a little
story or say something up until the point where the
artist starts singing, Like here, like a cube song, for instance.
I'll give you an example here. It's got to start
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from the beginning of the song before there's there's music playing,
and it has to a verse of someone singing, and
it's got to be like a well known song. For me,
this is a really terrible, terrible game that I'm playing
here with myself. Bunch cute up. That's all right, Hit
me with something that like is the start of the
song that's a well known song?
Speaker 8 (20:58):
Oh okay, okay. I was about asking does that have
to be a well known one or like just one
out of the blue.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
That's to be one that we're gonna take a risk that.
Speaker 8 (21:04):
I know it. Okay, okay, okay, let me see what
I can find. Give me five seconds.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
Okay, We're gonna give him five seconds. Let me pull
up something dumb like that. I definitely know that I
can do here.
Speaker 8 (21:16):
You're right, that is an art because like to just
have ones lined up just with the intro.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
Well back in the day. I don't know if people
are doing this as much anymore, but back in the day,
I feel like it was a big deal. Let's see
and you're gonna have to You're gonna have to op
my uh the audio here. You're gonna bring down the
audio a little bit on the actual computer here while
we do this. This is like one of the dumbest
ideas I've ever had in my life, and I don't
know if it's gonna work. So basically, you know, you're
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coming off of a commercial break, right, and it would
be like this is like let's say it's nineteen ninety eight, okay,
just for the sake of the story, and the commercial
break comes off, and then you got a couple of
you know, news updates or whatever, and then you go
back to the studio with the FM radio guy and
then he starts playing a song.
Speaker 5 (21:58):
Well, you have to time it out.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
Yeah, you got to time it out and make sure
that you you hit it right. That's hitting the post.
Speaker 5 (22:03):
I'm impressed.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
You shouldn't be You should not you should not be impressed.
That is very stupid. I was also thinking about, you know,
the insanity of going to uh do do you ever
have this issue? Have you had this yet? Where you
go to someone else's families Christmas? Have you have you
done this maybe a significant other many times?
Speaker 4 (22:20):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (22:20):
Yeah, okay, this is kind of a newer thing for me. Mario.
Are you are you? Have you gone to a significant
other's Christmas? I have yes, because I was very selfish
and I always went just to my own, my own family.
But there is this weird sense of like this displacement
that you feel when you go how to behave what
the right thing to do is. And I mean it
starts even like when you when you walk in the
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front door, where you're like, did do I hug? Do
I shake the hand? I think you always shake the
hand and make you make eye contact with the dad,
Like that's a good that's a good first thing to do.
You don't hug the mom. I think that's if you've
met him before, sure or whatever. But if this is
the first time you don't hug the mom.
Speaker 5 (22:59):
I'm miss Panka. Hug everybody you do?
Speaker 2 (23:01):
Yeah, okay, well, I deal with it. I come from
a family where everybody like at least I come from
a place in America where everyone is very off, hands off,
you know, waspy kind of we hate each other. There's
not a lot of warmth. But I thought, I think
about this because I think I've watched that Amazon commercial
with the kid who gets his girlfriend's dad a thera gun,
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and it's just like that's so unreal, Like you would
never be in that situation with the elephant gift. I
mean to me, that seems unbelievable to me. Like the
realistic thing is you're in the house and you go
to the bathroom and you don't know which towel to
dry your hands on because there's like always this is
how parents' houses are. They've got six layers of towels.
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They're always so nice, and you know those are show towels.
You know, those are the fancy towels you can't be touching.
There's the whole thing of like what chair do you
sit in? Am I going to sit in the in
the dad's seat on the couch. That's going to be an.
Speaker 5 (23:54):
Embarrassment, stressful first time doing.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
These are things that I just think about. These are
even things that actually happened. There's like always the stories
about things that you don't know about, which is you
know you try to do your best.
Speaker 8 (24:06):
Even on the card right there, you're just sick to
your stomach already because you're.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
Nervous that you're gonna be like, I don't know what
am I gonna say? The wrong thing?
Speaker 3 (24:14):
Am I?
Speaker 2 (24:14):
Is there some am I gonna because families are so complicated,
the dynamic is wild, or like you don't know how
you could stumble into some accidental thing where you insult
somebody because of some random thing that happened to them
back in two thousand and eight. There's the whole like
when you sit down, how do you say grace? How
intensely do you say grace? Are they going to say
grace at all? Is their handholding? Oh my god, don't
(24:35):
get me started with the handholding.
Speaker 5 (24:37):
No, not handholding. That's so intimate. It's so much for
a guy who doesn't hug.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
Yeah, no, But I mean, listen, I've anytime I've ever
been invited anywhere, I'm so I'm so thankful to get
the invite, to be asked to go the thing that
I worried that I'm going to, you know, ruin it all.
But uh, of course, the number one thing I think
is just knowing how to pace yourself on the on
the booze and the food. It's always important. All right,
(25:03):
let's see what else is happening here. We are still
following a lot of the breaking news about the Epstein files.
Some of them were out, most of them, I would
say some of them were released on Friday, not all
of them heavily redacted. I got into it on the
show on Friday. An update now when we come back
about why some of the files have been removed and
(25:24):
what has been removed. In addition to that picture with
current President Donald Trump, and then later Rob Belushi will
join us in studio. That's kind of exciting, and then
I guess maybe we'll get into the biggest moments from
Taylor Swifts end of an Era docu series. There's a
lot coming up on the Andy Reesmier Show.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
This is the Andy Reesmeier Show on this Sunday, December
twenty first, just a few days before Christmas. And we've
been talking about Christmas music extensively, and the course, one
of the things hit people always to understand it is
like what is it that makes a Christmas song a hit?
You know, there's probably forty or fifty of them that
come out every year, and I think that that's probably
an understatement. There's probably way more than that. But what
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is the thing that makes something become? And it's not
just time, because we know there's some old stuff that's
not good Dominic the Christmas Donkey, even though I do
love the song, does not necessarily feel like it's in
the same world as silver Bells. But what about the
new music could make a song become Mariah Carey level?
(26:34):
All I went for Christmas is You, which obviously is
the new official theme song of Christmas?
Speaker 3 (26:41):
What is it?
Speaker 2 (26:42):
CBS Sunday Morning, try to figure it out?
Speaker 10 (26:45):
Test the season for Christmas songs. Of course, some holiday
tunes are more enduring than others. But why our David
Pogue uncovers secrets behind the sounds of Christmas. It's rusting.
Speaker 11 (27:03):
Every year some of the greatest songs in the world
pop up in our playlists.
Speaker 8 (27:09):
Although it's been sad many times, many words.
Speaker 11 (27:15):
Marry Christmas, most of them are decades old.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
I think that that Nat King Cole Merry Christmas to you.
The Christmas Song, as it's officially titled, is truly one
of the greatest recordings ever made. Many times, many words
like I'm sitting here right now, and I know it's
seventy eight degrees outside and it's sunny and the sunset
is coming in southern California. But just listening to the
way that that the tape in the background, the hiss,
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the crackle of whatever is happening, the way that his
dulcet tones just punch whatever. Limited a little bout compressions
going on.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
There many times, many well, little.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
Breakups marry chrisma like I'm transported to my Childho's sitting
there on uh some kind of some kind of rug
in front of a fire. Most of them are decades old.
Speaker 11 (28:12):
Or even centuries. If anyone knows what makes a Christmas
song immortal, it's Berkeley School of Music forensic musicologist Joe Bennett.
He's analyzed the holiday pop charts to learn exactly what
makes popular Christmas songs popular, a.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
Job that only could exist in academia.
Speaker 12 (28:34):
They're basically academic studies of large numbers of Christmas songs
to try and figure out what are the musical characteristics
that listeners keep coming back to again and again over
the years.
Speaker 11 (28:48):
Okay, well, thematically what are the characteristics home.
Speaker 12 (28:52):
For the holiday? Home for the Holidays is actually the
most common one. You have weather themed songs, you know,
let it snow, and you have a lot around the
myth of Santa Claus.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
In fact, Bennett found myth okay guy.
Speaker 11 (29:05):
In fact, Bennett found that most Christmas hits are about
one of only six things. The other biggies are parties,
being in love and being out of love, which brings
us to the number one Christmas hit of recent years.
(29:26):
Now it's Mariah Carey's hit from nineteen ninety four.
Speaker 12 (29:33):
All I Want for Christmas's You is a remarkable lyric
because it hits most of the Christmas theme tropes.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
So we get Christmas Presents in the tree and what
happened there?
Speaker 2 (29:46):
I hate to stop this because he's grooving on it.
I want to let this man cook.
Speaker 3 (29:50):
All I Want for Christmas is you. The Christmas theme tropes,
So we get christ Eileen, what was that? The Christmas
theme tropes?
Speaker 2 (30:01):
So we get Christmas present in the and it's so funny.
Maybe maybe maybe the reporter was like laughing or like
just with the light wheezing.
Speaker 3 (30:11):
So we get wheezing the light the tree and Santa
Claus and the Snow.
Speaker 12 (30:16):
That lyric is so well loved as a holiday celebration
song because it's literally got it all.
Speaker 8 (30:23):
Hey, I have a number one hit every year, but
it's same song every year.
Speaker 11 (30:30):
A few years back, we visited Walter Afanasief, who wrote
that song.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
With Mariah.
Speaker 8 (30:35):
We just kind of like go bouncing off of each
other like at a jam session.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
Now we could have gone.
Speaker 13 (30:43):
Christmas is, but we want for Chris Christmas and he goes,
that's awesome? Is doctor old rock and roll?
Speaker 3 (31:02):
God?
Speaker 2 (31:02):
I hope this guy's rich. I hope he's just so rich.
Speaker 7 (31:05):
Do you know how much the song makes?
Speaker 2 (31:06):
Though no one how much I know it makes a
lot of money every yere.
Speaker 7 (31:09):
Yeah, well so according to People magazine, it was first
released in nineteen ninety four, so it's over thirty years old.
And when it was released it made sixty million dollars.
But now every year it makes as much as three
million dollars around the festive season.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
So she can just retire, and I'm sure I hope
he can too, and anybody else who worked on I
hope that the guy who put the tape on And
I'm not talking about the real, real tape. I hope
the guy who taped the console with the labels of
the tracks is a billionaire because of that song. That's
a crazy situation. Alrighty, a little more Christmas music info
coming up, and like I said, we will get into
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the Epstein files into the next hour, but before any
of that, Rob Belushi will join us live, very fun
talk about what's going on in his house for the
Christmas holiday and any new projects he's working on as well.
Prime Pizza was one of the guys who was involved
in Prime Pizza. That's great. It's KFIM six forty. We're
live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. I'm Andy Reesmeyer.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
Kfi AM six forty. On demand
You're listening to k IF I Am six on demand.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
It is k IF I Am six forty. This is
the Andy Reesmier Show. I am Andy Reesmeyer. Will be
with you all the way till four o'clock tonight. A
nice two hour shift putting in the hard work here
on this Sunday, Go Chargers first and foremost, a handsome win.
There by the h Bolts bolting their way all the
way up through uh what looks like a pretty good
(00:50):
shot now to get into the playoffs. Sitting atop the
wild card pile, and I was watching with a lot
of anticipation this morning. It kind of it up my
day a little bit because I was I was, I'm
invested in this now. As I've told you before, my
girlfriend really likes the Chargers. Therefore I have become a
Chargers fan. Did I really know anything about football beforehand?
Speaker 3 (01:11):
No?
Speaker 2 (01:12):
I did not, This is probably obvious if you look
at me. However, I have now become into it, as
they say. I asked her earlier today, I was like,
do we get Madden? Like, once football is over, should
we get the Madden game and so we can like
play football? And She's like, I'm absolutely not going to
be doing that. I was like, don't worry, I won't
tell anybody that you're into video games. But I was like,
(01:34):
I want to do I want to do plays. I'm
going to like do strategy. I want to have to
debate whether or not I'm going to do a two
point conversion, if I'm going to go for two, or
I'm going to kick a field goal. You know what
I mean. These are things that now I have opinions about.
And I felt a weird kinship to Taylor Swift because
she was talking about this in the documentary where all
of a sudden, now she's interested in football, and I
(01:56):
was like, this woman cannot be more relatable to me.
This is embarrassing. Anyway, we got a lot coming up
on the show today. I got already off on a
goofy tangent. Storm is on the way, just in time
for the big holiday travel rush. Thousands are still without
power in San Francisco. We will hear from somebody who
has a newborn baby who's been without power for more
(02:17):
than a day. Yikes. Plus, at three o'clock, Rob Belushi
will be stopping by. That's kind of exciting, talk about
what projects he's got going on He of course son
of Jim Belushi, a talk show host in his own right,
a game show host, and a valley boy as well.
(02:38):
You heard Eileen Gonzalez talking about the LAFD report on
the Palisades fire. We'll talk about what was omitted. And
the kind of thing that drives me nuts is like,
not only how things are are removed, right, it's the
whole guilt by a mission thing. What they didn't tell
us about what happened, that they looked at over and
over again through different revisions of this document to say, no,
we can't let the people know that this happened. The
(02:59):
whole it was to let everybody know what happened. But
they use these this language, this softening, and it drives
me absolutely bonkers to try to make it seem as
if things are not as bad as they as they
really are. If we do have time, which I think
(03:20):
we will, we will get into what is going on
with the Epstein files, what was omitted there as well.
This is a big old blunder. This is just dumb.
I downloaded all of it on Friday, went through every
single photo. It really freaks you out when you start
to process. I think if you go image by image
by image, document by document, you really start to understand
(03:43):
something gets lost in translation because we've seen it being
reported on the news. We've seen all of this conversation
about this for so long. It becomes sort of make believe, right,
it becomes not as real for some reason after you
hear it over and over again. This really kind of
opened it up for me. And I'll share with you
what I learned from going through all those documents. And
(04:05):
we do have a lot of fun on the show today,
like what makes a good Christmas song? It's just in time.
We got four days before Christmas. If you haven't done
your shopping, friends, you got to get out there and
do this. And I'll tell you where it is crazy
right now is the shopping malls as far as the airports.
(04:26):
With the storm on the way, I'm a little worried
about it. Katla's Alina Abovian was live at LAX yesterday
I think it was yesterday. Does she work on the weekends?
Might have been Friday, talking about all the craziness that's
going on there.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
Well, the busy holiday rush officially starts tomorrow, December twentieth,
but here at LAX, sig a look behind.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
She was her Friday Well, she even said it.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
We are right outside United Airlines Terminal seven. A lot
of people getting a head start on getting out of
town the US. I'm going to from the cold to it.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Also like I love this sound that Elena chose with
this person.
Speaker 5 (05:06):
I'm going to Michigan.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
She's like, serving, I'm going to Michigan.
Speaker 5 (05:11):
I'm going to Michigan.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
It's twenty five degrees below zero there.
Speaker 5 (05:15):
It's never sounded six.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
My mom, My mom lives there, and uh, I've been
up there a bunch. I went up during during the holidays,
Like twenty sixteen was the last time I went up
there during the holidays because it was so dang cold
and I didn't have any of the proper equipment to
be in the cold like that. My nose was froze,
like the snot inside my nose froze in between the
car and the house. Tom, is that to you?
Speaker 6 (05:40):
Min?
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Does that do it? That's where the line is lean.
Speaker 7 (05:45):
I think doesn't like bosh okay, it's a specific thing.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
From the coldlak to San to the warm.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Aspen, Colorado to the notts so enthused.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Wait a minute, did you hear how she had this again.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
From the cold going to San Salvador to the warm Aspen.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
From the cold El Salvador to the warm Aspen, Colorado.
Speaker 5 (06:13):
To then not so enthused.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
The holiday travel season is upon us, and with the
joy comes the inevitable stressors like canceled flights and delays.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Also, I love Alenobovium, but it sounds like Alenobovia might
be in the middle of cold and flu season as well.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
Like canceled flights and delays.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
We had our flight schedule.
Speaker 8 (06:32):
The issue is that I'm trying to get down to
an earlier flight because I want to be with my
family sooner rather than later.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Thank you for that observation, sir.
Speaker 4 (06:42):
This Christmas in New Year's holiday period is expected to
be the busiest on record. According to Triple A, more
than one hundred and twenty two million people are expected
to travel between December twentieth and January first, Why god
eight million people flying within the US United Airlines among
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the most buzzling.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
The difficulties always is that, of course there's nobody here,
and the fact that they seem to be perpetually understaffed. Florida,
that guy is having a day, his name is Lord.
That's his first name is Lord. And he was he
was unhappy. But here's the deal. Had you gone up
to Burbank Airport, this is what you would have found.
Speaker 9 (07:25):
This is the Rendall Car place in Burbank.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
It's Saturday, around five thirty pm, this Saturday before Christmas.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
That, of course is mister Tim Conway Junior who posted
this to his Instagram.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Burbank Airport and nobody's here, say a ghost town? Where
is it? Everybody?
Speaker 8 (07:48):
Everybody leave already Burbank Airport.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Think dog at this airport?
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Dang dong with that airport indeed, And then he went
over to the rental car area.
Speaker 9 (07:57):
This is the Rendall Car place in Burbank.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
It's so quiet you had to whisper.
Speaker 9 (08:04):
There's nobody here. It's Saturday before Christmas? Or where they
all is? Everybody at five point thirty on Saturday.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
I'm going to volunteer Tim for an ASMR record. I
think that we need to hear him doing some more whispering.
I'm into it. We've got lots more coming up here
on KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
If they figured it out, if Gary and Shannon have
the answer, then maybe it'll it'll make for a lot
less stress for everybody going forward here in the holidays.
The thing that I think about a lot, and because
I don't always go home to Indiana, I have gone
to family member's Christmas, which is always an odd thing
(08:50):
to be that person going for the first time to
your significant other's family for Christmas. I might talk about
that later in the show. Want to get into the
weather and how it's having a major impact on the
entire state. A Pineapple Express barren down on so Cal
will bring us heavy rains and strong winds throughout the
week of Christmas. It's weird because today is definitely one
(09:13):
of those calm before the storm days. It is absolutely
beautiful outside, a light breeze, feels like the la of
my early days here, like in the early twenty tens,
just like the weather felt a little better. I don't know.
Maybe it's because I lived on the other side of
the hill. Then it could be the stormiest Christmas in
recent memory for so Cal. Downtown La will get two
(09:34):
inches or more of rain starting Tuesday, going just until
Christmas Day, just till Thursday, so two days you could
get more than two inches of rain in downtown LA.
This whole storm is expected to deliver between three and
six inches all the way to Saturday. That's for La County,
Orange County, the Inland Empire, and more of the high
Desert could see two to three inches of rain up
(09:56):
in the Antelope Valley there, but the most rain eight
to ten inches is expected, And of course the mountain ranges,
those foothills, and of course that's the concern there what
there would be mud slides and debris flow. Everybody who
lives up there knows that and they fear it. Especially
you've got places where there's been a lot of fire
(10:17):
activity in the past couple of years. Those rains, those
rains start picking up, that ground starts moving. Yikes. A
meteorologist from the National Weather Service says that they could
expect a half an inch to one inch per hour
between midnight Tuesday and noon on Wednesday, though of course
we're still a couple days out. That might come earlier
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or a little bit later. But basically, if you're traveling
on Tuesday, do it in the morning, try to be
done traveling by the afternoon. Stick where you are stay
put all the way until Friday. The peak of the
system is expected Tuesday through Thursday. We could have a
lot of wind too, gusts in Los Angeles, so up
to thirty one miles an hour Tuesday night. Woodland Hills
(11:02):
seeing up to forty mile an hour gusts, fifty two
mile an hour winds up in Saint Luis Obispo and
then also Santa Barbara County. Also, everybody always says this
for the weather forecast. They always say the same thing,
which is that you could have mud slides, flooded freeways,
coastal flooding, down power lines, dangerous sea conditions, and swift
(11:24):
water rescue. Those are things that absolutely we know, but
I think they impact a small percentage of people. But
what is very important, other than even securing your outdoor furniture,
bringing in your plants, your pets, do not park under
a tree. If you don't have to see this all
the time that wind comes and topples. A tree crushed
(11:49):
my neighborhod This happened where they had their car parked
in front of their house during the fire windstorms those
Santa Anna's in the early part of January this year.
You could forget, but the big fire even fire, Palacines fire,
and the neighbors had a tree and the tree I
guess had had it was dead or something like that,
and the tree fell and then crushed their car. So
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it wasn't even their own tree, so their neighbor's tree
crushed it. And that of course that became a big,
a big deal up there in the neighborhood because they
didn't want to take care of it, and the insurance
company had to get involved. And that's your neighbor, you know,
you got to always live next to that person. So
I feel bad for my neighbor because they were just
the innocent victim in this. By the way, a storm
is also impacting the Bay area. San Francisco is in
(12:35):
the middle of a ten day stretch of non stop
rain from that same system. But something else is making
life difficult for people up in the Bay. Thousands of
customers are without power after a fire at a PG
and E substation at eighth in Mission in the Mission District.
(12:56):
It remains under investigation, but the damage in the fire
is significant an extensive. Just after one o'clock on Saturday,
a large part of the northern part of the San
Francisco Peninsula went dark. Without power began to grow in size,
and there are still many thousands of people who do
(13:18):
not have any any power, including our friend James, who
you've heard on this show before. He lives near the
Golden Gate Park and sent us this note about what's happening.
Speaker 6 (13:31):
It's going on two o'clock here in San Francisco and
our power has been off for twenty five hours. My
wife and I have a three month.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Old newborn oh Man that we.
Speaker 6 (13:46):
Had you know, sound machines and air purifiers and a
moving basinette for and we got to go fully analog
last night with none of it.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
The house really pretty quiet.
Speaker 6 (14:00):
The thing we're most concerned about is like, obviously with
Christmas coming up, it's incredibly difficult to prep anything. So
you know, I'd planned to make a bunch of Christmas
cookies today.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
That can't happen.
Speaker 6 (14:11):
We're probably gonna have to throw out all of the
food in our fridge, so fortunately we hadn't stocked up
too much yet. Also, our entire freezer is full of
saved up breast milk for when my wife has to
come back from leave, so we're hoping that that survives
and that the power is able to be turned back
on here pretty soon, so it's been a challenge, but
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also there's been kind of an upside. I mean, we
pulled out a puzzle. There's no TV, we didn't have
internet most of last night, so we just sat down
and talked and lit some candles and it's been nice
to kind of not be distracted for a while and
not have a lot of noise. So, you know, challenges,
but what we're getting through. Although I do hope they
(14:54):
get the power back on soon.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
Yeah. Indeed, that's James from San Francisco, who is on
the northern part of the peninsula there near the Golden
Gate Park. Apparently there still is no estimated time for
all of the power to be restored there, but you're
talking about potentially one hundred and thirty thousand customers who
were without power for a good portion of time. Seventy
percent of those people did have power last night, but
(15:17):
still there are some people in the Presidio in Hayde Ashbury,
Presidio Heights, Lower Pacific Heights, Downtown San Francisco, Richmond, and
Forest Hill they're still without power. So not a good
time to lose power because you got a baby and
(15:37):
you also are like trying to bake stuff for Christmas.
That's tough, man, that's tough stuff. We were fully in
the holiday spirit, though, and I'll tell the story before
we go to break. I went after the show on
Friday night, popped over to the Smokehouse with my buddy
Jack Brimavera. The Smokehouse is a classic. It's a great steakhouse.
It's one of the oldest restaurants in the valley, and
it is just an excellent place to go during Christmas because,
(15:59):
of course fully decked out, and they had the band
that usually plays there on Friday night playing jazz Christmas songs.
People hanging out and stuff. So I was walking through
the bar trying to get a spot and somebody said hello, somebody,
and sometimes this happens. It's really nice get to be
on TV. Sometimes people say hello and they've seen us
do our work at Katla and he goes and hey, hey, good,
(16:22):
come on over, take a picture. I was like, okay, sure.
It's like, oh, I watch you every day. I'm a
huge fan of I was like, oh, that's so awesome.
It's so cool.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
I love it when people say hi. It makes you
feel like, you know, you're doing something that people care about.
And lady was there and took a picture with her
and she introduced me to her husband said hey, I
was whatever, you know, cool, Thank you so much, we'll
see you later. Bye, walk away, and then I come
back and she's like, hey, I want you to meet
my friend. My friend's a big fan of you too,
and she goes, I love what you do, rich, rich,
You're so good. I just I think it's so fun.
(16:51):
I was like, oh, and I'm like, I don't say anything,
you know, because I know she's This happens all the
time when people think I'm rich to Miro. And then
she talks to her husband. She's like, rich, tell rich
about blah blah Blah's thinking did with the phone. I
was like, I am not rich to Buro. I'm so sorry.
I'm Andy Reesemeyer. She's like, you're not rich to Muro
and I said no, I'm not, and she was like
(17:11):
mortified and honestly like I don't know if she was
embarrassed or she was like mad. Maybe that I had
like pretended to be rich to Muro was like what
the impression was? Immediately? But it was all good?
Speaker 8 (17:23):
Did she know who you was. I was.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
Eventually I was like, no, I'm Andy that I am
on the show. I definitely. She's like, oh okay, and
it was she was mad that I wasn't rich to
bia pressed. She's like, oh, if I'd known you were Andy,
I wouldn't said hello AI you.
Speaker 6 (17:35):
No.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
She was really nice, and I listen, I get it.
You know, we're two thirty ish something white guy's blonde
hair talking about what's happened on the internet.
Speaker 5 (17:44):
Y'all could pass for brothers?
Speaker 2 (17:46):
Sure, why not? And listen. I think that man's a
pretty good looking dude. And if anybody's gonna say I
look like somebody on TV, that's cool. If somebody came
up to me and was like, you look just like
Larry King, I'd be like, well, maybe I need to
go down to the Boatox place.
Speaker 5 (18:00):
Tell me I look like Amy Waynehouse sometimes, and I'm like, oh.
Speaker 6 (18:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (18:04):
I'm like, if you tell me I sound like her,
I'm gonna be like yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
But I mean I would say you're a lot, you're
a lot healthier, you don't look.
Speaker 7 (18:11):
Like Amy Wyne House at or you're far more attractive.
Speaker 5 (18:14):
I've heard Sanaia Twein before and I like that one.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
Oh that's good. I could see that too.
Speaker 5 (18:18):
I can't Kate beckon sale. I'm not mad about it.
Speaker 8 (18:20):
Nice.
Speaker 5 (18:21):
Yeah, I could see that. I don't see it, but
I like it.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
Do people ever wonder with your name being Nikki and
obviously having an Australian accent with the radio, do they
think that you might be another famous Nicole from Australia
who's moonlighting here on KFI.
Speaker 7 (18:36):
Well, I actually my name's actually Nicole Naomi. So you've
got Nicole Kidman and Naomi Watts.
Speaker 5 (18:42):
Wow.
Speaker 7 (18:43):
Maybe I don't know, but I work with Nicole Kidman
in a in an Apple series.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
That's pretty cool.
Speaker 7 (18:48):
She's beautiful in real life, I'm sure gorgeous. Good facelift. Yeah,
it's settled. Oho, she looks great and her forehead moves.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
Oh good, well, good for her. That's that's great. Beautiful
all right, more uh more to come here on kf
IM six forty.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
You're listening to KFI a M six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
You know, the one thing I wish that I could
do that I don't get really to do here is
hit the post. That's what in FM radio where you like,
do the intro to the song and then you stop
talking right when the chorus comes in or when the
when the first uh verse comes in. It's an art
I'm assuming nowadays there's probably a countdown on the actual
(19:31):
computer where Ryan Seacrest or the like. Maybe Valentine big Boy.
I don't know if Big Boy does a big Boy
hit the Post. I don't think he does. He's probably
like two. He doesn't need to do that.
Speaker 8 (19:42):
Yeah, he'll talk over it anyway.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
Have you worked a lot FM?
Speaker 8 (19:50):
Yes, previously, just with Karas one on one in k rock.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
That's fun.
Speaker 8 (19:55):
What was your what?
Speaker 2 (19:56):
What do you like the best? Do you like doing
doing music? Do you like AM radio over here? Or
what are your What's what's your favorite?
Speaker 1 (20:03):
Mario A?
Speaker 8 (20:04):
Music radio is definitely you know, up there with familiarity
for sure, But with news radio at least we can
include music, so you know, that's that's a plus for me.
As long as there's music somewhere, I can't I could
work with it. Did you ever try to hit the post?
Did you ever practice that? Not yet?
Speaker 2 (20:20):
Nah, we should probably do that at some point. I
don't know how much we can get away with doing music,
but that's a fun game to play. Eileen, I bet
you could be great at that too. What is it
when you try to hit the post in radio? You
know where you like you talk, you tell a little
story or say something up until the point where the
artist starts singing, Like here, like a cube song, for instance.
I'll give you an example here. It's got to start
(20:41):
from the beginning of the song before there's there's music playing,
and it has to a verse of someone singing, and
it's got to be like a well known song. For me,
this is a really terrible, terrible game that I'm playing
here with myself. Bunch cute up. That's all right, Hit
me with something that like is the start of the
song that's a well known song?
Speaker 8 (20:58):
Oh okay, okay. I was about asking does that have
to be a well known one or like just one
out of the blue.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
That's to be one that we're gonna take a risk that.
Speaker 8 (21:04):
I know it. Okay, okay, okay, let me see what
I can find. Give me five seconds.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
Okay, We're gonna give him five seconds. Let me pull
up something dumb like that. I definitely know that I
can do here.
Speaker 8 (21:16):
You're right, that is an art because like to just
have ones lined up just with the intro.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
Well back in the day. I don't know if people
are doing this as much anymore, but back in the day,
I feel like it was a big deal. Let's see
and you're gonna have to You're gonna have to op
my uh the audio here. You're gonna bring down the
audio a little bit on the actual computer here while
we do this. This is like one of the dumbest
ideas I've ever had in my life, and I don't
know if it's gonna work. So basically, you know, you're
(21:41):
coming off of a commercial break, right, and it would
be like this is like let's say it's nineteen ninety eight, okay,
just for the sake of the story, and the commercial
break comes off, and then you got a couple of
you know, news updates or whatever, and then you go
back to the studio with the FM radio guy and
then he starts playing a song.
Speaker 5 (21:58):
Well, you have to time it out.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
Yeah, you got to time it out and make sure
that you you hit it right. That's hitting the post.
Speaker 5 (22:03):
I'm impressed.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
You shouldn't be You should not you should not be impressed.
That is very stupid. I was also thinking about, you know,
the insanity of going to uh do do you ever
have this issue? Have you had this yet? Where you
go to someone else's families Christmas? Have you have you
done this maybe a significant other many times?
Speaker 4 (22:20):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (22:20):
Yeah, okay, this is kind of a newer thing for me. Mario.
Are you are you? Have you gone to a significant
other's Christmas? I have yes, because I was very selfish
and I always went just to my own, my own family.
But there is this weird sense of like this displacement
that you feel when you go how to behave what
the right thing to do is. And I mean it
starts even like when you when you walk in the
(22:42):
front door, where you're like, did do I hug? Do
I shake the hand? I think you always shake the
hand and make you make eye contact with the dad,
Like that's a good that's a good first thing to do.
You don't hug the mom. I think that's if you've
met him before, sure or whatever. But if this is
the first time you don't hug the mom.
Speaker 5 (22:59):
I'm miss Panka. Hug everybody you do?
Speaker 2 (23:01):
Yeah, okay, well, I deal with it. I come from
a family where everybody like at least I come from
a place in America where everyone is very off, hands off,
you know, waspy kind of we hate each other. There's
not a lot of warmth. But I thought, I think
about this because I think I've watched that Amazon commercial
with the kid who gets his girlfriend's dad a thera gun,
(23:21):
and it's just like that's so unreal, Like you would
never be in that situation with the elephant gift. I
mean to me, that seems unbelievable to me. Like the
realistic thing is you're in the house and you go
to the bathroom and you don't know which towel to
dry your hands on because there's like always this is
how parents' houses are. They've got six layers of towels.
(23:41):
They're always so nice, and you know those are show towels.
You know, those are the fancy towels you can't be touching.
There's the whole thing of like what chair do you
sit in? Am I going to sit in the in
the dad's seat on the couch. That's going to be an.
Speaker 5 (23:54):
Embarrassment, stressful first time doing.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
These are things that I just think about. These are
even things that actually happened. There's like always the stories
about things that you don't know about, which is you
know you try to do your best.
Speaker 8 (24:06):
Even on the card right there, you're just sick to
your stomach already because you're.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
Nervous that you're gonna be like, I don't know what
am I gonna say? The wrong thing?
Speaker 3 (24:14):
Am I?
Speaker 2 (24:14):
Is there some am I gonna because families are so complicated,
the dynamic is wild, or like you don't know how
you could stumble into some accidental thing where you insult
somebody because of some random thing that happened to them
back in two thousand and eight. There's the whole like
when you sit down, how do you say grace? How
intensely do you say grace? Are they going to say
grace at all? Is their handholding? Oh my god, don't
(24:35):
get me started with the handholding.
Speaker 5 (24:37):
No, not handholding. That's so intimate. It's so much for
a guy who doesn't hug.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
Yeah, no, But I mean, listen, I've anytime I've ever
been invited anywhere, I'm so I'm so thankful to get
the invite, to be asked to go the thing that
I worried that I'm going to, you know, ruin it all.
But uh, of course, the number one thing I think
is just knowing how to pace yourself on the on
the booze and the food. It's always important. All right,
(25:03):
let's see what else is happening here. We are still
following a lot of the breaking news about the Epstein files.
Some of them were out, most of them, I would
say some of them were released on Friday, not all
of them heavily redacted. I got into it on the
show on Friday. An update now when we come back
about why some of the files have been removed and
(25:24):
what has been removed. In addition to that picture with
current President Donald Trump, and then later Rob Belushi will
join us in studio. That's kind of exciting, and then
I guess maybe we'll get into the biggest moments from
Taylor Swifts end of an Era docu series. There's a
lot coming up on the Andy Reesmier Show.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
This is the Andy Reesmeier Show on this Sunday, December
twenty first, just a few days before Christmas. And we've
been talking about Christmas music extensively, and the course, one
of the things hit people always to understand it is
like what is it that makes a Christmas song a hit?
You know, there's probably forty or fifty of them that
come out every year, and I think that that's probably
an understatement. There's probably way more than that. But what
(26:12):
is the thing that makes something become? And it's not
just time, because we know there's some old stuff that's
not good Dominic the Christmas Donkey, even though I do
love the song, does not necessarily feel like it's in
the same world as silver Bells. But what about the
new music could make a song become Mariah Carey level?
(26:34):
All I went for Christmas is You, which obviously is
the new official theme song of Christmas?
Speaker 3 (26:41):
What is it?
Speaker 2 (26:42):
CBS Sunday Morning, try to figure it out?
Speaker 10 (26:45):
Test the season for Christmas songs. Of course, some holiday
tunes are more enduring than others. But why our David
Pogue uncovers secrets behind the sounds of Christmas. It's rusting.
Speaker 11 (27:03):
Every year some of the greatest songs in the world
pop up in our playlists.
Speaker 8 (27:09):
Although it's been sad many times, many words.
Speaker 11 (27:15):
Marry Christmas, most of them are decades old.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
I think that that Nat King Cole Merry Christmas to you.
The Christmas Song, as it's officially titled, is truly one
of the greatest recordings ever made. Many times, many words
like I'm sitting here right now, and I know it's
seventy eight degrees outside and it's sunny and the sunset
is coming in southern California. But just listening to the
way that that the tape in the background, the hiss,
(27:42):
the crackle of whatever is happening, the way that his
dulcet tones just punch whatever. Limited a little bout compressions
going on.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
There many times, many well, little.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
Breakups marry chrisma like I'm transported to my Childho's sitting
there on uh some kind of some kind of rug
in front of a fire. Most of them are decades old.
Speaker 11 (28:12):
Or even centuries. If anyone knows what makes a Christmas
song immortal, it's Berkeley School of Music forensic musicologist Joe Bennett.
He's analyzed the holiday pop charts to learn exactly what
makes popular Christmas songs popular, a.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
Job that only could exist in academia.
Speaker 12 (28:34):
They're basically academic studies of large numbers of Christmas songs
to try and figure out what are the musical characteristics
that listeners keep coming back to again and again over
the years.
Speaker 11 (28:48):
Okay, well, thematically what are the characteristics home.
Speaker 12 (28:52):
For the holiday? Home for the Holidays is actually the
most common one. You have weather themed songs, you know,
let it snow, and you have a lot around the
myth of Santa Claus.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
In fact, Bennett found myth okay guy.
Speaker 11 (29:05):
In fact, Bennett found that most Christmas hits are about
one of only six things. The other biggies are parties,
being in love and being out of love, which brings
us to the number one Christmas hit of recent years.
(29:26):
Now it's Mariah Carey's hit from nineteen ninety four.
Speaker 12 (29:33):
All I Want for Christmas's You is a remarkable lyric
because it hits most of the Christmas theme tropes.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
So we get Christmas Presents in the tree and what
happened there?
Speaker 2 (29:46):
I hate to stop this because he's grooving on it.
I want to let this man cook.
Speaker 3 (29:50):
All I Want for Christmas is you. The Christmas theme tropes,
So we get christ Eileen, what was that? The Christmas
theme tropes?
Speaker 2 (30:01):
So we get Christmas present in the and it's so funny.
Maybe maybe maybe the reporter was like laughing or like
just with the light wheezing.
Speaker 3 (30:11):
So we get wheezing the light the tree and Santa
Claus and the Snow.
Speaker 12 (30:16):
That lyric is so well loved as a holiday celebration
song because it's literally got it all.
Speaker 8 (30:23):
Hey, I have a number one hit every year, but
it's same song every year.
Speaker 11 (30:30):
A few years back, we visited Walter Afanasief, who wrote
that song.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
With Mariah.
Speaker 8 (30:35):
We just kind of like go bouncing off of each
other like at a jam session.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
Now we could have gone.
Speaker 13 (30:43):
Christmas is, but we want for Chris Christmas and he goes,
that's awesome? Is doctor old rock and roll?
Speaker 3 (31:02):
God?
Speaker 2 (31:02):
I hope this guy's rich. I hope he's just so rich.
Speaker 7 (31:05):
Do you know how much the song makes?
Speaker 2 (31:06):
Though no one how much I know it makes a
lot of money every yere.
Speaker 7 (31:09):
Yeah, well so according to People magazine, it was first
released in nineteen ninety four, so it's over thirty years old.
And when it was released it made sixty million dollars.
But now every year it makes as much as three
million dollars around the festive season.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
So she can just retire, and I'm sure I hope
he can too, and anybody else who worked on I
hope that the guy who put the tape on And
I'm not talking about the real, real tape. I hope
the guy who taped the console with the labels of
the tracks is a billionaire because of that song. That's
a crazy situation. Alrighty, a little more Christmas music info
coming up, and like I said, we will get into
(31:46):
the Epstein files into the next hour, but before any
of that, Rob Belushi will join us live, very fun
talk about what's going on in his house for the
Christmas holiday and any new projects he's working on as well.
Prime Pizza was one of the guys who was involved
in Prime Pizza. That's great. It's KFIM six forty. We're
live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. I'm Andy Reesmeyer.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
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