September 14, 2025 • 37 mins
Andy touches on the shock assassination of political activist Charlie Kirk. Utah Gov. Spencer Cox talked about the 22-year-old suspect, Tyler Robinson, who he said is not cooperating with investigators. Cox also mentioned Robinson’s transgender roommate and romantic partner. Is social media partially to blame for this killing and the subsequent reaction? GUEST: Ray Yslas from the classic band Chicago joins Andy to talk about touring and playing live music. Yslas has also played with the likes of Jennifer Lopez and Christina Aguilera! Chicago is playing the Hollywood Bowl tonight. GUEST: Sports newscaster Steve Hartman joins Andy for a discussion about the UCLA college football program. GUEST: Mark Ellis, Comedian joins Andy to talk about 1990s rock nostalgia.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
I'm Andy Reesmeyer. Welcome to the Andy Reesmeyer Show. Lots
to get to today been a heck of a week.
We're here with Eileen Gonzalez, Robin and Richie on the Ones,
the twos, the threes and the Force. Good morning every afternoon, everybody, Addie,
I mostly work morning, so I'm used to saying good morning,
So good afternoon is my uh I gotta start figuring
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that one out. Got a big show today. I'm sure
everybody's feeling a little weird. I certainly am. You know,
when you work in news, you experience a lot of things.
Those are generally self selected, meaning if you're covering something
that's bad, that's happened, if you're talking about murder or
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assault or violence. A lot of times you're doing that
because you're trying to tell the story. You're going to
self select that. You're gonna go look for that information yourself.
You go to the scene, you go through the assignment
desk emails, you try to find out what's happening. This week,
we were all exposed to heinous violence, the kind of
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stuff that you don't see ever. Auto played over and
over and over again on social media everywhere. The murder
of Charlie Kirk. We have updates about the suspect from
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Utah Governor Spencer Cox coming up in just a little bit.
I'm not going to spend a ton of time on
Charlie Kirk because I feel like everybody said a million
things about it. I don't need to give you my
hot take. Nobody cares what I think about this. But
the pain that I feel just as a witness to
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what has happened in this country in the way that
some people have reacted to it, I do want to
talk about in a bit. We'll spend just a little
bit on that in this first segment. But we've got
a big show today. UCLA's Deshaun Foster was fired. The
coach of the football team at UCLA let go after
the latest loss, twenty five point loss on Friday to
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New Mexico, a team that they paid to play. The
Bruins not doing well. We're going to talk to KTLA
Steve Hartman about what happened there. It is the Emmys,
television's biggest night is happening tonight. Maybe in the second
hour we'll get into a little bit of that some previews.
The host is Nate Bergazi, a person who I think
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is a real anomaly in twenty twenty five from an
entertainer's perspective. In just about ten minutes, we're going to
talk to Ray from Chicago. They're playing this weekend at
the Hollywood Bowl. That's pretty big. Also, comedian Mark Ellis
will join us later this hour as well, and we'll
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get into some things about that soil testing, what is
in the dirt following the eating of the Palisaid fire,
and a couple other things in local news. Like I said,
I'm Ady Reesmay. You can find me on the internet
at Andy KTLA. You can see me most of the
time on channel five in the morning. I'll be there
tomorrow morning, and you can also reach me here on
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something you liked, you didn't like, you can also call us.
We'll open the phone lines here eight hundred and five
to zero, one, five through four. Let us know what's
on your mind this Sunday afternoon. It's been a heavy week.
I'm going to try to keep it a little chill.
We're going to try to keep it just a little
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bit less stressful, less sad. I promise we will do
that in a bit. First, I want to get the
latest though on Charlie Kirk. The governor of Utah, of
course where this happened, says that's a twenty two year
old suspect who they believe is behind the assassination of
Charlie Kirk is not cooperating with investigators. That is what
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Utah Governor Spencer Cox told NBC News today. He also
released other details trying to put together the story of
who this guy was. Everyone is searching for a motive here.
I think we all want to know why. Here's what
Spencer Cox said. Governor Spencer Cox said to NBC News
earlier today.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
Friends, people around the suspect, what we know so far,
there are a couple of things that we can confirm
that have been reported. We can confirm that, again according
to family and people that were interviewing, he does come
from a conservative family, but his ideology was very different
than his family, and so that's part of it. We
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do know that the roommate that we had originally talked about,
we can confirm that that roommate is a boyfriend who
is transitioning from male to female. So we know that piece.
I will say that that person has been very cooperative
with authorities, and we have additional evidence, forensic evidence that
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has been processed, will we'll be sharing that when charges
are filed on Tuesday. So everything that we know confirms
that this is the person, the why behind this. Again,
we're all drawing lots of conclusions and how someone like
this could be radicalized, and I think that those are
important questions for us to ask and important questions for
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us to answer.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
So a lot of the conversation about this from elected
officials or public officials or people who are in positions
of power who have spoken on this has been sort
of calls to tone down the rhetoric, which I think
a lot of people can agree with. But the reason
that you say that, or that they are saying that,
is because if you have looked at the way that
the Internet has reacted to this, it is downright scary.
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There are a lot of people who may be are
celebrating this because they didn't agree with him, and I
don't think that any of us want, any reasonable people
want to live in a country where that kind of
thing is okay. I don't think these are reasonable things.
And when I say that, most people that you talk
to in real life agree. And yet you go on
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the Internet and you're looking at this version of reality
that seems completely insane, and I think that that is
on purpose. I know that the things that are most
salacious and that are most violent, most extreme are always
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elevated on social media because why it keeps you engaged.
Those people on social media are encouraged to post crazy
things because they get attention. In some cases, even like X,
the more viral tweet you have, you might actually make
money on it, So the algorithm wants you to be
there because of course it makes you think. I got
to read more about this to be more addicted to
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this and understand what's going on. But it is an
inaccurate representation of the way most of the people think.
I hope. The reason I believe this is because I
think back to the pandemic, when we first started talking
about lockdowns in March and April of twenty twenty, and
we thought, man, we're going to descend into civil war,
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and in reality, I think most people don't want that.
I don't think people want to feel terrible all the time.
I don't think people have the stomach for that kind
of prolonged hate. I hope they don't. I hope that
that's a benefit of our soft, lazy culture, is that
we're just too lazy to do anything crazy like that.
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And I want to hope that, as Governor Cox said
on Wednesday, that our better angels prevail, that we look
at this as a moment to say, Okay, I don't
agree with this person at all, or I could agree
with this person. If I don't agree with them, it
doesn't mean that I want them dead. And I just
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think that that's kind of what I keep telling myself
so that I don't freak out. I guess, but social media,
remember everybody is not real life. And while I would,
I don't. I'm not excusing anybody who posts things that
are crazy and gets fired for saying something nuts. I
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don't think it's an accurate representation of the way that
people really feel out there. I hope.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
It is.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
The Andy Reesemeyer Show we're continuing on. We're going to
do some more light stuff coming up in the next
hour or so. Soil testing. That's fun, right, We love
testing soil. Also talk to Steve Hartman about the UCLA
drama and is now the right time to buy a house?
We're starting to see things changing here. It is this
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Sunday on the Andy Reesmier Show.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
How long has this been going on or how long?
I believe by Ace, there's a couple different versions of
that song. Maybe our next guest can talk about it.
I wonder if he's ever played with Ace. He's played
with Jennifer Lopez, Paul Stanley, Christina Aguilera. Now on tour
with the band Chicago. Nowhere near Navy Pier, all the
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way in southern California. It is Ray on the line.
Welcome to the Andy Reesmier Show. Ray, Nice to have
you here.
Speaker 5 (09:35):
Buddy, Andy, hear your voice, Buddy, so great.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
To finally talk to you. You know, we've been buds
on the on the internet, I guess for many years.
But you're playing with this band, a little band called Chicago,
playing percussion for them.
Speaker 5 (09:51):
For rock and roll, Yeah, for rock and roll band.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
For many many years. And you guys are at the
Hollywood Bowl this weekend. How big is that?
Speaker 6 (10:00):
Man?
Speaker 5 (10:00):
Tell me about it. You know, we uh, okay, look
at I've played the Hollywood Bowl several times in the past,
but I've never done three nights in a row with
especially with Chicago. Come on, I mean, that's like one
of the most iconic rock and roll bands and the
history of music, and yet three and we're doing three
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nights of the Hollywood Bowl. We just did Friday night
last night, and then tonight we're playing. And the shows
have been just amazing. You know, the crowds have been
on fire, just ready to party, ready to dance, and Andy.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
Homecoming show for you. Oh yeah, the weather go ahead,
yeah please.
Speaker 5 (10:37):
Got the web has just been perfect for an outdoor show.
So if you know, if you haven't got your tickets yet,
la come out tonight, come out and see us.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
You know, is it the same set list every night?
Are you vary it up a little bit or how
you guys choose what's going on?
Speaker 5 (10:50):
You know, it depends really depends on the amount of
time we have, but it has changed a little bit.
But so far we've been doing the same show these
three nights.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
I gotta tell you. Also, as a as after hit percussionist,
totally hit after hit, you know, you're going to get
your the inspiration you're going to get if you leave
me now, Saturday and whatever, all of it is going
to be there.
Speaker 5 (11:10):
But I love that's all there.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
I'm so jealous that you have been able to make
such a career out of playing percussion, because it's you're
so skilled. It's difficult, but I imagine the pressure you
You don't have to do vocal warm ups beforehand.
Speaker 5 (11:26):
You know you're not, no, but I got to do
but I got to do all these crazy hand things,
you know, like waving at people and stuff. You know, Now,
are you more of a paying a lot of pointing,
a lot of.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
Pointing, a lot of bongos, a lot of Uh, what's
your primary percussion that you're playing?
Speaker 4 (11:44):
Is it?
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Is it the triangle? Are you doing some cow bell?
Or what's what you mostly doing tonight with Chicago?
Speaker 5 (11:50):
Oh? I I play. Actually I'm bouncing around my area
so much that, you know, all the instruments get love.
They all get to be hit. And my setup, you know,
whether it's from tambourine like a rock and roll tambourine,
or the gongas, or the bongos or the timbales or
a lot of cow bell. Andy, we got to give
him cow bell.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
And do you have to physically carry this stuff across
the country or do you have a guy who puts
it in a box for you?
Speaker 5 (12:16):
Oh no, no, no, no, no, we have We have an
amazing crew. The Chicago crew is so just solid. And Randy,
my drum tech, he perfectly sets everything up. I mean
to the distance of my arm hitting the cow bell
to the you know, the tambourine on my left side.
It's just there for me. I'm spoiled, man, Well what
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it is? Always say Dad, you're spoiled with working with Chicago,
And I go, no, I know, I get.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
It, I get it, And you know what the reality is,
what you're doing is bringing the ear candy. It's the sparkle.
It's the little part on top that makes it all
that much more special and better. And I think that
that's such a cool thing to be able to do
for a band that I've see. They've got big choruses,
big hooks, but you're really really only getting the full
experience once you have that top end with the little
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percussion parts of it.
Speaker 5 (13:10):
Yeah, man, thank you, thank you for saying that. And
it's uh and it's so much, so much fun to
be able to to play these songs you know, like
and to play for the song itself, Like you know,
I just love playing what's needed and and that is
to me the most important part about being a percussionist
in this industry is like you got to you got
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to give the song what's needed, not not what I
want to play, or else I'd be playing cow bell
the whole night, you know, on the ballance. I hear
you that work.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
I want to know as that you would love that. Oh,
I'd love all I love all of it. I mean
I was just I was telling everybody I went to
the Googles last week. I've just been in that headspace
of live music and nothing better than a show in
the audience in the Hollywood Bowl, watching that iconic place
as the sun goes down, You've got nice breeze, especially tonight,
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like you said, the weather is perfect. This is a
hometown show for you because I know that you're an
LA guy.
Speaker 5 (14:04):
What, yes, is it still for me?
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Does it still give me out?
Speaker 4 (14:08):
When you walk?
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Yeah, when you walk on stage there and you just
look out there at that crowd and you just think
this is the Hollywood Bowl, This is like it pretty
much doesn't get bigger than that exactly.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
You know.
Speaker 5 (14:18):
It's like, you know my hometown, you know, And I
walk up, I'm like, get they When the lights go down,
we're walking off stage and I'm seeing the audience and
the hill behind there, and I'm like, this is the
Hollywood Bowl where the Beatles played, you know, this is
the joint, this is the place, you know, And and
I get to do it three nights in a row,
and it's just yeah, right now, I'm getting the chills
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just telling you about it. And I've been getting the
chills every night, all right. We're getting the chills every
night walking up there.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
I know that we love we love Chicago. You've toured
with them for a long time. But your history this
seven seventh year with a band that's amazing. The history
that you have in the music industry goes way back.
Like I said before, Jayla So, Christina Aguilera, Paul Stanley.
You worked on the Grammys, The Voice, George Lopez, Tonight
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Saturday Night Live, Jay Leno, Letterman, VH one, Storytellers, You've
done shows with Stevie Nicks.
Speaker 5 (15:13):
Doing your homework.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
I've been looking at your website and I'm just like,
there's so many names that I'm dropping it. We're gonna
have to call in the cleaning crew over here in
a minute. Who's the Who's the biggest A hole that
you worked with?
Speaker 5 (15:26):
Oh yeah, okay, okay, let me tell you. No, I'm kidding, no, no, no,
everybody's been in me. And you know, to be able
to get on stage with all these incredible artists, and
whether it's whether it's live or whether it's in the studio,
you know, I got to play on Christina's Ain't No
Other Man song that won a Grammy, you know, and
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and to play with all these other artists, whether like
you said, like all these awards. Now, I can't tell
you which hotel I'm at, but this hotel is full
with any people right now. So you're not even you're
not at home. I can't you know what I can't.
I cannot go home while I'm on tour in La
because I'll start doing laundry, start washing dishes that my
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son didn't wash, you know, You're like, you know, and
then I'll look at my watch and I'll be like, oh,
I got to get to the Hollywood Bowl. Now does
the Chicago I gotta be.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
Does the Chicago accountant ever say, hey, wait a minute,
you guys were putting up we we got a room
at the four Seasons here for Ray in LA and
he lives just a few miles away. What are we
doing here?
Speaker 5 (16:32):
Okay, you know what, He's gonna tell me something now
because you just said it on the radio, I'm.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
So sorry to blow you up. Yes, I know it
is Emmy's Night. It's a big night for Hollywood, but
I am sure that people you know, and again, I
love the television industry. Emmy's is not for everybody, I understand.
And I think if you want to go see some honest,
real music, the Hollywood bol is the place to go.
You still got tickets available there for tonight.
Speaker 5 (16:59):
I believe so. I believe there's a few tickets left.
It's been it's been like a full house Friday and Saturday,
and and you know, I'm I would think there's a
few left for tonight. And it's a seven thirty star.
Oh and you know who's playing with us is Christopher Cross.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
I love Christopher Cross. Hey, is he still the coolest
dude in the music industry?
Speaker 4 (17:21):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (17:21):
Man, I mean and talk about hits you's skin after
hit as well.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
Oh man, I saw him. I saw him with Toto
at the ball a couple of years ago, and it
was exactly that he came out on stage. It was
fifty five minutes of hit after hit after hit, and
he sings it like it's nineteen eighty three, like you
would not know any any different. And he's just the
coolest dude. And you know that that music, yacht rock
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I think is what they call it now, is so
beloved and it's always been so great and it just
has never been bigger I think even maybe bigger than
it was when it was originally popular in the early eighties.
So congratulations to you.
Speaker 5 (17:58):
Yeah, and who knows where that title came out from?
Yacht rock? So but I'll you know, I like it
rock radio all the time, me too.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
And I'll tell you what, next time you go out
on the yacht, please give me a phone call.
Speaker 5 (18:09):
I'll be right there there we go. Yeah, same here.
You know people, you know other people too, so you
got to call me.
Speaker 4 (18:16):
I know.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
I think I feel like Frank Buckley is the guy
who we should hit up. But I'll let you know tomorrow.
Ray from Chicago, Ray, thank you so much for Colin.
Appreciate you. Congratulations on the shows. You can go check
out Chicago. Still tickets available tonight tonight at the Hollywood Bowl.
No better than.
Speaker 5 (18:36):
La people. I think Ali people just call it the ball. Yeah,
you know, we just called it the ball, not the
rose Bull.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
Confusing though, So.
Speaker 5 (18:43):
Oh you're right, We've got the rose bul too. Okay,
So Hollywood, all right, all right, don't go to the
rose blow.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
Indeed, Ray from Chicago on the Aighty Reestmeyer Show. Thanks
so much for Colin. We've got to take a quick break.
We'll be back with more show, including comedian Mark Ellis,
who will be joining us on a little bit. We'll
talk more about the Emmys and other things that are
happening this week in Southern California. It is the Anddi
Reesmeyer Show.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
This is the Andy Reesmier Show on this Sunday, September fourteenth,
This Emmy Sunday, big deal in Los Angeles, as we
call it. Other things that aren't happening in the world
if you are not a big entertainment person, including the
world of sports locally here, it's college football season. It's
football season in general, but it really is college football season.
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And if you're a Bruin like I am, by extension,
you've maybe been watching the UCLA football program, and maybe
you've been watching with a little bit of anticipation and sadness.
It takes a lot to admit that the UCLA football program,
which has not been good for the past few seasons understatement,
is in a true dire situation. But with the news
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that UCLA has fired their football coach to Sean Foster,
it is all but it is all but true. The
news was announced Sunday, hours after the Bruins lost thirty
five to ten to New Mexico. University of New Mexico
was in town last night, I believe, or the night before,
because we paid them a million and a half or
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a million one point two will round up to come
and play UCLA because you pay them because you think
you know that they're gonna win, you're gonna win, and
they lost. So Deshaun Foster's out fumbled that Indeed, joining
me now on the phone, it's KTLA Steve Hartman, the
man who not only knows more about sports than I
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think anybody in Los Angeles specifically the UCLA football program. Steve,
what is going on here?
Speaker 4 (20:42):
Well, Andy, as you know, in my fifteen years at
KTLA and forever am I radio and TV, you know,
I always refer to the Bruins as my Bruins because
I'm a proud of Lump. I say that almost in
the past ten I did a commentary last night on
Sports Final Linela about the Deshaun Foster situation and all
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I was not surprised about his firing today, the circumstances
surrounding his firing I have a big problem with, and
I expressed this last night on the Sports Final because
I didn't put the blame at the feet of Deshaun Foster.
Deshaun Foster should never have been hired as the head
coach in the first place. Yeah, can you walk me
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to the universe?
Speaker 2 (21:26):
Walk me through, like what the behind the scenes led
him to this position and sort of how because a
lot of people are echoing this sentiment, not that you
didn't have it first, and I think that you have
a really good point, but I want to hear sort
of more about why.
Speaker 4 (21:38):
So going back to UCLA, I understand we're in a
different world right now as far as college sports are concerned.
College football, it's professional football. You are now paying millions
of dollars to these athletes through the NIL money, so
it's no longer an amateur game. It is a professional sport.
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By the way, not only did UCLA fire their head
coach today, so the Virginia Tech. And I'm a college
football historian, Andy, I cannot recall three weeks into the
season two coaches sent packing both teams at Z and three.
And it's because the pressures are very much now of
the professional game, no longer the college game. But getting
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back to UCLA, they had hired Chip Kelly, who obviously
came to UCLA with a lot of fanfare, and to
put it kindly, chip Kelly mailed it in. He mailed
it in. He was never committed to the university. He
was never committed to UCLA. He strung together six unbelievably
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forgettable seasons.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
Controversy.
Speaker 4 (22:43):
Yeah, yeah, I mean, and just when it looked like
things were like getting better, he quits and UCLA. It's
hard for me to say this. We're talking about a
public university that is recognized by many to be the
number one public university in the country as far as
the athletic program. They're broke, They had no money. So
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after the money they sunk in for Chip Kelly, there
was no money left to spend on a coach, so
they can they guy who leave me?
Speaker 2 (23:13):
Who was a He was a running back coach, So
who's already in house? Right, he was the associate head
coach or he had at least played in the past.
It was a nice story. It was sort of this
like beautiful Friday night lights. We've got this guy who
everybody knows and loves. The expectations though, as you said,
maybe too big for this guy who I mean, like
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you said, it appears at this point just was completely
in over his head. What do you think was happening here? Right?
Speaker 4 (23:39):
And compounded and Andy was compounded by the fact they're
moving into the Big ten when he gets hired. So
you're already moving the team into a much more elite
conference from football standpoint from where they came from, and
you're asking him to do all this with zero head
coaching experience, never been a coordinator, as you mentioned, a
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running back coach. Look, there was no question he loves UCLA.
No one's ever going to question whether Deshaun Foster doesn't
live and breathe, you know, blue and gold. We know
that he does, but it's too be able to hand
that position to him. He was completely out of his
leag Look, I take a look at the athletic director.
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I take a look at the chancellor. There are a
lot of things that have been happening at my university.
I'm class in nineteen eighty one. I entered as a
freshman in nineteen seventy six. A long time, yeah, a
long time, and I am so embarrassed over and over
again by my university by decisions that are being made
are not made by the hierarchy in this at this university.
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I mean, if it was related to how they've handled
just the football program, Chancellor out, Athletic director out. Wow.
I mean, I am cleaning house at UCLA. They've embarrassed
this UNI on many fronts, but I'm just specifically talking
about their mishandley of football team. The fact that you
can barely get thirty thousand fans to show up with
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the Rose Bowl, and why is uclapay at the Rose Bowl?
Where's the money for an on campus stadium, which was,
by the way, the original intention of Drake Stadium was
to be. You know, the track and fields stay was
supposed to be expanded into an on campus football stadium.
It's an embarrassment. I even call for a self and
boast death penalty for UCLA football if you're not going
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to take it seriously. So this Deshaun Foster is a
fall guy here.
Speaker 6 (25:36):
Believe me.
Speaker 4 (25:37):
It's much higher levels of people that have completely misrun
and embarrassed my university.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
And it's sad as a fan, by the way, speaking
with the Steve Hartman here from KTLA, who obviously is
a trojan. You know, Steve, Steve, I wonder are you
hearing anything about what the conversations were like behind the
scenes or what do you imagine if we were just
going to speculate who's making these conversations, who's watching this,
who's looking at the New Mexico game and saying when
do they know? I guess that they got to take
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the shot here.
Speaker 4 (26:09):
Well, Annie, let's talk about leading up to the season.
So what happened here was UCLA ran a very secretive
training camp. In fact, it was closed off to the media.
The media was not happy about it, and Deshaun Foster's
reasoning was, well, we don't want our opponents to have
any idea of what we're doing. Now. The reason it
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appears that they had close practices is that we didn't
want anybody to see how bad we are. Yeah, I mean,
I can tell you this. I mean UCLA is seriously
looking at an Ozero to twelve season. I mean the
worst year they ever had was back in nineteen forty three,
even before my time, when they won just a single game.
But they could be literally heading to a historic season.
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They are underdogs in every game they played the rest
of the year because they got nine to big ten
games coming up, and they'll be underdogs in all these games.
But behind the scenes, I am sure that look he
gets paid off. I don't know, it's like six seven
million dollars. Go quietly. We'll let you back on the
staff and the running back coach eventually or something along
those lines. But keep quiet. But this is this comes
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from money, Andy, It's always the money people. Every university's
got huge money people, even a state run university Ucla.
They'll pick up the bill. They'll pay him off. Now,
the question is where do you go. Are you going
to sign a legitimate, big time head coach? Is there
any sort of experience, and that's the question. Look, they
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begged USC to drag them with them into the big tech.
Why because at one point UCLA Athletic department was one
hundred million dollars in the hole. A one hundred million dollars.
I mean, how does this happen? Total mismanagement from UCLA.
And this is why I go on and on and
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on Andy about the people running this university are highly incompetent.
They believe that there are some kind of elite people
that know better than everyone else how to run things,
and they don't. It's an embarrassment to the university. And
unfortunately for Deshaun Foster, by all accounts, not only a
good guy, but a guy that was very respected by
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the players, even though they didn't play like it right,
but they really guy, he's the blame guy for really
something that is much larger viue the incompetence of a
coach that should never have gotten a job in the
first place.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
Steve, you're the man. Thank you so much for being here,
and thank you so much for calling in and educating
us on what's going on here. Go Bruins as always,
and we'll see you on TV tonight. We're gonna have
some more context about this.
Speaker 4 (28:36):
I will not be there tonight, but yes, I will
definitely have more contact next week and promised.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
Indeed, there we go. Steve Hartman from KTLA also hear
him on the radio. You know, guy's pretty smart. He's
got lots of opinions there. And I definitely know that
this is a big story because as somebody who even
doesn't follow sports like a fanatic, you probably already know
about this. So Deshaun Faster out as the football coach
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at UCLA a clap joining me now though live and
studio for more reaction. It's comedian Mark Ellis. How about
that as a segue? Did you like that?
Speaker 6 (29:13):
Look? I did not go to UCLA. I'm not a
Ucla alum.
Speaker 7 (29:16):
I'm not a Bruin, but I dined at the chilies
that used to be in Westwood at any times. I
got hit by that the best like parking meter guy
I've ever seen that.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
All the Westwood guys were incredible. Dude was incredible.
Speaker 7 (29:28):
He would chalk your tires and if you were five
seconds late, dude, he already had the ticket finished writing.
You never saw him coming until it was too late.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
I don't understand how, And this is something I want
to talk about the next time I see after the
commercial break, how Westwood has really taken a fall in
from Grace because you couldn't even there's nobody even stealing
parking in Westwood anymore. It's crazy, nobody around.
Speaker 7 (29:51):
The only time I go over there anymore is if
there's a movie preview. It's like a premiere at one
of the like the Vista or something like that. But
then going there, you're like, all right, which medical center
that's three miles away do I have to park at?
And then try to like, I bring my nurses scrubs.
I get out of my suit, put the scrubs on,
so I look like a lost nurse just trying to
get out of the parking ground.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
And they breathe too.
Speaker 6 (30:10):
You know.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
It's a nice swish swish. Oh if we could just
all wear scrubs to work up and down Kenter Avenue. There,
All right, quick break when we come back, we're live
with Mark Ellis. We're talking about being a comic in
twenty twenty five. How do you stay funny in such
a serious world?
Speaker 6 (30:24):
That's how you tease folks.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
Right there, You're listening to KFI AM six forty on
demand US.
Speaker 7 (30:31):
We used to blast that go into our interramial basketball
games and if you get smooth stuck in your heads
as a shooter, like I was like, I'm not going in.
Speaker 6 (30:38):
The paint, right, there's nothing for me in the paint.
Speaker 7 (30:41):
I want nothing to do with being inside the paint
unless it's too easy free throws.
Speaker 6 (30:44):
I'm gonna chuck and duck.
Speaker 5 (30:46):
Right.
Speaker 7 (30:46):
But man, if you got into rhythm and that songs
in your head, you were in these zone. That is
so funny. Yeah, that's a really good one. It really
just sets the tone for the rest of your afternoon.
Of course, we are talking about Baby Shark Do Do
Do Do Doo, because when you hear this on the
podcast later they obviously they can't play the music again,
so they will.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
Have clipped that out. It was something. Just know that
we were talking about Santana featuring Rob Thomas.
Speaker 6 (31:10):
That's what it was.
Speaker 7 (31:10):
An album that Santana did with a bunch of special
guests and the Rob Thomas one pop.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
If you think that that's a Matchbox twenty song, I
don't want to be friends with you. It's not going
to work out. That's a deal breaker.
Speaker 7 (31:21):
Well, unless you're one of the other guys in Matchbox
twenty who are like I'd love to see that residual hum.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
That they would have loved that. That was probably one
of their biggest hits although they were a band. I
was thinking about this because I saw Goo Goo Dolls
last week. The way that both of them have aged
is so interesting because I think Matchbucks twenty was a
band that here's here's the way that I look at it.
Especially in the early two thousands, they were playing Staples Center.
Speaker 6 (31:42):
They were huge.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
The Google Dolls were not. They were playing the Greek
you know, they were playing shows at venues of that size.
Now Matchbox twenty, I don't know where they're playing.
Speaker 7 (31:53):
All you have to do is you have to hang
around as a band and just be not even relevant
for the entire run.
Speaker 6 (32:00):
You just have to have a couple of good hits, yeah,
and just kind of hang around.
Speaker 7 (32:04):
People are gonna have nostalgia for even if it doesn't
feel like it right now. There's gonna be nostalgia right totally.
And that's what we're seeing right now. Like Google Dolls,
they just did a stage coach and they.
Speaker 6 (32:13):
One of the biggest audiences the same.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
Huge and everybody loves it because that's the last time
we were all on the same page, do you know.
I mean, I'm I say it as a joke, but
it's for real. It's like the last time we were
all like, oh yeah, we liked that song and know
that song because they were huge And and what I
don't understand from going to the show last week was
how the front row, at least on stub Hub. I
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don't know what they retailed as, but the front row
tickets were like three thousand dollars.
Speaker 8 (32:39):
It's ticket prices are insane to get close to your
And I understand that for like in the world of
if you were a radiohead or even aways, you know,
like these bands that like I think have this cachet,
but the Google Dolls. The amount of people who a
have enough money who want to spend it and.
Speaker 2 (32:55):
Also want to spend it on the Google Dolls. And
I say this as the biggest Goo Goo Dolls fan
of all time, but who are gonna do both things?
Is an insane group of people. And so what I
think you saw there a lot of it front row
were older people who maybe got the tickets for free.
You know, they knew the guy who like did the
cement for the Greek theater back in nineteen fifteen, and
they've got lifetime tickets or whatever, and they I swear
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the shot that you could see of Johnny playing the
songs the front row of all of the people who
are watching, none of them were singing along. Can who
doesn't know the lyrics to Iris or Slide.
Speaker 7 (33:31):
That's always been the case though, And it goes as
far back as when the Beatles were doing a show
in England and it was just after they popped in
America and they were doing a show in England and
the Queen was there, right, There's a bunch of royalty
and they're sitting up front and so John Lennon, this
was very controversial at the time.
Speaker 6 (33:46):
John Lennon, They're.
Speaker 7 (33:47):
About to watch into Twist and Shout and John Lennon
he looks up at like the second like you know,
you know the balcony, Yeah, yeah, and he's like, for
this next song, if everybody in the cheap seats can
clap your hands and everybody in the front rows can
just rattle your jew oh, I gotta laugh, And then
he kind of gives the Queen and the queen gives
them a thumbsu back and they go into twist and shout.
Speaker 6 (34:05):
So that's kind of the way it's always been.
Speaker 7 (34:07):
We're like us, poor people who are away in the back,
who are on the grass of the Hollywood Bowl.
Speaker 8 (34:11):
Who want to see them by the way we put
it on ourselves.
Speaker 2 (34:14):
I know I know the lyrics to Naked to Big Machine.
I'm deep on the Google. I know we are the
normal and that Paul Westerberg wrote that song like I
could do a Goo Goo Dolls trivia competition and probably
win better than the session musician who is playing on
tour with them.
Speaker 7 (34:30):
The Goo Goo Dolls are a side to Greatest Hits banded.
What I mean by that is we can all name
a few Google Dolls songs, but if you're looking at
a vinyl with Google Dolls for a cassette back in
the day and you flip it over to side too,
you need somebody like Andy to walk your throat because
we're not sure what we're listening.
Speaker 2 (34:45):
Thank you. Speaking of which, I am so sorry I
bungled this intro. I am here with comedians Mark Ellis, Yo, dude,
When I start talking about goo when I get on
the goo. Nobody knows where this is gonna go.
Speaker 4 (34:58):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (34:59):
You're a comedian. We met a while ago at KTLA
during the summer of Funny. You were one of the finalists.
Speaker 7 (35:07):
I was a finalist, yeah, which is short for didn't win.
Speaker 2 (35:10):
I don't remember who won though, so it was but
everybody was really good.
Speaker 6 (35:14):
I don't remember who won either, but everybody was great.
Speaker 7 (35:16):
And Tiffany Hattish came in and high five tos all
and she's been a good friend for a long time.
And that was such a fun gig. And I say
that because it could have been really bad. Yeah, because
you're doing stand up on morning TV on a Saturday.
Speaker 2 (35:31):
I always say comedy where no one asked for it
on the local news, which is like what my mo
is always.
Speaker 7 (35:36):
Nobody showed up for comedy because there wasn't a studio audience.
It was your incredible crew, who are, as it turns out,
great laughers, all four of them.
Speaker 6 (35:44):
And you have you.
Speaker 7 (35:44):
Guys up at the news desk, which is like another four.
Speaker 6 (35:46):
Or five people.
Speaker 7 (35:47):
So it's basically you're doing like an open mic at
a cafe. Now, luckily a lot of comics and I
don't care you might be paying three thousand dollars to
see a comedian you love at a theater now, But
every one of those comics started out doing terrible rooms
that were not set up for company. The audience may
not even known there was a comedy show.
Speaker 6 (36:05):
That's right.
Speaker 7 (36:06):
So we all kind of have that muscle that it
doesn't matter how far along we are in our careers,
we can tap into that experience of, well, this can't
be as bad as when I was doing the unurban
Coffee Shop. I got heckled by the macacino machine every
three nuths. Yeah, So you walk into KTLA and it's like, oh,
this is a piece of case.
Speaker 2 (36:22):
Well, I think that you were. I think you made
note of that, and I think that's the exact right
thing that APPROB does. It's like, look at we're all
here doing this thing. How silly is this? But you
are very successful. You might hear Mark on ninety five
to five KOs I don't know if I'm allowed to
say that, but you're on with Heidi and Frank also
Hoosier's big fan. I'm a Hoosier as well. I like them.
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They're incredible. And you also play the circuit and you've
been in Vegas a lot lately.
Speaker 7 (36:47):
I was just in Vegas and I got hired to
do a corporate gig at Allegiant Stadium, which is the
Death Starts where the Vegas Raiders crazy. So doing it
that was my first football field and it was great.
I mean, you had probably five thousand people and the
stage is set up in the end zone, and so
the joke is, look, I played high school football. This
is the closest I've ever been to an a right,
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and you just and it was just such a great
time and such great energy. And now going back to
Vegas as of tomorrow morning, I'm driving there to do
Brad Garrett's Comedy Club in the MGM all week.
Speaker 6 (37:18):
I love the drive to Vegas. I don't fly. I
love the drive.
Speaker 5 (37:20):
Yeh.
Speaker 2 (37:21):
I kind of like to drive to stick around. Can
you for the next second? Okay, cool, We're gonna take
a quick break. We'll be right back with more. Mark
ellis here on the Andy Reestmeyer Shows KFI
Speaker 1 (37:29):
AM sixty on demand
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
I'm Andy Reesmeyer. Welcome to the Andy Reesmeyer Show. Lots
to get to today been a heck of a week.
We're here with Eileen Gonzalez, Robin and Richie on the Ones,
the twos, the threes and the Force. Good morning every afternoon, everybody, Addie,
I mostly work morning, so I'm used to saying good morning,
So good afternoon is my uh I gotta start figuring
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that one out. Got a big show today. I'm sure
everybody's feeling a little weird. I certainly am. You know,
when you work in news, you experience a lot of things.
Those are generally self selected, meaning if you're covering something
that's bad, that's happened, if you're talking about murder or
(00:45):
assault or violence. A lot of times you're doing that
because you're trying to tell the story. You're going to
self select that. You're gonna go look for that information yourself.
You go to the scene, you go through the assignment
desk emails, you try to find out what's happening. This week,
we were all exposed to heinous violence, the kind of
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stuff that you don't see ever. Auto played over and
over and over again on social media everywhere. The murder
of Charlie Kirk. We have updates about the suspect from
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Utah Governor Spencer Cox coming up in just a little bit.
I'm not going to spend a ton of time on
Charlie Kirk because I feel like everybody said a million
things about it. I don't need to give you my
hot take. Nobody cares what I think about this. But
the pain that I feel just as a witness to
(01:53):
what has happened in this country in the way that
some people have reacted to it, I do want to
talk about in a bit. We'll spend just a little
bit on that in this first segment. But we've got
a big show today. UCLA's Deshaun Foster was fired. The
coach of the football team at UCLA let go after
the latest loss, twenty five point loss on Friday to
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New Mexico, a team that they paid to play. The
Bruins not doing well. We're going to talk to KTLA
Steve Hartman about what happened there. It is the Emmys,
television's biggest night is happening tonight. Maybe in the second
hour we'll get into a little bit of that some previews.
The host is Nate Bergazi, a person who I think
(02:40):
is a real anomaly in twenty twenty five from an
entertainer's perspective. In just about ten minutes, we're going to
talk to Ray from Chicago. They're playing this weekend at
the Hollywood Bowl. That's pretty big. Also, comedian Mark Ellis
will join us later this hour as well, and we'll
(03:00):
get into some things about that soil testing, what is
in the dirt following the eating of the Palisaid fire,
and a couple other things in local news. Like I said,
I'm Ady Reesmay. You can find me on the internet
at Andy KTLA. You can see me most of the
time on channel five in the morning. I'll be there
tomorrow morning, and you can also reach me here on
(03:21):
the iHeartRadio app. If I say something that you want
to respond to, or you want to contribute, something you learned,
something you liked, you didn't like, you can also call us.
We'll open the phone lines here eight hundred and five
to zero, one, five through four. Let us know what's
on your mind this Sunday afternoon. It's been a heavy week.
I'm going to try to keep it a little chill.
We're going to try to keep it just a little
(03:41):
bit less stressful, less sad. I promise we will do
that in a bit. First, I want to get the
latest though on Charlie Kirk. The governor of Utah, of
course where this happened, says that's a twenty two year
old suspect who they believe is behind the assassination of
Charlie Kirk is not cooperating with investigators. That is what
(04:05):
Utah Governor Spencer Cox told NBC News today. He also
released other details trying to put together the story of
who this guy was. Everyone is searching for a motive here.
I think we all want to know why. Here's what
Spencer Cox said. Governor Spencer Cox said to NBC News
earlier today.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
Friends, people around the suspect, what we know so far,
there are a couple of things that we can confirm
that have been reported. We can confirm that, again according
to family and people that were interviewing, he does come
from a conservative family, but his ideology was very different
than his family, and so that's part of it. We
(04:46):
do know that the roommate that we had originally talked about,
we can confirm that that roommate is a boyfriend who
is transitioning from male to female. So we know that piece.
I will say that that person has been very cooperative
with authorities, and we have additional evidence, forensic evidence that
(05:08):
has been processed, will we'll be sharing that when charges
are filed on Tuesday. So everything that we know confirms
that this is the person, the why behind this. Again,
we're all drawing lots of conclusions and how someone like
this could be radicalized, and I think that those are
important questions for us to ask and important questions for
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us to answer.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
So a lot of the conversation about this from elected
officials or public officials or people who are in positions
of power who have spoken on this has been sort
of calls to tone down the rhetoric, which I think
a lot of people can agree with. But the reason
that you say that, or that they are saying that,
is because if you have looked at the way that
the Internet has reacted to this, it is downright scary.
(05:57):
There are a lot of people who may be are
celebrating this because they didn't agree with him, and I
don't think that any of us want, any reasonable people
want to live in a country where that kind of
thing is okay. I don't think these are reasonable things.
And when I say that, most people that you talk
to in real life agree. And yet you go on
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the Internet and you're looking at this version of reality
that seems completely insane, and I think that that is
on purpose. I know that the things that are most
salacious and that are most violent, most extreme are always
(06:38):
elevated on social media because why it keeps you engaged.
Those people on social media are encouraged to post crazy
things because they get attention. In some cases, even like X,
the more viral tweet you have, you might actually make
money on it, So the algorithm wants you to be
there because of course it makes you think. I got
to read more about this to be more addicted to
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this and understand what's going on. But it is an
inaccurate representation of the way most of the people think.
I hope. The reason I believe this is because I
think back to the pandemic, when we first started talking
about lockdowns in March and April of twenty twenty, and
we thought, man, we're going to descend into civil war,
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and in reality, I think most people don't want that.
I don't think people want to feel terrible all the time.
I don't think people have the stomach for that kind
of prolonged hate. I hope they don't. I hope that
that's a benefit of our soft, lazy culture, is that
we're just too lazy to do anything crazy like that.
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And I want to hope that, as Governor Cox said
on Wednesday, that our better angels prevail, that we look
at this as a moment to say, Okay, I don't
agree with this person at all, or I could agree
with this person. If I don't agree with them, it
doesn't mean that I want them dead. And I just
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think that that's kind of what I keep telling myself
so that I don't freak out. I guess, but social media,
remember everybody is not real life. And while I would,
I don't. I'm not excusing anybody who posts things that
are crazy and gets fired for saying something nuts. I
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don't think it's an accurate representation of the way that
people really feel out there. I hope.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
It is.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
The Andy Reesemeyer Show we're continuing on. We're going to
do some more light stuff coming up in the next
hour or so. Soil testing. That's fun, right, We love
testing soil. Also talk to Steve Hartman about the UCLA
drama and is now the right time to buy a house?
We're starting to see things changing here. It is this
(09:00):
Sunday on the Andy Reesmier Show.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
How long has this been going on or how long?
I believe by Ace, there's a couple different versions of
that song. Maybe our next guest can talk about it.
I wonder if he's ever played with Ace. He's played
with Jennifer Lopez, Paul Stanley, Christina Aguilera. Now on tour
with the band Chicago. Nowhere near Navy Pier, all the
(09:29):
way in southern California. It is Ray on the line.
Welcome to the Andy Reesmier Show. Ray, Nice to have
you here.
Speaker 5 (09:35):
Buddy, Andy, hear your voice, Buddy, so great.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
To finally talk to you. You know, we've been buds
on the on the internet, I guess for many years.
But you're playing with this band, a little band called Chicago,
playing percussion for them.
Speaker 5 (09:51):
For rock and roll, Yeah, for rock and roll band.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
For many many years. And you guys are at the
Hollywood Bowl this weekend. How big is that?
Speaker 6 (10:00):
Man?
Speaker 5 (10:00):
Tell me about it. You know, we uh, okay, look
at I've played the Hollywood Bowl several times in the past,
but I've never done three nights in a row with
especially with Chicago. Come on, I mean, that's like one
of the most iconic rock and roll bands and the
history of music, and yet three and we're doing three
(10:20):
nights of the Hollywood Bowl. We just did Friday night
last night, and then tonight we're playing. And the shows
have been just amazing. You know, the crowds have been
on fire, just ready to party, ready to dance, and Andy.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
Homecoming show for you. Oh yeah, the weather go ahead,
yeah please.
Speaker 5 (10:37):
Got the web has just been perfect for an outdoor show.
So if you know, if you haven't got your tickets yet,
la come out tonight, come out and see us.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
You know, is it the same set list every night?
Are you vary it up a little bit or how
you guys choose what's going on?
Speaker 5 (10:50):
You know, it depends really depends on the amount of
time we have, but it has changed a little bit.
But so far we've been doing the same show these
three nights.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
I gotta tell you. Also, as a as after hit percussionist,
totally hit after hit, you know, you're going to get
your the inspiration you're going to get if you leave
me now, Saturday and whatever, all of it is going
to be there.
Speaker 5 (11:10):
But I love that's all there.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
I'm so jealous that you have been able to make
such a career out of playing percussion, because it's you're
so skilled. It's difficult, but I imagine the pressure you
You don't have to do vocal warm ups beforehand.
Speaker 5 (11:26):
You know you're not, no, but I got to do
but I got to do all these crazy hand things,
you know, like waving at people and stuff. You know, Now,
are you more of a paying a lot of pointing,
a lot of.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
Pointing, a lot of bongos, a lot of Uh, what's
your primary percussion that you're playing?
Speaker 4 (11:44):
Is it?
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Is it the triangle? Are you doing some cow bell?
Or what's what you mostly doing tonight with Chicago?
Speaker 5 (11:50):
Oh? I I play. Actually I'm bouncing around my area
so much that, you know, all the instruments get love.
They all get to be hit. And my setup, you know,
whether it's from tambourine like a rock and roll tambourine,
or the gongas, or the bongos or the timbales or
a lot of cow bell. Andy, we got to give
him cow bell.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
And do you have to physically carry this stuff across
the country or do you have a guy who puts
it in a box for you?
Speaker 5 (12:16):
Oh no, no, no, no, no, we have We have an
amazing crew. The Chicago crew is so just solid. And Randy,
my drum tech, he perfectly sets everything up. I mean
to the distance of my arm hitting the cow bell
to the you know, the tambourine on my left side.
It's just there for me. I'm spoiled, man, Well what
(12:39):
it is? Always say Dad, you're spoiled with working with Chicago,
And I go, no, I know, I get.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
It, I get it, And you know what the reality is,
what you're doing is bringing the ear candy. It's the sparkle.
It's the little part on top that makes it all
that much more special and better. And I think that
that's such a cool thing to be able to do
for a band that I've see. They've got big choruses,
big hooks, but you're really really only getting the full
experience once you have that top end with the little
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percussion parts of it.
Speaker 5 (13:10):
Yeah, man, thank you, thank you for saying that. And
it's uh and it's so much, so much fun to
be able to to play these songs you know, like
and to play for the song itself, Like you know,
I just love playing what's needed and and that is
to me the most important part about being a percussionist
in this industry is like you got to you got
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to give the song what's needed, not not what I
want to play, or else I'd be playing cow bell
the whole night, you know, on the ballance. I hear
you that work.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
I want to know as that you would love that. Oh,
I'd love all I love all of it. I mean
I was just I was telling everybody I went to
the Googles last week. I've just been in that headspace
of live music and nothing better than a show in
the audience in the Hollywood Bowl, watching that iconic place
as the sun goes down, You've got nice breeze, especially tonight,
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like you said, the weather is perfect. This is a
hometown show for you because I know that you're an
LA guy.
Speaker 5 (14:04):
What, yes, is it still for me?
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Does it still give me out?
Speaker 4 (14:08):
When you walk?
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Yeah, when you walk on stage there and you just
look out there at that crowd and you just think
this is the Hollywood Bowl, This is like it pretty
much doesn't get bigger than that exactly.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
You know.
Speaker 5 (14:18):
It's like, you know my hometown, you know, And I
walk up, I'm like, get they When the lights go down,
we're walking off stage and I'm seeing the audience and
the hill behind there, and I'm like, this is the
Hollywood Bowl where the Beatles played, you know, this is
the joint, this is the place, you know, And and
I get to do it three nights in a row,
and it's just yeah, right now, I'm getting the chills
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just telling you about it. And I've been getting the
chills every night, all right. We're getting the chills every
night walking up there.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
I know that we love we love Chicago. You've toured
with them for a long time. But your history this
seven seventh year with a band that's amazing. The history
that you have in the music industry goes way back.
Like I said before, Jayla So, Christina Aguilera, Paul Stanley.
You worked on the Grammys, The Voice, George Lopez, Tonight
(15:06):
Saturday Night Live, Jay Leno, Letterman, VH one, Storytellers, You've
done shows with Stevie Nicks.
Speaker 5 (15:13):
Doing your homework.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
I've been looking at your website and I'm just like,
there's so many names that I'm dropping it. We're gonna
have to call in the cleaning crew over here in
a minute. Who's the Who's the biggest A hole that
you worked with?
Speaker 5 (15:26):
Oh yeah, okay, okay, let me tell you. No, I'm kidding, no, no, no,
everybody's been in me. And you know, to be able
to get on stage with all these incredible artists, and
whether it's whether it's live or whether it's in the studio,
you know, I got to play on Christina's Ain't No
Other Man song that won a Grammy, you know, and
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and to play with all these other artists, whether like
you said, like all these awards. Now, I can't tell
you which hotel I'm at, but this hotel is full
with any people right now. So you're not even you're
not at home. I can't you know what I can't.
I cannot go home while I'm on tour in La
because I'll start doing laundry, start washing dishes that my
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son didn't wash, you know, You're like, you know, and
then I'll look at my watch and I'll be like, oh,
I got to get to the Hollywood Bowl. Now does
the Chicago I gotta be.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
Does the Chicago accountant ever say, hey, wait a minute,
you guys were putting up we we got a room
at the four Seasons here for Ray in LA and
he lives just a few miles away. What are we
doing here?
Speaker 5 (16:32):
Okay, you know what, He's gonna tell me something now
because you just said it on the radio, I'm.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
So sorry to blow you up. Yes, I know it
is Emmy's Night. It's a big night for Hollywood, but
I am sure that people you know, and again, I
love the television industry. Emmy's is not for everybody, I understand.
And I think if you want to go see some honest,
real music, the Hollywood bol is the place to go.
You still got tickets available there for tonight.
Speaker 5 (16:59):
I believe so. I believe there's a few tickets left.
It's been it's been like a full house Friday and Saturday,
and and you know, I'm I would think there's a
few left for tonight. And it's a seven thirty star.
Oh and you know who's playing with us is Christopher Cross.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
I love Christopher Cross. Hey, is he still the coolest
dude in the music industry?
Speaker 4 (17:21):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (17:21):
Man, I mean and talk about hits you's skin after
hit as well.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
Oh man, I saw him. I saw him with Toto
at the ball a couple of years ago, and it
was exactly that he came out on stage. It was
fifty five minutes of hit after hit after hit, and
he sings it like it's nineteen eighty three, like you
would not know any any different. And he's just the
coolest dude. And you know that that music, yacht rock
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I think is what they call it now, is so
beloved and it's always been so great and it just
has never been bigger I think even maybe bigger than
it was when it was originally popular in the early eighties.
So congratulations to you.
Speaker 5 (17:58):
Yeah, and who knows where that title came out from?
Yacht rock? So but I'll you know, I like it
rock radio all the time, me too.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
And I'll tell you what, next time you go out
on the yacht, please give me a phone call.
Speaker 5 (18:09):
I'll be right there there we go. Yeah, same here.
You know people, you know other people too, so you
got to call me.
Speaker 4 (18:16):
I know.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
I think I feel like Frank Buckley is the guy
who we should hit up. But I'll let you know tomorrow.
Ray from Chicago, Ray, thank you so much for Colin.
Appreciate you. Congratulations on the shows. You can go check
out Chicago. Still tickets available tonight tonight at the Hollywood Bowl.
No better than.
Speaker 5 (18:36):
La people. I think Ali people just call it the ball. Yeah,
you know, we just called it the ball, not the
rose Bull.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
Confusing though, So.
Speaker 5 (18:43):
Oh you're right, We've got the rose bul too. Okay,
So Hollywood, all right, all right, don't go to the
rose blow.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
Indeed, Ray from Chicago on the Aighty Reestmeyer Show. Thanks
so much for Colin. We've got to take a quick break.
We'll be back with more show, including comedian Mark Ellis,
who will be joining us on a little bit. We'll
talk more about the Emmys and other things that are
happening this week in Southern California. It is the Anddi
Reesmeyer Show.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
This is the Andy Reesmier Show on this Sunday, September fourteenth,
This Emmy Sunday, big deal in Los Angeles, as we
call it. Other things that aren't happening in the world
if you are not a big entertainment person, including the
world of sports locally here, it's college football season. It's
football season in general, but it really is college football season.
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And if you're a Bruin like I am, by extension,
you've maybe been watching the UCLA football program, and maybe
you've been watching with a little bit of anticipation and sadness.
It takes a lot to admit that the UCLA football program,
which has not been good for the past few seasons understatement,
is in a true dire situation. But with the news
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that UCLA has fired their football coach to Sean Foster,
it is all but it is all but true. The
news was announced Sunday, hours after the Bruins lost thirty
five to ten to New Mexico. University of New Mexico
was in town last night, I believe, or the night before,
because we paid them a million and a half or
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a million one point two will round up to come
and play UCLA because you pay them because you think
you know that they're gonna win, you're gonna win, and
they lost. So Deshaun Foster's out fumbled that Indeed, joining
me now on the phone, it's KTLA Steve Hartman, the
man who not only knows more about sports than I
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think anybody in Los Angeles specifically the UCLA football program. Steve,
what is going on here?
Speaker 4 (20:42):
Well, Andy, as you know, in my fifteen years at
KTLA and forever am I radio and TV, you know,
I always refer to the Bruins as my Bruins because
I'm a proud of Lump. I say that almost in
the past ten I did a commentary last night on
Sports Final Linela about the Deshaun Foster situation and all
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I was not surprised about his firing today, the circumstances
surrounding his firing I have a big problem with, and
I expressed this last night on the Sports Final because
I didn't put the blame at the feet of Deshaun Foster.
Deshaun Foster should never have been hired as the head
coach in the first place. Yeah, can you walk me
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to the universe?
Speaker 2 (21:26):
Walk me through, like what the behind the scenes led
him to this position and sort of how because a
lot of people are echoing this sentiment, not that you
didn't have it first, and I think that you have
a really good point, but I want to hear sort
of more about why.
Speaker 4 (21:38):
So going back to UCLA, I understand we're in a
different world right now as far as college sports are concerned.
College football, it's professional football. You are now paying millions
of dollars to these athletes through the NIL money, so
it's no longer an amateur game. It is a professional sport.
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By the way, not only did UCLA fire their head
coach today, so the Virginia Tech. And I'm a college
football historian, Andy, I cannot recall three weeks into the
season two coaches sent packing both teams at Z and three.
And it's because the pressures are very much now of
the professional game, no longer the college game. But getting
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back to UCLA, they had hired Chip Kelly, who obviously
came to UCLA with a lot of fanfare, and to
put it kindly, chip Kelly mailed it in. He mailed
it in. He was never committed to the university. He
was never committed to UCLA. He strung together six unbelievably
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forgettable seasons.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
Controversy.
Speaker 4 (22:43):
Yeah, yeah, I mean, and just when it looked like
things were like getting better, he quits and UCLA. It's
hard for me to say this. We're talking about a
public university that is recognized by many to be the
number one public university in the country as far as
the athletic program. They're broke, They had no money. So
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after the money they sunk in for Chip Kelly, there
was no money left to spend on a coach, so
they can they guy who leave me?
Speaker 2 (23:13):
Who was a He was a running back coach, So
who's already in house? Right, he was the associate head
coach or he had at least played in the past.
It was a nice story. It was sort of this
like beautiful Friday night lights. We've got this guy who
everybody knows and loves. The expectations though, as you said,
maybe too big for this guy who I mean, like
(23:34):
you said, it appears at this point just was completely
in over his head. What do you think was happening here? Right?
Speaker 4 (23:39):
And compounded and Andy was compounded by the fact they're
moving into the Big ten when he gets hired. So
you're already moving the team into a much more elite
conference from football standpoint from where they came from, and
you're asking him to do all this with zero head
coaching experience, never been a coordinator, as you mentioned, a
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running back coach. Look, there was no question he loves UCLA.
No one's ever going to question whether Deshaun Foster doesn't
live and breathe, you know, blue and gold. We know
that he does, but it's too be able to hand
that position to him. He was completely out of his
leag Look, I take a look at the athletic director.
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I take a look at the chancellor. There are a
lot of things that have been happening at my university.
I'm class in nineteen eighty one. I entered as a
freshman in nineteen seventy six. A long time, yeah, a
long time, and I am so embarrassed over and over
again by my university by decisions that are being made
are not made by the hierarchy in this at this university.
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I mean, if it was related to how they've handled
just the football program, Chancellor out, Athletic director out. Wow.
I mean, I am cleaning house at UCLA. They've embarrassed
this UNI on many fronts, but I'm just specifically talking
about their mishandley of football team. The fact that you
can barely get thirty thousand fans to show up with
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the Rose Bowl, and why is uclapay at the Rose Bowl?
Where's the money for an on campus stadium, which was,
by the way, the original intention of Drake Stadium was
to be. You know, the track and fields stay was
supposed to be expanded into an on campus football stadium.
It's an embarrassment. I even call for a self and
boast death penalty for UCLA football if you're not going
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to take it seriously. So this Deshaun Foster is a
fall guy here.
Speaker 6 (25:36):
Believe me.
Speaker 4 (25:37):
It's much higher levels of people that have completely misrun
and embarrassed my university.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
And it's sad as a fan, by the way, speaking
with the Steve Hartman here from KTLA, who obviously is
a trojan. You know, Steve, Steve, I wonder are you
hearing anything about what the conversations were like behind the
scenes or what do you imagine if we were just
going to speculate who's making these conversations, who's watching this,
who's looking at the New Mexico game and saying when
do they know? I guess that they got to take
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the shot here.
Speaker 4 (26:09):
Well, Annie, let's talk about leading up to the season.
So what happened here was UCLA ran a very secretive
training camp. In fact, it was closed off to the media.
The media was not happy about it, and Deshaun Foster's
reasoning was, well, we don't want our opponents to have
any idea of what we're doing. Now. The reason it
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appears that they had close practices is that we didn't
want anybody to see how bad we are. Yeah, I mean,
I can tell you this. I mean UCLA is seriously
looking at an Ozero to twelve season. I mean the
worst year they ever had was back in nineteen forty three,
even before my time, when they won just a single game.
But they could be literally heading to a historic season.
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They are underdogs in every game they played the rest
of the year because they got nine to big ten
games coming up, and they'll be underdogs in all these games.
But behind the scenes, I am sure that look he
gets paid off. I don't know, it's like six seven
million dollars. Go quietly. We'll let you back on the
staff and the running back coach eventually or something along
those lines. But keep quiet. But this is this comes
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from money, Andy, It's always the money people. Every university's
got huge money people, even a state run university Ucla.
They'll pick up the bill. They'll pay him off. Now,
the question is where do you go. Are you going
to sign a legitimate, big time head coach? Is there
any sort of experience, and that's the question. Look, they
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begged USC to drag them with them into the big tech.
Why because at one point UCLA Athletic department was one
hundred million dollars in the hole. A one hundred million dollars.
I mean, how does this happen? Total mismanagement from UCLA.
And this is why I go on and on and
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on Andy about the people running this university are highly incompetent.
They believe that there are some kind of elite people
that know better than everyone else how to run things,
and they don't. It's an embarrassment to the university. And
unfortunately for Deshaun Foster, by all accounts, not only a
good guy, but a guy that was very respected by
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the players, even though they didn't play like it right,
but they really guy, he's the blame guy for really
something that is much larger viue the incompetence of a
coach that should never have gotten a job in the
first place.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
Steve, you're the man. Thank you so much for being here,
and thank you so much for calling in and educating
us on what's going on here. Go Bruins as always,
and we'll see you on TV tonight. We're gonna have
some more context about this.
Speaker 4 (28:36):
I will not be there tonight, but yes, I will
definitely have more contact next week and promised.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
Indeed, there we go. Steve Hartman from KTLA also hear
him on the radio. You know, guy's pretty smart. He's
got lots of opinions there. And I definitely know that
this is a big story because as somebody who even
doesn't follow sports like a fanatic, you probably already know
about this. So Deshaun Faster out as the football coach
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at UCLA a clap joining me now though live and
studio for more reaction. It's comedian Mark Ellis. How about
that as a segue? Did you like that?
Speaker 6 (29:13):
Look? I did not go to UCLA. I'm not a
Ucla alum.
Speaker 7 (29:16):
I'm not a Bruin, but I dined at the chilies
that used to be in Westwood at any times. I
got hit by that the best like parking meter guy
I've ever seen that.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
All the Westwood guys were incredible. Dude was incredible.
Speaker 7 (29:28):
He would chalk your tires and if you were five
seconds late, dude, he already had the ticket finished writing.
You never saw him coming until it was too late.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
I don't understand how, And this is something I want
to talk about the next time I see after the
commercial break, how Westwood has really taken a fall in
from Grace because you couldn't even there's nobody even stealing
parking in Westwood anymore. It's crazy, nobody around.
Speaker 7 (29:51):
The only time I go over there anymore is if
there's a movie preview. It's like a premiere at one
of the like the Vista or something like that. But
then going there, you're like, all right, which medical center
that's three miles away do I have to park at?
And then try to like, I bring my nurses scrubs.
I get out of my suit, put the scrubs on,
so I look like a lost nurse just trying to
get out of the parking ground.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
And they breathe too.
Speaker 6 (30:10):
You know.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
It's a nice swish swish. Oh if we could just
all wear scrubs to work up and down Kenter Avenue. There,
All right, quick break when we come back, we're live
with Mark Ellis. We're talking about being a comic in
twenty twenty five. How do you stay funny in such
a serious world?
Speaker 6 (30:24):
That's how you tease folks.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
Right there, You're listening to KFI AM six forty on
demand US.
Speaker 7 (30:31):
We used to blast that go into our interramial basketball
games and if you get smooth stuck in your heads
as a shooter, like I was like, I'm not going in.
Speaker 6 (30:38):
The paint, right, there's nothing for me in the paint.
Speaker 7 (30:41):
I want nothing to do with being inside the paint
unless it's too easy free throws.
Speaker 6 (30:44):
I'm gonna chuck and duck.
Speaker 5 (30:46):
Right.
Speaker 7 (30:46):
But man, if you got into rhythm and that songs
in your head, you were in these zone. That is
so funny. Yeah, that's a really good one. It really
just sets the tone for the rest of your afternoon.
Of course, we are talking about Baby Shark Do Do
Do Do Doo, because when you hear this on the
podcast later they obviously they can't play the music again,
so they will.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
Have clipped that out. It was something. Just know that
we were talking about Santana featuring Rob Thomas.
Speaker 6 (31:10):
That's what it was.
Speaker 7 (31:10):
An album that Santana did with a bunch of special
guests and the Rob Thomas one pop.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
If you think that that's a Matchbox twenty song, I
don't want to be friends with you. It's not going
to work out. That's a deal breaker.
Speaker 7 (31:21):
Well, unless you're one of the other guys in Matchbox
twenty who are like I'd love to see that residual hum.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
That they would have loved that. That was probably one
of their biggest hits although they were a band. I
was thinking about this because I saw Goo Goo Dolls
last week. The way that both of them have aged
is so interesting because I think Matchbucks twenty was a
band that here's here's the way that I look at it.
Especially in the early two thousands, they were playing Staples Center.
Speaker 6 (31:42):
They were huge.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
The Google Dolls were not. They were playing the Greek
you know, they were playing shows at venues of that size.
Now Matchbox twenty, I don't know where they're playing.
Speaker 7 (31:53):
All you have to do is you have to hang
around as a band and just be not even relevant
for the entire run.
Speaker 6 (32:00):
You just have to have a couple of good hits, yeah,
and just kind of hang around.
Speaker 7 (32:04):
People are gonna have nostalgia for even if it doesn't
feel like it right now. There's gonna be nostalgia right totally.
And that's what we're seeing right now. Like Google Dolls,
they just did a stage coach and they.
Speaker 6 (32:13):
One of the biggest audiences the same.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
Huge and everybody loves it because that's the last time
we were all on the same page, do you know.
I mean, I'm I say it as a joke, but
it's for real. It's like the last time we were
all like, oh yeah, we liked that song and know
that song because they were huge And and what I
don't understand from going to the show last week was
how the front row, at least on stub Hub. I
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don't know what they retailed as, but the front row
tickets were like three thousand dollars.
Speaker 8 (32:39):
It's ticket prices are insane to get close to your
And I understand that for like in the world of
if you were a radiohead or even aways, you know,
like these bands that like I think have this cachet,
but the Google Dolls. The amount of people who a
have enough money who want to spend it and.
Speaker 2 (32:55):
Also want to spend it on the Google Dolls. And
I say this as the biggest Goo Goo Dolls fan
of all time, but who are gonna do both things?
Is an insane group of people. And so what I
think you saw there a lot of it front row
were older people who maybe got the tickets for free.
You know, they knew the guy who like did the
cement for the Greek theater back in nineteen fifteen, and
they've got lifetime tickets or whatever, and they I swear
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the shot that you could see of Johnny playing the
songs the front row of all of the people who
are watching, none of them were singing along. Can who
doesn't know the lyrics to Iris or Slide.
Speaker 7 (33:31):
That's always been the case though, And it goes as
far back as when the Beatles were doing a show
in England and it was just after they popped in
America and they were doing a show in England and
the Queen was there, right, There's a bunch of royalty
and they're sitting up front and so John Lennon, this
was very controversial at the time.
Speaker 6 (33:46):
John Lennon, They're.
Speaker 7 (33:47):
About to watch into Twist and Shout and John Lennon
he looks up at like the second like you know,
you know the balcony, Yeah, yeah, and he's like, for
this next song, if everybody in the cheap seats can
clap your hands and everybody in the front rows can
just rattle your jew oh, I gotta laugh, And then
he kind of gives the Queen and the queen gives
them a thumbsu back and they go into twist and shout.
Speaker 6 (34:05):
So that's kind of the way it's always been.
Speaker 7 (34:07):
We're like us, poor people who are away in the back,
who are on the grass of the Hollywood Bowl.
Speaker 8 (34:11):
Who want to see them by the way we put
it on ourselves.
Speaker 2 (34:14):
I know I know the lyrics to Naked to Big Machine.
I'm deep on the Google. I know we are the
normal and that Paul Westerberg wrote that song like I
could do a Goo Goo Dolls trivia competition and probably
win better than the session musician who is playing on
tour with them.
Speaker 7 (34:30):
The Goo Goo Dolls are a side to Greatest Hits banded.
What I mean by that is we can all name
a few Google Dolls songs, but if you're looking at
a vinyl with Google Dolls for a cassette back in
the day and you flip it over to side too,
you need somebody like Andy to walk your throat because
we're not sure what we're listening.
Speaker 2 (34:45):
Thank you. Speaking of which, I am so sorry I
bungled this intro. I am here with comedians Mark Ellis, Yo, dude,
When I start talking about goo when I get on
the goo. Nobody knows where this is gonna go.
Speaker 4 (34:58):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (34:59):
You're a comedian. We met a while ago at KTLA
during the summer of Funny. You were one of the finalists.
Speaker 7 (35:07):
I was a finalist, yeah, which is short for didn't win.
Speaker 2 (35:10):
I don't remember who won though, so it was but
everybody was really good.
Speaker 6 (35:14):
I don't remember who won either, but everybody was great.
Speaker 7 (35:16):
And Tiffany Hattish came in and high five tos all
and she's been a good friend for a long time.
And that was such a fun gig. And I say
that because it could have been really bad. Yeah, because
you're doing stand up on morning TV on a Saturday.
Speaker 2 (35:31):
I always say comedy where no one asked for it
on the local news, which is like what my mo
is always.
Speaker 7 (35:36):
Nobody showed up for comedy because there wasn't a studio audience.
It was your incredible crew, who are, as it turns out,
great laughers, all four of them.
Speaker 6 (35:44):
And you have you.
Speaker 7 (35:44):
Guys up at the news desk, which is like another four.
Speaker 6 (35:46):
Or five people.
Speaker 7 (35:47):
So it's basically you're doing like an open mic at
a cafe. Now, luckily a lot of comics and I
don't care you might be paying three thousand dollars to
see a comedian you love at a theater now, But
every one of those comics started out doing terrible rooms
that were not set up for company. The audience may
not even known there was a comedy show.
Speaker 6 (36:05):
That's right.
Speaker 7 (36:06):
So we all kind of have that muscle that it
doesn't matter how far along we are in our careers,
we can tap into that experience of, well, this can't
be as bad as when I was doing the unurban
Coffee Shop. I got heckled by the macacino machine every
three nuths. Yeah, So you walk into KTLA and it's like, oh,
this is a piece of case.
Speaker 2 (36:22):
Well, I think that you were. I think you made
note of that, and I think that's the exact right
thing that APPROB does. It's like, look at we're all
here doing this thing. How silly is this? But you
are very successful. You might hear Mark on ninety five
to five KOs I don't know if I'm allowed to
say that, but you're on with Heidi and Frank also
Hoosier's big fan. I'm a Hoosier as well. I like them.
(36:42):
They're incredible. And you also play the circuit and you've
been in Vegas a lot lately.
Speaker 7 (36:47):
I was just in Vegas and I got hired to
do a corporate gig at Allegiant Stadium, which is the
Death Starts where the Vegas Raiders crazy. So doing it
that was my first football field and it was great.
I mean, you had probably five thousand people and the
stage is set up in the end zone, and so
the joke is, look, I played high school football. This
is the closest I've ever been to an a right,
(37:07):
and you just and it was just such a great
time and such great energy. And now going back to
Vegas as of tomorrow morning, I'm driving there to do
Brad Garrett's Comedy Club in the MGM all week.
Speaker 6 (37:18):
I love the drive to Vegas. I don't fly. I
love the drive.
Speaker 5 (37:20):
Yeh.
Speaker 2 (37:21):
I kind of like to drive to stick around. Can
you for the next second? Okay, cool, We're gonna take
a quick break. We'll be right back with more. Mark
ellis here on the Andy Reestmeyer Shows KFI
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