September 29, 2025 • 36 mins
KTLA’s morning host Kacey Montoya talks to Andy about her amazing blue eyes, plus her spay ’n’ neuter nonprofit Fix’n Fidos. A pro-Trump California dentist went viral for joking about giving her patients worse care if they aren't Trump supporters, and a Chicago dentist, who was confused for the California dentist in an attempted cancelation, is speaking out. Plus, we head to LA ComicCon to hang with the nerds. South Bay comedian Granison Crawford is in studio to talk about using the Metro in LA instead of driving, plus doing comedy in Cali. Also, horrifyingly, one in five adult Americans get their news from TikTok.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
I'm Andy Reesmeyer. This is the Andy Reesmeyer Show. We've
got lots coming up. We're going inside La Comic Con.
We're talking about subtitles and why is it young people
are using them more than older people. Plus, we have
a phone call. I've been waiting for this moment for
(00:31):
my whole life. Joining us now via the telephone.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Do we have her?
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Is it Casey Montoya of kt LA Maybe she hung
up on us best.
Speaker 4 (00:44):
I'm here, Hey, I'm here.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
What's right?
Speaker 4 (00:47):
What's happening about? How those buttons? You figure out how
those buttons work? Over there? Casey.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
They don't trust me to touch anything here.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
You know, normally I only call in for Tim Conway.
But Andy, you're up there, you are getting up there.
I have so much faith in you.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Wow, thank you. I know I'm hoping they're going to
start paying me for it. That would be great.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
Yeah, well one of these days, one of these days.
But congratulations on your own show. This is a big deal.
I always say you have a lot of potential, so
now we're going to get to see it. It's a
lot of pressure. How many hours you have to thank you.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Yet two hours to fill, which is a lot. But
if you've ever met me, you know that I can
just go on and on and on and just.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Talk for us.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
I've seen you do the weather. I've seen you, so yeah.
Speaker 5 (01:25):
We know.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
So you taught me how to do weather.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
You and Verra biguest regret of my life.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
No, but I don't really do it anymore. And I
wondered if you had any insight on what was going
on there.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
Wait, why you're not doing it anymore? I just don't
take vacation.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Oh, I see what it is.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Hey, how are the weekend morning shows going?
Speaker 4 (01:50):
It's fun. It's fun. When I get home from work,
I do things like brush my dogs and organize my
charger drawer. I was just wrapping up some cords whenever
I was waiting on hold for you.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
What an exciting life you live?
Speaker 4 (02:02):
It really is, Andy. You know, when you have to shift,
you have the whole day to do anything you want.
So watch some ryder cup watching the Rams game right now,
and I'm going to start looking at my forecast for tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
Are you rooting for the Rams? Are you rooting for
the Cults today?
Speaker 4 (02:18):
I'm definitely rooting for the rams. If I don't say them,
I'm going to get more hate mail than I normally do.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
Yeah, what do people say to you most of the.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
Time, Well, you know, my eyes are very light blue,
and a lot of emails I think that I might
be possessed by the devil.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Others that just from your eyes or they.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
Just yeah, and then others will say it look like
an Alaskan husky, I'm staring off into space. It's always
about my eyes, and I'm like, okay, Well, if that's
all I'm getting, I think I'm I'm doing okay in life.
Speaker 6 (02:51):
Now.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
When you do the botox, do they do they make
it so that you can blink in emote or how
do you oh yeah.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
Oh yeah, yeah, you don't take away the express No.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
I remember I the first time I met you when
I was an intern at KTLA. This was probably fifteen
years ago. The thing that I remember is that you
were reporting and you were doing some coverage in a
large crowd of people, and you got some hecklers on
live television and then you just gave it right back
(03:21):
to them, like you started yelling at them.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
And I was like, man, this lady's crazy.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
I don't even remember that. But that's that's on point.
That's not like something I would do.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
Because it happened so frequently.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
Every thing, it happened so much. If someone would come
up to me and try to mess with our live shot,
I would always I would unplug the mic so they
couldn't hear me back at the station. And I went
up to them and I said, I said, do you
know do I come to Staples?
Speaker 6 (03:45):
My dogs?
Speaker 4 (03:46):
Getting excited about them? I said, do I come to
Staples and mess up all that paper on the shelves
that you organize? No, so then get out of my
live shop, oh man, And usually usually that would stop them.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Now, how many times do you think you actually got
somebody who was employed at Staples?
Speaker 4 (04:04):
I mean it was probably like two out of ten.
There's a lot of staples.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
There's a lot of staples here, that's right, except for
the one up in the valley. So you you are
a South Bay person. Now I think that that's public.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
Knowledge, right, yeah it is. Now?
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Oh well, do you like that being down there is?
Has it changed your life for the better? Are you
a happier person?
Speaker 4 (04:25):
I would definitely say I'm a happier person. A lot
of people would think, oh, and you have this commute now.
I used to live right down the street from work
for ten years and then now you know, moved to
the South Bay. Have quite a commute. But I will
tell you it is a world of difference living in
a tiny city that is well run. And if you
want to take that as a shot to the city
of Los Angeles, please do. But it's nice to see
(04:47):
how local government can actually work. This is the first
time I think I've ever seen it in my life.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
I have it on good authority.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Karen Bass actually has a direct line to the Andy
Riesemeyer show here, So go ahead and say anything that
you want to say.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
Sharon, I'm glad that you're having right now. I'm glad
you're having a good time.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
And I'm also curious to hear if there's any new
developments in the Fixing Fidos.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
Land there is. Andy, I'm gonna invite you, you know,
I know you have a show on Sunday, but you're
welcome to do it live. Next Sunday is my fifth
annual golf tournament. I have a nonprofit called Fix and Fidos.
Mainly we do spay and neuter, but we've also over
the past few years started paying for vet bills for dogs,
having yeah for dogs and cats, Like imagine having a
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three or five hundred dollars vet bill. You can't afford it,
and you're like, what am I going to do? And
you think, oh, I'll take my dog to the shelter
because they'll care for them, and it doesn't happen. So
we try and intervene and keep pets in their loving homes.
And we've also started really organizing a lot of adoption events,
anything that we can do to keep dogs out of shelters.
So the golf tournament is full, thankfully, but we have
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a reception and a silent auction that starts at two
thirty next Sunday at Monarch Beach Golf Links and Data Point.
It's beautiful overlooking the ocean. A lot of my KTLA
coworkers will be there. You're invited, Andy, but you haven't
confirmed yet. Vera Jmenez, Frank Buckley, Glenn Walker, your favorite
and David Panelore Kirk Hawkins will also be there. So
(06:11):
there's a lot of KTLA ers. If you've ever wanted
to meet, I got a lot of them all in
one place. It sounds it cost me a pretty penny.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Yeah, I'm sure you know Glenn doesn't get out of
bed for less than two hundred K I think, is
what the what the?
Speaker 6 (06:23):
You know?
Speaker 2 (06:24):
What's so funny is that you were just talking about Well,
first of all, congratulations on the event. I was kind
of remembered that it was next Sunday, but it's good
to have the reminder. I don't think I'll have to
ask and see if my boss will allow me to
get out of this and go down there. But the
other thing that I wanted to bring up for you,
because you were just talking about Conway and how you
love listening to Conway and would you believe I was.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
I was talking to him recently.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
You know he said the only good one over there
at KTLA anymore?
Speaker 3 (06:52):
Do you know who? He said, Andy, Glenn Walker.
Speaker 6 (06:57):
Oh that's great.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
He must have forgot. He must have forgot that I
worked there.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
I text him like, what the hell?
Speaker 7 (07:06):
Man?
Speaker 3 (07:08):
But a good one Glenn is a good one. Also,
you're a good one. And everybody's a good one over there.
Speaker 4 (07:14):
Well, and Tim is kind of self admittedly obsessed with
local news, so he knows everyone. It's fun to listen
now that I have a long commute listen to him
during the week and to hear my coworkers on the stories,
and then listening to them getting made fun of.
Speaker 6 (07:27):
It's awesome that he is.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
He is a true master of the art, and I
can only try to emulate as much as possible.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
So I told I think it's funny.
Speaker 5 (07:38):
Andy.
Speaker 4 (07:38):
You always make me laugh. I think it's awesome that
you got this show, and I'm using you right now
to try and sell tickets to event next weekend fix
somebidos dot org. H Andy. I'm sure we'll tweet about
it later.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
Yeah, I'll tweet it.
Speaker 4 (07:49):
Oh wait, I'm sorry, you'll x about it.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
I'll exit out about it now.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
I'll put it up on Blue Sky. You know everybody
follows me on Blues Blues.
Speaker 8 (07:57):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
I don't I don't have it.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
There's something the kids are doing.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
You have to ask David Lazarus. All right, Casey, thank
you so much for Colin. Appreciate you. Good to hear
from you, Casey Montoya KTLA Fixerfinals dot org go Rams.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
Indeed, there she goes.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
You know I used to work with her every day
on the weekend show, so I guess two days out
of the week.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
People thought that we really didn't like each other very much.
I think we're fine.
Speaker 5 (08:21):
We're friends.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
It's cool.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
Thanks for joining us on the Andy Reesmeier Show. It's
me Andy Reesmeyer.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
You can find me on the internet at andy KTLA,
always receiving your calls, your comments, concerns, quips, whatever. At
andy KTLA. You can also leave a message for us
on the iHeartRadio app. Just look for KFI and the
little microphone button and then you can leave a thirty
second message for us. This is an interesting follow up,
(08:56):
sort of shows the power of the Internet and when
you get the wrong person.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
For the thing that you wish hadn't happened.
Speaker 9 (09:05):
In case you missed it, here's what got the local
Skyline Smiles dentist into trouble. A joke about withholding laughing
gas to patients who were democrats.
Speaker 6 (09:15):
I quietly cut back on the laughing guess.
Speaker 7 (09:18):
We're not affiliated with her, we have nothing to do
with her.
Speaker 9 (09:21):
Almost immediately, the young dentists in Chicago saw his Yelp
reviews get trashed.
Speaker 10 (09:27):
We've received a lot of negative one star reviews from
patients and people across the country that have seen her
video and think that we're affiliated, or think that she's
franchised with us, or think that we're related in some way.
I have email Google alerts whenever we receive any reviews.
(09:48):
In every like three to five seconds, we're getting new
one star reviews because people are seeing this video and
are outraged and are responding with reviews on what they
think is the business that supports this type of talk.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
And of course it's not his business. It's just a
business with a similar name. You are just one Google
away from lighting somebody up and ruining their job, ruin
in their career, their business because you just got it wrong.
Speaker 10 (10:20):
People, and not just our patients, but our staff have
been just like really really supportive. Our patients have been supportive,
but just people from all across the country that recognize
that we're not the same office, we're not affiliated, and
they've been kind of speaking on our behalf.
Speaker 9 (10:36):
The Santa Clarita Dentist And since her video was a
joke taken out of context, the California Dental Board has
not said if it's investigating. Hopefully your conversation with him
helps clear it all.
Speaker 6 (10:48):
Up.
Speaker 5 (10:49):
I mean it's more exposure.
Speaker 9 (10:50):
Right, It's mostly been the Yelp reviews that have heard him,
but he said all of his patients are still coming in.
They are bringing their friends, a lot of support from
the staff. But no one wants to look down and
get a peeing on your phone of somebody saying something bad.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
What get a what.
Speaker 9 (11:06):
Down and get a peing on your.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
Phone of a ping oh.
Speaker 9 (11:11):
Down and get a peing on your phone of somebody
saying something.
Speaker 5 (11:14):
Bad about you.
Speaker 9 (11:15):
Of course not in every three.
Speaker 5 (11:16):
To five seconds.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
It's over one.
Speaker 9 (11:18):
And he worked so hard to build his business.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
Last thing you need right now, I believe Marlet Tell
is there to Fox eleven. Okay.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
So the other thing about this, it reminds me of
Yelp being this arbiter of culture and taste. And I
want you to sort of just consider every time you
go online, especially now with CHATGPT. You have to take
all this with a grain of salt because so many
of the reviews are fake, they're bought, they're put in
just by people who either have an agenda in this situation,
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they're trying to punish this dentist who actually isn't even
this dentist or they are trying to get you to
go to their restaurant. The number one restaurant in Los Angelus,
according to Yelp for many years in a row, the
(12:06):
Granville Cafe. I have nothing against Grandville, by the way.
It's a great restaurant. It is that is it the
number one restaurant in all of Los Angeles. You're telling
me you got Michelin stars here and there, creative chefs
doing all kinds of cool stuff, and the number one
restaurant is Granville Cafe.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
So you got to kind of take it with a grassalt.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
By the way, I've been doing this, doing this little
project I've had for myself, beautiful day today, nice yesterday,
little humid. I've been working on my car. I have
an old car that I've been meaning to sell. Kind
of accidentally started hoarding old cars, like I would trade
in a car, but I wouldn't trade it in.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
I just keep it.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
So now I've got like an old European car dealership
in my front yard. I'm from Indiana, you know the
hillbilly things. It runs, it runs strong. You can take
the boy out of the Midwest. But someday there's gonna
be three or four cars sitting on blocks in the
front yard, so my girlfriendsought me to get rid of them.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
I get it, Beverly Hillbillies. It is not.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
And it needs a little work. You know, got some
cracks in the leather, some peel and paint. So I'm
looking how to fix this on the internet, right, this
is what you do. You google or you read it. Hey,
how can I fix this? I went to the place
a body shop to go try to get it worked on.
Thousands of dollars to repaint a bumper, and I'm like,
how hard can this be? Thousands of dollars to fix
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a leather crack in an old seat?
Speaker 3 (13:38):
How hard can it be?
Speaker 2 (13:39):
And of course I see an ad on social media
that says here's the way you do it. I look,
I could do that. That's super easy. There's a guy
just standing down his leather seat restaining it. So I
get some crack filler started to fill my cracks and
wouldn't you know it, it doesn't match. It's all go
(14:00):
back on the website and lucky for me, wouldn't you
know what? They have seat die? So ordered the seat
dye takes a couple of days to arrive then I
start dyeing the seats. Now I'm like pulling on this
thread of the sweater that's starting to unravel. My fingers
are turning gray. I'm splotching the seat. It looks great.
(14:23):
I finish it. It's a learning curve, is very steep,
but I did it. And now though the passenger seat
doesn't match the driver's seat, so now I got to
order more die and it just keeps going and going.
So I think, and I'm going to save money. And
(14:44):
now that I've done all this, it kind of looks
like junk. So I'm gonna have to go back to
the guy who I went to and have him fix
the work that I ended up spending the money again
and doing all the effort to do it. I was
talking to one of my buddies about this yesterday, and
so the conversation becomes, when you get there, how do
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you explain what has occurred? He looks at the seats
and he goes, oh, man, what a bummer, And you're like, yeah,
the last guy who had this car really messed him up.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
I paid some other guy to do it. You got
to fix it.
Speaker 6 (15:21):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
If it ain't broke, don't even look at it.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Should should have just moved on with my life.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
Oh boy, let's go to comic Con.
Speaker 5 (15:36):
What do you think some of these people were in
line for hours, Like six o'clock this morning. Some people
were here waiting in line. People have come from near
and far to be here right at the La Convention Center.
And as you mentioned, doors just opened here about thirty
minutes ago. We are in the exhibit hall where they
are doing autographs photo opportunities right downstairs below the main
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event hall. Want to bring in Neil Nubahn, one of
the voice actors directors here today. Neil, thank you so
much for joining us.
Speaker 7 (16:05):
Thanks very much for asking me to say hi.
Speaker 5 (16:07):
Yeah, tell us about today what you are here for
as well?
Speaker 11 (16:10):
So I'm mostly known for Baldersgate three, I've played a
character called the Starian Resident Evil, and also well a
whole bunch of games beyond that as well.
Speaker 7 (16:17):
And I'm also just meeting the audience.
Speaker 11 (16:19):
Really, it's a wonderful opportunity to hear their stories and
be able to sort of give something back to them.
Speaker 5 (16:23):
Ready, where's home for you?
Speaker 11 (16:25):
So I'm sort of by Continental So I live in London.
I also spend a lot of time in the States,
so it's come my home away from home by Continental.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
I have never heard that, Aileen. Have you ever heard
by Continental? I have not.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
That's pretty cool. I've heard by Coastal by Curious. I've
never heard by Continental.
Speaker 7 (16:46):
By Continental.
Speaker 11 (16:47):
So I live in London, I also spend a lot
of time in the States, so it's come my home
away from home.
Speaker 5 (16:51):
Gotcha first time here at La Comic Con.
Speaker 7 (16:53):
Ellie Comic Coon. Yeah, but I used to live in
Los Angeles, so I know very well. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (16:57):
What do you look forward to most about these events
and this one specifically? What are you looking forward to here?
Speaker 7 (17:03):
I really love hearing people's.
Speaker 11 (17:04):
Stories, the way they connect the characters, protect to the projects,
and also be able to get the feedback of how
they saw the story developing.
Speaker 7 (17:11):
It's really heartening to hear so many people.
Speaker 11 (17:13):
With community coming together, funny each other, funding solace in
the stories, and I see sometimes even going on a
healing journey.
Speaker 7 (17:19):
It's really wonderful.
Speaker 5 (17:20):
Really, well, thank you so much for stopping and talking
to us this morning. Really appreciate it. Have a great
time here, all right, all right, I want to bring
in Chris to Mullins.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
Okay, that's Omar Lewis. He was down to La Comic
Con this weekend. I think it's over now, but kind
of becoming a big deal. And especially if you've gone
to the San Diego Comic Con in the past and
you just don't want to deal with all the crowds. Ugh,
what a nightmare that can be. I think it's a
nice alternative very quickly, Well, you know what, we'll do
(17:50):
that later. We've got a lot coming up still in
this hour. We have a comedian, a friend of mine
who's going to be joining us in just a little bit.
His name is Grannison Crawford. He's talking about his new
website and project League of Comedy, which allows people to
find comedians and book comedians as well reach out to
your funny people. And speaking of jokes, a joke Burger
(18:12):
a meme, an April Fool's Day joke is now a
reality and it's one of the fast food restaurant's biggest hits.
And sadly, a large amount of people in America are
getting their news not from the radio, not from television,
from TikTok. That's all coming up with the Andy Reesmeyer Show.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
It's Sunday.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
Welcome back to the Andy Reesmeier Show with your host
Andy Reesmeyer. That's me in studio with comedian Grannison Crawford
in person in the flesh, the very funny man who
also has a real project. You know, comedians who also
accomplish things. That's a that's a Venn diagram with not
a lot of overlap. And I mean that as a
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person who wishes I could have been a professional comedian.
Speaker 12 (19:09):
Well man, thank you for that glowing introduction, and I
love I love opening with like a complimentary roast to
the entire comedy.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
Industry to coways, don't do anything anything, Listen. I have
a lot of comedian friends. I dated a comedian, Like
I know, I know the comedy world, so don't try
to show me that.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
Like and musicians too. Yeah, we're all in the same boat. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
The fact that any of us were able to put
our clothes on and make it anywhere on time is remarkable.
Speaker 12 (19:38):
It's remarkable, especially considering when you usually start in the day.
That's right, your shows are sometimes ten o'clock at night,
so crazy, all that free time.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
Who needs that?
Speaker 6 (19:48):
You know?
Speaker 3 (19:49):
It's tough. I know that you're a fan of the Metro.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
You're not a car guy either, which also I imagine
adds a major layer to existing in Los Angeles.
Speaker 12 (19:59):
Honestly, I feel like I'm of the streets because of
my rapid transit experience. Like I just my car broke
down twenty eleven, which was like the first year I
got here. Wow, and uh and I said no more
and uh and I figured it out. I mean, I
grew up in the Bay Area, so I grew up
in Oakland, and you know, bart was great. You know,
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I got used to taking the bus, had a little
pass on me.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
You need though, much better than I mean, no offense
to any of the Metro people who are listening, right.
I think that it's a you have to be a
certain you have to have a certain constitution to be
able to do what you do every day.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
Yeah, I mean you just got to leave earlier, honestly, Like.
Speaker 6 (20:38):
That's most of it.
Speaker 12 (20:40):
Like, like people think that the bus is like some
sort of like uh a battle zone where you can't
go it.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
You just gotta get Yeah, it's gonna take a long time. Yeah,
it's still Google directions. Well I'm glad you made it here.
Legacomedy dot com is your new website. It's a place
where you can find shows. Yeah, but you can also
contact comics and book them for things like how did
this come about?
Speaker 3 (21:01):
And how do we get involved?
Speaker 12 (21:03):
So okay, So I've been I've been a comedian, you know,
loosely since like twenty twelve. I started really taking my
career seriously. In twenty sixteen. You got really you got
much funnier there. Like I was like, oh, oh, I
better get good at this. And so in twenty sixteen,
I was like, all right, I guess, I guess I'll
actually try. And and I had a friend of mine
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who was like a consultant, a managing Oh oh all right, anyway,
so sorry, that's okay, Okay, it didn't go out. Somebody
came in studio. It was weird, get out of here.
So basically he was consulting for a bar and he said, look,
we want to get more people in here. I think
we need like an open mic. You're doing comedy, And
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I said, oh, that sounds great. And I was an idiot,
so I didn't know he was talking about me. And
he's like, you dude, and and so I was like, okay, yeah,
I've never done that, but sure, and you know we're
doing it weekly. And the first the first one, like
we rolled out the red carpet, we had a little
palette stage. He got Stowly Girls to come out.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
Wow, and nothing says comedy like stoly Girl.
Speaker 12 (22:13):
Nothing says comedy and open mic like branded people's passing
out swag right of course, and three people came and
it was including.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
Me, but you had the promotions on lock.
Speaker 12 (22:27):
We had the promotion on lock, just no one saw them,
so right, And so then that bar closed And when
I moved to Sherman Oks where I live, I was
looking for a new place to do the mic. But
you know, my now business partner and friend was like,
let's do a monthly show. And so we started doing
a monthly show. Then we got another monthly show in downtown.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
And you've got You've had a lot of serious comics
come up through the ranks.
Speaker 12 (22:54):
Yes, yeah, yeah, We've had a ton of people that, like,
you know, if you if you told any you'd be like,
how'd you get them on? And it's like in La
comedians just want to do stage time, like they just
there's so many places that are also like not amazing
to perform at. So like I always try to like
create a welcoming community and you know, league kind of
(23:15):
a team and togetherness vibe.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
Was yeah, And I like that it's a website and
it's a it's a sort of an anti social media
thing because there's not an algorithm and it's not this
like this thing that feels like it's diluted through Zuckerberg
or any of the sort of major social media companies.
It's just it kind of like as an old school
back in the days with a forum kind of vibe.
Speaker 6 (23:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 12 (23:37):
Yeah, I mean I feel like it's like the middle
ground because so much of the comedy scene still happens
on Facebook. Yeah, you know, right, so people are like, hey,
I need an opener for tonight in like an avoid
group chat, you know, and so you know, having the
website and allowing people to kind of create a community
is the goal. And what happened was, you know, we
(23:59):
had been producing shit. We produced like a Northern California
tour that sold out, which was you know, fortunate and awesome.
But what happened was quarantine happened, right you heard about that?
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean I didn't. I don't believe.
You know, here's my conspiracy theory. Yeah, the pandemic never happened, right,
prove it to me.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
Yeah, yeah, Where is it now? Where is it now?
Speaker 6 (24:20):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (24:20):
It not that I didn't believe that it was important.
That those years didn't even exist, No, no, no, no.
Speaker 12 (24:25):
And I don't even think it was a whole year, right,
I think it was like inception years, but really we
were in the third level. That's oh absolutely, and so
it felt like in the year, but time just was fast.
Speaker 6 (24:38):
It's great.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
Yeah, yeah, we did well.
Speaker 12 (24:41):
And and so what happened was, you know, as people
were coming out of their their novels, they were like,
oh what what? And so my friends were like, hey,
where do I find shows? And I was out of
the game for a little while, and I said, you know,
do you have problems with that? And they were like, well,
I don't know where to go. There's so many sights.
And so I was like, okay, I took some notes
in my brain where I keep my notes.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
And it's funny because I think if you look at
uh in the music business, or at least music town
in La there's a website called La Jazz. Yeah, and
it's like that's where you go when you want to
find out what's going on in Los Angeles.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
Jazz tonight, okay, you know.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
And so it's like it's a great idea to do
this this way because it takes it away from the
sort of like I can't get through the filter of
nonsense on the social media or whatever. This is just
I go to this thing. It's the thing to do.
It's kind of old school. It's very simple. It's just
one idea, and I think it's a great idea, right.
Speaker 12 (25:30):
Right, And everybody has access to the internet, right, like
not everybody wants another app on their phone, that's right,
until they do, in which case we got and then.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
You'll you'll have one. Yeah, yeah, we'll figure it out.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
You'll get Listen, if Zuck shows up here, it says
thirty bill, right, you'll say.
Speaker 12 (25:46):
What I'll say. I'll say, uh, First off, sub Zuck, Yeah,
soup soup. And second off, what are we talking here?
We talk of monopoly money? Smoking, yeah, smoking all those meats?
Yeah for sure. Absolutely yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
Grannison, thank you so much for being here. You can
find him at grand in Crawford League of Comedy dot com,
where you planning next.
Speaker 12 (26:03):
I don't have any shows lined up right now. I'm
really pushing the site. But you can also go and
check out comedians on there, and the roster of comedians
you can check out is going to be expanding as
more and more sign up for that, so you'll be
able to check them out.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
Amazing, You're the man. Always a pleasure to see you.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
Best of luck out there, Grannison Crawford here on the
Andy Reestmeier Show.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
Very soon we will hand it over to the very
capable hands of Chris Merrill. I want to get his
take on one of these stories. I teased a couple
of things. Caleb popped in and said, Hey, Andy, when
are you going to talk about those stories that you did?
Speaker 3 (26:41):
That You're teased, So I'm going to talk about them
right now.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
One in five Americans are regularly getting their news not
from radio, not from TV or the newspaper, but from TikTok.
That is up from three percent in twenty twenty. And
check this out. When looking at adult TikTok userscifically, news
consumption has also increased. More than half of TikTok users
(27:06):
now say that they regularly get news on the platform,
which is up from twenty two percent. That is probably
no surprise. They're serving people news. There's trends, there's things
that happen on the Internet all the time. Not a
big surprise, but I think probably something you should pay
attention to if you're in the news business back in
twenty twenty one. I know, it's hard to remember a
lot of stuff that happened during that time. And if
(27:27):
you're like Grannison, Crawford and me, we're buying into the
conspiracy theory that there were no years between twenty twenty
and twenty twenty four. But one of those April Fool's
Day promotional bits, you know, the ones where you're kind
of like, oh god, Oreo Orio is doing a thing.
Whether it's made out of I don't know, I don't know.
(27:50):
It's so dumb. It's so dumb. They're never real. April
fools Day has been ruined by corporations, you know, the
fast food restaurant though Culver's has announced that a made
up burger that was never actually planned to be served
is actually coming soon. They taunted hungry burger lovers, but
the promise of a large Wisconsin cheese curd served beneath
(28:12):
a lightly buttered, toasted bun. Everybody thought it was kind
of a cool idea or kind of a disgusting idea,
But now they are going to be releasing one on
National Cheese Curd Day October fifteenth. The kurder Burger is
what it's called. And if you could say it without
throwing up, heck, yeah, guy. Culver's is pretty good, though
(28:35):
they got that butterburger situation. I'm trying to figure out
where Culver's is close to Las, close to us?
Speaker 3 (28:41):
Do you guys know, Cayle, you go to Culver's.
Speaker 5 (28:47):
She's I don't even know what that is.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
Culver's is a oh, there's none in La great story, Andy.
Culver's is not Culver City. Culver's is a restaurant. They
serve burgers, they serve custard. There's the closest one is
in maybe Vegas.
Speaker 6 (29:08):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
This is a it's boring even to me. Coming up,
Chris Merrill will join us. Is he on the line?
Speaker 3 (29:16):
Do we have him?
Speaker 12 (29:16):
All?
Speaker 5 (29:17):
Right?
Speaker 8 (29:17):
Hey buddy, hey man, listen, I'm with you on the Culvers.
And if people haven't experienced Culvers. It's delicious, It's so good.
Speaker 6 (29:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (29:27):
And the idea of milking the cow and then slaughtering
it and eating it all together just.
Speaker 6 (29:30):
Sounds amazing to me.
Speaker 3 (29:31):
Do you think it's good?
Speaker 6 (29:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
You get the kurds, you get the butter, you get
the burger. You can get a little bit of that
dessert on the side with the custard.
Speaker 8 (29:38):
That's a They started in Wisconsin, Wisconsin, and being that
I grew up across the pond from Wisconsin, we got
a Culver's in my hometown.
Speaker 6 (29:48):
Oh, I don't know.
Speaker 8 (29:48):
I wasn't living there at the time, so I'm gonna
say it's been I don't know, five six years. I
think they opened right about the time the pandemic came.
Great timing, right, But the lines are insane.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
Oh no, it's crazy. There's a lot of them in Indiana,
where I'm also from. Wait where originally?
Speaker 3 (30:00):
Are you from?
Speaker 6 (30:01):
Northern Michigan?
Speaker 3 (30:02):
Northern like, are you talking about up or No? Not
that far nor No?
Speaker 2 (30:05):
No trol Yeah, the bridge below the bridge. Yes, of course,
my mom loves a marquette. That's why I ask.
Speaker 6 (30:10):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Beautiful time.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
Oh yeah, it's gorgeous.
Speaker 8 (30:13):
Up there, but yeah you can. I just ask you
about the TikTok news thing. Uh huh, So is that
something that in the TV news, like, are they doing
little shorts that they put on TikTok so they can
try to capture some of that news viewership.
Speaker 3 (30:27):
They should?
Speaker 8 (30:27):
They should, because my concern is this, so many people
are getting their news from TikTok, as you pointed out,
but is it really news reporting or is it news reaction?
So we still need the journalists to actually do the
news gathering the work.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
Right, absolutely, Yeah, And I think that you're you're right
in that a lot of it is either reaction or
it is sort of like repackage, repurpose dubiously sourced news
where you have maybe a compelling mom in her kitchen
saying what amounts to a conspiracy theory?
Speaker 6 (31:00):
Right?
Speaker 2 (31:00):
That sounds really good and that you would share because
it codifies a belief you might have.
Speaker 6 (31:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (31:04):
In fact, I'm gonna I'm going to address this coming
up at the five o'clock hour too, how the conspiracy
theories take off and that the algorithms inversely reward honesty.
Oh yes, yeah, yeah, So I mean you want to
make money, be more outrageous, say more wild stuff, you
get more views, you get more shares, and it is
(31:25):
not healthy.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
No, because it also has warped our perspective on what
people actually think, because it's very hard to look at
social media and I guess objectively say this is not
representative of most people, because it's not, but it certainly
seems like it is.
Speaker 8 (31:45):
Well, yeah, and that's the other one too, because the
politicians love to sort of flood the zone with a
lot of you know, these broad brush things, you know, like, oh,
you'll they are doing this, and the liberals are this,
or the conservatives are this or no way, liberals are
this or no way, conservatives are that. And it's all
based on I saw some posts online and it'll be
(32:06):
people with like thirty followers saying something outrageous. But then
that takes off and becomes evidently the you know, the
go to quote for the other side. So I mean,
the problem, in my opinion, is not the outrageous people.
It's that we've we we have blurred the lines between
entertainment and information. Yeahs, as consumers we have well, so
(32:30):
we seem to think if it's entertaining, it must be informative, right,
and that's just not the case.
Speaker 2 (32:34):
And the more that you get served that over and
over again, the more you'll think that it's real or
that it's important. And I think when you look at platforms,
even like X where there's a specific incentive, a financial incentive,
you can get paid and make more money if you
have something that goes viral, Well, how can you make
something go viral? It can be more salacious, the more
(32:54):
likely it will be to go to go viral, right.
Speaker 8 (32:57):
And it concerns me for actual journalists and actual people
in legacy media like what we're doing, which is why
I'm starting my own TikTok. I like this, this is
great nude ogre news. You can maybe use what do
you think?
Speaker 3 (33:12):
I love that? Is that? How many? Is it too long?
I mean it works right.
Speaker 8 (33:17):
It's just going to be large font, very colorful all
over the screen, me naked. I don't tell you about
the craft that may or may not have happened. I
can't see any objection to this concept.
Speaker 6 (33:27):
Nope, nope.
Speaker 2 (33:29):
By the way, Cayla wanted me to talk about this
story about subtitles.
Speaker 6 (33:32):
Okay, go on, do you know that?
Speaker 3 (33:34):
Now?
Speaker 2 (33:35):
According to a new survey, people under the age of
forty five are more likely to use subtitles than older adults.
Speaker 8 (33:41):
Okay, that's the switch I didn't see. I knew that
it was growing in popularity, I didn't realize that it
was more popular.
Speaker 6 (33:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (33:46):
I remember this when I was in my early maybe
mid twenties, and I dated somebody who was like three
years younger than me, and I remember she was she
put the subtitles on and I was blown away.
Speaker 3 (33:57):
I was like, Oh, do you have a hearing issue?
Like what is what is going on here?
Speaker 2 (34:01):
And then I learned that people who are just a
little bit younger than me, that they put the subtitles
on for everything. And I think one of the things
that the study has shown is that they are watching
maybe in a noisier environment, they're doing something else, they're
on their phones. And I guess that it's because it's
the audio mixes are much more there's much more more
(34:24):
things to compete with dialogue in modern television than there
used to be.
Speaker 6 (34:28):
Right, I think you're your clo.
Speaker 8 (34:29):
I think you're right on it, and I think it
has to do with sort of this growing ADHD that
all the screens are giving us.
Speaker 6 (34:35):
Oh yeah, so I have in front of me.
Speaker 8 (34:37):
I have two giant monitors open in my in my studio,
and I have one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten,
ten individual tabs that I'm witnessing. Those don't That doesn't
include the ones that aren't front and center right.
Speaker 3 (34:51):
Right, someones that are not safe for work.
Speaker 6 (34:53):
Right, Yeah, no, those are still those are those right?
Speaker 8 (34:57):
I got two clocks, I've got audio, you know, mixes,
I've got connection to the station, I've got teams, I've
got the outlook, I've.
Speaker 6 (35:05):
Got the football game on.
Speaker 8 (35:06):
I got everything open, and and what am I going
to be doing here for the next three hours. I'm
going to be reading, discussing, and then trying to keep
my mind as active as possible. And I think this
is this growing ADHD thing. And I think that the
subtitles do two things. They give us two things to
focus on it. Once, what's happening on the screen, and
then we can read it and process it using a
separate part of our brain.
Speaker 6 (35:24):
But also I think we catch more. Right.
Speaker 2 (35:26):
Oh, that's an interesting point. So there is a little
bit of a benefit to this maybe.
Speaker 6 (35:30):
Oh, definitely. I've been doing this since before it was popular.
Speaker 2 (35:33):
Yeah, and you're unstoppable, completely on top right by the way.
Speaker 3 (35:39):
It looks like the Rams are probably gonna pull this
one out.
Speaker 6 (35:42):
Yeah, we'll see. What is it like a minute and
a half left on? I got red zone on. It
keeps popping, Yes.
Speaker 2 (35:46):
Yes, yes, Colts twenty Rams twenty seven and we're doing
a lot of dancing in.
Speaker 6 (35:50):
The end zone.
Speaker 3 (35:51):
We're arters blew at New York's. Oh my god, it's
so depressing.
Speaker 2 (35:54):
And you know what, as a Chargers fan, listen beating
the Chiefs first game in Brazil, that basically was my
super Bowl, So god, I just ride the high of
that forever. But those for the turnovers, man killer, for the.
Speaker 6 (36:09):
Chargers losing to a bad team with a rookie in
his first.
Speaker 2 (36:11):
Start, well, and I mean half of the Chargers are
on an injured list now, so I you know, it's
gonna be an interesting season here. But of course you
can listen to all of those updates here on KFI
AM six forty, your home for the Los Angeles Chargers.
Thanks for being with us today, Chris Merril's popping in
staying with you all the way until seven pm?
Speaker 3 (36:33):
Is that right?
Speaker 6 (36:34):
Yeah? Wow? Well we make it what.
Speaker 3 (36:36):
A night you mean? We as like a society.
Speaker 6 (36:39):
Or no, I mean we asn't me and my many personalities.
Speaker 3 (36:41):
There you go.
Speaker 2 (36:42):
Yeah, well, if that's not a tease to listen, I
don't know what is any reason myire show. I think
I'll be back with you next week. You can find
me on the internet at andy KTLA. Thanks so much, Chris,
we'll be listening real soon. You listen to Cafi AM
six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
I'm Andy Reesmeyer. This is the Andy Reesmeyer Show. We've
got lots coming up. We're going inside La Comic Con.
We're talking about subtitles and why is it young people
are using them more than older people. Plus, we have
a phone call. I've been waiting for this moment for
(00:31):
my whole life. Joining us now via the telephone.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Do we have her?
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Is it Casey Montoya of kt LA Maybe she hung
up on us best.
Speaker 4 (00:44):
I'm here, Hey, I'm here.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
What's right?
Speaker 4 (00:47):
What's happening about? How those buttons? You figure out how
those buttons work? Over there? Casey.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
They don't trust me to touch anything here.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
You know, normally I only call in for Tim Conway.
But Andy, you're up there, you are getting up there.
I have so much faith in you.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Wow, thank you. I know I'm hoping they're going to
start paying me for it. That would be great.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
Yeah, well one of these days, one of these days.
But congratulations on your own show. This is a big deal.
I always say you have a lot of potential, so
now we're going to get to see it. It's a
lot of pressure. How many hours you have to thank you.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Yet two hours to fill, which is a lot. But
if you've ever met me, you know that I can
just go on and on and on and just.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Talk for us.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
I've seen you do the weather. I've seen you, so yeah.
Speaker 5 (01:25):
We know.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
So you taught me how to do weather.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
You and Verra biguest regret of my life.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
No, but I don't really do it anymore. And I
wondered if you had any insight on what was going
on there.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
Wait, why you're not doing it anymore? I just don't
take vacation.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Oh, I see what it is.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Hey, how are the weekend morning shows going?
Speaker 4 (01:50):
It's fun. It's fun. When I get home from work,
I do things like brush my dogs and organize my
charger drawer. I was just wrapping up some cords whenever
I was waiting on hold for you.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
What an exciting life you live?
Speaker 4 (02:02):
It really is, Andy. You know, when you have to shift,
you have the whole day to do anything you want.
So watch some ryder cup watching the Rams game right now,
and I'm going to start looking at my forecast for tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
Are you rooting for the Rams? Are you rooting for
the Cults today?
Speaker 4 (02:18):
I'm definitely rooting for the rams. If I don't say them,
I'm going to get more hate mail than I normally do.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
Yeah, what do people say to you most of the.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
Time, Well, you know, my eyes are very light blue,
and a lot of emails I think that I might
be possessed by the devil.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Others that just from your eyes or they.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
Just yeah, and then others will say it look like
an Alaskan husky, I'm staring off into space. It's always
about my eyes, and I'm like, okay, Well, if that's
all I'm getting, I think I'm I'm doing okay in life.
Speaker 6 (02:51):
Now.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
When you do the botox, do they do they make
it so that you can blink in emote or how
do you oh yeah.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
Oh yeah, yeah, you don't take away the express No.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
I remember I the first time I met you when
I was an intern at KTLA. This was probably fifteen
years ago. The thing that I remember is that you
were reporting and you were doing some coverage in a
large crowd of people, and you got some hecklers on
live television and then you just gave it right back
(03:21):
to them, like you started yelling at them.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
And I was like, man, this lady's crazy.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
I don't even remember that. But that's that's on point.
That's not like something I would do.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
Because it happened so frequently.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
Every thing, it happened so much. If someone would come
up to me and try to mess with our live shot,
I would always I would unplug the mic so they
couldn't hear me back at the station. And I went
up to them and I said, I said, do you
know do I come to Staples?
Speaker 6 (03:45):
My dogs?
Speaker 4 (03:46):
Getting excited about them? I said, do I come to
Staples and mess up all that paper on the shelves
that you organize? No, so then get out of my
live shop, oh man, And usually usually that would stop them.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Now, how many times do you think you actually got
somebody who was employed at Staples?
Speaker 4 (04:04):
I mean it was probably like two out of ten.
There's a lot of staples.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
There's a lot of staples here, that's right, except for
the one up in the valley. So you you are
a South Bay person. Now I think that that's public.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
Knowledge, right, yeah it is. Now?
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Oh well, do you like that being down there is?
Has it changed your life for the better? Are you
a happier person?
Speaker 4 (04:25):
I would definitely say I'm a happier person. A lot
of people would think, oh, and you have this commute now.
I used to live right down the street from work
for ten years and then now you know, moved to
the South Bay. Have quite a commute. But I will
tell you it is a world of difference living in
a tiny city that is well run. And if you
want to take that as a shot to the city
of Los Angeles, please do. But it's nice to see
(04:47):
how local government can actually work. This is the first
time I think I've ever seen it in my life.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
I have it on good authority.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Karen Bass actually has a direct line to the Andy
Riesemeyer show here, So go ahead and say anything that
you want to say.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
Sharon, I'm glad that you're having right now. I'm glad
you're having a good time.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
And I'm also curious to hear if there's any new
developments in the Fixing Fidos.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
Land there is. Andy, I'm gonna invite you, you know,
I know you have a show on Sunday, but you're
welcome to do it live. Next Sunday is my fifth
annual golf tournament. I have a nonprofit called Fix and Fidos.
Mainly we do spay and neuter, but we've also over
the past few years started paying for vet bills for dogs,
having yeah for dogs and cats, Like imagine having a
(05:30):
three or five hundred dollars vet bill. You can't afford it,
and you're like, what am I going to do? And
you think, oh, I'll take my dog to the shelter
because they'll care for them, and it doesn't happen. So
we try and intervene and keep pets in their loving homes.
And we've also started really organizing a lot of adoption events,
anything that we can do to keep dogs out of shelters.
So the golf tournament is full, thankfully, but we have
(05:50):
a reception and a silent auction that starts at two
thirty next Sunday at Monarch Beach Golf Links and Data Point.
It's beautiful overlooking the ocean. A lot of my KTLA
coworkers will be there. You're invited, Andy, but you haven't
confirmed yet. Vera Jmenez, Frank Buckley, Glenn Walker, your favorite
and David Panelore Kirk Hawkins will also be there. So
(06:11):
there's a lot of KTLA ers. If you've ever wanted
to meet, I got a lot of them all in
one place. It sounds it cost me a pretty penny.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Yeah, I'm sure you know Glenn doesn't get out of
bed for less than two hundred K I think, is
what the what the?
Speaker 6 (06:23):
You know?
Speaker 2 (06:24):
What's so funny is that you were just talking about Well,
first of all, congratulations on the event. I was kind
of remembered that it was next Sunday, but it's good
to have the reminder. I don't think I'll have to
ask and see if my boss will allow me to
get out of this and go down there. But the
other thing that I wanted to bring up for you,
because you were just talking about Conway and how you
love listening to Conway and would you believe I was.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
I was talking to him recently.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
You know he said the only good one over there
at KTLA anymore?
Speaker 3 (06:52):
Do you know who? He said, Andy, Glenn Walker.
Speaker 6 (06:57):
Oh that's great.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
He must have forgot. He must have forgot that I
worked there.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
I text him like, what the hell?
Speaker 7 (07:06):
Man?
Speaker 3 (07:08):
But a good one Glenn is a good one. Also,
you're a good one. And everybody's a good one over there.
Speaker 4 (07:14):
Well, and Tim is kind of self admittedly obsessed with
local news, so he knows everyone. It's fun to listen
now that I have a long commute listen to him
during the week and to hear my coworkers on the stories,
and then listening to them getting made fun of.
Speaker 6 (07:27):
It's awesome that he is.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
He is a true master of the art, and I
can only try to emulate as much as possible.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
So I told I think it's funny.
Speaker 5 (07:38):
Andy.
Speaker 4 (07:38):
You always make me laugh. I think it's awesome that
you got this show, and I'm using you right now
to try and sell tickets to event next weekend fix
somebidos dot org. H Andy. I'm sure we'll tweet about
it later.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
Yeah, I'll tweet it.
Speaker 4 (07:49):
Oh wait, I'm sorry, you'll x about it.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
I'll exit out about it now.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
I'll put it up on Blue Sky. You know everybody
follows me on Blues Blues.
Speaker 8 (07:57):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
I don't I don't have it.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
There's something the kids are doing.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
You have to ask David Lazarus. All right, Casey, thank
you so much for Colin. Appreciate you. Good to hear
from you, Casey Montoya KTLA Fixerfinals dot org go Rams.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
Indeed, there she goes.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
You know I used to work with her every day
on the weekend show, so I guess two days out
of the week.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
People thought that we really didn't like each other very much.
I think we're fine.
Speaker 5 (08:21):
We're friends.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
It's cool.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
Thanks for joining us on the Andy Reesmeier Show. It's
me Andy Reesmeyer.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
You can find me on the internet at andy KTLA,
always receiving your calls, your comments, concerns, quips, whatever. At
andy KTLA. You can also leave a message for us
on the iHeartRadio app. Just look for KFI and the
little microphone button and then you can leave a thirty
second message for us. This is an interesting follow up,
(08:56):
sort of shows the power of the Internet and when
you get the wrong person.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
For the thing that you wish hadn't happened.
Speaker 9 (09:05):
In case you missed it, here's what got the local
Skyline Smiles dentist into trouble. A joke about withholding laughing
gas to patients who were democrats.
Speaker 6 (09:15):
I quietly cut back on the laughing guess.
Speaker 7 (09:18):
We're not affiliated with her, we have nothing to do
with her.
Speaker 9 (09:21):
Almost immediately, the young dentists in Chicago saw his Yelp
reviews get trashed.
Speaker 10 (09:27):
We've received a lot of negative one star reviews from
patients and people across the country that have seen her
video and think that we're affiliated, or think that she's
franchised with us, or think that we're related in some way.
I have email Google alerts whenever we receive any reviews.
(09:48):
In every like three to five seconds, we're getting new
one star reviews because people are seeing this video and
are outraged and are responding with reviews on what they
think is the business that supports this type of talk.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
And of course it's not his business. It's just a
business with a similar name. You are just one Google
away from lighting somebody up and ruining their job, ruin
in their career, their business because you just got it wrong.
Speaker 10 (10:20):
People, and not just our patients, but our staff have
been just like really really supportive. Our patients have been supportive,
but just people from all across the country that recognize
that we're not the same office, we're not affiliated, and
they've been kind of speaking on our behalf.
Speaker 9 (10:36):
The Santa Clarita Dentist And since her video was a
joke taken out of context, the California Dental Board has
not said if it's investigating. Hopefully your conversation with him
helps clear it all.
Speaker 6 (10:48):
Up.
Speaker 5 (10:49):
I mean it's more exposure.
Speaker 9 (10:50):
Right, It's mostly been the Yelp reviews that have heard him,
but he said all of his patients are still coming in.
They are bringing their friends, a lot of support from
the staff. But no one wants to look down and
get a peeing on your phone of somebody saying something bad.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
What get a what.
Speaker 9 (11:06):
Down and get a peing on your.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
Phone of a ping oh.
Speaker 9 (11:11):
Down and get a peing on your phone of somebody
saying something.
Speaker 5 (11:14):
Bad about you.
Speaker 9 (11:15):
Of course not in every three.
Speaker 5 (11:16):
To five seconds.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
It's over one.
Speaker 9 (11:18):
And he worked so hard to build his business.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
Last thing you need right now, I believe Marlet Tell
is there to Fox eleven. Okay.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
So the other thing about this, it reminds me of
Yelp being this arbiter of culture and taste. And I
want you to sort of just consider every time you
go online, especially now with CHATGPT. You have to take
all this with a grain of salt because so many
of the reviews are fake, they're bought, they're put in
just by people who either have an agenda in this situation,
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they're trying to punish this dentist who actually isn't even
this dentist or they are trying to get you to
go to their restaurant. The number one restaurant in Los Angelus,
according to Yelp for many years in a row, the
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Granville Cafe. I have nothing against Grandville, by the way.
It's a great restaurant. It is that is it the
number one restaurant in all of Los Angeles. You're telling
me you got Michelin stars here and there, creative chefs
doing all kinds of cool stuff, and the number one
restaurant is Granville Cafe.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
So you got to kind of take it with a grassalt.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
By the way, I've been doing this, doing this little
project I've had for myself, beautiful day today, nice yesterday,
little humid. I've been working on my car. I have
an old car that I've been meaning to sell. Kind
of accidentally started hoarding old cars, like I would trade
in a car, but I wouldn't trade it in.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
I just keep it.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
So now I've got like an old European car dealership
in my front yard. I'm from Indiana, you know the
hillbilly things. It runs, it runs strong. You can take
the boy out of the Midwest. But someday there's gonna
be three or four cars sitting on blocks in the
front yard, so my girlfriendsought me to get rid of them.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
I get it, Beverly Hillbillies. It is not.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
And it needs a little work. You know, got some
cracks in the leather, some peel and paint. So I'm
looking how to fix this on the internet, right, this
is what you do. You google or you read it. Hey,
how can I fix this? I went to the place
a body shop to go try to get it worked on.
Thousands of dollars to repaint a bumper, and I'm like,
how hard can this be? Thousands of dollars to fix
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a leather crack in an old seat?
Speaker 3 (13:38):
How hard can it be?
Speaker 2 (13:39):
And of course I see an ad on social media
that says here's the way you do it. I look,
I could do that. That's super easy. There's a guy
just standing down his leather seat restaining it. So I
get some crack filler started to fill my cracks and
wouldn't you know it, it doesn't match. It's all go
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back on the website and lucky for me, wouldn't you
know what? They have seat die? So ordered the seat
dye takes a couple of days to arrive then I
start dyeing the seats. Now I'm like pulling on this
thread of the sweater that's starting to unravel. My fingers
are turning gray. I'm splotching the seat. It looks great.
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I finish it. It's a learning curve, is very steep,
but I did it. And now though the passenger seat
doesn't match the driver's seat, so now I got to
order more die and it just keeps going and going.
So I think, and I'm going to save money. And
(14:44):
now that I've done all this, it kind of looks
like junk. So I'm gonna have to go back to
the guy who I went to and have him fix
the work that I ended up spending the money again
and doing all the effort to do it. I was
talking to one of my buddies about this yesterday, and
so the conversation becomes, when you get there, how do
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you explain what has occurred? He looks at the seats
and he goes, oh, man, what a bummer, And you're like, yeah,
the last guy who had this car really messed him up.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
I paid some other guy to do it. You got
to fix it.
Speaker 6 (15:21):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
If it ain't broke, don't even look at it.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Should should have just moved on with my life.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
Oh boy, let's go to comic Con.
Speaker 5 (15:36):
What do you think some of these people were in
line for hours, Like six o'clock this morning. Some people
were here waiting in line. People have come from near
and far to be here right at the La Convention Center.
And as you mentioned, doors just opened here about thirty
minutes ago. We are in the exhibit hall where they
are doing autographs photo opportunities right downstairs below the main
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event hall. Want to bring in Neil Nubahn, one of
the voice actors directors here today. Neil, thank you so
much for joining us.
Speaker 7 (16:05):
Thanks very much for asking me to say hi.
Speaker 5 (16:07):
Yeah, tell us about today what you are here for
as well?
Speaker 11 (16:10):
So I'm mostly known for Baldersgate three, I've played a
character called the Starian Resident Evil, and also well a
whole bunch of games beyond that as well.
Speaker 7 (16:17):
And I'm also just meeting the audience.
Speaker 11 (16:19):
Really, it's a wonderful opportunity to hear their stories and
be able to sort of give something back to them.
Speaker 5 (16:23):
Ready, where's home for you?
Speaker 11 (16:25):
So I'm sort of by Continental So I live in London.
I also spend a lot of time in the States,
so it's come my home away from home by Continental.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
I have never heard that, Aileen. Have you ever heard
by Continental? I have not.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
That's pretty cool. I've heard by Coastal by Curious. I've
never heard by Continental.
Speaker 7 (16:46):
By Continental.
Speaker 11 (16:47):
So I live in London, I also spend a lot
of time in the States, so it's come my home
away from home.
Speaker 5 (16:51):
Gotcha first time here at La Comic Con.
Speaker 7 (16:53):
Ellie Comic Coon. Yeah, but I used to live in
Los Angeles, so I know very well. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (16:57):
What do you look forward to most about these events
and this one specifically? What are you looking forward to here?
Speaker 7 (17:03):
I really love hearing people's.
Speaker 11 (17:04):
Stories, the way they connect the characters, protect to the projects,
and also be able to get the feedback of how
they saw the story developing.
Speaker 7 (17:11):
It's really heartening to hear so many people.
Speaker 11 (17:13):
With community coming together, funny each other, funding solace in
the stories, and I see sometimes even going on a
healing journey.
Speaker 7 (17:19):
It's really wonderful.
Speaker 5 (17:20):
Really, well, thank you so much for stopping and talking
to us this morning. Really appreciate it. Have a great
time here, all right, all right, I want to bring
in Chris to Mullins.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
Okay, that's Omar Lewis. He was down to La Comic
Con this weekend. I think it's over now, but kind
of becoming a big deal. And especially if you've gone
to the San Diego Comic Con in the past and
you just don't want to deal with all the crowds. Ugh,
what a nightmare that can be. I think it's a
nice alternative very quickly, Well, you know what, we'll do
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that later. We've got a lot coming up still in
this hour. We have a comedian, a friend of mine
who's going to be joining us in just a little bit.
His name is Grannison Crawford. He's talking about his new
website and project League of Comedy, which allows people to
find comedians and book comedians as well reach out to
your funny people. And speaking of jokes, a joke Burger
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a meme, an April Fool's Day joke is now a
reality and it's one of the fast food restaurant's biggest hits.
And sadly, a large amount of people in America are
getting their news not from the radio, not from television,
from TikTok. That's all coming up with the Andy Reesmeyer Show.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
It's Sunday.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
Welcome back to the Andy Reesmeier Show with your host
Andy Reesmeyer. That's me in studio with comedian Grannison Crawford
in person in the flesh, the very funny man who
also has a real project. You know, comedians who also
accomplish things. That's a that's a Venn diagram with not
a lot of overlap. And I mean that as a
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person who wishes I could have been a professional comedian.
Speaker 12 (19:09):
Well man, thank you for that glowing introduction, and I
love I love opening with like a complimentary roast to
the entire comedy.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
Industry to coways, don't do anything anything, Listen. I have
a lot of comedian friends. I dated a comedian, Like
I know, I know the comedy world, so don't try
to show me that.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
Like and musicians too. Yeah, we're all in the same boat. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
The fact that any of us were able to put
our clothes on and make it anywhere on time is remarkable.
Speaker 12 (19:38):
It's remarkable, especially considering when you usually start in the day.
That's right, your shows are sometimes ten o'clock at night,
so crazy, all that free time.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
Who needs that?
Speaker 6 (19:48):
You know?
Speaker 3 (19:49):
It's tough. I know that you're a fan of the Metro.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
You're not a car guy either, which also I imagine
adds a major layer to existing in Los Angeles.
Speaker 12 (19:59):
Honestly, I feel like I'm of the streets because of
my rapid transit experience. Like I just my car broke
down twenty eleven, which was like the first year I
got here. Wow, and uh and I said no more
and uh and I figured it out. I mean, I
grew up in the Bay Area, so I grew up
in Oakland, and you know, bart was great. You know,
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I got used to taking the bus, had a little
pass on me.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
You need though, much better than I mean, no offense
to any of the Metro people who are listening, right.
I think that it's a you have to be a
certain you have to have a certain constitution to be
able to do what you do every day.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
Yeah, I mean you just got to leave earlier, honestly, Like.
Speaker 6 (20:38):
That's most of it.
Speaker 12 (20:40):
Like, like people think that the bus is like some
sort of like uh a battle zone where you can't
go it.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
You just gotta get Yeah, it's gonna take a long time. Yeah,
it's still Google directions. Well I'm glad you made it here.
Legacomedy dot com is your new website. It's a place
where you can find shows. Yeah, but you can also
contact comics and book them for things like how did
this come about?
Speaker 3 (21:01):
And how do we get involved?
Speaker 12 (21:03):
So okay, So I've been I've been a comedian, you know,
loosely since like twenty twelve. I started really taking my
career seriously. In twenty sixteen. You got really you got
much funnier there. Like I was like, oh, oh, I
better get good at this. And so in twenty sixteen,
I was like, all right, I guess, I guess I'll
actually try. And and I had a friend of mine
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who was like a consultant, a managing Oh oh all right, anyway,
so sorry, that's okay, Okay, it didn't go out. Somebody
came in studio. It was weird, get out of here.
So basically he was consulting for a bar and he said, look,
we want to get more people in here. I think
we need like an open mic. You're doing comedy, And
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I said, oh, that sounds great. And I was an idiot,
so I didn't know he was talking about me. And
he's like, you dude, and and so I was like, okay, yeah,
I've never done that, but sure, and you know we're
doing it weekly. And the first the first one, like
we rolled out the red carpet, we had a little
palette stage. He got Stowly Girls to come out.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
Wow, and nothing says comedy like stoly Girl.
Speaker 12 (22:13):
Nothing says comedy and open mic like branded people's passing
out swag right of course, and three people came and
it was including.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
Me, but you had the promotions on lock.
Speaker 12 (22:27):
We had the promotion on lock, just no one saw them,
so right, And so then that bar closed And when
I moved to Sherman Oks where I live, I was
looking for a new place to do the mic. But
you know, my now business partner and friend was like,
let's do a monthly show. And so we started doing
a monthly show. Then we got another monthly show in downtown.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
And you've got You've had a lot of serious comics
come up through the ranks.
Speaker 12 (22:54):
Yes, yeah, yeah, We've had a ton of people that, like,
you know, if you if you told any you'd be like,
how'd you get them on? And it's like in La
comedians just want to do stage time, like they just
there's so many places that are also like not amazing
to perform at. So like I always try to like
create a welcoming community and you know, league kind of
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a team and togetherness vibe.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
Was yeah, And I like that it's a website and
it's a it's a sort of an anti social media
thing because there's not an algorithm and it's not this
like this thing that feels like it's diluted through Zuckerberg
or any of the sort of major social media companies.
It's just it kind of like as an old school
back in the days with a forum kind of vibe.
Speaker 6 (23:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 12 (23:37):
Yeah, I mean I feel like it's like the middle
ground because so much of the comedy scene still happens
on Facebook. Yeah, you know, right, so people are like, hey,
I need an opener for tonight in like an avoid
group chat, you know, and so you know, having the
website and allowing people to kind of create a community
is the goal. And what happened was, you know, we
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had been producing shit. We produced like a Northern California
tour that sold out, which was you know, fortunate and awesome.
But what happened was quarantine happened, right you heard about that?
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean I didn't. I don't believe.
You know, here's my conspiracy theory. Yeah, the pandemic never happened, right,
prove it to me.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
Yeah, yeah, Where is it now? Where is it now?
Speaker 6 (24:20):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (24:20):
It not that I didn't believe that it was important.
That those years didn't even exist, No, no, no, no.
Speaker 12 (24:25):
And I don't even think it was a whole year, right,
I think it was like inception years, but really we
were in the third level. That's oh absolutely, and so
it felt like in the year, but time just was fast.
Speaker 6 (24:38):
It's great.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
Yeah, yeah, we did well.
Speaker 12 (24:41):
And and so what happened was, you know, as people
were coming out of their their novels, they were like,
oh what what? And so my friends were like, hey,
where do I find shows? And I was out of
the game for a little while, and I said, you know,
do you have problems with that? And they were like, well,
I don't know where to go. There's so many sights.
And so I was like, okay, I took some notes
in my brain where I keep my notes.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
And it's funny because I think if you look at
uh in the music business, or at least music town
in La there's a website called La Jazz. Yeah, and
it's like that's where you go when you want to
find out what's going on in Los Angeles.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
Jazz tonight, okay, you know.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
And so it's like it's a great idea to do
this this way because it takes it away from the
sort of like I can't get through the filter of
nonsense on the social media or whatever. This is just
I go to this thing. It's the thing to do.
It's kind of old school. It's very simple. It's just
one idea, and I think it's a great idea, right.
Speaker 12 (25:30):
Right, And everybody has access to the internet, right, like
not everybody wants another app on their phone, that's right,
until they do, in which case we got and then.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
You'll you'll have one. Yeah, yeah, we'll figure it out.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
You'll get Listen, if Zuck shows up here, it says
thirty bill, right, you'll say.
Speaker 12 (25:46):
What I'll say. I'll say, uh, First off, sub Zuck, Yeah,
soup soup. And second off, what are we talking here?
We talk of monopoly money? Smoking, yeah, smoking all those meats?
Yeah for sure. Absolutely yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
Grannison, thank you so much for being here. You can
find him at grand in Crawford League of Comedy dot com,
where you planning next.
Speaker 12 (26:03):
I don't have any shows lined up right now. I'm
really pushing the site. But you can also go and
check out comedians on there, and the roster of comedians
you can check out is going to be expanding as
more and more sign up for that, so you'll be
able to check them out.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
Amazing, You're the man. Always a pleasure to see you.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
Best of luck out there, Grannison Crawford here on the
Andy Reestmeier Show.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
Very soon we will hand it over to the very
capable hands of Chris Merrill. I want to get his
take on one of these stories. I teased a couple
of things. Caleb popped in and said, Hey, Andy, when
are you going to talk about those stories that you did?
Speaker 3 (26:41):
That You're teased, So I'm going to talk about them
right now.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
One in five Americans are regularly getting their news not
from radio, not from TV or the newspaper, but from TikTok.
That is up from three percent in twenty twenty. And
check this out. When looking at adult TikTok userscifically, news
consumption has also increased. More than half of TikTok users
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now say that they regularly get news on the platform,
which is up from twenty two percent. That is probably
no surprise. They're serving people news. There's trends, there's things
that happen on the Internet all the time. Not a
big surprise, but I think probably something you should pay
attention to if you're in the news business back in
twenty twenty one. I know, it's hard to remember a
lot of stuff that happened during that time. And if
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you're like Grannison, Crawford and me, we're buying into the
conspiracy theory that there were no years between twenty twenty
and twenty twenty four. But one of those April Fool's
Day promotional bits, you know, the ones where you're kind
of like, oh god, Oreo Orio is doing a thing.
Whether it's made out of I don't know, I don't know.
(27:50):
It's so dumb. It's so dumb. They're never real. April
fools Day has been ruined by corporations, you know, the
fast food restaurant though Culver's has announced that a made
up burger that was never actually planned to be served
is actually coming soon. They taunted hungry burger lovers, but
the promise of a large Wisconsin cheese curd served beneath
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a lightly buttered, toasted bun. Everybody thought it was kind
of a cool idea or kind of a disgusting idea,
But now they are going to be releasing one on
National Cheese Curd Day October fifteenth. The kurder Burger is
what it's called. And if you could say it without
throwing up, heck, yeah, guy. Culver's is pretty good, though
(28:35):
they got that butterburger situation. I'm trying to figure out
where Culver's is close to Las, close to us?
Speaker 3 (28:41):
Do you guys know, Cayle, you go to Culver's.
Speaker 5 (28:47):
She's I don't even know what that is.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
Culver's is a oh, there's none in La great story, Andy.
Culver's is not Culver City. Culver's is a restaurant. They
serve burgers, they serve custard. There's the closest one is
in maybe Vegas.
Speaker 6 (29:08):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
This is a it's boring even to me. Coming up,
Chris Merrill will join us. Is he on the line?
Speaker 3 (29:16):
Do we have him?
Speaker 12 (29:16):
All?
Speaker 5 (29:17):
Right?
Speaker 8 (29:17):
Hey buddy, hey man, listen, I'm with you on the Culvers.
And if people haven't experienced Culvers. It's delicious, It's so good.
Speaker 6 (29:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (29:27):
And the idea of milking the cow and then slaughtering
it and eating it all together just.
Speaker 6 (29:30):
Sounds amazing to me.
Speaker 3 (29:31):
Do you think it's good?
Speaker 6 (29:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
You get the kurds, you get the butter, you get
the burger. You can get a little bit of that
dessert on the side with the custard.
Speaker 8 (29:38):
That's a They started in Wisconsin, Wisconsin, and being that
I grew up across the pond from Wisconsin, we got
a Culver's in my hometown.
Speaker 6 (29:48):
Oh, I don't know.
Speaker 8 (29:48):
I wasn't living there at the time, so I'm gonna
say it's been I don't know, five six years. I
think they opened right about the time the pandemic came.
Great timing, right, But the lines are insane.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
Oh no, it's crazy. There's a lot of them in Indiana,
where I'm also from. Wait where originally?
Speaker 3 (30:00):
Are you from?
Speaker 6 (30:01):
Northern Michigan?
Speaker 3 (30:02):
Northern like, are you talking about up or No? Not
that far nor No?
Speaker 2 (30:05):
No trol Yeah, the bridge below the bridge. Yes, of course,
my mom loves a marquette. That's why I ask.
Speaker 6 (30:10):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Beautiful time.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
Oh yeah, it's gorgeous.
Speaker 8 (30:13):
Up there, but yeah you can. I just ask you
about the TikTok news thing. Uh huh, So is that
something that in the TV news, like, are they doing
little shorts that they put on TikTok so they can
try to capture some of that news viewership.
Speaker 3 (30:27):
They should?
Speaker 8 (30:27):
They should, because my concern is this, so many people
are getting their news from TikTok, as you pointed out,
but is it really news reporting or is it news reaction?
So we still need the journalists to actually do the
news gathering the work.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
Right, absolutely, Yeah, And I think that you're you're right
in that a lot of it is either reaction or
it is sort of like repackage, repurpose dubiously sourced news
where you have maybe a compelling mom in her kitchen
saying what amounts to a conspiracy theory?
Speaker 6 (31:00):
Right?
Speaker 2 (31:00):
That sounds really good and that you would share because
it codifies a belief you might have.
Speaker 6 (31:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (31:04):
In fact, I'm gonna I'm going to address this coming
up at the five o'clock hour too, how the conspiracy
theories take off and that the algorithms inversely reward honesty.
Oh yes, yeah, yeah, So I mean you want to
make money, be more outrageous, say more wild stuff, you
get more views, you get more shares, and it is
(31:25):
not healthy.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
No, because it also has warped our perspective on what
people actually think, because it's very hard to look at
social media and I guess objectively say this is not
representative of most people, because it's not, but it certainly
seems like it is.
Speaker 8 (31:45):
Well, yeah, and that's the other one too, because the
politicians love to sort of flood the zone with a
lot of you know, these broad brush things, you know, like, oh,
you'll they are doing this, and the liberals are this,
or the conservatives are this or no way, liberals are
this or no way, conservatives are that. And it's all
based on I saw some posts online and it'll be
(32:06):
people with like thirty followers saying something outrageous. But then
that takes off and becomes evidently the you know, the
go to quote for the other side. So I mean,
the problem, in my opinion, is not the outrageous people.
It's that we've we we have blurred the lines between
entertainment and information. Yeahs, as consumers we have well, so
(32:30):
we seem to think if it's entertaining, it must be informative, right,
and that's just not the case.
Speaker 2 (32:34):
And the more that you get served that over and
over again, the more you'll think that it's real or
that it's important. And I think when you look at platforms,
even like X where there's a specific incentive, a financial incentive,
you can get paid and make more money if you
have something that goes viral, Well, how can you make
something go viral? It can be more salacious, the more
(32:54):
likely it will be to go to go viral, right.
Speaker 8 (32:57):
And it concerns me for actual journalists and actual people
in legacy media like what we're doing, which is why
I'm starting my own TikTok. I like this, this is
great nude ogre news. You can maybe use what do
you think?
Speaker 3 (33:12):
I love that? Is that? How many? Is it too long?
I mean it works right.
Speaker 8 (33:17):
It's just going to be large font, very colorful all
over the screen, me naked. I don't tell you about
the craft that may or may not have happened. I
can't see any objection to this concept.
Speaker 6 (33:27):
Nope, nope.
Speaker 2 (33:29):
By the way, Cayla wanted me to talk about this
story about subtitles.
Speaker 6 (33:32):
Okay, go on, do you know that?
Speaker 3 (33:34):
Now?
Speaker 2 (33:35):
According to a new survey, people under the age of
forty five are more likely to use subtitles than older adults.
Speaker 8 (33:41):
Okay, that's the switch I didn't see. I knew that
it was growing in popularity, I didn't realize that it
was more popular.
Speaker 6 (33:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (33:46):
I remember this when I was in my early maybe
mid twenties, and I dated somebody who was like three
years younger than me, and I remember she was she
put the subtitles on and I was blown away.
Speaker 3 (33:57):
I was like, Oh, do you have a hearing issue?
Like what is what is going on here?
Speaker 2 (34:01):
And then I learned that people who are just a
little bit younger than me, that they put the subtitles
on for everything. And I think one of the things
that the study has shown is that they are watching
maybe in a noisier environment, they're doing something else, they're
on their phones. And I guess that it's because it's
the audio mixes are much more there's much more more
(34:24):
things to compete with dialogue in modern television than there
used to be.
Speaker 6 (34:28):
Right, I think you're your clo.
Speaker 8 (34:29):
I think you're right on it, and I think it
has to do with sort of this growing ADHD that
all the screens are giving us.
Speaker 6 (34:35):
Oh yeah, so I have in front of me.
Speaker 8 (34:37):
I have two giant monitors open in my in my studio,
and I have one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten,
ten individual tabs that I'm witnessing. Those don't That doesn't
include the ones that aren't front and center right.
Speaker 3 (34:51):
Right, someones that are not safe for work.
Speaker 6 (34:53):
Right, Yeah, no, those are still those are those right?
Speaker 8 (34:57):
I got two clocks, I've got audio, you know, mixes,
I've got connection to the station, I've got teams, I've
got the outlook, I've.
Speaker 6 (35:05):
Got the football game on.
Speaker 8 (35:06):
I got everything open, and and what am I going
to be doing here for the next three hours. I'm
going to be reading, discussing, and then trying to keep
my mind as active as possible. And I think this
is this growing ADHD thing. And I think that the
subtitles do two things. They give us two things to
focus on it. Once, what's happening on the screen, and
then we can read it and process it using a
separate part of our brain.
Speaker 6 (35:24):
But also I think we catch more. Right.
Speaker 2 (35:26):
Oh, that's an interesting point. So there is a little
bit of a benefit to this maybe.
Speaker 6 (35:30):
Oh, definitely. I've been doing this since before it was popular.
Speaker 2 (35:33):
Yeah, and you're unstoppable, completely on top right by the way.
Speaker 3 (35:39):
It looks like the Rams are probably gonna pull this
one out.
Speaker 6 (35:42):
Yeah, we'll see. What is it like a minute and
a half left on? I got red zone on. It
keeps popping, Yes.
Speaker 2 (35:46):
Yes, yes, Colts twenty Rams twenty seven and we're doing
a lot of dancing in.
Speaker 6 (35:50):
The end zone.
Speaker 3 (35:51):
We're arters blew at New York's. Oh my god, it's
so depressing.
Speaker 2 (35:54):
And you know what, as a Chargers fan, listen beating
the Chiefs first game in Brazil, that basically was my
super Bowl, So god, I just ride the high of
that forever. But those for the turnovers, man killer, for the.
Speaker 6 (36:09):
Chargers losing to a bad team with a rookie in
his first.
Speaker 2 (36:11):
Start, well, and I mean half of the Chargers are
on an injured list now, so I you know, it's
gonna be an interesting season here. But of course you
can listen to all of those updates here on KFI
AM six forty, your home for the Los Angeles Chargers.
Thanks for being with us today, Chris Merril's popping in
staying with you all the way until seven pm?
Speaker 3 (36:33):
Is that right?
Speaker 6 (36:34):
Yeah? Wow? Well we make it what.
Speaker 3 (36:36):
A night you mean? We as like a society.
Speaker 6 (36:39):
Or no, I mean we asn't me and my many personalities.
Speaker 3 (36:41):
There you go.
Speaker 2 (36:42):
Yeah, well, if that's not a tease to listen, I
don't know what is any reason myire show. I think
I'll be back with you next week. You can find
me on the internet at andy KTLA. Thanks so much, Chris,
we'll be listening real soon. You listen to Cafi AM
six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app
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