December 15, 2025 • 34 mins
The Chargers have crushed the Chiefs, dashing their playoff hopes! Shannon Farren is on the phone to talk about the amazing defeat of Patrick Mahomes and co. We’re following the terrorist attack on Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia, targeting the local Jewish community on the first night of Channukah. Two gunman opened fire, 16 dead. In Indiana, a DoorDash delivery woman was caught tampering with food by spraying an unknown substance, likely pepper spray, on a customers’ Arby’s dinner delivery, making the customers sick. At the Montalbán Theatre, the fantasy role-playing tabletop game Dungeons & Dragons becomes more immersive than ever, thanks to a D&D-themed stage show called “The Twenty-Sided Tavern.” Will Champion, one of the actors, joins us on the phone to talk about the immersive, interactive play.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
It's I AM six forty. We're live everywhere on the
iHeartRadio app. This is the Andy Reesemeyer Show. I am
Andy Reestmeyer on the show. Today, the terrorist attack targeting
a Jewish community in Australia. The death toll has risen
to fifteen. We are talking about what happened, and we
will talk to someone who lived in the neighborhood. Plus,
back here at home, restaurants are so expensive? Is food
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inflation causing the end of the entree? And speaking of food,
what happens if you catch your door dash driver tampering
with your food. It is possibly the only spicy story
coming out of Indiana. But before we get into any
of that, as you've been listening here on KFI the
Chargers Radio Network, the Los Angeles Chargers have crushed the
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Kansas City Chiefs. Their season is over. They've been eliminated
from the playoffs. In the final moments of the game,
Patrick mahomes out with knee injury. Here to join us
to talk way more about this is the very frigid
Shannon Farren joining us on the phone.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Good afternoon, Andy, what a hell of a day out
here at Arrowhead. I got to say, we are in
the parking lot right now outside the buses. Chargers players
meeting with families and friends are getting ready to get
onto the airport. But we're in the parking lot that's
right next to the Chiefs parking lot. And they got
to say, I mean, no matter who you're a fan
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of in the NFL, just watching Patrick Mahomes kind of
limp to his truck was awful. He wasn't driving Britney's
driving home, and it's just awful to see a player
like that with what could be He's just a devastating
injury that you know, it's late December, it wipes out
the whole off season for him, if the worst it's true.
I don't know what they said about that knee injury,
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but it looked awful. He looked like he was in
a lot of paint's. Chargers. Huge huge win here, I mean,
nailing the coffin shut for any sort of playoff hopes
for the Chiefs. It's really a national holiday, you know.
I mean, we're all tired of seeing the Chiefs in
the playoffs. I can speak for all every NFL fan, every.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
NFL Fan owes a real debt of gratitude to the
Los Angeles Chargers today because that guarantees that we will
not see the Chiefs in the Super Bowl. And I
think what is also interesting is that unfortunately that injury
and I got it. Oh man, I couldn't even watch it.
I have myself injured my left knee before, dislocated a kneecap,
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and boy o boy, that recovery is awful. I would
have been probably a Heisman winner if not for my
for my injury, so I understand how awful that is.
But the Chargers were playing really well and the Chiefs
were not playing very well the whole game, even before
the injury.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
Well, it wasn't the best offensive effort by the Chargers
in the first half. Certainly, it was kind of a
slow go to get say. I mean, they were successful
on the ground early on, but couldn't really get a
rhythm going. When they played with tempo, they did much better.
But the defense really shine today, and it's the defense
that makes the story every week recently for the Chargers.
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They are just lights out and they tackling was on
point today. They didn't let Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelcey
at all get any of those explosive plays that really
they're known for, and that's how they win. It's their
bread and butter. How they were so injured at this
point that they weren't going to be able to sustain
a drive you just had took. You just had to
look out for that Patrick Mahomes magic. Unfortunately for us
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to the defense didn't allow that to happen.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
No, I mean, how about Tony Jefferson getting ejected from
the game.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
That was a wild Tony Jefferson is one of my
favorite players. I mean, this is a guy who retired.
I mean, if you're watching Philip Rivers right now hoping
he doesn't die there in Seattle like we were before
I jumped on this call, Tony Jefferson was retired. He
was retired for a year and they called him up
and he was he was going to coach. I think
I think he was coaching and he came back and
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he is a locker room favorite. He's full personality. He's
always a lot of fun. He's a Padres fan. But
you know, if he's out here playing catch baseball with
some of the other guys before every game and every
time he's active, because it i'd have been a crowded
safety room. But like every time he's active, he makes
something happen, He makes a big play happen, makes it
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happen for somebody else. So he plays with a lot
of passion. He was frustrated after that call and that hit,
and yeah he got ejected, but it just it just
fired this defense up even more.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
I'm sure. I mean, you saw last week with the Eagles.
I think we spoke right before Monday Night football, and
of course the Chargers were able to be victorious that night.
It wasn't pretty, but they won this week. I don't
know if it was pretty, but it was real chippy,
and I think it was like there were moments where
you were like, are these guys all going to fight
each other? This is crazy? This is wild.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
The Chiefs have won the division for ten years. Yeah,
they always play the Chargers tough. They play every division
rival tough, and the Chargers are sick of it too,
And so yeah, it's always a close game. Chargers chief
is always a close game. I don't know if Jim
Harbaugh is going to compare this one like he did
on a Monday Night to the birth of his seven
children and his marriage. But it was a good one.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Yeah, I'm sure there's a lot of a lot of
positive energy out there for the Chargers players, the fans
of the team. But I can only imagine how the
fans in Kansas City, the Missouri cold, that feeling of
being out there at fifteen degrees all day only to
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see really a spectacular end there to your season. What's
the energy? Like? Does anyone even matter? They just frozen stuff?
At this point?
Speaker 3 (06:11):
It wasn't bad, honestly, Like I was, I was pretty worried.
I've never hung out for five hours and seventeen degree weather.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Yeah, did they give Did they give you one of
those one of those big sherpa like almost robes That
looks like they did not?
Speaker 3 (06:27):
But I am wearing I'm wearing three pairs of pants
right now, one of which is electric, a heated best on.
So it's been seven years, but I think I finally
realized how to dress for the cold. And I was
comfortable all game. And the difference maker was there was
no wind, so you have the wind chill, and the
sun was shining on the Chargers sideline the entire game,
which I may think made a big difference. At least
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the guys were able to saw out, unlike the Chiefs
that were in the shade the whole taking game. One
reason maybe why they were they were so injured. I mean,
I think like six or seven guys went out at
one point with injuries throughout the g So the Chargers
at least got a chance to saw out under that sun.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
That's a really good point. I wouldn't have thought about that,
And you got to think like moving it all, catching,
throwing anything in fifteen degree weather is hard, and especially
if you can get a little bit of advantage by
standing out there in the sun. And the funny thing
is watching it, you're thinking like, oh, it doesn't really
look that cold until you look over and you see,
you know, justin Herbert standing on the sideline in a
full parka that is like a floor to ceiling I
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don't know, shell or something that he that he was in.
So that's I'm glad you survived. And I guess three
pairs of pants is one pair of pants more than usual,
So that's great. What happens next for these guys, I.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
Go, usually we're two pairs of pants, But if that's
what you're into Andy. That's cool? Too cool?
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Is that not?
Speaker 4 (07:46):
Is it just me?
Speaker 3 (07:46):
You know, I don't know how TV people roll. I mean,
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Just a little extra protection, just a little extra coverage
in case you get a blowout. You know, you just
never know what's going to happen. You don't you don't
want long strides. So I want to ask, you know,
now the wildcard status?
Speaker 4 (08:04):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (08:04):
You know Chargers now moving on?
Speaker 4 (08:08):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (08:08):
What what happens next? And do you do you feel
good about uh the next couple of weeks?
Speaker 3 (08:15):
Okay, so right now, right at this moment, we are
all Tackers fans. We're rooting for the Packers to beat
Denver in Denver. Denver leads the division right now. If
they lose today, that evens us up. Well I think so,
uh maybe not, Maybe we need another game. But it
looks like most likely the Charge the Chargers will not
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win the division, that Denver will just because uh, just
looking at the schedules ahead. But what do I know?
I know nothing, But if that happens, it's most likely
the Chargers send up in a wild card spot will
go somewhere on the East coast, probably you know, Baltimore,
Jacksonville something like that. It'll be East Coast game in
the wildcard spot. I'm starting to get very cold, Andy,
(08:57):
I'm out played the bus and I took off a
few layers and my pants aren't heated anymore. This is
a My face is starting to freeze a little bit.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Well, you've given us too much time. I appreciate it.
Please get on that bus before we have to chip
you out of a block of ice like han Solo
and carbonite. I gotta have you back here tomorrow. So
are you headed straight to the airport and then hopping
on a plane coming back here tonight?
Speaker 3 (09:19):
That's right, exactly.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Sweet, Well, grab us some of those those biscotti crackers.
Those we like those, the little sweet ones, you know
that they put in the individually wrap things.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
That's Delta.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Yeah, oh that's not you don't you don't have those?
Speaker 3 (09:34):
No, we're American, don't. We don't get the cookie?
Speaker 2 (09:37):
What a okay? Pretzels? Is it a whole pretzel? What's
what's on board?
Speaker 3 (09:41):
I can probably get you. I could probably get you
some pretzels?
Speaker 2 (09:43):
All right? Thank you? Leave them on my desk. That
doesn't exist here. Shannon Farren, sideline reporter, for the Los
Angeles Chargers, Go Bolts. Thanks for being here. Safe, trip
back here to LA and we will see you real soon.
It's CAFIM six forty. We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
You're listen to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
By me Andy Reesmeyer. This is the Andy Reesmier Show.
Lots to talk about today. Unfortunately, there were two major
shootings internationally and nationally that we've been following. You've heard
a lot of updates there from Ilincolnzales. The one that
we'll talk about first is being called a terrorist attack.
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Sixteen fifteen people rather have died now forty are injured
after what appears to be a targeted attack against the
Jewish community in Australia. Happened at around forty seven local
time last night. More than one thousand people were in attendance.
Ten minutes after the first calls, police issued a statement
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urging urging people at the scene to take shelter for
other people to avoid the area. Here's some background.
Speaker 5 (10:54):
We are following another deadly mass shooting, this one in
Australia where police say two gunmen open fire and Sydney's
famous Bondai beach, killing at least eleven people. One of
the suspects also is dead, another is in custody. NBC's
Raf Sanchez is following the latest developments for us RAP.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
What more can you tell us, well, Willy.
Speaker 6 (11:15):
Australian authorities are calling this a terrorist attack targeting the
Jewish community as it was celebrating the first.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Night of Hanukkah. Here's what we know.
Speaker 6 (11:23):
As you said, two gunmen open fire with long guns.
There are at least eleven people killed, including one of
the shooters. The second gunman is in custody in critical condition,
and authorities are now investigating whether a third individual was
potentially involved. Now, amid the horror, there was also heroism.
(11:46):
There is a video that is a little difficult to watch,
but I want to show it to you in just
a second, so I.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
Will just add this was clipped a little bit earlier today.
Fifteen people have been confirmed killed in that shooting on
Bondi Beach on Sunday. Among those victims a ten year
old girl. That is, according to a statement from the
New South Wales Police, the elder of two of the gunmen,
who was fifty years old, or according to the BBC,
was shot dead by police, and a twenty four year
(12:15):
old who was the other shooter was still hospitalized in
critical condition. And so, of course video from the attack,
including that video that you were hearing about from NBC News,
which appears to show someone interfering with one of the
shooters with long gun. It's a fascinating video because as
you watch it, you see cell phone video. It appears
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as if a man is standing in the middle of
the frame from afar, and the vantage point where the
video is filming from is fairly high up, and a
person in a white shirt, a man in a white
shirt seems to approach the person who is holding the
gun there is able to wrestle the gun, and then
maybe I've watched it like four or five times and
I can't tell. It seems as if he turns a
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gun then on the person who was holding the gun
fires it at the shooter. The shooter sort of staggers
a little bit, but doesn't look like he's that injured
or anything, and so maybe he didn't shoot, maybe he missed,
maybe he just indicated that he was going to shoot.
And then you see the shooter walk away, and then
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the person who has taken the gun from the shooter
just stand there, and as we pan over to the right,
you see another shooter who is on also has what
appears to be a long gun or rifle or something
like that, on this bridge that crosses over from what
is a parking lot very near to the beach. So
police had said earlier eleven people were killed. That number
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is up to fifteen. Now forty people injured, and they,
as we said, authorities there treating it as a terrorist
attack targeting Sydney's Jewish community. Now, as you know, one
of our producers here, Nicki, is from Australia and Nicki,
you texted me this morning when we were doing some
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show prep and you said, do you know that I
grew up in this exact neighborhood?
Speaker 7 (14:09):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (14:09):
I did.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Have you had a chance to contact your family members.
I know you also are Jewish and you grew up
in this place. I imagine there's probably a lot of confusion,
at a lot of horror. Are all your family members
doing okay? Were they at the event? Give us an update?
Speaker 7 (14:30):
Yeah, I woke up to the news. I received a
text message from one of my friends in Australia. I
woke up to it. This morning, and so straight away
I was checking the news, I reached out to my family.
I grew up ten minutes walk from where those gunmen
were opening fire. The bridge that one of those shooters
was on. I used to walk across that bridge to
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get to the sand every time I went down to
the beach. Family. My family is all safe and accounted.
Apparently the death toll has now risen to sixteen, got it, yeah,
but everyone is safe and accounted for. It was very
targeted because it happened at twilight, and that's when the
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lighting of the Hanuka candles would have happened, because we
have a lunar calendar in the Jewish community, so that's
when the day starts sundown, so that's when all the
people who were there for the Hunuker celebration would have
been gathered together, so they would have opened fire knowing
that they're all together. It's horrible because it happened at
the north end of Bondeau Beach and I come from
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North Bonda. So fortunately the families are safe. Usually my
brother and his wife take their dog Axel, for a
walk down at the beach that time. I do know
my niece told me that her best friend's brother was there,
so I dare say there's more people I know who
were at the event, But the time difference means they're
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all just waking up now, and I'm sure that a
lot of them will glued to the TV last night
until like one two in the morning, and it's a
Monday there now, so they have to you know, get
up and deal with that while you know, going about
their day going to work.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Can you sort of share with us the amount of
Jewish people in Australia, Yeah, I imagine is pretty small
compared to the rest of the population.
Speaker 7 (16:23):
Is it's very much a minority community. I think there's
about maybe twenty six to twenty seven million people in Australia.
There's about one hundred thousand Jewish people in Australia and
the communities mostly in Melbourne. So there's probably about thirty
thirty five thousand Jews in Sydney and a lot of us.
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We live on the east side of town, so Bondai
is situated on the east side of Sydney. It's the
beach that's closest to downtown Sydney where you see the
Opera House and the Harbor Bridge, and it's a beautiful,
beautiful tourist beach. So also a Sunday at sundown and
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at summertime, there'd be so many tourists from all over
the world where that where it happened at that time,
So this is also attack on tourists as well.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Yeah, I think something like a thousand people they expected
were down in that area of the beach. And I
know that there's been some response here already, of course
from from the Israeli government who have basically come out
and attacked the Australians as making I guess this an
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inhospitable place for Jews. What is your recollection from being
there as a and growing up there as a Jewish person?
Speaker 7 (17:46):
As it's anti Semitism is very much normalized in Australia,
always has been. People don't understand how anti semitic it
is there. I got a text message from my brother
this morning saying that my nephew was safe because he
was at the synagogue and they blamed the government. This
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was no surprise. We knew what was going to happen
because the Prime Minister of Australia, Albanisi, he was calling
for a recognition of a Palestinian state after the attack
on Israel, which was basically awarding terrorism. They always cout
out to the Muslim population because they are so loud
and they're so populous compared to us. But I have
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to say, thank God that the gunman, one of the
government was wrestled down by a local Muslim man, Assyrian Muslim,
the fruit and veged guy. I don't know if he
saw the footage. He snuck up on one of the
gunmen and he managed to get the firearm off him.
Thank God for that man, because that does a lot
for our community relations. If we're being helped to shy
(18:49):
Assyrian Muslim man, we love that. That's wonderful, you know,
it's a good thing.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
Yeah. Well, we of course will keep you updated. Thank
you Nikki for sharing with us, and also we're happy
that your family at least is doing well in this
really difficult, difficult time. Please keep us posted about anything
else that you hear there so we will continue on
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like to talk about stuff all the time, talk about
things that are happening in the world in Los Angeles
and catch up on the stories of the week. And
unfortunately a lot of breaking news here happening over the weekend.
But this was a fascinating story that came out of Indiana,
much like mister Rivers, much like myself, much like the
Indianapolis or the Indian University football team. Very spicy down there,
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this spicy, maybe in a bad way. Tonight a door
dash delivery gone wrong.
Speaker 8 (21:11):
Authorities in Evansville, Indiana watching this disturbing incident caught on
Mike Cardon's doorbell camera. Watch as a delivery person appears
to set down their food and spray an unknown substance.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
Okay, so this appears as if this woman approaches the
door this is one of those ring camera videos, drops
the bag of food on the door step or the doorsill,
and then pulls out what looks like a pepper spray canister.
And just goes to town on the food bag.
Speaker 9 (21:41):
She came inside and sent her on the counter. She
started eating and started coffin and shogun.
Speaker 8 (21:48):
The couple ordering delivery from RB's via door dash. This
was the order to sandwiches on a side Cardon says
his wife had only taken one bite when she realized
something was wrong.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
Something was very wrong. This was not Dave's Hot Chicken.
This is just Arby's.
Speaker 9 (22:02):
There was something red, you know, something's spraying.
Speaker 4 (22:07):
On the back, like the back of been tampered with.
Speaker 9 (22:09):
And that's when I went back and checked the video
footage and seeing that one undred percent food had been
tampered with.
Speaker 8 (22:16):
The Vanderberg County Sheriff's Office is investigating the incident.
Speaker 10 (22:19):
What charges could an individual face?
Speaker 3 (22:21):
So should this all hold up?
Speaker 2 (22:23):
If it appears as was what occurred happened.
Speaker 11 (22:26):
Potential charges could range from battery as a misdemeanor all
the way up until food tampering is a level five felony.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
Garden, whoa food tampering is a level five felony? Well,
what makes sense? I mean it's a heinous thing. You
could get really sick from food tampering.
Speaker 11 (22:41):
All the way up until food tampering is a level
five felony.
Speaker 8 (22:44):
Garden telling NBC News the doorbell video recording glitched and
four seconds are missing. The Sheriff's office says they see
no indication that the video is inauthentic.
Speaker 11 (22:52):
We're going to make sure that we correctly identify the
person and give them a chance to explain themselves.
Speaker 8 (22:57):
Door Dash telling NBC News in part, the dash's access
to the platform has been permanently removed, and our team
is standing by to support law enforcement with any investigation.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
What is really strange here is I'm sorry, but that's
a pretty sound, isn't it. What is really strange here
is that nowhere in this report have they addressed, like
what it actually was that was sprayed on the food.
It seems as if it is pepper spray, which is
craz I mean, I don't know why any nobody says
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that right.
Speaker 8 (23:27):
The dasher's access to the platform has been permanently removed,
and our team is standing by to support law enforcement
with any investigation. Now, Cardon still shaken, trying to make
sense of an act he says must have been malicious.
Speaker 11 (23:39):
We're obviously pretty sure it was pepper spray, but this
could have been setnol.
Speaker 9 (23:44):
It could have been rat poison. It could have been
hornets fray for all we know, you know, who knows
what it could have been.
Speaker 10 (23:49):
Are you ever going to order from any other food?
Speaker 2 (23:52):
Okay, but wouldn't it wouldn't you know? Now?
Speaker 8 (23:55):
Cardon still shaken, trying to make sense of an act.
He says must have been milisied.
Speaker 9 (24:00):
We're obviously pretty sure it was pepper sprayed. Gus could
have been.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
Rat fentanyl? Who spray? Can you spray fentanyl? Do you
guys know, like Aileen, have you ever heard of spraying fentanyl?
Speaker 7 (24:14):
I didn't know if it was liquid.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
I didn't think that you could aerosolize fentanyl and just
spray it out there. I think he's just making a point.
He's just saying like it could have been fentanyl. Yeah,
it could have been anything. Does anybody maybe not sprayed?
Speaker 1 (24:27):
I mean, you never know.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
I'm not a definitely not an expert on No. I
am neither.
Speaker 9 (24:33):
Rat poison. It could hornet sprayed for all we know.
You know, who knows what it could have been?
Speaker 10 (24:38):
The Are you ever going to order from any other food?
Their cardy service? Again, I very seriously got it. We
already turned our door dash subscription off. I know that
my family would be more safe if I just go
pick up my food myself.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
Oh yeah. It's a terrible feeling. And you know, you
even think like, okay, we've got that little sticker on
your door dash bag or your uber eats thing that
keeps the bag sealed. A lot of places will have this,
and you think, okay, well it wasn't tampered with. Can't
avoid that if you get sprayed with fentanyl.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
George joins us now from Miami.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
George, is the couple still sick? Yeah, Tom, so they're
still fitting a little bit under the word our newsroom
mostly clear. WHOA, that's cool? That scared me?
Speaker 4 (25:18):
Am?
Speaker 2 (25:18):
I am I out of time? Should I? Should I
hit it over to Okay? Well, so there you go.
Very strange situation, very very odd. I feel I feel
a little less safe here ordering from those places. But
I'll tell you what. You know, it's it's gotten so expensive.
Snel did a pretty funny bit about that, which we'll
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talk about when we come back, about how out of
control and undignified it feels these days to order and
order and order food. It's a lot of money to
go out to eat. I understand that, but it's also
a lot of money now to get it delivered to
the house. We will talk about that plus Los Angele.
This man opened up his DWP bill and it was
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thirteen thousand dollars. Does he have a Bollaggio fountain in
the front of his house? You'll have to wait and
find out. It's Andy Reesmeier. This is the Andy Reesmier Show.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
If you're looking for a fun time in fantasy land.
Old Boy, Oh Boys, Los Angeles the place to be
Broadway in Hollywood. They are the group of promoters that
are bringing I think some of the greatest shows here
from Broadway to of course Hollywood. I've told you about
the Back to the Future musical that's always fun, the
Harry Potter musical that they did that last year. Now
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at the Mantlebain Theater in Hollywood, Dungeons and Drageds becomes
more immersive than ever in a stage play called The
Twenty Sided Tavern. Take a listen. The stage is set
for a unique adventure.
Speaker 12 (26:55):
Every night at the Twenty Sided Tamer What think you're toastings.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
Of celebration or roling for our initiahip.
Speaker 12 (27:02):
It's dangerous bones every decision yours make tooin the action
on stage, or choose your heroes backways from your seat.
The spell has been cast and the only missing ingredient
is you.
Speaker 6 (27:15):
Welcome adventurers the Bunda dynan Hag.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
How hype it is that here to tell us more
about the twenty side of tavern is one of the
cast members from the play. Will Champion joins us here
on the Andy Reesmeyer Show. Good afternoon to you, sir.
How you doing.
Speaker 4 (27:33):
I'm absolutely fabulous. Thank you for having me mate.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
Now you are a brit Does that mean that you
are also the drummer of Coldplay? Or is that just
a coincidence?
Speaker 4 (27:42):
You know what. We haven't checked all the records there,
but we have a suspicion he may be related to us.
It's made some very confusing private messages, I perceived. I'll
tell you that.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
I'm sure so if anybody doesn't know, Will Champion is
also the drummer of Coldplay, and of course being a
British person in performing something. What is your He's very
famously rocking the exposed dome. What's your hair? Situation.
Speaker 4 (28:10):
I thankfully at the moment, Knock will have a very
full head of hair, and that's a nice differential between the.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
Pro There you go. That's it. And also how many
millions of dollars We will not get into that, but
let's talky about this show. I was so lucky to
meet many of the cast members. I'm going to do
a piece I believe it'll air on Tuesday about this
show that is playing right now at the Montleban Theater
in Hollywood, and it's a nine hundred person venue and
people are going to experience Dungeons and Dragons in a
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stage play situation that's interactive. Now, for anybody who doesn't know,
can you just tell us what Dungeons and Dragons is?
Speaker 3 (28:43):
So?
Speaker 4 (28:44):
At its most base level, Dungeons and Dragons is what's
called a table top role playing game where you traditionally
are all sitting around like your living room table or
like on the floor in your basement, and you're telling
a story together. You've created these fantasy characters using a
systems of rules and guidelines that's now and it's fit
for sixth edition depending on who you ask, and you're
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working together with a dungeon master who's sort of creating
the framework for the story you're telling, and then all
the choices that you and your friends around that table
make will tell a completely unique fantasy adventure.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
Now, this is something that was for a long time
kind of like nerdy do weebe? But now I feel
like is very much mainstream, Like people are you know
about this everywhere and you now are also taking an
opportunity here to move from the basement into the big
stage with a full on, real production.
Speaker 4 (29:39):
Big time, you know. I mean, it's sort of like
it feels kind of what you dream of when you
start playing a game like Dungeon and Dragons in your parents' basement,
that your imagination is picturing something much larger and much
more grand with all the costumes and set pieces and whatnot.
And what this play does is actually brings that to life.
We have a brilliant, massive screen that projects a lot
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of the images and action that you see happening on stage.
People are making sound effects in real time, and whatever
characters the audience chooses the three players to be that
particular evening have their own unique fantastical outfits they get
put on right at the beginning of the show.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
And then there's something with the QR codes where all
the audience members go in, they scan a que our code,
and then throughout the show they can vote on the
things that are happening and sort of inform what goes
next with the play.
Speaker 4 (30:30):
It's not even sort of inform anybody who comes to
see the show. We don't just call them the audience.
They're our fellow adventurers. They're the other players at the table.
Because the power for what we do, who we meet,
and truthfully where our story honestly ends, is completely in
the hands of the audience. We make some of the
decisions for sure, and there's a sort of a skeletal
framework for how the show is supposed to move, but
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what the audience wants, what you guys coming to see
the show want to happen, is what is going to happen.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
It's two hours of complete improv with a sort of
general base of where we're going to go. But that
makes it special and different for every night, which I
will say is exactly like this radio show. Isn't that
I try to figure out what I'm going to say,
but when I get in there, it sort of completely
changes its different. How have the audiences been here in LA.
You guys have been playing since just after Thanksgiving.
Speaker 4 (31:17):
Yeah, I mean it shouldn't come as a surprise, give
that LA is sort of the hub for all things
nerdy these days. And I would really credit that the
renaissance of D and D over the last ten years
has been based here in LA, and the audiences here
have reflected that they've been absolutely phenomenal. How it is
a nice mix of people who have played before and
people who are completely new to it. But everyone here
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is so willing to completely invest and buy into the story.
And even people who have never rolled the twenty Sided
Died before in their life find themselves screaming and hollering
at the top of their lungs when somebody rolled the
Natural twenty. You know, it's a really special experience out
here at the Mountlebun.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
Yeah. I'm excited for you. I know you're going to
Scottsdale next, which is great because you will be there
at least until the twenty first, at least in LA.
But you're going to stay in the warm, and I
love that. We've got a beautiful day. Yeah, and there's
no better way I think to spend it. A beautiful
day than inside watching a play.
Speaker 4 (32:11):
I happen to agree with review.
Speaker 2 (32:13):
But so, do you have a show tonight?
Speaker 4 (32:17):
Yes, we're actually in the middle of a matinee right now,
and then there's another show. Oh my god, what are
they a Sundays?
Speaker 2 (32:23):
Do you need to get back on stage?
Speaker 4 (32:25):
No. So that's the beauty of it is. There are
nine of us in the cast, and there are five
positions on stage, a couple of which, in fact, three
of which today are filled by our guest stars, some
of these sort of icons in the in the D
and D world.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
Oh that's fun.
Speaker 4 (32:40):
So we get to rotate in and out a lot.
Most of us, in fact, all of us play multiple
roles in the show, so you're always seeing the same
group of people in different roles every night. And as
a result, I'm just here is back up today, just
in case anyone happens to have a nasty fall on stage.
I'm there just in case.
Speaker 2 (32:58):
You know, hopefully that will not happen, but at least
you'll be ready in the case that it does. Will
Champion from Dungeons and Dragons The Twenty Sided Tavern. It
is now playing at the Montolban Theater. The show's last
all the way through Sunday, December twenty first, So if
you want to get tickets, how can people find it?
Speaker 4 (33:18):
Honestly, you can find them online at our website, or
you can come straight to the box office here on
Hollywood and Vine and get rush tickets to day off.
It's a great way to come see it if you're
feeling spur at the moment. Love it.
Speaker 2 (33:32):
That website Broadway in Hollywood, dot com of course, and
you can also just google the Dungeons and Dragons twenty
sided Tavern show playing at the Montleblon Theater in Hollywood.
Will break a leg. Thank you so much for being
on the show. Appreciate you, and we'll see you out
there hoping to roll twenties for.
Speaker 4 (33:49):
Sure, absolutely, thank you. Mate.
Speaker 2 (33:51):
There he goes Will Champion, not from Coldplay, but I
don't mind. I Actually I'd prefer talk to that guy
than the guy from Coldplay. I bet the guy from
Coldplace is next too. Really good voice, don't you think, Eileen?
One hundred percent? That accent. They could say literally anything
and I would be like, yeah, okay, sure, well that
sounds right. No, it's great. Another hour show coming up here,
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including a director who defrauded Netflix out of eleven million dollars,
will tell you what crazy things he spented on he
was convicted. And have you been on a Hollywood backlot
tour lately? As Hollywood changes, as we move from the
backlot to the green screen to the volume, unfortunately going
(34:36):
by the wayside is the relevance of the Hollywood backlot tour.
We'll get into that plus the latest news from the
KFI twenty four hour newsroom. It's KFIAM six to forty.
We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio
Speaker 1 (34:48):
App, KFI AM six forty on demand
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
It's I AM six forty. We're live everywhere on the
iHeartRadio app. This is the Andy Reesemeyer Show. I am
Andy Reestmeyer on the show. Today, the terrorist attack targeting
a Jewish community in Australia. The death toll has risen
to fifteen. We are talking about what happened, and we
will talk to someone who lived in the neighborhood. Plus,
back here at home, restaurants are so expensive? Is food
(00:45):
inflation causing the end of the entree? And speaking of food,
what happens if you catch your door dash driver tampering
with your food. It is possibly the only spicy story
coming out of Indiana. But before we get into any
of that, as you've been listening here on KFI the
Chargers Radio Network, the Los Angeles Chargers have crushed the
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Kansas City Chiefs. Their season is over. They've been eliminated
from the playoffs. In the final moments of the game,
Patrick mahomes out with knee injury. Here to join us
to talk way more about this is the very frigid
Shannon Farren joining us on the phone.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Good afternoon, Andy, what a hell of a day out
here at Arrowhead. I got to say, we are in
the parking lot right now outside the buses. Chargers players
meeting with families and friends are getting ready to get
onto the airport. But we're in the parking lot that's
right next to the Chiefs parking lot. And they got
to say, I mean, no matter who you're a fan
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of in the NFL, just watching Patrick Mahomes kind of
limp to his truck was awful. He wasn't driving Britney's
driving home, and it's just awful to see a player
like that with what could be He's just a devastating
injury that you know, it's late December, it wipes out
the whole off season for him, if the worst it's true.
I don't know what they said about that knee injury,
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but it looked awful. He looked like he was in
a lot of paint's. Chargers. Huge huge win here, I mean,
nailing the coffin shut for any sort of playoff hopes
for the Chiefs. It's really a national holiday, you know.
I mean, we're all tired of seeing the Chiefs in
the playoffs. I can speak for all every NFL fan, every.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
NFL Fan owes a real debt of gratitude to the
Los Angeles Chargers today because that guarantees that we will
not see the Chiefs in the Super Bowl. And I
think what is also interesting is that unfortunately that injury
and I got it. Oh man, I couldn't even watch it.
I have myself injured my left knee before, dislocated a kneecap,
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and boy o boy, that recovery is awful. I would
have been probably a Heisman winner if not for my
for my injury, so I understand how awful that is.
But the Chargers were playing really well and the Chiefs
were not playing very well the whole game, even before
the injury.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
Well, it wasn't the best offensive effort by the Chargers
in the first half. Certainly, it was kind of a
slow go to get say. I mean, they were successful
on the ground early on, but couldn't really get a
rhythm going. When they played with tempo, they did much better.
But the defense really shine today, and it's the defense
that makes the story every week recently for the Chargers.
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They are just lights out and they tackling was on
point today. They didn't let Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelcey
at all get any of those explosive plays that really
they're known for, and that's how they win. It's their
bread and butter. How they were so injured at this
point that they weren't going to be able to sustain
a drive you just had took. You just had to
look out for that Patrick Mahomes magic. Unfortunately for us
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to the defense didn't allow that to happen.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
No, I mean, how about Tony Jefferson getting ejected from
the game.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
That was a wild Tony Jefferson is one of my
favorite players. I mean, this is a guy who retired.
I mean, if you're watching Philip Rivers right now hoping
he doesn't die there in Seattle like we were before
I jumped on this call, Tony Jefferson was retired. He
was retired for a year and they called him up
and he was he was going to coach. I think
I think he was coaching and he came back and
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he is a locker room favorite. He's full personality. He's
always a lot of fun. He's a Padres fan. But
you know, if he's out here playing catch baseball with
some of the other guys before every game and every
time he's active, because it i'd have been a crowded
safety room. But like every time he's active, he makes
something happen, He makes a big play happen, makes it
(04:41):
happen for somebody else. So he plays with a lot
of passion. He was frustrated after that call and that hit,
and yeah he got ejected, but it just it just
fired this defense up even more.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
I'm sure. I mean, you saw last week with the Eagles.
I think we spoke right before Monday Night football, and
of course the Chargers were able to be victorious that night.
It wasn't pretty, but they won this week. I don't
know if it was pretty, but it was real chippy,
and I think it was like there were moments where
you were like, are these guys all going to fight
each other? This is crazy? This is wild.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
The Chiefs have won the division for ten years. Yeah,
they always play the Chargers tough. They play every division
rival tough, and the Chargers are sick of it too,
And so yeah, it's always a close game. Chargers chief
is always a close game. I don't know if Jim
Harbaugh is going to compare this one like he did
on a Monday Night to the birth of his seven
children and his marriage. But it was a good one.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Yeah, I'm sure there's a lot of a lot of
positive energy out there for the Chargers players, the fans
of the team. But I can only imagine how the
fans in Kansas City, the Missouri cold, that feeling of
being out there at fifteen degrees all day only to
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see really a spectacular end there to your season. What's
the energy? Like? Does anyone even matter? They just frozen stuff?
At this point?
Speaker 3 (06:11):
It wasn't bad, honestly, Like I was, I was pretty worried.
I've never hung out for five hours and seventeen degree weather.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Yeah, did they give Did they give you one of
those one of those big sherpa like almost robes That
looks like they did not?
Speaker 3 (06:27):
But I am wearing I'm wearing three pairs of pants
right now, one of which is electric, a heated best on.
So it's been seven years, but I think I finally
realized how to dress for the cold. And I was
comfortable all game. And the difference maker was there was
no wind, so you have the wind chill, and the
sun was shining on the Chargers sideline the entire game,
which I may think made a big difference. At least
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the guys were able to saw out, unlike the Chiefs
that were in the shade the whole taking game. One
reason maybe why they were they were so injured. I mean,
I think like six or seven guys went out at
one point with injuries throughout the g So the Chargers
at least got a chance to saw out under that sun.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
That's a really good point. I wouldn't have thought about that,
And you got to think like moving it all, catching,
throwing anything in fifteen degree weather is hard, and especially
if you can get a little bit of advantage by
standing out there in the sun. And the funny thing
is watching it, you're thinking like, oh, it doesn't really
look that cold until you look over and you see,
you know, justin Herbert standing on the sideline in a
full parka that is like a floor to ceiling I
(07:27):
don't know, shell or something that he that he was in.
So that's I'm glad you survived. And I guess three
pairs of pants is one pair of pants more than usual,
So that's great. What happens next for these guys, I.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
Go, usually we're two pairs of pants, But if that's
what you're into Andy. That's cool? Too cool?
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Is that not?
Speaker 4 (07:46):
Is it just me?
Speaker 3 (07:46):
You know, I don't know how TV people roll. I mean,
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Just a little extra protection, just a little extra coverage
in case you get a blowout. You know, you just
never know what's going to happen. You don't you don't
want long strides. So I want to ask, you know,
now the wildcard status?
Speaker 4 (08:04):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (08:04):
You know Chargers now moving on?
Speaker 4 (08:08):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (08:08):
What what happens next? And do you do you feel
good about uh the next couple of weeks?
Speaker 3 (08:15):
Okay, so right now, right at this moment, we are
all Tackers fans. We're rooting for the Packers to beat
Denver in Denver. Denver leads the division right now. If
they lose today, that evens us up. Well I think so,
uh maybe not, Maybe we need another game. But it
looks like most likely the Charge the Chargers will not
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win the division, that Denver will just because uh, just
looking at the schedules ahead. But what do I know?
I know nothing, But if that happens, it's most likely
the Chargers send up in a wild card spot will
go somewhere on the East coast, probably you know, Baltimore,
Jacksonville something like that. It'll be East Coast game in
the wildcard spot. I'm starting to get very cold, Andy,
(08:57):
I'm out played the bus and I took off a
few layers and my pants aren't heated anymore. This is
a My face is starting to freeze a little bit.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Well, you've given us too much time. I appreciate it.
Please get on that bus before we have to chip
you out of a block of ice like han Solo
and carbonite. I gotta have you back here tomorrow. So
are you headed straight to the airport and then hopping
on a plane coming back here tonight?
Speaker 3 (09:19):
That's right, exactly.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Sweet, Well, grab us some of those those biscotti crackers.
Those we like those, the little sweet ones, you know
that they put in the individually wrap things.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
That's Delta.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Yeah, oh that's not you don't you don't have those?
Speaker 3 (09:34):
No, we're American, don't. We don't get the cookie?
Speaker 2 (09:37):
What a okay? Pretzels? Is it a whole pretzel? What's
what's on board?
Speaker 3 (09:41):
I can probably get you. I could probably get you
some pretzels?
Speaker 2 (09:43):
All right? Thank you? Leave them on my desk. That
doesn't exist here. Shannon Farren, sideline reporter, for the Los
Angeles Chargers, Go Bolts. Thanks for being here. Safe, trip
back here to LA and we will see you real soon.
It's CAFIM six forty. We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
You're listen to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
By me Andy Reesmeyer. This is the Andy Reesmier Show.
Lots to talk about today. Unfortunately, there were two major
shootings internationally and nationally that we've been following. You've heard
a lot of updates there from Ilincolnzales. The one that
we'll talk about first is being called a terrorist attack.
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Sixteen fifteen people rather have died now forty are injured
after what appears to be a targeted attack against the
Jewish community in Australia. Happened at around forty seven local
time last night. More than one thousand people were in attendance.
Ten minutes after the first calls, police issued a statement
(10:48):
urging urging people at the scene to take shelter for
other people to avoid the area. Here's some background.
Speaker 5 (10:54):
We are following another deadly mass shooting, this one in
Australia where police say two gunmen open fire and Sydney's
famous Bondai beach, killing at least eleven people. One of
the suspects also is dead, another is in custody. NBC's
Raf Sanchez is following the latest developments for us RAP.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
What more can you tell us, well, Willy.
Speaker 6 (11:15):
Australian authorities are calling this a terrorist attack targeting the
Jewish community as it was celebrating the first.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Night of Hanukkah. Here's what we know.
Speaker 6 (11:23):
As you said, two gunmen open fire with long guns.
There are at least eleven people killed, including one of
the shooters. The second gunman is in custody in critical condition,
and authorities are now investigating whether a third individual was
potentially involved. Now, amid the horror, there was also heroism.
(11:46):
There is a video that is a little difficult to watch,
but I want to show it to you in just
a second, so I.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
Will just add this was clipped a little bit earlier today.
Fifteen people have been confirmed killed in that shooting on
Bondi Beach on Sunday. Among those victims a ten year
old girl. That is, according to a statement from the
New South Wales Police, the elder of two of the gunmen,
who was fifty years old, or according to the BBC,
was shot dead by police, and a twenty four year
(12:15):
old who was the other shooter was still hospitalized in
critical condition. And so, of course video from the attack,
including that video that you were hearing about from NBC News,
which appears to show someone interfering with one of the
shooters with long gun. It's a fascinating video because as
you watch it, you see cell phone video. It appears
(12:39):
as if a man is standing in the middle of
the frame from afar, and the vantage point where the
video is filming from is fairly high up, and a
person in a white shirt, a man in a white
shirt seems to approach the person who is holding the
gun there is able to wrestle the gun, and then
maybe I've watched it like four or five times and
I can't tell. It seems as if he turns a
(13:00):
gun then on the person who was holding the gun
fires it at the shooter. The shooter sort of staggers
a little bit, but doesn't look like he's that injured
or anything, and so maybe he didn't shoot, maybe he missed,
maybe he just indicated that he was going to shoot.
And then you see the shooter walk away, and then
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the person who has taken the gun from the shooter
just stand there, and as we pan over to the right,
you see another shooter who is on also has what
appears to be a long gun or rifle or something
like that, on this bridge that crosses over from what
is a parking lot very near to the beach. So
police had said earlier eleven people were killed. That number
(13:45):
is up to fifteen. Now forty people injured, and they,
as we said, authorities there treating it as a terrorist
attack targeting Sydney's Jewish community. Now, as you know, one
of our producers here, Nicki, is from Australia and Nicki,
you texted me this morning when we were doing some
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show prep and you said, do you know that I
grew up in this exact neighborhood?
Speaker 7 (14:09):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (14:09):
I did.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Have you had a chance to contact your family members.
I know you also are Jewish and you grew up
in this place. I imagine there's probably a lot of confusion,
at a lot of horror. Are all your family members
doing okay? Were they at the event? Give us an update?
Speaker 7 (14:30):
Yeah, I woke up to the news. I received a
text message from one of my friends in Australia. I
woke up to it. This morning, and so straight away
I was checking the news, I reached out to my family.
I grew up ten minutes walk from where those gunmen
were opening fire. The bridge that one of those shooters
was on. I used to walk across that bridge to
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get to the sand every time I went down to
the beach. Family. My family is all safe and accounted.
Apparently the death toll has now risen to sixteen, got it, yeah,
but everyone is safe and accounted for. It was very
targeted because it happened at twilight, and that's when the
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lighting of the Hanuka candles would have happened, because we
have a lunar calendar in the Jewish community, so that's
when the day starts sundown, so that's when all the
people who were there for the Hunuker celebration would have
been gathered together, so they would have opened fire knowing
that they're all together. It's horrible because it happened at
the north end of Bondeau Beach and I come from
(15:35):
North Bonda. So fortunately the families are safe. Usually my
brother and his wife take their dog Axel, for a
walk down at the beach that time. I do know
my niece told me that her best friend's brother was there,
so I dare say there's more people I know who
were at the event, But the time difference means they're
(15:57):
all just waking up now, and I'm sure that a
lot of them will glued to the TV last night
until like one two in the morning, and it's a
Monday there now, so they have to you know, get
up and deal with that while you know, going about
their day going to work.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Can you sort of share with us the amount of
Jewish people in Australia, Yeah, I imagine is pretty small
compared to the rest of the population.
Speaker 7 (16:23):
Is it's very much a minority community. I think there's
about maybe twenty six to twenty seven million people in Australia.
There's about one hundred thousand Jewish people in Australia and
the communities mostly in Melbourne. So there's probably about thirty
thirty five thousand Jews in Sydney and a lot of us.
(16:43):
We live on the east side of town, so Bondai
is situated on the east side of Sydney. It's the
beach that's closest to downtown Sydney where you see the
Opera House and the Harbor Bridge, and it's a beautiful,
beautiful tourist beach. So also a Sunday at sundown and
(17:05):
at summertime, there'd be so many tourists from all over
the world where that where it happened at that time,
So this is also attack on tourists as well.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Yeah, I think something like a thousand people they expected
were down in that area of the beach. And I
know that there's been some response here already, of course
from from the Israeli government who have basically come out
and attacked the Australians as making I guess this an
(17:39):
inhospitable place for Jews. What is your recollection from being
there as a and growing up there as a Jewish person?
Speaker 7 (17:46):
As it's anti Semitism is very much normalized in Australia,
always has been. People don't understand how anti semitic it
is there. I got a text message from my brother
this morning saying that my nephew was safe because he
was at the synagogue and they blamed the government. This
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was no surprise. We knew what was going to happen
because the Prime Minister of Australia, Albanisi, he was calling
for a recognition of a Palestinian state after the attack
on Israel, which was basically awarding terrorism. They always cout
out to the Muslim population because they are so loud
and they're so populous compared to us. But I have
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to say, thank God that the gunman, one of the
government was wrestled down by a local Muslim man, Assyrian Muslim,
the fruit and veged guy. I don't know if he
saw the footage. He snuck up on one of the
gunmen and he managed to get the firearm off him.
Thank God for that man, because that does a lot
for our community relations. If we're being helped to shy
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Assyrian Muslim man, we love that. That's wonderful, you know,
it's a good thing.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
Yeah. Well, we of course will keep you updated. Thank
you Nikki for sharing with us, and also we're happy
that your family at least is doing well in this
really difficult, difficult time. Please keep us posted about anything
else that you hear there so we will continue on
here on the Andy Reesmier show. Coming up, we are
talking to Broadway in Hollywood's cast member from Dungeons and
(19:17):
Dragons the twenty Sided Tavern. It is a new interactive
stage show in Hollywood. We're going to go behind the
scenes with one of the cast members. I'm Andy Respire.
This is KFIM six forty. We're live everywhere on the
iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
By Andy Reesmeier. This is the Andy Reesmier Show. If
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got something off you want to get off your chest.
You can do like a little Ryan Roses thing. Maybe
if you want to, you know, blow anybody up. I
don't know, by the way, Keeping an eye here on
this Colts game. Philip Rivers, first game back in a
Colts uniform, up by three, looking good, six to six
(20:18):
to three Colts Ravens. All right. Also, I said we
were going to have somebody from this play in Hollywood,
this Dungeons and Dragons play. But we have not been
able to contact him yet, so maybe if he's listening,
he can give us a call and five to zero one,
five to three four. You could also find me on
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like to talk about stuff all the time, talk about
things that are happening in the world in Los Angeles
and catch up on the stories of the week. And
unfortunately a lot of breaking news here happening over the weekend.
But this was a fascinating story that came out of Indiana,
much like mister Rivers, much like myself, much like the
Indianapolis or the Indian University football team. Very spicy down there,
(21:05):
this spicy, maybe in a bad way. Tonight a door
dash delivery gone wrong.
Speaker 8 (21:11):
Authorities in Evansville, Indiana watching this disturbing incident caught on
Mike Cardon's doorbell camera. Watch as a delivery person appears
to set down their food and spray an unknown substance.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
Okay, so this appears as if this woman approaches the
door this is one of those ring camera videos, drops
the bag of food on the door step or the doorsill,
and then pulls out what looks like a pepper spray canister.
And just goes to town on the food bag.
Speaker 9 (21:41):
She came inside and sent her on the counter. She
started eating and started coffin and shogun.
Speaker 8 (21:48):
The couple ordering delivery from RB's via door dash. This
was the order to sandwiches on a side Cardon says
his wife had only taken one bite when she realized
something was wrong.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
Something was very wrong. This was not Dave's Hot Chicken.
This is just Arby's.
Speaker 9 (22:02):
There was something red, you know, something's spraying.
Speaker 4 (22:07):
On the back, like the back of been tampered with.
Speaker 9 (22:09):
And that's when I went back and checked the video
footage and seeing that one undred percent food had been
tampered with.
Speaker 8 (22:16):
The Vanderberg County Sheriff's Office is investigating the incident.
Speaker 10 (22:19):
What charges could an individual face?
Speaker 3 (22:21):
So should this all hold up?
Speaker 2 (22:23):
If it appears as was what occurred happened.
Speaker 11 (22:26):
Potential charges could range from battery as a misdemeanor all
the way up until food tampering is a level five felony.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
Garden, whoa food tampering is a level five felony? Well,
what makes sense? I mean it's a heinous thing. You
could get really sick from food tampering.
Speaker 11 (22:41):
All the way up until food tampering is a level
five felony.
Speaker 8 (22:44):
Garden telling NBC News the doorbell video recording glitched and
four seconds are missing. The Sheriff's office says they see
no indication that the video is inauthentic.
Speaker 11 (22:52):
We're going to make sure that we correctly identify the
person and give them a chance to explain themselves.
Speaker 8 (22:57):
Door Dash telling NBC News in part, the dash's access
to the platform has been permanently removed, and our team
is standing by to support law enforcement with any investigation.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
What is really strange here is I'm sorry, but that's
a pretty sound, isn't it. What is really strange here
is that nowhere in this report have they addressed, like
what it actually was that was sprayed on the food.
It seems as if it is pepper spray, which is
craz I mean, I don't know why any nobody says
(23:26):
that right.
Speaker 8 (23:27):
The dasher's access to the platform has been permanently removed,
and our team is standing by to support law enforcement
with any investigation. Now, Cardon still shaken, trying to make
sense of an act he says must have been malicious.
Speaker 11 (23:39):
We're obviously pretty sure it was pepper spray, but this
could have been setnol.
Speaker 9 (23:44):
It could have been rat poison. It could have been
hornets fray for all we know, you know, who knows
what it could have been.
Speaker 10 (23:49):
Are you ever going to order from any other food?
Speaker 2 (23:52):
Okay, but wouldn't it wouldn't you know? Now?
Speaker 8 (23:55):
Cardon still shaken, trying to make sense of an act.
He says must have been milisied.
Speaker 9 (24:00):
We're obviously pretty sure it was pepper sprayed. Gus could
have been.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
Rat fentanyl? Who spray? Can you spray fentanyl? Do you
guys know, like Aileen, have you ever heard of spraying fentanyl?
Speaker 7 (24:14):
I didn't know if it was liquid.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
I didn't think that you could aerosolize fentanyl and just
spray it out there. I think he's just making a point.
He's just saying like it could have been fentanyl. Yeah,
it could have been anything. Does anybody maybe not sprayed?
Speaker 1 (24:27):
I mean, you never know.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
I'm not a definitely not an expert on No. I
am neither.
Speaker 9 (24:33):
Rat poison. It could hornet sprayed for all we know.
You know, who knows what it could have been?
Speaker 10 (24:38):
The Are you ever going to order from any other food?
Their cardy service? Again, I very seriously got it. We
already turned our door dash subscription off. I know that
my family would be more safe if I just go
pick up my food myself.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
Oh yeah. It's a terrible feeling. And you know, you
even think like, okay, we've got that little sticker on
your door dash bag or your uber eats thing that
keeps the bag sealed. A lot of places will have this,
and you think, okay, well it wasn't tampered with. Can't
avoid that if you get sprayed with fentanyl.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
George joins us now from Miami.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
George, is the couple still sick? Yeah, Tom, so they're
still fitting a little bit under the word our newsroom
mostly clear. WHOA, that's cool? That scared me?
Speaker 4 (25:18):
Am?
Speaker 2 (25:18):
I am I out of time? Should I? Should I
hit it over to Okay? Well, so there you go.
Very strange situation, very very odd. I feel I feel
a little less safe here ordering from those places. But
I'll tell you what. You know, it's it's gotten so expensive.
Snel did a pretty funny bit about that, which we'll
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talk about when we come back, about how out of
control and undignified it feels these days to order and
order and order food. It's a lot of money to
go out to eat. I understand that, but it's also
a lot of money now to get it delivered to
the house. We will talk about that plus Los Angele.
This man opened up his DWP bill and it was
(26:02):
thirteen thousand dollars. Does he have a Bollaggio fountain in
the front of his house? You'll have to wait and
find out. It's Andy Reesmeier. This is the Andy Reesmier Show.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
If you're looking for a fun time in fantasy land.
Old Boy, Oh Boys, Los Angeles the place to be
Broadway in Hollywood. They are the group of promoters that
are bringing I think some of the greatest shows here
from Broadway to of course Hollywood. I've told you about
the Back to the Future musical that's always fun, the
Harry Potter musical that they did that last year. Now
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at the Mantlebain Theater in Hollywood, Dungeons and Drageds becomes
more immersive than ever in a stage play called The
Twenty Sided Tavern. Take a listen. The stage is set
for a unique adventure.
Speaker 12 (26:55):
Every night at the Twenty Sided Tamer What think you're toastings.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
Of celebration or roling for our initiahip.
Speaker 12 (27:02):
It's dangerous bones every decision yours make tooin the action
on stage, or choose your heroes backways from your seat.
The spell has been cast and the only missing ingredient
is you.
Speaker 6 (27:15):
Welcome adventurers the Bunda dynan Hag.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
How hype it is that here to tell us more
about the twenty side of tavern is one of the
cast members from the play. Will Champion joins us here
on the Andy Reesmeyer Show. Good afternoon to you, sir.
How you doing.
Speaker 4 (27:33):
I'm absolutely fabulous. Thank you for having me mate.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
Now you are a brit Does that mean that you
are also the drummer of Coldplay? Or is that just
a coincidence?
Speaker 4 (27:42):
You know what. We haven't checked all the records there,
but we have a suspicion he may be related to us.
It's made some very confusing private messages, I perceived. I'll
tell you that.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
I'm sure so if anybody doesn't know, Will Champion is
also the drummer of Coldplay, and of course being a
British person in performing something. What is your He's very
famously rocking the exposed dome. What's your hair? Situation.
Speaker 4 (28:10):
I thankfully at the moment, Knock will have a very
full head of hair, and that's a nice differential between the.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
Pro There you go. That's it. And also how many
millions of dollars We will not get into that, but
let's talky about this show. I was so lucky to
meet many of the cast members. I'm going to do
a piece I believe it'll air on Tuesday about this
show that is playing right now at the Montleban Theater
in Hollywood, and it's a nine hundred person venue and
people are going to experience Dungeons and Dragons in a
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stage play situation that's interactive. Now, for anybody who doesn't know,
can you just tell us what Dungeons and Dragons is?
Speaker 3 (28:43):
So?
Speaker 4 (28:44):
At its most base level, Dungeons and Dragons is what's
called a table top role playing game where you traditionally
are all sitting around like your living room table or
like on the floor in your basement, and you're telling
a story together. You've created these fantasy characters using a
systems of rules and guidelines that's now and it's fit
for sixth edition depending on who you ask, and you're
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working together with a dungeon master who's sort of creating
the framework for the story you're telling, and then all
the choices that you and your friends around that table
make will tell a completely unique fantasy adventure.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
Now, this is something that was for a long time
kind of like nerdy do weebe? But now I feel
like is very much mainstream, Like people are you know
about this everywhere and you now are also taking an
opportunity here to move from the basement into the big
stage with a full on, real production.
Speaker 4 (29:39):
Big time, you know. I mean, it's sort of like
it feels kind of what you dream of when you
start playing a game like Dungeon and Dragons in your parents' basement,
that your imagination is picturing something much larger and much
more grand with all the costumes and set pieces and whatnot.
And what this play does is actually brings that to life.
We have a brilliant, massive screen that projects a lot
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of the images and action that you see happening on stage.
People are making sound effects in real time, and whatever
characters the audience chooses the three players to be that
particular evening have their own unique fantastical outfits they get
put on right at the beginning of the show.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
And then there's something with the QR codes where all
the audience members go in, they scan a que our code,
and then throughout the show they can vote on the
things that are happening and sort of inform what goes
next with the play.
Speaker 4 (30:30):
It's not even sort of inform anybody who comes to
see the show. We don't just call them the audience.
They're our fellow adventurers. They're the other players at the table.
Because the power for what we do, who we meet,
and truthfully where our story honestly ends, is completely in
the hands of the audience. We make some of the
decisions for sure, and there's a sort of a skeletal
framework for how the show is supposed to move, but
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what the audience wants, what you guys coming to see
the show want to happen, is what is going to happen.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
It's two hours of complete improv with a sort of
general base of where we're going to go. But that
makes it special and different for every night, which I
will say is exactly like this radio show. Isn't that
I try to figure out what I'm going to say,
but when I get in there, it sort of completely
changes its different. How have the audiences been here in LA.
You guys have been playing since just after Thanksgiving.
Speaker 4 (31:17):
Yeah, I mean it shouldn't come as a surprise, give
that LA is sort of the hub for all things
nerdy these days. And I would really credit that the
renaissance of D and D over the last ten years
has been based here in LA, and the audiences here
have reflected that they've been absolutely phenomenal. How it is
a nice mix of people who have played before and
people who are completely new to it. But everyone here
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is so willing to completely invest and buy into the story.
And even people who have never rolled the twenty Sided
Died before in their life find themselves screaming and hollering
at the top of their lungs when somebody rolled the
Natural twenty. You know, it's a really special experience out
here at the Mountlebun.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
Yeah. I'm excited for you. I know you're going to
Scottsdale next, which is great because you will be there
at least until the twenty first, at least in LA.
But you're going to stay in the warm, and I
love that. We've got a beautiful day. Yeah, and there's
no better way I think to spend it. A beautiful
day than inside watching a play.
Speaker 4 (32:11):
I happen to agree with review.
Speaker 2 (32:13):
But so, do you have a show tonight?
Speaker 4 (32:17):
Yes, we're actually in the middle of a matinee right now,
and then there's another show. Oh my god, what are
they a Sundays?
Speaker 2 (32:23):
Do you need to get back on stage?
Speaker 4 (32:25):
No. So that's the beauty of it is. There are
nine of us in the cast, and there are five
positions on stage, a couple of which, in fact, three
of which today are filled by our guest stars, some
of these sort of icons in the in the D
and D world.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
Oh that's fun.
Speaker 4 (32:40):
So we get to rotate in and out a lot.
Most of us, in fact, all of us play multiple
roles in the show, so you're always seeing the same
group of people in different roles every night. And as
a result, I'm just here is back up today, just
in case anyone happens to have a nasty fall on stage.
I'm there just in case.
Speaker 2 (32:58):
You know, hopefully that will not happen, but at least
you'll be ready in the case that it does. Will
Champion from Dungeons and Dragons The Twenty Sided Tavern. It
is now playing at the Montolban Theater. The show's last
all the way through Sunday, December twenty first, So if
you want to get tickets, how can people find it?
Speaker 4 (33:18):
Honestly, you can find them online at our website, or
you can come straight to the box office here on
Hollywood and Vine and get rush tickets to day off.
It's a great way to come see it if you're
feeling spur at the moment. Love it.
Speaker 2 (33:32):
That website Broadway in Hollywood, dot com of course, and
you can also just google the Dungeons and Dragons twenty
sided Tavern show playing at the Montleblon Theater in Hollywood.
Will break a leg. Thank you so much for being
on the show. Appreciate you, and we'll see you out
there hoping to roll twenties for.
Speaker 4 (33:49):
Sure, absolutely, thank you. Mate.
Speaker 2 (33:51):
There he goes Will Champion, not from Coldplay, but I
don't mind. I Actually I'd prefer talk to that guy
than the guy from Coldplay. I bet the guy from
Coldplace is next too. Really good voice, don't you think, Eileen?
One hundred percent? That accent. They could say literally anything
and I would be like, yeah, okay, sure, well that
sounds right. No, it's great. Another hour show coming up here,
(34:14):
including a director who defrauded Netflix out of eleven million dollars,
will tell you what crazy things he spented on he
was convicted. And have you been on a Hollywood backlot
tour lately? As Hollywood changes, as we move from the
backlot to the green screen to the volume, unfortunately going
(34:36):
by the wayside is the relevance of the Hollywood backlot tour.
We'll get into that plus the latest news from the
KFI twenty four hour newsroom. It's KFIAM six to forty.
We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio
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