November 24, 2025 • 40 mins
Andy can't believe how good-looking radio people can be – better-looking than TV people! And he would know, because he’s also on TV! What's a cousin walk? It’s when young adult family members take a stroll around the neighborhood in which they use the time to smoke weed prior to the big family meal. A study found people who consume high-potency cannabis drank 27% less alcohol. Zillow is out with its home price forecast for 2026 for more than 400 housing markets. It’s the 30th anniversary special of “Everybody Loves Raymond”! It airs on Monday, November 24 on CBS at 8 p.m. Five former Starbucks employees in LA’s Mid-Wilshire neighborhood have opened their own coffee shop, Dura Coffee – just blocks from the old Starbucks location where they used to work together.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to KF I Am six forty on demand co.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Roches Kid's I Am six forty.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 4 (00:35):
The Andy Reesemeyer Show for Sunday, November twenty third.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
The Big Sunday Sunday Sunday Mario Eileen Nikki. Yes, happy
to be here with all of you today.
Speaker 5 (00:49):
So happy.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
It's like we never left from Friday night.
Speaker 6 (00:51):
I mean I was here earlier than any of you guys,
because I was on Dean's show this morning.
Speaker 4 (00:56):
Okay, got a brag about no and Dean sharps live.
Speaker 5 (00:59):
In front of a studio audience.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
How was that?
Speaker 5 (01:02):
It was so fun?
Speaker 3 (01:03):
That's neat has his crowd work? Did he have any hecklers?
Speaker 2 (01:07):
No?
Speaker 5 (01:07):
Just me, just me.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
Everyone always wants to know if Dean Sharp is as
nice in person as he is on the radio.
Speaker 5 (01:15):
So nice, and he looks like Patrick Duffy.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Oh really totally. He's a handsome man. Who isn't Who
isn't a handsome man. I'll tell you what we work
in radio.
Speaker 6 (01:27):
We need to know how ridiculously good looking we are
on this team.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Well, I would I will say this.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
I think that nowadays it is much more with all
social media and stuff like that.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
I've seen some of these radio people. I'm like, my god,
they're prettier than.
Speaker 7 (01:40):
The TV people are exactly well you are TV people.
Well yeah, but only by like not not like I shouldn't,
you know. Eventually, like there's always an anomaly, someone who
falls through the cracks.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
I feel like I am that person. And the reason
I say this is because, like I'm a class No. Well,
here's the thing. I just didn't go with the normal
route of like reporting in the in to El Paso
and then to Lincoln, Nebraska.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
I've always worked in LA.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
I've been very lucky to do that, and so I
think that I didn't approach it, and I think sometimes
I wanted to be that. I wanted to be like
an anchor guy, like a serious news reporter live in
Aliso Viejo, Andy Reeschmeyer KTLA five, you know, but that
just wasn't going to happen for me.
Speaker 5 (02:24):
But you've got the hair for its, do you?
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Thank you?
Speaker 5 (02:26):
I probably have some of the best hair. Thank you
in TV.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
You guys.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
This is this is exactly what I was hoping this
show would be. Like I'd tell it's not really funny.
That happened to me when I first started doing KTLA
in the mornings. I've been working in the afternoons in
the evenings a lot, and I started doing the morning
show on the weekends. And I remember I had a
producer who said, well, now you're doing the morning show.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
This is what people really watch a lot. And they said, yeah,
everybody here.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
When the reporters say everybody here, gets recognized all the time,
and so you'll start to go You'll be out in
the in the world now and people will start to
say hello to you, and they're gonna know who you are.
So you got you can't be a jerk anymore in person.
And I thought, oh my god, that's crazy. So the
first day I worked morning show, I think I did
the weather. I'm sure it wasn't good, but I went
(03:15):
out for lunch after the show, you know, a nice
little brunch on the weekend mornings, and.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
I'm hanging out.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
I'm at this kind of busy, bougie brunch place and
I'm sitting there with a group of friends just eating whatever,
you know, enjoying the fact that I had done this thing.
And a guy comes up to the table and He
like waves at me, and I was like, oh my god,
it's happening.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
It's happening.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
And I'm like getting ready, like oh yeah, no, no, no, no, hi,
you know, make sure that I'm not well, Noy'll makeup.
Speaker 5 (03:48):
Yeah I know.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
And he looks at me and he's like, hey, are
you gonna are you? Are you guys using that?
Speaker 3 (03:54):
He points to the empty chair that's next.
Speaker 8 (04:00):
I'm thinking that I'm impressed by people so many. There's
so many like big stars in LA that I think, No,
I just love it, Like what a what a d bag?
I was thinking, Oh, I'm gonna get here's my moment. Baby,
I made it.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Guys like can I have that chair? You guys gonna
be using that chair so you can take it. That's fun.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
I bet they know you now. I will say, I
am very very lucky that.
Speaker 9 (04:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
Sometimes when I go out and people say hello, we
love it so much. It is just such a cool
reminder that what we do is reaching people. And I
never thought about doing this or going into this because
I thought like people would give me attention for it.
But I am happy that I'm doing something in there
is someone who is at least paying attention to it.
(04:51):
It was like finding value in it enough to say hello.
And I also always thought, hey, wouldn't it be cool
to do a job where I could go somewhere and
and I felt like I was part of a community.
And I think that KTLA has has given that to me.
KFI has given that to me as well. I tell
you what. I got here a little early today and
I went to floor five, which is the floor above US.
CAFs on four. All the other radio stations are on five.
(05:14):
I've never been up there. Have you guys ever been
up there?
Speaker 5 (05:16):
Oh? Yeah, it's nice, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
What is going nicer than the fourth floor? For different world? Yeah,
a whole different world up there.
Speaker 5 (05:25):
Us feel like redheaded.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
That's exactly what I was going to say, though, consider
I think I do my best work in, you know,
the basement of the nice place. You know, there's something
about not having the pressure. You don't want to be
in a situation where it's like you've got the glossy fancy,
like there's something honest and keeps you humble by working
in the basement down the hallway. I was up there
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and walking around to the different studios, and there's like
big boy.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
He's got a corner studio. He's got two walls of windows.
Do you know this? I did not know that my
FM is up there? Woody show.
Speaker 4 (06:02):
They've got a beautiful studio, all tricked out with like
woody stuff. There's like graphics of what I mean. It's
it's awesome up there.
Speaker 5 (06:10):
It's all the important people go. You know that route
not down here.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
I don't.
Speaker 4 (06:15):
And at the same time, though the fatted calf, as
they say, I was thinking about idioms today. I was
talking about being appreciative, you know. I was talking to
my mom about this the whole like, look a gift
horse in the mouth. Far be it from me to
look a gift horse in the mouth. What is this scenario?
(06:35):
What is a gift horse? Is it a horse that
is a gift? Is it a horse that is bringing gifts?
Why is it that if you look at its mouth
you will be in some kind of peril.
Speaker 5 (06:47):
It's a Trojan horse?
Speaker 3 (06:50):
Is that right?
Speaker 5 (06:50):
Is it related to Trojan horse?
Speaker 10 (06:52):
Now?
Speaker 5 (06:52):
I believe so well? According to a I okay, yeah,
hit me, okay, yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
I was hoping. I was hoping we would get there
with this.
Speaker 6 (06:58):
It's a gift horse, refers to a horse that is
given as a gift. Okay, that's that for the end.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
And why wouldn't you look at it in the mouth?
Speaker 5 (07:07):
Don't they bite?
Speaker 3 (07:08):
What difference does it which horse?
Speaker 5 (07:10):
I don't know?
Speaker 6 (07:11):
Are we talking about this? Because Andy, you look kind
of et qwine.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Do you like resemble a horse?
Speaker 7 (07:19):
Team?
Speaker 9 (07:20):
Wow?
Speaker 5 (07:22):
Those chompers, my chompers that maine of had.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
And the fact the fact that if you want to
feed me carrots you have to flatpall me because you
don't know if I'm going to take off one of
your digits.
Speaker 5 (07:30):
Do you want a lump of sugar?
Speaker 3 (07:32):
I would love that, But remember my brain is very small.
Speaker 5 (07:37):
How big a horse's brains?
Speaker 4 (07:39):
Just as small as mine? Coming up, we're talking about
the price of homes. Are they going up or going down?
In southern California next year? Zillow is out with their
their forecast. You would think I would know that word. Also,
if you smoke weed, does it make you drink less?
Science has an answer And to that effect, we're getting
into the cousin Walk six forty.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 4 (08:11):
I'm Andy Reesmeyer, You know what I should have said
when you said that I was a horse?
Speaker 3 (08:16):
What hey? But I didn't.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
I refrained from making that stupid joke. Don't worry, they
got me. Oh good, I'm glad Mario was laughing. Mario,
did you go on a cousin walk? Yes, this is
a new thing that I'd never heard of. No surprise,
I told you on on Friday Night. There's a reason
I haven't heard of. The families are putting a new
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spin on a traditional pastime. A cousin walk is when,
of course, young adult family members take a stroll around
the neighborhood on Thanksgiving Day. It is an activity before
the day is big meal, but apparently to stimulate appetites
(09:04):
for Thanksgiving. Yeah, right, to stimulate their appetites just because
they want to do this.
Speaker 6 (09:08):
It's not about stimulating appetites, it's about finding a way
to deal.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
With Yeah, there you go. Well, so many, I guess
are using this cousin walk tradition, or at least creating
a tradition to just go out and smoke weed together.
Wall Street Journal reports many Americans are sharing their takes
on the trend. She and her relatives, a woman they
talk to rather and her relatives give each other a look.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
And then ask if they're ready to go on the walk.
Speaker 4 (09:37):
She says, we have a couple of puffs, laugh about something,
roll our eyes at our silly uncle, and just have
a good time. And then they have in the article
a bunch of pictures of family members taking a cousin
walk to smoke cannabis before Thanksgiving dinner. And they look
like they are out of a J. Crue catalog. The
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guy's got a peacoat on some of those leather boots.
This woman's got a hat and a shawl. I mean,
is they look they look straight like Nantucket. A thirty
three year old in Los Angeles name Chris is, a
chef who cooks with cannabis, told the publications that the
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best stories are shared during the walk and not around
the Thanksgiving dinner table. It's a moment where we have
come together as a whole, and then a few of
us are going to separate off in our own little
age appropriate group. Everything else that happens on the walk
is classified equipped perhaps referring to smoking weed. I can
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confirm that there are shenanigans. Oh he's so bad, isn't
he Oh my god, what a dangerous guy. A TikTok
user poked fund at her own families taken the tradition,
saying cousin walked a little too close to the sun.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
If you know what I mean.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
Some people are even calling it green Wednesday, which is
the day of Thanksgiving. Cannabis companies apparently noticing a surge
in sales, and like Nikki said, some of the people
saying it's just to deal with their family members. They
go so far to say that the Wednesday before Thanksgiving
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is considered the second largest cannabis celebration, falling behind four
to twenty, of course, April twentieth. Others saying it's a
sacred time, an honored tradition, a secret society that meets.
It's so bold, Like I, it's not interesting anymore.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 4 (11:33):
Once they made it legal, it was no longer cool
or dangerous. I told you guys this. When I came in.
I talked to the crew and I said, we were
just talking about how like when I was younger, I
determined that I just wasn't cool enough to understand weed
and smoke it.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
I tried a bit in high school. I did Inhale.
Speaker 4 (11:54):
But this was Indiana where the weed was basically aregano.
I came out to La and I ktch you. I like,
I was listen, I was a musician. All Right, you're
gonna try some stuff. You're in your early twenties. If
you're upset about this text Kirk Hawkins at Kirk Hawkins
and I was like, I had I partook here in
(12:16):
La and I was high for two days. I was like,
I can't be doing I just can't. I physically cannot.
I don't have the tolerance for it. So, uh, martiniz
for me instead?
Speaker 6 (12:26):
Does that mean your family archetype isn't the cool cousin
but the nerd cousin?
Speaker 3 (12:32):
Ooh, like what am I to the family?
Speaker 6 (12:34):
Yeah, because everyone's got a family archetype. I'm definitely the
cool cousin.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
You would be the cool cousin Mario are You're probably
the cool cousin Mario.
Speaker 5 (12:41):
I think he's the cool uncle.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
The comedic relief. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, no, for sure,
cousin Uncle.
Speaker 6 (12:46):
Funny funny uncle. You're the phone call.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
That's great. I lean, how about you? What part of
the family archetype do you fit in?
Speaker 5 (12:52):
I'm the black Sheep. To be honest with you, really.
Speaker 4 (12:55):
Yeah, because you've got great careers, You're living in a
cool lie Like, did you I.
Speaker 8 (13:02):
Have a really small family. Yeah, just kind of a
little different.
Speaker 4 (13:08):
Well, I listen, I understand everybody's got a different relationship
with their families, some better than the others. But hey,
I tell you what will be your family here?
Speaker 5 (13:17):
Okay? I love that.
Speaker 8 (13:18):
I just have a great I've got a great network
of friends that are like family.
Speaker 4 (13:22):
It is nice to have that, and I think you
especially need that here in LA. If you're away from
your family, I feel bad, I like feel guilty, especially
this year. I went home last year for like three
or four weeks during Christmas, and then I went home
this year in the summer.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
But I can't.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
I'm not gonna be home. I'm going to be here
for Thanksgiving and also the Christmas holiday. And I always
make the choice and the decision because I think, while
I got to work and they don't really want me
to take time off, and I took a lot of
time off last year, and I decided in like September,
I'm like, oh, are we fine? And then the week
of Thanksgiving rolls around and I'm like what did I do?
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Because you don't get those back. You know, you only
have so many times to go on cousin walks with
your friends. And to answer your question, I guess I
am the nerdy cousin.
Speaker 6 (14:08):
I wouldn't even like that's just obvious, but I think that.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
I'll tell you what.
Speaker 4 (14:12):
My family is full of a bunch of real whipper snappers,
so it's a lot to keep up with them. And
it's like it's like going to a roast, like not
a pot roast, like one of those roasts, you know,
like comedian roasts where you like walk in the door
and immediately it's like, Oh, tell me about your band,
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how's that been going. I haven't seen you play a
show since you left high school. You know that kind
of thing. So it's a lot. It's got a lot
of funny, a lot of funny people who are who
are pretty pretty keep you.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
On your toes for sure.
Speaker 5 (14:43):
They sound cool.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
They are very cool. They're much cooler than I am.
Speaker 5 (14:47):
We're going to crash your family, get to go.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
Go ahead.
Speaker 4 (14:49):
My mom would love it. She's moved to the selling
the house. It's their last Thanksgiving and Christmas in the house.
That she's been in for twenty years or so, so
it's a little bitter week. I thought they were going
to sell it last year, but they ended up selling
it this year. And it's not a surprise because man
oh man, it's becoming a buyer's market elsewhere, and the
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cost of homes going up in some places next year,
but Zilla says going down in other places. We'll tell
you all about that coming up here on the Andy
Reesmeyer Show. It is Sunday, November twenty third.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
This is the Andi Reesmeier Show. Just past three thirty.
Speaker 4 (15:32):
Here we were talking about the Cousin Walk, which of
course is the walk where on Thanksgiving some young adults
might pop out into the woods, maybe on a little
walk through the neighborhood, enjoy some cannabis before coming back
and having dinner. How you can know that one of
your family members has participated. First of all, if you
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can't see the signs, as my mom always said, I
grew up in the seventies, you should know. But if
you've got all of a sudden, if your vegan niece
from Marina del Rey has a hanker in for the
stuffing that was inside the bird and will not stop.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
She may have been on a cousin walk.
Speaker 4 (16:25):
If somebody takes the ready whip can flips it upside
down and just into their mouth.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
Cousin walk?
Speaker 5 (16:33):
How did you know I did that last night?
Speaker 3 (16:35):
Did you really?
Speaker 5 (16:35):
Totally?
Speaker 3 (16:36):
The key with that is.
Speaker 6 (16:38):
I took myself on a solo cousin walk.
Speaker 4 (16:41):
As long as you don't do it without the cream
coming out. I made sure that's a different that is
a different kind of experience.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
No thank you.
Speaker 4 (16:52):
A study found recently that people who smoke high potent
potent jeez, who's who's the.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
Out to lunch now?
Speaker 4 (17:03):
Study found people who smoke high potency cannabis drank twenty
seven percent less alcohol, while those on a weaker strain
drank nineteen percent less compared to a placebo joint. Is
this a surprise to anybody? Getting high makes you drink less?
If you get high enough, you can't do anything. They
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were testing what, of course, is called California sober, which
is when you don't drink alcohol but you might do thchc, bowls, joints, dabs, edibles, whatever.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
It follows.
Speaker 4 (17:39):
A study out of Colorado earlier this year, where Stone
participants drank about twenty five percent less and craved alcohol
less intensely. The researchers also found that the study had
some blind spots like these were tightly controlled settings. The
whole thing took place in a laboratory which was dressed
up like a bar. It's happened to Brown University where
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they built a full on fake bar, stocked it with booze,
and then handed out joints, all in the name of science.
More research has to be done and more patterns will
be observed. Also, in the Colorado story, a minority of
participants actually drank more after consuming the cannabis, which just
goes to show that individuals involved in the study matter.
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A lot depends on who you are. Like I said,
I was a musician. I grew up with a lot
of musicians around.
Speaker 5 (18:30):
And what kind of musician were you? Curious?
Speaker 4 (18:33):
I played a piano and guitar and saying, nice, we're
we're using one of my songs for the bump music
at the top of the hoar. Yeah, yeah, it's a
little self serving. I don't I don't know if I mean.
I figured, hey, you know, you spent the money to
record it. Might as well play it somewhere, right, So
that was my song by the way, So suddenly you
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played it.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
No, I know, I'm saying you like, you're like oh yeah.
Speaker 4 (18:59):
Oh yeah, yeh yeah, right, me being like, oh yeah,
that's h andy in the valley with Sunset.
Speaker 6 (19:03):
You need to form a band with Eileen though, because
she's also a musician.
Speaker 4 (19:07):
I didn't know that you're a real estate agent, a
news anchor and a musician thing.
Speaker 5 (19:11):
And I do acting. Yeah, I'm I'm in my first band.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
Oh my god, what are you? Are you singing?
Speaker 5 (19:15):
Are you I sing? And now I'm playing bass by default?
Speaker 11 (19:19):
Cool?
Speaker 3 (19:20):
Yeah, it's awesome. Everybody is a bass player waiting to
become one.
Speaker 5 (19:23):
Yeah. I used to be a bass player.
Speaker 6 (19:25):
Get out of town really yeah, but then we discovered
I have no musical talent whatsoever.
Speaker 4 (19:30):
That is important though, I mean some bass players that
I have worked with, it is a lower barrier to
entry than maybe the drums.
Speaker 5 (19:35):
Only four strings, like, it's how.
Speaker 4 (19:37):
Hard could it be You're generally only hitting one note
at a time. Also, but I'd say the bass is
one of those maybe most important. If it's bad, it's
really bad. Yeah, got to keep that, keep that rhythm,
rhythm in the pocket. I did play drums, that's cool,
and a little guitar.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
Did you tour it all with the band or did
you know we're brand new?
Speaker 5 (19:55):
We do like open mics right now.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
Oh my god, it's so fun.
Speaker 5 (19:58):
It is so fun.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
I like, I'm kind of jealous. I told you. I
went to a concert last night.
Speaker 4 (20:02):
And I have seen Jack's Mannikin or Indrick Mann or
whatever for like many many years I've been I've probably
seen this band, this guy perform more than any other group.
And I was a huge fan growing up. And obviously
I don't know if it's obvious, but it influenced me
a lot. He influenced me a lot because I was
in a little piano band like when I was in
high school when I was thirteen fourteen, probably middle schools
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when we started, and we were just playing Billy Joel
covers and stuff like that.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
And I, you know.
Speaker 4 (20:31):
Turned on MTV two or Fuse or whatever one day
and I saw this guy playing the piano and singing
emo songs and he's wearing like a button down shirt
with chucks and jeans and like floppy hair, and I
was like, well, wait a minute, if this guy can
do it, I can do it.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
Who is this dude?
Speaker 4 (20:51):
Turns out his name was Andrew, and I was like,
that's crazy, that's also my name. And so then for
the next ten years I basically just like emulated everything.
Speaker 3 (20:59):
That he did.
Speaker 5 (21:00):
And he has a big Mapa hair.
Speaker 4 (21:01):
He's got a well yeah, yeah, he's got a little
shorter hair of these days, but back in the day, yes,
very big Mapa hair. And I think that the sense.
You know, it's funny when people always say, like they
probably eye roll about this too. Representation matters. You can
use it in any capacity, but it is so true
when you see somebody who represents you doing a thing
that you would dream about doing, it really makes you
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feel like you have the ability to do it.
Speaker 3 (21:24):
Now.
Speaker 4 (21:25):
It never crossed my mind that imitating him was not
going to be how I was going to be successful.
And actually that's the least cool thing you could do.
But I was a sheltered kid and not much has changed.
Speaker 5 (21:41):
Inspiration is the greatest form of flattery, So that's true.
Speaker 4 (21:44):
But I was saying that because to see to see
the uh, to see that show last night, it just
took me back and made me feel like man, I
wish I was playing music.
Speaker 5 (21:52):
Still, you should do it.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
I think I would.
Speaker 4 (21:55):
Maybe I'll try maybe once we start getting into the
next year, I'll try to try to set something up.
Speaker 5 (22:01):
It'd be kind of fun do open mic when I do.
Speaker 3 (22:04):
Oh, we should just do that. Let's do that. Okay,
when's the next show?
Speaker 5 (22:08):
We do open mic? Usually in Santa Monica on Mondays
at the Medicines.
Speaker 3 (22:13):
Oh Jamison's Yeah, great bar. Yeah, very fun. Do they
have a backing group or do you get.
Speaker 8 (22:18):
Do they have a keyboard player and a drummer that
can come back you up if you want?
Speaker 5 (22:23):
You can just do it solo.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
What time on Monday thing?
Speaker 5 (22:26):
It starts like at nine, Okay, I'm.
Speaker 4 (22:27):
Here until ten, so if you're still there afterwards the
midnight slot, yeah, that'll go well. I got to be
on the TV on Tuesday morning at like seven thirty,
so out.
Speaker 5 (22:38):
Just pull an all nights. That's what I always do.
Speaker 4 (22:40):
You're young enough, yeah, I always. Whenever I wake up
and I'm real tired, I don't know. I've taken to
telling myself this to get myself hyped up. It's like
a train for this, a train for this.
Speaker 6 (22:50):
I do.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
This is what I This is what I've trained for.
Speaker 4 (22:54):
By the way, Zillow has out with its home price
forecast for four hundred plus housing markets heading into twenty
twenty six. Now, sometimes they revise forecasts, because last year
Zillo said for this year home prices were going to
be two point six percent higher, and then by April
(23:16):
they revised it to be actually one point seven percent lower. However,
some places have seen considerable growth. Atlantic City, New Jersey
more than five percent, Knoxville, Tennessee four point three percent, Hartford, Connecticut,
New Haven, Connecticut close to four percent, Green Bay, Wisconsin
four percent. As far as the losers go, Lake Charles, Louisiana, Nowlins, Shreveport, Lafayete, Louisiana, Beaumont,
(23:44):
Texas all down between seven and four percent. San Francisco
dropped two percent. Here in southern California, which I know
is what we're all curious about. They're predicting a one
percent increase in prisis next year, which is, you know,
we're fine with that. That's great, But compare that to
(24:06):
the pandemic twenty twenty twenty one, where you were seeing
double digit percentage increases.
Speaker 3 (24:12):
Years every year.
Speaker 5 (24:12):
Unheard of.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
Yeah, it was scary.
Speaker 4 (24:15):
Yeah, but that's okay because I bought a house when
it was the highest that's ever.
Speaker 5 (24:20):
Been you can refinance, you're.
Speaker 4 (24:23):
Yeah, but the also rates just went up. I don't
know if you've been looking lately. Like, so, there was
a jobs report that came out on Thursday, and rates
were expected to continue to sort of slowly drop into
the mid fives. And now they're back up over six
because the job's report was better than expected.
Speaker 5 (24:39):
Yeah, but it's still better than it was.
Speaker 4 (24:41):
It's still better than it was last year. But I'm like,
what is the Why are we going to catch a
break around here?
Speaker 8 (24:45):
I don't know that we're ever going to see that
three percent that we saw during the pandemic.
Speaker 5 (24:50):
I don't know that we'll see that again enough, Yes
we will. I have hun thinks though, really.
Speaker 4 (24:54):
Well, like, doesn't that also mean something horrible has to happen,
Like we got to go through another pandemic or got
to go through some kind of financial collapse for us
to get closer to those levels?
Speaker 5 (25:04):
More war, more war, more war. It's not funny, but
I like the accent makes it cure.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
Yeah, the accent makes it funny.
Speaker 6 (25:13):
I can say the most vile things, and people just go.
Speaker 4 (25:16):
Oh, I know, have you have any buddy follow up
with you about giving weed to your bunnies?
Speaker 6 (25:24):
No, because everybody who knows anything that mammals knows that
cannabis is good for dogs, cats, bunny rabbits.
Speaker 5 (25:31):
It's good for all mammals, in moderation, in moderation.
Speaker 6 (25:35):
She said, anything about moderation. We're not nerdy cousins. We're
cool cousins.
Speaker 4 (25:38):
Okay, again, I I wish I could.
Speaker 3 (25:44):
I could hang man. I can make a great martini.
Speaker 6 (25:47):
That's why you're important. Everyone needs a nerdy cousin as well.
Speaker 3 (25:51):
Thanks.
Speaker 4 (25:53):
It's the any Reason Wire Show for Sunday, November twenty third.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
You're listening to KFI. I am six forty on demand.
Speaker 4 (26:04):
A few minutes here left on the Andy Reesmeyer Show
for this Sunday. But I'll be back with you tomorrow
at seven pm, where we'll be doing the last show
that I will be doing at least until Thanksgiving. Gotta
be talking turkey. I know, I know, I know. It's
something I'm really excited about that I won't be able
to watch because I'll be here, But that's okay, I'm
(26:26):
gonna watch it. On demand later is the thirtieth anniversary
special for Everybody Loves Raymond?
Speaker 3 (26:33):
Holy only thirty years. Huh? Can you believe it?
Speaker 4 (26:38):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (26:38):
I can believe it. If you're doing thirtieth reunion, it's
very nostalgia endiclous. You think about how long ago it
was that you were babies.
Speaker 5 (26:53):
To be back in this room, it's wild. It's a
little spooky being.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
On myself, it really is.
Speaker 11 (27:03):
Oh, I was gonna see if fucking borrow that, but
the airline won't let me carry on all three of you.
Speaker 4 (27:09):
You got to give it up to the set designers
and decorators because.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
It is exactly so.
Speaker 4 (27:14):
What we're looking at there or listening to rather is
the trailer four the Everybody Loves Raymond thirtieth Anniversary Reunion,
which will air Tomorrow, November twenty fourth, on CBS at
eight pm. How exciting is that Raymond will be there,
Brad Garrett, you heard as well believe that creator Phil
(27:39):
Rosenthal will also be joining the show. He says, many
shows do reboots. We never wanted to do that. We
felt like we couldn't honestly do one since some of
the cast isn't with us anymore. We're talking about Ray's parents.
They were essential to the success of the show. Also,
Ray and I both believe that reboots general are never
(28:00):
as good as the original. I think that's the Seinfeld headspace.
In the same way with Friends. Those are shows that
just went out on top. They are untouchable. You don't
want to go back for any other reason. But this
is an opportunity to break the fourth wall, which I
think is what you did with the Friends thing. Remember
they rebuilt the set. Seinfeld kind of did that when
(28:22):
they did a reunion episode within Curby Your Enthusiasm where
they were fake rehearsing for this Seinfeld reboot that never happened, obviously,
But the show, of course will pay tribute to Doris
Roberts and Peter Boyle, who played Ray's parents. They'll pay
(28:42):
tribute to Sawyer Sweeten, who played one of Ray and
Deborah's sons who died, along with Fred Willard and Georgia Engel. Additionally,
Patricia Heaton, Ray Romano, Brad Garrett. They will all be there.
I think that that show is such a specific feeling
(29:03):
in that era, and I don't know if it really
felt the same I was in Indiana. It's a very
East Coast show. Feels very like Thanksgiving East Coast and
going to be exciting to see that tomorrow for sure.
Thirtieth anniversary. Boy oh boy. Also, here's something that you
might not have thought whatever happened? Five former Starbucks employees
(29:28):
in mid City have opened their own coffee shop only
a few blocks away from the Starbucks where they used
to work.
Speaker 9 (29:42):
The passion these five new coffee shop owners have for
their work is infectious. Maybe Kazeu's Kevin, Ryan, Ryan and
Franco lifelong friends who all used to work at the
Starbucks on Beverlee and Detroit in mid Wilshire. They've been
in the process of starting their own mobile coffee concept
when out of the in September, their Starbucks shut down
and they were all let go.
Speaker 3 (30:04):
We made friends with everyone around the community.
Speaker 5 (30:06):
Everyone knew as Frankel, you know, was doing that.
Speaker 3 (30:08):
There was a lot of fun. So definitely not just
a job. It was definitely we were family.
Speaker 6 (30:13):
It was the community Starbucks and neighborhood Starbucks.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
It was pretty scary.
Speaker 6 (30:18):
And it was sad I lost my community, you know,
I lost a routine.
Speaker 3 (30:22):
But something great.
Speaker 5 (30:24):
Came out of it, which was you know, opening this place.
Speaker 3 (30:26):
With these guys.
Speaker 4 (30:27):
This is the craziest story I have ever heard. There's
so much that had to happen to go right.
Speaker 3 (30:32):
In this scenario.
Speaker 4 (30:33):
You had to have a group of people who worked
at a corporate, nameless, uricagon wheel place, who felt connection
to the community of Midwaleshuare which like okay, some community there,
but a lot of big buildings, and then also liked
each other enough they wanted to start a business together
and then had some ability to get the capital to
(30:56):
start this business.
Speaker 5 (30:58):
Sounds like a nineties it comp.
Speaker 3 (31:00):
Doesn't it seem wild? I mean, I worked at a
gap in high school.
Speaker 4 (31:03):
I cannot imagine in a million years if they had
come in and closed the gap, which again was like
my first survival like retail minimum wage job, I think,
akin to a Starbucks job maybe at the time. Nowadays
they're in the Union. I don't know how much they're making.
But if anybody had closed that store, I would have
been like, oh, thank God, good riddance. Ain't nobody in
(31:27):
the world who would have been like, what if we
decided to make our own cable knit sweaters?
Speaker 3 (31:34):
What if we decided to board fold just for the community.
How about selling long and lean jeans. Because it feels
nice for us to be together. I would have said,
go pound sand. I love these guys.
Speaker 9 (31:50):
This place is Dura Coffee, just blocks from their shuttered store,
and here they've got the kind of creative freedom they
never could have had in a corporate chain.
Speaker 4 (31:58):
Are Los Angels don't really have like coffee shops that
bring out like our heritage, you know, and that's.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
What we wanted to do different. Do you think that
guy's going on a cousin walk?
Speaker 5 (32:10):
Definitely?
Speaker 10 (32:11):
Last lat which is like a Filipino drink, you know,
all the Filipinos out there in La you know, we
have to represent that the Mama's latte is made with
our Albelifa's choc late you know, Mexican chocolate make where
you try to use incorporate different types of ingredients from
our cultures.
Speaker 3 (32:27):
Now you can't see this, but I'm watching.
Speaker 4 (32:28):
This is a package from Fox eleven, which is a
television station in Los Angeles. Here and these coffee drinks
look delicious. They got a real macha with some kind
of thick cold foam that they're putting on there.
Speaker 3 (32:40):
And I will quote Tim Conway.
Speaker 4 (32:42):
Junior life is about three things, enthusiasm, enthusiasm, enthusiasm, and
these gents have it.
Speaker 9 (32:53):
The storefront used to house New York Keyek Pops, owned
by Levita Mohika. With skyrocketing property taxes, she was on
the verge closing when one.
Speaker 7 (33:01):
Day two of the guys came literally knocking at the
door and they said, like.
Speaker 4 (33:06):
We're a mobile We're starting a mobile coffee.
Speaker 5 (33:09):
Shop and can you show uscape ups? And I said
like this is like I'm.
Speaker 3 (33:14):
Actually looking for a coffee partner.
Speaker 5 (33:16):
And it just happened super quick.
Speaker 9 (33:20):
Within weeks, they formed a plan. She'd keep taking under
Larry Bakes and the guys would launch their own coffee
shop inside space.
Speaker 3 (33:26):
This is the coolest story I've ever heard. Look it
gets even better.
Speaker 4 (33:31):
This is so unusual for Los Angeles, or at least
it's unusual to hear about it in the news. I'm
sure the nice things are happening all the time, but
it's unusual for this kind of story of young entrepreneurs,
entrepreneurs just finding each other and making something cool happen.
Speaker 3 (33:46):
I love it.
Speaker 5 (33:50):
Boom boom, boom.
Speaker 3 (33:52):
Three to two days and we still don't have reven around.
There are really good people I'm.
Speaker 5 (33:57):
Very happy that we're here together.
Speaker 10 (33:59):
It was a really through moment when we when we open,
and I'm glad to see everyone like so many, so
many supporters coming in and people like that I haven't seen
in years coming in.
Speaker 3 (34:07):
And it's like we picked up from yesterday.
Speaker 9 (34:09):
And regulars from the old Starbucks they're already following them here.
Speaker 3 (34:13):
Or see you, familiar face is already coming in. So
it's just great.
Speaker 4 (34:15):
We're just trying to get the band back together from
the old exciting Starbucks days, but in a new chapter,
in a better way.
Speaker 3 (34:23):
That makes me so happy.
Speaker 4 (34:25):
Five former Starbucks employees opening Dura Coffee in mid City.
Here's the address, ready for it, seventy three oh six
Beverly Boulevard. Seventy three oh six Beverly Boulevard. Where would
you guess that cross street is? Anybody have any guesses?
Don't google it? Where do you think seventy three hundred is?
(34:46):
Could you give me a major cross street that you
think seventy three hundred Beverly is? This is a stupid
thing to make you guess. I don't think anybody should
peka Well, no would go east and west, so.
Speaker 5 (35:01):
This would be oh thinking north to south.
Speaker 4 (35:04):
No, no, no, like like this is it's on Beverly,
So it's seventy three oh six Beverly.
Speaker 3 (35:08):
Beverly and Pico are parallel.
Speaker 5 (35:10):
Sand Descente.
Speaker 3 (35:12):
Save Eddy is kind of a weird one because it
goes sort of up and over in an angle.
Speaker 5 (35:16):
I'm annimmo grin, I don't ask me.
Speaker 3 (35:18):
That's fine. This is not a thing that most people know.
Speaker 4 (35:20):
Whenever someone says the seventy three hundred block of Beverly,
how would anybody have a clue what that is? That
is just west of Librea, specifically at Fuller, between Fuller
and Points Sete.
Speaker 3 (35:37):
How about it? I'd love to go see him. Very cool.
Do we have mister Chris Merril on the line. Yes, Hey, buddy,
hey man hey. I could not agree with that point more.
Speaker 11 (35:48):
I cannot stand when when media reporters regurgitate police speak.
Oh oh, it's in the seventy three hundred block. If
nobody knows that, I like.
Speaker 4 (35:58):
The individual whenever they're doing it like a reporter, like
and then the individual exited the vehicle, Oh my god,
you're like the guy got out of the car, ye,
thank you, you know, my god. Mervyn block who is
the godfather of how to todd to write broadcast like
people speak, Yeah, more people should.
Speaker 3 (36:16):
I mean, they're doing that in this market.
Speaker 4 (36:17):
In market two, it drives people are saying the twenty
three thousand block of West it drives me nuts Pico Boulevard,
which is like probably Sentinella.
Speaker 1 (36:27):
I did.
Speaker 11 (36:28):
I did catch you doing something though that I thought
was kind of funny. Oh me, yeah, yeah, laid on me.
Speaker 3 (36:34):
Okay.
Speaker 11 (36:34):
It's when you play the audio when you went that's
from Fox eleven. That's a TV station here in LA.
Speaker 3 (36:39):
And I thought that is such. That is such a
TV guy thing to do, Like, just in case none
of you knew about the other TV station I don't
work for. That's exactly right. There is another one thing.
I'm glad you caught that. I hope you know that
that's on purpose for that exact reason too. And I
loved it, Okay, good, I loved it. I loved it.
Sometimes I'll do that.
Speaker 4 (36:56):
I do that to anybody, you know, kick al Oh,
it's so great, casey hay cow ABC seven. That's that's
another station you might have if you go a couple,
if you go two up, you'll find ABC.
Speaker 3 (37:08):
But you don't have to just trust me that it's there.
They may not be there long. You never know. I
did you know?
Speaker 11 (37:14):
You used to phrase that I haven't heard in a
long time, But you said the cog and wheel, and
I love that, and I thought, what a great name
for a bar, maybe with like a Monday open mic
night for bands and things.
Speaker 3 (37:24):
Let's go and do it. We can bring Eileen. What
do you you sing and play? I feel like you're
a musical guy. Oh, I do all of it, but
my price is very high. When you say you do
all of it? Are you like like Dick Van Dyke
in The Mary Poppins. I'm so good. I'm like Wayne
Brady good. What's your karaoke song? Mac the Knife? That's
(37:45):
a good one. Yeah. How's that for a pull? No,
I'm terrible, I'm really terrible.
Speaker 8 (37:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (37:50):
Yes, we could get you a I bet you rappers delight.
I mean trying to think of like ones that you
can't fail with.
Speaker 3 (37:59):
I'll tell you one. I thought it'd be a really
good idea.
Speaker 4 (38:02):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. People will bring the house
out one time. I don't do I don't do it
because I think it's obnoxious when people who like I
don't need attention. You know, I do enough people pay
I have. I don't need to go do performing right
for people. But I did one many years ago. I
was like, people will love if I do Return of
the Mac. Oh, yeah, yeah, we love that song, like.
Speaker 3 (38:26):
Or maybe I did. Yeah, I think this is what
it was.
Speaker 4 (38:28):
But it was like the verses are like fifty years long,
and like no one knows all the words to Return
of the Mac.
Speaker 3 (38:34):
You know that, you know the chorus, but that's it
once again. Oh my god, you know you know that,
but you don't know. Oh.
Speaker 4 (38:43):
I was, Yeah, there's a little delay there, maybe a
delay between my left ear and my right ear. Yeah,
what's on your show going on? I'm sorry that I've
just been I mean, yabbn't.
Speaker 3 (38:55):
Yeah, it's great. It's a talk show. That's what you do,
I guess.
Speaker 11 (38:58):
So yeah, November in forever. Yeah, and uh so we'll
we'll talk a little bit about that. But what you
may not have known is that we got somebody else's
weather and I'm gonna tell you who who we stole
the weather from.
Speaker 3 (39:12):
Wow. Yes, that's a greatiase I'm gonna listen right. It's
like you gotta do it for a living or something right.
Speaker 11 (39:20):
And then obviously we'll do the law makers of the
law breakers the times that there ought to be a
law and uh, I call it. I made the prediction
and it has come to fruition. Yes, I have a
wonderful and I love the payoff when I get to
say I was right all along about who California's next
governor is gonna do?
Speaker 3 (39:39):
That that is coming up in the first hour. It's
a packed hour, is it. Alex Michaelson from Fox eleven.
Another television station is a television station and in Los Angeles. Actually, well,
thank you for listening.
Speaker 4 (39:51):
Chris Merrel coming up. It's AM six forty. I'm Andy Reesmeyer.
We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app KFI AM six
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The Andy Reesemeyer Show for Sunday, November twenty third.
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The Big Sunday Sunday Sunday Mario Eileen Nikki. Yes, happy
to be here with all of you today.
Speaker 5 (00:49):
So happy.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
It's like we never left from Friday night.
Speaker 6 (00:51):
I mean I was here earlier than any of you guys,
because I was on Dean's show this morning.
Speaker 4 (00:56):
Okay, got a brag about no and Dean sharps live.
Speaker 5 (00:59):
In front of a studio audience.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
How was that?
Speaker 5 (01:02):
It was so fun?
Speaker 3 (01:03):
That's neat has his crowd work? Did he have any hecklers?
Speaker 2 (01:07):
No?
Speaker 5 (01:07):
Just me, just me.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
Everyone always wants to know if Dean Sharp is as
nice in person as he is on the radio.
Speaker 5 (01:15):
So nice, and he looks like Patrick Duffy.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Oh really totally. He's a handsome man. Who isn't Who
isn't a handsome man. I'll tell you what we work
in radio.
Speaker 6 (01:27):
We need to know how ridiculously good looking we are
on this team.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Well, I would I will say this.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
I think that nowadays it is much more with all
social media and stuff like that.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
I've seen some of these radio people. I'm like, my god,
they're prettier than.
Speaker 7 (01:40):
The TV people are exactly well you are TV people.
Well yeah, but only by like not not like I shouldn't,
you know. Eventually, like there's always an anomaly, someone who
falls through the cracks.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
I feel like I am that person. And the reason
I say this is because, like I'm a class No. Well,
here's the thing. I just didn't go with the normal
route of like reporting in the in to El Paso
and then to Lincoln, Nebraska.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
I've always worked in LA.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
I've been very lucky to do that, and so I
think that I didn't approach it, and I think sometimes
I wanted to be that. I wanted to be like
an anchor guy, like a serious news reporter live in
Aliso Viejo, Andy Reeschmeyer KTLA five, you know, but that
just wasn't going to happen for me.
Speaker 5 (02:24):
But you've got the hair for its, do you?
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Thank you?
Speaker 5 (02:26):
I probably have some of the best hair. Thank you
in TV.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
You guys.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
This is this is exactly what I was hoping this
show would be. Like I'd tell it's not really funny.
That happened to me when I first started doing KTLA
in the mornings. I've been working in the afternoons in
the evenings a lot, and I started doing the morning
show on the weekends. And I remember I had a
producer who said, well, now you're doing the morning show.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
This is what people really watch a lot. And they said, yeah,
everybody here.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
When the reporters say everybody here, gets recognized all the time,
and so you'll start to go You'll be out in
the in the world now and people will start to
say hello to you, and they're gonna know who you are.
So you got you can't be a jerk anymore in person.
And I thought, oh my god, that's crazy. So the
first day I worked morning show, I think I did
the weather. I'm sure it wasn't good, but I went
(03:15):
out for lunch after the show, you know, a nice
little brunch on the weekend mornings, and.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
I'm hanging out.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
I'm at this kind of busy, bougie brunch place and
I'm sitting there with a group of friends just eating whatever,
you know, enjoying the fact that I had done this thing.
And a guy comes up to the table and He
like waves at me, and I was like, oh my god,
it's happening.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
It's happening.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
And I'm like getting ready, like oh yeah, no, no, no, no, hi,
you know, make sure that I'm not well, Noy'll makeup.
Speaker 5 (03:48):
Yeah I know.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
And he looks at me and he's like, hey, are
you gonna are you? Are you guys using that?
Speaker 3 (03:54):
He points to the empty chair that's next.
Speaker 8 (04:00):
I'm thinking that I'm impressed by people so many. There's
so many like big stars in LA that I think, No,
I just love it, Like what a what a d bag?
I was thinking, Oh, I'm gonna get here's my moment. Baby,
I made it.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Guys like can I have that chair? You guys gonna
be using that chair so you can take it. That's fun.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
I bet they know you now. I will say, I
am very very lucky that.
Speaker 9 (04:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
Sometimes when I go out and people say hello, we
love it so much. It is just such a cool
reminder that what we do is reaching people. And I
never thought about doing this or going into this because
I thought like people would give me attention for it.
But I am happy that I'm doing something in there
is someone who is at least paying attention to it.
(04:51):
It was like finding value in it enough to say hello.
And I also always thought, hey, wouldn't it be cool
to do a job where I could go somewhere and
and I felt like I was part of a community.
And I think that KTLA has has given that to me.
KFI has given that to me as well. I tell
you what. I got here a little early today and
I went to floor five, which is the floor above US.
CAFs on four. All the other radio stations are on five.
(05:14):
I've never been up there. Have you guys ever been
up there?
Speaker 5 (05:16):
Oh? Yeah, it's nice, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
What is going nicer than the fourth floor? For different world? Yeah,
a whole different world up there.
Speaker 5 (05:25):
Us feel like redheaded.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
That's exactly what I was going to say, though, consider
I think I do my best work in, you know,
the basement of the nice place. You know, there's something
about not having the pressure. You don't want to be
in a situation where it's like you've got the glossy fancy,
like there's something honest and keeps you humble by working
in the basement down the hallway. I was up there
(05:49):
and walking around to the different studios, and there's like
big boy.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
He's got a corner studio. He's got two walls of windows.
Do you know this? I did not know that my
FM is up there? Woody show.
Speaker 4 (06:02):
They've got a beautiful studio, all tricked out with like
woody stuff. There's like graphics of what I mean. It's
it's awesome up there.
Speaker 5 (06:10):
It's all the important people go. You know that route
not down here.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
I don't.
Speaker 4 (06:15):
And at the same time, though the fatted calf, as
they say, I was thinking about idioms today. I was
talking about being appreciative, you know. I was talking to
my mom about this the whole like, look a gift
horse in the mouth. Far be it from me to
look a gift horse in the mouth. What is this scenario?
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What is a gift horse? Is it a horse that
is a gift? Is it a horse that is bringing gifts?
Why is it that if you look at its mouth
you will be in some kind of peril.
Speaker 5 (06:47):
It's a Trojan horse?
Speaker 3 (06:50):
Is that right?
Speaker 5 (06:50):
Is it related to Trojan horse?
Speaker 10 (06:52):
Now?
Speaker 5 (06:52):
I believe so well? According to a I okay, yeah,
hit me, okay, yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
I was hoping. I was hoping we would get there
with this.
Speaker 6 (06:58):
It's a gift horse, refers to a horse that is
given as a gift. Okay, that's that for the end.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
And why wouldn't you look at it in the mouth?
Speaker 5 (07:07):
Don't they bite?
Speaker 3 (07:08):
What difference does it which horse?
Speaker 5 (07:10):
I don't know?
Speaker 6 (07:11):
Are we talking about this? Because Andy, you look kind
of et qwine.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Do you like resemble a horse?
Speaker 7 (07:19):
Team?
Speaker 9 (07:20):
Wow?
Speaker 5 (07:22):
Those chompers, my chompers that maine of had.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
And the fact the fact that if you want to
feed me carrots you have to flatpall me because you
don't know if I'm going to take off one of
your digits.
Speaker 5 (07:30):
Do you want a lump of sugar?
Speaker 3 (07:32):
I would love that, But remember my brain is very small.
Speaker 5 (07:37):
How big a horse's brains?
Speaker 4 (07:39):
Just as small as mine? Coming up, we're talking about
the price of homes. Are they going up or going down?
In southern California next year? Zillow is out with their
their forecast. You would think I would know that word. Also,
if you smoke weed, does it make you drink less?
Science has an answer And to that effect, we're getting
into the cousin Walk six forty.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 4 (08:11):
I'm Andy Reesmeyer, You know what I should have said
when you said that I was a horse?
Speaker 3 (08:16):
What hey? But I didn't.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
I refrained from making that stupid joke. Don't worry, they
got me. Oh good, I'm glad Mario was laughing. Mario,
did you go on a cousin walk? Yes, this is
a new thing that I'd never heard of. No surprise,
I told you on on Friday Night. There's a reason
I haven't heard of. The families are putting a new
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spin on a traditional pastime. A cousin walk is when,
of course, young adult family members take a stroll around
the neighborhood on Thanksgiving Day. It is an activity before
the day is big meal, but apparently to stimulate appetites
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for Thanksgiving. Yeah, right, to stimulate their appetites just because
they want to do this.
Speaker 6 (09:08):
It's not about stimulating appetites, it's about finding a way
to deal.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
With Yeah, there you go. Well, so many, I guess
are using this cousin walk tradition, or at least creating
a tradition to just go out and smoke weed together.
Wall Street Journal reports many Americans are sharing their takes
on the trend. She and her relatives, a woman they
talk to rather and her relatives give each other a look.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
And then ask if they're ready to go on the walk.
Speaker 4 (09:37):
She says, we have a couple of puffs, laugh about something,
roll our eyes at our silly uncle, and just have
a good time. And then they have in the article
a bunch of pictures of family members taking a cousin
walk to smoke cannabis before Thanksgiving dinner. And they look
like they are out of a J. Crue catalog. The
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guy's got a peacoat on some of those leather boots.
This woman's got a hat and a shawl. I mean,
is they look they look straight like Nantucket. A thirty
three year old in Los Angeles name Chris is, a
chef who cooks with cannabis, told the publications that the
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best stories are shared during the walk and not around
the Thanksgiving dinner table. It's a moment where we have
come together as a whole, and then a few of
us are going to separate off in our own little
age appropriate group. Everything else that happens on the walk
is classified equipped perhaps referring to smoking weed. I can
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confirm that there are shenanigans. Oh he's so bad, isn't
he Oh my god, what a dangerous guy. A TikTok
user poked fund at her own families taken the tradition,
saying cousin walked a little too close to the sun.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
If you know what I mean.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
Some people are even calling it green Wednesday, which is
the day of Thanksgiving. Cannabis companies apparently noticing a surge
in sales, and like Nikki said, some of the people
saying it's just to deal with their family members. They
go so far to say that the Wednesday before Thanksgiving
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is considered the second largest cannabis celebration, falling behind four
to twenty, of course, April twentieth. Others saying it's a
sacred time, an honored tradition, a secret society that meets.
It's so bold, Like I, it's not interesting anymore.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 4 (11:33):
Once they made it legal, it was no longer cool
or dangerous. I told you guys this. When I came in.
I talked to the crew and I said, we were
just talking about how like when I was younger, I
determined that I just wasn't cool enough to understand weed
and smoke it.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
I tried a bit in high school. I did Inhale.
Speaker 4 (11:54):
But this was Indiana where the weed was basically aregano.
I came out to La and I ktch you. I like,
I was listen, I was a musician. All Right, you're
gonna try some stuff. You're in your early twenties. If
you're upset about this text Kirk Hawkins at Kirk Hawkins
and I was like, I had I partook here in
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La and I was high for two days. I was like,
I can't be doing I just can't. I physically cannot.
I don't have the tolerance for it. So, uh, martiniz
for me instead?
Speaker 6 (12:26):
Does that mean your family archetype isn't the cool cousin
but the nerd cousin?
Speaker 3 (12:32):
Ooh, like what am I to the family?
Speaker 6 (12:34):
Yeah, because everyone's got a family archetype. I'm definitely the
cool cousin.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
You would be the cool cousin Mario are You're probably
the cool cousin Mario.
Speaker 5 (12:41):
I think he's the cool uncle.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
The comedic relief. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, no, for sure,
cousin Uncle.
Speaker 6 (12:46):
Funny funny uncle. You're the phone call.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
That's great. I lean, how about you? What part of
the family archetype do you fit in?
Speaker 5 (12:52):
I'm the black Sheep. To be honest with you, really.
Speaker 4 (12:55):
Yeah, because you've got great careers, You're living in a
cool lie Like, did you I.
Speaker 8 (13:02):
Have a really small family. Yeah, just kind of a
little different.
Speaker 4 (13:08):
Well, I listen, I understand everybody's got a different relationship
with their families, some better than the others. But hey,
I tell you what will be your family here?
Speaker 5 (13:17):
Okay? I love that.
Speaker 8 (13:18):
I just have a great I've got a great network
of friends that are like family.
Speaker 4 (13:22):
It is nice to have that, and I think you
especially need that here in LA. If you're away from
your family, I feel bad, I like feel guilty, especially
this year. I went home last year for like three
or four weeks during Christmas, and then I went home
this year in the summer.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
But I can't.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
I'm not gonna be home. I'm going to be here
for Thanksgiving and also the Christmas holiday. And I always
make the choice and the decision because I think, while
I got to work and they don't really want me
to take time off, and I took a lot of
time off last year, and I decided in like September,
I'm like, oh, are we fine? And then the week
of Thanksgiving rolls around and I'm like what did I do?
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Because you don't get those back. You know, you only
have so many times to go on cousin walks with
your friends. And to answer your question, I guess I
am the nerdy cousin.
Speaker 6 (14:08):
I wouldn't even like that's just obvious, but I think that.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
I'll tell you what.
Speaker 4 (14:12):
My family is full of a bunch of real whipper snappers,
so it's a lot to keep up with them. And
it's like it's like going to a roast, like not
a pot roast, like one of those roasts, you know,
like comedian roasts where you like walk in the door
and immediately it's like, Oh, tell me about your band,
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how's that been going. I haven't seen you play a
show since you left high school. You know that kind
of thing. So it's a lot. It's got a lot
of funny, a lot of funny people who are who
are pretty pretty keep you.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
On your toes for sure.
Speaker 5 (14:43):
They sound cool.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
They are very cool. They're much cooler than I am.
Speaker 5 (14:47):
We're going to crash your family, get to go.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
Go ahead.
Speaker 4 (14:49):
My mom would love it. She's moved to the selling
the house. It's their last Thanksgiving and Christmas in the house.
That she's been in for twenty years or so, so
it's a little bitter week. I thought they were going
to sell it last year, but they ended up selling
it this year. And it's not a surprise because man
oh man, it's becoming a buyer's market elsewhere, and the
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cost of homes going up in some places next year,
but Zilla says going down in other places. We'll tell
you all about that coming up here on the Andy
Reesmeyer Show. It is Sunday, November twenty third.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
This is the Andi Reesmeier Show. Just past three thirty.
Speaker 4 (15:32):
Here we were talking about the Cousin Walk, which of
course is the walk where on Thanksgiving some young adults
might pop out into the woods, maybe on a little
walk through the neighborhood, enjoy some cannabis before coming back
and having dinner. How you can know that one of
your family members has participated. First of all, if you
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can't see the signs, as my mom always said, I
grew up in the seventies, you should know. But if
you've got all of a sudden, if your vegan niece
from Marina del Rey has a hanker in for the
stuffing that was inside the bird and will not stop.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
She may have been on a cousin walk.
Speaker 4 (16:25):
If somebody takes the ready whip can flips it upside
down and just into their mouth.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
Cousin walk?
Speaker 5 (16:33):
How did you know I did that last night?
Speaker 3 (16:35):
Did you really?
Speaker 5 (16:35):
Totally?
Speaker 3 (16:36):
The key with that is.
Speaker 6 (16:38):
I took myself on a solo cousin walk.
Speaker 4 (16:41):
As long as you don't do it without the cream
coming out. I made sure that's a different that is
a different kind of experience.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
No thank you.
Speaker 4 (16:52):
A study found recently that people who smoke high potent
potent jeez, who's who's the.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
Out to lunch now?
Speaker 4 (17:03):
Study found people who smoke high potency cannabis drank twenty
seven percent less alcohol, while those on a weaker strain
drank nineteen percent less compared to a placebo joint. Is
this a surprise to anybody? Getting high makes you drink less?
If you get high enough, you can't do anything. They
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were testing what, of course, is called California sober, which
is when you don't drink alcohol but you might do thchc, bowls, joints, dabs, edibles, whatever.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
It follows.
Speaker 4 (17:39):
A study out of Colorado earlier this year, where Stone
participants drank about twenty five percent less and craved alcohol
less intensely. The researchers also found that the study had
some blind spots like these were tightly controlled settings. The
whole thing took place in a laboratory which was dressed
up like a bar. It's happened to Brown University where
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they built a full on fake bar, stocked it with booze,
and then handed out joints, all in the name of science.
More research has to be done and more patterns will
be observed. Also, in the Colorado story, a minority of
participants actually drank more after consuming the cannabis, which just
goes to show that individuals involved in the study matter.
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A lot depends on who you are. Like I said,
I was a musician. I grew up with a lot
of musicians around.
Speaker 5 (18:30):
And what kind of musician were you? Curious?
Speaker 4 (18:33):
I played a piano and guitar and saying, nice, we're
we're using one of my songs for the bump music
at the top of the hoar. Yeah, yeah, it's a
little self serving. I don't I don't know if I mean.
I figured, hey, you know, you spent the money to
record it. Might as well play it somewhere, right, So
that was my song by the way, So suddenly you
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played it.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
No, I know, I'm saying you like, you're like oh yeah.
Speaker 4 (18:59):
Oh yeah, yeh yeah, right, me being like, oh yeah,
that's h andy in the valley with Sunset.
Speaker 6 (19:03):
You need to form a band with Eileen though, because
she's also a musician.
Speaker 4 (19:07):
I didn't know that you're a real estate agent, a
news anchor and a musician thing.
Speaker 5 (19:11):
And I do acting. Yeah, I'm I'm in my first band.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
Oh my god, what are you? Are you singing?
Speaker 5 (19:15):
Are you I sing? And now I'm playing bass by default?
Speaker 11 (19:19):
Cool?
Speaker 3 (19:20):
Yeah, it's awesome. Everybody is a bass player waiting to
become one.
Speaker 5 (19:23):
Yeah. I used to be a bass player.
Speaker 6 (19:25):
Get out of town really yeah, but then we discovered
I have no musical talent whatsoever.
Speaker 4 (19:30):
That is important though, I mean some bass players that
I have worked with, it is a lower barrier to
entry than maybe the drums.
Speaker 5 (19:35):
Only four strings, like, it's how.
Speaker 4 (19:37):
Hard could it be You're generally only hitting one note
at a time. Also, but I'd say the bass is
one of those maybe most important. If it's bad, it's
really bad. Yeah, got to keep that, keep that rhythm,
rhythm in the pocket. I did play drums, that's cool,
and a little guitar.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
Did you tour it all with the band or did
you know we're brand new?
Speaker 5 (19:55):
We do like open mics right now.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
Oh my god, it's so fun.
Speaker 5 (19:58):
It is so fun.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
I like, I'm kind of jealous. I told you. I
went to a concert last night.
Speaker 4 (20:02):
And I have seen Jack's Mannikin or Indrick Mann or
whatever for like many many years I've been I've probably
seen this band, this guy perform more than any other group.
And I was a huge fan growing up. And obviously
I don't know if it's obvious, but it influenced me
a lot. He influenced me a lot because I was
in a little piano band like when I was in
high school when I was thirteen fourteen, probably middle schools
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when we started, and we were just playing Billy Joel
covers and stuff like that.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
And I, you know.
Speaker 4 (20:31):
Turned on MTV two or Fuse or whatever one day
and I saw this guy playing the piano and singing
emo songs and he's wearing like a button down shirt
with chucks and jeans and like floppy hair, and I
was like, well, wait a minute, if this guy can
do it, I can do it.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
Who is this dude?
Speaker 4 (20:51):
Turns out his name was Andrew, and I was like,
that's crazy, that's also my name. And so then for
the next ten years I basically just like emulated everything.
Speaker 3 (20:59):
That he did.
Speaker 5 (21:00):
And he has a big Mapa hair.
Speaker 4 (21:01):
He's got a well yeah, yeah, he's got a little
shorter hair of these days, but back in the day, yes,
very big Mapa hair. And I think that the sense.
You know, it's funny when people always say, like they
probably eye roll about this too. Representation matters. You can
use it in any capacity, but it is so true
when you see somebody who represents you doing a thing
that you would dream about doing, it really makes you
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feel like you have the ability to do it.
Speaker 3 (21:24):
Now.
Speaker 4 (21:25):
It never crossed my mind that imitating him was not
going to be how I was going to be successful.
And actually that's the least cool thing you could do.
But I was a sheltered kid and not much has changed.
Speaker 5 (21:41):
Inspiration is the greatest form of flattery, So that's true.
Speaker 4 (21:44):
But I was saying that because to see to see
the uh, to see that show last night, it just
took me back and made me feel like man, I
wish I was playing music.
Speaker 5 (21:52):
Still, you should do it.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
I think I would.
Speaker 4 (21:55):
Maybe I'll try maybe once we start getting into the
next year, I'll try to try to set something up.
Speaker 5 (22:01):
It'd be kind of fun do open mic when I do.
Speaker 3 (22:04):
Oh, we should just do that. Let's do that. Okay,
when's the next show?
Speaker 5 (22:08):
We do open mic? Usually in Santa Monica on Mondays
at the Medicines.
Speaker 3 (22:13):
Oh Jamison's Yeah, great bar. Yeah, very fun. Do they
have a backing group or do you get.
Speaker 8 (22:18):
Do they have a keyboard player and a drummer that
can come back you up if you want?
Speaker 5 (22:23):
You can just do it solo.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
What time on Monday thing?
Speaker 5 (22:26):
It starts like at nine, Okay, I'm.
Speaker 4 (22:27):
Here until ten, so if you're still there afterwards the
midnight slot, yeah, that'll go well. I got to be
on the TV on Tuesday morning at like seven thirty,
so out.
Speaker 5 (22:38):
Just pull an all nights. That's what I always do.
Speaker 4 (22:40):
You're young enough, yeah, I always. Whenever I wake up
and I'm real tired, I don't know. I've taken to
telling myself this to get myself hyped up. It's like
a train for this, a train for this.
Speaker 6 (22:50):
I do.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
This is what I This is what I've trained for.
Speaker 4 (22:54):
By the way, Zillow has out with its home price
forecast for four hundred plus housing markets heading into twenty
twenty six. Now, sometimes they revise forecasts, because last year
Zillo said for this year home prices were going to
be two point six percent higher, and then by April
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they revised it to be actually one point seven percent lower. However,
some places have seen considerable growth. Atlantic City, New Jersey
more than five percent, Knoxville, Tennessee four point three percent, Hartford, Connecticut,
New Haven, Connecticut close to four percent, Green Bay, Wisconsin
four percent. As far as the losers go, Lake Charles, Louisiana, Nowlins, Shreveport, Lafayete, Louisiana, Beaumont,
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Texas all down between seven and four percent. San Francisco
dropped two percent. Here in southern California, which I know
is what we're all curious about. They're predicting a one
percent increase in prisis next year, which is, you know,
we're fine with that. That's great, But compare that to
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the pandemic twenty twenty twenty one, where you were seeing
double digit percentage increases.
Speaker 3 (24:12):
Years every year.
Speaker 5 (24:12):
Unheard of.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
Yeah, it was scary.
Speaker 4 (24:15):
Yeah, but that's okay because I bought a house when
it was the highest that's ever.
Speaker 5 (24:20):
Been you can refinance, you're.
Speaker 4 (24:23):
Yeah, but the also rates just went up. I don't
know if you've been looking lately. Like, so, there was
a jobs report that came out on Thursday, and rates
were expected to continue to sort of slowly drop into
the mid fives. And now they're back up over six
because the job's report was better than expected.
Speaker 5 (24:39):
Yeah, but it's still better than it was.
Speaker 4 (24:41):
It's still better than it was last year. But I'm like,
what is the Why are we going to catch a
break around here?
Speaker 8 (24:45):
I don't know that we're ever going to see that
three percent that we saw during the pandemic.
Speaker 5 (24:50):
I don't know that we'll see that again enough, Yes
we will. I have hun thinks though, really.
Speaker 4 (24:54):
Well, like, doesn't that also mean something horrible has to happen,
Like we got to go through another pandemic or got
to go through some kind of financial collapse for us
to get closer to those levels?
Speaker 5 (25:04):
More war, more war, more war. It's not funny, but
I like the accent makes it cure.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
Yeah, the accent makes it funny.
Speaker 6 (25:13):
I can say the most vile things, and people just go.
Speaker 4 (25:16):
Oh, I know, have you have any buddy follow up
with you about giving weed to your bunnies?
Speaker 6 (25:24):
No, because everybody who knows anything that mammals knows that
cannabis is good for dogs, cats, bunny rabbits.
Speaker 5 (25:31):
It's good for all mammals, in moderation, in moderation.
Speaker 6 (25:35):
She said, anything about moderation. We're not nerdy cousins. We're
cool cousins.
Speaker 4 (25:38):
Okay, again, I I wish I could.
Speaker 3 (25:44):
I could hang man. I can make a great martini.
Speaker 6 (25:47):
That's why you're important. Everyone needs a nerdy cousin as well.
Speaker 3 (25:51):
Thanks.
Speaker 4 (25:53):
It's the any Reason Wire Show for Sunday, November twenty third.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
You're listening to KFI. I am six forty on demand.
Speaker 4 (26:04):
A few minutes here left on the Andy Reesmeyer Show
for this Sunday. But I'll be back with you tomorrow
at seven pm, where we'll be doing the last show
that I will be doing at least until Thanksgiving. Gotta
be talking turkey. I know, I know, I know. It's
something I'm really excited about that I won't be able
to watch because I'll be here, But that's okay, I'm
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gonna watch it. On demand later is the thirtieth anniversary
special for Everybody Loves Raymond?
Speaker 3 (26:33):
Holy only thirty years. Huh? Can you believe it?
Speaker 4 (26:38):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (26:38):
I can believe it. If you're doing thirtieth reunion, it's
very nostalgia endiclous. You think about how long ago it
was that you were babies.
Speaker 5 (26:53):
To be back in this room, it's wild. It's a
little spooky being.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
On myself, it really is.
Speaker 11 (27:03):
Oh, I was gonna see if fucking borrow that, but
the airline won't let me carry on all three of you.
Speaker 4 (27:09):
You got to give it up to the set designers
and decorators because.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
It is exactly so.
Speaker 4 (27:14):
What we're looking at there or listening to rather is
the trailer four the Everybody Loves Raymond thirtieth Anniversary Reunion,
which will air Tomorrow, November twenty fourth, on CBS at
eight pm. How exciting is that Raymond will be there,
Brad Garrett, you heard as well believe that creator Phil
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Rosenthal will also be joining the show. He says, many
shows do reboots. We never wanted to do that. We
felt like we couldn't honestly do one since some of
the cast isn't with us anymore. We're talking about Ray's parents.
They were essential to the success of the show. Also,
Ray and I both believe that reboots general are never
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as good as the original. I think that's the Seinfeld headspace.
In the same way with Friends. Those are shows that
just went out on top. They are untouchable. You don't
want to go back for any other reason. But this
is an opportunity to break the fourth wall, which I
think is what you did with the Friends thing. Remember
they rebuilt the set. Seinfeld kind of did that when
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they did a reunion episode within Curby Your Enthusiasm where
they were fake rehearsing for this Seinfeld reboot that never happened, obviously,
But the show, of course will pay tribute to Doris
Roberts and Peter Boyle, who played Ray's parents. They'll pay
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tribute to Sawyer Sweeten, who played one of Ray and
Deborah's sons who died, along with Fred Willard and Georgia Engel. Additionally,
Patricia Heaton, Ray Romano, Brad Garrett. They will all be there.
I think that that show is such a specific feeling
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in that era, and I don't know if it really
felt the same I was in Indiana. It's a very
East Coast show. Feels very like Thanksgiving East Coast and
going to be exciting to see that tomorrow for sure.
Thirtieth anniversary. Boy oh boy. Also, here's something that you
might not have thought whatever happened? Five former Starbucks employees
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in mid City have opened their own coffee shop only
a few blocks away from the Starbucks where they used
to work.
Speaker 9 (29:42):
The passion these five new coffee shop owners have for
their work is infectious. Maybe Kazeu's Kevin, Ryan, Ryan and
Franco lifelong friends who all used to work at the
Starbucks on Beverlee and Detroit in mid Wilshire. They've been
in the process of starting their own mobile coffee concept
when out of the in September, their Starbucks shut down
and they were all let go.
Speaker 3 (30:04):
We made friends with everyone around the community.
Speaker 5 (30:06):
Everyone knew as Frankel, you know, was doing that.
Speaker 3 (30:08):
There was a lot of fun. So definitely not just
a job. It was definitely we were family.
Speaker 6 (30:13):
It was the community Starbucks and neighborhood Starbucks.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
It was pretty scary.
Speaker 6 (30:18):
And it was sad I lost my community, you know,
I lost a routine.
Speaker 3 (30:22):
But something great.
Speaker 5 (30:24):
Came out of it, which was you know, opening this place.
Speaker 3 (30:26):
With these guys.
Speaker 4 (30:27):
This is the craziest story I have ever heard. There's
so much that had to happen to go right.
Speaker 3 (30:32):
In this scenario.
Speaker 4 (30:33):
You had to have a group of people who worked
at a corporate, nameless, uricagon wheel place, who felt connection
to the community of Midwaleshuare which like okay, some community there,
but a lot of big buildings, and then also liked
each other enough they wanted to start a business together
and then had some ability to get the capital to
(30:56):
start this business.
Speaker 5 (30:58):
Sounds like a nineties it comp.
Speaker 3 (31:00):
Doesn't it seem wild? I mean, I worked at a
gap in high school.
Speaker 4 (31:03):
I cannot imagine in a million years if they had
come in and closed the gap, which again was like
my first survival like retail minimum wage job, I think,
akin to a Starbucks job maybe at the time. Nowadays
they're in the Union. I don't know how much they're making.
But if anybody had closed that store, I would have
been like, oh, thank God, good riddance. Ain't nobody in
(31:27):
the world who would have been like, what if we
decided to make our own cable knit sweaters?
Speaker 3 (31:34):
What if we decided to board fold just for the community.
How about selling long and lean jeans. Because it feels
nice for us to be together. I would have said,
go pound sand. I love these guys.
Speaker 9 (31:50):
This place is Dura Coffee, just blocks from their shuttered store,
and here they've got the kind of creative freedom they
never could have had in a corporate chain.
Speaker 4 (31:58):
Are Los Angels don't really have like coffee shops that
bring out like our heritage, you know, and that's.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
What we wanted to do different. Do you think that
guy's going on a cousin walk?
Speaker 5 (32:10):
Definitely?
Speaker 10 (32:11):
Last lat which is like a Filipino drink, you know,
all the Filipinos out there in La you know, we
have to represent that the Mama's latte is made with
our Albelifa's choc late you know, Mexican chocolate make where
you try to use incorporate different types of ingredients from
our cultures.
Speaker 3 (32:27):
Now you can't see this, but I'm watching.
Speaker 4 (32:28):
This is a package from Fox eleven, which is a
television station in Los Angeles. Here and these coffee drinks
look delicious. They got a real macha with some kind
of thick cold foam that they're putting on there.
Speaker 3 (32:40):
And I will quote Tim Conway.
Speaker 4 (32:42):
Junior life is about three things, enthusiasm, enthusiasm, enthusiasm, and
these gents have it.
Speaker 9 (32:53):
The storefront used to house New York Keyek Pops, owned
by Levita Mohika. With skyrocketing property taxes, she was on
the verge closing when one.
Speaker 7 (33:01):
Day two of the guys came literally knocking at the
door and they said, like.
Speaker 4 (33:06):
We're a mobile We're starting a mobile coffee.
Speaker 5 (33:09):
Shop and can you show uscape ups? And I said
like this is like I'm.
Speaker 3 (33:14):
Actually looking for a coffee partner.
Speaker 5 (33:16):
And it just happened super quick.
Speaker 9 (33:20):
Within weeks, they formed a plan. She'd keep taking under
Larry Bakes and the guys would launch their own coffee
shop inside space.
Speaker 3 (33:26):
This is the coolest story I've ever heard. Look it
gets even better.
Speaker 4 (33:31):
This is so unusual for Los Angeles, or at least
it's unusual to hear about it in the news. I'm
sure the nice things are happening all the time, but
it's unusual for this kind of story of young entrepreneurs,
entrepreneurs just finding each other and making something cool happen.
Speaker 3 (33:46):
I love it.
Speaker 5 (33:50):
Boom boom, boom.
Speaker 3 (33:52):
Three to two days and we still don't have reven around.
There are really good people I'm.
Speaker 5 (33:57):
Very happy that we're here together.
Speaker 10 (33:59):
It was a really through moment when we when we open,
and I'm glad to see everyone like so many, so
many supporters coming in and people like that I haven't seen
in years coming in.
Speaker 3 (34:07):
And it's like we picked up from yesterday.
Speaker 9 (34:09):
And regulars from the old Starbucks they're already following them here.
Speaker 3 (34:13):
Or see you, familiar face is already coming in. So
it's just great.
Speaker 4 (34:15):
We're just trying to get the band back together from
the old exciting Starbucks days, but in a new chapter,
in a better way.
Speaker 3 (34:23):
That makes me so happy.
Speaker 4 (34:25):
Five former Starbucks employees opening Dura Coffee in mid City.
Here's the address, ready for it, seventy three oh six
Beverly Boulevard. Seventy three oh six Beverly Boulevard. Where would
you guess that cross street is? Anybody have any guesses?
Don't google it? Where do you think seventy three hundred is?
(34:46):
Could you give me a major cross street that you
think seventy three hundred Beverly is? This is a stupid
thing to make you guess. I don't think anybody should
peka Well, no would go east and west, so.
Speaker 5 (35:01):
This would be oh thinking north to south.
Speaker 4 (35:04):
No, no, no, like like this is it's on Beverly,
So it's seventy three oh six Beverly.
Speaker 3 (35:08):
Beverly and Pico are parallel.
Speaker 5 (35:10):
Sand Descente.
Speaker 3 (35:12):
Save Eddy is kind of a weird one because it
goes sort of up and over in an angle.
Speaker 5 (35:16):
I'm annimmo grin, I don't ask me.
Speaker 3 (35:18):
That's fine. This is not a thing that most people know.
Speaker 4 (35:20):
Whenever someone says the seventy three hundred block of Beverly,
how would anybody have a clue what that is? That
is just west of Librea, specifically at Fuller, between Fuller
and Points Sete.
Speaker 3 (35:37):
How about it? I'd love to go see him. Very cool.
Do we have mister Chris Merril on the line. Yes, Hey, buddy,
hey man hey. I could not agree with that point more.
Speaker 11 (35:48):
I cannot stand when when media reporters regurgitate police speak.
Oh oh, it's in the seventy three hundred block. If
nobody knows that, I like.
Speaker 4 (35:58):
The individual whenever they're doing it like a reporter, like
and then the individual exited the vehicle, Oh my god,
you're like the guy got out of the car, ye,
thank you, you know, my god. Mervyn block who is
the godfather of how to todd to write broadcast like
people speak, Yeah, more people should.
Speaker 3 (36:16):
I mean, they're doing that in this market.
Speaker 4 (36:17):
In market two, it drives people are saying the twenty
three thousand block of West it drives me nuts Pico Boulevard,
which is like probably Sentinella.
Speaker 1 (36:27):
I did.
Speaker 11 (36:28):
I did catch you doing something though that I thought
was kind of funny. Oh me, yeah, yeah, laid on me.
Speaker 3 (36:34):
Okay.
Speaker 11 (36:34):
It's when you play the audio when you went that's
from Fox eleven. That's a TV station here in LA.
Speaker 3 (36:39):
And I thought that is such. That is such a
TV guy thing to do, Like, just in case none
of you knew about the other TV station I don't
work for. That's exactly right. There is another one thing.
I'm glad you caught that. I hope you know that
that's on purpose for that exact reason too. And I
loved it, Okay, good, I loved it. I loved it.
Sometimes I'll do that.
Speaker 4 (36:56):
I do that to anybody, you know, kick al Oh,
it's so great, casey hay cow ABC seven. That's that's
another station you might have if you go a couple,
if you go two up, you'll find ABC.
Speaker 3 (37:08):
But you don't have to just trust me that it's there.
They may not be there long. You never know. I
did you know?
Speaker 11 (37:14):
You used to phrase that I haven't heard in a
long time, But you said the cog and wheel, and
I love that, and I thought, what a great name
for a bar, maybe with like a Monday open mic
night for bands and things.
Speaker 3 (37:24):
Let's go and do it. We can bring Eileen. What
do you you sing and play? I feel like you're
a musical guy. Oh, I do all of it, but
my price is very high. When you say you do
all of it? Are you like like Dick Van Dyke
in The Mary Poppins. I'm so good. I'm like Wayne
Brady good. What's your karaoke song? Mac the Knife? That's
(37:45):
a good one. Yeah. How's that for a pull? No,
I'm terrible, I'm really terrible.
Speaker 8 (37:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (37:50):
Yes, we could get you a I bet you rappers delight.
I mean trying to think of like ones that you
can't fail with.
Speaker 3 (37:59):
I'll tell you one. I thought it'd be a really
good idea.
Speaker 4 (38:02):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. People will bring the house
out one time. I don't do I don't do it
because I think it's obnoxious when people who like I
don't need attention. You know, I do enough people pay
I have. I don't need to go do performing right
for people. But I did one many years ago. I
was like, people will love if I do Return of
the Mac. Oh, yeah, yeah, we love that song, like.
Speaker 3 (38:26):
Or maybe I did. Yeah, I think this is what
it was.
Speaker 4 (38:28):
But it was like the verses are like fifty years long,
and like no one knows all the words to Return
of the Mac.
Speaker 3 (38:34):
You know that, you know the chorus, but that's it
once again. Oh my god, you know you know that,
but you don't know. Oh.
Speaker 4 (38:43):
I was, Yeah, there's a little delay there, maybe a
delay between my left ear and my right ear. Yeah,
what's on your show going on? I'm sorry that I've
just been I mean, yabbn't.
Speaker 3 (38:55):
Yeah, it's great. It's a talk show. That's what you do,
I guess.
Speaker 11 (38:58):
So yeah, November in forever. Yeah, and uh so we'll
we'll talk a little bit about that. But what you
may not have known is that we got somebody else's
weather and I'm gonna tell you who who we stole
the weather from.
Speaker 3 (39:12):
Wow. Yes, that's a greatiase I'm gonna listen right. It's
like you gotta do it for a living or something right.
Speaker 11 (39:20):
And then obviously we'll do the law makers of the
law breakers the times that there ought to be a
law and uh, I call it. I made the prediction
and it has come to fruition. Yes, I have a
wonderful and I love the payoff when I get to
say I was right all along about who California's next
governor is gonna do?
Speaker 3 (39:39):
That that is coming up in the first hour. It's
a packed hour, is it. Alex Michaelson from Fox eleven.
Another television station is a television station and in Los Angeles. Actually, well,
thank you for listening.
Speaker 4 (39:51):
Chris Merrel coming up. It's AM six forty. I'm Andy Reesmeyer.
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