October 18, 2025 • 33 mins
Bizarre arson attempt at an Orange County McDonald’s, the rise of AI Boris Johnson, and trending (but controversial) home paint colors. Guest Callie joins to discuss the OC theater scene and the Muckenthaler. Plus, a look at Taylor Swift’s rock-era shift, fan controversy, and a surprising reunion between Michael J. Fox and Eric Stoltz, 40 years after Back to the Future.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Dodgers have done it.
Speaker 3 (00:06):
There's a lot of celebration going on in Los Angeles tonight.
Been in communication with the assign a desk at KTLA.
We've got the helicopter up looking for some excitement, looking
for some celebrations.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
People reckon shop. Nothing so far.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
The note from our assignment editor, Elizabeth says, looks like
the Los Angeles Sheriff's Apartment has the area pretty lockdown.
It is over East Los Angeles right now, they say
last says not today, very on the QT if you
know what I mean. A lot of units, a lot
of police officers out tonight from the LA Sheriff's Department,
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Los Angeles Police Department as well, making sure that everything
stays nice and.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Controlled, nice in reserve.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
And it's also didn't win the World Series, you know,
but they will be going to the World Series again.
We don't know if they will play either the Toronto
Blue Jays or the Seattle Mariners. Looking like the Historic
Night has been a very good development for shoe Otani,
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to say the least. As you heard before, Spilman was saying.
Eric Spilman from KTLA we're just talking to in the
last hour, was saying, you know, that was one of
the most incredible things that he's ever seen a professional
athlete do in the context of a sport, of a game,
talking about pitching, talking about home runs. One of the
home runs, the second one that show hey hit out
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of Dodgers Stadium like a cartoon. The man is a beast,
great team, very exciting, very exciting for Los Angeles. Lots
of good things to come. So we hope and we
need some good things because lots of crazy stuff's going
on in this city too. Just today down an Orange
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County a man was arrested after trying to set a
McDonald's on fire.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
He said, I'll have it super fried.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
Police are saying, had it not been for a couple
of good samaritans, this could have been much much worse.
This incident happened at this McDonald's.
Speaker 5 (02:21):
This is on Ball Road, kind.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
Of just around the corner, less than a mile away
from Disneyland. On Wednesday night, they see a man came
in with a blow torching gasoline and tried to light
the McDonald's on fire. Here's a picture of the suspect
who was arrested fifty three year old Martin Badillo Gonzalez.
Police say he came in a little after seven pm
on Wednesday night, yelling some obscenities and some other things.
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Went to the counter, then at some point with a
two liter soda bottle full of gasolines.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
That's the first sign that things are not This man
is not well if you're keeping gasoline in a two
liter bottle of so.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
Started spraying the gasoline around, and he had a blow
torch with him as well. They say he went to
try to light the blow torch, but thankfully two good
samaritans intervened. One of those good samaritans is a grandfather.
He was here visiting Disneyland with his son and his
four year old.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
So if you're familiar with this area, it's all sort
of the businesses that support Disneyland. Ball Road is one
of the major roads that is near the park. And
maybe you've heard people refer to parts of Anaheim that
are a little bit sketchy as Anta crime.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
That is a thing that people have said.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
However, this specific area where this mcdonald' says, this is
not a thing that is just like normally happening. If
you would have told me that this was going on
in downtown Los Angeles or Hollywood, places that I love,
but that you know sometimes have this kind of activity.
I wouldn't be surprised. This, I think is a little
out there.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
Grandson, they were all in the McDonald's together when this
started happening. He said, they saw what was happening. He said,
we better get out of here with them. As the
man of roach, he saw he was trying to light
the gas with the blow torch, and he took action along,
according to police, with another good samaritan.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
That is so brave.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
But I guess if your grandpa and you got your
grandkids there and you're saying, it's just it's me or
this guy, and if I don't get in the way,
because I think that's a lot of what happens nowadays,
is that people witness things and they think someone's gonna
intervene and stop this, right, someone else is gonna fix this, right. Well,
I don't want to get involved. But this guy said, no,
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I'm not about to let this McDonald's burn down.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
We talked to him a little bit ago. He's from
the Fresno area. Already back in Fresno, we talked to
him by zoom. He's a Spanish speaker, so it's translated.
But here's a little bit of what he says happened
when he tried to take that man with the gasoline
and blow torch down. So with my right hand, I
pushed the bottle of gasoline and I got on top
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of him to take him out so he won't light it.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
This is a this is a grandpa doing this.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
And then I held him and he poured gasoline on
me and on him, and however I could, I tried
to hold him. He was able to spark it. But
thank god it didn't like the gasolene, because he would
have lit up himself, me and the whole place. It
all happened very quick. Thank god everything turned out well.
Speaker 5 (05:19):
Had those good.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
Samaritans not been there, would we be talking about here.
Speaker 6 (05:24):
Could have been much worse. The video that I've seen,
the security video. There are several kids nearby at the
Kiosk ordering food as well. The good Samaritan had a
child with him, I believe, and a situation could have
been very, very bad.
Speaker 5 (05:36):
So what was his motive? While police say they really
don't know.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
They say he lives in the area, but they have
no history of contacts with him. They don't know of
any criminal history he has in the Orange County area,
and they say when they arrested him, he didn't say anything.
But the good news is, except for some injuries to
that good samaritan, he said to the guy actually when
they were struggling with him, bit him on the arm,
except for those injuries.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Oh boy.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
I think Conway was remarking this earlier about motive. A
lot of times when you end up on the news
for doing something bad, especially nowadays, and it's in la
motive is like God only knows if you are alone
to the point where you show up to a McDonald's
filled with kids and other people and you got gasoline
and just trying to set gasoline on fire that you
brought in a two liter soda bottle.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
Not anyone badly hurting. Of course, nobody killed in this situation.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
That could could have been a lot worse. There, Chipyost
reporting in Orange County with that story. Man, oh man,
lots still coming up here. We teased this yesterday. I
can't believe this story. And it's multi layered. You'll understand
when we actually start talking about it. Why I wanted
to bring it up. The headline is seven living room
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paint colors lower middle class people adore, but others secretly
find questionable. What a dubious weird thing to name your article?
You might have a guess for why it's called that.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
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Speaker 3 (07:04):
Andy Reesmeyer. You can find me on the internet at
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Speaker 2 (07:14):
It's a microphone. Leave that talk back and we'll play
it on the show.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
LA County going to be paying out maybe an additional
almost billion dollars to settle sex abuse lawsuits, the county
announced Friday. Past claims brought by Downtown La log Group
are actually going to have to undergo additional review following
an investigation from the La Times that uncovered four plaintiffs
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who said that they were told to make up false allegations.
It's just part of a record four billion dollars settlement
covering more than eleven thousand people who say they were
abused inside County run juvenile facilities and foster homes as children.
Individual payouts in those cases will range from one hundred
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thousand dollars to three million dollars, and the payout that
we're talking about here, the settlement would break down to
an average of two million dollars per person. The lawsuits
came in a flurry in twenty twenty after California passed
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a law extending the statute of limitations for survivors of
childhood sexual abuse, and Downtown LA Law for their part,
has denied involvement, saying that there were recruiters who allegedly
paid plaintiffs to sue the county. The law group previously
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said it would never encourage or tolerate anybody lying about
being abused, and now is conducting screenings to remove false
or exaggerated claims from its caseload. But either way, a
lot of money going to be paid out there by
either the insurance or the general fund of the county.
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Crazy stuff, All right, there's a hard turn. But I
tease this, and there's a reason I want to talk
about this because it saw I saw it.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
And it caught my eye and I was like, what
is this story?
Speaker 3 (09:14):
And I think it's my duty to go through the
internet every day and find stuff that's interesting, but also
maybe help clarify some things that are happening. The articles
from a place called vegoutmag dot com. The title is
seven living room paint colors lower middle class people adore
but others secretly find questionable. So what on earth? Seven
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paint colors that poor people ish? Lower middle class? Is
that like a softening way of saying people who aren't
well like?
Speaker 2 (09:45):
What does it even mean?
Speaker 5 (09:46):
In la Just come right out and say white trash
if that's what you mean.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
Is that what they mean? Maybe quit sugarcoat? And now
others secretly fine questionable. Here's the lead For many lower
middle class families. The living room has always been the
heart of the home, a space it is meant to
feel nice, welcoming, and just a little bit fancy. I'm sorry,
is that unique to lower middle class people? Do rich
people not have living rooms? What about gold trim on everything?
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Do they address that?
Speaker 2 (10:12):
That's not even on this list? But let me hit
you with what they think.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
The colors are burgundy, red, height a sophistication in the
nineties early two thousands, the color of we finally made it,
but now it's reminiscent of chain restaurant to core or
over zealous wine bars.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
What is an over zealous wine bar.
Speaker 5 (10:29):
I've never been to one where the wine eats the
enamel off your teeth.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
It tries too hard to get you drunk. Sage green,
the earthy color that overstayed its welcome. Sage is too popular.
According to this article, it lost its subtlety and now
it feels tired, especially when paired with faux plants and
beige trim.
Speaker 5 (10:49):
I like the anthropomorphizing of colors.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
Right mustard yellows on the list. It's garish, especially under
harsh lighting. It feels more fast food restaurant than fashion forward.
Navy blue is out, Sorry everybody. It's too dark and
dim ends up feeling like a storm cloud more than
a statement, as if the room itself is scolding you
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for relaxing.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
Vegout Magazine number five. Chocolate brown makes your room look
smaller and darker. Grayge has no edge. Carbon copies of
the same Pinterest board every neighborhood pale lavender? Who has
pale lavender?
Speaker 2 (11:32):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
Apparently this is for the family with one person who
insists on doing something different. An actual publication, well a
website put this out, and then I started to think,
I don't know if this is a real article.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
There started to be all these tells.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
I started going back through it at the end of
the day, this closing reflection, reflection. It says, pink color
isn't just about style, It's about identity. If you know
anything about chat GPT, that is a hallmark.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Phrase. It's not the blank, it's the blank.
Speaker 5 (12:13):
So you think chat gpt can write like an afite
and income poop oh, I.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
Know it, bucko.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
So I start thinking, and I'm looking, and there's all
the tells, the weird sort of like anthropomorphosizing of the
color in the way that you said, the weird m dashes,
the long dashes in between the words, the sort of
like dumb burns calling rooms chain restaurant decor or over
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zealous wine bars, things that no human being would ever
actually say.
Speaker 5 (12:46):
I do think we can all unite against mustard yellow though.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
Well, yeah, that's true in that same chili's caseo way.
But I think it's all love.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
A to use absolute Let you use church, you chchipt
I love chichi.
Speaker 7 (13:03):
I love it Chichipit is frankly fantastic, not CHURCHI me t.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
Do you use well, I'm writing that's Boris Johnson, by
the way, about his newest love.
Speaker 5 (13:15):
His books, and about you just use it. I just
ask questions.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
You know that the artu but chest says.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Oh tipity tip tity love it.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
And just when you thought AI was confined to stupid
articles from Vegot magazine dot com, guess what AI images
are coming for next?
Speaker 2 (13:37):
You're Zillow listings.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
Somebody was on the hunt for a new rental in
Detroit earlier this month, saw the photos. They looked pretty good,
the home look brand new. When she went to go
check it out in person, it was an old landlord
special wear and tear. Even hilarious. Different is between what
was posted and what she saw in person. It's like
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online dating now, but for houses. That's because landlords or
realtors or people who are selling their houses are using
AI enhanced or generated photos to smooth textures, clean walls
and windows, make the lawn greener and nicer, maybe even
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stage a house.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
It's everywhere.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
There's one here side by side between a very nice
old craftsman home and then the actual photo of it.
It looks a heck of a lot different. They're calling
it AI yasifying yassification of homes Tetchipeti Interior AI is
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a company that's offering this, So this is something that's
happening a lot, and they say that they can instantly redesign, furnish,
reimagine any home, interior, exterior, or garden. And of course,
just like any other platform where things are uploaded, safeguards
against AI content showing up there are pretty weak. A
lot of times you just have to check a box
and say, I affirm this was not made with AI,
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or I affirm this was made with AI. It brings
me back to what we always talk about. Maybe if
they ruin social media, more people will listen to the radio.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
I hope you're enjoying being a winner. It feels good,
doesn't it?
Speaker 5 (15:33):
Ron or absolutely, I'm just trying to decide what kind
of mayhem I want to do.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
Have you seen any like thing that sort of peaked
your interest at all? We've talked about buses and the
metro thing is tough. There's a lot of security down
there now and also like you don't get the benefit
of people being able to see it.
Speaker 5 (15:52):
No, no, but you know, a couple of nights ago,
I saw one of those robot food delivery things. Maybe
I'll kick one of those over.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
This story about when I was at a Chargers game
at uh at a Chargers game at a bar watching
a Chargers game, very big difference. But I was on
Ventura Boulevard over in Sherman Oaks. There's a new place
called Game Changers and it's it was an old Bluebird
Brasserie if you ever were familiar with that area.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
It's a sports bar.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
And there were all of these Eagles fans outside in front, okay,
and they're all hanging out waiting for tables, and the
thing is packed. It is just like you can't go anywhere,
and they have assembled. All these fans have assembled on
the street waiting to get into the bar. And there
are there's one of those cocoa robots that's stuck on
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delivery and it says on the screen on delivery with
someone's food, and these bros just will not move, So
they're standing there in front of somebody else's food and
I'm thinking, like God, that sucks. If you were that
person who had the food, you'd be so annoyed. So
like everybody else. I just decided to say nothing, and
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I waited five or six, ten minutes or whatever. I
wasn't paying attention to it. And then another robot comes
and it gets stuck behind the robot that's there, and
it's two people I'm thinking of who are waiting to
get their wings or whatever that Coco is delivering somewhere
down venturea boulevard. What a bummer that is. And these
guys won't move. Nobody's moving, nobody's gonna let these robots through.
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And I'm thinking maybe I should say something. I don't
want to say something. I'm such a dork. If I
do say something, maybe they'll get mad at me. And finally,
I like talk to my girlfriend's like I think I'm
just gonna do it just to get him out of
the way so that these things can get to where
they're supposed to go, people can eat their food. And
I go up to the guy who's standing there and
it's like, hey, sorry, excuse me. Can we all try
to just move forward a little bit so that the
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robots can go through. And the guy turns to me
and goes without missing a beat. He says, Oh, I'm sorry,
is that your food. I was like, what he's like, No,
I'm just thinking about the person who's like, okay, boss, yeah,
we'll all move for the robots. But I understand there
is a saying, there's a there's sort of an US
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versus them mentality when it comes to this kind of thing.
Speaker 5 (18:03):
And apparently you've picked your side. I guess, so listen,
I think you gotta think of all the collateral damage
because not only are those putting human delivery people out
of work, think of all the people in the porn
industry it's putting out of work because how many of
those scenarios are based on delivery people. I mean, it's
really it's a wide ranging thing. Maybe it's opening up
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new opportunities ron or I wouldn't know.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
I wouldn't know. I don't get out much. But yeah,
so that was my experience there at trying to help
a robot. That's what you get.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
And then we tried to you know, I was seeing
because there's no way you can pick those up. You
can't push them over. They weigh like one thousand pounds.
It's crazy how heavy they are.
Speaker 5 (18:45):
Oh, I had no idea that that's substantial.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
They look real danky, but no, they're pretty heavy. But
and they went down the street after that, finally people
did move, and I'm assuming that whoever was waiting for
their food finally got their food.
Speaker 5 (18:58):
So so I think it'd be appropriate for a ivorless
waymotor ram into them.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
Then Oh, there you go. It's robot on robot violence.
Speaker 5 (19:04):
Yeah, exactly, and everybody wins.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
I love that.
Speaker 5 (19:07):
Well.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
In more theatrics, if you head down to Orange County,
you may not know this, but Orange County has got
a pretty good theater scene. The Electric Company Theater, they
say it's a collective of artists dedicated to nurturing theater
through exploration, development and presentation of place old and new.
To build a community in Fullerton and joining us now
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via the telephone to talk about the fall season of
the Electric Company Theater at the Muckinhaler in Fullerton is
CALLI Cally, are you.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
With us on this evening?
Speaker 4 (19:44):
Hi?
Speaker 7 (19:44):
Andy?
Speaker 2 (19:45):
How are you so good?
Speaker 5 (19:46):
So?
Speaker 2 (19:46):
I know I've seen you act in some stuff.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
I know that you're really involved in the the theater
program there. Tell us about what's exciting down at the
Muckinthalar in Fullerton.
Speaker 7 (19:57):
Sure, So, I run the Electric Company theater along my
hostand Brian where the theater in residence. It's the mack
and Feller Cultural Center in Fullerton, like you said, and
this fall, well this year really the mack and Faller
we call it the Mock for short. It's turning one
hundred the building itself. So the mackin Faller family in
the nineteen twenty five built this mansion in Fullerston on
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several acres, and then in the sixties the widow and
her son decided to gift the property, the mansion and
the acres to the city of Fullerton with the proviso
that it'd be dedicated to the arts for the people.
So we've been in residence for almost five years here
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and knowing that this sort of centennial anniversary was coming up,
we wanted to transform the entire mansion, which is currently
usually it's an art gallery. The ground floors has been
an art gallery since about the nineteen eighties, but we
wanted to restore it to what it would have looked
like in the nineteen twenties when the family first lives there.
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And we've created this immersive theatrical experience Wow running now
through November fifth. That's so so when you come to this,
I hesitay to even call it a play. It is
a play at the theatrical experience, but there's not so
much a linear plot so much as you step into
this mansion and it feels like it's nineteen twenty five
and there's twenty seven actors who are each sort of
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living whatever their life is, whatever the character's life is.
So we've got the muckin Fellers themselves, the family, and
they're sort of historical contemporaries who would have been, you know,
the historical people of Fullerton at the time. And then
we've also got this other track, which are the sort
of these underground bootlegging operation and the investigators who are
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trying to catch them. How fun the illicit activities.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
We're talking to Cali. We're talking to Callie Johnson from
the Electric Company Theater. She is the co artistic director
with her husband Brian, of the UH the theater in
residence at the Muckinthaler Cultural Center in Fullerton. We're talking
about the cool immersive theater thing that's happening there right now.
I know because I've been and I've seen some shows
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there at the center. We know Bobby Gonzalez from KTLA.
He's also in some plays there. He's in the theater company.
You know that building, Like you said, it's a mansion.
It was built in the twenties. It's kind of like
a Spanish style, you know, a California version of maybe
what you would expect like the Clue Mansion to be. Like,
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is this kind of is this kind of a mystery too,
or is it just sort of a you're discovering it
as you go on.
Speaker 7 (22:40):
You're definitely discovering it as you go I would say
that the house itself definitely is feels like a character
in the play. I mean, even folks who attend concerts
or the gallery or our shows there regularly, I think
they'll be seeing this building in a new light. Certainly,
if you've never been there before, this would be an
incredible way to get to experience into this historic building
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for the first time. But it's not scary. I don't
personally enjoy the John stairs. That's not my thing. But
I will say it's the timing of it being close
to Halloween is not on accident. It is a little ghosty.
You know, these people who lived a hundred years ago,
you know, there's fog there's cool lighting. It's very moody,
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but we won't scare you on purpose, but promise I can.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
Promise that I love that.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
So when that wraps up, do you go back to
sort of more traditional stage plays.
Speaker 7 (23:32):
Yeah. So then we're in February, we're going to be
doing Once the Musical, and that's actually not going to
be at the Muck. We're going to do that at
a different historic building and don't have largin called the Charleston.
That'll be in February, and then we do an annual
show for kids. So this year we're going to be
doing Your good Man Charlie Brown. Our sort of spin
on that is that we're going to be casting entirely
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actors who consider themselves senior citizens to play Charles Schultz's
Peanut character. How fun that's going to be coinciding with
a Charles Schultz Tom Everhart exhibit at the Muck, so
you know, the Peanuts characters will be on the wall
in the gallery while our play is taking place inside there.
And then this summer we are going to be outside
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the mansion, sort of using the mansion as our backdrop
for a modern take on a classic tale of Tristan
and e Foltz, which is sort of like a Celtic
Romeo and Juliet Starcross lovers situation.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
Cool.
Speaker 7 (24:27):
And then in the fall we're going to be doing
The Servant of Two Masters and that's going to be
starring our mutual friend Bobby Gonzollas.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
I love that.
Speaker 7 (24:35):
Wow, We've got a really firm lineup this year. We're
really looking forward to Kelie.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
You can find out more at Electricompany Theeater dot org.
Electriccompanytheater dot org. The show going on right now is
the Immersive Play I guess you could say the Immersive
Theater Experience. You're also you got a link to auditions
as well. In case anybody out here listening wants to
get their big break, you can have it all happen
down Fullerton. Thank you so much, Thanks so much for calling.
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We will talk to talk to you real soon.
Speaker 6 (25:05):
There.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
The Electric Company Theater down down a full of amazing,
such a fun thing to do, incredible thing to see
and really really fun to see local theater especially we
love Orange County. We love getting down there to see that,
and they do a really great job of making it
immersive and especially if you're coming from the valley. It's
kind of a drive, one hundred percent worth of drive
every time I go.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
Because we steamroll ahead to ten o'clock. I'm Andy Reesmeyer.
Thanks for being with us tonight. We were talking about
Taylor Swift last week or whatever that was got it
felt like a thousand years ago.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
It's funny. I was talking to Nick Grigoryo.
Speaker 3 (25:44):
About this a little bit earlier, where you know, the
Internet has created all these little, tiny cultures, all these
worlds that we can dive into, and I think for
the better. Sometimes that means that we're on different pages
about certain things, but it also so weirdly collapsed mainstream
culture too, where there's very few things that we all
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agree on as far as what's popular in music. Taylor Swift,
of course very big. That goes without saying. And here's
an actual version of a new song off the new
record that's done in a way that I think might
be a little bit more interesting, The Fate of Ophelia.
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That's the single off the new record that's been played everywhere.
But what if you made it rock and roll?
Speaker 2 (26:35):
Would you call.
Speaker 7 (26:35):
Him on the lega song you want to see me
as you.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
Like your massive.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
Kind of interesting Matt's rock versions on YouTube. What he
does is he takes the lyrics, the vocals, and then
he replaces.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
All of them except for the vocals.
Speaker 3 (27:27):
Of course, re Records produces the drums, doesn't use any AI.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
That's kind of neat. I'm glad.
Speaker 3 (27:38):
A lot of people have been saying that they want
a rock version of a Taylor Swift record. Does it
make it any more palatable for us dark and lonely souls?
Ron or do you like this one better? Or is
it all the same to you? I don't think I'm
quite the demographic for Taylor Swift. I know, and I
agree with you. But the weird thing is, Buddy, it's
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just that's all music now.
Speaker 5 (28:02):
It's inescapable. It's what you're saying.
Speaker 3 (28:04):
It's like, it doesn't matter if you don't want it,
you're not in control anymore.
Speaker 5 (28:09):
I'm not against it, it's just that it's just I
don't think it's for me.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
Yeah, I think you're right. I think that the even
the new record.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
I know a lot of people who like the old
record don't like the new record, but they're still selling
really well, and they're all talking about it. Are they
taking Is she taking advantage of her fans? Some are
arguing yes, Some are saying sure, thirty eight varieties of
the album Life of a Showgirl. If you bought all
of them, it would cost you three hundred and seventy
seven dollars. Seventy seven dollars on the low end. Somebody
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proudly said that he spent over six hundred dollars on
a whole bunch of Taylor Swift stuff related to the
release of the new record.
Speaker 5 (28:48):
But you know, it's just a different species of nerd.
Look at what comic fans don't lie. Or Lord of
the Rings fans, Yeah, you're right, or or Tony got
go ahead, open up your mic Tony looking. But that's
actually good stuff.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
Yeah, I know, I know. I didn't want to say that, but.
Speaker 3 (29:06):
Bound like Tolkien foot mean, come on, that'd be nice.
You know, the beauty is in the eye of the beholder,
and I understand that. You know, there's things that I
love so much, like Back to the Future, that other
people couldn't care less about.
Speaker 5 (29:19):
Yeah, I like the palpable excitement in Tony's voice talking
about Lord of the Rings.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
Yeah, you love a leather bound Tolkien. Yeah, come on,
it's pretty cool. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (29:29):
Hey, we're We're three guys talking to each other at
nine to fifty five at night in separate rooms.
Speaker 5 (29:34):
Not a woman in sight here.
Speaker 3 (29:37):
I think I could start talking about video games. Oh yeah, right, Well,
as we get out of here, I do want to
play this. Remember I think was it last night? Uh Mark,
we were talking about Back to the Future and when
Stoles and McFly When when the mcflys met each other,
When the Marty's met each other.
Speaker 5 (29:55):
That's right, two universes collided, two alternate universes, So.
Speaker 3 (29:59):
Apparently Michael J. Fox and Eric Stoles. Eric Stoles, of course,
was replaced by Michael J. Fox in Back to the
Future as Marty McFly. They met forty years after this
all happened, Fox wrote in his memoir The New One
called Future Boy. Eric has maintained his silence on the
subject for forty years, so I was prepared for the
likelihood that he'd prefer it to keep it that way.
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If your answer is leave me alone, that works too.
But Stoltz responded with a beautifully written reply that began
with a little bit of a some there's some curse words.
I can't say there but as a joke. Eric was
thoughtful about my outreach, and although he respectfully declined to
participate in the book, he seemed open to the eye
the idea of getting together. Then the two of them
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met and fell into an easy dialogue about our careers, families,
and of course, their own trips throughout the space time continuum.
They quickly acknowledged neither of them had an issue with
each other. Back to the Future didn't make them enemies
or faded rival They were just two dedicated actors who
poured equal amounts of energy into the same role. The
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rest had nothing to do with us. As it turned out,
we had much more in common than our spin as Marty.
In the months since meeting, Michael J. Fox says, Eric
and I have maintained a friendly correspondence, I guess, texting
back and forth like minded actors and dads, offering up
recent movies we've loved, the latest adventures with our kids,
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an occasional detour into politics. Email they're emailing back and forth.
That is so awesome, because I'm thinking we all sort
of thought that they probably weren't buds.
Speaker 5 (31:38):
Were you expecting them to come to blows.
Speaker 3 (31:39):
Well, no, not at this point, but I just think
that Eric. You know, I would understand of Eric, and
so did Michael J. Fox that said, if you don't
want to ever have anything to do with me, I
get it, man, because in every documentary and every conversation
about it, replacing Eric Stoles the movie becomes a giant explosion.
Speaker 5 (31:56):
You know.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
It's not like Eric Stoles had a huge career after that.
Speaker 5 (32:00):
Yeah. I always wondered what happened to him because he
was kind of on the verge of being a thing
for a while. And the last thing I really remember
him being in there was a big deal was maybe
pulp fiction.
Speaker 3 (32:09):
Yeah, I think that's fair. Was it Dances with Wolves
that he was in with? The with Marty's mom can't
even remember? I think, so, I don't know, but there
you go.
Speaker 5 (32:19):
There you have it.
Speaker 3 (32:20):
Happy Friday night, Thanks for being here. You can find
me on the internet at Andy KTLA. Send me a message.
You could text me. My number is three one seven
ye just kidding. But I'll be back. Not this Sunday
because we have a Chargers game, but I'll be back
on Monday, Monday night. Back here at seven pm and
then the following Friday, so I look forward to seeing
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all of you have a wonderful night, Go Dodgers. This
is KFI AM six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio
Speaker 1 (32:51):
App, KFI AM six forty on demand
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Dodgers have done it.
Speaker 3 (00:06):
There's a lot of celebration going on in Los Angeles tonight.
Been in communication with the assign a desk at KTLA.
We've got the helicopter up looking for some excitement, looking
for some celebrations.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
People reckon shop. Nothing so far.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
The note from our assignment editor, Elizabeth says, looks like
the Los Angeles Sheriff's Apartment has the area pretty lockdown.
It is over East Los Angeles right now, they say
last says not today, very on the QT if you
know what I mean. A lot of units, a lot
of police officers out tonight from the LA Sheriff's Department,
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Los Angeles Police Department as well, making sure that everything
stays nice and.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Controlled, nice in reserve.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
And it's also didn't win the World Series, you know,
but they will be going to the World Series again.
We don't know if they will play either the Toronto
Blue Jays or the Seattle Mariners. Looking like the Historic
Night has been a very good development for shoe Otani,
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to say the least. As you heard before, Spilman was saying.
Eric Spilman from KTLA we're just talking to in the
last hour, was saying, you know, that was one of
the most incredible things that he's ever seen a professional
athlete do in the context of a sport, of a game,
talking about pitching, talking about home runs. One of the
home runs, the second one that show hey hit out
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of Dodgers Stadium like a cartoon. The man is a beast,
great team, very exciting, very exciting for Los Angeles. Lots
of good things to come. So we hope and we
need some good things because lots of crazy stuff's going
on in this city too. Just today down an Orange
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County a man was arrested after trying to set a
McDonald's on fire.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
He said, I'll have it super fried.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
Police are saying, had it not been for a couple
of good samaritans, this could have been much much worse.
This incident happened at this McDonald's.
Speaker 5 (02:21):
This is on Ball Road, kind.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
Of just around the corner, less than a mile away
from Disneyland. On Wednesday night, they see a man came
in with a blow torching gasoline and tried to light
the McDonald's on fire. Here's a picture of the suspect
who was arrested fifty three year old Martin Badillo Gonzalez.
Police say he came in a little after seven pm
on Wednesday night, yelling some obscenities and some other things.
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Went to the counter, then at some point with a
two liter soda bottle full of gasolines.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
That's the first sign that things are not This man
is not well if you're keeping gasoline in a two
liter bottle of so.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
Started spraying the gasoline around, and he had a blow
torch with him as well. They say he went to
try to light the blow torch, but thankfully two good
samaritans intervened. One of those good samaritans is a grandfather.
He was here visiting Disneyland with his son and his
four year old.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
So if you're familiar with this area, it's all sort
of the businesses that support Disneyland. Ball Road is one
of the major roads that is near the park. And
maybe you've heard people refer to parts of Anaheim that
are a little bit sketchy as Anta crime.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
That is a thing that people have said.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
However, this specific area where this mcdonald' says, this is
not a thing that is just like normally happening. If
you would have told me that this was going on
in downtown Los Angeles or Hollywood, places that I love,
but that you know sometimes have this kind of activity.
I wouldn't be surprised. This, I think is a little
out there.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
Grandson, they were all in the McDonald's together when this
started happening. He said, they saw what was happening. He said,
we better get out of here with them. As the
man of roach, he saw he was trying to light
the gas with the blow torch, and he took action along,
according to police, with another good samaritan.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
That is so brave.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
But I guess if your grandpa and you got your
grandkids there and you're saying, it's just it's me or
this guy, and if I don't get in the way,
because I think that's a lot of what happens nowadays,
is that people witness things and they think someone's gonna
intervene and stop this, right, someone else is gonna fix this, right. Well,
I don't want to get involved. But this guy said, no,
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I'm not about to let this McDonald's burn down.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
We talked to him a little bit ago. He's from
the Fresno area. Already back in Fresno, we talked to
him by zoom. He's a Spanish speaker, so it's translated.
But here's a little bit of what he says happened
when he tried to take that man with the gasoline
and blow torch down. So with my right hand, I
pushed the bottle of gasoline and I got on top
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of him to take him out so he won't light it.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
This is a this is a grandpa doing this.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
And then I held him and he poured gasoline on
me and on him, and however I could, I tried
to hold him. He was able to spark it. But
thank god it didn't like the gasolene, because he would
have lit up himself, me and the whole place. It
all happened very quick. Thank god everything turned out well.
Speaker 5 (05:19):
Had those good.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
Samaritans not been there, would we be talking about here.
Speaker 6 (05:24):
Could have been much worse. The video that I've seen,
the security video. There are several kids nearby at the
Kiosk ordering food as well. The good Samaritan had a
child with him, I believe, and a situation could have
been very, very bad.
Speaker 5 (05:36):
So what was his motive? While police say they really
don't know.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
They say he lives in the area, but they have
no history of contacts with him. They don't know of
any criminal history he has in the Orange County area,
and they say when they arrested him, he didn't say anything.
But the good news is, except for some injuries to
that good samaritan, he said to the guy actually when
they were struggling with him, bit him on the arm,
except for those injuries.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Oh boy.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
I think Conway was remarking this earlier about motive. A
lot of times when you end up on the news
for doing something bad, especially nowadays, and it's in la
motive is like God only knows if you are alone
to the point where you show up to a McDonald's
filled with kids and other people and you got gasoline
and just trying to set gasoline on fire that you
brought in a two liter soda bottle.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
Not anyone badly hurting. Of course, nobody killed in this situation.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
That could could have been a lot worse. There, Chipyost
reporting in Orange County with that story. Man, oh man,
lots still coming up here. We teased this yesterday. I
can't believe this story. And it's multi layered. You'll understand
when we actually start talking about it. Why I wanted
to bring it up. The headline is seven living room
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paint colors lower middle class people adore, but others secretly
find questionable. What a dubious weird thing to name your article?
You might have a guess for why it's called that.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
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Speaker 3 (07:19):
LA County going to be paying out maybe an additional
almost billion dollars to settle sex abuse lawsuits, the county
announced Friday. Past claims brought by Downtown La log Group
are actually going to have to undergo additional review following
an investigation from the La Times that uncovered four plaintiffs
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who said that they were told to make up false allegations.
It's just part of a record four billion dollars settlement
covering more than eleven thousand people who say they were
abused inside County run juvenile facilities and foster homes as children.
Individual payouts in those cases will range from one hundred
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thousand dollars to three million dollars, and the payout that
we're talking about here, the settlement would break down to
an average of two million dollars per person. The lawsuits
came in a flurry in twenty twenty after California passed
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a law extending the statute of limitations for survivors of
childhood sexual abuse, and Downtown LA Law for their part,
has denied involvement, saying that there were recruiters who allegedly
paid plaintiffs to sue the county. The law group previously
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said it would never encourage or tolerate anybody lying about
being abused, and now is conducting screenings to remove false
or exaggerated claims from its caseload. But either way, a
lot of money going to be paid out there by
either the insurance or the general fund of the county.
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Crazy stuff, All right, there's a hard turn. But I
tease this, and there's a reason I want to talk
about this because it saw I saw it.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
And it caught my eye and I was like, what
is this story?
Speaker 3 (09:14):
And I think it's my duty to go through the
internet every day and find stuff that's interesting, but also
maybe help clarify some things that are happening. The articles
from a place called vegoutmag dot com. The title is
seven living room paint colors lower middle class people adore
but others secretly find questionable. So what on earth? Seven
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paint colors that poor people ish? Lower middle class? Is
that like a softening way of saying people who aren't
well like?
Speaker 2 (09:45):
What does it even mean?
Speaker 5 (09:46):
In la Just come right out and say white trash
if that's what you mean.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
Is that what they mean? Maybe quit sugarcoat? And now
others secretly fine questionable. Here's the lead For many lower
middle class families. The living room has always been the
heart of the home, a space it is meant to
feel nice, welcoming, and just a little bit fancy. I'm sorry,
is that unique to lower middle class people? Do rich
people not have living rooms? What about gold trim on everything?
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Do they address that?
Speaker 2 (10:12):
That's not even on this list? But let me hit
you with what they think.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
The colors are burgundy, red, height a sophistication in the
nineties early two thousands, the color of we finally made it,
but now it's reminiscent of chain restaurant to core or
over zealous wine bars.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
What is an over zealous wine bar.
Speaker 5 (10:29):
I've never been to one where the wine eats the
enamel off your teeth.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
It tries too hard to get you drunk. Sage green,
the earthy color that overstayed its welcome. Sage is too popular.
According to this article, it lost its subtlety and now
it feels tired, especially when paired with faux plants and
beige trim.
Speaker 5 (10:49):
I like the anthropomorphizing of colors.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
Right mustard yellows on the list. It's garish, especially under
harsh lighting. It feels more fast food restaurant than fashion forward.
Navy blue is out, Sorry everybody. It's too dark and
dim ends up feeling like a storm cloud more than
a statement, as if the room itself is scolding you
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for relaxing.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
Vegout Magazine number five. Chocolate brown makes your room look
smaller and darker. Grayge has no edge. Carbon copies of
the same Pinterest board every neighborhood pale lavender? Who has
pale lavender?
Speaker 2 (11:32):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
Apparently this is for the family with one person who
insists on doing something different. An actual publication, well a
website put this out, and then I started to think,
I don't know if this is a real article.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
There started to be all these tells.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
I started going back through it at the end of
the day, this closing reflection, reflection. It says, pink color
isn't just about style, It's about identity. If you know
anything about chat GPT, that is a hallmark.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Phrase. It's not the blank, it's the blank.
Speaker 5 (12:13):
So you think chat gpt can write like an afite
and income poop oh, I.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
Know it, bucko.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
So I start thinking, and I'm looking, and there's all
the tells, the weird sort of like anthropomorphosizing of the
color in the way that you said, the weird m dashes,
the long dashes in between the words, the sort of
like dumb burns calling rooms chain restaurant decor or over
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zealous wine bars, things that no human being would ever
actually say.
Speaker 5 (12:46):
I do think we can all unite against mustard yellow though.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
Well, yeah, that's true in that same chili's caseo way.
But I think it's all love.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
A to use absolute Let you use church, you chchipt
I love chichi.
Speaker 7 (13:03):
I love it Chichipit is frankly fantastic, not CHURCHI me t.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
Do you use well, I'm writing that's Boris Johnson, by
the way, about his newest love.
Speaker 5 (13:15):
His books, and about you just use it. I just
ask questions.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
You know that the artu but chest says.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Oh tipity tip tity love it.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
And just when you thought AI was confined to stupid
articles from Vegot magazine dot com, guess what AI images
are coming for next?
Speaker 2 (13:37):
You're Zillow listings.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
Somebody was on the hunt for a new rental in
Detroit earlier this month, saw the photos. They looked pretty good,
the home look brand new. When she went to go
check it out in person, it was an old landlord
special wear and tear. Even hilarious. Different is between what
was posted and what she saw in person. It's like
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online dating now, but for houses. That's because landlords or
realtors or people who are selling their houses are using
AI enhanced or generated photos to smooth textures, clean walls
and windows, make the lawn greener and nicer, maybe even
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stage a house.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
It's everywhere.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
There's one here side by side between a very nice
old craftsman home and then the actual photo of it.
It looks a heck of a lot different. They're calling
it AI yasifying yassification of homes Tetchipeti Interior AI is
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a company that's offering this, So this is something that's
happening a lot, and they say that they can instantly redesign, furnish,
reimagine any home, interior, exterior, or garden. And of course,
just like any other platform where things are uploaded, safeguards
against AI content showing up there are pretty weak. A
lot of times you just have to check a box
and say, I affirm this was not made with AI,
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or I affirm this was made with AI. It brings
me back to what we always talk about. Maybe if
they ruin social media, more people will listen to the radio.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
I hope you're enjoying being a winner. It feels good,
doesn't it?
Speaker 5 (15:33):
Ron or absolutely, I'm just trying to decide what kind
of mayhem I want to do.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
Have you seen any like thing that sort of peaked
your interest at all? We've talked about buses and the
metro thing is tough. There's a lot of security down
there now and also like you don't get the benefit
of people being able to see it.
Speaker 5 (15:52):
No, no, but you know, a couple of nights ago,
I saw one of those robot food delivery things. Maybe
I'll kick one of those over.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
This story about when I was at a Chargers game
at uh at a Chargers game at a bar watching
a Chargers game, very big difference. But I was on
Ventura Boulevard over in Sherman Oaks. There's a new place
called Game Changers and it's it was an old Bluebird
Brasserie if you ever were familiar with that area.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
It's a sports bar.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
And there were all of these Eagles fans outside in front, okay,
and they're all hanging out waiting for tables, and the
thing is packed. It is just like you can't go anywhere,
and they have assembled. All these fans have assembled on
the street waiting to get into the bar. And there
are there's one of those cocoa robots that's stuck on
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delivery and it says on the screen on delivery with
someone's food, and these bros just will not move, So
they're standing there in front of somebody else's food and
I'm thinking, like God, that sucks. If you were that
person who had the food, you'd be so annoyed. So
like everybody else. I just decided to say nothing, and
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I waited five or six, ten minutes or whatever. I
wasn't paying attention to it. And then another robot comes
and it gets stuck behind the robot that's there, and
it's two people I'm thinking of who are waiting to
get their wings or whatever that Coco is delivering somewhere
down venturea boulevard. What a bummer that is. And these
guys won't move. Nobody's moving, nobody's gonna let these robots through.
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And I'm thinking maybe I should say something. I don't
want to say something. I'm such a dork. If I
do say something, maybe they'll get mad at me. And finally,
I like talk to my girlfriend's like I think I'm
just gonna do it just to get him out of
the way so that these things can get to where
they're supposed to go, people can eat their food. And
I go up to the guy who's standing there and
it's like, hey, sorry, excuse me. Can we all try
to just move forward a little bit so that the
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robots can go through. And the guy turns to me
and goes without missing a beat. He says, Oh, I'm sorry,
is that your food. I was like, what he's like, No,
I'm just thinking about the person who's like, okay, boss, yeah,
we'll all move for the robots. But I understand there
is a saying, there's a there's sort of an US
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versus them mentality when it comes to this kind of thing.
Speaker 5 (18:03):
And apparently you've picked your side. I guess, so listen,
I think you gotta think of all the collateral damage
because not only are those putting human delivery people out
of work, think of all the people in the porn
industry it's putting out of work because how many of
those scenarios are based on delivery people. I mean, it's
really it's a wide ranging thing. Maybe it's opening up
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new opportunities ron or I wouldn't know.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
I wouldn't know. I don't get out much. But yeah,
so that was my experience there at trying to help
a robot. That's what you get.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
And then we tried to you know, I was seeing
because there's no way you can pick those up. You
can't push them over. They weigh like one thousand pounds.
It's crazy how heavy they are.
Speaker 5 (18:45):
Oh, I had no idea that that's substantial.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
They look real danky, but no, they're pretty heavy. But
and they went down the street after that, finally people
did move, and I'm assuming that whoever was waiting for
their food finally got their food.
Speaker 5 (18:58):
So so I think it'd be appropriate for a ivorless
waymotor ram into them.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
Then Oh, there you go. It's robot on robot violence.
Speaker 5 (19:04):
Yeah, exactly, and everybody wins.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
I love that.
Speaker 5 (19:07):
Well.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
In more theatrics, if you head down to Orange County,
you may not know this, but Orange County has got
a pretty good theater scene. The Electric Company Theater, they
say it's a collective of artists dedicated to nurturing theater
through exploration, development and presentation of place old and new.
To build a community in Fullerton and joining us now
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via the telephone to talk about the fall season of
the Electric Company Theater at the Muckinhaler in Fullerton is
CALLI Cally, are you.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
With us on this evening?
Speaker 4 (19:44):
Hi?
Speaker 7 (19:44):
Andy?
Speaker 2 (19:45):
How are you so good?
Speaker 5 (19:46):
So?
Speaker 2 (19:46):
I know I've seen you act in some stuff.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
I know that you're really involved in the the theater
program there. Tell us about what's exciting down at the
Muckinthalar in Fullerton.
Speaker 7 (19:57):
Sure, So, I run the Electric Company theater along my
hostand Brian where the theater in residence. It's the mack
and Feller Cultural Center in Fullerton, like you said, and
this fall, well this year really the mack and Faller
we call it the Mock for short. It's turning one
hundred the building itself. So the mackin Faller family in
the nineteen twenty five built this mansion in Fullerston on
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several acres, and then in the sixties the widow and
her son decided to gift the property, the mansion and
the acres to the city of Fullerton with the proviso
that it'd be dedicated to the arts for the people.
So we've been in residence for almost five years here
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and knowing that this sort of centennial anniversary was coming up,
we wanted to transform the entire mansion, which is currently
usually it's an art gallery. The ground floors has been
an art gallery since about the nineteen eighties, but we
wanted to restore it to what it would have looked
like in the nineteen twenties when the family first lives there.
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And we've created this immersive theatrical experience Wow running now
through November fifth. That's so so when you come to this,
I hesitay to even call it a play. It is
a play at the theatrical experience, but there's not so
much a linear plot so much as you step into
this mansion and it feels like it's nineteen twenty five
and there's twenty seven actors who are each sort of
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living whatever their life is, whatever the character's life is.
So we've got the muckin Fellers themselves, the family, and
they're sort of historical contemporaries who would have been, you know,
the historical people of Fullerton at the time. And then
we've also got this other track, which are the sort
of these underground bootlegging operation and the investigators who are
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trying to catch them. How fun the illicit activities.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
We're talking to Cali. We're talking to Callie Johnson from
the Electric Company Theater. She is the co artistic director
with her husband Brian, of the UH the theater in
residence at the Muckinthaler Cultural Center in Fullerton. We're talking
about the cool immersive theater thing that's happening there right now.
I know because I've been and I've seen some shows
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there at the center. We know Bobby Gonzalez from KTLA.
He's also in some plays there. He's in the theater company.
You know that building, Like you said, it's a mansion.
It was built in the twenties. It's kind of like
a Spanish style, you know, a California version of maybe
what you would expect like the Clue Mansion to be. Like,
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is this kind of is this kind of a mystery too,
or is it just sort of a you're discovering it
as you go on.
Speaker 7 (22:40):
You're definitely discovering it as you go I would say
that the house itself definitely is feels like a character
in the play. I mean, even folks who attend concerts
or the gallery or our shows there regularly, I think
they'll be seeing this building in a new light. Certainly,
if you've never been there before, this would be an
incredible way to get to experience into this historic building
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for the first time. But it's not scary. I don't
personally enjoy the John stairs. That's not my thing. But
I will say it's the timing of it being close
to Halloween is not on accident. It is a little ghosty.
You know, these people who lived a hundred years ago,
you know, there's fog there's cool lighting. It's very moody,
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but we won't scare you on purpose, but promise I can.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
Promise that I love that.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
So when that wraps up, do you go back to
sort of more traditional stage plays.
Speaker 7 (23:32):
Yeah. So then we're in February, we're going to be
doing Once the Musical, and that's actually not going to
be at the Muck. We're going to do that at
a different historic building and don't have largin called the Charleston.
That'll be in February, and then we do an annual
show for kids. So this year we're going to be
doing Your good Man Charlie Brown. Our sort of spin
on that is that we're going to be casting entirely
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actors who consider themselves senior citizens to play Charles Schultz's
Peanut character. How fun that's going to be coinciding with
a Charles Schultz Tom Everhart exhibit at the Muck, so
you know, the Peanuts characters will be on the wall
in the gallery while our play is taking place inside there.
And then this summer we are going to be outside
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the mansion, sort of using the mansion as our backdrop
for a modern take on a classic tale of Tristan
and e Foltz, which is sort of like a Celtic
Romeo and Juliet Starcross lovers situation.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
Cool.
Speaker 7 (24:27):
And then in the fall we're going to be doing
The Servant of Two Masters and that's going to be
starring our mutual friend Bobby Gonzollas.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
I love that.
Speaker 7 (24:35):
Wow, We've got a really firm lineup this year. We're
really looking forward to Kelie.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
You can find out more at Electricompany Theeater dot org.
Electriccompanytheater dot org. The show going on right now is
the Immersive Play I guess you could say the Immersive
Theater Experience. You're also you got a link to auditions
as well. In case anybody out here listening wants to
get their big break, you can have it all happen
down Fullerton. Thank you so much, Thanks so much for calling.
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We will talk to talk to you real soon.
Speaker 6 (25:05):
There.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
The Electric Company Theater down down a full of amazing,
such a fun thing to do, incredible thing to see
and really really fun to see local theater especially we
love Orange County. We love getting down there to see that,
and they do a really great job of making it
immersive and especially if you're coming from the valley. It's
kind of a drive, one hundred percent worth of drive
every time I go.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
Because we steamroll ahead to ten o'clock. I'm Andy Reesmeyer.
Thanks for being with us tonight. We were talking about
Taylor Swift last week or whatever that was got it
felt like a thousand years ago.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
It's funny. I was talking to Nick Grigoryo.
Speaker 3 (25:44):
About this a little bit earlier, where you know, the
Internet has created all these little, tiny cultures, all these
worlds that we can dive into, and I think for
the better. Sometimes that means that we're on different pages
about certain things, but it also so weirdly collapsed mainstream
culture too, where there's very few things that we all
(26:07):
agree on as far as what's popular in music. Taylor Swift,
of course very big. That goes without saying. And here's
an actual version of a new song off the new
record that's done in a way that I think might
be a little bit more interesting, The Fate of Ophelia.
(26:28):
That's the single off the new record that's been played everywhere.
But what if you made it rock and roll?
Speaker 2 (26:35):
Would you call.
Speaker 7 (26:35):
Him on the lega song you want to see me
as you.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
Like your massive.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
Kind of interesting Matt's rock versions on YouTube. What he
does is he takes the lyrics, the vocals, and then
he replaces.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
All of them except for the vocals.
Speaker 3 (27:27):
Of course, re Records produces the drums, doesn't use any AI.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
That's kind of neat. I'm glad.
Speaker 3 (27:38):
A lot of people have been saying that they want
a rock version of a Taylor Swift record. Does it
make it any more palatable for us dark and lonely souls?
Ron or do you like this one better? Or is
it all the same to you? I don't think I'm
quite the demographic for Taylor Swift. I know, and I
agree with you. But the weird thing is, Buddy, it's
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just that's all music now.
Speaker 5 (28:02):
It's inescapable. It's what you're saying.
Speaker 3 (28:04):
It's like, it doesn't matter if you don't want it,
you're not in control anymore.
Speaker 5 (28:09):
I'm not against it, it's just that it's just I
don't think it's for me.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
Yeah, I think you're right. I think that the even
the new record.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
I know a lot of people who like the old
record don't like the new record, but they're still selling
really well, and they're all talking about it. Are they
taking Is she taking advantage of her fans? Some are
arguing yes, Some are saying sure, thirty eight varieties of
the album Life of a Showgirl. If you bought all
of them, it would cost you three hundred and seventy
seven dollars. Seventy seven dollars on the low end. Somebody
(28:40):
proudly said that he spent over six hundred dollars on
a whole bunch of Taylor Swift stuff related to the
release of the new record.
Speaker 5 (28:48):
But you know, it's just a different species of nerd.
Look at what comic fans don't lie. Or Lord of
the Rings fans, Yeah, you're right, or or Tony got
go ahead, open up your mic Tony looking. But that's
actually good stuff.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
Yeah, I know, I know. I didn't want to say that, but.
Speaker 3 (29:06):
Bound like Tolkien foot mean, come on, that'd be nice.
You know, the beauty is in the eye of the beholder,
and I understand that. You know, there's things that I
love so much, like Back to the Future, that other
people couldn't care less about.
Speaker 5 (29:19):
Yeah, I like the palpable excitement in Tony's voice talking
about Lord of the Rings.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
Yeah, you love a leather bound Tolkien. Yeah, come on,
it's pretty cool. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (29:29):
Hey, we're We're three guys talking to each other at
nine to fifty five at night in separate rooms.
Speaker 5 (29:34):
Not a woman in sight here.
Speaker 3 (29:37):
I think I could start talking about video games. Oh yeah, right, Well,
as we get out of here, I do want to
play this. Remember I think was it last night? Uh Mark,
we were talking about Back to the Future and when
Stoles and McFly When when the mcflys met each other,
When the Marty's met each other.
Speaker 5 (29:55):
That's right, two universes collided, two alternate universes, So.
Speaker 3 (29:59):
Apparently Michael J. Fox and Eric Stoles. Eric Stoles, of course,
was replaced by Michael J. Fox in Back to the
Future as Marty McFly. They met forty years after this
all happened, Fox wrote in his memoir The New One
called Future Boy. Eric has maintained his silence on the
subject for forty years, so I was prepared for the
likelihood that he'd prefer it to keep it that way.
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If your answer is leave me alone, that works too.
But Stoltz responded with a beautifully written reply that began
with a little bit of a some there's some curse words.
I can't say there but as a joke. Eric was
thoughtful about my outreach, and although he respectfully declined to
participate in the book, he seemed open to the eye
the idea of getting together. Then the two of them
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met and fell into an easy dialogue about our careers, families,
and of course, their own trips throughout the space time continuum.
They quickly acknowledged neither of them had an issue with
each other. Back to the Future didn't make them enemies
or faded rival They were just two dedicated actors who
poured equal amounts of energy into the same role. The
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rest had nothing to do with us. As it turned out,
we had much more in common than our spin as Marty.
In the months since meeting, Michael J. Fox says, Eric
and I have maintained a friendly correspondence, I guess, texting
back and forth like minded actors and dads, offering up
recent movies we've loved, the latest adventures with our kids,
(31:25):
an occasional detour into politics. Email they're emailing back and forth.
That is so awesome, because I'm thinking we all sort
of thought that they probably weren't buds.
Speaker 5 (31:38):
Were you expecting them to come to blows.
Speaker 3 (31:39):
Well, no, not at this point, but I just think
that Eric. You know, I would understand of Eric, and
so did Michael J. Fox that said, if you don't
want to ever have anything to do with me, I
get it, man, because in every documentary and every conversation
about it, replacing Eric Stoles the movie becomes a giant explosion.
Speaker 5 (31:56):
You know.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
It's not like Eric Stoles had a huge career after that.
Speaker 5 (32:00):
Yeah. I always wondered what happened to him because he
was kind of on the verge of being a thing
for a while. And the last thing I really remember
him being in there was a big deal was maybe
pulp fiction.
Speaker 3 (32:09):
Yeah, I think that's fair. Was it Dances with Wolves
that he was in with? The with Marty's mom can't
even remember? I think, so, I don't know, but there
you go.
Speaker 5 (32:19):
There you have it.
Speaker 3 (32:20):
Happy Friday night, Thanks for being here. You can find
me on the internet at Andy KTLA. Send me a message.
You could text me. My number is three one seven
ye just kidding. But I'll be back. Not this Sunday
because we have a Chargers game, but I'll be back
on Monday, Monday night. Back here at seven pm and
then the following Friday, so I look forward to seeing
(32:42):
all of you have a wonderful night, Go Dodgers. This
is KFI AM six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio
Speaker 1 (32:51):
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