October 18, 2025 • 33 mins
Comedian Maxwell Barnes joins Andy to talk viral videos and social media chaos. Plus, KTLA’s Eric Spillman breaks down the Dodgers’ big win—and why it matters. Also: Are Gen Zers dating just for free meals? And why is Chili’s Southwest Queso catching heat?
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Thanks for joining us tonight.
Speaker 3 (00:05):
It is just past eight o'clock on this Friday, October seventeenth.
The Dodgers five to one. Brewers were able to get
a run there in the.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Top of the eighth.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Still looking here like Dodgers have a pretty good shot,
though the night is still young. Not ready to bring
that broom out of the closet quite yet for the sweeps,
still possible. It might not go the way we want to,
but we hope it does.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Ron. Are you been watching with anticipation?
Speaker 4 (00:42):
I have not, but I'll be reporting it as soon
as we get the final score.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
What do you think?
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Do you think there's a chance, a chance of what
a chance that the Dodgers don't win?
Speaker 5 (00:53):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (00:53):
No, I think they're pretty much guaranteed.
Speaker 4 (00:55):
I think it's I think it's in the bag man
in the bag, let's to quote Dawn of the Dead.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
We got this by the ass man. That's right, love that.
Speaker 4 (01:05):
I mean, of course, the guy got bitten by his zombie.
Immediately afterwards, he didn't didn't go well for him. The sentiment,
wouldn't it just be the most perfect thing? Like Okay,
I know it's the Dodgers.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
If it were the Chargers, I could see a last
minute whoopsie that then causes everybody to lose the game.
I mean, the charge has been very good this season,
but there was some concern.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
Now all that remains is that we just have to
decide what sort of rioting we planted.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
That's right, we got to say. I call burning a bus.
That's always seemed fun to me.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Oh that's a bold move.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
Yeah that, Like I said before, I'm not a big
Metro guy, so maybe that's like my own bias showing through.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
Yeah, I'm burning the bus as opposed to getting stabbed
on one. I think it's a nice little turning in
the tables.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
That's how we take back our city.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Is right, It's what Charles Bronson would do. That's exactly
right in the great words of Griffith J. Griffith, don't
burn the bus or don't get stabbed.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
On the bus, burn it. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
Yeah, that's a good epigram to have, like on one
of those Samplers in a frame on the wall. Oh yeah,
or maybe an embroidered pillow exactly.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
I thought we got. I think we got a little
Etsy shop brewin here.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Yeah, okay, all right, well we'll see where where we
met out with that gen Z is dating as we know,
and they're dating for dinner.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
This is nothing new.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
I told you a story last night about how I
went out to have a meal with somebody and halfway
through the meal, the waiter came over and said, hey,
would you like to see another menu? And I said, yeah, sure,
when I we just take a look, you know, maybe
just ordered dessert or something, and the woman I was
on a date with ordered another entree to go.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
I need to tell you that that's stuck with me,
and I was still ruminating on it today. That really
bothered me.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
Isn't it egregious? Isn't it remarkable? How crazy it is?
Speaker 4 (02:56):
I wanted to do some kind of quantum leap thing
and respond the way you should have responded.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Yeah, like go back and right the wrong Yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:03):
Yeah, So you didn't say anything when she did that.
You were like, I think, okay, order whatever you like.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
I think.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
I was like, oh that's weird. I hope I have
enough money to pay for this. But what did you
actually say to the nice lady who took you to
the cleaner?
Speaker 3 (03:14):
I guarantee you she said, I just want to grab
this and take it home, and I probably like, well,
I probably went went pale and I said, I said,
oh yeah, yeah, okay, yeah, sure, okay, of course, like
an alpha exactly. And that's why it worked out. That's
why it worked out so well for us, as you know, okay,
it just it really it stuck with me. It haunted me.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Yeah, I know.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Imagine this happened almost eight nah, fifteen years almost fifteen
years ago, and I'm still talking about it almost every day.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
You should, I know, I'll find her one day.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
I can't remember if it was okay Cupid or there
was also one called zeusk all these like early web
based dating apps before they had you know, like actual apps,
before Tinder, before Hinge or whatever. It was a wild time.
But people still dating for dinner. Apparently thirty percent of
people in the gen Z demo who are dating have
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done this, which of course is just agreeing to a
date with someone that they don't actually like, just so
that they can get a free meal. But as we know,
these foody calls financially might make sense because everything is
so expensive in Los Angeles.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Is that foody call as in booty call? Yeah, that's
what they I like what you did there.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
Oh it's not I can't take credit for it. No, No,
that's a that's a common term that they use, like
on TikTok when they talk about this kind of thing
and anxiety also shaping gen Z dating habits.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
I remember a time and.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
I think this is uniquely gen Z when like all
of our social issues and our in our maladies before
they were our personalities. I don't know if you recall this,
but now it's like, oh, are you shy? No, you're neurodivergent.
Do you forget things? No, you have ADHD. I don't.
(05:05):
It's so boring to me to be defined by these
very specific things that could just allow you to have
an identity on the internet.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
No, but it's good to have medical terminology, terminology that
will absolve you of just being an a hole.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
I really like that's right. I'm sorry, I can't help it.
I am clinically an a hole.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Up.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
What's happening here? We got we are? I'm checking in
on the game here, bottom of the eighth, Now, anybody
on base? I think maybe we have one on base?
There was just a grounder and a right field. Again,
I'm trying to piece together bits and pieces of this
game that I'm looking at with the sound off from
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the other side of the room, with just highlights and
some broken close captioning. So I apologize. If you really
wanted to know, you could listen to k A s
I guess, But what are they eating? Like Chili's? You
know we love a Chili's. Take a listen. Fans of
Chili's restaurants are a little cheesed off.
Speaker 6 (06:08):
They're slamming a new menu item, but the chain is
making an offer customers might not be able to refuse.
Chili's fans are not liking the chain's new Southwestern caeso.
They were on social media expressing their feelings about it,
one person calling it crockpot kiso?
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Is that so bad? Crockpot caso is kind of good? Right?
They're cheesed off?
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Ah okay, that is me in the background laughing.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Chili's restaurants are a little cheesed off.
Speaker 6 (06:37):
They're slamming a new menu.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
That's me smirking, really hauling out the a material there.
I mean, I didn't write it, but you could tell
Lou and Samantha, who did this story earlier today on
Katla they were like, well, that was something interesting. I
gotta tell you, Ronnert. So I got home last night,
I had a lot of coffee. I didn't sleep well,
but I thought everything's gonna be fine. It's not a
big deal. I don't even to sleep. Next thing I
have to do tomorrow is go be on the radio
(07:00):
seven PM and nine o'clock in the morning. My boss
at KATLA sent me a message and said, hey, we
need you to come in and do weather all day.
So I showed up at KTLA at ten o'clock and
I did the weather from eleven am to five pm.
Just give till it hurts, Race tell, I just can't.
My ego it needs to be fed.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Would you a bottomless pit? Would you say, for sure?
A god sized hole? I think is what they call it. Well,
welcome to radio.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
But it's funny because I guess I don't know funny
is the right word. But the day has been compressed
now in a sort of inverted way. Oh inverted world.
Speaker 7 (07:39):
They're a little cheesed off.
Speaker 6 (07:41):
That's how they're slamming a new menu item. But the
chain is making an offer customers might not be able
to refuse. Goes cheese quote but worse. Others they're saying
it looks like a jar of tostitos cheese quote but worse.
Others complain of its color. Chili says the Southwestern Caeso
was tested for two years before this week release, but
now that it's getting a bad wrap, the restaurant is
(08:03):
making a special offer.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
Okay, first of all, they tested it for two years.
Of course in the social media videos it looks gross.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Oh it was it testing? Did it involve guys with
lab coats or what?
Speaker 8 (08:14):
Like?
Speaker 2 (08:14):
What did they do? Did they do like a full
on like different phase trials? Yeah, I want to know
how rigorous this testing was and.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
Like were they testing it for like toxins or microplastics?
Speaker 2 (08:27):
What? What in the world were people blindfolded? What were
their conditions? These are great questions.
Speaker 6 (08:33):
So if you don't like it, don't worry. You don't
have to pay for it. Chili's announce on Instagram it's
offering the eleven dollars Southwestern queso and chips for free
until October twenty. First thought, you must be a my
Chili's Rewards member and purchase an entree to get the You.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
Know, anybody know who's a my Chili's Rewards member.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
No, I don't hang out in those circles. I didn't
know that that even was an option. I also got
to think that what this is is that they know
they're never gonna sell this. They know everybody hates it.
They're having people send it back anyway. So they've got
vats and vats of this stuff, just like sitting in
a jaw, a big old eighty gallon drum or whatever.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
Well, are they picking up their marketing plan from New
York drug dealers? What we'll give it to your free
and till you're hooked.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
What is this? It's that good? The Chilly Case Show?
All right?
Speaker 3 (09:21):
Okay, so roh, so it's your first taste for free.
Then you gotta pay, Then you gotta pay.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Friday night, Friday at eight twenty.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
You can tell that we have entered a new era
of our lives because it is eight twenty and we're
sitting here on the radio.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Dodger's just one. How about that a sweep?
Speaker 3 (09:43):
Indeed, it's time to whip out the broom friends, National
League tennant. Do you think that they'll get a little
like a sticker that they can put up in the
clubhouse or something in studio right now with Maxwell Barnes, comedian.
You might see him on the internet, TikTok and Instagram
at is it at Maxwell is online? As your is
(10:06):
that on TikTok as well? Maxwell underscore is underscore online?
Speaker 7 (10:09):
Got it?
Speaker 3 (10:10):
And you are I think, such an interesting comedian because
you are doing comedy that is very funny, but it's
also kind of specific about Los Angeles, including many videos
where you just tell people what the bathroom codes are
for public bathrooms all across LA exactly what a crazy
idea listening and it works and it's funny.
Speaker 7 (10:32):
Hard to find a bathroom across Los Angeles.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
Can I play one of your clips and we'll talk
about it in just a second here, all right, take
a listen.
Speaker 8 (10:39):
Come with me for a day in my life as
a bathroom code influencer. After I wake up, I get dressed,
brush my teeth, chug an entire mountain too, and then
immediately vomit it back onto the driveway of my apartment building.
Speaker 7 (10:52):
Great.
Speaker 8 (10:52):
Then it's off to work. I drive to the nearest Chipotle, where,
after getting berated by the manager I sneak into the
bathroom to test out the code, and I take a
little meee time. You know, self care is super.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
Important, and you're like drinking a glass of wine. Yeah
in this moment. Yeah, there's only the audio. There's visual.
There's visual jokes here as well, but I think it's
very funny. The audio still is very funny.
Speaker 8 (11:15):
Stand outside the building and I record TikTok to tell
everyone about the bathroom and to go use it. Then
it's usually meal time. Every day for lunch, I head
over to Pinks and I order one four thousand calorie items.
Today I got the hot dog. It was so so yummy,
you guys, I definitely recommend it. Okay, Once that's done,
I hop back in my car and I usually go
(11:36):
work out at the local basketball court where I practice.
Speaker 7 (11:39):
One hundred granny shots.
Speaker 8 (11:42):
It usually takes me a few hours.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
But so it's so funny. That'd be true.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
That's a day in my life, that's your actual life.
And I think there's so much about this. There's so
many layers to this, which is one of the reasons
I want to have you in. I wanted to have
you in because like, yes, it is things that are
referential to annoying things people in LA do.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
It's also a end up of social media.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
When I started in digital media fifteen years ago or so,
probably there was nothing like people wouldn't even understand what
parody of this was because it was so.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
New.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
But now I think, like, you know, you're you're embodying
this character, but also it's like it's just it's just
so smart and so cool. Where did you come up
with this this idea? The quick answer is unemployment.
Speaker 7 (12:26):
I was I was laid off from a job, and
I was in coffee shops all day job searching, and
I was getting so fed up having to go to
these places. And they would have codes in the bathroom,
which is just more of a nuisance than it is
I think helpful even for the staff, because the staff
seems annoyed when they give you the code, and so
because they're always going to give to you about it,
(12:47):
they're always going to give it.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
We've seen what happens when Starbucks says we're not giving
the bathroom codes. It's a meltdown of epic proportions, of course.
Speaker 7 (12:54):
And eventually I just made the one video off of
a zaying kou chicken off Sunset, Bulevard. Which favorite restaurant
in La zan Kou Chicken? He uh that aside. I
all my friends were like, just keep doing these. Yeah,
just this could easily be a series.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
So now you have a repository because on your Instagram
there is a place where people can submit codes four bathrooms. Yeah,
and at first I thought maybe that there was a
way that people could see these codes, but actually it's
just you.
Speaker 7 (13:23):
No, I'm the keeper of the keys here.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
So you were had you had the doc and you
were showing me the Google doc. How many restrooms do
you have? It's about a thousand restrooms. It is across
metro La Wild.
Speaker 7 (13:34):
And also some people from like Oregon have been like, hey,
can you come up to like Beaverton And.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
Is the plan to make a video about each of
them or is it just to have it as performance.
Speaker 7 (13:44):
I mean, eventually I'd like to hit all the neighborhoods. Yeah, yeah,
you know. I I don't go to Encino nearly, and
everybody says that, yeah that's a common thing. Ma Sushi
Ro there, that's studio city. But yeah it's close enough.
Lord knows we need the bathroom codes on Sushi Row.
But yeah, I mean, listen, it's so hard to find
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a bathroom enough in LA and people get really pressed
saying like, oh, I can't wait for people to come
trash these bathrooms. I'm like, Okay, if I'm in South
Bay and I see a bathroom code, let's say even
like up into Panga, I'm not gonna pul my ass
across the city.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
Wait, and is there any indication like someday are you
going to publish a book that has all the codes
in it. I mean, I think the permanence of that
is hilarious. To publish a book for codes that are
probably going to be changed. Yeah, I mean that's funny.
Speaker 7 (14:34):
That's also the reason why I'd love for it to
eventually become a little bit more crowdsource is because there
could be a way for this to easily be a
bypass for people to just go to the bathroom whenever
they want. I believe in bathroom access for all. I've
always said that if you ever want to come to
my house, knock on the door, set I need to
use the bathroom, no questions asked. You're coming inside. I'll
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give you free toilet paper to take on your way home.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
This is so funny.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
So as a comedian too, you know, I know that
the Internet has provided a lot of new perspectives, for
new new places for people to be able to be seen.
Uh for good and for bad?
Speaker 5 (15:14):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (15:14):
Did you also do stand up? Or did you do
you just want to do? Like sketch or what's manly?
I'm an improviser a by trade. Uh are you used
to be groundlings?
Speaker 7 (15:22):
I do U C B Yeah, and uh I did
college improv. I was the president of my college improv team.
Were you elected a jury of your peers? It was
kind of just uh, just a nominal. I got past
the crown, I says, nobody else so the president you
were the king?
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Sir?
Speaker 7 (15:40):
Yeah, yeah, uh and uh believe me, I put it
on my hinge. Nobody paid attention.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
So yeah.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
You know what's a funny thing is that when I
was young, I was in a band and I moved
to LA to make music. And I remember thinking, like,
girls are really going to think that's cool.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
What was the name of your band? It was called
the Working Hour?
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Lot of a name?
Speaker 3 (16:00):
Is that actually is it? It's the name of a
Tears for Fear song? And what's dumb? Is that a song? Yeah,
another band. Isn't that stupid? Because of course what happens
when you google the thing, the other gets the other
band exactly. So I was very dumb. But this was
like two thousand and eight, and I got he was
dumb back. We were all dumb. Thank God for the enlightenment.
(16:20):
We know so much now. Thank you John Locke. That's
what it was. It was John Locke and Adam Smith
finally coming together at last. And and I think there's
this sense of of uh excitement around. I'd lost my
train of thought because the Dodgers.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
One.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
Sorry, this really happens to real people. We should be
talking about this. I'm sure, do you care?
Speaker 2 (16:42):
To everybody?
Speaker 7 (16:43):
I love the Dodgers. I My mom's from New York,
so I'm not gonna I'm not gonna piss off.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Is she listening? Oh I hope. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
It's late back on the East Coast. It's true. She
can listen on demand. Yeah, but let's just say I'll
send her the link.
Speaker 7 (16:58):
But I love the Dodgers, you know, they they just
I remember I was on Sunset Boulevard last year when
they won and that bus got caught on fire.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
Yeah, we were just talking about that earlier, Roner, we
were going to burn a bus.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
So we weren't the first to have that idea.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
We weren't the first to do that. Well, I I
was inspired. I take inspiration from other things in LA,
you know, I can't.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
Take rid of it, and other bands as well.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
That's also from other bands as well. Yeah, well, yeah,
I remember what I was gonna say. I thought everybody
would be really into me being in a band, and
I came out to LA and it was like, if
you're a musician, like, get away from me. You cannot
be the closest. You can't not kind of be any
farther away from it. Well, Maxwell, we're gonna take a break.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
Stay with us.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
I want to talk about some other things, including your
recent trip to zebulon Sure, and some other observations of
what it's like to be living in LA in twenty
twenty five.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand from.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
The City of Angels, where the Angelinos are celebrating the Dodgers.
Tony's historic game has carried the Dodgers past the Brewers
into the World Series, a five and one sweeping win
over the Brewers, and the NLCS show Hey, hit three
home runs. Brewers didn't get a point. Weren't even on
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the board until the eighth inning, so it was a
foregone conclusion.
Speaker 5 (18:22):
There.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
The brooms are way out of the closet. They're sweeping
up and down Sunset Boulevard, Chavez Ravine. I'm sure is
going ham. Are we getting any reports of buses on fire?
Nothing yet, No, no conflagrations so far. It's still early.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
The night is young where we may go. Who's to say, Tony?
What are you thinking? Are you feeling good? Tony's pulling
out his headphones? Yeah, this ain't nothing like them when
the Lakers won. No, that was so good that night.
We always running the board that night. What do you
remember from from that more than anything? Uh, that's when
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we had the show at night, was Tim and Neil. Yeah,
and you were you were just happy that you your
house is in Orange County exactly.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
But the best thing Tim just goes, don't play the ID.
Don't play the ID, and we play.
Speaker 9 (19:11):
He's a turn his mic on first, and he goes,
the Lakers have just won the championship. You have thirty
minutes to get out of la Ah, that's great. Minutes
later you said that police car upside down and on
fire was exactly thirty minutes.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
I remember that.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
My mom, you know, we were in Indiana, was appalled.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
I was a kid.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
My mom was appalled. She was like, that's what LA
people do. And I said, I'm gonna be.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
One of those people. Mom.
Speaker 9 (19:35):
At our morning show, Gaya, well you did sports Rich
Marauta was insite the Staples Center like looking out the door,
reporting it was great.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
Oh my god, it's crazy, because you know, LA does
have the capacity to.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
Get little buck wild.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
We turn up, we go a little ham and I'm
hoping that everything stays a little chill tonight. I hate
to use the Q word, as Ronnerd knows, you're never
supposed to say it. It's the opposite of loud when
referring to news, because then that's when all hell breaks loose.
But lots of excitement there. I'm sure we will try
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to get some sound here, maybe from some of the
other local stations about celebrations that are happening there. I
bet the shortstop's going crazy. I bet people down there
in Echo Park are losing their minds in excitement.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
In studio right now.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
With Maxwell drop that drop that info in the chat
for us, mister Max, as far as your actual handle,
Maxwell Underscore.
Speaker 7 (20:35):
At Maxwell Underscore is underscore online.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
Doing a lot of comedy about Los Angeles, right, I
know where Dave Roberts is going right after this?
Speaker 7 (20:43):
Yeah, going to Zebulon.
Speaker 3 (20:45):
Do you think he's going to Zebulon the club or Aldo?
Does he have to wait in line for those places?
Speaker 2 (20:52):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (20:52):
Yeah, yeah absolutely, just like the rest of us, don't
care who the hell you are here.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
He plays the game of outside inside, outside, inside, outside, inside,
which is where you go outside and have a cigarette,
come inside.
Speaker 7 (21:03):
But then my favorite part inside, Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
You've been doing a lot of stuff, a lot of
short short form comedy on on Instagram. Do you want
to build this? What what's the what's the what's the goal?
Speaker 2 (21:17):
I got?
Speaker 3 (21:18):
That's such a stupid thing to ask and feels wrong,
But like, do you want to do scripted?
Speaker 2 (21:23):
Do you want to act?
Speaker 3 (21:23):
Do you want to do these kinds of awesome sketches
that you're doing so far?
Speaker 7 (21:28):
At some point I'd like to do anything to make
my rent there there you go, But yeah, acting's cool.
I love sketch comedy, I love improv. Would just love
to keep making these videos and keep making people, you
know laugh. Especially concerning La stuff. I think it's so niche, Like,
why does New York get to have all the fun,
you know with people say Park Avenue, they know exactly
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where that is?
Speaker 2 (21:50):
Yeah, what did they What do they got in New York?
Speaker 7 (21:54):
The world's financial centers? Okay, right, whatever?
Speaker 3 (21:58):
Cool guys, we all saw whatever movie Wall Street was
not impressed.
Speaker 7 (22:05):
Yeah, you know what I'm going for as Halloween. I'm
going as Patrick Bateman because a lot of people like
have compared me to him in the comments of my videos.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
Only from a visual perspective. Twenty six in that movie,
that character, the character was. How old was Christopher shil Baile?
Speaker 7 (22:21):
I think was older, But the character is supposed to
be like twenty six or seven. He has like an
executive assistant and like a corner off.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
In Now we don't. We aren't those kinds of people. No,
not in La No.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
No.
Speaker 7 (22:32):
The modern economy is you door dash until you die.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
This is so true. The modern economy is you door
dash until you die. And you mean actually you are
door dashing, you're delivering.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
Yes.
Speaker 7 (22:42):
Now, that was my first job before I moved to La.
I was uber EAT's delivery driver when I graduated college.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
Where do you feel like?
Speaker 3 (22:51):
You know, sort of like the day to day of
the comedian is going these days because LA is a
lot harder than it was I think five or six
years ago.
Speaker 7 (22:57):
All right, wake up at noon, you go to an
open mic. You get an Instagram boomerang of you doing
stand up, no audio, nobody has to know that it's good.
Uh you no crowd by the way, Yeah, you can
video it, but he will have to make sure it's
the grainiest footage anyone's ever seen. Quick zooms, quick zooms.
It's even better if your captions just distract. You don't
(23:19):
have to care about the audio at all. So once
that's up, you know you've done your work for the day.
You can collect your unemployment, you can again door dash,
and then you can probably blow all your earnings that night. Yeah,
maybe Zebulon, maybe Zebulan. Maybe you know Drugstore, Cowboy, I'm
a fan of that.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
Is that a place that had a cool hot spot?
Speaker 7 (23:41):
I love? Let me put some love on drug Store. Actually,
let me gate keep drug Store because I love watching
games back.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
Okay, delete that from the podcast.
Speaker 7 (23:49):
Please, Yeah, just any bar really, and then you stay
awake until three am talking about all the comedy you
did that day, and then you can go to bed.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
Of course.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
Well, Maxwell, I really appreciate you being here, Maxwell Barnes, Uh, Maxwell,
Underscore is Underscore online.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
That's it.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
And you can submit your bathroom codes to him as please.
And you're never there for me. I gotta you're never
going to share these anywhere.
Speaker 7 (24:16):
Ah, Listen if I if I ever make it to
like one hundred thousand followers on any platform, I will
drop all right, I will drop all the bathrooms, all
the master list.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
You have my word, Los Angeles. And by the way,
when people submit these, are they generally right?
Speaker 1 (24:30):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (24:30):
Yeah, yeah? Yeah. What's the most common one?
Speaker 4 (24:33):
Is it one?
Speaker 2 (24:33):
Two through four five?
Speaker 7 (24:34):
It's yeah, one, two, three, four five, you'd be more surprised.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
Uh.
Speaker 7 (24:37):
And then it's it's usually Starbucks or Chipotle. I'm finding
are the most locked up?
Speaker 2 (24:42):
Wow? Yeah, what a world? Well, Max, thank you so
much for being here.
Speaker 3 (24:46):
Of course, we'll look for you out there in the
world in the bathrooms sponsor me.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
Demand Andy Reesemire in Tonight with you all the way
till ten pm when we handed off to George Nori
for coast to coast. But right now, feeling pretty good,
feeling pretty victorious. The Dodgers move on to the World Series,
blowing past the Brewers in a shutout five to one win.
(25:16):
Took them until the eighth inning to get the Brewers
with a point at all. They're calling this a historic
game from show Heyo Tani joining us to somebody who
knows far more about Dodgers than I will ever claim to,
even try than I could ever dream to to my
friend and yours, mister Eric Spilman from KTLA, Mister Dodgers, sir,
(25:39):
what a night.
Speaker 5 (25:41):
It was crazy. I mean, there probably has never been
a more dominant performance by a single player in a game,
in a postseason game than what we saw tonight from
Show Hey O Tani. Truly remarkable.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
That is high praise from somebody who does not exaggerate
very much.
Speaker 5 (26:01):
It really was amazing. I mean, it's like if you're
in the football analogy is like you're watching a football
game and you have a quarterback who like throws for
like five touchdowns and then plays defense in the same
bread it's like five sacks.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
This man is an animal, right, I mean, he's just
he's a specimen of baseball, but just athleticism and just
ability intelligence. I mean, it's it's incredible to watch this guy, who,
by the way, is on a team full of other superstars.
Speaker 5 (26:33):
Absolutely, And there was one home run I think the
second one that he hit that went over the roof
in the outfield. I mean, you just don't see that
very often. And he just I was watching it on
TV and he just immediately knew, of course there was
a home run. He sat there and watched it sail
(26:54):
out of the ballpark, and it's rare for it to go,
you know, over onto the other of the pavilion like that.
You don't see that very often.
Speaker 3 (27:04):
Yeah, that's like in a movie or something, you know,
that's like Angels in the outfield or a field of dreams.
Seven hundred million dollars feels pretty worth it right now,
don't you think.
Speaker 5 (27:14):
Yeah. I mean, truthfully, earlier in the postseason, he was
struggling a bit. I mean, he wasn't hitting very well.
He was striking out a lot. I think he was
hitting like one forty seven in the postseason, and then
the other day he took batting practice, which is something
he doesn't do, I mean on the field batting practice.
I know he goes to the batting cages that they
(27:35):
have at Dodger Stadium, but he actually took you know,
on the field batting practice and you know, just looking
for a way to come out of his his slump.
And he sure did come out. Whatever he did worked
for sure.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
I think that that's so true.
Speaker 3 (27:53):
And what is remarkable, as we said, is that he
made history, right the only player in Major League history
to hit three home runs and record ten strikeouts in
a game, counting both the regular season and the playoffs. Now,
of course, moving on to the World Series, Dodger's been
there before. We will find out. I guess by the weekend,
(28:14):
right who availably?
Speaker 5 (28:16):
I mean, you know, it depends, you know. Right now,
Seattle has the advantage three games to two over Toronto,
but the series moves back to Toronto, so you know,
technically they have a home field advantage. But you know,
Seattle wins one more game, it's all over, right, they'll
play on Sunday.
Speaker 3 (28:34):
And David Pinglore was telling us earlier when we were
I was doing doing weather way back earlier today on
TV which feels like a thousand years ago, that it
probably would be better for us to play Seattle than Toronto,
because Toronto is a pretty pretty good team.
Speaker 5 (28:51):
Yeah, I mean, I would have thought that Toronto would
be dominating that series. I'm kind of surprised that Seattle
has done as well as they have. But it's postseason baseball.
You know, you can never really be sure what's going
to happen, unless you're talking about the Dodgers, because really
they've they've set up a sort of baseball dynasty here.
(29:13):
It's and this is a team who at the beginning
of the season, we were we were talking about them,
and a lot of people were saying, I mean, this
is the team that is going to ruin baseball because
they're just so talented. It's it's like they're the Goliaths
and everybody else's the David. It's not even fair. And
then the second half of the season, they didn't do
(29:34):
that great. They struggled.
Speaker 3 (29:35):
There was a lot of panic button pushing on the
KTLA morning news.
Speaker 5 (29:40):
Well, I mean, I don't know about that, but it
was just like they were just disappointing. They lost a
lot of games after the All Star break and you're
thinking to yourself, what is going on with this team?
And then so the last couple of weeks of the season,
they finally began to get it together. Although this deficit
the problems they had was with the bullpen. You know,
they just didn't they you know, didn't have people that
they they could count on there. So the answer was, well,
(30:01):
we'll we'll just bypass the bullpen and we'll use the
starters for most of the game, which they've done, and
we'll bring in Sasaki And that is really the answer.
I mean, they're so talented that there's like, you know,
a number of ways to get there. Yeah, and they
if there's a problem, they just well they just figure
out a solution based on the other talented people that
they have.
Speaker 3 (30:21):
You know, what's amazing is that you're right, the charisma
and the cooperation is there in a team where everybody
is a superstar and it's almost like watching sort of
like like an All Star team where where it's a
sort of a made up thing that isn't real. You know,
I remember back in the nineties, like the NBA All
Star Games and stuff like that, But this is for real,
(30:42):
and they have shown at least now two years in
a row. There's a chance to go back to back
World champions for the Dodgers.
Speaker 5 (30:49):
Yeah, and that hasn't happened in like twenty five years
since the Yankees did it. And I just hope that
they are, you know who. I don't want to like
count my chickens before they're but if they're able to
roll through the World Series the way they did, you
know in the NLCS and the NLDS, I mean, we're
going to be having another parade. And that was just
(31:11):
a fantastic experience, the World Series Championship parade that we had,
you know, laugh time. Yeah, it would be wonderful to
have that again.
Speaker 3 (31:19):
It felt really good. I'm looking at some feed right
now of the what looks like the locker room, and
the champagne is flowing and there's lots of there's lots
of the ski masks are on, you know, the ie
goggles because there's there's so much there's so much booze
going everywhere. They've got it taped up like it's a
like it's a morgue or something with like all the
(31:41):
all the beer and everything sprayed everywhere. A lot of
excitement in La too. I don't know if did you
get to watch from home or were you out seeing
it with with some friends.
Speaker 5 (31:49):
We're we're taking part in the MS Ride that's riding
one hundred miles to support the MS Society. So we've
been watching here. We watched it at a at a
are basically if Carlsbad. I'm here in Carlsbad tomorrow we ride,
you know, our bikes for miles and miles miles. But
it's great. There's you know, even here in San Diego County,
(32:10):
you know, home of the Padres. A lot of people
are at the bar screaming.
Speaker 2 (32:13):
For the Dodgers. Amazing.
Speaker 5 (32:14):
Yeah, everybody loves a winner, a winner, right.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
Everybody loves a winner, that's right.
Speaker 3 (32:18):
Eric Spilman, real quick before we go, tell us more
about the MS bike ride and how important that is
to honor our friend Sam Rubin.
Speaker 5 (32:25):
Yeah. I mean, this is something that Sam started at
KTLA probably like thirty years ago, and he organized this
team and he said to me a long time ago,
he said, you want to ride a hundred miles to
raise money for the MS Society. And I'm like, what
are you talking about. You take a whole weekend and
he says it's a great ride. It's so much fun,
and you get to see how the whole coastline is
(32:46):
put together. You start a nervevine ride all the way
down to San Diego and I did it and I've
never stopped. Yeah, And so we continue on to honor
his legacy. If folks want to donate bike to finish.
MS dot org is the website really really great cause,
helping people, supporting people who are living with MS. It's
(33:07):
an unpredictable neurological condition. It's people in the prime of
their lives and this this really helps with medicine, medicine
and research for a cure.
Speaker 2 (33:18):
Eric Spilman, thank you so much. Go Dodgers.
Speaker 3 (33:20):
Glad you're out there doing a good thing for a
good cause, remembering a good friend.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
Go ahead, thank you, go ahead.
Speaker 5 (33:28):
Sorry, it's great to be able to continue on and
and you know, honor him and the tradition.
Speaker 2 (33:34):
That he started.
Speaker 3 (33:35):
Well, we miss him. We miss him very much every
single day. So I'm glad that we get to remember
him as much as as much as we do. Eric Spilman,
thank you so much for calling Goat Dodgers. This is
KF I am six forty. We're live everywhere on the
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Speaker 2 (00:03):
Thanks for joining us tonight.
Speaker 3 (00:05):
It is just past eight o'clock on this Friday, October seventeenth.
The Dodgers five to one. Brewers were able to get
a run there in the.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Top of the eighth.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Still looking here like Dodgers have a pretty good shot,
though the night is still young. Not ready to bring
that broom out of the closet quite yet for the sweeps,
still possible. It might not go the way we want to,
but we hope it does.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Ron. Are you been watching with anticipation?
Speaker 4 (00:42):
I have not, but I'll be reporting it as soon
as we get the final score.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
What do you think?
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Do you think there's a chance, a chance of what
a chance that the Dodgers don't win?
Speaker 5 (00:53):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (00:53):
No, I think they're pretty much guaranteed.
Speaker 4 (00:55):
I think it's I think it's in the bag man
in the bag, let's to quote Dawn of the Dead.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
We got this by the ass man. That's right, love that.
Speaker 4 (01:05):
I mean, of course, the guy got bitten by his zombie.
Immediately afterwards, he didn't didn't go well for him. The sentiment,
wouldn't it just be the most perfect thing? Like Okay,
I know it's the Dodgers.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
If it were the Chargers, I could see a last
minute whoopsie that then causes everybody to lose the game.
I mean, the charge has been very good this season,
but there was some concern.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
Now all that remains is that we just have to
decide what sort of rioting we planted.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
That's right, we got to say. I call burning a bus.
That's always seemed fun to me.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Oh that's a bold move.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
Yeah that, Like I said before, I'm not a big
Metro guy, so maybe that's like my own bias showing through.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
Yeah, I'm burning the bus as opposed to getting stabbed
on one. I think it's a nice little turning in
the tables.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
That's how we take back our city.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Is right, It's what Charles Bronson would do. That's exactly
right in the great words of Griffith J. Griffith, don't
burn the bus or don't get stabbed.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
On the bus, burn it. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
Yeah, that's a good epigram to have, like on one
of those Samplers in a frame on the wall. Oh yeah,
or maybe an embroidered pillow exactly.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
I thought we got. I think we got a little
Etsy shop brewin here.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Yeah, okay, all right, well we'll see where where we
met out with that gen Z is dating as we know,
and they're dating for dinner.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
This is nothing new.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
I told you a story last night about how I
went out to have a meal with somebody and halfway
through the meal, the waiter came over and said, hey,
would you like to see another menu? And I said, yeah, sure,
when I we just take a look, you know, maybe
just ordered dessert or something, and the woman I was
on a date with ordered another entree to go.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
I need to tell you that that's stuck with me,
and I was still ruminating on it today. That really
bothered me.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
Isn't it egregious? Isn't it remarkable? How crazy it is?
Speaker 4 (02:56):
I wanted to do some kind of quantum leap thing
and respond the way you should have responded.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Yeah, like go back and right the wrong Yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:03):
Yeah, So you didn't say anything when she did that.
You were like, I think, okay, order whatever you like.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
I think.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
I was like, oh that's weird. I hope I have
enough money to pay for this. But what did you
actually say to the nice lady who took you to
the cleaner?
Speaker 3 (03:14):
I guarantee you she said, I just want to grab
this and take it home, and I probably like, well,
I probably went went pale and I said, I said,
oh yeah, yeah, okay, yeah, sure, okay, of course, like
an alpha exactly. And that's why it worked out. That's
why it worked out so well for us, as you know, okay,
it just it really it stuck with me. It haunted me.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Yeah, I know.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Imagine this happened almost eight nah, fifteen years almost fifteen
years ago, and I'm still talking about it almost every day.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
You should, I know, I'll find her one day.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
I can't remember if it was okay Cupid or there
was also one called zeusk all these like early web
based dating apps before they had you know, like actual apps,
before Tinder, before Hinge or whatever. It was a wild time.
But people still dating for dinner. Apparently thirty percent of
people in the gen Z demo who are dating have
(04:11):
done this, which of course is just agreeing to a
date with someone that they don't actually like, just so
that they can get a free meal. But as we know,
these foody calls financially might make sense because everything is
so expensive in Los Angeles.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Is that foody call as in booty call? Yeah, that's
what they I like what you did there.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
Oh it's not I can't take credit for it. No, No,
that's a that's a common term that they use, like
on TikTok when they talk about this kind of thing
and anxiety also shaping gen Z dating habits.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
I remember a time and.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
I think this is uniquely gen Z when like all
of our social issues and our in our maladies before
they were our personalities. I don't know if you recall this,
but now it's like, oh, are you shy? No, you're neurodivergent.
Do you forget things? No, you have ADHD. I don't.
(05:05):
It's so boring to me to be defined by these
very specific things that could just allow you to have
an identity on the internet.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
No, but it's good to have medical terminology, terminology that
will absolve you of just being an a hole.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
I really like that's right. I'm sorry, I can't help it.
I am clinically an a hole.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Up.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
What's happening here? We got we are? I'm checking in
on the game here, bottom of the eighth, Now, anybody
on base? I think maybe we have one on base?
There was just a grounder and a right field. Again,
I'm trying to piece together bits and pieces of this
game that I'm looking at with the sound off from
(05:48):
the other side of the room, with just highlights and
some broken close captioning. So I apologize. If you really
wanted to know, you could listen to k A s
I guess, But what are they eating? Like Chili's? You
know we love a Chili's. Take a listen. Fans of
Chili's restaurants are a little cheesed off.
Speaker 6 (06:08):
They're slamming a new menu item, but the chain is
making an offer customers might not be able to refuse.
Chili's fans are not liking the chain's new Southwestern caeso.
They were on social media expressing their feelings about it,
one person calling it crockpot kiso?
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Is that so bad? Crockpot caso is kind of good? Right?
They're cheesed off?
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Ah okay, that is me in the background laughing.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Chili's restaurants are a little cheesed off.
Speaker 6 (06:37):
They're slamming a new menu.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
That's me smirking, really hauling out the a material there.
I mean, I didn't write it, but you could tell
Lou and Samantha, who did this story earlier today on
Katla they were like, well, that was something interesting. I
gotta tell you, Ronnert. So I got home last night,
I had a lot of coffee. I didn't sleep well,
but I thought everything's gonna be fine. It's not a
big deal. I don't even to sleep. Next thing I
have to do tomorrow is go be on the radio
(07:00):
seven PM and nine o'clock in the morning. My boss
at KATLA sent me a message and said, hey, we
need you to come in and do weather all day.
So I showed up at KTLA at ten o'clock and
I did the weather from eleven am to five pm.
Just give till it hurts, Race tell, I just can't.
My ego it needs to be fed.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Would you a bottomless pit? Would you say, for sure?
A god sized hole? I think is what they call it. Well,
welcome to radio.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
But it's funny because I guess I don't know funny
is the right word. But the day has been compressed
now in a sort of inverted way. Oh inverted world.
Speaker 7 (07:39):
They're a little cheesed off.
Speaker 6 (07:41):
That's how they're slamming a new menu item. But the
chain is making an offer customers might not be able
to refuse. Goes cheese quote but worse. Others they're saying
it looks like a jar of tostitos cheese quote but worse.
Others complain of its color. Chili says the Southwestern Caeso
was tested for two years before this week release, but
now that it's getting a bad wrap, the restaurant is
(08:03):
making a special offer.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
Okay, first of all, they tested it for two years.
Of course in the social media videos it looks gross.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Oh it was it testing? Did it involve guys with
lab coats or what?
Speaker 8 (08:14):
Like?
Speaker 2 (08:14):
What did they do? Did they do like a full
on like different phase trials? Yeah, I want to know
how rigorous this testing was and.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
Like were they testing it for like toxins or microplastics?
Speaker 2 (08:27):
What? What in the world were people blindfolded? What were
their conditions? These are great questions.
Speaker 6 (08:33):
So if you don't like it, don't worry. You don't
have to pay for it. Chili's announce on Instagram it's
offering the eleven dollars Southwestern queso and chips for free
until October twenty. First thought, you must be a my
Chili's Rewards member and purchase an entree to get the You.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
Know, anybody know who's a my Chili's Rewards member.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
No, I don't hang out in those circles. I didn't
know that that even was an option. I also got
to think that what this is is that they know
they're never gonna sell this. They know everybody hates it.
They're having people send it back anyway. So they've got
vats and vats of this stuff, just like sitting in
a jaw, a big old eighty gallon drum or whatever.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
Well, are they picking up their marketing plan from New
York drug dealers? What we'll give it to your free
and till you're hooked.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
What is this? It's that good? The Chilly Case Show?
All right?
Speaker 3 (09:21):
Okay, so roh, so it's your first taste for free.
Then you gotta pay, Then you gotta pay.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Friday night, Friday at eight twenty.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
You can tell that we have entered a new era
of our lives because it is eight twenty and we're
sitting here on the radio.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Dodger's just one. How about that a sweep?
Speaker 3 (09:43):
Indeed, it's time to whip out the broom friends, National
League tennant. Do you think that they'll get a little
like a sticker that they can put up in the
clubhouse or something in studio right now with Maxwell Barnes, comedian.
You might see him on the internet, TikTok and Instagram
at is it at Maxwell is online? As your is
(10:06):
that on TikTok as well? Maxwell underscore is underscore online?
Speaker 7 (10:09):
Got it?
Speaker 3 (10:10):
And you are I think, such an interesting comedian because
you are doing comedy that is very funny, but it's
also kind of specific about Los Angeles, including many videos
where you just tell people what the bathroom codes are
for public bathrooms all across LA exactly what a crazy
idea listening and it works and it's funny.
Speaker 7 (10:32):
Hard to find a bathroom across Los Angeles.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
Can I play one of your clips and we'll talk
about it in just a second here, all right, take
a listen.
Speaker 8 (10:39):
Come with me for a day in my life as
a bathroom code influencer. After I wake up, I get dressed,
brush my teeth, chug an entire mountain too, and then
immediately vomit it back onto the driveway of my apartment building.
Speaker 7 (10:52):
Great.
Speaker 8 (10:52):
Then it's off to work. I drive to the nearest Chipotle, where,
after getting berated by the manager I sneak into the
bathroom to test out the code, and I take a
little meee time. You know, self care is super.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
Important, and you're like drinking a glass of wine. Yeah
in this moment. Yeah, there's only the audio. There's visual.
There's visual jokes here as well, but I think it's
very funny. The audio still is very funny.
Speaker 8 (11:15):
Stand outside the building and I record TikTok to tell
everyone about the bathroom and to go use it. Then
it's usually meal time. Every day for lunch, I head
over to Pinks and I order one four thousand calorie items.
Today I got the hot dog. It was so so yummy,
you guys, I definitely recommend it. Okay, Once that's done,
I hop back in my car and I usually go
(11:36):
work out at the local basketball court where I practice.
Speaker 7 (11:39):
One hundred granny shots.
Speaker 8 (11:42):
It usually takes me a few hours.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
But so it's so funny. That'd be true.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
That's a day in my life, that's your actual life.
And I think there's so much about this. There's so
many layers to this, which is one of the reasons
I want to have you in. I wanted to have
you in because like, yes, it is things that are
referential to annoying things people in LA do.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
It's also a end up of social media.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
When I started in digital media fifteen years ago or so,
probably there was nothing like people wouldn't even understand what
parody of this was because it was so.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
New.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
But now I think, like, you know, you're you're embodying
this character, but also it's like it's just it's just
so smart and so cool. Where did you come up
with this this idea? The quick answer is unemployment.
Speaker 7 (12:26):
I was I was laid off from a job, and
I was in coffee shops all day job searching, and
I was getting so fed up having to go to
these places. And they would have codes in the bathroom,
which is just more of a nuisance than it is
I think helpful even for the staff, because the staff
seems annoyed when they give you the code, and so
because they're always going to give to you about it,
(12:47):
they're always going to give it.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
We've seen what happens when Starbucks says we're not giving
the bathroom codes. It's a meltdown of epic proportions, of course.
Speaker 7 (12:54):
And eventually I just made the one video off of
a zaying kou chicken off Sunset, Bulevard. Which favorite restaurant
in La zan Kou Chicken? He uh that aside. I
all my friends were like, just keep doing these. Yeah,
just this could easily be a series.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
So now you have a repository because on your Instagram
there is a place where people can submit codes four bathrooms. Yeah,
and at first I thought maybe that there was a
way that people could see these codes, but actually it's
just you.
Speaker 7 (13:23):
No, I'm the keeper of the keys here.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
So you were had you had the doc and you
were showing me the Google doc. How many restrooms do
you have? It's about a thousand restrooms. It is across
metro La Wild.
Speaker 7 (13:34):
And also some people from like Oregon have been like, hey,
can you come up to like Beaverton And.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
Is the plan to make a video about each of
them or is it just to have it as performance.
Speaker 7 (13:44):
I mean, eventually I'd like to hit all the neighborhoods. Yeah, yeah,
you know. I I don't go to Encino nearly, and
everybody says that, yeah that's a common thing. Ma Sushi
Ro there, that's studio city. But yeah it's close enough.
Lord knows we need the bathroom codes on Sushi Row.
But yeah, I mean, listen, it's so hard to find
(14:04):
a bathroom enough in LA and people get really pressed
saying like, oh, I can't wait for people to come
trash these bathrooms. I'm like, Okay, if I'm in South
Bay and I see a bathroom code, let's say even
like up into Panga, I'm not gonna pul my ass
across the city.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
Wait, and is there any indication like someday are you
going to publish a book that has all the codes
in it. I mean, I think the permanence of that
is hilarious. To publish a book for codes that are
probably going to be changed. Yeah, I mean that's funny.
Speaker 7 (14:34):
That's also the reason why I'd love for it to
eventually become a little bit more crowdsource is because there
could be a way for this to easily be a
bypass for people to just go to the bathroom whenever
they want. I believe in bathroom access for all. I've
always said that if you ever want to come to
my house, knock on the door, set I need to
use the bathroom, no questions asked. You're coming inside. I'll
(14:57):
give you free toilet paper to take on your way home.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
This is so funny.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
So as a comedian too, you know, I know that
the Internet has provided a lot of new perspectives, for
new new places for people to be able to be seen.
Uh for good and for bad?
Speaker 5 (15:14):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (15:14):
Did you also do stand up? Or did you do
you just want to do? Like sketch or what's manly?
I'm an improviser a by trade. Uh are you used
to be groundlings?
Speaker 7 (15:22):
I do U C B Yeah, and uh I did
college improv. I was the president of my college improv team.
Were you elected a jury of your peers? It was
kind of just uh, just a nominal. I got past
the crown, I says, nobody else so the president you
were the king?
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Sir?
Speaker 7 (15:40):
Yeah, yeah, uh and uh believe me, I put it
on my hinge. Nobody paid attention.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
So yeah.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
You know what's a funny thing is that when I
was young, I was in a band and I moved
to LA to make music. And I remember thinking, like,
girls are really going to think that's cool.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
What was the name of your band? It was called
the Working Hour?
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Lot of a name?
Speaker 3 (16:00):
Is that actually is it? It's the name of a
Tears for Fear song? And what's dumb? Is that a song? Yeah,
another band. Isn't that stupid? Because of course what happens
when you google the thing, the other gets the other
band exactly. So I was very dumb. But this was
like two thousand and eight, and I got he was
dumb back. We were all dumb. Thank God for the enlightenment.
(16:20):
We know so much now. Thank you John Locke. That's
what it was. It was John Locke and Adam Smith
finally coming together at last. And and I think there's
this sense of of uh excitement around. I'd lost my
train of thought because the Dodgers.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
One.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
Sorry, this really happens to real people. We should be
talking about this. I'm sure, do you care?
Speaker 2 (16:42):
To everybody?
Speaker 7 (16:43):
I love the Dodgers. I My mom's from New York,
so I'm not gonna I'm not gonna piss off.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Is she listening? Oh I hope. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
It's late back on the East Coast. It's true. She
can listen on demand. Yeah, but let's just say I'll
send her the link.
Speaker 7 (16:58):
But I love the Dodgers, you know, they they just
I remember I was on Sunset Boulevard last year when
they won and that bus got caught on fire.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
Yeah, we were just talking about that earlier, Roner, we
were going to burn a bus.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
So we weren't the first to have that idea.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
We weren't the first to do that. Well, I I
was inspired. I take inspiration from other things in LA,
you know, I can't.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
Take rid of it, and other bands as well.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
That's also from other bands as well. Yeah, well, yeah,
I remember what I was gonna say. I thought everybody
would be really into me being in a band, and
I came out to LA and it was like, if
you're a musician, like, get away from me. You cannot
be the closest. You can't not kind of be any
farther away from it. Well, Maxwell, we're gonna take a break.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
Stay with us.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
I want to talk about some other things, including your
recent trip to zebulon Sure, and some other observations of
what it's like to be living in LA in twenty
twenty five.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand from.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
The City of Angels, where the Angelinos are celebrating the Dodgers.
Tony's historic game has carried the Dodgers past the Brewers
into the World Series, a five and one sweeping win
over the Brewers, and the NLCS show Hey, hit three
home runs. Brewers didn't get a point. Weren't even on
(18:18):
the board until the eighth inning, so it was a
foregone conclusion.
Speaker 5 (18:22):
There.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
The brooms are way out of the closet. They're sweeping
up and down Sunset Boulevard, Chavez Ravine. I'm sure is
going ham. Are we getting any reports of buses on fire?
Nothing yet, No, no conflagrations so far. It's still early.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
The night is young where we may go. Who's to say, Tony?
What are you thinking? Are you feeling good? Tony's pulling
out his headphones? Yeah, this ain't nothing like them when
the Lakers won. No, that was so good that night.
We always running the board that night. What do you
remember from from that more than anything? Uh, that's when
(19:02):
we had the show at night, was Tim and Neil. Yeah,
and you were you were just happy that you your
house is in Orange County exactly.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
But the best thing Tim just goes, don't play the ID.
Don't play the ID, and we play.
Speaker 9 (19:11):
He's a turn his mic on first, and he goes,
the Lakers have just won the championship. You have thirty
minutes to get out of la Ah, that's great. Minutes
later you said that police car upside down and on
fire was exactly thirty minutes.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
I remember that.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
My mom, you know, we were in Indiana, was appalled.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
I was a kid.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
My mom was appalled. She was like, that's what LA
people do. And I said, I'm gonna be.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
One of those people. Mom.
Speaker 9 (19:35):
At our morning show, Gaya, well you did sports Rich
Marauta was insite the Staples Center like looking out the door,
reporting it was great.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
Oh my god, it's crazy, because you know, LA does
have the capacity to.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
Get little buck wild.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
We turn up, we go a little ham and I'm
hoping that everything stays a little chill tonight. I hate
to use the Q word, as Ronnerd knows, you're never
supposed to say it. It's the opposite of loud when
referring to news, because then that's when all hell breaks loose.
But lots of excitement there. I'm sure we will try
(20:10):
to get some sound here, maybe from some of the
other local stations about celebrations that are happening there. I
bet the shortstop's going crazy. I bet people down there
in Echo Park are losing their minds in excitement.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
In studio right now.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
With Maxwell drop that drop that info in the chat
for us, mister Max, as far as your actual handle,
Maxwell Underscore.
Speaker 7 (20:35):
At Maxwell Underscore is underscore online.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
Doing a lot of comedy about Los Angeles, right, I
know where Dave Roberts is going right after this?
Speaker 7 (20:43):
Yeah, going to Zebulon.
Speaker 3 (20:45):
Do you think he's going to Zebulon the club or Aldo?
Does he have to wait in line for those places?
Speaker 2 (20:52):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (20:52):
Yeah, yeah absolutely, just like the rest of us, don't
care who the hell you are here.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
He plays the game of outside inside, outside, inside, outside, inside,
which is where you go outside and have a cigarette,
come inside.
Speaker 7 (21:03):
But then my favorite part inside, Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
You've been doing a lot of stuff, a lot of
short short form comedy on on Instagram. Do you want
to build this? What what's the what's the what's the goal?
Speaker 2 (21:17):
I got?
Speaker 3 (21:18):
That's such a stupid thing to ask and feels wrong,
But like, do you want to do scripted?
Speaker 2 (21:23):
Do you want to act?
Speaker 3 (21:23):
Do you want to do these kinds of awesome sketches
that you're doing so far?
Speaker 7 (21:28):
At some point I'd like to do anything to make
my rent there there you go, But yeah, acting's cool.
I love sketch comedy, I love improv. Would just love
to keep making these videos and keep making people, you
know laugh. Especially concerning La stuff. I think it's so niche, Like,
why does New York get to have all the fun,
you know with people say Park Avenue, they know exactly
(21:50):
where that is?
Speaker 2 (21:50):
Yeah, what did they What do they got in New York?
Speaker 7 (21:54):
The world's financial centers? Okay, right, whatever?
Speaker 3 (21:58):
Cool guys, we all saw whatever movie Wall Street was
not impressed.
Speaker 7 (22:05):
Yeah, you know what I'm going for as Halloween. I'm
going as Patrick Bateman because a lot of people like
have compared me to him in the comments of my videos.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
Only from a visual perspective. Twenty six in that movie,
that character, the character was. How old was Christopher shil Baile?
Speaker 7 (22:21):
I think was older, But the character is supposed to
be like twenty six or seven. He has like an
executive assistant and like a corner off.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
In Now we don't. We aren't those kinds of people. No,
not in La No.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
No.
Speaker 7 (22:32):
The modern economy is you door dash until you die.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
This is so true. The modern economy is you door
dash until you die. And you mean actually you are
door dashing, you're delivering.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
Yes.
Speaker 7 (22:42):
Now, that was my first job before I moved to La.
I was uber EAT's delivery driver when I graduated college.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
Where do you feel like?
Speaker 3 (22:51):
You know, sort of like the day to day of
the comedian is going these days because LA is a
lot harder than it was I think five or six
years ago.
Speaker 7 (22:57):
All right, wake up at noon, you go to an
open mic. You get an Instagram boomerang of you doing
stand up, no audio, nobody has to know that it's good.
Uh you no crowd by the way, Yeah, you can
video it, but he will have to make sure it's
the grainiest footage anyone's ever seen. Quick zooms, quick zooms.
It's even better if your captions just distract. You don't
(23:19):
have to care about the audio at all. So once
that's up, you know you've done your work for the day.
You can collect your unemployment, you can again door dash,
and then you can probably blow all your earnings that night. Yeah,
maybe Zebulon, maybe Zebulan. Maybe you know Drugstore, Cowboy, I'm
a fan of that.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
Is that a place that had a cool hot spot?
Speaker 7 (23:41):
I love? Let me put some love on drug Store. Actually,
let me gate keep drug Store because I love watching
games back.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
Okay, delete that from the podcast.
Speaker 7 (23:49):
Please, Yeah, just any bar really, and then you stay
awake until three am talking about all the comedy you
did that day, and then you can go to bed.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
Of course.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
Well, Maxwell, I really appreciate you being here, Maxwell Barnes, Uh, Maxwell,
Underscore is Underscore online.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
That's it.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
And you can submit your bathroom codes to him as please.
And you're never there for me. I gotta you're never
going to share these anywhere.
Speaker 7 (24:16):
Ah, Listen if I if I ever make it to
like one hundred thousand followers on any platform, I will
drop all right, I will drop all the bathrooms, all
the master list.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
You have my word, Los Angeles. And by the way,
when people submit these, are they generally right?
Speaker 1 (24:30):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (24:30):
Yeah, yeah? Yeah. What's the most common one?
Speaker 4 (24:33):
Is it one?
Speaker 2 (24:33):
Two through four five?
Speaker 7 (24:34):
It's yeah, one, two, three, four five, you'd be more surprised.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
Uh.
Speaker 7 (24:37):
And then it's it's usually Starbucks or Chipotle. I'm finding
are the most locked up?
Speaker 2 (24:42):
Wow? Yeah, what a world? Well, Max, thank you so
much for being here.
Speaker 3 (24:46):
Of course, we'll look for you out there in the
world in the bathrooms sponsor me.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
Demand Andy Reesemire in Tonight with you all the way
till ten pm when we handed off to George Nori
for coast to coast. But right now, feeling pretty good,
feeling pretty victorious. The Dodgers move on to the World Series,
blowing past the Brewers in a shutout five to one win.
(25:16):
Took them until the eighth inning to get the Brewers
with a point at all. They're calling this a historic
game from show Heyo Tani joining us to somebody who
knows far more about Dodgers than I will ever claim to,
even try than I could ever dream to to my
friend and yours, mister Eric Spilman from KTLA, Mister Dodgers, sir,
(25:39):
what a night.
Speaker 5 (25:41):
It was crazy. I mean, there probably has never been
a more dominant performance by a single player in a game,
in a postseason game than what we saw tonight from
Show Hey O Tani. Truly remarkable.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
That is high praise from somebody who does not exaggerate
very much.
Speaker 5 (26:01):
It really was amazing. I mean, it's like if you're
in the football analogy is like you're watching a football
game and you have a quarterback who like throws for
like five touchdowns and then plays defense in the same
bread it's like five sacks.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
This man is an animal, right, I mean, he's just
he's a specimen of baseball, but just athleticism and just
ability intelligence. I mean, it's it's incredible to watch this guy, who,
by the way, is on a team full of other superstars.
Speaker 5 (26:33):
Absolutely, And there was one home run I think the
second one that he hit that went over the roof
in the outfield. I mean, you just don't see that
very often. And he just I was watching it on
TV and he just immediately knew, of course there was
a home run. He sat there and watched it sail
(26:54):
out of the ballpark, and it's rare for it to go,
you know, over onto the other of the pavilion like that.
You don't see that very often.
Speaker 3 (27:04):
Yeah, that's like in a movie or something, you know,
that's like Angels in the outfield or a field of dreams.
Seven hundred million dollars feels pretty worth it right now,
don't you think.
Speaker 5 (27:14):
Yeah. I mean, truthfully, earlier in the postseason, he was
struggling a bit. I mean, he wasn't hitting very well.
He was striking out a lot. I think he was
hitting like one forty seven in the postseason, and then
the other day he took batting practice, which is something
he doesn't do, I mean on the field batting practice.
I know he goes to the batting cages that they
(27:35):
have at Dodger Stadium, but he actually took you know,
on the field batting practice and you know, just looking
for a way to come out of his his slump.
And he sure did come out. Whatever he did worked
for sure.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
I think that that's so true.
Speaker 3 (27:53):
And what is remarkable, as we said, is that he
made history, right the only player in Major League history
to hit three home runs and record ten strikeouts in
a game, counting both the regular season and the playoffs. Now,
of course, moving on to the World Series, Dodger's been
there before. We will find out. I guess by the weekend,
(28:14):
right who availably?
Speaker 5 (28:16):
I mean, you know, it depends, you know. Right now,
Seattle has the advantage three games to two over Toronto,
but the series moves back to Toronto, so you know,
technically they have a home field advantage. But you know,
Seattle wins one more game, it's all over, right, they'll
play on Sunday.
Speaker 3 (28:34):
And David Pinglore was telling us earlier when we were
I was doing doing weather way back earlier today on
TV which feels like a thousand years ago, that it
probably would be better for us to play Seattle than Toronto,
because Toronto is a pretty pretty good team.
Speaker 5 (28:51):
Yeah, I mean, I would have thought that Toronto would
be dominating that series. I'm kind of surprised that Seattle
has done as well as they have. But it's postseason baseball.
You know, you can never really be sure what's going
to happen, unless you're talking about the Dodgers, because really
they've they've set up a sort of baseball dynasty here.
(29:13):
It's and this is a team who at the beginning
of the season, we were we were talking about them,
and a lot of people were saying, I mean, this
is the team that is going to ruin baseball because
they're just so talented. It's it's like they're the Goliaths
and everybody else's the David. It's not even fair. And
then the second half of the season, they didn't do
(29:34):
that great. They struggled.
Speaker 3 (29:35):
There was a lot of panic button pushing on the
KTLA morning news.
Speaker 5 (29:40):
Well, I mean, I don't know about that, but it
was just like they were just disappointing. They lost a
lot of games after the All Star break and you're
thinking to yourself, what is going on with this team?
And then so the last couple of weeks of the season,
they finally began to get it together. Although this deficit
the problems they had was with the bullpen. You know,
they just didn't they you know, didn't have people that
they they could count on there. So the answer was, well,
(30:01):
we'll we'll just bypass the bullpen and we'll use the
starters for most of the game, which they've done, and
we'll bring in Sasaki And that is really the answer.
I mean, they're so talented that there's like, you know,
a number of ways to get there. Yeah, and they
if there's a problem, they just well they just figure
out a solution based on the other talented people that
they have.
Speaker 3 (30:21):
You know, what's amazing is that you're right, the charisma
and the cooperation is there in a team where everybody
is a superstar and it's almost like watching sort of
like like an All Star team where where it's a
sort of a made up thing that isn't real. You know,
I remember back in the nineties, like the NBA All
Star Games and stuff like that, But this is for real,
(30:42):
and they have shown at least now two years in
a row. There's a chance to go back to back
World champions for the Dodgers.
Speaker 5 (30:49):
Yeah, and that hasn't happened in like twenty five years
since the Yankees did it. And I just hope that
they are, you know who. I don't want to like
count my chickens before they're but if they're able to
roll through the World Series the way they did, you
know in the NLCS and the NLDS, I mean, we're
going to be having another parade. And that was just
(31:11):
a fantastic experience, the World Series Championship parade that we had,
you know, laugh time. Yeah, it would be wonderful to
have that again.
Speaker 3 (31:19):
It felt really good. I'm looking at some feed right
now of the what looks like the locker room, and
the champagne is flowing and there's lots of there's lots
of the ski masks are on, you know, the ie
goggles because there's there's so much there's so much booze
going everywhere. They've got it taped up like it's a
like it's a morgue or something with like all the
(31:41):
all the beer and everything sprayed everywhere. A lot of
excitement in La too. I don't know if did you
get to watch from home or were you out seeing
it with with some friends.
Speaker 5 (31:49):
We're we're taking part in the MS Ride that's riding
one hundred miles to support the MS Society. So we've
been watching here. We watched it at a at a
are basically if Carlsbad. I'm here in Carlsbad tomorrow we ride,
you know, our bikes for miles and miles miles. But
it's great. There's you know, even here in San Diego County,
(32:10):
you know, home of the Padres. A lot of people
are at the bar screaming.
Speaker 2 (32:13):
For the Dodgers. Amazing.
Speaker 5 (32:14):
Yeah, everybody loves a winner, a winner, right.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
Everybody loves a winner, that's right.
Speaker 3 (32:18):
Eric Spilman, real quick before we go, tell us more
about the MS bike ride and how important that is
to honor our friend Sam Rubin.
Speaker 5 (32:25):
Yeah. I mean, this is something that Sam started at
KTLA probably like thirty years ago, and he organized this
team and he said to me a long time ago,
he said, you want to ride a hundred miles to
raise money for the MS Society. And I'm like, what
are you talking about. You take a whole weekend and
he says it's a great ride. It's so much fun,
and you get to see how the whole coastline is
(32:46):
put together. You start a nervevine ride all the way
down to San Diego and I did it and I've
never stopped. Yeah, And so we continue on to honor
his legacy. If folks want to donate bike to finish.
MS dot org is the website really really great cause,
helping people, supporting people who are living with MS. It's
(33:07):
an unpredictable neurological condition. It's people in the prime of
their lives and this this really helps with medicine, medicine
and research for a cure.
Speaker 2 (33:18):
Eric Spilman, thank you so much. Go Dodgers.
Speaker 3 (33:20):
Glad you're out there doing a good thing for a
good cause, remembering a good friend.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
Go ahead, thank you, go ahead.
Speaker 5 (33:28):
Sorry, it's great to be able to continue on and
and you know, honor him and the tradition.
Speaker 2 (33:34):
That he started.
Speaker 3 (33:35):
Well, we miss him. We miss him very much every
single day. So I'm glad that we get to remember
him as much as as much as we do. Eric Spilman,
thank you so much for calling Goat Dodgers. This is
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It’s 1996 in rural North Carolina, and an oddball crew makes history when they pull off America’s third largest cash heist. But it’s all downhill from there. Join host Johnny Knoxville as he unspools a wild and woolly tale about a group of regular ‘ol folks who risked it all for a chance at a better life. CrimeLess: Hillbilly Heist answers the question: what would you do with 17.3 million dollars? The answer includes diamond rings, mansions, velvet Elvis paintings, plus a run for the border, murder-for-hire-plots, and FBI busts.
Crime Junkie
Does hearing about a true crime case always leave you scouring the internet for the truth behind the story? Dive into your next mystery with Crime Junkie. Every Monday, join your host Ashley Flowers as she unravels all the details of infamous and underreported true crime cases with her best friend Brit Prawat. From cold cases to missing persons and heroes in our community who seek justice, Crime Junkie is your destination for theories and stories you won’t hear anywhere else. Whether you're a seasoned true crime enthusiast or new to the genre, you'll find yourself on the edge of your seat awaiting a new episode every Monday. If you can never get enough true crime... Congratulations, you’ve found your people. Follow to join a community of Crime Junkies! Crime Junkie is presented by audiochuck Media Company.
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