December 2, 2025 • 33 mins
Andy kicks off the show recapping his Thanksgiving feast and the absolute madness of holiday travel, including getting mistaken for Rich DeMuro at the Hollywood Christmas Parade. He breaks down record-setting travel delays amid the shutdown and explains how airlines are reinventing first class for the post-pandemic traveler. Steve Hartman joins with a big update on Justin Herbert’s hand injury and what it means for the Chargers. Then Andy shifts to a startling study: famous people, especially musicians, may face a higher risk of dying young. And don’t forget… KFI’s big Pastathon is tomorrow!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
I'm Andy Reesmeyer. Nice to see you this afternoon, evening morning.
I have lost complete concept of time. I don't know
when it is. I don't know who I am, I
don't know what I'm doing or where I'm going. But
I'm happy to be here. If you want to find me,
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Sam also in there. We've got Matt Tofler tonight, and
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of course the one and only Mark Ronerd.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
You have a nice Thanksgiving, Andy, I.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Had a great Thanksgiving. Really yeah, it was awesome. I
feel like I've been celebrating Thanksgiving for a week and
a half. I am so swollen, I'm so bloated that
my shoes don't even fit.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
You still look like an ectomorph though. If we're just
going by body type. It's the pleats. Okay, it's the police.
Are they forgiving?
Speaker 2 (01:14):
The pleets are very forgiven. A couple of things. Did
you just see Trump cut a haircut? What a silly
thing that is. I don't know if you've seen him late?
Speaker 3 (01:22):
What know? What does it look like when he gets one?
He's still it's very cropped. It looks like he's like
it looks like he's going back to school pictures or
something like that. Wild President Trump with the haircut there.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
I just thought out of the corner of my eye,
lots coming on the show tonight, IMiD the craziness of
holiday travel, would it make it worse to know how
rich people actually fly these days? Not people rich enough
to fly private. These are people who are slumming it
still with you and me going to the TSA, having
to walk by the chilies to go. But they end
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up in first class. And I'll break down what airlines
are doing to invest into making the first class even
more opulent. And it's amazing because a lot of the
stuff that they're bringing to the first class passengers are
just things that they used to have in the golden
age of flying. We'll get into that. Then, why are
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people po'ed at Target? A free thing that they expected
was not good enough? And now they're all on social
media yelling at Target? Is Target off the mark? Why
are people saying Target is cooked? And if you like
being famous or you were hoping you would be famous,
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unfortunately can shorten your lifespan, especially if you're a singer,
life expectancy will be a lot shorter. And we're going
to take your calls on Thanksgiving leftovers, your leftover stories,
anything you didn't get to talk about at Thanksgiving, Anything
you want to share that surprised you from this week.
Did you go on a cousin walk.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Mark runner?
Speaker 4 (03:01):
How was your Thanksgiving?
Speaker 3 (03:02):
Well? I was here for it, but the night of Yeah,
but before I left, we had some delicious Portos Thanksgiving
turkey and gravy balls. Yeah, they lived up to my expectations.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Oh, I'm so happy to hear that the good the
people of Portos are are are fantastic, And I think
you know, I'm glad that you're not disappointed because the expectation,
I imagine is pretty.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
High and they reheat well in an air fryer. They're terrific.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
Oh, a little crunchy on the outside.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
First rate balls. I gotta tell you that's good. Did
you feel like you were a celebrity. I never really
felt like that, but you're You're the one who's on
the fancy TV.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Can I tell you? Yesterday was one of the most
exciting things I've ever done in my life.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
I got to be in the Hollywood Christmas Parade.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
And did people throw beads at you?
Speaker 2 (03:54):
All the beads? I took it all off ron Okay,
the Hollywood Christmas Parade is a fantastic thing. It's like
been going for ninety three years. The only two years
that it hasn't happened was like World War Two, and
I think maybe COVID, so they've been doing it. They've
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been doing it pretty well, pretty consistent. There's not a
lot of other things in Los Angeles that have been
going on for that long. Here's a little breakdown of
what the experience was like yesterday. Well, outside, I did
something that I never thought that I would ever get
to do, and I never knew I would love it
so much. I got to take a ride in the
Hollywood Christmas Parade on board in nineteen sixty five Chevy
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and Palalo Rider. We went KJLA, Samantha Cortes, Robert Plente
and me.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
They made Bobby work last night.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Isn't that the craziest thing in the world. I do
this little show on the weekend. I love it very much.
It's called Do It Live. It's a little talk show
where we talk about stuff that's going on in the news.
There's a video component that is literally the only thing
that makes it different than radio. But Bobby Gonzalez, Robert Plente,
Samantha Cortese, myself have been doing some version of this
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show for like seven years for KTLA a long time,
and we finally, I feel like, got the recognition and
the appreciation that we have always deserved. We always used
to say five Live was the show that KTLA didn't
want you to see because well, it was a little
rough around the edges, nothing is new. There wasn't a
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ton of promotion for it, that's for dang sure. But
we finally got an opportunity to ride in the parade.
And would you believe Bobby Gonzalez, who also produces the
weekend evening news as one of the producers, could not
get his shift covered to go ride in the parade.
Isn't that the craziest thing that you like, what are
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we doing here? The man could have been in the
parade and we couldn't. We couldn't find somebody for him
along Hollywood and then standing on Sunset Boulevard, floats marching bands.
Speaker 4 (06:02):
But doesn't she look great?
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Real shiny? Yeah? It was a sparkly number ronner. I'm
a sucker for a crampus sweater. Oh yeahs is very festive.
Can you let the babies know about the crampis? It's
kind of a Christmas demon that hauls away children and
spanks them and punishes them. Yeah, while they shriek and cry.
Eastern European yet festive.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
A great thing that I think more people need to
celebrate these days. The Christmas makes it upside, steals the children.
Shiny yeah, marching bands, balloons, movie cars and more.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
Look at the celebrities, there's one right there. This year's
Grand Marshall was a.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Very newly blonde Luke Wilson.
Speaker 4 (06:43):
Have you seen photos of him?
Speaker 3 (06:46):
Fully like bleached blonde.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Don't know if the new dew is possibly for an
upcoming role or he's just having a moment. Either way,
very excited for him. The parade was hosted by Eric
Strata of Chips. Of course, Stanton and Laura mackenzie were
out there as well. We were there waving some even
wave back and said, hey, it's the tech guy.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
It's a true guy.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
A lot of people think I'm Rich Damiro. I listen,
that's a handsome man. If I'm going to be confused
with anybody, I'd rather be him than many people in
the world.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
People seem to like him. Yes, he's very likable.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
He's likable in the way that, like, you know, everybody
likes vanilla ice cream.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
But what I'm saying is that you should run with
it and just let people believe that that's who you are.
You know, even if I didn't want to.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
At some point it becomes difficult because people are just
insistent that I am him. I was waiting in line
in downtown LA for an event that I was covering,
and when I was standing in line with the camera
with the photographer, I think I had my KTLA jacket
on and somebody come up came up to me and
was like, hey, Rich, Rich how you doing. You know
Rich Damia. I was like, oh, hey Andy ktlay whatever,
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and the guy was like, no, I have I've taken
pictures with you before.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
I was like, okay, cool, And he gets on his
phone and he shows.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
Me pictures of him with the rich. To me, Hey,
the customer's always right.
Speaker 4 (08:03):
I just like, I was just like, well, whatever, who cares?
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Why not costs you nothing?
Speaker 2 (08:08):
I mean the thing is that, like I feel like
the major issue is that I am not a tenth
as intelligent and well versed in technology matters as rich
to Miro. So the problem becomes is when people come
up to me with their broken eyepads and they say,
how do I do a hard reset? How do I
clear my cash? How do I check my cookies? I
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don't know what to do?
Speaker 3 (08:31):
Fake it? You'd be like, how about that game boy?
Fake it?
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Like, open up your Venmo, put in this phone number,
it's my phone number, send them one hundred and fifty
bucks and it'll fix all your problems. By Chevy, there
many hours, many out in power. Really cool to get
outside the bubble of the studio and see people.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
Now how long was the route? Like how long were
you on the back of the Chevy? There many hours,
many hours? But you know, I mean, what am I doing?
Speaker 2 (09:01):
I did not know the good the good people had
a nice and low for us before before we left up.
So I had never been to the Hollywood Christmas Parade.
As much of an la web that I am, I
I didn't know really that it existed, and I was
so shocked at how many people go to this. I
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was thinking, if I was invited, if I'm going to
go to a thing, it probably won't be well. I
just based on my own history. I tried to be
in a band. You know, I kind of got the
expectation was set pretty low. But we got there and
it was really happening. To take you upstairs into this
like holding room where they got you know, little little
glasses of wine and some petty fours.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
It was very fancy. It was much fancier than anything
I'd ever been a part of.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
So you got all liquored up before you went out there.
I had a glass of red wine. Well, I don't
know what your tolerance is. That could just make you
sloppy drunk. That's true.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
As an ectomorph with pleated pants, it goes far. No,
I would say my limit is far more than one
glass of red wine. I see, Okay, Yeah, Unfortunately, when
I think about that, I think man in the good
old days when I used to be able to like
be a real cheap date. I could just have a
glass or to a wine and be like, that's it
for me. Everybody.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
Yeah, that'm're low though. That'll eat the enamel right off
your teeth.
Speaker 4 (10:16):
You know, it was free. Who am I gonna like?
Speaker 5 (10:19):
What?
Speaker 3 (10:20):
Okay, what do I care? I don't know.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
Freeze perfect, freeze free.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
I'm Andy Reesemeyer. The number is one hundred five two
zero one five three four. That's one hundred five two
zero one KFI. If you'd like to give us a call,
tell us how your Thanksgiving went, What went well for you,
what maybe didn't go well for you.
Speaker 4 (10:45):
I was talking to Mark Chrisky today. He asked me
how Thanksgiving was. I said it was great.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
How about you?
Speaker 2 (10:50):
And he said, oh, it was great, best Thanksgiving ever.
I said yeah, and he's like, yeah, it was great
all the way up until the end. And then the
kids started they started fighting with each other. I was like,
oh really, He's like yeah. Then I had to kick
them out.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
I was like, that is a good Thanksgiving for you.
I was like, oh, I guess It was kind of crazy,
but he said, you know, it was time for everybody
to leave anyway, So there they went.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Something that was a surprise for some, maybe some in
the media who write these kinds of articles, is that
Thanksgiving set air travel records. Busiest days at the airport
ever were on Thanksgiving. More than three point one million
passengers rushed around. I don't know if they were going home.
(11:32):
Maybe you could probably say going home. November thirtieth narrowly
beat the previous records at June twenty second and the
crowds on last year's Thanksgiving Sunday. They say that the
record setting rush still materialized despite lingering apprehension among travelers
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still uneasy about potential air travel disruptions in the wake
of the longest government shut down in history. Are they
really like, we're we really concerned about what happened in
early November. When it came to traveling in late November,
I think many people thought it was a bummer to
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be stuck somewhere.
Speaker 4 (12:18):
Sure they thought they were gonna die.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
In it.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
I could hear somebody, is that Sam Sam hop up
to Mike. Sam's gonna run around get the mic. I
had the door open so I was like, I swear
I heard somebody. Yeah, no, people, I think when you
hear that all of the people that are supposed to
be in the towers are no longer in the towers,
people are like, yeah, I think I'm gonna hold off
on traveling. Let me clarify, I understand that when the
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shutdown is still occurring. I'm saying if the shutdown had
been over, it was shushed out, shutdown was over, we're
people still concerned about it and not flying home for
the holidays.
Speaker 4 (12:54):
I don't think so.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
Yeah, Now it's just a matter of maybe if they
don't have enough money to do it right. That is
very expensive. I also think that this weird glitch with
the Airbus A three twenties what a trip that is.
Airbus is sent basically software updates to all of their aircraft.
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They had to give it a new firmware so that
it could land better. That's a little bit of a
basic reduction of what exactly happened there. But they said
basically that ninety eight percent of the planes covered by
this precautionary recall had undergone necessary repairs. Essentially, there was
something with a flight management computer where the plane would
just drop potentially just go into a dive. Can't have that.
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There were some delays that were not related to any
issues at the airport as far as staffing goes. Two
thirds of departures were delayed Sunday Chicago Hair's International Airport
because of snow. And you know, if it's snowing in
Chicago and there's delays, that's a bad snow because it
always snows in Chicago, that Lake effect air. And as
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you think about traveling here into the Christmas time season,
would you be blown away to know how first class
is these days? I don't know because I don't fly
first class, But would you believe a three room suite,
leather recliners, two TVs, a thirty two inch one and
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a twenty seven inch one, a double bed, and a
bathroom with a full sized shower.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
What are you drinking champagne? What are you eating?
Speaker 2 (14:40):
Caviar, beef, tenderloin, heirloom carrots, scallops, panseared salmon, poached lobster.
I don't eat this nice on earth, let alone in
the air. Billions of dollars is being spent by airlines,
or are being spent by airlines going into improving the
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experience for people who are shelling out fifteen thousand, seventeen
twenty five thousand dollars for one ticket, fifteen to twenty
times the cost of an economy ticket, Chief executive officer
of is it ethod?
Speaker 4 (15:24):
Is that how you say it?
Speaker 3 (15:25):
Mark? Ronerd? Do you know? No, I don't eat air?
Speaker 4 (15:28):
E thought it todd?
Speaker 3 (15:30):
How do you spell it?
Speaker 4 (15:31):
E E T I H A D. I'm gonna like
look up a pronunciation.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
Yeah, you're on your own, just carrying out, push through
this one Etsy hod etsi hod okay sure etti HUD's
largest jets already have those renaissance or those residence rooms
rather the three room layout three thousand dollars above your
one way upgrade or on top of your one way ticket.
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You got to spend an additional three thousand dollars on
top of your first class ticket, and if you can't
book it in time, you're going to have to do
with the first apartment area that is what they call it,
which features sliding doors for privacy and access to a
lounge for mingling. So these lounges are kind of cool.
Speaker 4 (16:20):
I've seen this.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
A couple of the A three eighties have these big
old lounges in the back where I think Emirates has
this also, where you go in the back and there's
an actual bar, like you stand up and there's a
person who's making cocktails. All of it's free and you
can just grab a drink and hang out for your
ten hour flight. This is something that they used to
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do back. I think Continental did this before the oil
crisis of the nineteen seventies. You had a bunch of
airlines that had bars. There's a really cool old commercial
off Fine maybe when we come back and play it
for you about a guy who can't sleep on his
Continental seven to foury so he wakes up and he
wanders he hears something, goes to the back of the plane,
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the second level, you know, the double decker plane seven
forty seven, and there's a piano player there and a
bar servant drinks. Very cool coming up, Steve Hartman from
k t LA. We'll talk to us about Justin Herbert,
the Chargers' chances now that the star quarterback has been injured.
Speaker 4 (17:25):
Got a finger injury. Hate to see it. I'm Andy Reesemeyer.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
Give us a call one hundred five two zero one
five three four tell us about your Thanksgiving experience.
Speaker 4 (17:36):
One hundred five two zero one five three four.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
I I'm Andy Reesemeyer. Nice to see you this evening
on this Monday, December first, just past seven point thirty
seven or so Chargers versus Raiders. Yesterday, Chargers pull out
a win at SOFI Stadium thirty one to fourteen. But
the big loser was Justin Herbert's little finger on his
left hand. Broken left hand after being tackled at some
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point during the game. He continued to play, though I
believe his hand was wrapped up in what looked like
a big old glove. Was scheduled for surgery today. But
an update on what's going on with Justin Herbert, his
hand and the future of the Chargers this season. Checking
in with KTLA's and also the mister worldwide broadcaster Steve Hartman.
Speaker 4 (18:33):
Good evening, Hey Annie, how you doing man?
Speaker 5 (18:37):
Yeah? The Justin Herbert situation, he had the surgery on
that left hand, and the way the Chargers are treating
this right now is they are going to evaluate day
to day. I'll put it this way. They don't have
any Raiders left on their schedule like that was the
free spot on the Bingo board. Their last five games
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Andy are brutal, brutal. They play the Super Bowl champion
Eagles next, and then they're at Kansas City against the
Chiefs at Dallas, the Cowboys are suddenly hot. Then they
have a home game against the Houston Texans that has
the number one defense in the NFL. And then they
finish the road at Denver, who is currently the top seed.
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Well actually, with New England winning tonight, a team that's
in first place in the n SUS. So they have
no gimmes left on their schedule, and obviously to have
any chance in those games, they need Justin Herbert as
healthy as possible.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
Absolutely, he's been hurt before. I believe his on his
right hand. In twenty twenty three he broke a finger
as well. This guy gets hurt a lot, and I
don't know if that's because people are trying to hurt him.
It seemed like there was a I know, I know
that Raiders Chargers are typically a sort of chippy bunch,
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but a lot of physicality in the game yesterday.
Speaker 5 (19:59):
Well, first, he's not the only guy that gets hurt.
Remember the Chargers lost both of their starting offensive tackles,
which is a big reason why the quarterback's getting in Yeah,
look at this has been a curse. Andy. I have
been following the Chargers forever. Okay, I mean literally forever
longer than you've been alive. So I've been I've been
around this Charge organization, and they seem to be absolutely
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cursed when it comes to injuries, year after year after
year after year. There's a reason why the Chargers are
one of the few franchises that has never won a
Super Bowl. They've only been to one Super Bowl. They
got blown out. I was at that game in Miami
thirty years ago, and this is just another example. I mean,
the team is city at eight and four. It's good
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record right now, but like I said, they've got five
games left, none of them are gimmes. And now the
quarterback has an injury. Now, how does this affect him?
We'll see. Obviously it's not his throwing hands, so I
can still throw the ball. But the idea that you
can play the quarterback position with one hand is not true,
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especially when you have a quarterback that lines up under
center and when you're taking a snap, you really need
both hands on the ball as best you can, and
he's gonna have a glove, he's gonna have a light
cast on that left hand. But yeah, I mean this,
this is just year after year after year, the Chargers
seem to take one step forward and two step back,
usually because of injuries.
Speaker 3 (21:24):
I know that.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
For Chargers fans though, which I think there's there's still
a few of them.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
You might have been interesting watching so far last night.
It's like every time it was like a home game
for the Raiders almost because anytime they had.
Speaker 5 (21:37):
Game, they play. Yeah, you know, look this this is
the honest truth about this, Andy, and I'm gonna be
as honest as I possibly can. Nobody in LA wanted
the Chargers. Yeah, nobody wanted the Chargers in La. In fact,
l As Here's the thing. I worked for many years,
as you know, in San Diego. So I know San Diego,
I know La. You know I'm an LA guy, and
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nobody in LA hates San Diego. Like everyone loves San Diego.
Why would you not love San die It's one of
the most beautiful cities in the world. You go down there,
you take the weekend, the weather is always perfect, and
I never thought anything of it until I moved to
San Diego and I'm like, wow, they really hate LA,
like they really ate l A, I know. And so
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the LA has thought about the Chargers for years was
is that, Hey, it's a great excuse to go down
in San Diego, you know, go down watch a Charger
game at the big stadium they had down there at
the time, and nobody in LA wanted the Chargers. Look,
there's there's a there's a there's a there's a base
of Charger fans. It has not expanded, and by the way,
neither has the Rams base. With all the success the
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Rams have had, even when he has Super Bowl, when
they do polling of people that identify themselves in LA
as NFL fans and they ask them, okay, you're an
NFL fan, who's your favorite team? Raiders?
Speaker 4 (22:57):
Of course the Raiders.
Speaker 5 (22:59):
The Raiders still more as bad as the Raiders are.
The Raiders still have more fans in LA than there
are Ram fans and Charger fans, which obviously showed up.
But almost every single home game that the Chargers have,
the opposing team has more fans in the stands and
the Chargers. And that's just the fact and the people
in San Diego felt completely abandoned. You know, they were
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begging people to come up from San Diego, and the
San Diego fans said, yeah, rag my ass up to
LA right away. You left goodbye. Don't let the door
hit you on the way out.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
So what do you think that means for, if anything,
a future of these franchises in Los Angeles.
Speaker 5 (23:41):
Any That is a great question. The NFL is desperate
to get LA to respond. I mean, look in any
other city in this country where there is an NFL team,
even if there's a Major League Baseball team or NHL
team or an NBA team, the NFL rules. That is
not the case in LA. You know that the Dodgers
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and the Lakers are one A and one B. L
control the sports market here and nothing is going to
change that. So I don't know. I mean, it's been
ten years now since the Rams moved backs, nine years
since the Chargers have been here, and nothing has really changed.
And I know there's Ram fans. Are Charger fans listening
right now screaming, Oh are you a fans? I'm like,
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I'm not talking about you, I'm not talking about the
die hards. My son is a die hard Charger fan,
one my youngest son. So there are fans, but they're
not growing their fan base. It's not like, you know,
the whole city is suddenly buzzing about the Rams or
the Charge all the Rams Citty where they are.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
Right now, right, And isn't that a surprise given the
fact that, like the teams are not doing terribly.
Speaker 4 (24:47):
I mean, you could be doing a lot worse.
Speaker 5 (24:49):
No, I mean, the Rams are nine and three, the
Chargers are eight and four right now, but they are
both in the playoffs. These are good teams. They have
great quarterbacks. You know, they have great coaches. I mean,
the hiring of Jim Harbor was a coup for the Chargers.
You know, Sean McVay obviously one of the best coaches
in the league for a Ram, So they've they've done
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everything they can. I don't know what it is. I mean,
Sofi Stadium. I don't know if you've been out to
Sobach Stadium, you know, I mean it's I'm not a
huge fan of Sofi Stadium, but certainly it's not one
of the worst places. You know, It's hosted Super Bowls
and everything else. So I'm not quite sure what it is.
It's just the fact that this city is so married
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to the Dodgers and the Lakers that just doesn't seem
enough room for everyone to, you know, really jump in
and just go. You know absolutely, you know, all In
Well already a fan to begin.
Speaker 4 (25:45):
With, that's right.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
And if you keep winning World Series, especially all the
way deep into October, all the way almost to November,
you're gonna be taking a little bit of that thunder
from anybody who's doing anything on a football field. So
Steve Hartman, thank you so much for being with us tonight.
I always appreciate you. I'll let you go. I know
you're a busy man. Go Chargers. Let's see December eighth
against the Eagles, Monday night football. That gives Justin Herbert
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a full week to recover at least a little bit.
Speaker 5 (26:12):
And my guess is he will play Andy. I mean,
it's too big of a game. They need him out there.
He's a battler, I have no question. I mean, Herbert's
an elite quarterback. He will make sure that he is
out on the field for that money.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
And I came well said, and you can listen to
that all right here on. I am six forty Steve Hartman,
thanks for being with us.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
Tomorrow is the big pasta Thon day, as you heard
Gary and Channon talking about in that look Ahead promo.
Speaker 4 (26:49):
I'll be down there tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
I'm heading up after the KTLA Morning News wraps up
at eleven am, head on down the five Freeway. If
I leave at eleven am from Hollywood to go down
to Anaheim, will I make it by Conway's show?
Speaker 3 (27:07):
Maybe? I think you will.
Speaker 4 (27:09):
Yeah, you think so.
Speaker 3 (27:10):
Oh. The one time that I went, it was a
bit of an odyssey getting there, Oh, buddy, because you
get off the Five, it's like an apocalypse. Now, you'd
never get off the boat.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
You tried to do a little jog around on the
surface street.
Speaker 3 (27:25):
Yeah, And I mean, I live to tell about it,
but I think just barely.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
It's really crazy that, you know, the stretch from in
Los Angeles County, from downtown LA to Orange County is
one of the most harrowing and like you guaranteed miserable
experiences of being in southern California. Harrowing is a perfect
word for that drive. I was heading out way. I
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went out to Riverside County this weekend and I got stuck,
I think in Redlands. Backed up all the way to
Redlands from Cabazon on Friday. It took me four hours
in thirty minutes to drive one hundred and twenty miles.
Did that give you adequate time for self reflection? I've
reflected so many times that like I've solved all my
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issues and then I created new ones.
Speaker 3 (28:13):
Oh well, you don't want that.
Speaker 4 (28:14):
No, it's a terrible thing.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
A lot of time spent thinking about yourself, especially if
you're someone who wants to be famous, but being famous
can shorten your lifespan. We are dying for attention quite literally.
A WHO study found that being famous comes at a cost,
a higher risk of death for famous singers compared to
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singers who have not made it. Scientists got a list
of three hundred and twenty four music stars, people like
Elvis Presley, Kurt Cobain, Sam Cook, Channis Joplin. Then they
match the heavy hitters with three hundred and twenty four
twin musicians that were not household names but otherwise had
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many similar characteristics like gender, nationality, genre, Right around same birthday.
They wanted to compare the life spans of A listers
and B listers to isolate the extent to which fame
itself is a mortality risk. Higher risk for death for
famous singers compared to ones who don't make it. Never
(29:18):
thought I'd be so happy to have been has been.
Famous singers have a four year shorter life expectancy than
those who do not achieve stardom. Factors are unsurprisingly lifestyle,
but even singers who are working in the music business
fair better than the ones who are famous. The risk
of death gets higher after they become famous. They say
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that being famous gives you a unique kind of stress,
intense scrutiny, performance pressure, no privacy, and a whole host
of harmful coping mechanisms. You think of the twenty seven
club artists who don't make it past the age of
twenty seven, like I said Kurt Cobain, Jim Morrison, Jimmy Hendrix,
(30:02):
Amy Winehouse, Janis Joplin. Weirdly, though, being part of a
band was linked to a twenty six percent lower risk
of death compared to going solo. Smoking The gates this,
by the way, completely so if you smoke, you have
a thirty four percent higher risk of death.
Speaker 4 (30:18):
No matter what.
Speaker 3 (30:22):
Neat. I'm not saying I don't want you to hit
the big time. I'm just saying don't want you to
die on the toilet in your forties eating a ham sandwich.
Well you're yeah, Tom MoMA cast went right. Well that's
the that's the legend. I don't know how true that.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
You know, there are a preponderance of rumors about famous
musicians dying young involving sandwiches.
Speaker 3 (30:47):
Well, you got to be careful handling a sandwich, I guess.
So is that why you've moved on to the portho's balls. Yeah,
it's hard to hard to mess those up. These they're
rarely lethal, the portho's balls, right, Easier to handle those, yeah,
than a sandway. You just reminded me that the blind
melon guy, Shannon Hoon died when he was twenty eight,
and I think I did the final interview with him.
Speaker 4 (31:07):
Did you really?
Speaker 3 (31:08):
I think I did.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
Was he in a state when you talk to him
or did any indication that he was?
Speaker 3 (31:14):
No, he indicated that he was on the straight and narrow,
and that very quickly turned out to be.
Speaker 4 (31:19):
Maybe, oh man, not so true. Did you interview him
up in Seattle?
Speaker 3 (31:23):
No, it was in Indiana. I believe he was from there. Oh,
that's kind of cool.
Speaker 4 (31:28):
He was a hoosier. I didn't know that. Yeah, a
fellow hoosier with you, that's right.
Speaker 3 (31:31):
And I think he was a little annoyed that the
girl in the bee outfit was getting so much attention
from you. No, No, a bit young for me. I
don't know who you think you're talking to. I don't
know that that was thirty years ago. I know, I
know we're so old. How could he have been a
bit young? How could they have been a bit young
for you? That doesn't the math doesn't even. I can't
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even believe that you were working well, it was. It
was my first newspaper. I was going to say, you
must have been a young cob reporter and so, you know,
you get thrown into these situations, but you never know
you I'm sure you've interviewed lots of celebrities as well.
Some have gone on to achieve greatness, others have crashed
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and burned. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
Yeah, we always say on KTLA we get him on
the way up.
Speaker 3 (32:16):
And the way down. Yeah yeah. I interviewed Mel Gibson.
Was one of my first interviews, and I'm not sure
how to characterize where he is right now. He's had
his ups and downs.
Speaker 2 (32:27):
Well these days it's like up and down doesn't mean
what it used to, you know, because you can kind
of like live on the fringes and do okay these days.
Speaker 3 (32:34):
Well, he certainly didn't join the twenty seven club. He
did not, you could say that at the very least,
at the very least.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
We've got lots more coming up in the next hour,
including last chance for some cyber Monday deals that's kind
of fun, and freezing temperatures are back in the forecast.
Speaker 4 (32:48):
So much for seventies runner
Speaker 1 (32:51):
KFI AM six on demand
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
I'm Andy Reesmeyer. Nice to see you this afternoon, evening morning.
I have lost complete concept of time. I don't know
when it is. I don't know who I am, I
don't know what I'm doing or where I'm going. But
I'm happy to be here. If you want to find me,
you can find me on the internet at Andy KTLA.
Always look forward to hearing from you there on Instagram
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or Twitter x. You could, also, of course leave us
a talk back on the iHeartRadio app. Look for that microphone.
Leave a little message up to thirty seconds and we
will play it on the show. I guarantee you. Alongside
mister Oliver Boone on the Ones and Twoes, we've got
Sam also in there. We've got Matt Tofler tonight, and
(00:49):
of course the one and only Mark Ronerd.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
You have a nice Thanksgiving, Andy, I.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Had a great Thanksgiving. Really yeah, it was awesome. I
feel like I've been celebrating Thanksgiving for a week and
a half. I am so swollen, I'm so bloated that
my shoes don't even fit.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
You still look like an ectomorph though. If we're just
going by body type. It's the pleats. Okay, it's the police.
Are they forgiving?
Speaker 2 (01:14):
The pleets are very forgiven. A couple of things. Did
you just see Trump cut a haircut? What a silly
thing that is. I don't know if you've seen him late?
Speaker 3 (01:22):
What know? What does it look like when he gets one?
He's still it's very cropped. It looks like he's like
it looks like he's going back to school pictures or
something like that. Wild President Trump with the haircut there.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
I just thought out of the corner of my eye,
lots coming on the show tonight, IMiD the craziness of
holiday travel, would it make it worse to know how
rich people actually fly these days? Not people rich enough
to fly private. These are people who are slumming it
still with you and me going to the TSA, having
to walk by the chilies to go. But they end
(01:58):
up in first class. And I'll break down what airlines
are doing to invest into making the first class even
more opulent. And it's amazing because a lot of the
stuff that they're bringing to the first class passengers are
just things that they used to have in the golden
age of flying. We'll get into that. Then, why are
(02:18):
people po'ed at Target? A free thing that they expected
was not good enough? And now they're all on social
media yelling at Target? Is Target off the mark? Why
are people saying Target is cooked? And if you like
being famous or you were hoping you would be famous,
(02:38):
unfortunately can shorten your lifespan, especially if you're a singer,
life expectancy will be a lot shorter. And we're going
to take your calls on Thanksgiving leftovers, your leftover stories,
anything you didn't get to talk about at Thanksgiving, Anything
you want to share that surprised you from this week.
Did you go on a cousin walk.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Mark runner?
Speaker 4 (03:01):
How was your Thanksgiving?
Speaker 3 (03:02):
Well? I was here for it, but the night of Yeah,
but before I left, we had some delicious Portos Thanksgiving
turkey and gravy balls. Yeah, they lived up to my expectations.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Oh, I'm so happy to hear that the good the
people of Portos are are are fantastic, And I think
you know, I'm glad that you're not disappointed because the expectation,
I imagine is pretty.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
High and they reheat well in an air fryer. They're terrific.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
Oh, a little crunchy on the outside.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
First rate balls. I gotta tell you that's good. Did
you feel like you were a celebrity. I never really
felt like that, but you're You're the one who's on
the fancy TV.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Can I tell you? Yesterday was one of the most
exciting things I've ever done in my life.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
I got to be in the Hollywood Christmas Parade.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
And did people throw beads at you?
Speaker 2 (03:54):
All the beads? I took it all off ron Okay,
the Hollywood Christmas Parade is a fantastic thing. It's like
been going for ninety three years. The only two years
that it hasn't happened was like World War Two, and
I think maybe COVID, so they've been doing it. They've
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been doing it pretty well, pretty consistent. There's not a
lot of other things in Los Angeles that have been
going on for that long. Here's a little breakdown of
what the experience was like yesterday. Well, outside, I did
something that I never thought that I would ever get
to do, and I never knew I would love it
so much. I got to take a ride in the
Hollywood Christmas Parade on board in nineteen sixty five Chevy
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and Palalo Rider. We went KJLA, Samantha Cortes, Robert Plente
and me.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
They made Bobby work last night.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Isn't that the craziest thing in the world. I do
this little show on the weekend. I love it very much.
It's called Do It Live. It's a little talk show
where we talk about stuff that's going on in the news.
There's a video component that is literally the only thing
that makes it different than radio. But Bobby Gonzalez, Robert Plente,
Samantha Cortese, myself have been doing some version of this
(05:07):
show for like seven years for KTLA a long time,
and we finally, I feel like, got the recognition and
the appreciation that we have always deserved. We always used
to say five Live was the show that KTLA didn't
want you to see because well, it was a little
rough around the edges, nothing is new. There wasn't a
(05:30):
ton of promotion for it, that's for dang sure. But
we finally got an opportunity to ride in the parade.
And would you believe Bobby Gonzalez, who also produces the
weekend evening news as one of the producers, could not
get his shift covered to go ride in the parade.
Isn't that the craziest thing that you like, what are
(05:51):
we doing here? The man could have been in the
parade and we couldn't. We couldn't find somebody for him
along Hollywood and then standing on Sunset Boulevard, floats marching bands.
Speaker 4 (06:02):
But doesn't she look great?
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Real shiny? Yeah? It was a sparkly number ronner. I'm
a sucker for a crampus sweater. Oh yeahs is very festive.
Can you let the babies know about the crampis? It's
kind of a Christmas demon that hauls away children and
spanks them and punishes them. Yeah, while they shriek and cry.
Eastern European yet festive.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
A great thing that I think more people need to
celebrate these days. The Christmas makes it upside, steals the children.
Shiny yeah, marching bands, balloons, movie cars and more.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
Look at the celebrities, there's one right there. This year's
Grand Marshall was a.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Very newly blonde Luke Wilson.
Speaker 4 (06:43):
Have you seen photos of him?
Speaker 3 (06:46):
Fully like bleached blonde.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Don't know if the new dew is possibly for an
upcoming role or he's just having a moment. Either way,
very excited for him. The parade was hosted by Eric
Strata of Chips. Of course, Stanton and Laura mackenzie were
out there as well. We were there waving some even
wave back and said, hey, it's the tech guy.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
It's a true guy.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
A lot of people think I'm Rich Damiro. I listen,
that's a handsome man. If I'm going to be confused
with anybody, I'd rather be him than many people in
the world.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
People seem to like him. Yes, he's very likable.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
He's likable in the way that, like, you know, everybody
likes vanilla ice cream.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
But what I'm saying is that you should run with
it and just let people believe that that's who you are.
You know, even if I didn't want to.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
At some point it becomes difficult because people are just
insistent that I am him. I was waiting in line
in downtown LA for an event that I was covering,
and when I was standing in line with the camera
with the photographer, I think I had my KTLA jacket
on and somebody come up came up to me and
was like, hey, Rich, Rich how you doing. You know
Rich Damia. I was like, oh, hey Andy ktlay whatever,
(07:51):
and the guy was like, no, I have I've taken
pictures with you before.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
I was like, okay, cool, And he gets on his
phone and he shows.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
Me pictures of him with the rich. To me, Hey,
the customer's always right.
Speaker 4 (08:03):
I just like, I was just like, well, whatever, who cares?
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Why not costs you nothing?
Speaker 2 (08:08):
I mean the thing is that, like I feel like
the major issue is that I am not a tenth
as intelligent and well versed in technology matters as rich
to Miro. So the problem becomes is when people come
up to me with their broken eyepads and they say,
how do I do a hard reset? How do I
clear my cash? How do I check my cookies? I
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don't know what to do?
Speaker 3 (08:31):
Fake it? You'd be like, how about that game boy?
Fake it?
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Like, open up your Venmo, put in this phone number,
it's my phone number, send them one hundred and fifty
bucks and it'll fix all your problems. By Chevy, there
many hours, many out in power. Really cool to get
outside the bubble of the studio and see people.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
Now how long was the route? Like how long were
you on the back of the Chevy? There many hours,
many hours? But you know, I mean, what am I doing?
Speaker 2 (09:01):
I did not know the good the good people had
a nice and low for us before before we left up.
So I had never been to the Hollywood Christmas Parade.
As much of an la web that I am, I
I didn't know really that it existed, and I was
so shocked at how many people go to this. I
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was thinking, if I was invited, if I'm going to
go to a thing, it probably won't be well. I
just based on my own history. I tried to be
in a band. You know, I kind of got the
expectation was set pretty low. But we got there and
it was really happening. To take you upstairs into this
like holding room where they got you know, little little
glasses of wine and some petty fours.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
It was very fancy. It was much fancier than anything
I'd ever been a part of.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
So you got all liquored up before you went out there.
I had a glass of red wine. Well, I don't
know what your tolerance is. That could just make you
sloppy drunk. That's true.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
As an ectomorph with pleated pants, it goes far. No,
I would say my limit is far more than one
glass of red wine. I see, Okay, Yeah, Unfortunately, when
I think about that, I think man in the good
old days when I used to be able to like
be a real cheap date. I could just have a
glass or to a wine and be like, that's it
for me. Everybody.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
Yeah, that'm're low though. That'll eat the enamel right off
your teeth.
Speaker 4 (10:16):
You know, it was free. Who am I gonna like?
Speaker 5 (10:19):
What?
Speaker 3 (10:20):
Okay, what do I care? I don't know.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
Freeze perfect, freeze free.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
I'm Andy Reesemeyer. The number is one hundred five two
zero one five three four. That's one hundred five two
zero one KFI. If you'd like to give us a call,
tell us how your Thanksgiving went, What went well for you,
what maybe didn't go well for you.
Speaker 4 (10:45):
I was talking to Mark Chrisky today. He asked me
how Thanksgiving was. I said it was great.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
How about you?
Speaker 2 (10:50):
And he said, oh, it was great, best Thanksgiving ever.
I said yeah, and he's like, yeah, it was great
all the way up until the end. And then the
kids started they started fighting with each other. I was like,
oh really, He's like yeah. Then I had to kick
them out.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
I was like, that is a good Thanksgiving for you.
I was like, oh, I guess It was kind of crazy,
but he said, you know, it was time for everybody
to leave anyway, So there they went.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Something that was a surprise for some, maybe some in
the media who write these kinds of articles, is that
Thanksgiving set air travel records. Busiest days at the airport
ever were on Thanksgiving. More than three point one million
passengers rushed around. I don't know if they were going home.
(11:32):
Maybe you could probably say going home. November thirtieth narrowly
beat the previous records at June twenty second and the
crowds on last year's Thanksgiving Sunday. They say that the
record setting rush still materialized despite lingering apprehension among travelers
(11:53):
still uneasy about potential air travel disruptions in the wake
of the longest government shut down in history. Are they
really like, we're we really concerned about what happened in
early November. When it came to traveling in late November,
I think many people thought it was a bummer to
(12:16):
be stuck somewhere.
Speaker 4 (12:18):
Sure they thought they were gonna die.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
In it.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
I could hear somebody, is that Sam Sam hop up
to Mike. Sam's gonna run around get the mic. I
had the door open so I was like, I swear
I heard somebody. Yeah, no, people, I think when you
hear that all of the people that are supposed to
be in the towers are no longer in the towers,
people are like, yeah, I think I'm gonna hold off
on traveling. Let me clarify, I understand that when the
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shutdown is still occurring. I'm saying if the shutdown had
been over, it was shushed out, shutdown was over, we're
people still concerned about it and not flying home for
the holidays.
Speaker 4 (12:54):
I don't think so.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
Yeah, Now it's just a matter of maybe if they
don't have enough money to do it right. That is
very expensive. I also think that this weird glitch with
the Airbus A three twenties what a trip that is.
Airbus is sent basically software updates to all of their aircraft.
(13:17):
They had to give it a new firmware so that
it could land better. That's a little bit of a
basic reduction of what exactly happened there. But they said
basically that ninety eight percent of the planes covered by
this precautionary recall had undergone necessary repairs. Essentially, there was
something with a flight management computer where the plane would
just drop potentially just go into a dive. Can't have that.
(13:45):
There were some delays that were not related to any
issues at the airport as far as staffing goes. Two
thirds of departures were delayed Sunday Chicago Hair's International Airport
because of snow. And you know, if it's snowing in
Chicago and there's delays, that's a bad snow because it
always snows in Chicago, that Lake effect air. And as
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you think about traveling here into the Christmas time season,
would you be blown away to know how first class
is these days? I don't know because I don't fly
first class, But would you believe a three room suite,
leather recliners, two TVs, a thirty two inch one and
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a twenty seven inch one, a double bed, and a
bathroom with a full sized shower.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
What are you drinking champagne? What are you eating?
Speaker 2 (14:40):
Caviar, beef, tenderloin, heirloom carrots, scallops, panseared salmon, poached lobster.
I don't eat this nice on earth, let alone in
the air. Billions of dollars is being spent by airlines,
or are being spent by airlines going into improving the
(15:04):
experience for people who are shelling out fifteen thousand, seventeen
twenty five thousand dollars for one ticket, fifteen to twenty
times the cost of an economy ticket, Chief executive officer
of is it ethod?
Speaker 4 (15:24):
Is that how you say it?
Speaker 3 (15:25):
Mark? Ronerd? Do you know? No, I don't eat air?
Speaker 4 (15:28):
E thought it todd?
Speaker 3 (15:30):
How do you spell it?
Speaker 4 (15:31):
E E T I H A D. I'm gonna like
look up a pronunciation.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
Yeah, you're on your own, just carrying out, push through
this one Etsy hod etsi hod okay sure etti HUD's
largest jets already have those renaissance or those residence rooms
rather the three room layout three thousand dollars above your
one way upgrade or on top of your one way ticket.
(16:00):
You got to spend an additional three thousand dollars on
top of your first class ticket, and if you can't
book it in time, you're going to have to do
with the first apartment area that is what they call it,
which features sliding doors for privacy and access to a
lounge for mingling. So these lounges are kind of cool.
Speaker 4 (16:20):
I've seen this.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
A couple of the A three eighties have these big
old lounges in the back where I think Emirates has
this also, where you go in the back and there's
an actual bar, like you stand up and there's a
person who's making cocktails. All of it's free and you
can just grab a drink and hang out for your
ten hour flight. This is something that they used to
(16:43):
do back. I think Continental did this before the oil
crisis of the nineteen seventies. You had a bunch of
airlines that had bars. There's a really cool old commercial
off Fine maybe when we come back and play it
for you about a guy who can't sleep on his
Continental seven to foury so he wakes up and he
wanders he hears something, goes to the back of the plane,
(17:05):
the second level, you know, the double decker plane seven
forty seven, and there's a piano player there and a
bar servant drinks. Very cool coming up, Steve Hartman from
k t LA. We'll talk to us about Justin Herbert,
the Chargers' chances now that the star quarterback has been injured.
Speaker 4 (17:25):
Got a finger injury. Hate to see it. I'm Andy Reesemeyer.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
Give us a call one hundred five two zero one
five three four tell us about your Thanksgiving experience.
Speaker 4 (17:36):
One hundred five two zero one five three four.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
I I'm Andy Reesemeyer. Nice to see you this evening
on this Monday, December first, just past seven point thirty
seven or so Chargers versus Raiders. Yesterday, Chargers pull out
a win at SOFI Stadium thirty one to fourteen. But
the big loser was Justin Herbert's little finger on his
left hand. Broken left hand after being tackled at some
(18:09):
point during the game. He continued to play, though I
believe his hand was wrapped up in what looked like
a big old glove. Was scheduled for surgery today. But
an update on what's going on with Justin Herbert, his
hand and the future of the Chargers this season. Checking
in with KTLA's and also the mister worldwide broadcaster Steve Hartman.
Speaker 4 (18:33):
Good evening, Hey Annie, how you doing man?
Speaker 5 (18:37):
Yeah? The Justin Herbert situation, he had the surgery on
that left hand, and the way the Chargers are treating
this right now is they are going to evaluate day
to day. I'll put it this way. They don't have
any Raiders left on their schedule like that was the
free spot on the Bingo board. Their last five games
(19:00):
Andy are brutal, brutal. They play the Super Bowl champion
Eagles next, and then they're at Kansas City against the
Chiefs at Dallas, the Cowboys are suddenly hot. Then they
have a home game against the Houston Texans that has
the number one defense in the NFL. And then they
finish the road at Denver, who is currently the top seed.
(19:21):
Well actually, with New England winning tonight, a team that's
in first place in the n SUS. So they have
no gimmes left on their schedule, and obviously to have
any chance in those games, they need Justin Herbert as
healthy as possible.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
Absolutely, he's been hurt before. I believe his on his
right hand. In twenty twenty three he broke a finger
as well. This guy gets hurt a lot, and I
don't know if that's because people are trying to hurt him.
It seemed like there was a I know, I know
that Raiders Chargers are typically a sort of chippy bunch,
(19:54):
but a lot of physicality in the game yesterday.
Speaker 5 (19:59):
Well, first, he's not the only guy that gets hurt.
Remember the Chargers lost both of their starting offensive tackles,
which is a big reason why the quarterback's getting in Yeah,
look at this has been a curse. Andy. I have
been following the Chargers forever. Okay, I mean literally forever
longer than you've been alive. So I've been I've been
around this Charge organization, and they seem to be absolutely
(20:22):
cursed when it comes to injuries, year after year after
year after year. There's a reason why the Chargers are
one of the few franchises that has never won a
Super Bowl. They've only been to one Super Bowl. They
got blown out. I was at that game in Miami
thirty years ago, and this is just another example. I mean,
the team is city at eight and four. It's good
(20:43):
record right now, but like I said, they've got five
games left, none of them are gimmes. And now the
quarterback has an injury. Now, how does this affect him?
We'll see. Obviously it's not his throwing hands, so I
can still throw the ball. But the idea that you
can play the quarterback position with one hand is not true,
(21:03):
especially when you have a quarterback that lines up under
center and when you're taking a snap, you really need
both hands on the ball as best you can, and
he's gonna have a glove, he's gonna have a light
cast on that left hand. But yeah, I mean this,
this is just year after year after year, the Chargers
seem to take one step forward and two step back,
usually because of injuries.
Speaker 3 (21:24):
I know that.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
For Chargers fans though, which I think there's there's still
a few of them.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
You might have been interesting watching so far last night.
It's like every time it was like a home game
for the Raiders almost because anytime they had.
Speaker 5 (21:37):
Game, they play. Yeah, you know, look this this is
the honest truth about this, Andy, and I'm gonna be
as honest as I possibly can. Nobody in LA wanted
the Chargers. Yeah, nobody wanted the Chargers in La. In fact,
l As Here's the thing. I worked for many years,
as you know, in San Diego. So I know San Diego,
I know La. You know I'm an LA guy, and
(22:00):
nobody in LA hates San Diego. Like everyone loves San Diego.
Why would you not love San die It's one of
the most beautiful cities in the world. You go down there,
you take the weekend, the weather is always perfect, and
I never thought anything of it until I moved to
San Diego and I'm like, wow, they really hate LA,
like they really ate l A, I know. And so
(22:24):
the LA has thought about the Chargers for years was
is that, Hey, it's a great excuse to go down
in San Diego, you know, go down watch a Charger
game at the big stadium they had down there at
the time, and nobody in LA wanted the Chargers. Look,
there's there's a there's a there's a there's a base
of Charger fans. It has not expanded, and by the way,
neither has the Rams base. With all the success the
(22:45):
Rams have had, even when he has Super Bowl, when
they do polling of people that identify themselves in LA
as NFL fans and they ask them, okay, you're an
NFL fan, who's your favorite team? Raiders?
Speaker 4 (22:57):
Of course the Raiders.
Speaker 5 (22:59):
The Raiders still more as bad as the Raiders are.
The Raiders still have more fans in LA than there
are Ram fans and Charger fans, which obviously showed up.
But almost every single home game that the Chargers have,
the opposing team has more fans in the stands and
the Chargers. And that's just the fact and the people
in San Diego felt completely abandoned. You know, they were
(23:21):
begging people to come up from San Diego, and the
San Diego fans said, yeah, rag my ass up to
LA right away. You left goodbye. Don't let the door
hit you on the way out.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
So what do you think that means for, if anything,
a future of these franchises in Los Angeles.
Speaker 5 (23:41):
Any That is a great question. The NFL is desperate
to get LA to respond. I mean, look in any
other city in this country where there is an NFL team,
even if there's a Major League Baseball team or NHL
team or an NBA team, the NFL rules. That is
not the case in LA. You know that the Dodgers
(24:02):
and the Lakers are one A and one B. L
control the sports market here and nothing is going to
change that. So I don't know. I mean, it's been
ten years now since the Rams moved backs, nine years
since the Chargers have been here, and nothing has really changed.
And I know there's Ram fans. Are Charger fans listening
right now screaming, Oh are you a fans? I'm like,
(24:23):
I'm not talking about you, I'm not talking about the
die hards. My son is a die hard Charger fan,
one my youngest son. So there are fans, but they're
not growing their fan base. It's not like, you know,
the whole city is suddenly buzzing about the Rams or
the Charge all the Rams Citty where they are.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
Right now, right, And isn't that a surprise given the
fact that, like the teams are not doing terribly.
Speaker 4 (24:47):
I mean, you could be doing a lot worse.
Speaker 5 (24:49):
No, I mean, the Rams are nine and three, the
Chargers are eight and four right now, but they are
both in the playoffs. These are good teams. They have
great quarterbacks. You know, they have great coaches. I mean,
the hiring of Jim Harbor was a coup for the Chargers.
You know, Sean McVay obviously one of the best coaches
in the league for a Ram, So they've they've done
(25:10):
everything they can. I don't know what it is. I mean,
Sofi Stadium. I don't know if you've been out to
Sobach Stadium, you know, I mean it's I'm not a
huge fan of Sofi Stadium, but certainly it's not one
of the worst places. You know, It's hosted Super Bowls
and everything else. So I'm not quite sure what it is.
It's just the fact that this city is so married
(25:31):
to the Dodgers and the Lakers that just doesn't seem
enough room for everyone to, you know, really jump in
and just go. You know absolutely, you know, all In
Well already a fan to begin.
Speaker 4 (25:45):
With, that's right.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
And if you keep winning World Series, especially all the
way deep into October, all the way almost to November,
you're gonna be taking a little bit of that thunder
from anybody who's doing anything on a football field. So
Steve Hartman, thank you so much for being with us tonight.
I always appreciate you. I'll let you go. I know
you're a busy man. Go Chargers. Let's see December eighth
against the Eagles, Monday night football. That gives Justin Herbert
(26:07):
a full week to recover at least a little bit.
Speaker 5 (26:12):
And my guess is he will play Andy. I mean,
it's too big of a game. They need him out there.
He's a battler, I have no question. I mean, Herbert's
an elite quarterback. He will make sure that he is
out on the field for that money.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
And I came well said, and you can listen to
that all right here on. I am six forty Steve Hartman,
thanks for being with us.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
Tomorrow is the big pasta Thon day, as you heard
Gary and Channon talking about in that look Ahead promo.
Speaker 4 (26:49):
I'll be down there tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
I'm heading up after the KTLA Morning News wraps up
at eleven am, head on down the five Freeway. If
I leave at eleven am from Hollywood to go down
to Anaheim, will I make it by Conway's show?
Speaker 3 (27:07):
Maybe? I think you will.
Speaker 4 (27:09):
Yeah, you think so.
Speaker 3 (27:10):
Oh. The one time that I went, it was a
bit of an odyssey getting there, Oh, buddy, because you
get off the Five, it's like an apocalypse. Now, you'd
never get off the boat.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
You tried to do a little jog around on the
surface street.
Speaker 3 (27:25):
Yeah, And I mean, I live to tell about it,
but I think just barely.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
It's really crazy that, you know, the stretch from in
Los Angeles County, from downtown LA to Orange County is
one of the most harrowing and like you guaranteed miserable
experiences of being in southern California. Harrowing is a perfect
word for that drive. I was heading out way. I
(27:49):
went out to Riverside County this weekend and I got stuck,
I think in Redlands. Backed up all the way to
Redlands from Cabazon on Friday. It took me four hours
in thirty minutes to drive one hundred and twenty miles.
Did that give you adequate time for self reflection? I've
reflected so many times that like I've solved all my
(28:11):
issues and then I created new ones.
Speaker 3 (28:13):
Oh well, you don't want that.
Speaker 4 (28:14):
No, it's a terrible thing.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
A lot of time spent thinking about yourself, especially if
you're someone who wants to be famous, but being famous
can shorten your lifespan. We are dying for attention quite literally.
A WHO study found that being famous comes at a cost,
a higher risk of death for famous singers compared to
(28:36):
singers who have not made it. Scientists got a list
of three hundred and twenty four music stars, people like
Elvis Presley, Kurt Cobain, Sam Cook, Channis Joplin. Then they
match the heavy hitters with three hundred and twenty four
twin musicians that were not household names but otherwise had
(28:57):
many similar characteristics like gender, nationality, genre, Right around same birthday.
They wanted to compare the life spans of A listers
and B listers to isolate the extent to which fame
itself is a mortality risk. Higher risk for death for
famous singers compared to ones who don't make it. Never
(29:18):
thought I'd be so happy to have been has been.
Famous singers have a four year shorter life expectancy than
those who do not achieve stardom. Factors are unsurprisingly lifestyle,
but even singers who are working in the music business
fair better than the ones who are famous. The risk
of death gets higher after they become famous. They say
(29:41):
that being famous gives you a unique kind of stress,
intense scrutiny, performance pressure, no privacy, and a whole host
of harmful coping mechanisms. You think of the twenty seven
club artists who don't make it past the age of
twenty seven, like I said Kurt Cobain, Jim Morrison, Jimmy Hendrix,
(30:02):
Amy Winehouse, Janis Joplin. Weirdly, though, being part of a
band was linked to a twenty six percent lower risk
of death compared to going solo. Smoking The gates this,
by the way, completely so if you smoke, you have
a thirty four percent higher risk of death.
Speaker 4 (30:18):
No matter what.
Speaker 3 (30:22):
Neat. I'm not saying I don't want you to hit
the big time. I'm just saying don't want you to
die on the toilet in your forties eating a ham sandwich.
Well you're yeah, Tom MoMA cast went right. Well that's
the that's the legend. I don't know how true that.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
You know, there are a preponderance of rumors about famous
musicians dying young involving sandwiches.
Speaker 3 (30:47):
Well, you got to be careful handling a sandwich, I guess.
So is that why you've moved on to the portho's balls. Yeah,
it's hard to hard to mess those up. These they're
rarely lethal, the portho's balls, right, Easier to handle those, yeah,
than a sandway. You just reminded me that the blind
melon guy, Shannon Hoon died when he was twenty eight,
and I think I did the final interview with him.
Speaker 4 (31:07):
Did you really?
Speaker 3 (31:08):
I think I did.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
Was he in a state when you talk to him
or did any indication that he was?
Speaker 3 (31:14):
No, he indicated that he was on the straight and narrow,
and that very quickly turned out to be.
Speaker 4 (31:19):
Maybe, oh man, not so true. Did you interview him
up in Seattle?
Speaker 3 (31:23):
No, it was in Indiana. I believe he was from there. Oh,
that's kind of cool.
Speaker 4 (31:28):
He was a hoosier. I didn't know that. Yeah, a
fellow hoosier with you, that's right.
Speaker 3 (31:31):
And I think he was a little annoyed that the
girl in the bee outfit was getting so much attention
from you. No, No, a bit young for me. I
don't know who you think you're talking to. I don't
know that that was thirty years ago. I know, I
know we're so old. How could he have been a
bit young? How could they have been a bit young
for you? That doesn't the math doesn't even. I can't
(31:52):
even believe that you were working well, it was. It
was my first newspaper. I was going to say, you
must have been a young cob reporter and so, you know,
you get thrown into these situations, but you never know
you I'm sure you've interviewed lots of celebrities as well.
Some have gone on to achieve greatness, others have crashed
(32:13):
and burned. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
Yeah, we always say on KTLA we get him on
the way up.
Speaker 3 (32:16):
And the way down. Yeah yeah. I interviewed Mel Gibson.
Was one of my first interviews, and I'm not sure
how to characterize where he is right now. He's had
his ups and downs.
Speaker 2 (32:27):
Well these days it's like up and down doesn't mean
what it used to, you know, because you can kind
of like live on the fringes and do okay these days.
Speaker 3 (32:34):
Well, he certainly didn't join the twenty seven club. He
did not, you could say that at the very least,
at the very least.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
We've got lots more coming up in the next hour,
including last chance for some cyber Monday deals that's kind
of fun, and freezing temperatures are back in the forecast.
Speaker 4 (32:48):
So much for seventies runner
Speaker 1 (32:51):
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