November 25, 2025 • 34 mins
There's a scandal brewing at Campbell’s Soup HQ! A VP at the company was caught on a secret recording spewing racist rhetoric in a rant that reeked of classism as he hated on “poor” people who buy the soup. Meanwhile, over in the San Fernando Valley, a couple who just bought their home there, were ransacked by a group of thieving miscreants. Andy chats in studio with comedian Gary Cannon about his career as a warmup comic for talk-show hosts and big TV shows. Also, what would happen if a human fell into a black hole? Let’s find out!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Yeah, I mean Andy Reesmeyer.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app About an hour
left here. Coming up, Gary Cannon, comedian, will be joining
us to talk about what's going on in the news
and maybe what's going on for comedians this holiday. I'm
gonna try to say, see if he's going to the
laugh Factory, they're gonna hand out some meals. Always love
(00:30):
that nice one. Comedians can give back. Comedians, you know,
not necessarily known for being generous people. That's not really
like the thing every comedian I know. It's really taken
up a lot of the air in the room. I
love them, but giving unusual. So when you see them
doing that, it's pretty awesome. Now that I've roasted an
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entire profession of which my upcoming guest is involved in,
I'm sure it will be a great interview. Campbell's employees
are upset because us. One of their own was fired
after complaining about something that a vice president said. This
is kind of one of those this is what you
fear the people in charge of corporations think about those
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of us who buy their products. Listen, we have poor people.
Speaker 4 (01:21):
And that's just part of an over an hour long rant,
says former security analyst for Campbell's Robert Garza of Monroe.
Speaker 5 (01:30):
I don't buy it's barely anymore so healthy now that
I don't want to even.
Speaker 6 (01:36):
I look at it.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
At bio engineered me. I don't want to. You to
a piece of chicken. I came from a three D printer.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
You The recording allegedly of Campbell's VP and Chief Information
security officer Martin.
Speaker 7 (01:50):
Bally, he has no no uh no filter.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
Bally, along with another supervisor and Campbell's soup company, named
in a lawsuit filed Thursday. The suit, claiming he made
racist remarks, admits to coming to work high and Garza
fired for coming forward.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
This guy is racist.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
He's talking smack about the soup, saying it's got bio
engineered meat, and he's coming to work after a cousin walk.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Unconscionable.
Speaker 6 (02:22):
What do you think about the things that he was saying?
Speaker 7 (02:25):
Oh, I just disappeared discussed.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
Garzi says he usually worked remotely for Campbell's headquarters based
in Camden, New Jersey, but thinking he'd be discussing his
salary with Bally, he says the recording taken in person
at a restaurantly deep gone. Garzi says he felt sick
after the rant, deciding to go to his direct supervisor
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in January, keeping the recordings to himself.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
Now before we find out what happened here, because it
is heinous the idea that this is the guy who's
got a high up position at Campbells Soup, which, like
Campbell's soup is what you eat when you're sick. It's
like what you give to the food bank. It's like
the most homie, feel good, Oh just a nice warm
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tomato soup chicken noodle situation.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
And this is the guy that's wild.
Speaker 6 (03:23):
Huntly deep gone.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
Garza says he felt sick after the rant, deciding to
go to his direct supervisor in January, keeping the recordings
to himself.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
He had never had any disciplinary action, They had never
written him up for poor work performance.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
Garza says, no one at Campbell's ever followed up, and
it's taken him ten months to find a new job,
calling the way the can Soup company handled it simply terrible.
Speaker 7 (03:53):
They have a model, you know, like we treat you
like family. You know here at Campbell's, you'll come work
for us, you know where we cheer while he's like family,
that's that's not the case.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Well it depends on the family. Well you want to
say this or do you want me to say it?
This is bad.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
We did just receive a statement from Campbell's.
Speaker 7 (04:14):
It says, quote if.
Speaker 8 (04:15):
Accurate, the comments and the recording are unacceptable. They do
not reflect our values and the culture of our company.
We are actively investigating this manner. We've also reached out
directly to Martin Valley.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
They know that this is how this guy is.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
This is not a guy who doesn't always talk like
this one hundred percent. Now I don't know it obviously,
so I can't say that. But I just am speculating
based on my experience with people who say things like.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
What a crazy thing? Man?
Speaker 3 (04:58):
Do you think trying to go ask for a ray?
Are your boss? The bus starts talking smack about the company,
and then you record it and then they fire you.
That's a good story. That is a good story. But
there is something not great going on in the San
Fernando Valley. It is no such peace in the valley
for me.
Speaker 9 (05:21):
Security video catches these crooks cursing in Spanish about something
while casually walking down an alley with an armful of
stolen goods. Those items belong to Josh and his family,
who now feel violated.
Speaker 10 (05:35):
It's just not right emotionally. You know, my wife is
five months pregnant. We're going to be giving birth early
next year, God willing, at the right time.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
And you know we're gonna be bringing a new person
into this world. And this is our first house.
Speaker 9 (05:49):
The brazen break in happened around eight Friday evening in
Valley Village. Josh says he and his wife arrived home
from dinner to find their home had been ransacked.
Speaker 10 (05:58):
The cushions were flipped up on our co ouch, Those
sheets were ripped off of our bed, the mattress was moved,
Our socks and underwear were thrown out of the drawers
onto the ground. Someone took my briefcase and dumped it out.
Speaker 9 (06:10):
He claims that these got away with thousands of dollars
worth of watches, jewelry, and other valuables. Josh beliez he
was targeted and says he's seen a group of people
lurking behind his home before.
Speaker 10 (06:21):
I remember seeing three individuals walking in the alleyway beside
our house.
Speaker 7 (06:25):
Looked into my office.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
I made eye contact with them.
Speaker 10 (06:28):
They walked around the backside of my office and then
doubled back and left from that same alley.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Look at the damn You know this guy's in the
studio city, you know how you could tell at our house.
Speaker 10 (06:38):
Looked into my office. I made eye contact with them.
They walked around the backside of my office and then
doubled back and left.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Just like a common thing all day from Burbank Airport
flying over. I lived it basically a block away from
CBS Radford, which is really close to where these people lived.
And it just do you hear that airplane that overhead
all day.
Speaker 10 (06:57):
Walked around the back side of my office and then
double old back and left from that same alley.
Speaker 9 (07:02):
Look at the damage to the dead boats to Josh's
front door and his second floor patio door. He thinks
some of the purps use this planter box to climb
up his property to get inside. LAPD responded and is investigating,
but so far no arrests.
Speaker 10 (07:17):
You can run, but you kind of hight the men
and women of the lap D Eator are coming for you.
Speaker 9 (07:22):
And all Josh Wily's three men and one woman was
involved in this break in. He wanted to share his
story so that he could alert other neighbors about what.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
Is happening bad vibes there in the San Fernando Valley.
All right, coming up, Gary Cannon, we'll talk about more
that is happening in the news. Catch up with him,
the very funny, funny comedian. He's a stand up he's
also a warm up comic for the talk shows and
the game shows. The voice I hear one time he
made ariana grande laugh.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Is that like getting the sphinx to move?
Speaker 5 (07:55):
No?
Speaker 2 (07:55):
I mean, I'm sure she's a good laugh. I don't know.
Speaker 5 (07:58):
Okay, I have made that up? Can he make us laugh? Ooh,
that's a good tease. Tough crowd, you'll have to stay tuned.
It's KIM six forty. I'm Andy Reesmeier.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
I'm Andy Reesmeyer joining the studio right now by comedian
Gary Cannon. You may know him, might know him from
a legendary stand up career, but also a warm up
comic for basically every show that has a live studio audience,
or that ever had a live studio audience.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Here in Los Angeles. Well, I was just telling you
before we went on the air that we are very close.
You were near NBC, and so this is where the
Tonight Show taped with Johnny Carson with Jay Leno. It's
now the iHeart Studio. It's crazy. My very first warm
up gig ever ever full time was working for Last
Call with Carson Daily, and if you remember, it was
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the Tonight Show, then it was Conan Yeah, and then
Carson Daily like yeah, yeah, So I remember. It was
my very first warm gig. Great gig. He was super nice.
But because of the show and other things going on
in town, we had to pay audience members a lot
to be there. Okay, so they didn't make that much money.
Maybe they made fourteen dollars to be there. So what
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happened is there was a gate outside the main area
where everybody parked, and after the show, the audience members
would stand out there and collect their fourteen dollars. Was
a huge line dupating cash from the audience companies. One
day there was somebody who got word that there's a
line out there and somebody with a handful of cash
paying everybody. So the person passing out the money got robbed.
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Get out of town. Literally got robbed, and obviously you
see one hundred audience members losing their food money to
go to Arco. Later that night, they chased the guy
down the road. Those they started feeding the hell up.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
If you're waiting, If you're waiting outside of a studio
in Burbank for fourteen dollars, nobody is going to take
that away from you. No, you know that is the
person who has nothing else to lose and is going
to make sure they get that fourteen dollars.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
I remember I did that show and there was a
woman who stood up during the warm up at one point,
this was year four that I'd been doing the show.
She said, I've been coming to the show every day
for four years and I've yet to get a T shirt.
And I was like, I don't know if I would
stand up and advertise that you've been coming to this
show for four years. People always like last call.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
I mean, Carson is just one of those people who
has it, yes, and I think that no matter what,
Like I didn't ever see him as a late night
stand up type who was going to do a monologue
of Leno styled you know, twenty thirty jokes or whatever
and just kill It's like you just liked him because
he was a cool dude to hang out with, right,
And he's a dude who you would want to hang
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out with at one thirty in the morning. Correct, you
knew all the musicians. He obviously was from TRL. He was,
I mean our version, I would say, our my generation's
version of Carson. Excuse me, Johnny Carson.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Well he was. I mean we broke out so many
musical artists on that show. I remember Green Day was
on that show. I remember not their first performance, but
Adell Panic at the disco fall Up Boy. There were
these amazing artists that you would sit and watch, and
I remember there were so many times where we would
have a band on that they weren't very well known,
and then for some reason there was an audio glitch
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and we'd have to do the song again and I
would have to tell that to the audience and there
would be audible moans and booze. As the band is
standing right there on stage. They were annoyed. I think
they wanted to get out to their fourteen dollars they could. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
So when you think about how that has all changed
very quickly as far as the big studio shows. I
know that Colbert is going to be done next year.
Kimmel almost was done. I don't know how much is long,
how much longer is left for that. The Voice is
doing a show still, but in a very much smaller
stage than they used to. Hollywood's in a weird spot
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right now. What is it like for warm up comics.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
It's tough because there was a time there's a website
called Audiences Unlimited dot com and all they did was
handle sitcoms. You could go to their website get tickets
for any sitcom that filmed here in LA. That website
during COVID went out of business, gone, And I remember
back when I first moved here, there would be seven
eight shows filming a day here in town, Tons at
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red for Tons at CBS, Television City, Warner Brothers, all
over the place. You can't find anything now. The audience
companies have dwindled down. But I would also think too,
because there are less shows that we would have bigger
audiences at some of our shows that we do, and
that's not the case. I don't know what it is.
For some reason, the numbers are limited now. I still
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work at Jennifer Hudson at Warner Brothers and we get
great crowds out there. But a lot of shows, believe
it or not, still have to bring in a paid
audience if they want to fill certain seats. But it
is crazy. I mean, for me and for what I do.
The numbers have just dropped. There's just not as many
shows that are filming here, and the ones that do it,
the budgets are cut. They can't maybe bring somebody in
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full time like yes do. It's just gone completely down.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
And it's funny because it's like, it really is important
to have that step for the audience because you need
that warm up. You need this sort of like first
you got to suck all the air out of the room,
make the oxygen level a little bit lower so people
will laugh at anything. But really you are doing something
where you're warming up these like cold audience members who
are maybe have been waiting for hours. Oh yeah, maybe
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they're frustrated, sure, and you are the guy who basically
gets them ready for Leno Letterman, et cetera.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
There's so many different types of shows and different styles, right,
so when I did Conan, it was all about getting
them to laugh. Before Conan came out. That was the idea.
If they were laughing, having a good time, he comes out,
they're going to be great. Right. There's also that weird thing,
and I remember seeing this when I first started working
at Cone. It didn't happen often. But let's say I
go out there and they're having a blast, right, Cony
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comes out maybe for some reason. So it doesn't happen
like a one percent chance.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
You're saying, like in the situations where you upstage or
you you blow out the headliner.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
Yeah, it doesn't happen very often, but like for some
But but then there's the so so there are times
where the host wants to know before they go out,
how are they right?
Speaker 7 (14:14):
Right?
Speaker 2 (14:14):
So, now let's say you go back to Conan or somebody.
You're like, hey, they're great. He comes out, maybe the
monologue is off for whatever reason. He goes out and
is shooting, fishing, not working right, not great. But then
you go back and you're like, hey, they're not great.
And then he's going out there with this idea in
his head. He's not going to guess and he goes
out there and he's doing great, right, So which do
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you want or do you lie or whatnot? But a
show like Jennifer Udson, that's a daytime talk show, there's
no pressure to get them on. That's kind of nice.
It's a feel good show, so you want to just
get them in a good mood, happy, upbeat, smiling. Now,
did you create the spirit Tunnel? Was that your mood?
Speaker 9 (14:53):
No?
Speaker 2 (14:53):
But you know it's crazy that spirit tunnel has taken
over it crazy is the show? I mean, anybody that
I've ever talked to, I work at Jenniferdson, I haven't
seen the show, but I've seen that spiritunnel. Two producers
on our show created that whole thing.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
It's like the carpool karaoke. Yes, it's like it's her thing. Yes,
and it stuck and it worked.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
And did you see the Nicky Glazer bit Nicki Glazer
hotel now? And she did a spoof on it and
it was so flattering, and they showed that on our show.
They re aired it because it was so it was
a cool thing for our show, right.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
Yeah, I mean, and Jennifer Hudson is such a superstar too, Yeah,
And she was always just like, it's interesting because you've
seen a lot of talk show hosts who came it
to it by the way of being studio musicians Kelly
Clarkson or touring musicians Jennifer Hudson as well, And and
then you see also the Tammer and Halls and then
sort of the more traditional talk show people. And it's
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amazing because I'm happy that it's working for Drew and
for for Kelly Clarkson and for Jennifer Hudson.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
Too, because they are just such you want.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
You want those people to succeed, and you know they
already have it, which I think makes it work for that.
But I don't know if it would work if you
were going to try to make them tell jokes.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
Yeah, And that was the thing, as you mentioned about
Carson Daily, he wasn't a joke teller, so he would
come out and try to do a monologue and it
was it just didn't hit. And I remember one day
I walked into the studio. We'd been off for like
two weeks, and I walked in. The set was gone,
the desk, the chairs, and he just had two chairs
sitting down on the stage. And I looked and I
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was like, I think the job is coming to an end.
Because I really believed that that whole concept that they
needed somebody out there to get them in a good
mood so they could start laughing. There were just two
chairs and I was like, I think it's over. And
it lasted a little longer, but not much. But then
to the other side of it, you look at like
talk shows. I just wrapped up Season fourteen. To the
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Mass Singer, that's a show. You have to bring that
energy up to one hundred and twenty miles per hour
for three and four hours. Amazing. They want that crowd
lit like they are at an amazing festival concert and
it's just never ending, and it could take a while
for us to film based on what's going on, and
maybe the character is not wanting to come out as
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quick like there's a lot so all of these different
levels of style. Shows just depend on how your day
is going to go.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
You don't know. Yeah, we're with Gary Cannon. We're gonna
take a quick break. You stick with us for the
next second. Yeah, wonderful.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
I'm Andy Reestmeyer in studio still with Gary Cannon. Would
you call yourself you're a stand up, but you're a
comedian and you're more than that. Because you do corporate gigs,
you do warm up, you do kind of a little
bit of everything.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
Anybody who will if the money's green. Gary, So I did?
I also do auctioneering. Oh that's wait a minute, yep,
can you give us a little you know what. I
don't talk. I talk quickly in my normal pattern of
every day.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
Like if I had a nineteen seventy six Portsia nine
to eleven sc that I was trying to offload here, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
I couldn't know, but I do. I don't. You wouldn't.
I'm not going to make you do it, you know,
but I don't. I don't do like certain people have
that cadence. I don't. But I will say, here's why
I get in trouble with a lot of the auctions
that I do, and they don't have me back because
I'm a comic at heart. That's what I do.
Speaker 4 (18:17):
Right.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
So now I go into these events and we're trying
to raise money for the American Cancer Society or Autism
Speaks or these very high end events that if we
don't raise a half a million dollars, they're not going
to get their funding for the following year. It's a
lot of pressure. So all of a sudden, I'll start
looking at what we're auctioning off trip to Mexico, right,
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So instead of playing it straight, all of a sudden,
I'm like, hey, guys, you may have seen this hotel
resort on Dateline NBC, but they're going to reopen in
six months once you clear them. And I start screwing
around and a lot of people do like it, but
at some point, like you're there and you forget that,
people are now starting to laugh. I just did an
auction back in Detroit for Habitat for Humanity and this
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guy comes up to me and he said, you were
here last year. You were a favorite part of the event.
We were laughing, having a good time. We literally lost
money this year because I think people they're there for
the show and like they have to be and I'm
literally I got in trouble at a show that I
was doing doing warm up on we gave away airline
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tickets to the audience for Breeze Airline. Breeze Airline based
out of Pittsburgh. They fly three flights a day, right,
and we gave away one hundred dollars vouchers everybody, and
I said, guys, you better book quickly because they're about
to go out of business. And then I said the
CEO of Breeze wanted to be here, but they couldn't
find a flight. So all of a sudden, audience laugh
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and having a good time. I get a text meet
us in the control. They're like, do you know that
the Breeze airline representatives are here? Oh my god? I said,
I had no idea, so their thing? So now. But
I did this auction a week ago. It was at
a beautif full, high end art gallery in Beverly Hills.
So I always go in. I have my stuff that
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I need to auction off. That's it. In and out.
So the pressure's not as great. It's an art house
in Beverly Hills. I mean, what are they doing funding for.
It's not it's not a high end event for cancer, right.
If we don't make it, we don't make it. So
they show me this. The art gallery was for a
guy named mister Brainwashed. You know, yeah, you do.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
Of course, he was in that documentary about the Exit
through the gift Shop.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
Okay, I don't know who this is. And I go in.
It's a beautiful, beautiful gallery. I don't know who this is. Right.
So they said to me, you have to auction off
an art piece by mister Brainwash for forty five grand
I said, I need him up there with me so
he can help me sell this thing. I have no idea, right.
His wife comes over to me, she's French, and she's like,
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are you the auction there? And I was like yes.
She's like, you sell the piece for mister brainwash. Nobody
knows his first name. I guess right. Everybody's referring him
to as him as mister and I just said, I
need your husband up there with me. She's like, you
don't know the works of mister brainwash. And I almost
started laughing Andy, because I was like, you, no, I
buy my art at IKEA. I just can't fit his
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work into my mini coop.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
This isn't part of your your in your wheelhouse. Yeah,
that is that is a did you did you? Were
you able to successfully auction?
Speaker 2 (21:21):
I was because there was somebody in the room that
was a shill bed or that bought it, of course,
so we didn't even have to do the whole pomp
beautiful stance. Yes, beautiful. He just took it.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
There was one bid forty five grand in and out.
Of course, this is all alleged, mister brainwash. If you're listening,
this is all just uh, we're just speculating about this.
None of this is I'm not legally bound by any
of this divulging any of this information. No, uh but
but I mean I think that, like, you know, being
an auctioneer, what an unbelievable thing. And then laugh factory,
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I know that said something you were a part of
for a long time. Are you gonna do the Thanksgiving
thing on Thursday?
Speaker 9 (21:57):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (21:57):
I think so. They do that. Listen, they do a
wonderful thing. They feed the homeless. They do that on Thursday.
They'll do it for Thanksgiving, they do it for Christmas.
I'm actually in town, so I probably will do it. Shit, yeah,
it's great. What else are you doing?
Speaker 5 (22:08):
I know?
Speaker 2 (22:09):
And then I know you action for mister brainwash.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
You were I remember that they had a big thing
set up at when I first moved to La I god,
I was probably twenty two years old and I lived
in West Hollywood border West Hollywood, Beverly Hills with like
a building with a bunch of divorces. Okay, it was
like me as a twenty two year old and a
bunch of fifty year old women who had just just
got out of the relationship. It was Pino Gregia wine
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night every night. And I was near robertson Boulevard where
they have a bunch of those galleries and stuff, and
I would walk around there and I was thinking, you know, okay,
I'm so the things you think when you're twenty two. Oh,
I got to get some art for my place. Oh right,
So of course walked into one of those galleries that's
like at Beverly and Roberts are thinking that, like this
is just a place like you would go and get
a picture from Ikia walked in and I had the
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whole like, oh, this is neat and it was a
mister brainwash, oh you know.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
And I was like, this is a cool painting. How
much is it? You know, and it's like this is
seventy five thousand dollars and having to be like ooh ah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
I was.
Speaker 3 (23:08):
A little more expensive. Yeah, no, this is probably not
I was just checked with Daddy about this.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
Well, by the way, I had to let because I've
mentioned this story a couple of times and people he
is very popular. Yeah, and the painting don't get me
wrong was beautiful, but I just the way that the
wife had said it to me, it was so funny
and so like, you don't know. I was like, I'm
so out of the loop in that department, right, But
it just by the way. When I just did an
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auction back in Detroit, and this is why I start
to get in trouble because we're raising money for something,
I start making fun of people. I feel like I'm
on stage.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
I have a hard time even doing the news in
the morning, right, because my immediate inclination is too there
is a joke here, and how do I not say that?
Speaker 2 (23:52):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (23:53):
Like, how do I control myself from not jumping in
and trying to hear funny about this?
Speaker 2 (23:57):
Yeah? I literally had a guy who was in the
audience for the auction just give me, give me the
middle finger, and you're like, everybody sees this and we're
here for charity, right, And it was funny because I
even said there were people not bidding in the back,
and I said, oh, we're not going to get people
bidding back there. They got in for free or something
like that, and they were upset. So it's like there's
this balance, like you I'm having a good time because
(24:19):
I'm a stand up at all levels. Yeah, and I
just was like, oh, I got to pull back up
little bit.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
No, it's funny. I know you're you're friends with Casey
also Kesey Montoya. You do her her her charity fix
and fighters.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
Right, well do you?
Speaker 4 (24:31):
So?
Speaker 2 (24:32):
I did my second year, I did it this year,
but last year I did it and raised a bunch
of money. Everybody was super happy. And at the end
of the event, some woman came up to me who
I won't say, but came up to me and said,
you literally ruined this event because I was joking and
making fun and goofing around, but we raised a bunch
of money. You ruined it. I ruined it because she
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felt like I was constantly making fun of the items, right,
so you know one of the she's selling the items,
or she was one of her it was one of her,
But I wasn't making fun of that one. I was
making fun of others, like, hey, you can do a
police helicopter ride.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
The craziness of a stranger to come up to another
person the audacity and be like you ruined this rude.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
It is correct. Never in a million years when I
ever feel like appropriate to say that she did. She did,
she said you ruined the event, and then it was
obviously Casey Montoya, right, And I didn't say anything to Casey.
And then she called me. She said, you got such
rave reviews, we want you to keep doing it. I
was like, well, I just got scolded by one of
your guests who donated an item. And by the way,
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it's usually the people who haven't donated and aren't bidding. Yeah, right, whatever.
It's absolutely insane because there's there's these items where it's
like take a helicopter ride over Pasadena and then I'll
make a joke like you know, we'll go up to
Victorville and you can see where you know the police
chases are, and like it just takes over me and
I have to remember, like where they're raising money. That's right,
(25:54):
that's the idea. That's right.
Speaker 3 (25:55):
Well, I appreciate you being here where you are allowed
to joke as much as you.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
Last time I called and you called me out because
I turned off the car. I was in my car
and it starts beeping buicklessa. I was like, it was
like a grandpa. That was that was actually andy. That
was when I did the auction for Habitat when everybody
had a good time, but we lost forty grand. Well,
so everybody was left happy, but we didn't make it money.
Speaker 3 (26:19):
Well, maybe maybe the Johnny Carson or Johnny Carson Cheez,
the uh Jimmy Carter Foundation can make a donation for Habitat.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
They need to.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
Gary Cannon find him on the internet at Garycannon dot com.
But I've shows this weekend Laugh Factory seven thirty Friday,
Improv nine thirty Friday, two shows back to back. Saturday.
I will be at the Laugh Factory, Long Beach to look.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
At you all over town, Happy Thanksgiving. Thank you for
making time and your busy schedule to come see Thank
you any come back anytime.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
Thanks forty.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
I'm Andy Reesmeyer coming up in just a few minutes.
We will hand it over to George Norri for Coast
to Coast. George joins us now with a look at
what's coming up tonight.
Speaker 7 (27:10):
Andy.
Speaker 5 (27:10):
We're going to talk about how to reverse cognitive decline,
and then later on science and the supernatural on Coast
to Coach.
Speaker 3 (27:18):
All right, can't wait doing anything fun for Thanksgiving.
Speaker 9 (27:23):
Going over to my granddaughters, the whole family's.
Speaker 5 (27:25):
Going, and then coming back to La right after Christians.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
Hey, love it, have a great, great holiday. There we go, Andy,
George Nory coming up in just about eight minutes.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
How fun. Love talking to George.
Speaker 3 (27:38):
Mister Ronner. It's nice to see you again tonight. Welcome back. Wait,
I'm the one who's welcomed back, but I think it works. No, no, no,
we always have fun to go. Yeah, and I think, like,
I don't work here five days out of the week,
so you can say welcome back.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
I was here yesterday. It's hard to keep track.
Speaker 5 (27:55):
It's kind of a musical chair situation at the moment,
but it's it's been fun so far.
Speaker 2 (27:59):
It has been one.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
I've been really thankful to be able to have the
opportunity to do this. I don't sleep a lot anymore
well rating, but uh yeah, definitely. Like in twelve hours,
I will be almost ready to be done with the
morning show.
Speaker 5 (28:12):
So how do you unwind or can you just go
right to sleep? I'm not good at it.
Speaker 3 (28:16):
No, I I cause I need coffee to do this show,
so I'll I'm trying to taper off and drink a
little bit earlier, like drink the coffee earlier, so that
I'm able to.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
Go to sleep.
Speaker 3 (28:26):
But uh, I'll go home and I'll watch a little news,
you know, just that'll really see something relaxing like news.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
Yeah, he on my friend's files. News will put you
right in the boot, can I tell you? You know,
I'm one of those people.
Speaker 3 (28:39):
I have the TV on all the time because I
lived alone for most of my adult life, and so
I would have the news on in the background, especially
like KTLA or or any of the cable nets, you know,
just kind of bouncing around because I like news. And
then when I started working at KTLA, it started to
really freak me out because I'd come home and I'd
like have just left that place, and then the work
(28:59):
was always in the house too. So I've been trying
to sort of put a distance in between the two
of them, but it's hard to do that.
Speaker 5 (29:06):
I compulsively read, watch, and listen to news constantly, and
I have to force myself not to. I have to
force myself to have some book time every day. That
kind of has to stop from just completely going insane.
Speaker 3 (29:18):
Well, my palate cleans used to be listening to Tim
Conway Junior. I would be listening to KFI as a
way to like disconnect from work, and now I work here,
so I just can't escape it.
Speaker 5 (29:31):
I think your only alternative is the hard drugs. We
got a couple of talkbacks to get to. Here's one
that's just called Roner.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
Oh no, here's.
Speaker 11 (29:42):
One for Ronnor. When people ask you a thanksgiving what
you're thankful for, tell them, well, you know, I'm a
very giving guy, and I thank god he gave me
two middle fingers, because sometimes giving somebody one is just
not enough.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
Are you screening these or are you just playing in
Willy Reilly? It's not my job to clear It was.
Speaker 6 (30:04):
Clean, and I thought it was a nice compliment.
Speaker 5 (30:07):
Okay, I didn't know you were because I was clenched
up there for a second.
Speaker 6 (30:09):
Yeah, i'd pay to see that.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
Okay, let's move on screening our producer and my mom
made turkey and siladas. Oh turkey enchiladas.
Speaker 11 (30:21):
Siladas, and she's only the brown meat. Why anyway, he's
really good.
Speaker 2 (30:30):
That sounds delicious about see you tomorrow morning on kay Dla.
That's right, that's cool. Turkey andchilada sounds kind of good.
I want that now.
Speaker 3 (30:41):
Yeah, yeah, and I think that I imagine you'd use that
because it's a fattier, more flavorful meat.
Speaker 9 (30:46):
Well.
Speaker 5 (30:46):
Also, you brought up something important earlier, which is turkey
needs some lube, and Enchiladas have the sauce.
Speaker 3 (30:53):
That's right, Andilada's got the sauce A wet burrito if
you will.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
I like that.
Speaker 3 (30:59):
We can, you know, plan a show. I did plan
a show tonight and I got to maybe get third
of it.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
I don't know.
Speaker 12 (31:07):
How'd we do, Nikki, you did great, so good, so good?
Ten ten fingers up.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
Ten fingers up, ten fingers up. I don't know who's
that's like, don't shoot.
Speaker 6 (31:21):
Hands up, jazz hands.
Speaker 5 (31:23):
Oh okay, well you have to you have to specify that.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
I guess that's good. Are you doing anything for Thanksgiving?
Speaker 6 (31:28):
I'm an immigrant. I don't have any family.
Speaker 5 (31:31):
If anybody should appreciate Thanksgiving, it should be the immigrants.
Speaker 6 (31:34):
I know nothing, John Snow, I don't know.
Speaker 5 (31:38):
Maybe one of our listeners in their family would be
delighted to take in, oh someone from that.
Speaker 6 (31:44):
A little single orphan.
Speaker 2 (31:46):
Yeah sure, I'm just an urchin a streeter.
Speaker 6 (31:48):
Take little orphan Annie over here.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
Please, sir, can I can actually.
Speaker 6 (31:52):
Played little orphan Annie in the school play. Of course,
because I was the only curly haired child.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
You were kind of like the black Sheep.
Speaker 6 (31:59):
Band because of my black curls.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
Yeah, and like I'm assuming you had tattoos at that point.
Speaker 12 (32:04):
All I was like four years old. Yeah, so yes, yes,
covered in tattoos.
Speaker 5 (32:08):
Right, yeah, yeah, Annie needs some ink and he needs
some ink and he gets your gun. That's right, get
your tattoo gun.
Speaker 3 (32:16):
I was gonna do this story about what would happen
if you walked into a black hole. This kind of
felt like a good segue into mister Norri's show. I
think I can do it pretty quickly here. If a
human fell into one, the force of gravity would be
so strong you'd undergo something called spaghettification. Spaghetification. Spaghettification. That's
(32:38):
not like when you.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
Go to Italy. Oh, forget about it.
Speaker 3 (32:43):
Since a black hole's gravity is so strong, there's an
extremely steep gravitational gradient. That means the forces affecting your
feet near the black hole would be much more powerful
than those affecting your head, so your body would be
yanked into a long line like a piece of spaghetti
being sucked up by the black hole. At the same time,
the intense radiation from orbiting material in the accretion disc
(33:06):
would blast you with incredibly powerful X rays. Strangely, as
your elongated body approaches the black hole, your perception of
time would start to radically diverge from anyone outside you
observing you from the outside. Anyone observing you from the
outside would only see you completely still, because you are
moving at that point faster than the speed of light,
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so your feet would be spaghetti fied off into somewhere else.
And then you would just look to the outsider, who
I guess was imminently going to be experiencing this as well.
Speaker 5 (33:38):
I don't think it's like it was depicted in two
thousand and one with the light show. And then and
then you emerge in like an old school or room
with high backed chairs.
Speaker 3 (33:47):
Inception also or not inception Interstellar right where he goes
and he floats around and after he goes to the
black hole.
Speaker 2 (33:54):
And then you reach your hand through a library. Library. Yeah,
that's what I'm where's that in this?
Speaker 4 (33:59):
There?
Speaker 5 (33:59):
Maybe artist stick license at work in there, I guess.
So I guess we'll have to find it out what
it wants to be spaghettified. No, not in the least.
I'm Andy Reesmeyer. Thanks for being with us tonight.
Speaker 3 (34:09):
Thanks to Oliver, Nikki, Mark Ronner and of course Sam
Speaker 1 (34:15):
Kf I AM six forty on demand.
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Yeah, I mean Andy Reesmeyer.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app About an hour
left here. Coming up, Gary Cannon, comedian, will be joining
us to talk about what's going on in the news
and maybe what's going on for comedians this holiday. I'm
gonna try to say, see if he's going to the
laugh Factory, they're gonna hand out some meals. Always love
(00:30):
that nice one. Comedians can give back. Comedians, you know,
not necessarily known for being generous people. That's not really
like the thing every comedian I know. It's really taken
up a lot of the air in the room. I
love them, but giving unusual. So when you see them
doing that, it's pretty awesome. Now that I've roasted an
(00:51):
entire profession of which my upcoming guest is involved in,
I'm sure it will be a great interview. Campbell's employees
are upset because us. One of their own was fired
after complaining about something that a vice president said. This
is kind of one of those this is what you
fear the people in charge of corporations think about those
(01:14):
of us who buy their products. Listen, we have poor people.
Speaker 4 (01:21):
And that's just part of an over an hour long rant,
says former security analyst for Campbell's Robert Garza of Monroe.
Speaker 5 (01:30):
I don't buy it's barely anymore so healthy now that
I don't want to even.
Speaker 6 (01:36):
I look at it.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
At bio engineered me. I don't want to. You to
a piece of chicken. I came from a three D printer.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
You The recording allegedly of Campbell's VP and Chief Information
security officer Martin.
Speaker 7 (01:50):
Bally, he has no no uh no filter.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
Bally, along with another supervisor and Campbell's soup company, named
in a lawsuit filed Thursday. The suit, claiming he made
racist remarks, admits to coming to work high and Garza
fired for coming forward.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
This guy is racist.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
He's talking smack about the soup, saying it's got bio
engineered meat, and he's coming to work after a cousin walk.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Unconscionable.
Speaker 6 (02:22):
What do you think about the things that he was saying?
Speaker 7 (02:25):
Oh, I just disappeared discussed.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
Garzi says he usually worked remotely for Campbell's headquarters based
in Camden, New Jersey, but thinking he'd be discussing his
salary with Bally, he says the recording taken in person
at a restaurantly deep gone. Garzi says he felt sick
after the rant, deciding to go to his direct supervisor
(02:49):
in January, keeping the recordings to himself.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
Now before we find out what happened here, because it
is heinous the idea that this is the guy who's
got a high up position at Campbells Soup, which, like
Campbell's soup is what you eat when you're sick. It's
like what you give to the food bank. It's like
the most homie, feel good, Oh just a nice warm
(03:14):
tomato soup chicken noodle situation.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
And this is the guy that's wild.
Speaker 6 (03:23):
Huntly deep gone.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
Garza says he felt sick after the rant, deciding to
go to his direct supervisor in January, keeping the recordings
to himself.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
He had never had any disciplinary action, They had never
written him up for poor work performance.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
Garza says, no one at Campbell's ever followed up, and
it's taken him ten months to find a new job,
calling the way the can Soup company handled it simply terrible.
Speaker 7 (03:53):
They have a model, you know, like we treat you
like family. You know here at Campbell's, you'll come work
for us, you know where we cheer while he's like family,
that's that's not the case.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Well it depends on the family. Well you want to
say this or do you want me to say it?
This is bad.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
We did just receive a statement from Campbell's.
Speaker 7 (04:14):
It says, quote if.
Speaker 8 (04:15):
Accurate, the comments and the recording are unacceptable. They do
not reflect our values and the culture of our company.
We are actively investigating this manner. We've also reached out
directly to Martin Valley.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
They know that this is how this guy is.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
This is not a guy who doesn't always talk like
this one hundred percent. Now I don't know it obviously,
so I can't say that. But I just am speculating
based on my experience with people who say things like.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
What a crazy thing? Man?
Speaker 3 (04:58):
Do you think trying to go ask for a ray?
Are your boss? The bus starts talking smack about the company,
and then you record it and then they fire you.
That's a good story. That is a good story. But
there is something not great going on in the San
Fernando Valley. It is no such peace in the valley
for me.
Speaker 9 (05:21):
Security video catches these crooks cursing in Spanish about something
while casually walking down an alley with an armful of
stolen goods. Those items belong to Josh and his family,
who now feel violated.
Speaker 10 (05:35):
It's just not right emotionally. You know, my wife is
five months pregnant. We're going to be giving birth early
next year, God willing, at the right time.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
And you know we're gonna be bringing a new person
into this world. And this is our first house.
Speaker 9 (05:49):
The brazen break in happened around eight Friday evening in
Valley Village. Josh says he and his wife arrived home
from dinner to find their home had been ransacked.
Speaker 10 (05:58):
The cushions were flipped up on our co ouch, Those
sheets were ripped off of our bed, the mattress was moved,
Our socks and underwear were thrown out of the drawers
onto the ground. Someone took my briefcase and dumped it out.
Speaker 9 (06:10):
He claims that these got away with thousands of dollars
worth of watches, jewelry, and other valuables. Josh beliez he
was targeted and says he's seen a group of people
lurking behind his home before.
Speaker 10 (06:21):
I remember seeing three individuals walking in the alleyway beside
our house.
Speaker 7 (06:25):
Looked into my office.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
I made eye contact with them.
Speaker 10 (06:28):
They walked around the backside of my office and then
doubled back and left from that same alley.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Look at the damn You know this guy's in the
studio city, you know how you could tell at our house.
Speaker 10 (06:38):
Looked into my office. I made eye contact with them.
They walked around the backside of my office and then
doubled back and left.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Just like a common thing all day from Burbank Airport
flying over. I lived it basically a block away from
CBS Radford, which is really close to where these people lived.
And it just do you hear that airplane that overhead
all day.
Speaker 10 (06:57):
Walked around the back side of my office and then
double old back and left from that same alley.
Speaker 9 (07:02):
Look at the damage to the dead boats to Josh's
front door and his second floor patio door. He thinks
some of the purps use this planter box to climb
up his property to get inside. LAPD responded and is investigating,
but so far no arrests.
Speaker 10 (07:17):
You can run, but you kind of hight the men
and women of the lap D Eator are coming for you.
Speaker 9 (07:22):
And all Josh Wily's three men and one woman was
involved in this break in. He wanted to share his
story so that he could alert other neighbors about what.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
Is happening bad vibes there in the San Fernando Valley.
All right, coming up, Gary Cannon, we'll talk about more
that is happening in the news. Catch up with him,
the very funny, funny comedian. He's a stand up he's
also a warm up comic for the talk shows and
the game shows. The voice I hear one time he
made ariana grande laugh.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Is that like getting the sphinx to move?
Speaker 5 (07:55):
No?
Speaker 2 (07:55):
I mean, I'm sure she's a good laugh. I don't know.
Speaker 5 (07:58):
Okay, I have made that up? Can he make us laugh? Ooh,
that's a good tease. Tough crowd, you'll have to stay tuned.
It's KIM six forty. I'm Andy Reesmeier.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
I'm Andy Reesmeyer joining the studio right now by comedian
Gary Cannon. You may know him, might know him from
a legendary stand up career, but also a warm up
comic for basically every show that has a live studio audience,
or that ever had a live studio audience.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Here in Los Angeles. Well, I was just telling you
before we went on the air that we are very close.
You were near NBC, and so this is where the
Tonight Show taped with Johnny Carson with Jay Leno. It's
now the iHeart Studio. It's crazy. My very first warm
up gig ever ever full time was working for Last
Call with Carson Daily, and if you remember, it was
(08:55):
the Tonight Show, then it was Conan Yeah, and then
Carson Daily like yeah, yeah, So I remember. It was
my very first warm gig. Great gig. He was super nice.
But because of the show and other things going on
in town, we had to pay audience members a lot
to be there. Okay, so they didn't make that much money.
Maybe they made fourteen dollars to be there. So what
(09:16):
happened is there was a gate outside the main area
where everybody parked, and after the show, the audience members
would stand out there and collect their fourteen dollars. Was
a huge line dupating cash from the audience companies. One
day there was somebody who got word that there's a
line out there and somebody with a handful of cash
paying everybody. So the person passing out the money got robbed.
(09:38):
Get out of town. Literally got robbed, and obviously you
see one hundred audience members losing their food money to
go to Arco. Later that night, they chased the guy
down the road. Those they started feeding the hell up.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
If you're waiting, If you're waiting outside of a studio
in Burbank for fourteen dollars, nobody is going to take
that away from you. No, you know that is the
person who has nothing else to lose and is going
to make sure they get that fourteen dollars.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
I remember I did that show and there was a
woman who stood up during the warm up at one point,
this was year four that I'd been doing the show.
She said, I've been coming to the show every day
for four years and I've yet to get a T shirt.
And I was like, I don't know if I would
stand up and advertise that you've been coming to this
show for four years. People always like last call.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
I mean, Carson is just one of those people who
has it, yes, and I think that no matter what,
Like I didn't ever see him as a late night
stand up type who was going to do a monologue
of Leno styled you know, twenty thirty jokes or whatever
and just kill It's like you just liked him because
he was a cool dude to hang out with, right,
And he's a dude who you would want to hang
(10:42):
out with at one thirty in the morning. Correct, you
knew all the musicians. He obviously was from TRL. He was,
I mean our version, I would say, our my generation's
version of Carson. Excuse me, Johnny Carson.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Well he was. I mean we broke out so many
musical artists on that show. I remember Green Day was
on that show. I remember not their first performance, but
Adell Panic at the disco fall Up Boy. There were
these amazing artists that you would sit and watch, and
I remember there were so many times where we would
have a band on that they weren't very well known,
and then for some reason there was an audio glitch
(11:16):
and we'd have to do the song again and I
would have to tell that to the audience and there
would be audible moans and booze. As the band is
standing right there on stage. They were annoyed. I think
they wanted to get out to their fourteen dollars they could. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
So when you think about how that has all changed
very quickly as far as the big studio shows. I
know that Colbert is going to be done next year.
Kimmel almost was done. I don't know how much is long,
how much longer is left for that. The Voice is
doing a show still, but in a very much smaller
stage than they used to. Hollywood's in a weird spot
(11:54):
right now. What is it like for warm up comics.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
It's tough because there was a time there's a website
called Audiences Unlimited dot com and all they did was
handle sitcoms. You could go to their website get tickets
for any sitcom that filmed here in LA. That website
during COVID went out of business, gone, And I remember
back when I first moved here, there would be seven
eight shows filming a day here in town, Tons at
(12:20):
red for Tons at CBS, Television City, Warner Brothers, all
over the place. You can't find anything now. The audience
companies have dwindled down. But I would also think too,
because there are less shows that we would have bigger
audiences at some of our shows that we do, and
that's not the case. I don't know what it is.
For some reason, the numbers are limited now. I still
(12:41):
work at Jennifer Hudson at Warner Brothers and we get
great crowds out there. But a lot of shows, believe
it or not, still have to bring in a paid
audience if they want to fill certain seats. But it
is crazy. I mean, for me and for what I do.
The numbers have just dropped. There's just not as many
shows that are filming here, and the ones that do it,
the budgets are cut. They can't maybe bring somebody in
(13:03):
full time like yes do. It's just gone completely down.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
And it's funny because it's like, it really is important
to have that step for the audience because you need
that warm up. You need this sort of like first
you got to suck all the air out of the room,
make the oxygen level a little bit lower so people
will laugh at anything. But really you are doing something
where you're warming up these like cold audience members who
are maybe have been waiting for hours. Oh yeah, maybe
(13:26):
they're frustrated, sure, and you are the guy who basically
gets them ready for Leno Letterman, et cetera.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
There's so many different types of shows and different styles, right,
so when I did Conan, it was all about getting
them to laugh. Before Conan came out. That was the idea.
If they were laughing, having a good time, he comes out,
they're going to be great. Right. There's also that weird thing,
and I remember seeing this when I first started working
at Cone. It didn't happen often. But let's say I
go out there and they're having a blast, right, Cony
(13:55):
comes out maybe for some reason. So it doesn't happen
like a one percent chance.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
You're saying, like in the situations where you upstage or
you you blow out the headliner.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
Yeah, it doesn't happen very often, but like for some
But but then there's the so so there are times
where the host wants to know before they go out,
how are they right?
Speaker 7 (14:14):
Right?
Speaker 2 (14:14):
So, now let's say you go back to Conan or somebody.
You're like, hey, they're great. He comes out, maybe the
monologue is off for whatever reason. He goes out and
is shooting, fishing, not working right, not great. But then
you go back and you're like, hey, they're not great.
And then he's going out there with this idea in
his head. He's not going to guess and he goes
out there and he's doing great, right, So which do
(14:37):
you want or do you lie or whatnot? But a
show like Jennifer Udson, that's a daytime talk show, there's
no pressure to get them on. That's kind of nice.
It's a feel good show, so you want to just
get them in a good mood, happy, upbeat, smiling. Now,
did you create the spirit Tunnel? Was that your mood?
Speaker 9 (14:53):
No?
Speaker 2 (14:53):
But you know it's crazy that spirit tunnel has taken
over it crazy is the show? I mean, anybody that
I've ever talked to, I work at Jenniferdson, I haven't
seen the show, but I've seen that spiritunnel. Two producers
on our show created that whole thing.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
It's like the carpool karaoke. Yes, it's like it's her thing. Yes,
and it stuck and it worked.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
And did you see the Nicky Glazer bit Nicki Glazer
hotel now? And she did a spoof on it and
it was so flattering, and they showed that on our show.
They re aired it because it was so it was
a cool thing for our show, right.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
Yeah, I mean, and Jennifer Hudson is such a superstar too, Yeah,
And she was always just like, it's interesting because you've
seen a lot of talk show hosts who came it
to it by the way of being studio musicians Kelly
Clarkson or touring musicians Jennifer Hudson as well, And and
then you see also the Tammer and Halls and then
sort of the more traditional talk show people. And it's
(15:48):
amazing because I'm happy that it's working for Drew and
for for Kelly Clarkson and for Jennifer Hudson.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
Too, because they are just such you want.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
You want those people to succeed, and you know they
already have it, which I think makes it work for that.
But I don't know if it would work if you
were going to try to make them tell jokes.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
Yeah, And that was the thing, as you mentioned about
Carson Daily, he wasn't a joke teller, so he would
come out and try to do a monologue and it
was it just didn't hit. And I remember one day
I walked into the studio. We'd been off for like
two weeks, and I walked in. The set was gone,
the desk, the chairs, and he just had two chairs
sitting down on the stage. And I looked and I
(16:26):
was like, I think the job is coming to an end.
Because I really believed that that whole concept that they
needed somebody out there to get them in a good
mood so they could start laughing. There were just two
chairs and I was like, I think it's over. And
it lasted a little longer, but not much. But then
to the other side of it, you look at like
talk shows. I just wrapped up Season fourteen. To the
(16:47):
Mass Singer, that's a show. You have to bring that
energy up to one hundred and twenty miles per hour
for three and four hours. Amazing. They want that crowd
lit like they are at an amazing festival concert and
it's just never ending, and it could take a while
for us to film based on what's going on, and
maybe the character is not wanting to come out as
(17:08):
quick like there's a lot so all of these different
levels of style. Shows just depend on how your day
is going to go.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
You don't know. Yeah, we're with Gary Cannon. We're gonna
take a quick break. You stick with us for the
next second. Yeah, wonderful.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
I'm Andy Reestmeyer in studio still with Gary Cannon. Would
you call yourself you're a stand up, but you're a
comedian and you're more than that. Because you do corporate gigs,
you do warm up, you do kind of a little
bit of everything.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
Anybody who will if the money's green. Gary, So I did?
I also do auctioneering. Oh that's wait a minute, yep,
can you give us a little you know what. I
don't talk. I talk quickly in my normal pattern of
every day.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
Like if I had a nineteen seventy six Portsia nine
to eleven sc that I was trying to offload here, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
I couldn't know, but I do. I don't. You wouldn't.
I'm not going to make you do it, you know,
but I don't. I don't do like certain people have
that cadence. I don't. But I will say, here's why
I get in trouble with a lot of the auctions
that I do, and they don't have me back because
I'm a comic at heart. That's what I do.
Speaker 4 (18:17):
Right.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
So now I go into these events and we're trying
to raise money for the American Cancer Society or Autism
Speaks or these very high end events that if we
don't raise a half a million dollars, they're not going
to get their funding for the following year. It's a
lot of pressure. So all of a sudden, I'll start
looking at what we're auctioning off trip to Mexico, right,
(18:38):
So instead of playing it straight, all of a sudden,
I'm like, hey, guys, you may have seen this hotel
resort on Dateline NBC, but they're going to reopen in
six months once you clear them. And I start screwing
around and a lot of people do like it, but
at some point, like you're there and you forget that,
people are now starting to laugh. I just did an
auction back in Detroit for Habitat for Humanity and this
(19:02):
guy comes up to me and he said, you were
here last year. You were a favorite part of the event.
We were laughing, having a good time. We literally lost
money this year because I think people they're there for
the show and like they have to be and I'm
literally I got in trouble at a show that I
was doing doing warm up on we gave away airline
(19:22):
tickets to the audience for Breeze Airline. Breeze Airline based
out of Pittsburgh. They fly three flights a day, right,
and we gave away one hundred dollars vouchers everybody, and
I said, guys, you better book quickly because they're about
to go out of business. And then I said the
CEO of Breeze wanted to be here, but they couldn't
find a flight. So all of a sudden, audience laugh
(19:43):
and having a good time. I get a text meet
us in the control. They're like, do you know that
the Breeze airline representatives are here? Oh my god? I said,
I had no idea, so their thing? So now. But
I did this auction a week ago. It was at
a beautif full, high end art gallery in Beverly Hills.
So I always go in. I have my stuff that
(20:05):
I need to auction off. That's it. In and out.
So the pressure's not as great. It's an art house
in Beverly Hills. I mean, what are they doing funding for.
It's not it's not a high end event for cancer, right.
If we don't make it, we don't make it. So
they show me this. The art gallery was for a
guy named mister Brainwashed. You know, yeah, you do.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
Of course, he was in that documentary about the Exit
through the gift Shop.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
Okay, I don't know who this is. And I go in.
It's a beautiful, beautiful gallery. I don't know who this is. Right.
So they said to me, you have to auction off
an art piece by mister Brainwash for forty five grand
I said, I need him up there with me so
he can help me sell this thing. I have no idea, right.
His wife comes over to me, she's French, and she's like,
(20:49):
are you the auction there? And I was like yes.
She's like, you sell the piece for mister brainwash. Nobody
knows his first name. I guess right. Everybody's referring him
to as him as mister and I just said, I
need your husband up there with me. She's like, you
don't know the works of mister brainwash. And I almost
started laughing Andy, because I was like, you, no, I
buy my art at IKEA. I just can't fit his
(21:12):
work into my mini coop.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
This isn't part of your your in your wheelhouse. Yeah,
that is that is a did you did you? Were
you able to successfully auction?
Speaker 2 (21:21):
I was because there was somebody in the room that
was a shill bed or that bought it, of course,
so we didn't even have to do the whole pomp
beautiful stance. Yes, beautiful. He just took it.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
There was one bid forty five grand in and out.
Of course, this is all alleged, mister brainwash. If you're listening,
this is all just uh, we're just speculating about this.
None of this is I'm not legally bound by any
of this divulging any of this information. No, uh but
but I mean I think that, like, you know, being
an auctioneer, what an unbelievable thing. And then laugh factory,
(21:52):
I know that said something you were a part of
for a long time. Are you gonna do the Thanksgiving
thing on Thursday?
Speaker 9 (21:57):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (21:57):
I think so. They do that. Listen, they do a
wonderful thing. They feed the homeless. They do that on Thursday.
They'll do it for Thanksgiving, they do it for Christmas.
I'm actually in town, so I probably will do it. Shit, yeah,
it's great. What else are you doing?
Speaker 5 (22:08):
I know?
Speaker 2 (22:09):
And then I know you action for mister brainwash.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
You were I remember that they had a big thing
set up at when I first moved to La I god,
I was probably twenty two years old and I lived
in West Hollywood border West Hollywood, Beverly Hills with like
a building with a bunch of divorces. Okay, it was
like me as a twenty two year old and a
bunch of fifty year old women who had just just
got out of the relationship. It was Pino Gregia wine
(22:34):
night every night. And I was near robertson Boulevard where
they have a bunch of those galleries and stuff, and
I would walk around there and I was thinking, you know, okay,
I'm so the things you think when you're twenty two. Oh,
I got to get some art for my place. Oh right,
So of course walked into one of those galleries that's
like at Beverly and Roberts are thinking that, like this
is just a place like you would go and get
a picture from Ikia walked in and I had the
(22:55):
whole like, oh, this is neat and it was a
mister brainwash, oh you know.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
And I was like, this is a cool painting. How
much is it? You know, and it's like this is
seventy five thousand dollars and having to be like ooh ah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
I was.
Speaker 3 (23:08):
A little more expensive. Yeah, no, this is probably not
I was just checked with Daddy about this.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
Well, by the way, I had to let because I've
mentioned this story a couple of times and people he
is very popular. Yeah, and the painting don't get me
wrong was beautiful, but I just the way that the
wife had said it to me, it was so funny
and so like, you don't know. I was like, I'm
so out of the loop in that department, right, But
it just by the way. When I just did an
(23:34):
auction back in Detroit, and this is why I start
to get in trouble because we're raising money for something,
I start making fun of people. I feel like I'm
on stage.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
I have a hard time even doing the news in
the morning, right, because my immediate inclination is too there
is a joke here, and how do I not say that?
Speaker 2 (23:52):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (23:53):
Like, how do I control myself from not jumping in
and trying to hear funny about this?
Speaker 2 (23:57):
Yeah? I literally had a guy who was in the
audience for the auction just give me, give me the
middle finger, and you're like, everybody sees this and we're
here for charity, right, And it was funny because I
even said there were people not bidding in the back,
and I said, oh, we're not going to get people
bidding back there. They got in for free or something
like that, and they were upset. So it's like there's
this balance, like you I'm having a good time because
(24:19):
I'm a stand up at all levels. Yeah, and I
just was like, oh, I got to pull back up
little bit.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
No, it's funny. I know you're you're friends with Casey
also Kesey Montoya. You do her her her charity fix
and fighters.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
Right, well do you?
Speaker 4 (24:31):
So?
Speaker 2 (24:32):
I did my second year, I did it this year,
but last year I did it and raised a bunch
of money. Everybody was super happy. And at the end
of the event, some woman came up to me who
I won't say, but came up to me and said,
you literally ruined this event because I was joking and
making fun and goofing around, but we raised a bunch
of money. You ruined it. I ruined it because she
(24:53):
felt like I was constantly making fun of the items, right,
so you know one of the she's selling the items,
or she was one of her it was one of her,
But I wasn't making fun of that one. I was
making fun of others, like, hey, you can do a
police helicopter ride.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
The craziness of a stranger to come up to another
person the audacity and be like you ruined this rude.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
It is correct. Never in a million years when I
ever feel like appropriate to say that she did. She did,
she said you ruined the event, and then it was
obviously Casey Montoya, right, And I didn't say anything to Casey.
And then she called me. She said, you got such
rave reviews, we want you to keep doing it. I
was like, well, I just got scolded by one of
your guests who donated an item. And by the way,
(25:32):
it's usually the people who haven't donated and aren't bidding. Yeah, right, whatever.
It's absolutely insane because there's there's these items where it's
like take a helicopter ride over Pasadena and then I'll
make a joke like you know, we'll go up to
Victorville and you can see where you know the police
chases are, and like it just takes over me and
I have to remember, like where they're raising money. That's right,
(25:54):
that's the idea. That's right.
Speaker 3 (25:55):
Well, I appreciate you being here where you are allowed
to joke as much as you.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
Last time I called and you called me out because
I turned off the car. I was in my car
and it starts beeping buicklessa. I was like, it was
like a grandpa. That was that was actually andy. That
was when I did the auction for Habitat when everybody
had a good time, but we lost forty grand. Well,
so everybody was left happy, but we didn't make it money.
Speaker 3 (26:19):
Well, maybe maybe the Johnny Carson or Johnny Carson Cheez,
the uh Jimmy Carter Foundation can make a donation for Habitat.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
They need to.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
Gary Cannon find him on the internet at Garycannon dot com.
But I've shows this weekend Laugh Factory seven thirty Friday,
Improv nine thirty Friday, two shows back to back. Saturday.
I will be at the Laugh Factory, Long Beach to look.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
At you all over town, Happy Thanksgiving. Thank you for
making time and your busy schedule to come see Thank
you any come back anytime.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
Thanks forty.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
I'm Andy Reesmeyer coming up in just a few minutes.
We will hand it over to George Norri for Coast
to Coast. George joins us now with a look at
what's coming up tonight.
Speaker 7 (27:10):
Andy.
Speaker 5 (27:10):
We're going to talk about how to reverse cognitive decline,
and then later on science and the supernatural on Coast
to Coach.
Speaker 3 (27:18):
All right, can't wait doing anything fun for Thanksgiving.
Speaker 9 (27:23):
Going over to my granddaughters, the whole family's.
Speaker 5 (27:25):
Going, and then coming back to La right after Christians.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
Hey, love it, have a great, great holiday. There we go, Andy,
George Nory coming up in just about eight minutes.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
How fun. Love talking to George.
Speaker 3 (27:38):
Mister Ronner. It's nice to see you again tonight. Welcome back. Wait,
I'm the one who's welcomed back, but I think it works. No, no, no,
we always have fun to go. Yeah, and I think, like,
I don't work here five days out of the week,
so you can say welcome back.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
I was here yesterday. It's hard to keep track.
Speaker 5 (27:55):
It's kind of a musical chair situation at the moment,
but it's it's been fun so far.
Speaker 2 (27:59):
It has been one.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
I've been really thankful to be able to have the
opportunity to do this. I don't sleep a lot anymore
well rating, but uh yeah, definitely. Like in twelve hours,
I will be almost ready to be done with the
morning show.
Speaker 5 (28:12):
So how do you unwind or can you just go
right to sleep? I'm not good at it.
Speaker 3 (28:16):
No, I I cause I need coffee to do this show,
so I'll I'm trying to taper off and drink a
little bit earlier, like drink the coffee earlier, so that
I'm able to.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
Go to sleep.
Speaker 3 (28:26):
But uh, I'll go home and I'll watch a little news,
you know, just that'll really see something relaxing like news.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
Yeah, he on my friend's files. News will put you
right in the boot, can I tell you? You know,
I'm one of those people.
Speaker 3 (28:39):
I have the TV on all the time because I
lived alone for most of my adult life, and so
I would have the news on in the background, especially
like KTLA or or any of the cable nets, you know,
just kind of bouncing around because I like news. And
then when I started working at KTLA, it started to
really freak me out because I'd come home and I'd
like have just left that place, and then the work
(28:59):
was always in the house too. So I've been trying
to sort of put a distance in between the two
of them, but it's hard to do that.
Speaker 5 (29:06):
I compulsively read, watch, and listen to news constantly, and
I have to force myself not to. I have to
force myself to have some book time every day. That
kind of has to stop from just completely going insane.
Speaker 3 (29:18):
Well, my palate cleans used to be listening to Tim
Conway Junior. I would be listening to KFI as a
way to like disconnect from work, and now I work here,
so I just can't escape it.
Speaker 5 (29:31):
I think your only alternative is the hard drugs. We
got a couple of talkbacks to get to. Here's one
that's just called Roner.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
Oh no, here's.
Speaker 11 (29:42):
One for Ronnor. When people ask you a thanksgiving what
you're thankful for, tell them, well, you know, I'm a
very giving guy, and I thank god he gave me
two middle fingers, because sometimes giving somebody one is just
not enough.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
Are you screening these or are you just playing in
Willy Reilly? It's not my job to clear It was.
Speaker 6 (30:04):
Clean, and I thought it was a nice compliment.
Speaker 5 (30:07):
Okay, I didn't know you were because I was clenched
up there for a second.
Speaker 6 (30:09):
Yeah, i'd pay to see that.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
Okay, let's move on screening our producer and my mom
made turkey and siladas. Oh turkey enchiladas.
Speaker 11 (30:21):
Siladas, and she's only the brown meat. Why anyway, he's
really good.
Speaker 2 (30:30):
That sounds delicious about see you tomorrow morning on kay Dla.
That's right, that's cool. Turkey andchilada sounds kind of good.
I want that now.
Speaker 3 (30:41):
Yeah, yeah, and I think that I imagine you'd use that
because it's a fattier, more flavorful meat.
Speaker 9 (30:46):
Well.
Speaker 5 (30:46):
Also, you brought up something important earlier, which is turkey
needs some lube, and Enchiladas have the sauce.
Speaker 3 (30:53):
That's right, Andilada's got the sauce A wet burrito if
you will.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
I like that.
Speaker 3 (30:59):
We can, you know, plan a show. I did plan
a show tonight and I got to maybe get third
of it.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
I don't know.
Speaker 12 (31:07):
How'd we do, Nikki, you did great, so good, so good?
Ten ten fingers up.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
Ten fingers up, ten fingers up. I don't know who's
that's like, don't shoot.
Speaker 6 (31:21):
Hands up, jazz hands.
Speaker 5 (31:23):
Oh okay, well you have to you have to specify that.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
I guess that's good. Are you doing anything for Thanksgiving?
Speaker 6 (31:28):
I'm an immigrant. I don't have any family.
Speaker 5 (31:31):
If anybody should appreciate Thanksgiving, it should be the immigrants.
Speaker 6 (31:34):
I know nothing, John Snow, I don't know.
Speaker 5 (31:38):
Maybe one of our listeners in their family would be
delighted to take in, oh someone from that.
Speaker 6 (31:44):
A little single orphan.
Speaker 2 (31:46):
Yeah sure, I'm just an urchin a streeter.
Speaker 6 (31:48):
Take little orphan Annie over here.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
Please, sir, can I can actually.
Speaker 6 (31:52):
Played little orphan Annie in the school play. Of course,
because I was the only curly haired child.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
You were kind of like the black Sheep.
Speaker 6 (31:59):
Band because of my black curls.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
Yeah, and like I'm assuming you had tattoos at that point.
Speaker 12 (32:04):
All I was like four years old. Yeah, so yes, yes,
covered in tattoos.
Speaker 5 (32:08):
Right, yeah, yeah, Annie needs some ink and he needs
some ink and he gets your gun. That's right, get
your tattoo gun.
Speaker 3 (32:16):
I was gonna do this story about what would happen
if you walked into a black hole. This kind of
felt like a good segue into mister Norri's show. I
think I can do it pretty quickly here. If a
human fell into one, the force of gravity would be
so strong you'd undergo something called spaghettification. Spaghetification. Spaghettification. That's
(32:38):
not like when you.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
Go to Italy. Oh, forget about it.
Speaker 3 (32:43):
Since a black hole's gravity is so strong, there's an
extremely steep gravitational gradient. That means the forces affecting your
feet near the black hole would be much more powerful
than those affecting your head, so your body would be
yanked into a long line like a piece of spaghetti
being sucked up by the black hole. At the same time,
the intense radiation from orbiting material in the accretion disc
(33:06):
would blast you with incredibly powerful X rays. Strangely, as
your elongated body approaches the black hole, your perception of
time would start to radically diverge from anyone outside you
observing you from the outside. Anyone observing you from the
outside would only see you completely still, because you are
moving at that point faster than the speed of light,
(33:28):
so your feet would be spaghetti fied off into somewhere else.
And then you would just look to the outsider, who
I guess was imminently going to be experiencing this as well.
Speaker 5 (33:38):
I don't think it's like it was depicted in two
thousand and one with the light show. And then and
then you emerge in like an old school or room
with high backed chairs.
Speaker 3 (33:47):
Inception also or not inception Interstellar right where he goes
and he floats around and after he goes to the
black hole.
Speaker 2 (33:54):
And then you reach your hand through a library. Library. Yeah,
that's what I'm where's that in this?
Speaker 4 (33:59):
There?
Speaker 5 (33:59):
Maybe artist stick license at work in there, I guess.
So I guess we'll have to find it out what
it wants to be spaghettified. No, not in the least.
I'm Andy Reesmeyer. Thanks for being with us tonight.
Speaker 3 (34:09):
Thanks to Oliver, Nikki, Mark Ronner and of course Sam
Speaker 1 (34:15):
Kf I AM six forty on demand.
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