December 2, 2025 • 33 mins
Andy kicks off the hour with the wild story of a 500-pound bear who decided to move into an Altadena home like it pays rent. Then Andy rewinds the clock to the pre-AI internet, before the “slop era,” deepfakes, and unverified nonsense that now floods your feed.
At 9:35, it’s chaos in Queens: a McDonald’s in Flushing has officially hired a McBouncer after 2,000 local students turned the restaurant into a daily brawl zone.
Andy wraps with crosstalk with George Noory and a few KTLA highlights before signing off.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
I me, Andy Reesmeyer, Hey, I want to go back
to that story that we were talking about.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
Mark Roner was just talking.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
About a bear hiding under somebody's Alta Dina porch, maybe
the crawl space. Here's the full package from KTLA's Jillian Smuckler,
who ended up getting up close in person.
Speaker 4 (00:27):
Did you get under the house?
Speaker 5 (00:30):
Now? At ive thirty, an Altadena homeowner finds himself living
with a very unwelcome.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
And very large roommate.
Speaker 5 (00:38):
Turns out, a massive bear has settled into the crawl
space of an Alta Dina home, getting way too cozy
for comfort.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Jillian Smuggler now shows us what the homeowner is up against.
Speaker 6 (00:48):
The Alta Dina man set up a home security camera
right outside this crawl space right here, because you can
see that brick that's just one of many items he
noticed was moved and then even destroyed so you can
image and his surprise when he saw a five hundred
pound black bear living right under his home.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Now, I know we said five hundred pounds, and I
asked this question this morning on TV. We don't know
that's five How do you know that's five hundred pounds.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
Are you saying that a bear might be reticent to
step on a scale? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (01:18):
I mean obviously we didn't weigh.
Speaker 4 (01:21):
You just guess it's like somebody, like if there's a
Captain Quint of Bears, somebody can just eyeball it one. Yeah,
that's a five hundred pounder.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
And you think that guy was in Altadena talking to
Gillian Smuggler. I don't know. Maybe.
Speaker 7 (01:32):
Oh.
Speaker 6 (01:35):
It started Monday night when Ken Johnson's outdoor camera picked
up movement in the driveway.
Speaker 7 (01:39):
It was really big. I've seen him before, but he
was going through the trash. He's never done that before.
And then the next morning I look and he's coming
out from underneath my house.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Oh my god.
Speaker 6 (01:51):
Since then, the bear hasn't just visited, it's moved in.
Ken says he sees it every day on cameras, slipping
in and out like he owns the place.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Can you imagine if the whole time you're in your
house you know that there's a bear under your.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Floorboards, I'd feel safe, you'd feel safe. Would Marley like that?
I'm speaking for myself. I can't speak for dog.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Marley is Sam's a very cool dog who I feel
like is so charismatic.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
He might make friends with the bear. I get the film,
that's exactly what he would do.
Speaker 6 (02:28):
But on Friday, things turned a little too close for comfort.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
How can we get Jillian? How can we get closer
than under the house?
Speaker 7 (02:37):
So I had to go around and change the batteries.
So I went around there and I just glanced at
the hole from standing up, and I heard this horrible
growl like, oh the hiss.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
I woo like, And I just ran, that's a great sound.
Speaker 7 (02:52):
And I heard this horrible growl like, oh the hiss,
I woo like, And I just.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
Ran, that's a drop ready, So I, oh, yeah, that's
not going to get old at all.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
I just ran.
Speaker 6 (03:07):
Ken's now living on edge, unsure when this uninvited house
guest will pop up next. So naturally, I asked.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
If we could go see it.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
I see it, I see it.
Speaker 6 (03:17):
I see it.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Do you see the bear?
Speaker 5 (03:19):
Yes?
Speaker 8 (03:20):
I see it.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
And she's running. She's running, running, running, care you Okay,
I'm not sure who to root for here. Did she
just sacrifice the camera man? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (03:35):
She was like, can come on, we're getting out of here, Andre,
you're staying.
Speaker 7 (03:42):
I dropped my last counters animal control.
Speaker 6 (03:45):
When you need a way, I'm gonna pants.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
He says.
Speaker 6 (03:49):
It's unsettling knowing he's sharing the property with a five
hundred pound bear living just feet below him.
Speaker 7 (03:56):
And it looked like a like a monster because the
eyes are like close together.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
And then his big wide head and I wasn't even
sure what I.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Was looking at.
Speaker 6 (04:03):
Law enforcement told him staying inside will keep him safe,
but he wants this tenant gaune.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
We're you gonna start charging him round. Yeah, it'd be nice.
Speaker 6 (04:10):
He reached out to California Fish and Wildlife to see
if they can help evict this enormous squatter before things escalate.
Speaker 7 (04:17):
I got a recording that said they're close for the holidays.
I don't need a bear for Christmas. I want to
get rid of.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
The bear, for that is the most classic California thing ever.
You turn off the heat in the water, we have
a bear under the house. Sorry, please call back between
the business when we're open for business between the hours
of nine am and ten am.
Speaker 8 (04:36):
I'm just putting a sign out in front of the
house that says beware of bear.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Yeah, that's a good way to start for it.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Yeah, I mean, that's a you know, Conway always says,
the way that you can make sure that nobody breaks
into your house, you put an American flag hanging from
the front porch and those bad guys just keep on walking.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
Put a punish your symbol up that.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
If they if they recomic books, yes, if they're ignorant,
who's to say, I have a bear under the floorboards.
That's a great it's a tough security system because they
don't know that it discriminates against people that you don't
want there.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
And also you growl like, oh the hiss I woo
like that.
Speaker 4 (05:17):
Sounds like the bear got into Ken's alcohol.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
Well like, oh the hiss wo like great Ken, I
like Ken, Ken's good sound.
Speaker 4 (05:30):
Man.
Speaker 7 (05:31):
I don't need a bear for Christmas. I want to
get rid of the bear for Christmas.
Speaker 6 (05:35):
Until Ken can get some help. He tells me he's
going to continue staying indoors and of course keep those
cameras rolling. Reporting in Alta. Dina Jillian Smuckler KTLA Gove News.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Jillian Smuckler, new reporter at KTLA. Great package. That's a funny,
funny package. Good sound from that guy. Hilarious if you're
looking for an internet that does not have AI. You're
going to look for an internet that exists before November thirtieth,
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twenty twenty two.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
That is the day Open Ai debuted chat gipt to
the public. And of course it just gets worse and
worse every day.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Your feed is filled with videos that are basically, at
some point very convincing. Maybe you'll learn on the third
or fourth watch that probably isn't real, but it's full
in people who know better. I mean, the ability now
that this Google's nano banana has to generate images that
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look as real as real can be is so so disturbing.
Unverified AI slop goes through different phases. For a while,
it was sort of funny, like celebrities trying to eat
spaghetti and they looked crazy, and it was like, oh,
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that's stupid and funny. And then you had the whole
era of the shrimp Jesus, where for some reason Facebook
was littered with CGI images AI created images of shrimp
arranged to look like Jesus Christ. I don't understand it
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anymore than you do. And below that hundreds thousands of
comments of people just saying, amen, are they bots? Are
they people behaving like bots? I don't know, but coming
up we'll talk about how you can go to a
pre AI Internet and why a McDonald's had to hire
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a mcbouncer. It's so mcbad you don't want to mc
miss it.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
I'm Andy Reesmeyer just passed nine twenty and I will
also be Andy Reesmeyer just past ten twenty eleven twenty
and maybe after that. We were talking about AI and
how it's changed our Internet in a very short amount
of time. I guarantee you a popular conversation at the
Thanksgiving dinner table this year was convincing someone that what
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they were sharing showing was not real. I know it
because I heard it. I heard it in a family situation.
I heard it at in a public restaurant where somebody
at a table next to the table that I was
at was trying to show I think his daughter something
that he had seen on the internet and said, look
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at how crazy this is. And she had to very
tactfully let him down, softly, not burst his bubble, and
say I think that that's AI. The thing that's wild
about this is that it happened so quickly and so
effectively that it's become very hard for us, I think,
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to adapt the immediate reaction to know that something isn't real.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
That's new for most people, I think.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
But there is a way that you can sort of
get a look at what the Internet was like back
before chat gpt. It's something called slop Evader, and it's
an extension for Mozilla, Firefox or Google Chrome. And essentially
what it helps you do is search the Internet pre
November thirtieth, twenty twenty two. That's when chat gpt came out.
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So essentially you're going on Reddit, you're going on YouTube,
you're using this and it searches only things that were
published before chatchept came out. The creator says, the sewing
of mistrust in our relationship with media is a huge thing,
a huge effect of the synthetic media moment that we're in.
I was thinking about ways to refuse it, and the simplest,
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dumbest way to do that is to only search before
twenty t twenty two. And it does kind of feel
like the good old days of being able to even
remember what it was like when you would search for
something and you would go on Google before they came
up with the Gemini AI response, and it allegedly knows
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pretty well. But I've seen a lot of it be wrong,
especially when people are using chat GPT for stuff like
legal briefs. Yes, I'm aware of at least a couple
people who have used it for legal advice and gotten
themselves into serious trouble.
Speaker 4 (10:35):
Those are reported to be just strewn with mistakes.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
They're not only mistakes where they hallucinate case law, but
they interpret the law incorrectly. And the reality is, and
I think this is the most important thing to remember.
Even though I think people who are addicted to this thing,
I know it's an addiction. I think people who like
it and use it and think it's the greatest thing
since sliced bread. You have to remember that the app
is just trying to keep you using it. It doesn't
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care if you get the right answer and move on.
It just wants you to continue to think.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
That it is valuable.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
So what it will do is it will find because
it knows what you are doing, it keeps track of
everything that you've done with it. It will look for
your emotional pain points and it'll exploit those. They are
not shy about this. It's just about trying to keep
people using it.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
Well, so are the investors, because we're finding out they're
about to lose their shirts, and that's why they're giving
it the extra hard push right now when it couldn't
be more obvious that most people really don't want or
need any AI.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
And it's weird because I think that there are situations
that it's good for, like any computer. You know, when
you're using it as like a verbal calculator.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
Or there was a thing I saw this weekend that
used AI to detect breast cancer far earlier than normal
methods could. Yeah, totally valid, good uses, but that's not
what we're getting. We're getting things that put people out
of jobs and that turn people's brains into tapioca by
doing writing and thinking work that they should be doing themselves.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Let me give you an example of how stupid I
have become. And I'm not a big AI person, but
just from thinking about it and having a lot of
it slowly infiltrate, Apple, Google, whatever. Yesterday I drove down
from the Valley to the Hollywood Christmas Parade. I left,
got on the one on one freeway and I put
in the address to where I was going to go
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and it showed up on the map, and I knew
better than to go that way, because I've lived in
LA for fifteen years.
Speaker 4 (12:35):
You whipped out your Thomas Guide.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
I know how the shortcut works. I'll say it one
time and then I won't tell anybody else. Outpost is
the last resort. It's what you do if you need
to get from the valley to Hollywood and there's something
you can you can take us a side street. I
know this. I didn't trust my gut. I thought, well,
(12:59):
maybe it knows something more than I do, maybe it's better,
maybe it is enlightened. I followed that Apple Maps. I
followed it down the one to one free. We had
passed the exit that I would have got off and
gone to my Holland and snaked my way back to
the pre come down over by the Hollywood Bowl, and
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I get stuck, and I'm stuck there. I'm stuck there
for an hour, and I'm cursing my myself the whole
time because I knew better, but I trusted the robot.
The future is not terminator. I mean eventually maybe, but
right now it's not an existential threat based on robots
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that are coming here with machine guns. It is us
giving up our autonomy, giving up our ability to choose
and to reason, because we think it knows better. It's
scared the hell out of me, just like the McDonald's
that had to hire a mcbouncer that coming up when
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we come back.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
You're listening to KFI A M six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
Had a message from the one and only Shannon Farren
of Gary and Shannon and whom I will see tomorrow
at the pastathon. Both Gary and Shannon Matt you going down.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
There, it's top But what time are we gonna be there?
Speaker 4 (14:31):
Hy?
Speaker 3 (14:32):
Right after they rap one?
Speaker 2 (14:34):
Okay, I'll see you on the way out. But Shannon
messaged me at seven forty five pm on my Instagram
saying that she wanted to come on and talk about
Chargers Charge Talk Chargers football. Of course, she's a sideline
reporter for the Chargers and I did not see it
until about five minutes ago, and I responded, but I said, yes,
(14:58):
please tonight. But I think she's probably I mean, I
hope she's doing something other than listening to the radio
right now, but if she is, we'd love to have
her call in to sort of set the record straight.
She's probably a sleep getting ready for the pastathon tomorrow.
Do you have to do the same kind of carb
loading for carb loading? Like you know how people before
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marathons they load up on carbs. Now before a postathon,
do you also have to load up on carbs or
do you like, like, what what's the right move?
Speaker 4 (15:29):
I'm not sure that you're going to be required to
run any place at the pastathon.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Yeah, but you know, depending on how much pasta you eat.
Speaker 4 (15:36):
I mean there's no information that declares it as like
a twenty six point two mile pastathon.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
I actually might be dumb. Do you do you eat
pasta at the pasta thon?
Speaker 7 (15:49):
Well?
Speaker 8 (15:49):
I get the feeling that's why they do it after
Thanksgiving because Thanksgiving is supposed to be the warm up
stretch your stomach.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
Yeah yeah, yeah, this is smart. I know it's about
donating food for kids in need. But do you I've
never been to this pastathon before. Do people eat pasta
at the pasta you can avail yourself of, Well, I
don't know pasta. Maybe that would be rude though, you know,
if we're there to help people in need, I think
it's is it bad form if you go like order
a bowl of fetichini alfredo.
Speaker 4 (16:18):
You'll have to discuss the pastathon etiquette with Michelle Cube.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
I will, by the way, she is the woman who
makes all of that happen. None of those twelve prior
pastathons would exist, either twelve or eleven would exist without
Michelle Cube. She's the lady making it happen tomorrow, of
course at the White House, the Anaheim White House, pretty
much the whole day. And of course there's so many
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ways that you can join in and either come out,
say hello, donate to the Caterinus Club to help kids
in need. Feed those kids in need, all because of you. Now,
these are some other kids who are in need of
maybe a complete different kind of help, maybe some disciplinary help.
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And McDonald's New York City has hired a mc bouncer
because there are too many violent and rowdy teens. They
are calling Claudia Xanabria or Zanabria, perhaps the mc bouncer.
She's a McDonald's worker who they think is the toughest
employee at the restaurant. She survives stage three rectal cancer.
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She was picked by the team to police the kids.
She says, this generation is different. They push me, they
disrespect me. Reading that in print makes me nervous. This
wallful house employees are giggling, right, you're right, you're right.
Speaker 4 (17:55):
There for yourself some corporal punishment, that's right.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
Apparently this is happening at a Forest Hills, New York McDonald's.
They have barred miners from being in the restaurant from
two to four pm unless they are accompanied by an adult.
I also do a radio show on Sunday from two
to four pm. I believe those are unrelated. Children love
your show, cops, Yeah, they've got nowhere to listen to
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it now, thanks a lot. Cops have been called to
the restaurant fifteen times so far this year for assault,
disorderly conduct, and other crimes. The most serious incident happened
May twenty first, just before three pm, when a twenty
four year old man claimed he was slapped by a stranger.
Speaker 8 (18:37):
It's not phony, is it. It was the hamburgler taking
his lunch. Well, you know, this is what I said earlier.
I don't know they're in the cast of characters for McDonald's.
There is a police officer. It's Officer Big Mac. Now,
I don't know if Officer Big Mac was involved in
an ois, and that's why.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
He's unavailable to help out in this situation.
Speaker 8 (19:00):
Grimis couldn't be reached for common Grimis Yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Mac tonight is obviously now engaged in some weird alt
right neo Nazi things.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
It's tough out here.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
Rowdy teens usually are gone by the time police arrive,
and they leave a trail of destruction in their wake.
Of course, this McDonald's is not far from where would
it be not far from a school The band started
five months ago, and now the kids aren't inside the restaurant.
They crowd around outside as the main entrance remains locked
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for those two hours, another entrance is barricaded with a
trash can. The mc bouncer will check the will step
outside rather and check the angry teens cell phones for
their mobile orders, and then we'll give them meals outside
and if they don't order online, they can come inside
and order at the counter one at a time. But
then when they get their food they have to leave.
Speaker 4 (20:02):
Sounds like they need a mc sally port Ooh, I
don't want to be a victim, says one customer.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
You don't know if they're going to throw something at
you or punch you. In the face or something. This
is a crazy world that we live in where the
kids are just wrecking shop and running rampant all the
livelong day.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
And New York is not, like, you know, you don't
tolerate that kind of behavior in New York.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
In the Midwest, we don't have a lot of that behavior,
but there's not a lot of confrontation happening. It's mostly
passive aggressive. New York is just straight up aggressive. So
for this to be at this level, as the MC
bouncer said, kids these days are just different. By the way,
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Chili's is having some major issues. I know you guys
are more Sizzlers boys. Were you here when I did
the story about No, you weren't. It was last Monday,
did the story about how Sizzler's reinventing itself like the
Cracker Barrel?
Speaker 4 (21:13):
I think, so, no, we were here?
Speaker 1 (21:14):
You were here?
Speaker 3 (21:15):
Oh yeah sorry?
Speaker 8 (21:16):
And Sizzler, Yeah, dude, we're still playing making that like
family trek out there.
Speaker 4 (21:22):
All of us need the family fild trip to us.
So this isn't a bit either hate Sizzler hate America.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
That's right.
Speaker 4 (21:27):
Sizzler is the choice of America, the joyless choice of America.
I can't remember if I told you this. One of
my friends took me to a Sizzler on a birthday
before I left Seattle to move here, and it was
the most amazing experience ever because I couldn't stop looking
at all the other people around us eating. I couldn't
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tell you what the aggregate age of the clientele was,
but it was a lot of people in like warm
up outfits and just joylessly consuming, robotically joylessly, and I
was fascinated by it. I couldn't focus on my own food.
I was too busy watching everybody else.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
Well, listen, much like your trip to Costco, it sounds
like the anthropological experiences that you get going out in public.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
Are very valuable.
Speaker 4 (22:19):
So when we go to the Sizzler, we cannot listen
to Dawn of the Dead music on our earbuds.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
That's going to destroy it, you.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
Know, I think, correct me if I'm wrong. Sizzler is
pretty big in the in Koreatown. Oh yes, I think so.
And I think like Anthony Bourdain went to a sizzler.
Speaker 4 (22:41):
In Korea.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
It's like it's it's like there's a whole thing about it.
I'll let me look this up. And I'll get back
to you about it, but I think that it has
The Korean American population specifically really like Sizzler because you.
Speaker 3 (22:54):
Don't really go out to eat.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
Koreans don't go out to eat as much because they
cook at home so well. But when you go out,
you got to get a good deal. And what is
a better deal than Sizzler. Chilies, by the way, is uh.
At least the employees are upset because Wicked has ruined
the restaurant. They're calling it a living hell. That is
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because of the Wicked inspired margarita's a bright pink Glinda
the and margarita called the Good Witch marg and an
alphabet inspired margarita with hints of apple called the Witches
brew mark only six dollars. Apparently they are a nightmare.
Account claiming to be a Chilies worker posts on Reddit
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saying that the Wicked drinks are making their lives a
living hell. Why are they just drinking too many of
them themselves? Apparently they're selling out all of them every night.
My bar manager added a third bartender for Friday and
Saturday because the morning bartender isn't making enough batches for
and our numbers are play comitting because we have to
stop what we're doing to make them. Other employees from
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different Chile's locations said that yes, they are having issues
with keeping up with all of the orders.
Speaker 3 (24:15):
They even have to.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
Do virgin versions because the kids want the swizzle sticks
that are in margarita's.
Speaker 4 (24:22):
I'm sorry, we live in hell. Send some of those
over to McDonald's. Right, quiet those kids down, that's right.
Someone asked how many you make it a day? Another
account said Saturday night, probably five hundred at least. That's hilarious.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
That's wild.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
Another user wrote, we made over seven hundred wicked margaritas tonight,
not even counting all the mocktail versions, which are lemonade
I had to do for my tables. I cannot wait
for November to be over. Well, now December has come,
and the innocence can never last, So no longer can
you get your hellscape experience of late stage capitalistic synergy.
Speaker 4 (24:59):
Those alphabe Apple ones sound pretty tasty.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
Oh yeah, you kind of a more of a pink
drink guy.
Speaker 4 (25:04):
Well, I'll tell you as a former bartender, to make
a real margarita is kind of labor intensive, But it
sounds like these are just like sludged.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
Out of a machine.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
I can't imagine they are muddling limes. You're not going
to do five No, five hundred is a lot of
drinks to make in one night.
Speaker 4 (25:21):
Yeah, you'd have arms like loo forigne.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
That is a very all night. Chili's is popping.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
As we were talking about, oh maybe an hour ago.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
Target shoppers are a little angry because they're not getting
the free thing.
Speaker 3 (25:52):
That they thought that they deserved. Tell you hate that.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
When your level of entitlement, you think that you just
deserve free stuff from a big corporation, and then when
they don't give it to you for no reason whatsoever,
you get angry and go on the internet. It wouldn't
be twenty twenty five without that. And of course, trimp Jesus.
Speaker 3 (26:17):
All right. To get people into their stores.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
For Black Friday, Target did a swag bag giveaway, a
shining bag of goodies.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
This guy sounds good.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
There's a chance for a big prize for the first
one hundred guests.
Speaker 3 (26:27):
Friday.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
Up in Fresno at five am, hundreds huddled while temperatures
hung in the low forties, and well, you probably already
know what happens next.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
Actually, this is so sad.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
This is a man I'll just because this is on TV.
This is a man holding his Target swag bag revealing
the contents that are less than exciting.
Speaker 3 (26:52):
This is so sad. I got an Uno card, pack
of Uno cards.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
I like feel like electric, like drink mix, you know
where like you put the electrolyte drink mix into the water.
You've had them for some nerds, nerds, candy. It's not
me and.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
That's all I have to say.
Speaker 8 (27:15):
I'm gonna go home.
Speaker 3 (27:16):
I'm going to sleep.
Speaker 4 (27:19):
Come on, I do like Huno a lot, though, Yeah,
sure would you wait hours in the cold for r
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
Now.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
Most bags contain things like you saw there are a
pack of Uno cards, a mini shampoo bottle, some candy, electrolyte,
water supplements, some nerds. Widespread hype now being widely trashed
on social media.
Speaker 3 (27:34):
But maybe this is messaging.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
Target had said only ten bags out of the one
hundred given away would have.
Speaker 3 (27:39):
An extra prize, so read the fine print. That would
be so yeah.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
The promo graphics showed things like could be in there,
like a Ninja blender. I don't know how to say
this leaf thin hair dryer is that you know, runner
leafen hair dryer.
Speaker 4 (27:54):
I feel like you might use one of those. They
don't try to deny it.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
Oh, not your all, sir. I just cruised down the
one on one with the top off, if you say so,
flopping in the wind. How you say it's way too
fancy for me? Or a part of a pair of
Beats headphones.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
But that's the deal.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
One in ten got something expensive, which left ninety people
at each store.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
To belly ache about swagless swag bags.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
One shopper in our affiliate in Fresno says she got
in line at nine pm on Thursday, spending the night
outside the store just for the free tote bag.
Speaker 4 (28:26):
That's on you, man, belly aching. Note the use of
the language there. Who they're putting this on you?
Speaker 2 (28:32):
Like the belly achin you, Like you're saying you've already
tracked that.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
I know.
Speaker 4 (28:37):
I think the belly a can signify some punching down.
Aha that I'm biased.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
Uh yeah, my god.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
You gotta think that somewhere between beggars can't be choosers
or don't look a gift horse in the mouth. My
favorite phrase By the way, don't look a gift horse
in the mouth.
Speaker 4 (28:49):
No, stay away from the mouth.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
I found out with the quick Google search that that
comes from. And I think a listener actually messaged me
and said, the reason that they say don't look at
gift horse in the mouth is because when the horse
was given as a gift. If you want to inspect
a horse to see how healthy or young it is.
Speaker 3 (29:06):
You check their teeth.
Speaker 4 (29:07):
Exactly.
Speaker 3 (29:09):
Now, you say, exactly, I don't know this stuff.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
Even though I grew up in Indiana, horses were never
given as gifts.
Speaker 4 (29:15):
Yeah, but you've dated a lot, you're single. Are you
trying to tell me you've never just on the first
date taken a flashlight and shined it into a nice
lady's mouth.
Speaker 3 (29:27):
Well, I haven't. It's been a while since I dated
a horse girl.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
Because you I mean, I feel bad that people did this,
but no one forced them to.
Speaker 3 (29:36):
Exactly, like targeted at your friend. They don't owe you anything.
Speaker 5 (29:39):
And I don't want to say I'm more of a
skeptic that I would never expect anything good to be
in the free Yes.
Speaker 4 (29:45):
And I would expect like coupon.
Speaker 3 (29:47):
I would have actually expected like a deca.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
Uno Cardinals shampoo.
Speaker 4 (29:52):
The electro lights is kind of hot, kind of hot,
kind of promoting a brand.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
Maybe yeah, yeah, they got it for free and it
goes into the bag.
Speaker 4 (30:01):
I mean, that's the thing.
Speaker 3 (30:02):
It's like.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
And I don't get ub jaded because I've done like
five red carpets before, but you always see, like, unless
it's the Oscars, the swag bag is never stuff that
people like really want you to have.
Speaker 3 (30:13):
Right anyway, time to check the DMS. I stand by this.
I was a little hot this morning.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
I heated about this, but I do think that there's
something very unsettling about the relationship between people and their
brands that a leads them to the psychosis of staying
overnight outside, even in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
Right, it's not ten years ago.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
It's not twenty years ago when Black Friday was like
a thing people did because they could get a TV
screen for four hundred bucks.
Speaker 4 (30:44):
I know, but we always used to laugh at like
the Black Friday stampedes until some of us realized, oh,
they're doing that because they're struggling and they don't have
much money.
Speaker 3 (30:54):
I think that that's also terrible.
Speaker 4 (30:57):
I mean, whose side, what kind of Stockholm since do
these TV people have when they say, yeah, target ain't
your friend.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
That's me.
Speaker 3 (31:05):
I literally that was me saying that what's wrong with you?
Speaker 2 (31:07):
I mean, okay, My point is if you've reached a
point where you feel like that you're disappointed because the
relationship that you have with an inanimate corporate object, which
by the way, exists solely to just sell you stuff,
reaches that you have given up your evening with your
family or or you're mad and you're posting about it
(31:28):
on social media like I, you're right, I understand what
you're saying, and I and I'm on the side of
the people who want the stuff, And.
Speaker 4 (31:36):
Yet you're making the no, the stripper doesn't really like you? Argument?
Speaker 3 (31:42):
Is that? Is that a bad argument to make?
Speaker 4 (31:43):
I don't know. I mean, that's a realistic it's a
bit cynical, but it's also a realist perspective. I think
I'm gonna plead limited experience on that front.
Speaker 3 (31:54):
You know, you and me both better get out of this.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
You and me both are gonna plead limited experience on
the I got one more thing to say before we
get out of here, which is, thank you guys so
much for being a part of the show. I'll see
you next Sunday here on k I will not be
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but it's a good band. And we're going to be
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Rob Cavallo on the KTAY Morning News at eight thirty.
(32:44):
Don't want to miss it. It's a cool song. It's
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News tomorrow. Listen to the music created by the boys
of the Kiss Boys and if you Kiss Boys, that's fine.
Does one of them have a freakishly large tongue.
Speaker 3 (33:06):
I didn't check a mister Stanley or mister Simmons tongue.
Speaker 4 (33:10):
That's your story and you're sticking with it.
Speaker 3 (33:11):
That I didn't check.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
But he was very tall. He's like six'. Eight Gene
simmons son is six y'. Eight equally, freakish but both
of them have like like a vibe of their. Father
it's really, interesting very cool. Stuff you don't want to miss.
Speaker 4 (33:24):
It i'll stay up all.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
Night KF i am six forty on demand
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
I me, Andy Reesmeyer, Hey, I want to go back
to that story that we were talking about.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
Mark Roner was just talking.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
About a bear hiding under somebody's Alta Dina porch, maybe
the crawl space. Here's the full package from KTLA's Jillian Smuckler,
who ended up getting up close in person.
Speaker 4 (00:27):
Did you get under the house?
Speaker 5 (00:30):
Now? At ive thirty, an Altadena homeowner finds himself living
with a very unwelcome.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
And very large roommate.
Speaker 5 (00:38):
Turns out, a massive bear has settled into the crawl
space of an Alta Dina home, getting way too cozy
for comfort.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Jillian Smuggler now shows us what the homeowner is up against.
Speaker 6 (00:48):
The Alta Dina man set up a home security camera
right outside this crawl space right here, because you can
see that brick that's just one of many items he
noticed was moved and then even destroyed so you can
image and his surprise when he saw a five hundred
pound black bear living right under his home.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Now, I know we said five hundred pounds, and I
asked this question this morning on TV. We don't know
that's five How do you know that's five hundred pounds.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
Are you saying that a bear might be reticent to
step on a scale? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (01:18):
I mean obviously we didn't weigh.
Speaker 4 (01:21):
You just guess it's like somebody, like if there's a
Captain Quint of Bears, somebody can just eyeball it one. Yeah,
that's a five hundred pounder.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
And you think that guy was in Altadena talking to
Gillian Smuggler. I don't know. Maybe.
Speaker 7 (01:32):
Oh.
Speaker 6 (01:35):
It started Monday night when Ken Johnson's outdoor camera picked
up movement in the driveway.
Speaker 7 (01:39):
It was really big. I've seen him before, but he
was going through the trash. He's never done that before.
And then the next morning I look and he's coming
out from underneath my house.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Oh my god.
Speaker 6 (01:51):
Since then, the bear hasn't just visited, it's moved in.
Ken says he sees it every day on cameras, slipping
in and out like he owns the place.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Can you imagine if the whole time you're in your
house you know that there's a bear under your.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Floorboards, I'd feel safe, you'd feel safe. Would Marley like that?
I'm speaking for myself. I can't speak for dog.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Marley is Sam's a very cool dog who I feel
like is so charismatic.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
He might make friends with the bear. I get the film,
that's exactly what he would do.
Speaker 6 (02:28):
But on Friday, things turned a little too close for comfort.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
How can we get Jillian? How can we get closer
than under the house?
Speaker 7 (02:37):
So I had to go around and change the batteries.
So I went around there and I just glanced at
the hole from standing up, and I heard this horrible
growl like, oh the hiss.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
I woo like, And I just ran, that's a great sound.
Speaker 7 (02:52):
And I heard this horrible growl like, oh the hiss,
I woo like, And I just.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
Ran, that's a drop ready, So I, oh, yeah, that's
not going to get old at all.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
I just ran.
Speaker 6 (03:07):
Ken's now living on edge, unsure when this uninvited house
guest will pop up next. So naturally, I asked.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
If we could go see it.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
I see it, I see it.
Speaker 6 (03:17):
I see it.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Do you see the bear?
Speaker 5 (03:19):
Yes?
Speaker 8 (03:20):
I see it.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
And she's running. She's running, running, running, care you Okay,
I'm not sure who to root for here. Did she
just sacrifice the camera man? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (03:35):
She was like, can come on, we're getting out of here, Andre,
you're staying.
Speaker 7 (03:42):
I dropped my last counters animal control.
Speaker 6 (03:45):
When you need a way, I'm gonna pants.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
He says.
Speaker 6 (03:49):
It's unsettling knowing he's sharing the property with a five
hundred pound bear living just feet below him.
Speaker 7 (03:56):
And it looked like a like a monster because the
eyes are like close together.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
And then his big wide head and I wasn't even
sure what I.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Was looking at.
Speaker 6 (04:03):
Law enforcement told him staying inside will keep him safe,
but he wants this tenant gaune.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
We're you gonna start charging him round. Yeah, it'd be nice.
Speaker 6 (04:10):
He reached out to California Fish and Wildlife to see
if they can help evict this enormous squatter before things escalate.
Speaker 7 (04:17):
I got a recording that said they're close for the holidays.
I don't need a bear for Christmas. I want to
get rid of.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
The bear, for that is the most classic California thing ever.
You turn off the heat in the water, we have
a bear under the house. Sorry, please call back between
the business when we're open for business between the hours
of nine am and ten am.
Speaker 8 (04:36):
I'm just putting a sign out in front of the
house that says beware of bear.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Yeah, that's a good way to start for it.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Yeah, I mean, that's a you know, Conway always says,
the way that you can make sure that nobody breaks
into your house, you put an American flag hanging from
the front porch and those bad guys just keep on walking.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
Put a punish your symbol up that.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
If they if they recomic books, yes, if they're ignorant,
who's to say, I have a bear under the floorboards.
That's a great it's a tough security system because they
don't know that it discriminates against people that you don't
want there.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
And also you growl like, oh the hiss I woo
like that.
Speaker 4 (05:17):
Sounds like the bear got into Ken's alcohol.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
Well like, oh the hiss wo like great Ken, I
like Ken, Ken's good sound.
Speaker 4 (05:30):
Man.
Speaker 7 (05:31):
I don't need a bear for Christmas. I want to
get rid of the bear for Christmas.
Speaker 6 (05:35):
Until Ken can get some help. He tells me he's
going to continue staying indoors and of course keep those
cameras rolling. Reporting in Alta. Dina Jillian Smuckler KTLA Gove News.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Jillian Smuckler, new reporter at KTLA. Great package. That's a funny,
funny package. Good sound from that guy. Hilarious if you're
looking for an internet that does not have AI. You're
going to look for an internet that exists before November thirtieth,
(06:06):
twenty twenty two.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
That is the day Open Ai debuted chat gipt to
the public. And of course it just gets worse and
worse every day.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Your feed is filled with videos that are basically, at
some point very convincing. Maybe you'll learn on the third
or fourth watch that probably isn't real, but it's full
in people who know better. I mean, the ability now
that this Google's nano banana has to generate images that
(06:36):
look as real as real can be is so so disturbing.
Unverified AI slop goes through different phases. For a while,
it was sort of funny, like celebrities trying to eat
spaghetti and they looked crazy, and it was like, oh,
(06:57):
that's stupid and funny. And then you had the whole
era of the shrimp Jesus, where for some reason Facebook
was littered with CGI images AI created images of shrimp
arranged to look like Jesus Christ. I don't understand it
(07:19):
anymore than you do. And below that hundreds thousands of
comments of people just saying, amen, are they bots? Are
they people behaving like bots? I don't know, but coming
up we'll talk about how you can go to a
pre AI Internet and why a McDonald's had to hire
(07:40):
a mcbouncer. It's so mcbad you don't want to mc
miss it.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
I'm Andy Reesmeyer just passed nine twenty and I will
also be Andy Reesmeyer just past ten twenty eleven twenty
and maybe after that. We were talking about AI and
how it's changed our Internet in a very short amount
of time. I guarantee you a popular conversation at the
Thanksgiving dinner table this year was convincing someone that what
(08:19):
they were sharing showing was not real. I know it
because I heard it. I heard it in a family situation.
I heard it at in a public restaurant where somebody
at a table next to the table that I was
at was trying to show I think his daughter something
that he had seen on the internet and said, look
(08:39):
at how crazy this is. And she had to very
tactfully let him down, softly, not burst his bubble, and
say I think that that's AI. The thing that's wild
about this is that it happened so quickly and so
effectively that it's become very hard for us, I think,
(08:59):
to adapt the immediate reaction to know that something isn't real.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
That's new for most people, I think.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
But there is a way that you can sort of
get a look at what the Internet was like back
before chat gpt. It's something called slop Evader, and it's
an extension for Mozilla, Firefox or Google Chrome. And essentially
what it helps you do is search the Internet pre
November thirtieth, twenty twenty two. That's when chat gpt came out.
(09:35):
So essentially you're going on Reddit, you're going on YouTube,
you're using this and it searches only things that were
published before chatchept came out. The creator says, the sewing
of mistrust in our relationship with media is a huge thing,
a huge effect of the synthetic media moment that we're in.
I was thinking about ways to refuse it, and the simplest,
(09:57):
dumbest way to do that is to only search before
twenty t twenty two. And it does kind of feel
like the good old days of being able to even
remember what it was like when you would search for
something and you would go on Google before they came
up with the Gemini AI response, and it allegedly knows
(10:18):
pretty well. But I've seen a lot of it be wrong,
especially when people are using chat GPT for stuff like
legal briefs. Yes, I'm aware of at least a couple
people who have used it for legal advice and gotten
themselves into serious trouble.
Speaker 4 (10:35):
Those are reported to be just strewn with mistakes.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
They're not only mistakes where they hallucinate case law, but
they interpret the law incorrectly. And the reality is, and
I think this is the most important thing to remember.
Even though I think people who are addicted to this thing,
I know it's an addiction. I think people who like
it and use it and think it's the greatest thing
since sliced bread. You have to remember that the app
is just trying to keep you using it. It doesn't
(11:02):
care if you get the right answer and move on.
It just wants you to continue to think.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
That it is valuable.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
So what it will do is it will find because
it knows what you are doing, it keeps track of
everything that you've done with it. It will look for
your emotional pain points and it'll exploit those. They are
not shy about this. It's just about trying to keep
people using it.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
Well, so are the investors, because we're finding out they're
about to lose their shirts, and that's why they're giving
it the extra hard push right now when it couldn't
be more obvious that most people really don't want or
need any AI.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
And it's weird because I think that there are situations
that it's good for, like any computer. You know, when
you're using it as like a verbal calculator.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
Or there was a thing I saw this weekend that
used AI to detect breast cancer far earlier than normal
methods could. Yeah, totally valid, good uses, but that's not
what we're getting. We're getting things that put people out
of jobs and that turn people's brains into tapioca by
doing writing and thinking work that they should be doing themselves.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Let me give you an example of how stupid I
have become. And I'm not a big AI person, but
just from thinking about it and having a lot of
it slowly infiltrate, Apple, Google, whatever. Yesterday I drove down
from the Valley to the Hollywood Christmas Parade. I left,
got on the one on one freeway and I put
in the address to where I was going to go
(12:27):
and it showed up on the map, and I knew
better than to go that way, because I've lived in
LA for fifteen years.
Speaker 4 (12:35):
You whipped out your Thomas Guide.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
I know how the shortcut works. I'll say it one
time and then I won't tell anybody else. Outpost is
the last resort. It's what you do if you need
to get from the valley to Hollywood and there's something
you can you can take us a side street. I
know this. I didn't trust my gut. I thought, well,
(12:59):
maybe it knows something more than I do, maybe it's better,
maybe it is enlightened. I followed that Apple Maps. I
followed it down the one to one free. We had
passed the exit that I would have got off and
gone to my Holland and snaked my way back to
the pre come down over by the Hollywood Bowl, and
(13:22):
I get stuck, and I'm stuck there. I'm stuck there
for an hour, and I'm cursing my myself the whole
time because I knew better, but I trusted the robot.
The future is not terminator. I mean eventually maybe, but
right now it's not an existential threat based on robots
(13:43):
that are coming here with machine guns. It is us
giving up our autonomy, giving up our ability to choose
and to reason, because we think it knows better. It's
scared the hell out of me, just like the McDonald's
that had to hire a mcbouncer that coming up when
(14:05):
we come back.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
You're listening to KFI A M six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
Had a message from the one and only Shannon Farren
of Gary and Shannon and whom I will see tomorrow
at the pastathon. Both Gary and Shannon Matt you going down.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
There, it's top But what time are we gonna be there?
Speaker 4 (14:31):
Hy?
Speaker 3 (14:32):
Right after they rap one?
Speaker 2 (14:34):
Okay, I'll see you on the way out. But Shannon
messaged me at seven forty five pm on my Instagram
saying that she wanted to come on and talk about
Chargers Charge Talk Chargers football. Of course, she's a sideline
reporter for the Chargers and I did not see it
until about five minutes ago, and I responded, but I said, yes,
(14:58):
please tonight. But I think she's probably I mean, I
hope she's doing something other than listening to the radio
right now, but if she is, we'd love to have
her call in to sort of set the record straight.
She's probably a sleep getting ready for the pastathon tomorrow.
Do you have to do the same kind of carb
loading for carb loading? Like you know how people before
(15:19):
marathons they load up on carbs. Now before a postathon,
do you also have to load up on carbs or
do you like, like, what what's the right move?
Speaker 4 (15:29):
I'm not sure that you're going to be required to
run any place at the pastathon.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Yeah, but you know, depending on how much pasta you eat.
Speaker 4 (15:36):
I mean there's no information that declares it as like
a twenty six point two mile pastathon.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
I actually might be dumb. Do you do you eat
pasta at the pasta thon?
Speaker 7 (15:49):
Well?
Speaker 8 (15:49):
I get the feeling that's why they do it after
Thanksgiving because Thanksgiving is supposed to be the warm up
stretch your stomach.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
Yeah yeah, yeah, this is smart. I know it's about
donating food for kids in need. But do you I've
never been to this pastathon before. Do people eat pasta
at the pasta you can avail yourself of, Well, I
don't know pasta. Maybe that would be rude though, you know,
if we're there to help people in need, I think
it's is it bad form if you go like order
a bowl of fetichini alfredo.
Speaker 4 (16:18):
You'll have to discuss the pastathon etiquette with Michelle Cube.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
I will, by the way, she is the woman who
makes all of that happen. None of those twelve prior
pastathons would exist, either twelve or eleven would exist without
Michelle Cube. She's the lady making it happen tomorrow, of
course at the White House, the Anaheim White House, pretty
much the whole day. And of course there's so many
(16:42):
ways that you can join in and either come out,
say hello, donate to the Caterinus Club to help kids
in need. Feed those kids in need, all because of you. Now,
these are some other kids who are in need of
maybe a complete different kind of help, maybe some disciplinary help.
(17:07):
And McDonald's New York City has hired a mc bouncer
because there are too many violent and rowdy teens. They
are calling Claudia Xanabria or Zanabria, perhaps the mc bouncer.
She's a McDonald's worker who they think is the toughest
employee at the restaurant. She survives stage three rectal cancer.
(17:32):
She was picked by the team to police the kids.
She says, this generation is different. They push me, they
disrespect me. Reading that in print makes me nervous. This
wallful house employees are giggling, right, you're right, you're right.
Speaker 4 (17:55):
There for yourself some corporal punishment, that's right.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
Apparently this is happening at a Forest Hills, New York McDonald's.
They have barred miners from being in the restaurant from
two to four pm unless they are accompanied by an adult.
I also do a radio show on Sunday from two
to four pm. I believe those are unrelated. Children love
your show, cops, Yeah, they've got nowhere to listen to
(18:21):
it now, thanks a lot. Cops have been called to
the restaurant fifteen times so far this year for assault,
disorderly conduct, and other crimes. The most serious incident happened
May twenty first, just before three pm, when a twenty
four year old man claimed he was slapped by a stranger.
Speaker 8 (18:37):
It's not phony, is it. It was the hamburgler taking
his lunch. Well, you know, this is what I said earlier.
I don't know they're in the cast of characters for McDonald's.
There is a police officer. It's Officer Big Mac. Now,
I don't know if Officer Big Mac was involved in
an ois, and that's why.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
He's unavailable to help out in this situation.
Speaker 8 (19:00):
Grimis couldn't be reached for common Grimis Yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Mac tonight is obviously now engaged in some weird alt
right neo Nazi things.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
It's tough out here.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
Rowdy teens usually are gone by the time police arrive,
and they leave a trail of destruction in their wake.
Of course, this McDonald's is not far from where would
it be not far from a school The band started
five months ago, and now the kids aren't inside the restaurant.
They crowd around outside as the main entrance remains locked
(19:41):
for those two hours, another entrance is barricaded with a
trash can. The mc bouncer will check the will step
outside rather and check the angry teens cell phones for
their mobile orders, and then we'll give them meals outside
and if they don't order online, they can come inside
and order at the counter one at a time. But
then when they get their food they have to leave.
Speaker 4 (20:02):
Sounds like they need a mc sally port Ooh, I
don't want to be a victim, says one customer.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
You don't know if they're going to throw something at
you or punch you. In the face or something. This
is a crazy world that we live in where the
kids are just wrecking shop and running rampant all the
livelong day.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
And New York is not, like, you know, you don't
tolerate that kind of behavior in New York.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
In the Midwest, we don't have a lot of that behavior,
but there's not a lot of confrontation happening. It's mostly
passive aggressive. New York is just straight up aggressive. So
for this to be at this level, as the MC
bouncer said, kids these days are just different. By the way,
(20:58):
Chili's is having some major issues. I know you guys
are more Sizzlers boys. Were you here when I did
the story about No, you weren't. It was last Monday,
did the story about how Sizzler's reinventing itself like the
Cracker Barrel?
Speaker 4 (21:13):
I think, so, no, we were here?
Speaker 1 (21:14):
You were here?
Speaker 3 (21:15):
Oh yeah sorry?
Speaker 8 (21:16):
And Sizzler, Yeah, dude, we're still playing making that like
family trek out there.
Speaker 4 (21:22):
All of us need the family fild trip to us.
So this isn't a bit either hate Sizzler hate America.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
That's right.
Speaker 4 (21:27):
Sizzler is the choice of America, the joyless choice of America.
I can't remember if I told you this. One of
my friends took me to a Sizzler on a birthday
before I left Seattle to move here, and it was
the most amazing experience ever because I couldn't stop looking
at all the other people around us eating. I couldn't
(21:50):
tell you what the aggregate age of the clientele was,
but it was a lot of people in like warm
up outfits and just joylessly consuming, robotically joylessly, and I
was fascinated by it. I couldn't focus on my own food.
I was too busy watching everybody else.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
Well, listen, much like your trip to Costco, it sounds
like the anthropological experiences that you get going out in public.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
Are very valuable.
Speaker 4 (22:19):
So when we go to the Sizzler, we cannot listen
to Dawn of the Dead music on our earbuds.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
That's going to destroy it, you.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
Know, I think, correct me if I'm wrong. Sizzler is
pretty big in the in Koreatown. Oh yes, I think so.
And I think like Anthony Bourdain went to a sizzler.
Speaker 4 (22:41):
In Korea.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
It's like it's it's like there's a whole thing about it.
I'll let me look this up. And I'll get back
to you about it, but I think that it has
The Korean American population specifically really like Sizzler because you.
Speaker 3 (22:54):
Don't really go out to eat.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
Koreans don't go out to eat as much because they
cook at home so well. But when you go out,
you got to get a good deal. And what is
a better deal than Sizzler. Chilies, by the way, is uh.
At least the employees are upset because Wicked has ruined
the restaurant. They're calling it a living hell. That is
(23:20):
because of the Wicked inspired margarita's a bright pink Glinda
the and margarita called the Good Witch marg and an
alphabet inspired margarita with hints of apple called the Witches
brew mark only six dollars. Apparently they are a nightmare.
Account claiming to be a Chilies worker posts on Reddit
(23:43):
saying that the Wicked drinks are making their lives a
living hell. Why are they just drinking too many of
them themselves? Apparently they're selling out all of them every night.
My bar manager added a third bartender for Friday and
Saturday because the morning bartender isn't making enough batches for
and our numbers are play comitting because we have to
stop what we're doing to make them. Other employees from
(24:05):
different Chile's locations said that yes, they are having issues
with keeping up with all of the orders.
Speaker 3 (24:15):
They even have to.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
Do virgin versions because the kids want the swizzle sticks
that are in margarita's.
Speaker 4 (24:22):
I'm sorry, we live in hell. Send some of those
over to McDonald's. Right, quiet those kids down, that's right.
Someone asked how many you make it a day? Another
account said Saturday night, probably five hundred at least. That's hilarious.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
That's wild.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
Another user wrote, we made over seven hundred wicked margaritas tonight,
not even counting all the mocktail versions, which are lemonade
I had to do for my tables. I cannot wait
for November to be over. Well, now December has come,
and the innocence can never last, So no longer can
you get your hellscape experience of late stage capitalistic synergy.
Speaker 4 (24:59):
Those alphabe Apple ones sound pretty tasty.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
Oh yeah, you kind of a more of a pink
drink guy.
Speaker 4 (25:04):
Well, I'll tell you as a former bartender, to make
a real margarita is kind of labor intensive, But it
sounds like these are just like sludged.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
Out of a machine.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
I can't imagine they are muddling limes. You're not going
to do five No, five hundred is a lot of
drinks to make in one night.
Speaker 4 (25:21):
Yeah, you'd have arms like loo forigne.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
That is a very all night. Chili's is popping.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
As we were talking about, oh maybe an hour ago.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
Target shoppers are a little angry because they're not getting
the free thing.
Speaker 3 (25:52):
That they thought that they deserved. Tell you hate that.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
When your level of entitlement, you think that you just
deserve free stuff from a big corporation, and then when
they don't give it to you for no reason whatsoever,
you get angry and go on the internet. It wouldn't
be twenty twenty five without that. And of course, trimp Jesus.
Speaker 3 (26:17):
All right. To get people into their stores.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
For Black Friday, Target did a swag bag giveaway, a
shining bag of goodies.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
This guy sounds good.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
There's a chance for a big prize for the first
one hundred guests.
Speaker 3 (26:27):
Friday.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
Up in Fresno at five am, hundreds huddled while temperatures
hung in the low forties, and well, you probably already
know what happens next.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
Actually, this is so sad.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
This is a man I'll just because this is on TV.
This is a man holding his Target swag bag revealing
the contents that are less than exciting.
Speaker 3 (26:52):
This is so sad. I got an Uno card, pack
of Uno cards.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
I like feel like electric, like drink mix, you know
where like you put the electrolyte drink mix into the water.
You've had them for some nerds, nerds, candy. It's not
me and.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
That's all I have to say.
Speaker 8 (27:15):
I'm gonna go home.
Speaker 3 (27:16):
I'm going to sleep.
Speaker 4 (27:19):
Come on, I do like Huno a lot, though, Yeah,
sure would you wait hours in the cold for r
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
Now.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
Most bags contain things like you saw there are a
pack of Uno cards, a mini shampoo bottle, some candy, electrolyte,
water supplements, some nerds. Widespread hype now being widely trashed
on social media.
Speaker 3 (27:34):
But maybe this is messaging.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
Target had said only ten bags out of the one
hundred given away would have.
Speaker 3 (27:39):
An extra prize, so read the fine print. That would
be so yeah.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
The promo graphics showed things like could be in there,
like a Ninja blender. I don't know how to say
this leaf thin hair dryer is that you know, runner
leafen hair dryer.
Speaker 4 (27:54):
I feel like you might use one of those. They
don't try to deny it.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
Oh, not your all, sir. I just cruised down the
one on one with the top off, if you say so,
flopping in the wind. How you say it's way too
fancy for me? Or a part of a pair of
Beats headphones.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
But that's the deal.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
One in ten got something expensive, which left ninety people
at each store.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
To belly ache about swagless swag bags.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
One shopper in our affiliate in Fresno says she got
in line at nine pm on Thursday, spending the night
outside the store just for the free tote bag.
Speaker 4 (28:26):
That's on you, man, belly aching. Note the use of
the language there. Who they're putting this on you?
Speaker 2 (28:32):
Like the belly achin you, Like you're saying you've already
tracked that.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
I know.
Speaker 4 (28:37):
I think the belly a can signify some punching down.
Aha that I'm biased.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
Uh yeah, my god.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
You gotta think that somewhere between beggars can't be choosers
or don't look a gift horse in the mouth. My
favorite phrase By the way, don't look a gift horse
in the mouth.
Speaker 4 (28:49):
No, stay away from the mouth.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
I found out with the quick Google search that that
comes from. And I think a listener actually messaged me
and said, the reason that they say don't look at
gift horse in the mouth is because when the horse
was given as a gift. If you want to inspect
a horse to see how healthy or young it is.
Speaker 3 (29:06):
You check their teeth.
Speaker 4 (29:07):
Exactly.
Speaker 3 (29:09):
Now, you say, exactly, I don't know this stuff.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
Even though I grew up in Indiana, horses were never
given as gifts.
Speaker 4 (29:15):
Yeah, but you've dated a lot, you're single. Are you
trying to tell me you've never just on the first
date taken a flashlight and shined it into a nice
lady's mouth.
Speaker 3 (29:27):
Well, I haven't. It's been a while since I dated
a horse girl.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
Because you I mean, I feel bad that people did this,
but no one forced them to.
Speaker 3 (29:36):
Exactly, like targeted at your friend. They don't owe you anything.
Speaker 5 (29:39):
And I don't want to say I'm more of a
skeptic that I would never expect anything good to be
in the free Yes.
Speaker 4 (29:45):
And I would expect like coupon.
Speaker 3 (29:47):
I would have actually expected like a deca.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
Uno Cardinals shampoo.
Speaker 4 (29:52):
The electro lights is kind of hot, kind of hot,
kind of promoting a brand.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
Maybe yeah, yeah, they got it for free and it
goes into the bag.
Speaker 4 (30:01):
I mean, that's the thing.
Speaker 3 (30:02):
It's like.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
And I don't get ub jaded because I've done like
five red carpets before, but you always see, like, unless
it's the Oscars, the swag bag is never stuff that
people like really want you to have.
Speaker 3 (30:13):
Right anyway, time to check the DMS. I stand by this.
I was a little hot this morning.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
I heated about this, but I do think that there's
something very unsettling about the relationship between people and their
brands that a leads them to the psychosis of staying
overnight outside, even in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
Right, it's not ten years ago.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
It's not twenty years ago when Black Friday was like
a thing people did because they could get a TV
screen for four hundred bucks.
Speaker 4 (30:44):
I know, but we always used to laugh at like
the Black Friday stampedes until some of us realized, oh,
they're doing that because they're struggling and they don't have
much money.
Speaker 3 (30:54):
I think that that's also terrible.
Speaker 4 (30:57):
I mean, whose side, what kind of Stockholm since do
these TV people have when they say, yeah, target ain't
your friend.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
That's me.
Speaker 3 (31:05):
I literally that was me saying that what's wrong with you?
Speaker 2 (31:07):
I mean, okay, My point is if you've reached a
point where you feel like that you're disappointed because the
relationship that you have with an inanimate corporate object, which
by the way, exists solely to just sell you stuff,
reaches that you have given up your evening with your
family or or you're mad and you're posting about it
(31:28):
on social media like I, you're right, I understand what
you're saying, and I and I'm on the side of
the people who want the stuff, And.
Speaker 4 (31:36):
Yet you're making the no, the stripper doesn't really like you? Argument?
Speaker 3 (31:42):
Is that? Is that a bad argument to make?
Speaker 4 (31:43):
I don't know. I mean, that's a realistic it's a
bit cynical, but it's also a realist perspective. I think
I'm gonna plead limited experience on that front.
Speaker 3 (31:54):
You know, you and me both better get out of this.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
You and me both are gonna plead limited experience on
the I got one more thing to say before we
get out of here, which is, thank you guys so
much for being a part of the show. I'll see
you next Sunday here on k I will not be
here Friday, but I am going to be doing something
fun tomorrow on the KTAY Morning News. Stanley Simmons is
(32:21):
a music group. It is the son of Gene Simmons
and Paul Stanley, the boys from Kiss The boys from
Kiss Boys have a band. It's not a boy band,
but it's a good band. And we're going to be
previewing their brand new debut single, which was recorded by
Rob Cavallo on the KTAY Morning News at eight thirty.
(32:44):
Don't want to miss it. It's a cool song. It's
called Body Down. Can pre save it? It comes out
on Friday, but we're previewing it on the KTAY Morning
News tomorrow. Listen to the music created by the boys
of the Kiss Boys and if you Kiss Boys, that's fine.
Does one of them have a freakishly large tongue.
Speaker 3 (33:06):
I didn't check a mister Stanley or mister Simmons tongue.
Speaker 4 (33:10):
That's your story and you're sticking with it.
Speaker 3 (33:11):
That I didn't check.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
But he was very tall. He's like six'. Eight Gene
simmons son is six y'. Eight equally, freakish but both
of them have like like a vibe of their. Father
it's really, interesting very cool. Stuff you don't want to miss.
Speaker 4 (33:24):
It i'll stay up all.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
Night KF i am six forty on demand
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