September 14, 2025 • 34 mins
A woman was stabbed by a man around 3.30am this morning during a Boys Town brawl in West Hollywood, involving up to 30 people. More with comedian Mark Ellis, who talks about free speech and playing shows in Las Vegas. Plus, the Emmys are on tonight. Producer Richie thought “Hold the Line” by TOTO was actually a Pokemon theme song! Nate Bargatze hosts the Emmys tonight, so Andy makes predictions about who will win. But does anyone really care enough to watch the Emmys broadcast? The results are in regarding soil testing from the wildfires that decimated parts of Los Angeles last January, and people impacted by the Eaton Fire are dealing with elevated lead samples in their environment. “Black-ish” creator Kenya Barris wants to set his new sitcom against the backdrop of post-fire-ravaged Altadena. In Koreatown, a private empty lot is hosting a growing homeless encampment that is stressing out locals. There’s a tennis court, garden and cooking area, as well as fires, break-ins and drug dealing. What is Mayor Karen Bass doing to stop this? Also, are you accidentally eating what you shouldn’t be eating? Shark filets sold in grocery stores are not appropriately labeled, so people could be eating endangered species. Is now the right time to buy a house? Interest rates are dropping, is it also a good time to refinance? In some areas, home prices are starting to fall for the first time since 2012. Are aliens real? A recent discovery on Mars has us rethinking what we think we know about extraterrestrial life. Plus, is your astrology sign actually fake?
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
The Emmys are upon us here. Can't wait for that.
That's gonna be fun. Nate Bergazzi is hosting that. A
couple updates here from things that are happening in Los Angeles.
A woman was stabbed after a brawl. I like a brawl.
I like brawl. You know, br wl a frack. Yeah,
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there you go. Between three o'clock three thirty this morning,
Ellie County Sheriff's Department say that a brawl in West
Hollywood broke out involving twenty to thirty people in a
stretch of the city that is colloquially referred to as
Boys Town, Santa Monica Boulevard between San Vicenti and Robertson Boulevard.
The woman was stabbed. She was transported to a hospital.
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Her commission or condition rather remained unknown. The suspect was
described as male and fled in a location in an
unfled location, in an unknown direction. We'll give you any
updates if we get some of those. Also, as we
told you earlier, the Utah Governor Spencer Cox says that
the suspect in the Charlie Kirk assassination is not cooperating
(01:09):
with authorities, but did say that the suspect's partner was
transgender and that he was unsure if it was relevant
to the case, adding that he doesn't have a dog
in the fight, saying if it was a radicalized MAGA person,
he would be saying he would be calling on both
the left and the right to tone down the rhetoric
after that assassination that, of course, we've been talking about
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since Wednesday.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
In studio.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Now with me continuing on from the last hour is
comedian Mark Ellis, who, as we were talking before, you've
discovered the sort of Vegas era of your career.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
Well, Vegas used to be the thing for comedians, like
way back in the day, and I think you would
probably look at like Seinfeld at the beginning of his
career and you asked him like what his goals are,
and it's like, I want to do the Tonight Show
with Carson and then eventually I want to get to Vegas.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
That's where all the big but older comedians.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Is that like an outlier of Sammy Davis Junior and
that sort of thing, or who was doing who would
have been doing Vegas during.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
That era, Frank was always the biggest draw in Vegas,
Frank and Elvis, I think. But then with Frank you
had all the guys in the rat package. I think,
the regardless of whether you were a comedian or a performer.
And Frank and those guys would have comedians open for
them back in the day, and so your dream gigas
a comedian may not have even been have your name
the biggest on the marquee. It could have been Frank Sinatra.
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Like I said, I'm doing Brad Garrett's Comedy Club in
Las Vegas this week. Brad everybody knows as the brother
and everybody loves Raymond and he's had an incredible career.
He used to open for Frank Sinatra. That's why he
opened for Elvis once. And he and he would go
on the road with Sammy Davis Junior. I'll tell you
a great story. Sammy Davis Junior used to actually take
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his entire living room on the road with him. That
is not an exaggeration.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Amazing.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
Whatever hotel sweet he was staying in, he brought all
he wanted it to look like his living room again.
It all the paintings, the carpet, everything, the furniture was transported.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
In to make Sammy Fiel at home, and Dean would
drink enough to make every room feel like his own.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
That's more my speech. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, but yeah, Vegas.
Speaker 4 (03:16):
Vegas is a dream and it's nice to get into
a few clubs there and and do stadiums and it
just it's become one of my favorite stops on the road.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
You're working comic and I think you're you're funny as hell,
and I think you've got such a good POV and
intuition about stuff that's happening in the world. Uh And
and I have evidence of this because of when you
came on KTLA talk about stuff, you know, among comedians, obviously,
there's been a lot of conversation this week about free
speech and saying things and people being upset about things
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to the point where even if they're insane, they're taking
horrible actions and and doing terrible things because of them.
Is there any reflection on that among the cohorts?
Speaker 4 (03:56):
But I feel like stand Up is the is the
clearest case of what justice should be right because you
get on stage and you're by yourself, and if you're funny,
the audience is going to let you know by laughing,
and if you're not funny, the audience is going to
let you know by not laughing.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
The most honest thing you could ever do.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
That transaction happens in real time, in the real moment.
There's not a lot of debate about it's not You
get off stage and you're like waiting for the judges scores,
like you just did a gymnastics routine in the Olympics.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
You know right then and there where you stand.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
And as far as the free speech thing, every comic
is going to be fully supportive of free speech. But
here's the thing with free speech also comes consequences, and
you also have that in the world of stand up
where if I say something that may have gone too
far right, then the audience is going to let you
know by their reaction. And so you can say whatever
you want on stage, but you also know that your
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career is on the line. Basically every night you're on stage,
it's your job interview all over again. That's what comedians
sign up for, and that's kind of the drug that
we keep coming, yeah, is you're chasing that high. And
so when you see something as tragic as what happened
on regardless of whether or not you believe you know
in anything. Charlie Kirk said, I was not a fan
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of the guy at all. I thought a lot of
the stuff he said was reprehensible. You never like to
see political violence be the thing that sorts it out.
And I think with comedians it's like, well, I was
just on stage and I was having a back and
forth with somebody in the crowd, and it ended peacefully,
even if we disagree, even if I made fun of
them or they had a great line at me, and
you engage them for it.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
It's a peaceful way to have a dialogue.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
And I think that a lot of times when you
see an instance of political violence, you think, well, have
we completely lost that in America?
Speaker 3 (05:33):
And the hope as we haven't.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
I think that there's something wild about and I try
not to get into politics and most of the stuff
that we talk about, but this is more about just
the general humanity of the way people are. And it's
like this version I said this in the last hour,
this version of social media that shows people in the
worst possible light. And let me clarify that it's the
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people who are the craziest who then get elevated. And
I've had a lot of conversation with people this week
who are on all sides of the aisle who say, like,
we don't want this is not what we're what we
want to be doing. We don't want to be talking
about public assassination and murder. We don't want to be
thinking about this is a world that that is a
possible thing that could happen to somebody if they are saying,
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regardless of if you agree with it or disagree with it,
just what they want to say, because that's that's the
agreement we have in this country, is that you get
to have that opposing viewpoint or that viewpoint, whatever it
may be. But we're not We don't want anybody to die,
because I don't.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
And and when someone takes action like that that is
that extreme, it's hurtful to both sides. And the reason
is is because look at the history of America, to
look at the history of world politics, no side is
on top forever. It's going to be one side and
then the other side, and it's going to continue to
be that constant struggle. And so if you feel like
you're the underdog now and you're cheering somebody who did
something as hanous as that.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
You have to remember eventually your team's going to be on.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
Top, right, and you don't want people reacting the same
way that that happens when you were excited about it.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Yeah, and there will be consequences for playing in that arena.
Speaker 4 (07:05):
Yeah, And you know, and and somebody like me, it's
like you get so locked into like the footage and
like the conspiracy theory and this of it. And sometimes
you really do have to unplug from social media because
a lot of people look at social media and you
see comics who are just trying to get noticed there
when an event happens, and so they're going to have
either the dirtiest joke or the most rostiest joke or
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just like the hottest take trying to get attention. And look,
maybe it's fine for social media, but I remind everybody
when you come to a comedy club that's what stand
up is. If you follow comics on social media, that's
them doing something else.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
To do clout right and to try to regret. No, absolutely,
And I think, like what I've thought about, outside of
all of the horrors that we saw this week, where
that the Emmys are tonight, this is a hard turn.
But Nate Forergasi, I think as a comic is kind
of this guy who sort of exists outside of all
of this. This is this is my team. He's not tribal.
(08:02):
I think people across this country from different backgrounds all
think that this guy is like pretty funny, and I
don't think that he lives in a very highly polarized world.
Much like Letterman and Leno used to.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
Nate is one of the shining stars now where him
and somebody like Sebastian Maniscalco, who you know, I kind
of grew up just under at the comedy store where
you see him work out and we'd hang out and
talk shop and stuff, and it's like, these are guys
who it's not that they're a political and that's why
people love them, but they also just have a way
of talking about themselves where it isn't looking to get
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a reaction, it's not roasty, and it's just funny stuff.
And there's still a place for that, which is refreshing,
because roasting in comedy is huge right now. Yeah, if
that's your thing, yeah great, it's because Forever m.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Dunky is what is getting people noticed on the Internet
and Therefore it becomes something that feels like it you
have to do it.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
And doing a lot of crowd work, and that gets
noticed too because it is a cool man and most
audiences don't realize that just about every comic sort of
has that in their bag and it's up to them
if they want to use it or not.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
And when I'm on stage, I love.
Speaker 4 (09:09):
The ability to do crowd work, but I also have
jokes that I wrote that I like, I want to
get out there because I think.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
You'll really like them.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
Yeah, that's why you're doing this.
Speaker 4 (09:17):
It's a I think that a lot of comics now
get in their head and and you know, maybe it's
just blaming. It's like I don't have social media because
I don't do this, or I don't do this. At
the end of the day, it still is a very
simple question. Can you get on stage in front of
a bunch of strangers and make them laugh? Yeah, And
you can take all the politicalness out of it, you
can take all of the what part of the country
you're in, how you feel about stuff, what you look like.
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Can you be funny in front of a group of strangers.
The sport has not changed that much since it starts.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
And you'll always find out what the score is in
real time.
Speaker 4 (09:46):
Why I love doing it and I never got into
improv or sketch just because I don't like working with
other people on stage. I don't have that trust in humans,
right because like then you got off stage.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
In an improv group and it's like, well that didn't
go well? Was it you? Did you drop your line?
Did you not be right?
Speaker 4 (10:01):
I want to know it's all my fault, it's all
my win. I know what to work on for the
next show.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Very good comedian Mark ellis here with us. Thanks for
coming by, buddy. I really appreciate seeing you. Where can
people find more about you?
Speaker 4 (10:13):
You can just check out social media as we've been
talking about. My Instagram is at mark Ellis Live and
you can get tournes, tickets, all that good stuff at
mark ellis dot Live.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
Not a Hoosier, although you were saying I was a Hoosia,
I know.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
I'm glad you clarified that I was not saying you
were a Hooshi.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
Not the five person to think I.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
Was from Indiana, but really everybody thinks I'm from Indian
it's this Luke Skywalker farm boy face that I just
can't shed.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
I was I was curious. I was thought I was
looking in a mirror when I was talking to earlier.
Now I realize that that's what.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
We I'll include you in my joke.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
We both look like Luke Skywalker if he never left Halloween,
and he's like, you know what, I got a good
job with my own cale.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
I don't need to get out of here.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
Yes, two boys who mayonnaise might be two spicy for
it's the Eddy Reesmyer Shud.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
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Speaker 2 (11:00):
If you'd like to say hello, you can send us
a message on the talkback function. That's what we're looking for.
I guess we're going on the iHeartRadio app looking for
that microphone there and pushing the button leaving a message
and we'll play it on the show where I guess
we're having some kind of issue here with the just
just leave us a talkback. Let's do that. Also, you
can find me on the internet at andy KTLA anywhere
(11:22):
Internet is sold. And I want to figure out what
has happened here in the last twenty seconds, because we
played a little bit of hold the line parentheses Love
isn't always on time? And Richie thought that that Toto
song was Is this correct? You thought it was Pokemon?
I thought it was a Pokemon song? What what? What
(11:47):
even is a Pokemon song?
Speaker 4 (11:48):
Like?
Speaker 2 (11:48):
I don't even know. I don't even know how to
how to not watch Pokemon growing up. I didn't. Okay,
I know that despite despite my appearance, what were you watching?
Speaker 5 (11:58):
No?
Speaker 2 (11:58):
I just I'm way, I look, I'm sure that you
thought I was playing Pokemon digimon watching all the shows
especially did No? I was We're too cool for school?
I think it just I don't. My parents didn't let
me watch cartoons, so that makes sense.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
There you go.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Hold the line is a Toto song from nineteen seventy eight.
Speaker 6 (12:17):
Yeah no, It has a very similar intro like sound
as introduction to the Pokemon.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
You go find it. If you find it, we'll play
it side by side. Ro can we can? We can judge, Robbie.
You don't have to do it if you don't want to.
I also want to say the Emmy's here tonight. As
you heard, you can see some updates from our very
own Heather Brooker, who is on the Red Carpet ot
r C. As they say, at KFI AM six forty's
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Instagram account, Richie is that right.
Speaker 6 (12:48):
Yeah, or you can just go to her Instagram. She's
she's out there on the floor. She's at the Heather
Brooker on Instagram. You can go check her out.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
She's going to be bringing you all the behind the
scenes updates from the red carpet in the show itself.
Like we were saying earlier in Apragatzi is hosting tonight,
it is a big deal for Hollywood, an organization or
a community that is unfortunately being it's a it's shrinking
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here locally. But this year Emmys are probably going to
be giving awards to either The Studio, Severence, Adolescents Comedy.
They're anticipating The Studio, which is a show about Hollywood.
So of course Hollywood loves to give themselves awards, so
it's no surprise that they probably will win a lot
(13:38):
for that. Geane Smart probably be nominated for comedy or
would probably win rather in her nomination for Comedy Actress.
Ellie Times thinks that Seth Rogan will take on comedy
actor for the Studio, and as we move on to
the more dramatic fair, they think it's going to severance.
I kind of agree. I know Heather was saying she
(14:01):
thinks White Lotus might be taken home the Best Drama
Series Show award. They're putting Kathy Bates Matt Locke performance
up for Drama Actress, and Noah Wiley, who's been nominated
four times already for mostly his work in Er back
in the nineties and early two thousands. He of course,
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now is the star of the Pit, which is also
a medical drama. They think he's finally going to get
his flowers, as they say, I'm interested to see how
it goes. You know, I think I struggle with this
a little bit. I was never a big red carpet person.
I love entertainment. I do a lot of entertainment news
(14:46):
covered it a lot, learned a lot about it. You know.
Katla is big on the Emmy coverage right now. We've
got Jess and Melvin there along with Doug Cole and
uh Megan Henderson. Everyone looking really beautiful, and I'm sure
we'll have a full update as well tomorrow morning. Anybody
(15:09):
gonna be watching them?
Speaker 4 (15:10):
Now?
Speaker 2 (15:10):
Are we excited?
Speaker 4 (15:10):
Here?
Speaker 3 (15:13):
Eileen?
Speaker 2 (15:14):
What do you think you're gonna watch the You wanna
watch the Emmys. She's busy working.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
We got no.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
We got to know from I won't be Robin. We
got to know there's another no from Nicky. Why won't
you be watching it? I mean not to toot my
own horn, but I've worked at the Oscars and the
American Music Awards, so the Emmys is just dultome. Okay,
all right, that's a hot take, Eileen. What do you think?
Speaker 7 (15:41):
I'm so sorry. I was doing something else, working on weather.
But I think you asked, what the Emmy? If I
like the Emmy, yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
You're gonna be watching? You care?
Speaker 7 (15:47):
No, No, honestly, I'm I read more than I watch TV. Okay,
I'm a nerd.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
No, I understand it. I think, especially if you work
in media, Like the last thing you want to do
is like turn on the TV.
Speaker 7 (16:00):
If I do, I put on reruns of Big Bang
Theory and it's in the background.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
That's it. I were you a big Young Sheldon fan?
Speaker 3 (16:07):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (16:07):
I like that show. Okay, that's great. Okay, well we'll see.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
I'm sure.
Speaker 8 (16:11):
Oh they're up for an award? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (16:13):
Are they?
Speaker 8 (16:13):
I actually was on that show Get out of Town?
Speaker 3 (16:16):
Really?
Speaker 8 (16:17):
Yeah? I was on one episode one episode of that
I played a producer.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Oh I love that. That's awesome. That was fun.
Speaker 7 (16:23):
It was a great crew, but they were great people.
I hope they win there. That's that's what I'm rooting for.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
You're also rooting for the big the Young Sheldon crowd.
We got a lot of Young Sheldon fans here. Very good.
All right, Well, we're going to keep going here. On
the Andy Reesemeier Show. The next time I see you,
we're going to talk about this new barbecue place in
Korea Town that nobody really wants to be there. I
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got that details. Plus Santa Monica facing a dire fiscal
crisis and is now the right time to buy a house?
All coming up on the Andy Reesemeyers.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
The results are in from tests of the soil in
both the burn areas for the Eton Fire and the
Palisades area, and according to the La County Public Health Department,
soil in the Palisades Fire burn zone came back clean
with no significant findings above safety thresholds for everything. Good
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news there, but for people affected by the Eton fire.
The whole burn zone was tested and ten areas tested
positive for lead. Press release says the identification of high
frequency lead exceedancs in soil samples from intact parcels downwind
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to the Eating Fire. I wish they could just speak
like real humans, but it's consistent with reports of elevated
lead in air samples that were collected in the days
right after the fire, and they said this is reasonable
at least they would expect this to be reasonably expected
because of the homes that burned there, many of which
were built rather before nineteen seventy nine. More than seventy
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percent of the houses, according to USC were within were
built rather before nineteen seventy nine that were within the
Eating Fire burn zone, and the county said residents with
any concerns about the property might want to test their
soil or consult in an environmental professional about evaluating their property.
I imagine anybody who's going to rebuild over there really
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is very interested, and you do have a lot of risks.
They didn't really include in the press release, but as
far as the soil goes, especially to kids, there's a
lot of health risks from exposure either from eating or
inhaling the dust. Behavioral issues for kids, learning problems, high
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blood pressure, kidney damage, and adults, you don't want to
have lead. Lead was one of those things that like
kind of was a a hidden evil. I think that
a lot of times, especially like in La when you
would rent an apartment or whatever, you always have to
sign a lead disclosure, which I think. I'm not an attorney,
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I'm not somebody who is in a doctor by any means,
but I think, as far as I was aware, old
houses that have lead paint are okay as long as
it's not peeling or chipped or you're not eating it.
But kids eat all kinds of stuff. And also if
it's if the dust is on the floor and you're
playing on the floor, you're walking on the floor, and
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you've got a newer immune system like a kid would,
that's when it's potentially dangerous. And speaking of Altadena, how
about this? A sitcom was set to be filmed in
about Alta Dina.
Speaker 9 (19:52):
Following this sitcom and development spark the Eating Fires Careen debate,
Blackish creator Kenya Barris and comedian Mike Epps are working
on a CBS comedy about brothers in post fire Alta Dina.
Some residents who lost their homes in the fire call
the idea insensitive. Artist Angelica Perry posted a critique on Instagram,
saying the project ignores real stories from the community. Others,
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like fellow artist Nashan Dion, welcome the possibility, hoping the
show brings laughter, jobs, and even funds back to the town.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
I think that's a big one. You know, nobody knows
what this show is going to be about or is like.
But Mike Epps, Ken you Barris, he created Blackish. These
are guys who I think are are pretty well regarded
and well respected, and maybe there was an opportunity to
tell that story, to bring people's stories to the forefront,
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maybe to employ people to increase the amount of awareness.
I think that that is unfortunate if that goes by
the wayside. But Angelica Perry, who also i guess was
echoing a lot of the sentiment of the people who
lived in Altadina, said Hey, wait a minute, why are
we doing a comedy show here? This is not funny.
There's nothing funny about this. This feels exploitive, she said.
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Last spoke to that other artist Nashan Dion, who identified
herself as fourth generation Altadnon whose extended family lost all
of their homes in the fire. They were hoping that
consultants might be hired to do this show, and as
far as we know now at least according to the
Instagram posts on the original or Instagram comments on the
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original post, is that they're just not going to do
it now at all. I hate the idea of doing
something that makes people feel uncomfortable. I totally understand if
you're a victim of a disaster and then you say, oh,
look who's showing up now trying to profit off of this?
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That would drive me crazy. But you wish that there
was a way also to not pass up on opportunity
or even in Hollywood to have I mean, there's so
few shows that shoot here anymore. That's a that's a
tough one. Let's go down of Koreatown.
Speaker 10 (22:11):
This is talking to neighbors in this family oriented section
of town here in Korea Town. They say they are
entirely fed up with that massive growing encampment. Apparently it
started off very small in May, but by now September
it has grown to a little town. In their own words,
It's located just half a block down this sidewalk, and
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we've been seeing folks going in and out of that
homeless encampment located here in Kreatown on Manhattan Place.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
Take a closer look.
Speaker 10 (22:40):
This is sky five video, and neighbors tell me the
unhoused encampment even has a tennis court, garden and cooking
area going.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
There's a barbecue allegedly in this tiny city. That's what
it's being called by upset residents who live in the area.
They've got a court, probably a pickleball. I can't imagine
they have the real estate for full tennis. I mean
it's Koreatown. There's no there's no room down there. You
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can't even park a car in Koreatown.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
Hang on.
Speaker 10 (23:14):
The whole thing is on an empty lot located on
Manhattan Place that's between seventh and eighth Street, surrounded by
apartment buildings and businesses here in Koreatown.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
Neighbors say they're not having it.
Speaker 10 (23:25):
Local residents called city leaders to complain the mess that
keeps on growing. Others say the encampment has turned into
its own little city. But here's where it gets really concerning.
The unhoused are allegedly tapping into neighbors electricity and running
extension courts across the street.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
Who is allowing this to happen, like, where is this city?
Where is anybody? The mayor says, it's entirely unacceptable for
private property owners to allow their lots to become a
nuisance and a danger to the community. All necessary city
departments are responding to this location to hold the owners
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accountable and to keep the community safe. It's crazy because
if you think about this within the context of if
I didn't tell you that the mayor had said that
the mayor remember the mayor La Mayor Karen Bass, It
is entirely unacceptable for private property owners to allow their
lots to become a nuisance in a danger to the community.
But where is the city.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
Creating fire hazards?
Speaker 10 (24:24):
City officials say it's complicated because it's located on private property.
The Mayor's office sentence.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
But if it's a danger to other people who are
in the city, why do we have Why are we allow.
Speaker 10 (24:37):
Outreach team early this week to try and provide social
services And we have reached out to La City council
Member Katie Yaroslavsky for comment.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
Neighbors want action, though.
Speaker 10 (24:49):
This mother says the unhoused set two cars on fire
recently and allegedly dealt drugs in front of her toddler child.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
We can't live like this. We just can't do this anymore.
This just is not going to work or toddler.
Speaker 7 (25:05):
They blew up two cars and the guy it started
off as a clean tent area and then.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
Going to the store, they're passing drugs.
Speaker 8 (25:13):
Right with my daughter, like just in broad daylight.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
So it's that's the issue that.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
I had take a look.
Speaker 10 (25:19):
Mayor Karen Bass's office sent this statement saying, quote, it
is entirely unacceptable for private property owners to allow their
lots to become a nuisance.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
That's what I told you already. All Right, we've got
just a little bit of show left here and so
much happening this evening here in Los Angeles. Like we
said before, if you want to go check out Chicago
at the Hollywood bol there's stillickets available also, and this
is very very interesting. The Emmy Awards are tonight. Some
people are going to be watching that for sure. And
(25:51):
when we come back, is now the right time to
buy a house. And you know what, we can do
this before we get out of here. Are you accidentally
eating what you shouldn't be eating? Take a listen.
Speaker 5 (26:05):
New research finds that shark meat is being sold under
misleading labels across the United States, and a study published
this week, researchers at the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill sampled nineteen shark fil at products from stores
across three states as well as Washington, d C.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
I have never, I have never seen a shark fill
at in the grocery store at all.
Speaker 8 (26:27):
Have you do?
Speaker 2 (26:27):
You guys know what shark filets are? I think you
ever hear of shark fiallets?
Speaker 4 (26:31):
No?
Speaker 2 (26:32):
I see the sea bass heart, of shark cartilage, Oh,
shark cartilage, Yeah, I know that they don't they eat
shark fins in some part of Norway or something like that.
Speaker 7 (26:42):
I think it's supposed to be like healthy in Chinese culture. Okay,
maybe some culture.
Speaker 5 (26:49):
They also examined ten jerky products that they bought online,
and they found that among those samples, ninety three percent
were simply labeled as shark without further clarification. Thirty one
percent of the samples examined, they found we're found to
be actually from an endangered or critically endangered species of shark.
Savannah ribern joins us Now. She's one of the authors
(27:10):
of that study and a marine ecologist. Savannah, thank you
very much for being with us to talk about this.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
Oh, she's gonna do a whole interview, so we don't
need to get into that. But Shark Meet, if you
check out your shark Meet because it could be endangered.
Tough stuff out there. The Any Reesmire Show.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
Next weekend where we will be preempted here on the
Andy Reesemeier Show thanks to the Chargers. Let's Go Chargers.
They're going to be playing during the time that I
would have been on the show here. So I totally
understand if you want to do something else and listen
to the Chargers. I don't mean to do something else
(27:51):
and not listen to KFI. I would never say that
I will be listening to KFI if I can't try
to get tickets. I've been petitioning Shannon. I've been subtly
leaving hints on the dry erase board. Hey, Shannon, can
I have some tickets? So far I have not heard anything,
(28:13):
so we will see major Thanks to Gary by the way,
from the aforementioned Gary and Shannon Show, who had me
in on Friday. It was amazing watching him work. And
I know he's very humble and chill about stuff, but
he's so good. I don't know if any of you
guys know. He's very very good. So it's really neat
to see him handle some breaking news and keep things fun,
(28:36):
take some calls, listen here, and do some other stuff.
Is now the right time to buy a house? Here's
what's interesting. As you know, we've talked about mortgage rates.
A lot thirty year fixed now on average has dropped
basically a full percentage point in the past week and
a half or so. So you're looking at if you
have a home right now, maybe refinancing. You're looking at
(28:59):
the sixes on average for a thirty or fixed seven
and one arms or even less expensive. I am not
a financial analyst. I don't want to tell you what
to do with your life. This is just something I
think about all the time, with things being so expensive
and the sort of impossibility that it always felt to
try to buy a house. I think a lot of
(29:20):
times you're just wondering. I just pop on Zillow, see
what's out there. Could I handle the monthly payment for
a two bedroom house in Burbank? Oh, it's fifteen thousand
dollars a month. Probably not, but as we see those
numbers start to go down, you also see home buyers
in most markets gaining leverage compared to twenty twenty four
(29:41):
because the falling home prices or prices of homes that
are going down, just hit the highest level since twenty twelve.
Fast Company has the article here, sixty two percent of
the largest metro areas prices were going up up from
(30:01):
July of twenty four to July of twenty five. Thirty
eight percent saw home prices fall from twenty four July
twenty four to July twenty five, and they're saying it's
the highest share of housing markets with falling year over
year home prices since October of twenty twelve, when the
housing market was starting to rebound following the crash of
(30:23):
seven to twenty eleven. Most housing markets still see prices
going up, but the amount of markets with year over
year prices that are going down is higher. Even if
you talk to and I have some of the real
estate agents who I know, and they say, look, the
(30:46):
summer it was slow, those interest rates were pretty high,
but now you start to see those interest rates going
down and they're thinking things are going to pick up.
So anybody who maybe bought a house in the last
year or two and they had a six point eight
or seven percent that is so it seems like so much.
I think they're starting to look at refinancing there as well,
(31:07):
so maybe time to buy a house. Maybe not also
here on the show, And I think this is always
fitting if there's ever a situation where aliens are real,
will it ever be a discovery that is made and
talked about in the first five minutes of a newscast
for some reason, No, it's always snuck in at the
end because it seems so insane. But a discovery on
(31:29):
Mars has us rethinking what we know about extraterrestrial life, what.
Speaker 11 (31:39):
We believe to be signs of MicroB real life on
the Mars surface. And after a year of review, they've
come back and they said, listen, we can't find another explanation.
So this very well could be the clearest sign of
life that we've ever found on Mars.
Speaker 8 (32:00):
It's pretty incredible.
Speaker 9 (32:01):
That was Acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy at a press
conference this week announcing some very exciting news about possible
life on Mars.
Speaker 12 (32:09):
Yeah, NASA's Perseverance Rover collecting a rock sample that could
offer proof of ancient life right there on the Red planet.
Here to tell us more is JPL Project scientist Stey.
Speaker 2 (32:19):
We're not gonna listen to that whole interview, but you
get the idea, the strongest evidence yet for ancient life
on Mars. They're calling this a potential biosignature in a rock.
It's not that they've found life right now. It's essentially
that they found something that's left over from ancient microbial
(32:40):
life on Mars. That would be a big deal. And
like you heard there, acting NASA Administrator Shan Duffy saying,
it very well could be the clearest sign of life
that we've ever found on Mars, which is incredibly exciting.
I agree with that, that is exciting. But when we
say life on Mars, I think we're thinking like an alien.
(33:02):
And when we say alien, we mean either like a
cool green dude with a big head and crazy reflective
eyes or a Mily Jovovich in The Fifth Element. By
the way, showed my girlfriend The Fifth Filament last night
for the first time. I was begging her for months
years to watch that movie. She did not love it
(33:31):
not good. And finally, on this afternoon, do you know
that your astrology sign might be fake? This is a bummer,
especially if you are a makeup artist. They seem to
be very involved, but apparently what happened is that they
shifted all of the calendars because back in the day
(33:53):
when they first came up with this ancient astrology, the
planet alignment was different of some sort. So if you
were a Pisces, maybe you're something else now. But luckily
there's a website you can go to and plug it
in to see what your actual signs should be. The
good news that I have found out is that I
am still a Leo, just a self absorbed as always.
(34:20):
I thank you so much for being a part of
the show. We won't see you back here next week,
but you'll see us the week after. As always. You
can find me on the internet at Ady Ktla on
Twitter or Instagram, happy to respond to anything, or you
can leave us a message on the iHeartRadio app, hit
that talkback function with the little microphone button and we'll
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Speaker 1 (34:42):
KFI AM six forty on demand
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
The Emmys are upon us here. Can't wait for that.
That's gonna be fun. Nate Bergazzi is hosting that. A
couple updates here from things that are happening in Los Angeles.
A woman was stabbed after a brawl. I like a brawl.
I like brawl. You know, br wl a frack. Yeah,
(00:26):
there you go. Between three o'clock three thirty this morning,
Ellie County Sheriff's Department say that a brawl in West
Hollywood broke out involving twenty to thirty people in a
stretch of the city that is colloquially referred to as
Boys Town, Santa Monica Boulevard between San Vicenti and Robertson Boulevard.
The woman was stabbed. She was transported to a hospital.
(00:48):
Her commission or condition rather remained unknown. The suspect was
described as male and fled in a location in an
unfled location, in an unknown direction. We'll give you any
updates if we get some of those. Also, as we
told you earlier, the Utah Governor Spencer Cox says that
the suspect in the Charlie Kirk assassination is not cooperating
(01:09):
with authorities, but did say that the suspect's partner was
transgender and that he was unsure if it was relevant
to the case, adding that he doesn't have a dog
in the fight, saying if it was a radicalized MAGA person,
he would be saying he would be calling on both
the left and the right to tone down the rhetoric
after that assassination that, of course, we've been talking about
(01:31):
since Wednesday.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
In studio.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Now with me continuing on from the last hour is
comedian Mark Ellis, who, as we were talking before, you've
discovered the sort of Vegas era of your career.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
Well, Vegas used to be the thing for comedians, like
way back in the day, and I think you would
probably look at like Seinfeld at the beginning of his
career and you asked him like what his goals are,
and it's like, I want to do the Tonight Show
with Carson and then eventually I want to get to Vegas.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
That's where all the big but older comedians.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Is that like an outlier of Sammy Davis Junior and
that sort of thing, or who was doing who would
have been doing Vegas during.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
That era, Frank was always the biggest draw in Vegas,
Frank and Elvis, I think. But then with Frank you
had all the guys in the rat package. I think,
the regardless of whether you were a comedian or a performer.
And Frank and those guys would have comedians open for
them back in the day, and so your dream gigas
a comedian may not have even been have your name
the biggest on the marquee. It could have been Frank Sinatra.
(02:32):
Like I said, I'm doing Brad Garrett's Comedy Club in
Las Vegas this week. Brad everybody knows as the brother
and everybody loves Raymond and he's had an incredible career.
He used to open for Frank Sinatra. That's why he
opened for Elvis once. And he and he would go
on the road with Sammy Davis Junior. I'll tell you
a great story. Sammy Davis Junior used to actually take
(02:52):
his entire living room on the road with him. That
is not an exaggeration.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Amazing.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
Whatever hotel sweet he was staying in, he brought all
he wanted it to look like his living room again.
It all the paintings, the carpet, everything, the furniture was transported.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
In to make Sammy Fiel at home, and Dean would
drink enough to make every room feel like his own.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
That's more my speech. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, but yeah, Vegas.
Speaker 4 (03:16):
Vegas is a dream and it's nice to get into
a few clubs there and and do stadiums and it
just it's become one of my favorite stops on the road.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
You're working comic and I think you're you're funny as hell,
and I think you've got such a good POV and
intuition about stuff that's happening in the world. Uh And
and I have evidence of this because of when you
came on KTLA talk about stuff, you know, among comedians, obviously,
there's been a lot of conversation this week about free
speech and saying things and people being upset about things
(03:45):
to the point where even if they're insane, they're taking
horrible actions and and doing terrible things because of them.
Is there any reflection on that among the cohorts?
Speaker 4 (03:56):
But I feel like stand Up is the is the
clearest case of what justice should be right because you
get on stage and you're by yourself, and if you're funny,
the audience is going to let you know by laughing,
and if you're not funny, the audience is going to
let you know by not laughing.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
The most honest thing you could ever do.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
That transaction happens in real time, in the real moment.
There's not a lot of debate about it's not You
get off stage and you're like waiting for the judges scores,
like you just did a gymnastics routine in the Olympics.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
You know right then and there where you stand.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
And as far as the free speech thing, every comic
is going to be fully supportive of free speech. But
here's the thing with free speech also comes consequences, and
you also have that in the world of stand up
where if I say something that may have gone too
far right, then the audience is going to let you
know by their reaction. And so you can say whatever
you want on stage, but you also know that your
(04:44):
career is on the line. Basically every night you're on stage,
it's your job interview all over again. That's what comedians
sign up for, and that's kind of the drug that
we keep coming, yeah, is you're chasing that high. And
so when you see something as tragic as what happened
on regardless of whether or not you believe you know
in anything. Charlie Kirk said, I was not a fan
(05:05):
of the guy at all. I thought a lot of
the stuff he said was reprehensible. You never like to
see political violence be the thing that sorts it out.
And I think with comedians it's like, well, I was
just on stage and I was having a back and
forth with somebody in the crowd, and it ended peacefully,
even if we disagree, even if I made fun of
them or they had a great line at me, and
you engage them for it.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
It's a peaceful way to have a dialogue.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
And I think that a lot of times when you
see an instance of political violence, you think, well, have
we completely lost that in America?
Speaker 3 (05:33):
And the hope as we haven't.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
I think that there's something wild about and I try
not to get into politics and most of the stuff
that we talk about, but this is more about just
the general humanity of the way people are. And it's
like this version I said this in the last hour,
this version of social media that shows people in the
worst possible light. And let me clarify that it's the
(05:55):
people who are the craziest who then get elevated. And
I've had a lot of conversation with people this week
who are on all sides of the aisle who say, like,
we don't want this is not what we're what we
want to be doing. We don't want to be talking
about public assassination and murder. We don't want to be
thinking about this is a world that that is a
possible thing that could happen to somebody if they are saying,
(06:16):
regardless of if you agree with it or disagree with it,
just what they want to say, because that's that's the
agreement we have in this country, is that you get
to have that opposing viewpoint or that viewpoint, whatever it
may be. But we're not We don't want anybody to die,
because I don't.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
And and when someone takes action like that that is
that extreme, it's hurtful to both sides. And the reason
is is because look at the history of America, to
look at the history of world politics, no side is
on top forever. It's going to be one side and
then the other side, and it's going to continue to
be that constant struggle. And so if you feel like
you're the underdog now and you're cheering somebody who did
something as hanous as that.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
You have to remember eventually your team's going to be on.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
Top, right, and you don't want people reacting the same
way that that happens when you were excited about it.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Yeah, and there will be consequences for playing in that arena.
Speaker 4 (07:05):
Yeah, And you know, and and somebody like me, it's
like you get so locked into like the footage and
like the conspiracy theory and this of it. And sometimes
you really do have to unplug from social media because
a lot of people look at social media and you
see comics who are just trying to get noticed there
when an event happens, and so they're going to have
either the dirtiest joke or the most rostiest joke or
(07:29):
just like the hottest take trying to get attention. And look,
maybe it's fine for social media, but I remind everybody
when you come to a comedy club that's what stand
up is. If you follow comics on social media, that's
them doing something else.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
To do clout right and to try to regret. No, absolutely,
And I think, like what I've thought about, outside of
all of the horrors that we saw this week, where
that the Emmys are tonight, this is a hard turn.
But Nate Forergasi, I think as a comic is kind
of this guy who sort of exists outside of all
of this. This is this is my team. He's not tribal.
(08:02):
I think people across this country from different backgrounds all
think that this guy is like pretty funny, and I
don't think that he lives in a very highly polarized world.
Much like Letterman and Leno used to.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
Nate is one of the shining stars now where him
and somebody like Sebastian Maniscalco, who you know, I kind
of grew up just under at the comedy store where
you see him work out and we'd hang out and
talk shop and stuff, and it's like, these are guys
who it's not that they're a political and that's why
people love them, but they also just have a way
of talking about themselves where it isn't looking to get
(08:36):
a reaction, it's not roasty, and it's just funny stuff.
And there's still a place for that, which is refreshing,
because roasting in comedy is huge right now. Yeah, if
that's your thing, yeah great, it's because Forever m.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Dunky is what is getting people noticed on the Internet
and Therefore it becomes something that feels like it you
have to do it.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
And doing a lot of crowd work, and that gets
noticed too because it is a cool man and most
audiences don't realize that just about every comic sort of
has that in their bag and it's up to them
if they want to use it or not.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
And when I'm on stage, I love.
Speaker 4 (09:09):
The ability to do crowd work, but I also have
jokes that I wrote that I like, I want to
get out there because I think.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
You'll really like them.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
Yeah, that's why you're doing this.
Speaker 4 (09:17):
It's a I think that a lot of comics now
get in their head and and you know, maybe it's
just blaming. It's like I don't have social media because
I don't do this, or I don't do this. At
the end of the day, it still is a very
simple question. Can you get on stage in front of
a bunch of strangers and make them laugh? Yeah, And
you can take all the politicalness out of it, you
can take all of the what part of the country
you're in, how you feel about stuff, what you look like.
(09:37):
Can you be funny in front of a group of strangers.
The sport has not changed that much since it starts.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
And you'll always find out what the score is in
real time.
Speaker 4 (09:46):
Why I love doing it and I never got into
improv or sketch just because I don't like working with
other people on stage. I don't have that trust in humans,
right because like then you got off stage.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
In an improv group and it's like, well that didn't
go well? Was it you? Did you drop your line?
Did you not be right?
Speaker 4 (10:01):
I want to know it's all my fault, it's all
my win. I know what to work on for the
next show.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Very good comedian Mark ellis here with us. Thanks for
coming by, buddy. I really appreciate seeing you. Where can
people find more about you?
Speaker 4 (10:13):
You can just check out social media as we've been
talking about. My Instagram is at mark Ellis Live and
you can get tournes, tickets, all that good stuff at
mark ellis dot Live.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
Not a Hoosier, although you were saying I was a Hoosia,
I know.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
I'm glad you clarified that I was not saying you
were a Hooshi.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
Not the five person to think I.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
Was from Indiana, but really everybody thinks I'm from Indian
it's this Luke Skywalker farm boy face that I just
can't shed.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
I was I was curious. I was thought I was
looking in a mirror when I was talking to earlier.
Now I realize that that's what.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
We I'll include you in my joke.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
We both look like Luke Skywalker if he never left Halloween,
and he's like, you know what, I got a good
job with my own cale.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
I don't need to get out of here.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
Yes, two boys who mayonnaise might be two spicy for
it's the Eddy Reesmyer Shud.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
If you'd like to say hello, you can send us
a message on the talkback function. That's what we're looking for.
I guess we're going on the iHeartRadio app looking for
that microphone there and pushing the button leaving a message
and we'll play it on the show where I guess
we're having some kind of issue here with the just
just leave us a talkback. Let's do that. Also, you
can find me on the internet at andy KTLA anywhere
(11:22):
Internet is sold. And I want to figure out what
has happened here in the last twenty seconds, because we
played a little bit of hold the line parentheses Love
isn't always on time? And Richie thought that that Toto
song was Is this correct? You thought it was Pokemon?
I thought it was a Pokemon song? What what? What
(11:47):
even is a Pokemon song?
Speaker 4 (11:48):
Like?
Speaker 2 (11:48):
I don't even know. I don't even know how to
how to not watch Pokemon growing up. I didn't. Okay,
I know that despite despite my appearance, what were you watching?
Speaker 5 (11:58):
No?
Speaker 2 (11:58):
I just I'm way, I look, I'm sure that you
thought I was playing Pokemon digimon watching all the shows
especially did No? I was We're too cool for school?
I think it just I don't. My parents didn't let
me watch cartoons, so that makes sense.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
There you go.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Hold the line is a Toto song from nineteen seventy eight.
Speaker 6 (12:17):
Yeah no, It has a very similar intro like sound
as introduction to the Pokemon.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
You go find it. If you find it, we'll play
it side by side. Ro can we can? We can judge, Robbie.
You don't have to do it if you don't want to.
I also want to say the Emmy's here tonight. As
you heard, you can see some updates from our very
own Heather Brooker, who is on the Red Carpet ot
r C. As they say, at KFI AM six forty's
(12:45):
Instagram account, Richie is that right.
Speaker 6 (12:48):
Yeah, or you can just go to her Instagram. She's
she's out there on the floor. She's at the Heather
Brooker on Instagram. You can go check her out.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
She's going to be bringing you all the behind the
scenes updates from the red carpet in the show itself.
Like we were saying earlier in Apragatzi is hosting tonight,
it is a big deal for Hollywood, an organization or
a community that is unfortunately being it's a it's shrinking
(13:17):
here locally. But this year Emmys are probably going to
be giving awards to either The Studio, Severence, Adolescents Comedy.
They're anticipating The Studio, which is a show about Hollywood.
So of course Hollywood loves to give themselves awards, so
it's no surprise that they probably will win a lot
(13:38):
for that. Geane Smart probably be nominated for comedy or
would probably win rather in her nomination for Comedy Actress.
Ellie Times thinks that Seth Rogan will take on comedy
actor for the Studio, and as we move on to
the more dramatic fair, they think it's going to severance.
I kind of agree. I know Heather was saying she
(14:01):
thinks White Lotus might be taken home the Best Drama
Series Show award. They're putting Kathy Bates Matt Locke performance
up for Drama Actress, and Noah Wiley, who's been nominated
four times already for mostly his work in Er back
in the nineties and early two thousands. He of course,
(14:24):
now is the star of the Pit, which is also
a medical drama. They think he's finally going to get
his flowers, as they say, I'm interested to see how
it goes. You know, I think I struggle with this
a little bit. I was never a big red carpet person.
I love entertainment. I do a lot of entertainment news
(14:46):
covered it a lot, learned a lot about it. You know.
Katla is big on the Emmy coverage right now. We've
got Jess and Melvin there along with Doug Cole and
uh Megan Henderson. Everyone looking really beautiful, and I'm sure
we'll have a full update as well tomorrow morning. Anybody
(15:09):
gonna be watching them?
Speaker 4 (15:10):
Now?
Speaker 2 (15:10):
Are we excited?
Speaker 4 (15:10):
Here?
Speaker 3 (15:13):
Eileen?
Speaker 2 (15:14):
What do you think you're gonna watch the You wanna
watch the Emmys. She's busy working.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
We got no.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
We got to know from I won't be Robin. We
got to know there's another no from Nicky. Why won't
you be watching it? I mean not to toot my
own horn, but I've worked at the Oscars and the
American Music Awards, so the Emmys is just dultome. Okay,
all right, that's a hot take, Eileen. What do you think?
Speaker 7 (15:41):
I'm so sorry. I was doing something else, working on weather.
But I think you asked, what the Emmy? If I
like the Emmy, yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
You're gonna be watching? You care?
Speaker 7 (15:47):
No, No, honestly, I'm I read more than I watch TV. Okay,
I'm a nerd.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
No, I understand it. I think, especially if you work
in media, Like the last thing you want to do
is like turn on the TV.
Speaker 7 (16:00):
If I do, I put on reruns of Big Bang
Theory and it's in the background.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
That's it. I were you a big Young Sheldon fan?
Speaker 3 (16:07):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (16:07):
I like that show. Okay, that's great. Okay, well we'll see.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
I'm sure.
Speaker 8 (16:11):
Oh they're up for an award? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (16:13):
Are they?
Speaker 8 (16:13):
I actually was on that show Get out of Town?
Speaker 3 (16:16):
Really?
Speaker 8 (16:17):
Yeah? I was on one episode one episode of that
I played a producer.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Oh I love that. That's awesome. That was fun.
Speaker 7 (16:23):
It was a great crew, but they were great people.
I hope they win there. That's that's what I'm rooting for.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
You're also rooting for the big the Young Sheldon crowd.
We got a lot of Young Sheldon fans here. Very good.
All right, Well, we're going to keep going here. On
the Andy Reesemeier Show. The next time I see you,
we're going to talk about this new barbecue place in
Korea Town that nobody really wants to be there. I
(16:53):
got that details. Plus Santa Monica facing a dire fiscal
crisis and is now the right time to buy a house?
All coming up on the Andy Reesemeyers.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
The results are in from tests of the soil in
both the burn areas for the Eton Fire and the
Palisades area, and according to the La County Public Health Department,
soil in the Palisades Fire burn zone came back clean
with no significant findings above safety thresholds for everything. Good
(17:26):
news there, but for people affected by the Eton fire.
The whole burn zone was tested and ten areas tested
positive for lead. Press release says the identification of high
frequency lead exceedancs in soil samples from intact parcels downwind
(17:46):
to the Eating Fire. I wish they could just speak
like real humans, but it's consistent with reports of elevated
lead in air samples that were collected in the days
right after the fire, and they said this is reasonable
at least they would expect this to be reasonably expected
because of the homes that burned there, many of which
were built rather before nineteen seventy nine. More than seventy
(18:12):
percent of the houses, according to USC were within were
built rather before nineteen seventy nine that were within the
Eating Fire burn zone, and the county said residents with
any concerns about the property might want to test their
soil or consult in an environmental professional about evaluating their property.
I imagine anybody who's going to rebuild over there really
(18:32):
is very interested, and you do have a lot of risks.
They didn't really include in the press release, but as
far as the soil goes, especially to kids, there's a
lot of health risks from exposure either from eating or
inhaling the dust. Behavioral issues for kids, learning problems, high
(18:54):
blood pressure, kidney damage, and adults, you don't want to
have lead. Lead was one of those things that like
kind of was a a hidden evil. I think that
a lot of times, especially like in La when you
would rent an apartment or whatever, you always have to
sign a lead disclosure, which I think. I'm not an attorney,
(19:14):
I'm not somebody who is in a doctor by any means,
but I think, as far as I was aware, old
houses that have lead paint are okay as long as
it's not peeling or chipped or you're not eating it.
But kids eat all kinds of stuff. And also if
it's if the dust is on the floor and you're
playing on the floor, you're walking on the floor, and
(19:35):
you've got a newer immune system like a kid would,
that's when it's potentially dangerous. And speaking of Altadena, how
about this? A sitcom was set to be filmed in
about Alta Dina.
Speaker 9 (19:52):
Following this sitcom and development spark the Eating Fires Careen debate,
Blackish creator Kenya Barris and comedian Mike Epps are working
on a CBS comedy about brothers in post fire Alta Dina.
Some residents who lost their homes in the fire call
the idea insensitive. Artist Angelica Perry posted a critique on Instagram,
saying the project ignores real stories from the community. Others,
(20:15):
like fellow artist Nashan Dion, welcome the possibility, hoping the
show brings laughter, jobs, and even funds back to the town.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
I think that's a big one. You know, nobody knows
what this show is going to be about or is like.
But Mike Epps, Ken you Barris, he created Blackish. These
are guys who I think are are pretty well regarded
and well respected, and maybe there was an opportunity to
tell that story, to bring people's stories to the forefront,
(20:46):
maybe to employ people to increase the amount of awareness.
I think that that is unfortunate if that goes by
the wayside. But Angelica Perry, who also i guess was
echoing a lot of the sentiment of the people who
lived in Altadina, said Hey, wait a minute, why are
we doing a comedy show here? This is not funny.
There's nothing funny about this. This feels exploitive, she said.
(21:08):
Last spoke to that other artist Nashan Dion, who identified
herself as fourth generation Altadnon whose extended family lost all
of their homes in the fire. They were hoping that
consultants might be hired to do this show, and as
far as we know now at least according to the
Instagram posts on the original or Instagram comments on the
(21:31):
original post, is that they're just not going to do
it now at all. I hate the idea of doing
something that makes people feel uncomfortable. I totally understand if
you're a victim of a disaster and then you say, oh,
look who's showing up now trying to profit off of this?
(21:51):
That would drive me crazy. But you wish that there
was a way also to not pass up on opportunity
or even in Hollywood to have I mean, there's so
few shows that shoot here anymore. That's a that's a
tough one. Let's go down of Koreatown.
Speaker 10 (22:11):
This is talking to neighbors in this family oriented section
of town here in Korea Town. They say they are
entirely fed up with that massive growing encampment. Apparently it
started off very small in May, but by now September
it has grown to a little town. In their own words,
It's located just half a block down this sidewalk, and
(22:32):
we've been seeing folks going in and out of that
homeless encampment located here in Kreatown on Manhattan Place.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
Take a closer look.
Speaker 10 (22:40):
This is sky five video, and neighbors tell me the
unhoused encampment even has a tennis court, garden and cooking
area going.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
There's a barbecue allegedly in this tiny city. That's what
it's being called by upset residents who live in the area.
They've got a court, probably a pickleball. I can't imagine
they have the real estate for full tennis. I mean
it's Koreatown. There's no there's no room down there. You
(23:11):
can't even park a car in Koreatown.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
Hang on.
Speaker 10 (23:14):
The whole thing is on an empty lot located on
Manhattan Place that's between seventh and eighth Street, surrounded by
apartment buildings and businesses here in Koreatown.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
Neighbors say they're not having it.
Speaker 10 (23:25):
Local residents called city leaders to complain the mess that
keeps on growing. Others say the encampment has turned into
its own little city. But here's where it gets really concerning.
The unhoused are allegedly tapping into neighbors electricity and running
extension courts across the street.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
Who is allowing this to happen, like, where is this city?
Where is anybody? The mayor says, it's entirely unacceptable for
private property owners to allow their lots to become a
nuisance and a danger to the community. All necessary city
departments are responding to this location to hold the owners
(24:04):
accountable and to keep the community safe. It's crazy because
if you think about this within the context of if
I didn't tell you that the mayor had said that
the mayor remember the mayor La Mayor Karen Bass, It
is entirely unacceptable for private property owners to allow their
lots to become a nuisance in a danger to the community.
But where is the city.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
Creating fire hazards?
Speaker 10 (24:24):
City officials say it's complicated because it's located on private property.
The Mayor's office sentence.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
But if it's a danger to other people who are
in the city, why do we have Why are we allow.
Speaker 10 (24:37):
Outreach team early this week to try and provide social
services And we have reached out to La City council
Member Katie Yaroslavsky for comment.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
Neighbors want action, though.
Speaker 10 (24:49):
This mother says the unhoused set two cars on fire
recently and allegedly dealt drugs in front of her toddler child.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
We can't live like this. We just can't do this anymore.
This just is not going to work or toddler.
Speaker 7 (25:05):
They blew up two cars and the guy it started
off as a clean tent area and then.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
Going to the store, they're passing drugs.
Speaker 8 (25:13):
Right with my daughter, like just in broad daylight.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
So it's that's the issue that.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
I had take a look.
Speaker 10 (25:19):
Mayor Karen Bass's office sent this statement saying, quote, it
is entirely unacceptable for private property owners to allow their
lots to become a nuisance.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
That's what I told you already. All Right, we've got
just a little bit of show left here and so
much happening this evening here in Los Angeles. Like we
said before, if you want to go check out Chicago
at the Hollywood bol there's stillickets available also, and this
is very very interesting. The Emmy Awards are tonight. Some
people are going to be watching that for sure. And
(25:51):
when we come back, is now the right time to
buy a house. And you know what, we can do
this before we get out of here. Are you accidentally
eating what you shouldn't be eating? Take a listen.
Speaker 5 (26:05):
New research finds that shark meat is being sold under
misleading labels across the United States, and a study published
this week, researchers at the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill sampled nineteen shark fil at products from stores
across three states as well as Washington, d C.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
I have never, I have never seen a shark fill
at in the grocery store at all.
Speaker 8 (26:27):
Have you do?
Speaker 2 (26:27):
You guys know what shark filets are? I think you
ever hear of shark fiallets?
Speaker 4 (26:31):
No?
Speaker 2 (26:32):
I see the sea bass heart, of shark cartilage, Oh,
shark cartilage, Yeah, I know that they don't they eat
shark fins in some part of Norway or something like that.
Speaker 7 (26:42):
I think it's supposed to be like healthy in Chinese culture. Okay,
maybe some culture.
Speaker 5 (26:49):
They also examined ten jerky products that they bought online,
and they found that among those samples, ninety three percent
were simply labeled as shark without further clarification. Thirty one
percent of the samples examined, they found we're found to
be actually from an endangered or critically endangered species of shark.
Savannah ribern joins us Now. She's one of the authors
(27:10):
of that study and a marine ecologist. Savannah, thank you
very much for being with us to talk about this.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
Oh, she's gonna do a whole interview, so we don't
need to get into that. But Shark Meet, if you
check out your shark Meet because it could be endangered.
Tough stuff out there. The Any Reesmire Show.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
Next weekend where we will be preempted here on the
Andy Reesemeier Show thanks to the Chargers. Let's Go Chargers.
They're going to be playing during the time that I
would have been on the show here. So I totally
understand if you want to do something else and listen
to the Chargers. I don't mean to do something else
(27:51):
and not listen to KFI. I would never say that
I will be listening to KFI if I can't try
to get tickets. I've been petitioning Shannon. I've been subtly
leaving hints on the dry erase board. Hey, Shannon, can
I have some tickets? So far I have not heard anything,
(28:13):
so we will see major Thanks to Gary by the way,
from the aforementioned Gary and Shannon Show, who had me
in on Friday. It was amazing watching him work. And
I know he's very humble and chill about stuff, but
he's so good. I don't know if any of you
guys know. He's very very good. So it's really neat
to see him handle some breaking news and keep things fun,
(28:36):
take some calls, listen here, and do some other stuff.
Is now the right time to buy a house? Here's
what's interesting. As you know, we've talked about mortgage rates.
A lot thirty year fixed now on average has dropped
basically a full percentage point in the past week and
a half or so. So you're looking at if you
have a home right now, maybe refinancing. You're looking at
(28:59):
the sixes on average for a thirty or fixed seven
and one arms or even less expensive. I am not
a financial analyst. I don't want to tell you what
to do with your life. This is just something I
think about all the time, with things being so expensive
and the sort of impossibility that it always felt to
try to buy a house. I think a lot of
(29:20):
times you're just wondering. I just pop on Zillow, see
what's out there. Could I handle the monthly payment for
a two bedroom house in Burbank? Oh, it's fifteen thousand
dollars a month. Probably not, but as we see those
numbers start to go down, you also see home buyers
in most markets gaining leverage compared to twenty twenty four
(29:41):
because the falling home prices or prices of homes that
are going down, just hit the highest level since twenty twelve.
Fast Company has the article here, sixty two percent of
the largest metro areas prices were going up up from
(30:01):
July of twenty four to July of twenty five. Thirty
eight percent saw home prices fall from twenty four July
twenty four to July twenty five, and they're saying it's
the highest share of housing markets with falling year over
year home prices since October of twenty twelve, when the
housing market was starting to rebound following the crash of
(30:23):
seven to twenty eleven. Most housing markets still see prices
going up, but the amount of markets with year over
year prices that are going down is higher. Even if
you talk to and I have some of the real
estate agents who I know, and they say, look, the
(30:46):
summer it was slow, those interest rates were pretty high,
but now you start to see those interest rates going
down and they're thinking things are going to pick up.
So anybody who maybe bought a house in the last
year or two and they had a six point eight
or seven percent that is so it seems like so much.
I think they're starting to look at refinancing there as well,
(31:07):
so maybe time to buy a house. Maybe not also
here on the show, And I think this is always
fitting if there's ever a situation where aliens are real,
will it ever be a discovery that is made and
talked about in the first five minutes of a newscast
for some reason, No, it's always snuck in at the
end because it seems so insane. But a discovery on
(31:29):
Mars has us rethinking what we know about extraterrestrial life, what.
Speaker 11 (31:39):
We believe to be signs of MicroB real life on
the Mars surface. And after a year of review, they've
come back and they said, listen, we can't find another explanation.
So this very well could be the clearest sign of
life that we've ever found on Mars.
Speaker 8 (32:00):
It's pretty incredible.
Speaker 9 (32:01):
That was Acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy at a press
conference this week announcing some very exciting news about possible
life on Mars.
Speaker 12 (32:09):
Yeah, NASA's Perseverance Rover collecting a rock sample that could
offer proof of ancient life right there on the Red planet.
Here to tell us more is JPL Project scientist Stey.
Speaker 2 (32:19):
We're not gonna listen to that whole interview, but you
get the idea, the strongest evidence yet for ancient life
on Mars. They're calling this a potential biosignature in a rock.
It's not that they've found life right now. It's essentially
that they found something that's left over from ancient microbial
(32:40):
life on Mars. That would be a big deal. And
like you heard there, acting NASA Administrator Shan Duffy saying,
it very well could be the clearest sign of life
that we've ever found on Mars, which is incredibly exciting.
I agree with that, that is exciting. But when we
say life on Mars, I think we're thinking like an alien.
(33:02):
And when we say alien, we mean either like a
cool green dude with a big head and crazy reflective
eyes or a Mily Jovovich in The Fifth Element. By
the way, showed my girlfriend The Fifth Filament last night
for the first time. I was begging her for months
years to watch that movie. She did not love it
(33:31):
not good. And finally, on this afternoon, do you know
that your astrology sign might be fake? This is a bummer,
especially if you are a makeup artist. They seem to
be very involved, but apparently what happened is that they
shifted all of the calendars because back in the day
(33:53):
when they first came up with this ancient astrology, the
planet alignment was different of some sort. So if you
were a Pisces, maybe you're something else now. But luckily
there's a website you can go to and plug it
in to see what your actual signs should be. The
good news that I have found out is that I
am still a Leo, just a self absorbed as always.
(34:20):
I thank you so much for being a part of
the show. We won't see you back here next week,
but you'll see us the week after. As always. You
can find me on the internet at Ady Ktla on
Twitter or Instagram, happy to respond to anything, or you
can leave us a message on the iHeartRadio app, hit
that talkback function with the little microphone button and we'll
(34:41):
play it on the show.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
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