December 23, 2025 • 31 mins
The Epstein file dump, released this week, included redacted and deleted files, some of which were later re-added. Did the DOJ do this to protect survivors and victims, or to protect the predators and perpetrators? There are also photos of the prison cell in which Epstein apparently died by suicide, but the images don’t add up. Also, a tragic car accident on the Angel Crest Highway near LA has claimed the life of Call of Duty developer Vince Zampella. To more on the Epstein files, the video of the financier, abuser and sex trafficker apparently attempting suicide in his prison cell has turned out to be fake, hence why it was removed from the file dump. Andy loves on Skeletor, the supervillain from “Masters of the Universe.” Another listener phones in to tell us the story of his favorite Christmas present from high school, his new ski jacket. Last Saturday in the Bay Area, a fire at a PG&E substation knocked out power for 130,000 residents — for two days! There are still a few thousand people currently without power.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
I'll be with you all the way till ten pm tonight.
Whether you like it or not. We are reliving some
of our favorite memories of Christmas. You can give us
a call one one hundred five to zero one five
three four. Tell us what your favorite gift that you
got as a kid that you just loved the most.
Your Red Rider BB gun. That's twenty on hundred five
to zero one KFI. By the way, we're still following
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this storm that is set to come into the area
a little bit later than originally anticipated. I think we
had originally anticipated early Tuesday, and now it looks like
late Tuesday. In the first round of storms here for
southern California, LA Fire Department issued evacuation warnings for neighborhoods
near the Sunset Fire that's the area south of Runyon
(00:45):
Canyon and the Palisades Fire area near Pacific Palisades Mandeville Canyon,
as well mudflow urban flooding likely with mud and debris flow,
and the threat would not just be confined to those
burn areas, so something to be aware of. Also, I
cannot get over the weirdest part of this very weird, complicated, uncomfortable, sad,
(01:11):
terrible story. Convoluted doesn't even begin to scratch the surface.
Would you say, mister Ronner, which story are you talking?
I'm talking about the Epstein documents as a concept as
a whole. Yeah, convoluted is a good start. It's just
so complicated. It goes every single day, something new, weird
thing happens. Here's the latest from Katla Samantha Cortese about
(01:34):
the reaction to files that were deleted and then re
added over the weekend.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Allow from the Jeffrey Epstein case continues, even after the
Justice Department released thousands more pages of documents this Friday.
Much of it was heavily redacted, and now some lawmakers
are calling out the Justice Department, threatening legal action.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
It's clear that there's some type of cover up.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Many in Congress, including California Representative Robert Garcia, say they
are fed up with how the Trump administration is handling
the Epstein investigation.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Robert Garcia, former mayor of Lung Beach.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Friday, the DOJ released thousands of files, court records, photographs,
and call logs, but hundreds of pages were black fully redacted.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
The law is clear, they have to actually put out
all of the Epstein files, and the only redactions that
should exist are direct protection of survivors or victims. That
is not what appears to be happening right now.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Some lawmakers from both sides of the aisles say they
plan to hold Attorney General Pam Bondi in contempt of
Congress for not upholding that law, the Epstein Files Transparency Act,
which Congress passed and the President signed earlier this year.
Speaker 5 (02:42):
The quickest way, and I think most expeditious way to
get justice for these victims, is to bring inherent contempt
against Pam Bondy, and that doesn't require going through the courts.
And we're building a bipartisan coalition and it would find
Pam Bondy for every day that she's not releasing these documents.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche rejected accusations the administration is
trying to hide information, addressing concerns after photos initially released
showing then civilian Donald Trump were removed from the released files.
Speaker 6 (03:15):
He has said that in the nineties and early two thousands,
he socialized with him. So the absurdity of us pulling
down a photo, a single photo because President Trump was
in it is laughable. And the fact that everybody's trying
to act like that's the case is a reflection of
their true motivation.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
When I said this yesterday with a complicated conversation that
comes out of this statement, which is we remove this
picture with current President Trump because we're worried about they're
being victims in the photo. Is not hard to then
assume that maybe is that to say that President Trump
is their standing with victims, with Epstein victims.
Speaker 7 (03:54):
Well, also, we know that Todd blanche was President Trump's
former personal attorney, but he would have to ask the question,
how is he not recused from this issue?
Speaker 2 (04:03):
That's a great it's a great question. Well, the other
thing I want to talk about, which is very strange,
is that today a video came out that a bunch
of journalists that Occasey were sending to each other like
did you see this? This is super weird. It's a
twelve second video that was posted on Justice dot gov.
It had a Justice dot govurl. It was alongside other
(04:27):
files released by the agency, appeared to show Jeffrey Epstein
in his cell during the final hours of his life.
It shows a twelve second long graphic video what seems
to be Jeffrey Epstein sitting on the floor of a
cell in a very wide angle shot. You see it's
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kind of blurry, but a figure sitting next to a bed,
maybe attempting to harm himself. It is timestamped or August tenth,
twenty nineteen, at four to twenty nine am. It looks
like it is Epstein in his cell at the Metropolitan
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Correctional Center in New York six thirty am that same day.
In real life, we discovered and we the Royal Wee
people discovered. The Bureau of Prisons in New York discovered
that Epstein was dead in his cell that same day.
Now the video has been removed because it's fake. The
(05:37):
video appeared to show, according to People dot Com, the
man trying to hang himself, but it did not depict
the manner in which Epstein was later found as specified
by the Bureau of Prisons report. According to the report,
no camera was recording video inside his cell on the
night of his death. There was no camera in the
facility that had a clear view of Epstein. Epstein on
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the night of his death, recorded video evidence was only
available from one prison security camera. Due to a malfunction
that camera did not look inside his cell the lights on.
The lights rather are on in his cell in the video,
which a standard practice for inmates on suicide Watch. However,
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on the night in question, he was no longer on
Suicide Watch. He was removed from Suicide Watch twenty days
earlier after he had attempted to commit suicide the night
of July twenty third.
Speaker 7 (06:37):
Well, people, including Epstein's own brother Mark Epstein, insist that
Epstein Jeffrey was not suicidal.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Right now, the video is so strange, among some other inconsistencies,
that the door is not correct, it doesn't match the
door in the images that we see in the actual report.
Really by the bop, the video might be animation, it
(07:04):
might be AI. The what is it is is a
huge question mark. Why did the Justice Department have it?
Why did they upload it?
Speaker 8 (07:20):
Like?
Speaker 2 (07:20):
What is going on there? Like I'm baffled, I cannot
even comprehend, Like what on earth? Wild? Just the weirdest thing.
And then the thing that is so different about this
time compared to maybe ten months ago, even forget years ago,
(07:43):
is that before the AI video stuff got so good,
it was really hard to I mean, you required some
effort to fake a video, and now it requires the
most minimum prompt up prompt. The AI already has contextual
(08:05):
understanding of what things look like. There's a video that
I just saw on Instagram, was just sent to me,
and it appears to show the moment when a car
accident happened earlier today or yesterday rather which took the
life of the video game developer Ben sam Pella. Right
(08:29):
and and it and I'm not sure that it's real.
I don't know. It's a weird world that we live in.
And that's enough hard news for right now, except for
what We're going to have Mark ron Er do a
couple of hard news things, but then we're going to
get back to our fun holiday stuff. I just like it.
(08:50):
I cannot even put together in my head what happened
today with this video because it's so strange. Do you
think I'm am I am I off on that.
Speaker 7 (09:03):
I actually haven't seen it, but there are a lot
of questions that still need to be answered around that circumstance.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
So weird. It's all so weird, just like I for
another time.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
All right, so I do have a little bit of
an update from what I was just talking about in
the last segment. This sort of fake video, well, it
is a fake video. We know it's a fake video,
but it appeared on the DJ website. It appeared to
show Jeffrey Epstein attempting to commit suicide in the hours
leading up to when he was indeed found dead at
a prison in New York. Now, because the Internet works
(09:48):
over time trying to figure out what's going on, that
video was deemed fake and it was removed from the website.
But because everybody remembers everything and there's a record of everything,
Twitter has found the regional video, which is indeed a
rendered computer graphic. I wouldn't call it art, but it's
(10:11):
made by a person in a program called Blender, and
it basically is just a recreation of what they would
have assumed the moment Jeffrey Epstein allegedly took his life
would look like. It is public. It was uploaded October first,
(10:32):
twenty twenty by the definitely real name Chad Chaddington on YouTube,
and there's the video how it ended up in the
hands of the DOJ, how it ended up being uploaded
into the files. I'm speechless. Another user on x discovered
(11:04):
that in some of the documents released that are redacted,
if you highlight them and copy the words into another
and this isn't all of them, is some of them,
copy the words into another word processor, Essentially, you can
see what the reaction was supposed to be. I've been
(11:24):
seeing that unreal, some true pros. You got to think, like,
no matter what your pov on this is, which like
you should be horrified, quite frankly by Jeffrey Epstein. I
hope that there's not people who are defending him, but
as far as that how, it's political football. Whatever your
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opinion on this, whether you think, oh it makes Bill
Clinton look bad, it makes Donald Trump look back, whatever,
it is so hard not to just be in awe
of the absolute stupidity of the way that this has
been released. It's just like, oh my god, could you
have been worse? All Right, that's enough of that for now,
(12:09):
but I thought it was important to just to at
least explain where that video came from. Strange world. We've
got Jay who's been waiting patiently on the line as
we hop back into the Christmas spirit. This is just
like a holiday party, right where like you're there to
celebrate the holidays, and then your annoying uncle me just
starts talking about politics and you won't shut up. We've
(12:32):
got Jay on the phone here though, to talk about
something that he got as a kid. What was your
Red Rider BB gun equivalent when you were growing up?
Speaker 7 (12:41):
Hi?
Speaker 8 (12:41):
Andy?
Speaker 6 (12:42):
Hi?
Speaker 9 (12:42):
Mark?
Speaker 2 (12:43):
Uh?
Speaker 8 (12:43):
For me, it was this toy called the Claw and
I think it was made by a company called Tycho.
And it was like a battery operated toy. It's like
a four x four off road vehicle. It was small.
It wasn't like something you get in. It was like
a small one and it would like rock climb moviels
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would open up that these claws would come out. It
could climb over almost anything, which was really cool.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
I think i'm looking at it. Could it have been
made by Kenner?
Speaker 8 (13:13):
Perhaps, Yes, it's possible, but I want to say it
was Tycho or it wasn't Tyson. It was like a
te y something company.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Yeah, Tycho definitely made a lot of the cool truck
toys when we were kids, for sure, So I think
that that's a totally valid thought. I'm gonna say if
I can pull up commercial here from nineteen ninety one
the Claw RC truck commercial. Yeah, did you end up?
Did you get it?
Speaker 8 (13:38):
Of course?
Speaker 2 (13:40):
And for was it in the early nineties, like when
Christmas Morning where you opened it up?
Speaker 8 (13:47):
No, for us, we always celebrated Christmas Eve a cultural thing. Cool,
but I mean we had gifts both Christmas Eve and
I guess the morning up. But I don't remember when
I opened it. But it was the greatest thing ever.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
You know that your early RC cars from the eighties,
I guess in the nineties had a battery life of
about like thirty five minutes, and you would charge it.
You'd charge it for like the battery charge it for
like six hours, and then you could play with it
for like thirty five minutes and then you knew real
Soon after playing you were like, Okay, it's starting to
go down, starting to get a little slower. It's not
(14:23):
as high pitched. It's it's a it's revin itself a
little bit lower every single time. Okay, I've got this
commercial for the Claw RC truck TV commercial from nineteen
ninety one. Let's listen. The claw when it gets out,
nothing gets in its way, nothing, The claw fights splitting
reaction traction. Oh, the wheel split and so it can
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then get more traction. That's so cool.
Speaker 9 (14:50):
The claw.
Speaker 10 (14:52):
Reaction traction gives the claw the power to beat the
toughest road block.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
Wow, that is a great toy.
Speaker 7 (15:06):
Hey, hey, it goes where it was over your mom's
face in bed.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Jay, thank you so much for calling. I really appreciate it.
That's a great memory. I think I remember that commercial.
Speaker 8 (15:19):
Now.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
I would not have been able to get that because
it was probably too masculine. You know, that was a
pretty butch commercial for kids. Yeah, I was. My parents
would have been like, that's a little too much. You
can get the smaller one that doesn't have the wheels,
don't split open, climb up a rock.
Speaker 11 (15:35):
Whereas I was a total tomboy and I was getting
the remote control Phantom car for my Christmas celebration.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
I love that. I heard you also had a Barbie Porsche.
Speaker 11 (15:45):
I had all the Barbie accoutrements. I had Rock and Roll, Barbie,
Loving You Barbie. I had Barbie's pink Porsche. But because
I was the youngest, I inherited my brothers and my
cousin's toys, so I got Castle Grace, don't Castle Grace,
skull he Man. I had skeletol. I had two face,
I had battle Cat, I had Sheerer, Princess of Power.
(16:08):
But the thing that sucked the most was one day
I stepped on battle Cat and one of his spikes
went into my foot. I had to get a tennis
injection because of battle Cat, one of many tennis injections.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
Oh my god, that's so funny. That is a great story.
This goes back to what I was saying, where like
we were just injured a lot as kids, it just
was a lot more dangerous. Everything was metal.
Speaker 11 (16:31):
If there was a rusty nail, I was finding it
and either running into it or stepping on it.
Speaker 7 (16:37):
Later on, I have the most dangerous Christmas toy of
all time, and I had one of these.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
Did you really? I'll tell you about it after the break.
All right, well there, that's very good. We've got another
call we'll talk to after we come back from the break,
and I'm going to try to see you can't I
got I looked it up. There's no claw. RC's for
sale on eBay, So for now we'll just have to
deal with I can.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
Remember when I had it. I'm a pleasant day. You're
listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
How many hours before Christmas? I don't know. Twenty four
plus for twenty eight? No, thirty forty eight plus fifty
A man, it's soon, and ask for a calculator for Christmas.
I don't know if it would help me. I don't
even know what I need to subtract. Right, it's twenty four,
(17:37):
it's forty eight hours away. The answer is several plus four.
I don't know, man, I'm just doing my bed. I'm
just hanging out, you know, doing the thing. This is
what I was going to play before we went to break.
One of my favorite sounds of all time is Skeletory
just having the time of his life. He had a
very good day, all right. Sorry. Alan Oppenheimer was the
(18:14):
original voice of Skeletor and he man and mastered The Universe, which,
as you might know, was a TV show because of
the toy.
Speaker 11 (18:23):
Best TV Show, Great show, Best Toys, Fun Toys. My
castle had a trap door by the way, Oh really,
it was so cool.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
Did you did you drop Skeletor down that trap door?
Speaker 11 (18:36):
Everyone got dropped down that trap door was so cool.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
That's awesome.
Speaker 7 (18:39):
I kind of see Nikki siding with skeletor I love skeleton.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
It's a great laugh. So good. On the line, we've
got Alex who's calling to talk about what toy he
remembers the most from being a kid or her It
could be her, Alex, are you with us?
Speaker 9 (19:01):
So it's an ambiguous name.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
Yes, it's a boy though. All right, well that's fine,
we would take either.
Speaker 9 (19:06):
I identify as a male.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Thank you for your pronouns. Yes, So what toy did? Yeah? Right,
So what toy do you remember from being a kid.
Speaker 9 (19:17):
It wasn't a.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
Toy, ok.
Speaker 9 (19:19):
I was about seventeen years old and got into skiing
and snowboarding, well skiing at that age, and went looking
for a specific jacket and we found it at a
place that was about twenty five to thirty minutes when
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the speed limit was fifty five. It about twenty five
to thirty minutes from the house. Went. We found it
at this little shop down near Ocean Beach in San Diego,
and I'm like, yes and fit. It was perfectly, it
was perfectly fluorescent everything, and my mom my mom said, well,
(20:06):
let's let's make sure that's the one you want, and
had had them put it on hold and uh, and
then we went and looked and I said no to everything.
I'm like, oh, that other one. And we got home
and then she said, well, go down and pick it up,
and I drove back in seventeen years old driving thirty
(20:27):
minutes is a huge deal. Oh yeah, and yeah for sure.
And they didn't have it. Oh non, no, they didn't
hold it. And I came home. Oh man, I'm like, mom,
they don't have it, and she's like, no, they have
to have it because we talked to the guy and
he was going to hold it for you. Go back
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down there, ride back down there.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
Another sent me back and uh.
Speaker 9 (20:58):
Drove back down. It has to be here. We spoke
to whoever it was, Todd, Frank, Bill, Joanne, whoever.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
Yeah, and.
Speaker 9 (21:09):
Yep, and they didn't have it. I came home and
she's like, oh, we should go shopping for another jacket.
And we went shopping and then we got to where
we were celebrating Christmas and she's like, just I couldn't
find what I liked. Sent me shopping again with my cousins.
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Let's find something. She told them, don't buy anything, and
sure enough, man, it was under the Christmas tree. Open
that packet. I opened it and I was blown away,
and ever since I've tried to make Christmas magic happen
for anybody i'm buying presents for.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
That is a classic. Yes, that reminds me of a
Christmas story, the fake out where you think you're not
going to get it and then you know, Ralphie goes
and looks behind the desk and there's the red Rider
baby gun. And my dad did a similar thing to
me with a guitar. Got a guitar, first guitar, and
he you know, I opened all the small gifts and stuff,
and I was like, I knew any I know wanted
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a guitar. Nothing was a guitar shaped under the tree.
And I, you know, you don't want to say anything.
As a kid, you don'tant to be rude. You want
to be like, hey, where's my gift? Or at least
I didn't. I think some kids would. But then and
then he after after we'd opened everything, he's like, aren't
you missing something? And I was like, I don't know,
I kind of wanted a guitar maybe. Then he went
and you know, brought it up from the back of Yver,
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like there was a big box of the guitar and
so yeah, that is a good kind of Christmas magic
that like as a kid, it's a little torturous, but
it also is so wonderful. Yeah that's great, that's great. Wow,
that's a good story. And yeah, well I'll tell you what, Alex,
thank you so much for Colin. We saved you. There,
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I hit the dump. You're good. I got it, fush
I always. So we have this thing, Alex where if
you say a word and it will get in trouble,
if you say it, I can push this button called
dump and then it jumps ahead by like ten seconds,
so it's like you never even said it. And I
just like, I'd like wait for that moment where I
get to push that button and I feel so cool.
(23:19):
There's cough buttons too. There's a cough button and there's
a dump button. That's a lot of power for one man.
Speaker 11 (23:26):
I used to do the dump button Dancing with the
Stars and the Academy ale Oh yeah, seven seconds American
Musical Wars.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
It was fun. It's fun, especially when post Malone was there.
Oh yeah bad. Hey, So Alex, if you're still there's
what's the plan for the holidays this year?
Speaker 12 (23:44):
Same thing?
Speaker 9 (23:46):
Unfortunately, a couple of years ago. Our mom died back
in two thousand and two, two thousand and three, and
then our dad passed away a couple of years ago,
and the three siblings, one of them moved a little bit,
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moved a little bit away, and so we're all kind
of a little bit separated. But also the kids are
getting older and they had their responsibilities with jobs and stuff.
So it's it's how things kind of change over time.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
I hear you. I hate that, but I totally get it.
I'll be here missing my family, and you know, as
I've told other people, my dad died four years ago,
five years ago, and you know, I tried to get
back as much as possible, but it really it's tough
when you can't around the holidays, for sure, So I
feel you, but I'm glad that you're keeping everything.
Speaker 9 (24:41):
We got together for Thanksgiving, well for Thanksgiving, so that
was good. Yeah, a big deal.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
Everybody's doing their.
Speaker 9 (24:46):
Best, and but you know, the piles under the tree
are smaller. It went from a twenty two pound turkey
to an eighteen pound turkey. Yeah yeah, but you know what,
you still had leftovers.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
Yeah, there you go, and you're keeping the memory alive
for sure, and we so appreciate you sharing that with
us this evening on KFI Alex call any time you like.
We always got that dump buddy dump button. Ready, We'll
see us see all right, Mam six forty. I'm Andy
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Speaker 1 (25:17):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
If you remember a gift from when you were a kid,
something you really liked, something you couldn't wait to get
that kind of joy, that kind of excitement and anticipation.
People pay a lot of money to alter their brain
chemistry with various extracurriculars to feel that kind of way. Nowadays,
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if you can't get a prescribed by a doctor, let's
just say that much. And remember the situation that was
happening up in San Francisco over the weekend Saturday. A
fire at a substation in the Mission District of San
Francisco knocked out power for one hundred and thirty thousand
people in the Bay Area. A buddy of mine who
(26:05):
you've heard on this show named James Reddick, who lives
in an area called Outer Richmond. I don't know is
it the Outer Richmond or the Inner Richmond or is
it just Outer Richmond. I'm not sure. I'm sorry. I
apologize to all the Bay Area listeners that we have.
I believe there's like three or four million of them,
So I'm I hope that I haven't offended you to
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the point of no return. And I wonder if it's
like saying the PCH, you know, because if somebody says
the PCH in southern California on the news and they're
a news person, You're like, what the hell is it?
This guy? Who's he think he is?
Speaker 1 (26:42):
He is not from here.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
So anyway, James was one of those people whose power
went out Saturday and it stayed out all the way
until today. Now, for us adults, we deal. However, James
and his wife have a brand new baby girl. Situation
was at least of interest enough to KRON, which is
(27:05):
the u KTLA affiliate up in San Francisco, that they
did a little story with them. Here's the news report
from just a little bit earlier.
Speaker 13 (27:14):
Any Outer Richmond, the Reddick family.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
The Outer Richmond, We got our answer right there.
Speaker 13 (27:19):
Any Outer Richmond, the Reddick family is hoping for a
brighter Christmas, especially since it's the first time for three
month old baby Eloise.
Speaker 12 (27:28):
We'd been stockpiling breast milk for the first three months
we've had this baby for when my wife has to
go back to work, and all of it's ruined. So
we basically have this massive supply, Like we tried to
calculate what even would be the value of it if
we had to replace it with formula, and it's like
thousands of dollars worth.
Speaker 13 (27:44):
Their power has been now since Saturday morning, before the
Mission Street substation fire that put more than one hundred
and thirty thousand San Francisco customers in the dark.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
They've been managing, but.
Speaker 13 (27:55):
Are frustrated with how slow the restoration process has been
and the whip law from this seemingly ever changing deadlines.
Speaker 12 (28:02):
The phone calls I get every three hours where they're like, oh,
it's got two pm or eight pm or oh, ten pm,
Like you kind of are living in this like purgatory
where you're led to believe it's.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
Going to be any minute now. So I was texting
him when this started happening, because you know, we're buds,
we've known each other since probably middle school, and he
was telling me that they had to go to like
a rec center in order to charge their phones, because
they didn't their phones were running out of battery.
Speaker 12 (28:30):
And it affects how what you do that day, or
like you know, whether or not you go get a
hotel room, or whether or not you go stay with family.
Speaker 13 (28:36):
On Monday, Pgenie held their first on camera news conference
since the outage began.
Speaker 10 (28:41):
We want to acknowledge that many customers received astromatic times
and restoration.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
Also, James is so chill in this interview. I would
be so mad if my baby didn't have food. Well,
I guess the baby has food because mom's there, But
if the baby didn't have frozen food or all my
breast milk was going bad. Thousands of dollars a formula
to be replaced, and they didn't do a press conference
(29:07):
on camera for two days. What's going on up there?
Speaker 13 (29:11):
On Monday, Pgenie held their first on camera news conference
since the outage began.
Speaker 10 (29:16):
We want to acknowledge that many customers received estimated times
and restoration that proved to be inaccurate. We understand how
frustrating and confusing this was.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
Anytime someone who's an elected official says something like this, we.
Speaker 10 (29:32):
Understand how frustrating and confusing.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
This was Does it ever make you feel any better? Ronert?
Does that put you at ease? Nothing puts me at ease. Andy,
That's right.
Speaker 10 (29:43):
This was We own that and we're committed to ensuring
that we're doing right by them and we're leaving no
customer behind.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
There's still, by the way, a few thousand people without
power at San Francisco. Just FYI.
Speaker 13 (29:56):
In addition to the local rec cents, they're acting as
a resource.
Speaker 9 (29:59):
Huh.
Speaker 13 (30:00):
The utility company will soon open up funds for expedited
claims for residents who lost power to be reimbursed.
Speaker 10 (30:07):
We're committing to an expedited process. We're working through those
details at the very moment, and we're going to be
reaching out to those impacted customers very soon.
Speaker 13 (30:16):
But Monday afternoon, they're reddicks. Got in early Christmas gift.
Finally their power is back on and here's hoping many
residents follow suit.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
It was on camera at the end of the interview.
James is sitting there. This reporter, Stephanie asks her name
is Stephanie Rothman, an MMJ. She does all the shooting
in the editing and everything she asked, is anything else
you want to add? He says, no, I don't think so.
And when he said that, the lights of the Christmas
tree came on behind him and it was a Christmas miracle, magicalction.
(30:49):
Isn't that beautiful? Coming up in the next hour, it's
Massa time in southern California. Thousands flocked to Downey for
the annual Massa pilgrimage. We had a reporter there this
morning from KTLA. I'll play a little bit of the
sound there also, as we continue to talk about Christmas
gifts and childhood memories, you can give us a call.
(31:10):
We've got a call from Joy who's on the line
from coast to Mesa. Who will get to on the
other side of the break. You can always call one
hundred five to zero one five three four. That's one
hundred five two zero one KFI. And we'll talk about
the eras of toys, the big viral toys before we
had viral content, back when in the nineties, when we
(31:32):
had viral content, it was like Ebola. I'm talking Bratz Dolls, Tamagotchi, Ferby,
Tickle Me Elmo, and more. To walk down memory lane
for this next hour here on KFI AM six forty
I'm Andy Reesmeyer. We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app,
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
I'll be with you all the way till ten pm tonight.
Whether you like it or not. We are reliving some
of our favorite memories of Christmas. You can give us
a call one one hundred five to zero one five
three four. Tell us what your favorite gift that you
got as a kid that you just loved the most.
Your Red Rider BB gun. That's twenty on hundred five
to zero one KFI. By the way, we're still following
(00:25):
this storm that is set to come into the area
a little bit later than originally anticipated. I think we
had originally anticipated early Tuesday, and now it looks like
late Tuesday. In the first round of storms here for
southern California, LA Fire Department issued evacuation warnings for neighborhoods
near the Sunset Fire that's the area south of Runyon
(00:45):
Canyon and the Palisades Fire area near Pacific Palisades Mandeville Canyon,
as well mudflow urban flooding likely with mud and debris flow,
and the threat would not just be confined to those
burn areas, so something to be aware of. Also, I
cannot get over the weirdest part of this very weird, complicated, uncomfortable, sad,
(01:11):
terrible story. Convoluted doesn't even begin to scratch the surface.
Would you say, mister Ronner, which story are you talking?
I'm talking about the Epstein documents as a concept as
a whole. Yeah, convoluted is a good start. It's just
so complicated. It goes every single day, something new, weird
thing happens. Here's the latest from Katla Samantha Cortese about
(01:34):
the reaction to files that were deleted and then re
added over the weekend.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Allow from the Jeffrey Epstein case continues, even after the
Justice Department released thousands more pages of documents this Friday.
Much of it was heavily redacted, and now some lawmakers
are calling out the Justice Department, threatening legal action.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
It's clear that there's some type of cover up.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Many in Congress, including California Representative Robert Garcia, say they
are fed up with how the Trump administration is handling
the Epstein investigation.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Robert Garcia, former mayor of Lung Beach.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Friday, the DOJ released thousands of files, court records, photographs,
and call logs, but hundreds of pages were black fully redacted.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
The law is clear, they have to actually put out
all of the Epstein files, and the only redactions that
should exist are direct protection of survivors or victims. That
is not what appears to be happening right now.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Some lawmakers from both sides of the aisles say they
plan to hold Attorney General Pam Bondi in contempt of
Congress for not upholding that law, the Epstein Files Transparency Act,
which Congress passed and the President signed earlier this year.
Speaker 5 (02:42):
The quickest way, and I think most expeditious way to
get justice for these victims, is to bring inherent contempt
against Pam Bondy, and that doesn't require going through the courts.
And we're building a bipartisan coalition and it would find
Pam Bondy for every day that she's not releasing these documents.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche rejected accusations the administration is
trying to hide information, addressing concerns after photos initially released
showing then civilian Donald Trump were removed from the released files.
Speaker 6 (03:15):
He has said that in the nineties and early two thousands,
he socialized with him. So the absurdity of us pulling
down a photo, a single photo because President Trump was
in it is laughable. And the fact that everybody's trying
to act like that's the case is a reflection of
their true motivation.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
When I said this yesterday with a complicated conversation that
comes out of this statement, which is we remove this
picture with current President Trump because we're worried about they're
being victims in the photo. Is not hard to then
assume that maybe is that to say that President Trump
is their standing with victims, with Epstein victims.
Speaker 7 (03:54):
Well, also, we know that Todd blanche was President Trump's
former personal attorney, but he would have to ask the question,
how is he not recused from this issue?
Speaker 2 (04:03):
That's a great it's a great question. Well, the other
thing I want to talk about, which is very strange,
is that today a video came out that a bunch
of journalists that Occasey were sending to each other like
did you see this? This is super weird. It's a
twelve second video that was posted on Justice dot gov.
It had a Justice dot govurl. It was alongside other
(04:27):
files released by the agency, appeared to show Jeffrey Epstein
in his cell during the final hours of his life.
It shows a twelve second long graphic video what seems
to be Jeffrey Epstein sitting on the floor of a
cell in a very wide angle shot. You see it's
(04:49):
kind of blurry, but a figure sitting next to a bed,
maybe attempting to harm himself. It is timestamped or August tenth,
twenty nineteen, at four to twenty nine am. It looks
like it is Epstein in his cell at the Metropolitan
(05:11):
Correctional Center in New York six thirty am that same day.
In real life, we discovered and we the Royal Wee
people discovered. The Bureau of Prisons in New York discovered
that Epstein was dead in his cell that same day.
Now the video has been removed because it's fake. The
(05:37):
video appeared to show, according to People dot Com, the
man trying to hang himself, but it did not depict
the manner in which Epstein was later found as specified
by the Bureau of Prisons report. According to the report,
no camera was recording video inside his cell on the
night of his death. There was no camera in the
facility that had a clear view of Epstein. Epstein on
(06:00):
the night of his death, recorded video evidence was only
available from one prison security camera. Due to a malfunction
that camera did not look inside his cell the lights on.
The lights rather are on in his cell in the video,
which a standard practice for inmates on suicide Watch. However,
(06:22):
on the night in question, he was no longer on
Suicide Watch. He was removed from Suicide Watch twenty days
earlier after he had attempted to commit suicide the night
of July twenty third.
Speaker 7 (06:37):
Well, people, including Epstein's own brother Mark Epstein, insist that
Epstein Jeffrey was not suicidal.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Right now, the video is so strange, among some other inconsistencies,
that the door is not correct, it doesn't match the
door in the images that we see in the actual report.
Really by the bop, the video might be animation, it
(07:04):
might be AI. The what is it is is a
huge question mark. Why did the Justice Department have it?
Why did they upload it?
Speaker 8 (07:20):
Like?
Speaker 2 (07:20):
What is going on there? Like I'm baffled, I cannot
even comprehend, Like what on earth? Wild? Just the weirdest thing.
And then the thing that is so different about this
time compared to maybe ten months ago, even forget years ago,
(07:43):
is that before the AI video stuff got so good,
it was really hard to I mean, you required some
effort to fake a video, and now it requires the
most minimum prompt up prompt. The AI already has contextual
(08:05):
understanding of what things look like. There's a video that
I just saw on Instagram, was just sent to me,
and it appears to show the moment when a car
accident happened earlier today or yesterday rather which took the
life of the video game developer Ben sam Pella. Right
(08:29):
and and it and I'm not sure that it's real.
I don't know. It's a weird world that we live in.
And that's enough hard news for right now, except for
what We're going to have Mark ron Er do a
couple of hard news things, but then we're going to
get back to our fun holiday stuff. I just like it.
(08:50):
I cannot even put together in my head what happened
today with this video because it's so strange. Do you
think I'm am I am I off on that.
Speaker 7 (09:03):
I actually haven't seen it, but there are a lot
of questions that still need to be answered around that circumstance.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
So weird. It's all so weird, just like I for
another time.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
All right, so I do have a little bit of
an update from what I was just talking about in
the last segment. This sort of fake video, well, it
is a fake video. We know it's a fake video,
but it appeared on the DJ website. It appeared to
show Jeffrey Epstein attempting to commit suicide in the hours
leading up to when he was indeed found dead at
a prison in New York. Now, because the Internet works
(09:48):
over time trying to figure out what's going on, that
video was deemed fake and it was removed from the website.
But because everybody remembers everything and there's a record of everything,
Twitter has found the regional video, which is indeed a
rendered computer graphic. I wouldn't call it art, but it's
(10:11):
made by a person in a program called Blender, and
it basically is just a recreation of what they would
have assumed the moment Jeffrey Epstein allegedly took his life
would look like. It is public. It was uploaded October first,
(10:32):
twenty twenty by the definitely real name Chad Chaddington on YouTube,
and there's the video how it ended up in the
hands of the DOJ, how it ended up being uploaded
into the files. I'm speechless. Another user on x discovered
(11:04):
that in some of the documents released that are redacted,
if you highlight them and copy the words into another
and this isn't all of them, is some of them,
copy the words into another word processor, Essentially, you can
see what the reaction was supposed to be. I've been
(11:24):
seeing that unreal, some true pros. You got to think, like,
no matter what your pov on this is, which like
you should be horrified, quite frankly by Jeffrey Epstein. I
hope that there's not people who are defending him, but
as far as that how, it's political football. Whatever your
(11:47):
opinion on this, whether you think, oh it makes Bill
Clinton look bad, it makes Donald Trump look back, whatever,
it is so hard not to just be in awe
of the absolute stupidity of the way that this has
been released. It's just like, oh my god, could you
have been worse? All Right, that's enough of that for now,
(12:09):
but I thought it was important to just to at
least explain where that video came from. Strange world. We've
got Jay who's been waiting patiently on the line as
we hop back into the Christmas spirit. This is just
like a holiday party, right where like you're there to
celebrate the holidays, and then your annoying uncle me just
starts talking about politics and you won't shut up. We've
(12:32):
got Jay on the phone here though, to talk about
something that he got as a kid. What was your
Red Rider BB gun equivalent when you were growing up?
Speaker 7 (12:41):
Hi?
Speaker 8 (12:41):
Andy?
Speaker 6 (12:42):
Hi?
Speaker 9 (12:42):
Mark?
Speaker 2 (12:43):
Uh?
Speaker 8 (12:43):
For me, it was this toy called the Claw and
I think it was made by a company called Tycho.
And it was like a battery operated toy. It's like
a four x four off road vehicle. It was small.
It wasn't like something you get in. It was like
a small one and it would like rock climb moviels
(13:04):
would open up that these claws would come out. It
could climb over almost anything, which was really cool.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
I think i'm looking at it. Could it have been
made by Kenner?
Speaker 8 (13:13):
Perhaps, Yes, it's possible, but I want to say it
was Tycho or it wasn't Tyson. It was like a
te y something company.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Yeah, Tycho definitely made a lot of the cool truck
toys when we were kids, for sure, So I think
that that's a totally valid thought. I'm gonna say if
I can pull up commercial here from nineteen ninety one
the Claw RC truck commercial. Yeah, did you end up?
Did you get it?
Speaker 8 (13:38):
Of course?
Speaker 2 (13:40):
And for was it in the early nineties, like when
Christmas Morning where you opened it up?
Speaker 8 (13:47):
No, for us, we always celebrated Christmas Eve a cultural thing. Cool,
but I mean we had gifts both Christmas Eve and
I guess the morning up. But I don't remember when
I opened it. But it was the greatest thing ever.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
You know that your early RC cars from the eighties,
I guess in the nineties had a battery life of
about like thirty five minutes, and you would charge it.
You'd charge it for like the battery charge it for
like six hours, and then you could play with it
for like thirty five minutes and then you knew real
Soon after playing you were like, Okay, it's starting to
go down, starting to get a little slower. It's not
(14:23):
as high pitched. It's it's a it's revin itself a
little bit lower every single time. Okay, I've got this
commercial for the Claw RC truck TV commercial from nineteen
ninety one. Let's listen. The claw when it gets out,
nothing gets in its way, nothing, The claw fights splitting
reaction traction. Oh, the wheel split and so it can
(14:46):
then get more traction. That's so cool.
Speaker 9 (14:50):
The claw.
Speaker 10 (14:52):
Reaction traction gives the claw the power to beat the
toughest road block.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
Wow, that is a great toy.
Speaker 7 (15:06):
Hey, hey, it goes where it was over your mom's
face in bed.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Jay, thank you so much for calling. I really appreciate it.
That's a great memory. I think I remember that commercial.
Speaker 8 (15:19):
Now.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
I would not have been able to get that because
it was probably too masculine. You know, that was a
pretty butch commercial for kids. Yeah, I was. My parents
would have been like, that's a little too much. You
can get the smaller one that doesn't have the wheels,
don't split open, climb up a rock.
Speaker 11 (15:35):
Whereas I was a total tomboy and I was getting
the remote control Phantom car for my Christmas celebration.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
I love that. I heard you also had a Barbie Porsche.
Speaker 11 (15:45):
I had all the Barbie accoutrements. I had Rock and Roll, Barbie,
Loving You Barbie. I had Barbie's pink Porsche. But because
I was the youngest, I inherited my brothers and my
cousin's toys, so I got Castle Grace, don't Castle Grace,
skull he Man. I had skeletol. I had two face,
I had battle Cat, I had Sheerer, Princess of Power.
(16:08):
But the thing that sucked the most was one day
I stepped on battle Cat and one of his spikes
went into my foot. I had to get a tennis
injection because of battle Cat, one of many tennis injections.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
Oh my god, that's so funny. That is a great story.
This goes back to what I was saying, where like
we were just injured a lot as kids, it just
was a lot more dangerous. Everything was metal.
Speaker 11 (16:31):
If there was a rusty nail, I was finding it
and either running into it or stepping on it.
Speaker 7 (16:37):
Later on, I have the most dangerous Christmas toy of
all time, and I had one of these.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
Did you really? I'll tell you about it after the break.
All right, well there, that's very good. We've got another
call we'll talk to after we come back from the break,
and I'm going to try to see you can't I
got I looked it up. There's no claw. RC's for
sale on eBay, So for now we'll just have to
deal with I can.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
Remember when I had it. I'm a pleasant day. You're
listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
How many hours before Christmas? I don't know. Twenty four
plus for twenty eight? No, thirty forty eight plus fifty
A man, it's soon, and ask for a calculator for Christmas.
I don't know if it would help me. I don't
even know what I need to subtract. Right, it's twenty four,
(17:37):
it's forty eight hours away. The answer is several plus four.
I don't know, man, I'm just doing my bed. I'm
just hanging out, you know, doing the thing. This is
what I was going to play before we went to break.
One of my favorite sounds of all time is Skeletory
just having the time of his life. He had a
very good day, all right. Sorry. Alan Oppenheimer was the
(18:14):
original voice of Skeletor and he man and mastered The Universe, which,
as you might know, was a TV show because of
the toy.
Speaker 11 (18:23):
Best TV Show, Great show, Best Toys, Fun Toys. My
castle had a trap door by the way, Oh really,
it was so cool.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
Did you did you drop Skeletor down that trap door?
Speaker 11 (18:36):
Everyone got dropped down that trap door was so cool.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
That's awesome.
Speaker 7 (18:39):
I kind of see Nikki siding with skeletor I love skeleton.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
It's a great laugh. So good. On the line, we've
got Alex who's calling to talk about what toy he
remembers the most from being a kid or her It
could be her, Alex, are you with us?
Speaker 9 (19:01):
So it's an ambiguous name.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
Yes, it's a boy though. All right, well that's fine,
we would take either.
Speaker 9 (19:06):
I identify as a male.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Thank you for your pronouns. Yes, So what toy did? Yeah? Right,
So what toy do you remember from being a kid.
Speaker 9 (19:17):
It wasn't a.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
Toy, ok.
Speaker 9 (19:19):
I was about seventeen years old and got into skiing
and snowboarding, well skiing at that age, and went looking
for a specific jacket and we found it at a
place that was about twenty five to thirty minutes when
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the speed limit was fifty five. It about twenty five
to thirty minutes from the house. Went. We found it
at this little shop down near Ocean Beach in San Diego,
and I'm like, yes and fit. It was perfectly, it
was perfectly fluorescent everything, and my mom my mom said, well,
(20:06):
let's let's make sure that's the one you want, and
had had them put it on hold and uh, and
then we went and looked and I said no to everything.
I'm like, oh, that other one. And we got home
and then she said, well, go down and pick it up,
and I drove back in seventeen years old driving thirty
(20:27):
minutes is a huge deal. Oh yeah, and yeah for sure.
And they didn't have it. Oh non, no, they didn't
hold it. And I came home. Oh man, I'm like, mom,
they don't have it, and she's like, no, they have
to have it because we talked to the guy and
he was going to hold it for you. Go back
(20:49):
down there, ride back down there.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
Another sent me back and uh.
Speaker 9 (20:58):
Drove back down. It has to be here. We spoke
to whoever it was, Todd, Frank, Bill, Joanne, whoever.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
Yeah, and.
Speaker 9 (21:09):
Yep, and they didn't have it. I came home and
she's like, oh, we should go shopping for another jacket.
And we went shopping and then we got to where
we were celebrating Christmas and she's like, just I couldn't
find what I liked. Sent me shopping again with my cousins.
(21:31):
Let's find something. She told them, don't buy anything, and
sure enough, man, it was under the Christmas tree. Open
that packet. I opened it and I was blown away,
and ever since I've tried to make Christmas magic happen
for anybody i'm buying presents for.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
That is a classic. Yes, that reminds me of a
Christmas story, the fake out where you think you're not
going to get it and then you know, Ralphie goes
and looks behind the desk and there's the red Rider
baby gun. And my dad did a similar thing to
me with a guitar. Got a guitar, first guitar, and
he you know, I opened all the small gifts and stuff,
and I was like, I knew any I know wanted
(22:14):
a guitar. Nothing was a guitar shaped under the tree.
And I, you know, you don't want to say anything.
As a kid, you don'tant to be rude. You want
to be like, hey, where's my gift? Or at least
I didn't. I think some kids would. But then and
then he after after we'd opened everything, he's like, aren't
you missing something? And I was like, I don't know,
I kind of wanted a guitar maybe. Then he went
and you know, brought it up from the back of Yver,
(22:34):
like there was a big box of the guitar and
so yeah, that is a good kind of Christmas magic
that like as a kid, it's a little torturous, but
it also is so wonderful. Yeah that's great, that's great. Wow,
that's a good story. And yeah, well I'll tell you what, Alex,
thank you so much for Colin. We saved you. There,
(22:56):
I hit the dump. You're good. I got it, fush
I always. So we have this thing, Alex where if
you say a word and it will get in trouble,
if you say it, I can push this button called
dump and then it jumps ahead by like ten seconds,
so it's like you never even said it. And I
just like, I'd like wait for that moment where I
get to push that button and I feel so cool.
(23:19):
There's cough buttons too. There's a cough button and there's
a dump button. That's a lot of power for one man.
Speaker 11 (23:26):
I used to do the dump button Dancing with the
Stars and the Academy ale Oh yeah, seven seconds American
Musical Wars.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
It was fun. It's fun, especially when post Malone was there.
Oh yeah bad. Hey, So Alex, if you're still there's
what's the plan for the holidays this year?
Speaker 12 (23:44):
Same thing?
Speaker 9 (23:46):
Unfortunately, a couple of years ago. Our mom died back
in two thousand and two, two thousand and three, and
then our dad passed away a couple of years ago,
and the three siblings, one of them moved a little bit,
(24:07):
moved a little bit away, and so we're all kind
of a little bit separated. But also the kids are
getting older and they had their responsibilities with jobs and stuff.
So it's it's how things kind of change over time.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
I hear you. I hate that, but I totally get it.
I'll be here missing my family, and you know, as
I've told other people, my dad died four years ago,
five years ago, and you know, I tried to get
back as much as possible, but it really it's tough
when you can't around the holidays, for sure, So I
feel you, but I'm glad that you're keeping everything.
Speaker 9 (24:41):
We got together for Thanksgiving, well for Thanksgiving, so that
was good. Yeah, a big deal.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
Everybody's doing their.
Speaker 9 (24:46):
Best, and but you know, the piles under the tree
are smaller. It went from a twenty two pound turkey
to an eighteen pound turkey. Yeah yeah, but you know what,
you still had leftovers.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
Yeah, there you go, and you're keeping the memory alive
for sure, and we so appreciate you sharing that with
us this evening on KFI Alex call any time you like.
We always got that dump buddy dump button. Ready, We'll
see us see all right, Mam six forty. I'm Andy
Reesemaer were live everywhere in the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
If you remember a gift from when you were a kid,
something you really liked, something you couldn't wait to get
that kind of joy, that kind of excitement and anticipation.
People pay a lot of money to alter their brain
chemistry with various extracurriculars to feel that kind of way. Nowadays,
(25:43):
if you can't get a prescribed by a doctor, let's
just say that much. And remember the situation that was
happening up in San Francisco over the weekend Saturday. A
fire at a substation in the Mission District of San
Francisco knocked out power for one hundred and thirty thousand
people in the Bay Area. A buddy of mine who
(26:05):
you've heard on this show named James Reddick, who lives
in an area called Outer Richmond. I don't know is
it the Outer Richmond or the Inner Richmond or is
it just Outer Richmond. I'm not sure. I'm sorry. I
apologize to all the Bay Area listeners that we have.
I believe there's like three or four million of them,
So I'm I hope that I haven't offended you to
(26:26):
the point of no return. And I wonder if it's
like saying the PCH, you know, because if somebody says
the PCH in southern California on the news and they're
a news person, You're like, what the hell is it?
This guy? Who's he think he is?
Speaker 1 (26:42):
He is not from here.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
So anyway, James was one of those people whose power
went out Saturday and it stayed out all the way
until today. Now, for us adults, we deal. However, James
and his wife have a brand new baby girl. Situation
was at least of interest enough to KRON, which is
(27:05):
the u KTLA affiliate up in San Francisco, that they
did a little story with them. Here's the news report
from just a little bit earlier.
Speaker 13 (27:14):
Any Outer Richmond, the Reddick family.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
The Outer Richmond, We got our answer right there.
Speaker 13 (27:19):
Any Outer Richmond, the Reddick family is hoping for a
brighter Christmas, especially since it's the first time for three
month old baby Eloise.
Speaker 12 (27:28):
We'd been stockpiling breast milk for the first three months
we've had this baby for when my wife has to
go back to work, and all of it's ruined. So
we basically have this massive supply, Like we tried to
calculate what even would be the value of it if
we had to replace it with formula, and it's like
thousands of dollars worth.
Speaker 13 (27:44):
Their power has been now since Saturday morning, before the
Mission Street substation fire that put more than one hundred
and thirty thousand San Francisco customers in the dark.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
They've been managing, but.
Speaker 13 (27:55):
Are frustrated with how slow the restoration process has been
and the whip law from this seemingly ever changing deadlines.
Speaker 12 (28:02):
The phone calls I get every three hours where they're like, oh,
it's got two pm or eight pm or oh, ten pm,
Like you kind of are living in this like purgatory
where you're led to believe it's.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
Going to be any minute now. So I was texting
him when this started happening, because you know, we're buds,
we've known each other since probably middle school, and he
was telling me that they had to go to like
a rec center in order to charge their phones, because
they didn't their phones were running out of battery.
Speaker 12 (28:30):
And it affects how what you do that day, or
like you know, whether or not you go get a
hotel room, or whether or not you go stay with family.
Speaker 13 (28:36):
On Monday, Pgenie held their first on camera news conference
since the outage began.
Speaker 10 (28:41):
We want to acknowledge that many customers received astromatic times
and restoration.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
Also, James is so chill in this interview. I would
be so mad if my baby didn't have food. Well,
I guess the baby has food because mom's there, But
if the baby didn't have frozen food or all my
breast milk was going bad. Thousands of dollars a formula
to be replaced, and they didn't do a press conference
(29:07):
on camera for two days. What's going on up there?
Speaker 13 (29:11):
On Monday, Pgenie held their first on camera news conference
since the outage began.
Speaker 10 (29:16):
We want to acknowledge that many customers received estimated times
and restoration that proved to be inaccurate. We understand how
frustrating and confusing this was.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
Anytime someone who's an elected official says something like this, we.
Speaker 10 (29:32):
Understand how frustrating and confusing.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
This was Does it ever make you feel any better? Ronert?
Does that put you at ease? Nothing puts me at ease. Andy,
That's right.
Speaker 10 (29:43):
This was We own that and we're committed to ensuring
that we're doing right by them and we're leaving no
customer behind.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
There's still, by the way, a few thousand people without
power at San Francisco. Just FYI.
Speaker 13 (29:56):
In addition to the local rec cents, they're acting as
a resource.
Speaker 9 (29:59):
Huh.
Speaker 13 (30:00):
The utility company will soon open up funds for expedited
claims for residents who lost power to be reimbursed.
Speaker 10 (30:07):
We're committing to an expedited process. We're working through those
details at the very moment, and we're going to be
reaching out to those impacted customers very soon.
Speaker 13 (30:16):
But Monday afternoon, they're reddicks. Got in early Christmas gift.
Finally their power is back on and here's hoping many
residents follow suit.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
It was on camera at the end of the interview.
James is sitting there. This reporter, Stephanie asks her name
is Stephanie Rothman, an MMJ. She does all the shooting
in the editing and everything she asked, is anything else
you want to add? He says, no, I don't think so.
And when he said that, the lights of the Christmas
tree came on behind him and it was a Christmas miracle, magicalction.
(30:49):
Isn't that beautiful? Coming up in the next hour, it's
Massa time in southern California. Thousands flocked to Downey for
the annual Massa pilgrimage. We had a reporter there this
morning from KTLA. I'll play a little bit of the
sound there also, as we continue to talk about Christmas
gifts and childhood memories, you can give us a call.
(31:10):
We've got a call from Joy who's on the line
from coast to Mesa. Who will get to on the
other side of the break. You can always call one
hundred five to zero one five three four. That's one
hundred five two zero one KFI. And we'll talk about
the eras of toys, the big viral toys before we
had viral content, back when in the nineties, when we
(31:32):
had viral content, it was like Ebola. I'm talking Bratz Dolls, Tamagotchi, Ferby,
Tickle Me Elmo, and more. To walk down memory lane
for this next hour here on KFI AM six forty
I'm Andy Reesmeyer. We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app,
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