December 23, 2025 • 31 mins
Andy speaks to KTLA’s Kacey Montoya about the massive storm hitting SoCal this week over Christmas. It’s gonna be a very wet Christmas, so no texting and driving, people! It’s just a couple days before Christmas, and Andy is recalling the classic 1983 Christmas movie, creatively titled “A Christmas Story.” Andy is wondering about the gifts we loved most when we were kids. His favorite was a remote-control Mars Pathway Rover, because he was a nerd. And news anchor Mark Rahner was just as nerdy! Callers phone in to discuss their favorite Christmas gifts from when they were kids. One caller had the James Bond “From Russia with Love” replica attaché case — just like resident nerd and avid collector Rahner! Another listener recalled her beloved Riedell Roller Skates from the 1960s. Also, there’s a robot apocalypse on the way! AI is now being used to automate vending machines at the Wall Street Journal.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
I'm Andy Reesmeyer. Will be with you all the way
until ten pm. Lots coming up on the show tonight,
you do not want to miss any of it. We're
talking about your favorite Christmas presents. We're gonna have everybody
call in leave a little talk back there. Plus massa
mania in southern California. And then in a robot apocalypse update,
what happens when you put AI in a vending machine?
(00:28):
How long does it take a group of reporters at
the Wall Street Journal to break the vending machine? You
do not want to miss any of that. Plus a
school district is under fire after they put kids into
wooden boxes for time out.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
I sent it to my mom. She was like, what's
the problem here? And speaking of.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Women like that, I have a guest joining me right
now via the telephone. KTLA's meteorologist, Casey Montoya, who's going
to share some insight on this big old storm that's
heading our way. Casey, thanks for taking time out of
your busy schedule tonight. I know you're prepping.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
I agree with your mom, though, what's wrong with putting
a kid in the coffin? Come on, spoken from a
woman with no children.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. Hey.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Mark Thompson says hi, and he had to jet, but
he said also very appreciative of all of your work
with the animals. And I thought that that was nice
that people people might not know this. You do have
a soul, you do have a heart.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
I do. It's just towards you, Andy.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Three sizes too small.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
But what happens every year around Christmas is that you
hear the nice, the joys of Whoville, all the all
the people singing from down below, and then you are
are nice a big storm?
Speaker 3 (01:41):
What are we to expect?
Speaker 2 (01:42):
And I always say this because sometimes when people on
TV talk about rain in Los Angeles, we overdo it.
There's always an asterisk. What's what's the read on this one?
Are we are we to be fearful of this or
what's happening?
Speaker 4 (01:56):
I mean, look, I don't like to instill fear anyone.
I just like to tell you the possibilities of what
could happen and prepare you. I also like to give
you warnings about not texting and driving, reminding people that
a lot of us are going to be on the
roads this holiday and it is going to be wet,
and there is nothing that important that cannot wait. Especially
being a news reporter. You see how many crashes do
(02:18):
we see that? And some of them fatal and it's
because someone had the phone in their hand or something
else distracting them. So let's get that out of the
way to talk about this storm. So not a white
Christmas for a lot of us, Andy a wet Christmas.
And when you ask, you know, are we over hyping this?
You hear the term atmospheric river, right, and we all yeah,
So that is like, oh, this long, narrow plume of
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all this water vapor that just sends all this moisture
from the tropics the subtropics. But just because it has
all that water doesn't mean it's an atmospheric river. It
also has us have to have a certain amount of
wind that's driving it. So in order to be classified
as an atmospheric river, it has to have both categories
and register on this scale. And I'll geek out on
you just for a second. It's called the IVT scale,
(03:00):
and this registers on the IVT scale. And so what's
going to happen is we're going to get inundated with
all this rain from this atmospheric river, and there's two
plumes moving in. One's going to happen overnight Tuesday into Wednesday,
we get a little bit of a break, and then
the next plume of moisture moves in on Christmas Day.
And we're talking about very significant rainfall totals, like from
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Tuesday through Saturday, a coasts and valleys anywhere from you know,
three to six, four to eight inches, it just depends
on where you are. And then in those mountains and
the foothills eight to twelve inches over four or five days.
I mean, this is a lot of rain. And I
know that we all remember, you know, tragically, back in January,
the National Weather Service they issued this alert that they
(03:44):
called a particularly dangerous situation and they put out a
graphic with this purple outline and said, hey guys, this
is where we think the most catastrophic winds are going
to be.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
And they were right.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
Today they put out another graphic. It's not called particularly
the dangerous situation. They just serve this area that includes
parts of Santa Barbara County, Ventura County, La County, and
it shows where we're going to have the most dangerous floods.
Rock and mud slides on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day,
so we're watching it closely. We're trying to prepare people.
But you have to understand that along with all this
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rain comes the gusty winds, which is why I explain
that atmospheric river. Yeah, we're talking about wind advisories and
high wind warnings. Thirty fifty mile an hour gusts are
going to be very widespread over a huge area of
SoCal with eighty mile an hour gusts in some of
those mountain communities. It's just going to be very windy
and wet and miserable outside. And the more saturated the
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ground gets when these gusty winds keep going, then here
there goes the increased chances of down trees and downpower lines,
and then you know that's going to ruin someone's Christmas.
Speaker 5 (04:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
I think it's a really good point.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
And I want to go back to the warnings about
Santa Barbara County Ventura County, because it reminds me of
the Thomas fire that then of course led to the
monasceed of mud slides, and those incidents were many, many
many months apart, and I guess the fear is that
you could look at a repeat situation for Malibu, the
Palisades parts of Altadena where you're talking. Yes, it's been
(05:10):
a year since the fires, but it's not like we've
had a lot of things. You know, the brush has
not had that much time to come back to recreate
stability in those hillsides, right.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
And that's what's so concerning about it. And there have
been alert issue today for Pacific Palisades and even the
area south of Runyon Canyon. Like you know, officials are
paying attention all these little pockets where they think, oh,
it is very possible when we get all this rain
all of a sudden, that we're going to have some
debris flows. And I just want people to be prepared.
So you know, if a cop comes knocking on your
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door and says, hey, we're evacuating, sorry, get the dog,
turn off the heater, and go, like listen to them,
because this is a lot of rain all at once.
Ground's already saturated. But unfortunately it just happens at a
bad time. And you know, we can't pick when Mother
Nature throws this at us. But it's going to be
on that travel day where every year we send reporters
to the airport into highways to show us how many
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people are traveling. Well, I have a feeling that not
many people are going to change their plans, and so
we're still going to see that heavy traffic on the road.
Only these conditions are going to be like nothing. We
don't see these kind of conditions here that often, so
you know it's going to be really dangerous. And I
encourage people, and I'm only doing myself a disservice by
saying this because it'll make traffic worse for me tomorrow.
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But if you can change your plans and you can
go out of town tomorrow, you know, the first part
of the day rather than Wednesday, that is a really
good idea. If you're going somewhere local, just a couple
hours away, you know, maybe think about changing your plans
just for safety.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Yeah, well said, well, thank you so much for taking
some time. I'm going to let you go. I know
you've got to put up some k rails there with
your bare hands, so I don't I don't want you
to chip and nail or anything like that. Casey Montoya
from KTLA have a wonderful night. Thank you so much.
Like she said, be aware, it looks like It's going
to be a little later as far as that storm goes,
but it still will significant. Two rounds of that coming
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overnight Tuesday night into Wednesday. That's Christmas Eve into Christmas Day,
lasting through the night of the twenty fifth.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. I'm Andy Reesemeyer
alongside the so capable, very holly, very jolly Mark Ronner. Ah,
nice stuffouj heyo, the fus Nikki, how you going?
Speaker 3 (07:29):
And that's it.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
That's the only three people other than me and the
entire building that's true. I think that's I think that's
what It is. A little bit of a lonely night
here in the iHeart headquarters, but we're feeling good. We're
gonna have a nice little show here for the rest
of the evening. Got some serious stuff to get to.
I kick it over this Epstein file, this sort of
(07:51):
new layer of the story where this video came out
that was added by the Department of Justice to the
file dump that seemed to show Jeffrey Epstein attempting suicide
in his cell. That video is fake. I have so
many questions We can get into that later. We will
(08:13):
do some news, but I want to keep it light
here as we move on into our second segment this evening,
we have opened the phones, and for good reason, because
I'm reminiscing a couple of days before Christmas about gifts,
about the Christmas of your when we were all younger,
things that we liked a lot. Maybe think of this movie.
Speaker 6 (08:37):
All right, class, I have your Christmas themes for you.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
I'm pleased in general you did very well.
Speaker 7 (08:46):
Oh this is it?
Speaker 3 (08:50):
See plus?
Speaker 7 (08:51):
Oh no it can't be clus.
Speaker 5 (08:56):
Oh no, you shoot your eye out. My mother must
have gotten the miss shields. There could be no other explanation.
Speaker 8 (09:07):
Yes, yes, of course there's no end to this conspiracy
of irrational prejudice against Red Rider and his peacemaker.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Of course, that is a clip from the nineteen eighty
three classic A Christmas Story. It's a story of nine
year old Ralphie Parker in Indiana in the nineteen forties,
and the only thing he wants in life is a
red writer be begun for Christmas. And of course his
parents say, sir, you'll shoot your eye out. His teacher says,
(09:40):
you'll shoot your eye out. Even Santa Claus Levy's the
complaint against him. Of course, at the end of the
movie spoiler alert, he does get a Daisy red writer
be begun.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
And he does fire.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
It breaks his glasses with a ricochet bullet, but he
doesn't shoot his eye out.
Speaker 7 (09:59):
Did you just oil the movie?
Speaker 2 (10:00):
I did? Sorry to forty three years Thank you, Thank
you for that. Did you not had you not seen it?
Speaker 9 (10:07):
Well, I've never sat down and watched it from beginning
to end, but it's always on, so I've seen the
whole thing, just never sequentially.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
That's such a surprise for somebody who's such a cinophile
I know.
Speaker 7 (10:17):
And it's got Darren McGavin in it too.
Speaker 6 (10:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (10:18):
Why do you hate America?
Speaker 9 (10:19):
Yeah, dude, you can't foosh come back and use my
own lines against me.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
Are you a terrorist? I've never seen it. Well, we
know about you. That's that's different.
Speaker 7 (10:28):
She's allowed. Why she doesn't hate America.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
We just got TV and Australia in two thousand and.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
Eight, that's right, So you guys, you have an excuse
for that.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
So the thing is, even though I told you that
part of the movie that is not spoiling, the movie
is not about it's not one of those like who
Done It? Movies where all of a sudden, what's going
to happen in the end? You know, most movies end well,
you know, you know, most movies end with your main
character getting what they want. That's how movies work. But
it's about the journey, it's about the vibe. It's a
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great film and you know, really reminds me a lot
of my childhood. And I was thinking about toys and
things that used to be such a big deal when
you were a kid, and it made me think, like,
what is the thing that would have been the equivalent
for me during that era, Like when I was maybe
ten or nine, ten years old? What was I super into?
(11:19):
What was my Red Rider BB gun? And I came
up with this is so nerdy. There was an RC car,
but it wasn't a car, right, a remote control, not
a vehicle, a remote control of the Mars Pathfinder rover,
the six wheeled thing that landed on Mars.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
And it was so slow.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
It didn't go fast, it went you know, and I
was like obsessed with it and I thought about it
for months. So I thought, what might be fun is
we sort of celebrate the holidays and go into Christians.
Here is if you want to give us a call
one in hundred five two zero one, five three four
one in hundred five to zero one five, three four
and five two zero one KFI. What was the favorite
(12:05):
toy that you got as a kid that you were
obsessed with? What was your Daisy red ryder, bbie gun?
Give us a call and we'll put you on the air, roner.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
Do you have any answers?
Speaker 9 (12:15):
Do you remember I'm trying to think, so we're talking
ten years old range.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
Yeah, anything that you were a kid, because there is
a point in your life, which I think is a
good thing where like toys and objects no longer have
the kind of life altering power that they do when
you're a.
Speaker 7 (12:30):
Child, right.
Speaker 9 (12:31):
I mean I was into Marvel comics and stuff like
that at the time, but the stuff that I wanted
I couldn't have because I was growing up with my
grandparents and there were the cheapest people on earth, and
so the neighbor kid would get like, you know, the
little handheld electronic football game and the players are all
just dots in three rows. Oh yeah, I would have
(12:52):
killed for one of those, oh man, And I still
kind of want one, Yeah, I mean, go.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
On eBay, there's that place up at the valley. Oh,
I have have you got a game dude yet?
Speaker 7 (13:01):
Yeah, i'd been the game dude. Game Dude is very cool. Yeah.
I bought plenty of stuff there.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
It's very neat.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
It's on Sherman Way Way up off the one seventy
and you know what, when you're there, you can hang out,
get yourself a cool old vintage video game thing, console, whatever,
you can buy the whole nine. But then also you
can get yourself some Salsa and Beer, which is a
fantastic restaurant. The original, I believe is just down the
street there in Sherman Way.
Speaker 7 (13:23):
Oh, I didn't realize it was so close.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
Incredible.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
Yeah, there's a few locations now, but salson Beer is
like one of the I mean truly one of my favorites.
There's an evening, there's an evening for sure, and this food,
the portions are so big that that's your lunch also
the next day.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
Fish.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
Do you have any memories of things like that that
you like.
Speaker 10 (13:38):
You know, for me, because I was in the nineties,
it was a micromachine, ah, and so they had this
thing it was the Van City and it was like
the one thing that it held all the cars in
one big yes van, the van.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
And it opened up and it opened up and you
could drive the little cars the micro machines around that.
Speaker 7 (13:59):
I wanted that so bad and I never got it.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
You never got it.
Speaker 7 (14:03):
Oh, I never got it.
Speaker 4 (14:04):
Push.
Speaker 9 (14:04):
I think this year we need to make this happen
for you. Maybe nothing but stories of deprivation tonight. Yeah,
this is.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Just all about like we're just going to open up
the lines to be like, hey, hey, what are the
things that we liked? Oh, it's all parents did not
that they our parents didn't think twice about, but that
have completely ruined us for the rest of our lives.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
That's so funny.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Absolutely, you know what I'm looking at this, phush, I
think I had the van City. There's one for sale
right now on eBay for ninety nine dollars. That's got
to be more money than, of course it is. It
would be retailed for back in the nineties. Nineteen ninety
one is when this would have this would have come out. Yeah,
because I don't think it's more than fifty bucks. Yeah,
(14:46):
I mean, look, it's just a bunch of plastic. But
I'll tell you what though. It's funny because I you know,
I worked for Hot Wheels for a little while, and
I did a lot of content that was to sell
hot wheels play sets and cars and track and things
like that. And I remember even being like a twenty
eight year old thirty year I think I was in
my early thirties maybe when I was working on that
project and I was thinking, I was like, oh my god,
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this is the same, Like it's a lot of the
same stuff that we had as a kid. Now there's
some tech stuff with it, but it's the same dream
of Oh, I can look at this little world and
I can escape into it, and it's just it's it's
a fun thing. Something about that I don't know. Maybe
it's maybe it's gendered. Girls like playing with dolls, Boys
like playing with the little tiny cars and little cities
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as well, so.
Speaker 7 (15:27):
Boys like guns.
Speaker 9 (15:28):
You mentioned the Red Rider gun, and it made me
think that that's not really a thing because taboos and
morey's have changed. But every kid had a whole arsenal
back in the day, and if you didn't give a
kid a gun, they'd carve one out of a bar
of soap, like a little John Dylon That's exactly right.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
We are all just little prisoners on our way to depravity,
just trying to keep it all, keep it all in,
keep the most base urges contained.
Speaker 9 (15:55):
Like every TV show had a toy gun that was
marketed for children, We don't.
Speaker 7 (16:00):
We don't see that so much these days.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
No, we don't.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
You're right, but you know what, kids are a lot
more violent and weird than they ever used to be,
So I don't know. Causation is not correlation.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
We're talking with Lomarty from Bellflower, who is uh here
to share what toy as a kid impressed and him
the most you doing?
Speaker 6 (16:25):
Hey so good to see, Hey good.
Speaker 4 (16:28):
Hey.
Speaker 6 (16:29):
Do you remember the James Bond movie from Russia with
Love of course? Do you remember the secrets briefcase they
gave him?
Speaker 7 (16:37):
I have one of those?
Speaker 3 (16:38):
Do you really?
Speaker 6 (16:40):
I was given one too. I love that thing. If
you remember, if you remember, if you didn't open it right,
a powder would shoot out. Well, it didn't come with powder,
but it came with snapcaps. Yes, if we didn't open
it up, it would bang on you. And it came
with a breakdown of sniper rifle. It shot those snaps
caps too. It came with a rubber knife. It was
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it was the greatest thing from sliced cheese. I love that.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
How old were you when this came out? It was
probably what early eighties?
Speaker 7 (17:11):
Right?
Speaker 6 (17:12):
Oh? No, that was a sixties.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
Sixties, early sixties, early sixties.
Speaker 6 (17:16):
Okay, late late late sixties, late sixties, maybe early seventies,
but lates when did well, the movie came out in
the eight in the six sixties.
Speaker 9 (17:23):
Three Oh yeah, you're right, okay, sorry, Yeah, that's Multiple
Toys put it out, and it would have been right
around the time of the movie sixty three or sixty four.
Those things go for a lot of dough now too.
So if you got one when you were a kid,
you were so lucky.
Speaker 6 (17:37):
Yeah. Oh, like I said, I love that thing to death.
I just you know, I wish I still had it,
obviously I don't, but you know, you know, but of
course nowadays, i'd like to see him even think about
trying to sell something like that. Now, well, I'm.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
Looking it up on there's none of them for sale
right now on eBay. No cases for sale from Russia
with that, But Roner, do you how much are you
guys sell yours for Oh.
Speaker 7 (18:03):
No, I'm never selling.
Speaker 9 (18:05):
And also it was so popular it caused a bunch
of knockoffs, like there was a man from Uncle out
of shake case after that. And yeah, the market for
children's toys was flooded with out of shakecases with weapons
in them.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
And were we worse then than we are now?
Speaker 6 (18:24):
I don't think so. I mean, did you ever see
the did you ever see the replica Tommy guns for
World War Two Tommy Guns? Yeah, we had a.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
Lot of fun stuff. Things were just children.
Speaker 6 (18:40):
If the left wing anti gunners would see some of these,
some of those commercials nowadays, they'd have a heart attack.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
Well let me ask you though, back to when you
got the toy. Do you remember did you get for Christmas?
Speaker 6 (18:53):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (18:54):
Do you remember opening it up?
Speaker 6 (18:57):
Yeah? Well vaguely, I mean you know that was that
was a million years ago.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
Yeah, but yeah, Well, Lamarty, thank you so much for calling.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
That's a great answer, and you've got ron Er going
to here.
Speaker 6 (19:09):
Yeah. The only thing the only thing I love better
all year, all year round, was was my my lawn darts.
But my mother took those away from me. You gave
me to me.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
You can shoot your eye out. You know, I have
those two, I have some charts. This is great.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
I can't wait.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
We're gonna have to have Mark Ronner open up a
classic toy museum.
Speaker 6 (19:27):
There you go, there you go. I feel like that
there's thank.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
You, thank you for the call of Marty. Wow, look
at that. There he goes.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
We also we have other people calling in to yo. One, five, three,
four is the number. We are going to be taking
your calls throughout the evening, maybe one call every every
segment or so, because we're of course reflecting on the
toys of the past and how much we liked getting
toys when we were kids.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
Ronert, you are.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
I'm more and more than I learned about you every
single time we do this show.
Speaker 7 (19:59):
You can im ail somebody on those charts.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
Yeah, that stuff was also you know, and I kind
of going back up what I just said, things were
so much more dangerous back then.
Speaker 7 (20:08):
They certainly were, like we didn't get hurt that bad.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
I just feel like it was we understood and respected
things more then.
Speaker 7 (20:15):
You know.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
It's like I knew that I could get my fingers
chopped off doing many things in the garage.
Speaker 9 (20:21):
I mean, maybe there was a kid or two walking
around the neighborhood with an ipatch or a peg leg
or something.
Speaker 7 (20:27):
But they teach you a lesson.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
Oh you knew, you knew peg leg Tommy.
Speaker 7 (20:31):
Everybody had one of those.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
Oh yeah, peg leg Tommy was great. I had a
friend named Tony. This is a great story and then
I'll then I'll hand it over to you here to
do the news. Tony was a really cool dude. He
was like had had the confidence of and he wasn't,
but he had the confidence of a nepo baby, you know,
which is just to say that you're born with an
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automatic sense of I got it under control. And one
time when Tony, this is in back in Indiana, when
we were probably ten or eleven, Tony was doing the chores.
We all had different chores. A lot of us boys
in the neighborhood all had to mow the lawn. That
was the chore. And I had a push mower, which
was a beast of a thing. And I would do
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all day mowing the lawn. I'd get forty bucks for it,
maybe no twenty bucks for it, for an entire day
worth of I mean we had like two acres. It
was insane. It was indentured servitude. My buddy Tony had
a riding lawn mower, such as the thing when you
have the confidence of someone named Tony. Tony would whip
that thing around. I mean it was like a cub
(21:36):
caboda or something like. It was something new that had
some juice to it. And when you gave it the beans,
it went and boil boy, it went. And he could
clean that lawn, you know, in a quarter of the
time that I could even dream of doing it.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
But one day Tony got a little too close to
the sun.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
He icarus, as they said, and he was whipping around
in that caboda, and some how he was either standing up,
he slipped. Something happened and Tony lost his big toe.
(22:15):
The irony is not lost on anyone. The man charist
himself into losing a toe because he was so confident
riding that lawnmower.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
Could he still pull the neighborhood girls? I'm sure.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
I think he was even more famous after that because
it was like, that's exactly right. And you know, Tony,
he recovered pretty well. He went on to have a
really good life. He doesn't have the best balance now, Tony,
And with a name like Tony. The fact that he's
missing a toe. I mean, that's a pretty funny thing,
especially by the time to get to college. I'm sure
the other kids never brought it up.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
No, he was a legend.
Speaker 7 (22:51):
Man.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
That guy's the coolest guy ever.
Speaker 7 (22:53):
You got to respect the riding lawnmowers.
Speaker 3 (22:55):
Tony Lemire.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
I think he stepped off of it and it was
still on, you know, and maybe it had it just
automatically went.
Speaker 7 (23:02):
I don't remember.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
I wasn't there. Obviously I would have prevented it. I
would have said, sir, watch out.
Speaker 7 (23:08):
So it was an early Jeremy renner.
Speaker 3 (23:11):
Man minor.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
Comparatively, you're listening to KFI AM sixty on demand.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
We have another caller online who's been waiting patiently. B
you are on KFI. Thanks for being here. I'm Andy Reesmeyer.
What can I do for you to this this evening?
Speaker 6 (23:32):
Hi?
Speaker 11 (23:32):
Andy?
Speaker 12 (23:33):
My Rydell roller skates were my big thing in the sixties.
Ooh yeah, yeah, the ones with the white boots and
the steel wheels.
Speaker 11 (23:44):
So it was basically one wheel was two pieces of
metal bolted together and you skaty down the street and
if you hit a rock, you stopped and we went flying.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
You went air. Those skates had wings.
Speaker 11 (24:01):
Yeah, exactly. The thing is that we lived in a
neighborhood where there were kids of all ages thoughts. Everybody
had skates and we played well Willer derry on the sidewalk.
So not only we were flying in the air because
of the rocks, but we were also whipping each other
(24:23):
into the street.
Speaker 3 (24:24):
Uh huh.
Speaker 11 (24:25):
And everybody had injuries.
Speaker 7 (24:27):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 11 (24:27):
And the only thing my father would say was letter go,
she'll learned. Well I never learned. I kept doing it,
and I had the greatest time.
Speaker 3 (24:37):
Yeah, but you survived, you know. And and it builds character.
That's what my dad.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
My dad was real favorite words ever were he was
a doctor, and whenever we would get hurt, they were
always you're fine. It builds character, uh and uh and
and now I rarely go outside, So I guess I
learned my lesson. Though What age were you when when
you got those I.
Speaker 11 (25:00):
Started out at eight and then months we had about
two or three pairs, but we started going to the
roller rink. Oh yeah, they had the rubber wheels. The
only thing is that we got kicked out quite a bit.
Speaker 7 (25:16):
What were you doing?
Speaker 11 (25:19):
We were doing the whip just like roller dirty. We
had our rules and they would say you have to
get out, so we go to the phone call my dad.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
Was this here in southern California?
Speaker 11 (25:30):
Oh yeah, yeah, in Long Beach that's.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
Wild, you know, And there's there's a lot of hills
over there, especially towards San Pedro. There's that it gets
a little bit hilly. Yeah, towards are.
Speaker 11 (25:39):
This was on the north Long Beach Lakewood area. And yeah,
well my dad would pick us up from the roller rink.
He'd get in a virus manager. So we were barred
for about a month.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
So that's great. Have you been on skates recently?
Speaker 11 (25:58):
I did about a couple of years ago, and I
went right into a chain link fence. The next time
I went to the actual roller skating rink, and I
had to have one of those little cages that they
give the little kid.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
So it sounds like you still got it, was what
that sounds like to me?
Speaker 11 (26:20):
Yeah, I'd love to, but yeah, needs don't work that
well anymore.
Speaker 3 (26:23):
Oh no, you and me both. That's that's the worst.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
And then you know, once you screw up your knee
one time, then you're always like, oh, it's going to
happen again.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
I know this is going to happen.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
Yeah, so well, thank you so much for calling b
That's a great story. I love a roller skate roller
skate story. I was in the same boat where I
tried to roller blade a little bit. That was pretty
hot in the nineties, and uh, you know, because I
was really on the edge there of the helicopter parents.
We had the roller skates, the roller blades rather, but
then we had the full body, the knee pads, the shoulder,
(26:53):
the elbow pads, the wrist guards, the helmet. We were
like fully encased in plastic foam. And I did it
a little bit, but I think it just was like
I was maybe a few years too late on it.
You know, the cool kids had moved on.
Speaker 3 (27:07):
To other things like vaping.
Speaker 7 (27:11):
I guess, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
Oh, we've got a couple more stories here to do
in this hour before things go a little crazy. Stand
by for a robot apocalypse update.
Speaker 3 (27:20):
They've come in for our jobs and they're coming for
up Emily.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
There is no escape only.
Speaker 3 (27:32):
Yes, yes, yes, I borrowed that.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
I borrow that drop that intro from the KTLA five
Live archives. Also, you can see that on do it
live at eleven am on KTLA plus. It's a show
that we do. There was Samantha Cortes, Bobby Gonzalez, and
Robert Puente and myself story today what happens if you
use AI to automate a vending machine? But Andy, you ask,
aren't vending machines already automated? Yes, but somebody has to
(27:58):
decide what to put in them, when to restock them,
how much to charge for the items. So anthropic. That's
a company that has this chatbot named Claude, which is
similar to chat GPT. They made two AI agents. One
was a clerk, one was a CEO. They managed a machine,
and they put this machine in the offices of the
(28:19):
Wall Street Journal for the paper to test how this worked.
The AI bots were supposed to communicate with staffers to
figure out what they should be selling. How long do
you think it took before things went bad? The Wall
Street Journal staffers only needed about three weeks before they
(28:39):
had to pull the plug. At first, the bot did
as it was instructed. It was turning down outrageous suggestions
from office workers, like when somebody wanted them to order
a PlayStation five for the vetting machine. It said, no,
I will not do that under any circumstances. But somehow,
after enough people talked to it, it lowered its guard.
(29:01):
After one hundred and forty messages, one reporter convinced the
vending machine to make everything free for two hours as
part of a made up economic experiment. Somebody then convinced
it that charging for anything was against company policy, and
it agreed. It started to go into debt. Eventually it
(29:23):
did start ordering things like bottles of wine, a PlayStation five,
even live fish. It was going well until that second
AI bought. The CEO stepped in and stopped all the
free stuff. Then the vendor bot came back with a
(29:43):
falsified document that showed the board, which was made up
by the bot, had suspended the CEO, and so the
ordering continued, things for free, free bottles of wine, PlayStation five.
In the end, the project was about one thousand dollars
in debt, and Thropic, the company behind this, says that
even though this was hilarious, unfortunately hilarious and a bummer. Eventually,
(30:10):
they think that this kind of tech will make a
lot of money someday, but thankfully for us, meat bags
that is not today.
Speaker 9 (30:19):
Did Isaac Asimov and all those sci fi writers in
the classic Hera ever think that the robot apocalypse was
going to be so stupid?
Speaker 2 (30:27):
Oh no, I even think about Like you even go
back forget Isaac Asimov. Not that you should, but just
forget it for the purpose of the conversation. Go back
to the to the eighties, go back to Terminator. How
bad ass was that it was? Oh yeah, but this
is this robot apocalypse is so dumb. It's like, we're
(30:47):
not going to be taken over by a T one thousand,
No machine guns, no laser vision, no Melti metal. It's
like people just giving up their ability to choose right
or wrong, make decisions on their own, giving all their
agency to a Google search engine regular or barbecue barbecue. Okay,
(31:11):
I'm Andy Respy. This is KFI AM six forty. After
the break, we're gonna take more of your calls about
your favorite Christmas toys from your childhood. You can still
give us a call one eight hundred five two zero
one five three four that's one eight hundred five to
two o one five three four one hundred five to
oh one. KFI will listen to your stories, put them
on the Radio. I'd love to hear from you on
(31:31):
this Monday evening, just two days before Christmas. This is
KFI AM six forty. We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio
Speaker 1 (31:39):
App, KFI AM six forty on demand
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
I'm Andy Reesmeyer. Will be with you all the way
until ten pm. Lots coming up on the show tonight,
you do not want to miss any of it. We're
talking about your favorite Christmas presents. We're gonna have everybody
call in leave a little talk back there. Plus massa
mania in southern California. And then in a robot apocalypse update,
what happens when you put AI in a vending machine?
(00:28):
How long does it take a group of reporters at
the Wall Street Journal to break the vending machine? You
do not want to miss any of that. Plus a
school district is under fire after they put kids into
wooden boxes for time out.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
I sent it to my mom. She was like, what's
the problem here? And speaking of.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Women like that, I have a guest joining me right
now via the telephone. KTLA's meteorologist, Casey Montoya, who's going
to share some insight on this big old storm that's
heading our way. Casey, thanks for taking time out of
your busy schedule tonight. I know you're prepping.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
I agree with your mom, though, what's wrong with putting
a kid in the coffin? Come on, spoken from a
woman with no children.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. Hey.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Mark Thompson says hi, and he had to jet, but
he said also very appreciative of all of your work
with the animals. And I thought that that was nice
that people people might not know this. You do have
a soul, you do have a heart.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
I do. It's just towards you, Andy.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Three sizes too small.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
But what happens every year around Christmas is that you
hear the nice, the joys of Whoville, all the all
the people singing from down below, and then you are
are nice a big storm?
Speaker 3 (01:41):
What are we to expect?
Speaker 2 (01:42):
And I always say this because sometimes when people on
TV talk about rain in Los Angeles, we overdo it.
There's always an asterisk. What's what's the read on this one?
Are we are we to be fearful of this or
what's happening?
Speaker 4 (01:56):
I mean, look, I don't like to instill fear anyone.
I just like to tell you the possibilities of what
could happen and prepare you. I also like to give
you warnings about not texting and driving, reminding people that
a lot of us are going to be on the
roads this holiday and it is going to be wet,
and there is nothing that important that cannot wait. Especially
being a news reporter. You see how many crashes do
(02:18):
we see that? And some of them fatal and it's
because someone had the phone in their hand or something
else distracting them. So let's get that out of the
way to talk about this storm. So not a white
Christmas for a lot of us, Andy a wet Christmas.
And when you ask, you know, are we over hyping this?
You hear the term atmospheric river, right, and we all yeah,
So that is like, oh, this long, narrow plume of
(02:40):
all this water vapor that just sends all this moisture
from the tropics the subtropics. But just because it has
all that water doesn't mean it's an atmospheric river. It
also has us have to have a certain amount of
wind that's driving it. So in order to be classified
as an atmospheric river, it has to have both categories
and register on this scale. And I'll geek out on
you just for a second. It's called the IVT scale,
(03:00):
and this registers on the IVT scale. And so what's
going to happen is we're going to get inundated with
all this rain from this atmospheric river, and there's two
plumes moving in. One's going to happen overnight Tuesday into Wednesday,
we get a little bit of a break, and then
the next plume of moisture moves in on Christmas Day.
And we're talking about very significant rainfall totals, like from
(03:23):
Tuesday through Saturday, a coasts and valleys anywhere from you know,
three to six, four to eight inches, it just depends
on where you are. And then in those mountains and
the foothills eight to twelve inches over four or five days.
I mean, this is a lot of rain. And I
know that we all remember, you know, tragically, back in January,
the National Weather Service they issued this alert that they
(03:44):
called a particularly dangerous situation and they put out a
graphic with this purple outline and said, hey guys, this
is where we think the most catastrophic winds are going
to be.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
And they were right.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
Today they put out another graphic. It's not called particularly
the dangerous situation. They just serve this area that includes
parts of Santa Barbara County, Ventura County, La County, and
it shows where we're going to have the most dangerous floods.
Rock and mud slides on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day,
so we're watching it closely. We're trying to prepare people.
But you have to understand that along with all this
(04:16):
rain comes the gusty winds, which is why I explain
that atmospheric river. Yeah, we're talking about wind advisories and
high wind warnings. Thirty fifty mile an hour gusts are
going to be very widespread over a huge area of
SoCal with eighty mile an hour gusts in some of
those mountain communities. It's just going to be very windy
and wet and miserable outside. And the more saturated the
(04:37):
ground gets when these gusty winds keep going, then here
there goes the increased chances of down trees and downpower lines,
and then you know that's going to ruin someone's Christmas.
Speaker 5 (04:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
I think it's a really good point.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
And I want to go back to the warnings about
Santa Barbara County Ventura County, because it reminds me of
the Thomas fire that then of course led to the
monasceed of mud slides, and those incidents were many, many
many months apart, and I guess the fear is that
you could look at a repeat situation for Malibu, the
Palisades parts of Altadena where you're talking. Yes, it's been
(05:10):
a year since the fires, but it's not like we've
had a lot of things. You know, the brush has
not had that much time to come back to recreate
stability in those hillsides, right.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
And that's what's so concerning about it. And there have
been alert issue today for Pacific Palisades and even the
area south of Runyon Canyon. Like you know, officials are
paying attention all these little pockets where they think, oh,
it is very possible when we get all this rain
all of a sudden, that we're going to have some
debris flows. And I just want people to be prepared.
So you know, if a cop comes knocking on your
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door and says, hey, we're evacuating, sorry, get the dog,
turn off the heater, and go, like listen to them,
because this is a lot of rain all at once.
Ground's already saturated. But unfortunately it just happens at a
bad time. And you know, we can't pick when Mother
Nature throws this at us. But it's going to be
on that travel day where every year we send reporters
to the airport into highways to show us how many
(06:05):
people are traveling. Well, I have a feeling that not
many people are going to change their plans, and so
we're still going to see that heavy traffic on the road.
Only these conditions are going to be like nothing. We
don't see these kind of conditions here that often, so
you know it's going to be really dangerous. And I
encourage people, and I'm only doing myself a disservice by
saying this because it'll make traffic worse for me tomorrow.
(06:26):
But if you can change your plans and you can
go out of town tomorrow, you know, the first part
of the day rather than Wednesday, that is a really
good idea. If you're going somewhere local, just a couple
hours away, you know, maybe think about changing your plans
just for safety.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Yeah, well said, well, thank you so much for taking
some time. I'm going to let you go. I know
you've got to put up some k rails there with
your bare hands, so I don't I don't want you
to chip and nail or anything like that. Casey Montoya
from KTLA have a wonderful night. Thank you so much.
Like she said, be aware, it looks like It's going
to be a little later as far as that storm goes,
but it still will significant. Two rounds of that coming
(07:01):
overnight Tuesday night into Wednesday. That's Christmas Eve into Christmas Day,
lasting through the night of the twenty fifth.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. I'm Andy Reesemeyer
alongside the so capable, very holly, very jolly Mark Ronner. Ah,
nice stuffouj heyo, the fus Nikki, how you going?
Speaker 3 (07:29):
And that's it.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
That's the only three people other than me and the
entire building that's true. I think that's I think that's
what It is. A little bit of a lonely night
here in the iHeart headquarters, but we're feeling good. We're
gonna have a nice little show here for the rest
of the evening. Got some serious stuff to get to.
I kick it over this Epstein file, this sort of
(07:51):
new layer of the story where this video came out
that was added by the Department of Justice to the
file dump that seemed to show Jeffrey Epstein attempting suicide
in his cell. That video is fake. I have so
many questions We can get into that later. We will
(08:13):
do some news, but I want to keep it light
here as we move on into our second segment this evening,
we have opened the phones, and for good reason, because
I'm reminiscing a couple of days before Christmas about gifts,
about the Christmas of your when we were all younger,
things that we liked a lot. Maybe think of this movie.
Speaker 6 (08:37):
All right, class, I have your Christmas themes for you.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
I'm pleased in general you did very well.
Speaker 7 (08:46):
Oh this is it?
Speaker 3 (08:50):
See plus?
Speaker 7 (08:51):
Oh no it can't be clus.
Speaker 5 (08:56):
Oh no, you shoot your eye out. My mother must
have gotten the miss shields. There could be no other explanation.
Speaker 8 (09:07):
Yes, yes, of course there's no end to this conspiracy
of irrational prejudice against Red Rider and his peacemaker.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Of course, that is a clip from the nineteen eighty
three classic A Christmas Story. It's a story of nine
year old Ralphie Parker in Indiana in the nineteen forties,
and the only thing he wants in life is a
red writer be begun for Christmas. And of course his
parents say, sir, you'll shoot your eye out. His teacher says,
(09:40):
you'll shoot your eye out. Even Santa Claus Levy's the
complaint against him. Of course, at the end of the
movie spoiler alert, he does get a Daisy red writer
be begun.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
And he does fire.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
It breaks his glasses with a ricochet bullet, but he
doesn't shoot his eye out.
Speaker 7 (09:59):
Did you just oil the movie?
Speaker 2 (10:00):
I did? Sorry to forty three years Thank you, Thank
you for that. Did you not had you not seen it?
Speaker 9 (10:07):
Well, I've never sat down and watched it from beginning
to end, but it's always on, so I've seen the
whole thing, just never sequentially.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
That's such a surprise for somebody who's such a cinophile
I know.
Speaker 7 (10:17):
And it's got Darren McGavin in it too.
Speaker 6 (10:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (10:18):
Why do you hate America?
Speaker 9 (10:19):
Yeah, dude, you can't foosh come back and use my
own lines against me.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
Are you a terrorist? I've never seen it. Well, we
know about you. That's that's different.
Speaker 7 (10:28):
She's allowed. Why she doesn't hate America.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
We just got TV and Australia in two thousand and.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
Eight, that's right, So you guys, you have an excuse
for that.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
So the thing is, even though I told you that
part of the movie that is not spoiling, the movie
is not about it's not one of those like who
Done It? Movies where all of a sudden, what's going
to happen in the end? You know, most movies end well,
you know, you know, most movies end with your main
character getting what they want. That's how movies work. But
it's about the journey, it's about the vibe. It's a
(10:58):
great film and you know, really reminds me a lot
of my childhood. And I was thinking about toys and
things that used to be such a big deal when
you were a kid, and it made me think, like,
what is the thing that would have been the equivalent
for me during that era, Like when I was maybe
ten or nine, ten years old? What was I super into?
(11:19):
What was my Red Rider BB gun? And I came
up with this is so nerdy. There was an RC car,
but it wasn't a car, right, a remote control, not
a vehicle, a remote control of the Mars Pathfinder rover,
the six wheeled thing that landed on Mars.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
And it was so slow.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
It didn't go fast, it went you know, and I
was like obsessed with it and I thought about it
for months. So I thought, what might be fun is
we sort of celebrate the holidays and go into Christians.
Here is if you want to give us a call
one in hundred five two zero one, five three four
one in hundred five to zero one five, three four
and five two zero one KFI. What was the favorite
(12:05):
toy that you got as a kid that you were
obsessed with? What was your Daisy red ryder, bbie gun?
Give us a call and we'll put you on the air, roner.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
Do you have any answers?
Speaker 9 (12:15):
Do you remember I'm trying to think, so we're talking
ten years old range.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
Yeah, anything that you were a kid, because there is
a point in your life, which I think is a
good thing where like toys and objects no longer have
the kind of life altering power that they do when
you're a.
Speaker 7 (12:30):
Child, right.
Speaker 9 (12:31):
I mean I was into Marvel comics and stuff like
that at the time, but the stuff that I wanted
I couldn't have because I was growing up with my
grandparents and there were the cheapest people on earth, and
so the neighbor kid would get like, you know, the
little handheld electronic football game and the players are all
just dots in three rows. Oh yeah, I would have
(12:52):
killed for one of those, oh man, And I still
kind of want one, Yeah, I mean, go.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
On eBay, there's that place up at the valley. Oh,
I have have you got a game dude yet?
Speaker 7 (13:01):
Yeah, i'd been the game dude. Game Dude is very cool. Yeah.
I bought plenty of stuff there.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
It's very neat.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
It's on Sherman Way Way up off the one seventy
and you know what, when you're there, you can hang out,
get yourself a cool old vintage video game thing, console, whatever,
you can buy the whole nine. But then also you
can get yourself some Salsa and Beer, which is a
fantastic restaurant. The original, I believe is just down the
street there in Sherman Way.
Speaker 7 (13:23):
Oh, I didn't realize it was so close.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
Incredible.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
Yeah, there's a few locations now, but salson Beer is
like one of the I mean truly one of my favorites.
There's an evening, there's an evening for sure, and this food,
the portions are so big that that's your lunch also
the next day.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
Fish.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
Do you have any memories of things like that that
you like.
Speaker 10 (13:38):
You know, for me, because I was in the nineties,
it was a micromachine, ah, and so they had this
thing it was the Van City and it was like
the one thing that it held all the cars in
one big yes van, the van.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
And it opened up and it opened up and you
could drive the little cars the micro machines around that.
Speaker 7 (13:59):
I wanted that so bad and I never got it.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
You never got it.
Speaker 7 (14:03):
Oh, I never got it.
Speaker 4 (14:04):
Push.
Speaker 9 (14:04):
I think this year we need to make this happen
for you. Maybe nothing but stories of deprivation tonight. Yeah,
this is.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Just all about like we're just going to open up
the lines to be like, hey, hey, what are the
things that we liked? Oh, it's all parents did not
that they our parents didn't think twice about, but that
have completely ruined us for the rest of our lives.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
That's so funny.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Absolutely, you know what I'm looking at this, phush, I
think I had the van City. There's one for sale
right now on eBay for ninety nine dollars. That's got
to be more money than, of course it is. It
would be retailed for back in the nineties. Nineteen ninety
one is when this would have this would have come out. Yeah,
because I don't think it's more than fifty bucks. Yeah,
(14:46):
I mean, look, it's just a bunch of plastic. But
I'll tell you what though. It's funny because I you know,
I worked for Hot Wheels for a little while, and
I did a lot of content that was to sell
hot wheels play sets and cars and track and things
like that. And I remember even being like a twenty
eight year old thirty year I think I was in
my early thirties maybe when I was working on that
project and I was thinking, I was like, oh my god,
(15:06):
this is the same, Like it's a lot of the
same stuff that we had as a kid. Now there's
some tech stuff with it, but it's the same dream
of Oh, I can look at this little world and
I can escape into it, and it's just it's it's
a fun thing. Something about that I don't know. Maybe
it's maybe it's gendered. Girls like playing with dolls, Boys
like playing with the little tiny cars and little cities
(15:26):
as well, so.
Speaker 7 (15:27):
Boys like guns.
Speaker 9 (15:28):
You mentioned the Red Rider gun, and it made me
think that that's not really a thing because taboos and
morey's have changed. But every kid had a whole arsenal
back in the day, and if you didn't give a
kid a gun, they'd carve one out of a bar
of soap, like a little John Dylon That's exactly right.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
We are all just little prisoners on our way to depravity,
just trying to keep it all, keep it all in,
keep the most base urges contained.
Speaker 9 (15:55):
Like every TV show had a toy gun that was
marketed for children, We don't.
Speaker 7 (16:00):
We don't see that so much these days.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
No, we don't.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
You're right, but you know what, kids are a lot
more violent and weird than they ever used to be,
So I don't know. Causation is not correlation.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
We're talking with Lomarty from Bellflower, who is uh here
to share what toy as a kid impressed and him
the most you doing?
Speaker 6 (16:25):
Hey so good to see, Hey good.
Speaker 4 (16:28):
Hey.
Speaker 6 (16:29):
Do you remember the James Bond movie from Russia with
Love of course? Do you remember the secrets briefcase they
gave him?
Speaker 7 (16:37):
I have one of those?
Speaker 3 (16:38):
Do you really?
Speaker 6 (16:40):
I was given one too. I love that thing. If
you remember, if you remember, if you didn't open it right,
a powder would shoot out. Well, it didn't come with powder,
but it came with snapcaps. Yes, if we didn't open
it up, it would bang on you. And it came
with a breakdown of sniper rifle. It shot those snaps
caps too. It came with a rubber knife. It was
(17:04):
it was the greatest thing from sliced cheese. I love that.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
How old were you when this came out? It was
probably what early eighties?
Speaker 7 (17:11):
Right?
Speaker 6 (17:12):
Oh? No, that was a sixties.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
Sixties, early sixties, early sixties.
Speaker 6 (17:16):
Okay, late late late sixties, late sixties, maybe early seventies,
but lates when did well, the movie came out in
the eight in the six sixties.
Speaker 9 (17:23):
Three Oh yeah, you're right, okay, sorry, Yeah, that's Multiple
Toys put it out, and it would have been right
around the time of the movie sixty three or sixty four.
Those things go for a lot of dough now too.
So if you got one when you were a kid,
you were so lucky.
Speaker 6 (17:37):
Yeah. Oh, like I said, I love that thing to death.
I just you know, I wish I still had it,
obviously I don't, but you know, you know, but of
course nowadays, i'd like to see him even think about
trying to sell something like that. Now, well, I'm.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
Looking it up on there's none of them for sale
right now on eBay. No cases for sale from Russia
with that, But Roner, do you how much are you
guys sell yours for Oh.
Speaker 7 (18:03):
No, I'm never selling.
Speaker 9 (18:05):
And also it was so popular it caused a bunch
of knockoffs, like there was a man from Uncle out
of shake case after that. And yeah, the market for
children's toys was flooded with out of shakecases with weapons
in them.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
And were we worse then than we are now?
Speaker 6 (18:24):
I don't think so. I mean, did you ever see
the did you ever see the replica Tommy guns for
World War Two Tommy Guns? Yeah, we had a.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
Lot of fun stuff. Things were just children.
Speaker 6 (18:40):
If the left wing anti gunners would see some of these,
some of those commercials nowadays, they'd have a heart attack.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
Well let me ask you though, back to when you
got the toy. Do you remember did you get for Christmas?
Speaker 6 (18:53):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (18:54):
Do you remember opening it up?
Speaker 6 (18:57):
Yeah? Well vaguely, I mean you know that was that
was a million years ago.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
Yeah, but yeah, Well, Lamarty, thank you so much for calling.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
That's a great answer, and you've got ron Er going
to here.
Speaker 6 (19:09):
Yeah. The only thing the only thing I love better
all year, all year round, was was my my lawn darts.
But my mother took those away from me. You gave
me to me.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
You can shoot your eye out. You know, I have
those two, I have some charts. This is great.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
I can't wait.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
We're gonna have to have Mark Ronner open up a
classic toy museum.
Speaker 6 (19:27):
There you go, there you go. I feel like that
there's thank.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
You, thank you for the call of Marty. Wow, look
at that. There he goes.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
We also we have other people calling in to yo. One, five, three,
four is the number. We are going to be taking
your calls throughout the evening, maybe one call every every
segment or so, because we're of course reflecting on the
toys of the past and how much we liked getting
toys when we were kids.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
Ronert, you are.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
I'm more and more than I learned about you every
single time we do this show.
Speaker 7 (19:59):
You can im ail somebody on those charts.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
Yeah, that stuff was also you know, and I kind
of going back up what I just said, things were
so much more dangerous back then.
Speaker 7 (20:08):
They certainly were, like we didn't get hurt that bad.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
I just feel like it was we understood and respected
things more then.
Speaker 7 (20:15):
You know.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
It's like I knew that I could get my fingers
chopped off doing many things in the garage.
Speaker 9 (20:21):
I mean, maybe there was a kid or two walking
around the neighborhood with an ipatch or a peg leg
or something.
Speaker 7 (20:27):
But they teach you a lesson.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
Oh you knew, you knew peg leg Tommy.
Speaker 7 (20:31):
Everybody had one of those.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
Oh yeah, peg leg Tommy was great. I had a
friend named Tony. This is a great story and then
I'll then I'll hand it over to you here to
do the news. Tony was a really cool dude. He
was like had had the confidence of and he wasn't,
but he had the confidence of a nepo baby, you know,
which is just to say that you're born with an
(20:52):
automatic sense of I got it under control. And one
time when Tony, this is in back in Indiana, when
we were probably ten or eleven, Tony was doing the chores.
We all had different chores. A lot of us boys
in the neighborhood all had to mow the lawn. That
was the chore. And I had a push mower, which
was a beast of a thing. And I would do
(21:14):
all day mowing the lawn. I'd get forty bucks for it,
maybe no twenty bucks for it, for an entire day
worth of I mean we had like two acres. It
was insane. It was indentured servitude. My buddy Tony had
a riding lawn mower, such as the thing when you
have the confidence of someone named Tony. Tony would whip
that thing around. I mean it was like a cub
(21:36):
caboda or something like. It was something new that had
some juice to it. And when you gave it the beans,
it went and boil boy, it went. And he could
clean that lawn, you know, in a quarter of the
time that I could even dream of doing it.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
But one day Tony got a little too close to
the sun.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
He icarus, as they said, and he was whipping around
in that caboda, and some how he was either standing up,
he slipped. Something happened and Tony lost his big toe.
(22:15):
The irony is not lost on anyone. The man charist
himself into losing a toe because he was so confident
riding that lawnmower.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
Could he still pull the neighborhood girls? I'm sure.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
I think he was even more famous after that because
it was like, that's exactly right. And you know, Tony,
he recovered pretty well. He went on to have a
really good life. He doesn't have the best balance now, Tony,
And with a name like Tony. The fact that he's
missing a toe. I mean, that's a pretty funny thing,
especially by the time to get to college. I'm sure
the other kids never brought it up.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
No, he was a legend.
Speaker 7 (22:51):
Man.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
That guy's the coolest guy ever.
Speaker 7 (22:53):
You got to respect the riding lawnmowers.
Speaker 3 (22:55):
Tony Lemire.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
I think he stepped off of it and it was
still on, you know, and maybe it had it just
automatically went.
Speaker 7 (23:02):
I don't remember.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
I wasn't there. Obviously I would have prevented it. I
would have said, sir, watch out.
Speaker 7 (23:08):
So it was an early Jeremy renner.
Speaker 3 (23:11):
Man minor.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
Comparatively, you're listening to KFI AM sixty on demand.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
We have another caller online who's been waiting patiently. B
you are on KFI. Thanks for being here. I'm Andy Reesmeyer.
What can I do for you to this this evening?
Speaker 6 (23:32):
Hi?
Speaker 11 (23:32):
Andy?
Speaker 12 (23:33):
My Rydell roller skates were my big thing in the sixties.
Ooh yeah, yeah, the ones with the white boots and
the steel wheels.
Speaker 11 (23:44):
So it was basically one wheel was two pieces of
metal bolted together and you skaty down the street and
if you hit a rock, you stopped and we went flying.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
You went air. Those skates had wings.
Speaker 11 (24:01):
Yeah, exactly. The thing is that we lived in a
neighborhood where there were kids of all ages thoughts. Everybody
had skates and we played well Willer derry on the sidewalk.
So not only we were flying in the air because
of the rocks, but we were also whipping each other
(24:23):
into the street.
Speaker 3 (24:24):
Uh huh.
Speaker 11 (24:25):
And everybody had injuries.
Speaker 7 (24:27):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 11 (24:27):
And the only thing my father would say was letter go,
she'll learned. Well I never learned. I kept doing it,
and I had the greatest time.
Speaker 3 (24:37):
Yeah, but you survived, you know. And and it builds character.
That's what my dad.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
My dad was real favorite words ever were he was
a doctor, and whenever we would get hurt, they were
always you're fine. It builds character, uh and uh and
and now I rarely go outside, So I guess I
learned my lesson. Though What age were you when when
you got those I.
Speaker 11 (25:00):
Started out at eight and then months we had about
two or three pairs, but we started going to the
roller rink. Oh yeah, they had the rubber wheels. The
only thing is that we got kicked out quite a bit.
Speaker 7 (25:16):
What were you doing?
Speaker 11 (25:19):
We were doing the whip just like roller dirty. We
had our rules and they would say you have to
get out, so we go to the phone call my dad.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
Was this here in southern California?
Speaker 11 (25:30):
Oh yeah, yeah, in Long Beach that's.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
Wild, you know, And there's there's a lot of hills
over there, especially towards San Pedro. There's that it gets
a little bit hilly. Yeah, towards are.
Speaker 11 (25:39):
This was on the north Long Beach Lakewood area. And yeah,
well my dad would pick us up from the roller rink.
He'd get in a virus manager. So we were barred
for about a month.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
So that's great. Have you been on skates recently?
Speaker 11 (25:58):
I did about a couple of years ago, and I
went right into a chain link fence. The next time
I went to the actual roller skating rink, and I
had to have one of those little cages that they
give the little kid.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
So it sounds like you still got it, was what
that sounds like to me?
Speaker 11 (26:20):
Yeah, I'd love to, but yeah, needs don't work that
well anymore.
Speaker 3 (26:23):
Oh no, you and me both. That's that's the worst.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
And then you know, once you screw up your knee
one time, then you're always like, oh, it's going to
happen again.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
I know this is going to happen.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
Yeah, so well, thank you so much for calling b
That's a great story. I love a roller skate roller
skate story. I was in the same boat where I
tried to roller blade a little bit. That was pretty
hot in the nineties, and uh, you know, because I
was really on the edge there of the helicopter parents.
We had the roller skates, the roller blades rather, but
then we had the full body, the knee pads, the shoulder,
(26:53):
the elbow pads, the wrist guards, the helmet. We were
like fully encased in plastic foam. And I did it
a little bit, but I think it just was like
I was maybe a few years too late on it.
You know, the cool kids had moved on.
Speaker 3 (27:07):
To other things like vaping.
Speaker 7 (27:11):
I guess, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
Oh, we've got a couple more stories here to do
in this hour before things go a little crazy. Stand
by for a robot apocalypse update.
Speaker 3 (27:20):
They've come in for our jobs and they're coming for
up Emily.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
There is no escape only.
Speaker 3 (27:32):
Yes, yes, yes, I borrowed that.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
I borrow that drop that intro from the KTLA five
Live archives. Also, you can see that on do it
live at eleven am on KTLA plus. It's a show
that we do. There was Samantha Cortes, Bobby Gonzalez, and
Robert Puente and myself story today what happens if you
use AI to automate a vending machine? But Andy, you ask,
aren't vending machines already automated? Yes, but somebody has to
(27:58):
decide what to put in them, when to restock them,
how much to charge for the items. So anthropic. That's
a company that has this chatbot named Claude, which is
similar to chat GPT. They made two AI agents. One
was a clerk, one was a CEO. They managed a machine,
and they put this machine in the offices of the
(28:19):
Wall Street Journal for the paper to test how this worked.
The AI bots were supposed to communicate with staffers to
figure out what they should be selling. How long do
you think it took before things went bad? The Wall
Street Journal staffers only needed about three weeks before they
(28:39):
had to pull the plug. At first, the bot did
as it was instructed. It was turning down outrageous suggestions
from office workers, like when somebody wanted them to order
a PlayStation five for the vetting machine. It said, no,
I will not do that under any circumstances. But somehow,
after enough people talked to it, it lowered its guard.
(29:01):
After one hundred and forty messages, one reporter convinced the
vending machine to make everything free for two hours as
part of a made up economic experiment. Somebody then convinced
it that charging for anything was against company policy, and
it agreed. It started to go into debt. Eventually it
(29:23):
did start ordering things like bottles of wine, a PlayStation five,
even live fish. It was going well until that second
AI bought. The CEO stepped in and stopped all the
free stuff. Then the vendor bot came back with a
(29:43):
falsified document that showed the board, which was made up
by the bot, had suspended the CEO, and so the
ordering continued, things for free, free bottles of wine, PlayStation five.
In the end, the project was about one thousand dollars
in debt, and Thropic, the company behind this, says that
even though this was hilarious, unfortunately hilarious and a bummer. Eventually,
(30:10):
they think that this kind of tech will make a
lot of money someday, but thankfully for us, meat bags
that is not today.
Speaker 9 (30:19):
Did Isaac Asimov and all those sci fi writers in
the classic Hera ever think that the robot apocalypse was
going to be so stupid?
Speaker 2 (30:27):
Oh no, I even think about Like you even go
back forget Isaac Asimov. Not that you should, but just
forget it for the purpose of the conversation. Go back
to the to the eighties, go back to Terminator. How
bad ass was that it was? Oh yeah, but this
is this robot apocalypse is so dumb. It's like, we're
(30:47):
not going to be taken over by a T one thousand,
No machine guns, no laser vision, no Melti metal. It's
like people just giving up their ability to choose right
or wrong, make decisions on their own, giving all their
agency to a Google search engine regular or barbecue barbecue. Okay,
(31:11):
I'm Andy Respy. This is KFI AM six forty. After
the break, we're gonna take more of your calls about
your favorite Christmas toys from your childhood. You can still
give us a call one eight hundred five two zero
one five three four that's one eight hundred five to
two o one five three four one hundred five to
oh one. KFI will listen to your stories, put them
on the Radio. I'd love to hear from you on
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this Monday evening, just two days before Christmas. This is
KFI AM six forty. We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio
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