October 17, 2025 • 32 mins
Andy talks about his love for William Shatner, even though he may or may not have blocked him on X. The cost of coffee everywhere is going up, blamed on tariffs and inclement weather. For some reason, people still don’t like the San Fernando Valley. Why is that? In October 1999, the Staples Center first opened. Andy revisits the KTLA news report commemorating the night it opened. Are you looking to date a freak like you? Apparently freak matching is a thing on social media to beat the dating app algorithm.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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I think, Ronner, we're legally obligated to play it on
the show, are we.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
That's the rules. I don't make them.
Speaker 4 (00:28):
Well, I certainly believe in following the rules. To only
follow the rules here. That's why people like us so much. Yes,
by all means, proceed.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
So I wanted to tell you though, because I didn't
get into it in the last last hour.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
The Shatner situation.
Speaker 4 (00:41):
Well, yeah, I want to hear that.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
I love William Shatner. I've always been a big fan same.
I was a big old Nerd growing up. I know
that's a big surprise to everybody.
Speaker 4 (00:50):
No, no, this is my You can trace my current
hair directly to William Shatner.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
That's really funny like that. It's and I now that
I see it, I get it. I totally get it.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Yeah, I mean, he's a handsome guy.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
Young, a young Captain Kirk, A young captain Kirk has
you actually have a little bit of a young Captain
Kirk vibe going on Ron. It's in the vocal delivery
as well. Oh my goodness, that's great.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
You know Rick Chambers who's a Katla anchor reporter and
also does the voice of Marongo good Times. You know
that guy. Everybody knows that guy. Okay, so he mimicked
Bill Curtis growing up. Yeah, newsman Bill Curtis, you know
who cut also has that cut of voice.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
What do they talk like this?
Speaker 4 (01:32):
He had a magnificent voice.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Unbelievable voice. He's still around, He's still he's still doing radio.
Does wait wait, don't tell me on NPR. And I
have messaged him on Instagram to try to cause he's
got a book out, I think, to try to get
him to come on the show.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
I'll let you know what he says.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
Oh please do.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
But let me go back to Shatner. I've I met
him ten years ago, eleven twelve years ago. I was
working at a place called Ora TV, which is where
I worked with Brigitta Dagostino, then Santos and Larry King's
production company had a bunch of deals, the show with
Jesse Ventura. He had a deal with William Shatner, and
(02:08):
I got to direct this show that was a wine
tasting show called William Shatner's brown Bag Wine Tasting.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
I hope you didn't try to tell him how to
say the word sabotage. No, I would never, that's a
deep cut.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
I didn't. I didn't tell him how to say sabotage.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
But I did also direct the show and then edited
a few episodes, and I will say there is some
good stuff that did not make it into the final episode,
just because you know, he's an eccentric guy. You never
know where he'll go with some stuff. But we did
probably like forty episodes of this show, and it was great,
and we had all kinds of guests, like real, real,
big deal guests, and we would go to these cool
(02:44):
locations and the whole premise was here's a mystery bottle
of wine, everybody drinks it together, and then you describe
the wine based on your either personality or your occupation.
So how does an outfielder just this Cabernet seven young?
It's a home run, right, that's the premise. Was it
(03:05):
a good show? I mean, it's fun because it's Shatner
and Shatner talking to strangers. So I did these episodes,
and I really worked hard on this, and I had,
I thought a pretty good relationship with Shatner. And I
will say one time we were doing a show and
it was like seven in the morning, and the man
ten years ago, he was probably in his almost eighty
(03:26):
maybe we were at the Grand Central Market and we
were getting ready to shoot, and we're gonna shoot this
place called Bell Campo, which is a cafe. You know,
they did like meet and made burgers, and then also
it was kind of fancy, right. So I saw this
man eat one Porterhouse stuck. I got probably probably like
a seven out steak, like a pretty good sized steak,
(03:49):
and then he's like, what's seven in the Morning's like
I want another one, So they bring him another and
then he's like, I want another one. I saw him
three steaks before we filmed at seven thirty in the morning,
and he got up there he drank like four bottles
of wine, did not miss a beat. I mean he
had a sip. He had a sip on each one.
But he didn't miss a beat and did the whole show.
And I was like, man, this guy he's just a tank.
He's incredible.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
That is impressive, and I would expect the shat to
be a man of large appetites in every front.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
We had Alton Brown on the show, and Alton made
him some of his grandmother's mom's biscuits, I think, and
he loved him, and you know, it was great. It
was a really fun thing. And you know there's you know,
the people maybe said to me going into this, you know,
he don't not always meet your heroes. But I had
a really good time with him and it was a
very positive experience. And the show wrapped and then I'm looking,
(04:37):
like I don't know, going through Twitter or whatever, and
I want to look him up and he's not on
Twitter anymore. What And I was like, I was following him.
I was like, this man, this man tweeted all the time.
I haven't seen his tweets in a while. His tweets
are really funny too.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
They're hilarious.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
And he would like live tweet the Bachelor, you know
what I mean, Like he really is into it and
he's funny.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
Well, he also had some pretty witty smackdowns of people
who dared to get up in his grill.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Absolute, The man is a smart dude. Yeah, and this
guy blocked me on Twitter. I couldn't see his Twitter
account because he blocked me.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
What did you do?
Speaker 3 (05:12):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
You had to have done something you.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Would think to this day, I still have no idea
why William Shatner has blocked me on Twitter.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
You gotta tread lightly around that guy. You don't just
shoot off your mouth around Shatner. I mean I can
only imagine. I what what could I have said? But
obviously everything. Did you say something about his hair? No,
that's the easy stuff. No, I would have never criticized him.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
I thought he was really fun and it was a
you know, I mean, listen, once you work with somebody
like that, like, you're not going to be intimidated by
anybody else. Maybe John Tesh, maybe John Tesh will we'll
get the blood pumping a little bit. But I think
it was such a great thing that like, after that,
I was like, Okay, well, who's going to be bigger
than him? Who's bigger than Larry King? And so I
still think about it, and I'm still sad about it.
(05:59):
And I'm kind of haveing anxiety about why does William
Shatner not like me?
Speaker 4 (06:03):
I'm looking right now to see if he's blocked me
as well.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Now I'm sure he's like.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
I will go to Twitter, I will post this on
my Instagram account at andy ktla what it looks like
when I look for William Shatner, because it just comes
up with nothing.
Speaker 4 (06:17):
Okay, here we go.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
Wait, there's been a development.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Yes, I believe I am unblocked by William Shatner.
Speaker 4 (06:26):
Now I see, so he's.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
He's come around on me.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
Maybe he can be volatile then, yeah, I'm talking for
it over a ten year period.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Sure, maybe it like to blocks reset at a certain point.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
No, you just never know what Shatner is going to do.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
I was always worried that I had sabotaged myself.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
One does not want to engage in self sabotage. No, indeed,
because I'm a rocket man. Now listen, I saw that
when I was a kid on TV. And maybe you
should kind of set the stage for people who don't
know what the hell we're talking about, because that was
an immortal and iconic moment and you can find it
on YouTube.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Yeah, maybe we'll play it sometime later in the show.
We only have like what two and a half, almost
an hour and forty five years in charge. You can
break the rules. No, I'm saying, we got plenty of time.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
We could.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
We'll find I'll play it over and over again. Heck,
we'll just rerack my John Tesh interview if you really want.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
Okay, So there was some sci fi TV Awards show
and Shatner comes out where.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
I'm pulling it. I'll pulling it up, but you set
it up.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
He comes out wearing some sort of formal wear with
a bow tie and smoking a cigarette with one foot
up on a stool. Casual cool, and he does a
spoken word version of rocket Man and nobody had ever
seen anything like it. Everybody's jaw to this day dropped. Yeah,
it's really one of the most incredible.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
Here we go. Audio restored. Also, well, I hope you are.
We're going to give a kind of advertisement.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
So this must have been what nineteen seventy late seventy eight,
right after I obviously have to come out after Goodbye
yele Brick Road, and this is it started a whole
a whole genre of Shatner's spoken words songs, and by
that you mean magnetic.
Speaker 5 (08:19):
Last night pre fled Oh zero hour.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Nine, I am a full tux.
Speaker 5 (08:30):
I'm gonna be.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
With the with the weird synthesizer of the bat night.
Speaker 5 (08:42):
Heck, yeah, missed the Earth so much, we missed my wine.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Listen to the way he sells that miss moon, and listen,
of course this line. I'm actually kind of surprised that
Captain Kirk threw away it's lonely out in space. Maybe
he thought it was too obvious and too on the nose.
Speaker 4 (09:10):
And Elton John wishes he could have done this song
that well.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
Yeah, I mean it was. This is obviously the superior version.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Please, you're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
If I'm remembering that right, there are multiple versions of
Shatner on the screen talking to you, singing, talking to
each other.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
The gift, as it were, that you receive for watching this,
or observing this through its full three four four four
minutes and forty nine seconds of experience, is indeed not one,
not two, but three Shatners, the third of which has
taken off his bow tie draped it around his neck,
(09:49):
undone his corsage, the cumber mine has been removed and
there he is just having a moment. By the way,
an update, I posted it on my Instagram at Andy Ktla.
I am still blocked by William Shatner. I thought things
were different, but apparently in the new Elon version of
(10:10):
Twitter on X you're able to see public posts, but
you cannot be.
Speaker 4 (10:16):
You cannot respond, So well, you must have done something
to offend the great man.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
You know, I neg never tweet and I never tweeted
even back then, so I think you know who's to say.
I was trying to get Conway on on the show.
This is again like ten years ago, and I wasn't
able to make that happen. I did come on on
his on Conway's show and talk about the Shatner Show.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
But I'm very proud of that show. We had a
lot of fun.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Adam Carolla was on there and he brought his mangria,
and I still have that bottle of mangrea that Corolla
and the Shatner shared.
Speaker 4 (10:54):
That sounds repulsive. What is that?
Speaker 3 (10:56):
It's sangria, but for men?
Speaker 4 (10:59):
What makes it? For men?
Speaker 3 (11:00):
It's called mangrea.
Speaker 4 (11:03):
I think some things are going a bit circular here,
so I guess I could just drop it if that's
what you want.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
I don't know exactly why he did this. Maybe it
was like a I think it was a bit. I
think it was a joke. He liked sangria, but he
felt it was too girly, so he decided instead to
make mangria. You know, obviously Corolla and Kimmel did The
Man Show, and maybe that's what it was. But he
had a he had a whole brand making mangrea. By
(11:31):
the way, if you'd like to, you can still buy
it for ten dollars and forty nine cents a bottle,
or you can get a case of twelve for one
hundred and twenty five bucks.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
Hard pass, so to speak.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
It's an original orange Mangrea cocktail, offering intense BlackBerry and
cranberry aromatics, full body texture, and a citrusy but smooth finish.
Speaker 4 (11:51):
Oh you're calling it mangria, but it sounds pretty fruity.
It was.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
I remember it being kind of good, but you know,
I was.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Like twenty six years old, so this is this.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
Is back in the day.
Speaker 4 (12:05):
Well, people, the statute of limitations runs out because at
that age you're drinking. You're drinking zemas. Yeah, you're drinking
Bartles and James. It doesn't make any little arbor missed
little boones. Oh Bartles and James is funny. I haven't
heard you know.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
I was too young to drink Bartles and James when
it was popular, but I remember it as a kid
like understanding what it was and thinking like, that's exciting.
That looks like I thought adults did that. I thought
Mike's Hard lemonade was was a serious beverage because of
the commercial.
Speaker 4 (12:34):
Yeah, I just have never been comfortable going into a
place and saying, give me a Mike's Hard.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
Do they have it?
Speaker 4 (12:40):
Do you?
Speaker 2 (12:40):
Is your Mike's Hard on tap? Or is it in
the it's in the bottle? Yeah, that's cool, I'll take it.
I prefer in any green springs.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
Oh what is that?
Speaker 4 (12:49):
I'm just kind of a fan of all these old
school like stuff from my mom's or yeah, like Virginia
Slims and that kind of stuff.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
Yeah, Virginia Slims are are hilarious. Like that's a good
that's good thing to put in it. If you're writing
a sketch and you need to punch up a line
about cigarettes, call in Virginia Slims. Yeah, as you know,
you write, you write dialogue.
Speaker 4 (13:08):
I have, yes, and I just I love all this obscure,
especially stuff from like late sixties and early seventies that
seems horrifically awkward.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
Now yeah, like like William Shatner's music career.
Speaker 4 (13:20):
Well, I won't. I won't tolerate any mockery of Shatner.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
Okay, I know I'm still a fan, even though he
has he has blocked me, forgotten me, written me off
to the universe, gotten up on his spaceship, and latchkeyed
me where watching him, watching him go out for smokes
and never come back.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
That's Shattner, Frank.
Speaker 4 (13:42):
Maybe you're like the romulent Commander and in a different
reality you could have been friends, but in this one
not so much. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
Yeah, my heart in peace is But first coffee is
in trouble. Do you know this?
Speaker 4 (13:56):
I know it's more expensive, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
Forty percent more expensive compared to last year. There's a
place in Beverly Hills called Leora. It's a trendy cafe
and it is located in the loading dock of UTA.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
This is not an exaggeration.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
You walk around the building into where the trash is
and there are thirty twenty two year old influencers sitting
there drinking their expensive coffees, taking pictures of themselves. The
cost of coffee everywhere is going up. There's a fifty
percent tariff on Brazil, twenty percent tariff on Vietnam. Those
countries make more than half of the world's coffee beans.
(14:31):
You also got climate change, fires, flooding, droughts, and more.
It's a real buzzkill, and things are getting so dire.
Congress is stepping in to kill tariffs on coffee. It's
called the No Coffee Tax Act. It was introduced by
California Democrat Rocana along with Don Bacon, a Republican for
Nebraska coffee and Bacon. Bacon's more expensive bacon is also Yeah,
(14:52):
it's harder to bring home the bacon these days. The
Atlantic says, on any given day, an American is likelier
to drink coffee than they are exercise, pray, or read
for pleasure as opposed to reading for torture. Maru Coffee
is also in Beverly Hills. Their signature drink costs six
seventy five. It's a relative deal at arawon the cafe
(15:16):
latte is seven dollars and seventy five cents. Alfred's Vanilla
Latte eight dollars and forty cents. But the most expensive
coffee in La County is it a chain in the
San Gabriel Valley called Clatch Coffee. They have a specialty
latte that'll set you back seventy eight dollars.
Speaker 4 (15:33):
Is this that stuff made from the civet?
Speaker 2 (15:35):
No, it's not the cat sque coffee. I know, it's
just fancy beans. A real bean crisis here coming up.
If if you're if you're thinking that some you hope
that your your girlfriend will match your freakh. Maybe that's
(15:59):
a not but that's not so great. Also, Hollywood apparently
loves influencers. Now great, and we'll ask why does everybody
seemingly hate the Valley? I love the Valley, but sometimes
people don't like it very much.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand, little Ska.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
Throwing it back to the early nineties. Sounds like music
you might play at a val party. We're talking about
the valley, and for some reason people still don't like it.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
I don't get it. Why do people hate the valley?
Speaker 2 (16:37):
It is a question posed by sf Gate, a publication
from the Bay Area. Sure it is a little clickbaity,
but the article, I think is a pretty incredible look
at the San Fernando Valley in the history of it,
and why is it that there's always so much scorn
for America's most famous suburb. It can be only a
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few minutes over the hill, but the psychology of a mountain,
for some reason, makes certain people on the other side
of it think it's far away and lesser than.
Speaker 4 (17:10):
Now.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
If you live on the I have to say this
side of it because we're in Burbank. But if you
live in the valley and you work out of the valley,
you cross it multiple times a day, it's not a
big deal to you anymore.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
I do it all the time. I don't even think
about it.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
San Francisco Gate says the practice of hating in the
valley stretches far beyond the Southland. A perception has become
so profoundly entrenched in American life that many people who
have never set foot in California are aware of the
valley and have opinions about it. I love the valley
so much that I named my dumb band after it.
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The band is called Andy and the Valley because I
am so uninteresting that the thing I had to do
with my music was but.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
The city, this is the place I live in. It.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
It's like local band one oh one move. Many people
think of the valley as a cultural wasteland. It's just
strip malls and vapid teenage girls. That, of course is
because of movies and TV shows in the seventies, in
the eighties and maybe the nineties showing the valley as
a kind of rotting suburbia. They say the eight one
eight was a lesser place. Did you know Frank Zappa
(18:20):
actually invented the or coined the term valley girl in
nineteen eighty two based on his daughter's experience going to
the malls in the valley like totally as if, as if.
But that was nineteen eighty two. The valley as we
know it now it's far different. You're less likely to
see a valley girl and more likely to see a
(18:41):
work foot warehouse advertisement, Still rich in culture, still very
la expensive, fancy hole in the wall, grungy. I don't
know anywhere else where you could see an adult film
actress breaking read with a child influencer, not at the
(19:05):
same table let us hope at a restaurant owned by
a former reality TV star who's like in prison. Now,
that is just like the valley. We got it all baby.
I will say this though, from having lived there for
as long as I did and here living here, I
definitely got more dating matches when I set my location
(19:26):
on my app to Los feelis whoops, speaking of La
October seventeenth. October seventeenth, nineteen ninety nine, something very special
happened here in Los Angeles? Does anybody know what that was?
Speaker 3 (19:46):
Can you guess?
Speaker 4 (19:46):
Ronner? I'm coming up blank.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
It's a terrible setup that I just named a random
date and was like, what.
Speaker 4 (19:52):
Happened that day? Answer me, Mack Schnell, how dare you?
Speaker 6 (19:56):
Sir?
Speaker 3 (19:57):
It's related to sports take away?
Speaker 4 (19:58):
And then I really wouldn't know it.
Speaker 6 (20:02):
You are about to witness what everyone hopes will be
the rebirth of downtown Los Angeles, and this is the
magnet that's attracting the crowd.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
Golly, welcome to Staples Center. So in nineteen ninety nine,
they were still saying.
Speaker 6 (20:17):
You were about to witness what everyone hopes will be
the rebirth of downtown Los Angeles.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
Have you been there lately. No, in the past twenty
six years.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
I lived down there about before I move the valley,
so like twenty thirteen. I always wanted to live in
a big city, great place, very exciting. I'll tell you
stories about that later. Let's listen into the Staples Crypto
originally Staples Center.
Speaker 6 (20:46):
They believe it's a cut above any other arena on
the world. What great come inside the four hundred million
dollar bowl of dreams. It's cons the taj Mahall of
sports and entertainment complexes spelled in bold red letters Staples Center.
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The mayor says it sends a clear message.
Speaker 5 (21:09):
Los Angeles is still number one with Staples.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
Los Angeles Mayor Reardon.
Speaker 4 (21:15):
Still number one with Staples.
Speaker 6 (21:18):
Los Angeles hopes to pump new life blood into downtown
and if today's street party and concerts are a good
measuring stick, the crowds will come if they like what they.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
See looks beautiful.
Speaker 4 (21:28):
It makes downtown just come alive.
Speaker 7 (21:30):
Definitely, Hopefully it'll live in downtown up. Bring a few
more people down here on a regular basis to attend
the events that they have.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
And this guy does not exist in La anymore. This
guy sounds like I grew up with him, I went
to high school with him.
Speaker 7 (21:42):
Indiana, live in downtown up bringing a few more people
down here on a regular basis to attend the events
that they have and you know, kind of refresh the
area and start a renaissance from downtown.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
If only they knew what was coming, renaissance from downtown.
Of course, it's wonderful.
Speaker 6 (21:59):
Yes, it's cool as darkness overtook the sunny sky over
Staples crowd's got a nice send off from recording artists
Chris Isaac.
Speaker 3 (22:08):
What about.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
How about that they had Chris Isaac at the opening
of the Staples Center.
Speaker 4 (22:20):
Yeah, that really dates this story, doesn't it.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
This is from KTLA from nineteen ninety nine October seventeenth,
nineteen ninety nine, about the debut of a Staple Center
down there. I also, you gotta wonder this package is
done perfectly. The editing is excellent. There's a great natural sound,
there's great sound with people in the area. The reporter
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track is excellent, so well written. It must have been
a timing issue, because why you would choose this Chris
Isaac song.
Speaker 4 (22:50):
To put.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
I guess it's got a beat and you can dance
to it, but like what we all want to hear,
wicked game, right true?
Speaker 6 (23:06):
All right, one of my favorites, Chris Isaacs doing his
thing here. The party here is winding down in downtown.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
Do you believe that? Do you believe that it was
one of his one of my favorites.
Speaker 6 (23:15):
Yeah, all right, one of my favorites, Chris Isaacs doing
his thing here. The party here is winding down in
downtown Los Angeles. But there is much more to come,
more concerts and a big, big bowl of sports marta
downtown LA, they hope is the place to be back
to you in Hollywood.
Speaker 3 (23:30):
Big ball of sports. I will give them this much.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
That area, which now is called South Park of downtown
Los Angeles, it is a pretty cool, fun place to
hang out. And I think that they the sports and
the convention center and the theaters and all the other
activities with the music venue, that's all I think is
really revolutionized that part of downtown. Is that truly a
big ball of sports, A big ball of sports. It
doesn't want a big bowl of sports? Do you know
(23:54):
that doctors recommend a big ball of sports is part
of a balance breakfas as well as four out of
five ennis they agree that fifth Dennis kind of a jerk.
He's an a hole.
Speaker 4 (24:06):
We don't like kind of the RFK junior of Dennis,
he doesn't recommend that.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
He's not on board with any of this stuff.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
This portion of the show is not pre recorded. It's
eight forty nine and thirty three seconds here in Burbank, California,
on this Thursday, October sixteenth.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
Be with you for a little bit there quickly.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
I'm much anticipated, depending on who you talk to, extension
of one of LA's Metros or La Metro rathers underground
subways has been delayed to next year due to issues
with testing the first of three Metro d Line extensions
into West LA that was scheduled to open later this year,
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which would expand the formerly I think Purple Line metro
nearly four miles along Wilshire Boulevard to the west from
Koreatown towards Beverly Hills on Wilshre mid City. If you've
listened to Billy Joel talk about the Miracle Mile, that's
that's what he's referring to there. Construction of section one
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of the extension is ninety eight percent this week, but
earlier than this ninety eight percent complete excuse me, but
earlier this week, Metro officials announced testing of the next
extension took longer, and it looks like it presumably will
be early next year Winter twenty twenty six. I don't
know who's to say. We always say undo it live
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and five live that the catchphrase for Metro should be
taking you from where you're not to where you don't
want to be.
Speaker 3 (25:43):
Also, are you looking to date someone who's a freak
like you?
Speaker 5 (25:47):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (25:47):
I should have had you play freak like me or
freak on a leash or freak. There's a lot of
there's a lot of freak.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
Songs out there. Freak azoid, freak azoid.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
Freak matching is a trend on social media that some
users are embracing, posting videos about wanting someone to match
their freak, somebody who shares their brand of weird. It
could mean unusual habits, strange hobbies, or niche obsessions. Mark
Ronner really likes reading about serial killers. Well, that's a
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cool thing. I'm into trains.
Speaker 4 (26:22):
Oh, everybody loves Tutu trainsh. I mean they're the best.
I mean in the fact, I just was talking to
a guy last night who's an Amtrak dispatcher and Providence,
Rhode Island. I was just buying a book from him,
and he told me what he did, and I was like, oh,
I got to find out about it this.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
Wait, how did you buy a book from a guy
in Providence, Rhode Island last night?
Speaker 6 (26:42):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (26:42):
We were in a Facebook group that the fans of
a certain kind of book, like old horror magazine.
Speaker 3 (26:48):
I knew it was horror. I knew it.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
So some of the freaks that they are talking about
matching in this article at least, are surprisingly tame quirks,
such as laughing at horror movies.
Speaker 4 (27:00):
Wow, if you love those and you can get a
girlfriend who will watch those with you? Yeah, snare that?
Speaker 2 (27:07):
How about this one watching sunsets on the beach? How unique?
Speaker 4 (27:10):
Oh? Forgot in soft focus? I don't think so.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
There are enough of these videos to start the horror
movie Laughers Club, apparently. But then there also are some
genuinely bizarre ones solving math problems in your dreams, making
personalized shampoo bottles or more god, this generation man.
Speaker 4 (27:29):
Personalized shampoo bottles now is a.
Speaker 3 (27:32):
Thing, apparently, it is okay.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
Look, I'm not here to yuck anybody's youm I just
want your young to be at least like interesting.
Speaker 6 (27:39):
You know.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
Dating coach Sabrina Zohar says it's backlash against the algorithm
driven dating prevalent among gen Z youth. Freak matching is
the rebellion against the algo forget your resume? Do you
also think the Snuggy infomercial was iconic? So it's all
related to branding, I guess brands. One user says, when
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I met my now boyfriend, one of the first things
we bonded over was our hatred for running scrambled eggs.
We're both big brunch people, especially together, explained Laura.
Speaker 4 (28:15):
Wow, does that define them as as people? Their runny
egg hatred? Apparently it did enough for them to start dating. However,
freak matching, you gotta watch this go figure. This doesn't
necessarily mean it'll lead to eternal love because someone named
Katie learned this the hard way. We went for brunch
and I had to reveal I only drink coffee with
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cold milk.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
Oh my god, so no lattes or cappuccinos, and she
does the same thing. I thought we might be soulmates
just from that we weren't. This is what happens when
people are raised on television or the Internet and they
have no interaction with other people. A twenty seventeen study
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unsurprisingly found trait based matching, including shared interests in quirks,
almost has no predictive power for relationship success. What actually
matters communication, how you handle conflict, how you repair after fights.
The dating expert says, we have to be honest about
how much weight we're putting on someone remembering the same
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SpongeBob quotes. You need someone who can have hard conversations
at two am. Hey now, not just someone who laughs
at the same memes. Okay, that's good.
Speaker 4 (29:32):
One day you think you've found your runny scrambled egg soulmate.
The next day you realize they're a monster. That's right,
that's true.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
Though, I do think that there is something about these
deeply seated passions, like if I found somebody else who
also loved the golden era of jet travel to the
point where they wanted to like put you know, metal
models of DC eights in the house. You know, my
whole sense of normalcy is that I want these things,
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like if I had my way, I would put a
classic car in the living room. Thank God that I
have a partner who would not let that happen, because
you need a check and you need a balance in life.
Speaker 4 (30:18):
Well, there's certain things though that it would be suspicious
if your partner was also into those, Like wait a minute,
you want to watch this Western TV show from the
sixties with me? What's wrong with you? There's something going
on here? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (30:31):
Did you just google me? You just see what I
said on a show or something or not. You're just
doing it because i'd do it.
Speaker 4 (30:37):
Yeah. And there's also the play of you know, the
back and forth of trying to get somebody in a
relationship to do that and if they make it too easy,
that's right, that takes all the sport out of it.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
That's like the Lebowski test, where you play the Big
Lebowski or something that you really like for somebody and
maybe they like it, or maybe they don't like it.
I also think that there's a thing about this generation
where they think that it is absent. And I think
I say this with a lot of things, not just dating,
but they think it's absolutely necessary for their partner to
mirror them identically.
Speaker 4 (31:08):
Now that's boring and suspicious and you want to have
like the kind of back and forth. Will Okay, we
did this thing. We went to the restaurant you liked,
So now we're going to go home and watch an
episode of Cullshak the night Stalker and you're gonna like it.
Speaker 3 (31:22):
I'm not going to say I worry about you.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
Don't make it personal. But yeah, yeah, I agree with you.
I agree one hundred percent. We need a little spicy life.
How boring is it to just look at a mirror
all the time. But I think that's what happens when
you grow up with social media. This generation just gets
their own whatever fed back to them, and I think
that they get a customed and they learn that that
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is how they should be, and they get this myopic worldview,
and anybody who challenges that is bad. And I think
that it goes for obviously political things, but also it
goes for very meaningless things, except for nineteen sixties models
of DC eight pan.
Speaker 3 (32:02):
Am aircraft that is not meaningless.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
Coming up to the next hour, mortgage broker James Reddick
is coming in. He'll be asked, we'll be asking him
if it's time to refinance rates are going down?
Speaker 3 (32:12):
What should you do?
Speaker 2 (32:13):
Plus where should you be eating? If you want a
nice dinner for fifty bucks a person? Isn't it amazing
that that's now a deal? Fifty dollars per person for dinner.
Speaker 4 (32:23):
You're getting off easy if it's only fifty.
Speaker 3 (32:25):
I know, I know.
Speaker 2 (32:26):
So we got a whole list fifty restaurants under fifty
bucks a person. And then influences are now bigger than
movie stars. But something is in the waters threatening to
disrupt their dominance. That's all coming up next hour. KFI
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I think, Ronner, we're legally obligated to play it on
the show, are we.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
That's the rules. I don't make them.
Speaker 4 (00:28):
Well, I certainly believe in following the rules. To only
follow the rules here. That's why people like us so much. Yes,
by all means, proceed.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
So I wanted to tell you though, because I didn't
get into it in the last last hour.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
The Shatner situation.
Speaker 4 (00:41):
Well, yeah, I want to hear that.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
I love William Shatner. I've always been a big fan same.
I was a big old Nerd growing up. I know
that's a big surprise to everybody.
Speaker 4 (00:50):
No, no, this is my You can trace my current
hair directly to William Shatner.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
That's really funny like that. It's and I now that
I see it, I get it. I totally get it.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Yeah, I mean, he's a handsome guy.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
Young, a young Captain Kirk, A young captain Kirk has
you actually have a little bit of a young Captain
Kirk vibe going on Ron. It's in the vocal delivery
as well. Oh my goodness, that's great.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
You know Rick Chambers who's a Katla anchor reporter and
also does the voice of Marongo good Times. You know
that guy. Everybody knows that guy. Okay, so he mimicked
Bill Curtis growing up. Yeah, newsman Bill Curtis, you know
who cut also has that cut of voice.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
What do they talk like this?
Speaker 4 (01:32):
He had a magnificent voice.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Unbelievable voice. He's still around, He's still he's still doing radio.
Does wait wait, don't tell me on NPR. And I
have messaged him on Instagram to try to cause he's
got a book out, I think, to try to get
him to come on the show.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
I'll let you know what he says.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
Oh please do.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
But let me go back to Shatner. I've I met
him ten years ago, eleven twelve years ago. I was
working at a place called Ora TV, which is where
I worked with Brigitta Dagostino, then Santos and Larry King's
production company had a bunch of deals, the show with
Jesse Ventura. He had a deal with William Shatner, and
(02:08):
I got to direct this show that was a wine
tasting show called William Shatner's brown Bag Wine Tasting.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
I hope you didn't try to tell him how to
say the word sabotage. No, I would never, that's a
deep cut.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
I didn't. I didn't tell him how to say sabotage.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
But I did also direct the show and then edited
a few episodes, and I will say there is some
good stuff that did not make it into the final episode,
just because you know, he's an eccentric guy. You never
know where he'll go with some stuff. But we did
probably like forty episodes of this show, and it was great,
and we had all kinds of guests, like real, real,
big deal guests, and we would go to these cool
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locations and the whole premise was here's a mystery bottle
of wine, everybody drinks it together, and then you describe
the wine based on your either personality or your occupation.
So how does an outfielder just this Cabernet seven young?
It's a home run, right, that's the premise. Was it
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a good show? I mean, it's fun because it's Shatner
and Shatner talking to strangers. So I did these episodes,
and I really worked hard on this, and I had,
I thought a pretty good relationship with Shatner. And I
will say one time we were doing a show and
it was like seven in the morning, and the man
ten years ago, he was probably in his almost eighty
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maybe we were at the Grand Central Market and we
were getting ready to shoot, and we're gonna shoot this
place called Bell Campo, which is a cafe. You know,
they did like meet and made burgers, and then also
it was kind of fancy, right. So I saw this
man eat one Porterhouse stuck. I got probably probably like
a seven out steak, like a pretty good sized steak,
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and then he's like, what's seven in the Morning's like
I want another one, So they bring him another and
then he's like, I want another one. I saw him
three steaks before we filmed at seven thirty in the morning,
and he got up there he drank like four bottles
of wine, did not miss a beat. I mean he
had a sip. He had a sip on each one.
But he didn't miss a beat and did the whole show.
And I was like, man, this guy he's just a tank.
He's incredible.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
That is impressive, and I would expect the shat to
be a man of large appetites in every front.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
We had Alton Brown on the show, and Alton made
him some of his grandmother's mom's biscuits, I think, and
he loved him, and you know, it was great. It
was a really fun thing. And you know there's you know,
the people maybe said to me going into this, you know,
he don't not always meet your heroes. But I had
a really good time with him and it was a
very positive experience. And the show wrapped and then I'm looking,
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like I don't know, going through Twitter or whatever, and
I want to look him up and he's not on
Twitter anymore. What And I was like, I was following him.
I was like, this man, this man tweeted all the time.
I haven't seen his tweets in a while. His tweets
are really funny too.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
They're hilarious.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
And he would like live tweet the Bachelor, you know
what I mean, Like he really is into it and
he's funny.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
Well, he also had some pretty witty smackdowns of people
who dared to get up in his grill.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Absolute, The man is a smart dude. Yeah, and this
guy blocked me on Twitter. I couldn't see his Twitter
account because he blocked me.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
What did you do?
Speaker 3 (05:12):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
You had to have done something you.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Would think to this day, I still have no idea
why William Shatner has blocked me on Twitter.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
You gotta tread lightly around that guy. You don't just
shoot off your mouth around Shatner. I mean I can
only imagine. I what what could I have said? But
obviously everything. Did you say something about his hair? No,
that's the easy stuff. No, I would have never criticized him.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
I thought he was really fun and it was a
you know, I mean, listen, once you work with somebody
like that, like, you're not going to be intimidated by
anybody else. Maybe John Tesh, maybe John Tesh will we'll
get the blood pumping a little bit. But I think
it was such a great thing that like, after that,
I was like, Okay, well, who's going to be bigger
than him? Who's bigger than Larry King? And so I
still think about it, and I'm still sad about it.
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And I'm kind of haveing anxiety about why does William
Shatner not like me?
Speaker 4 (06:03):
I'm looking right now to see if he's blocked me
as well.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Now I'm sure he's like.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
I will go to Twitter, I will post this on
my Instagram account at andy ktla what it looks like
when I look for William Shatner, because it just comes
up with nothing.
Speaker 4 (06:17):
Okay, here we go.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
Wait, there's been a development.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Yes, I believe I am unblocked by William Shatner.
Speaker 4 (06:26):
Now I see, so he's.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
He's come around on me.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
Maybe he can be volatile then, yeah, I'm talking for
it over a ten year period.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Sure, maybe it like to blocks reset at a certain point.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
No, you just never know what Shatner is going to do.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
I was always worried that I had sabotaged myself.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
One does not want to engage in self sabotage. No, indeed,
because I'm a rocket man. Now listen, I saw that
when I was a kid on TV. And maybe you
should kind of set the stage for people who don't
know what the hell we're talking about, because that was
an immortal and iconic moment and you can find it
on YouTube.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Yeah, maybe we'll play it sometime later in the show.
We only have like what two and a half, almost
an hour and forty five years in charge. You can
break the rules. No, I'm saying, we got plenty of time.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
We could.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
We'll find I'll play it over and over again. Heck,
we'll just rerack my John Tesh interview if you really want.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
Okay, So there was some sci fi TV Awards show
and Shatner comes out where.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
I'm pulling it. I'll pulling it up, but you set
it up.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
He comes out wearing some sort of formal wear with
a bow tie and smoking a cigarette with one foot
up on a stool. Casual cool, and he does a
spoken word version of rocket Man and nobody had ever
seen anything like it. Everybody's jaw to this day dropped. Yeah,
it's really one of the most incredible.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
Here we go. Audio restored. Also, well, I hope you are.
We're going to give a kind of advertisement.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
So this must have been what nineteen seventy late seventy eight,
right after I obviously have to come out after Goodbye
yele Brick Road, and this is it started a whole
a whole genre of Shatner's spoken words songs, and by
that you mean magnetic.
Speaker 5 (08:19):
Last night pre fled Oh zero hour.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Nine, I am a full tux.
Speaker 5 (08:30):
I'm gonna be.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
With the with the weird synthesizer of the bat night.
Speaker 5 (08:42):
Heck, yeah, missed the Earth so much, we missed my wine.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Listen to the way he sells that miss moon, and listen,
of course this line. I'm actually kind of surprised that
Captain Kirk threw away it's lonely out in space. Maybe
he thought it was too obvious and too on the nose.
Speaker 4 (09:10):
And Elton John wishes he could have done this song
that well.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
Yeah, I mean it was. This is obviously the superior version.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Please, you're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
If I'm remembering that right, there are multiple versions of
Shatner on the screen talking to you, singing, talking to
each other.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
The gift, as it were, that you receive for watching this,
or observing this through its full three four four four
minutes and forty nine seconds of experience, is indeed not one,
not two, but three Shatners, the third of which has
taken off his bow tie draped it around his neck,
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undone his corsage, the cumber mine has been removed and
there he is just having a moment. By the way,
an update, I posted it on my Instagram at Andy Ktla.
I am still blocked by William Shatner. I thought things
were different, but apparently in the new Elon version of
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Twitter on X you're able to see public posts, but
you cannot be.
Speaker 4 (10:16):
You cannot respond, So well, you must have done something
to offend the great man.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
You know, I neg never tweet and I never tweeted
even back then, so I think you know who's to say.
I was trying to get Conway on on the show.
This is again like ten years ago, and I wasn't
able to make that happen. I did come on on
his on Conway's show and talk about the Shatner Show.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
But I'm very proud of that show. We had a
lot of fun.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Adam Carolla was on there and he brought his mangria,
and I still have that bottle of mangrea that Corolla
and the Shatner shared.
Speaker 4 (10:54):
That sounds repulsive. What is that?
Speaker 3 (10:56):
It's sangria, but for men?
Speaker 4 (10:59):
What makes it? For men?
Speaker 3 (11:00):
It's called mangrea.
Speaker 4 (11:03):
I think some things are going a bit circular here,
so I guess I could just drop it if that's
what you want.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
I don't know exactly why he did this. Maybe it
was like a I think it was a bit. I
think it was a joke. He liked sangria, but he
felt it was too girly, so he decided instead to
make mangria. You know, obviously Corolla and Kimmel did The
Man Show, and maybe that's what it was. But he
had a he had a whole brand making mangrea. By
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the way, if you'd like to, you can still buy
it for ten dollars and forty nine cents a bottle,
or you can get a case of twelve for one
hundred and twenty five bucks.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
Hard pass, so to speak.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
It's an original orange Mangrea cocktail, offering intense BlackBerry and
cranberry aromatics, full body texture, and a citrusy but smooth finish.
Speaker 4 (11:51):
Oh you're calling it mangria, but it sounds pretty fruity.
It was.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
I remember it being kind of good, but you know,
I was.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Like twenty six years old, so this is this.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
Is back in the day.
Speaker 4 (12:05):
Well, people, the statute of limitations runs out because at
that age you're drinking. You're drinking zemas. Yeah, you're drinking
Bartles and James. It doesn't make any little arbor missed
little boones. Oh Bartles and James is funny. I haven't
heard you know.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
I was too young to drink Bartles and James when
it was popular, but I remember it as a kid
like understanding what it was and thinking like, that's exciting.
That looks like I thought adults did that. I thought
Mike's Hard lemonade was was a serious beverage because of
the commercial.
Speaker 4 (12:34):
Yeah, I just have never been comfortable going into a
place and saying, give me a Mike's Hard.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
Do they have it?
Speaker 4 (12:40):
Do you?
Speaker 2 (12:40):
Is your Mike's Hard on tap? Or is it in
the it's in the bottle? Yeah, that's cool, I'll take it.
I prefer in any green springs.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
Oh what is that?
Speaker 4 (12:49):
I'm just kind of a fan of all these old
school like stuff from my mom's or yeah, like Virginia
Slims and that kind of stuff.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
Yeah, Virginia Slims are are hilarious. Like that's a good
that's good thing to put in it. If you're writing
a sketch and you need to punch up a line
about cigarettes, call in Virginia Slims. Yeah, as you know,
you write, you write dialogue.
Speaker 4 (13:08):
I have, yes, and I just I love all this obscure,
especially stuff from like late sixties and early seventies that
seems horrifically awkward.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
Now yeah, like like William Shatner's music career.
Speaker 4 (13:20):
Well, I won't. I won't tolerate any mockery of Shatner.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
Okay, I know I'm still a fan, even though he
has he has blocked me, forgotten me, written me off
to the universe, gotten up on his spaceship, and latchkeyed
me where watching him, watching him go out for smokes
and never come back.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
That's Shattner, Frank.
Speaker 4 (13:42):
Maybe you're like the romulent Commander and in a different
reality you could have been friends, but in this one
not so much. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
Yeah, my heart in peace is But first coffee is
in trouble. Do you know this?
Speaker 4 (13:56):
I know it's more expensive, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
Forty percent more expensive compared to last year. There's a
place in Beverly Hills called Leora. It's a trendy cafe
and it is located in the loading dock of UTA.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
This is not an exaggeration.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
You walk around the building into where the trash is
and there are thirty twenty two year old influencers sitting
there drinking their expensive coffees, taking pictures of themselves. The
cost of coffee everywhere is going up. There's a fifty
percent tariff on Brazil, twenty percent tariff on Vietnam. Those
countries make more than half of the world's coffee beans.
(14:31):
You also got climate change, fires, flooding, droughts, and more.
It's a real buzzkill, and things are getting so dire.
Congress is stepping in to kill tariffs on coffee. It's
called the No Coffee Tax Act. It was introduced by
California Democrat Rocana along with Don Bacon, a Republican for
Nebraska coffee and Bacon. Bacon's more expensive bacon is also Yeah,
(14:52):
it's harder to bring home the bacon these days. The
Atlantic says, on any given day, an American is likelier
to drink coffee than they are exercise, pray, or read
for pleasure as opposed to reading for torture. Maru Coffee
is also in Beverly Hills. Their signature drink costs six
seventy five. It's a relative deal at arawon the cafe
(15:16):
latte is seven dollars and seventy five cents. Alfred's Vanilla
Latte eight dollars and forty cents. But the most expensive
coffee in La County is it a chain in the
San Gabriel Valley called Clatch Coffee. They have a specialty
latte that'll set you back seventy eight dollars.
Speaker 4 (15:33):
Is this that stuff made from the civet?
Speaker 2 (15:35):
No, it's not the cat sque coffee. I know, it's
just fancy beans. A real bean crisis here coming up.
If if you're if you're thinking that some you hope
that your your girlfriend will match your freakh. Maybe that's
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a not but that's not so great. Also, Hollywood apparently
loves influencers. Now great, and we'll ask why does everybody
seemingly hate the Valley? I love the Valley, but sometimes
people don't like it very much.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand, little Ska.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
Throwing it back to the early nineties. Sounds like music
you might play at a val party. We're talking about
the valley, and for some reason people still don't like it.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
I don't get it. Why do people hate the valley?
Speaker 2 (16:37):
It is a question posed by sf Gate, a publication
from the Bay Area. Sure it is a little clickbaity,
but the article, I think is a pretty incredible look
at the San Fernando Valley in the history of it,
and why is it that there's always so much scorn
for America's most famous suburb. It can be only a
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few minutes over the hill, but the psychology of a mountain,
for some reason, makes certain people on the other side
of it think it's far away and lesser than.
Speaker 4 (17:10):
Now.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
If you live on the I have to say this
side of it because we're in Burbank. But if you
live in the valley and you work out of the valley,
you cross it multiple times a day, it's not a
big deal to you anymore.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
I do it all the time. I don't even think
about it.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
San Francisco Gate says the practice of hating in the
valley stretches far beyond the Southland. A perception has become
so profoundly entrenched in American life that many people who
have never set foot in California are aware of the
valley and have opinions about it. I love the valley
so much that I named my dumb band after it.
(17:45):
The band is called Andy and the Valley because I
am so uninteresting that the thing I had to do
with my music was but.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
The city, this is the place I live in. It.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
It's like local band one oh one move. Many people
think of the valley as a cultural wasteland. It's just
strip malls and vapid teenage girls. That, of course is
because of movies and TV shows in the seventies, in
the eighties and maybe the nineties showing the valley as
a kind of rotting suburbia. They say the eight one
eight was a lesser place. Did you know Frank Zappa
(18:20):
actually invented the or coined the term valley girl in
nineteen eighty two based on his daughter's experience going to
the malls in the valley like totally as if, as if.
But that was nineteen eighty two. The valley as we
know it now it's far different. You're less likely to
see a valley girl and more likely to see a
(18:41):
work foot warehouse advertisement, Still rich in culture, still very
la expensive, fancy hole in the wall, grungy. I don't
know anywhere else where you could see an adult film
actress breaking read with a child influencer, not at the
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same table let us hope at a restaurant owned by
a former reality TV star who's like in prison. Now,
that is just like the valley. We got it all baby.
I will say this though, from having lived there for
as long as I did and here living here, I
definitely got more dating matches when I set my location
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on my app to Los feelis whoops, speaking of La
October seventeenth. October seventeenth, nineteen ninety nine, something very special
happened here in Los Angeles? Does anybody know what that was?
Speaker 3 (19:46):
Can you guess?
Speaker 4 (19:46):
Ronner? I'm coming up blank.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
It's a terrible setup that I just named a random
date and was like, what.
Speaker 4 (19:52):
Happened that day? Answer me, Mack Schnell, how dare you?
Speaker 6 (19:56):
Sir?
Speaker 3 (19:57):
It's related to sports take away?
Speaker 4 (19:58):
And then I really wouldn't know it.
Speaker 6 (20:02):
You are about to witness what everyone hopes will be
the rebirth of downtown Los Angeles, and this is the
magnet that's attracting the crowd.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
Golly, welcome to Staples Center. So in nineteen ninety nine,
they were still saying.
Speaker 6 (20:17):
You were about to witness what everyone hopes will be
the rebirth of downtown Los Angeles.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
Have you been there lately. No, in the past twenty
six years.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
I lived down there about before I move the valley,
so like twenty thirteen. I always wanted to live in
a big city, great place, very exciting. I'll tell you
stories about that later. Let's listen into the Staples Crypto
originally Staples Center.
Speaker 6 (20:46):
They believe it's a cut above any other arena on
the world. What great come inside the four hundred million
dollar bowl of dreams. It's cons the taj Mahall of
sports and entertainment complexes spelled in bold red letters Staples Center.
(21:06):
The mayor says it sends a clear message.
Speaker 5 (21:09):
Los Angeles is still number one with Staples.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
Los Angeles Mayor Reardon.
Speaker 4 (21:15):
Still number one with Staples.
Speaker 6 (21:18):
Los Angeles hopes to pump new life blood into downtown
and if today's street party and concerts are a good
measuring stick, the crowds will come if they like what they.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
See looks beautiful.
Speaker 4 (21:28):
It makes downtown just come alive.
Speaker 7 (21:30):
Definitely, Hopefully it'll live in downtown up. Bring a few
more people down here on a regular basis to attend
the events that they have.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
And this guy does not exist in La anymore. This
guy sounds like I grew up with him, I went
to high school with him.
Speaker 7 (21:42):
Indiana, live in downtown up bringing a few more people
down here on a regular basis to attend the events
that they have and you know, kind of refresh the
area and start a renaissance from downtown.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
If only they knew what was coming, renaissance from downtown.
Of course, it's wonderful.
Speaker 6 (21:59):
Yes, it's cool as darkness overtook the sunny sky over
Staples crowd's got a nice send off from recording artists
Chris Isaac.
Speaker 3 (22:08):
What about.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
How about that they had Chris Isaac at the opening
of the Staples Center.
Speaker 4 (22:20):
Yeah, that really dates this story, doesn't it.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
This is from KTLA from nineteen ninety nine October seventeenth,
nineteen ninety nine, about the debut of a Staple Center
down there. I also, you gotta wonder this package is
done perfectly. The editing is excellent. There's a great natural sound,
there's great sound with people in the area. The reporter
(22:42):
track is excellent, so well written. It must have been
a timing issue, because why you would choose this Chris
Isaac song.
Speaker 4 (22:50):
To put.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
I guess it's got a beat and you can dance
to it, but like what we all want to hear,
wicked game, right true?
Speaker 6 (23:06):
All right, one of my favorites, Chris Isaacs doing his
thing here. The party here is winding down in downtown.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
Do you believe that? Do you believe that it was
one of his one of my favorites.
Speaker 6 (23:15):
Yeah, all right, one of my favorites, Chris Isaacs doing
his thing here. The party here is winding down in
downtown Los Angeles. But there is much more to come,
more concerts and a big, big bowl of sports marta
downtown LA, they hope is the place to be back
to you in Hollywood.
Speaker 3 (23:30):
Big ball of sports. I will give them this much.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
That area, which now is called South Park of downtown
Los Angeles, it is a pretty cool, fun place to
hang out. And I think that they the sports and
the convention center and the theaters and all the other
activities with the music venue, that's all I think is
really revolutionized that part of downtown. Is that truly a
big ball of sports, A big ball of sports. It
doesn't want a big bowl of sports? Do you know
(23:54):
that doctors recommend a big ball of sports is part
of a balance breakfas as well as four out of
five ennis they agree that fifth Dennis kind of a jerk.
He's an a hole.
Speaker 4 (24:06):
We don't like kind of the RFK junior of Dennis,
he doesn't recommend that.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
He's not on board with any of this stuff.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
This portion of the show is not pre recorded. It's
eight forty nine and thirty three seconds here in Burbank, California,
on this Thursday, October sixteenth.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
Be with you for a little bit there quickly.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
I'm much anticipated, depending on who you talk to, extension
of one of LA's Metros or La Metro rathers underground
subways has been delayed to next year due to issues
with testing the first of three Metro d Line extensions
into West LA that was scheduled to open later this year,
(24:47):
which would expand the formerly I think Purple Line metro
nearly four miles along Wilshire Boulevard to the west from
Koreatown towards Beverly Hills on Wilshre mid City. If you've
listened to Billy Joel talk about the Miracle Mile, that's
that's what he's referring to there. Construction of section one
(25:11):
of the extension is ninety eight percent this week, but
earlier than this ninety eight percent complete excuse me, but
earlier this week, Metro officials announced testing of the next
extension took longer, and it looks like it presumably will
be early next year Winter twenty twenty six. I don't
know who's to say. We always say undo it live
(25:34):
and five live that the catchphrase for Metro should be
taking you from where you're not to where you don't
want to be.
Speaker 3 (25:43):
Also, are you looking to date someone who's a freak
like you?
Speaker 5 (25:47):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (25:47):
I should have had you play freak like me or
freak on a leash or freak. There's a lot of
there's a lot of freak.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
Songs out there. Freak azoid, freak azoid.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
Freak matching is a trend on social media that some
users are embracing, posting videos about wanting someone to match
their freak, somebody who shares their brand of weird. It
could mean unusual habits, strange hobbies, or niche obsessions. Mark
Ronner really likes reading about serial killers. Well, that's a
(26:19):
cool thing. I'm into trains.
Speaker 4 (26:22):
Oh, everybody loves Tutu trainsh. I mean they're the best.
I mean in the fact, I just was talking to
a guy last night who's an Amtrak dispatcher and Providence,
Rhode Island. I was just buying a book from him,
and he told me what he did, and I was like, oh,
I got to find out about it this.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
Wait, how did you buy a book from a guy
in Providence, Rhode Island last night?
Speaker 6 (26:42):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (26:42):
We were in a Facebook group that the fans of
a certain kind of book, like old horror magazine.
Speaker 3 (26:48):
I knew it was horror. I knew it.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
So some of the freaks that they are talking about
matching in this article at least, are surprisingly tame quirks,
such as laughing at horror movies.
Speaker 4 (27:00):
Wow, if you love those and you can get a
girlfriend who will watch those with you? Yeah, snare that?
Speaker 2 (27:07):
How about this one watching sunsets on the beach? How unique?
Speaker 4 (27:10):
Oh? Forgot in soft focus? I don't think so.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
There are enough of these videos to start the horror
movie Laughers Club, apparently. But then there also are some
genuinely bizarre ones solving math problems in your dreams, making
personalized shampoo bottles or more god, this generation man.
Speaker 4 (27:29):
Personalized shampoo bottles now is a.
Speaker 3 (27:32):
Thing, apparently, it is okay.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
Look, I'm not here to yuck anybody's youm I just
want your young to be at least like interesting.
Speaker 6 (27:39):
You know.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
Dating coach Sabrina Zohar says it's backlash against the algorithm
driven dating prevalent among gen Z youth. Freak matching is
the rebellion against the algo forget your resume? Do you
also think the Snuggy infomercial was iconic? So it's all
related to branding, I guess brands. One user says, when
(28:04):
I met my now boyfriend, one of the first things
we bonded over was our hatred for running scrambled eggs.
We're both big brunch people, especially together, explained Laura.
Speaker 4 (28:15):
Wow, does that define them as as people? Their runny
egg hatred? Apparently it did enough for them to start dating. However,
freak matching, you gotta watch this go figure. This doesn't
necessarily mean it'll lead to eternal love because someone named
Katie learned this the hard way. We went for brunch
and I had to reveal I only drink coffee with
(28:37):
cold milk.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
Oh my god, so no lattes or cappuccinos, and she
does the same thing. I thought we might be soulmates
just from that we weren't. This is what happens when
people are raised on television or the Internet and they
have no interaction with other people. A twenty seventeen study
(28:59):
unsurprisingly found trait based matching, including shared interests in quirks,
almost has no predictive power for relationship success. What actually
matters communication, how you handle conflict, how you repair after fights.
The dating expert says, we have to be honest about
how much weight we're putting on someone remembering the same
(29:21):
SpongeBob quotes. You need someone who can have hard conversations
at two am. Hey now, not just someone who laughs
at the same memes. Okay, that's good.
Speaker 4 (29:32):
One day you think you've found your runny scrambled egg soulmate.
The next day you realize they're a monster. That's right,
that's true.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
Though, I do think that there is something about these
deeply seated passions, like if I found somebody else who
also loved the golden era of jet travel to the
point where they wanted to like put you know, metal
models of DC eights in the house. You know, my
whole sense of normalcy is that I want these things,
(30:05):
like if I had my way, I would put a
classic car in the living room. Thank God that I
have a partner who would not let that happen, because
you need a check and you need a balance in life.
Speaker 4 (30:18):
Well, there's certain things though that it would be suspicious
if your partner was also into those, Like wait a minute,
you want to watch this Western TV show from the
sixties with me? What's wrong with you? There's something going
on here? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (30:31):
Did you just google me? You just see what I
said on a show or something or not. You're just
doing it because i'd do it.
Speaker 4 (30:37):
Yeah. And there's also the play of you know, the
back and forth of trying to get somebody in a
relationship to do that and if they make it too easy,
that's right, that takes all the sport out of it.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
That's like the Lebowski test, where you play the Big
Lebowski or something that you really like for somebody and
maybe they like it, or maybe they don't like it.
I also think that there's a thing about this generation
where they think that it is absent. And I think
I say this with a lot of things, not just dating,
but they think it's absolutely necessary for their partner to
mirror them identically.
Speaker 4 (31:08):
Now that's boring and suspicious and you want to have
like the kind of back and forth. Will Okay, we
did this thing. We went to the restaurant you liked,
So now we're going to go home and watch an
episode of Cullshak the night Stalker and you're gonna like it.
Speaker 3 (31:22):
I'm not going to say I worry about you.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
Don't make it personal. But yeah, yeah, I agree with you.
I agree one hundred percent. We need a little spicy life.
How boring is it to just look at a mirror
all the time. But I think that's what happens when
you grow up with social media. This generation just gets
their own whatever fed back to them, and I think
that they get a customed and they learn that that
(31:46):
is how they should be, and they get this myopic worldview,
and anybody who challenges that is bad. And I think
that it goes for obviously political things, but also it
goes for very meaningless things, except for nineteen sixties models
of DC eight pan.
Speaker 3 (32:02):
Am aircraft that is not meaningless.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
Coming up to the next hour, mortgage broker James Reddick
is coming in. He'll be asked, we'll be asking him
if it's time to refinance rates are going down?
Speaker 3 (32:12):
What should you do?
Speaker 2 (32:13):
Plus where should you be eating? If you want a
nice dinner for fifty bucks a person? Isn't it amazing
that that's now a deal? Fifty dollars per person for dinner.
Speaker 4 (32:23):
You're getting off easy if it's only fifty.
Speaker 3 (32:25):
I know, I know.
Speaker 2 (32:26):
So we got a whole list fifty restaurants under fifty
bucks a person. And then influences are now bigger than
movie stars. But something is in the waters threatening to
disrupt their dominance. That's all coming up next hour. KFI
AM six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio
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