November 4, 2025 • 35 mins
Andy breaks down the Dodgers Parade and hilariously investigates why men can’t resist taking their shirts off to celebrate a big win. He then dives into the troubling story of sober Georgia drivers charged with DUIs, sharing his own experience of being mistakenly hit with a DUI when he first moved to Los Angeles, and questioning the accuracy of roadside tests. Andy also tunes in to John Kobylt’s interview with CNN’s Elex Michaelson for a dose of media insight, before wrapping up with a bizarre “oil-in-the-engine” car scam out of Placer County.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:09):
I am six forty. I'm Andy Reesemeyer. We're live everywhere
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Speaker 3 (00:20):
You can hear us everywhere.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Got about an hour left here before we hand it
off to mister George Nori from coast to coast on
this Monday night, beautiful day for a parade. You were saying, Ronner, Yes,
really nice out there today. Did you see the sunset
at all? Did you happen to catch that? No, it was,
In fact, it was dark by the time I left
her work today. We are well into switched to daylight
savings over the weekend. I know it was really I
(00:43):
wouldn't say that I like, you know, had any medical
issues associated with it, but it really was kind of
a head trip.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
No, that's seasonal oppress effective disorder. Seasonal effective disorder SAD
is a real thing. I like, Wait a minute, I
like seasonal oppressive disorder. It amounts to the same, doesn't it,
six to one, A half a dozen serial killers of
the other.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
There he goes again.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
We got two tonight folks just past nine oh five
for the record, if we're keeping track there. So today,
of course we celebrated a Dodger dynasty. Perhaps what would
have to call it a dynasty? It's got to be
more than two back to back, right, Well, in comedy,
there's the rule of threes, so let's just go with three.
I love that. That's a really good, thoughtful answer. Well,
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of course, there was a parade through downtown Los Angeles
started this morning, which then culminated in a celebration at
Dodger Stadium where we watched a cell you know, like
I said, like a real good Boys in Blue back
home taking a victory lap quite quite literally, and of
course we covered it live. You're on KFI and also KTLA.
(01:46):
Here's a little recap from Lauren Lester.
Speaker 5 (01:50):
From Champions on the field to Champions in the streets.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
That's like a freak in the streets reference. Does she good?
You beat me to that? I want to talk her
and ask her if she met like Champions in the streets.
Speaker 5 (02:04):
Double decker buses carrying the Boys in Blue celebrated today
by thousands through clouds of blue confetti. The players cheered
on by a sea of Dodger Blue.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
It's funny all the sound, the Nats sound as they
call it in TV, which is basically just like the
natural sound of whatever was happening there. It's all the
same sound because it was so loud there through downtown
and I'm assuming all of the buildings helped funnel that noise,
the cheering just echoing off the glass and steel and
concrete to create cacophony. As mister Frank Buckley told us
(02:39):
at seven o'clock earlier.
Speaker 5 (02:42):
Massive crowds flocking to the streets of downtown LA for
the parade honoreing the World Series winning Dodgers.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Lifetime Lodger fan, what can I say? Speechless? Look at
this back to back. Nobody thought we were gonna make it,
and we took it.
Speaker 6 (02:56):
We took it, baby, you know that's.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Really important to say. Nobody thought we were gonna make it.
Was not a phrase that a Dodger fan would have
uttered until Game one of the World Series. You remember
the confidence the Hubris going into this final championship series,
the level of we got this, give us our crown,
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it's our coronation. And how after we had that first
game where I think that the Dodgers lost by forty
five points. That might be an exaggeration, it was bad.
And then I think we had an opportunity to sort
of like play as underdogs, which is a weird thing
for the Dodgers, and you saw it so closely, back
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and forth and back and forth, and I was ready
to say, I don't think it's gonna happen. I've written
them off. They were going back to Toronto, back to
the Rogers Center, back to a stadium that has a
roof and hotel rooms in it. I don't know that
that has anything to do with what they did or
didn't do, but I thought it surely isn't going to
(04:07):
be good. And then you had a double play at
the end of Game six. Oh man, that was cool.
And then of course what we saw on Saturday night.
Did the better team win? Yeah, that's how winning works.
I'm gonna say this much. I don't really know what
I just said. It does sound good, I convinced myself,
(04:27):
and then I realized I was like, I don't know
what I'm talking about.
Speaker 7 (04:29):
No, it sounded authoritative, okay, good over a seven game series,
the better team wins.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
Yeah, the Botto line rely how it goes.
Speaker 7 (04:37):
On any given game, a team that may not be
the best team may catch the better team on a
you know, you know, having a rough game, but over
seven game series, better team wins.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Yeah. Yeah, And I will say it was not a sweep,
and I like that. It was great.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
It felt like it was earned and we tried, and
we had to try so hard. Really we had a
game eight because because remember Game three, eighteen innings, it's
like two baseball games and.
Speaker 5 (05:05):
One from a shirtless Keik Hernandez.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
I guess what I was saying is that I really
liked that guy was like at least honest about it,
you know, and Toder's fanci I don't think it was
gonna happen.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
That's pretty crazy to hear World.
Speaker 5 (05:19):
Series MVP Yoshi Nobu Yamamoto show hey O Tani taking
picks and posing for them, and of course that trophy
being hoisted up, fans turning up for a chance to
experience those moments with their favorite players.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Kei k a Hernandez of course had his shirt off,
and if you look on his Instagram, he posted a picture.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
I think Tiffany Hobbs reshared it. That's where I saw it.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Hilarious photo because KEYK from the angle looks as if
his butt is out, but it's actually I think it's somebody, well,
another player's bald head, or maybe it's like Kershaw's shoulder
or something like that. But it's really funny. Go check
it out on her Tiffany Hobbs's instagram. If it's not
on U, kick a Hernandez anymore. But this taking off
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of the shirt thing, you know, show hey didn't do that?
Kershaw did that?
Speaker 3 (06:12):
Love it? Kick Hernandez took off the shirt. I don't.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
I'm not do you take off the shirt? You get
so excited in the celebration. It wasn't hot today downtown
they had a marine layer. You're gonna have pretty good
self esteem to take off your shirt in public. I
took off my shirt really when they won.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Oh yeah, I was swinging it in the air. I
was happy.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
What was it the shirt? You were swinging the shirt
in the air? Oh yeah, that too. I just want
to make sure. Uh yeah, I don't know's I'm missing
that gene. That's just like, all right, I'm pumped, I'll
take off the shirt.
Speaker 7 (06:46):
It was a common thing in Indiana. I saw it
a lot I was in downtown Burbank. I lived there,
and I went. As soon as the they won the game,
I was like, I'm running downstairs. I want to see
how everybody's partying, because it's like five bars in.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Oh yeah, Block Anastasia. Is that one still right there? That?
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Yeah? Yeah, I love that ppot. That's a great spot.
Speaker 7 (07:06):
But yeah, there's like everybody poured out into that little
courtyard and there was at least five shirtless bros going
around just was swinging their shirts in the air and
we're all love it, like it's awesome. You get like
high fives and chest bumps and it's awesome. Those are
the real boys, the real men, you know. Those are
guys who are undistilled from our cavemen, uncorrupted from our
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caveman origins. Those are guys who are like yeah, because
you know what. I also see a lot of taking
off the shirt when you're mad.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
That I see that. I don't understand.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
I think that's like because if you're going to fight somebody,
you don't want to have the the You do not
want to have a shirt to be pulled.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
I don't get in a lot of bar fights. I
don't know.
Speaker 7 (07:46):
I think some people may think that their power increases
with newtness.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Hmm, and wow, what a scientifically incorrect concept that is.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
Well, no, it's kind of a hulk move. Ah okay,
all right, I'm on board.
Speaker 5 (08:01):
Fans lining the route down Grand Avenue and even lining
the freeway and overpasses as the Dodgers made their way
back to Chavez Ravine for a sold out rally. Clayton Kershaw,
who was retiring after eighteen years, making his final appearance
as a Dodger.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
I loved watching him after Game seven, sitting on the
on the ground at the Rogers Center, just outside the
diamond with his kids, just like playing with cars or
whatever they were doing. And then one of his son
was just throwing a ball in the air and catching
it right behind the who whatever the local reporter from
Fox who was on there for like ten years doing
a report about it, and.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
He's just catching he just like goes to show band.
Some people just have.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
It, I guess to say, I'm a chance for life.
Speaker 5 (08:43):
And Japanese superstars, who typically speak through translators, addressing the
crowd in English, with fans erupting it applause, I.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Love, Hi, love want. That's Yoshinoba Yamamato by the way.
Yamamoto by the way, ready.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
To get another ring year. And that's Joe hey Otani, who,
as we said before, maybe actually speaks English pretty well.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Cool.
Speaker 5 (09:11):
That's why players and fans already talking about a three
peat and early on do have the Dodgers favorite to
win in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Can we just have a minute, please, I'm so stressed
thinking about now how we had a three pat Can
we just enjoy this for one minute?
Speaker 7 (09:29):
That was a big thing because remember back in the
day in the eighties, pat Riley with the Lakers guaranteed
the second championship and everybody was like what yeah, And
so they really had to buckle in and get ready
because they put a big bullseye on their back when
they won that second championship in a row. They asked them, sorry,
you're gonna guarantee a third straight and Kareem Abdul Jabbar
(09:49):
was right behind him, took a giant towlan shoved it
in his mouth. You gotta let players enjoy that stuff.
The thing is, it's not just the man, because I know, yeah,
I know that the manager went and said, hey, yeah,
we're gonna do it again. It's very much the players,
players are on board, so that he's the case, then
let him, let him ride that wave.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
And I'm sure you know what I think.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
Sasaki posted a video today of Yamamoto at batting practice
before the parade. Unreal MVP, and I guess you know
what the pressure is probably on. I understand that you
only got so many years being a professional athlete.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
Go for it.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
I just want to let them make sure that they
feel like they have a chance. By the way, Kreem
Abdul Jabbar also was a guy who thought he could
fly in land an airplane.
Speaker 7 (10:34):
True, true, while while dragging Walton and Lanier up and
down the court.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
That's right, That's exactly right. He Ron Roger, Roger Roger,
what's your vector? Victor Roner? You ever you ever seen
a grown man naked? I did mention I was a wrestler,
didn't I You ever been in a Turkish prison?
Speaker 3 (10:57):
Not yet? Looks like I picked the wrong week. It's
quit snipping loose.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
Oh it's the best. Gone Is that all you got?
Oh my god, I could do the whole movie. The
white zone is for immediate loading and unloading only. I
think it's the first line of that movie. God, it's
a good movie. I just I rewatched recently. Robert Stack
plowing through all the people in the departure lounge.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
Oh my god, it's so all of it is so funny.
You know.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
For the story that I was doing about landing airplanes,
I did go back and put some clips into the
piece and the full piece that'll be up tomorrow, and
it was It's just the movie holds up. It's so
stupid in the best possible way. Airplane nineteen eighty. I'm
sure everybody's seen it, but if you haven't seen it lately,
go watch it again. It's just that that kind of
comedy just always works. Shatner and Airplane two was funny.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
Oh my god.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
Airplane two and they go to space or they go
to the moon, right, yep, bizarre.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
And Shatner is in charge of the moon base.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
Oh my god, I'm sold of course, all right, we're
gonna do a watch party.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
I am six forty.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
I'm me Andy Reismeyer, far from a natural but trying
very hard.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
Welcome to the show.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
We still got about forty minutes to go here on
this Monday evening, feeling like Winners in studio here with
Sam Ritchie and Mark.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
Good evening, gents, welcome back.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
You know you heard the Christmas music of the break
there right, little most wonderful time of the year. Of course,
the day after Halloween, it's like time to flip the switch.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
We've unwrapped Mariah Carey.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Well, we quite literally flip a switch here at iHeartMedia
upstairs at Coast one oh three point five. Do you
know this, ellen K. It's a big thing. I saw
them roll it out today. They brought a giant red
light switch into her studio upstairs. I only assume that
it's from Ryan Seacrest's actual dressing room.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
I love giant props.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Novelty sized light switch. So they will at one point
flip that switch, and then of course they'll go wall
to wall Christmas music. It's iconic, such a part of
the LA experience, and I'm hoping, I'm hoping that they
will once again invite KTLA to take that live on air.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
I would love to see that.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Big fan of Ellen Kay found out that Ryan, by
the way, also on ellen K's show, is a Hoosier.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
This place is lousy with Hoosier's, isn't it crazy. Yeah,
Ryan Mano.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
He's from Northwest Indiana, which is where the Reesemeyers hail
from as well, originally outside of Chicago. My mom grew
up in Gary, Indiana, not far from Michael Jackson.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
Oh so your mom's tough.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
She's tough lady. She can dance and sing as well. Hey,
so this is kind of interesting. I wanted to do
this story because I have a story about it also.
But let me just first talk about this in the
context of you think that this might be happening, but
you very rarely get evidence of it, and now that
(13:53):
that might be changed.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
Two.
Speaker 8 (13:55):
Actually News Investigates is looking into major questions about the
accuracy of sobriety test being used across our state, and.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
We talked that state. By the way, is Georgia old,
sober but arrested for I'm so sorry to cut her
off across our state?
Speaker 8 (14:11):
And we talked to one Georgia senior who was stone cold,
sober but arrested for duy.
Speaker 4 (14:16):
Channel two consumer investigator Justin Gray has been looking into
those tests and how officers.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
Are being trained to use them.
Speaker 9 (14:23):
He's live now with Justin How accurate is this training
at identifying people who are under the influence. Yeah, George,
think about the flip of a coin. Heads your tails,
the most recent.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
Great prop use.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
By the way, the reporter was in studio and that
sound was, yes, him flipping a coin on camera.
Speaker 6 (14:43):
Yeah, George, think about the flip of a coin.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
Heah, the compression on that.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
They had to plan that, and the camera guy he
knew the assignment. He nailed it. He's just pans right down.
They use a sober dollar. Listen, a clunk the coin.
That's like a like a railroad tie. I want to
sample that. We use that for like a kick, drum
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or a song or something.
Speaker 9 (15:11):
Heads or tails, the most recent major studies and to
marijuana and feel sobriety test finds that the officers in
those cases judge the sober drivers as under the influence
about half the time.
Speaker 6 (15:25):
No better than the flip of a coin.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
No, he's a big deep breath and then blow.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
By the way, he didn't do it again, I think
he had an opportunity to No.
Speaker 6 (15:37):
Better than the flip of a coin.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
Heads or you want to get your money's where it's
out of props. That's right, that's right, And you know
local news a silver dollar that's a lot. That was
not the case.
Speaker 9 (15:50):
Instead, seconds later it was this, all right, hey, one
more thing.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
There's a camera. If you turn to see that ground like,
don't move.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
You're being placed for the rest of Okay, yes, oh
my goodness, And I said, did the breath has show anything?
Speaker 6 (16:03):
Well, so the breathliner was zero, okay, man, and I
don't believe it. But it's the other evaluations and things
that I did.
Speaker 9 (16:09):
Those other evaluations are something called Advanced Roadside Impairment Driver
Enforcement A ride, a sixteen hour course teaching police officers
how to perform field sobriety tests.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
I believe that you're under the influence of some kind
of drug.
Speaker 9 (16:23):
Lenny Daniel was charged by Kennesaw police with DUI. The
sixty five year old widower spent the night in the
Cobb County jail.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
I've driven for Meals and Wheels for twenty eight years
as a volunteer, and I thought, are they going to
still let me drive?
Speaker 9 (16:36):
It wasn't until six months later that an official blood
test finally proved what he'd been trying to say all along.
Speaker 6 (16:43):
There were no drugs in his system.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
I did well, I thought on the sobriety test. He
did not think I did well.
Speaker 9 (16:50):
That word think is important because as much as the
training materials we reviewed present this as quote scientifically validated,
critics say, it's it's not.
Speaker 10 (17:00):
We're using supposedly scientific evidence that has very high false
positive rates.
Speaker 6 (17:05):
But these officers don't know that.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
They have no clue.
Speaker 9 (17:08):
For more than a decade, Joshua Att was a Roswell
police officer. He was also an instructor for both a
RIDE and the even more advanced Drug Recognition Experts program.
I now believes there is no evidence that the roadside
tests he taught are accurate for drugs.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
Officers want to do the right thing.
Speaker 6 (17:25):
So why did change his mind?
Speaker 9 (17:28):
Scientific studies, including this twenty twenty three Journal of the
American Medical Association, look at field sobriety tests and marijuana.
Speaker 8 (17:36):
Basically, the officers could have administered all these tests or
flipped a quarter, and.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
The journal study up, Yeah, there is no equivalent of
a breathalyzer for weed. You just have to kind of
look like you're high or be acting like you're high.
And what does that mean? That could mean a million things.
I think about the story a lot, or I think
about this story and it reminds me of something I
think about a lot, which is when I moved to
Law Angels for the first first a year or so
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that I was here, I got arrested for DUI and
I was one hundred percent sober. I was driving home
from the grove. I had seen a movie, like a
midnight movie with my buds. We saw Cabin in the Woods.
To sort of put this back at a time, I
think it was twenty twelve. That was a funny movie,
(18:23):
great movie, but you know it was late, driving home,
one hundred percent sober. Had not had a thing to drink.
As I've told you before, I'm not cool enough to
do drugs, even if I wanted to.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
It's just the way it is.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
And I get pulled over by a motorcycle police officer
from the Los Angeles Police Department in Hollywood. I'm dropping
off my friend over in Hollywood off a coinga and
I didn't know what was going on.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
You know, it was late.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
I had a car with an Indiana license plate, and
I was you know, I had up until that point,
had very few interactions with police officers, just didn't have
to deal with it. Was a pretty good kid. Never
got in trouble for anything, not no major issues, right,
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and so I was thinking, all right, yeah, these guys
are probably know what they're doing. So they come at me,
and the aggression, the intensity that these police officers had,
accusing me of blowing stop lights, driving super fast, all
this stuff that I just was like, I didn't know this,
And the guy looks at me and goes, the fact
you don't know that you're driving this badly makes me
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worry that you're under the influence, and I'm like, okay,
how do you argue your way out of that? Well,
I'll tell you what I didn't. I got out of
the car. I took a breathalyzer test. I blew zero's.
I took it twice. I did a field sobriety test
where I walked up and down the broken cobblestones of
a Hollywood street. Did the thing where I touched my
nose to my to my hands to my nose, my
fingers to my nose. I counted backwards from thirty, standing
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on one foot, eyes closed, arms out.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
You didn't say I can't even do that when I'm sober.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
I almost was like, I don't know how if I
would be able to do you know, I can't do
this regard. I can't when people are like, oh, do
the alphabet backwards? No way, Yeah, I can't do no way,
not at all. So anyway, I told the guys like,
I'm not I'm not under the influence of anything. I
blewe zero's and he wasn't sure. So he like looked
at my driver's license, you know, which was an Indiana
(20:17):
license at the time, and he goes, you don't want
your daddy to know you're out here in California.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
You're smoking weed.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
Do you?
Speaker 2 (20:23):
And I was like, oh my god, come on. So
he calls a DRE from the LAPD Hollywood Division. This
guy's called a DRI. It's a drug reconite reconnaissance officer
or who is trained to identify people who are high
based on looking at them.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
How didn't they offer you popcorn or something.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
That's a great Yeah, He's like, what are your thoughts
on munchies? Yeah, and give me your best take on
the big Lebowski respond to these doritos, I'm gonna put
on the doors and I'm gonna see what you do.
So I was I was talking to him, and he
didn't care. He just looked at me. And he was like, yeah,
we can tell you're high. You're obviously high in marijuana.
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I'm an officer, I'm trained to do this. So they
took me to jail. They'd let my friends drive my
car crazy, then they took me to the Hollywood jail.
They locked me up overnight. I stayed for like fifteen
hours in the Hollywood drunk tank until finally I was
just allowed to leave. In that process, I did do
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a yurine test many days later that would come back
negative because, like I told you, I'm not cool.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
I was sober.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
But I took another test when I was at the
station and they didn't care. They still said, listen, you're
the officer is not wrong. That's what they saw. That's
what they saw. In the report. Later I read it
said that my breath smelled of burnt marijuana. If only
I had known about Zelman's, if only I had known
(21:57):
that only takes care of onion and the garlic, not
burnt weed. Okay, well either way, I mean, it was
shocking to me, and it was like I had to
hire an attorney. I went to court because they ended
up charging me with driving in California with the California
or an Indiana license.
Speaker 4 (22:11):
Obviously they couldn't charge me with DUI. You're like kil
Maar or Brago Garcia. They were determined to get you
on something.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
Yeah, definitely just like him.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
Did you have to fight for your life overnight in
the drunk tank.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
I was in with like a couple of musicians and
like a washed up NBA player who was like never
never actually played and it was like on the Utah
Jazz or something. I don't know, but it was fine.
I was a little worried. But I did find out
that toilets don't have a toilet seat in the Hollywood jail.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
Oh No, that's just gross. That in and of itself,
I makes you want to keep your nose clean. It's weird.
And toilets just in the middle of the room. It's crazy.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
I know we're way over time, but I just wanted
to share that if anybody else had experienced that. It
is very scary. And I had real PTSD for years
after that because I always thought, oh my god, if
I'm not doing anything wrong, they can still take me.
And it really rewires your brain. So I've come to
terms with it through lots of therapy and platforms like.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
This to share my story and I countss therapy. There
you go.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
But yeah, it's crazy and you just wonder. You obviously
want to make sure, especially with more people drinking or
more people rather doing legal marijuana, doing legal drugs, you
don't want them operating vehicles. Okay, how do you do that?
Looking at somebody? Tough way to tell if they're high.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
Zelman's you're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand,
I Am.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
Six forty We Belive everywhere on the iHeartRadio Apple.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
Thank you to everybody who called in earlier sharing what
they thought or he or she thought that they could
do without any training.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
Mark, did we finally come up with one for you? Well?
Speaker 4 (23:48):
I thought of a couple that I had actually done. Okay,
when I was at the Seattle Times, I challenged Jason Statham,
Jet Lee and the director Uve Ball all on different
occasions to get into the ring with me.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
They all beat for a beat down.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
They all declined, and so this is kind of the
similar thing of men fighting bears.
Speaker 4 (24:07):
I'm probably fortunate that they declined, but I was in
somewhat better condition at the time. I also drove a
formula race car for a story at my first newspaper,
and you think you're going like one hundred miles an hour,
but those things are so small and low to the
ground that you're going like twenty five. If you think
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you can drive a race car, because they're just going
around in circles. Oh man, it's much harder than it looks.
It's so so hard. You've got to be focused, you've
got to concentrate, and it's really intense.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
I will say I think that to that point.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
I've done the car sim thing too, like the race
car simulator where people learn how to drive tracks and
stuff like that, and they're pretty good.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
They like measure them down to the inch.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
And the thing that's so hard about the car stuff
is that you never know. I think intuitively, like you
can really screw up super quick. You know, it's really
easy to grew up and you don't know what will happen,
and you can overcook a turn, you can go in
way too fast and there's no coming back from it.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
You're just you're just out of luck. You're just going
too fast. Yeah, it is much harder than it looks.
I found out.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
Oh yeah, and you end up writing the wall there.
And I think with the plane. At least there is
some correction, you know, it's a little more forgiving. Maybe,
I don't know. Seems like there's less to do by
the way, I'm looking at CNN right now and I'm like,
oh my god, it's John Cobalt. Hey, John Cobalt is
on CNN. Can we listen to what he's saying. I
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don't know, just to see what he's saying. He's on
with the lady and Alex Michaelson.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
Let me see if I can, Sam, can you do it?
Speaker 2 (25:48):
I'm sorry I called audible here. I just like I
looked at right up and I'm like, oh my god,
there's John. John was sitting in this chair I'm sitting
in talking this microphone that I'm spitting in hours ago.
Speaker 4 (25:58):
Is it still warm from John or me? Never mind,
I'm assuming it's a drive. Let's you got it done?
Speaker 3 (26:10):
Yeah, let's hear it. Let's just hear what he's what
he's talking about. But nobody takes you seriously.
Speaker 10 (26:14):
Meanwhile, you're a New Jersey guy originally right, They're they're
having a race which seems to be surprisingly close between
what do you make of that race and where we're
at on them?
Speaker 11 (26:25):
You know in Jersey, Chris Christie was the governor there
just a few years ago, right in the back of
the nineties. Christine Todd Whitman, Tom came back in the eighties.
Like all my life growing up in Jersey, there were
always Republican governors moderate.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
There was nothing outrageous.
Speaker 11 (26:40):
They had bad property taxes and they have bad electricity
rates in New Jersey. And that's place phenomenon is going
to hit California because there's nothing worse than the gas
prices and the electricity rates we have in this year.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
There of course talking about doing something about it and
about the race there in the New Jersey governor race.
In addition to I guess that's tomorrow as well, Cheryl
leads Chicka Trelli that he would say it in New
Jersey governor polls. That's not the race that's highly publicized
of Zorn Wondami and Andrew Cuomo, former New York Governor
Andrew Cuomo. Those are both mayoral candidates along with Curtis Sliwa.
Speaker 3 (27:18):
Did I say it right? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (27:19):
What do you What do you think of Alex's kind
of bob hairstyle? Yeah, the little middle part like that. Well,
I think I have a similar thing going on. I'm
sort of like a dime store version I think, you know,
I mean, he's like a legitimate journalist. He's got he's
got some some gravitas, as they say, I see. I
know that people probably tell him to cut his hair,
because that's what they tell me as well. But I
(27:41):
I think it's his thing.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
And you know what, Eventually, like Conan, it'll just he'll
just be big enough that it'll be like, oh, well,
that's just what his hair looks like. Use it while
you got it. That's just what it is. I'm a
lot grayer than he is as well. I wonder if
he if he hits the uh, if he hits the
Benjamin Salon in Hollywood to get a little die job.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
Every now and then it's TV, it's mandatory. It's weird.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
I mean, I don't I don't do anything. I'm barely
like hanging on, you know, just emotionally. Physically, I'm okay,
but you know the space between my ears.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
Lordly knows well.
Speaker 4 (28:17):
We were looking at a photo of you earlier before
the show, when you had some really lustrous I'm not
even I think I told you I thought you should
be in a Seattle ban in the nineties.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
Yeah, I would have loved to be a little not
a surf just anything on BARSUK, you know, I would
have been happy to be in. Give me Chris Walla
as a producer, you know, a little post grunge whatever.
Speaker 3 (28:38):
I'm down.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
All right, We've got just another block coming up after this.
We're going to talk about oil in the engine scams.
Have you heard about this? You're supposed to have oil
in the engine. As far as I was aware, I've
destroyed a car by not having that. There you go,
we will hear that story and so much more coming up.
It's k I AM six forty IM and Smire coming
(29:00):
up in just about seven minutes and thirty seconds. We're
going to hand it off to mister George Nori from
Coast to Coast. George, what's on the big show tonight, Mandy.
Speaker 6 (29:09):
We're going to talk about a world economic expert about
the strange things we're all going through, and then later
on the biggest UFO case in Britain.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
We're going to talk about it on Boost to Coast.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
Cannot waite. Thank you so much, George, very excited be
well as well. I love that, you know, I'm finally
I'm hoping maybe tonight I'll get an answer for you know,
what's going on in the world as far as why
we're all feeling this way.
Speaker 3 (29:35):
That's the place to get it. That's awesome.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
I gotta listen real quickly before we get out of here.
Want to remind you all to watch tomorrow at eight
thirty KTLA if you want to watch me try to
land a plane. Will I survive? Only time will tell.
We were talking about this oil in the car or
oil in the engine car scam. Never knew what that was,
(30:00):
but apparently if you're up in Plaster County when you
try it, you're gonna get caught.
Speaker 8 (30:07):
At this Valero gas station in Newcastle, it started as
a normal car sale but ended in handcuffs for two
men accusa staging and elaborate oil into engine scam. Plaza
County deputies arrested nineteen and thirty six year old men
from Fremont for allegedly faking car problems to rip off sellers.
Investigators say last week, the man poured oil on the engine,
(30:28):
making it look like it was breaking down. The seller,
the Sheriff's office says, grew suspicious rescheduled and later called
law enforcement because.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
He knew he didn't have a blown head gasket. Apparently,
what happens is in this scam, the scammers, maybe there's
two of them. One of them separates you, maybe makes
you go look in the trunk or something, while the
others checking out the engine. They'll pour a little bit
of oil on the engine block. So when the car
heats up, you go on a test drive, all the
oil starts to burn off the engine block and you
(30:58):
get smoke and they say, oh, man, oh, your car
is really messed up. Obviously there's something really wrong with it.
But i'll take it for, you know, pennies on the dollar.
Speaker 8 (31:07):
The seller, the Sheriff's office says, grew suspicious, rescheduled, and
later called law enforcement.
Speaker 12 (31:13):
Another meetup, and that's what ultimately led to their arrest.
Speaker 8 (31:17):
The scam consists of multiple suspects arriving to inspect the vehicle.
One person would distract the seller while the other one
goes underneath the hood, putting oil on the engine and
then saying the car is damage and then asking the
seller for a lower rate.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
Now, if you were wondering, yes, that local reporter is
demonstrating it in the track.
Speaker 3 (31:38):
Great storytelling, great deputy say.
Speaker 8 (31:41):
The suspects had counterfeit paperwork, identity, theft materials, and a
stolen for runner from a similar scam in the Bay Area.
Speaker 12 (31:48):
They're doing this across the country. Here in Plaster County.
This is the second time that we've made an arrest
ye all of these cases.
Speaker 8 (31:54):
A victim in a different case, Michelle o'gary, knows exactly
how convincing the scam can be. She thought she could
sell her Toyota four Runner last November in southern California
for up to ten thousand dollars.
Speaker 13 (32:06):
They were trying to keep me away from the front
so they could do whatever they were gonna do.
Speaker 8 (32:10):
During the test drive, her car started smoking. The men
said her engine had blown, and they offered it take
it off her hands for just eight hundred dollars.
Speaker 13 (32:18):
I signed over the title in the moment of distress
after they handed me the money, started hurrying, rushing, rushing, rushing, rushings.
It was just before Christmas. I'm a single mom, so
I was like, yes, I'm gonna be out of deck.
I can buy my kids Christmas, you know, like it
was kind of.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
One of those things, Oh that is so heartbreaking, and
so I got emotional and my brain just didn't work anymore.
Speaker 8 (32:42):
A year later, she still carries the weight of that
day and wants others to avoid her mistake.
Speaker 13 (32:48):
Disturbing that people are so heartless and so just savages.
It's horrible. It's disgusting.
Speaker 2 (32:58):
Buying a car, selling a car, owning a car, getting
a car worked on got to be some of the
most stressful things that you can do, and it always
feels like you're getting ripped off. Just always feels like it.
I put new brakes on a car that I'm leasing
that had twenty thousand miles on it. You tell me
(33:21):
if that's insane twenty thousand miles, and I noticed when
I was driving the car, I get this really really
really crazy break dust, like almost immediately car wash. Immediately
wheels were covered in brake dust. Put new brakes on
it not had a lick of breakdust. I got a theory.
(33:43):
But the manufacturer is making brakes that degrade exceptionally quickly.
And the reason that they do that is because you
got to go take the car back if you're leasing
it and have them put new brakes on. But I
didn't go to the dealership. I went to an independent.
They put different breaks on it didn't put oem there.
They're gonna last lot longer. No, no car. It doesn't
(34:05):
matter how much you stop. Twenty thousand miles. It's way
too quick for break pads. Well that'll do it for
me today. I am off until Sunday. I'll be back
here at two pm on KFI. We'll be with you
the following Monday as well, and then back to Monday Friday.
(34:25):
Great to see you. Please say hello if you'd like
to at Andy KTLA. We'll see you back here next time.
This episode is brought to you by the Chowder Barge
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ponder rosa. A big thanks to mister Frank Big Time Buckley, who,
after I think for being on the show, said now
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leave me alone. I also want to shout out to
my future job as a Hammerhead crane operator and all
the listeners jobs as future talk show hosts. No hard
feelings to the dre department of the LAPD who incorrectly
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I'll try to do better next time on behalf of
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You can hear us everywhere.
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Got about an hour left here before we hand it
off to mister George Nori from coast to coast on
this Monday night, beautiful day for a parade. You were saying, Ronner, Yes,
really nice out there today. Did you see the sunset
at all? Did you happen to catch that? No, it was,
In fact, it was dark by the time I left
her work today. We are well into switched to daylight
savings over the weekend. I know it was really I
(00:43):
wouldn't say that I like, you know, had any medical
issues associated with it, but it really was kind of
a head trip.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
No, that's seasonal oppress effective disorder. Seasonal effective disorder SAD
is a real thing. I like, Wait a minute, I
like seasonal oppressive disorder. It amounts to the same, doesn't it,
six to one, A half a dozen serial killers of
the other.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
There he goes again.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
We got two tonight folks just past nine oh five
for the record, if we're keeping track there. So today,
of course we celebrated a Dodger dynasty. Perhaps what would
have to call it a dynasty? It's got to be
more than two back to back, right, Well, in comedy,
there's the rule of threes, so let's just go with three.
I love that. That's a really good, thoughtful answer. Well,
(01:24):
of course, there was a parade through downtown Los Angeles
started this morning, which then culminated in a celebration at
Dodger Stadium where we watched a cell you know, like
I said, like a real good Boys in Blue back
home taking a victory lap quite quite literally, and of
course we covered it live. You're on KFI and also KTLA.
(01:46):
Here's a little recap from Lauren Lester.
Speaker 5 (01:50):
From Champions on the field to Champions in the streets.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
That's like a freak in the streets reference. Does she good?
You beat me to that? I want to talk her
and ask her if she met like Champions in the streets.
Speaker 5 (02:04):
Double decker buses carrying the Boys in Blue celebrated today
by thousands through clouds of blue confetti. The players cheered
on by a sea of Dodger Blue.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
It's funny all the sound, the Nats sound as they
call it in TV, which is basically just like the
natural sound of whatever was happening there. It's all the
same sound because it was so loud there through downtown
and I'm assuming all of the buildings helped funnel that noise,
the cheering just echoing off the glass and steel and
concrete to create cacophony. As mister Frank Buckley told us
(02:39):
at seven o'clock earlier.
Speaker 5 (02:42):
Massive crowds flocking to the streets of downtown LA for
the parade honoreing the World Series winning Dodgers.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Lifetime Lodger fan, what can I say? Speechless? Look at
this back to back. Nobody thought we were gonna make it,
and we took it.
Speaker 6 (02:56):
We took it, baby, you know that's.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Really important to say. Nobody thought we were gonna make it.
Was not a phrase that a Dodger fan would have
uttered until Game one of the World Series. You remember
the confidence the Hubris going into this final championship series,
the level of we got this, give us our crown,
(03:21):
it's our coronation. And how after we had that first
game where I think that the Dodgers lost by forty
five points. That might be an exaggeration, it was bad.
And then I think we had an opportunity to sort
of like play as underdogs, which is a weird thing
for the Dodgers, and you saw it so closely, back
(03:45):
and forth and back and forth, and I was ready
to say, I don't think it's gonna happen. I've written
them off. They were going back to Toronto, back to
the Rogers Center, back to a stadium that has a
roof and hotel rooms in it. I don't know that
that has anything to do with what they did or
didn't do, but I thought it surely isn't going to
(04:07):
be good. And then you had a double play at
the end of Game six. Oh man, that was cool.
And then of course what we saw on Saturday night.
Did the better team win? Yeah, that's how winning works.
I'm gonna say this much. I don't really know what
I just said. It does sound good, I convinced myself,
(04:27):
and then I realized I was like, I don't know
what I'm talking about.
Speaker 7 (04:29):
No, it sounded authoritative, okay, good over a seven game series,
the better team wins.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
Yeah, the Botto line rely how it goes.
Speaker 7 (04:37):
On any given game, a team that may not be
the best team may catch the better team on a
you know, you know, having a rough game, but over
seven game series, better team wins.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Yeah. Yeah, And I will say it was not a sweep,
and I like that. It was great.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
It felt like it was earned and we tried, and
we had to try so hard. Really we had a
game eight because because remember Game three, eighteen innings, it's
like two baseball games and.
Speaker 5 (05:05):
One from a shirtless Keik Hernandez.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
I guess what I was saying is that I really
liked that guy was like at least honest about it,
you know, and Toder's fanci I don't think it was
gonna happen.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
That's pretty crazy to hear World.
Speaker 5 (05:19):
Series MVP Yoshi Nobu Yamamoto show hey O Tani taking
picks and posing for them, and of course that trophy
being hoisted up, fans turning up for a chance to
experience those moments with their favorite players.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Kei k a Hernandez of course had his shirt off,
and if you look on his Instagram, he posted a picture.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
I think Tiffany Hobbs reshared it. That's where I saw it.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Hilarious photo because KEYK from the angle looks as if
his butt is out, but it's actually I think it's somebody, well,
another player's bald head, or maybe it's like Kershaw's shoulder
or something like that. But it's really funny. Go check
it out on her Tiffany Hobbs's instagram. If it's not
on U, kick a Hernandez anymore. But this taking off
(06:03):
of the shirt thing, you know, show hey didn't do that?
Kershaw did that?
Speaker 3 (06:12):
Love it? Kick Hernandez took off the shirt. I don't.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
I'm not do you take off the shirt? You get
so excited in the celebration. It wasn't hot today downtown
they had a marine layer. You're gonna have pretty good
self esteem to take off your shirt in public. I
took off my shirt really when they won.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Oh yeah, I was swinging it in the air. I
was happy.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
What was it the shirt? You were swinging the shirt
in the air? Oh yeah, that too. I just want
to make sure. Uh yeah, I don't know's I'm missing
that gene. That's just like, all right, I'm pumped, I'll
take off the shirt.
Speaker 7 (06:46):
It was a common thing in Indiana. I saw it
a lot I was in downtown Burbank. I lived there,
and I went. As soon as the they won the game,
I was like, I'm running downstairs. I want to see
how everybody's partying, because it's like five bars in.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Oh yeah, Block Anastasia. Is that one still right there? That?
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Yeah? Yeah, I love that ppot. That's a great spot.
Speaker 7 (07:06):
But yeah, there's like everybody poured out into that little
courtyard and there was at least five shirtless bros going
around just was swinging their shirts in the air and
we're all love it, like it's awesome. You get like
high fives and chest bumps and it's awesome. Those are
the real boys, the real men, you know. Those are
guys who are undistilled from our cavemen, uncorrupted from our
(07:28):
caveman origins. Those are guys who are like yeah, because
you know what. I also see a lot of taking
off the shirt when you're mad.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
That I see that. I don't understand.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
I think that's like because if you're going to fight somebody,
you don't want to have the the You do not
want to have a shirt to be pulled.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
I don't get in a lot of bar fights. I
don't know.
Speaker 7 (07:46):
I think some people may think that their power increases
with newtness.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Hmm, and wow, what a scientifically incorrect concept that is.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
Well, no, it's kind of a hulk move. Ah okay,
all right, I'm on board.
Speaker 5 (08:01):
Fans lining the route down Grand Avenue and even lining
the freeway and overpasses as the Dodgers made their way
back to Chavez Ravine for a sold out rally. Clayton Kershaw,
who was retiring after eighteen years, making his final appearance
as a Dodger.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
I loved watching him after Game seven, sitting on the
on the ground at the Rogers Center, just outside the
diamond with his kids, just like playing with cars or
whatever they were doing. And then one of his son
was just throwing a ball in the air and catching
it right behind the who whatever the local reporter from
Fox who was on there for like ten years doing
a report about it, and.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
He's just catching he just like goes to show band.
Some people just have.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
It, I guess to say, I'm a chance for life.
Speaker 5 (08:43):
And Japanese superstars, who typically speak through translators, addressing the
crowd in English, with fans erupting it applause, I.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Love, Hi, love want. That's Yoshinoba Yamamato by the way.
Yamamoto by the way, ready.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
To get another ring year. And that's Joe hey Otani, who,
as we said before, maybe actually speaks English pretty well.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Cool.
Speaker 5 (09:11):
That's why players and fans already talking about a three
peat and early on do have the Dodgers favorite to
win in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Can we just have a minute, please, I'm so stressed
thinking about now how we had a three pat Can
we just enjoy this for one minute?
Speaker 7 (09:29):
That was a big thing because remember back in the
day in the eighties, pat Riley with the Lakers guaranteed
the second championship and everybody was like what yeah, And
so they really had to buckle in and get ready
because they put a big bullseye on their back when
they won that second championship in a row. They asked them, sorry,
you're gonna guarantee a third straight and Kareem Abdul Jabbar
(09:49):
was right behind him, took a giant towlan shoved it
in his mouth. You gotta let players enjoy that stuff.
The thing is, it's not just the man, because I know, yeah,
I know that the manager went and said, hey, yeah,
we're gonna do it again. It's very much the players,
players are on board, so that he's the case, then
let him, let him ride that wave.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
And I'm sure you know what I think.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
Sasaki posted a video today of Yamamoto at batting practice
before the parade. Unreal MVP, and I guess you know
what the pressure is probably on. I understand that you
only got so many years being a professional athlete.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
Go for it.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
I just want to let them make sure that they
feel like they have a chance. By the way, Kreem
Abdul Jabbar also was a guy who thought he could
fly in land an airplane.
Speaker 7 (10:34):
True, true, while while dragging Walton and Lanier up and
down the court.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
That's right, That's exactly right. He Ron Roger, Roger Roger,
what's your vector? Victor Roner? You ever you ever seen
a grown man naked? I did mention I was a wrestler,
didn't I You ever been in a Turkish prison?
Speaker 3 (10:57):
Not yet? Looks like I picked the wrong week. It's
quit snipping loose.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
Oh it's the best. Gone Is that all you got?
Oh my god, I could do the whole movie. The
white zone is for immediate loading and unloading only. I
think it's the first line of that movie. God, it's
a good movie. I just I rewatched recently. Robert Stack
plowing through all the people in the departure lounge.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
Oh my god, it's so all of it is so funny.
You know.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
For the story that I was doing about landing airplanes,
I did go back and put some clips into the
piece and the full piece that'll be up tomorrow, and
it was It's just the movie holds up. It's so
stupid in the best possible way. Airplane nineteen eighty. I'm
sure everybody's seen it, but if you haven't seen it lately,
go watch it again. It's just that that kind of
comedy just always works. Shatner and Airplane two was funny.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
Oh my god.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
Airplane two and they go to space or they go
to the moon, right, yep, bizarre.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
And Shatner is in charge of the moon base.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
Oh my god, I'm sold of course, all right, we're
gonna do a watch party.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
I am six forty.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
I'm me Andy Reismeyer, far from a natural but trying
very hard.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
Welcome to the show.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
We still got about forty minutes to go here on
this Monday evening, feeling like Winners in studio here with
Sam Ritchie and Mark.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
Good evening, gents, welcome back.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
You know you heard the Christmas music of the break
there right, little most wonderful time of the year. Of course,
the day after Halloween, it's like time to flip the switch.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
We've unwrapped Mariah Carey.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Well, we quite literally flip a switch here at iHeartMedia
upstairs at Coast one oh three point five. Do you
know this, ellen K. It's a big thing. I saw
them roll it out today. They brought a giant red
light switch into her studio upstairs. I only assume that
it's from Ryan Seacrest's actual dressing room.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
I love giant props.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Novelty sized light switch. So they will at one point
flip that switch, and then of course they'll go wall
to wall Christmas music. It's iconic, such a part of
the LA experience, and I'm hoping, I'm hoping that they
will once again invite KTLA to take that live on air.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
I would love to see that.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Big fan of Ellen Kay found out that Ryan, by
the way, also on ellen K's show, is a Hoosier.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
This place is lousy with Hoosier's, isn't it crazy. Yeah,
Ryan Mano.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
He's from Northwest Indiana, which is where the Reesemeyers hail
from as well, originally outside of Chicago. My mom grew
up in Gary, Indiana, not far from Michael Jackson.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
Oh so your mom's tough.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
She's tough lady. She can dance and sing as well. Hey,
so this is kind of interesting. I wanted to do
this story because I have a story about it also.
But let me just first talk about this in the
context of you think that this might be happening, but
you very rarely get evidence of it, and now that
(13:53):
that might be changed.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
Two.
Speaker 8 (13:55):
Actually News Investigates is looking into major questions about the
accuracy of sobriety test being used across our state, and.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
We talked that state. By the way, is Georgia old,
sober but arrested for I'm so sorry to cut her
off across our state?
Speaker 8 (14:11):
And we talked to one Georgia senior who was stone cold,
sober but arrested for duy.
Speaker 4 (14:16):
Channel two consumer investigator Justin Gray has been looking into
those tests and how officers.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
Are being trained to use them.
Speaker 9 (14:23):
He's live now with Justin How accurate is this training
at identifying people who are under the influence. Yeah, George,
think about the flip of a coin. Heads your tails,
the most recent.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
Great prop use.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
By the way, the reporter was in studio and that
sound was, yes, him flipping a coin on camera.
Speaker 6 (14:43):
Yeah, George, think about the flip of a coin.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
Heah, the compression on that.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
They had to plan that, and the camera guy he
knew the assignment. He nailed it. He's just pans right down.
They use a sober dollar. Listen, a clunk the coin.
That's like a like a railroad tie. I want to
sample that. We use that for like a kick, drum
(15:09):
or a song or something.
Speaker 9 (15:11):
Heads or tails, the most recent major studies and to
marijuana and feel sobriety test finds that the officers in
those cases judge the sober drivers as under the influence
about half the time.
Speaker 6 (15:25):
No better than the flip of a coin.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
No, he's a big deep breath and then blow.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
By the way, he didn't do it again, I think
he had an opportunity to No.
Speaker 6 (15:37):
Better than the flip of a coin.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
Heads or you want to get your money's where it's
out of props. That's right, that's right, And you know
local news a silver dollar that's a lot. That was
not the case.
Speaker 9 (15:50):
Instead, seconds later it was this, all right, hey, one
more thing.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
There's a camera. If you turn to see that ground like,
don't move.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
You're being placed for the rest of Okay, yes, oh
my goodness, And I said, did the breath has show anything?
Speaker 6 (16:03):
Well, so the breathliner was zero, okay, man, and I
don't believe it. But it's the other evaluations and things
that I did.
Speaker 9 (16:09):
Those other evaluations are something called Advanced Roadside Impairment Driver
Enforcement A ride, a sixteen hour course teaching police officers
how to perform field sobriety tests.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
I believe that you're under the influence of some kind
of drug.
Speaker 9 (16:23):
Lenny Daniel was charged by Kennesaw police with DUI. The
sixty five year old widower spent the night in the
Cobb County jail.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
I've driven for Meals and Wheels for twenty eight years
as a volunteer, and I thought, are they going to
still let me drive?
Speaker 9 (16:36):
It wasn't until six months later that an official blood
test finally proved what he'd been trying to say all along.
Speaker 6 (16:43):
There were no drugs in his system.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
I did well, I thought on the sobriety test. He
did not think I did well.
Speaker 9 (16:50):
That word think is important because as much as the
training materials we reviewed present this as quote scientifically validated,
critics say, it's it's not.
Speaker 10 (17:00):
We're using supposedly scientific evidence that has very high false
positive rates.
Speaker 6 (17:05):
But these officers don't know that.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
They have no clue.
Speaker 9 (17:08):
For more than a decade, Joshua Att was a Roswell
police officer. He was also an instructor for both a
RIDE and the even more advanced Drug Recognition Experts program.
I now believes there is no evidence that the roadside
tests he taught are accurate for drugs.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
Officers want to do the right thing.
Speaker 6 (17:25):
So why did change his mind?
Speaker 9 (17:28):
Scientific studies, including this twenty twenty three Journal of the
American Medical Association, look at field sobriety tests and marijuana.
Speaker 8 (17:36):
Basically, the officers could have administered all these tests or
flipped a quarter, and.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
The journal study up, Yeah, there is no equivalent of
a breathalyzer for weed. You just have to kind of
look like you're high or be acting like you're high.
And what does that mean? That could mean a million things.
I think about the story a lot, or I think
about this story and it reminds me of something I
think about a lot, which is when I moved to
Law Angels for the first first a year or so
(18:02):
that I was here, I got arrested for DUI and
I was one hundred percent sober. I was driving home
from the grove. I had seen a movie, like a
midnight movie with my buds. We saw Cabin in the Woods.
To sort of put this back at a time, I
think it was twenty twelve. That was a funny movie,
(18:23):
great movie, but you know it was late, driving home,
one hundred percent sober. Had not had a thing to drink.
As I've told you before, I'm not cool enough to
do drugs, even if I wanted to.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
It's just the way it is.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
And I get pulled over by a motorcycle police officer
from the Los Angeles Police Department in Hollywood. I'm dropping
off my friend over in Hollywood off a coinga and
I didn't know what was going on.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
You know, it was late.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
I had a car with an Indiana license plate, and
I was you know, I had up until that point,
had very few interactions with police officers, just didn't have
to deal with it. Was a pretty good kid. Never
got in trouble for anything, not no major issues, right,
(19:07):
and so I was thinking, all right, yeah, these guys
are probably know what they're doing. So they come at me,
and the aggression, the intensity that these police officers had,
accusing me of blowing stop lights, driving super fast, all
this stuff that I just was like, I didn't know this,
And the guy looks at me and goes, the fact
you don't know that you're driving this badly makes me
(19:27):
worry that you're under the influence, and I'm like, okay,
how do you argue your way out of that? Well,
I'll tell you what I didn't. I got out of
the car. I took a breathalyzer test. I blew zero's.
I took it twice. I did a field sobriety test
where I walked up and down the broken cobblestones of
a Hollywood street. Did the thing where I touched my
nose to my to my hands to my nose, my
fingers to my nose. I counted backwards from thirty, standing
(19:50):
on one foot, eyes closed, arms out.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
You didn't say I can't even do that when I'm sober.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
I almost was like, I don't know how if I
would be able to do you know, I can't do
this regard. I can't when people are like, oh, do
the alphabet backwards? No way, Yeah, I can't do no way,
not at all. So anyway, I told the guys like,
I'm not I'm not under the influence of anything. I
blewe zero's and he wasn't sure. So he like looked
at my driver's license, you know, which was an Indiana
(20:17):
license at the time, and he goes, you don't want
your daddy to know you're out here in California.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
You're smoking weed.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
Do you?
Speaker 2 (20:23):
And I was like, oh my god, come on. So
he calls a DRE from the LAPD Hollywood Division. This
guy's called a DRI. It's a drug reconite reconnaissance officer
or who is trained to identify people who are high
based on looking at them.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
How didn't they offer you popcorn or something.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
That's a great Yeah, He's like, what are your thoughts
on munchies? Yeah, and give me your best take on
the big Lebowski respond to these doritos, I'm gonna put
on the doors and I'm gonna see what you do.
So I was I was talking to him, and he
didn't care. He just looked at me. And he was like, yeah,
we can tell you're high. You're obviously high in marijuana.
(21:03):
I'm an officer, I'm trained to do this. So they
took me to jail. They'd let my friends drive my
car crazy, then they took me to the Hollywood jail.
They locked me up overnight. I stayed for like fifteen
hours in the Hollywood drunk tank until finally I was
just allowed to leave. In that process, I did do
(21:25):
a yurine test many days later that would come back
negative because, like I told you, I'm not cool.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
I was sober.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
But I took another test when I was at the
station and they didn't care. They still said, listen, you're
the officer is not wrong. That's what they saw. That's
what they saw. In the report. Later I read it
said that my breath smelled of burnt marijuana. If only
I had known about Zelman's, if only I had known
(21:57):
that only takes care of onion and the garlic, not
burnt weed. Okay, well either way, I mean, it was
shocking to me, and it was like I had to
hire an attorney. I went to court because they ended
up charging me with driving in California with the California
or an Indiana license.
Speaker 4 (22:11):
Obviously they couldn't charge me with DUI. You're like kil
Maar or Brago Garcia. They were determined to get you
on something.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
Yeah, definitely just like him.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
Did you have to fight for your life overnight in
the drunk tank.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
I was in with like a couple of musicians and
like a washed up NBA player who was like never
never actually played and it was like on the Utah
Jazz or something. I don't know, but it was fine.
I was a little worried. But I did find out
that toilets don't have a toilet seat in the Hollywood jail.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
Oh No, that's just gross. That in and of itself,
I makes you want to keep your nose clean. It's weird.
And toilets just in the middle of the room. It's crazy.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
I know we're way over time, but I just wanted
to share that if anybody else had experienced that. It
is very scary. And I had real PTSD for years
after that because I always thought, oh my god, if
I'm not doing anything wrong, they can still take me.
And it really rewires your brain. So I've come to
terms with it through lots of therapy and platforms like.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
This to share my story and I countss therapy. There
you go.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
But yeah, it's crazy and you just wonder. You obviously
want to make sure, especially with more people drinking or
more people rather doing legal marijuana, doing legal drugs, you
don't want them operating vehicles. Okay, how do you do that?
Looking at somebody? Tough way to tell if they're high.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
Zelman's you're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand,
I Am.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
Six forty We Belive everywhere on the iHeartRadio Apple.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
Thank you to everybody who called in earlier sharing what
they thought or he or she thought that they could
do without any training.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
Mark, did we finally come up with one for you? Well?
Speaker 4 (23:48):
I thought of a couple that I had actually done. Okay,
when I was at the Seattle Times, I challenged Jason Statham,
Jet Lee and the director Uve Ball all on different
occasions to get into the ring with me.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
They all beat for a beat down.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
They all declined, and so this is kind of the
similar thing of men fighting bears.
Speaker 4 (24:07):
I'm probably fortunate that they declined, but I was in
somewhat better condition at the time. I also drove a
formula race car for a story at my first newspaper,
and you think you're going like one hundred miles an hour,
but those things are so small and low to the
ground that you're going like twenty five. If you think
(24:28):
you can drive a race car, because they're just going
around in circles. Oh man, it's much harder than it looks.
It's so so hard. You've got to be focused, you've
got to concentrate, and it's really intense.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
I will say I think that to that point.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
I've done the car sim thing too, like the race
car simulator where people learn how to drive tracks and
stuff like that, and they're pretty good.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
They like measure them down to the inch.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
And the thing that's so hard about the car stuff
is that you never know. I think intuitively, like you
can really screw up super quick. You know, it's really
easy to grew up and you don't know what will happen,
and you can overcook a turn, you can go in
way too fast and there's no coming back from it.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
You're just you're just out of luck. You're just going
too fast. Yeah, it is much harder than it looks.
I found out.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
Oh yeah, and you end up writing the wall there.
And I think with the plane. At least there is
some correction, you know, it's a little more forgiving. Maybe,
I don't know. Seems like there's less to do by
the way, I'm looking at CNN right now and I'm like,
oh my god, it's John Cobalt. Hey, John Cobalt is
on CNN. Can we listen to what he's saying. I
(25:40):
don't know, just to see what he's saying. He's on
with the lady and Alex Michaelson.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
Let me see if I can, Sam, can you do it?
Speaker 2 (25:48):
I'm sorry I called audible here. I just like I
looked at right up and I'm like, oh my god,
there's John. John was sitting in this chair I'm sitting
in talking this microphone that I'm spitting in hours ago.
Speaker 4 (25:58):
Is it still warm from John or me? Never mind,
I'm assuming it's a drive. Let's you got it done?
Speaker 3 (26:10):
Yeah, let's hear it. Let's just hear what he's what
he's talking about. But nobody takes you seriously.
Speaker 10 (26:14):
Meanwhile, you're a New Jersey guy originally right, They're they're
having a race which seems to be surprisingly close between
what do you make of that race and where we're
at on them?
Speaker 11 (26:25):
You know in Jersey, Chris Christie was the governor there
just a few years ago, right in the back of
the nineties. Christine Todd Whitman, Tom came back in the eighties.
Like all my life growing up in Jersey, there were
always Republican governors moderate.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
There was nothing outrageous.
Speaker 11 (26:40):
They had bad property taxes and they have bad electricity
rates in New Jersey. And that's place phenomenon is going
to hit California because there's nothing worse than the gas
prices and the electricity rates we have in this year.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
There of course talking about doing something about it and
about the race there in the New Jersey governor race.
In addition to I guess that's tomorrow as well, Cheryl
leads Chicka Trelli that he would say it in New
Jersey governor polls. That's not the race that's highly publicized
of Zorn Wondami and Andrew Cuomo, former New York Governor
Andrew Cuomo. Those are both mayoral candidates along with Curtis Sliwa.
Speaker 3 (27:18):
Did I say it right? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (27:19):
What do you What do you think of Alex's kind
of bob hairstyle? Yeah, the little middle part like that. Well,
I think I have a similar thing going on. I'm
sort of like a dime store version I think, you know,
I mean, he's like a legitimate journalist. He's got he's
got some some gravitas, as they say, I see. I
know that people probably tell him to cut his hair,
because that's what they tell me as well. But I
(27:41):
I think it's his thing.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
And you know what, Eventually, like Conan, it'll just he'll
just be big enough that it'll be like, oh, well,
that's just what his hair looks like. Use it while
you got it. That's just what it is. I'm a
lot grayer than he is as well. I wonder if
he if he hits the uh, if he hits the
Benjamin Salon in Hollywood to get a little die job.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
Every now and then it's TV, it's mandatory. It's weird.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
I mean, I don't I don't do anything. I'm barely
like hanging on, you know, just emotionally. Physically, I'm okay,
but you know the space between my ears.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
Lordly knows well.
Speaker 4 (28:17):
We were looking at a photo of you earlier before
the show, when you had some really lustrous I'm not
even I think I told you I thought you should
be in a Seattle ban in the nineties.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
Yeah, I would have loved to be a little not
a surf just anything on BARSUK, you know, I would
have been happy to be in. Give me Chris Walla
as a producer, you know, a little post grunge whatever.
Speaker 3 (28:38):
I'm down.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
All right, We've got just another block coming up after this.
We're going to talk about oil in the engine scams.
Have you heard about this? You're supposed to have oil
in the engine. As far as I was aware, I've
destroyed a car by not having that. There you go,
we will hear that story and so much more coming up.
It's k I AM six forty IM and Smire coming
(29:00):
up in just about seven minutes and thirty seconds. We're
going to hand it off to mister George Nori from
Coast to Coast. George, what's on the big show tonight, Mandy.
Speaker 6 (29:09):
We're going to talk about a world economic expert about
the strange things we're all going through, and then later
on the biggest UFO case in Britain.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
We're going to talk about it on Boost to Coast.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
Cannot waite. Thank you so much, George, very excited be
well as well. I love that, you know, I'm finally
I'm hoping maybe tonight I'll get an answer for you know,
what's going on in the world as far as why
we're all feeling this way.
Speaker 3 (29:35):
That's the place to get it. That's awesome.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
I gotta listen real quickly before we get out of here.
Want to remind you all to watch tomorrow at eight
thirty KTLA if you want to watch me try to
land a plane. Will I survive? Only time will tell.
We were talking about this oil in the car or
oil in the engine car scam. Never knew what that was,
(30:00):
but apparently if you're up in Plaster County when you
try it, you're gonna get caught.
Speaker 8 (30:07):
At this Valero gas station in Newcastle, it started as
a normal car sale but ended in handcuffs for two
men accusa staging and elaborate oil into engine scam. Plaza
County deputies arrested nineteen and thirty six year old men
from Fremont for allegedly faking car problems to rip off sellers.
Investigators say last week, the man poured oil on the engine,
(30:28):
making it look like it was breaking down. The seller,
the Sheriff's office says, grew suspicious rescheduled and later called
law enforcement because.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
He knew he didn't have a blown head gasket. Apparently,
what happens is in this scam, the scammers, maybe there's
two of them. One of them separates you, maybe makes
you go look in the trunk or something, while the
others checking out the engine. They'll pour a little bit
of oil on the engine block. So when the car
heats up, you go on a test drive, all the
oil starts to burn off the engine block and you
(30:58):
get smoke and they say, oh, man, oh, your car
is really messed up. Obviously there's something really wrong with it.
But i'll take it for, you know, pennies on the dollar.
Speaker 8 (31:07):
The seller, the Sheriff's office says, grew suspicious, rescheduled, and
later called law enforcement.
Speaker 12 (31:13):
Another meetup, and that's what ultimately led to their arrest.
Speaker 8 (31:17):
The scam consists of multiple suspects arriving to inspect the vehicle.
One person would distract the seller while the other one
goes underneath the hood, putting oil on the engine and
then saying the car is damage and then asking the
seller for a lower rate.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
Now, if you were wondering, yes, that local reporter is
demonstrating it in the track.
Speaker 3 (31:38):
Great storytelling, great deputy say.
Speaker 8 (31:41):
The suspects had counterfeit paperwork, identity, theft materials, and a
stolen for runner from a similar scam in the Bay Area.
Speaker 12 (31:48):
They're doing this across the country. Here in Plaster County.
This is the second time that we've made an arrest
ye all of these cases.
Speaker 8 (31:54):
A victim in a different case, Michelle o'gary, knows exactly
how convincing the scam can be. She thought she could
sell her Toyota four Runner last November in southern California
for up to ten thousand dollars.
Speaker 13 (32:06):
They were trying to keep me away from the front
so they could do whatever they were gonna do.
Speaker 8 (32:10):
During the test drive, her car started smoking. The men
said her engine had blown, and they offered it take
it off her hands for just eight hundred dollars.
Speaker 13 (32:18):
I signed over the title in the moment of distress
after they handed me the money, started hurrying, rushing, rushing, rushing, rushings.
It was just before Christmas. I'm a single mom, so
I was like, yes, I'm gonna be out of deck.
I can buy my kids Christmas, you know, like it
was kind of.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
One of those things, Oh that is so heartbreaking, and
so I got emotional and my brain just didn't work anymore.
Speaker 8 (32:42):
A year later, she still carries the weight of that
day and wants others to avoid her mistake.
Speaker 13 (32:48):
Disturbing that people are so heartless and so just savages.
It's horrible. It's disgusting.
Speaker 2 (32:58):
Buying a car, selling a car, owning a car, getting
a car worked on got to be some of the
most stressful things that you can do, and it always
feels like you're getting ripped off. Just always feels like it.
I put new brakes on a car that I'm leasing
that had twenty thousand miles on it. You tell me
(33:21):
if that's insane twenty thousand miles, and I noticed when
I was driving the car, I get this really really
really crazy break dust, like almost immediately car wash. Immediately
wheels were covered in brake dust. Put new brakes on
it not had a lick of breakdust. I got a theory.
(33:43):
But the manufacturer is making brakes that degrade exceptionally quickly.
And the reason that they do that is because you
got to go take the car back if you're leasing
it and have them put new brakes on. But I
didn't go to the dealership. I went to an independent.
They put different breaks on it didn't put oem there.
They're gonna last lot longer. No, no car. It doesn't
(34:05):
matter how much you stop. Twenty thousand miles. It's way
too quick for break pads. Well that'll do it for
me today. I am off until Sunday. I'll be back
here at two pm on KFI. We'll be with you
the following Monday as well, and then back to Monday Friday.
(34:25):
Great to see you. Please say hello if you'd like
to at Andy KTLA. We'll see you back here next time.
This episode is brought to you by the Chowder Barge
in Wilmington, the secret ability to speak English fluently, the
sound plates make when they break, which of course is
ponder rosa. A big thanks to mister Frank Big Time Buckley, who,
after I think for being on the show, said now
(34:45):
leave me alone. I also want to shout out to
my future job as a Hammerhead crane operator and all
the listeners jobs as future talk show hosts. No hard
feelings to the dre department of the LAPD who incorrectly
thought I was cool enough to do drugs Runner's serial
killer count for this episode, of the show is two.
I'll try to do better next time on behalf of
(35:07):
producer Richie Quintero Bordop Samzia news anchor Mark Ronner.
Speaker 3 (35:11):
I'm Andy Reesemer
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