December 2, 2025 • 31 mins
Andy dives into the final stretch of Cyber Monday with a breakdown of the best last-minute deals still worth grabbing. Then he shifts to the holiday blues, why they hit harder than people admit, from money stress to family chaos. Andy explores the mysterious, fortress-like facility where “the internet” (well… the servers) really live and gives bad news for solo EV drivers now facing new carpool penalties in SoCal. He covers the incoming California storm dominating every small-talk conversation, confesses to stealing his parents’ liquor as a kid, explains the upcoming fines for non–Real ID travelers, and breaks down Costco’s surprising surge in memberships after expanding store hours.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
I'm Andy Reestmeyer.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
We are with you all the way till ten pm,
alongside mister Mark Ronner here, Oliver Boone, Sam Zea and
Matt Toffler on the on the threes and four we
got ones and twos and threes and fours.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
I think, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
You can find me if you'd like to at Andy
KTLA anywhere the Internet is sold, or you can give
us a call one hundred five to zero one five
three four. That's one hundred and five two zero one
five three four. I would love to hear from you
if you are taking advantage of this last few waking
minutes of cyber Monday.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
What are you going to get?
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Maybe you're gonna get nothing because you don't feel compelled
to spend money because of some sort of large scale.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Corporate op. I get it.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
But I've been waiting for a couch to go on
sale for quite some time, and the love Sack finally
went on sale, and I'd like, I'm not a big
love sack person, but I guess you can. You can
wash the covers of the pillows. This is almost getting
to be even too boring for me to tell you.
But it's forty percent off, and that's a big deal
because that stuff is expansive. I had no idea as
(01:25):
a as a like a bachelor, how expensive real furniture
it was, because to me, I was just like it's
Ikea is like that's the limit. So I don't know
a couch is five hundred bucks. Oh no, there are
people out here spending five thousand dollars on couches, eight
thousand dollars on a rig on a couch that looks
(01:47):
like it's like like like in a family room that
like a dog pukes on.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
I don't.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
I mean, it's nice looks, it's a nice, nice thing
to have, well made.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
I guess.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
So funny how one hundred five two zero one five
three four is the number you could give us a call?
That's one one hundred five to two zero one kfi.
Apple Watch Series eleven is a seventy dollars off promotion
right now the AirPods Pro three. If you got the
Pro too, you got to get the Pro three now
two hundred and twenty bucks. God, that's expensive.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
I'm not paying that much for those.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Yeah, you don't think so it's not worth it. I mean,
the list price is two eighty. You can get normal
AirPods for like twenty five bucks. I don't write the news,
Mark Ronner. I didn't come up with this scam, all right, bucko.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
I don't. Somebody has to explain to me how air
pods that cost more than two hundred bucks are significantly
higher in quality than any other kind. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
I haven't spent a lot of time with the different AirPods,
but I do have the pros. They were given to
me as a gift, and as you say, you never
want to look a gift horse in the mouth. They're
very soft and very comfortable, and they have noise cancelation,
and they pair very nicely with we're got. I'm not
the tech guy. I don't know what to tell you, buddy.
What if you just lose one?
Speaker 2 (03:09):
What if you're using the toilet and and one drops in.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
Or you God forbid you leave it in your chonies
and then you put it in the washer, and then
all of a sudden you got you got to put
your air pods on rice.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
The The twenty five dollar airpod's hurt a lot less
to lose. Mm hmm.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
That's like sunglasses. You know you're gonna lose them. Why
are you buying expensive ones? This is maybe just issues
that I have by myself. But twenty percent off those
Apple AirPods, twenty percent off iPad Mini, Apple Watch se three,
Apple Watch Ultra two, that's kind of fun. I guess
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I don't know. I don't know any of this stuff.
I have a phone. I would be so low low
fi if I could. If I could just like not
have a phone and just have like a cool walkman
with a Van Morrison tape in it, I would do that.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
That's what I would do.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
YETI there's stuff that's on sale at YETI okay, make
you kind of sad.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
A little bit? Maybe gets sat around the holidays. You're
not alone.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
The holidays are in full swing, but for many this
time of year can bring heightened stress, loneliness, and even
substance abuse. I'm rally and aggle, your neighborhood reporter, and
the holiday blues maybe more common than you think.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
He's our neighborhood reporter. How about that. I didn't know
I had.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
One, And the holiday blues maybe more common than you think.
Speaker 5 (04:42):
What that's coming from a lot of the time is
going to be the increased financial stress, family conflict around
the holidays, the change in routine.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
Jessica Cason, a mental health expert with Aspired Counseling Services, says,
right now and following the holidays, they see an increase
in patience seeking help with substance and alcohol abuse.
Speaker 5 (05:04):
They are utilizing alcohol or substances as a coping mechanism
for those emotions and that stress and those feelings.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
Cason explains that for some, the hardest part of the
holidays is in financial stress or family conflict. It's a
loneliness and grief that comes with spending the season alone.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
Oh man, that's me this year. I'm not going home.
I'm gonna be working a lot. I always think it's
a good idea, and then I'm home by myself on
Thanksgiving or home by myself on Christmas, and it does
feel like a bummer. But I also will say there
are some families out there where it's preferential to be alone.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Where's your girlfriend should be with her family? I had to.
I had to stay here alone once, completely alone, because
there was nobody to take care of our cats. That's
just completely like the Omega man Charlton Heston, you know
what the weird thing is?
Speaker 3 (06:01):
I mean, and I'm sure the cats appreciated that it
was a normal day for them. They were like, sure,
we're glad you're here. I guess Merry Christmas. Or they
were kind of affectioned it right, Well, yeah, I was
the only person they had.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
That's how you get affection out of cats. You starve
them of it. That's exactly right. That is so silly.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
Well, here's some more tips on how to deal with
that sadness that comes along the holidays.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
Whether that's by joining a club or making friends through
a new hobby.
Speaker 5 (06:32):
Someone who's going to notice if they don't hear from
you for a while is someone that you can kind
of be accountable to.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
For those gathering with family, there's nothing more sad than
this package about how to not be sad on the holidays.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
Well too, for.
Speaker 4 (06:43):
Those gathering with family, Cason says the holidays can bring
up old emotions and spark conflict. She recommends having a
safety plan in case you need to step away, communicating
your feelings calmly, and set boundaries with relatives who may
be triggering you know, Hey, you.
Speaker 5 (06:57):
Know what when this happened. I I really don't like
the way that that feels, and I'm going to ask
you not to do that anymore.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Yeah, that'll work, always does.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
Can you imagine in between some somebody who's been having
a fight for seventy years, you go up to him
and say, hey, can you can you?
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Guys?
Speaker 5 (07:17):
I really don't like the way that that feels, and
I'm going to ask you not to do that anymore.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
I like the passive way that that's phrase too. I'm
going to ask you.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
Right And is this the context of like, am I
their house asking this?
Speaker 5 (07:30):
I really don't like the way that that feels, and
I'm going to ask you not to do that anymore.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Yeah. I hate to admit this, but this makes me
want to bully this person right now. The way she's
speaking about this invites bullying.
Speaker 5 (07:45):
Oh no, And then if it continues, make sure you
take yourself so you always have the ability to leave.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Case and stress, is what'd you say?
Speaker 5 (07:53):
And then if it continues, make sure you take yourself
so you always have the ability to leave.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
Sure you take yourself. Oh like if you drive by yourself,
drive alone? Oh yeah, I guess I think it's kind
of what I'm reading into on that.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
That's a good piece of advice.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
You don't want to be trapped with somewhere because your
cousin wants to hang out.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
Case and stress is the importance of paying attention to
signs of seasonal depression. If you're feeling low, don't isolate,
get outside, take a walk.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Or spend time with friends. Should also encourage me. Well,
his cousin walks. All right.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
Lots more coming up here on the show. I'm Andy Reesmeyer.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
Some breaking news from the Los Angeles Fire Department. Two
workers in critical condition after an explosion inside an electrical
vault on the twentieth floor of a high rise building
in downtown Los Angeles. The address is one willshir more
on what that building is in just a minute, but
firefighters say the explosion happened just before seven o'clock tonight.
Two patients are thought to be in critical condition. They
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were working in an electrical room when the explosion happened.
Paramedics are treating both on scene. There is no active fire,
according to the Fire Department, and no sign of lingering
electrical danger in the building. Cruiser are now checking floors
above and below the area where the explosion happened, just
as a precaution. But One Wheelshire is a fairly tall
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building in downtown Los Angeles at the corner of Grand
or six, basically Wilshire and Grand Street, I think, is
what I'm trying to say. I know it because I
used to live across the street and I would park
in One Wheelshire and one Wheelchair. Used to be I
think a doctor's office building and maybe a law firm
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for most of its existence, and then in the eighties
became a big building for Telcom, and now it is
mostly all just a building where all of the physical
parts of the Internet connect with each other. They call
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it a carrier hotel, which is where servers and cables
and relay systems all meet. So where the Internet doesn't
exist in the cloud, it has to exist physically somewhere.
That's kind of where it is. And it's a very
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odd thing because when you walk by it, you look up,
it's just sort of a random building, but there's just
no people in it because there are these twenty five
I think floors of servers and electrical racks, and it's
really a very critical infrastructure for the Internet. On the
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West coast, there's these Transpecific cable there's a Transatlantic Cables,
these large fiber optic cables that are laid under the
ocean on the the floor of the ocean. They go
across the continent. One of the places that they sort
of end up there is that One Wheelshire building. So
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it's always interesting whenever there's some news there, and obviously
we hope that those people who are injured are going
to be able to get the care that they need.
So explosion on the twenty fifth, twentieth floor rather of
One Wheelshire in downtown.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
You ever been there, Mark Ronner, No, I'm just looking
up the information now and I'll have something ready to
go shortly. Great.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
It's a it's a wild place and you look at
it and it's sort of it's almost imposing when you
walk by, because you just think, like it's strange to
look at a building and think like the Internet is
in there. I mean, it's sort of a simplification, but
also bad news. If you're trying to drive around southern
California in the carpool lane with your hybrid vehicle, those
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decals I almost blows my mind when people used to
buy those Fisker Karmas or the like, real expensive electric cars.
Even when the Teslas first came out, they'd slapped thirty
of those clean air vehicle stickers on them so they
could drive in the carpool lane.
Speaker 6 (12:14):
Heads up for EV and hybrid commuter. Starting today, you
could get a ticket if you're driving solo and caught
in the carpool lane. The grace period is over for
people with expired clean air vehicle decals. ABC seven News
reporter Gloria Rodriguez is live at the paper It's tool
Plaza with what this means for yule commits.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
Yes, Amanda, this isn't that's a loud toll plaza.
Speaker 7 (12:37):
This means for Yules.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
Like they threw it, tossed it out to her. They
just opened the door of the studio.
Speaker 7 (12:45):
This means for Yulians.
Speaker 8 (12:49):
Yes, Amanda, this doesn't only impact EV and hybrid driver.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
It sounds like somebody lighting a blowtorch.
Speaker 7 (12:55):
What this means for yummus?
Speaker 8 (12:59):
Yes, yeah, this isn't.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
Oh sorry, Amanda, I was in the middle of welding.
Welding a piece of metal under the back of my vehicle.
Speaker 8 (13:08):
Yes, Amanda. This doesn't only impact EV and hybrid drivers.
And starting today, everyone may notice more cars in the
non carpool lanes. And that's because that sixty day grace
period is now over for those who have those clean
air vehicle decals. The federal program ended earlier this year,
and the stickers weren't incentive to get people to buy
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low or no mission vehicles by giving them access to
HOV lanes even if they were driving solo. And you
could also get a discount on bridge tolls, but that's
also ending.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
We know a lot of man you used to just
get so much stuff with those electric vehicles.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
I thought, for a second she said bridge trolls. No
discount on that ion.
Speaker 7 (13:47):
No discount on bridge tolls.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
But that's yeah, she was real close to that. It
sounds like she's cold. I don't think a troll would
give one a discount.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
No, you have to pay the troll, pay the toll,
and see the troll.
Speaker 8 (14:01):
We know a lot of solo drivers have still been
using the carpool lanes during the grace period, and the
HP tels ABC seven News that while they will not
be doing any extra enforcement today, officers will be ticketing
people called solo in the carpool lanes, and those fins
start at four hundred and ninety dollars that they are
pretty seep. And if you want to use a carpool
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lane here on the Bay Bridge, you'll need at least
three people in your car. You could also do casual
carpool and they're about twenty pickup and drop off locations
in the East Bay and San Francisco. Live at the
Baybridge toll Plaza Gloria Rodriguez ABC seven.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
News, the noisiest toll plaza ever. It lends authenticity.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
Just turn the compression down on that. That ratio is
way too high. We're getting the background. It's mixing with
the track.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
I mean, it's Haven't you ever had to go out
and stand in the middle of a hurricane or something
that you did to prove that you're reporting the news live?
I did.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
I did that exact thing when we had a quote
unquote hurricane. It was a tropical storm by the time
it hit Los Angeles, but I was down over at
the Allsion Park. Frog Town, I think is what we
really call it. For some reason, LA Times calls it
Allegian Park. To me, is that's frog Town. You call
it frog Town. That's what everybody calls it who lives
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over there. And it was right by the La River.
So basically they had me there next to a big
pipe where all the runoff was coming down.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
I'm sure I needed a few shots after that. I
like it. How every now and then you'll get somebody
who's just fed up and doesn't want to be there,
and you'll have this moment of reality on TV or
the correspondent. It'll be like, yeah, it's still snowing out here.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
Yeah, right back to you. I mean, it is so
silly to do that, but I was basically in that.
I was next to the runway or the freeway, the
five freeway, and I guess Hyperion over where the La
River starts to bank up. They have a really nice
part of La River there, kayak.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
In it and stuff.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
But the majority of what I saw there was just
trash flowing down the river, like lots of big trash.
Really like a refrigerator. You'd see go buy all kinds
of stuff. Oh there's a Christmas tree.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
Wow. Yeah, Well, a fridge is a major piece of equipment.
That's that's notable. I think it was like a mini fridge.
It wasn't.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
I mean, I don't know if a regular fridge would float,
but a mini fridge definitely. It definitely saw many no.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Less impact from a dorm fridge than from a full sight.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
Hey man, if it comes at you, you're sitting there
just trying to, you know, float around, and there's a
hurricane all of a sudden, mini fridge, mini or mega
fridge that's coming at you, that's a that's a problem
like that.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
We got a cagerator coming. That's right.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
By Am six forty. We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
I'm Andy Reesemeyer. That is Jack Penny's Breakfast, is it not,
mister Oliver Boone?
Speaker 2 (17:03):
It is. I love them. That's a great choice.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
I'm a big fan of that kind of like new
music that sounds like it's from the eighties. We call
it sob rock. Perhaps nineteen seventy five sort of does that.
But it's a great It is bleaches as well.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Oh bleacher.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
Yeah, any anything that's in that in that headspace sign
me up for I'm a fan.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
Good stuff. Uh, you know.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
As we continue on, I wanted to make sure that
everybody is buckled up and ready for the next round
of storms coming here to southern California.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Are you ready, Mark Ronner? Always ready? A dry storm system? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (17:42):
A dry storm system is how this report from KTLA
dot com starts out. You can't it is just wind.
You can't call it a storm if there's no rain.
The terminology can be uh a little confusing. Sometimes A
dry storm system is sweeping into southern California, expected to
deliver several days of strong winds and bitterly cold temperatures
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across La and Ventura Counties.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
And wreak havoc with your hair. Wreak havoc with my hair.
I'm going to have to take my hammock off of
my balcony.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
Now, protect your pets, bring in your your balcony hammocks.
If you've got any loose leaf furniture just roaming around
there on the patio.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
It's about to be a massacre.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
Winds expected to ramp up early Monday, which was today,
guests reaching about forty five guests, Gusts reaching about forty
five miles an hour in coast and valley areas, thirty
five miles an hour along the Malibu coast San Gabriel,
Santa Susanna, Mountain Sea and gusts up to fifty miles
an hour. There will be at brief lull Wednesday and Thursday,
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but then mountain gusts will go back up into the fifties.
Coast and valley areas will be experiencing gusts of up
to forty five mile an hour as well for Thursday
and Friday. But it'll also be very cold overnight. Did
you get that Mark Ronner on your on your weather bingo?
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Oh? Probably Anelope Valley.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
We're looking at temperatures below freezing?
Speaker 2 (19:13):
What which is normal for this time of year? Oh,
it's December. The high Desert gets very cold overnight in
the winter. This is about the time when we're going
to see a montage on Jimmy Kimmel of all the
local newscasters going. Can you believe it's December already? Oh? Yeah,
I love that.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
I actually been trying to do a roundup of like
ranking the small talk of the week. I haven't been
able to motivate myself to write it yet, but I
but I think that it's a funny idea enough to
be like, well, this week weather is off the top
five because we haven't had any rain but Thanksgiving leftovers
and when they go bad, are are coming in at
number two.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
I don't know something like that. It's painful. It is painful.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
But and I'm annoyed about small talk generally speaking. But
when and it actually rains in La I feel like
we do have some pretty good small talk.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
You have to talk about it.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
I still have not received any response from my call
to fix the one on one freeway at Lancersham Boulevard.
Every time it rains, about an inch of rain puddles
underneath the Lancersham overpass or the Ventura.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
Maybe it's a maybe it's the I think it's the Ventura.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
It's some overpass by Universal Studios, and every single time
you drive there and it rains, you hydroplane just a
little bit.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
Well, that's the same thing right near where I live
and get on the freeway, the four h five up
in north Ridge, it's like fording a river. I need
to I need to get an SUV when I.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
Was doing, Yeah you do, what would you get? You'd
get like one of those left a hummer. I need
a raise so that I can buy a hunt. That's
exactly right. So you can only all you can drive
here safely. Would the Hummer fit in the garage? Would
it clear those pylons?
Speaker 2 (20:54):
Oh surely. I mean we've had people with those Tesla
cyber trucks parking down there, so a Hummer can't be
that much bigger, can.
Speaker 3 (21:02):
I mean, if we're talking the original hum Vy that's
like three cars wide, I'm sure it would fit in
the garage. I mean it fits in a parking space.
Maybe not at Trader Joe's. No, even a Mini Cooper
won't fit at Trader Joe's.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
That's so wild. That is a crazy place.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
And I don't know why I keep going to the
mall and to the grocery store this week, because I like,
forget that it's happened. It's it's black fried. I forget
all this. I get there, I'm like, oh right, No,
I'm dumb, busy out there.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
All right. I don't want to get you too far
off topic here, but it's important to go to Trader
Joe's right now because they're probably going to be almost
out of the Thanksgiving stuffing flavored popcorn?
Speaker 1 (21:37):
Is it good?
Speaker 2 (21:37):
Yes? I saw a little.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
I didn't I didn't partake, but I'm a big stuffing fan,
so I feel like I would.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
I'd be I'd be into it. It's surprisingly good.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
I'm sure that they don't really do bad Like Trader
Joe's has got a pretty good batting average for tasty snacks.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
I mean, I feel like pulling the full John Denver
for original coke routine and like stocking up some palletts
as a popcorn.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
As long as that's the impersonation that you do of
John Debt, that's the only one I got. As long
as that's the end of it, I wouldn't want to
see you flying ultra light aircraft.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
No, it starts and ends with with the coke. Okay good.
Similarly to our friend in Blind Mellon, you know when
you played that song, it made me realize. I think
I did one of the very last interviews with George
Carlin too. What I am the you're the Angel of Angel?
Stop me before I kill again?
Speaker 5 (22:32):
Wait?
Speaker 2 (22:33):
Why is this? Have you done anybody else? Let's We
shouldn't even dwell on it now I'm starting shatner. Do
not We got everybody we need to bubble wrap. Please
do not interview.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
Stay away from Billy Joel, Stay away from Dick Van Dyke,
Barbara Eden, all of them get out of town. I
saw Tom Petty at his last concert. Obviously we didn't
know it was his last concert, but that was a
that's a really weird feeling, you know, when you see
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somebody and then and then a week later they're gone.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
There is and Reddit kind of frequently has threads about
last known photos of people before they died.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
Why is our obsession with that? Why is that so fascinating?
Speaker 2 (23:17):
The John Dillinger one is hilarious. What's that one in
front of the Biograph theater? No, just look it up?
Non Villiner last photo. Oh so it must be dirty,
is what you're saying. If I'm opening my mouth, chances
are at dirty. Okay, that's what I think.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
Is it him in his in his he's no longer alive? Yeah,
it's his? Uh oh oh my? Is that a result
of the rigor mortis?
Speaker 2 (23:43):
He was very happy to see everybody. Let's just say that.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
I mean, if you're gonna go man, that is wild.
What is the scientific explanation for this?
Speaker 2 (23:56):
Is what it's called? Alright? And he was packing a
high caliber.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
Oh you're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
First of December? Did you pay your rent? Did you
pay your mortgage? Did you go shopping for the week?
Maybe the month? You can stock up for the month
if you go to a place like Costco. It's great
for a big family. It's great for people like to
eat at home all the time. I have a really
hard time with Costco. I want to make it work
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for myself and my schedule and everything, but I can't
eat the food fast enough before it goes bad. One
person with a Costco membership for a one person household
is an insane thing. I wish they would make things
just a little bit smaller. Maybe I gotta eat more,
Maybe the ectomorph comparisons.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
Wills will go away. Then, yeah, you should do that.
I stopped at Costco on the way in here. Did
you do they have terrific deals on booze. Yeah, I'd appreciate.
Speaker 3 (25:03):
Yes, yes, Oh you know me, Well, now you're speaking
my language. I do like that they have, you know,
the Hendricks gin There is like a half bottle bigger
than the regular one you get at the liquor store.
It's like the like the Granddaddy one seven to fifty
millimeters versus five hundred I don't know, but it's a
lot bigger. And then I start getting into conspiracy land,
(25:24):
where I think, do they put different did they water
it down? Are they doing what we used to do
in high school? Or we would put a little water
in our parents' liquor so that they wouldn't notice that
we had taken some of it.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
Did your parents put the grease pencil mark to mark
the level?
Speaker 3 (25:41):
No, that the way they drank, they would have no
idea if that was gone. My mom did start to
get a little confused as to why the cooking sherry
kept going.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
Missing, though, Well, it evaporates. Oh yeah, yeah, that's what
I told her. It evaporates.
Speaker 3 (25:57):
I'll tell you what, Once you drink cooking sherry one time,
you're never gonna drink cooking sherry again. That is some
true desperate behavior as a kid.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
Well, I don't know about cooking sherry, but in a
lot of the old shows and movies that I see,
sherry is quite the civilized drink among a certain class
of people. And I've never tried that kind.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
I don't know if I've met sherry, but if she's
a civilized drink, I'll take a tall glass of water.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
I don't know what that meant. It was a sort
of hack. I've been up since four o'clock in the morning.
Bro okay.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
But Costco though, I don't know if you remember this,
that they had a plan though to add another hour
for the executive gold members gold Star members rather.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
Oh, so you could show up early and not have
to deal with the rabble.
Speaker 3 (26:41):
Yeah, the high tier folks who paid extra, the executive members,
they could get in a couple hours early or an
hour early. And there was a lot of feeling that
the gold Star members were upset because they said this
made them feel like second class citizens the straation. It's
like when you go to the airport now you don't
have your real ID and you got to pay fifty bucks.
(27:05):
Things are Things are getting a little more complicated here
for folks. But the news is at least on the
Costco front, that this has actually helped with the overall
efficiency of a Costco visit, because as you know, if
you go especially here to Burbank, now, they're very efficient.
They do a good job. But if you go on
the weekend before Thanksgiving, it is like you have elected
(27:31):
to do that, So you should know that that's going
to be a nightmare.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
It's insane. I also made the mistake and I'm not
making this up. This isn't a bit. I put in
my earbuds and I went to Costco and I listened
to the soundtrack of None and the Dead while I
was walking through Costco. Don't ever do that.
Speaker 3 (27:48):
That is so funny, and I'm surprised that's not something
that you always do.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
Well, you only need to do it the once, and
then it'll just wreck you for life. Because when you
see the way people shamble around in there with kind
of not very much awareness of what they're doing or
where they're stopping or how they're consuming things, and you've
got that music that's so strongly associated with that zombie movie.
You can never look at either.
Speaker 3 (28:10):
That's a fun that's a fun little mental state that
you put yourself in.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
Though that's kind of neat. Well, I regret it, is
what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (28:17):
Okay, well, I'm sorry about that, but I will say
and I and I think that you know Costco. Like
I said, it's great if you can handle you just
have to mentally prepare for it.
Speaker 2 (28:26):
You've got to be ready. You got to know what
you're doing.
Speaker 3 (28:28):
I mean, there is some fun in wandering through those
first three aisles, you know, the ones that are right
behind the TVs, where it's like, what new gadgets do
they have? Now, that's kind of fun, And you're right,
getting booze is kind of fun.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
But Cosco Costco sells almost everything that you can think of. Now,
I think they're gonna maybe you could get like a
liver transplant at Costco. Put it right next to the
optometry section. That's right, Why not transplant? Well, you're gonna
need a liver transplant with all that gin. Yeah, it's
a one stop shop. They give you the liquor and
the and they give you the thing to fix it,
(29:01):
good old Kirkland livers. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (29:06):
The problem is that every time I buy a liver there,
that's way too big for me. I can't finish that
whole liver. You gotta split it with somebody. You gotta share.
I gotta share that liver. It regrows though, thankfully. But
uh yeah, Costco very doing very well. The company reported
membership income of one point seventy two billion dollars, which
is fourteen percent more than the prior year.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
That hot Dog loss leaders are brilliant Buck and a half,
and you got to think, like there are there is.
Speaker 3 (29:32):
I don't know how many, but there's a percentage of
people who have that Costco membership who aren't going. That's
just free money to Costco every month. Pretty smart, Although
I swear sometimes I think, man, is this the same stuff?
I bought a soundbar from Costco? I thought, is this
the same soundbar that they'd be selling it best Buy?
(29:53):
I don't think it is. They do special stuff for
them so well. They never have the same thing from
one week to the next. That's your and that's why
they want you to go. They figured it out, man,
they know how we work. Coming up for the next
hour here on KFI, we're going to talk about car
prices hitting a new high and what that means for
people who are shopping for vehicles. The New York City
(30:14):
McDonald's has hired somebody called a mc bouncer. I guess
that the uh officer Big Mac might have been involved
in a nois or something.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
He was somebody mayor mccheese. What's going on with that?
Speaker 3 (30:29):
Plus, if you're sick of AI slop, there's a way
to go back to the good old days when the
internet was still nice in twenty twenty two when we
didn't have any this ai slop. It's KFI AM six forty.
Give us a call if you'd like one in one
hundred five two zero one five three four one in
hundred five two zero one five three four. Let us
know what you're up to on this Monday night, this
(30:50):
cyber Monday. If you've got any deals, if you're going
to Costco, if you've sworn off Costco.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
And instead you're a Sam's Club person. Hey, each his own.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
K f I A M six forty on demand.
Speaker 4 (31:10):
M hmm
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
I'm Andy Reestmeyer.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
We are with you all the way till ten pm,
alongside mister Mark Ronner here, Oliver Boone, Sam Zea and
Matt Toffler on the on the threes and four we
got ones and twos and threes and fours.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
I think, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
You can find me if you'd like to at Andy
KTLA anywhere the Internet is sold, or you can give
us a call one hundred five to zero one five
three four. That's one hundred and five two zero one
five three four. I would love to hear from you
if you are taking advantage of this last few waking
minutes of cyber Monday.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
What are you going to get?
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Maybe you're gonna get nothing because you don't feel compelled
to spend money because of some sort of large scale.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Corporate op. I get it.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
But I've been waiting for a couch to go on
sale for quite some time, and the love Sack finally
went on sale, and I'd like, I'm not a big
love sack person, but I guess you can. You can
wash the covers of the pillows. This is almost getting
to be even too boring for me to tell you.
But it's forty percent off, and that's a big deal
because that stuff is expansive. I had no idea as
(01:25):
a as a like a bachelor, how expensive real furniture
it was, because to me, I was just like it's
Ikea is like that's the limit. So I don't know
a couch is five hundred bucks. Oh no, there are
people out here spending five thousand dollars on couches, eight
thousand dollars on a rig on a couch that looks
(01:47):
like it's like like like in a family room that
like a dog pukes on.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
I don't.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
I mean, it's nice looks, it's a nice, nice thing
to have, well made.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
I guess.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
So funny how one hundred five two zero one five
three four is the number you could give us a call?
That's one one hundred five to two zero one kfi.
Apple Watch Series eleven is a seventy dollars off promotion
right now the AirPods Pro three. If you got the
Pro too, you got to get the Pro three now
two hundred and twenty bucks. God, that's expensive.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
I'm not paying that much for those.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Yeah, you don't think so it's not worth it. I mean,
the list price is two eighty. You can get normal
AirPods for like twenty five bucks. I don't write the news,
Mark Ronner. I didn't come up with this scam, all right, bucko.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
I don't. Somebody has to explain to me how air
pods that cost more than two hundred bucks are significantly
higher in quality than any other kind. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
I haven't spent a lot of time with the different AirPods,
but I do have the pros. They were given to
me as a gift, and as you say, you never
want to look a gift horse in the mouth. They're
very soft and very comfortable, and they have noise cancelation,
and they pair very nicely with we're got. I'm not
the tech guy. I don't know what to tell you, buddy.
What if you just lose one?
Speaker 2 (03:09):
What if you're using the toilet and and one drops in.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
Or you God forbid you leave it in your chonies
and then you put it in the washer, and then
all of a sudden you got you got to put
your air pods on rice.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
The The twenty five dollar airpod's hurt a lot less
to lose. Mm hmm.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
That's like sunglasses. You know you're gonna lose them. Why
are you buying expensive ones? This is maybe just issues
that I have by myself. But twenty percent off those
Apple AirPods, twenty percent off iPad Mini, Apple Watch se three,
Apple Watch Ultra two, that's kind of fun. I guess
(03:49):
I don't know. I don't know any of this stuff.
I have a phone. I would be so low low
fi if I could. If I could just like not
have a phone and just have like a cool walkman
with a Van Morrison tape in it, I would do that.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
That's what I would do.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
YETI there's stuff that's on sale at YETI okay, make
you kind of sad.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
A little bit? Maybe gets sat around the holidays. You're
not alone.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
The holidays are in full swing, but for many this
time of year can bring heightened stress, loneliness, and even
substance abuse. I'm rally and aggle, your neighborhood reporter, and
the holiday blues maybe more common than you think.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
He's our neighborhood reporter. How about that. I didn't know
I had.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
One, And the holiday blues maybe more common than you think.
Speaker 5 (04:42):
What that's coming from a lot of the time is
going to be the increased financial stress, family conflict around
the holidays, the change in routine.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
Jessica Cason, a mental health expert with Aspired Counseling Services, says,
right now and following the holidays, they see an increase
in patience seeking help with substance and alcohol abuse.
Speaker 5 (05:04):
They are utilizing alcohol or substances as a coping mechanism
for those emotions and that stress and those feelings.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
Cason explains that for some, the hardest part of the
holidays is in financial stress or family conflict. It's a
loneliness and grief that comes with spending the season alone.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
Oh man, that's me this year. I'm not going home.
I'm gonna be working a lot. I always think it's
a good idea, and then I'm home by myself on
Thanksgiving or home by myself on Christmas, and it does
feel like a bummer. But I also will say there
are some families out there where it's preferential to be alone.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Where's your girlfriend should be with her family? I had to.
I had to stay here alone once, completely alone, because
there was nobody to take care of our cats. That's
just completely like the Omega man Charlton Heston, you know
what the weird thing is?
Speaker 3 (06:01):
I mean, and I'm sure the cats appreciated that it
was a normal day for them. They were like, sure,
we're glad you're here. I guess Merry Christmas. Or they
were kind of affectioned it right, Well, yeah, I was
the only person they had.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
That's how you get affection out of cats. You starve
them of it. That's exactly right. That is so silly.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
Well, here's some more tips on how to deal with
that sadness that comes along the holidays.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
Whether that's by joining a club or making friends through
a new hobby.
Speaker 5 (06:32):
Someone who's going to notice if they don't hear from
you for a while is someone that you can kind
of be accountable to.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
For those gathering with family, there's nothing more sad than
this package about how to not be sad on the holidays.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
Well too, for.
Speaker 4 (06:43):
Those gathering with family, Cason says the holidays can bring
up old emotions and spark conflict. She recommends having a
safety plan in case you need to step away, communicating
your feelings calmly, and set boundaries with relatives who may
be triggering you know, Hey, you.
Speaker 5 (06:57):
Know what when this happened. I I really don't like
the way that that feels, and I'm going to ask
you not to do that anymore.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Yeah, that'll work, always does.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
Can you imagine in between some somebody who's been having
a fight for seventy years, you go up to him
and say, hey, can you can you?
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Guys?
Speaker 5 (07:17):
I really don't like the way that that feels, and
I'm going to ask you not to do that anymore.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
I like the passive way that that's phrase too. I'm
going to ask you.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
Right And is this the context of like, am I
their house asking this?
Speaker 5 (07:30):
I really don't like the way that that feels, and
I'm going to ask you not to do that anymore.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Yeah. I hate to admit this, but this makes me
want to bully this person right now. The way she's
speaking about this invites bullying.
Speaker 5 (07:45):
Oh no, And then if it continues, make sure you
take yourself so you always have the ability to leave.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Case and stress, is what'd you say?
Speaker 5 (07:53):
And then if it continues, make sure you take yourself
so you always have the ability to leave.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
Sure you take yourself. Oh like if you drive by yourself,
drive alone? Oh yeah, I guess I think it's kind
of what I'm reading into on that.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
That's a good piece of advice.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
You don't want to be trapped with somewhere because your
cousin wants to hang out.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
Case and stress is the importance of paying attention to
signs of seasonal depression. If you're feeling low, don't isolate,
get outside, take a walk.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Or spend time with friends. Should also encourage me. Well,
his cousin walks. All right.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
Lots more coming up here on the show. I'm Andy Reesmeyer.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
Some breaking news from the Los Angeles Fire Department. Two
workers in critical condition after an explosion inside an electrical
vault on the twentieth floor of a high rise building
in downtown Los Angeles. The address is one willshir more
on what that building is in just a minute, but
firefighters say the explosion happened just before seven o'clock tonight.
Two patients are thought to be in critical condition. They
(09:02):
were working in an electrical room when the explosion happened.
Paramedics are treating both on scene. There is no active fire,
according to the Fire Department, and no sign of lingering
electrical danger in the building. Cruiser are now checking floors
above and below the area where the explosion happened, just
as a precaution. But One Wheelshire is a fairly tall
(09:23):
building in downtown Los Angeles at the corner of Grand
or six, basically Wilshire and Grand Street, I think, is
what I'm trying to say. I know it because I
used to live across the street and I would park
in One Wheelshire and one Wheelchair. Used to be I
think a doctor's office building and maybe a law firm
(09:44):
for most of its existence, and then in the eighties
became a big building for Telcom, and now it is
mostly all just a building where all of the physical
parts of the Internet connect with each other. They call
(10:06):
it a carrier hotel, which is where servers and cables
and relay systems all meet. So where the Internet doesn't
exist in the cloud, it has to exist physically somewhere.
That's kind of where it is. And it's a very
(10:26):
odd thing because when you walk by it, you look up,
it's just sort of a random building, but there's just
no people in it because there are these twenty five
I think floors of servers and electrical racks, and it's
really a very critical infrastructure for the Internet. On the
(10:48):
West coast, there's these Transpecific cable there's a Transatlantic Cables,
these large fiber optic cables that are laid under the
ocean on the the floor of the ocean. They go
across the continent. One of the places that they sort
of end up there is that One Wheelshire building. So
(11:08):
it's always interesting whenever there's some news there, and obviously
we hope that those people who are injured are going
to be able to get the care that they need.
So explosion on the twenty fifth, twentieth floor rather of
One Wheelshire in downtown.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
You ever been there, Mark Ronner, No, I'm just looking
up the information now and I'll have something ready to
go shortly. Great.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
It's a it's a wild place and you look at
it and it's sort of it's almost imposing when you
walk by, because you just think, like it's strange to
look at a building and think like the Internet is
in there. I mean, it's sort of a simplification, but
also bad news. If you're trying to drive around southern
California in the carpool lane with your hybrid vehicle, those
(11:56):
decals I almost blows my mind when people used to
buy those Fisker Karmas or the like, real expensive electric cars.
Even when the Teslas first came out, they'd slapped thirty
of those clean air vehicle stickers on them so they
could drive in the carpool lane.
Speaker 6 (12:14):
Heads up for EV and hybrid commuter. Starting today, you
could get a ticket if you're driving solo and caught
in the carpool lane. The grace period is over for
people with expired clean air vehicle decals. ABC seven News
reporter Gloria Rodriguez is live at the paper It's tool
Plaza with what this means for yule commits.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
Yes, Amanda, this isn't that's a loud toll plaza.
Speaker 7 (12:37):
This means for Yules.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
Like they threw it, tossed it out to her. They
just opened the door of the studio.
Speaker 7 (12:45):
This means for Yulians.
Speaker 8 (12:49):
Yes, Amanda, this doesn't only impact EV and hybrid driver.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
It sounds like somebody lighting a blowtorch.
Speaker 7 (12:55):
What this means for yummus?
Speaker 8 (12:59):
Yes, yeah, this isn't.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
Oh sorry, Amanda, I was in the middle of welding.
Welding a piece of metal under the back of my vehicle.
Speaker 8 (13:08):
Yes, Amanda. This doesn't only impact EV and hybrid drivers.
And starting today, everyone may notice more cars in the
non carpool lanes. And that's because that sixty day grace
period is now over for those who have those clean
air vehicle decals. The federal program ended earlier this year,
and the stickers weren't incentive to get people to buy
(13:28):
low or no mission vehicles by giving them access to
HOV lanes even if they were driving solo. And you
could also get a discount on bridge tolls, but that's
also ending.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
We know a lot of man you used to just
get so much stuff with those electric vehicles.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
I thought, for a second she said bridge trolls. No
discount on that ion.
Speaker 7 (13:47):
No discount on bridge tolls.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
But that's yeah, she was real close to that. It
sounds like she's cold. I don't think a troll would
give one a discount.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
No, you have to pay the troll, pay the toll,
and see the troll.
Speaker 8 (14:01):
We know a lot of solo drivers have still been
using the carpool lanes during the grace period, and the
HP tels ABC seven News that while they will not
be doing any extra enforcement today, officers will be ticketing
people called solo in the carpool lanes, and those fins
start at four hundred and ninety dollars that they are
pretty seep. And if you want to use a carpool
(14:21):
lane here on the Bay Bridge, you'll need at least
three people in your car. You could also do casual
carpool and they're about twenty pickup and drop off locations
in the East Bay and San Francisco. Live at the
Baybridge toll Plaza Gloria Rodriguez ABC seven.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
News, the noisiest toll plaza ever. It lends authenticity.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
Just turn the compression down on that. That ratio is
way too high. We're getting the background. It's mixing with
the track.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
I mean, it's Haven't you ever had to go out
and stand in the middle of a hurricane or something
that you did to prove that you're reporting the news live?
I did.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
I did that exact thing when we had a quote
unquote hurricane. It was a tropical storm by the time
it hit Los Angeles, but I was down over at
the Allsion Park. Frog Town, I think is what we
really call it. For some reason, LA Times calls it
Allegian Park. To me, is that's frog Town. You call
it frog Town. That's what everybody calls it who lives
(15:21):
over there. And it was right by the La River.
So basically they had me there next to a big
pipe where all the runoff was coming down.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
I'm sure I needed a few shots after that. I
like it. How every now and then you'll get somebody
who's just fed up and doesn't want to be there,
and you'll have this moment of reality on TV or
the correspondent. It'll be like, yeah, it's still snowing out here.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
Yeah, right back to you. I mean, it is so
silly to do that, but I was basically in that.
I was next to the runway or the freeway, the
five freeway, and I guess Hyperion over where the La
River starts to bank up. They have a really nice
part of La River there, kayak.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
In it and stuff.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
But the majority of what I saw there was just
trash flowing down the river, like lots of big trash.
Really like a refrigerator. You'd see go buy all kinds
of stuff. Oh there's a Christmas tree.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
Wow. Yeah, Well, a fridge is a major piece of equipment.
That's that's notable. I think it was like a mini fridge.
It wasn't.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
I mean, I don't know if a regular fridge would float,
but a mini fridge definitely. It definitely saw many no.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Less impact from a dorm fridge than from a full sight.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
Hey man, if it comes at you, you're sitting there
just trying to, you know, float around, and there's a
hurricane all of a sudden, mini fridge, mini or mega
fridge that's coming at you, that's a that's a problem
like that.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
We got a cagerator coming. That's right.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
By Am six forty. We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
I'm Andy Reesemeyer. That is Jack Penny's Breakfast, is it not,
mister Oliver Boone?
Speaker 2 (17:03):
It is. I love them. That's a great choice.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
I'm a big fan of that kind of like new
music that sounds like it's from the eighties. We call
it sob rock. Perhaps nineteen seventy five sort of does that.
But it's a great It is bleaches as well.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Oh bleacher.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
Yeah, any anything that's in that in that headspace sign
me up for I'm a fan.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
Good stuff. Uh, you know.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
As we continue on, I wanted to make sure that
everybody is buckled up and ready for the next round
of storms coming here to southern California.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Are you ready, Mark Ronner? Always ready? A dry storm system? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (17:42):
A dry storm system is how this report from KTLA
dot com starts out. You can't it is just wind.
You can't call it a storm if there's no rain.
The terminology can be uh a little confusing. Sometimes A
dry storm system is sweeping into southern California, expected to
deliver several days of strong winds and bitterly cold temperatures
(18:06):
across La and Ventura Counties.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
And wreak havoc with your hair. Wreak havoc with my hair.
I'm going to have to take my hammock off of
my balcony.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
Now, protect your pets, bring in your your balcony hammocks.
If you've got any loose leaf furniture just roaming around
there on the patio.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
It's about to be a massacre.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
Winds expected to ramp up early Monday, which was today,
guests reaching about forty five guests, Gusts reaching about forty
five miles an hour in coast and valley areas, thirty
five miles an hour along the Malibu coast San Gabriel,
Santa Susanna, Mountain Sea and gusts up to fifty miles
an hour. There will be at brief lull Wednesday and Thursday,
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but then mountain gusts will go back up into the fifties.
Coast and valley areas will be experiencing gusts of up
to forty five mile an hour as well for Thursday
and Friday. But it'll also be very cold overnight. Did
you get that Mark Ronner on your on your weather bingo?
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Oh? Probably Anelope Valley.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
We're looking at temperatures below freezing?
Speaker 2 (19:13):
What which is normal for this time of year? Oh,
it's December. The high Desert gets very cold overnight in
the winter. This is about the time when we're going
to see a montage on Jimmy Kimmel of all the
local newscasters going. Can you believe it's December already? Oh? Yeah,
I love that.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
I actually been trying to do a roundup of like
ranking the small talk of the week. I haven't been
able to motivate myself to write it yet, but I
but I think that it's a funny idea enough to
be like, well, this week weather is off the top
five because we haven't had any rain but Thanksgiving leftovers
and when they go bad, are are coming in at
number two.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
I don't know something like that. It's painful. It is painful.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
But and I'm annoyed about small talk generally speaking. But
when and it actually rains in La I feel like
we do have some pretty good small talk.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
You have to talk about it.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
I still have not received any response from my call
to fix the one on one freeway at Lancersham Boulevard.
Every time it rains, about an inch of rain puddles
underneath the Lancersham overpass or the Ventura.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
Maybe it's a maybe it's the I think it's the Ventura.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
It's some overpass by Universal Studios, and every single time
you drive there and it rains, you hydroplane just a
little bit.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
Well, that's the same thing right near where I live
and get on the freeway, the four h five up
in north Ridge, it's like fording a river. I need
to I need to get an SUV when I.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
Was doing, Yeah you do, what would you get? You'd
get like one of those left a hummer. I need
a raise so that I can buy a hunt. That's
exactly right. So you can only all you can drive
here safely. Would the Hummer fit in the garage? Would
it clear those pylons?
Speaker 2 (20:54):
Oh surely. I mean we've had people with those Tesla
cyber trucks parking down there, so a Hummer can't be
that much bigger, can.
Speaker 3 (21:02):
I mean, if we're talking the original hum Vy that's
like three cars wide, I'm sure it would fit in
the garage. I mean it fits in a parking space.
Maybe not at Trader Joe's. No, even a Mini Cooper
won't fit at Trader Joe's.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
That's so wild. That is a crazy place.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
And I don't know why I keep going to the
mall and to the grocery store this week, because I like,
forget that it's happened. It's it's black fried. I forget
all this. I get there, I'm like, oh right, No,
I'm dumb, busy out there.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
All right. I don't want to get you too far
off topic here, but it's important to go to Trader
Joe's right now because they're probably going to be almost
out of the Thanksgiving stuffing flavored popcorn?
Speaker 1 (21:37):
Is it good?
Speaker 2 (21:37):
Yes? I saw a little.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
I didn't I didn't partake, but I'm a big stuffing fan,
so I feel like I would.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
I'd be I'd be into it. It's surprisingly good.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
I'm sure that they don't really do bad Like Trader
Joe's has got a pretty good batting average for tasty snacks.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
I mean, I feel like pulling the full John Denver
for original coke routine and like stocking up some palletts
as a popcorn.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
As long as that's the impersonation that you do of
John Debt, that's the only one I got. As long
as that's the end of it, I wouldn't want to
see you flying ultra light aircraft.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
No, it starts and ends with with the coke. Okay good.
Similarly to our friend in Blind Mellon, you know when
you played that song, it made me realize. I think
I did one of the very last interviews with George
Carlin too. What I am the you're the Angel of Angel?
Stop me before I kill again?
Speaker 5 (22:32):
Wait?
Speaker 2 (22:33):
Why is this? Have you done anybody else? Let's We
shouldn't even dwell on it now I'm starting shatner. Do
not We got everybody we need to bubble wrap. Please
do not interview.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
Stay away from Billy Joel, Stay away from Dick Van Dyke,
Barbara Eden, all of them get out of town. I
saw Tom Petty at his last concert. Obviously we didn't
know it was his last concert, but that was a
that's a really weird feeling, you know, when you see
(23:04):
somebody and then and then a week later they're gone.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
There is and Reddit kind of frequently has threads about
last known photos of people before they died.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
Why is our obsession with that? Why is that so fascinating?
Speaker 2 (23:17):
The John Dillinger one is hilarious. What's that one in
front of the Biograph theater? No, just look it up?
Non Villiner last photo. Oh so it must be dirty,
is what you're saying. If I'm opening my mouth, chances
are at dirty. Okay, that's what I think.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
Is it him in his in his he's no longer alive? Yeah,
it's his? Uh oh oh my? Is that a result
of the rigor mortis?
Speaker 2 (23:43):
He was very happy to see everybody. Let's just say that.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
I mean, if you're gonna go man, that is wild.
What is the scientific explanation for this?
Speaker 2 (23:56):
Is what it's called? Alright? And he was packing a
high caliber.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
Oh you're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
First of December? Did you pay your rent? Did you
pay your mortgage? Did you go shopping for the week?
Maybe the month? You can stock up for the month
if you go to a place like Costco. It's great
for a big family. It's great for people like to
eat at home all the time. I have a really
hard time with Costco. I want to make it work
(24:34):
for myself and my schedule and everything, but I can't
eat the food fast enough before it goes bad. One
person with a Costco membership for a one person household
is an insane thing. I wish they would make things
just a little bit smaller. Maybe I gotta eat more,
Maybe the ectomorph comparisons.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
Wills will go away. Then, yeah, you should do that.
I stopped at Costco on the way in here. Did
you do they have terrific deals on booze. Yeah, I'd appreciate.
Speaker 3 (25:03):
Yes, yes, Oh you know me, Well, now you're speaking
my language. I do like that they have, you know,
the Hendricks gin There is like a half bottle bigger
than the regular one you get at the liquor store.
It's like the like the Granddaddy one seven to fifty
millimeters versus five hundred I don't know, but it's a
lot bigger. And then I start getting into conspiracy land,
(25:24):
where I think, do they put different did they water
it down? Are they doing what we used to do
in high school? Or we would put a little water
in our parents' liquor so that they wouldn't notice that
we had taken some of it.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
Did your parents put the grease pencil mark to mark
the level?
Speaker 3 (25:41):
No, that the way they drank, they would have no
idea if that was gone. My mom did start to
get a little confused as to why the cooking sherry
kept going.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
Missing, though, Well, it evaporates. Oh yeah, yeah, that's what
I told her. It evaporates.
Speaker 3 (25:57):
I'll tell you what, Once you drink cooking sherry one time,
you're never gonna drink cooking sherry again. That is some
true desperate behavior as a kid.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
Well, I don't know about cooking sherry, but in a
lot of the old shows and movies that I see,
sherry is quite the civilized drink among a certain class
of people. And I've never tried that kind.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
I don't know if I've met sherry, but if she's
a civilized drink, I'll take a tall glass of water.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
I don't know what that meant. It was a sort
of hack. I've been up since four o'clock in the morning.
Bro okay.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
But Costco though, I don't know if you remember this,
that they had a plan though to add another hour
for the executive gold members gold Star members rather.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
Oh, so you could show up early and not have
to deal with the rabble.
Speaker 3 (26:41):
Yeah, the high tier folks who paid extra, the executive members,
they could get in a couple hours early or an
hour early. And there was a lot of feeling that
the gold Star members were upset because they said this
made them feel like second class citizens the straation. It's
like when you go to the airport now you don't
have your real ID and you got to pay fifty bucks.
(27:05):
Things are Things are getting a little more complicated here
for folks. But the news is at least on the
Costco front, that this has actually helped with the overall
efficiency of a Costco visit, because as you know, if
you go especially here to Burbank, now, they're very efficient.
They do a good job. But if you go on
the weekend before Thanksgiving, it is like you have elected
(27:31):
to do that, So you should know that that's going
to be a nightmare.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
It's insane. I also made the mistake and I'm not
making this up. This isn't a bit. I put in
my earbuds and I went to Costco and I listened
to the soundtrack of None and the Dead while I
was walking through Costco. Don't ever do that.
Speaker 3 (27:48):
That is so funny, and I'm surprised that's not something
that you always do.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
Well, you only need to do it the once, and
then it'll just wreck you for life. Because when you
see the way people shamble around in there with kind
of not very much awareness of what they're doing or
where they're stopping or how they're consuming things, and you've
got that music that's so strongly associated with that zombie movie.
You can never look at either.
Speaker 3 (28:10):
That's a fun that's a fun little mental state that
you put yourself in.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
Though that's kind of neat. Well, I regret it, is
what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (28:17):
Okay, well, I'm sorry about that, but I will say
and I and I think that you know Costco. Like
I said, it's great if you can handle you just
have to mentally prepare for it.
Speaker 2 (28:26):
You've got to be ready. You got to know what
you're doing.
Speaker 3 (28:28):
I mean, there is some fun in wandering through those
first three aisles, you know, the ones that are right
behind the TVs, where it's like, what new gadgets do
they have? Now, that's kind of fun, And you're right,
getting booze is kind of fun.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
But Cosco Costco sells almost everything that you can think of. Now,
I think they're gonna maybe you could get like a
liver transplant at Costco. Put it right next to the
optometry section. That's right, Why not transplant? Well, you're gonna
need a liver transplant with all that gin. Yeah, it's
a one stop shop. They give you the liquor and
the and they give you the thing to fix it,
(29:01):
good old Kirkland livers. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (29:06):
The problem is that every time I buy a liver there,
that's way too big for me. I can't finish that
whole liver. You gotta split it with somebody. You gotta share.
I gotta share that liver. It regrows though, thankfully. But
uh yeah, Costco very doing very well. The company reported
membership income of one point seventy two billion dollars, which
is fourteen percent more than the prior year.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
That hot Dog loss leaders are brilliant Buck and a half,
and you got to think, like there are there is.
Speaker 3 (29:32):
I don't know how many, but there's a percentage of
people who have that Costco membership who aren't going. That's
just free money to Costco every month. Pretty smart, Although
I swear sometimes I think, man, is this the same stuff?
I bought a soundbar from Costco? I thought, is this
the same soundbar that they'd be selling it best Buy?
(29:53):
I don't think it is. They do special stuff for
them so well. They never have the same thing from
one week to the next. That's your and that's why
they want you to go. They figured it out, man,
they know how we work. Coming up for the next
hour here on KFI, we're going to talk about car
prices hitting a new high and what that means for
people who are shopping for vehicles. The New York City
(30:14):
McDonald's has hired somebody called a mc bouncer. I guess
that the uh officer Big Mac might have been involved
in a nois or something.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
He was somebody mayor mccheese. What's going on with that?
Speaker 3 (30:29):
Plus, if you're sick of AI slop, there's a way
to go back to the good old days when the
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Give us a call if you'd like one in one
hundred five two zero one five three four one in
hundred five two zero one five three four. Let us
know what you're up to on this Monday night, this
(30:50):
cyber Monday. If you've got any deals, if you're going
to Costco, if you've sworn off Costco.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
And instead you're a Sam's Club person. Hey, each his own.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
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