November 18, 2025 • 32 mins
Andy learns to drive a stick shift, unpacks why L.A.’s green bins are overflowing across city curbs, tackles the unwritten “locker rule” for guys, and breaks down the 15 definitive rules of the airport bar. Plus, a look at the new Selena Quintanilla y Los Dinos documentary on Netflix and why it’s capturing fans all over again.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
By Andy Reesemeyer.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
Just past nine o'clock on this Monday, November seventeenth, a
rainy Los Angeles kind of snuck up on us, don't
you think, at a real, real good warning ahead of
the weekend. And then just at around three or four
this afternoon, started getting alerts from the National Weather Service
that oh yes, some major precipitation was heading into the area,
and it did. I think we were looking at a
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couple of inches of rain in the San Fernando Valley.
Streets were flooded. Flash flood warning is still in effect
all the way until nine to nineteen. That may be continued.
But looking outside right now, it does appear as if
it's tapering off a bit. It is still wet, of course,
but we have a couple of days where we'll be
out of the wood here, out of the woods rather
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here for the next I think three or four days.
Then by the time we get to Thursday and Friday,
we will have another storm system in. So it's been
it's been kind of unseasoned, wet for this fall, kind
of neat, feels like real, real winter. We've been checking
in with people all night about driving stick shifts, what
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you did the first time you learned, or how you learned.
Take a listen to this person calling on a talkback.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
Hey, Andy, it's Randy from Stanton checking in. Feel little
sprinkles over here. My clutch story is I grew up
driving clutch on a farm. You learn how to drive tractor?
Oh yeah, twelve thirteen years old. But I wanted to
share with you. Eighty four suburban also a clutch, drove
it up Los Enega on a regular basis. One night
somebody was writing a shopping cart down on that big
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hill like a skateboard.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Wow, that is wild, amazing. That is a crazy story.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
I think that's the scariest place in LA to have
a stick shift is just going up Losiana. Go to
Sunset Boulevard, maybe Baxter Street, though I don't think you
drive that a lot. That's the hilliest, the steepest street
in LA. Do you ever make it over there, mister honor.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
No, Oh, it's really crazy.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
It's over and I think it's like Echo Park Baxter
Avenue Street.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
You know.
Speaker 5 (02:10):
Because of COVID and just my own abject cowardice, I
haven't explored nearly as much as I've wanted to since
I moved here in twenty eighteen.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
You got to get out there and see this city.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
The thing is that you if you have to deal
with this place. The grievances are a long list. I
don't need to get into it, but high cost of
living and just the sort of the mental stimulation that
the mental work that it takes to be in La
all the time. You gotta do the fun stuff.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
I like La. You've never heard me complain about living
in La. No, I do too.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
I'm just saying it's expensive, you know, and it's like
and I've always had the headspace of like, Okay, it's expensive,
and there's sometimes it's frustrating with the traffic, and so
if I'm going to be here, I want to try
to live it and do as much as I possibly can.
So next time I go out to Baxter Street, I'm
picking you up, r Honor, I'm swinging by. We're getting
in the stick shit, we're getting in the dots and
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dudes are going cruising and then it's off to the
chowder bar that's.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Right down in San Pedro.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Well, can I tell you say the thing about Baxter
Street was in the news during the pandemic because you
had people who were driving up there in their sports
cars and jumping off of it. Do you remember this
story about the guys in the Tesla that were like
going over the top of Baxter And then we're recording it,
of course and putting it on TikTok and Instagram, and
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they were they were jumping these cars like fast and
the furious and of course the neighbor neighbors were furious
calling the police fast sounds smart, sounds smart. One more
talk back and then we'll get to some news about
what's gone with these these trash bins, these green bins.
Speaker 6 (03:46):
This is Stephanie from Desert Hot Springs Stiffly. The way
I learned to drive sticks is my three little brothers
needed to go to Scouts and I was the only
one home that could drive. They told me that if
I would drive the car, they would tell me when
to shift, and so we took off and ever since
I've been able to drive a stip shift. So my
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three little brothers, who are five years, six and seven
years younger than me, taught me.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
That that's great, what a good story.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
I love that.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
You know, people just learned out of necessity. Get It's
like throwing a cat into the pool. You just got
to do it. Yeah, Is that what you.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Do with a cat? You throw a cat into the pool.
Speaker 5 (04:26):
That's how you teach him to swim. You teach a
cat to toddlers. Whatever you got, Yeah, toddler, I get.
That's how I learned how to swim. My mom just
threw me in the pool.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Some tough love. What was crazy is that we didn't
have a pool. Oops. It was the nagar. Make sure
there's water in the pool.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
It was It was just a trash can filled up
with water. The speedway special Indianapolis. I'm a hoosier throwing through.
You see these green bins all around. They're taking over neighborhoods,
especially in parts of I guess you could say Central
Los Angeles. A lot of this on Los Pheela's city accounts.
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They're everywhere. La Time's doing stories green bins clogging LA curbs.
Because the city's organic waste program is now in effect.
It was a it's called SB thirteen eighty three. It
required that seventy five percent of organic waste would be
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taken away from landfills by the end of the year
and instead turned into compost. Now many people who have
houses already have these green bins, and I don't know
if they're composting their food. I think mostly the garden
clippings end up there, you know, the landscape, the gardeners,
whatever you got, you get your your your clippings. I'm
an indoor kid. I don't know, man, but that's what
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always ends up in the in the green bins. But
now you've got a lot of these places like on
Hillhurst his apartment buildings, where sixty cans have been dropped
off and they're just covering the streets. Journalists and podcaster
ALYSSA Walker, who I believe used to be on Twitter
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as a walker in la is calling it the Great
green bin Apocalypse of twenty twenty five. She shared a
photo showing what appear to be twenty green bins in
front of one property, right next to a discarded sofa.
She says, this is probably my favorite photo. I like
how they lined them all up neatly in a row
and left the couch. She actually urged other people to
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send in photos. Tommy Newman from Silver Lake posted a
picture showing eight bins outside an eight unit building just
south of Sunset Boulevard. A lot of peoples, of course,
saying this is a nightmare related to sort of the
absurdity of the bureaucratic malaise that is living in a
large city. The city, so they say, will allow you
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to request a smaller, more manageable container. You of course
have to fill out a form and then you would
get a thirty to sixty gallon replacement. It's part of
a long term effort by the city to reach a
zero waste goal and lean on sustainability, saying that even
though it's weird and it might be unsightly and taking
up a ton of space on your street, eventually it
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will lead to cleaner air. I don't know how long
it will take to get to cleaner air. But they
want you to put all of your food waste, eggshells,
coffee grounds, meat bones, unfinished vegetables, orange peels, greasy napkins.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Into the green bin. There is even an.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
AI chatbot that's called Professor Green who can help you
determine what can go in and out.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Of the green bin. This is a nightmare, I guess.
Speaker 5 (07:48):
It also leads to a significant dose of irony, since
the thing that's meant to cut down on pollution, winds
up being a blight itself.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
Isn't that just the way? Isn't that exactly what we
just deserve as people? We deserve the asteroid bringing on.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
By me Andy Reesemeyer. We're still, of course, watching that
storm system. Does look like it's moving out of the
La County area at least, so that's good. Maybe a
little bit of rain here for the next hour or so,
but for the most part, the brunt of it, as they.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Say, is over. We're out of the woods.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
Alongside mister Mark Ronner, Oliver Boone, Richie Sam. We've got
quite a crew here tonight. Kind of a sausage party tonight.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Yeah, I mean.
Speaker 5 (08:44):
Listen, I wasn't hoping to go home with one of
you guys. No, no, no, but it's an all guy
crew tonight.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Yeah. We did have some nice We had some callers.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
So we're women or identified as it seemed to be
of the female persuasion.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
I don't want to assume women who knew how to
handle a stick. That is correct. That didn't sound good.
I shouldn't have said it like that.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
We were all just gonna let it go. Okay, But
that's fine if you want to, if you want to
do that. Just the sage body doesn't mean it's a
locker room, that's true. I don't know where we when
we say locker room. I know that that's a term
that's used frequently to say like locker room talk. But
if you've ever been to a locker room, a men's
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locker room, there is no speaking happening at all.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
That shouldn't be.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
It is always one hundred percent silent. It is men
walking around trying not to make eye contact, eye contact
with each other, except for a few who seem to
want to just be there all the time.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
I don't know what that's about. Not an equinox and see,
no it isn't you mean it's the kind of a scene. Yep,
between like twelve and three on what day?
Speaker 3 (09:49):
On what days I know, were going by a friend
a friend. I'll tell you where I did have an
eye opening experience was that the we spa down in town.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
I did not.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
Okay, so here's what happened. I was dating girls is
years ago, and she was like, I love going to
the spa. It's just so cool and great, and you'll
come with me. And so I went with her because
I was like, Okay, sure, I guess I'm going to
have to do this because I'm your boyfriend. If everybody
knows the rule, you do what you're told to do.
So I go there, and it's very different for women
than it is for men. So I learned because in
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the men's section there were a lot of men who
wanted to befriend me and talk to me all the time.
And you know, it's a different situation. I think you're
not allowed to wear clothes. Also, is another thing that
I didn't know until I got there. So your mileage
may vary by the way people are traveling. Again, and
I love this article. I love articles like this because
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it's always always interests me, like how I'm behaving in public.
The Washington Post has come out with fifteen definitive rules
for how you should act at the airport bar. As
you know, the clock is there to tell you when
your flight leaves, not to dictate how you eat or drink.
There is no rule at an airport bar about five o'clock. Somewhere,
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it's always five o'clock. It could be five o'clock in
the morning and you are absolutely permitted to order a corona.
You got to calm the nerves before you get on
an airplane, exactly right. So here's a couple rules don't
settle saying like, don't go to just the first bar
you see when you pop in through the security. You
could go all the way down to your terminal, or
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to a different terminal places like Chicago.
Speaker 4 (11:34):
Hair.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
Of course, I've got millions of bars and restaurants. They
say you should actually try to find a bar that
is not attached to a restaurant, because the weird little
ones that have strange esthetics are kind of fun. Then
they say, sit at the actual bar. You got a
belly up to the bar, don't sit at one of
those high top tables, don't sit at a regular table.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
Just go to the bar. Get yourself a sib.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
The service will be a lot faster, and also you
might have a fun conversation with somebody. Be careful where
you put your bags. That's a good rule. I want
to be tripping, have people tripping on you and trying
to get to their connecting flight to Detroit. You want
to tell the bartender how much time you're gonna have
Do you have three hours to kill? Do you have
twenty minutes? This is all very important stuff. Another one
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that I love is they say an anonymity is a
superpower once you pass security, embrace this anonymity. Maybe you're
going to a friend's wedding in Rhode Island, but maybe
you'd rather just pretend that you're a guy going to
a cement conference in Las Vegas. Maybe you want to
try on a new accent. The airport bar is your oyster.
I love this. Somebody the interviewed says, I take on
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this odd Frank Sinatra type persona and say that they
order something like with whiskey or bourbon, a little bit
of fire. I want to feel like I'm wearing a
trench coat and I'm waiting for my dame to get
off a flight.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
That's fun.
Speaker 5 (12:56):
I tell people I'm Matt Murdoch and I'm a lawyer.
Do you really? And then I pretend I'm blind. That's
a fun game. I need help getting to the bathroom.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
That's a specific audience.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
Though you can't tell, like a gen Z person that
they won't that'll go over that do what works?
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Yeah? You go?
Speaker 3 (13:12):
You can order whatever you want, of course, temper your expectations.
They say, if you don't see a jigger anywhere, maybe
it isn't the place to order a martini. You know
that little thing that you used to measure the alcohol.
They say, don't order a fancy mojito, try to get
a spicy margarita. Your safe bets include a bottle of beer,
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glass of wine, something neat or on the rocks, or
one in one like whiskey and soda or gin and tonic.
I was at the airport, I think it was the
Dallas airport, connecting one one fine morning from LA to Indianapolis,
and I went to the little bar that was in
the center, and I ordered a spicy margarita because that
is I think that's the mandatory alcohol in Los Angeles.
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Spicy margarita. That's just what we drink here. Never had one. Oh, buddy,
are you of those costed an airport like one hundred bucks?
Speaker 2 (14:03):
Oh? I don't know. Again, when you're in airport land,
it's like what are you going to do? It's like
taking out a student loan. You just do what you
have to do.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
I can't remember, but it's funny because the things are
so expensive now in LA. I think that it makes
my relative association other things that were expensive seem cheaper.
And I think about this all the time when it's like, Okay,
yes a house costs a two bedroom house in LA
costs three million dollars, let's just say whatever, Right, housing
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is out of control, But the car is still the
same price here that it is back in Indiana.
Speaker 5 (14:38):
I think that Saffron, Printer, Inc. And airport liquor are
the three most expensive substances on Earth.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
Airport liquor is expensive, but I still think, when you're
talking about thirty dollars martinis here in Los Angeles, what
are they going to do to you that's going to
be worse than that at the Chilis to go at
the Atlanta Hartsfield Jackson International Airport, what.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
Nothing.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
I was at this place in Dallas. I ordered spicy margarita,
and this woman god lover. I guess they just don't
do that in Dallas because I look over and she
is like it is a tall beer glass and she's
got ice, and she's pouring sprite and like sweet and
sour mix, and there's tequila going in there, and there's
like a little Corona beer top floater and I was like, Okay,
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she's cutting.
Speaker 5 (15:23):
Up wage was she just making it up as she
went a little guess? So what's the proper ingredients to one.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
To a spicy margarita? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (15:31):
All right, it's very simple. Fresh lime juice, most important,
Blanco tequila. Don't use super expensive stuff, it doesn't matter.
Quantro that's it. And then some spicy you know, serrano
or a jalapino muddle.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
That's it. That's a spicy margerita.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
You don't need any other You don't need the store
bought stuff, the sweet and sour mix, forget it. Quantro
or triple seck tequila, fresh lime juice, that's a margarita.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
And then just throw like a ghost pepper in it.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
Yeah, oh yeah, to he and rim little salt rim.
But that that is so important to just use that
fresh line because it's a completely different experience. If you
do a non fresh line.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
Oh yeah, that beats the hell out of those pre
made mixes. I hate those. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
If you can buy a mix in Costco or Ralph's
in the in the you know, cocktail mixile you don't
want it, just squeeze a line. Man, you're in California.
This isn't Dallas. This isn't the Dallas. Oh no, what's
the Dallas Airport called? I used to know so much,
so many things, too many spicy margaritas at the airport.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
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Speaker 2 (16:42):
We're checking in with our talk back feature.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
I guess you could say it's where you can leave
a message for the show and we'll play it. We've
been talking about stick shift stories. Let's hear the next one.
Speaker 7 (16:55):
My name is Lita. I live in Pasadena.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
Hey, Lida from Pasadena.
Speaker 7 (16:59):
Regarding a stick shift, thought I would take my driver's
test in my mother's cadillacb I failed it in her Cadillac,
so my parents bought me a Hyundai Excel. This was
nineteen eighty nine, mind you. It was a five speed
stick shift, and I learned how to drive it and
pass my driver's exam. Hey, So I learned how to
drive it within like two or three weeks, passed my
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driver's exam.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
And I love being able.
Speaker 7 (17:24):
To drive a stick shift. I will never be stranded.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
There you go.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
It's so funny because a stick shift is one of
those things that like, if you can't do it, it
seems impossible. It's like, oh, I could never do that.
But then once you get the hang of it, it's fun.
You have a better connection with the car, my stick
shift car. Right now that the rev limit or the
tachometer you know, doesn't work, so I just kind of
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have to go by sound.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Okay, it's time to shift. Uh oh.
Speaker 8 (17:54):
When I met my late wife, I met her in
a restaurant one night, and after spending all night with
her in the restaurant, I walked her ount to her
car and she got into her car. It was a
Buick Skyhawk. Ooh, the five speed manual transmission.
Speaker 7 (18:14):
Woo.
Speaker 8 (18:15):
Let me tell you there is nothing hotter than a
woman that knows how to drive a five speed.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
That's so true. This is why we're just men are
from women? What is it? Men are from venus bars?
But I can't even get that right. It's because like.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
Women are like, oh I gotta I gotta do all
the makeup and the hair and everything like that, and
guys are like, just drive a stick shift.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
Just learn how to drive a stick shift. That's wonderful.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
Thank you for those really really sweet messages. And I'm
sorry that you said, late wife, that's sorry for your loss,
and she sounds like a very cool lady.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
A Buick Skyhawk a manual trans mission. How neat.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
Kind of excited about this story. We're gonna do a
little entertainment news here for a second. I just wanted
to make sure we got this in Selena's documentary on
Netflix drop today.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
Yes, yes, i am, I'm right here right now. I'm
sorry we're not on airing. It was amazing how challenged
Selena was even when she was very young.
Speaker 4 (19:28):
My father's and manager, my brother's a producer, and my
sister is a drummer in the band.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
I've got a great group. We worked as a unit.
Selena had a very dangerous team behind her.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
So of course you could go behind the scenes now
of a real documentary. You know, we had that movie
with Jennifer Lopez, which of course was a moment. A
lot of people in later generations who weren't around when
Selena was popular really were introduced to her, I think
in her life story through that Jennifer Lopez movie.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
But now.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
A movie, a documentary called Selena I Los Dinos, promises
to bring candid footage captured by the singer's sister in
many ways CNN says we have her sister Susette Keithania
to thank for the documentary, which came out today. She
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told CNN, I was the annoying one with the camera
back in the day. I have so much footage of
all the guys giving me the look like not again.
She wasn't even thinking about creating or capturing the moments
for what. Of course, eventually that became as a documentary
for Netflix. It's supposed to be a very personal portrait
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of the singer, of course, who was shot and killed
by her manager in nineteen ninety five.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
It is now on Netflix. How exciting. I binged it yesterday.
Did you do like it?
Speaker 5 (20:57):
Yeah?
Speaker 9 (20:57):
I mean I'm Latin, so growing up, that's what my
mom used to play.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
So Lena for Selena, anything for Selena's No. Yeah.
Speaker 9 (21:06):
So I was in my parents yesterday and yeah, we
had a little reminder and literally at midnight yesterday into today,
my mom and I had some red wine the rain
is falling in the back and we watched it.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
Oh it was great. Did you cry? Yes?
Speaker 3 (21:24):
Oh, it's so funny you say that. I think for
families it's a really especially maybe Mexican American families. I
think it's a ride of passage to watch the Selena
movie all the time.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
Yeah, it's part of the culture.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
It's great, a great movie and a great story that
is it's nice that you know they were able to
make this happen, especially with some footage that nobody had
ever seen before.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
Did you learn some stuff that you didn't know?
Speaker 5 (21:51):
Yeah?
Speaker 9 (21:52):
I guess, you know, just like every film or documentary,
there's always something new that they add on to it.
And I think it was kind of cool getting it
from their Selina's family this time, like the perspective and
the home footages that I've never seen, and I'm sure
that there's tons more, but it was cool. It was
a it was a cool detailed documentary about her career
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and obviously everything passed her life, so.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
Yeah, I mean, she and it's amazing because you know,
she really was not making music for that long and
unfortunately it's like you know, the James Dean scenario, where
the body of work is is so limited as far
as the time that she was actually releasing music.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
But the legend has lived.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
On for so long, and yeah, so so mysterious and
it's so sad, and the tragedy she was working on
an English album and she was trying to do the
crossover and then life life just happens, So yeah, you
got to live it up.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
Guys, there you go. Richie Well said, all right.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
Coming up in the next block, we're going to talk
about some AI stuff, a new trend that is taking
over the social media feeds. What is happening in the
AI world? Parents using chat GBT to raise their children,
oh man. And how to make seagulls stop stealing your food?
Is it better to be nice to them or is
it better to yell at them? What science says? I'm
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Andy Reesmier.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
Coming up in just a little bit here on k
IF I AM six forty, we're gonna check in with
George Nori for Coast to Coast. George is on the
line right now. What do we have coming up on
the big show.
Speaker 7 (23:31):
Tonight, buddy, Andy, Lot's going on tonight.
Speaker 5 (23:33):
We're going to talk about our food supply and prices
and nutrition.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
It's kind of a different kind of a show.
Speaker 4 (23:40):
And then later on time slips, how people disappear into
a new time limit.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
Oh that's exciting, Hey, George, are you making dinner for
us tonight?
Speaker 1 (23:50):
Maybe tomorrow?
Speaker 2 (23:54):
Thanks so much.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
You're gonna listen to George coming up in just about
ten minutes here on k IF, I am six forty
going all the way to five am. Right, crazy fun
stuff as we continue on a couple more talkbacks to
play here, or at least one more. We were talking
about stick shift cars. Why what people have as far
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as their memories of stories when they learned how to drive.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
Stick or taught others to drive stick. Take a listen, hi, Kelly.
Speaker 7 (24:22):
From Sam Comani. You need to start asking these people
what generation they're from, because it's unfortunate that some.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
People don't know how to drive sticks.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
This is a good point. I thought she was going
one way with it, and then she went a different.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
Way with it. You need to scold people more.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
I should be rude. Yeah, well, I think it's a
fair thing that you know. So here's here's my theory.
Back before the internet, cars were the only way that
teenagers could see each other. You had to get up
off of your butt, hop on your car, drive down
to your friend's house, and that was it. You couldn't
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connect with anybody else in you're you could have no
social experience, and now everything is just on the phone.
So I think that there's less sort of association of like,
I'm a teenager and I'm free because I have this car,
and I'm not obsessing about cars, and cars don't matter
that much anymore to people. Cars were a rite of passage,
I think, for so many people, so many generations, and
now you got cars that are basically just phones. There's
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no romance anymore. They drive themselves half the time, and
they're also kind of, like, I don't know, not cool
from an environmental standpoint.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
You made it feel bad about having a car.
Speaker 3 (25:39):
When I went to school in Santa Monica, all of
the public policy classes that I took were just about
how we could get everybody out of their cars and
into public transit, which, like, sister, I love that idea.
Build me a public transit that works in this city,
and then we'll talk.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
It would be nice to have the option, do you
know what I mean?
Speaker 3 (26:00):
But just forcing people into it is not going to
work if you're worried about your safety every single time
you get on the metro.
Speaker 5 (26:05):
Yeah, having the option to do public transit without getting
stabbed would be ideal.
Speaker 3 (26:09):
We used to have this saying where it was like
the La Metro taking you from where you're not to
where you don't want to.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
Go and possibly intensive care. I mean, it's just I
want it to work. You know this.
Speaker 3 (26:20):
I'm probably somewhat on the spectrum. As much as I
care about trains and planes and automobiles, I love trains.
When I was a kid, the idea of hopping in
a train going to work, like, that's the coolest thing
I ever thought. My mom lived in Chicago when she
was in her twenties. She wrote the L every day,
and I thought when I was a kid, hearing stories
about my mom taking the L to work, I was like,
that's so cool.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
It's just a different time now. Friends.
Speaker 5 (26:44):
Also, if you've ever been to Europe at all, you'll
see how convenient they have it with trains everywhere, And
you have to wonder.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
Hey, why can't we have that. Why don't we have that.
Speaker 5 (26:54):
At least the option. You can still have a car
if you want it, but I want the option.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
You got boondoggles here in California. I think that the
short answer is, and this isn't even a conspiracy. They
didn't want that in La and by the day. I
mean whatever lobbies and local government that sort of built
the city around the automobile. That was the whole point
of LA. It was come here, the gi bill, you
can get yourself a nice little house, the American dream
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in the suburb, which I love too. But you would think, man,
if there was just some happy medium, that would be wonderful.
Cars were the coolest thing in the entire world. When
I was growing up, man, growing up in Indianapolis, the race,
I could not wait. I remember turning eight and thinking,
oh my god, I'm only halfway. I've lived my life,
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my whole life is I'm only halfway to sixteen to
being able to drive, and now I sit in traffic
for two hours a day.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
At least your parents didn't give you a pinto. That's right,
they did not give me a pinto.
Speaker 3 (27:58):
By the way, the final cost for that govern and
shutdown quickly take a listen, hey, So.
Speaker 10 (28:02):
In this week's Facts and Figures, we were talking about
the end of that record government shutdown, the longest in
US history. In fact, this is how it compares to
shutdowns of the past forty three days. That is more
than double the length of the next longest government shut
down by a president not named Trump. And when you
say alex with the government now reopen, what does that
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mean for the US economy, Well, the Congressional Budget Office
is now forecasting two percent growth for Q one of
twenty twenty six.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
That is the good news.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
The bad news is that.
Speaker 3 (28:32):
I don't want to mince word, that's not totally fair.
The Democrats shut down the government last time Trump was
in office.
Speaker 10 (28:40):
Is that it also says the shutdown cost eleven billion
dollars billion with the b and we talk about all
these federal workers that went without pay during this record shutdown, Well,
they are legally obligated to receive back pay, and air
traffic controllers are amongst that group. We heard from Transportation
Secretary Sean Duffy who said that they would receive seventy
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percent of that back pay within twenty four to forty
eight hours of the government reopening and get thirty percent
that remaining thirty percent later on in the upcoming weeks. Now,
some of the other things that are part of the
spending bill, We know that SNAP and WICK are now
fully funded through September of next year. Also, we've been
tracking the Smithsonian Museums closures. They are now all set
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to reopen by November seventeenth. The federal government now fully
funded through January thirtieth.
Speaker 3 (29:28):
Now a lot of people have been very, very relieved.
Now after that, as far as the travel goes, I'm
sure you can go to the airport bar and order
yourself a spicy marguerita DFW. Finally, before we get out
of here, I talked about this before. This might be
kind of obvious. Seagulls are more likely to leave you
alone if you yell at them. They did a study
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the University of Exeter in the UK. They've put a
bunch of fries chips in a tupperware box in towns
all across the coast of England. They tested how the
European gulls. The seagulls reacted to recordings of a couple things.
A male voice saying no stay away, that's my food,
and a voice that shouted those same words.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
No ste away from off food.
Speaker 3 (30:16):
Now, obviously you would think, yes, shouting it's louder, it's scarier,
wouldn't mean they would go away. Anybody who's ever dealt
with anybody, or a dog or a cat, anything would
know that one maybe not a cat. But the truth
is that they were all the same volume level, I
guess on the recording. So what they assumed is that
seagulls could actually identify if you were being aggressive or not.
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And that's the first time they've just discovered that in
wild animals. I don't know how these studies get funded.
I think that they're at least moderately interesting enough for
like an eyebrow raise.
Speaker 5 (30:51):
Sometimes you've just presented the cutting edge of seagull related research.
Speaker 3 (30:56):
I just look at them, like, what who is paying
for that? Somebody bought a house because of that study.
I don't know who it was. I don't know how
I ended up in this situation where like, I don't
get it. I don't get it, man, I wish, I
wish I've been looking for easy money in my whole life.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
But I'll tell you what, this is pretty fun. Happy
to be here.
Speaker 3 (31:19):
Say hello anytime you'd like at Andy Ktla on Instagram.
I'll be back here with you on Friday night from
seven pm to ten pm, right alongside Mark Ronner.
Speaker 5 (31:29):
You will have Iilean Gunzalees on Friday. What well, she's great.
Speaker 3 (31:33):
I have her on the weekend sometimes where you'd going.
Are you taking old time top secret?
Speaker 2 (31:40):
Well, I hope you have a good time. See you Monday.
I wish you well. Thank you.
Speaker 3 (31:44):
I will see you next Monday as well. Thanks so
much to Oliver Sam Ritchie. The Sausage Fest continues
Speaker 1 (31:52):
KFI AM six forty on demand
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
By Andy Reesemeyer.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
Just past nine o'clock on this Monday, November seventeenth, a
rainy Los Angeles kind of snuck up on us, don't
you think, at a real, real good warning ahead of
the weekend. And then just at around three or four
this afternoon, started getting alerts from the National Weather Service
that oh yes, some major precipitation was heading into the area,
and it did. I think we were looking at a
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couple of inches of rain in the San Fernando Valley.
Streets were flooded. Flash flood warning is still in effect
all the way until nine to nineteen. That may be continued.
But looking outside right now, it does appear as if
it's tapering off a bit. It is still wet, of course,
but we have a couple of days where we'll be
out of the wood here, out of the woods rather
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here for the next I think three or four days.
Then by the time we get to Thursday and Friday,
we will have another storm system in. So it's been
it's been kind of unseasoned, wet for this fall, kind
of neat, feels like real, real winter. We've been checking
in with people all night about driving stick shifts, what
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you did the first time you learned, or how you learned.
Take a listen to this person calling on a talkback.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
Hey, Andy, it's Randy from Stanton checking in. Feel little
sprinkles over here. My clutch story is I grew up
driving clutch on a farm. You learn how to drive tractor?
Oh yeah, twelve thirteen years old. But I wanted to
share with you. Eighty four suburban also a clutch, drove
it up Los Enega on a regular basis. One night
somebody was writing a shopping cart down on that big
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hill like a skateboard.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Wow, that is wild, amazing. That is a crazy story.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
I think that's the scariest place in LA to have
a stick shift is just going up Losiana. Go to
Sunset Boulevard, maybe Baxter Street, though I don't think you
drive that a lot. That's the hilliest, the steepest street
in LA. Do you ever make it over there, mister honor.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
No, Oh, it's really crazy.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
It's over and I think it's like Echo Park Baxter
Avenue Street.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
You know.
Speaker 5 (02:10):
Because of COVID and just my own abject cowardice, I
haven't explored nearly as much as I've wanted to since
I moved here in twenty eighteen.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
You got to get out there and see this city.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
The thing is that you if you have to deal
with this place. The grievances are a long list. I
don't need to get into it, but high cost of
living and just the sort of the mental stimulation that
the mental work that it takes to be in La
all the time. You gotta do the fun stuff.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
I like La. You've never heard me complain about living
in La. No, I do too.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
I'm just saying it's expensive, you know, and it's like
and I've always had the headspace of like, Okay, it's expensive,
and there's sometimes it's frustrating with the traffic, and so
if I'm going to be here, I want to try
to live it and do as much as I possibly can.
So next time I go out to Baxter Street, I'm
picking you up, r Honor, I'm swinging by. We're getting
in the stick shit, we're getting in the dots and
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dudes are going cruising and then it's off to the
chowder bar that's.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Right down in San Pedro.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Well, can I tell you say the thing about Baxter
Street was in the news during the pandemic because you
had people who were driving up there in their sports
cars and jumping off of it. Do you remember this
story about the guys in the Tesla that were like
going over the top of Baxter And then we're recording it,
of course and putting it on TikTok and Instagram, and
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they were they were jumping these cars like fast and
the furious and of course the neighbor neighbors were furious
calling the police fast sounds smart, sounds smart. One more
talk back and then we'll get to some news about
what's gone with these these trash bins, these green bins.
Speaker 6 (03:46):
This is Stephanie from Desert Hot Springs Stiffly. The way
I learned to drive sticks is my three little brothers
needed to go to Scouts and I was the only
one home that could drive. They told me that if
I would drive the car, they would tell me when
to shift, and so we took off and ever since
I've been able to drive a stip shift. So my
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three little brothers, who are five years, six and seven
years younger than me, taught me.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
That that's great, what a good story.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
I love that.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
You know, people just learned out of necessity. Get It's
like throwing a cat into the pool. You just got
to do it. Yeah, Is that what you.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Do with a cat? You throw a cat into the pool.
Speaker 5 (04:26):
That's how you teach him to swim. You teach a
cat to toddlers. Whatever you got, Yeah, toddler, I get.
That's how I learned how to swim. My mom just
threw me in the pool.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Some tough love. What was crazy is that we didn't
have a pool. Oops. It was the nagar. Make sure
there's water in the pool.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
It was It was just a trash can filled up
with water. The speedway special Indianapolis. I'm a hoosier throwing through.
You see these green bins all around. They're taking over neighborhoods,
especially in parts of I guess you could say Central
Los Angeles. A lot of this on Los Pheela's city accounts.
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They're everywhere. La Time's doing stories green bins clogging LA curbs.
Because the city's organic waste program is now in effect.
It was a it's called SB thirteen eighty three. It
required that seventy five percent of organic waste would be
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taken away from landfills by the end of the year
and instead turned into compost. Now many people who have
houses already have these green bins, and I don't know
if they're composting their food. I think mostly the garden
clippings end up there, you know, the landscape, the gardeners,
whatever you got, you get your your your clippings. I'm
an indoor kid. I don't know, man, but that's what
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always ends up in the in the green bins. But
now you've got a lot of these places like on
Hillhurst his apartment buildings, where sixty cans have been dropped
off and they're just covering the streets. Journalists and podcaster
ALYSSA Walker, who I believe used to be on Twitter
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as a walker in la is calling it the Great
green bin Apocalypse of twenty twenty five. She shared a
photo showing what appear to be twenty green bins in
front of one property, right next to a discarded sofa.
She says, this is probably my favorite photo. I like
how they lined them all up neatly in a row
and left the couch. She actually urged other people to
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send in photos. Tommy Newman from Silver Lake posted a
picture showing eight bins outside an eight unit building just
south of Sunset Boulevard. A lot of peoples, of course,
saying this is a nightmare related to sort of the
absurdity of the bureaucratic malaise that is living in a
large city. The city, so they say, will allow you
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to request a smaller, more manageable container. You of course
have to fill out a form and then you would
get a thirty to sixty gallon replacement. It's part of
a long term effort by the city to reach a
zero waste goal and lean on sustainability, saying that even
though it's weird and it might be unsightly and taking
up a ton of space on your street, eventually it
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will lead to cleaner air. I don't know how long
it will take to get to cleaner air. But they
want you to put all of your food waste, eggshells,
coffee grounds, meat bones, unfinished vegetables, orange peels, greasy napkins.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Into the green bin. There is even an.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
AI chatbot that's called Professor Green who can help you
determine what can go in and out.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Of the green bin. This is a nightmare, I guess.
Speaker 5 (07:48):
It also leads to a significant dose of irony, since
the thing that's meant to cut down on pollution, winds
up being a blight itself.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
Isn't that just the way? Isn't that exactly what we
just deserve as people? We deserve the asteroid bringing on.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
By me Andy Reesemeyer. We're still, of course, watching that
storm system. Does look like it's moving out of the
La County area at least, so that's good. Maybe a
little bit of rain here for the next hour or so,
but for the most part, the brunt of it, as they.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Say, is over. We're out of the woods.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
Alongside mister Mark Ronner, Oliver Boone, Richie Sam. We've got
quite a crew here tonight. Kind of a sausage party tonight.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Yeah, I mean.
Speaker 5 (08:44):
Listen, I wasn't hoping to go home with one of
you guys. No, no, no, but it's an all guy
crew tonight.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Yeah. We did have some nice We had some callers.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
So we're women or identified as it seemed to be
of the female persuasion.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
I don't want to assume women who knew how to
handle a stick. That is correct. That didn't sound good.
I shouldn't have said it like that.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
We were all just gonna let it go. Okay, But
that's fine if you want to, if you want to
do that. Just the sage body doesn't mean it's a
locker room, that's true. I don't know where we when
we say locker room. I know that that's a term
that's used frequently to say like locker room talk. But
if you've ever been to a locker room, a men's
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locker room, there is no speaking happening at all.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
That shouldn't be.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
It is always one hundred percent silent. It is men
walking around trying not to make eye contact, eye contact
with each other, except for a few who seem to
want to just be there all the time.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
I don't know what that's about. Not an equinox and see,
no it isn't you mean it's the kind of a scene. Yep,
between like twelve and three on what day?
Speaker 3 (09:49):
On what days I know, were going by a friend
a friend. I'll tell you where I did have an
eye opening experience was that the we spa down in town.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
I did not.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
Okay, so here's what happened. I was dating girls is
years ago, and she was like, I love going to
the spa. It's just so cool and great, and you'll
come with me. And so I went with her because
I was like, Okay, sure, I guess I'm going to
have to do this because I'm your boyfriend. If everybody
knows the rule, you do what you're told to do.
So I go there, and it's very different for women
than it is for men. So I learned because in
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the men's section there were a lot of men who
wanted to befriend me and talk to me all the time.
And you know, it's a different situation. I think you're
not allowed to wear clothes. Also, is another thing that
I didn't know until I got there. So your mileage
may vary by the way people are traveling. Again, and
I love this article. I love articles like this because
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it's always always interests me, like how I'm behaving in public.
The Washington Post has come out with fifteen definitive rules
for how you should act at the airport bar. As
you know, the clock is there to tell you when
your flight leaves, not to dictate how you eat or drink.
There is no rule at an airport bar about five o'clock. Somewhere,
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it's always five o'clock. It could be five o'clock in
the morning and you are absolutely permitted to order a corona.
You got to calm the nerves before you get on
an airplane, exactly right. So here's a couple rules don't
settle saying like, don't go to just the first bar
you see when you pop in through the security. You
could go all the way down to your terminal, or
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to a different terminal places like Chicago.
Speaker 4 (11:34):
Hair.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
Of course, I've got millions of bars and restaurants. They
say you should actually try to find a bar that
is not attached to a restaurant, because the weird little
ones that have strange esthetics are kind of fun. Then
they say, sit at the actual bar. You got a
belly up to the bar, don't sit at one of
those high top tables, don't sit at a regular table.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
Just go to the bar. Get yourself a sib.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
The service will be a lot faster, and also you
might have a fun conversation with somebody. Be careful where
you put your bags. That's a good rule. I want
to be tripping, have people tripping on you and trying
to get to their connecting flight to Detroit. You want
to tell the bartender how much time you're gonna have
Do you have three hours to kill? Do you have
twenty minutes? This is all very important stuff. Another one
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that I love is they say an anonymity is a
superpower once you pass security, embrace this anonymity. Maybe you're
going to a friend's wedding in Rhode Island, but maybe
you'd rather just pretend that you're a guy going to
a cement conference in Las Vegas. Maybe you want to
try on a new accent. The airport bar is your oyster.
I love this. Somebody the interviewed says, I take on
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this odd Frank Sinatra type persona and say that they
order something like with whiskey or bourbon, a little bit
of fire. I want to feel like I'm wearing a
trench coat and I'm waiting for my dame to get
off a flight.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
That's fun.
Speaker 5 (12:56):
I tell people I'm Matt Murdoch and I'm a lawyer.
Do you really? And then I pretend I'm blind. That's
a fun game. I need help getting to the bathroom.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
That's a specific audience.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
Though you can't tell, like a gen Z person that
they won't that'll go over that do what works?
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Yeah? You go?
Speaker 3 (13:12):
You can order whatever you want, of course, temper your expectations.
They say, if you don't see a jigger anywhere, maybe
it isn't the place to order a martini. You know
that little thing that you used to measure the alcohol.
They say, don't order a fancy mojito, try to get
a spicy margarita. Your safe bets include a bottle of beer,
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glass of wine, something neat or on the rocks, or
one in one like whiskey and soda or gin and tonic.
I was at the airport, I think it was the
Dallas airport, connecting one one fine morning from LA to Indianapolis,
and I went to the little bar that was in
the center, and I ordered a spicy margarita because that
is I think that's the mandatory alcohol in Los Angeles.
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Spicy margarita. That's just what we drink here. Never had one. Oh, buddy,
are you of those costed an airport like one hundred bucks?
Speaker 2 (14:03):
Oh? I don't know. Again, when you're in airport land,
it's like what are you going to do? It's like
taking out a student loan. You just do what you
have to do.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
I can't remember, but it's funny because the things are
so expensive now in LA. I think that it makes
my relative association other things that were expensive seem cheaper.
And I think about this all the time when it's like, Okay,
yes a house costs a two bedroom house in LA
costs three million dollars, let's just say whatever, Right, housing
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is out of control, But the car is still the
same price here that it is back in Indiana.
Speaker 5 (14:38):
I think that Saffron, Printer, Inc. And airport liquor are
the three most expensive substances on Earth.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
Airport liquor is expensive, but I still think, when you're
talking about thirty dollars martinis here in Los Angeles, what
are they going to do to you that's going to
be worse than that at the Chilis to go at
the Atlanta Hartsfield Jackson International Airport, what.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
Nothing.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
I was at this place in Dallas. I ordered spicy margarita,
and this woman god lover. I guess they just don't
do that in Dallas because I look over and she
is like it is a tall beer glass and she's
got ice, and she's pouring sprite and like sweet and
sour mix, and there's tequila going in there, and there's
like a little Corona beer top floater and I was like, Okay,
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she's cutting.
Speaker 5 (15:23):
Up wage was she just making it up as she
went a little guess? So what's the proper ingredients to one.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
To a spicy margarita? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (15:31):
All right, it's very simple. Fresh lime juice, most important,
Blanco tequila. Don't use super expensive stuff, it doesn't matter.
Quantro that's it. And then some spicy you know, serrano
or a jalapino muddle.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
That's it. That's a spicy margerita.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
You don't need any other You don't need the store
bought stuff, the sweet and sour mix, forget it. Quantro
or triple seck tequila, fresh lime juice, that's a margarita.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
And then just throw like a ghost pepper in it.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
Yeah, oh yeah, to he and rim little salt rim.
But that that is so important to just use that
fresh line because it's a completely different experience. If you
do a non fresh line.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
Oh yeah, that beats the hell out of those pre
made mixes. I hate those. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
If you can buy a mix in Costco or Ralph's
in the in the you know, cocktail mixile you don't
want it, just squeeze a line. Man, you're in California.
This isn't Dallas. This isn't the Dallas. Oh no, what's
the Dallas Airport called? I used to know so much,
so many things, too many spicy margaritas at the airport.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
We're checking in with our talk back feature.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
I guess you could say it's where you can leave
a message for the show and we'll play it. We've
been talking about stick shift stories. Let's hear the next one.
Speaker 7 (16:55):
My name is Lita. I live in Pasadena.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
Hey, Lida from Pasadena.
Speaker 7 (16:59):
Regarding a stick shift, thought I would take my driver's
test in my mother's cadillacb I failed it in her Cadillac,
so my parents bought me a Hyundai Excel. This was
nineteen eighty nine, mind you. It was a five speed
stick shift, and I learned how to drive it and
pass my driver's exam. Hey, So I learned how to
drive it within like two or three weeks, passed my
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driver's exam.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
And I love being able.
Speaker 7 (17:24):
To drive a stick shift. I will never be stranded.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
There you go.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
It's so funny because a stick shift is one of
those things that like, if you can't do it, it
seems impossible. It's like, oh, I could never do that.
But then once you get the hang of it, it's fun.
You have a better connection with the car, my stick
shift car. Right now that the rev limit or the
tachometer you know, doesn't work, so I just kind of
(17:48):
have to go by sound.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Okay, it's time to shift. Uh oh.
Speaker 8 (17:54):
When I met my late wife, I met her in
a restaurant one night, and after spending all night with
her in the restaurant, I walked her ount to her
car and she got into her car. It was a
Buick Skyhawk. Ooh, the five speed manual transmission.
Speaker 7 (18:14):
Woo.
Speaker 8 (18:15):
Let me tell you there is nothing hotter than a
woman that knows how to drive a five speed.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
That's so true. This is why we're just men are
from women? What is it? Men are from venus bars?
But I can't even get that right. It's because like.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
Women are like, oh I gotta I gotta do all
the makeup and the hair and everything like that, and
guys are like, just drive a stick shift.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
Just learn how to drive a stick shift. That's wonderful.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
Thank you for those really really sweet messages. And I'm
sorry that you said, late wife, that's sorry for your loss,
and she sounds like a very cool lady.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
A Buick Skyhawk a manual trans mission. How neat.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
Kind of excited about this story. We're gonna do a
little entertainment news here for a second. I just wanted
to make sure we got this in Selena's documentary on
Netflix drop today.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
Yes, yes, i am, I'm right here right now. I'm
sorry we're not on airing. It was amazing how challenged
Selena was even when she was very young.
Speaker 4 (19:28):
My father's and manager, my brother's a producer, and my
sister is a drummer in the band.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
I've got a great group. We worked as a unit.
Selena had a very dangerous team behind her.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
So of course you could go behind the scenes now
of a real documentary. You know, we had that movie
with Jennifer Lopez, which of course was a moment. A
lot of people in later generations who weren't around when
Selena was popular really were introduced to her, I think
in her life story through that Jennifer Lopez movie.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
But now.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
A movie, a documentary called Selena I Los Dinos, promises
to bring candid footage captured by the singer's sister in
many ways CNN says we have her sister Susette Keithania
to thank for the documentary, which came out today. She
(20:22):
told CNN, I was the annoying one with the camera
back in the day. I have so much footage of
all the guys giving me the look like not again.
She wasn't even thinking about creating or capturing the moments
for what. Of course, eventually that became as a documentary
for Netflix. It's supposed to be a very personal portrait
(20:46):
of the singer, of course, who was shot and killed
by her manager in nineteen ninety five.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
It is now on Netflix. How exciting. I binged it yesterday.
Did you do like it?
Speaker 5 (20:57):
Yeah?
Speaker 9 (20:57):
I mean I'm Latin, so growing up, that's what my
mom used to play.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
So Lena for Selena, anything for Selena's No. Yeah.
Speaker 9 (21:06):
So I was in my parents yesterday and yeah, we
had a little reminder and literally at midnight yesterday into today,
my mom and I had some red wine the rain
is falling in the back and we watched it.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
Oh it was great. Did you cry? Yes?
Speaker 3 (21:24):
Oh, it's so funny you say that. I think for
families it's a really especially maybe Mexican American families. I
think it's a ride of passage to watch the Selena
movie all the time.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
Yeah, it's part of the culture.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
It's great, a great movie and a great story that
is it's nice that you know they were able to
make this happen, especially with some footage that nobody had
ever seen before.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
Did you learn some stuff that you didn't know?
Speaker 5 (21:51):
Yeah?
Speaker 9 (21:52):
I guess, you know, just like every film or documentary,
there's always something new that they add on to it.
And I think it was kind of cool getting it
from their Selina's family this time, like the perspective and
the home footages that I've never seen, and I'm sure
that there's tons more, but it was cool. It was
a it was a cool detailed documentary about her career
(22:12):
and obviously everything passed her life, so.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
Yeah, I mean, she and it's amazing because you know,
she really was not making music for that long and
unfortunately it's like you know, the James Dean scenario, where
the body of work is is so limited as far
as the time that she was actually releasing music.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
But the legend has lived.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
On for so long, and yeah, so so mysterious and
it's so sad, and the tragedy she was working on
an English album and she was trying to do the
crossover and then life life just happens, So yeah, you
got to live it up.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
Guys, there you go. Richie Well said, all right.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
Coming up in the next block, we're going to talk
about some AI stuff, a new trend that is taking
over the social media feeds. What is happening in the
AI world? Parents using chat GBT to raise their children,
oh man. And how to make seagulls stop stealing your food?
Is it better to be nice to them or is
it better to yell at them? What science says? I'm
(23:12):
Andy Reesmier.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
Coming up in just a little bit here on k
IF I AM six forty, we're gonna check in with
George Nori for Coast to Coast. George is on the
line right now. What do we have coming up on
the big show.
Speaker 7 (23:31):
Tonight, buddy, Andy, Lot's going on tonight.
Speaker 5 (23:33):
We're going to talk about our food supply and prices
and nutrition.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
It's kind of a different kind of a show.
Speaker 4 (23:40):
And then later on time slips, how people disappear into
a new time limit.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
Oh that's exciting, Hey, George, are you making dinner for
us tonight?
Speaker 1 (23:50):
Maybe tomorrow?
Speaker 2 (23:54):
Thanks so much.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
You're gonna listen to George coming up in just about
ten minutes here on k IF, I am six forty
going all the way to five am. Right, crazy fun
stuff as we continue on a couple more talkbacks to
play here, or at least one more. We were talking
about stick shift cars. Why what people have as far
(24:14):
as their memories of stories when they learned how to drive.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
Stick or taught others to drive stick. Take a listen, hi, Kelly.
Speaker 7 (24:22):
From Sam Comani. You need to start asking these people
what generation they're from, because it's unfortunate that some.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
People don't know how to drive sticks.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
This is a good point. I thought she was going
one way with it, and then she went a different.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
Way with it. You need to scold people more.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
I should be rude. Yeah, well, I think it's a
fair thing that you know. So here's here's my theory.
Back before the internet, cars were the only way that
teenagers could see each other. You had to get up
off of your butt, hop on your car, drive down
to your friend's house, and that was it. You couldn't
(25:01):
connect with anybody else in you're you could have no
social experience, and now everything is just on the phone.
So I think that there's less sort of association of like,
I'm a teenager and I'm free because I have this car,
and I'm not obsessing about cars, and cars don't matter
that much anymore to people. Cars were a rite of passage,
I think, for so many people, so many generations, and
now you got cars that are basically just phones. There's
(25:25):
no romance anymore. They drive themselves half the time, and
they're also kind of, like, I don't know, not cool
from an environmental standpoint.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
You made it feel bad about having a car.
Speaker 3 (25:39):
When I went to school in Santa Monica, all of
the public policy classes that I took were just about
how we could get everybody out of their cars and
into public transit, which, like, sister, I love that idea.
Build me a public transit that works in this city,
and then we'll talk.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
It would be nice to have the option, do you
know what I mean?
Speaker 3 (26:00):
But just forcing people into it is not going to
work if you're worried about your safety every single time
you get on the metro.
Speaker 5 (26:05):
Yeah, having the option to do public transit without getting
stabbed would be ideal.
Speaker 3 (26:09):
We used to have this saying where it was like
the La Metro taking you from where you're not to
where you don't want to.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
Go and possibly intensive care. I mean, it's just I
want it to work. You know this.
Speaker 3 (26:20):
I'm probably somewhat on the spectrum. As much as I
care about trains and planes and automobiles, I love trains.
When I was a kid, the idea of hopping in
a train going to work, like, that's the coolest thing
I ever thought. My mom lived in Chicago when she
was in her twenties. She wrote the L every day,
and I thought when I was a kid, hearing stories
about my mom taking the L to work, I was like,
that's so cool.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
It's just a different time now. Friends.
Speaker 5 (26:44):
Also, if you've ever been to Europe at all, you'll
see how convenient they have it with trains everywhere, And
you have to wonder.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
Hey, why can't we have that. Why don't we have that.
Speaker 5 (26:54):
At least the option. You can still have a car
if you want it, but I want the option.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
You got boondoggles here in California. I think that the
short answer is, and this isn't even a conspiracy. They
didn't want that in La and by the day. I
mean whatever lobbies and local government that sort of built
the city around the automobile. That was the whole point
of LA. It was come here, the gi bill, you
can get yourself a nice little house, the American dream
(27:19):
in the suburb, which I love too. But you would think, man,
if there was just some happy medium, that would be wonderful.
Cars were the coolest thing in the entire world. When
I was growing up, man, growing up in Indianapolis, the race,
I could not wait. I remember turning eight and thinking,
oh my god, I'm only halfway. I've lived my life,
(27:40):
my whole life is I'm only halfway to sixteen to
being able to drive, and now I sit in traffic
for two hours a day.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
At least your parents didn't give you a pinto. That's right,
they did not give me a pinto.
Speaker 3 (27:58):
By the way, the final cost for that govern and
shutdown quickly take a listen, hey, So.
Speaker 10 (28:02):
In this week's Facts and Figures, we were talking about
the end of that record government shutdown, the longest in
US history. In fact, this is how it compares to
shutdowns of the past forty three days. That is more
than double the length of the next longest government shut
down by a president not named Trump. And when you
say alex with the government now reopen, what does that
(28:22):
mean for the US economy, Well, the Congressional Budget Office
is now forecasting two percent growth for Q one of
twenty twenty six.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
That is the good news.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
The bad news is that.
Speaker 3 (28:32):
I don't want to mince word, that's not totally fair.
The Democrats shut down the government last time Trump was
in office.
Speaker 10 (28:40):
Is that it also says the shutdown cost eleven billion
dollars billion with the b and we talk about all
these federal workers that went without pay during this record shutdown, Well,
they are legally obligated to receive back pay, and air
traffic controllers are amongst that group. We heard from Transportation
Secretary Sean Duffy who said that they would receive seventy
(29:01):
percent of that back pay within twenty four to forty
eight hours of the government reopening and get thirty percent
that remaining thirty percent later on in the upcoming weeks. Now,
some of the other things that are part of the
spending bill, We know that SNAP and WICK are now
fully funded through September of next year. Also, we've been
tracking the Smithsonian Museums closures. They are now all set
(29:22):
to reopen by November seventeenth. The federal government now fully
funded through January thirtieth.
Speaker 3 (29:28):
Now a lot of people have been very, very relieved.
Now after that, as far as the travel goes, I'm
sure you can go to the airport bar and order
yourself a spicy marguerita DFW. Finally, before we get out
of here, I talked about this before. This might be
kind of obvious. Seagulls are more likely to leave you
alone if you yell at them. They did a study
(29:51):
the University of Exeter in the UK. They've put a
bunch of fries chips in a tupperware box in towns
all across the coast of England. They tested how the
European gulls. The seagulls reacted to recordings of a couple things.
A male voice saying no stay away, that's my food,
and a voice that shouted those same words.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
No ste away from off food.
Speaker 3 (30:16):
Now, obviously you would think, yes, shouting it's louder, it's scarier,
wouldn't mean they would go away. Anybody who's ever dealt
with anybody, or a dog or a cat, anything would
know that one maybe not a cat. But the truth
is that they were all the same volume level, I
guess on the recording. So what they assumed is that
seagulls could actually identify if you were being aggressive or not.
(30:39):
And that's the first time they've just discovered that in
wild animals. I don't know how these studies get funded.
I think that they're at least moderately interesting enough for
like an eyebrow raise.
Speaker 5 (30:51):
Sometimes you've just presented the cutting edge of seagull related research.
Speaker 3 (30:56):
I just look at them, like, what who is paying
for that? Somebody bought a house because of that study.
I don't know who it was. I don't know how
I ended up in this situation where like, I don't
get it. I don't get it, man, I wish, I
wish I've been looking for easy money in my whole life.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
But I'll tell you what, this is pretty fun. Happy
to be here.
Speaker 3 (31:19):
Say hello anytime you'd like at Andy Ktla on Instagram.
I'll be back here with you on Friday night from
seven pm to ten pm, right alongside Mark Ronner.
Speaker 5 (31:29):
You will have Iilean Gunzalees on Friday. What well, she's great.
Speaker 3 (31:33):
I have her on the weekend sometimes where you'd going.
Are you taking old time top secret?
Speaker 2 (31:40):
Well, I hope you have a good time. See you Monday.
I wish you well. Thank you.
Speaker 3 (31:44):
I will see you next Monday as well. Thanks so
much to Oliver Sam Ritchie. The Sausage Fest continues
Speaker 1 (31:52):
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