October 27, 2025 • 42 mins
Description: Andy rounds out his chat with super producer Rob Cavallo, who has sold 130 million records and produced artists like Phil Collins. It’s not just older people who like old-school cars – Gen Z is getting in on the classic car action. California has introduced several new bills aimed at addressing rising home insurance costs after natural disasters and bolstering low-income home buyers. What responsibility does the state have, if any, regarding the Pacific Palisades wildfire? Tiffany Hobbs and Andy recall they both received recognition for their animal advocacy and the animal evacuation bill they helped to pass due to the January wildfires!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Well, thanks for joining us on this Sunday, October twenty sixth. Amazingly,
there's no baseball game being played right now. Isn't that incredible?
In studio with Rob Cavallo, super producer. Do you hate
that I call you super producer? Is that a cool
thing to say?
Speaker 3 (00:21):
I guess it's fine?
Speaker 4 (00:22):
What would you rather? What would you? How would you
like us to refer to you as well?
Speaker 3 (00:27):
I don't think of myself as super. Well, let me
be the one to say thanks.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
But one hundred and thirty records, incredible, hundred thirty million records.
He sold one hundred and thirty records, kicking me out
right now? Now that's already coming. Yeah, Now that's impressive.
In twenty twenty five, it's one hundred and thirty records, No.
One hundred and thirty million records, three Grammys, producer Behind
the Hits, we've been talking about the Black Parade, that
whole record from my Chemical Romance, Goodall's Green Day.
Speaker 4 (00:56):
The list goes on and.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Oh it's big right now that people freak out a
lot about. Is the Tarzan the Phil Collins you did? Yeah,
that's a great song. Thanks one, what is it the one?
Speaker 4 (01:07):
You'll be on something? Yeah, you'll be in my heart.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
I mean, I'm on. We messed around with all of them,
but you know that one was the big.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
Yeah, that's a huge song. Yeah, that's a great.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
There's a great meme out there where it's like, Phil,
why are you going so hard? It's just a it's
just an animated movie.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Well, as we as we get into things, we're going
to break down a song here in a little bit.
But I know that you know, just quickly to just
off the top of the show, talk about some things
that are happening here in southern California. Uh, the California
has introduced new laws to address the insurance crisis for homeowners.
That's kind of exciting for people who are on the
Fair Plan. It's going to change the limits of what
they will be able to or what they will be
(01:44):
able to give back to people. We'll also later get
into the idea of how much the that the state
had to do as far as preventing the Palisades fired
and could they have done more. Plus, as you've heard,
the East wing has been demolished of the White House.
It is being replaced with a three hundred million dollar ballroom,
which Rob I was telling you, I think it would be
(02:04):
a great that's a good Halloween costume, you know.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
I like you could go as the ballroom perfect maybe. Yeah,
what do you see when you look through the window?
You gotta wear pants, You gotta wear pants.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
So you know when I heard that thing about the
Trump ballroom, I watched him at the Buckingham Palace looking around,
going well, this is a great room.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
I immediately thought, oh my god, what wouldn't it be
the greatest punk rock video of all time? If you
could just sort of set up a bunch of punk
rock kids coming in and just destroying the inside of
the ballroom, just literally going okay, that would be so cool.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
I just like the visual of it. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Yeah, well, hey, listen, we'll see if he wants to
get into the music industry.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
He knows to call us, yeah, because we're going to
film the first video on in that ballroom.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
That's right, that's right.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
So we're talking about all the music basically of your
and and specifically we've clued kind of in on the
Goo Goo dolls. There's so much more than that. But
I but I just think that for whatever reason, it
just seems like the Goo Goo Dolls. They did this
incredible performance at Coachella last year. Iris continues to do
well on social media. People can't deny that level of emotion.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
It's been like a number one hit in England, I
think four or five times.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
That's so amazing.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Yeah, some you know, like a kid will get on
a on a Britain's got talent and then play the
song and then it'll zip up to number one again.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
And who would have thought like mandolin's electric guitars three
fourth time signature.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
I mean, it's just kind of almost like a sea shanty.
It's it's a mandolin.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
Actually was the second engineer's idea. I can't even take
credit for it because I was sitting there going like,
oh God, we need something, there's something missing in this song.
And and then the engineer says, you ever meet Dean Parks.
He's in the other room. I was like, what does
he play? And I don't know, he plays slide in
mandlin mandolin. I went, oh, mandolin, that's what we need
on this song.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Yeah, and they're and and it would never that that
song is it would not be the same song at all, and.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
Then this guy Tim Pierce came in and just played beautifully.
Speaker 4 (04:08):
I have heard.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Is the rumor true that the solo on that song,
which he also played right, Yes, that that is one
take and is the first take.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
Absolutely, that's unbelievable.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
He's amazing that.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
You got to be around all these people, get to
be around all these people who are at this level
all the time. I'm very jealous of you. Let's break
down some of the pieces of this song. First, we'll
start with Black Balloon's intro, which will play a little
bit and then tell me about what's happening here.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
So this is a loop.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
The strings, little bass, and then the guitars come in
and then it's a google.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
So there's actually three things really interesting off the bat.
So the first thing is is what is that loop?
Speaker 4 (05:02):
The loop?
Speaker 3 (05:03):
You know how when musicians they before they're about to
play a song, or maybe it was in this case,
it was it's actually that's a bass. If you can
play that, it's a bass. And Robbie's playing harmonics. And
he had this little figure that he would play before
he was going to play something else. And this wasn't
even on this song. This is what he was playing
on another song, and then we did it, and then
(05:25):
we had a couple of takes, right, so there's different tracks.
Speaker 5 (05:28):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
So he played because believe it or not, that's actually
two tracks. That's two basses get out of town. And
I kept hearing that phrase and it just happened to
line up on top of each other, the two basses
to turn into that thing, and there's really it's really
it was only dom dum dan don't don't don't.
Speaker 4 (05:47):
That was it.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
And back then we did everything on tape and pro
tools was a situation where there was only two tracks
and it was like eight bat. It was like eight
bit you know. Yeah, it didn't low red two tracks.
You can get the high reds. You can maybe get
it to forty four to one if you know what
I'm talking about. Anyways, so I heard this thing and
it kept haunting me and I was like, guys, I
(06:10):
think I can take that thing and stick it in
the intro of Black Balloon. They're like what They're like, well, okay,
if you think you can do it. So I went
to a friend of mine who I can't remember his
name now, but anyways, he was a pro tools expert
back when pro tools was first being developed.
Speaker 4 (06:26):
And this is just to make a loop happen. Yeah,
I had to.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Drive all over town take the two inch tapes that
weighed like, you know, sixteen pounds a piece.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
Can you just make a loop out of this formul place.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
It's a align the tape machine, then make a loop,
then bring it back, fly it on to our tapes,
onto our master tapes, and then play to it.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
And it's crazy because it's in the whole song and
you hear it later as well.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
I mean, yeahs try to burst it.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
This is kind of loud here. Sorry, let me fix
this real quick. And you hear some reverse.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Going on there.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Maybe no, that's just the way that it's just a
reverb and that loop that figure. I think this is
what I'm saying, where that's like the Rob Cavallo you're
candy because that's something that's so you're listening to the
radio or whatever nineteen ninety eight, you hear that, you
know exactly what's coming.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
Thanks.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
I was always looking for it was kind of really
because I was a Beatles you know, disciple. I was
always looking for that other extra thing. If you can
find the other extra thing, to make a song be magic.
That is a great, great thing. And the great Lindsay
Buckingham from from Fillywood Mac also you know, sort of
taught me that, like you could just leave a song
(07:37):
as you first envisioned it, or you could dig deeper, right.
So I was always looking for something if I could
find it in the I mean not all the time,
you don't force it, but if something is there. And
like I said, Robbie played that bass that way and
it was just sitting there.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Right, So that was like the band created that you
heard that out of, you know, as a as an observer,
put it together and put it in this and then
of course we have a hit.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Yeah, and then and then the strings that you heard
there was a big thing. I had such a good
relationship with this guy David Campbell, who's actually the artist
Beck's father.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
So Beck, Everybody's there's like thirty people in Hollywood when
you really get down to it, everybody knows everybody.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
Yeah, And.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
I was such a fan of his arranging and him
and I had such a beautiful thing on Iris that
you know, like I said to him on Iris, like
I came up with the idea of going dun dun duh.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
Dun du da du dun yeah dun oh yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
And I said to him, let's make it go ever
higher and hire inversions and crazy masics, you know. And
then I always had this idea of like I always
like this idea of let's do lead orchestra. I thought, like,
you know, you can have a guitar section, So you
have a guitar section in a song, and then there's
a guitar lead section, right, have the orchestra play the
solo of the orchestra play the soul cool Dave like arrange.
(08:47):
That's so interesting. So that's what that was.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
And as we see in Black Balloon towards the bridge,
there is another moment that we'll listen to that is,
of course the orchestra coming back doing that.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
And then I have a really another big one for
the intro.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
Believe it or not. Okay, we'll go back to that.
And second here your thing.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
Oh oh, it's like it's like old Hollywood.
Speaker 4 (09:33):
Yeah, magic.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
We would call that like I used to call that,
like let's soar, yes, just go soaring over California, you know,
let's go soaring, and so like we would write these
melodies and use the chord structure that was embedded in
the song and let the band rock out and then
soar with the orchestra.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
It reminds me of the Petty Learning to Fly. There's
kind of a really beautiful solo that's a slide I
think that that Mike Campbell playing, and it's the same
kind of moment where we're just sort of like, here's
the story has been told, and now we have a
moment to reflect on it. And then when Johnny comes
back in with the final chorus and he's it's just
(10:15):
like he's woiling on this.
Speaker 4 (10:18):
We'll listen here, there's.
Speaker 6 (10:21):
No time lose it, laying a stead.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
And then we hear at the end of it, I'll
become what you became to me, And it's just like
it's just it makes you cry.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
It's really beautiful. His lyrics are pretty awesome. He's on
that whole Dizzy Up the Girl record. If you just listen,
you could just read the lyrics and just kill you,
you know, fall apart.
Speaker 4 (10:45):
Yeah, I mean, it's pretty awesome.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
One more thing here before we go back to the intro,
just that the drums for a second, which you were
talking about. You can make the drums sound big as heck.
But this is I think these drums sound amazing. These
are what drums sound like to me, what they should
sound like. Drums. Yeah, that almost like if you hear
(11:11):
that out of context, that's like a new Jack swing thing.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
Oh yeah, totally.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
You could stample those and get that amazing. Okay, so fine.
I want to give.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
Credit to Jack Joseph Puieg for mixing those drums. That's
a huge sounding kick drum and a beautiful sounding, very
special snare. He had some tricks that he would do
with the snare.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
Yeah, unbelievable mixer, known of course also by his software
as well. Yeah, because his equipment. Nobody could ever be
able to afford to have the amount of tapes and
tubes that that man add correct.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
So you had one more thing about the intro.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
What's interesting is and that when that acoustic comes in.
I could be wrong, but I think that that is
the guitar that has been dubbed ex Caliber, which I
don't know if you know about that, But in nineteen
ninety five, I was like maybe the only guy that
was like, well I got to get a good acoustic
(12:03):
because everywhere all street punks, we didn't have that much money.
But I was a producer, so I better have one
good acoustic. And I was actually recording Carris Flowers, which
of course is mo'reon five if you know, oh right
before they had personally Yeah, So Adam Levine was the
first one to use the first guy to use it
on the Carris Flowers record, and then it ended up
being on like eight number one singles, including Time of
(12:26):
Your Life, the Green Day song.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
What kind of guitar is this?
Speaker 3 (12:28):
It's a Tailor five fourteen c Okay.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
So this is a guitar that did you just buy
it a guitar center or was it used or was.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
It just no? I actually had the tailor guys where
we were at A and M Studios and they were trying.
They were like a new company, and so they had
a whole bunch of them there and I said, this
is great, I'll buy one from you guys. Just pick
me out a good one, and then you sent it
over and you know, I paid a few grand for
it or something.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Yeah, right, But it's not like a thirty thousand dollars.
It's not like some vintage.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
Martin from They still make them and they're like three
or four grand.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
And so you're you're doing all kinds of processing, I know,
because there's the there's the microphones in the room. It's
plugged in as well with some distortion or something like that.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
So there was a trick on the Googles in general
that was like I always was like, you know, Johnny has
this very specific kind of vocal, and I had this
weird idea that guitars, the guitar sound should be kind
of like the vocal because I always got that from
Led Zeppelin. I was always like, well, is it Robert
Planter or is Jimmy Page's lead guitar. That's awesome, similar,
that's awesome. So I was like, how the hell am
I going to get these guitars of Johnny, you know,
(13:27):
to sound like his voice. And I thought, well, let's
get an electric, an acoustic guitar that you can mike.
Obviously you can mike any becaustic, but also one you
could plug in. So it has a little microphone on
the inside, and then I would split that signal, one
going direct to the board, the other one going to
(13:48):
a slightly distorted, you know, Fender amp of some kind.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
So you're getting the bigness of the acoustic guitar, the
sort of top end machine, and also the grunt of
an electric guitar, which I think actually does in one
mirror Johnny Resdick's voice a little bit, which is very
sweet but also has a good amount of aggression to it.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
You can definitely hear that sound I'm talking about on
the song Slide, because that's it's all that amazing beginning
of that song.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
Rob, thank you so much for being here. Thank you,
thank you for spending all your time with us on
this Sunday. We are way over on this break. I
promise you we will give it back to you later.
You listen to the Andy Reestmeier Show. Where can people
find more about you? And where can they find out
your projects that you're working on now?
Speaker 3 (14:31):
So there's I have a I think there's a website
called Done Deal Management, and you can hear about all
the new bands that I'm doing. And then if you
want to know more about me, there is just a
Wikipedia there you go.
Speaker 4 (14:42):
You can read it all.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Rob Cavallo Instudio here, it's KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 4 (14:55):
Man, I could talk to him for hours.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
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(15:18):
play that on the show. If you have some thoughts,
maybe how maybe how you're you're you're doing as far
as what you're thinking about the Dodgers tomorrow morning on
the KTLA Morning News.
Speaker 4 (15:31):
It will be live from Dodger Stadium. That's pretty exciting.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
I also have to send an apology out to all
the listeners. Apparently I say get out of town a lot.
Did you Did you pick up on that? I did not,
but it's hilarious get out of town. I got a
message from my girlfriend. She said, I need you to
stop saying get out of town. But you know who
says get out of town? Michael J. Fox says that
(15:56):
in Back to the Future a lot. That's right, and
I'm sure that I picked up up accidentally. Hey, did
you hear Travis Kelsey's investing in six Flags. I did
hear that. Yeah, are you excited for? Is this gonna
make you change your mind? How long has it been
since you've been up there.
Speaker 6 (16:10):
To I haven't been there since a grad night in
high school senior year.
Speaker 4 (16:14):
How many years ago was that for you?
Speaker 6 (16:15):
We're talking class of twenty twelve, so we're talking.
Speaker 4 (16:19):
Almost what twelve thirteen years?
Speaker 3 (16:21):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (16:22):
Been a minute, There been a minute. Yeah. Not a
big roller coaster guy, I am. I just never went back.
I never had a reason to go back since then.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
I think it's an interesting thing because I feel like
when you go as a kid, you go a few
times and then there's a point in your life where
you're like, I don't need to do that anymore. Like
a very specific kind of person still wants to go
there all the time. But I swear when I went there,
and I was probably like nineteen the last time I went.
But I went to Cedar Point, which is in Sandusky, Ohio.
It's like where they have the fastest, biggest roller coasters
of all time kind of thing. I was not a
(16:49):
big roller coaster guy, but even in my early twenties,
it hurt me. It was painful. You get off the ride,
You're like, ah, like, my back hurts because your body
is not designed to be tossed around like that. Everything
already hurts without that cost. That's exactly right. So then
you throw in a roller coaster. Then what you got?
I don't know, crazy, but Travis kelce though, of course,
(17:13):
now I like to refer to Travis Kelcey as I
love when the media refers to him as Taylor Swift's fiance,
as if this man has not done anything else in
his life, forget the football career.
Speaker 4 (17:27):
But it is just I gotta be honest with you.
It's as dumb as it sounds to me.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
This man, who, like, for all intents and purposes, is
just kind of an overgrown boy. Say what you will
about the newest record, okay, but but the man he
has a hard time spelling squirrel, you know, and you
got to just think like, oh wow, I'm gonna buy
(17:52):
roller coasters. But he's joined Jana Partners, which is a
New York City based law firm. They are described as
activist investors, which of course is what they use. It's
a term they basically use to describe a company that
comes in invests in something that's not doing well with
the purpose of turning it around, changing a lot of things.
(18:13):
A leveraged buyout, that might be one of the ways
that you might hurt it.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
Hear it.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
They typically don't stay invested for very long, so they
come in, make some changes, flip it, and then they sell.
But this group that he's a part of owns nine
percent of the amusement park. Travis Kelce Does he get
his own roller coaster ride? Probably not, but it's a
nice idea. Will Taylor Swift to start playing a tour
(18:40):
of six Flags across America? I can't imagine activist Activist
investors are often viewed negatively, at least according to an
executive who spoke to Cleveland dot Com about the purchase. Cleveland,
of course, is the city that is near Cedar Point,
(19:00):
which is that big theme park in Sandusky, Ohio that
was apparently a favorite for the Kelsey brothers when they
were growing up. Not doing well, those stock price is
less than half of what it was when Six Flags
merged with Cedar Fair in twenty twenty four. Attendance is
down nine percent, season pass sales are down eight percent,
(19:23):
revenue down one hundred million dollars and they are five
billion dollars in debt. Where I don't want there to
be financial issues is at a theme park. I don't
want to go to a theme park where like they
haven't paid their bills. Maybe they got people who are
operating those rides. You don't know what kind of money
(19:46):
issues they're having or what they're skimping on. When something breaks,
do they not put an OEM replacement? I mean, that's
how I've been in my life. Okay, I got an
old car. It broke down. Old car breaks down, stuff
fails to go to the shop. Do you want to
put it in the original part? Fifteen hundred bucks? All right,
(20:07):
what's a used part? What's apart from my other broken
car that you could take it off of? That's Robin
Peter to pay Paul Boy, oh boy. Speaking of cars,
it's not just kids.
Speaker 4 (20:24):
Like me. It's all kind of kids who like old
school cars.
Speaker 7 (20:30):
One look around George Yoppoless Motors and it's hard to
miss that the owner Stathios is far younger than most
of the inventory. Among the oldest cars for sale on
his am against itid lot, this single door in nineteen
fifty seven BMW is set up.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
Yeah, a lot of crazy words in that. Georgeopolis Stavos
Greek love it.
Speaker 7 (20:53):
Single door nineteen fifty seven cars for sale on his
am against itid.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
Lot amagainst it. That's a new don't hear that word
a lot here in southern California, Wietta.
Speaker 4 (21:04):
Yeah, I get in.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
One of the cars that they looked at here was
a BMW Isetta, which is a little tiny egg of
a car. Three wheels, I think, one wheel in the back.
You basically get in through a front door and sit there.
It kind of looks like a clown car, but even smaller.
And that's what this reporter is getting in.
Speaker 7 (21:21):
This single door nineteen fifty seven BMW Isetta.
Speaker 4 (21:25):
Yeah, I get in. Yeah.
Speaker 8 (21:27):
Oh, watch that steering wheel that's pretty low.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (21:32):
This is a nineteen eighty four hundred.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
It's kind of like that little BMW Iata is sort
of like if you're driving a wheeled backpack around.
Speaker 6 (21:40):
This is a nineteen eighty four hundred I automatic.
Speaker 7 (21:44):
Ferrari that's almost two decades older than Stathios. It's you
an expertise, often surprising clients.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
Then they come and meet Stathios Grogoppolis does sound a
little bit like a DC villain. I understand that, but again,
not a lot of Greeks out here in southern California.
I'm Greek, grew up with a lot of Greeks. Stavius
Gregoppolis a silly name maybe to you, but uh, fairly
common yoes.
Speaker 7 (22:11):
You an expertise, often surprising clients.
Speaker 8 (22:14):
Then they come and meet me and they're like, oh wow,
and they thought I was forty years old or fifty
years old and had this business. Or my favorite question.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
Is well, I mean, even if you just saw it
on your email signature, Stavio's Gregopolis does not sound like
a young person.
Speaker 8 (22:28):
Forty years old or fifty years old and had this business.
Or my favorite question is that your family started.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
The answer is no.
Speaker 7 (22:36):
Stathio started this himself during the pandemic. He pivoted from
a promising finance job and into vintage car seales. And
along the way he's finding younger auto enthusiasts like him,
craving cars with character.
Speaker 8 (22:51):
It's a lot of cars today. They all look the same,
they don't look special, they don't look different. You can
have toyotas confused with Lamberg do we really they don't
look different. You can have Toyotas confused with Lamborghinis.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
I'm not a Lambo guy. Do like a Toyota, but
I don't think there's a lot of people confusing Toyotas
and Lamborghinis. For a while, people were worried that once
this generation of kind of like boomers and polder folks
kind of stopped driving.
Speaker 4 (23:25):
That's a nice way of putting it. He was looking
for the words there ooks.
Speaker 7 (23:29):
Kind of stopped driving, that that passion for cars would
go away.
Speaker 4 (23:33):
But you're really not seeing that.
Speaker 7 (23:35):
Andy Kamelwitz, a reporter for auto news site Jealopnik, is
also tracking this shift in vintage vehicles, and so is
classic car insurer Haggarty, noting that nostalgia and social media
appear to be key drivers spurring young people into spending
tens of thousands on antique gaudos in this high tech age.
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A Haggarty survey finding roughly sixty percent of gens d
it's interested in owning a classic car.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
The company also finds about.
Speaker 7 (24:04):
Thirty two percent of gen Z and thirty percent of
millennials have either owned or currently owned an antique auto.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
I wonder where they define that as because like antique
auto could be like is it from the nineties? Does
that make you like a collector because you've got a
Nissan CenTra from nineteen ninety eight.
Speaker 4 (24:21):
Maybe I don't know.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
All right, lots to come here on the Andy Reesemeyer Show,
we're checking in about some things that have happened here
in southern California. We're gonna break down what if any
responsibility that the state has for the Palisades fire. Plus
a little bit more about the fare plan in California,
some new bills that have been introduced to help homeowners
deal with wildfire insurance. You're not gonna want to miss it.
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It's KFIM six to forty. We're live everywhere on the
iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
We've opened the phone lines one eight hundred five to
zero one five three four. That's one eight hundred five
T zero one kf I give us a call. Let
us know what Halloween costume you think you're gonna go
as this year. I'm gonna expand that actually, because a
lot of people reach a point where they're not no.
Speaker 4 (25:14):
Longer addressing up I'm to that point.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
If I didn't have to do some goofy thing for TV,
I definitely would not. I do have a message from
a listener saying, what is your band and how can
people listen? And what is a favorite song that you
have recorded? Oh that's awesome, okay.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
So the.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
Band is called Andy in the Valley and my favorite
song that I have recorded or they can listen on anywhere,
you know, on Spotify or Apple Music. And I think
my favorite song that I've recorded that is released is
a song that I did at a place called United Recorders.
It's called Still on My Mind. That's a song there,
(25:54):
the second one if you go to the Andy the
Valley page on Spotify. And this song, I don't even
know if I'm allowed to play it on here. If
that's like a conflict of interest, I'll ask my boss
next time. But it was recorded in one of the
studios that Rob Cavallo recorded a lot of Green Day Records,
in Studio B in United Recorders also known as Oceanway Recorders,
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and it's right there on Sunset Boulevard. And I always
wanted to record there as a kid because I was
a nerd and I would look it up like what
the liner notes on these records were are the albums,
and I would see like who the producer was or
where they recorded it, And so I knew that Ocean
Way was a big deal, and especially much later because
they actually sampled the room for like a reverb for
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pro tools that you could use to make your guitar
sound like it was recorded in the same space, and
approximation make your voice sound like it was in that room.
Speaker 6 (26:46):
So I always used this.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
I always wanted to record there, and finally got the
opportunity to do that a couple of years ago. We
took a band in there, drummer, bassist, guitarist, myself, and
we recorded to tape two inch magnetic tape. And it's
the first time that I'd ever had that kind of
experience at a big Hollywood studio, and I was a
little nervous, but we did a bunch of takes, just
(27:09):
like they would have back in the day in the
nineties and the eighties, and I sent it off to
the guy to get it mixed, and he was the
first time I've ever experienced anything like this. He was like,
I didn't have to hardly do anything because the room
is so good, and we know what that sound of
that room is so well from all the records that
have been recorded there that I didn't even have to
(27:30):
edit it that much or change it that much. So
that song is called Still on My Mind. And like
I said, it was recorded in Studio B there United
recorders on Sunset, which is now I think not even
open to the public anymore. So we got to record
it in the last couple of weeks there before it
switched over to not being able to be used by
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the public. Andy in the Valley Fun Stuff Love Music,
California is interested. There is two new laws aimed at
addressing the insurance crisis for homeowners. They are expanding grants
for fireproofing, increasing payments after wildfires, and giving the Fare Plan,
which is the insurer of last resort, more financial stability.
(28:16):
The package of new laws is meant to stabilize the
home insurance market and help property owners protect their homes
from wildfires and of course recover when they lose everything
after a fire. We saw this in January. Assembly Bill
eight eight eight is a grant to help low income howner.
Low income homeowners rather pay for things like new roofs
(28:37):
that are fire resistant or help them clear brush. A
lot of experts are recommending a five foot brush clearance
right around your house there in high risk areas. These
kinds of things can cost thousands of dollars, but they
do get you a discount on your insurance, or at
least in certain situations they do. The state doesn't know
(28:59):
how much they want to give of people for this
yet as far as how much money they're going to
give to these homeowners, but low income at least according
to this plan, is one hundred and sixty thousand dollars
a year for a family of four, So that's a
lot of people who would be eligible for this. Another
bill will raise the payout for personal property to three
(29:20):
hundred fifty thousand dollars, up from two hundred and fifty thousand.
And then another bill, I guess there's three, not two,
ensures the Fair Plan doesn't run out of money after
a fire. The Fair Plan, by the way, like I said,
the estate's last resort insurance program. It warned that it
was running out of money after the LA fires in January,
four billion dollars in claims. I think you might recall
(29:42):
the state gave I think a billion dollars in a
bailout after the fires, half of which policyholders are paying for.
Speaker 4 (29:51):
Baby. That's right.
Speaker 2 (29:55):
It's really interesting though, because if you're looking to live
basically anywhere that is not flat in La County, and
I say the hills, and yes, it's places like the
Hollywood Hills or Beverly Hills or the hills of West
Hollywood where you know, multimillion, ten million, twenty five million
dollar houses are. But it's also places like northeast Los
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Angeles where there are relatively affordable homes, homes that you
would consider starter homes, two bedroom, one bath, one point
two million dollar homes. It's all crazy, but those homes. Basically,
you have to get the fair plan if you're buying
a home. Now, some people are grandfathered in the their
prior home insurance. But if you're going out there and
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you're looking at Highland Park or Mount Washington, cool house
maybe affordable relatively speaking for La County, but you're looking
at maybe ten to fifteen thousand dollars a year in
insurance money that obviously is not equity money you don't
get back when you sell the house, and I think
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unfortunately makes the house harder to sell when you do
want to go sell it, because of course that's a
big expense for people tough stuff out there. There's also
a new investigation into how much the state did or
didn't do following what's called the Lockman Fire. That was
a fire that was started by alleged to at least
have been started by Jonathan Rinderneck in the hills above
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the Palisades a few days before the Palisades Fire, of course,
took off and took out much of that community. Lawyers
who represent thousands of Palisade fire victims are focusing on
the state, not just Jonathan Rinderneck. The state owns to
Penga State Park, and the argument is that the state
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didn't do enough to monitor that small fire on January first,
the Lockman fire, a hiker who hiked in that area
a couple days after that fire was, according to the
LAPD or LAFD, rather fully contained, took a videotape or
took a videotape what is it nineteen eighty five, took
(32:03):
a cell phone video of it still burning or at
least smoldering. So the concern is, or at least the
lawsuit on behalf of the Palisades fire victims alleges that
the state did not do enough to make sure that
that fire was under control. There was a lot of
this conversation after Jonathan Rinderneck was accused of setting this fire,
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and then, of course charge was all the things he
was charged of when this ultimately led to the Palisades Fire.
But his attorneys were saying, look are some people who
are least advocating on his behalf. Look, yeah, he started
this little fire, but is it his responsibility after this
thing is allegedly out for seven days? Who is responsible
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for making sure that fire doesn't spark up again, especially
when you know that there's a high wind event coming.
Just one of the many things that we're looking into
as far as the onus the responsibility for that Palisades fire.
Sixty eight hundred structures destroyed, twelve people died in that fire.
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This is remember, just the Palisades fire, doesn't include the
Eaton fire or there were more fatalities. Very complicated, lots
of crazy stuff. We will keep you posted.
Speaker 4 (33:21):
By the way.
Speaker 2 (33:22):
That ground stop at Los Angeles International Airport just a
thing of the past. I was doing some show prep
earlier today. A lot of delays. This airport was shut
down because of I guess sick calls. That's a crazy
world living, isn't it. But back open now doing okay,
no issues at least beyond the normal issues at the
Los Angeles International Airport. It's the Andy Reesmeier Show. You're
(33:44):
listening to KFI AM six forty. We're live everywhere on
the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (33:49):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (33:56):
It's Tiffany Hobbs in studio and for Chris Meryl. Tonight,
she's popping in. She's going to come in here, I
think actually and do a cross with us here in
just a couple of minutes. That's exciting. I don't want
to miss that big show tonight. Three hours. There she is,
right now, she's coming in. Did you know you were
coming in? I know, I mean you came back early,
(34:19):
We came back. Everything has been We've had very short breaks.
Speaker 4 (34:22):
Tokay. I ran from the breakthrough, Thank goodness, I ran.
Did you hear me?
Speaker 6 (34:26):
My coffee is still pouring.
Speaker 4 (34:28):
I didn't have to do that, an I was just
gonna just talk over it or whatever. Hello to you.
Speaker 6 (34:32):
I haven't seen you since the thing that's right.
Speaker 4 (34:34):
But that thing should we tell people about that?
Speaker 6 (34:36):
People? You tell people about this.
Speaker 4 (34:37):
Lauren Hill spoke of that thing. She did that thing,
that thing, that thing.
Speaker 2 (34:43):
You and I were both honored, I think is the
best way to put it. I mean it was crazy.
I had I was so shocked because during the Palisades
and the eating fires, Yes, there were obviously a lot
there's a lot of confusion, a lot of craziness, and
for whatever reason, you and I both ended up working
on stories that were related to animal evacuation.
Speaker 4 (35:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (35:04):
Yeah, And so one of the influential people who who
put together sort of the groups of evacs one hundreds
had us out in Santa Monica to sort of give
us a little award for social compassion legislation. Really really
remarkable stuff.
Speaker 5 (35:22):
Yeah, And they've done so much work behind the scenes
prior to that event.
Speaker 6 (35:25):
Since the event.
Speaker 5 (35:27):
Their bill that was authored Oreo's Law, to make sure
that pets and other animals are searched for and hopefully
evacuated at the very least, given the care of being
searched for in the case of a disaster like a
fire or an earthquake or anything what have you, that
those animals would be cared for. That bill was passed
(35:49):
because of Social Compassion in legislation, which is just beautiful
and sad that it needed to be written up in
the first place, but that they did the work to
make it law is a test meant to them and
to be honored for just doing what we love and
advocating for animals.
Speaker 4 (36:05):
It was a trip.
Speaker 5 (36:06):
I was so beside myself and that was my first
time meeting you.
Speaker 6 (36:09):
I've been a fan, was the first time I'm meeting
you as well. Bless you.
Speaker 4 (36:12):
It was well, I guess that makes sense. That's very sweet.
Speaker 6 (36:16):
You don't have to hear.
Speaker 2 (36:17):
And now we're both here having it, having a great time,
a grand time, the best. So I want to go
back to Social Compassion and legislation. Judy Mancuso, who's the
president founder CEO, she was the point person after the fires. Yes,
a private citizen by the way, who basically was putting
rescue groups in contact with people who were victims of
the fire, who had animals who were inside the disaster zone.
(36:40):
That's right, who, by the way, FEMA accredited, were not
allowed to go in and help save many of these
animals that got left behind.
Speaker 4 (36:49):
And we know that we saw with Oreo.
Speaker 2 (36:50):
We saw so many of these animals still in there
in the two weeks.
Speaker 5 (36:56):
Two weeks, and Judy, like you said, was able to
spearhead and Galvan. I so many different rescue operations and
there are a lot of people doing that work.
Speaker 6 (37:06):
Judy, I think is the cream of the crop.
Speaker 5 (37:09):
And again, like you said, it's these are our babies,
these are our families. And there are heartwarming stories still
coming out nine ten months later about these reunions with
pets that are out there still and they're being found,
and it's just the longevity of this situation of the
fires is incredible.
Speaker 2 (37:29):
You're absolutely right, And I think that there's I remember
there were people who were saying things when we were
doing these stories. We're like, well, why did you I
would never leave my dog behind. It's like, bro, people
were not at home when this happened. You know, they
weren't able to get to them, or they had situations
where they had cats who were maybe feral at least
a couple of times, or were not able to easily
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you know, in a disaster when you're evacuating, you've ever
tried to put a normal.
Speaker 6 (37:53):
Cat in your car, right that's right now.
Speaker 2 (37:55):
I mean you talk about some of these cats that
you know that people don't think that they're going to
have to leave them. So it's really good that Judy
was there. She was organizing that. I know that you
and I both kind of got to sit shotgun and
see a lot of those stories play out. I remember
we were up in the palisades and there was a
like a pair of birds I think they make a parrot,
and some large, large I.
Speaker 4 (38:17):
Won't misname what kind of animals.
Speaker 2 (38:19):
They were, but they were big birds, yes, and they
were like one hundred years old or something like that.
And the owners couldn't get in to get these birds out,
and obviously they didn't know how to.
Speaker 4 (38:27):
I mean they were gonna, what do you how do
you get a bird?
Speaker 6 (38:30):
Right?
Speaker 2 (38:30):
So they needed a truck and finally they Judy was
able to get some rescuers, and I followed them up
there into the palisades and watched as they, I mean,
in a terrible situation. The fires are still burning, the ash,
the soot. They're going in there for not even their
own animals, just because they love animals enough that they're
going to try to help other people get them out.
Speaker 5 (38:50):
Yeah, testaments to the wonderful people of Los Angeles and
everyone who came in to support from elsewhere to make
sure that our most vulnerable were taken care of.
Speaker 4 (39:00):
Yeah, yeah, well said. And it was great to meet
you there.
Speaker 2 (39:03):
And I know that you know there's you have such
a great heart, and there's a lot that is still
happening with this, and I know that it's important that
we're following Oreo's law as well. So very very exciting
what's happening in your show tonight.
Speaker 5 (39:16):
So speaking of the fires, and now we're what somewhat
ten months out or whatnot, there's still developments, of course
going on, especially in the real estate realm, and there
are two specific stories, one out of Pasadena, one out
of the Palisades that are really angering residents and it's
because both cities are moving forward but to the chagrin
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of a lot of locals. So I'm going to talk
about that after five thirty. It deals with real estate,
it deals with business, but not everyone is happy. So
I'll tell you what that is when we come.
Speaker 2 (39:49):
Yeah, I know that one of the winners of the
power Ball is going in there. Are you talking about
that at all?
Speaker 7 (39:55):
No?
Speaker 6 (39:55):
I actually covered that a few weeks ago, that story.
Speaker 2 (39:57):
Yeah, he's going in and buying up a bunch of
houses and stuff Monopoly. It's pretty crazy.
Speaker 6 (40:01):
It's really interesting, and you got to feel for.
Speaker 2 (40:04):
The people in Altadena who are saying Altadena is not
for sale, right, I understand that, But also you had
to say, like, at a certain point when this insurance money.
You know, because a lot of people have this loss
of use coverage which essentially gives them money to live
somewhere else while the money comes in, or while the
permits are approved, or while they're able to rebuild. But
at a certain point the insurance company stops paying that
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you've got to make a decision. And I just I
feel so awful for these legacy families, especially we've lived
there for generations, who are saying, why do I want
to do this?
Speaker 5 (40:35):
It's going to look completely different on its face and
emotionally it's going to be different, and that, unfortunately, is
the consequence of what happened. Mayor Bass named the new
LAFD chief as well. We'll talk about that, and then
we're going to do some holiday news, just to pivot
a bit. America may run out of Christmas decorations.
Speaker 4 (40:55):
You're kidding all.
Speaker 2 (40:57):
I have many boxes of it in a storage unit
somewhere ready.
Speaker 5 (41:02):
Right on the other side of that, while we may
be running out of Christmas decorations, Toys r Us is
coming back. They're opening stores nationwide, including one right here
in southern California, so I'll tell you about that. For
our Deeper Dives segment, we're going to talk about locals
who are sharing their spookiest Los Angeles tales, so tail
horror right here at home. We're also going to get
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into the strangest phobias you've never heard of.
Speaker 4 (41:26):
Oh, I like all this.
Speaker 5 (41:28):
Scammer's gonna scam segment after five forty five, we're going
to talk about ghost tapping. It's not you going up
to a ghost and poking them, something to do with
your debit card. And this is the news you got me,
You got me, And then we'll finish out the entire show.
I'm here till seven with Dada lists more of those
events around the south Land and how your pets are
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being invited to participate in tricker treating.
Speaker 2 (41:53):
Wow, what a skunn show. Fun show, and and uh
Cayleab will be on the ones and two.
Speaker 5 (41:58):
She will be on the ones in too and DJ
Ali By golly, it's DJ Allie.
Speaker 6 (42:03):
Look at the boards as well.
Speaker 2 (42:05):
Ones, twos, threes, fours, five and six all covered here. Tiffany,
it's so great to see you.
Speaker 5 (42:09):
It's so good to see Andy. I'm proud of you, buddy.
I'll proudk you.
Speaker 6 (42:12):
You're doing a great job.
Speaker 2 (42:13):
They say, fake it till you make it, and if
you throw up, at least there's a trash can really near.
Here are a lot of trash cans, I know, Tiffany Hobbs.
We'll see it real soon. Make sure you keep listening
here to CAFI AM six forty. Andy Reesemeyer here, we'll
see you tomorrow night at seven o'clock right here on KFI.
We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio
Speaker 1 (42:30):
App, KFI AM six forty on demand
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Well, thanks for joining us on this Sunday, October twenty sixth. Amazingly,
there's no baseball game being played right now. Isn't that incredible?
In studio with Rob Cavallo, super producer. Do you hate
that I call you super producer? Is that a cool
thing to say?
Speaker 3 (00:21):
I guess it's fine?
Speaker 4 (00:22):
What would you rather? What would you? How would you
like us to refer to you as well?
Speaker 3 (00:27):
I don't think of myself as super. Well, let me
be the one to say thanks.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
But one hundred and thirty records, incredible, hundred thirty million records.
He sold one hundred and thirty records, kicking me out
right now? Now that's already coming. Yeah, Now that's impressive.
In twenty twenty five, it's one hundred and thirty records, No.
One hundred and thirty million records, three Grammys, producer Behind
the Hits, we've been talking about the Black Parade, that
whole record from my Chemical Romance, Goodall's Green Day.
Speaker 4 (00:56):
The list goes on and.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Oh it's big right now that people freak out a
lot about. Is the Tarzan the Phil Collins you did? Yeah,
that's a great song. Thanks one, what is it the one?
Speaker 4 (01:07):
You'll be on something? Yeah, you'll be in my heart.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
I mean, I'm on. We messed around with all of them,
but you know that one was the big.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
Yeah, that's a huge song. Yeah, that's a great.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
There's a great meme out there where it's like, Phil,
why are you going so hard? It's just a it's
just an animated movie.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Well, as we as we get into things, we're going
to break down a song here in a little bit.
But I know that you know, just quickly to just
off the top of the show, talk about some things
that are happening here in southern California. Uh, the California
has introduced new laws to address the insurance crisis for homeowners.
That's kind of exciting for people who are on the
Fair Plan. It's going to change the limits of what
they will be able to or what they will be
(01:44):
able to give back to people. We'll also later get
into the idea of how much the that the state
had to do as far as preventing the Palisades fired
and could they have done more. Plus, as you've heard,
the East wing has been demolished of the White House.
It is being replaced with a three hundred million dollar ballroom,
which Rob I was telling you, I think it would be
(02:04):
a great that's a good Halloween costume, you know.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
I like you could go as the ballroom perfect maybe. Yeah,
what do you see when you look through the window?
You gotta wear pants, You gotta wear pants.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
So you know when I heard that thing about the
Trump ballroom, I watched him at the Buckingham Palace looking around,
going well, this is a great room.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
I immediately thought, oh my god, what wouldn't it be
the greatest punk rock video of all time? If you
could just sort of set up a bunch of punk
rock kids coming in and just destroying the inside of
the ballroom, just literally going okay, that would be so cool.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
I just like the visual of it. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Yeah, well, hey, listen, we'll see if he wants to
get into the music industry.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
He knows to call us, yeah, because we're going to
film the first video on in that ballroom.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
That's right, that's right.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
So we're talking about all the music basically of your
and and specifically we've clued kind of in on the
Goo Goo dolls. There's so much more than that. But
I but I just think that for whatever reason, it
just seems like the Goo Goo Dolls. They did this
incredible performance at Coachella last year. Iris continues to do
well on social media. People can't deny that level of emotion.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
It's been like a number one hit in England, I
think four or five times.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
That's so amazing.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Yeah, some you know, like a kid will get on
a on a Britain's got talent and then play the
song and then it'll zip up to number one again.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
And who would have thought like mandolin's electric guitars three
fourth time signature.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
I mean, it's just kind of almost like a sea shanty.
It's it's a mandolin.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
Actually was the second engineer's idea. I can't even take
credit for it because I was sitting there going like,
oh God, we need something, there's something missing in this song.
And and then the engineer says, you ever meet Dean Parks.
He's in the other room. I was like, what does
he play? And I don't know, he plays slide in
mandlin mandolin. I went, oh, mandolin, that's what we need
on this song.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Yeah, and they're and and it would never that that
song is it would not be the same song at all, and.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
Then this guy Tim Pierce came in and just played beautifully.
Speaker 4 (04:08):
I have heard.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Is the rumor true that the solo on that song,
which he also played right, Yes, that that is one
take and is the first take.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
Absolutely, that's unbelievable.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
He's amazing that.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
You got to be around all these people, get to
be around all these people who are at this level
all the time. I'm very jealous of you. Let's break
down some of the pieces of this song. First, we'll
start with Black Balloon's intro, which will play a little
bit and then tell me about what's happening here.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
So this is a loop.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
The strings, little bass, and then the guitars come in
and then it's a google.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
So there's actually three things really interesting off the bat.
So the first thing is is what is that loop?
Speaker 4 (05:02):
The loop?
Speaker 3 (05:03):
You know how when musicians they before they're about to
play a song, or maybe it was in this case,
it was it's actually that's a bass. If you can
play that, it's a bass. And Robbie's playing harmonics. And
he had this little figure that he would play before
he was going to play something else. And this wasn't
even on this song. This is what he was playing
on another song, and then we did it, and then
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we had a couple of takes, right, so there's different tracks.
Speaker 5 (05:28):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
So he played because believe it or not, that's actually
two tracks. That's two basses get out of town. And
I kept hearing that phrase and it just happened to
line up on top of each other, the two basses
to turn into that thing, and there's really it's really
it was only dom dum dan don't don't don't.
Speaker 4 (05:47):
That was it.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
And back then we did everything on tape and pro
tools was a situation where there was only two tracks
and it was like eight bat. It was like eight
bit you know. Yeah, it didn't low red two tracks.
You can get the high reds. You can maybe get
it to forty four to one if you know what
I'm talking about. Anyways, so I heard this thing and
it kept haunting me and I was like, guys, I
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think I can take that thing and stick it in
the intro of Black Balloon. They're like what They're like, well, okay,
if you think you can do it. So I went
to a friend of mine who I can't remember his
name now, but anyways, he was a pro tools expert
back when pro tools was first being developed.
Speaker 4 (06:26):
And this is just to make a loop happen. Yeah,
I had to.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Drive all over town take the two inch tapes that
weighed like, you know, sixteen pounds a piece.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
Can you just make a loop out of this formul place.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
It's a align the tape machine, then make a loop,
then bring it back, fly it on to our tapes,
onto our master tapes, and then play to it.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
And it's crazy because it's in the whole song and
you hear it later as well.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
I mean, yeahs try to burst it.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
This is kind of loud here. Sorry, let me fix
this real quick. And you hear some reverse.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Going on there.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Maybe no, that's just the way that it's just a
reverb and that loop that figure. I think this is
what I'm saying, where that's like the Rob Cavallo you're
candy because that's something that's so you're listening to the
radio or whatever nineteen ninety eight, you hear that, you
know exactly what's coming.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
Thanks.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
I was always looking for it was kind of really
because I was a Beatles you know, disciple. I was
always looking for that other extra thing. If you can
find the other extra thing, to make a song be magic.
That is a great, great thing. And the great Lindsay
Buckingham from from Fillywood Mac also you know, sort of
taught me that, like you could just leave a song
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as you first envisioned it, or you could dig deeper, right.
So I was always looking for something if I could
find it in the I mean not all the time,
you don't force it, but if something is there. And
like I said, Robbie played that bass that way and
it was just sitting there.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Right, So that was like the band created that you
heard that out of, you know, as a as an observer,
put it together and put it in this and then
of course we have a hit.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Yeah, and then and then the strings that you heard
there was a big thing. I had such a good
relationship with this guy David Campbell, who's actually the artist
Beck's father.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
So Beck, Everybody's there's like thirty people in Hollywood when
you really get down to it, everybody knows everybody.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
Yeah, And.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
I was such a fan of his arranging and him
and I had such a beautiful thing on Iris that
you know, like I said to him on Iris, like
I came up with the idea of going dun dun duh.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
Dun du da du dun yeah dun oh yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
And I said to him, let's make it go ever
higher and hire inversions and crazy masics, you know. And
then I always had this idea of like I always
like this idea of let's do lead orchestra. I thought, like,
you know, you can have a guitar section, So you
have a guitar section in a song, and then there's
a guitar lead section, right, have the orchestra play the
solo of the orchestra play the soul cool Dave like arrange.
(08:47):
That's so interesting. So that's what that was.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
And as we see in Black Balloon towards the bridge,
there is another moment that we'll listen to that is,
of course the orchestra coming back doing that.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
And then I have a really another big one for
the intro.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
Believe it or not. Okay, we'll go back to that.
And second here your thing.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
Oh oh, it's like it's like old Hollywood.
Speaker 4 (09:33):
Yeah, magic.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
We would call that like I used to call that,
like let's soar, yes, just go soaring over California, you know,
let's go soaring, and so like we would write these
melodies and use the chord structure that was embedded in
the song and let the band rock out and then
soar with the orchestra.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
It reminds me of the Petty Learning to Fly. There's
kind of a really beautiful solo that's a slide I
think that that Mike Campbell playing, and it's the same
kind of moment where we're just sort of like, here's
the story has been told, and now we have a
moment to reflect on it. And then when Johnny comes
back in with the final chorus and he's it's just
(10:15):
like he's woiling on this.
Speaker 4 (10:18):
We'll listen here, there's.
Speaker 6 (10:21):
No time lose it, laying a stead.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
And then we hear at the end of it, I'll
become what you became to me, And it's just like
it's just it makes you cry.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
It's really beautiful. His lyrics are pretty awesome. He's on
that whole Dizzy Up the Girl record. If you just listen,
you could just read the lyrics and just kill you,
you know, fall apart.
Speaker 4 (10:45):
Yeah, I mean, it's pretty awesome.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
One more thing here before we go back to the intro,
just that the drums for a second, which you were
talking about. You can make the drums sound big as heck.
But this is I think these drums sound amazing. These
are what drums sound like to me, what they should
sound like. Drums. Yeah, that almost like if you hear
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that out of context, that's like a new Jack swing thing.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
Oh yeah, totally.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
You could stample those and get that amazing. Okay, so fine.
I want to give.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
Credit to Jack Joseph Puieg for mixing those drums. That's
a huge sounding kick drum and a beautiful sounding, very
special snare. He had some tricks that he would do
with the snare.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
Yeah, unbelievable mixer, known of course also by his software
as well. Yeah, because his equipment. Nobody could ever be
able to afford to have the amount of tapes and
tubes that that man add correct.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
So you had one more thing about the intro.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
What's interesting is and that when that acoustic comes in.
I could be wrong, but I think that that is
the guitar that has been dubbed ex Caliber, which I
don't know if you know about that, But in nineteen
ninety five, I was like maybe the only guy that
was like, well I got to get a good acoustic
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because everywhere all street punks, we didn't have that much money.
But I was a producer, so I better have one
good acoustic. And I was actually recording Carris Flowers, which
of course is mo'reon five if you know, oh right
before they had personally Yeah, So Adam Levine was the
first one to use the first guy to use it
on the Carris Flowers record, and then it ended up
being on like eight number one singles, including Time of
(12:26):
Your Life, the Green Day song.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
What kind of guitar is this?
Speaker 3 (12:28):
It's a Tailor five fourteen c Okay.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
So this is a guitar that did you just buy
it a guitar center or was it used or was.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
It just no? I actually had the tailor guys where
we were at A and M Studios and they were trying.
They were like a new company, and so they had
a whole bunch of them there and I said, this
is great, I'll buy one from you guys. Just pick
me out a good one, and then you sent it
over and you know, I paid a few grand for
it or something.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Yeah, right, But it's not like a thirty thousand dollars.
It's not like some vintage.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
Martin from They still make them and they're like three
or four grand.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
And so you're you're doing all kinds of processing, I know,
because there's the there's the microphones in the room. It's
plugged in as well with some distortion or something like that.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
So there was a trick on the Googles in general
that was like I always was like, you know, Johnny has
this very specific kind of vocal, and I had this
weird idea that guitars, the guitar sound should be kind
of like the vocal because I always got that from
Led Zeppelin. I was always like, well, is it Robert
Planter or is Jimmy Page's lead guitar. That's awesome, similar,
that's awesome. So I was like, how the hell am
I going to get these guitars of Johnny, you know,
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to sound like his voice. And I thought, well, let's
get an electric, an acoustic guitar that you can mike.
Obviously you can mike any becaustic, but also one you
could plug in. So it has a little microphone on
the inside, and then I would split that signal, one
going direct to the board, the other one going to
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a slightly distorted, you know, Fender amp of some kind.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
So you're getting the bigness of the acoustic guitar, the
sort of top end machine, and also the grunt of
an electric guitar, which I think actually does in one
mirror Johnny Resdick's voice a little bit, which is very
sweet but also has a good amount of aggression to it.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
You can definitely hear that sound I'm talking about on
the song Slide, because that's it's all that amazing beginning
of that song.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
Rob, thank you so much for being here. Thank you,
thank you for spending all your time with us on
this Sunday. We are way over on this break. I
promise you we will give it back to you later.
You listen to the Andy Reestmeier Show. Where can people
find more about you? And where can they find out
your projects that you're working on now?
Speaker 3 (14:31):
So there's I have a I think there's a website
called Done Deal Management, and you can hear about all
the new bands that I'm doing. And then if you
want to know more about me, there is just a
Wikipedia there you go.
Speaker 4 (14:42):
You can read it all.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Rob Cavallo Instudio here, it's KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 4 (14:55):
Man, I could talk to him for hours.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
If you want to reach out and say hello and
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play that on the show. If you have some thoughts,
maybe how maybe how you're you're you're doing as far
as what you're thinking about the Dodgers tomorrow morning on
the KTLA Morning News.
Speaker 4 (15:31):
It will be live from Dodger Stadium. That's pretty exciting.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
I also have to send an apology out to all
the listeners. Apparently I say get out of town a lot.
Did you Did you pick up on that? I did not,
but it's hilarious get out of town. I got a
message from my girlfriend. She said, I need you to
stop saying get out of town. But you know who
says get out of town? Michael J. Fox says that
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in Back to the Future a lot. That's right, and
I'm sure that I picked up up accidentally. Hey, did
you hear Travis Kelsey's investing in six Flags. I did
hear that. Yeah, are you excited for? Is this gonna
make you change your mind? How long has it been
since you've been up there.
Speaker 6 (16:10):
To I haven't been there since a grad night in
high school senior year.
Speaker 4 (16:14):
How many years ago was that for you?
Speaker 6 (16:15):
We're talking class of twenty twelve, so we're talking.
Speaker 4 (16:19):
Almost what twelve thirteen years?
Speaker 3 (16:21):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (16:22):
Been a minute, There been a minute. Yeah. Not a
big roller coaster guy, I am. I just never went back.
I never had a reason to go back since then.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
I think it's an interesting thing because I feel like
when you go as a kid, you go a few
times and then there's a point in your life where
you're like, I don't need to do that anymore. Like
a very specific kind of person still wants to go
there all the time. But I swear when I went there,
and I was probably like nineteen the last time I went.
But I went to Cedar Point, which is in Sandusky, Ohio.
It's like where they have the fastest, biggest roller coasters
of all time kind of thing. I was not a
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big roller coaster guy, but even in my early twenties,
it hurt me. It was painful. You get off the ride,
You're like, ah, like, my back hurts because your body
is not designed to be tossed around like that. Everything
already hurts without that cost. That's exactly right. So then
you throw in a roller coaster. Then what you got?
I don't know, crazy, but Travis kelce though, of course,
(17:13):
now I like to refer to Travis Kelcey as I
love when the media refers to him as Taylor Swift's fiance,
as if this man has not done anything else in
his life, forget the football career.
Speaker 4 (17:27):
But it is just I gotta be honest with you.
It's as dumb as it sounds to me.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
This man, who, like, for all intents and purposes, is
just kind of an overgrown boy. Say what you will
about the newest record, okay, but but the man he
has a hard time spelling squirrel, you know, and you
got to just think like, oh wow, I'm gonna buy
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roller coasters. But he's joined Jana Partners, which is a
New York City based law firm. They are described as
activist investors, which of course is what they use. It's
a term they basically use to describe a company that
comes in invests in something that's not doing well with
the purpose of turning it around, changing a lot of things.
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A leveraged buyout, that might be one of the ways
that you might hurt it.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
Hear it.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
They typically don't stay invested for very long, so they
come in, make some changes, flip it, and then they sell.
But this group that he's a part of owns nine
percent of the amusement park. Travis Kelce Does he get
his own roller coaster ride? Probably not, but it's a
nice idea. Will Taylor Swift to start playing a tour
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of six Flags across America? I can't imagine activist Activist
investors are often viewed negatively, at least according to an
executive who spoke to Cleveland dot Com about the purchase. Cleveland,
of course, is the city that is near Cedar Point,
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which is that big theme park in Sandusky, Ohio that
was apparently a favorite for the Kelsey brothers when they
were growing up. Not doing well, those stock price is
less than half of what it was when Six Flags
merged with Cedar Fair in twenty twenty four. Attendance is
down nine percent, season pass sales are down eight percent,
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revenue down one hundred million dollars and they are five
billion dollars in debt. Where I don't want there to
be financial issues is at a theme park. I don't
want to go to a theme park where like they
haven't paid their bills. Maybe they got people who are
operating those rides. You don't know what kind of money
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issues they're having or what they're skimping on. When something breaks,
do they not put an OEM replacement? I mean, that's
how I've been in my life. Okay, I got an
old car. It broke down. Old car breaks down, stuff
fails to go to the shop. Do you want to
put it in the original part? Fifteen hundred bucks? All right,
(20:07):
what's a used part? What's apart from my other broken
car that you could take it off of? That's Robin
Peter to pay Paul Boy, oh boy. Speaking of cars,
it's not just kids.
Speaker 4 (20:24):
Like me. It's all kind of kids who like old
school cars.
Speaker 7 (20:30):
One look around George Yoppoless Motors and it's hard to
miss that the owner Stathios is far younger than most
of the inventory. Among the oldest cars for sale on
his am against itid lot, this single door in nineteen
fifty seven BMW is set up.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
Yeah, a lot of crazy words in that. Georgeopolis Stavos
Greek love it.
Speaker 7 (20:53):
Single door nineteen fifty seven cars for sale on his
am against itid.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
Lot amagainst it. That's a new don't hear that word
a lot here in southern California, Wietta.
Speaker 4 (21:04):
Yeah, I get in.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
One of the cars that they looked at here was
a BMW Isetta, which is a little tiny egg of
a car. Three wheels, I think, one wheel in the back.
You basically get in through a front door and sit there.
It kind of looks like a clown car, but even smaller.
And that's what this reporter is getting in.
Speaker 7 (21:21):
This single door nineteen fifty seven BMW Isetta.
Speaker 4 (21:25):
Yeah, I get in. Yeah.
Speaker 8 (21:27):
Oh, watch that steering wheel that's pretty low.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (21:32):
This is a nineteen eighty four hundred.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
It's kind of like that little BMW Iata is sort
of like if you're driving a wheeled backpack around.
Speaker 6 (21:40):
This is a nineteen eighty four hundred I automatic.
Speaker 7 (21:44):
Ferrari that's almost two decades older than Stathios. It's you
an expertise, often surprising clients.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
Then they come and meet Stathios Grogoppolis does sound a
little bit like a DC villain. I understand that, but again,
not a lot of Greeks out here in southern California.
I'm Greek, grew up with a lot of Greeks. Stavius
Gregoppolis a silly name maybe to you, but uh, fairly
common yoes.
Speaker 7 (22:11):
You an expertise, often surprising clients.
Speaker 8 (22:14):
Then they come and meet me and they're like, oh wow,
and they thought I was forty years old or fifty
years old and had this business. Or my favorite question.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
Is well, I mean, even if you just saw it
on your email signature, Stavio's Gregopolis does not sound like
a young person.
Speaker 8 (22:28):
Forty years old or fifty years old and had this business.
Or my favorite question is that your family started.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
The answer is no.
Speaker 7 (22:36):
Stathio started this himself during the pandemic. He pivoted from
a promising finance job and into vintage car seales. And
along the way he's finding younger auto enthusiasts like him,
craving cars with character.
Speaker 8 (22:51):
It's a lot of cars today. They all look the same,
they don't look special, they don't look different. You can
have toyotas confused with Lamberg do we really they don't
look different. You can have Toyotas confused with Lamborghinis.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
I'm not a Lambo guy. Do like a Toyota, but
I don't think there's a lot of people confusing Toyotas
and Lamborghinis. For a while, people were worried that once
this generation of kind of like boomers and polder folks
kind of stopped driving.
Speaker 4 (23:25):
That's a nice way of putting it. He was looking
for the words there ooks.
Speaker 7 (23:29):
Kind of stopped driving, that that passion for cars would
go away.
Speaker 4 (23:33):
But you're really not seeing that.
Speaker 7 (23:35):
Andy Kamelwitz, a reporter for auto news site Jealopnik, is
also tracking this shift in vintage vehicles, and so is
classic car insurer Haggarty, noting that nostalgia and social media
appear to be key drivers spurring young people into spending
tens of thousands on antique gaudos in this high tech age.
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A Haggarty survey finding roughly sixty percent of gens d
it's interested in owning a classic car.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
The company also finds about.
Speaker 7 (24:04):
Thirty two percent of gen Z and thirty percent of
millennials have either owned or currently owned an antique auto.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
I wonder where they define that as because like antique
auto could be like is it from the nineties? Does
that make you like a collector because you've got a
Nissan CenTra from nineteen ninety eight.
Speaker 4 (24:21):
Maybe I don't know.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
All right, lots to come here on the Andy Reesemeyer Show,
we're checking in about some things that have happened here
in southern California. We're gonna break down what if any
responsibility that the state has for the Palisades fire. Plus
a little bit more about the fare plan in California,
some new bills that have been introduced to help homeowners
deal with wildfire insurance. You're not gonna want to miss it.
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It's KFIM six to forty. We're live everywhere on the
iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
We've opened the phone lines one eight hundred five to
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T zero one kf I give us a call. Let
us know what Halloween costume you think you're gonna go
as this year. I'm gonna expand that actually, because a
lot of people reach a point where they're not no.
Speaker 4 (25:14):
Longer addressing up I'm to that point.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
If I didn't have to do some goofy thing for TV,
I definitely would not. I do have a message from
a listener saying, what is your band and how can
people listen? And what is a favorite song that you
have recorded? Oh that's awesome, okay.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
So the.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
Band is called Andy in the Valley and my favorite
song that I have recorded or they can listen on anywhere,
you know, on Spotify or Apple Music. And I think
my favorite song that I've recorded that is released is
a song that I did at a place called United Recorders.
It's called Still on My Mind. That's a song there,
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the second one if you go to the Andy the
Valley page on Spotify. And this song, I don't even
know if I'm allowed to play it on here. If
that's like a conflict of interest, I'll ask my boss
next time. But it was recorded in one of the
studios that Rob Cavallo recorded a lot of Green Day Records,
in Studio B in United Recorders also known as Oceanway Recorders,
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and it's right there on Sunset Boulevard. And I always
wanted to record there as a kid because I was
a nerd and I would look it up like what
the liner notes on these records were are the albums,
and I would see like who the producer was or
where they recorded it, And so I knew that Ocean
Way was a big deal, and especially much later because
they actually sampled the room for like a reverb for
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pro tools that you could use to make your guitar
sound like it was recorded in the same space, and
approximation make your voice sound like it was in that room.
Speaker 6 (26:46):
So I always used this.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
I always wanted to record there, and finally got the
opportunity to do that a couple of years ago. We
took a band in there, drummer, bassist, guitarist, myself, and
we recorded to tape two inch magnetic tape. And it's
the first time that I'd ever had that kind of
experience at a big Hollywood studio, and I was a
little nervous, but we did a bunch of takes, just
(27:09):
like they would have back in the day in the
nineties and the eighties, and I sent it off to
the guy to get it mixed, and he was the
first time I've ever experienced anything like this. He was like,
I didn't have to hardly do anything because the room
is so good, and we know what that sound of
that room is so well from all the records that
have been recorded there that I didn't even have to
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edit it that much or change it that much. So
that song is called Still on My Mind. And like
I said, it was recorded in Studio B there United
recorders on Sunset, which is now I think not even
open to the public anymore. So we got to record
it in the last couple of weeks there before it
switched over to not being able to be used by
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the public. Andy in the Valley Fun Stuff Love Music,
California is interested. There is two new laws aimed at
addressing the insurance crisis for homeowners. They are expanding grants
for fireproofing, increasing payments after wildfires, and giving the Fare Plan,
which is the insurer of last resort, more financial stability.
(28:16):
The package of new laws is meant to stabilize the
home insurance market and help property owners protect their homes
from wildfires and of course recover when they lose everything
after a fire. We saw this in January. Assembly Bill
eight eight eight is a grant to help low income howner.
Low income homeowners rather pay for things like new roofs
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that are fire resistant or help them clear brush. A
lot of experts are recommending a five foot brush clearance
right around your house there in high risk areas. These
kinds of things can cost thousands of dollars, but they
do get you a discount on your insurance, or at
least in certain situations they do. The state doesn't know
(28:59):
how much they want to give of people for this
yet as far as how much money they're going to
give to these homeowners, but low income at least according
to this plan, is one hundred and sixty thousand dollars
a year for a family of four, So that's a
lot of people who would be eligible for this. Another
bill will raise the payout for personal property to three
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hundred fifty thousand dollars, up from two hundred and fifty thousand.
And then another bill, I guess there's three, not two,
ensures the Fair Plan doesn't run out of money after
a fire. The Fair Plan, by the way, like I said,
the estate's last resort insurance program. It warned that it
was running out of money after the LA fires in January,
four billion dollars in claims. I think you might recall
(29:42):
the state gave I think a billion dollars in a
bailout after the fires, half of which policyholders are paying for.
Speaker 4 (29:51):
Baby. That's right.
Speaker 2 (29:55):
It's really interesting though, because if you're looking to live
basically anywhere that is not flat in La County, and
I say the hills, and yes, it's places like the
Hollywood Hills or Beverly Hills or the hills of West
Hollywood where you know, multimillion, ten million, twenty five million
dollar houses are. But it's also places like northeast Los
(30:15):
Angeles where there are relatively affordable homes, homes that you
would consider starter homes, two bedroom, one bath, one point
two million dollar homes. It's all crazy, but those homes. Basically,
you have to get the fair plan if you're buying
a home. Now, some people are grandfathered in the their
prior home insurance. But if you're going out there and
(30:36):
you're looking at Highland Park or Mount Washington, cool house
maybe affordable relatively speaking for La County, but you're looking
at maybe ten to fifteen thousand dollars a year in
insurance money that obviously is not equity money you don't
get back when you sell the house, and I think
(30:57):
unfortunately makes the house harder to sell when you do
want to go sell it, because of course that's a
big expense for people tough stuff out there. There's also
a new investigation into how much the state did or
didn't do following what's called the Lockman Fire. That was
a fire that was started by alleged to at least
have been started by Jonathan Rinderneck in the hills above
(31:20):
the Palisades a few days before the Palisades Fire, of course,
took off and took out much of that community. Lawyers
who represent thousands of Palisade fire victims are focusing on
the state, not just Jonathan Rinderneck. The state owns to
Penga State Park, and the argument is that the state
(31:41):
didn't do enough to monitor that small fire on January first,
the Lockman fire, a hiker who hiked in that area
a couple days after that fire was, according to the
LAPD or LAFD, rather fully contained, took a videotape or
took a videotape what is it nineteen eighty five, took
(32:03):
a cell phone video of it still burning or at
least smoldering. So the concern is, or at least the
lawsuit on behalf of the Palisades fire victims alleges that
the state did not do enough to make sure that
that fire was under control. There was a lot of
this conversation after Jonathan Rinderneck was accused of setting this fire,
(32:28):
and then, of course charge was all the things he
was charged of when this ultimately led to the Palisades Fire.
But his attorneys were saying, look are some people who
are least advocating on his behalf. Look, yeah, he started
this little fire, but is it his responsibility after this
thing is allegedly out for seven days? Who is responsible
(32:49):
for making sure that fire doesn't spark up again, especially
when you know that there's a high wind event coming.
Just one of the many things that we're looking into
as far as the onus the responsibility for that Palisades fire.
Sixty eight hundred structures destroyed, twelve people died in that fire.
(33:11):
This is remember, just the Palisades fire, doesn't include the
Eaton fire or there were more fatalities. Very complicated, lots
of crazy stuff. We will keep you posted.
Speaker 4 (33:21):
By the way.
Speaker 2 (33:22):
That ground stop at Los Angeles International Airport just a
thing of the past. I was doing some show prep
earlier today. A lot of delays. This airport was shut
down because of I guess sick calls. That's a crazy
world living, isn't it. But back open now doing okay,
no issues at least beyond the normal issues at the
Los Angeles International Airport. It's the Andy Reesmeier Show. You're
(33:44):
listening to KFI AM six forty. We're live everywhere on
the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (33:49):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (33:56):
It's Tiffany Hobbs in studio and for Chris Meryl. Tonight,
she's popping in. She's going to come in here, I
think actually and do a cross with us here in
just a couple of minutes. That's exciting. I don't want
to miss that big show tonight. Three hours. There she is,
right now, she's coming in. Did you know you were
coming in? I know, I mean you came back early,
(34:19):
We came back. Everything has been We've had very short breaks.
Speaker 4 (34:22):
Tokay. I ran from the breakthrough, Thank goodness, I ran.
Did you hear me?
Speaker 6 (34:26):
My coffee is still pouring.
Speaker 4 (34:28):
I didn't have to do that, an I was just
gonna just talk over it or whatever. Hello to you.
Speaker 6 (34:32):
I haven't seen you since the thing that's right.
Speaker 4 (34:34):
But that thing should we tell people about that?
Speaker 6 (34:36):
People? You tell people about this.
Speaker 4 (34:37):
Lauren Hill spoke of that thing. She did that thing,
that thing, that thing.
Speaker 2 (34:43):
You and I were both honored, I think is the
best way to put it. I mean it was crazy.
I had I was so shocked because during the Palisades
and the eating fires, Yes, there were obviously a lot
there's a lot of confusion, a lot of craziness, and
for whatever reason, you and I both ended up working
on stories that were related to animal evacuation.
Speaker 4 (35:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (35:04):
Yeah, And so one of the influential people who who
put together sort of the groups of evacs one hundreds
had us out in Santa Monica to sort of give
us a little award for social compassion legislation. Really really
remarkable stuff.
Speaker 5 (35:22):
Yeah, And they've done so much work behind the scenes
prior to that event.
Speaker 6 (35:25):
Since the event.
Speaker 5 (35:27):
Their bill that was authored Oreo's Law, to make sure
that pets and other animals are searched for and hopefully
evacuated at the very least, given the care of being
searched for in the case of a disaster like a
fire or an earthquake or anything what have you, that
those animals would be cared for. That bill was passed
(35:49):
because of Social Compassion in legislation, which is just beautiful
and sad that it needed to be written up in
the first place, but that they did the work to
make it law is a test meant to them and
to be honored for just doing what we love and
advocating for animals.
Speaker 4 (36:05):
It was a trip.
Speaker 5 (36:06):
I was so beside myself and that was my first
time meeting you.
Speaker 6 (36:09):
I've been a fan, was the first time I'm meeting
you as well. Bless you.
Speaker 4 (36:12):
It was well, I guess that makes sense. That's very sweet.
Speaker 6 (36:16):
You don't have to hear.
Speaker 2 (36:17):
And now we're both here having it, having a great time,
a grand time, the best. So I want to go
back to Social Compassion and legislation. Judy Mancuso, who's the
president founder CEO, she was the point person after the fires. Yes,
a private citizen by the way, who basically was putting
rescue groups in contact with people who were victims of
the fire, who had animals who were inside the disaster zone.
(36:40):
That's right, who, by the way, FEMA accredited, were not
allowed to go in and help save many of these
animals that got left behind.
Speaker 4 (36:49):
And we know that we saw with Oreo.
Speaker 2 (36:50):
We saw so many of these animals still in there
in the two weeks.
Speaker 5 (36:56):
Two weeks, and Judy, like you said, was able to
spearhead and Galvan. I so many different rescue operations and
there are a lot of people doing that work.
Speaker 6 (37:06):
Judy, I think is the cream of the crop.
Speaker 5 (37:09):
And again, like you said, it's these are our babies,
these are our families. And there are heartwarming stories still
coming out nine ten months later about these reunions with
pets that are out there still and they're being found,
and it's just the longevity of this situation of the
fires is incredible.
Speaker 2 (37:29):
You're absolutely right, And I think that there's I remember
there were people who were saying things when we were
doing these stories. We're like, well, why did you I
would never leave my dog behind. It's like, bro, people
were not at home when this happened. You know, they
weren't able to get to them, or they had situations
where they had cats who were maybe feral at least
a couple of times, or were not able to easily
(37:50):
you know, in a disaster when you're evacuating, you've ever
tried to put a normal.
Speaker 6 (37:53):
Cat in your car, right that's right now.
Speaker 2 (37:55):
I mean you talk about some of these cats that
you know that people don't think that they're going to
have to leave them. So it's really good that Judy
was there. She was organizing that. I know that you
and I both kind of got to sit shotgun and
see a lot of those stories play out. I remember
we were up in the palisades and there was a
like a pair of birds I think they make a parrot,
and some large, large I.
Speaker 4 (38:17):
Won't misname what kind of animals.
Speaker 2 (38:19):
They were, but they were big birds, yes, and they
were like one hundred years old or something like that.
And the owners couldn't get in to get these birds out,
and obviously they didn't know how to.
Speaker 4 (38:27):
I mean they were gonna, what do you how do
you get a bird?
Speaker 6 (38:30):
Right?
Speaker 2 (38:30):
So they needed a truck and finally they Judy was
able to get some rescuers, and I followed them up
there into the palisades and watched as they, I mean,
in a terrible situation. The fires are still burning, the ash,
the soot. They're going in there for not even their
own animals, just because they love animals enough that they're
going to try to help other people get them out.
Speaker 5 (38:50):
Yeah, testaments to the wonderful people of Los Angeles and
everyone who came in to support from elsewhere to make
sure that our most vulnerable were taken care of.
Speaker 4 (39:00):
Yeah, yeah, well said. And it was great to meet
you there.
Speaker 2 (39:03):
And I know that you know there's you have such
a great heart, and there's a lot that is still
happening with this, and I know that it's important that
we're following Oreo's law as well. So very very exciting
what's happening in your show tonight.
Speaker 5 (39:16):
So speaking of the fires, and now we're what somewhat
ten months out or whatnot, there's still developments, of course
going on, especially in the real estate realm, and there
are two specific stories, one out of Pasadena, one out
of the Palisades that are really angering residents and it's
because both cities are moving forward but to the chagrin
(39:37):
of a lot of locals. So I'm going to talk
about that after five thirty. It deals with real estate,
it deals with business, but not everyone is happy. So
I'll tell you what that is when we come.
Speaker 2 (39:49):
Yeah, I know that one of the winners of the
power Ball is going in there. Are you talking about
that at all?
Speaker 7 (39:55):
No?
Speaker 6 (39:55):
I actually covered that a few weeks ago, that story.
Speaker 2 (39:57):
Yeah, he's going in and buying up a bunch of
houses and stuff Monopoly. It's pretty crazy.
Speaker 6 (40:01):
It's really interesting, and you got to feel for.
Speaker 2 (40:04):
The people in Altadena who are saying Altadena is not
for sale, right, I understand that, But also you had
to say, like, at a certain point when this insurance money.
You know, because a lot of people have this loss
of use coverage which essentially gives them money to live
somewhere else while the money comes in, or while the
permits are approved, or while they're able to rebuild. But
at a certain point the insurance company stops paying that
(40:26):
you've got to make a decision. And I just I
feel so awful for these legacy families, especially we've lived
there for generations, who are saying, why do I want
to do this?
Speaker 5 (40:35):
It's going to look completely different on its face and
emotionally it's going to be different, and that, unfortunately, is
the consequence of what happened. Mayor Bass named the new
LAFD chief as well. We'll talk about that, and then
we're going to do some holiday news, just to pivot
a bit. America may run out of Christmas decorations.
Speaker 4 (40:55):
You're kidding all.
Speaker 2 (40:57):
I have many boxes of it in a storage unit
somewhere ready.
Speaker 5 (41:02):
Right on the other side of that, while we may
be running out of Christmas decorations, Toys r Us is
coming back. They're opening stores nationwide, including one right here
in southern California, so I'll tell you about that. For
our Deeper Dives segment, we're going to talk about locals
who are sharing their spookiest Los Angeles tales, so tail
horror right here at home. We're also going to get
(41:24):
into the strangest phobias you've never heard of.
Speaker 4 (41:26):
Oh, I like all this.
Speaker 5 (41:28):
Scammer's gonna scam segment after five forty five, we're going
to talk about ghost tapping. It's not you going up
to a ghost and poking them, something to do with
your debit card. And this is the news you got me,
You got me, And then we'll finish out the entire show.
I'm here till seven with Dada lists more of those
events around the south Land and how your pets are
(41:50):
being invited to participate in tricker treating.
Speaker 2 (41:53):
Wow, what a skunn show. Fun show, and and uh
Cayleab will be on the ones and two.
Speaker 5 (41:58):
She will be on the ones in too and DJ
Ali By golly, it's DJ Allie.
Speaker 6 (42:03):
Look at the boards as well.
Speaker 2 (42:05):
Ones, twos, threes, fours, five and six all covered here. Tiffany,
it's so great to see you.
Speaker 5 (42:09):
It's so good to see Andy. I'm proud of you, buddy.
I'll proudk you.
Speaker 6 (42:12):
You're doing a great job.
Speaker 2 (42:13):
They say, fake it till you make it, and if
you throw up, at least there's a trash can really near.
Here are a lot of trash cans, I know, Tiffany Hobbs.
We'll see it real soon. Make sure you keep listening
here to CAFI AM six forty. Andy Reesemeyer here, we'll
see you tomorrow night at seven o'clock right here on KFI.
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