August 17, 2025 • 38 mins
Neighbors say they're fed up with 'zombie' cat invasion in Inglewood neighborhood. Guest: Adam Shapiro- Actor / Pretzel Man Adam Shapiro joins us to talk Pretzel Biz vs Hollywood, The Bear and the thing he’s most excited about wife / actress Katie Lowes.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to KFI Am six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
I'm Andy Reesmeier.
Speaker 3 (00:06):
Welcome to the first official edition of the Andy Reesmeyer Show.
I have to say it's the first official edition because
technically I did a show called The Andy Reesmeyer Show
pretty much for myself by myself, back when I was
in high school, like twenty years ago. You might know
me from KTLA Channel five, where I work on the
(00:27):
morning news there doing fun trending stuff and do my
best to make Frank Buckley laugh. I do an okay
job of that, but really thankful to the good people
here at iHeart at KFI who have allowed me to
take over the airwaves from two to four pm on
Sunday every Sunday from now until the end of time.
(00:49):
Here's the thing I will say this fall and I'm
not mad about this. This is a good sort of
slow entry into the experience here of doing radio. There's
a lot of Chargers games, so I'll probably be preempted.
You won't hear me every Sunday. I think their first
bye week is maybe November. They've got twelve weeks of football,
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so you'll hear me time and time again while I can.
I'll be here, very very very grateful to be here.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
I love radio. I love KFI.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
I've been listening to KFI since I moved to Los
Angeles about fifteen years ago. I was homesick for some
talk radio. I grew up listening to talk radio back
in Indiana, listening to WIBC. My aunt was on the
radio in Chicago WMAQ, and that's where I learned how
to say the letter W. They don't do that a
lot out here. You know, everything starts with a K.
(01:40):
East of the Mississippi River. West of the Mississippi River.
I'm still working on directions. This is why I don't
do weather anymore either. So I always wanted to have
that community. And I remember tune in one evening to
hit the scan button on my old car. When I
first moved to LA and I found Conway. I found
(02:01):
the Conway Show in the evening and CAFEI and I
believe there was a couple. I think Aaron Bender was
on with him. It was a long time ago, fifteen
years ago or so, and I heard him and I thought,
these guys, this is it, this is what I was missing.
So I've listened pretty much every day since I moved
out here Conway always in the afternoon, Gary and Shannon.
(02:21):
I'm busy during Handle. I'm at work during Handle, but
I hear people like him. So anyway, I'm happy to
be here and I'm doing this and it's exciting. I
did a little bit of fill in not too long ago,
and you know, so, I'm just very grateful to be
able to be here. On the show, You're going to
hear from some of my friends, some of my favorite
(02:44):
people in Los Angeles. We're going to talk to chefs,
We're going to talk to restaurant tours, comedians, musicians, basically
anybody and everybody.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
You know.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
They just said, hey, just whatever.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
You want to do, just don't get us in trouble,
don't get us fired, don't get me fired, don't get
the radio station fined. And that's it. That's pretty much
the barrier to entry here, which is exciting. We also
today are we're gonna We're gonna deliver on that promise.
We're gonna talk about some news here in Los Angeles.
What happened this week, what's happening in the upcoming week.
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Plus Adam Shapiro, the actor, the entrepreneur, you know him
from The Bear and many other roles in TV and movies.
He will join us live at around two thirty and
if you've been watching his career lately, which we have,
just on onto the stratosphere, out of this world. Very
(03:37):
funny guy. He's sort of a lucky charm for me.
I first did a talk show way back for the
PlayStation app back in twenty fifteen or something like that
called All Systems Go, and he was the first guest
that I ever had where I felt.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Like I was finally comfortable doing it.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
So now every time I start a job, I try
to have Adam Shapiro in so that I can just
get over that hump and just get right to feeling good.
We also want to say hello to our wonderful team
here on the Ones and Twos.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
We've got Robin.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
What's up, Robin? And we've also got Richie on the
Ones and Twos? Are you sharing?
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Do you do?
Speaker 5 (04:13):
One of you does the ones, the other does the twos.
She does the ones, I did the twos.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
That's right, And Eileen Gonzalez hold it down in the
news news department.
Speaker 6 (04:23):
Hey, good to have you here. Andy.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
I'm so thankful to be here. I know Eileen you've
also a veteran of television.
Speaker 6 (04:29):
Yep, many many years, decades.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
We were mostly down in Texas, right, San Antonio.
Speaker 7 (04:36):
Mostly Texas, San Antonio, Dallas, Austin, Corpus CHRISTI did a
small stint here in La yourbskkel.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Right, right, two and nine. Yeah, we're fans of all
of them, you know.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
I mean, just because I go to work at KTLA
every day doesn't mean I mean, I think, especially nowadays,
there's a nice camaraderie with everybody all in news because
there's so few of us left anymore, sadly.
Speaker 7 (04:56):
Yep, wow, and it's it's a tough business. So we
all get to commiserate there.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
You go, How do you like being in radio? Because
I gotta.
Speaker 6 (05:03):
Tell you, loving radio. I don't have to wear makeup,
I don't have to get dressed up.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Yeah it's awesome.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
I don't have to wear makeup. But I put on
extra makeup when I came in here today.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
It looks good, red on you, thank you. The little blush,
a little rouge looks good. You can use a little bronzer.
Do you think you would come in to bronze me
during the makeup or during the break? Okay, thank you. Hey, well,
I'm so happy to be here with you.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Guys.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Please be a part of the show, and you can
also if you're listening out there in the world, join
the show. You can give us a call anytime you'd like.
I'm gonna have a question for you in a little
bit that I want to have some perspective on.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
We have a lot of thoughts on this. We'll talk
about that in a little bit.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
But the number is eight hundred five to oh one
KFI eight hundred five two oh one five three four.
Or of course, you can find us on the iHeartRadio
app the talkback feature. You basically just open up the
iHeartRadio app, you go to the little microphone and you
can leave a message. It's really low stakes that way,
you don't have to have me talk back to you
if you just want to tell me something. And as always,
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you can find me on the internet at andy KTLA.
I might have to change that now andy ktlakfi seems
like too many letters. But hey, real quick, before we
get to some of the latest news here, I want
to say a shout out in memory of Dan Tanna,
who has just passed away. We found out about it
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yesterday at the ripe old age of ninety. But I
got to tell you, if you're going to go ninety,
ninety is a pretty good age to live to. Of course,
he is the proprietor. He opened his namesake restaurant in
West Hollywood, an iconic celebrity hangout. He opened Dantana's back
in nineteen sixty four and he was there all the
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way until two thousand and nine. But he was a
Serbian immigrant who came to America as a dishwasher and
he was making really no money, but he came here
and he had I guess he just had it because
he was taken acting lessons with a guy named Jeff Corey.
(07:06):
Students included Natalie Wood, Kim Novak, and Angie Dickerson. Dickinson
excuse me. He was a professional soccer player in Canada.
And then of course he opens up this iconic restaurant
that really, I think is one of the few places
that's still around in Los Angeles that sort of defines
classic LA food. You're talking Musso and Frank, you're talking Smokehouse,
(07:27):
You're talking Dan Tana's, Coles Philippe's Langers.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
You can't miss it.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
It's that perfect yellow bungalow on Santa Monica Boulevard, next
to Doug Weston's Troubadour. They've got the kiyanti hanging from
the ceiling. It's the classic red sauce Italian place. In
a statement the restaurant, let me pull it up. I
don't want to miss quote him said America was his
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dream to survive here when he first came, implemented his
income as a packer in the Starkist Tuna factory, got
a job washing dishes in Machelli's Pizza House, another classic
LA spot. Moved up to from waiter to Matre d
of a popular teen club called the Peppermint. West learned English,
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hung out with major movie stars, opened up Dan Tana's.
Of course, you might have seen Old Blue Eyes, Frank
Sinatra there, Marilyn Monroe, Joe DiMaggio, James Dan, Frank Sinatra,
Lauren Bacall, Sammy Davis, Junior Well. I guess James Dean
probably wasn't there. They opened in sixty four and he was.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Gone, long gone by then.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
But they basically are saying this man is a legend.
He created this whole genre of celebrity restaurant in Los Angeles.
It is something that I feel like is once that changes,
and certainly he sold it in two thousand and nine.
They have really kept up I think the original ethos
of that place. It still is every bit as good
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as it was. But you just don't have people like
that making things like that in Los Angeles anymore.
Speaker 8 (09:07):
So.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
Rest in peace to Dan Tanna, the namesake of of
course Dan Tana's Which.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
You Gotta go? You gotta go?
Speaker 3 (09:15):
I bet you people are going to go there this
whole weekend, probably paying their respects. They'd love to go
a tuck into a nice bowl of fetigini alfredo.
Speaker 5 (09:22):
You guys seing Andy, Oh yeah, yeah, it's really cool.
I like the mom and pop feel inside. You know,
it is iconic, and you know, here's something I learned
about it.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
They rejected the idea, as I guess was popular in
the sixties and seventies of executives being able to take
calls at their dinner tables. This was something I guess
that was happening the movers and shakers of Hollywood in
the seventies.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
That's what they were doing.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
And Dan Tanna said, Nope, we just wanted to be
a low key chill, hangout, a place to see and
be seen, but not too much.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Keep those lights low. All right.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
We've got so much more coming up, including Adam Shapiro,
who will be joining us in just a little bit.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Plus what is happening in Vegas? Have you been lately?
Has anybody here been to Vegas lately? I'm actually going
on in like two weeks. Are you gonna go see
the Boys? No, I'm gonna.
Speaker 5 (10:11):
Ashley Simpson and then I'm gonna go catch Chelsea Handler
at the Cosmo.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Well, you'll have a great time.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Yeah, it's a little different than it was maybe the
last time you've been.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
We'll get into that very close before.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
I am Andy Reesmeyer of said Andy Reesmeyer Show. Don't
worry first show. Nobody's filling in for me yet. Although
the night is still young, we still have got about
an hour and forty minutes of program left here on
this Sunday afternoon. Wanted to say a huge shout out
to mister Tim Conway Junior, mister mo Kelly. They have
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raised so much money to help one of the KFI
family members, Stefan the Foush Steffouje. Of course, he was
in a as you might remember, a pretty horrific act
accident on the one to five freeway a couple weeks
ago now, and nobody knew where he was. He was
just he didn't show up for work, didn't call, and
(11:08):
they were really worried about him, and some good Samaritans
pulled him out of this prius that had flipped over
a couple times and eventually caught on fire, and he
was injured, and everybody stepped up here. They have raised
more than one hundred and thirteen thousand dollars for the FOOSH.
How incredible is that? I mean, that's you, guys. This
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is an unusual place. It is an exceptionable place where
people stand up for people who they care about, who
they love, and they do good things like that. So
you can still if you'd like to donate to the GoFundMe.
It's basically to help him recover. He's had three surgeries
already at UCLA, and I believe he's still going to
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undergo a fourth, maybe next week. But he's got a
lot of injuries to his arm. And I know that
everybody who is called in, everybody who has written in
the Fush has read those messages and he's listened to
him and we've heard him talk about it on Conway.
Just so appreciative and I'd love it when you see
people all standing up, getting together to do something good
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for somebody who really deserves it. So one hundred and
thirteen thousand dollars keep it going for the foods.
Speaker 6 (12:21):
Great to hear that he's a good guy, he deserves it.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
Isn't that support.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
It's unbelievable And I know that, you know he's been
here for a while and this is, like we said,
it's a small little industry. It's a small place, and
you know, it just really wonderful to see everybody stepping
up and trying to make that make that situation that's
so difficult just a little bit more bearable for him there.
So he also thanked those heroes that saved his life.
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I think that I think Pete from KTLA, one of
the Executi producers over there. KTLA was able to help
identify the good smaritans who stepped up there and last
week you might have seen they were here at this
to meet Fush's parents. So Steph Fusche, very good, all right,
(13:07):
this is something interesting. You know, when you think about
things that are happening all over Los Angeles, you think
about infestations, you maybe think of a cockroach, perhaps a scorpion.
You guys, ever seen a scorpion out there in LA
maybe the desert?
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Oh yeah, you see, I mean from Texas. I bet
you see.
Speaker 6 (13:26):
Some scorpions over in Sherman Oaks.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
You see some scorpions in Sherman Oaks.
Speaker 6 (13:30):
Yeah, oh yeah, up in the hills.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
Okay, well this this doesn't affect me then, because I'm
in the flats, I can't the scorp If I knew
there were scorpion sightings, I've got a lizard every now
and then, maybe a cockroach.
Speaker 6 (13:43):
They come out when there's construction going on.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Okay, well this is a new one down in South Central.
Take a listen, fish Stage.
Speaker 9 (13:52):
I would call it a cat like some type of
zombie thing that's going on. Dennis Gary says when nightfalls
an it's Los Angeles neighborhood. It's like a straight cat
zombie apocalypse. Then it says he's witnessed up bridge of
one hundred cats prowling the neighborhood. I scatter people that
was walking around.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Something is wrong.
Speaker 9 (14:11):
We saw animal services in the area knocking on doors
investigating the problem. A resident fed up with cats invading
the community sent I with its news pictures of the
kiddies out and about. Then it says, sometimes late at night,
it's as if the cats literally knock on his door.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
This is the greatest news writing of all time. It's
as if the cats literally knock on his door. Zombie
cats are invading south central Los Angeles.
Speaker 9 (14:41):
It's one o'clock in the morning. I'm here in Scratch
and I'm wondering what is this. So I'll open the
door and the cats just scattered like roaches. It's a
nuisance because they run around through the neighborhood and behind
your house and everything. Residents complained someone in the neighborhood
has been overfeeding the cats, attracting them to the area.
We talked to this person wanted her identities shielded.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
That's serious.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
That is a serious situation where you don't even want
to go on record for Eyewitness News for Leo Stalwart.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
You don't want to tell Leo.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
You don't want to reveal your identity because of what
you think you might be giving out information wise about
these zombie cats.
Speaker 9 (15:22):
She says over the last several months, the cats have
multiplied to the degree she can't even enjoy a cool
night on her porch.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
This is a this is a horrible wild reality. It
come out in droves and it's awful. It's really awful.
Speaker 8 (15:38):
We can't enjoy our retirement, we can't sit on our porch.
Speaker 9 (15:43):
Residents say what they call a cat infestation. It's only
one part of the problem, they say. The other problem
of the problem is the cats are drawing in coyotes.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
No no, no, oh no, and of course they're there
to be friends with the cats.
Speaker 9 (16:04):
Cat remains in a residence yard. This the result of
a coyote attack which the residents surveillance cameras recorded. She
shared the graphic video with ian This News. She says,
neighbors have spotted coyotes rolling the neighborhood in packs, looking
to dine on a buffet of cats.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
I understand there's some people out there, maybe who are
in journalism school. I hope they're out there. We need
people in journalism school becoming better journalists. This is the
kind of writing that everybody should strive for.
Speaker 9 (16:36):
In packs looking to dine on a buffet of cats.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
On real soy travel in pairs.
Speaker 6 (16:41):
Now, Yeah, so people who do have animals are keeping
them indoors.
Speaker 9 (16:48):
LA Animals Services is an investigating.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
I guess so. Leo Stalworth there from MABC seven. That
is an incredible story and it sounds really awful. And
I think maybe you don't realize when you're eating those cats,
they're gonna keep coming back, and they're gonna tell their
other cat friends. They're gonna call their cat friends in
Long Beach and in Rancho Cucamonga and in Valley Village
and maybe out in Westlake Village.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
Get on the dash bus, head on down.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
We've got we've got a whole zombie apocalypse in Inglewood.
Amazing writing there by Leo Stalworth, and I'll say this
before we go. He reminds me of the kind of
journalists that you don't have a lot of anymore. Where
there's just a smoothness to the pros and it's not silly,
it's very serious. It's delivered very tongue, you know, every
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tongue in cheek maybe, but like seriously done. And you
know who else is so good at this, Rick Chambers,
that guy just got it, just knows what's up. Also
real quick before we go to break. I have I
have a bone to pick with the San Francisco Gate.
There's some people who are out there saying it's okay
to say Cali for California. If you think that it's
(18:02):
okay to use the word Cali and you're not ll COOLJA,
who's heading back to Cali Cali? I would like to
hear from you one in hundred five to oh one
four one five three four, rather one in hundred five
to two zero one KFI one in hundred five to
two O one five three four let us know if
you abbreviate California with Cali. I think it makes you
(18:24):
sound like you're not from here. But some people are
saying that I'm wrong, So I would like to hear
from anybody who has an opinion one way or the other.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand the first?
Speaker 2 (18:37):
Did you know it was the first? I knew it
was the first when I saw your Instagram.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
I see, but before when you agreed to come on
the show, did you know that you were going to
be the first.
Speaker 8 (18:45):
I just say yes, I don't read it.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
I'm in studio with the one and only Adam Shapiro,
What's up of Shabby Pretzels? And also an actor in
The Bear. The show, right one of the biggest. I
haven't seen an episode, but I hear people like it.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
You should check it out. Check it out.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
You're incredible in it, and I love that your character
really started sort of as this guy who we only
saw a little bit. It's just a taste, and then
he was the entre uh huh, which is such a
fun thing to sort of develop this character from the
from not did you know when you first started that
it was gonna be no?
Speaker 2 (19:22):
Okay, I you know, first of.
Speaker 8 (19:24):
All, there wasn't really an audition for it, and I
just got a call, which is so rare for me
for everything things I probably should know. I held you
for everything, and so now I just get a phone call,
and I was kind of freaking out because I love
The Bear.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
Yeah, everybody was easing, and so I go in there
and I just did one episode and it was great.
Speaker 8 (19:44):
It was super fun, totally and at the end, I
said to Chris Storr, who's the creator of this show,
I'm like, Chris, I you know, I never just get
calls out of the thank you, So this one a
great day on set, this has been and he's like, well,
we're just like so obsessed with the whole pretzel thing.
We had to get youang, so wait, wait, oh wait,
I'm here because the shaffy pretzelsas has nothing to do
(20:04):
with like the twenty five years of acting stuff I've
been doing.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
No, are you lucky that you do? You like that
this thing that's started in the pandemic. Yeah, you were
just making pretzels at home, Philadelphia style soft pretzels. You
posted about it, I guess on on your Instagram. And
now you have an actual business. You're catering the Oscar.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (20:24):
Like it's crazy and it keeps opening all these doors
that have nothing to do with selling pretzels.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
But it's not like a golden handcuff situation. No, I
love it. I love it so much.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
Well, you've always been so enthusiastic. And I will say this,
and I hope you're not embarrassed by this, but it's like,
in my mind, anything that you do, you're gonna just
do it and it's gonna happen and people are gonna
be like, yeah, of course, because you approach it with
so much enthusiasm.
Speaker 8 (20:47):
Yeah, that's a summer camp counselor. That's camp counselor. Adam Shaffy.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
Oh yeah, So how is the pretzel business these days?
Because Holly, yeah, Hollywood, not so much. You know, pretzels.
Speaker 8 (20:58):
Thank God for the pretzels, right, because we've since I
started the pretzel company came it's really a crisis pretzel company.
This is what we do, that's right, right, So in
the pandemic, work boom, ultimate recession dedicators. Yeah, we're just
going on the street and selling the pretzels. And then
the strike happens for a year. All right, let's go
to the picket lines and pass out pretzels. And now
(21:19):
we're in the what are they calling in Hollywood?
Speaker 2 (21:21):
The we were surviving till twenty five and now we're
just kind of, yeah, survived to twenty five. We're housing
five and now we're saying they're.
Speaker 8 (21:28):
Saying it's a contract. The business is contracting, and so
this is the contraction. I guess we're feeling that and
we're making a lot of pretzels. There you go, but
you're why, you know, we will get Let me. Let
me just sort of set the stage here, the stage
for the listeners.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
Adam has been. I have known you publicly, personally professionally for.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
The same exact amount of time because we met on air.
We met on air. That's exactly right.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
The only way I know you're missing if I saw
you in private, I would just ignore you at walk
I don't know what to say. No, but we met
in twenty fifteen. I think when you came and did
a show called All Systems Go. And I've told you
this before, that was the first time you came. You
had such good energy that I was like, oh, I'm
comfortable now as a host. I feel like and so
I was joking about this earlier, but it's not really
a joke now. Every project I do, I'm just gonna
(22:15):
call you up immediately for the first time.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
So iet it over the hump, comfortable, that's right, I'm
like the pilot. That's well.
Speaker 8 (22:21):
I'll say that was my ASG All Systems PlayStation Go View.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
It went Twiitty Sweet Gone twivvy.
Speaker 8 (22:33):
It is funny when I look back at some things
and I say the name of what it was on,
and everyone's just like, yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
No, one would have no. PlayStation View was a but
that was my first interview. No, it wasn't. I don't
think I had ever done an interview before that.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
Well, you're just such an automatic person. I feel like
it must have just it was. It was kismet.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
It was so much fun.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
But you have have worked so much and you it
has been so awesome watching you really develop, not only
as as an actor as a person. You have a
family now, You've got Cather, fuzzy father, doting. I want
to ask, though, you know, because I think that this
is this is something that people obviously know about you
as well. It's like, you know, you you have a
(23:13):
very famous better half. Of course, I'm referring to your
messenger bag. Yes, that you also up here with.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
In in every in every single character.
Speaker 8 (23:21):
You know, you're you're You've been such a champion and
and and a supporter of.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
The bag, like the weird anomaly, you know what I mean.
Speaker 8 (23:29):
Just I I got so well, let me explain the
messenger back situation for those who don't know, and I
don't know if there's a lot of people that don't
know what this is.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
It's kind of part and parcel with you and the pretzel.
Speaker 8 (23:39):
Yeah, I mean, it's all it's it's uh. At this point,
it's synonymous with my own my own being. But somebody, well,
I posted a video from a movie on Instagram that
I was in and somebody commented, do you ever act
without a messenger back? And I just saw that comment.
I was like, Wow, what a weird comment, what a
what a strange thing to say. And I kind of
slept on it. And then I start looking back at
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twenty years of footage and I swear at every single
time I step onto a set somebody puts a messenger bag.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
On, it's something about it, and it's the props department.
It's just like, oh, this guy should have a bag.
And he's he's moving around, he's living in the city.
Speaker 8 (24:16):
You know, he's put stuff in the bag, take stuff
out of the bag.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 8 (24:21):
This guy?
Speaker 3 (24:21):
What's always good to have business, right, have a thing
to do. So I like, what do I do with
my hands?
Speaker 2 (24:25):
I like it.
Speaker 8 (24:26):
Sound department doesn't like it because if you wear it
crossbody as I like to do, that's right over the mic,
then they have to adjust it.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
I will post that on my on my Instagram at
Andy KTLA. But you made us at KTLA messenger bag.
Messenger bags.
Speaker 8 (24:41):
You guys got like one of a kind, shabby Pretzel
KTLA crossover Messenger.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
I'll tell you what, Thank god I got this radio
show because if things kept going the way they were going,
I was gonna have to start selling that.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
I was gonna put that up on you bag.
Speaker 8 (24:55):
Yeah, I've heard some of them are going for upwards
to ten to fifteen ten or fifteen dollars huge with
the strap. Yes, but yeah, no, I now I have
a Messenger back sponsor.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
I mean very shout out shit. That's not just some
random old to make bikes.
Speaker 8 (25:11):
And now they make really really good, nice nice, nice leather,
nice leather look at us messenger bag. And I've never
had my own Messenger back. I've worn them in every
role I've ever done. I snuck one into season four
The Bear, of Course, and into season three as well.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
There's a scene in season three where I'm wearing a
Messenger bag.
Speaker 8 (25:28):
Well, I you know, season four, it was completely unnecessary.
Just I'm talking to Sydney about this thing I'm working on,
and then I want to show her the papers. And
then I say to the director, what if I pulled
the papers out of a Messenger back. She's like, well,
I mean, you guys have been sitting here for a while,
like and I was like, yeah, but maybe like going
to my office and like so they.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
Had to do a whole nother setup so they had
to relight it.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
Oh my god, like we were going to be wrapped
at the end of this day, and now you just
did this.
Speaker 8 (25:53):
I actually got I the messenger bag has never really
gotten in the way of any sort of filming.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
Which you have to say, now, yeah, I have to.
Speaker 8 (26:00):
But I just did an episode of Lincoln Lawyer, which
will come out next season.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
Love it Lincoln Lawyer, big fan, huge, huge show. So
I'm on the stand. I don't know that is really
a spoiler, but.
Speaker 8 (26:15):
The messenger bag ended up in a scene and I
was like, oh great, and this is we're gonna put
the bag there so we can get oh thank you.
So they know now, yeah, everybody's in a pops department
that was about the bag.
Speaker 3 (26:27):
I want to see you maybe as like a like
an astronaut on the moon and.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
They're like, you got to get the bag man, you're
a cop.
Speaker 8 (26:35):
Well the uh they have a lawyer who's sort of
like the like a consultant. Set of the Lincoln Lawyer
and he comes running on after we had shot the
whole first setup and was like he would never have
that bag there on that desk like that.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
And they fired that guy there like we don't care anymore.
It's about the bag. We had to remove the bag
and reshoot that.
Speaker 8 (26:56):
Well, I'll tell you what, can you stick around for
the next We're gonna take a quick.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
Break here, but I'm sticking around all that. All right,
that's very good.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
You're listening to KFI AM six on demand by Andy Resmire.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
This is the Andy Reesmier Show.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
Yeah, you know, we were talking also about the The
three on three is a big thing now, Big three
watch it.
Speaker 8 (27:14):
I like being in the studio and seeing all the
games on This is like better than a sports bar.
Speaker 3 (27:18):
It's kind of like a sports bar. And but any
drinking that's happening here is in secret.
Speaker 8 (27:24):
Yes, you have to just like put it in put
it in your water, put it in water like I have.
That's a very right Icelandic. But we should we shouldn't
meet up here sometimes and want maybe Sunday morning to
watch football. They wouldn't mind, right, No, you're gonna be
here during football season during football.
Speaker 3 (27:40):
I am, but you know we're gonna be preempt at
a lot for those Chargers games because KFI is the
broadcast charge chargers who yesterday didn't do too well.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
No, they just instead of just running out the clock taking.
Speaker 8 (27:49):
That they did it what they did what chargers do,
which is just charge charge, charge ahead.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
That's right. Interception.
Speaker 8 (27:56):
Do you as a Philly as an Eagles fans, you
big Philly guy.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
Well you are, though, I mean I think it's kind
of part of in the same way.
Speaker 8 (28:06):
The pretzels, right, It definitely bleeds into the acting absolutely.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
Although your accent you don't do a lot of wooter
now I don't.
Speaker 8 (28:12):
I don't hear a lot of parents from the South,
So I didn't grow up with like the Philly accent
in my house.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
But when you go to my friend's houses in Philly
and you talk to their parents.
Speaker 10 (28:21):
Like okay, Adam's here, you get yeah, I'm sure would
you what were we watching when you were on here?
You were on here with these two kids, you know,
those two kids who won't work at that store.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
Oh sweet life of Zach and sweet life you're.
Speaker 8 (28:35):
Talking about years ago, years ago that that kid is
like thirty. Now you have had a really incredible career.
And like I said, I'm not in I don't mean that.
I don't mean that as a joke about your wife.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
Katie. Also, Uh, it's her moment right now.
Speaker 8 (28:49):
Oh she's back, Baby wives shouts all my hunting husbands
across the country.
Speaker 3 (28:56):
Uh, are the guys who are their their wives are
in the show.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Yeah, it's a pretty small group four of us. Well
they all listen.
Speaker 8 (29:04):
Yeah, they're listening right now, and they're not really across
the country pretty much.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
I think all of them are tids of this studio.
Speaker 8 (29:11):
Shout out to those guys, because there is no Hunting Wives,
you know, without without us holding down the ford at
home while they're off Gallivant Charlotte shooting that show.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
I love it. We can figure out a way to
make it a better hunting lines.
Speaker 8 (29:25):
Well, you gotta like jump on what's trending, they said,
told me it was like, you need to do more
trending thing.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
Do you chat Chip you're consulting with the chat Yeah,
I said, I said what what I said to Chappi gipt?
I said what should I be doing? You said it
in that Yeah, you asked what should I be doing?
What should I be doing? What should I be doing?
And it said more trending, more trending, just more trending stuff.
Speaker 8 (29:46):
So I've been tying myself to the Hunting was No,
it's a big deal, Like that thing went on Netflix
and we didn't know if people were gonna know it
was even on the there. We didn't know if the
algorithm was going to show it to people. It wasn't
even made for Netflix, it was made for stars. Really, yeah,
Oh that's wild.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
What I think is.
Speaker 3 (30:03):
Remarkable about that show is that obviously it takes some
specific povs on people in culture.
Speaker 8 (30:11):
And it seems to have resonated with all of the coin.
It seems likely even if it is like the dice, Yeah, sure,
we're playing four dimensional chess here.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
Yeah, but yeah, it does.
Speaker 3 (30:22):
It seems like people who maybe would feel like traditionally
they would be against it or watching it saying like, no,
you got to see this thing.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
It's pretty good.
Speaker 8 (30:27):
Everybody seems to process the Hunting Wives through their own
lens that they're watching, right, you know what I mean?
Like some people watch it because they just want a fun, sexy, salacious,
scandalous kind of show and they love that part of it.
And some people think it's like hilarious, and some people
think it's a great drama, and you know, I mean
(30:48):
it's it's just whatever you're looking for, you seem to
be able to see it. In The Hunting Wives, it's
been amazing to watch ye and.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
Kat is so good. She's so good, She's going so
good everywhere.
Speaker 3 (30:58):
And I got to say that the two of you
took together are almost like sickening because you're so sweet,
You're so nice, and every single time I see you,
I'm like, there's got to be something.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
You guys got it.
Speaker 3 (31:06):
Like I bet when the door shuts on the on
the Lincoln Navigator uber, when you guys leave the set
or whatever.
Speaker 8 (31:11):
It's just it's just it's the minivan. We have a
Kia Carnival. Oh wow, I don't even know if they
pronounce it Carnival. Well Ki, now they do the Kia
Carnival minivan.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
You've got that.
Speaker 8 (31:22):
And yeah, once those doors closed, we just physically just
scream at each other all day.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
But you guys are great.
Speaker 3 (31:27):
And Katie was on KTLA on Friday, she was there
a couple yesterday. Great energy, and I think, you know,
you've both worked so much and you have your fingers
sort of in a lot of different things, especially as
who talked about with the sponsorships with the shinola and
the pretzels.
Speaker 8 (31:43):
But you know, do you think the company that we've
raised that's right nineteen years old now, I mean crazy.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
I don't know that.
Speaker 3 (31:50):
There's a lot of other actors that I know who
are as entrepreneurial.
Speaker 8 (31:56):
Oh I think. I don't know because I feel like
they have to be. But I feel like I just
sort of.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
Yess, I am considering.
Speaker 8 (32:03):
There's two companies that I started, but I don't feel
that that way. I don't like think about like business site.
Yeah you're because you're just I just sort of.
Speaker 2 (32:11):
Get excited about stuff and then I don't know, and
then I and then I just sort of can't stop.
I'm like obsessed.
Speaker 8 (32:17):
Yeah, well that's good. Employ I started making those pretzels.
They weren't good, and then I started like, oh, I know,
I can't stop now. I know I didn't like learn
how to make a good stuft pretzel, and then bam, right,
are very good now they're very delicious now. And if
you ever get to see them out in the world now,
because I just go to Canters and pick them up
any day a week. You could go to Canners. Yeah,
(32:38):
just order them on shabby pretzel dot com day day before,
give yourself a little pickup time.
Speaker 2 (32:44):
They'll be sitting there at Canners.
Speaker 3 (32:46):
And now, because I know you were doing a peanut
butter situation, you were doing like a little spread.
Speaker 8 (32:49):
Oh yeah, we have a mustard. We have mustard, we
have we have it. This is the greatest thing I
have ever come up with in my life. This is
a two sided mustard packet. Do you ever like get
those little tiny bs mustard package every day and you
know you rip the corner off and then you completely
empty out that mustard packet and it hasn't even covered
(33:10):
maybe half the pretzel.
Speaker 2 (33:11):
This is the number one thing that bothers me about
eating mustard.
Speaker 8 (33:15):
Yeah, I'm like, no more, not a shappy pretzel, not
in my name.
Speaker 2 (33:21):
So we made a basically it's four.
Speaker 8 (33:24):
Times the size of a regular mustard packet and on
one side it's yellow mustard and on the other side,
divided is spicy brown. Well, this is a true revolution.
This is huge in snacking. People go, well, I don't
want this spicy brown. I say, you know what, don't
worry about it because it's coming with your yellow and
now you get to try it.
Speaker 2 (33:42):
That's right, and you can share. Those pretzels are big
enough that you really shouldn't.
Speaker 8 (33:46):
You only need one side of the packet to cover
one shappy pretzel, which.
Speaker 2 (33:50):
Is just genius, you know.
Speaker 3 (33:51):
So you figured it out, got it down to a science.
What is next for you? Do you want to act more?
Do you want to direct?
Speaker 2 (33:56):
Do you want to Where's are you offering me? Either
of those things?
Speaker 8 (34:00):
Have a line to Ted Saranda, because you could have
said literally anything, and I would have said, yes, that's
what I.
Speaker 2 (34:04):
Want to do.
Speaker 8 (34:05):
Yeah, well, if it was an offer, I just I
love acting so much I do. The directors have to
be on set all day, and to be honest, I
like being at craft service occasionally. Yea, yeah, I spend
a lot of time at crafty. I love snacking. I
love snack.
Speaker 2 (34:23):
I think you like to yuck it up and I
like to yuck.
Speaker 3 (34:25):
It up and everybody and I never now they don't
yuck it up.
Speaker 2 (34:29):
They're not over. They got a lot of pressure, especially
these days.
Speaker 8 (34:31):
Yeah, So I guess if I could get a directing job,
I would take it. As long as you do always
since you were a kid, it was like acting. No really,
I kind of wanted to work in DC. I went
to University Maryland to study politics, get out of town. Yeah,
and then it turns out just I think, I just
like the speech giving. I was gonna say, this is
like cross offering or not line right acting?
Speaker 2 (34:55):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 8 (34:56):
Like the acting? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I like
your acting part of politics. And a lot of politicians
I've noticed are are pretty good at acting. Well I
don't know what is acting all the time, but I
was like, and then I started doing a little sketch
comedy in college. You know how these comedy groups pop
up in you on campus. And I started doing that
(35:17):
and they're like, you should do this. It was either
that or acapella. Yeah, and my acaba wasn't that great?
Speaker 2 (35:21):
Right? Do you want to do a little little lochabello
as we go to break? Perhaps?
Speaker 8 (35:25):
Yeah, we should send it. That's actually not that was good.
Speaker 2 (35:31):
Because even No Times got a rough you never too
knew it. That was a.
Speaker 8 (35:36):
H the original Backstreet Boys, Yeah, dude, A lot of
talk about BSB thes did a.
Speaker 2 (35:41):
Lot of talk about are you gonna go see you
going to Vegas? Are you checking it out? Yeah? Probably
go to Vegas. Check it out. It's really great.
Speaker 8 (35:47):
My good friend Jared Paul is a big time, big
shot music manager and he represents Backstreet Boys. Yeah oh okay,
well then, and he was the one who sort of
like put together these giant tours like ten years ago
when people were like a lot of the other record.
Speaker 2 (36:01):
Companies and studios and people.
Speaker 8 (36:03):
Were like, I don't know if we don't buy tickets
to see Backstreet again or what was one with nick.
Speaker 2 (36:10):
La the Yeah, yeah, yeah, you know, ninety degrees.
Speaker 8 (36:14):
And Jared's like, no, we need to put a tour together.
Boys demand Paula Abdul Backstreet Boys ninety degrees. And these
tours went crazy because now the original fans are at
least they can afford to go.
Speaker 2 (36:28):
To see that.
Speaker 8 (36:29):
The new kids he also reps New Kids. New Kids
tour is like one of the biggest tours in the bild.
I mean, I got crazy. They do a cruise, Well, unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (36:37):
That's yeah, that's that's a that's a that's a captive audience.
We should do a cruise. Let's do it.
Speaker 8 (36:41):
You and me do a cruse radio show. Okay, No,
it's like the theme of the cruise is US. So yeah, yeah,
you all different things. There could be a bear segment
where we cook with everybody on Total News and they eat.
It's gonna be my four friends, your friends will do back,
of course, and then we'll get all the hunting husbands
right there.
Speaker 2 (37:02):
This is gonna be great.
Speaker 3 (37:03):
I can't see how this will be a financial disaster
in any post.
Speaker 8 (37:06):
Maybe we start with like a riverboat cruise where you
only need like one hundred and that's better.
Speaker 2 (37:10):
Yeah, that's good. Like one of those of these.
Speaker 8 (37:12):
Carnivals that gets stuck out there in the water and
everybody's pooping everywhere.
Speaker 3 (37:17):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I don't think my break. I'm not
trying to go all one of that. My brand can't
handle that kind of contin No. Well, Adam, you're the best.
Thank you so much for being here.
Speaker 2 (37:27):
Yeah, I'm not leaving. Okay, right. Where can people find
you on the on the internet?
Speaker 8 (37:30):
Shappy Shaps on Instagram, I just post all day, I
post fun things. If you follow Shappy Shaps on Instagram
and Shappy Pretzel on Instagram, I could guarantee you're not
going to regret it.
Speaker 3 (37:42):
That is such a good pitch, and I agree wholehearted,
you know what I mean, Like it's you're never gonna
think You're doing a lot of really good, groundbreaking stuff
that I haven't seen so far in the pretzel the
independent pretzel industry, the pretzel world.
Speaker 8 (37:55):
Has never seen an Instagram like Shappy Pretzel. We're the
most followed pretzel company on the planet, even more than
like Antie Ann's and Wetzels, which anti who no no,
no shade at Wetzels. Like if I'm at a Lakers game,
I'm getting the Wetzels nine times out of nine times.
Speaker 3 (38:12):
Okay, I disrepair everybody. Thank you for being here, Please
come back very soon.
Speaker 2 (38:15):
Anty. Congratulations on your inaugural show. And we should make
this the thing. I'll stop by every week.
Speaker 1 (38:23):
Why not, kf I am six forty on demand.
You're listening to KFI Am six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
I'm Andy Reesmeier.
Speaker 3 (00:06):
Welcome to the first official edition of the Andy Reesmeyer Show.
I have to say it's the first official edition because
technically I did a show called The Andy Reesmeyer Show
pretty much for myself by myself, back when I was
in high school, like twenty years ago. You might know
me from KTLA Channel five, where I work on the
(00:27):
morning news there doing fun trending stuff and do my
best to make Frank Buckley laugh. I do an okay
job of that, but really thankful to the good people
here at iHeart at KFI who have allowed me to
take over the airwaves from two to four pm on
Sunday every Sunday from now until the end of time.
(00:49):
Here's the thing I will say this fall and I'm
not mad about this. This is a good sort of
slow entry into the experience here of doing radio. There's
a lot of Chargers games, so I'll probably be preempted.
You won't hear me every Sunday. I think their first
bye week is maybe November. They've got twelve weeks of football,
(01:11):
so you'll hear me time and time again while I can.
I'll be here, very very very grateful to be here.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
I love radio. I love KFI.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
I've been listening to KFI since I moved to Los
Angeles about fifteen years ago. I was homesick for some
talk radio. I grew up listening to talk radio back
in Indiana, listening to WIBC. My aunt was on the
radio in Chicago WMAQ, and that's where I learned how
to say the letter W. They don't do that a
lot out here. You know, everything starts with a K.
(01:40):
East of the Mississippi River. West of the Mississippi River.
I'm still working on directions. This is why I don't
do weather anymore either. So I always wanted to have
that community. And I remember tune in one evening to
hit the scan button on my old car. When I
first moved to LA and I found Conway. I found
(02:01):
the Conway Show in the evening and CAFEI and I
believe there was a couple. I think Aaron Bender was
on with him. It was a long time ago, fifteen
years ago or so, and I heard him and I thought,
these guys, this is it, this is what I was missing.
So I've listened pretty much every day since I moved
out here Conway always in the afternoon, Gary and Shannon.
(02:21):
I'm busy during Handle. I'm at work during Handle, but
I hear people like him. So anyway, I'm happy to
be here and I'm doing this and it's exciting. I
did a little bit of fill in not too long ago,
and you know, so, I'm just very grateful to be
able to be here. On the show, You're going to
hear from some of my friends, some of my favorite
(02:44):
people in Los Angeles. We're going to talk to chefs,
We're going to talk to restaurant tours, comedians, musicians, basically
anybody and everybody.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
You know.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
They just said, hey, just whatever.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
You want to do, just don't get us in trouble,
don't get us fired, don't get me fired, don't get
the radio station fined. And that's it. That's pretty much
the barrier to entry here, which is exciting. We also
today are we're gonna We're gonna deliver on that promise.
We're gonna talk about some news here in Los Angeles.
What happened this week, what's happening in the upcoming week.
(03:17):
Plus Adam Shapiro, the actor, the entrepreneur, you know him
from The Bear and many other roles in TV and movies.
He will join us live at around two thirty and
if you've been watching his career lately, which we have,
just on onto the stratosphere, out of this world. Very
(03:37):
funny guy. He's sort of a lucky charm for me.
I first did a talk show way back for the
PlayStation app back in twenty fifteen or something like that
called All Systems Go, and he was the first guest
that I ever had where I felt.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Like I was finally comfortable doing it.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
So now every time I start a job, I try
to have Adam Shapiro in so that I can just
get over that hump and just get right to feeling good.
We also want to say hello to our wonderful team
here on the Ones and Twos.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
We've got Robin.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
What's up, Robin? And we've also got Richie on the
Ones and Twos? Are you sharing?
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Do you do?
Speaker 5 (04:13):
One of you does the ones, the other does the twos.
She does the ones, I did the twos.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
That's right, And Eileen Gonzalez hold it down in the
news news department.
Speaker 6 (04:23):
Hey, good to have you here. Andy.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
I'm so thankful to be here. I know Eileen you've
also a veteran of television.
Speaker 6 (04:29):
Yep, many many years, decades.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
We were mostly down in Texas, right, San Antonio.
Speaker 7 (04:36):
Mostly Texas, San Antonio, Dallas, Austin, Corpus CHRISTI did a
small stint here in La yourbskkel.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Right, right, two and nine. Yeah, we're fans of all
of them, you know.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
I mean, just because I go to work at KTLA
every day doesn't mean I mean, I think, especially nowadays,
there's a nice camaraderie with everybody all in news because
there's so few of us left anymore, sadly.
Speaker 7 (04:56):
Yep, wow, and it's it's a tough business. So we
all get to commiserate there.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
You go, How do you like being in radio? Because
I gotta.
Speaker 6 (05:03):
Tell you, loving radio. I don't have to wear makeup,
I don't have to get dressed up.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Yeah it's awesome.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
I don't have to wear makeup. But I put on
extra makeup when I came in here today.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
It looks good, red on you, thank you. The little blush,
a little rouge looks good. You can use a little bronzer.
Do you think you would come in to bronze me
during the makeup or during the break? Okay, thank you. Hey, well,
I'm so happy to be here with you.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Guys.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Please be a part of the show, and you can
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I'm gonna have a question for you in a little
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We have a lot of thoughts on this. We'll talk
about that in a little bit.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
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can leave a message. It's really low stakes that way,
you don't have to have me talk back to you
if you just want to tell me something. And as always,
(06:00):
you can find me on the internet at andy KTLA.
I might have to change that now andy ktlakfi seems
like too many letters. But hey, real quick, before we
get to some of the latest news here, I want
to say a shout out in memory of Dan Tanna,
who has just passed away. We found out about it
(06:21):
yesterday at the ripe old age of ninety. But I
got to tell you, if you're going to go ninety,
ninety is a pretty good age to live to. Of course,
he is the proprietor. He opened his namesake restaurant in
West Hollywood, an iconic celebrity hangout. He opened Dantana's back
in nineteen sixty four and he was there all the
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way until two thousand and nine. But he was a
Serbian immigrant who came to America as a dishwasher and
he was making really no money, but he came here
and he had I guess he just had it because
he was taken acting lessons with a guy named Jeff Corey.
(07:06):
Students included Natalie Wood, Kim Novak, and Angie Dickerson. Dickinson
excuse me. He was a professional soccer player in Canada.
And then of course he opens up this iconic restaurant
that really, I think is one of the few places
that's still around in Los Angeles that sort of defines
classic LA food. You're talking Musso and Frank, you're talking Smokehouse,
(07:27):
You're talking Dan Tana's, Coles Philippe's Langers.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
You can't miss it.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
It's that perfect yellow bungalow on Santa Monica Boulevard, next
to Doug Weston's Troubadour. They've got the kiyanti hanging from
the ceiling. It's the classic red sauce Italian place. In
a statement the restaurant, let me pull it up. I
don't want to miss quote him said America was his
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dream to survive here when he first came, implemented his
income as a packer in the Starkist Tuna factory, got
a job washing dishes in Machelli's Pizza House, another classic
LA spot. Moved up to from waiter to Matre d
of a popular teen club called the Peppermint. West learned English,
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hung out with major movie stars, opened up Dan Tana's.
Of course, you might have seen Old Blue Eyes, Frank
Sinatra there, Marilyn Monroe, Joe DiMaggio, James Dan, Frank Sinatra,
Lauren Bacall, Sammy Davis, Junior Well. I guess James Dean
probably wasn't there. They opened in sixty four and he was.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Gone, long gone by then.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
But they basically are saying this man is a legend.
He created this whole genre of celebrity restaurant in Los Angeles.
It is something that I feel like is once that changes,
and certainly he sold it in two thousand and nine.
They have really kept up I think the original ethos
of that place. It still is every bit as good
(08:58):
as it was. But you just don't have people like
that making things like that in Los Angeles anymore.
Speaker 8 (09:07):
So.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
Rest in peace to Dan Tanna, the namesake of of
course Dan Tana's Which.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
You Gotta go? You gotta go?
Speaker 3 (09:15):
I bet you people are going to go there this
whole weekend, probably paying their respects. They'd love to go
a tuck into a nice bowl of fetigini alfredo.
Speaker 5 (09:22):
You guys seing Andy, Oh yeah, yeah, it's really cool.
I like the mom and pop feel inside. You know,
it is iconic, and you know, here's something I learned
about it.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
They rejected the idea, as I guess was popular in
the sixties and seventies of executives being able to take
calls at their dinner tables. This was something I guess
that was happening the movers and shakers of Hollywood in
the seventies.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
That's what they were doing.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
And Dan Tanna said, Nope, we just wanted to be
a low key chill, hangout, a place to see and
be seen, but not too much.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Keep those lights low. All right.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
We've got so much more coming up, including Adam Shapiro,
who will be joining us in just a little bit.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Plus what is happening in Vegas? Have you been lately?
Has anybody here been to Vegas lately? I'm actually going
on in like two weeks. Are you gonna go see
the Boys? No, I'm gonna.
Speaker 5 (10:11):
Ashley Simpson and then I'm gonna go catch Chelsea Handler
at the Cosmo.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Well, you'll have a great time.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Yeah, it's a little different than it was maybe the
last time you've been.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
We'll get into that very close before.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
I am Andy Reesmeyer of said Andy Reesmeyer Show. Don't
worry first show. Nobody's filling in for me yet. Although
the night is still young, we still have got about
an hour and forty minutes of program left here on
this Sunday afternoon. Wanted to say a huge shout out
to mister Tim Conway Junior, mister mo Kelly. They have
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raised so much money to help one of the KFI
family members, Stefan the Foush Steffouje. Of course, he was
in a as you might remember, a pretty horrific act
accident on the one to five freeway a couple weeks
ago now, and nobody knew where he was. He was
just he didn't show up for work, didn't call, and
(11:08):
they were really worried about him, and some good Samaritans
pulled him out of this prius that had flipped over
a couple times and eventually caught on fire, and he
was injured, and everybody stepped up here. They have raised
more than one hundred and thirteen thousand dollars for the FOOSH.
How incredible is that? I mean, that's you, guys. This
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is an unusual place. It is an exceptionable place where
people stand up for people who they care about, who
they love, and they do good things like that. So
you can still if you'd like to donate to the GoFundMe.
It's basically to help him recover. He's had three surgeries
already at UCLA, and I believe he's still going to
(11:52):
undergo a fourth, maybe next week. But he's got a
lot of injuries to his arm. And I know that
everybody who is called in, everybody who has written in
the Fush has read those messages and he's listened to
him and we've heard him talk about it on Conway.
Just so appreciative and I'd love it when you see
people all standing up, getting together to do something good
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for somebody who really deserves it. So one hundred and
thirteen thousand dollars keep it going for the foods.
Speaker 6 (12:21):
Great to hear that he's a good guy, he deserves it.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
Isn't that support.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
It's unbelievable And I know that, you know he's been
here for a while and this is, like we said,
it's a small little industry. It's a small place, and
you know, it just really wonderful to see everybody stepping
up and trying to make that make that situation that's
so difficult just a little bit more bearable for him there.
So he also thanked those heroes that saved his life.
(12:45):
I think that I think Pete from KTLA, one of
the Executi producers over there. KTLA was able to help
identify the good smaritans who stepped up there and last
week you might have seen they were here at this
to meet Fush's parents. So Steph Fusche, very good, all right,
(13:07):
this is something interesting. You know, when you think about
things that are happening all over Los Angeles, you think
about infestations, you maybe think of a cockroach, perhaps a scorpion.
You guys, ever seen a scorpion out there in LA
maybe the desert?
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Oh yeah, you see, I mean from Texas. I bet
you see.
Speaker 6 (13:26):
Some scorpions over in Sherman Oaks.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
You see some scorpions in Sherman Oaks.
Speaker 6 (13:30):
Yeah, oh yeah, up in the hills.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
Okay, well this this doesn't affect me then, because I'm
in the flats, I can't the scorp If I knew
there were scorpion sightings, I've got a lizard every now
and then, maybe a cockroach.
Speaker 6 (13:43):
They come out when there's construction going on.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Okay, well this is a new one down in South Central.
Take a listen, fish Stage.
Speaker 9 (13:52):
I would call it a cat like some type of
zombie thing that's going on. Dennis Gary says when nightfalls
an it's Los Angeles neighborhood. It's like a straight cat
zombie apocalypse. Then it says he's witnessed up bridge of
one hundred cats prowling the neighborhood. I scatter people that
was walking around.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Something is wrong.
Speaker 9 (14:11):
We saw animal services in the area knocking on doors
investigating the problem. A resident fed up with cats invading
the community sent I with its news pictures of the
kiddies out and about. Then it says, sometimes late at night,
it's as if the cats literally knock on his door.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
This is the greatest news writing of all time. It's
as if the cats literally knock on his door. Zombie
cats are invading south central Los Angeles.
Speaker 9 (14:41):
It's one o'clock in the morning. I'm here in Scratch
and I'm wondering what is this. So I'll open the
door and the cats just scattered like roaches. It's a
nuisance because they run around through the neighborhood and behind
your house and everything. Residents complained someone in the neighborhood
has been overfeeding the cats, attracting them to the area.
We talked to this person wanted her identities shielded.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
That's serious.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
That is a serious situation where you don't even want
to go on record for Eyewitness News for Leo Stalwart.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
You don't want to tell Leo.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
You don't want to reveal your identity because of what
you think you might be giving out information wise about
these zombie cats.
Speaker 9 (15:22):
She says over the last several months, the cats have
multiplied to the degree she can't even enjoy a cool
night on her porch.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
This is a this is a horrible wild reality. It
come out in droves and it's awful. It's really awful.
Speaker 8 (15:38):
We can't enjoy our retirement, we can't sit on our porch.
Speaker 9 (15:43):
Residents say what they call a cat infestation. It's only
one part of the problem, they say. The other problem
of the problem is the cats are drawing in coyotes.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
No no, no, oh no, and of course they're there
to be friends with the cats.
Speaker 9 (16:04):
Cat remains in a residence yard. This the result of
a coyote attack which the residents surveillance cameras recorded. She
shared the graphic video with ian This News. She says,
neighbors have spotted coyotes rolling the neighborhood in packs, looking
to dine on a buffet of cats.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
I understand there's some people out there, maybe who are
in journalism school. I hope they're out there. We need
people in journalism school becoming better journalists. This is the
kind of writing that everybody should strive for.
Speaker 9 (16:36):
In packs looking to dine on a buffet of cats.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
On real soy travel in pairs.
Speaker 6 (16:41):
Now, Yeah, so people who do have animals are keeping
them indoors.
Speaker 9 (16:48):
LA Animals Services is an investigating.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
I guess so. Leo Stalworth there from MABC seven. That
is an incredible story and it sounds really awful. And
I think maybe you don't realize when you're eating those cats,
they're gonna keep coming back, and they're gonna tell their
other cat friends. They're gonna call their cat friends in
Long Beach and in Rancho Cucamonga and in Valley Village
and maybe out in Westlake Village.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
Get on the dash bus, head on down.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
We've got we've got a whole zombie apocalypse in Inglewood.
Amazing writing there by Leo Stalworth, and I'll say this
before we go. He reminds me of the kind of
journalists that you don't have a lot of anymore. Where
there's just a smoothness to the pros and it's not silly,
it's very serious. It's delivered very tongue, you know, every
(17:39):
tongue in cheek maybe, but like seriously done. And you
know who else is so good at this, Rick Chambers,
that guy just got it, just knows what's up. Also
real quick before we go to break. I have I
have a bone to pick with the San Francisco Gate.
There's some people who are out there saying it's okay
to say Cali for California. If you think that it's
(18:02):
okay to use the word Cali and you're not ll COOLJA,
who's heading back to Cali Cali? I would like to
hear from you one in hundred five to oh one
four one five three four, rather one in hundred five
to two zero one KFI one in hundred five to
two O one five three four let us know if
you abbreviate California with Cali. I think it makes you
(18:24):
sound like you're not from here. But some people are
saying that I'm wrong, So I would like to hear
from anybody who has an opinion one way or the other.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand the first?
Speaker 2 (18:37):
Did you know it was the first? I knew it
was the first when I saw your Instagram.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
I see, but before when you agreed to come on
the show, did you know that you were going to
be the first.
Speaker 8 (18:45):
I just say yes, I don't read it.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
I'm in studio with the one and only Adam Shapiro,
What's up of Shabby Pretzels? And also an actor in
The Bear. The show, right one of the biggest. I
haven't seen an episode, but I hear people like it.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
You should check it out. Check it out.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
You're incredible in it, and I love that your character
really started sort of as this guy who we only
saw a little bit. It's just a taste, and then
he was the entre uh huh, which is such a
fun thing to sort of develop this character from the
from not did you know when you first started that
it was gonna be no?
Speaker 2 (19:22):
Okay, I you know, first of.
Speaker 8 (19:24):
All, there wasn't really an audition for it, and I
just got a call, which is so rare for me
for everything things I probably should know. I held you
for everything, and so now I just get a phone call,
and I was kind of freaking out because I love
The Bear.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
Yeah, everybody was easing, and so I go in there
and I just did one episode and it was great.
Speaker 8 (19:44):
It was super fun, totally and at the end, I
said to Chris Storr, who's the creator of this show,
I'm like, Chris, I you know, I never just get
calls out of the thank you, So this one a
great day on set, this has been and he's like, well,
we're just like so obsessed with the whole pretzel thing.
We had to get youang, so wait, wait, oh wait,
I'm here because the shaffy pretzelsas has nothing to do
(20:04):
with like the twenty five years of acting stuff I've
been doing.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
No, are you lucky that you do? You like that
this thing that's started in the pandemic. Yeah, you were
just making pretzels at home, Philadelphia style soft pretzels. You
posted about it, I guess on on your Instagram. And
now you have an actual business. You're catering the Oscar.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (20:24):
Like it's crazy and it keeps opening all these doors
that have nothing to do with selling pretzels.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
But it's not like a golden handcuff situation. No, I
love it. I love it so much.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
Well, you've always been so enthusiastic. And I will say this,
and I hope you're not embarrassed by this, but it's like,
in my mind, anything that you do, you're gonna just
do it and it's gonna happen and people are gonna
be like, yeah, of course, because you approach it with
so much enthusiasm.
Speaker 8 (20:47):
Yeah, that's a summer camp counselor. That's camp counselor. Adam Shaffy.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
Oh yeah, So how is the pretzel business these days?
Because Holly, yeah, Hollywood, not so much. You know, pretzels.
Speaker 8 (20:58):
Thank God for the pretzels, right, because we've since I
started the pretzel company came it's really a crisis pretzel company.
This is what we do, that's right, right, So in
the pandemic, work boom, ultimate recession dedicators. Yeah, we're just
going on the street and selling the pretzels. And then
the strike happens for a year. All right, let's go
to the picket lines and pass out pretzels. And now
(21:19):
we're in the what are they calling in Hollywood?
Speaker 2 (21:21):
The we were surviving till twenty five and now we're
just kind of, yeah, survived to twenty five. We're housing
five and now we're saying they're.
Speaker 8 (21:28):
Saying it's a contract. The business is contracting, and so
this is the contraction. I guess we're feeling that and
we're making a lot of pretzels. There you go, but
you're why, you know, we will get Let me. Let
me just sort of set the stage here, the stage
for the listeners.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
Adam has been. I have known you publicly, personally professionally for.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
The same exact amount of time because we met on air.
We met on air. That's exactly right.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
The only way I know you're missing if I saw
you in private, I would just ignore you at walk
I don't know what to say. No, but we met
in twenty fifteen. I think when you came and did
a show called All Systems Go. And I've told you
this before, that was the first time you came. You
had such good energy that I was like, oh, I'm
comfortable now as a host. I feel like and so
I was joking about this earlier, but it's not really
a joke now. Every project I do, I'm just gonna
(22:15):
call you up immediately for the first time.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
So iet it over the hump, comfortable, that's right, I'm
like the pilot. That's well.
Speaker 8 (22:21):
I'll say that was my ASG All Systems PlayStation Go View.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
It went Twiitty Sweet Gone twivvy.
Speaker 8 (22:33):
It is funny when I look back at some things
and I say the name of what it was on,
and everyone's just like, yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
No, one would have no. PlayStation View was a but
that was my first interview. No, it wasn't. I don't
think I had ever done an interview before that.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
Well, you're just such an automatic person. I feel like
it must have just it was. It was kismet.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
It was so much fun.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
But you have have worked so much and you it
has been so awesome watching you really develop, not only
as as an actor as a person. You have a
family now, You've got Cather, fuzzy father, doting. I want
to ask, though, you know, because I think that this
is this is something that people obviously know about you
as well. It's like, you know, you you have a
(23:13):
very famous better half. Of course, I'm referring to your
messenger bag. Yes, that you also up here with.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
In in every in every single character.
Speaker 8 (23:21):
You know, you're you're You've been such a champion and
and and a supporter of.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
The bag, like the weird anomaly, you know what I mean.
Speaker 8 (23:29):
Just I I got so well, let me explain the
messenger back situation for those who don't know, and I
don't know if there's a lot of people that don't
know what this is.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
It's kind of part and parcel with you and the pretzel.
Speaker 8 (23:39):
Yeah, I mean, it's all it's it's uh. At this point,
it's synonymous with my own my own being. But somebody, well,
I posted a video from a movie on Instagram that
I was in and somebody commented, do you ever act
without a messenger back? And I just saw that comment.
I was like, Wow, what a weird comment, what a
what a strange thing to say. And I kind of
slept on it. And then I start looking back at
(24:01):
twenty years of footage and I swear at every single
time I step onto a set somebody puts a messenger bag.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
On, it's something about it, and it's the props department.
It's just like, oh, this guy should have a bag.
And he's he's moving around, he's living in the city.
Speaker 8 (24:16):
You know, he's put stuff in the bag, take stuff
out of the bag.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 8 (24:21):
This guy?
Speaker 3 (24:21):
What's always good to have business, right, have a thing
to do. So I like, what do I do with
my hands?
Speaker 2 (24:25):
I like it.
Speaker 8 (24:26):
Sound department doesn't like it because if you wear it
crossbody as I like to do, that's right over the mic,
then they have to adjust it.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
I will post that on my on my Instagram at
Andy KTLA. But you made us at KTLA messenger bag.
Messenger bags.
Speaker 8 (24:41):
You guys got like one of a kind, shabby Pretzel
KTLA crossover Messenger.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
I'll tell you what, Thank god I got this radio
show because if things kept going the way they were going,
I was gonna have to start selling that.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
I was gonna put that up on you bag.
Speaker 8 (24:55):
Yeah, I've heard some of them are going for upwards
to ten to fifteen ten or fifteen dollars huge with
the strap. Yes, but yeah, no, I now I have
a Messenger back sponsor.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
I mean very shout out shit. That's not just some
random old to make bikes.
Speaker 8 (25:11):
And now they make really really good, nice nice, nice leather,
nice leather look at us messenger bag. And I've never
had my own Messenger back. I've worn them in every
role I've ever done. I snuck one into season four
The Bear, of Course, and into season three as well.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
There's a scene in season three where I'm wearing a
Messenger bag.
Speaker 8 (25:28):
Well, I you know, season four, it was completely unnecessary.
Just I'm talking to Sydney about this thing I'm working on,
and then I want to show her the papers. And
then I say to the director, what if I pulled
the papers out of a Messenger back. She's like, well,
I mean, you guys have been sitting here for a while,
like and I was like, yeah, but maybe like going
to my office and like so they.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
Had to do a whole nother setup so they had
to relight it.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
Oh my god, like we were going to be wrapped
at the end of this day, and now you just
did this.
Speaker 8 (25:53):
I actually got I the messenger bag has never really
gotten in the way of any sort of filming.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
Which you have to say, now, yeah, I have to.
Speaker 8 (26:00):
But I just did an episode of Lincoln Lawyer, which
will come out next season.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
Love it Lincoln Lawyer, big fan, huge, huge show. So
I'm on the stand. I don't know that is really
a spoiler, but.
Speaker 8 (26:15):
The messenger bag ended up in a scene and I
was like, oh great, and this is we're gonna put
the bag there so we can get oh thank you.
So they know now, yeah, everybody's in a pops department
that was about the bag.
Speaker 3 (26:27):
I want to see you maybe as like a like
an astronaut on the moon and.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
They're like, you got to get the bag man, you're
a cop.
Speaker 8 (26:35):
Well the uh they have a lawyer who's sort of
like the like a consultant. Set of the Lincoln Lawyer
and he comes running on after we had shot the
whole first setup and was like he would never have
that bag there on that desk like that.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
And they fired that guy there like we don't care anymore.
It's about the bag. We had to remove the bag
and reshoot that.
Speaker 8 (26:56):
Well, I'll tell you what, can you stick around for
the next We're gonna take a quick.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
Break here, but I'm sticking around all that. All right,
that's very good.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
You're listening to KFI AM six on demand by Andy Resmire.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
This is the Andy Reesmier Show.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
Yeah, you know, we were talking also about the The
three on three is a big thing now, Big three
watch it.
Speaker 8 (27:14):
I like being in the studio and seeing all the
games on This is like better than a sports bar.
Speaker 3 (27:18):
It's kind of like a sports bar. And but any
drinking that's happening here is in secret.
Speaker 8 (27:24):
Yes, you have to just like put it in put
it in your water, put it in water like I have.
That's a very right Icelandic. But we should we shouldn't
meet up here sometimes and want maybe Sunday morning to
watch football. They wouldn't mind, right, No, you're gonna be
here during football season during football.
Speaker 3 (27:40):
I am, but you know we're gonna be preempt at
a lot for those Chargers games because KFI is the
broadcast charge chargers who yesterday didn't do too well.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
No, they just instead of just running out the clock taking.
Speaker 8 (27:49):
That they did it what they did what chargers do,
which is just charge charge, charge ahead.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
That's right. Interception.
Speaker 8 (27:56):
Do you as a Philly as an Eagles fans, you
big Philly guy.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
Well you are, though, I mean I think it's kind
of part of in the same way.
Speaker 8 (28:06):
The pretzels, right, It definitely bleeds into the acting absolutely.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
Although your accent you don't do a lot of wooter
now I don't.
Speaker 8 (28:12):
I don't hear a lot of parents from the South,
So I didn't grow up with like the Philly accent
in my house.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
But when you go to my friend's houses in Philly
and you talk to their parents.
Speaker 10 (28:21):
Like okay, Adam's here, you get yeah, I'm sure would
you what were we watching when you were on here?
You were on here with these two kids, you know,
those two kids who won't work at that store.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
Oh sweet life of Zach and sweet life you're.
Speaker 8 (28:35):
Talking about years ago, years ago that that kid is
like thirty. Now you have had a really incredible career.
And like I said, I'm not in I don't mean that.
I don't mean that as a joke about your wife.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
Katie. Also, Uh, it's her moment right now.
Speaker 8 (28:49):
Oh she's back, Baby wives shouts all my hunting husbands
across the country.
Speaker 3 (28:56):
Uh, are the guys who are their their wives are
in the show.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Yeah, it's a pretty small group four of us. Well
they all listen.
Speaker 8 (29:04):
Yeah, they're listening right now, and they're not really across
the country pretty much.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
I think all of them are tids of this studio.
Speaker 8 (29:11):
Shout out to those guys, because there is no Hunting Wives,
you know, without without us holding down the ford at
home while they're off Gallivant Charlotte shooting that show.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
I love it. We can figure out a way to
make it a better hunting lines.
Speaker 8 (29:25):
Well, you gotta like jump on what's trending, they said,
told me it was like, you need to do more
trending thing.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
Do you chat Chip you're consulting with the chat Yeah,
I said, I said what what I said to Chappi gipt?
I said what should I be doing? You said it
in that Yeah, you asked what should I be doing?
What should I be doing? What should I be doing?
And it said more trending, more trending, just more trending stuff.
Speaker 8 (29:46):
So I've been tying myself to the Hunting was No,
it's a big deal, Like that thing went on Netflix
and we didn't know if people were gonna know it
was even on the there. We didn't know if the
algorithm was going to show it to people. It wasn't
even made for Netflix, it was made for stars. Really, yeah,
Oh that's wild.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
What I think is.
Speaker 3 (30:03):
Remarkable about that show is that obviously it takes some
specific povs on people in culture.
Speaker 8 (30:11):
And it seems to have resonated with all of the coin.
It seems likely even if it is like the dice, Yeah, sure,
we're playing four dimensional chess here.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
Yeah, but yeah, it does.
Speaker 3 (30:22):
It seems like people who maybe would feel like traditionally
they would be against it or watching it saying like, no,
you got to see this thing.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
It's pretty good.
Speaker 8 (30:27):
Everybody seems to process the Hunting Wives through their own
lens that they're watching, right, you know what I mean?
Like some people watch it because they just want a fun, sexy, salacious,
scandalous kind of show and they love that part of it.
And some people think it's like hilarious, and some people
think it's a great drama, and you know, I mean
(30:48):
it's it's just whatever you're looking for, you seem to
be able to see it. In The Hunting Wives, it's
been amazing to watch ye and.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
Kat is so good. She's so good, She's going so
good everywhere.
Speaker 3 (30:58):
And I got to say that the two of you
took together are almost like sickening because you're so sweet,
You're so nice, and every single time I see you,
I'm like, there's got to be something.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
You guys got it.
Speaker 3 (31:06):
Like I bet when the door shuts on the on
the Lincoln Navigator uber, when you guys leave the set
or whatever.
Speaker 8 (31:11):
It's just it's just it's the minivan. We have a
Kia Carnival. Oh wow, I don't even know if they
pronounce it Carnival. Well Ki, now they do the Kia
Carnival minivan.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
You've got that.
Speaker 8 (31:22):
And yeah, once those doors closed, we just physically just
scream at each other all day.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
But you guys are great.
Speaker 3 (31:27):
And Katie was on KTLA on Friday, she was there
a couple yesterday. Great energy, and I think, you know,
you've both worked so much and you have your fingers
sort of in a lot of different things, especially as
who talked about with the sponsorships with the shinola and
the pretzels.
Speaker 8 (31:43):
But you know, do you think the company that we've
raised that's right nineteen years old now, I mean crazy.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
I don't know that.
Speaker 3 (31:50):
There's a lot of other actors that I know who
are as entrepreneurial.
Speaker 8 (31:56):
Oh I think. I don't know because I feel like
they have to be. But I feel like I just
sort of.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
Yess, I am considering.
Speaker 8 (32:03):
There's two companies that I started, but I don't feel
that that way. I don't like think about like business site.
Yeah you're because you're just I just sort of.
Speaker 2 (32:11):
Get excited about stuff and then I don't know, and
then I and then I just sort of can't stop.
I'm like obsessed.
Speaker 8 (32:17):
Yeah, well that's good. Employ I started making those pretzels.
They weren't good, and then I started like, oh, I know,
I can't stop now. I know I didn't like learn
how to make a good stuft pretzel, and then bam, right,
are very good now they're very delicious now. And if
you ever get to see them out in the world now,
because I just go to Canters and pick them up
any day a week. You could go to Canners. Yeah,
(32:38):
just order them on shabby pretzel dot com day day before,
give yourself a little pickup time.
Speaker 2 (32:44):
They'll be sitting there at Canners.
Speaker 3 (32:46):
And now, because I know you were doing a peanut
butter situation, you were doing like a little spread.
Speaker 8 (32:49):
Oh yeah, we have a mustard. We have mustard, we
have we have it. This is the greatest thing I
have ever come up with in my life. This is
a two sided mustard packet. Do you ever like get
those little tiny bs mustard package every day and you
know you rip the corner off and then you completely
empty out that mustard packet and it hasn't even covered
(33:10):
maybe half the pretzel.
Speaker 2 (33:11):
This is the number one thing that bothers me about
eating mustard.
Speaker 8 (33:15):
Yeah, I'm like, no more, not a shappy pretzel, not
in my name.
Speaker 2 (33:21):
So we made a basically it's four.
Speaker 8 (33:24):
Times the size of a regular mustard packet and on
one side it's yellow mustard and on the other side,
divided is spicy brown. Well, this is a true revolution.
This is huge in snacking. People go, well, I don't
want this spicy brown. I say, you know what, don't
worry about it because it's coming with your yellow and
now you get to try it.
Speaker 2 (33:42):
That's right, and you can share. Those pretzels are big
enough that you really shouldn't.
Speaker 8 (33:46):
You only need one side of the packet to cover
one shappy pretzel, which.
Speaker 2 (33:50):
Is just genius, you know.
Speaker 3 (33:51):
So you figured it out, got it down to a science.
What is next for you? Do you want to act more?
Do you want to direct?
Speaker 2 (33:56):
Do you want to Where's are you offering me? Either
of those things?
Speaker 8 (34:00):
Have a line to Ted Saranda, because you could have
said literally anything, and I would have said, yes, that's
what I.
Speaker 2 (34:04):
Want to do.
Speaker 8 (34:05):
Yeah, well, if it was an offer, I just I
love acting so much I do. The directors have to
be on set all day, and to be honest, I
like being at craft service occasionally. Yea, yeah, I spend
a lot of time at crafty. I love snacking. I
love snack.
Speaker 2 (34:23):
I think you like to yuck it up and I
like to yuck.
Speaker 3 (34:25):
It up and everybody and I never now they don't
yuck it up.
Speaker 2 (34:29):
They're not over. They got a lot of pressure, especially
these days.
Speaker 8 (34:31):
Yeah, So I guess if I could get a directing job,
I would take it. As long as you do always
since you were a kid, it was like acting. No really,
I kind of wanted to work in DC. I went
to University Maryland to study politics, get out of town. Yeah,
and then it turns out just I think, I just
like the speech giving. I was gonna say, this is
like cross offering or not line right acting?
Speaker 2 (34:55):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 8 (34:56):
Like the acting? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I like
your acting part of politics. And a lot of politicians
I've noticed are are pretty good at acting. Well I
don't know what is acting all the time, but I
was like, and then I started doing a little sketch
comedy in college. You know how these comedy groups pop
up in you on campus. And I started doing that
(35:17):
and they're like, you should do this. It was either
that or acapella. Yeah, and my acaba wasn't that great?
Speaker 2 (35:21):
Right? Do you want to do a little little lochabello
as we go to break? Perhaps?
Speaker 8 (35:25):
Yeah, we should send it. That's actually not that was good.
Speaker 2 (35:31):
Because even No Times got a rough you never too
knew it. That was a.
Speaker 8 (35:36):
H the original Backstreet Boys, Yeah, dude, A lot of
talk about BSB thes did a.
Speaker 2 (35:41):
Lot of talk about are you gonna go see you
going to Vegas? Are you checking it out? Yeah? Probably
go to Vegas. Check it out. It's really great.
Speaker 8 (35:47):
My good friend Jared Paul is a big time, big
shot music manager and he represents Backstreet Boys. Yeah oh okay,
well then, and he was the one who sort of
like put together these giant tours like ten years ago
when people were like a lot of the other record.
Speaker 2 (36:01):
Companies and studios and people.
Speaker 8 (36:03):
Were like, I don't know if we don't buy tickets
to see Backstreet again or what was one with nick.
Speaker 2 (36:10):
La the Yeah, yeah, yeah, you know, ninety degrees.
Speaker 8 (36:14):
And Jared's like, no, we need to put a tour together.
Boys demand Paula Abdul Backstreet Boys ninety degrees. And these
tours went crazy because now the original fans are at
least they can afford to go.
Speaker 2 (36:28):
To see that.
Speaker 8 (36:29):
The new kids he also reps New Kids. New Kids
tour is like one of the biggest tours in the bild.
I mean, I got crazy. They do a cruise, Well, unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (36:37):
That's yeah, that's that's a that's a that's a captive audience.
We should do a cruise. Let's do it.
Speaker 8 (36:41):
You and me do a cruse radio show. Okay, No,
it's like the theme of the cruise is US. So yeah, yeah,
you all different things. There could be a bear segment
where we cook with everybody on Total News and they eat.
It's gonna be my four friends, your friends will do back,
of course, and then we'll get all the hunting husbands
right there.
Speaker 2 (37:02):
This is gonna be great.
Speaker 3 (37:03):
I can't see how this will be a financial disaster
in any post.
Speaker 8 (37:06):
Maybe we start with like a riverboat cruise where you
only need like one hundred and that's better.
Speaker 2 (37:10):
Yeah, that's good. Like one of those of these.
Speaker 8 (37:12):
Carnivals that gets stuck out there in the water and
everybody's pooping everywhere.
Speaker 3 (37:17):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I don't think my break. I'm not
trying to go all one of that. My brand can't
handle that kind of contin No. Well, Adam, you're the best.
Thank you so much for being here.
Speaker 2 (37:27):
Yeah, I'm not leaving. Okay, right. Where can people find
you on the on the internet?
Speaker 8 (37:30):
Shappy Shaps on Instagram, I just post all day, I
post fun things. If you follow Shappy Shaps on Instagram
and Shappy Pretzel on Instagram, I could guarantee you're not
going to regret it.
Speaker 3 (37:42):
That is such a good pitch, and I agree wholehearted,
you know what I mean, Like it's you're never gonna
think You're doing a lot of really good, groundbreaking stuff
that I haven't seen so far in the pretzel the
independent pretzel industry, the pretzel world.
Speaker 8 (37:55):
Has never seen an Instagram like Shappy Pretzel. We're the
most followed pretzel company on the planet, even more than
like Antie Ann's and Wetzels, which anti who no no,
no shade at Wetzels. Like if I'm at a Lakers game,
I'm getting the Wetzels nine times out of nine times.
Speaker 3 (38:12):
Okay, I disrepair everybody. Thank you for being here, Please
come back very soon.
Speaker 2 (38:15):
Anty. Congratulations on your inaugural show. And we should make
this the thing. I'll stop by every week.
Speaker 1 (38:23):
Why not, kf I am six forty on demand.
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