September 29, 2025 • 33 mins
Andy Riesmeyer kicks off the show with breaking coverage of the shooting at a Mormon church in Michigan, with two dead and eight wounded, plus a warning from Long Beach PD about scammers posing as police. He then dives into the January Altadena wildfire investigation, where systemic failures in evacuation orders cost 19 lives, and lightens the mood with a conversation on comedy in the workplace, and why it’s not for everyone. Later, KTLA’s Jasmine Simpkins joins Andy in studio to talk about Hollywood, and Leonardo DiCaprio’s new Paul Thomas Anderson action-comedy One Battle After Another. Jasmine also shares insights from her reporting on the Sean “Diddy” Combs trial.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Matt also on the ones and twos. So many ones
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We'll play it on the show Coming up today On
the Ady Reesemeyer Show, people living in Alta, Dina are
slamming a new report about what happened in the Eaton fire.
They say, not enough blame to go around. Also, a
little bit later, Jasmine Simpkins from KTLA and elsewhere in
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the media world will join us at three thirty to
talk about ours two thirty rather to talk about entertainment.
We're getting inside the inside scoop here on this new
Leonardo DiCaprio movie, One Battle after Another?
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Was it a flop? How is it doing?
Speaker 2 (01:08):
There's a dentist in Chicago who's getting drilled for taking
a political side. The problem is it's the wrong dentist
and a new scam at the Long Beach Police Department
wants you to be aware of some scary stuff. But
first we're gonna go up to Grand Blanc, Michigan for
an update on that shooting at a church today. Two
people have been confirmed dead eight others are wounded after
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a shooting and a fire at a church in Michigan.
It was a Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day
Saints in Grand Blanc, Michigan. Authority say a gunman rammed
a vehicle through the front of the church during a
large service, began shooting, then intentionally set a fire that
grew into a bigger fire the whole building. Officers exchanged
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fire with the gunman and they killed him. He has
been identified as a forty year old from Michigan. Flint, Michigan,
is near where Grand Block is, a suburb of Flint, Michigan.
It's about an hour north of Detroit if you're familiar. Earlier,
the police chief, William Rain, spoke to the media.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
Here's what he had to say ten twenty five am
at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
a forty year old suspect from Burton. He's a male.
He drove his vehicle through the front doors of the church.
He then exited his vehicle, firing several rounds individuals within
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the church. Ten gunshot victims have been transported to local
hospitals at this time. Officers who were trained immediately responded
to the area where they met the suspect and they
engaged in gunfire with that particular individual neutralized and that
suspect and that suspect is no longer with us. During
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all this incident as well, there was a fire that
occurred and we believed that that was deliberately set by
this suspect. Do you believe that we will find additional
victims once we have that scene secure.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
So the reason update past hour or so is that
two people have been confirmed to have died in that shooting.
The FBI hundreds of agents have been sent to the area.
According to the police chief, authorities are executing a search
warrant at the suspect's residence and we'll be going through
cell phone records to find out if there was a motive.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
The chief said.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Hundreds of people were attending the service at the time
of the attack, and it's you might have heard Eileen
Gonzalez talking about this. The second deadly shooting at a
church in the matter of a month. In a few
days August twenty seventh, the shooter fired through the window
of a church in Minneapolis, killing two children and wounding
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fourteen others. On September nineteenth, days before Rashashana, a thirty
year old thirty one year old rather a man ugedly
set fire to a synagogue in Southwest Florida. The President says,
I have a statement here. This appears to be yet
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another targeted attack on Christians in the United States of America.
The Trump administration will keep the public posted. This epidemic
of violence in our country must end immediately.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
Terrible.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
I mean, it's just like I can't you know here
we are sitting again on a Sunday, at least today,
I think it was a Wednesday with the church in Minneapolis.
But just reflecting on the horror of people going somewhere
where they think they will be safe, where they're worshiping.
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Awful down to Long Beach. Different situation happening. Police warning
of a new old scam.
Speaker 5 (05:00):
As the investigators say the scammers will reach you. They'll
call you, and then they'll claim to be law enforcement,
impersonating police officers, claiming to even be federal agents, claiming
to be with the US Marshall Service, the ATF Immigration,
claiming that you're under investigation. You'll be arrested unless you
pay them money. They want money in several different forms.
Some of the victims already have copped up thousands of
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dollars and then these scammers are away just like that.
That's why police say it's a big time threat. They
want to shut it down. They have a crime bulletin
they have issued. Let's take a look at that. It reads,
in part and I quote, scammers pressured victims into withdrawing cash,
purchasing gift cards, or writing i should say, wiring money,
resulting in losses of tens of thousands of dollars. Imagine that,
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and then the rest of that. That wired bulletin goes on,
maybe with the best things that we've got to remember here,
And the first one is really a good one to
remember because it even fooled me too. The real investigators say,
don't trust your caller ID. These scammers are so good
at it now in a dirty way. They can mimic
the caller ID and make it look like it's the
agency that they claim they're calling for.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
I'm so worried about where the future of AI will
take us with this as well, where the voice to
text or text to speech rather is going to get
so good. We already see it with these chatbots, where
they're able to either impersonate people that you know or
impersonate famous people. Tough out there, But I guess if
a police officer hits you up and asks you for
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money to make a problem go away, that should be
your first indication. Something's a little weird, something's a little hanky.
I'll just have to say it coming up. Are you funny?
Are you trying to be funny at work? Maybe it's
a mistake. I'm reading this study very closely. We'll tell
you why, Plus Dirty Soda, how beverage companies are cashing
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in on this I think personally kind of discusting trend.
Plus we'll talk to Jasmine Simpkins in a little bit,
and that Chicago dentist who's being doxed for something maybe
that you didn't even do.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
It of course is football season. I'm making no bones
about it. I'm sure a lot of people are out
there watching the football games. The Indianapolis Colts taking on
the La Rams.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
I don't know. I'm kind of divided here and from Indianapolis.
You know this.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Currently the Colts lead ten to six, second and goal
Rams have the ball up. Here we go, We're gonna
get a touchdown, touchdown Rams. And that's the extent of
my sports career. But what's kind of fun is that
we've got sports on all the.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
TVs right now.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
You've got women's basketball, you've got football, got Chiefs, Ravens,
got Colts. Let's see what is this Colts and Rams.
And then you have Kansas City versus Texas on the
CW channel five k t LA, And I thought, oh,
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that's an interesting matchup. But it is not football. It's
bull riding. Very cool. Those bulls look very mean. Eric
Adams is out of the race for mayor in New
York City. It has been an honor to be your mayor,
he says, but he was unable to raise the funds.
(08:26):
It's a move that maybe was anticipate anticipated. There was
weeks of speculation he might clear the way of for
former Governor Andrew Cuomo and brother of News Nations Chris Cuomo.
In a contest where Democratic nominee Zoran Mamdani, a Democratic Socialist,
has gained momentum. Mam Donnie framed Adam's exit as a
pivotal moment, pledging that voters in November will turn the
(08:49):
page on politics of big money and small ideas. He
of course, has drawn a lot of attention for being
a rather young man in the political game, which is
generally older, So we'll see what happens there. Also over
in Altadena, we talked about this on Thursday on The
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mo Kelly Show when I was filling in from O
an examination an investigation into what went wrong in the
Eton fire up in Pasadena or Altadina. Rather, there was
a long list of shortcomings, but it's an after action
report that stops short of singling out individual leaders for
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the problems, and this is starting to make people in
Altadena a little bit upset. The report did not detail
exactly who or what was responsible for the issues. County officials,
of course, have called the reaction to the Eaten fire
an epic fail. The lack of blame, says the La Times,
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appears to have arisen by design, despite fire victims repeated
calls for accountability. It was a two million dollar report
commissioned by the La County Board of Supervisors. It came
out on Thursday. LA County Supervisor Catherine Barger, who represents Altadena,
called for a review after The La Times reported in
January that almost all of the Eton fire deaths occurred
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on the unincorporated town's west side, and West Altadena did
not get notifications to evacuate nineteen people. Nineteen people died there.
The report found that a little before midnight, this is
after the fires had been going for a few hours,
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a staff member from the La County Fire Department suggested
to the fires Unified Command staff that due to high winds,
evacuation orders should go out for most of the San
Gabriel foothills That would include all of Altadena. Unified command staffers,
according to this report, though said they didn't recall this.
Two hours later, another fire staffer radioed that they saw
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the fired orth of Farnsworth Park moving west along the
foothills into West Altadena, and not until hours later three
twenty five in the morning did most West Altadena residents
receive an evacuation order. The report did not say why
the midnight recommendation wasn't received or acted on, or why
it took more than an hour for the second radio
call to be sent as an evacuation order. It did
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not say who was responsible for those decisions or if
others should have stepped in. Now a lot of people
are very mad about this. Shawna Dawson Beer, who she
herself lost a home in northwest Altadena, said the report
shielded county officials, particularly fire and sheriff officials. We want
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to know who is responsible, she says, name the officials
identified the decision maker, saying it's not about blame, it's
about responsibility. I think it's important to say that there's
a lot of support for the first responders among the
community in Altadena, but there is a sense of what
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happened that led us to this place where the firefighters
had to do these things. If you remember that night,
there was a lot of confusion. It was really difficult
to have an understanding of anything because the wind was
so strong. You didn't have any kind of surveillance to
see where the fire was moving. You would normally see
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fire like on television from the helicopters, but they couldn't
fly to the helicopters because the wind was so bad and
there was a temporary flight restriction. And so I think
you have this whole group of people who say, Okay,
you spent two million dollars for this survey, this investigation,
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but we don't know.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
Why are you funny at work?
Speaker 6 (13:01):
Eileen?
Speaker 3 (13:02):
Do you try to be funny at work? Ever?
Speaker 6 (13:05):
No, I'm not a funny person.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
That's I don't believe that.
Speaker 6 (13:09):
I have a weird, quiet, sort of dark humor.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
Like you know, there's a lot of expectations for people
when they are funny, to be funny all the time.
We don't have these same kind of expectations for pretty
much anybody else as far as consistency. You know, like,
if you're a batter, a major League Baseball hitter, and
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you've got, like, I don't know, three out of ten
you hit a home run, you're in the Hall of fame.
If you're a funny person or a comedian and you're
doing three out of ten, you're you're a dud.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Well, if you are trying to get ahead at work,
maybe you shouldn't be funny.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
That's according to a new study. In a nutshell, they.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Say, while jokes may build likability and creativity, research shows
failed attempts often damage credibility more than successful ones help.
Speaker 6 (14:09):
Maybe everywhere except radio.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
H yeah or TV or yeah perform? Yeah right, if
you were a late night talk show.
Speaker 6 (14:16):
Host, like, we've got some really popular funny people on
air here.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
That's exactly right, they say. It's a there's an issue
here where.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
You know.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
Comedy works by bending or breaking norms, and when the
rules aren't broken in just the right way, you can
harm your reputation. People find jokes funny when they break
rules while seeming harmless. Miss one of the ingredients. When
you tell a joke and your audience won't appreciate it,
I wish you could break down. This report is attempting
to break down like the magic of comedy into something
so specific and robotic.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
But sure whatever, that takes the fun out of it.
I think so too.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
They say it's hard enough to get laughs in the
darkness of a comedy club under fluorescent office lights, the
razor thin line becomes even harder to walk. Oh whatever,
This is written by somebody who's not funny.
Speaker 6 (15:06):
Yeah, I think I wrote.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
It you wrote this, No, well check this out.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
Another study found that bosses who joke too often push
employees into pretending to be amused, which drain's energy, reduces
job satisfaction and increases burnout. That is funny, Oh no,
when this is awful. The risks are higher for women
due to a double standard. When women use humor and presentations,
they're often judged as being less capable and having lower
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status than men.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
Horrible.
Speaker 6 (15:37):
I don't like that.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
I don't like any of that. I don't like any
of this.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
I do love the idea of a boss trying to
make people laugh and then feeling like they have.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
To laugh at their boss.
Speaker 6 (15:45):
That's true though.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
That feels very much like the office.
Speaker 6 (15:47):
It's the obligatory, yeah.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
Barry Michael Scott. Ha ha ha.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
I think actually, in my personal opinion, it's easier to
get laughs at work than it is as a stand up.
Speaker 6 (15:59):
Yeah, because people have to be you know, yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
In my position, they have to laugh at me. They
don't have to laugh, No, no one should.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
It is Sunday, Sunday Sunday, which means it's time for
the Andy Reestemeyer Show. Sorry, I've joined in studio by
my very good friend. I'm trying to think how long
we've known each other. Probably thirty years, Jasmine Simpkins, Oh.
Speaker 7 (16:33):
I love this. Thirty years.
Speaker 8 (16:34):
I think thirty years in our it feels out right
like when we met, it felt like we had known
each other forever.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
That is so sweet, And we're not just saying that.
Speaker 7 (16:43):
It's really only probably been like.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
Probably eight six five, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
We met at KTLA and you are now you've kind
of infiltrated the whole operation there. You're on Ellie unscripted.
You do some entertainment stuff, you do some some feature reporting.
Are we going to say we're going to send you
a to city Hall and do some do some political
wonk stuff.
Speaker 8 (17:05):
I know that's almost like the next box to check.
That's the next box doing a little bit of everything.
Funny story because I you know, I was doing entertainment
for so many years before I got to KTLA, And
so when I got there, and I remember talking to
Jason Ball, our previous news director.
Speaker 7 (17:23):
Yeah, and obviously.
Speaker 8 (17:25):
Coming on to five Live, and I remember saying, I
really don't want to do entertainment.
Speaker 7 (17:30):
I want to do other stuff.
Speaker 8 (17:32):
I'm kind of like expand my horizons, and little by
little I kind of have gotten sucked back into that
world and lifestyle space with Alien scripture, which absolutely I
love and I love Kimberly My.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
So fun to watch. Yeah, you always look like you're
having the best time.
Speaker 4 (17:49):
I am.
Speaker 8 (17:50):
But that's my philosophy about everything with journalism. I don't
care about the person that I'm talking to. That's who's
going to have fun, I am. And I don't mean
in the mean.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
Way we need more journalists like you, Jazz.
Speaker 7 (18:02):
It's my time too.
Speaker 8 (18:03):
Right, Like, if I'm spending four minutes or ten minutes,
I'm going to have a good time.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
Well, I'll tell you what.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
People love to see people win. And I think one
of the ways that you could win on TV is
if you're having a good time and people pick up
on that. Yeah, and I think that there is some
value in that for sure. Let's talk about entertainment. Paul
Thomas Anderson's new movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio an up and comer.
Speaker 8 (18:28):
Oh yes, he's just just now starting to get some shine.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
One battle after another is what it is called. You
saw it.
Speaker 7 (18:36):
I saw it, you liked it. I did like it.
I was listen.
Speaker 8 (18:40):
If you know anything about Paul Thomas Anderson, then you
kind of know that his films are going to be
a little bit different. Obviously, he always has some really
cool storytelling involved in it. This film, I think is
actually very well written and directed.
Speaker 7 (18:57):
The cast is phenomenal.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
It's it's like an interesting follow up after Licorice Pizza
for Paul Thomas Anderson to do this, like big budget
action movie, yes, after this kind of.
Speaker 7 (19:11):
But here's the thing.
Speaker 8 (19:12):
It's a big budget action movie, but still like this
small story, if that makes any sense. And I don't
want to give too much away, but there's there's a
simple story, but then there's all this other stuff going
on around it. But at the core of it, I
would say, is this guy, obviously, Leonardo DiCaprio, who's like
this ex military guy and kind of gets sucked back
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into this world of sorts of things. But you you know,
by the end of it, you kind of understand and
root for him in terms of why the journey went
the way it did for him. And yeah, so that's
why I think it's simple. I think Licorice Pizza had
a very simple storyline, and I.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
Think that was very much more of a vibe piece though,
and full disclosure, I've not seen this movie yet, but
I know that the audience seems to be liking it
ninety percent ninety six percent on Rotten Tomatoes. The reviews
are generally good. However, this movie, which needs around three
hundred million dollars globally to break even, did not do
too great in its weekend opening. What do you think
(20:13):
happened there?
Speaker 8 (20:13):
I don't think it's a reflection of how good the
film is. I think it's a reflection of where we
are now with studios scrambling to try and figure out
how to market movies. And I've seen it because I've
covered film for so long, and so there's this like
new media obviously, and it's not really new anymore, right,
Like social media has been around for quite some time.
They're just now tapping into how do we meet the
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people where they are. They're on their phone every day
all day, and so now it's about marketing on devices
and on streaming outside of streaming platforms. But what I
mean by that is YouTube using these other entities. But
I think the I think the traditional studio system is.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
So anti Yeah, well no, because it's a sense of
like we are better than social media. Though I have
heard recently, I know that there's a big listen and
inevitability just says like, Okay, do you want to have
people at your stuff or not? And so it's almost
like social has forced the hands of the traditional model
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to do stuff. A friend of mine who I know
through work works on another show said earnestly. The executive
producer said, recently, our focus now is social media.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
In twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
It's like as if it's a brand new idea, which
is crazy to me because I think that I hear
a lot of the same stuff at other places, unscripted whatever.
It's like Hollywood has said the Internet is not important.
We don't take it seriously. We'll put the people who
can't hack it in traditional will run the digital departments,
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and then they get fired and they wonder why the
internet's eating their lunch.
Speaker 8 (21:53):
Yeah, listen, I get it. It's tough right now where
everyone's still trying to figure it out. There are no
no one knows what the algorithm even really is.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
No, here's a conspiracy theory. There is no such thing.
Speaker 6 (22:07):
There you go, right, Like, how do you really go viral?
Speaker 8 (22:10):
Like this stuff is really hard to tangibly put a
number around, Like how do you market in that kind
of a space where you really where everything is just
up in the air, you know, one minute something could
trend on TikTok or it could not. I think also
they have to get out, they have to think outside
of the box in terms of just like Okay, we're
gonna do the Red Carpets and we're gonna do junkets,
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and then talent's also got to the films you see
do really well.
Speaker 7 (22:34):
Talent's also got to work hard too.
Speaker 8 (22:36):
And nothing against Leo, but I think Leo's part of
that old school world of like, hey, I show up.
Speaker 7 (22:41):
On the day, I gotta show up, right.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
He's not doing a lot of internet promotion, but I
don't think I think it does feel undignified for him, yeah,
you know, because like I don't want to see him
go do goofy stuff, where as I mean, at the
same time, you see Glenn Powell doing Jake Shane's podcast,
which is a wild thing to think about in twenty
twenty five. But the old school legacy talent like Leo,
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like anybody who's been as a Scorsees film, I just
can't imagine them like trying to go hit up Addison
Ray and do a TikTok video.
Speaker 8 (23:11):
And so, yes, we do have that conundrum of like,
oh my god, this is Harrison Ford. You know, he's
certainly not going to go sit with Kai Sanotto.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
Right, who is do a little livestream twitch, let's play
with Fortnite.
Speaker 8 (23:25):
But then you look at someone like Tom Cruise and
I talk about him all the time why he's my
favorite because Tom is going to do all of the
pomp and circumstance. He's got to fly a helicopter to
his premiere, jump out in a parachute, like.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
All does He understands this is the game.
Speaker 7 (23:42):
This is the game.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
And I think that even though I do feel like
it's undignified, I don't know what the word is for
Leo to do that. I'm also like, you know what, sorry, Bucko, like,
get with the program. Unfortunately, this is just the world
we live in now.
Speaker 8 (23:54):
Yeah, and so Tom understands, Okay, social media is also
a stage.
Speaker 9 (23:57):
Let me do what I need to do to also
make that guy has as big of a star as Leo. Ever,
was and has been. Or Leo's a big as big
of a star as as Tom Cruise ever was. But
that guy puts butts in seat.
Speaker 8 (24:09):
He puts butts in see. He's single handedly, in my opinion,
fight me. I think he saved the movie business during COVID.
You know, when Top Gun came out, people weren't going
to the theaters, but they went time and time again
to see that film and it. You know, it was
this resurgence all of a sudden. Everyone was like, oh
my god, people do want to go to the theater.
You got to give them something to see, right, because
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everybody can with their big screen TVs can watch movies
at home. You got to give them something worthy of
going to the box office. But you also had a
taliment's there, Yeah, because if they knew it, they might
want to go and just sit in the theater and
veg out.
Speaker 7 (24:45):
There's a lot of cool theaters.
Speaker 3 (24:46):
No, yeah, of course, may with that Alamo Draft House.
Speaker 8 (24:49):
Give me with that Alamo Draft House. I mean even
there's a cool spot out this way, vidiots if you're in.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
Oh, I love that. Yeah, it's a little more hipster
for sure. Yeah.
Speaker 8 (24:56):
Yeah, there's cool places also to go see a movie.
So if people people knew that, I hear that often,
and I'm sure you do. People are like, I didn't
even know that was out.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
Yeah, I do hear that, and I say, I've been
trying to get you to go see this movie. Fart weeks.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
All right, quick break, when we come back more with
Jasmine Simpkins here on the Andy Reesemeier Show.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
Welcome back to the Andy Reespier Show. Hopefully we stay
far from tragedy this afternoon. We will in studio with
Jasmine Simpkins, who is an entertainment reporter works for KTLA
also on LA Unscripted. One of the hosts a Woman
about town, a bon vavont. If you will, what would
Jasmine Simkins be doing if she was not on TV?
Speaker 3 (25:40):
Like, what would you have done? And had you had
a different career path?
Speaker 8 (25:44):
I know I have the answer because it was it
was like down to the wire when I was at UCLA.
Speaker 7 (25:49):
Shout out any brewing Noll Bruins.
Speaker 3 (25:51):
We want to talk about the football program.
Speaker 7 (25:53):
We will not, we will not.
Speaker 8 (25:55):
I was going to either major in English literature because
no journalism, but I knew I wanted to be a
journalist or architecture an interior design.
Speaker 7 (26:06):
Wow, yes, it was, it was.
Speaker 8 (26:08):
I was taking a few classes in both areas and
really loved architecture.
Speaker 7 (26:13):
I still do.
Speaker 8 (26:14):
And so you learned about those under hues. Yeah, and
so had I had.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
I not those gables, those mansard roofs.
Speaker 7 (26:22):
Look at you.
Speaker 3 (26:23):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
I've exhausted all of the things that I ever know.
Do you still do a little design?
Speaker 7 (26:27):
And is your is your home and friends from time
to time, So.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
MTV cribs will show up at your house, it'll be
a good day. No, it will not be a good day.
You know those MTV Let's just not go this. That
was just so over the top. That was in design,
that was just gaudy. I'm rich and I've got a goldfish.
Speaker 3 (26:47):
Now get out of here. And then they would.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
Celebrities were and are a different, a different breed. Let's
talk about celebrities.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
This week.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
You are going to New York for very important trial
or at least an important meeting sentencing.
Speaker 8 (27:04):
Yes, so I've been covering Sean Diddy Combs his his
trial for the last like six months, so so you know,
and everything kind of kicked off jury pri lim stuff
and then set through the trial. It was only eight weeks.
Actually thought it was going to be a little longer
than that, but the judge was really adamant that, like,
you know, we could get in and get out of
(27:26):
this thing. So I appreciated that because I've said through
longer trial. Oh yeah, And so now it's time for sentencing,
which is going to be on Friday, October third. You know,
it really really quick. If anybody's been following, you know
he was. He got two of the charges that out
of all of them, which were the trafficking sorry, the
travel for prostitutions. So if he didn't get the sex
(27:46):
trafficking or the rico charges, so he got the lesser
of the charges, which you know everyone's throwing around all
the maximum is twenty years. The judge is not giving
him twenty years for those counts. What they usually do
is they look at what the averages for people who've
been charged in those kind of crimes, and typically it's
about two and a half years to be honest for
traveling for prostitution. So and he has two so let's
(28:08):
say he gets two and a half two and a
half five years is what I'm thinking he's going to get.
He's been in it about a year, so we've got
a year time served. I think, I think if I
have to pick, you know, I think that's what the
judge is going to do and feel that he's being
fair to be honest.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (28:22):
Yeah, yeah. When do you head out there?
Speaker 7 (28:25):
I leave Thursday night.
Speaker 3 (28:26):
And you just have an open ended ticket or you
come back on a.
Speaker 8 (28:28):
Certain Oh no, I'm going to I'm a New York
Film festival. As we've talked about how I love Film
is going on right now in New York City, So
I might stick around and see a film or two
if I can, and then come on back.
Speaker 7 (28:37):
Because we've got work at Katill.
Speaker 3 (28:38):
That's right. You got to go check out the newest.
Speaker 7 (28:42):
Hot spot and hidden gym, The hot Spot and Hidden Gym.
Speaker 2 (28:46):
What's your favorite most recent thing that you've done on
the show on aliandscripted.
Speaker 8 (28:49):
Ooh, we just shot our Halloween episode coming on October third,
and we were at this place out in North Hollywood,
a secret garden.
Speaker 3 (29:01):
Oh yeah, okay, it really cute.
Speaker 8 (29:03):
Really, I don't even want to diminish what it is
by calling it cute, but because it's beautiful story a
husband and wife who both lost their mothers and bonded
over that, and they created this kind of very this
place where you can kind of go and tap into
all the mystic you know, parts and facets of life.
Speaker 5 (29:21):
You know.
Speaker 8 (29:21):
They've got a room that's got like neon lights and
they have Tarot cart readings.
Speaker 3 (29:26):
It's crazy, But what a trip for Halloween.
Speaker 8 (29:29):
It actually is really cool because it's like, you know,
amazed on the inside.
Speaker 3 (29:33):
A mystic trip to North Hollywood.
Speaker 7 (29:34):
Yes, so I would.
Speaker 8 (29:36):
I that was really cool because I do a lot
of places where you can eat so right.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
And I haven't seen you do a sensory deprivation tank yet.
I feel like everybody on that show has to at
least do one where you sit in a sensory deprivation
tank and flip out.
Speaker 7 (29:50):
No, I've done Cold Plunge.
Speaker 3 (29:51):
Oh that's a good one too.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
There's like all these like they got a hit, the
greatest hits, you know, the Cold Plunge is definitely up there.
Speaking of other things that are cold, have you heard
of this dirty soda trend?
Speaker 1 (30:06):
You know?
Speaker 2 (30:07):
Yes, Yeah, you're just gonna say yes because we just
talked about it. Yes, This is the thing that I
find to be incredibly disgusting, but I guess it's a
very popular thing. It's a Utah trend originally that started
on TikTok and it is spread far and wide with
the help of the social media platform and the reality
TV show The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives. You know,
(30:28):
they don't drink caffeine or alcohol, so this is kind
of I guess, a stand in what they're taking soda
or pop, if you will, and they are adding things
like syrups, flavored syrups, creams, other ingredients, and a drink
chain called Swig. Allegedly, they coined the term dirty soda
(30:53):
back in twenty ten and now they have one hundred
and forty locations across sixteen states. They think they're doing
for soda what Starbucks did for coffee, according to their CEO,
Alex Done.
Speaker 8 (31:04):
So this seems like a fast train of diabetes, but
it's just my immediates. Yeah, well, it's like the thing
that alcohol. Obviously, I know they're not drinking alcohol for
religious reasons, but the thing that alcohol and vull cap
coffee will do for you is give you a low
caloric count and sugar. If you're doing the right ones,
(31:24):
and that's just you know's red wines and all the
things that also have health benefits. This seems like it's
not good for you. Well, what immediately stands out to me?
Speaker 3 (31:34):
No, I think you're right.
Speaker 2 (31:36):
I mean, it's just soda with more stuff, and a
lot of times there's cream. And they say that it
has great and wide appeal because it's got less less
caffeine than coffee, and consumers can drink it all day long.
And it's becoming so popular that Pepsi is getting in
on it. They're unveiling too ready to drink dirty sodas
inspired by those beverages you can get your hands on
(31:59):
the dirt already do and mug floats, vanilla Howler, Oh
my goodness, that is falling on the heels of the
Pepsi wild Cherries and cream flavor, which apparently is already
on the shelf right.
Speaker 8 (32:12):
They say, don't drink pop or soda, but now, but
now we're making it dirty.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
Well, and people, I think, for the most part, have
been giving up the soda thing for years. Yes, they've said,
forget it, I'm doing iced coffee. Soda sales are way down,
so they got to figure out ways to bring people
back into the fold.
Speaker 9 (32:27):
I see, I see what you're doing. PEPSI Secret wives
and secret lives of Mormon wives. Yeah, I hope they
give them a cut, can beat them, Join them people
where they are there?
Speaker 2 (32:35):
You go, oh, I'm snapping. Where can people find you
on the internet.
Speaker 8 (32:39):
You can find me on Instagram. That's where I am
the most. Jasmine A Simpkins. My TikTok is Jazz. I
don't even know my TikTok name. I believe it's Jasmine
A simp Jaz.
Speaker 3 (32:51):
Well we could just google you. Yeah, you just google
me there.
Speaker 7 (32:53):
Find me on Google.
Speaker 3 (32:54):
Google will tell you.
Speaker 2 (32:55):
And watch her all the time on Eli uscripted seven
thirty pm Monday through Fridays.
Speaker 8 (32:59):
Yes, and then it encores on the weekend. Hey, ask
me what time, but it ocurs on the weekend.
Speaker 7 (33:04):
I thank you.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
Yeah, well, thanks for joining me and we'll see you as soon.
Always a pleasure seeing you.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
K f I A M six forty on demand
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
We got so much like I said, happening, I think it.
Zalez is on the ones and twos, Nicky's on the
ones and twos, Sam is on the ones and twos.
Matt also on the ones and twos. So many ones
and twos handled here for you on this afternoon. If
you'd like to say hello, you can of course use
the talkback feature on the KFI iHeartRadio app. Just look
(00:30):
for KFI, look for that microphone, click a button, say hello.
We'll play it on the show Coming up today On
the Ady Reesemeyer Show, people living in Alta, Dina are
slamming a new report about what happened in the Eaton fire.
They say, not enough blame to go around. Also, a
little bit later, Jasmine Simpkins from KTLA and elsewhere in
(00:52):
the media world will join us at three thirty to
talk about ours two thirty rather to talk about entertainment.
We're getting inside the inside scoop here on this new
Leonardo DiCaprio movie, One Battle after Another?
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Was it a flop? How is it doing?
Speaker 2 (01:08):
There's a dentist in Chicago who's getting drilled for taking
a political side. The problem is it's the wrong dentist
and a new scam at the Long Beach Police Department
wants you to be aware of some scary stuff. But
first we're gonna go up to Grand Blanc, Michigan for
an update on that shooting at a church today. Two
people have been confirmed dead eight others are wounded after
(01:31):
a shooting and a fire at a church in Michigan.
It was a Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day
Saints in Grand Blanc, Michigan. Authority say a gunman rammed
a vehicle through the front of the church during a
large service, began shooting, then intentionally set a fire that
grew into a bigger fire the whole building. Officers exchanged
(01:52):
fire with the gunman and they killed him. He has
been identified as a forty year old from Michigan. Flint, Michigan,
is near where Grand Block is, a suburb of Flint, Michigan.
It's about an hour north of Detroit if you're familiar. Earlier,
the police chief, William Rain, spoke to the media.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
Here's what he had to say ten twenty five am
at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
a forty year old suspect from Burton. He's a male.
He drove his vehicle through the front doors of the church.
He then exited his vehicle, firing several rounds individuals within
(02:29):
the church. Ten gunshot victims have been transported to local
hospitals at this time. Officers who were trained immediately responded
to the area where they met the suspect and they
engaged in gunfire with that particular individual neutralized and that
suspect and that suspect is no longer with us. During
(02:51):
all this incident as well, there was a fire that
occurred and we believed that that was deliberately set by
this suspect. Do you believe that we will find additional
victims once we have that scene secure.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
So the reason update past hour or so is that
two people have been confirmed to have died in that shooting.
The FBI hundreds of agents have been sent to the area.
According to the police chief, authorities are executing a search
warrant at the suspect's residence and we'll be going through
cell phone records to find out if there was a motive.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
The chief said.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Hundreds of people were attending the service at the time
of the attack, and it's you might have heard Eileen
Gonzalez talking about this. The second deadly shooting at a
church in the matter of a month. In a few
days August twenty seventh, the shooter fired through the window
of a church in Minneapolis, killing two children and wounding
(03:50):
fourteen others. On September nineteenth, days before Rashashana, a thirty
year old thirty one year old rather a man ugedly
set fire to a synagogue in Southwest Florida. The President says,
I have a statement here. This appears to be yet
(04:10):
another targeted attack on Christians in the United States of America.
The Trump administration will keep the public posted. This epidemic
of violence in our country must end immediately.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
Terrible.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
I mean, it's just like I can't you know here
we are sitting again on a Sunday, at least today,
I think it was a Wednesday with the church in Minneapolis.
But just reflecting on the horror of people going somewhere
where they think they will be safe, where they're worshiping.
(04:46):
Awful down to Long Beach. Different situation happening. Police warning
of a new old scam.
Speaker 5 (05:00):
As the investigators say the scammers will reach you. They'll
call you, and then they'll claim to be law enforcement,
impersonating police officers, claiming to even be federal agents, claiming
to be with the US Marshall Service, the ATF Immigration,
claiming that you're under investigation. You'll be arrested unless you
pay them money. They want money in several different forms.
Some of the victims already have copped up thousands of
(05:21):
dollars and then these scammers are away just like that.
That's why police say it's a big time threat. They
want to shut it down. They have a crime bulletin
they have issued. Let's take a look at that. It reads,
in part and I quote, scammers pressured victims into withdrawing cash,
purchasing gift cards, or writing i should say, wiring money,
resulting in losses of tens of thousands of dollars. Imagine that,
(05:42):
and then the rest of that. That wired bulletin goes on,
maybe with the best things that we've got to remember here,
And the first one is really a good one to
remember because it even fooled me too. The real investigators say,
don't trust your caller ID. These scammers are so good
at it now in a dirty way. They can mimic
the caller ID and make it look like it's the
agency that they claim they're calling for.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
I'm so worried about where the future of AI will
take us with this as well, where the voice to
text or text to speech rather is going to get
so good. We already see it with these chatbots, where
they're able to either impersonate people that you know or
impersonate famous people. Tough out there, But I guess if
a police officer hits you up and asks you for
(06:21):
money to make a problem go away, that should be
your first indication. Something's a little weird, something's a little hanky.
I'll just have to say it coming up. Are you funny?
Are you trying to be funny at work? Maybe it's
a mistake. I'm reading this study very closely. We'll tell
you why, Plus Dirty Soda, how beverage companies are cashing
(06:42):
in on this I think personally kind of discusting trend.
Plus we'll talk to Jasmine Simpkins in a little bit,
and that Chicago dentist who's being doxed for something maybe
that you didn't even do.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
It of course is football season. I'm making no bones
about it. I'm sure a lot of people are out
there watching the football games. The Indianapolis Colts taking on
the La Rams.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
I don't know. I'm kind of divided here and from Indianapolis.
You know this.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Currently the Colts lead ten to six, second and goal
Rams have the ball up. Here we go, We're gonna
get a touchdown, touchdown Rams. And that's the extent of
my sports career. But what's kind of fun is that
we've got sports on all the.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
TVs right now.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
You've got women's basketball, you've got football, got Chiefs, Ravens,
got Colts. Let's see what is this Colts and Rams.
And then you have Kansas City versus Texas on the
CW channel five k t LA, And I thought, oh,
(08:05):
that's an interesting matchup. But it is not football. It's
bull riding. Very cool. Those bulls look very mean. Eric
Adams is out of the race for mayor in New
York City. It has been an honor to be your mayor,
he says, but he was unable to raise the funds.
(08:26):
It's a move that maybe was anticipate anticipated. There was
weeks of speculation he might clear the way of for
former Governor Andrew Cuomo and brother of News Nations Chris Cuomo.
In a contest where Democratic nominee Zoran Mamdani, a Democratic Socialist,
has gained momentum. Mam Donnie framed Adam's exit as a
pivotal moment, pledging that voters in November will turn the
(08:49):
page on politics of big money and small ideas. He
of course, has drawn a lot of attention for being
a rather young man in the political game, which is
generally older, So we'll see what happens there. Also over
in Altadena, we talked about this on Thursday on The
(09:11):
mo Kelly Show when I was filling in from O
an examination an investigation into what went wrong in the
Eton fire up in Pasadena or Altadina. Rather, there was
a long list of shortcomings, but it's an after action
report that stops short of singling out individual leaders for
(09:35):
the problems, and this is starting to make people in
Altadena a little bit upset. The report did not detail
exactly who or what was responsible for the issues. County officials,
of course, have called the reaction to the Eaten fire
an epic fail. The lack of blame, says the La Times,
(09:55):
appears to have arisen by design, despite fire victims repeated
calls for accountability. It was a two million dollar report
commissioned by the La County Board of Supervisors. It came
out on Thursday. LA County Supervisor Catherine Barger, who represents Altadena,
called for a review after The La Times reported in
January that almost all of the Eton fire deaths occurred
(10:18):
on the unincorporated town's west side, and West Altadena did
not get notifications to evacuate nineteen people. Nineteen people died there.
The report found that a little before midnight, this is
after the fires had been going for a few hours,
(10:39):
a staff member from the La County Fire Department suggested
to the fires Unified Command staff that due to high winds,
evacuation orders should go out for most of the San
Gabriel foothills That would include all of Altadena. Unified command staffers,
according to this report, though said they didn't recall this.
Two hours later, another fire staffer radioed that they saw
(10:59):
the fired orth of Farnsworth Park moving west along the
foothills into West Altadena, and not until hours later three
twenty five in the morning did most West Altadena residents
receive an evacuation order. The report did not say why
the midnight recommendation wasn't received or acted on, or why
it took more than an hour for the second radio
call to be sent as an evacuation order. It did
(11:21):
not say who was responsible for those decisions or if
others should have stepped in. Now a lot of people
are very mad about this. Shawna Dawson Beer, who she
herself lost a home in northwest Altadena, said the report
shielded county officials, particularly fire and sheriff officials. We want
(11:43):
to know who is responsible, she says, name the officials
identified the decision maker, saying it's not about blame, it's
about responsibility. I think it's important to say that there's
a lot of support for the first responders among the
community in Altadena, but there is a sense of what
(12:06):
happened that led us to this place where the firefighters
had to do these things. If you remember that night,
there was a lot of confusion. It was really difficult
to have an understanding of anything because the wind was
so strong. You didn't have any kind of surveillance to
see where the fire was moving. You would normally see
(12:28):
fire like on television from the helicopters, but they couldn't
fly to the helicopters because the wind was so bad and
there was a temporary flight restriction. And so I think
you have this whole group of people who say, Okay,
you spent two million dollars for this survey, this investigation,
(12:51):
but we don't know.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
Why are you funny at work?
Speaker 6 (13:01):
Eileen?
Speaker 3 (13:02):
Do you try to be funny at work? Ever?
Speaker 6 (13:05):
No, I'm not a funny person.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
That's I don't believe that.
Speaker 6 (13:09):
I have a weird, quiet, sort of dark humor.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
Like you know, there's a lot of expectations for people
when they are funny, to be funny all the time.
We don't have these same kind of expectations for pretty
much anybody else as far as consistency. You know, like,
if you're a batter, a major League Baseball hitter, and
(13:33):
you've got, like, I don't know, three out of ten
you hit a home run, you're in the Hall of fame.
If you're a funny person or a comedian and you're
doing three out of ten, you're you're a dud.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Well, if you are trying to get ahead at work,
maybe you shouldn't be funny.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
That's according to a new study. In a nutshell, they.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Say, while jokes may build likability and creativity, research shows
failed attempts often damage credibility more than successful ones help.
Speaker 6 (14:09):
Maybe everywhere except radio.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
H yeah or TV or yeah perform? Yeah right, if
you were a late night talk show.
Speaker 6 (14:16):
Host, like, we've got some really popular funny people on
air here.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
That's exactly right, they say. It's a there's an issue
here where.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
You know.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
Comedy works by bending or breaking norms, and when the
rules aren't broken in just the right way, you can
harm your reputation. People find jokes funny when they break
rules while seeming harmless. Miss one of the ingredients. When
you tell a joke and your audience won't appreciate it,
I wish you could break down. This report is attempting
to break down like the magic of comedy into something
so specific and robotic.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
But sure whatever, that takes the fun out of it.
I think so too.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
They say it's hard enough to get laughs in the
darkness of a comedy club under fluorescent office lights, the
razor thin line becomes even harder to walk. Oh whatever,
This is written by somebody who's not funny.
Speaker 6 (15:06):
Yeah, I think I wrote.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
It you wrote this, No, well check this out.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
Another study found that bosses who joke too often push
employees into pretending to be amused, which drain's energy, reduces
job satisfaction and increases burnout. That is funny, Oh no,
when this is awful. The risks are higher for women
due to a double standard. When women use humor and presentations,
they're often judged as being less capable and having lower
(15:33):
status than men.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
Horrible.
Speaker 6 (15:37):
I don't like that.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
I don't like any of that. I don't like any
of this.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
I do love the idea of a boss trying to
make people laugh and then feeling like they have.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
To laugh at their boss.
Speaker 6 (15:45):
That's true though.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
That feels very much like the office.
Speaker 6 (15:47):
It's the obligatory, yeah.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
Barry Michael Scott. Ha ha ha.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
I think actually, in my personal opinion, it's easier to
get laughs at work than it is as a stand up.
Speaker 6 (15:59):
Yeah, because people have to be you know, yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
In my position, they have to laugh at me. They
don't have to laugh, No, no one should.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
It is Sunday, Sunday Sunday, which means it's time for
the Andy Reestemeyer Show. Sorry, I've joined in studio by
my very good friend. I'm trying to think how long
we've known each other. Probably thirty years, Jasmine Simpkins, Oh.
Speaker 7 (16:33):
I love this. Thirty years.
Speaker 8 (16:34):
I think thirty years in our it feels out right
like when we met, it felt like we had known
each other forever.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
That is so sweet, And we're not just saying that.
Speaker 7 (16:43):
It's really only probably been like.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
Probably eight six five, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
We met at KTLA and you are now you've kind
of infiltrated the whole operation there. You're on Ellie unscripted.
You do some entertainment stuff, you do some some feature reporting.
Are we going to say we're going to send you
a to city Hall and do some do some political
wonk stuff.
Speaker 8 (17:05):
I know that's almost like the next box to check.
That's the next box doing a little bit of everything.
Funny story because I you know, I was doing entertainment
for so many years before I got to KTLA, And
so when I got there, and I remember talking to
Jason Ball, our previous news director.
Speaker 7 (17:23):
Yeah, and obviously.
Speaker 8 (17:25):
Coming on to five Live, and I remember saying, I
really don't want to do entertainment.
Speaker 7 (17:30):
I want to do other stuff.
Speaker 8 (17:32):
I'm kind of like expand my horizons, and little by
little I kind of have gotten sucked back into that
world and lifestyle space with Alien scripture, which absolutely I
love and I love Kimberly My.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
So fun to watch. Yeah, you always look like you're
having the best time.
Speaker 4 (17:49):
I am.
Speaker 8 (17:50):
But that's my philosophy about everything with journalism. I don't
care about the person that I'm talking to. That's who's
going to have fun, I am. And I don't mean
in the mean.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
Way we need more journalists like you, Jazz.
Speaker 7 (18:02):
It's my time too.
Speaker 8 (18:03):
Right, Like, if I'm spending four minutes or ten minutes,
I'm going to have a good time.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
Well, I'll tell you what.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
People love to see people win. And I think one
of the ways that you could win on TV is
if you're having a good time and people pick up
on that. Yeah, and I think that there is some
value in that for sure. Let's talk about entertainment. Paul
Thomas Anderson's new movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio an up and comer.
Speaker 8 (18:28):
Oh yes, he's just just now starting to get some shine.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
One battle after another is what it is called. You
saw it.
Speaker 7 (18:36):
I saw it, you liked it. I did like it.
I was listen.
Speaker 8 (18:40):
If you know anything about Paul Thomas Anderson, then you
kind of know that his films are going to be
a little bit different. Obviously, he always has some really
cool storytelling involved in it. This film, I think is
actually very well written and directed.
Speaker 7 (18:57):
The cast is phenomenal.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
It's it's like an interesting follow up after Licorice Pizza
for Paul Thomas Anderson to do this, like big budget
action movie, yes, after this kind of.
Speaker 7 (19:11):
But here's the thing.
Speaker 8 (19:12):
It's a big budget action movie, but still like this
small story, if that makes any sense. And I don't
want to give too much away, but there's there's a
simple story, but then there's all this other stuff going
on around it. But at the core of it, I
would say, is this guy, obviously, Leonardo DiCaprio, who's like
this ex military guy and kind of gets sucked back
(19:33):
into this world of sorts of things. But you you know,
by the end of it, you kind of understand and
root for him in terms of why the journey went
the way it did for him. And yeah, so that's
why I think it's simple. I think Licorice Pizza had
a very simple storyline, and I.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
Think that was very much more of a vibe piece though,
and full disclosure, I've not seen this movie yet, but
I know that the audience seems to be liking it
ninety percent ninety six percent on Rotten Tomatoes. The reviews
are generally good. However, this movie, which needs around three
hundred million dollars globally to break even, did not do
too great in its weekend opening. What do you think
(20:13):
happened there?
Speaker 8 (20:13):
I don't think it's a reflection of how good the
film is. I think it's a reflection of where we
are now with studios scrambling to try and figure out
how to market movies. And I've seen it because I've
covered film for so long, and so there's this like
new media obviously, and it's not really new anymore, right,
Like social media has been around for quite some time.
They're just now tapping into how do we meet the
(20:36):
people where they are. They're on their phone every day
all day, and so now it's about marketing on devices
and on streaming outside of streaming platforms. But what I
mean by that is YouTube using these other entities. But
I think the I think the traditional studio system is.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
So anti Yeah, well no, because it's a sense of
like we are better than social media. Though I have
heard recently, I know that there's a big listen and
inevitability just says like, Okay, do you want to have
people at your stuff or not? And so it's almost
like social has forced the hands of the traditional model
(21:14):
to do stuff. A friend of mine who I know
through work works on another show said earnestly. The executive
producer said, recently, our focus now is social media.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
In twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
It's like as if it's a brand new idea, which
is crazy to me because I think that I hear
a lot of the same stuff at other places, unscripted whatever.
It's like Hollywood has said the Internet is not important.
We don't take it seriously. We'll put the people who
can't hack it in traditional will run the digital departments,
(21:49):
and then they get fired and they wonder why the
internet's eating their lunch.
Speaker 8 (21:53):
Yeah, listen, I get it. It's tough right now where
everyone's still trying to figure it out. There are no
no one knows what the algorithm even really is.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
No, here's a conspiracy theory. There is no such thing.
Speaker 6 (22:07):
There you go, right, Like, how do you really go viral?
Speaker 8 (22:10):
Like this stuff is really hard to tangibly put a
number around, Like how do you market in that kind
of a space where you really where everything is just
up in the air, you know, one minute something could
trend on TikTok or it could not. I think also
they have to get out, they have to think outside
of the box in terms of just like Okay, we're
gonna do the Red Carpets and we're gonna do junkets,
(22:31):
and then talent's also got to the films you see
do really well.
Speaker 7 (22:34):
Talent's also got to work hard too.
Speaker 8 (22:36):
And nothing against Leo, but I think Leo's part of
that old school world of like, hey, I show up.
Speaker 7 (22:41):
On the day, I gotta show up, right.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
He's not doing a lot of internet promotion, but I
don't think I think it does feel undignified for him, yeah,
you know, because like I don't want to see him
go do goofy stuff, where as I mean, at the
same time, you see Glenn Powell doing Jake Shane's podcast,
which is a wild thing to think about in twenty
twenty five. But the old school legacy talent like Leo,
(23:05):
like anybody who's been as a Scorsees film, I just
can't imagine them like trying to go hit up Addison
Ray and do a TikTok video.
Speaker 8 (23:11):
And so, yes, we do have that conundrum of like,
oh my god, this is Harrison Ford. You know, he's
certainly not going to go sit with Kai Sanotto.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
Right, who is do a little livestream twitch, let's play
with Fortnite.
Speaker 8 (23:25):
But then you look at someone like Tom Cruise and
I talk about him all the time why he's my
favorite because Tom is going to do all of the
pomp and circumstance. He's got to fly a helicopter to
his premiere, jump out in a parachute, like.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
All does He understands this is the game.
Speaker 7 (23:42):
This is the game.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
And I think that even though I do feel like
it's undignified, I don't know what the word is for
Leo to do that. I'm also like, you know what, sorry, Bucko, like,
get with the program. Unfortunately, this is just the world
we live in now.
Speaker 8 (23:54):
Yeah, and so Tom understands, Okay, social media is also
a stage.
Speaker 9 (23:57):
Let me do what I need to do to also
make that guy has as big of a star as Leo. Ever,
was and has been. Or Leo's a big as big
of a star as as Tom Cruise ever was. But
that guy puts butts in seat.
Speaker 8 (24:09):
He puts butts in see. He's single handedly, in my opinion,
fight me. I think he saved the movie business during COVID.
You know, when Top Gun came out, people weren't going
to the theaters, but they went time and time again
to see that film and it. You know, it was
this resurgence all of a sudden. Everyone was like, oh
my god, people do want to go to the theater.
You got to give them something to see, right, because
(24:31):
everybody can with their big screen TVs can watch movies
at home. You got to give them something worthy of
going to the box office. But you also had a
taliment's there, Yeah, because if they knew it, they might
want to go and just sit in the theater and
veg out.
Speaker 7 (24:45):
There's a lot of cool theaters.
Speaker 3 (24:46):
No, yeah, of course, may with that Alamo Draft House.
Speaker 8 (24:49):
Give me with that Alamo Draft House. I mean even
there's a cool spot out this way, vidiots if you're in.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
Oh, I love that. Yeah, it's a little more hipster
for sure. Yeah.
Speaker 8 (24:56):
Yeah, there's cool places also to go see a movie.
So if people people knew that, I hear that often,
and I'm sure you do. People are like, I didn't
even know that was out.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
Yeah, I do hear that, and I say, I've been
trying to get you to go see this movie. Fart weeks.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
All right, quick break, when we come back more with
Jasmine Simpkins here on the Andy Reesemeier Show.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
Welcome back to the Andy Reespier Show. Hopefully we stay
far from tragedy this afternoon. We will in studio with
Jasmine Simpkins, who is an entertainment reporter works for KTLA
also on LA Unscripted. One of the hosts a Woman
about town, a bon vavont. If you will, what would
Jasmine Simkins be doing if she was not on TV?
Speaker 3 (25:40):
Like, what would you have done? And had you had
a different career path?
Speaker 8 (25:44):
I know I have the answer because it was it
was like down to the wire when I was at UCLA.
Speaker 7 (25:49):
Shout out any brewing Noll Bruins.
Speaker 3 (25:51):
We want to talk about the football program.
Speaker 7 (25:53):
We will not, we will not.
Speaker 8 (25:55):
I was going to either major in English literature because
no journalism, but I knew I wanted to be a
journalist or architecture an interior design.
Speaker 7 (26:06):
Wow, yes, it was, it was.
Speaker 8 (26:08):
I was taking a few classes in both areas and
really loved architecture.
Speaker 7 (26:13):
I still do.
Speaker 8 (26:14):
And so you learned about those under hues. Yeah, and
so had I had.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
I not those gables, those mansard roofs.
Speaker 7 (26:22):
Look at you.
Speaker 3 (26:23):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
I've exhausted all of the things that I ever know.
Do you still do a little design?
Speaker 7 (26:27):
And is your is your home and friends from time
to time, So.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
MTV cribs will show up at your house, it'll be
a good day. No, it will not be a good day.
You know those MTV Let's just not go this. That
was just so over the top. That was in design,
that was just gaudy. I'm rich and I've got a goldfish.
Speaker 3 (26:47):
Now get out of here. And then they would.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
Celebrities were and are a different, a different breed. Let's
talk about celebrities.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
This week.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
You are going to New York for very important trial
or at least an important meeting sentencing.
Speaker 8 (27:04):
Yes, so I've been covering Sean Diddy Combs his his
trial for the last like six months, so so you know,
and everything kind of kicked off jury pri lim stuff
and then set through the trial. It was only eight weeks.
Actually thought it was going to be a little longer
than that, but the judge was really adamant that, like,
you know, we could get in and get out of
(27:26):
this thing. So I appreciated that because I've said through
longer trial. Oh yeah, And so now it's time for sentencing,
which is going to be on Friday, October third. You know,
it really really quick. If anybody's been following, you know
he was. He got two of the charges that out
of all of them, which were the trafficking sorry, the
travel for prostitutions. So if he didn't get the sex
(27:46):
trafficking or the rico charges, so he got the lesser
of the charges, which you know everyone's throwing around all
the maximum is twenty years. The judge is not giving
him twenty years for those counts. What they usually do
is they look at what the averages for people who've
been charged in those kind of crimes, and typically it's
about two and a half years to be honest for
traveling for prostitution. So and he has two so let's
(28:08):
say he gets two and a half two and a
half five years is what I'm thinking he's going to get.
He's been in it about a year, so we've got
a year time served. I think, I think if I
have to pick, you know, I think that's what the
judge is going to do and feel that he's being
fair to be honest.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (28:22):
Yeah, yeah. When do you head out there?
Speaker 7 (28:25):
I leave Thursday night.
Speaker 3 (28:26):
And you just have an open ended ticket or you
come back on a.
Speaker 8 (28:28):
Certain Oh no, I'm going to I'm a New York
Film festival. As we've talked about how I love Film
is going on right now in New York City, So
I might stick around and see a film or two
if I can, and then come on back.
Speaker 7 (28:37):
Because we've got work at Katill.
Speaker 3 (28:38):
That's right. You got to go check out the newest.
Speaker 7 (28:42):
Hot spot and hidden gym, The hot Spot and Hidden Gym.
Speaker 2 (28:46):
What's your favorite most recent thing that you've done on
the show on aliandscripted.
Speaker 8 (28:49):
Ooh, we just shot our Halloween episode coming on October third,
and we were at this place out in North Hollywood,
a secret garden.
Speaker 3 (29:01):
Oh yeah, okay, it really cute.
Speaker 8 (29:03):
Really, I don't even want to diminish what it is
by calling it cute, but because it's beautiful story a
husband and wife who both lost their mothers and bonded
over that, and they created this kind of very this
place where you can kind of go and tap into
all the mystic you know, parts and facets of life.
Speaker 5 (29:21):
You know.
Speaker 8 (29:21):
They've got a room that's got like neon lights and
they have Tarot cart readings.
Speaker 3 (29:26):
It's crazy, But what a trip for Halloween.
Speaker 8 (29:29):
It actually is really cool because it's like, you know,
amazed on the inside.
Speaker 3 (29:33):
A mystic trip to North Hollywood.
Speaker 7 (29:34):
Yes, so I would.
Speaker 8 (29:36):
I that was really cool because I do a lot
of places where you can eat so right.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
And I haven't seen you do a sensory deprivation tank yet.
I feel like everybody on that show has to at
least do one where you sit in a sensory deprivation
tank and flip out.
Speaker 7 (29:50):
No, I've done Cold Plunge.
Speaker 3 (29:51):
Oh that's a good one too.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
There's like all these like they got a hit, the
greatest hits, you know, the Cold Plunge is definitely up there.
Speaking of other things that are cold, have you heard
of this dirty soda trend?
Speaker 1 (30:06):
You know?
Speaker 2 (30:07):
Yes, Yeah, you're just gonna say yes because we just
talked about it. Yes, This is the thing that I
find to be incredibly disgusting, but I guess it's a
very popular thing. It's a Utah trend originally that started
on TikTok and it is spread far and wide with
the help of the social media platform and the reality
TV show The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives. You know,
(30:28):
they don't drink caffeine or alcohol, so this is kind
of I guess, a stand in what they're taking soda
or pop, if you will, and they are adding things
like syrups, flavored syrups, creams, other ingredients, and a drink
chain called Swig. Allegedly, they coined the term dirty soda
(30:53):
back in twenty ten and now they have one hundred
and forty locations across sixteen states. They think they're doing
for soda what Starbucks did for coffee, according to their CEO,
Alex Done.
Speaker 8 (31:04):
So this seems like a fast train of diabetes, but
it's just my immediates. Yeah, well, it's like the thing
that alcohol. Obviously, I know they're not drinking alcohol for
religious reasons, but the thing that alcohol and vull cap
coffee will do for you is give you a low
caloric count and sugar. If you're doing the right ones,
(31:24):
and that's just you know's red wines and all the
things that also have health benefits. This seems like it's
not good for you. Well, what immediately stands out to me?
Speaker 3 (31:34):
No, I think you're right.
Speaker 2 (31:36):
I mean, it's just soda with more stuff, and a
lot of times there's cream. And they say that it
has great and wide appeal because it's got less less
caffeine than coffee, and consumers can drink it all day long.
And it's becoming so popular that Pepsi is getting in
on it. They're unveiling too ready to drink dirty sodas
inspired by those beverages you can get your hands on
(31:59):
the dirt already do and mug floats, vanilla Howler, Oh
my goodness, that is falling on the heels of the
Pepsi wild Cherries and cream flavor, which apparently is already
on the shelf right.
Speaker 8 (32:12):
They say, don't drink pop or soda, but now, but
now we're making it dirty.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
Well, and people, I think, for the most part, have
been giving up the soda thing for years. Yes, they've said,
forget it, I'm doing iced coffee. Soda sales are way down,
so they got to figure out ways to bring people
back into the fold.
Speaker 9 (32:27):
I see, I see what you're doing. PEPSI Secret wives
and secret lives of Mormon wives. Yeah, I hope they
give them a cut, can beat them, Join them people
where they are there?
Speaker 2 (32:35):
You go, oh, I'm snapping. Where can people find you
on the internet.
Speaker 8 (32:39):
You can find me on Instagram. That's where I am
the most. Jasmine A Simpkins. My TikTok is Jazz. I
don't even know my TikTok name. I believe it's Jasmine
A simp Jaz.
Speaker 3 (32:51):
Well we could just google you. Yeah, you just google
me there.
Speaker 7 (32:53):
Find me on Google.
Speaker 3 (32:54):
Google will tell you.
Speaker 2 (32:55):
And watch her all the time on Eli uscripted seven
thirty pm Monday through Fridays.
Speaker 8 (32:59):
Yes, and then it encores on the weekend. Hey, ask
me what time, but it ocurs on the weekend.
Speaker 7 (33:04):
I thank you.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
Yeah, well, thanks for joining me and we'll see you as soon.
Always a pleasure seeing you.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
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