December 28, 2025 • 32 mins
Are modern influencers going away? A look at how influencer culture could look like in 2026. Also, how the realtor business looks like this time of year - what are the new trends for houses? Plus, a bar in Tokyo is going viral.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
It is kf I AM six forty. This is the
Andy Reesemeyer Show. I'll be with you all the way
un till four o'clock. And I love hearing from people
who are listening to the show. Listening to the show.
We so appreciate it when you when you say hello
on that talkback feature on the KFI app or the
KFI iHeartRadio app rather going to the KFI page. It's
(00:55):
always a pleasure. I was talking just a bit ago
about covering when I would do live shots in front
of the Queen Mary in downtown Long Beach in the
harbor there, and I may have at one point called
it a boat like off handed live like there's a
big boat, you know, some dumb thing that I would say.
You've seen me, you know who I You can't trust
(01:18):
that I'm going to say things correctly. So we've had
two people sending talkbacks that I wanted to get to Nikki.
Do know the names of the people who sent these
talkbacks in? Are they just anonymous?
Speaker 3 (01:29):
I think they are just anonymous unless I said it
in the talk back and I missed it.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
We don't except you know, we don't take all your
information down or anything like that. Sure, let's listen. The
difference between a ship and a boat is that a
boat can't carry a ship, but a ship can carry
a boat. Perfect, We got another one. Let me see.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
Basically, the difference between a boat and a ship is
a ship can carry a boat or a boat can't
carry a ship.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Does that make sense? Everybody?
Speaker 5 (02:05):
Sure does?
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Yeah? I like that sometimes the things that those mariners know,
those seafare and folk, they just make sense, just works out.
Did you know that anything could be called a yacht?
It's like if you can dream it, it can be a yacht.
That's the truth.
Speaker 5 (02:25):
What makes it a yacht? Is it the sale?
Speaker 2 (02:27):
No, it's just if it's anything can be a yacht.
There's like no definition unless I'm wrong, and I please
all of the boat community please start dinghy is not
a yacht. But I don't think that there's you know,
in your mind you think yacht is expensive or big
or something, you know, big white sails. It somehow has
some kind of specific meaning. But I'm fairly certain that
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there is no like nautical definition as far as like
what a yacht could be. You could just call anything
a yacht, and it would be a yacht, which I
kind of like. You ever go on boats, you ever
do any yachting out.
Speaker 5 (03:02):
There, I get so seasick. Terrible.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Is like having food poisoning. Oh it's really bad.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Yeah, it's a tough thing.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
When I was a child, my parents used to take
us on all the cruises, and I remember one year
it was the CEA Princess Cruise. We got caught in
between two cyclones, Cyclone Anne and Cyclone Aggie, and it
was horrific.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Yeah, no fun, that's it. I would never get on
a boat or ship ever again. I went out one
time on a remember we had the July fourth earthquake
many years ago here and my buddy had a boat
down in San Pedro, and so we went out the
next day and the weather was just weird. It was
real strange. We had a really serious Santa Anna wind event.
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So you're getting pushed out into the bay and we're
going out and we're getting his boat. And this is,
by the way, my friend who I've told you about before,
who's kind of a disaster person. His name is James
Love the guy, good dude. But he's always just like
living sort of on the edge. You know. The pandemic
was great for him because he already lives in chaos
at all times, and he figures out how to get
out of these situations. He's really good at just dealing
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with life on the line. He's the guy who made
me go up and I went skiing with him for
the first time. He took me up to a black diamond.
I had to ride down on my butt anyway. So
he's like, let's go out on this boat. I just
bought this sailboat two days ago for three thousand dollars.
Nothing can go wrong, right, So we get in the
boat and we're heading out there and the wind is whipping,
so we get shot way out into the ocean. We
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go past the breakwater, past Long Beach, like into the
open ocean, and the shoreline is quickly disappearing, just just
smaller and smaller into the haze in the distance. And
we're roaming. We're doing okay, we're not doing bad. And
he looks over and all of a sudden, the boat
starts taking on water and I was like, what is
(04:49):
what is happening here? Like this is and he's like, oh,
it's just normal. Sprays comes up a little bit there,
like this is so strange, and it's like getting up
to our ankles, you know, and it's a tiny, little
twenty foot boat. I'm like, James, this is we got
to start. And then he like opens up the area
where the motor is and there's like, you know, a
little inboard motor in the back of the sailboat and
it is just flooded and we're like, oh my god,
(05:11):
what is going on here? So he like does some
jerry rigged stuff does He does the classic mcgiver thing
where he goes down under and he finds some cable
and a plug or something and figures out that like
if he puts pressure on the top of the lid
of the engine cover, then it'll actually hold the plug
at the bottom of the boat up, so then we
can stop taking on water. So we solved that issue.
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That's issue number one. Second, how do we get the
water out? So we got some cups and solo cups
and we're bailing water out of the side of the
boat with the solo cups. Just absolute psychosis. By the
time this all gets done, remember the wind has been
fairly strong. We are way out there and it's probably
two hours into the trip. Finally we want to come back,
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but we're facing into the wind because he's got this
offshore flow, and it takes us seven hours we can
we'd not get back till after dark because the man,
God love him, we had to sail back because he
did not check to see if the guy who sold
him the boat sold him a boat with a good battery.
(06:15):
So here we are with this boat having to sail
tack back and forth, back and forth, back and forth.
We didn't get in until way, way, way late, so
I'm doing a lot of boat in these days. After that,
I was going to talk about the news of the
of the week and what was happening here in southern
California as far as the rain, But I will just
tell you quickly before we get out of here, because
(06:36):
I'm way over on boat talk looking for probably rain.
Likely by New Year's Day. Gonna be nice but windy
here starting this evening all the way up until Tuesday.
Wednesday will be a transition day, which is New Year's
Eve might be raining. Remember we're still a few far
a few days out here, so when you're that far
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out sometimes it'll change, it'll adjust. But rain likely by
New Year's Day. Here in southern California, high wind Watch
in effect at ten pm tonight, looking at gusts between
forty five fifty miles an hour in those Santa Ana
wind corridors, mountain passes, interior valleys, desert facing communities. So
those north facing slopes in the Antelope Valley not fun,
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not fun stuff, but at least it's gonna beautiful here
for the next two or three days. If whinny all right?
Coming up, we're talking about influencers. We're talking about young kids,
like an old show's and maybe more boat talk if
we get some more talkbacks. And remember as we told you.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
And a ship is a ship can carry a boat
where a boat can't carry a ship.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
I'm Andy Reesemeyer. This is the Andy Reesmier Show.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Mark, you gotta tell me what is that what we're
listening to? It is kind of nineteen seventy five vibe
to it.
Speaker 6 (07:58):
Exactly what I was thinking when I for discoveredy. It's
by somebody named start Letta. It's a song it's called
Secondhand the Neon Remix.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
It's pretty fun. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (08:09):
Yeah, I just stumbled upon it on TikTok a couple
months ago. How to look it up? It was on
Spotify Phone love it they ever since?
Speaker 2 (08:16):
So for it? I love that.
Speaker 6 (08:17):
Well.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
We need some good positive eighties vibes too these days.
I'm a big fan of that. The record that I
tried to make years ago was is very much inspired
by that kind of era of music, and then the
nineteen seventy five started doing it, and now that there's AI,
it's kind of hard to to like get excited about
making music because even like listening to stuff, you're like,
is that AI that made by Souno? Is that a
(08:38):
real thing? Somebody made a search engine that basically allowed
you to look at everything that was going way back
to basically like nineteen or sorry, twenty twenty three. So
it's like anything that shows up on there was created
before twenty twenty three, which indicates that, you know, it's
probably made by a real human being. By the way,
(08:58):
I wanted to say a shout out to all my
fellow Chargers fans. Uh tough day yesterday, Chargers being Charger,
as Nicky's people say, Hot Break somehow failed scooting APPLYESA.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
Like this What the what was that?
Speaker 2 (09:18):
How do you say?
Speaker 1 (09:19):
You know?
Speaker 2 (09:19):
You know Nicole? You know Nicole Kidman does that thing
hot break failed scooting a place?
Speaker 3 (09:25):
Saw this Hot break feels good in a place like this?
Speaker 2 (09:28):
Have you not what are you not seen the AMC
commercial that she does?
Speaker 7 (09:32):
I haven't.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
I haven't gone to the cinema in a while.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Okay, all right, I know how, I know how like
embarrassing my accent was. It was not good, But I ah,
Marco's dying. Oh my gosh. That was my big laugh
of the day. Mario. I appreciate you supporting are our
absurdity over here? Do you see me laughing?
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Dog in my studio all the time. It's great. It's
what I want. I was hoping that if Mario's laughing,
then I'm hopeful. I'm hoping someone is finding this at
least somewhat interesting, if not spicy, at least somewhat interesting.
It's always a good time here. There you go. All right?
Is it the end of the line for hey guys online?
You know these YouTubers, these influencers, TikTokers, instagrammers, Hey guys,
(10:23):
that's the rule. You have to You can't nobody can
be famous if they can't say, hey, guys, that's been
for many years. But there's a debate raging on TikTok
over if the modern influencer is dead. And I think
the one that we're talking about specifically is the sort
of like glossy beauty, luxury goods influencers says the perfect
(10:44):
life can be mine or can be yours rather just
like mine. If you comment Andy for the link. It
started at least the conversation when beauty influencer Jacqueline Hill
asked her one point two million followers, why is no
one watching my stuff? She used to get a ton
of us on her luxury hauls her come with me
while I put this stuff on my face. Have you
(11:06):
tried honey on your face? I don't know if she
does that. I did see a girl who was like,
I put honey all over my face. And now I
love when you see like a dermatologist who's like, you
shouldn't do any of this, don't do any of this,
don't listen to this, because you know, anybody can do
anything on the internet these days. But she asked why
nobody's watching her stuff? She used to get a ton
of ews. Now she gets like maybe fifteen twenty thousand.
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She's thirty five. Despite what Don Lemon might have you believe,
apparently it has nothing to do with her aging out
and being too old for the platform. It's more that
she's just too much. A lot of commenters not coming
to her defense, saying, look, lady, we're tired of influencers
like you rubbing your wealth in our faces. And with
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the cost of everything, with the inflation, etc. The disconnect
is crazy, a professor of media studies told NBC News.
People are over the over consumption in general. We've had it.
A lot of it is a product of the influencer
industry itself, because people are relatable. They start making videos
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and then people say, oh, you're great, I like you.
And then they become famous and then they're no longer relatable.
They're rich. They suddenly have glamorous lifestyles, which is why
I have strived from the beginning to be as unrelatable
as possible. As a matter of fact, influencing is so
I rally. There is now a trend of deinfluencing, which
you may have seen as well, and that's where kids
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basically are just saying, here, I want you to see
this and don't buy anything because of it. No link below.
We have an update here from one of our listeners.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
A yacht is just a type of boat. There you
have it, yee a yacht?
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Yeah, where is the lie? I think that's right as
far as I was aware, and I just googled it
because I wanted to make sure. And you know, again,
the in the whole effort of I must be right,
this is just a very I hope that's a relatable
thing of all of us trying to just be right
all the time. There's no standard definition of yacht. The
term is generally applies to vessels with a cabin intended
for overnight use, So there you go. But technically it's
(13:09):
a sail or motor propelled watercraft made for pleasure, cruising
or racing. Could be a lot of different things. My
Volvo station wagon is that a yacht? Well in name only.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
Perhaps you're listening to kfi AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
Cruising along here just a little bit more time before
we hand it off to mister Chris Merrill, who I'm
so excited to talk to. In just a little bit,
I'm gonna be listening to him in the car as
I drive on home, and I hope that a lot
of that traffic that I saw earlier going out there
on the freeway, I hope that that's starting to starting
to go away. You know, maybe people are getting home
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from the holiday travels. Am I being? Is it hopeful?
I'm looking at the map right now. It doesn't look
too bad through the four or five always bad, but
and a little bit bad from Hollywood Dead Downtown LA.
But you already heard of traffic updates, so I won't
get into it. I won't believer the point we were
talking about New Year's Eve experiences, some fun things to
(14:05):
do here in southern California, and I was really surprised
to see that there's a lot of places that are
doing fireworks at nine pm and midnight. There is in
Long Beach nine pm and also midnight there will be
fireworks that you could see from the Queen Mary but
also Shoreline Park in the village over there. And as
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we said, there's a lot of restaurants in the area,
so you could get a reservation, but if you just
want to pop on down there, you'd probably be able
to see it, though it may be raining. Angel City
Brewery is doing a no cover New Years that's in
downtown LA. That's fun. Also in downtown LA is a
place called Broken Shaker where they do a rooftop party.
But a lot of these men, I'm telling you, with
the rain, I'm not really sure New Year's Eve at
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Disneyland is happening. They're going to be there all the
way till two am, staying open late on New Year's Eve.
It's called the New Year's Eve Fantasy in the Sky.
It's a special fireworks show also at nine pm and midnight,
but you need a reservation for that. Down in Orange
County as well, Coasta Mesa's Winterfest. It's a Christmas themed
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winterfest that still goes on all the way at least
to the beginning of the year. They will have an
extended hours till twelve thirty DJ sets tunes from tribute
band Queen Nation. I think they do Queen covers, I'm assuming,
and a fireworks show at midnight. Nott's Berry Farm is
nots Mary Farm right now. And finally, Tarrannaa will be
(15:35):
doing a Gatsby's Golden Gala. Oh that's really cool. Love
that tarrann Aa is super super awesome. I have truly,
I've only ever seen it on TV. I've like, I
don't know, you've never.
Speaker 5 (15:47):
Been to Terrann I've never been to Terrantes. Yeah, awesome, I.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
Mean I want to go. I just like went, Why
got I take out another mortgage in the house.
Speaker 7 (15:53):
It's not it's not that expensive to go to Tarranna.
Oh just stay there, isn't it. I mean, if I
just want to go and hang out. They have outdoor
concerts in the summer, and.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
It looks so beautiful.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
It's a beautiful spa resort down near Ranches Palace Verst.
Speaker 5 (16:07):
Yes, that's fence. You feel like you're in Hawaii.
Speaker 7 (16:10):
A most little trails you can just walk around. There's
some great little spots where you can get a bite
to eat. You know, you don't have to stay there. No,
you're right, that's really nice.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
I would like to go check that out. It's four
hundred dollars a night if you want to stay tonight
until tomorrow. So you know, that's that's not that bad
relatively speaking. That's for a high end resort. You know,
you go up to Santa Barbara, you want to stay
at Caruso's place, or you go up Oh, especially if
you go up the hill to the Santy Cedro ranch,
which is up there up behind Montacito, similar I think,
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level of fancy. It's like three thousand dollars a night
to stay there now, just like I don't know anybody.
Maybe in the old days, Glenn Walker always to tell me,
he goes like that, I was on the ten years
too late club, because you know, back when he started
ten twenty years before he was doing it, the anchors
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TV anchors were making like truly many millions of dollars
a year, and that is not the case anymore, and
it certainly isn't the case here in the radio station.
But even if you were making that much money back
in the early nineties, late eighties, a million bucks back
then was like eight million dollars today. Longsidhe Eileen, how's
(17:25):
the home home business going.
Speaker 5 (17:29):
It's starting to pick up a little bit.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
That's good.
Speaker 7 (17:31):
You know, I wanted to pick up a lot of
bit right picking up a little right now. It's down
just because the holidays. It always nobody wants to move
during the holidays. And the interest rates still aren't super great.
They're not as bad as they were, but they're not
super great. But I have a few people that want
to work together, you know, the beginning of the year.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
So well that's exciting.
Speaker 5 (17:53):
Yeah, a little.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
Now do you ever see KTLA's Kirk Hawkins is also
a realtor. Do you ever see him out there on
the on the on the mean streets. Do you guys
turf war at all about this?
Speaker 5 (18:04):
What area does you work?
Speaker 2 (18:06):
I think he's Hollywood in the valley and like Los Felism,
West Hollywood.
Speaker 7 (18:08):
Probably, I'm mostly West Side. Yeah, but I do Valley
and you know anywhere I can drive too.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
That's right, You'll do anything, I get it. I mean listen,
if I was a real drive, I would be like, yeah,
like I'm going all over the If there's a cool house,
I'm there.
Speaker 7 (18:23):
Yeah, I don't mind. I don't mind the drive. I
mean I don't love the drive, but I don't mind,
you know.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
Yeah. And you got to I feel bad for you,
like realtor. You guys got to be on all the time. Yeah,
I mean that's on call job. I mean that's something
to And I thought this before I bought a house.
I was like, oh, realtors just like show you around
the shoe the houses. It's like, no, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 7 (18:44):
There's so much work, you know. I hate that the
selling sunset shows that make it look like.
Speaker 5 (18:49):
It's so glamorous.
Speaker 7 (18:50):
And no, you go to inspections and you go, you
get dirty, and if you're a good realtor, you're you're
getting in there and you're helping your clients clean and
do whatever needs to be done.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
I'll tell you what my realtor I'll tell I'll say
her name. His name is Bill Lustig. He works at Compass,
and he is somebody who I met when I moved
to LA back in twenty ten. He was showing a
house or like a back house that I was going
to rent when I had first moved here, and I
didn't end up renting it, but I did. I hit
it off with him, and I thought it was a
cool guy, and we kept in touch over the years,
talking about houses and stuff. And he mostly worked in
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West Hollywood and sort of those old school craftsman style homes.
Speaker 5 (19:26):
I love craftsman homes.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
Oh, all those bungalows and over the Spaulding Square, I
think is what it's called. And when I went finally
time to go buy a house, I mean I had
known him for fifteen years and we were you know,
he just always kept in touch and was very kind
supportive of me when you know, for the work and
stuff like that. And in the process of buying a house,
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I realized what the value of a good realtor was
because we dealt with so many bad realtors and he
was so good, you know, from the buyer side, and
he was so good and he saved me so much
money because he could go to a house and walk
through and say, don't even worry. This is going to
be a huge issue for you. This will be an
(20:10):
issue with the insurance, or this will be an issue
with This is a real problem that you don't you know,
this is electrical issue. These the wires or cloth wired.
You know, you don't want to deal with that. You know,
things that you just wouldn't know about because when you're
especially first time on buyer, you're looking around thinking like, well,
like is my dining room table going to fit in here?
I don't know if I like these countertops, you know,
because you don't want to think it's all the fun
(20:31):
stuff that you want to do now, you do, know,
want to think about the stuff. It's like water heaters and.
Speaker 5 (20:36):
Pipes and pipes, electricity and yeah, oh is that like?
Speaker 2 (20:40):
Would I have ever known about what a cast iron
pipe was? What I ever cared about that before?
Speaker 7 (20:47):
Of course not, I think not as a first timer. No,
but on first timers I'm working with right now, and
I love doing that. I love helping first timers.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
It is so stressful, Like the ESCRO process is horrible.
It's so so frustrating.
Speaker 5 (21:01):
You have no idea, I'm sure.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
I mean we had to delay our ask grow by
like a week and a half because of some paperwork stuff,
and it was just it was terrible and we had
to pay extra. I mean, it's you know, I won't
bore you with the details, but I do want to
talk about what is happening in homes in twenty twenty six.
What are the new trends that people are going to
start putting in their houses, whether they're upgrades, design styles, whatever.
(21:24):
Wellness features are being mentioned thirty three percent more often
in Zilla listings compared to a year ago. SPA inspired
bathroom mentions enlistings are up twenty two percent. Traditional and
art deco styles are coming back into favor a bigger
part of a retro revival, so curves arches, scalloped edges,
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detailed woodwork, earth tones reminiscent of the English countryside, and
modern tutors. This is not a big surprise to me,
and I feel like you always see stuff happen in
Los Angeles before it happens in the rest of the country.
The trends happen on the coasts, unfortunately. Whether or not
you like that or not, I don't. It just seems
how to be how it is, and so you'll see
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stuff happening here in La that then you'll see them
play out in Indiana, for instance, where I'm from.
Speaker 5 (22:13):
A couple of years later leads over.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
Yeah, marble, mirrored surfaces, metallic accent, jewel tones from the
twenties and thirties.
Speaker 5 (22:23):
Yeah, starting to see that.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
Yeah. Paint colors include seventies colors that's fun, like orange, orange, green.
I don't know about that, a lot of maroons and browns,
calming blues and greens. Energy efficient homes are mentions are
on an uptick home batteries ev charging. Of course, that's
(22:47):
not really a surprise. Formal dining rooms with built ins,
infinity pools, and three car garages, however, might be on
their way out. According to the Zillo researchers, which I
this is kind of an interesting list of things, but
I also feel like, at the same time the things
that are so frustrating about especially I swear this is
just like social media. You look at stuff on the
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internet and you're like, oh, my house is old. Now
I gotta get something new.
Speaker 5 (23:11):
What about conversation pits.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
Oh I love a little step down in a kitchen
or living room so good. Oh yeah, I like that.
I like a breakfast nook. Give me a built in
breakfast nook all day a nook. Oh yeah, I just
want to I just want their not it does. I
just want it to not leak, you know. I just
(23:34):
want there to be raining, not to worry about if
I've got to have water on the floor in the
middle of the night.
Speaker 5 (23:41):
So what are your what are your okay? Your dream home?
Wanted it?
Speaker 1 (23:44):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (23:44):
Oh man, I like a I like an art deco
I would love to live in, like a cool old
forties house in like the Lose Feela's Oaks or something
like that. You know, something that felt like it was
very la very old school, kind of looked like a
boat that had been parked in the middle of the
middle of the city.
Speaker 5 (24:01):
Cool.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
I like that a lot.
Speaker 5 (24:03):
I just want something by the beach.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
Yeah, yeah, I mean I'd love to live man f only.
Speaker 5 (24:09):
I mean, I live by the beach, but I'd like.
Speaker 7 (24:11):
You just want to stay there A nice I guess
I don't want to craftsman home, but maybe a Cape
cod Yeah heck yeah.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
You know.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
The older I get, even going through the process, was like,
I just want a house. It's like going to be
the insurance on this isn't going to go crazy one day,
crazy place we live in.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
Demand, Mario. That was phenomenal. Great music choices today, Thank you,
thank you. A little bit of everything, Yeah, a little
bit of everything. And then towards the end, you know,
a little bit of a because it's the last Sunday
of twenty twenty five. That's right, And technically did Christmas
season continues on at least if you're a Taylor Swift
(24:50):
person well into January? She says you can keep your
Christmas lights up till January. That's what she says, So
be bad. I guess as a Hispanic we do keep
them up into January. Anyway. As to anybody. I mean,
I know it's like a Catholic thing for sure, to
keep it like, you know, you celebrate. I guess technically
the very Catholic celebrated all the way up until I
don't know, like the second week, first week maybe of January.
(25:11):
I think I think it should be acceptable to go
all the way to February. Truly. I have some neighbors
who have some LED lights that they put on basically
at the end of September, and then as the season
goes on, they just change the color of them, you know,
So they go from they go from like Halloween or
sorry for like a American flag colors for Labor Day.
(25:32):
Then they go to Halloween orange, and they get a
little more dark orange for Thanksgiving, and then they become
Christmas lights for December. It's good stuff. By the way,
a bar in Tokyo is going viral for a sign
outside showing how many guys and girls are inside. The
original post of the photo on x says I saw
a bar in Tokyo that has a live dashboard of
(25:53):
the gender ratio inside, and the photo uploaded from the
Oriental Lounge as it's called called what a Name, shows
an LED screen with big numbers, one hundred and twenty
two gentlemen on the top and one hundred and nineteen ladies.
It says inside the commentary says, why is this giving
San Francisco levels of negative aura? It is pretty funny,
(26:19):
but apparently one commenter says it's a matching bar, so
people go specifically to get matched with somebody else. So
it's helpful for both genders. I think for anybody who's
young and going out to a bar to try to
meet somebody, it would be a good information to have.
Though it seems a little predatory and creepy, I understand that.
Speaker 5 (26:36):
I like it.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
Yeah, you just get right down to it. Yeah I'm
not going because like if you're like, I'm not going
to that sausage fest, forget it.
Speaker 5 (26:45):
No, I'll be at the sausage So that's what.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
You're looking for, Okay, Yeah, I don't know. I mean, listen,
depends on the you know, to each his home. I
think that back to my early days of going out,
and I remember how like we would always go out
when I first to La with all my my buds
from the early two thousands or early twenty ten's a
lot of people from Indiana and we would go to
these bars and we would always be shocked why there
(27:08):
were no women there. And I look back now and
I'm like, well, of course there weren't women there. We
went to these like dirty dive bars way deep in
the valley.
Speaker 5 (27:17):
I thought you were going to say you were in wiho,
that's why there.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
Were no women.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
Well that also, I mean that that is a surefire
way to Yeah, if you go up and down Santa
Monica Boulevard, but like where are the chicks? Where are
the chicks? You would be you'd be a little confused. Yeah,
But it's funny because I was thinking about this, like
going it. We used to go to this bar called Loaded,
which was like a rock and roll bar, and it
was just I mean, it was a cool spot in Hollywood.
(27:41):
I think you could get like a shot and a
beer and a cigarette like a lucy for like eight
bucks or something like that, and got a tall boy
and a shot and a little cigarette and you'd be like, Okay,
I'm good for about an hour here. This will like
give me something to do for an hour. But they
were all boys there. It was all men. It was
all men who were you know, with Motley Cruz shirts on.
Speaker 5 (28:03):
And stuff, and where is this place?
Speaker 2 (28:04):
Yeah, it's not it's not there anymore.
Speaker 6 (28:06):
It was called I want to go for research purposes only, Yeah,
for research purposes.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
Loaded was Loaded Bar Hollywood. Let me look. I think
it was on Hollywood Boulevard. It is closed. It was
sixty three seventy seven Hollywood Boulevard, so was right off
the Hollywood Walk of Fame. And it was near another
standout dive called the power House. I believe. Let's see
where is it? What is this now? See, I don't know.
(28:34):
You know, things have changed so quickly in La and
obviously we we blow stuff up and it ever comes back.
Oh now it's the Star Wars bar, the Cantina. Oh
that's the scum and villainy Cantina. Okay, so now you're
now you're in the exclusionary.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
I'm not hanging with the nerds. I'm hanging with the
dirty boys.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
Can one not be both? Can she not contain multitudes?
Speaker 3 (28:57):
Well that's why Eileen and I never crossed and terms
with the men.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
We like it's dirty boys and dirty girls speaking. But
can we play that clip? Do we do? We have it? Yes,
let's listen to This is Eileen Gonzalez performing live. Do
you have it? I don't have it, So you're gonna
you're gonna have to play no, no, no, I don't
have it.
Speaker 5 (29:19):
Off the hook.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
I thought you, I thought you like edited it and
got it all sound good and stuff. No, I remember
the old the whole Oh that's oh, it doesn't work.
Speaker 6 (29:26):
Well.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
Do you want to do a live rendition for us
right now?
Speaker 5 (29:30):
Absolutely? I know.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
It's the worst thing in the world. When someone's like sing,
then oh you can sing. Sing. It's like when you
ask a comedian, oh, you're a comedian, say something funny. Yeah,
Oh no, I don't. I don't think that's how it works.
Speaker 5 (29:42):
We'll just say I'm not a professional musician.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
He sounded great the video that I saw it was
very cool.
Speaker 7 (29:47):
It's very liberating to go out and dance like no
one's watching and scream and sing.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
Like it's listening.
Speaker 3 (29:55):
It's just yeah, it's for all the listeners. She sounds
like Jonas Joplin when she sings.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
So cool.
Speaker 7 (30:01):
Yeah, I have a sort of a rocker definitely a
rocker voice, for sure.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
You got the whole vibe going on too. People can
obviously see you at the Jamison, but only only good,
not no weirdos.
Speaker 5 (30:10):
We're doing more like eighties stuff.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
Oh, that'll be fun. That's some of the other stuff
is pretty hard.
Speaker 5 (30:15):
That's hard to melt with you. I think you like
that one.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
I'm a big fan of that, Brasally. I mean, I'm
into anything. I like all of it. When I was
in a band too, we also did a lot of
covers and stuff, and so we would really get into
the the old we'd go all the way back to
really basically Chuck Berry, I think was the oldest thing
we did. We do Johnny be good. But you know,
you try. It's fun to learn that stuff because you
then can become a better songwriter when you learn all
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the songs or the old songs why they did what
they did.
Speaker 7 (30:41):
Well, that's like my heyday too, you know the eighties. Yeah,
that's when I was in high school. You're in your
heyday now, you can't actually, you know what, Hey, I'm
going out.
Speaker 5 (30:51):
I had my first you know, singing gig.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (30:55):
You know.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
Wait, was that your first?
Speaker 6 (30:57):
No?
Speaker 7 (30:57):
No, no, no, at the Rainbows first at the Rainbow. Yeah,
it wasn't a gig gig, but it was you know,
still a rainbow. That's pretty that's a pretty big get.
Did you have a little a writer, did you have
like a no brown eminem no brown.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
On your rider? And then like they give you special
dressing room, you know, and like Taylor Swift where they
like bring her her living room furniture everywhere she goes.
Speaker 5 (31:19):
I got thrown in the pit with everybody else.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
Hey, well, I'll tell you what. Also, the Rainbow Room
is they got good food there.
Speaker 5 (31:26):
They've got great food.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
It's like better than it has any business.
Speaker 5 (31:28):
Beach chicken soup is the best delicious.
Speaker 3 (31:31):
Can I just interject here and say it's not the
Rainbow Room. That's in New York the Rainbow Bar and Grill. Oh,
I'm the manager.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
I just like, I don't know what it is, man,
I just you're right, You're so right. Rainbow Room is
in New York, Rainbow Bar and Grill, the Rainbow. Well,
we learn a little bit every single day here in
this show, don't we. Of course we do. Thanks to
everybody so much for listening. I'll be back with you
tomorrow night, seven o'clock. I will also see it if
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you're watching TV in the morning. First hit I think
around eight thirty tomorrow on the KTLA Morning News. I'll
be there for the morning and then be with you
for Monday and Tuesday night. Mario, you're the best, Nikki.
I hope you find what you're looking for.
Speaker 5 (32:17):
Man, and happy New Year. Happy New Year, and to
see until next year.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
That is correct, we'll see you. We'll see you next year.
I will not be here next Sunday, but the week
after that I will, so we'll see you real soon.
It's KFI AM six forty. I'm Andy Reestmeyer. We're live
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Speaker 2 (00:34):
It is kf I AM six forty. This is the
Andy Reesemeyer Show. I'll be with you all the way
un till four o'clock. And I love hearing from people
who are listening to the show. Listening to the show.
We so appreciate it when you when you say hello
on that talkback feature on the KFI app or the
KFI iHeartRadio app rather going to the KFI page. It's
(00:55):
always a pleasure. I was talking just a bit ago
about covering when I would do live shots in front
of the Queen Mary in downtown Long Beach in the
harbor there, and I may have at one point called
it a boat like off handed live like there's a
big boat, you know, some dumb thing that I would say.
You've seen me, you know who I You can't trust
(01:18):
that I'm going to say things correctly. So we've had
two people sending talkbacks that I wanted to get to Nikki.
Do know the names of the people who sent these
talkbacks in? Are they just anonymous?
Speaker 3 (01:29):
I think they are just anonymous unless I said it
in the talk back and I missed it.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
We don't except you know, we don't take all your
information down or anything like that. Sure, let's listen. The
difference between a ship and a boat is that a
boat can't carry a ship, but a ship can carry
a boat. Perfect, We got another one. Let me see.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
Basically, the difference between a boat and a ship is
a ship can carry a boat or a boat can't
carry a ship.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Does that make sense? Everybody?
Speaker 5 (02:05):
Sure does?
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Yeah? I like that sometimes the things that those mariners know,
those seafare and folk, they just make sense, just works out.
Did you know that anything could be called a yacht?
It's like if you can dream it, it can be a yacht.
That's the truth.
Speaker 5 (02:25):
What makes it a yacht? Is it the sale?
Speaker 2 (02:27):
No, it's just if it's anything can be a yacht.
There's like no definition unless I'm wrong, and I please
all of the boat community please start dinghy is not
a yacht. But I don't think that there's you know,
in your mind you think yacht is expensive or big
or something, you know, big white sails. It somehow has
some kind of specific meaning. But I'm fairly certain that
(02:47):
there is no like nautical definition as far as like
what a yacht could be. You could just call anything
a yacht, and it would be a yacht, which I
kind of like. You ever go on boats, you ever
do any yachting out.
Speaker 5 (03:02):
There, I get so seasick. Terrible.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Is like having food poisoning. Oh it's really bad.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Yeah, it's a tough thing.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
When I was a child, my parents used to take
us on all the cruises, and I remember one year
it was the CEA Princess Cruise. We got caught in
between two cyclones, Cyclone Anne and Cyclone Aggie, and it
was horrific.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Yeah, no fun, that's it. I would never get on
a boat or ship ever again. I went out one
time on a remember we had the July fourth earthquake
many years ago here and my buddy had a boat
down in San Pedro, and so we went out the
next day and the weather was just weird. It was
real strange. We had a really serious Santa Anna wind event.
(03:46):
So you're getting pushed out into the bay and we're
going out and we're getting his boat. And this is,
by the way, my friend who I've told you about before,
who's kind of a disaster person. His name is James
Love the guy, good dude. But he's always just like
living sort of on the edge. You know. The pandemic
was great for him because he already lives in chaos
at all times, and he figures out how to get
out of these situations. He's really good at just dealing
(04:08):
with life on the line. He's the guy who made
me go up and I went skiing with him for
the first time. He took me up to a black diamond.
I had to ride down on my butt anyway. So
he's like, let's go out on this boat. I just
bought this sailboat two days ago for three thousand dollars.
Nothing can go wrong, right, So we get in the
boat and we're heading out there and the wind is whipping,
so we get shot way out into the ocean. We
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go past the breakwater, past Long Beach, like into the
open ocean, and the shoreline is quickly disappearing, just just
smaller and smaller into the haze in the distance. And
we're roaming. We're doing okay, we're not doing bad. And
he looks over and all of a sudden, the boat
starts taking on water and I was like, what is
(04:49):
what is happening here? Like this is and he's like, oh,
it's just normal. Sprays comes up a little bit there,
like this is so strange, and it's like getting up
to our ankles, you know, and it's a tiny, little
twenty foot boat. I'm like, James, this is we got
to start. And then he like opens up the area
where the motor is and there's like, you know, a
little inboard motor in the back of the sailboat and
it is just flooded and we're like, oh my god,
(05:11):
what is going on here? So he like does some
jerry rigged stuff does He does the classic mcgiver thing
where he goes down under and he finds some cable
and a plug or something and figures out that like
if he puts pressure on the top of the lid
of the engine cover, then it'll actually hold the plug
at the bottom of the boat up, so then we
can stop taking on water. So we solved that issue.
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That's issue number one. Second, how do we get the
water out? So we got some cups and solo cups
and we're bailing water out of the side of the
boat with the solo cups. Just absolute psychosis. By the
time this all gets done, remember the wind has been
fairly strong. We are way out there and it's probably
two hours into the trip. Finally we want to come back,
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but we're facing into the wind because he's got this
offshore flow, and it takes us seven hours we can
we'd not get back till after dark because the man,
God love him, we had to sail back because he
did not check to see if the guy who sold
him the boat sold him a boat with a good battery.
(06:15):
So here we are with this boat having to sail
tack back and forth, back and forth, back and forth.
We didn't get in until way, way, way late, so
I'm doing a lot of boat in these days. After that,
I was going to talk about the news of the
of the week and what was happening here in southern
California as far as the rain, But I will just
tell you quickly before we get out of here, because
(06:36):
I'm way over on boat talk looking for probably rain.
Likely by New Year's Day. Gonna be nice but windy
here starting this evening all the way up until Tuesday.
Wednesday will be a transition day, which is New Year's
Eve might be raining. Remember we're still a few far
a few days out here, so when you're that far
(06:57):
out sometimes it'll change, it'll adjust. But rain likely by
New Year's Day. Here in southern California, high wind Watch
in effect at ten pm tonight, looking at gusts between
forty five fifty miles an hour in those Santa Ana
wind corridors, mountain passes, interior valleys, desert facing communities. So
those north facing slopes in the Antelope Valley not fun,
(07:22):
not fun stuff, but at least it's gonna beautiful here
for the next two or three days. If whinny all right?
Coming up, we're talking about influencers. We're talking about young kids,
like an old show's and maybe more boat talk if
we get some more talkbacks. And remember as we told you.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
And a ship is a ship can carry a boat
where a boat can't carry a ship.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
I'm Andy Reesemeyer. This is the Andy Reesmier Show.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Mark, you gotta tell me what is that what we're
listening to? It is kind of nineteen seventy five vibe
to it.
Speaker 6 (07:58):
Exactly what I was thinking when I for discoveredy. It's
by somebody named start Letta. It's a song it's called
Secondhand the Neon Remix.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
It's pretty fun. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (08:09):
Yeah, I just stumbled upon it on TikTok a couple
months ago. How to look it up? It was on
Spotify Phone love it they ever since?
Speaker 2 (08:16):
So for it? I love that.
Speaker 6 (08:17):
Well.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
We need some good positive eighties vibes too these days.
I'm a big fan of that. The record that I
tried to make years ago was is very much inspired
by that kind of era of music, and then the
nineteen seventy five started doing it, and now that there's AI,
it's kind of hard to to like get excited about
making music because even like listening to stuff, you're like,
is that AI that made by Souno? Is that a
(08:38):
real thing? Somebody made a search engine that basically allowed
you to look at everything that was going way back
to basically like nineteen or sorry, twenty twenty three. So
it's like anything that shows up on there was created
before twenty twenty three, which indicates that, you know, it's
probably made by a real human being. By the way,
(08:58):
I wanted to say a shout out to all my
fellow Chargers fans. Uh tough day yesterday, Chargers being Charger,
as Nicky's people say, Hot Break somehow failed scooting APPLYESA.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
Like this What the what was that?
Speaker 2 (09:18):
How do you say?
Speaker 1 (09:19):
You know?
Speaker 2 (09:19):
You know Nicole? You know Nicole Kidman does that thing
hot break failed scooting a place?
Speaker 3 (09:25):
Saw this Hot break feels good in a place like this?
Speaker 2 (09:28):
Have you not what are you not seen the AMC
commercial that she does?
Speaker 7 (09:32):
I haven't.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
I haven't gone to the cinema in a while.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Okay, all right, I know how, I know how like
embarrassing my accent was. It was not good, But I ah,
Marco's dying. Oh my gosh. That was my big laugh
of the day. Mario. I appreciate you supporting are our
absurdity over here? Do you see me laughing?
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Dog in my studio all the time. It's great. It's
what I want. I was hoping that if Mario's laughing,
then I'm hopeful. I'm hoping someone is finding this at
least somewhat interesting, if not spicy, at least somewhat interesting.
It's always a good time here. There you go. All right?
Is it the end of the line for hey guys online?
You know these YouTubers, these influencers, TikTokers, instagrammers, Hey guys,
(10:23):
that's the rule. You have to You can't nobody can
be famous if they can't say, hey, guys, that's been
for many years. But there's a debate raging on TikTok
over if the modern influencer is dead. And I think
the one that we're talking about specifically is the sort
of like glossy beauty, luxury goods influencers says the perfect
(10:44):
life can be mine or can be yours rather just
like mine. If you comment Andy for the link. It
started at least the conversation when beauty influencer Jacqueline Hill
asked her one point two million followers, why is no
one watching my stuff? She used to get a ton
of us on her luxury hauls her come with me
while I put this stuff on my face. Have you
(11:06):
tried honey on your face? I don't know if she
does that. I did see a girl who was like,
I put honey all over my face. And now I
love when you see like a dermatologist who's like, you
shouldn't do any of this, don't do any of this,
don't listen to this, because you know, anybody can do
anything on the internet these days. But she asked why
nobody's watching her stuff? She used to get a ton
of ews. Now she gets like maybe fifteen twenty thousand.
(11:28):
She's thirty five. Despite what Don Lemon might have you believe,
apparently it has nothing to do with her aging out
and being too old for the platform. It's more that
she's just too much. A lot of commenters not coming
to her defense, saying, look, lady, we're tired of influencers
like you rubbing your wealth in our faces. And with
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the cost of everything, with the inflation, etc. The disconnect
is crazy, a professor of media studies told NBC News.
People are over the over consumption in general. We've had it.
A lot of it is a product of the influencer
industry itself, because people are relatable. They start making videos
(12:08):
and then people say, oh, you're great, I like you.
And then they become famous and then they're no longer relatable.
They're rich. They suddenly have glamorous lifestyles, which is why
I have strived from the beginning to be as unrelatable
as possible. As a matter of fact, influencing is so
I rally. There is now a trend of deinfluencing, which
you may have seen as well, and that's where kids
(12:30):
basically are just saying, here, I want you to see
this and don't buy anything because of it. No link below.
We have an update here from one of our listeners.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
A yacht is just a type of boat. There you
have it, yee a yacht?
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Yeah, where is the lie? I think that's right as
far as I was aware, and I just googled it
because I wanted to make sure. And you know, again,
the in the whole effort of I must be right,
this is just a very I hope that's a relatable
thing of all of us trying to just be right
all the time. There's no standard definition of yacht. The
term is generally applies to vessels with a cabin intended
for overnight use, So there you go. But technically it's
(13:09):
a sail or motor propelled watercraft made for pleasure, cruising
or racing. Could be a lot of different things. My
Volvo station wagon is that a yacht? Well in name only.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
Perhaps you're listening to kfi AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
Cruising along here just a little bit more time before
we hand it off to mister Chris Merrill, who I'm
so excited to talk to. In just a little bit,
I'm gonna be listening to him in the car as
I drive on home, and I hope that a lot
of that traffic that I saw earlier going out there
on the freeway, I hope that that's starting to starting
to go away. You know, maybe people are getting home
(13:45):
from the holiday travels. Am I being? Is it hopeful?
I'm looking at the map right now. It doesn't look
too bad through the four or five always bad, but
and a little bit bad from Hollywood Dead Downtown LA.
But you already heard of traffic updates, so I won't
get into it. I won't believer the point we were
talking about New Year's Eve experiences, some fun things to
(14:05):
do here in southern California, and I was really surprised
to see that there's a lot of places that are
doing fireworks at nine pm and midnight. There is in
Long Beach nine pm and also midnight there will be
fireworks that you could see from the Queen Mary but
also Shoreline Park in the village over there. And as
(14:26):
we said, there's a lot of restaurants in the area,
so you could get a reservation, but if you just
want to pop on down there, you'd probably be able
to see it, though it may be raining. Angel City
Brewery is doing a no cover New Years that's in
downtown LA. That's fun. Also in downtown LA is a
place called Broken Shaker where they do a rooftop party.
But a lot of these men, I'm telling you, with
the rain, I'm not really sure New Year's Eve at
(14:48):
Disneyland is happening. They're going to be there all the
way till two am, staying open late on New Year's Eve.
It's called the New Year's Eve Fantasy in the Sky.
It's a special fireworks show also at nine pm and midnight,
but you need a reservation for that. Down in Orange
County as well, Coasta Mesa's Winterfest. It's a Christmas themed
(15:10):
winterfest that still goes on all the way at least
to the beginning of the year. They will have an
extended hours till twelve thirty DJ sets tunes from tribute
band Queen Nation. I think they do Queen covers, I'm assuming,
and a fireworks show at midnight. Nott's Berry Farm is
nots Mary Farm right now. And finally, Tarrannaa will be
(15:35):
doing a Gatsby's Golden Gala. Oh that's really cool. Love
that tarrann Aa is super super awesome. I have truly,
I've only ever seen it on TV. I've like, I
don't know, you've never.
Speaker 5 (15:47):
Been to Terrann I've never been to Terrantes. Yeah, awesome, I.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
Mean I want to go. I just like went, Why
got I take out another mortgage in the house.
Speaker 7 (15:53):
It's not it's not that expensive to go to Tarranna.
Oh just stay there, isn't it. I mean, if I
just want to go and hang out. They have outdoor
concerts in the summer, and.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
It looks so beautiful.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
It's a beautiful spa resort down near Ranches Palace Verst.
Speaker 5 (16:07):
Yes, that's fence. You feel like you're in Hawaii.
Speaker 7 (16:10):
A most little trails you can just walk around. There's
some great little spots where you can get a bite
to eat. You know, you don't have to stay there. No,
you're right, that's really nice.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
I would like to go check that out. It's four
hundred dollars a night if you want to stay tonight
until tomorrow. So you know, that's that's not that bad
relatively speaking. That's for a high end resort. You know,
you go up to Santa Barbara, you want to stay
at Caruso's place, or you go up Oh, especially if
you go up the hill to the Santy Cedro ranch,
which is up there up behind Montacito, similar I think,
(16:42):
level of fancy. It's like three thousand dollars a night
to stay there now, just like I don't know anybody.
Maybe in the old days, Glenn Walker always to tell me,
he goes like that, I was on the ten years
too late club, because you know, back when he started
ten twenty years before he was doing it, the anchors
(17:02):
TV anchors were making like truly many millions of dollars
a year, and that is not the case anymore, and
it certainly isn't the case here in the radio station.
But even if you were making that much money back
in the early nineties, late eighties, a million bucks back
then was like eight million dollars today. Longsidhe Eileen, how's
(17:25):
the home home business going.
Speaker 5 (17:29):
It's starting to pick up a little bit.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
That's good.
Speaker 7 (17:31):
You know, I wanted to pick up a lot of
bit right picking up a little right now. It's down
just because the holidays. It always nobody wants to move
during the holidays. And the interest rates still aren't super great.
They're not as bad as they were, but they're not
super great. But I have a few people that want
to work together, you know, the beginning of the year.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
So well that's exciting.
Speaker 5 (17:53):
Yeah, a little.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
Now do you ever see KTLA's Kirk Hawkins is also
a realtor. Do you ever see him out there on
the on the on the mean streets. Do you guys
turf war at all about this?
Speaker 5 (18:04):
What area does you work?
Speaker 2 (18:06):
I think he's Hollywood in the valley and like Los Felism,
West Hollywood.
Speaker 7 (18:08):
Probably, I'm mostly West Side. Yeah, but I do Valley
and you know anywhere I can drive too.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
That's right, You'll do anything, I get it. I mean listen,
if I was a real drive, I would be like, yeah,
like I'm going all over the If there's a cool house,
I'm there.
Speaker 7 (18:23):
Yeah, I don't mind. I don't mind the drive. I
mean I don't love the drive, but I don't mind,
you know.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
Yeah. And you got to I feel bad for you,
like realtor. You guys got to be on all the time. Yeah,
I mean that's on call job. I mean that's something
to And I thought this before I bought a house.
I was like, oh, realtors just like show you around
the shoe the houses. It's like, no, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 7 (18:44):
There's so much work, you know. I hate that the
selling sunset shows that make it look like.
Speaker 5 (18:49):
It's so glamorous.
Speaker 7 (18:50):
And no, you go to inspections and you go, you
get dirty, and if you're a good realtor, you're you're
getting in there and you're helping your clients clean and
do whatever needs to be done.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
I'll tell you what my realtor I'll tell I'll say
her name. His name is Bill Lustig. He works at Compass,
and he is somebody who I met when I moved
to LA back in twenty ten. He was showing a
house or like a back house that I was going
to rent when I had first moved here, and I
didn't end up renting it, but I did. I hit
it off with him, and I thought it was a
cool guy, and we kept in touch over the years,
talking about houses and stuff. And he mostly worked in
(19:22):
West Hollywood and sort of those old school craftsman style homes.
Speaker 5 (19:26):
I love craftsman homes.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
Oh, all those bungalows and over the Spaulding Square, I
think is what it's called. And when I went finally
time to go buy a house, I mean I had
known him for fifteen years and we were you know,
he just always kept in touch and was very kind
supportive of me when you know, for the work and
stuff like that. And in the process of buying a house,
(19:49):
I realized what the value of a good realtor was
because we dealt with so many bad realtors and he
was so good, you know, from the buyer side, and
he was so good and he saved me so much
money because he could go to a house and walk
through and say, don't even worry. This is going to
be a huge issue for you. This will be an
(20:10):
issue with the insurance, or this will be an issue
with This is a real problem that you don't you know,
this is electrical issue. These the wires or cloth wired.
You know, you don't want to deal with that. You know,
things that you just wouldn't know about because when you're
especially first time on buyer, you're looking around thinking like, well,
like is my dining room table going to fit in here?
I don't know if I like these countertops, you know,
because you don't want to think it's all the fun
(20:31):
stuff that you want to do now, you do, know,
want to think about the stuff. It's like water heaters and.
Speaker 5 (20:36):
Pipes and pipes, electricity and yeah, oh is that like?
Speaker 2 (20:40):
Would I have ever known about what a cast iron
pipe was? What I ever cared about that before?
Speaker 7 (20:47):
Of course not, I think not as a first timer. No,
but on first timers I'm working with right now, and
I love doing that. I love helping first timers.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
It is so stressful, Like the ESCRO process is horrible.
It's so so frustrating.
Speaker 5 (21:01):
You have no idea, I'm sure.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
I mean we had to delay our ask grow by
like a week and a half because of some paperwork stuff,
and it was just it was terrible and we had
to pay extra. I mean, it's you know, I won't
bore you with the details, but I do want to
talk about what is happening in homes in twenty twenty six.
What are the new trends that people are going to
start putting in their houses, whether they're upgrades, design styles, whatever.
(21:24):
Wellness features are being mentioned thirty three percent more often
in Zilla listings compared to a year ago. SPA inspired
bathroom mentions enlistings are up twenty two percent. Traditional and
art deco styles are coming back into favor a bigger
part of a retro revival, so curves arches, scalloped edges,
(21:49):
detailed woodwork, earth tones reminiscent of the English countryside, and
modern tutors. This is not a big surprise to me,
and I feel like you always see stuff happen in
Los Angeles before it happens in the rest of the country.
The trends happen on the coasts, unfortunately. Whether or not
you like that or not, I don't. It just seems
how to be how it is, and so you'll see
(22:09):
stuff happening here in La that then you'll see them
play out in Indiana, for instance, where I'm from.
Speaker 5 (22:13):
A couple of years later leads over.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
Yeah, marble, mirrored surfaces, metallic accent, jewel tones from the
twenties and thirties.
Speaker 5 (22:23):
Yeah, starting to see that.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
Yeah. Paint colors include seventies colors that's fun, like orange, orange, green.
I don't know about that, a lot of maroons and browns,
calming blues and greens. Energy efficient homes are mentions are
on an uptick home batteries ev charging. Of course, that's
(22:47):
not really a surprise. Formal dining rooms with built ins,
infinity pools, and three car garages, however, might be on
their way out. According to the Zillo researchers, which I
this is kind of an interesting list of things, but
I also feel like, at the same time the things
that are so frustrating about especially I swear this is
just like social media. You look at stuff on the
(23:08):
internet and you're like, oh, my house is old. Now
I gotta get something new.
Speaker 5 (23:11):
What about conversation pits.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
Oh I love a little step down in a kitchen
or living room so good. Oh yeah, I like that.
I like a breakfast nook. Give me a built in
breakfast nook all day a nook. Oh yeah, I just
want to I just want their not it does. I
just want it to not leak, you know. I just
(23:34):
want there to be raining, not to worry about if
I've got to have water on the floor in the
middle of the night.
Speaker 5 (23:41):
So what are your what are your okay? Your dream home?
Wanted it?
Speaker 1 (23:44):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (23:44):
Oh man, I like a I like an art deco
I would love to live in, like a cool old
forties house in like the Lose Feela's Oaks or something
like that. You know, something that felt like it was
very la very old school, kind of looked like a
boat that had been parked in the middle of the
middle of the city.
Speaker 5 (24:01):
Cool.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
I like that a lot.
Speaker 5 (24:03):
I just want something by the beach.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
Yeah, yeah, I mean I'd love to live man f only.
Speaker 5 (24:09):
I mean, I live by the beach, but I'd like.
Speaker 7 (24:11):
You just want to stay there A nice I guess
I don't want to craftsman home, but maybe a Cape
cod Yeah heck yeah.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
You know.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
The older I get, even going through the process, was like,
I just want a house. It's like going to be
the insurance on this isn't going to go crazy one day,
crazy place we live in.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
Demand, Mario. That was phenomenal. Great music choices today, Thank you,
thank you. A little bit of everything, Yeah, a little
bit of everything. And then towards the end, you know,
a little bit of a because it's the last Sunday
of twenty twenty five. That's right, And technically did Christmas
season continues on at least if you're a Taylor Swift
(24:50):
person well into January? She says you can keep your
Christmas lights up till January. That's what she says, So
be bad. I guess as a Hispanic we do keep
them up into January. Anyway. As to anybody. I mean,
I know it's like a Catholic thing for sure, to
keep it like, you know, you celebrate. I guess technically
the very Catholic celebrated all the way up until I
don't know, like the second week, first week maybe of January.
(25:11):
I think I think it should be acceptable to go
all the way to February. Truly. I have some neighbors
who have some LED lights that they put on basically
at the end of September, and then as the season
goes on, they just change the color of them, you know,
So they go from they go from like Halloween or
sorry for like a American flag colors for Labor Day.
(25:32):
Then they go to Halloween orange, and they get a
little more dark orange for Thanksgiving, and then they become
Christmas lights for December. It's good stuff. By the way,
a bar in Tokyo is going viral for a sign
outside showing how many guys and girls are inside. The
original post of the photo on x says I saw
a bar in Tokyo that has a live dashboard of
(25:53):
the gender ratio inside, and the photo uploaded from the
Oriental Lounge as it's called called what a Name, shows
an LED screen with big numbers, one hundred and twenty
two gentlemen on the top and one hundred and nineteen ladies.
It says inside the commentary says, why is this giving
San Francisco levels of negative aura? It is pretty funny,
(26:19):
but apparently one commenter says it's a matching bar, so
people go specifically to get matched with somebody else. So
it's helpful for both genders. I think for anybody who's
young and going out to a bar to try to
meet somebody, it would be a good information to have.
Though it seems a little predatory and creepy, I understand that.
Speaker 5 (26:36):
I like it.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
Yeah, you just get right down to it. Yeah I'm
not going because like if you're like, I'm not going
to that sausage fest, forget it.
Speaker 5 (26:45):
No, I'll be at the sausage So that's what.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
You're looking for, Okay, Yeah, I don't know. I mean, listen,
depends on the you know, to each his home. I
think that back to my early days of going out,
and I remember how like we would always go out
when I first to La with all my my buds
from the early two thousands or early twenty ten's a
lot of people from Indiana and we would go to
these bars and we would always be shocked why there
(27:08):
were no women there. And I look back now and
I'm like, well, of course there weren't women there. We
went to these like dirty dive bars way deep in
the valley.
Speaker 5 (27:17):
I thought you were going to say you were in wiho,
that's why there.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
Were no women.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
Well that also, I mean that that is a surefire
way to Yeah, if you go up and down Santa
Monica Boulevard, but like where are the chicks? Where are
the chicks? You would be you'd be a little confused. Yeah,
But it's funny because I was thinking about this, like
going it. We used to go to this bar called Loaded,
which was like a rock and roll bar, and it
was just I mean, it was a cool spot in Hollywood.
(27:41):
I think you could get like a shot and a
beer and a cigarette like a lucy for like eight
bucks or something like that, and got a tall boy
and a shot and a little cigarette and you'd be like, Okay,
I'm good for about an hour here. This will like
give me something to do for an hour. But they
were all boys there. It was all men. It was
all men who were you know, with Motley Cruz shirts on.
Speaker 5 (28:03):
And stuff, and where is this place?
Speaker 2 (28:04):
Yeah, it's not it's not there anymore.
Speaker 6 (28:06):
It was called I want to go for research purposes only, Yeah,
for research purposes.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
Loaded was Loaded Bar Hollywood. Let me look. I think
it was on Hollywood Boulevard. It is closed. It was
sixty three seventy seven Hollywood Boulevard, so was right off
the Hollywood Walk of Fame. And it was near another
standout dive called the power House. I believe. Let's see
where is it? What is this now? See, I don't know.
(28:34):
You know, things have changed so quickly in La and
obviously we we blow stuff up and it ever comes back.
Oh now it's the Star Wars bar, the Cantina. Oh
that's the scum and villainy Cantina. Okay, so now you're
now you're in the exclusionary.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
I'm not hanging with the nerds. I'm hanging with the
dirty boys.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
Can one not be both? Can she not contain multitudes?
Speaker 3 (28:57):
Well that's why Eileen and I never crossed and terms
with the men.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
We like it's dirty boys and dirty girls speaking. But
can we play that clip? Do we do? We have it? Yes,
let's listen to This is Eileen Gonzalez performing live. Do
you have it? I don't have it, So you're gonna
you're gonna have to play no, no, no, I don't
have it.
Speaker 5 (29:19):
Off the hook.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
I thought you, I thought you like edited it and
got it all sound good and stuff. No, I remember
the old the whole Oh that's oh, it doesn't work.
Speaker 6 (29:26):
Well.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
Do you want to do a live rendition for us
right now?
Speaker 5 (29:30):
Absolutely? I know.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
It's the worst thing in the world. When someone's like sing,
then oh you can sing. Sing. It's like when you
ask a comedian, oh, you're a comedian, say something funny. Yeah,
Oh no, I don't. I don't think that's how it works.
Speaker 5 (29:42):
We'll just say I'm not a professional musician.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
He sounded great the video that I saw it was
very cool.
Speaker 7 (29:47):
It's very liberating to go out and dance like no
one's watching and scream and sing.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
Like it's listening.
Speaker 3 (29:55):
It's just yeah, it's for all the listeners. She sounds
like Jonas Joplin when she sings.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
So cool.
Speaker 7 (30:01):
Yeah, I have a sort of a rocker definitely a
rocker voice, for sure.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
You got the whole vibe going on too. People can
obviously see you at the Jamison, but only only good,
not no weirdos.
Speaker 5 (30:10):
We're doing more like eighties stuff.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
Oh, that'll be fun. That's some of the other stuff
is pretty hard.
Speaker 5 (30:15):
That's hard to melt with you. I think you like
that one.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
I'm a big fan of that, Brasally. I mean, I'm
into anything. I like all of it. When I was
in a band too, we also did a lot of
covers and stuff, and so we would really get into
the the old we'd go all the way back to
really basically Chuck Berry, I think was the oldest thing
we did. We do Johnny be good. But you know,
you try. It's fun to learn that stuff because you
then can become a better songwriter when you learn all
(30:38):
the songs or the old songs why they did what
they did.
Speaker 7 (30:41):
Well, that's like my heyday too, you know the eighties. Yeah,
that's when I was in high school. You're in your
heyday now, you can't actually, you know what, Hey, I'm
going out.
Speaker 5 (30:51):
I had my first you know, singing gig.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (30:55):
You know.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
Wait, was that your first?
Speaker 6 (30:57):
No?
Speaker 7 (30:57):
No, no, no, at the Rainbows first at the Rainbow. Yeah,
it wasn't a gig gig, but it was you know,
still a rainbow. That's pretty that's a pretty big get.
Did you have a little a writer, did you have
like a no brown eminem no brown.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
On your rider? And then like they give you special
dressing room, you know, and like Taylor Swift where they
like bring her her living room furniture everywhere she goes.
Speaker 5 (31:19):
I got thrown in the pit with everybody else.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
Hey, well, I'll tell you what. Also, the Rainbow Room
is they got good food there.
Speaker 5 (31:26):
They've got great food.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
It's like better than it has any business.
Speaker 5 (31:28):
Beach chicken soup is the best delicious.
Speaker 3 (31:31):
Can I just interject here and say it's not the
Rainbow Room. That's in New York the Rainbow Bar and Grill. Oh,
I'm the manager.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
I just like, I don't know what it is, man,
I just you're right, You're so right. Rainbow Room is
in New York, Rainbow Bar and Grill, the Rainbow. Well,
we learn a little bit every single day here in
this show, don't we. Of course we do. Thanks to
everybody so much for listening. I'll be back with you
tomorrow night, seven o'clock. I will also see it if
(32:02):
you're watching TV in the morning. First hit I think
around eight thirty tomorrow on the KTLA Morning News. I'll
be there for the morning and then be with you
for Monday and Tuesday night. Mario, you're the best, Nikki.
I hope you find what you're looking for.
Speaker 5 (32:17):
Man, and happy New Year. Happy New Year, and to
see until next year.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
That is correct, we'll see you. We'll see you next year.
I will not be here next Sunday, but the week
after that I will, so we'll see you real soon.
It's KFI AM six forty. I'm Andy Reestmeyer. We're live
everywhere on the iHeartRadio
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