December 5, 2025 • 28 mins
A 550-pound bear that has made its home beneath the house of an Altadena family following the destruction of its habitat due to the January wildfires. The family is feeling unsafe as they hear the bear move around their crawlspace. Theater director Jesse Corti and Broadway actor Tim Farmer, who plays Scrooge, are in studio to talk about their production of A Christmas Carol, which premieres tomorrow night for 10 performances at the First Presbyterian Church of Hollywood. Meanwhile, back in Altadena, following last January’s tragic Eaton wildfire in which thousands of people lost their homes, the first home has been built for a local resident, and it’s been given a certificate of occupancy. The house is a 2,100 square foot, three-bedroom home.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Demand KFI AM six forty. We're live everywhere on the
iHeartRadio app Mark Ronner watching news events through the night
that might necessitate immediate focus.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
Things are constantly necessitated here.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Yeah, that's why we have a necessitating response team.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Yes, And among the stories we'll be talking about include
the Altadena rebuild. This is kind of a momentous day
in the world of the Alta Dina eat and fire.
The Altadena homeowner that now is making I think national
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news with the attempt to evict a five hundred and
fifty pounds bear that has taken up residents under the
house in the crawl space.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Now it's Hollywood, so you'll allow me.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
I think if we were going to write this based
on a true story, there are two ways we can
go with it. One is the family comedy, warm hearted
way in which the family discovers the five hundred and
fifty pound bear. Just as this family has and they
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grow attached to the bear, the bear grows attached to them.
I'm simplifying a lot of this. Believe me, I could
beat these characters out. Give me forty five minutes and
I can get this thing going. And the evil authorities,
the evil sheriff, whomever they want to what do they
want to do. They want to shoot the bear. They
want to kill the bear. They want to euthanize the bear.
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They want to get rid of the bear. The bear
is a danger. This is like the mayor in Jaws.
We'll have a character like that. You've got to keep
quiet about the bear. It could ruin the community. It'll
drive down real estate prices. All of these things are
working while the family is bonding with the bear, and
the little child is growing closer and closer to this
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five hundred and fifty pound bear that will of course
have a name, because once the bear has a name,
we grow even closer to it. Maybe we'll call the
bear Mario. So Mario and the young child and the
family grow closer, while the evil forces associated with authority
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are determined to euthanize Mario or certainly take him away
from this community. And of course the crest of the wave,
the final act is one in which the child is
in tears as the authorities go after Mario the bear,
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and they ultimately prevailed, and of course in a real
sad ending, and I think we shoot alternate endings on this,
so don't get too mummed out by the first ending.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
The bear is taken down.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
And the evil sheriff takes down the bear and the
child is weeping over the corpse of Mario. Jesus for Mario. Yeah,
Justice for Mario. You have protesters come out, and I
think you're going to see those protesters throughout. I think
there is this drumbeat of save the bear, Save the bear,
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Save the bear. You get, you get the whole community
coming out. And the other way we do it is
we do it like Free Willie, where the bear is
removed and the save the bear forces of the community prevail.
They do save the bear, and the bear goes into
a habitat where Mario lives out his life as a
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free bear in a protected habitat. That would be sort
of the best you could do, and that'll have I
think a tear jerker quality. Also, you know, now that's
one way you go. The other way you go is
you go horror with it.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Horror is.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
There is a bear under the house that we the
audience know is under the house, but the family doesn't
know is under the house. What happens is one at
a time, family members go missing and the mystery as
to what happened to them. They have posters everywhere looking
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for the small children who are gone, and finally it's
revealed in a final confrontation that it is the bear
under the house. This is more of a Jaws kind
of thing. You got to think Jaws by way of
Bad Ronald. That is that too deep a cut for most? Yeah?
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What is bad Ronald is that.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
That's the infamous seventies TV movie about a young guy
hiding inside a family's house inside the walls.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
Wow, Wow, look out bad Ronald. That sounds like, yeah,
just add of bear. I'm into it. Does cocaine play
a role in this? No, you're right, it's not cocaine bear,
but it's cocaine bear a Jason.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Yeah. Okay.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
So these are the two ways I see this springing.
Fourth from Hollywood and again based on a true story
the Alta Dina homeowners struggling to get rid of this
five hundred and fifty pound bear.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
It's going on right now in Altadena.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
So all of you arespiring screenwriters, those are the two
ways I think you can go with this. You can
take either one. You don't have to cut me in.
You don't have to wet my beak. Go for it.
It's your scene. You can thank me in the credits
or not. Believe me if you don't. You're not alone
in Hollywood. I've come up with a lot of ideas
and I'm constantly forgotten when it comes to credit time.
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When it comes to cutting a check, no one can
remember Mark Thompson. So don't feel bad that you can't either.
I wish you the best of luck with it. It's
KFI AM six forty. We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
Mark Thompson hanging out. Glad you could join us.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
I've got some real stage people and screen people who
are sitting in the studio with me now. Jesse Cordy
is the director of a show that has been running
seventy nine years. I'm presuming that Jesse hasn't been directing
it for seventy nine years.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
You you're a younger man that it would seem too right.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
I am but a Christmas Carol, which is a show
that we all know. It's a story, we all know,
the Dickens story. It comes to life in a Hollywood
production that has been running seventy nine years.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
That's correct.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
And we have Broadway quality actors. Yeah, exactly, And I'm
from Broadway and so is Tim Our Scrooge was here
with us, so it is. The venue is fantastic. As
a minute you walk in there, Mark, it's eighteen forty three.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
You're in that.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
Place the whole It's an eighteen hundred seat cathedral.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
It's done in the cathedral in Hutes. It's kind of
an incredible special venue. Like you could see a lot
of shows, but you won't see them in a venue
like this typically.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
No.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
And also we stick mark the novel.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
They have changed it so many ways and so many
different productions that you can go. There's four of them
in La and stuff. But this one it stays really
true to the actual novel, which is what's unique to
this one.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
The First Presbyterian Church of Hollywood is the venue. The
first night, opening night is tomorrow. It runs through the twentieth. Yes,
and as you mentioned, Tim Farmer is here. He is
your Scrooge. Yes, it's a Scrooge d it's a Scrooge
intensive show.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Tim. I'm going to try not to scrooge it up.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
To tell us about you. How did you come to this? Oh,
that's a long story. We don't have enough time. So
how long When did you come to this? Maybe the
first time I did Ebenezer Scrooge was at the Hollywood
Presbyterian Church, but it was for the professional acting company
called the Actors co Op. And this version was an
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adaptation by Doris Baisley. So it was an interesting adaptation
but so much fun to do. But that's where I
kind of cut my teeth on Ebenezer Scrooge. So when
you were coming around to this production in which there's
an Ebenezer Scrooge, it's slightly different, as you know, as
the different productions can be. And Jesse's directing, I'm sure
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that was a positive because Jesse's got a real.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
You know, Hollywood sort of thing. Did you you have
to audition?
Speaker 2 (09:01):
I'm just curious, Tim Farmer, No.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
No, case audition was that I had seen him. You
just sought him out, You sought him out.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Yeah, fortunately they had enjoyed my previous performance. That's terrific.
And where had you seen him in that production?
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Well?
Speaker 4 (09:19):
I didn't see I did see that production many years
in the nineties and he had done a production and
it was a good production. But this is really a
Broadway production when you go see this. And by the way,
I want to make sure that everybody knows that you
can get your tickets at a Christmas Carolhollywood dot com.
You can get your tickets there. We're only doing ten performances,
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but we have eighteen hundred seats. Now. The other thing
is when here in Hollywood theaters are ninety nine seat
theaters and things like that, which is great, but they
have to sell out, like you know, six weeks, eight
weeks in order to We're not about selling out in
the sense that we want. We've kept the prices mark
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the same for five years, those last five years, so
that everybody can come, the community can come, the kids
can come. It's a little scary because you know, there's
some scary moments in the show, but we want to
be able to reach the community from from give us.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
The webcit the website again, please, the website is a
Christmas Carolhollywood dot com. A Christmas Carolhollywood dot com. Yes, okay,
and uh, what a great opportunity I mean, and what
I want to understand. I mean, it really is like
a Broadway production, and what really sets it apart. I
guess it sort of this immersive experience that you go
in and it's not like going into the Schubert Theater
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in New York for a Broadway You've become sort of
surrounded by the mood almost.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
Yeah. Yes.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
The interesting thing too, is this is Scrooge speaking right now.
Indeed it is is that the set, which I designed
as well, fits into the architecture of the church. It
does that because we can't do the same things that
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other theaters do.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
It's not a theater.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Sure, you don't cathedral, big wings where it's stuff you
can fly on, etc. Yeah, exactly, I have to create
those wings. So but we do it right below this
very beautiful big cross. It is called a Christmas Yeah,
it's peril sure. So the message comes from that perspective,
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and it's like nothing you've ever seen before.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
It is. The acting is so magnificent.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
This ensemble cast is amazingly good, and we tell the
story that Dickens wanted us to tell. These are the
lessons he wanted us to learn. That is what makes
this show special.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
And you know, Mark, being from Broadway, you know I
was in the original cast of Limis rob and done
a ton of stuff. This show for me is somewhat more,
even more satisfying.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
And Limis is well, yeah exactly.
Speaker 4 (12:11):
I mean, but this this experience, and it's really wonderful
to direct. And I get the privilege and that I
get to direct my daughter, she's also an actress.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
Isn't that great? Yes?
Speaker 2 (12:24):
A Christmas Carol Hollywood dot com is where you get tickets.
A Christmas Carol Hollywood dot com. The first Presbyterian uh
Cathedral of Hollywood is the is the venue when we
come back again. It starts tomorrow, go through the twentieth. Yes,
we talked to Tim and Jesse some more, and I
will reveal something to Jesse. Jesse is about to learn
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something about me and how our lives overlapped. And I
haven't told you this ahead of time, deliberately. Oh, we
have real overlap. And it has to do with theater, sir. Oh, okay,
it has to do with theater. I myself an aspiring
young actor in high school with great praise.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
From many around me. I had real potential.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
And you'll learn how you factor in with the ven
diagram of my life as it intersects Broadway that's right.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
This is a Broadway story. Oh my gosh, I can't wait.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
I think you're gonna be blown away. And maybe next
year I will have a small walk on part in
A Christmas Carol. A Christmas Christmas Carol Hollywood dot Com
starts tomorrow, goes to the twentieth more with a Tim Farmer.
He is Scrooge and Jesse Cordy he is the director
of this wonderful show. As we continue, Mark Thompson and
Kim six forty, we're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
The guys from A Christmas Carol. This is a really
special show. There are probably those of you who are
familiar with it in Hollywood. It's been running for seventy
nine years, although it's taken on sort of diferent flavors
of production during that time. But Jesse Cordy is the
director and he has a great Broadway resume. I mean, wow,
they are really lucky to have you involved in this.
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I think that you say this is five years, You've
been doing it.
Speaker 4 (14:13):
Five years I've been doing this and we have obviously
we've had different actors and stuff. But many of the
actors come back and it's theater, it's live theater, and
it's again you're telling a story that is any story
of redemption is it's gonna fly.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
And again one don't ruin the ending for me.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
I'm taping it first Presbyterian Church of Hollywood is where
it is the first Presbyterian Trilley and again, but it
is a stage production.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
And Tim Farmer plays Scrooge.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
He himself with a deep history with this work, that
is to say, with a Christmas Carol. I mean you're
well familiar with this, yes, and so having played this
part of Scrooge before, Well, this has a different texture.
You're familiar with the material. Oh, definitely, definitely. But this
is special because I am a Christian. I belong to
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Hollywood Presbyterian Church. That's kind of wild. Well there are
Christian actors. Yes, No, no, that's not a while a part.
I mean that you'd be doing the production in your church. Is.
It is special, and we're very thankful that they allow
us to do this, But there's not I want to
be clear, as I understand it a religiosity to the show.
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It's a Christmas Carol, it's the Dickens story. I mean,
I don't remember. Maybe there is a heavy religiosity in
the original. It is call a Christmas. Okay, christ is
the reason for the season.
Speaker 4 (15:40):
It's not mentioned like that.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
Yeah, that's what I mean, right right.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
That may be your inner monologue, okay, Tim, But the
point is, if I'm there, I'm not being there's a
proselytizing the show. It's it's a Christmas Carol. And again
so the First Presbyterian Church of Hollywood. It's a real
production that's immersive, quite special. And again it's a Christmas Carol.
Hollywood dot Com for tickets. Now, Jesse, you have done
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a Broadway productions. You've been the voice of many Disney characters. Yes,
Beauty and the Beast. I thank you, Yes, you know
you've left. Oh yeah, christ Mark, you really you've done
so much. And you have a connection to lem Masab.
Don't the original production of Lamisa. Yes, Now, I have
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a connection to the original production of Lemiserrab. Now you're saying, Mark,
how can you hack talk show host have any connection
to this brilliant, robust world of acting and incredible success
that as is lem Misrab. I know you're thinking it,
and I am. I am going to tell you that
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when I was in high school, I was quite an actor.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
I'll have you know, Okay.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
I don't want to run down all of my different Tim,
I mean you know how you know, as an actor,
you don't like to lay it all out there.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
No, but I will.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
Tell you I played theseus in A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Oh okay, right, sure, yes? And from Shakespeare to pop culture,
I played the tin Man and it Wizard of oz Oh.
That was for Silver Spring Stage. It was community theater.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
I'll have you know.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
That's not where our story ends, though, sir, because when
I was in high school, I was the lead in
The Fantastics, the longest running off Broadway show in history. Yes,
it is right. And who was the female lead? A
woman who went on to play Cosette in the original
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cast of Leys. And that is how you and I
have a connection. Yes, oh my goodness, yeah right, how
about that? So I was Broadway adjacent to Gentlemen, Broadway adjacent.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
I could have been right on the playbill with you.
Speaker 4 (18:04):
You know what you could have I think you could
have been in that show. And by the way, Tim,
I'm going to say it right here, Okay, I want
Mark Thompson. Next year, We're going to have a small
part for him to come on because I know he's
busy doing the video show.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
Yeah, I don't know that I can work it in guys, but.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
Thank you very much. Yeah, and give him a line
and he can be in our production. Yeah, all right,
would you do that? I would do it, But Tim
looks reluctant, so I don't want to enough.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
I'm not reluctant. I'm secure in my role. I love
that the but that is our connection. That's a great connection. Yeah,
it really is a great connection. She's brilliant and she
was so much better than I was in that show.
And I was great, so you can imagine how great
she was. But I I do think it's worth noting
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that this show has apparently a sort of authenticity to it,
Like you have their kids in the original story, and
these are actual kids that you have in your production
of a Christmas Carol.
Speaker 4 (19:03):
Correct when you have you have guys like Peter Peter Cratchett,
he is a thirteen year old kid, and normally when
you see this, that kid's forty in a play and
he's playing young.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
But no, we have the.
Speaker 4 (19:19):
Actual ages of the people and their actors, and we
work with them to do it and it gives it
a real authenticity to the.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
Play.
Speaker 4 (19:28):
And also we have singing, we have dancing, and then
after the show marked this is the best part.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
After the show, there's a.
Speaker 4 (19:36):
Party and it gets filled with people and they're dancing
and my wife leads these the choreographers.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
He's addressed, you know, to the like you know, eighteen forty.
Speaker 4 (19:47):
She dances and stuff, and the kids love it that
people have such a party. So it's it's really like
nothing's seen. And by the way, I'm going to brag
about you that Joe Montagna came to see the show
and he said, you know, Jesse, I've seen this show
many times. I said, okay, he goes and this Scrooge
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is the best Scrooge I've ever seen.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
Wow, Tim, that's a tremendous come.
Speaker 4 (20:14):
I said, Joe, can I quote you? And he said, no, no, no,
I'm just kidding.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
No.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
I had a.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
Terrific talk with mister Montagna and he was effervescent and
his praise and that that means a lot to me. Well,
clearly you've made quite the impact. Tim Farmer plays Scrooge.
Jesse Cordy directs a Christmas Carol. Check it out at
the First Presbyterian Church of Hollywood. Opening night is tomorrow
night and it runs through the twentieth of this month.
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You can get tickets at a Christmas Carolhollywood dot com.
Speaker 4 (20:46):
And by the way, can I just throw this in Mark,
We open tomorrow right Tomorrow is Celebrity Night. Somebody wants
to come because they want to see a celebrity besides
me and Tim. They can come because it's going to
be we have it like least thirty of them.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
Wow, that's terrific. It's a TMZ night over there at
a Christmas Carol.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
Easy now, Christmas Carol Hollywood dot com.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
They're in Hollywood at the First Presbyterian Church of Hollywood, Jesse, Tim,
thank you.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
Mark, I love you.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
If I come over there right now.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
Give you a kiss. I'm glad we're separated by the town.
It's a big table. Kf I Am six forty we're
live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
Mark Thompson hanging out on this Thursday night and it
was really cool to spend some time with the guys
from A Christmas Carol. Again, if you're interested in tickets
to that show. It's a Christmas Carol Hollywood dot Com.
The one thing I wanted to mention to you, which
is sort of interesting because, especially since they were making
a big deal at the beginning of the fact that
this is really very close to both the tone and
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even the texture and true to the plot and what
Dickens wanted. You might think, oh, is the show long,
because A Christmas Carol, the actual novel is long. No,
they cut it down. They've made strategic custs of the show.
It runs start to finish ninety minutes, no intermission, So
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it's great for the kids. And I just was so
impressed with their artistic direction and kind of what they've
created there. So again, it's at this wonderful cathedral in Hollywood,
the first Presbyterian Church of Hollywood, and it's A Christmas
Carol Hollywood dot Com for more information. Yeah, I haven't seen.
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Trying to think of the last live theater production I've seen.
I think it was in Orange County. You know, I
saw Jason Alexander playing Tavia. That was a great show.
A Fiddler on the Roof is.
Speaker 3 (22:55):
That George Costanzo.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
Yeah, he was brilliant. He was absolutely brilliant production.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
Yeah, signfil Jason Alexander not Britney spears for that's right.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
Yeah, and you're right. Thank you for that, You for clarifying. Yeah, Nikki,
thank you for clarifying. I thank you.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
I take your thanks, and I come back over the over.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
The top with my thanks and I flack of thanks
back to you. Well, there you go. There's a lot
of thanks.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
It's a gratitude season, so there should be a lot
of gratitude. But that was the last I think, And
I'm kind of embarrassed to say it was the last
live production I've seen. And maybe I'm mistaken about that,
but I think that's why I mean arssacause I used
to go to a lot of live theater, but and
I've seen some great live theater right here in southern California.
And as I say that production of Fiddler, I think
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there was talk they were going to go to Broadway
with that. I don't know how it all worked out
and how that percolates, and you know how it comes
down to financing and availability and all this sort of thing.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
So I have no.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
Word that I can share about where that all ends up.
But likewise, there are other great productions at that Lamarada,
and so I encourage everybody to check that out. In
this case though, it's Christmas Carol and this isn't the theater,
this is the cathedral in Hollywood. So a Christmas Carol
Hollywood dot com for more information and for tickets. The
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homeowners in Alta Dina and the Eaton Fire and Alta
Dina have robbed them of a lot, and so it
is with a sense of celebration that the first fully
rebuilt home in Alta Dina since the Eating Fire is
given a certificate of occupancy, meaning it's safe and clear
for move in.
Speaker 5 (24:34):
For the homeowner, today's certificate means one thing, returning to
the place that he calls home. What once stood as
ash and debris, and this lot is once again a home.
Surrounded by county officials, homeowner and Eating Fire survivor Ted
Corner received the first certificate of occupancy issued for a
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fully rebuilt residence since the Eating Fire.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
So, Ted, we're here to celebrate you.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
You go, Truliara Champion.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
You're a survivor, but more importantly, you are back in
your home. Someplace that you were determined to get into
by the holidays.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
And it shall be wow, very very cool.
Speaker 5 (25:14):
The twenty one hundred square foot house includes three bedrooms,
an attached garage, and a patio.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
I mean, that's pretty amazing that they got it built
so fast, I have to say. I mean, you know, really,
we're coming up on the one year anniversary and it's.
Speaker 5 (25:26):
You know, it's very different from the small hotel room
Ted had been living in since being displaced by the fire.
Speaker 6 (25:33):
A lot of friends who kept me saying those first
few weeks living in a three hundred square foot hotel
room was beyond miserable, and everybody in the hotel was
a fire victim, with kids and dogs, and there's just
tears and sobbing everywhere in the building.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
I've redidd.
Speaker 5 (25:51):
For Ted. His thirteen year old dog, Daisy May was
his biggest motivation to get everything he needed in order
to rebuild fast.
Speaker 3 (25:59):
Isn't that right? I just love that.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
I mean, being an animal guy also, and I know
so many of you are as well. You have a
connection to your dog, your cat, your bird, your fish,
whatever it is. But really to make it the motivating
factor to hear that even in the conversation.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
It warms my heart, you know.
Speaker 5 (26:18):
For Ted, his thirteen year old dog, Daisy May was
his biggest motivation to get everything he needed in order
to rebuild fast, and he did it in just a
little over four months.
Speaker 6 (26:29):
Make a decision once and go on to the next decision.
First of all, painted all one color, so you can
paint it in three days. Spray paint the whole house
four times and be done with it. I could live
in a tent, and I told the builder, live with
a tent, no problem.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
I don't care.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
Well, that takes a lot of pressure off the builder,
doesn't it. Yeah, the thing, dude, don't sweat it. Like,
just finish this thing. Let's got a roof on it,
Spray some paint on it, and let me move back
in and be.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
Done with it.
Speaker 6 (26:54):
I could live in a tent, and I told the builder,
I live with a tent, no problem.
Speaker 3 (26:56):
I don't care. Sixty seven years old. What's the difference.
Speaker 6 (27:00):
So I wasn't trying to build a mansion. They built
me one. They've built me a palace because they've built
this house with love.
Speaker 5 (27:08):
For county leaders. This home represents more than a rebuild.
It's a sign of progress, and county officials say today's
milestone is just the beginning, with more homes expected to
be completed very soon.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
Well, congratulations to them. I mean, this is really a
momentous day. So Ted, you're a place there on East
Loma Alta Drive, the first fully rebuilt residents to be
completed following the fire.
Speaker 3 (27:36):
Congratulations.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
It's really the first sign of what we all hope,
but kind of a germination of improvement, rebuilding of a future.
I just spent time last weekend out in the Palisades,
also in Malibu, and you see how much work is ahead.
And Alta Dina a community that is so tight, a
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community that has such great history. That sign that this
first residence completely rebuilt and ready to go, it truly
is an important milestone. So congratulations. Mark Thompson Hanging out
on Thursday night on KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (28:24):
We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app
Speaker 1 (28:27):
KFI AM six forty on demand,
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Demand KFI AM six forty. We're live everywhere on the
iHeartRadio app Mark Ronner watching news events through the night
that might necessitate immediate focus.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
Things are constantly necessitated here.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Yeah, that's why we have a necessitating response team.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Yes, And among the stories we'll be talking about include
the Altadena rebuild. This is kind of a momentous day
in the world of the Alta Dina eat and fire.
The Altadena homeowner that now is making I think national
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news with the attempt to evict a five hundred and
fifty pounds bear that has taken up residents under the
house in the crawl space.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Now it's Hollywood, so you'll allow me.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
I think if we were going to write this based
on a true story, there are two ways we can
go with it. One is the family comedy, warm hearted
way in which the family discovers the five hundred and
fifty pound bear. Just as this family has and they
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grow attached to the bear, the bear grows attached to them.
I'm simplifying a lot of this. Believe me, I could
beat these characters out. Give me forty five minutes and
I can get this thing going. And the evil authorities,
the evil sheriff, whomever they want to what do they
want to do. They want to shoot the bear. They
want to kill the bear. They want to euthanize the bear.
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They want to get rid of the bear. The bear
is a danger. This is like the mayor in Jaws.
We'll have a character like that. You've got to keep
quiet about the bear. It could ruin the community. It'll
drive down real estate prices. All of these things are
working while the family is bonding with the bear, and
the little child is growing closer and closer to this
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five hundred and fifty pound bear that will of course
have a name, because once the bear has a name,
we grow even closer to it. Maybe we'll call the
bear Mario. So Mario and the young child and the
family grow closer, while the evil forces associated with authority
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are determined to euthanize Mario or certainly take him away
from this community. And of course the crest of the wave,
the final act is one in which the child is
in tears as the authorities go after Mario the bear,
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and they ultimately prevailed, and of course in a real
sad ending, and I think we shoot alternate endings on this,
so don't get too mummed out by the first ending.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
The bear is taken down.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
And the evil sheriff takes down the bear and the
child is weeping over the corpse of Mario. Jesus for Mario. Yeah,
Justice for Mario. You have protesters come out, and I
think you're going to see those protesters throughout. I think
there is this drumbeat of save the bear, Save the bear,
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Save the bear. You get, you get the whole community
coming out. And the other way we do it is
we do it like Free Willie, where the bear is
removed and the save the bear forces of the community prevail.
They do save the bear, and the bear goes into
a habitat where Mario lives out his life as a
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free bear in a protected habitat. That would be sort
of the best you could do, and that'll have I
think a tear jerker quality. Also, you know, now that's
one way you go. The other way you go is
you go horror with it.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Horror is.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
There is a bear under the house that we the
audience know is under the house, but the family doesn't
know is under the house. What happens is one at
a time, family members go missing and the mystery as
to what happened to them. They have posters everywhere looking
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for the small children who are gone, and finally it's
revealed in a final confrontation that it is the bear
under the house. This is more of a Jaws kind
of thing. You got to think Jaws by way of
Bad Ronald. That is that too deep a cut for most? Yeah?
(05:02):
What is bad Ronald is that.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
That's the infamous seventies TV movie about a young guy
hiding inside a family's house inside the walls.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
Wow, Wow, look out bad Ronald. That sounds like, yeah,
just add of bear. I'm into it. Does cocaine play
a role in this? No, you're right, it's not cocaine bear,
but it's cocaine bear a Jason.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Yeah. Okay.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
So these are the two ways I see this springing.
Fourth from Hollywood and again based on a true story
the Alta Dina homeowners struggling to get rid of this
five hundred and fifty pound bear.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
It's going on right now in Altadena.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
So all of you arespiring screenwriters, those are the two
ways I think you can go with this. You can
take either one. You don't have to cut me in.
You don't have to wet my beak. Go for it.
It's your scene. You can thank me in the credits
or not. Believe me if you don't. You're not alone
in Hollywood. I've come up with a lot of ideas
and I'm constantly forgotten when it comes to credit time.
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When it comes to cutting a check, no one can
remember Mark Thompson. So don't feel bad that you can't either.
I wish you the best of luck with it. It's
KFI AM six forty. We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
Mark Thompson hanging out. Glad you could join us.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
I've got some real stage people and screen people who
are sitting in the studio with me now. Jesse Cordy
is the director of a show that has been running
seventy nine years. I'm presuming that Jesse hasn't been directing
it for seventy nine years.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
You you're a younger man that it would seem too right.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
I am but a Christmas Carol, which is a show
that we all know. It's a story, we all know,
the Dickens story. It comes to life in a Hollywood
production that has been running seventy nine years.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
That's correct.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
And we have Broadway quality actors. Yeah, exactly, And I'm
from Broadway and so is Tim Our Scrooge was here
with us, so it is. The venue is fantastic. As
a minute you walk in there, Mark, it's eighteen forty three.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
You're in that.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
Place the whole It's an eighteen hundred seat cathedral.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
It's done in the cathedral in Hutes. It's kind of
an incredible special venue. Like you could see a lot
of shows, but you won't see them in a venue
like this typically.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
No.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
And also we stick mark the novel.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
They have changed it so many ways and so many
different productions that you can go. There's four of them
in La and stuff. But this one it stays really
true to the actual novel, which is what's unique to
this one.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
The First Presbyterian Church of Hollywood is the venue. The
first night, opening night is tomorrow. It runs through the twentieth. Yes,
and as you mentioned, Tim Farmer is here. He is
your Scrooge. Yes, it's a Scrooge d it's a Scrooge
intensive show.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Tim. I'm going to try not to scrooge it up.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
To tell us about you. How did you come to this? Oh,
that's a long story. We don't have enough time. So
how long When did you come to this? Maybe the
first time I did Ebenezer Scrooge was at the Hollywood
Presbyterian Church, but it was for the professional acting company
called the Actors co Op. And this version was an
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adaptation by Doris Baisley. So it was an interesting adaptation
but so much fun to do. But that's where I
kind of cut my teeth on Ebenezer Scrooge. So when
you were coming around to this production in which there's
an Ebenezer Scrooge, it's slightly different, as you know, as
the different productions can be. And Jesse's directing, I'm sure
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that was a positive because Jesse's got a real.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
You know, Hollywood sort of thing. Did you you have
to audition?
Speaker 2 (09:01):
I'm just curious, Tim Farmer, No.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
No, case audition was that I had seen him. You
just sought him out, You sought him out.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Yeah, fortunately they had enjoyed my previous performance. That's terrific.
And where had you seen him in that production?
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Well?
Speaker 4 (09:19):
I didn't see I did see that production many years
in the nineties and he had done a production and
it was a good production. But this is really a
Broadway production when you go see this. And by the way,
I want to make sure that everybody knows that you
can get your tickets at a Christmas Carolhollywood dot com.
You can get your tickets there. We're only doing ten performances,
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but we have eighteen hundred seats. Now. The other thing
is when here in Hollywood theaters are ninety nine seat
theaters and things like that, which is great, but they
have to sell out, like you know, six weeks, eight
weeks in order to We're not about selling out in
the sense that we want. We've kept the prices mark
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the same for five years, those last five years, so
that everybody can come, the community can come, the kids
can come. It's a little scary because you know, there's
some scary moments in the show, but we want to
be able to reach the community from from give us.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
The webcit the website again, please, the website is a
Christmas Carolhollywood dot com. A Christmas Carolhollywood dot com. Yes, okay,
and uh, what a great opportunity I mean, and what
I want to understand. I mean, it really is like
a Broadway production, and what really sets it apart. I
guess it sort of this immersive experience that you go
in and it's not like going into the Schubert Theater
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in New York for a Broadway You've become sort of
surrounded by the mood almost.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
Yeah. Yes.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
The interesting thing too, is this is Scrooge speaking right now.
Indeed it is is that the set, which I designed
as well, fits into the architecture of the church. It
does that because we can't do the same things that
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other theaters do.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
It's not a theater.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Sure, you don't cathedral, big wings where it's stuff you
can fly on, etc. Yeah, exactly, I have to create
those wings. So but we do it right below this
very beautiful big cross. It is called a Christmas Yeah,
it's peril sure. So the message comes from that perspective,
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and it's like nothing you've ever seen before.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
It is. The acting is so magnificent.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
This ensemble cast is amazingly good, and we tell the
story that Dickens wanted us to tell. These are the
lessons he wanted us to learn. That is what makes
this show special.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
And you know, Mark, being from Broadway, you know I
was in the original cast of Limis rob and done
a ton of stuff. This show for me is somewhat more,
even more satisfying.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
And Limis is well, yeah exactly.
Speaker 4 (12:11):
I mean, but this this experience, and it's really wonderful
to direct. And I get the privilege and that I
get to direct my daughter, she's also an actress.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
Isn't that great? Yes?
Speaker 2 (12:24):
A Christmas Carol Hollywood dot com is where you get tickets.
A Christmas Carol Hollywood dot com. The first Presbyterian uh
Cathedral of Hollywood is the is the venue when we
come back again. It starts tomorrow, go through the twentieth. Yes,
we talked to Tim and Jesse some more, and I
will reveal something to Jesse. Jesse is about to learn
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something about me and how our lives overlapped. And I
haven't told you this ahead of time, deliberately. Oh, we
have real overlap. And it has to do with theater, sir. Oh, okay,
it has to do with theater. I myself an aspiring
young actor in high school with great praise.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
From many around me. I had real potential.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
And you'll learn how you factor in with the ven
diagram of my life as it intersects Broadway that's right.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
This is a Broadway story. Oh my gosh, I can't wait.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
I think you're gonna be blown away. And maybe next
year I will have a small walk on part in
A Christmas Carol. A Christmas Christmas Carol Hollywood dot Com
starts tomorrow, goes to the twentieth more with a Tim Farmer.
He is Scrooge and Jesse Cordy he is the director
of this wonderful show. As we continue, Mark Thompson and
Kim six forty, we're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
The guys from A Christmas Carol. This is a really
special show. There are probably those of you who are
familiar with it in Hollywood. It's been running for seventy
nine years, although it's taken on sort of diferent flavors
of production during that time. But Jesse Cordy is the
director and he has a great Broadway resume. I mean, wow,
they are really lucky to have you involved in this.
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I think that you say this is five years, You've
been doing it.
Speaker 4 (14:13):
Five years I've been doing this and we have obviously
we've had different actors and stuff. But many of the
actors come back and it's theater, it's live theater, and
it's again you're telling a story that is any story
of redemption is it's gonna fly.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
And again one don't ruin the ending for me.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
I'm taping it first Presbyterian Church of Hollywood is where
it is the first Presbyterian Trilley and again, but it
is a stage production.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
And Tim Farmer plays Scrooge.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
He himself with a deep history with this work, that
is to say, with a Christmas Carol. I mean you're
well familiar with this, yes, and so having played this
part of Scrooge before, Well, this has a different texture.
You're familiar with the material. Oh, definitely, definitely. But this
is special because I am a Christian. I belong to
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Hollywood Presbyterian Church. That's kind of wild. Well there are
Christian actors. Yes, No, no, that's not a while a part.
I mean that you'd be doing the production in your church. Is.
It is special, and we're very thankful that they allow
us to do this, But there's not I want to
be clear, as I understand it a religiosity to the show.
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It's a Christmas Carol, it's the Dickens story. I mean,
I don't remember. Maybe there is a heavy religiosity in
the original. It is call a Christmas. Okay, christ is
the reason for the season.
Speaker 4 (15:40):
It's not mentioned like that.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
Yeah, that's what I mean, right right.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
That may be your inner monologue, okay, Tim, But the
point is, if I'm there, I'm not being there's a
proselytizing the show. It's it's a Christmas Carol. And again
so the First Presbyterian Church of Hollywood. It's a real
production that's immersive, quite special. And again it's a Christmas Carol.
Hollywood dot Com for tickets. Now, Jesse, you have done
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a Broadway productions. You've been the voice of many Disney characters. Yes,
Beauty and the Beast. I thank you, Yes, you know
you've left. Oh yeah, christ Mark, you really you've done
so much. And you have a connection to lem Masab.
Don't the original production of Lamisa. Yes, Now, I have
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a connection to the original production of Lemiserrab. Now you're saying, Mark,
how can you hack talk show host have any connection
to this brilliant, robust world of acting and incredible success
that as is lem Misrab. I know you're thinking it,
and I am. I am going to tell you that
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when I was in high school, I was quite an actor.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
I'll have you know, Okay.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
I don't want to run down all of my different Tim,
I mean you know how you know, as an actor,
you don't like to lay it all out there.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
No, but I will.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
Tell you I played theseus in A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Oh okay, right, sure, yes? And from Shakespeare to pop culture,
I played the tin Man and it Wizard of oz Oh.
That was for Silver Spring Stage. It was community theater.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
I'll have you know.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
That's not where our story ends, though, sir, because when
I was in high school, I was the lead in
The Fantastics, the longest running off Broadway show in history. Yes,
it is right. And who was the female lead? A
woman who went on to play Cosette in the original
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cast of Leys. And that is how you and I
have a connection. Yes, oh my goodness, yeah right, how
about that? So I was Broadway adjacent to Gentlemen, Broadway adjacent.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
I could have been right on the playbill with you.
Speaker 4 (18:04):
You know what you could have I think you could
have been in that show. And by the way, Tim,
I'm going to say it right here, Okay, I want
Mark Thompson. Next year, We're going to have a small
part for him to come on because I know he's
busy doing the video show.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
Yeah, I don't know that I can work it in guys, but.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
Thank you very much. Yeah, and give him a line
and he can be in our production. Yeah, all right,
would you do that? I would do it, But Tim
looks reluctant, so I don't want to enough.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
I'm not reluctant. I'm secure in my role. I love
that the but that is our connection. That's a great connection. Yeah,
it really is a great connection. She's brilliant and she
was so much better than I was in that show.
And I was great, so you can imagine how great
she was. But I I do think it's worth noting
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that this show has apparently a sort of authenticity to it,
Like you have their kids in the original story, and
these are actual kids that you have in your production
of a Christmas Carol.
Speaker 4 (19:03):
Correct when you have you have guys like Peter Peter Cratchett,
he is a thirteen year old kid, and normally when
you see this, that kid's forty in a play and
he's playing young.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
But no, we have the.
Speaker 4 (19:19):
Actual ages of the people and their actors, and we
work with them to do it and it gives it
a real authenticity to the.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
Play.
Speaker 4 (19:28):
And also we have singing, we have dancing, and then
after the show marked this is the best part.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
After the show, there's a.
Speaker 4 (19:36):
Party and it gets filled with people and they're dancing
and my wife leads these the choreographers.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
He's addressed, you know, to the like you know, eighteen forty.
Speaker 4 (19:47):
She dances and stuff, and the kids love it that
people have such a party. So it's it's really like
nothing's seen. And by the way, I'm going to brag
about you that Joe Montagna came to see the show
and he said, you know, Jesse, I've seen this show
many times. I said, okay, he goes and this Scrooge
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is the best Scrooge I've ever seen.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
Wow, Tim, that's a tremendous come.
Speaker 4 (20:14):
I said, Joe, can I quote you? And he said, no, no, no,
I'm just kidding.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
No.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
I had a.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
Terrific talk with mister Montagna and he was effervescent and
his praise and that that means a lot to me. Well,
clearly you've made quite the impact. Tim Farmer plays Scrooge.
Jesse Cordy directs a Christmas Carol. Check it out at
the First Presbyterian Church of Hollywood. Opening night is tomorrow
night and it runs through the twentieth of this month.
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You can get tickets at a Christmas Carolhollywood dot com.
Speaker 4 (20:46):
And by the way, can I just throw this in Mark,
We open tomorrow right Tomorrow is Celebrity Night. Somebody wants
to come because they want to see a celebrity besides
me and Tim. They can come because it's going to
be we have it like least thirty of them.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
Wow, that's terrific. It's a TMZ night over there at
a Christmas Carol.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
Easy now, Christmas Carol Hollywood dot com.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
They're in Hollywood at the First Presbyterian Church of Hollywood, Jesse, Tim,
thank you.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
Mark, I love you.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
If I come over there right now.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
Give you a kiss. I'm glad we're separated by the town.
It's a big table. Kf I Am six forty we're
live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
Mark Thompson hanging out on this Thursday night and it
was really cool to spend some time with the guys
from A Christmas Carol. Again, if you're interested in tickets
to that show. It's a Christmas Carol Hollywood dot Com.
The one thing I wanted to mention to you, which
is sort of interesting because, especially since they were making
a big deal at the beginning of the fact that
this is really very close to both the tone and
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even the texture and true to the plot and what
Dickens wanted. You might think, oh, is the show long,
because A Christmas Carol, the actual novel is long. No,
they cut it down. They've made strategic custs of the show.
It runs start to finish ninety minutes, no intermission, So
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it's great for the kids. And I just was so
impressed with their artistic direction and kind of what they've
created there. So again, it's at this wonderful cathedral in Hollywood,
the first Presbyterian Church of Hollywood, and it's A Christmas
Carol Hollywood dot Com for more information. Yeah, I haven't seen.
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Trying to think of the last live theater production I've seen.
I think it was in Orange County. You know, I
saw Jason Alexander playing Tavia. That was a great show.
A Fiddler on the Roof is.
Speaker 3 (22:55):
That George Costanzo.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
Yeah, he was brilliant. He was absolutely brilliant production.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
Yeah, signfil Jason Alexander not Britney spears for that's right.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
Yeah, and you're right. Thank you for that, You for clarifying. Yeah, Nikki,
thank you for clarifying. I thank you.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
I take your thanks, and I come back over the over.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
The top with my thanks and I flack of thanks
back to you. Well, there you go. There's a lot
of thanks.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
It's a gratitude season, so there should be a lot
of gratitude. But that was the last I think, And
I'm kind of embarrassed to say it was the last
live production I've seen. And maybe I'm mistaken about that,
but I think that's why I mean arssacause I used
to go to a lot of live theater, but and
I've seen some great live theater right here in southern California.
And as I say that production of Fiddler, I think
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there was talk they were going to go to Broadway
with that. I don't know how it all worked out
and how that percolates, and you know how it comes
down to financing and availability and all this sort of thing.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
So I have no.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
Word that I can share about where that all ends up.
But likewise, there are other great productions at that Lamarada,
and so I encourage everybody to check that out. In
this case though, it's Christmas Carol and this isn't the theater,
this is the cathedral in Hollywood. So a Christmas Carol
Hollywood dot com for more information and for tickets. The
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homeowners in Alta Dina and the Eaton Fire and Alta
Dina have robbed them of a lot, and so it
is with a sense of celebration that the first fully
rebuilt home in Alta Dina since the Eating Fire is
given a certificate of occupancy, meaning it's safe and clear
for move in.
Speaker 5 (24:34):
For the homeowner, today's certificate means one thing, returning to
the place that he calls home. What once stood as
ash and debris, and this lot is once again a home.
Surrounded by county officials, homeowner and Eating Fire survivor Ted
Corner received the first certificate of occupancy issued for a
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fully rebuilt residence since the Eating Fire.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
So, Ted, we're here to celebrate you.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
You go, Truliara Champion.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
You're a survivor, but more importantly, you are back in
your home. Someplace that you were determined to get into
by the holidays.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
And it shall be wow, very very cool.
Speaker 5 (25:14):
The twenty one hundred square foot house includes three bedrooms,
an attached garage, and a patio.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
I mean, that's pretty amazing that they got it built
so fast, I have to say. I mean, you know, really,
we're coming up on the one year anniversary and it's.
Speaker 5 (25:26):
You know, it's very different from the small hotel room
Ted had been living in since being displaced by the fire.
Speaker 6 (25:33):
A lot of friends who kept me saying those first
few weeks living in a three hundred square foot hotel
room was beyond miserable, and everybody in the hotel was
a fire victim, with kids and dogs, and there's just
tears and sobbing everywhere in the building.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
I've redidd.
Speaker 5 (25:51):
For Ted. His thirteen year old dog, Daisy May was
his biggest motivation to get everything he needed in order
to rebuild fast.
Speaker 3 (25:59):
Isn't that right? I just love that.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
I mean, being an animal guy also, and I know
so many of you are as well. You have a
connection to your dog, your cat, your bird, your fish,
whatever it is. But really to make it the motivating
factor to hear that even in the conversation.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
It warms my heart, you know.
Speaker 5 (26:18):
For Ted, his thirteen year old dog, Daisy May was
his biggest motivation to get everything he needed in order
to rebuild fast, and he did it in just a
little over four months.
Speaker 6 (26:29):
Make a decision once and go on to the next decision.
First of all, painted all one color, so you can
paint it in three days. Spray paint the whole house
four times and be done with it. I could live
in a tent, and I told the builder, live with
a tent, no problem.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
I don't care.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
Well, that takes a lot of pressure off the builder,
doesn't it. Yeah, the thing, dude, don't sweat it. Like,
just finish this thing. Let's got a roof on it,
Spray some paint on it, and let me move back
in and be.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
Done with it.
Speaker 6 (26:54):
I could live in a tent, and I told the builder,
I live with a tent, no problem.
Speaker 3 (26:56):
I don't care. Sixty seven years old. What's the difference.
Speaker 6 (27:00):
So I wasn't trying to build a mansion. They built
me one. They've built me a palace because they've built
this house with love.
Speaker 5 (27:08):
For county leaders. This home represents more than a rebuild.
It's a sign of progress, and county officials say today's
milestone is just the beginning, with more homes expected to
be completed very soon.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
Well, congratulations to them. I mean, this is really a
momentous day. So Ted, you're a place there on East
Loma Alta Drive, the first fully rebuilt residents to be
completed following the fire.
Speaker 3 (27:36):
Congratulations.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
It's really the first sign of what we all hope,
but kind of a germination of improvement, rebuilding of a future.
I just spent time last weekend out in the Palisades,
also in Malibu, and you see how much work is ahead.
And Alta Dina a community that is so tight, a
(28:02):
community that has such great history. That sign that this
first residence completely rebuilt and ready to go, it truly
is an important milestone. So congratulations. Mark Thompson Hanging out
on Thursday night on KFI AM six forty.
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