February 10, 2025 • 33 mins
Marla speaks with Hawaii Representative Elle Cochran about the parallels between the Lahaina and LA wildfires and what the rebuild phase can learn from Hawaii's experience. She then interviews actor Gary Sinise on his support for First Responders and his hands-on efforts to aid Southern California's recovery. After revisiting some of her favorite Super Bowl ads that didn’t make the initial buzz, Marla wraps up the show with listener talkback highlights and engaging crosstalk with Chris Merrill.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand right now.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
While we have been focused a lot on the Super Bowl,
I want to focus on the recovery process in both Altadena,
Pasadena and the Palisades. You know, when the fires broke
out just over a month ago, it was hard not
to initially compare once we saw the devastation and once
we saw those flames raging to what Lehina and Maui,
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what they dealt with that was basically a year and
a half ago, and bringing I wanted to bring into
the conversation a Hi Hawaii representative. Her name is Ellie Cochrane.
She's represents Maui and she lived through that in Mahina,
and I want to get her perspective sort of to
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compare and contrast what they've dealt with and their recovery process,
and now that we're in our own recovery process, what
we can learn from them. Ellie, thanks so much for
being with me today.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Yeah, Aloha, Marla, thanks for having me Aloha.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
I just want to point out to our listeners a
couple of facts here that the Lahaina fire sadly was
far deadlier than our local fires claimed. Correct me, if
I'm wrong, Ellie, one hundred and two lives it.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Yeah, that's documented.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Anyway, documented absolutely, I understand that. And then it destroyed far,
far fewer structures, More than twenty two hundred structures were
lost documented anyway in Lahina and compared to the more
than sixteen thousand plus both here in the Palisades and
eaten fires. Here we are a year and a half later, Ellie,
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how has the recovery process been going for you? How
many businesses and homes have been rebuilt in the last
eighteen months?
Speaker 1 (01:48):
No?
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Businesses, homes, very very minimal, Oh, considering you know, the
timeframe that's gone by, the infrastructure that's been you know,
been brought back. Yet it's just so far in few
in between having completed homes. I think eight months, eight
months in we finally have this big celebration and blessing
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for the first family to move back home, which yeah,
I'm happy for the family, but eight months and one
family go home, nor.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Was.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
I was embarrassed. It was like, you know, that was shame.
So we should have had way more.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
What's been the roadblock for you and Lehina? And what
can we learn from that here in la because we're
talking about. We just had a city council woman on
Friday say that the average time to build just a
simple home in Los Angeles is eight hundred plus days.
That's more than two years, and we have thousands of
homes to rebuild. So what's been the roadblock and what
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can we learn?
Speaker 3 (02:52):
Yeah, I think a lot of it has to do
with political will for starters. As Leahya majority is a
long this five mile stretch of shoreline and the town
of Lohina is very culturally significant sensitive, it's historical districts,
it's got you know, special Management areas rules and regulations
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and things like that. But you know we have to
exempt these things. I mean within reason obviously. But right
now the businesses are saying, can we get exemptions from
our special Management Area rules the SMAs? If we build
life for life? Right, if we build back what we had,
We're not expanding use, we're not expanding resource uses. We
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want to build back our businesses and I'm all for that.
So I had a bill that went up to the
legislature just the other day and worked with the fifty
nine business owners, created the legislation, and then a very
similar almost word forward other legislative bill came a book
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came up on the table. I'm like, well, where did
that bill come from? And my bill died because it
was stated, oh, well, Ellie's bill only got support of
the county council. This other bill from a representative clear
across the other side of the island. His bill got
county council and mayor's support. So we're going to kill
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Ellie's bill and we'll move forward this other bill. I'm like, what, yeah,
what about I mean, the same bill right now. It's
this total political so anyways, you know, I think, and
there's been like spot amendments to the community plan. It's started.
I feel like it's who you know, not what you know.
It's it's about you know. Oh the governor is like yeah, okay,
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you have to jump up, it down, scream and cry.
And then finally the governor someone's going to put a
new emergency proclamation to exempt this, exempt that, to move
this one project forward. But what about the rest of it?
How's about looking at collectively the entire town and figure
it out. You But you're just reactive. The government's being reactive.
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They're not being proactive, they're not pre planning. Pre figuring
out where's you know, what do we need to bring
back now? And I think the most aggravating, frustrating part
of this whole picture is the sooner we rebuild, the
quicker we get our towns built, our job our businesses back,
people back on their feet, you know, living, surviving, And
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then this is economy and taxations right back into the
coffers of this government and our world starts going around
again and rebuilding itself. That is a picture of rebuilding, recovery.
That's not happening. That's not happening.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Well, you know, we're very early on in the recovery
process here, and our listeners know they talk about a
lot here in KFI. You know, there have been executive
orders by the mayor and by the California governor and
by the Borders Supervisors and city council. And you know,
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we'll see if those end up making a difference in
terms of the permitting process and the waste removal. I mean,
there's so much to go through. What do you want
the people to know, the people who are impacted, what
do you want to know? What can they learn from
your experience?
Speaker 3 (06:21):
So, first off, when it all went down, people wanted
to go back, right, it's your property, regardless if you
have anything left or not. You want the right to
go back to your property safely, obviously and sift through
what might remain right, it's still a mental value of
something may be still intact. And the government was just
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stone walling, right, Lina put up these three point two
million dollar barrier to keep everybody out and just not
letting people back, and that created a lot of tension
and people being upset and why have you? And I thought,
if everybody's right to go back to their properties, to
do this, and eventually government let down and said, okay,
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you can go back safely. Samaritans perse will help you
out out for you with ppe pps and you know, yeah, yes, right,
So I mean, if people want to go back, you
have to let them do this. This is part of
having closure, you know. And then as as FEMA and
Army Corps come in and they start clearing all that
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toxic debris away, make sure that you know that you
you had your opportunity first to sift through your own
personal stuff. I mean, we've had we had cultural sites,
statues and things that were intact, and those guys went
went in and just knocked them out. You know, make
sure whatever's still left standing is protected, whether it's a
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statue or some type of you know, some type of
historical whatever, just protected and yeah, preserve it and not
just needlessly torn down under the guise of oh it's
toxic and it's dangerous or whatever. But I think a
lot of things are taken away needlessly, people's foundations, people's driveways,
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which you could have left that there. Now they have
to work off their own money and put it back.
And it's it's just like what happened. You know, there
was no rhyme or reason on a lot of levels
when I found out that one burnt car was costing
over six thousand dollars to remove the government needs to
pay attention or the people whoever can have oversight. How
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are things being charged? You know, all this tune is
gonna come down from the federal level, like oh my god,
emergency money, emergency funds, this and that. But people start
taking advantage, yes, yours, your truck companies, your yeah, all
that debris removal, the there needs to be nonprofits start
popping up in the in the love you know, love
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la and give, give Give. It was like level Lina
gift to the pe. Well, a lot of those pop
up overnight nonprofits are still banking and banks a ton
of money and it never trickled down to the people.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Well, you know, you make a good point, because there's
a lot of donations out there, and there's a whole
bunch of money, and you know we need to follow
that money to make sure it gets to the recipients,
the people who need it the most. So I'm running
up against the clock. Ellie, I appreciate I always appreciate
your insight. She is Ellie Cochran, a Hawaii representative. She
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represents Maui and she was on to talk about the
differences so that we can learn the takeaways from Lehina
here in Los Angeles. I appreciate you, mahallo, thank you
so much.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
Thanks for having me, and so much more to talk about.
But we'll carry on the conversation.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
We shall appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
Okay, alrighty, aloha.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Aloha bye. Okay. Up next, my conversation with Gary Sinise.
He was in town to thank our first responders who
battled the wildfires. That's coming up next.
Speaker 4 (09:56):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Man, you just got back from touring the eating fire
some of the devastation. What are your thoughts?
Speaker 5 (10:05):
It's hard to process.
Speaker 6 (10:06):
Last last week I was up to the Palisades and
driving through there, and it's just.
Speaker 4 (10:12):
Devastation every everywhere.
Speaker 5 (10:13):
You're looking here the same point. It just goes on
and on and on, and it's.
Speaker 6 (10:18):
It's really hard to process because you see so many
businesses and so many homes.
Speaker 5 (10:23):
It's just like the entire town's.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
Just you wiped out.
Speaker 6 (10:28):
I live in Tennessee now, and you know, lived here
for thirty five years, and watching this on television Halpen
all day long and then into the next day and
into the next day, and then and then on for
a week, fires bursting out everywhere. It's just what was
I was going on in southern California. So we wanted
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to come here and do something for these first responders.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
So what do you get out of being here?
Speaker 6 (10:57):
Well, I've had a you know, I've had a full
time foundation for many many years that supports veterans and
first responders and their families. I've been involved with that
for many years prior to having my own foundation that
involve and for me, it's just it gives life a
great purpose to be able to kind of take the
movie career, the success that I've had in the business
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in television and films and kind of turn it into
something very mean and meaningful to help other people.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
You just reference your movie career. Of course, it makes
us think of Lieutenant Dan did Plane, a wounded soldier
inspire you to start the Gary Sineze Foundation.
Speaker 5 (11:36):
That was one of the things. Yeah, after playing.
Speaker 6 (11:41):
The Wounded Vietnam Veteran, I got very involved with supporting
I wounded. After that, I didn't know what the Disabled
American Veterans Organization was, but they contacted me about six
weeks after Forrest Gump came out and invited me to
the convention and I met like the two thousand wounded veterans. Ye,
it was very impactful, very I had a profound, you know,
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impact on my life, and I just started supporting them.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
Then before you served your millionth meal, and so now
you're well beyond the millionth mark. Here you are. You're
going to serve one hundreds more today, more than just
a meal.
Speaker 5 (12:18):
Yes, Yeah, to me.
Speaker 6 (12:19):
To me, it's not about the meal as much much
as as it is about the message of gratitude and
appreciation and remembrance. You know that we remember that these
folks are out there all the time doing this kind
of work and working to save people.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
You asked your son Mac just over a year ago.
Speaker 5 (12:37):
Of course, we're so so sorry for that.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
How has that changed you and the work that you do?
Speaker 6 (12:42):
Right, Well, it's the hardest thing, you know, I've been through.
I've met, you know, thousands of families of our fallen
heroes that have gone through a terrible loss and grief,
and I've seen them sort of with this resilience perseverance,
just trying to press through the grief and everything. And
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then our son developed a very rare cancer called cordoma,
you know, I mean it was so it's so rare
that there are no drugs to fight it or anything.
He fought it for five and a half years, and
he was so courageous and inspirational to me in the
way he fought it and the things that he did.
Speaker 5 (13:23):
And in the final moments of his life he was creating.
Speaker 7 (13:27):
He was a.
Speaker 6 (13:27):
Composer and songwriter and musician, and he kept composing all
the way to the end.
Speaker 5 (13:33):
He you know, even the last week of.
Speaker 6 (13:36):
His life, he had finished his album. He added, he
had a wish and a desire and a goal and
a dream to create an album, and we didn't know
we were going to lose him, you know, and he
was just pressing on. He had the final week of
his life. He finished an album called Resurrection on a Bible,
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and he wanted any pro seats from the final sales
to go to the Garysonese Foundation.
Speaker 5 (14:03):
So Mac has helping us today to provide these meals.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
So you've been listening to pardon me my conversation with
Gary Sinise that took place yesterday. I met him out
at the La County Fire Department Camp two. It's out
right by JPL on the campus really in Lakeagnata, Flintridge,
and he was there to serve those appreciation meals to
three hundred or so, about three hundred La County firefighters
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and first responders. So we're talking about La County Fire,
Ela County Sheriff, as well as Angelis National Forest firefighters.
They were out there and their families. It was a
beautiful event. And then I had some good one on
one time with him. I helped him serve those meals
to our first responders to give them their proper thanks
and just to hear his story and the fact that
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he has dedicated his now professional life to giving back
to our first responders, our law enforcement, and our military
is so commendable of him. And then of course we
ended our conversation talking about the loss of his son, Mack,
who died just at thirty three years old. That was
in January of twenty twenty four. And a lot of
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the proceeds now, if you want to go find his
music online, they benefit the Gary Sinisee Foundation and all
the wonderful work that they do year round. So they
do so much for our veterans and our first responders.
I can't think of enough for the time. I put
this all together in a nice story that airs tonight
on Fox eleven, so you can catch that. This is
after the Super Bowl Fox eleven News at ten o'clock.
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It really will probably start around nine thirty tonight. You
can stream it live foxlay dot Com, slash Live. You
can catch my story with Gary sinise tonight. Okay, coming out,
we will harken back to the Super Bowl because John
Batiste right now is singing the national anthem. I think
that's what it looks like to me. We're going to
talk more about some of those buzzworthy ads still ahead.
Speaker 4 (16:05):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
The Coin Toss. It looks like they have before the
coin toss. They recognize the victims from New Year's Day.
That's the vantage point that I'm seeing here in the
KFI studios in Burbank. If you're watching at home and
you're listening along, I appreciate you. We're going to be
playing your talkbacks coming up in the next segment, so
please let us know what you're thinking. Just hit that
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little microphone icon on the iHeartRadio app and we'll get
you on the air. Speaking of the Super Bowl, some
of those ads have already played, but we want to
catch you up on some of the most buzzworthy ones
to look forward to today, including this one with Seal
and rapper singer Becky g for Mountain Dew that.
Speaker 4 (16:52):
Mountain Do bob Blast.
Speaker 7 (17:04):
Refreshing. It's kissed by the firmed amount of dropped the line.
Speaker 8 (17:20):
Not com baby to kiss from them on the Big
Food Moment. I think I'm he stayed down the sea. Yeah,
my flame bascat on Mountain Tube it's snap front of
the shape.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
Okay, you have to imagine seal as a seal. You're
going to see it throughout Super Bowl coverage today. It's
a little creepy. It has Becky g She's basically she
flies down from the sky because she has so much
energy from the mountain dew. And she gets in a
speedboat and they go and all of a sudden there's
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an eye and full of seals and it's literally seal
as a seal. Creepy but effective. Will it make you
drink a mountain dew? I don't know, maybe it will.
Another ad This has a lot of Chris is in it.
Chris Jenner, Chris Hemsworth, Chris Pratt. This is for Meta.
It involves a banana. It's goet to listen.
Speaker 4 (18:20):
Hey Meta, what is this artwork?
Speaker 3 (18:23):
Comedian buying Mauricio Catalan?
Speaker 2 (18:24):
Worth six point two million dollars.
Speaker 4 (18:32):
That's a six point two million dollar bana. Hey kidding?
We need to find you another banana and.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
Banana gentlemen, what applies you have? Who eats art?
Speaker 4 (18:41):
Thank you? Supressure? Like, hey, Meta, who eats art? And
then Meta would.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
Say, Chris prep Hey Meta, call my lawyer. So we
actually did a story on this. Somebody paid six point
two million for a banana. I believe it was in
New York and it's with that with some duct tape
over it. So the referencing that, whether or not this
gets you to pay more attention to meta side unseen
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we'll see also buzzworthy, very very buzzworthy in so many ways.
I love when Harry met Sally. Who doesn't love that
old movie?
Speaker 4 (19:19):
I've seen this one.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
Have you seen this commercial?
Speaker 4 (19:22):
It was genius, it was perfect.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
It's so perfect. So it's for mayonnaise, of all things.
We think of the diner scene. I know you know
what I'm talking about. I'm not going to re enact
it for you. I may never be invited back. This
is for Helman's take a listen.
Speaker 5 (19:39):
I can't believe they let us back in this place.
Speaker 9 (19:43):
I know.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
Oh my gosh, so good, so real. That is a sandwich.
Speaker 10 (20:06):
She's what I love is somebody lined up the original
and the commercial frame by frame, going back and forth,
and it's literally shot like the same way, which is great.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
It's perfect. Yeah, it's so good to see him both
of course, Meg Ryan and Billy Crystal front and center
of this one. And that's that's I think that might
other than the Clydesdale one with Budweiser. That's my second,
right there. I like that one. Post Malone he's also
in I think producer Matthew Toffler said maybe three ads.
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He's all over the place, including this one for oreos.
Let's get a taste.
Speaker 5 (20:57):
Best Oreo?
Speaker 4 (21:10):
Did I just create the best story with?
Speaker 2 (21:17):
All Right, you're gonna have to see that one to
understand more about it. But post Malone, he creates good music,
and he apparently creates good oreos as well. Andrew, do
you have a favorite? Have you been sifting through the
Super Bowl Come?
Speaker 10 (21:30):
Yeah, honestly, I think the Harry met Sally one is
probably my.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
Favorite, the best one, of course. Also making a return
this year is dunkin Donuts with Ben Affleck and last year,
of course, it was with Jennifer Lopez. Now they are
no longer, so she's not. She's no surprise she's not
in the commercial. I believe last year's featured Tom Brady
as well, didn't it?
Speaker 5 (21:54):
I think so?
Speaker 2 (21:56):
But this year it's it's the Affleck brothers, so it's
Ben and and then Jeremy Strong is that his name
from succession? He plays the Sun the Takeover some succession.
They have an ad with Dunkin Donuts and I actually
this one. It's hard for me to watch. I have
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this phobia. It's called trichaphobia. I can't look at a
lot of things all at once. If it has like
a tight pattern, I get really freaked out. I got
to look up the name of my weird phobia and
that I'm telling everybody that I have. Anyway, the Duncan
Donuts ads triggers that me and and I can't look
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at it. And if you see the ad you'll understand why.
I think there's too much going on. It just creeps
me out. So not a huge fan of the Duncan
Donuts ad, but yes, Hellman's and Budweiser did a great job.
Those ads have been running. And of course now that
the game is there was kickoff already just a second ago,
and the game is underway. Super Bowl fifty nine is underway,
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so we'll see who prevails. Casey or the Eagles hit
us up on the talkback. We will play those next.
Speaker 4 (23:08):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
Hi, Everybody. Final segment with me Marlontaez from Fox eleven
sitting in until four o'clock. Chris Merrill will join the
conversation just a bit before he takes over officially at four.
Thanks so much for listening. Kickoff happened a few minutes ago.
So we are into Super Bowl fifty nine so far,
the score zero zero. I mentioned the talkbacks. We have
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a few, so we're going to play the few that
we have. Here's one. Whether we like it or not,
he's bringing the tradition back. Well. I like it.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
Hopefully everybody likes it, and hopefully everybody gets a clue.
Speaker 5 (23:48):
And now we have a real president this time that's
working around the clock.
Speaker 4 (23:52):
Literally, it's amazing.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
Okay. So he was chiming in on when we were
talking about President Trump and his pre Super Bowl interview
with Brett Baer. I was asking for your thoughts, and
he likes it. He likes that he's just barreling through
executive order after executive order action. And it's so much
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as a as a journalist in a newsroom, and I
think people here, okay, if I can attest to this,
it is so much to keep up with. It is
so hard because every day he's out there in front
of the cameras and whether or not you like it.
He's doing it, and this is what he campaigned on
and he is keeping his promise. In that new CBS
News poll shows that people do like that. They like action.
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All right, we have another one regarding President Trump.
Speaker 3 (24:43):
So glad you're here. Marla. A great interview, and best
of luck with your little baby.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
Oh that was not about President Trump.
Speaker 10 (24:53):
That was nice one though.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
That was a very nice one. Oh, thank you, sweetheart.
I like your little voice. She was so sweet. I
want to give her a hug. Thanks, thanks for listening
in whenever KFI you know, needs the seat filled. I'm
happy to be here, so thank you. And she's for
those who don't know, I am expecting someone's counting the days,
and by someone I mean me and my husband. We
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are thirty nine days away until baby Girl arrives, so
I'm nearing the end. And in fact, I had to
do some of the shows standing up because as I
get bigger, I never have back problems, and I've noticed
the longer I sit, the harder it is with baby
Girl sitting in the front of me and taking up
more space. So I've been standing for some of this
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show as well to relieve some of the Baby Girl
pressure I have. Thank you so much for that. Do
we have another one? One more?
Speaker 5 (25:47):
You want to hear some playback or some comics?
Speaker 9 (25:50):
Yeah, crump, he is down to earth. Yeah he can
be a pain in the butt, but he's moving and
shaking up this country for the best sake and the
tax dollars revealing all this waste. Love it?
Speaker 4 (26:06):
How can you not? We just keep pointing, all.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
Right, clearly a huge Trump fan. Thank you for taking
the time out and letting us know what you think
on the iHeartRadio app and hitting that microphone icon. We
appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (26:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
I think, as you know, we are all under the
Trump administration two point zero and.
Speaker 9 (26:27):
What was that?
Speaker 2 (26:30):
Okay? I think you have to look at this. Does
the good outweigh the bad? I'm not going to answer
that for you. You can answer that yourself as it
relates to all of the changes coming from DC and
the White House. All right. Bringing into the conversation right now,
is mister Chris Merril. Do we have him?
Speaker 4 (26:52):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (26:52):
Oh, you're you sound like you're in the same room
as me right now. So's so far away, Chris.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
I'm so worried about you though, because I was you know,
you're saying you're what thirty nine days away?
Speaker 4 (27:04):
Does that mean that you're middle of April? Is you're
expected do day?
Speaker 2 (27:08):
No March twentieth.
Speaker 4 (27:11):
Oh okay, I'm bad at math.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
Yeah, apparently that's okay, you're a talker.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
No, I think it's good. I think it's good because
I did. I had my math way off. I was
off by a month, which is much better because now
you're your kid is going to be.
Speaker 4 (27:24):
A Piscey's well.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
Actually, so here's the plan, Chris, ok, we're going for
an aries. I'm an aries. Okay, don't no, no, no, no, no, no,
no no. The warst sound, oh, Andrew, I'm an aries.
Speaker 4 (27:38):
I know it's the war sign.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
Oh fire, I thought, yeah, yeah, feisty, I thought you said.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
That's the worst sign of the No, I mean it's
a fire sign and a little concern.
Speaker 5 (27:49):
Try me.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
Yeah, I said to my husband, I said, if you
have two areas in the household, you're dead meat.
Speaker 4 (27:53):
Now.
Speaker 10 (27:54):
No, if you do pop the baby out March twentieth,
that is the first day of spring, so it may
balance that out.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
So yeah, so here's the thing. I'll get real personal.
I'm high risk. We did IVF and as you know,
I'm a little older, so I have an induction date.
So the induction date. Listen to this. I love it
because I'm a planner, so this is amazing.
Speaker 4 (28:17):
It's perfect.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
I have an appointment on March twentieth at nine pm
to be induced.
Speaker 4 (28:22):
Okay, And.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
That whole process I learned takes a while. So if
I'm induced at nine pm on the twentieth, then she's
going to likely come on the twenty second. So that
is officially an aries because I believe the first day
is March twenty. First, you got more than you bargained for, Chris.
Speaker 4 (28:41):
Yeah, listen, that's great.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
I was just going to give you grief because I
don't believe in any of that zodiac crap.
Speaker 9 (28:45):
But I was.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
I did my math wrong. I was thinking it was
a tourist, and you don't want a touris because they're stubborn.
Speaker 4 (28:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
I'm married to mister Taurus. Okay, so you know he
is stubborn.
Speaker 10 (28:56):
Which which news reporter from Fox is going to be
there to cover it?
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Yes, seriously, are we doing a stand up? Let's do
a stand up. Let's do reporter involvement here.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
Help, we can do a live Marlon I've noticed that
when it comes to television, there's the studio introduction, and
then they toss it to the reporter who's doing a
stand up that basically repeats what was just said in
the studio introduction, and then they go to the package
which repeats everything that was just said in the stand up,
which repeated everything first said in the introduction.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
You got it?
Speaker 4 (29:21):
Is that what we're gonna have there?
Speaker 1 (29:22):
So pretty much America has been watching, and today's the day.
Marlot Tayas has now been induced. She's now in labor,
and the clock begins.
Speaker 4 (29:32):
We're gonna go now live.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
To our reporter treaks a Lot, we are here at
the hospital waiting for Marlo Taya. She's better do it,
and we'll expect her to give birth very shortly. We'll
talk with the doctor and then there'll be a sound effect.
Speaker 2 (29:44):
Yep, right, Chris, you're funny.
Speaker 4 (29:48):
Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
You got email that about nine pm tonight, Marlot Taya
and turned into the hospital where they induced labor. Doctor
say it could be only a matter of time usually,
you know, another day, day and a half, and then
all of a sudden, we pop up a whiny baby
out sound effect.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
Hey, you just said whiny. You made me think of wine.
It's been a long time since I've had any.
Speaker 4 (30:11):
March twenty thirty.
Speaker 7 (30:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (30:12):
Ok.
Speaker 10 (30:13):
Then and in the end of that, the baby's described
as an aries. It's all perfect.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
The tag, that's what you call it. Tag, that's the tag.
Speaker 4 (30:19):
The tag. Yeah, back to you in the studio, Well,
we wish you the very best of it.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
Yeah, yeah, and it and in other news and.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
Another news, Yeah, Donald Trump has had an executive Martinry
declaring that all aries.
Speaker 4 (30:31):
Will be Cabot members.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
Chris, do you do stand up?
Speaker 4 (30:35):
No, I'm terrified of stand up. People ask you that,
and I'm terrified.
Speaker 2 (30:39):
No, Yes, I don't play that.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
I see, I'm one of these I went to school
for theater, right, and so I'm one of these guys
that I want to get my lines down.
Speaker 4 (30:47):
I want to develop the character. And I didn't do
this when I was in college. That's terrible.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
So that's why I got into radio, because radio is
basically a bunch of improv. And then the older I get,
the more prep I put into every single show so
that it's it's it's half completely set, half off the cuff, right, right,
I'm terrified of improv because I'm a or of a
stand up because i want to go on with the
set that is the most award winning set ever, and
(31:13):
I'm terrified of bombing. I'm terrified of a joke that
doesn't hit. I'm terrified of all of that stuff. And
I just I've never done it, and I would sit
down and I think I would belabor every second of
a set.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
Well, that makes you better, No, got to get you
on the stage. No, you're good.
Speaker 5 (31:34):
This is coming.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
This is coming from somebody who was deathly afraid to
public speak. And I've never done radio before and they
asked me to do radio, and then next thing you know,
I'm doing this.
Speaker 4 (31:42):
So I RAI so much fun.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
Though it is so much fun. I will say that
it's so different than television. Television is so as you
just pointed out, it's very scripted. And you know, I
do like doing the show that I do at six o'clock.
It's all live interview based, so that's far less scripted
and you can have more of a conversation so you're
not just reading out productor think a little bit righteah,
(32:05):
of course, of course I love that, but radio is
just and then in TV, you get wrapped so much.
And when they when they say ad lib like chit chat, right,
they need they literally mean for ten, ten to fifteen seconds.
That's what can you say?
Speaker 1 (32:21):
Nothing, and it's it always ends up being like, well
that'll be fun. Yeah, it should be a really good time.
Speaker 11 (32:28):
Absolutely, we get a lot of that. Absolutely. Oh I
can't coming up? Yeah, coming up everybody? Right after the break,
are you going to check on news? And then right
back to it?
Speaker 2 (32:39):
That's what I do for a living.
Speaker 4 (32:40):
Chris, I love it.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
Yeah, Well, it's good to talk to you. What do
you got coming up?
Speaker 1 (32:44):
I know we have to go, so I know super
Bowl is going on, but there's a reason people are
listening to the radio right now, and that it's because
they're not watching the super Bowl. So we'll give the
latest on what's going on with people not getting paid
for their fire damage and the people that have uh
we're calling it fire sniffles, but it's far more significant
than that.
Speaker 4 (33:01):
So a good deal of fire coverage.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
We will talk a little bit about politics, including the
latest eos and what they're going to do for California.
We'll touch on why you're not watching the super Bowl,
and then of course there's no business like show business.
Speaker 4 (33:12):
All ahead in the next three hours.
Speaker 2 (33:14):
You're your hours sound a lot smarter than mine. We're
just now, but you know, can't win them all. Chris, Yeah, okay,
all right, Well glad you're following up to get to
talk to you. Have a great show, and that's it
for me on this Super Bowl Sunday. Everybody, thank you
so much for listening to Marlon tez Kfi AM
Speaker 4 (33:33):
Six forty on demand
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand right now.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
While we have been focused a lot on the Super Bowl,
I want to focus on the recovery process in both Altadena,
Pasadena and the Palisades. You know, when the fires broke
out just over a month ago, it was hard not
to initially compare once we saw the devastation and once
we saw those flames raging to what Lehina and Maui,
(00:26):
what they dealt with that was basically a year and
a half ago, and bringing I wanted to bring into
the conversation a Hi Hawaii representative. Her name is Ellie Cochrane.
She's represents Maui and she lived through that in Mahina,
and I want to get her perspective sort of to
(00:48):
compare and contrast what they've dealt with and their recovery process,
and now that we're in our own recovery process, what
we can learn from them. Ellie, thanks so much for
being with me today.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Yeah, Aloha, Marla, thanks for having me Aloha.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
I just want to point out to our listeners a
couple of facts here that the Lahaina fire sadly was
far deadlier than our local fires claimed. Correct me, if
I'm wrong, Ellie, one hundred and two lives it.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Yeah, that's documented.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Anyway, documented absolutely, I understand that. And then it destroyed far,
far fewer structures, More than twenty two hundred structures were
lost documented anyway in Lahina and compared to the more
than sixteen thousand plus both here in the Palisades and
eaten fires. Here we are a year and a half later, Ellie,
(01:39):
how has the recovery process been going for you? How
many businesses and homes have been rebuilt in the last
eighteen months?
Speaker 1 (01:48):
No?
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Businesses, homes, very very minimal, Oh, considering you know, the
timeframe that's gone by, the infrastructure that's been you know,
been brought back. Yet it's just so far in few
in between having completed homes. I think eight months, eight
months in we finally have this big celebration and blessing
(02:12):
for the first family to move back home, which yeah,
I'm happy for the family, but eight months and one
family go home, nor.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Was.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
I was embarrassed. It was like, you know, that was shame.
So we should have had way more.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
What's been the roadblock for you and Lehina? And what
can we learn from that here in la because we're
talking about. We just had a city council woman on
Friday say that the average time to build just a
simple home in Los Angeles is eight hundred plus days.
That's more than two years, and we have thousands of
homes to rebuild. So what's been the roadblock and what
(02:50):
can we learn?
Speaker 3 (02:52):
Yeah, I think a lot of it has to do
with political will for starters. As Leahya majority is a
long this five mile stretch of shoreline and the town
of Lohina is very culturally significant sensitive, it's historical districts,
it's got you know, special Management areas rules and regulations
(03:14):
and things like that. But you know we have to
exempt these things. I mean within reason obviously. But right
now the businesses are saying, can we get exemptions from
our special Management Area rules the SMAs? If we build
life for life? Right, if we build back what we had,
We're not expanding use, we're not expanding resource uses. We
(03:36):
want to build back our businesses and I'm all for that.
So I had a bill that went up to the
legislature just the other day and worked with the fifty
nine business owners, created the legislation, and then a very
similar almost word forward other legislative bill came a book
(03:57):
came up on the table. I'm like, well, where did
that bill come from? And my bill died because it
was stated, oh, well, Ellie's bill only got support of
the county council. This other bill from a representative clear
across the other side of the island. His bill got
county council and mayor's support. So we're going to kill
(04:17):
Ellie's bill and we'll move forward this other bill. I'm like, what, yeah,
what about I mean, the same bill right now. It's
this total political so anyways, you know, I think, and
there's been like spot amendments to the community plan. It's started.
I feel like it's who you know, not what you know.
It's it's about you know. Oh the governor is like yeah, okay,
(04:40):
you have to jump up, it down, scream and cry.
And then finally the governor someone's going to put a
new emergency proclamation to exempt this, exempt that, to move
this one project forward. But what about the rest of it?
How's about looking at collectively the entire town and figure
it out. You But you're just reactive. The government's being reactive.
(05:04):
They're not being proactive, they're not pre planning. Pre figuring
out where's you know, what do we need to bring
back now? And I think the most aggravating, frustrating part
of this whole picture is the sooner we rebuild, the
quicker we get our towns built, our job our businesses back,
people back on their feet, you know, living, surviving, And
(05:28):
then this is economy and taxations right back into the
coffers of this government and our world starts going around
again and rebuilding itself. That is a picture of rebuilding, recovery.
That's not happening. That's not happening.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Well, you know, we're very early on in the recovery
process here, and our listeners know they talk about a
lot here in KFI. You know, there have been executive
orders by the mayor and by the California governor and
by the Borders Supervisors and city council. And you know,
(06:03):
we'll see if those end up making a difference in
terms of the permitting process and the waste removal. I mean,
there's so much to go through. What do you want
the people to know, the people who are impacted, what
do you want to know? What can they learn from
your experience?
Speaker 3 (06:21):
So, first off, when it all went down, people wanted
to go back, right, it's your property, regardless if you
have anything left or not. You want the right to
go back to your property safely, obviously and sift through
what might remain right, it's still a mental value of
something may be still intact. And the government was just
(06:43):
stone walling, right, Lina put up these three point two
million dollar barrier to keep everybody out and just not
letting people back, and that created a lot of tension
and people being upset and why have you? And I thought,
if everybody's right to go back to their properties, to
do this, and eventually government let down and said, okay,
(07:06):
you can go back safely. Samaritans perse will help you
out out for you with ppe pps and you know, yeah, yes, right,
So I mean, if people want to go back, you
have to let them do this. This is part of
having closure, you know. And then as as FEMA and
Army Corps come in and they start clearing all that
(07:28):
toxic debris away, make sure that you know that you
you had your opportunity first to sift through your own
personal stuff. I mean, we've had we had cultural sites,
statues and things that were intact, and those guys went
went in and just knocked them out. You know, make
sure whatever's still left standing is protected, whether it's a
(07:50):
statue or some type of you know, some type of
historical whatever, just protected and yeah, preserve it and not
just needlessly torn down under the guise of oh it's
toxic and it's dangerous or whatever. But I think a
lot of things are taken away needlessly, people's foundations, people's driveways,
(08:11):
which you could have left that there. Now they have
to work off their own money and put it back.
And it's it's just like what happened. You know, there
was no rhyme or reason on a lot of levels
when I found out that one burnt car was costing
over six thousand dollars to remove the government needs to
pay attention or the people whoever can have oversight. How
(08:34):
are things being charged? You know, all this tune is
gonna come down from the federal level, like oh my god,
emergency money, emergency funds, this and that. But people start
taking advantage, yes, yours, your truck companies, your yeah, all
that debris removal, the there needs to be nonprofits start
popping up in the in the love you know, love
(08:56):
la and give, give Give. It was like level Lina
gift to the pe. Well, a lot of those pop
up overnight nonprofits are still banking and banks a ton
of money and it never trickled down to the people.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Well, you know, you make a good point, because there's
a lot of donations out there, and there's a whole
bunch of money, and you know we need to follow
that money to make sure it gets to the recipients,
the people who need it the most. So I'm running
up against the clock. Ellie, I appreciate I always appreciate
your insight. She is Ellie Cochran, a Hawaii representative. She
(09:28):
represents Maui and she was on to talk about the
differences so that we can learn the takeaways from Lehina
here in Los Angeles. I appreciate you, mahallo, thank you
so much.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
Thanks for having me, and so much more to talk about.
But we'll carry on the conversation.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
We shall appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
Okay, alrighty, aloha.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Aloha bye. Okay. Up next, my conversation with Gary Sinise.
He was in town to thank our first responders who
battled the wildfires. That's coming up next.
Speaker 4 (09:56):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Man, you just got back from touring the eating fire
some of the devastation. What are your thoughts?
Speaker 5 (10:05):
It's hard to process.
Speaker 6 (10:06):
Last last week I was up to the Palisades and
driving through there, and it's just.
Speaker 4 (10:12):
Devastation every everywhere.
Speaker 5 (10:13):
You're looking here the same point. It just goes on
and on and on, and it's.
Speaker 6 (10:18):
It's really hard to process because you see so many
businesses and so many homes.
Speaker 5 (10:23):
It's just like the entire town's.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
Just you wiped out.
Speaker 6 (10:28):
I live in Tennessee now, and you know, lived here
for thirty five years, and watching this on television Halpen
all day long and then into the next day and
into the next day, and then and then on for
a week, fires bursting out everywhere. It's just what was
I was going on in southern California. So we wanted
(10:49):
to come here and do something for these first responders.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
So what do you get out of being here?
Speaker 6 (10:57):
Well, I've had a you know, I've had a full
time foundation for many many years that supports veterans and
first responders and their families. I've been involved with that
for many years prior to having my own foundation that
involve and for me, it's just it gives life a
great purpose to be able to kind of take the
movie career, the success that I've had in the business
(11:17):
in television and films and kind of turn it into
something very mean and meaningful to help other people.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
You just reference your movie career. Of course, it makes
us think of Lieutenant Dan did Plane, a wounded soldier
inspire you to start the Gary Sineze Foundation.
Speaker 5 (11:36):
That was one of the things. Yeah, after playing.
Speaker 6 (11:41):
The Wounded Vietnam Veteran, I got very involved with supporting
I wounded. After that, I didn't know what the Disabled
American Veterans Organization was, but they contacted me about six
weeks after Forrest Gump came out and invited me to
the convention and I met like the two thousand wounded veterans. Ye,
it was very impactful, very I had a profound, you know,
(12:05):
impact on my life, and I just started supporting them.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
Then before you served your millionth meal, and so now
you're well beyond the millionth mark. Here you are. You're
going to serve one hundreds more today, more than just
a meal.
Speaker 5 (12:18):
Yes, Yeah, to me.
Speaker 6 (12:19):
To me, it's not about the meal as much much
as as it is about the message of gratitude and
appreciation and remembrance. You know that we remember that these
folks are out there all the time doing this kind
of work and working to save people.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
You asked your son Mac just over a year ago.
Speaker 5 (12:37):
Of course, we're so so sorry for that.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
How has that changed you and the work that you do?
Speaker 6 (12:42):
Right, Well, it's the hardest thing, you know, I've been through.
I've met, you know, thousands of families of our fallen
heroes that have gone through a terrible loss and grief,
and I've seen them sort of with this resilience perseverance,
just trying to press through the grief and everything. And
(13:03):
then our son developed a very rare cancer called cordoma,
you know, I mean it was so it's so rare
that there are no drugs to fight it or anything.
He fought it for five and a half years, and
he was so courageous and inspirational to me in the
way he fought it and the things that he did.
Speaker 5 (13:23):
And in the final moments of his life he was creating.
Speaker 7 (13:27):
He was a.
Speaker 6 (13:27):
Composer and songwriter and musician, and he kept composing all
the way to the end.
Speaker 5 (13:33):
He you know, even the last week of.
Speaker 6 (13:36):
His life, he had finished his album. He added, he
had a wish and a desire and a goal and
a dream to create an album, and we didn't know
we were going to lose him, you know, and he
was just pressing on. He had the final week of
his life. He finished an album called Resurrection on a Bible,
(13:58):
and he wanted any pro seats from the final sales
to go to the Garysonese Foundation.
Speaker 5 (14:03):
So Mac has helping us today to provide these meals.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
So you've been listening to pardon me my conversation with
Gary Sinise that took place yesterday. I met him out
at the La County Fire Department Camp two. It's out
right by JPL on the campus really in Lakeagnata, Flintridge,
and he was there to serve those appreciation meals to
three hundred or so, about three hundred La County firefighters
(14:33):
and first responders. So we're talking about La County Fire,
Ela County Sheriff, as well as Angelis National Forest firefighters.
They were out there and their families. It was a
beautiful event. And then I had some good one on
one time with him. I helped him serve those meals
to our first responders to give them their proper thanks
and just to hear his story and the fact that
(14:56):
he has dedicated his now professional life to giving back
to our first responders, our law enforcement, and our military
is so commendable of him. And then of course we
ended our conversation talking about the loss of his son, Mack,
who died just at thirty three years old. That was
in January of twenty twenty four. And a lot of
(15:17):
the proceeds now, if you want to go find his
music online, they benefit the Gary Sinisee Foundation and all
the wonderful work that they do year round. So they
do so much for our veterans and our first responders.
I can't think of enough for the time. I put
this all together in a nice story that airs tonight
on Fox eleven, so you can catch that. This is
after the Super Bowl Fox eleven News at ten o'clock.
(15:42):
It really will probably start around nine thirty tonight. You
can stream it live foxlay dot Com, slash Live. You
can catch my story with Gary sinise tonight. Okay, coming out,
we will harken back to the Super Bowl because John
Batiste right now is singing the national anthem. I think
that's what it looks like to me. We're going to
talk more about some of those buzzworthy ads still ahead.
Speaker 4 (16:05):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
The Coin Toss. It looks like they have before the
coin toss. They recognize the victims from New Year's Day.
That's the vantage point that I'm seeing here in the
KFI studios in Burbank. If you're watching at home and
you're listening along, I appreciate you. We're going to be
playing your talkbacks coming up in the next segment, so
please let us know what you're thinking. Just hit that
(16:30):
little microphone icon on the iHeartRadio app and we'll get
you on the air. Speaking of the Super Bowl, some
of those ads have already played, but we want to
catch you up on some of the most buzzworthy ones
to look forward to today, including this one with Seal
and rapper singer Becky g for Mountain Dew that.
Speaker 4 (16:52):
Mountain Do bob Blast.
Speaker 7 (17:04):
Refreshing. It's kissed by the firmed amount of dropped the line.
Speaker 8 (17:20):
Not com baby to kiss from them on the Big
Food Moment. I think I'm he stayed down the sea. Yeah,
my flame bascat on Mountain Tube it's snap front of
the shape.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
Okay, you have to imagine seal as a seal. You're
going to see it throughout Super Bowl coverage today. It's
a little creepy. It has Becky g She's basically she
flies down from the sky because she has so much
energy from the mountain dew. And she gets in a
speedboat and they go and all of a sudden there's
(17:59):
an eye and full of seals and it's literally seal
as a seal. Creepy but effective. Will it make you
drink a mountain dew? I don't know, maybe it will.
Another ad This has a lot of Chris is in it.
Chris Jenner, Chris Hemsworth, Chris Pratt. This is for Meta.
It involves a banana. It's goet to listen.
Speaker 4 (18:20):
Hey Meta, what is this artwork?
Speaker 3 (18:23):
Comedian buying Mauricio Catalan?
Speaker 2 (18:24):
Worth six point two million dollars.
Speaker 4 (18:32):
That's a six point two million dollar bana. Hey kidding?
We need to find you another banana and.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
Banana gentlemen, what applies you have? Who eats art?
Speaker 4 (18:41):
Thank you? Supressure? Like, hey, Meta, who eats art? And
then Meta would.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
Say, Chris prep Hey Meta, call my lawyer. So we
actually did a story on this. Somebody paid six point
two million for a banana. I believe it was in
New York and it's with that with some duct tape
over it. So the referencing that, whether or not this
gets you to pay more attention to meta side unseen
(19:07):
we'll see also buzzworthy, very very buzzworthy in so many ways.
I love when Harry met Sally. Who doesn't love that
old movie?
Speaker 4 (19:19):
I've seen this one.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
Have you seen this commercial?
Speaker 4 (19:22):
It was genius, it was perfect.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
It's so perfect. So it's for mayonnaise, of all things.
We think of the diner scene. I know you know
what I'm talking about. I'm not going to re enact
it for you. I may never be invited back. This
is for Helman's take a listen.
Speaker 5 (19:39):
I can't believe they let us back in this place.
Speaker 9 (19:43):
I know.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
Oh my gosh, so good, so real. That is a sandwich.
Speaker 10 (20:06):
She's what I love is somebody lined up the original
and the commercial frame by frame, going back and forth,
and it's literally shot like the same way, which is great.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
It's perfect. Yeah, it's so good to see him both
of course, Meg Ryan and Billy Crystal front and center
of this one. And that's that's I think that might
other than the Clydesdale one with Budweiser. That's my second,
right there. I like that one. Post Malone he's also
in I think producer Matthew Toffler said maybe three ads.
(20:41):
He's all over the place, including this one for oreos.
Let's get a taste.
Speaker 5 (20:57):
Best Oreo?
Speaker 4 (21:10):
Did I just create the best story with?
Speaker 2 (21:17):
All Right, you're gonna have to see that one to
understand more about it. But post Malone, he creates good music,
and he apparently creates good oreos as well. Andrew, do
you have a favorite? Have you been sifting through the
Super Bowl Come?
Speaker 10 (21:30):
Yeah, honestly, I think the Harry met Sally one is
probably my.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
Favorite, the best one, of course. Also making a return
this year is dunkin Donuts with Ben Affleck and last year,
of course, it was with Jennifer Lopez. Now they are
no longer, so she's not. She's no surprise she's not
in the commercial. I believe last year's featured Tom Brady
as well, didn't it?
Speaker 5 (21:54):
I think so?
Speaker 2 (21:56):
But this year it's it's the Affleck brothers, so it's
Ben and and then Jeremy Strong is that his name
from succession? He plays the Sun the Takeover some succession.
They have an ad with Dunkin Donuts and I actually
this one. It's hard for me to watch. I have
(22:16):
this phobia. It's called trichaphobia. I can't look at a
lot of things all at once. If it has like
a tight pattern, I get really freaked out. I got
to look up the name of my weird phobia and
that I'm telling everybody that I have. Anyway, the Duncan
Donuts ads triggers that me and and I can't look
(22:38):
at it. And if you see the ad you'll understand why.
I think there's too much going on. It just creeps
me out. So not a huge fan of the Duncan
Donuts ad, but yes, Hellman's and Budweiser did a great job.
Those ads have been running. And of course now that
the game is there was kickoff already just a second ago,
and the game is underway. Super Bowl fifty nine is underway,
(23:01):
so we'll see who prevails. Casey or the Eagles hit
us up on the talkback. We will play those next.
Speaker 4 (23:08):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
Hi, Everybody. Final segment with me Marlontaez from Fox eleven
sitting in until four o'clock. Chris Merrill will join the
conversation just a bit before he takes over officially at four.
Thanks so much for listening. Kickoff happened a few minutes ago.
So we are into Super Bowl fifty nine so far,
the score zero zero. I mentioned the talkbacks. We have
(23:35):
a few, so we're going to play the few that
we have. Here's one. Whether we like it or not,
he's bringing the tradition back. Well. I like it.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
Hopefully everybody likes it, and hopefully everybody gets a clue.
Speaker 5 (23:48):
And now we have a real president this time that's
working around the clock.
Speaker 4 (23:52):
Literally, it's amazing.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
Okay. So he was chiming in on when we were
talking about President Trump and his pre Super Bowl interview
with Brett Baer. I was asking for your thoughts, and
he likes it. He likes that he's just barreling through
executive order after executive order action. And it's so much
(24:14):
as a as a journalist in a newsroom, and I
think people here, okay, if I can attest to this,
it is so much to keep up with. It is
so hard because every day he's out there in front
of the cameras and whether or not you like it.
He's doing it, and this is what he campaigned on
and he is keeping his promise. In that new CBS
News poll shows that people do like that. They like action.
(24:39):
All right, we have another one regarding President Trump.
Speaker 3 (24:43):
So glad you're here. Marla. A great interview, and best
of luck with your little baby.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
Oh that was not about President Trump.
Speaker 10 (24:53):
That was nice one though.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
That was a very nice one. Oh, thank you, sweetheart.
I like your little voice. She was so sweet. I
want to give her a hug. Thanks, thanks for listening
in whenever KFI you know, needs the seat filled. I'm
happy to be here, so thank you. And she's for
those who don't know, I am expecting someone's counting the days,
and by someone I mean me and my husband. We
(25:17):
are thirty nine days away until baby Girl arrives, so
I'm nearing the end. And in fact, I had to
do some of the shows standing up because as I
get bigger, I never have back problems, and I've noticed
the longer I sit, the harder it is with baby
Girl sitting in the front of me and taking up
more space. So I've been standing for some of this
(25:38):
show as well to relieve some of the Baby Girl
pressure I have. Thank you so much for that. Do
we have another one? One more?
Speaker 5 (25:47):
You want to hear some playback or some comics?
Speaker 9 (25:50):
Yeah, crump, he is down to earth. Yeah he can
be a pain in the butt, but he's moving and
shaking up this country for the best sake and the
tax dollars revealing all this waste. Love it?
Speaker 4 (26:06):
How can you not? We just keep pointing, all.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
Right, clearly a huge Trump fan. Thank you for taking
the time out and letting us know what you think
on the iHeartRadio app and hitting that microphone icon. We
appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (26:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
I think, as you know, we are all under the
Trump administration two point zero and.
Speaker 9 (26:27):
What was that?
Speaker 2 (26:30):
Okay? I think you have to look at this. Does
the good outweigh the bad? I'm not going to answer
that for you. You can answer that yourself as it
relates to all of the changes coming from DC and
the White House. All right. Bringing into the conversation right now,
is mister Chris Merril. Do we have him?
Speaker 4 (26:52):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (26:52):
Oh, you're you sound like you're in the same room
as me right now. So's so far away, Chris.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
I'm so worried about you though, because I was you know,
you're saying you're what thirty nine days away?
Speaker 4 (27:04):
Does that mean that you're middle of April? Is you're
expected do day?
Speaker 2 (27:08):
No March twentieth.
Speaker 4 (27:11):
Oh okay, I'm bad at math.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
Yeah, apparently that's okay, you're a talker.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
No, I think it's good. I think it's good because
I did. I had my math way off. I was
off by a month, which is much better because now
you're your kid is going to be.
Speaker 4 (27:24):
A Piscey's well.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
Actually, so here's the plan, Chris, ok, we're going for
an aries. I'm an aries. Okay, don't no, no, no, no, no, no,
no no. The warst sound, oh, Andrew, I'm an aries.
Speaker 4 (27:38):
I know it's the war sign.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
Oh fire, I thought, yeah, yeah, feisty, I thought you said.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
That's the worst sign of the No, I mean it's
a fire sign and a little concern.
Speaker 5 (27:49):
Try me.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
Yeah, I said to my husband, I said, if you
have two areas in the household, you're dead meat.
Speaker 4 (27:53):
Now.
Speaker 10 (27:54):
No, if you do pop the baby out March twentieth,
that is the first day of spring, so it may
balance that out.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
So yeah, so here's the thing. I'll get real personal.
I'm high risk. We did IVF and as you know,
I'm a little older, so I have an induction date.
So the induction date. Listen to this. I love it
because I'm a planner, so this is amazing.
Speaker 4 (28:17):
It's perfect.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
I have an appointment on March twentieth at nine pm
to be induced.
Speaker 4 (28:22):
Okay, And.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
That whole process I learned takes a while. So if
I'm induced at nine pm on the twentieth, then she's
going to likely come on the twenty second. So that
is officially an aries because I believe the first day
is March twenty. First, you got more than you bargained for, Chris.
Speaker 4 (28:41):
Yeah, listen, that's great.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
I was just going to give you grief because I
don't believe in any of that zodiac crap.
Speaker 9 (28:45):
But I was.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
I did my math wrong. I was thinking it was
a tourist, and you don't want a touris because they're stubborn.
Speaker 4 (28:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
I'm married to mister Taurus. Okay, so you know he
is stubborn.
Speaker 10 (28:56):
Which which news reporter from Fox is going to be
there to cover it?
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Yes, seriously, are we doing a stand up? Let's do
a stand up. Let's do reporter involvement here.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
Help, we can do a live Marlon I've noticed that
when it comes to television, there's the studio introduction, and
then they toss it to the reporter who's doing a
stand up that basically repeats what was just said in
the studio introduction, and then they go to the package
which repeats everything that was just said in the stand up,
which repeated everything first said in the introduction.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
You got it?
Speaker 4 (29:21):
Is that what we're gonna have there?
Speaker 1 (29:22):
So pretty much America has been watching, and today's the day.
Marlot Tayas has now been induced. She's now in labor,
and the clock begins.
Speaker 4 (29:32):
We're gonna go now live.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
To our reporter treaks a Lot, we are here at
the hospital waiting for Marlo Taya. She's better do it,
and we'll expect her to give birth very shortly. We'll
talk with the doctor and then there'll be a sound effect.
Speaker 2 (29:44):
Yep, right, Chris, you're funny.
Speaker 4 (29:48):
Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
You got email that about nine pm tonight, Marlot Taya
and turned into the hospital where they induced labor. Doctor
say it could be only a matter of time usually,
you know, another day, day and a half, and then
all of a sudden, we pop up a whiny baby
out sound effect.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
Hey, you just said whiny. You made me think of wine.
It's been a long time since I've had any.
Speaker 4 (30:11):
March twenty thirty.
Speaker 7 (30:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (30:12):
Ok.
Speaker 10 (30:13):
Then and in the end of that, the baby's described
as an aries. It's all perfect.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
The tag, that's what you call it. Tag, that's the tag.
Speaker 4 (30:19):
The tag. Yeah, back to you in the studio, Well,
we wish you the very best of it.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
Yeah, yeah, and it and in other news and.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
Another news, Yeah, Donald Trump has had an executive Martinry
declaring that all aries.
Speaker 4 (30:31):
Will be Cabot members.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
Chris, do you do stand up?
Speaker 4 (30:35):
No, I'm terrified of stand up. People ask you that,
and I'm terrified.
Speaker 2 (30:39):
No, Yes, I don't play that.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
I see, I'm one of these I went to school
for theater, right, and so I'm one of these guys
that I want to get my lines down.
Speaker 4 (30:47):
I want to develop the character. And I didn't do
this when I was in college. That's terrible.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
So that's why I got into radio, because radio is
basically a bunch of improv. And then the older I get,
the more prep I put into every single show so
that it's it's it's half completely set, half off the cuff, right, right,
I'm terrified of improv because I'm a or of a
stand up because i want to go on with the
set that is the most award winning set ever, and
(31:13):
I'm terrified of bombing. I'm terrified of a joke that
doesn't hit. I'm terrified of all of that stuff. And
I just I've never done it, and I would sit
down and I think I would belabor every second of
a set.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
Well, that makes you better, No, got to get you
on the stage. No, you're good.
Speaker 5 (31:34):
This is coming.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
This is coming from somebody who was deathly afraid to
public speak. And I've never done radio before and they
asked me to do radio, and then next thing you know,
I'm doing this.
Speaker 4 (31:42):
So I RAI so much fun.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
Though it is so much fun. I will say that
it's so different than television. Television is so as you
just pointed out, it's very scripted. And you know, I
do like doing the show that I do at six o'clock.
It's all live interview based, so that's far less scripted
and you can have more of a conversation so you're
not just reading out productor think a little bit righteah,
(32:05):
of course, of course I love that, but radio is
just and then in TV, you get wrapped so much.
And when they when they say ad lib like chit chat, right,
they need they literally mean for ten, ten to fifteen seconds.
That's what can you say?
Speaker 1 (32:21):
Nothing, and it's it always ends up being like, well
that'll be fun. Yeah, it should be a really good time.
Speaker 11 (32:28):
Absolutely, we get a lot of that. Absolutely. Oh I
can't coming up? Yeah, coming up everybody? Right after the break,
are you going to check on news? And then right
back to it?
Speaker 2 (32:39):
That's what I do for a living.
Speaker 4 (32:40):
Chris, I love it.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
Yeah, Well, it's good to talk to you. What do
you got coming up?
Speaker 1 (32:44):
I know we have to go, so I know super
Bowl is going on, but there's a reason people are
listening to the radio right now, and that it's because
they're not watching the super Bowl. So we'll give the
latest on what's going on with people not getting paid
for their fire damage and the people that have uh
we're calling it fire sniffles, but it's far more significant
than that.
Speaker 4 (33:01):
So a good deal of fire coverage.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
We will talk a little bit about politics, including the
latest eos and what they're going to do for California.
We'll touch on why you're not watching the super Bowl,
and then of course there's no business like show business.
Speaker 4 (33:12):
All ahead in the next three hours.
Speaker 2 (33:14):
You're your hours sound a lot smarter than mine. We're
just now, but you know, can't win them all. Chris, Yeah, okay,
all right, Well glad you're following up to get to
talk to you. Have a great show, and that's it
for me on this Super Bowl Sunday. Everybody, thank you
so much for listening to Marlon tez Kfi AM
Speaker 4 (33:33):
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