@TiffHobbsOnHere Encino Burglaries & Digital Nomads

Encino Burglaries & Digital Nomads

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Saturdays.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
It is time to one one.

Speaker 1 (00:05):
The week's been hot time today is my money sign
on my radio?

Speaker 2 (00:11):
Just inside Si Ferny Howes got.

Speaker 1 (00:15):
Me feeling fun.

Speaker 2 (00:17):
Yay Saturday, look fine up, feels like it's soap.

Speaker 3 (00:27):
It's Saturdays with Timmy here from five to seven day bo.

Speaker 4 (00:31):
Can you hear me?

Speaker 2 (00:32):
Can you hear me at all?

Speaker 3 (00:34):
There we go? Can you hear me? I couldn't hear
myself for a second. You guys got me?

Speaker 2 (00:37):
There we go, There we go.

Speaker 3 (00:38):
Welcome every one, Happy Saturday to you. We are live
absolutely right here on kf I am six forty again,
live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.

Speaker 2 (00:48):
Please do me a favor. Get to that iHeart app.

Speaker 3 (00:51):
Use the talk back button and tell us what you're
doing on this Saturday. And if you don't have plans
for today, what are you doing tomorrow? What's your summer
looking like so far? Especially given that July flew by?

Speaker 2 (01:05):
What happened?

Speaker 3 (01:06):
It's like we blinked and it went from June to August.
August is already next week. And I just it's really
going by fast, they say. I think the older you get,
the faster time seems to move. And I don't know
about you, but it definitely seems to be that case
for me. So, what are you doing today, what are
you doing tomorrow? What's your summer involved so far? Do

(01:27):
you have any summer plans?

Speaker 2 (01:29):
Kind of let me know.

Speaker 3 (01:30):
I'm trying to kind of come up with some plans
to flesh out the rest of my summer, So maybe
you have some good ideas.

Speaker 2 (01:37):
We have a lot of show today.

Speaker 3 (01:40):
We're also going to be having a pretty big interview
with a professional publicist. He's a public public relations expert.
His name is Elliott Mint, John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Paris Hilton,
which you might be saying, uh, those maybe not that name,
but lots of names. You do, in fact recognize that

(02:01):
Elliott Min's has represented and he'll be on the show
at six point thirty to give us some insider baseball
about the profession, about his history in the business. And
I have some questions for him, specifically given the celebrity
deaths that we experienced this week. They say they come
in threes, but it seems like they came in sixes

(02:22):
or sevens or eights even this past week or week
and a half.

Speaker 2 (02:26):
So I have some questions.

Speaker 3 (02:27):
I want to ask about what it's like doing pr
when you have a huge celebrity who dies. We had
Malcolm Jamal Warner of The Cosby Show fame. We had
Ozzy Osbourne, Hulk Hogan, Chuck Mangioni, the Jazz Great, and

(02:48):
so many others in between those those names there. So
I want to talk to Elliott Min's at six point
thirty about what it's like representing stars and celebrities once
pass on.

Speaker 2 (03:01):
What's that like? All right?

Speaker 3 (03:02):
We have some really big stories as well that we're following.
I'm looking at the screen here, one of our mini
screens as well, and this one, luckily has had a
positive outcome. Not's Berry Farm. There was a ride that
malfunctioned and it kept the all of the riders look
like they're about maybe eighty ninety riders in the air

(03:25):
suspended for some amount of time. Luckily, they have all
been brought down there safe, so we don't have to
watch that story anymore. But it definitely was a little crazy.
Not the way you want to spend your Saturday. It's
suspended in the air on a ride. When it comes
to the biggest stories that we're kind of keeping abreast of,

(03:46):
there's a ship that was attempting to reach Gaza to
deliver food. It is called the Freedom Flotilla Coalition. The
Freedom Flotilla is the actual ship name, and it left
the US with the intention of reaching Gaza to carry
and distribute aid. They were intercepted by Israeli forces just

(04:10):
a couple of hours ago, right off the coast of Gaza.
So that's according to the actual represent the group's representation,
the Freedom Flotilla Coalition or FFC, that ship has in
fact been intercepted. So I'll keep you up to speed
if there are any new developments out of that as well.

Speaker 2 (04:32):
FEMA.

Speaker 3 (04:33):
FEMA's in the news. They've proposed cutting nearly one billion
dollars in grant funding for communities and first responders nation wide.
That's a huge, huge blow to FEMA. One billion dollars
in grant funding cut if this proposal does in fact

(04:54):
go through. And then President Trump is in Scotland. He's
enjoying his vacation. He's playing in golf. You may have
seen the pictures or video. He's out there playing golf.
And the people in Scotland are not too happy about it.
They are protesting in droves mass peaceful protests calling for

(05:16):
all sorts of things in opposition to President Trump. And
he's there actually to open a new golf course. It's
a business trip, it's a personal interest trip, and he
is set to talk trade with the British Prime Minister
and European Commissions President while he's there in Scotland. So
I'll keep you up to date on anything that happens

(05:39):
to develop from those three top stories. When it comes
to right here in the Southland, we have a really
big story that has been going on now for the
better part of nine ten days. It happened a week
ago yesterday. I'm talking about that horrible, that horrible, horrible
explosion at the Biscalis training facility in East la and

(06:03):
claimed the lives of those three deputies who are a
part of the LASD Special Enforcement Bureaus Arson Explosives Detail.
Those deputies being named Detective Joshua Kelly Ecklund, Detective Victor
Limis and Detective William Osborne again, all three of whom
were assigned to that Special Enforcement Bureau's Arson Explosives Detail.

(06:29):
They were killed on July eighteenth. We covered it right
here more or less wall wall coverage on KFI of course,
and there are developments that have come out of this story.
A lot of questions about how this could have happened,
Where did this occur, where did these explosives actually come from. Well,
yesterday Sheriff Luna held a press conference and he discussed

(06:51):
some of the details that have been found while they've
been investigating what happened with this story. So I'm going
to share with you what we know so far. It's
not a lot of new news, but there are some
interesting and somewhat surprising details that came out of this
press conference. So a preliminary investigation did in fact indicate

(07:13):
that those explosives, the two military devices grenades, may have
been connected to an operation that took place the day before,
on July seventeenth in Santa Monica. These grenades were removed
by the unit that included those three deputies. They removed

(07:35):
it from Bay Street to a building on Bay Street.
As they did an investigation into the building's underground parking
garage where they found these explosive devices. A woman was
actually clearing out the storage bin and she spotted the
devices and called authorities. Smart of her and neighbors say

(07:56):
that these grenades and other things were likely left behind
by a former tenant who was a previous member of
the military. That tenant had moved out of the complex
in Santa Monica about five years prior to this situation,
but did likely leave the remnants of his collection of

(08:19):
these military style explosives behind. There were two military style
grenades which were, according to Sheriff Robert Luna in this
press conference yesterday, believed to be stolen. Now, the grenades
were x rayed at the scene, but they were moved.

Speaker 2 (08:41):
They were in fact.

Speaker 3 (08:42):
Moved to that Biscala's facility, the training facility in East La.
One of those devices did in fact explode and that
is what killed the three LASD deputies. The second device
is still missing. You might have heard Brigitta Diagastino in

(09:03):
the KFI twenty four hour newsroom report on this just
leading into the show. One of these grenades is still missing.

Speaker 2 (09:12):
They don't know where it is.

Speaker 3 (09:14):
There may be presumptions that perhaps it could have detonated
along with the other device that detonated, killing the deputies,
but there's no assurance that that happened. So as of now,
the second device is missing. That is one development that
came out of the press conference. The second development that

(09:38):
came out of the press conference is that, and this
was what was surprising to me, Sheriff Luna said, all
future explosive devices, inert or not, will be treated as
if they are all live and will be disposed of accordingly.

Speaker 5 (09:57):
Hmm.

Speaker 3 (09:59):
That suggests that prior to this incident, policy did not
mandate that all devices be seen as potentially live. They
could be transported. They were in fact transported, and now
there will be a policy change that says, no matter

(10:19):
what whatever is recovered, if it is a device that
can be explosive, it will be treated as if it
is live. That's interesting because I didn't know that they
weren't doing that. I imagine that that is a good policy
change to have on hand now. Of course, the Sheriff's Department,

(10:40):
local authorities, everyone and their mama, as it is said,
is urging everyone to treat anything that you might come
across as a potential explosive device if it looks to
be so. That means if you know, you have a
kooky neighbor that has a collection of grenades and they're

(11:01):
just kind of hanging around, or you are out and
about and you happen to for some reason come across
something that looks like it could be an explosive device.
I don't know where you hang out where this might
be seen, but if you do, they're saying, don't touch it.
Don't try to be the hero and touch this thing
and transport it yourself. Call authorities right away. There could

(11:27):
be this other grenade out there. It may not be,
it may have blown up. But with no proof to
prove whether or not any of those likelihoods actually are factual,
we have to treat the situation as if it is
currently as if this grenade is currently unaccounted for. We

(11:48):
have to be very wary and very cautious. As if
we needed one more thing in the Southland to worry about,
we're adding a potential live grenade to the mix. So
that was the press conference yesterday with Sheriff Robert Luna
with updates about this situation that did in fact claim
the lives of those three LASD deputies. Again, I want

(12:11):
to make sure I say their names. Their names are
Joshua Kelly Ecklund, Victor Limis, and William Osbourne, all a
part of the Special Enforcement Bureau Arson's explosive detail. When
we come back We're going to talk about an an
unfortunate incident that seems to not yet be resolved and

(12:34):
happens to deal with these home invasions, these home burglaries,
and in this case in the specific neighborhood in Encino
that is where the murder of the American Idol producer
and her husband occurred.

Speaker 2 (12:49):
Well, just after that murder, authorities.

Speaker 3 (12:52):
Pledged to step up patrols, to step up law enforcement.
But something happened after that pledge, and it is extremely unpleasant.

Speaker 1 (13:04):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.

Speaker 2 (13:09):
His patrols in the area as well.

Speaker 3 (13:11):
We're going to get into quite a few other stories today.
Like I told you, at six point thirty, we will
have Elliott Mince, the professional publicist, on to talk about
his history in the business.

Speaker 2 (13:23):
We're going to talk about as well.

Speaker 3 (13:25):
This te app tea women's safety app, well it got
hacked and I'll tell you what's going on with that.
I'm going to get into the first ever Tesla diner
opening up in Hollywood.

Speaker 2 (13:38):
Why work from home might be.

Speaker 3 (13:40):
Coming to an end and it's not necessarily why you think.
And we'll definitely have some interesting stories for the scammers.
Are gonna scam segment, including one that affected me just
a few days ago. All of that and more on
this beautiful Saturday. It's Saturdays with Tiffany. I'm here from
five to seven right here on kf I AM six

(14:03):
forty Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. And we have
Steph the Foush joining us today on the boards.

Speaker 2 (14:10):
We'll come back and talk with him in a bit.

Speaker 3 (14:12):
Kf I am six forty Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.

Speaker 2 (14:16):
Tiffany Hobbs here with you.

Speaker 3 (14:17):
Thank you for tuning in on this fine, fine Saturday
in July. We have Steph Fusch here. He's in for
ral Wu.

Speaker 2 (14:25):
We have Steph fush here.

Speaker 5 (14:27):
Hi.

Speaker 2 (14:27):
Sure you sure are so? You bet? Your sweet ash?
You're here right?

Speaker 5 (14:32):
Yeah? I am?

Speaker 2 (14:33):
How are you good? How are you doing? I'm good?

Speaker 3 (14:36):
How does it feel to work on a Saturday when
you usually work Monday through Friday?

Speaker 2 (14:42):
That's how it feels. Tell us how you really feel?

Speaker 5 (14:44):
Right?

Speaker 2 (14:45):
Okay?

Speaker 3 (14:45):
Well, you know what, I will definitely check in on you,
and you know I love to talk to you Foush
when you're here, and I'm sure everybody loves to hear
you as well.

Speaker 2 (14:53):
Allay all day. You know, we were talking off air
and we're trying to.

Speaker 3 (14:58):
Get Steph Oh to involve himself in the Gary and
Shannon dating pool. There's a dating app, or not an app,
but a pool that they've put together, and we want
the fu Sheeta enter himself into the pool of eligible bachelors.

Speaker 2 (15:17):
Because you are don't you have to talk? It's radio.

Speaker 6 (15:19):
I think they don't want me.

Speaker 3 (15:21):
Oh oh, you know what, Let's go to the talkback
how about that? If you want food, let us know
right there on that talkback button on the app and
you can let Foosh know directly if you are interested
or rather if you think he'd be a good candidate
for the.

Speaker 2 (15:36):
Gary and Shannon dating pool.

Speaker 3 (15:39):
Some not so great news, unfortunately coming out of Encino.
Just a couple of weeks now after the unfortunate home
invasion and murder of the American Idol producer and her husband,
now sadly more invasions, more home invasions, more potential home invasions,

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thwarted attempts, and because of this, law enforcement said that
they would step up their patrols in Encino, that they
would bring out the cavalcade and make sure that the
homeowners and residents in this Encino neighborhood were protected because
there was a lot more interest seemingly around these neighborhoods

(16:26):
and a rise in burglaries. Unfortunately, just a day after
law enforcement pledged to in fact up those patrols, a
home in Encino in the same neighborhood was broken into
around twelve fifty five pm broad daylight, and people were

(16:48):
seen exiting the home carrying boxes.

Speaker 2 (16:51):
Let's find out a little bit more about what happened. Ready,
fushi places, I have shares music to foods. You gotta
he know.

Speaker 3 (17:02):
It's hard to work on a Saturday. There we go, Ready,
it's coming. It's it's okay, it's a Saturday. That's what's
going on.

Speaker 2 (17:17):
Can you get it? Huh? We don't.

Speaker 1 (17:19):
We don't came up shares above.

Speaker 7 (17:25):
Here on the lower side.

Speaker 8 (17:28):
So it happened, was right. I read the run down
and I pulled the wrong audio clip, and I knew
what you were talking about didn't match the audio clip,
but it didn't click.

Speaker 2 (17:40):
In my head until everyone go out last night.

Speaker 8 (17:43):
I actually didn't go out last night. In my defense,
it's not on the run down, my love.

Speaker 5 (17:49):
It's on the run down.

Speaker 1 (17:50):
It's right here.

Speaker 2 (17:51):
It's solish, it's right there and red at the bottom.
See that right there. We have to do that rundown.
That's that's the that's the.

Speaker 8 (17:57):
The link I think is about aging out in the
Bay Area. No, you know what, we're gonna talk about it.
That's okay, Well, it's okay. It's a Leolo insider I had.
The good thing is I have copy in front of me.
I can read what's going on in Sino.

Speaker 3 (18:10):
So what you would have heard had you have heard
that lovely clip from KTLA, Thanks Kayla, super producer, Kayla.

Speaker 2 (18:17):
It fush is like scrambling to figure out what happened?
Is that again?

Speaker 3 (18:22):
That break in happened around twelve to fifty five PM
in the forty three hundred block a Valley Meadow Road,
and it involved five to six men who were wearing
masks and were seen driving a Mercedes away from the scene.
There were neighbors there who were home during the middle
of the day and they said the homeowner had just left.

(18:43):
Lucky for her, thank god she left, because you can,
I obviously imagine what could have happened if this had
gone a different way. But these men, five or so
men masked men broke into this homeowner's home, left the
home with multiple boxes of what we can presume are
her things that she hopefully will get back. But as

(19:04):
of right now, there are no clear suspects. They have
the car, but they don't have any clear suspects attached
to the break in. Now, LAPD did say that they're
going to bring in the mounted police as well to
patrol the area that probably will be a site. There

(19:24):
are already cars driving around with regularity, but now they're
going to bring in the mounted police to just increase
the patrols and visibility, as well as more aerial coverage
from helicopters, and they're going to turn to community outreach programs.
They want people to set up those cameras. They want

(19:47):
people to become more involved in what's happening in their neighborhoods.
And a lot of people were in fact saying, and
that's what you would have heard in the clip, that
they are feeling like that it is falling on them
to protect their own neighborhood. Unfortunately, they have confidence in
law enforcement, but they also are realistic about law enforcement

(20:08):
only being able to do so much given the conditions
within the city. So the neighbors who were being interviewed
in this story KTLA were saying that they were going
to basically patrol their own streets, protect and procure their
own homes because after that violent double homicide of the

(20:31):
American Idol executive Robin Ka and her husband, Thomas de Luca,
and now the subsequent break ins that seem to not
be deterred by the increased LAPD presence, they're really feeling.

Speaker 2 (20:44):
On edge and vulnerable.

Speaker 3 (20:47):
Now LAPD has faced criticism for their response to the
nine to one one calls that have come out of
the neighborhood, but they do say that they're trying, They're
really really trying in that crime In fact in Encino
is down year over year, including this particular year, to
not necessarily feel that crime is on the uptick, but unfortunately,

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this specific neighborhood in Encino is being targeted.

Speaker 2 (21:15):
So unfortunately that.

Speaker 3 (21:17):
Is a byproduct of living in the beautiful city of
Los Angeles, these home invasion burglaries. When we come back,
we're going to talk about this women's safe space app.

Speaker 2 (21:31):
What is that?

Speaker 3 (21:32):
The heck is a women's safe space app? Well, was
an app called Tea still in existence, designed to allow
women to gather online privately to talk about dating and
woes and warnings and to share information in this protected
area online. Well, it's not protected any longer because it

(21:56):
was just hacked. Yes, and thousands and thousands and thousands
of women's information, including personal information, is now out in
the whatever sphere, vulnerable to do stings. I'm gonna give
you the information about that just in case you might

(22:17):
know someone who's involved in themselves with the app, or
you might have been looking into doing it yourself as well.

Speaker 1 (22:24):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.

Speaker 3 (22:32):
Kind of a glitchy Saturdays with Tiffany, and we're rolling
right through it having a good time.

Speaker 5 (22:37):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (22:38):
You know, we have the honor of having.

Speaker 3 (22:41):
Steph aka the foushe Akashi aka all Babe, I'll be
in the studio. I'll babe, all babe, you're here. And
you know what I proposed last segment.

Speaker 2 (22:57):
Was that Foo should should maybe involve.

Speaker 3 (22:59):
Himself in the Gary and Shannon Dating Pool, brand new,
brand new feature on their fun program where they take
eligible bachelors and perhaps bachelorettes and they're doing their own
kind of dating thing, kind of dating matchup thing, and
we've already had one entry and I said, hey, Steph,
you should be Bachelor number two. So we asked you

(23:23):
beautiful listeners to go to the talk back button and
and give stuff, give the foosh, give our all babe
some all babe ness.

Speaker 2 (23:31):
Let's pump them up. What you have to say?

Speaker 3 (23:35):
Come on, Stepan, Chico suave man, you're a hunk of
burn in love brother. Come on, maybe he's maybe he's
putting himself in the running right there. Stuff heyo heayo.
So yes, you need to enter yourself. And that sounds terrible.
You need to put yourself into the Gary and Shannon.

(23:58):
Don't enter yourself. That's why you're in this situation.

Speaker 9 (24:00):
Now.

Speaker 3 (24:00):
We need you left entering yourself, okay, and get yourself
in that Gary and Shannon dating pool. What really quick?
What might you be looking for? Just give us a
few things?

Speaker 2 (24:11):
Pulse? Nicky says, Wow, she's not wrong. The bar is
in hell.

Speaker 3 (24:16):
Okay, yeah, beyond a pulse, that's helpful.

Speaker 2 (24:20):
What else are you looking for it?

Speaker 6 (24:23):
I know it sounds cliche, but I really both working legs.

Speaker 2 (24:28):
You want both legs, both legs? Okay? Yeah, but Nicky.

Speaker 6 (24:36):
Nikki Honestly, I really do want a good sense of humor, okay,
because it really when it comes to that moment, you
want to be able to laugh with someone that can
just you know, shoot the poop and just be able
to be funny and laugh it off and all that stuff.

Speaker 2 (25:00):
And that's bored up. Nikki in the back throwing.

Speaker 3 (25:05):
Apparently everyone physically, steph, what are you? What are you
looking for? Laughing is great, since you were wonderful. What
are you looking for?

Speaker 5 (25:16):
No?

Speaker 2 (25:16):
What do you want? Give us? Give us a what
saves lives? Foosh thighs?

Speaker 1 (25:21):
You want?

Speaker 3 (25:21):
Oh you oh to say that? What are you blushing?
They can't see you. He has turned an interesting shade.
Caly didn't even know that was possible for a human.

Speaker 2 (25:34):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (25:36):
So thick thighs is what you say you want? Yeah, okay,
what's attached to those thick thighs is that it?

Speaker 4 (25:45):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (25:46):
Nikki is your spokesperson out there.

Speaker 6 (25:49):
Yeah okay, yeah, she's not wrong.

Speaker 2 (25:55):
Okay. You want you want, you want something with you
want a woman.

Speaker 3 (25:58):
With a little extra lee shape lee all right, yeah, okay,
good sense of humor, shapely pulse. If that fits you,
you go ahead and you leave a talkback, will tell
us about your daughter or yourself or your niece or
whomever it is. Whosh, you're around like thirty thirty, late thirties,
late thirties. So what's the youngest yo, go careful, ca

(26:21):
it's live.

Speaker 2 (26:22):
Uh, I'll i U.

Speaker 4 (26:30):
Jesus, I'll take mid twenties, mid twenties if they want.

Speaker 3 (26:34):
You can't even you can't even rent a car until
you're No, that's.

Speaker 2 (26:38):
A good age, just legal. And what about the oldest? Hog?

Speaker 4 (26:40):
Fush the oldest? I'll go, m that's a good question. Actually,
it's like forty one. You just say what he's like
forty one old man?

Speaker 2 (26:53):
Oh, I'd say, yeah, sixty one.

Speaker 3 (26:57):
Sixty one, foush let it suck. Hey, hey if you're
if you're north of sixty, you are, and you have
a little extra cushion for the pushing. Oh no, booty
foosh is ready?

Speaker 6 (27:15):
All right?

Speaker 5 (27:15):
Now?

Speaker 3 (27:17):
All right, okay, I'll take the I'll take the heat
off of you for a second.

Speaker 2 (27:20):
Bosh.

Speaker 3 (27:21):
Well, you know one last thing I imagine in your
dating history? Sure you have been a good guy? Yes, yeah,
yeah right. So let's say there was an app in
which women were talking about their dating history the men
they were dating or interested in had relationships with, and
they were talking about these men in a way to

(27:43):
warn other women against dating them. You wouldn't appear on
an app like that, would you, fosh, No, no, no, no,
never that right, Well, there actually is an app for that,
and it's called t t E a like what You Drink,
and it's market it as a place for women to
safely talk about men. Okay, be able to go on

(28:05):
and say, I dated this guy, he was kind of
a jerk. Ladies, stay away, or I dated this guy
and he was kind of cheap, may not be your thing,
whatever it might be. It was a safe place for
women to go on and kind of swap stories up
until last week. The app itself debuted a couple of

(28:27):
years ago, but it became viral this week because seventy
two thousand images and thirteen thousand verification photos, along with
images of varying government IDs were accessed in a large

(28:49):
scale hack. This happened just between Thursday and Friday. A
spokesperson confirmed the hack Friday afternoon. The these IDs, these
pictures have all been leaked online now and the interesting
thing about this is just last week, Tea the te apps,

(29:11):
saw a spike in sign ups, saw a spike in
people wanting to be involved on the app.

Speaker 2 (29:17):
They welcomed.

Speaker 3 (29:18):
I think I forget the number here, but at something
like a million more users or something like that, A
bunch of users over the last week they really shot up,
and yeah, it says here, surpassed two million in the
past few days sign ups. And after those sign ups occurred,
the hack happened. So a lot of these women newly

(29:40):
signed up, and women who had been on the app
for the last couple of years or therein are now
victim to this large scale hack. The hacker access the
database from more than two years ago.

Speaker 2 (29:54):
Quote.

Speaker 3 (29:54):
According to the spokesperson, this data was originally stored in
compliance with law enforcem MEANT requirements related to cyber bullying prevention.
Spokesperson went on to say that Tea has hired third
party cyber security experts and that they're working around the
clock to secure their systems. But as of right now,

(30:20):
these photos, these verification photos, these government photos, the sensitive information,
login information, all of this troves ands troves of things
stolen are now available sadly online from women who thought
they were accessing this app in privacy in security and

(30:42):
being able to just talk about people not like Foosh,
who are not nice guys. Luckily, Boosh is probably not
one of the guys who's being talked about.

Speaker 2 (30:51):
But if you do, I hope not. You hope not.
But hey, you never know.

Speaker 3 (30:55):
You could have wrong that one person you know, a
couple of years ago or whatever, and they're holding a
grudge and now they talk about you and now you're
on the app. And that was some of the criticism too,
that it wasn't all fair that you know, there are
people who legitimately deserved to be skewed. Yeah, but then
of course there were kind of casualties of social media
being skewered as well.

Speaker 2 (31:15):
Foosh, you would be neither.

Speaker 1 (31:17):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.

Speaker 3 (31:25):
You certainly are dating pool in the pool. We're going
to create an app or whatever it is, but get
in the pool so that you can splash around and
have a good time with all of these suitors. Sixty
one years old. Splash around with some sixty one year
olds with big booties. Foosh, that's your future. The shade
of Red. When we come back, we're going to take
hopefully more of your talkbacks about Foosh telling him why

(31:48):
he's an eligible bachelor.

Speaker 2 (31:49):
And we're going to get into this new Tesla Diner.

Speaker 3 (31:51):
What's going on with the Tesla Diner in Hollywood right there,
I believe on Orange Avenue.

Speaker 2 (31:57):
Really interesting. I've driven by.

Speaker 3 (31:59):
I want to share with you what I've seen and
what has happened since it's been opened, in case you're
interested in visiting Tesla's first ever diner opening right here
in southern California last week. All of that and more
right here on Saturdays with Tiffany KFI AM six forty
live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app All Babe Now Too,

(32:19):
Brigitta Dia Gastino in the KFI twenty four hour newsroom,
Tiffany Hobbs here with you from five to seven, and
stay tuned from Michael Monks, who is live in studio
flitting abouts. I've seen him flitting about. You'll hear him
at seven pm right here. We've been talking about it a
lot of things, but probably one of the most entertaining

(32:40):
aspects of today's show is that we have Foush with
us on the boards in for Rawul.

Speaker 2 (32:46):
And Gary and Shannon.

Speaker 3 (32:48):
I keep plugging it because it's interesting have this dating
pool and we have Foosh, and so we kind of
matched the two up together and said, hey, Poosh, you
should be a part of the dating pool. And we
extended the question to you, what do you how do
you want to motivate Steph in his dating life and
or to join this dating service orchestrated by our very

(33:10):
own Gary and Shannon. And we've already had one great
talk back and.

Speaker 2 (33:13):
I hear we have two more Foosh? Is is that true?
I'm looking for I'm looking for it. You are a liar.
I'm so sorry.

Speaker 3 (33:22):
You are a liar, and you're suppressing the truth is
what you're doing. You don't want the fine people listening
out there to hear others encouraging you to get yourself
involved in the dating pool. He splash around here, splash
around enough. Oh, if you missed the last segment, step
said he would go as high as sixty one.

Speaker 2 (33:42):
By the way, all right, go for it? Yeah, okay,
those rap guys. Girl friends? Who understands those rap guys?
Because she looks like a total prostitute. Very clever. Wow, say, oh,
I can't believe it's just so brown? Is this your song? Stuff?

(34:04):
Who what stuff? Is this what you like? She just
what I like? Yeah? Is that your type? Well?

Speaker 6 (34:20):
I mean yeah, yeah, yeah, all right, we have we
have I want to I want to be so like discriminative.

Speaker 1 (34:29):
You're not.

Speaker 2 (34:29):
You're being really inclusive.

Speaker 3 (34:31):
To be honest, You're inviting everyone, especially those with shapely
rear ends, into your dating pool to splash around, splash
sixty one year olds with big rear ends.

Speaker 2 (34:41):
This is what I'm hearing. Is your type? Okay, what's
the next one that? Oh? You have the second one there?
I think I want more.

Speaker 3 (34:50):
Set if the people want you to hear them on
this beautiful Saturday, it's not pretending like you don't have things.

Speaker 2 (35:00):
Is this the kind of Saturday we're going to have
with Steph today? This is the I think. I think
I got it? All right, Hold we can't it's radio.

Speaker 7 (35:07):
We can't hold on Ayson in Columbus, Ohio. I just
wanted to chime in. And I heard once the half
of your age plus seven is socially acceptable in the
dating world. So with that, and I'd like to say kfi.

Speaker 8 (35:26):
So foosh, if you're above thirty eight or thirty eight,
thirty seven, thirty eight, then you can date a sixty
one year old. Yeah, and it's acceptable socially at seven
according to Jason.

Speaker 2 (35:39):
Okay, that's good. Are you ready for that sixty one?

Speaker 5 (35:43):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (35:44):
Yeah, you have.

Speaker 3 (35:45):
To sound more confident for that about that for a
sixty one year old, Tiffany?

Speaker 2 (35:49):
Thank you? You're ready to splash around in the dating pool?

Speaker 5 (35:54):
That sure?

Speaker 2 (35:54):
Right? You keep saying that.

Speaker 8 (35:56):
Say, throw that little sixty one year old butt over here,
that big old sixty one year old, but oh my god,
throw that over here?

Speaker 2 (36:02):
What is going on today? I don't know. You came
in and we just lost all control, you know.

Speaker 6 (36:08):
Apparently I'm just trying to like be honest with myself
and then you guys are just putting me out there,
give us.

Speaker 2 (36:15):
This kind of woe is me.

Speaker 3 (36:17):
I'm just being honest, nice guy thing I am. Do
you want a sixty one year old big butt woman
is carrying a lot back there?

Speaker 2 (36:27):
Wow? Yeah? Yeah. If you're sixty one or around that age,
please hit the talk back feature and let us know
if you would be interested in maybe hanging out with
our fushi a little bit there. Okay, all right, we're
gonna move on.

Speaker 3 (36:42):
Don't say anything, Steph, No, no more for you. Okay,
all right, you know where you can take your stuff
to the new Tesla Diner in Hollywood.

Speaker 2 (36:50):
Nice.

Speaker 3 (36:50):
That would be a perfect date for you and your
big booty date, Okay.

Speaker 2 (36:55):
And here's why.

Speaker 3 (36:56):
So the thing about this new diner in Hollywood is
that it's on Sound Monica Boulevard and Orange Drive. It's
ironically just blocks south of In and Out on Sunset.
If you're familiar with the area of Sunset and Highland,
this one, the New Tesla Diner, is right at the
corner of Orange Drive in Santa Monica Boulevard.

Speaker 2 (37:16):
And when I've left.

Speaker 3 (37:18):
The In and Out on Sunset, I've regularly come through
that neighborhood exiting out onto Santa Monica Boulevard. And I
passed for a year or so this construction, this development,
wondering with each turn, what the heck is this building?
It looked to be, you know, kind of strange, very futuristic.
In fact, didn't know what it was. Thought it might

(37:40):
end up being a car wash or something. Well we
found out what it is because it opened on Monday,
this previous Monday, at four twenty pm. Very elon Musk.
For those of you in the No. Four to twenty
pm this previous Monday, and it's Tesla's very first, their
inaugural retro futuristic diner and drive in theater. It also

(38:05):
features thirty two super chargers for the Tesla owners who
want to charge while they're waiting for their thirteen dollar
burger a la carte. It opened to a lot of fanfare,
a lot of interest, people lined up down the block.
The wait times, according to reports, have exceeded two hours,

(38:31):
so you're thinking Disneyland style you're waiting for your food
and because of all of the interest, because of all
the publicity, the weight times have been extended. But it's
not only because of the droves of people. Within the
first week, reports are coming out from this diner that
quite a bit of the machinery has broken down intermittently,

(38:55):
not necessarily every time, but intermittently over the last four
plus days, the machinery has malfunctioned, leading to longer wait
times for ordering at the counter from your car, on
the app and therein. They also feature within this diner
on top where these huge movie screens are so you

(39:17):
can enjoy your drive in or sit in movie. A robot,
a Tesla robot that serves customers popcorn. People went in
looking for the robot, only to find that the robot
also had broken down, had malfunctioned, and because the robot
controls the popcorn, the popcorn became largely inaccessible as well.

(39:42):
So they've had a myriad of issues over this last few.

Speaker 2 (39:45):
Days since they opened.

Speaker 3 (39:47):
It's a two story venue and the venue features, get this,
two forty five foot LED movie screens that are visible
from the parking lot and the rooftop outdoor seating area.
Here's the thing. They didn't put these screens kind of

(40:07):
independent of other walls, or you know, kind of put
them where they might not obstruct something. No, they affixed
these two forty five foot LED screens to the side
of existing buildings. There is an apartment complex.

Speaker 2 (40:26):
Right across the street from this diner that now has
one entire side of the building covered by.

Speaker 3 (40:35):
These LED screens forty five feet in height.

Speaker 2 (40:41):
That's four stories of this building.

Speaker 3 (40:44):
I believe the building is about six or seven stories,
So the majority of the building is now being obscured
by these LD screens and people are pissed.

Speaker 2 (40:56):
But the people who are visiting are saying that they're
really enjoying it. That it.

Speaker 3 (41:00):
You know, this is kind of in their minds, a
foray into the future. They say it's Grease meets the
Jetsons with super charging. That's directly from Elon Musk. They
serve classic American fair like burgers, milkshakes, other things, much
of which as well was not available over this last

(41:21):
week during the first opening or the first week of
it being open. Lots and lots and lots of technical problems,
lots and lots of glitches, but they're hoping that it
will just, you know, kind of they'll get over it
and that people will be able to enjoy it for
the nearby foreseeable future. You also have a cool little
feature where that cyber truck boxes are used for your food.

(41:46):
That is your container for your food, a fun little
keepsake that many are saying is probably the best thing
about the entire diner, which you can walk away with
after you spend a very pretty penny for the food food.
So I'm also saying the food was cold, the food
was not seasoned well. You can buy sixty five dollars

(42:06):
Tesla salt and pepper shakers, one hundred and seventy five
dollars levitating cyber truck, figurine and a ninety five dollars
retro diner hoodie.

Speaker 2 (42:17):
If that strikes your fancy.

Speaker 3 (42:19):
Right there on the corner of Orange Drive and Sons
or excuse me, Orange Drive and Santa Monica Boulevard, the
futuristic Tesla Diner.

Speaker 1 (42:29):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.

Speaker 3 (42:35):
And we're having a great time here in the studio.

Speaker 2 (42:38):
Lots of laughs, lots of labs. It's live radio.

Speaker 3 (42:41):
Yes, sure it hasn't been seamless and flawless, but neither
are you, So get over it.

Speaker 2 (42:46):
We're having a good time, right, get over it. I
like that. Get over it? Are you neither? Are you?

Speaker 3 (42:51):
Look in the mirror at yourself before you judge this show? Okay, Now,
we're having a good time here, and absolutely we're following
some of the major breaking news, and we have quite
a few screens going on here in the studio. One
of the things I just saw actually pop up on
the screen is that a car crashed into three homes
in Huntington Beach.

Speaker 2 (43:11):
A car crash.

Speaker 3 (43:12):
One car crashed into three separate homes in Huntington Beach,
and as of right now, it seems that injuries are
not necessarily clear about this situation, don't know the severity
of any injuries, if there are injuries and in fact,
but we will keep up to speed on what's going
on out there in Huntington Beach. We're still as well

(43:35):
looking for one of the two grenades that was taken
from that apartment in Santa Monica during the ATF and
Special Units removal of the grenades on July eighteenth that
unfortunately claimed the lives of the three LA sheriff deputies.

(43:56):
Those deputies were successfully or were able to successfully remove
the two grenades, but one is still missing, and one
in fact did detonate that one that's missing is being.

Speaker 2 (44:07):
Urged to be left alone.

Speaker 3 (44:09):
Should you come across just a random grenade out there,
I don't know what you're doing and why you would
be coming into contact with a random grenade, but should
you do that, Sheriff Robert Luna and anyone with two
brain cells threw up together are urging you to not
pick it up, call law enforcement because it is being
said by Sheriff Robert Luna that grenade could very well

(44:32):
still be out there. The fact that we don't know
where it is is caused for concern, and then as well,
one person has been killed in an RV fire in
Valley Glen, that RV catching fire and claiming the life
of one person. So I'll definitely check back in on

(44:52):
that information as we get it. At six point thirty,
I want to make sure that you're aware we're going
to have a huge, huge professional in public relations. His
name is Elliot Mince and he'll be on with us
to talk about what it was like being the publicist
for John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Paris Hilton, and a host

(45:15):
of other names, many of which you'll recognize. And I
also have some questions about what do you do when
your celebrity client passes away. We have experienced quite a
few celebrity passings over the last week, week and a half,
and it begs the question what happens? What does the
behind the scenes stuff look like when it comes to

(45:38):
releasing information about celebrity deaths. So that's my personal question,
and I'll have some other things to talk with Elliot
Mints about at six thirty, So go nowhere now we're
going to jump into this topic for our deeper dive segment.
Is the Work from Home Era? Already over, question mark.

(45:59):
Some say no, it's thriving, it's great, especially those who
engage in work from home. But many are saying, yeah,
it's come to an end, and that it has been
kind of slumping to the finish line, slumping to the
end over the course of the last couple of years.
In twenty twenty, digital nomadism or your ability to move

(46:21):
around the world, to be nomadic and to take your
job with you insofar as you could do that job
using your computer. It surged because people were able to
move around even with COVID restrictions in ways that we
hadn't yet seen before. Because physical spaces for your job,

(46:43):
those places had closed down, they were closed temporarily, and
other provisions were made allowing people to work from home.
And if they didn't want to work from home from
their specific home, then they may have chosen to leave
and go work elsewhere, and many people did, causing the
big birth of what is called digital nomadism.

Speaker 2 (47:07):
Some might see them as.

Speaker 3 (47:08):
Tourists, some might call them hipsters, but they are in
fact digital nomads working remotely while traveling abroad. It's been
around since the two thousands, but it really peaked during COVID.
Now a lot of countries during twenty twenty and the
next couple of years launched digital nomad visus in an

(47:31):
attempt to draw a new global market of remote workers
to live, work, and spend their earnings locally.

Speaker 2 (47:39):
Of course, people were.

Speaker 3 (47:41):
Living in new areas, and they were putting their money
back into the community via restaurants, via shopping, via.

Speaker 2 (47:50):
Whatever it might be.

Speaker 3 (47:52):
Digital nomadism, and these people living in new countries were
in fact contributing to the local economy, and because of it,
countries did extend those visas. Claudia Shinbaum, at the time
a mayor in Mexico, now President of Mexico, was one
of the first to extend digital nomad visas. That trend,

(48:16):
born in twenty twenty mainly and growing over the next
couple of years, left an unmistakable stamp on these communities,
on these neighborhoods. Out of this, you had these space
age work cafes. You had the we work you've seen it,
people galvanizing in a communal work space where they're all

(48:39):
in their laptops, typing away, drinking their ten dollars lattes.
They may have a foods ball table or something else
to enjoy themselves when they wanted to take a break,
or a yoga, matt section or whatever it may be.

Speaker 2 (48:52):
All of these creature comforts, go ahead, foosh.

Speaker 6 (48:54):
I was gonna say one of my first jobs ever
having to do with anything radio related was at a
WE work and I had no idea about it. And
then I saw the documentary and it's crazy how that
thing exploded, exploded in it crazy and it like the
one I worked at was in Hollywood, and I live

(49:18):
by Lax.

Speaker 2 (49:19):
And there's one by a Manhattan beach.

Speaker 6 (49:21):
And then I saw one in in Culver City, and
then I saw one in not Thousand Oaks, but in
that They.

Speaker 3 (49:28):
Were popping up everywhere because people couldn't go into the
office or didn't want to didn't want to work from
their couch, so they found other spaces to do their thing,
including you.

Speaker 2 (49:38):
Oo's right, And did you enjoy it?

Speaker 5 (49:40):
Oh?

Speaker 6 (49:40):
No, I enjoyed. I enjoyed it. I thought it was
I didn't know it was like a huge thing. I
just was like, Oh, it's we work and people. Actually,
when I first started there, one of my jobs was
a talent coordinator, so I would bring the people in
and everyone would always say, oh, do these all these

(50:01):
people work for you. No, no, no, no, they're just they're
just there. Because where our spot was was lodged, it
was you had to walk past at least thirty people.
So it looked like people were working for us. Oh yeah,
And so they'd always say.

Speaker 3 (50:22):
No, we wish it was like, yes, I'm Bengali here exactsolutely,
but people did.

Speaker 2 (50:28):
You couldn't do that. You had your own kind of office.

Speaker 3 (50:30):
You're sharing the space that was the draw we work,
but it did feel like a private space for you
to conduct business with all of the trimmings and digital nomads.
Digital nomadism did give birth to a lot of other
things as well, including giving people another place to live,
creating jobs, fostering diversity. I know that's a word that

(50:54):
you know some people may may may get a little
prickly at, but it did. It did in fact create
quite a bit. But with all of the positive creation,
there was pushback. And I'm going to tell you about
the pushback that started in the years post COVID and
have continued right here into twenty twenty five, leading to

(51:15):
protests even happening in some countries because they say they
want those digital no mads out tell you all about
all about that more in our deeper dive segment, as
we continue talking whether or not the work from dream
Era Work from Home dream Era is over and I'll
figure out how to speak English. On the break, Tifney

(51:37):
Hobbs Here till seven. K I Am six forty Live
Everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. KFI Am six forty Live
Everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. Saturdays with Tiffany Tifney Hobbs
here until seven. It's been such an interesting show. It's
been such an interesting show. UH Live Radio absolutely, and

(51:58):
we are rolling along until seven. In six point thirty,
We're gonna have Elliott Mince on. He is a professional publicist,
a PR professional who has worked with the likes of
John Lennon, Yoko Ono, the list goes on and on
and on, and I want him to share some fun stories,
some history about working in the biz, especially with such

(52:19):
huge personalities, and kind of dig behind the scenes. See
if we can get him to disclose some of the
insider publicist baseball, especially when it comes to dealing with death,
celebrity death. We've had a lot of it this week,
and I think Elliot mince would be the perfect person
to comment on about how publicists have to pivot and

(52:41):
kind of scramble when their client passes away, like say
Hulk Hogan, Right, Ozzy Osbourne, Malcolm Jamal Warner, and quite
a few others. In the last ten days or so.
Right now, we're in the middle of our deep deeper
dive segment. We're talking about whether or not the work

(53:01):
from home era is over. Really spiked in twenty twenty,
twenty twenty one, twenty two when people were able to
work from home and they took it a step further
instead of just working from home, they became something called
digital nomads. Their ability to take their job and transition

(53:22):
it anywhere in the world because they were working from
a laptop. They are working digitally, and digital nomadism as
having two sides of the coin. On one side, quite
a few positive impacts. Definitely a positive impact on the
local economy in the form of pouring back into the
economy as consumers. Digital nomads and countries like Lisbon, countries

(53:47):
like Mexico and all over were patronizing businesses and pouring
their earnings back into the communities in which they lived
or visited. It also created and foster diversity but on
the other side of things, digital nomadism was viewed in
the years after COVID and leading into twenty twenty five

(54:13):
because there have been protests in countries around the world
about digital nomads, talking about the negatives that include gentrification, inflation,
and kind of the erasure of existing communities, and a
lot of communities and countries have started to push back
on these digital nomads. One country in particular, Spain, which

(54:39):
was named the best destination in the world for digital nomads,
has expressed a lot of resentment toward those people living
in their country and working from home or from different
areas in that country. It's boiled over the frustrations in
the form of graffiti, spray painting on walls, get out

(55:01):
or any other choice words, as well as full scale
protests in Madrid, Malaga and airbnb lock boxes being allegedly
covered in dog poop. They do not want people there
and they are making themselves known. Local businesses were fed
up as well. Different cafes in Europe over the last

(55:24):
few years have started to ban or even charge for
laptop use. They're irritated, they say, by these workers, these
remote workers who set up their offices within the cafe
within the restaurant and hog tables for hours on end.

Speaker 2 (55:43):
They set limits.

Speaker 3 (55:44):
They said, we do not want them here taking up
this space when the space should be for locals as well.
Hostels common and a popular place for digital nomads to
leave so that they can just move from one spot
to the next, have hiked up their prices in an
effort to deter people from staying or even visiting. Initially,

(56:08):
governments are also rowing back policies originally designed to attract
digital nomads, and one such government is now experiencing the
roll back and the aversion to digital nomadism, and it
is right there in Mexico City, Mexico City. The reason

(56:32):
that I decided to do the deep dive segment on
this topic is because I enjoy Mexico.

Speaker 2 (56:38):
I visit Mexico often.

Speaker 3 (56:40):
I was hoping to visit Mexico City in the next
coming month or so, but after news broke a few
weeks ago of people in protest in Mexico City against
gentrification digital nomadism, I decided to squash that idea said,
maybe you can find somewhere else to go now in

(57:01):
Mexico City, with the rise of gentrification, rental costs, and
these digital nomads, who in many cases don't speak the language,
A lot of natives, a lot of locals there in
Mexico City, are in fact fighting back. Mexico City's Mayor,
Clara Brugatta, has come up with a preliminary plan to

(57:23):
help regulate rent across the city. It targets skyrocketing costs
head on with regulations that hopefully would prevent landlords from
raising prices on properties. It also wants to publish a
list of rental proposals that could help balance the housing market.

(57:46):
The Mayor of Mexico City, Clara Brugata, went on to say,
we want the population living in Mexico City to stay
in Mexico City. And what she is inferring here, and
what was continually discussed between Clara Brugot and her government,
is that in certain areas, rents have become so excessively

(58:09):
high that the local community is unable to rent in
the places that they have formerly lived and you know
where they've grown up, they're being pushed out, edged out.
The intolerance towards these digital nomads, towards the foreigner foreigners
has in fact increased since the institution of our newest

(58:34):
administration under President Trump because of the intolerance towards Mexicans
and Latinos in the United States and specifically in southern California,
and because of that intolerance, a lot of natives in
Mexico City are basically saying, it's tit for tut. You
don't want us there, we don't want you here. And

(58:58):
because of that, there is this ongoing crackdown on digital
nomads Mexico, formally under Claudia Scheinbohm, then Mayor Mexico City's
mayor at the time in twenty twenty two signing an
agreement with Airbnb to bring people in, now seeing a
pushback by current Mayor Clara Brugata saying we don't want

(59:21):
these digital nomads here, at least not carte blanche as
they've been able to be over the last three years. Therefore,
the work from home trend may very well be trickling
to an end at least when it comes to digital nomadism.
Countries just aren't going for it anymore. And so if

(59:43):
that was something that you were planning to do, you
might want to look into the countries that you're interested in,
because the sentiment towards digital nomads seems to be trending
in a negative direction. I'd hate for you to get
caught out there and be on the news as being
victimized because you just opened your laptop in a cafe.
But that's that's where we're at with it. A few

(01:00:04):
people have taken advantage. When we come back six point thirty,
we're gonna talk to Elliott Mintz.

Speaker 2 (01:00:11):
He is a legend.

Speaker 3 (01:00:13):
Legend is an understatement, a professional public relations legend, and
he has stories on stories on stories, many of which
we won't get to, but some I hope we'll be
able to tackle as we delve behind the curtain into
the world of celebrity p R Elliot Mints coming up

(01:00:34):
right after the break Right here on Saturdays with Tiffany
kf I am six forty live everywhere in the iHeartRadio
app Eileen Gonzalez high back to you. I didn't say
it last segment, but hello, Tiffany Hobbs here with you
and it is Saturdays with Tiffany. I am so delighted,

(01:00:57):
so grateful, and so honored to have our next guest
on with us. Elliott mince is a professional media consultant
who has worked with Get This list, the likes of
John Lennon, heard of him, Yoko Ono, you might be familiar,
Bob Dylan, Oh yeah, Paris Hilton, Diana Ross, and many

(01:01:21):
many more. Prior to becoming a consultant, Elliot Mince worked
as a radio DJ and television host and served as
the entertainment correspondent for Eyewitness News on kab C. Elliot
Mince is well versed and is undoubtedly a legend in

(01:01:43):
the public relations atmosphere. I am so glad that Elliott,
mister Mince. I will call you mister Minz because I
am in full reverence mister Mins, that you would take
the time to come on our program. Thank you so
much for coming on with us, and welcome to Saturday
with Tiffany.

Speaker 5 (01:02:02):
Well, Tiffany, thank you so much for an introduction and
to start off with police. Call me Elliott, yes, sir,
My father was mister Mints. Yes sir, I'm just Elliott.

Speaker 2 (01:02:18):
Yes sir.

Speaker 5 (01:02:18):
You know, with most with most of those kinds of accolades,
it's always been my position that if you hang around
long enough, they're going to, you know, call you a
big deal. In the Hollywood profession world, I always did
what I could on behalf of my clients. I am

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certain that there were people who were long before me
who did better. There are people working today who are
just the best, and long after I'm gone, there'll be
others that will follow it. So I just, you know,
I just bit into a piece of immediate experience. So
I don't see myself as anything more than that.

Speaker 3 (01:03:04):
You know, God bless you because your humility it really
speaks too. I think why so many wanted your services
and your representation. I think to provide to do the
kind of work that you did and have done for
so long, you must be something special. And I want

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to jump right into questions if we can do that?

Speaker 2 (01:03:30):
Elliot, is that okay?

Speaker 5 (01:03:31):
We can do anything? That's your shoe?

Speaker 2 (01:03:34):
Well, thank you very much. I appreciate it.

Speaker 3 (01:03:37):
Well, you know, Elliott, there are so many good publicists,
and you spoke to that a moment ago. And then,
to be honest, there's the league that you're in. You
are undoubtedly above and beyond the rest, humility notwithstanding, but
the truth is the truth. You are every bit of

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a legend. Huge names to your credit, Bob Dylan, John Lennon,
Diana Ross, your book chronicles. You know your time within
the field we all shine on. Did these clients, these
these names, these personalities, did they come to you seeking representation?

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How did you take these these artists on as clients?

Speaker 5 (01:04:23):
In many cases, there were people who I used to
interview on the radio, like yourself. I did telephone talk.
I in fact, was the youngest talk show host in America.
Oh wow, at age twenty one. Wow. So I began

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my career when I was twenty one, asking people questions,
hundreds and hundreds of people, and you know, I went
from station to station, the audiences would grow larger. I
spent a lot of time on KAB Talk radio in
Los Angeles, five nights a week. And there came a time,

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well I just got a little tired of asking all
these folks questions, doing my research the rest of it,
and I decided to become a media consultant, which is
a highphall out term for publicist. So I called a
couple of the people who I met along the way,

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who I particularly liked, and I said, look, I obviously
know what the media wants, and I obviously know what
you want. So maybe if I gave you some consultation
about where you should appear and even how you should appear,
how you should modify your presentation, we could work together.

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One or two said yes. In this short period of time,
there were a dozen more, and it went on that way. So,
in direct answer to your question, met him, met them
by doing interviews with them and then calling them and
suggesting this kind of an arrangement.

Speaker 2 (01:06:14):
Wow. As simple as that.

Speaker 3 (01:06:16):
But it must have taken an enormous amount of confidence
and some audacity for you, at such a green age
to put yourself out there and ask to represent these clients,
to ask for a meeting. Where did that confidence come from?

Speaker 5 (01:06:36):
Frustration? The first thing that I would do is I
would target a client, let's say somebody I wanted to interview.
And naturally we're going back here into the early sixties,
before the internet world, and I was living in this

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one bedroom walk up apartment in each Hollywood with no
car and no pals and a Murphy bed on the wall.
And I would diligently write letters each night to managers
and agents and publicists saying, do you think I'd be
able to do an interview with your client for my

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school radio show? You know how that goes? I do
so when I wouldn't hear from any of them. For months,
I became increasingly frustrated handwriting these letters. Each night, I
drove down sense at Boulevard and I saw a man
in the corner who was selling maps to the stars homes.

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In those days, you could get the address of all
the actors and actresses of that time and go visit
their house and leave something in their mailbox. Sometimes they
would come out and wave or take a picture with somebody.
It was a more innocent time. So I took a
couple of the addresses and I wrote respectful letters to

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them and said, look, I've gone through all the protocols
and I don't note this. If it reached you, would
you consider it? And I would think. About a month
or so, after I wrote four or five letters, I
was fixing some hot split piece soup. The phone rang.
A voice said, a breathy voice said, is this Eliot?

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I said yes, and the voice said, Hi, I'm Jane Mansfield.
Oh my gosh, And you wrote to me and she
invited me to her home. She said, Look, on the
night in question, I'm throwing a birthday party for my daughter,

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and maybe after the birthday party and before a meeting,
I'm going to we could do an interview. Well, I
caught the next bus down the sunset. Of course, the
daughter would have been Mauritia Yes, who may have been
ten or eleven years old at that time, and we

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went downstairs to her sylvanir room. She did an interview
with me for forty minutes. She was marvelous, and then
she said sadly she had to go out for her
important appointment. It wasn't for a long time after that
that I remembered exactly what the appointment would be. It
was the night that the Beatles played the Hollywood Bowl

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Oh Wow, and the Beatles, especially John Lennon, wanted to
meet her, and it was arranged that they would all
meet the whiskey of Go Go after the concert.

Speaker 2 (01:09:44):
I know it well.

Speaker 5 (01:09:46):
Jeane Mansfield, who was a master at public relations, dropped
a dime. It turned into a media frenzy, just craziness
by way of promotion. And finally complete this story years later,
when I was working with and being friends with John,

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I said to him, you know that business of the
Jane Mansfield. I want to remind you I met her first.
His response to me was yes, but she left you.

Speaker 3 (01:10:25):
Elliott, We're going to continue the conversation on the other
side of the break. We do have to take a break,
but I am just so taken with your sense of
humor about all of this as well, and I'm sure
the questions that I'll ask you on the other side
of the break will elicit some really interesting responses.

Speaker 2 (01:10:42):
I have some questions.

Speaker 3 (01:10:43):
I want to peek behind that iron curtain into the
world of public relations.

Speaker 2 (01:10:48):
Can we do that?

Speaker 5 (01:10:50):
Looking forward to it?

Speaker 2 (01:10:51):
Awesome.

Speaker 3 (01:10:51):
We're talking to Elliot Min's, legendary publicist and author of
We All Shine On, John Yoko and Me, and we're
going to continue the conversation on the other side of
the break. KFI AM six forty Live everywhere on the
iHeartRadio app. Eileen Gonzalezn' the KFI twenty four hour News.

Speaker 4 (01:11:07):
Here.

Speaker 1 (01:11:07):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.

Speaker 3 (01:11:12):
Kf I AM six forty Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.

Speaker 2 (01:11:16):
Tiffany Hobbs here with you on our show flew I.

Speaker 3 (01:11:20):
We have one more segment before Michael Monks comes aboard,
and for the last few minutes of our show, we're
going to continue the conversation with the legend himself, the
humble legend. Never once described himself as a legend, but
I am giving Elliot Mint's legendary publicist that title. He's
also the author of his new book We All Shine

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On Yoko, excuse me, John Yoko and me Elliot Mins
being the former publicist of names like John Lennon, Yoko Ono,
Diana Ross and the list goes on and on, and
we are deep in conversation with Elliot Min's Elliott, welcome back.
Thank you so much for being on with us.

Speaker 5 (01:12:04):
The pleasure being here, Tiffany awesome.

Speaker 3 (01:12:07):
So let me ask you this, and looking at the
list of names you've had, how did pr change from
when you started with say, Bob Dylan to when you
represented Paris Hilton. There's at least i'd say thirty thirty
five years there.

Speaker 2 (01:12:24):
How did it change? Did it change?

Speaker 5 (01:12:27):
Well, two questions, Because Bob, as you've probably heard by reputation,
is somebody who affords the press and avoids the media.
He always wanted the concentration to be purely on his
music and the preservation of a certain kind of music

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that only he does. And there is nobody around that
will seemingly fill his shoes. So much of my work
with Bob was keeping him out of the press and
dealing with the hundreds of people who wanted to speak
with them, or do you take pictures or that kind
of thing. Very unique. Paris Hilton, on the other hand,

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was somebody who believed that there's no such thing as
too much publicity period, And in my first meeting with
her at her home, I did raise that point when
she was telling me she wanted to be everywhere on everything, sparklets,

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water coolers, in my office space room should have a
picture of her. And I said, Paris, do you ever
worry about overexposure? And she said, there's no such thing. Look, Elliott,
what I want you to do is make certain that
I am seen wherever it can be seen. When enough

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people taken interest in me, whether they like me or not,
and participate in social media and follow me around. When
there's enough of them, I'll be able to sell them things.

Speaker 9 (01:14:17):
Interesting stress that she currently has I think the seventh
largest fragrance line in the world, just fourteen or fifteen
different fragrances.

Speaker 5 (01:14:31):
If you go on her site, there are no less
than fifty or sixty things that you can purchase. As
well as her being a disc jockey commanding upwards of
five hundred thousand dollars in night.

Speaker 2 (01:14:47):
Very successful.

Speaker 5 (01:14:49):
It worked for her right or has changed tremendously because
of these days. Today, the publicist and media consultants are
being edged out by the public figures just now believe
all they have to do is have their own website,
and on their website they'll announce where they're going to be,

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their concert schedule, links to their merchandise and etc. And
since most younger people follow that as opposed to traditional media,
the publicist of tomorrow is going to be on a
shortlisted expiration.

Speaker 2 (01:15:30):
Got it? Got it, Ellie.

Speaker 3 (01:15:31):
We only have a couple of minutes left, so I
want to make sure that I pack in this last
question and then we want to let our listeners know
where to get your book. Okay, so in about a
minute or less, ninety seconds or less. We've had so
many significant celebrity deaths over the last ten days. How
does a PR professional like yourself, how do you deal

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with that when your client passes away? What are some
of the first few things that you do that we
might not know as the public.

Speaker 5 (01:16:00):
First I grieve, oh wow, and take a deep breath
and try to come to grips with it on a
personal level. Second, I take to my social media, my
Facebook and my Instagram, and I write a memory or
recollection of my times with them. Sometimes when there are

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all these media inquiries, I talk about them. I talk
about them as buildingly and kindly as possible, and of
course I remind the survivors of the person that'll always
be there for them. That's how I process these things.

Speaker 3 (01:16:39):
Wow, thank you for that. I appreciate you again leading
with humanity. Your entire conversation has been led with your humanity.

Speaker 5 (01:16:49):
Thank you.

Speaker 3 (01:16:50):
You're welcome, And in talking about your humanity, you bear
it all in your newest book, We All Shine On
John Yoko and Me by you, Elliott Mints. What is
what's a little bit about that book? Where can we
find it?

Speaker 5 (01:17:06):
The book documents my nine years of being together with
John Yoko and to a small degree with Sean Ono Lennon,
and its pictures of all of us together, and it's
available of course on Amazon dot com. And if any

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people want to get like a little preview of what's
in the book, well they need really all they need
to do is google my name or go to my website,
which is elliot mints.

Speaker 9 (01:17:43):
Dot com one welcome them to read it and enjoy
it wonderful.

Speaker 3 (01:17:49):
That's E L L I O T M I N
t Z dot com, elliot Min's legend human First, thank
you so much for coming on Saturdays with Tiffany. I
would love to have you back anytime. You're more than welcome.
Thank you so much for your time.

Speaker 5 (01:18:08):
Bless you, Tiffany. I enjoyed this very much.

Speaker 3 (01:18:10):
I did as well. Bye bye, take care, It's been
a blast. I'll be here tomorrow, guys, from two to four.
We're gonna have a wonderful time, have some big stories
I can't wait to share with you, and of course
our Deeper Dives and Scammer's Gonna Scam segments will both
be in effect right here on Saturdays with Tiffany, but
tomorrow Sundays with Tiffany.

Speaker 2 (01:18:30):
It's been great. I'll talk to you guys later.

Speaker 3 (01:18:32):
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Speaker 1 (01:18:35):
Bye hey, KFI AM six forty on demand