November 1, 2025 • 32 mins
Tiffany Hobbs kicks off Hour 2 celebrating The Dodgers’ nail-biting win, it’s official, we’re heading to Game 7!
Then, Tiffany dives into the spooky world of escape rooms: their rise, their thrill, and even one horrifying tragedy that went too far.
In The Viral Load, Tiffany exposes a new Hermosa Beach police scam making the rounds, before wrapping with a Halloween treat: Freddy Krueger himself, Robert Englund, finally gets his Hollywood star! 🏆🔥
Then, Tiffany dives into the spooky world of escape rooms: their rise, their thrill, and even one horrifying tragedy that went too far.
In The Viral Load, Tiffany exposes a new Hermosa Beach police scam making the rounds, before wrapping with a Halloween treat: Freddy Krueger himself, Robert Englund, finally gets his Hollywood star! 🏆🔥
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Took me hobbs here till ten and then Ghosts to
Ghost is up?
Speaker 3 (00:09):
Oh man.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
One of my favorite Halloween traditions is to listen to
Ghosts to Ghost And one of my not favorite Halloween
traditions is to watch the Dodgers play Anyone And this
is stressful. Oh my god, did you just see that play?
What just happened?
Speaker 3 (00:25):
What I Toronto hit? That ball?
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Looked like it was out of there, looked like it
was a home run, and then it came down and
wedged itself between the bottom of the wall and the ground,
kind of like when you get a basketball stuck in
the rim there.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
That's what happened. And it looked like the Dodgers.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Didn't know that it was still in play, and they
kind of threw their hands up and they didn't know
what was going on. And they finally recovered the ball
and threw it in, but not before there was a run.
They gave them the run, they took the run back,
So it's still what what kind of what just happened?
This is too much? This is horrific.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Three to one, still bottom of the nine.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Dodgers are up, Toronto's still at bat no Outs.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
That was a crazy play.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
You'll certainly see that on the highlights tonight because that
was just like a fluke. All right, let's get into
our deeper Dives segment as it's Halloween and I am
making sure that we have no shortage of interesting and
fun and engaging Halloween stories for you. And one of
the things I thought to share was the history of
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the escape room.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Now, I love escape rooms.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
It's not everyone's cup of tea cup of pumpkin spice,
but escape rooms are something that I grew to love
because I really found a lot of fun in the
puzzle solving aspect of them and doing them with people
who you enjoy being around. Because let me tell you this,
if you go to an escape room and the relationship
you have with the person or people you go with
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is not strong, it will end the relationship. It is
a relationship jeopardizers. So you better be strong when you
go in there. I don't care if it's your mom,
it's your husband, if whoever it is, it can end you.
So you better know who you're going in there with.
But I enjoy them. They're a lot of fun. They
can be very intense. And escape rooms are these they're
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literal rooms. They're rooms within like a warehouse or stay
a department store that's closed down, and they convert these
big spaces into rooms, individual rooms, where each room is
designed to test your wits and problems solving skills. Now
you have to work together with whoever you go with.
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It could be one person. You can go solo if
you're one of those people and of those crazy people.
But whoever you go with, you have to work with
to figure out the clues, find a myriad of objects,
solve puzzles all before time runs out. Yes, this goes
to a timer. They put you in a room it'd
say a size of your living room or maybe more rooms,
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and an experience, and you have to figure out how
to get out of each room before the overall sixty
minute or ninety minute timer runs out. That's how you win.
If it expires before you crack all these codes, then
you lose. And I don't know what happens when you lose.
I don't think you want to find out. But there
are rewards and surprises seemingly around every corner. They can
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be scary, they can be exciting. They can be funny,
and they are all the rage with a lot of people.
They're a growing trend in family fun in workplace activities,
challenges for friends, all in this effort to escape. So
why are they so popular? Where do they come from?
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There's a man named John Wilson, and he's one of
the earliest influencers of escape games. He's credited as being
one of the earliest. He created a virtual text based
adventure called Behind Closed Doors, which required players to enter
text commands to get out of a bathroom. Okay, John
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Wilson was a maniac, and what he did was he
put people in a bathroom and said figure these things
out and I'll let you out. And people did it.
They enjoyed it. Up up there we.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
Go one out.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Dodger's still at three to one, bottom of the ninth Okay, now,
John Wilson and his success then moved forward the next
iteration of the escape room, and that came in two
thousand and four with something called The Christom Room in Japan. Now,
this game challenged players to navigate a small red room
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and use their wits and skills to figure out how
to escape. But the modern iteration of the escape room
what we see all over the place in different areas
that you might have been by, or been asked to
go to, or taken your kids to. That emerged into
thousand and seven, also in Japan, and since then, escape
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rooms have popped up across the country, from San Francisco
to New York, across the world, from Singapore to Switzerland.
They're on cruise ships, they're pretty much everywhere. And the
popularity of escape rooms has a lot to do.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
With the Internet.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
With the Internet, quick update, Dodgers stilled bottom of the
ninth two outs.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
That's it, it's over there. Wait, that's the that's it.
Dodgers win. Dodgers win.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
Oh.
Speaker 5 (05:33):
Game seven.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Game seven's tomorrow tomorrow in Toronto.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
What a crazy inning, that ninth inning. Oh my gosh,
all right, Dodgers win.
Speaker 5 (05:45):
That's it.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
You're gonna see the highlights.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
That was an incredible finish to game six, series tie
three to three. Game seven tomorrow in Toronto. It's do
or die for both teams. We'll see what happens. Back
to the escape room. So the Internet has helped propel
the modern escape room into territory that people never really
expected it to go. And here's the thing about it.
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With twenty twenty, we saw online escape rooms emerge, which
in my opinion that probably is a felony, felony kidnapping
if you don't do that right if it goes wrong.
But at any rate, online escape rooms became very popular.
So escape rooms have continued to just modify themselves, continue
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to advance, and there are quite a few in Los Angeles.
I'm going to share some of the escape rooms that
are very popular here in the Southland as well, and
also tell you about a really unfortunate story of an
escape room, which is also a cautionary tale because escape
rooms are that they're pretty intense and they can go wrong,
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and that's not often talked about, but we're going to
talk about it in this deeper dive segment looking at
the history of escape rooms, some popular escape rooms, and
how escape rooms can go wrong.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
On this Halloween Dodgers Win.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Dodgers Win advance to game seven tomorrow in Toronto series
tied three to three. Will continue to talk about it
on the other side of the break. K I AM
six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio apps.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand Dodgers win, it's.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
A little less scary in the Southland, although again those
aren't fireworks. Those are gunshots. Nine times out of ten,
it's funny. As soon as the game ended, I started
hearing all sorts of just pop up, up, up, up
up up right here in the studio and who knows,
but I saw my one of my neighborhood kind of
social media apps, those crime apps that you can download
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to make you neurotic. It lit up immediately with people
going I think I hear gunshots?
Speaker 3 (07:52):
Are those gunshots? Gunshots?
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Down? Yes, those are gunshots. You live in La the
Dodgers one pandemonium for a bit, and if they win tomorrow,
then don't go downtown for a while.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
Just don't just stay away.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
We're talking about the history of escape rooms, why they're
so popular, what they are, and what they are these
experiences dedicated to problem solving, puzzle solving, teamwork. If you're
there as a solo player, then you're just the different
a different breed a person. Most people go with at
least one person, and they're a lot of fun, and
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they've gained in popularity in the last twenty years, where
that now they are all across the world and even
on cruise ships you can find these things. And speaking
about Los Angeles, there are some really popular escape rooms
in La.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
Here are a.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Couple and what you could potentially encounter if you go.
These are all provided by a company called sixty Out
the number sixtyout dot com and you can go on
their website and find they're not as sponsor by the way,
just want to share that, but go on your website
and see kind of kind of poke around and see
what an escape room is. They have a very comprehensive
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site that teaches you a lot about it too. So
you can go to something called a ghost ship and
they list the difficulty.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
This one is hard.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
They tell you players between two and six to solve
this time sixty minutes minimum age twelve years. Theme horror,
and what this one is. It's a haunted ghost ship
and it provides a scare factor. It says you're trapped
on a haunted ship with an entire cursed ghost crew
that's also been trapped and you have to break the
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spell or risk staying on the cursed ship forever. So
what you have to do is you have to solve
all these innovative puzzles It says it has mild spookiness
and that it is for people who are fans of
horror and if horror is not your thing, actions more
your thing. There's another one called Grandma's master Plan. This
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is for three seven players seventy five minutes. Someone as
young as ten could at tend. The theme again is action,
and in this case, your sweet old granny has disappeared,
leaving you with a letter about her inheritance and more
questions and answers about her hidden past.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
Well, ha ha ha, now you have to.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Uncover your grandma's secrets in her cozy home. So the
environment the escape room mimics your grandma's home, or at
least rooms in your grandma's home, and it says that
you have seventy five minutes to do so to make
it out in time. It's one of the longer experience
experiences because the averages are about sixty minutes. There's another
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one that's called Casino Heist. Ten years old to be
a player in this at least, and this one posits
you in a casino where gangsters are headed to steal
the riches locked inside unless you can get there first
and foil their plan and you have one hour to
do so before the casino is demolished. People love this one,
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they say it's great. There are horror action all sorts
of difficulty levels. There's an Amityville horror one for those
of you who like classic horror type scapes.
Speaker 5 (11:17):
Oh, let's hear about that.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
This one.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
The difficulty is easy, Mark. You can get there two
to six players sixty minutes. You have to be at
least thirteen. This one is a room based on the
Amityville Horror House in the small town of Amityville.
Speaker 5 (11:33):
You have to kill your whole family.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
You have to kill your whole family in sixty minutes
or less.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
Mark be specific. Here's the situation.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
You've been house hunting for a while and finally found
what you think is the perfect house. Of course, it's
not until you learn about its haunted past. Every family
that lived there before you has disappeared. Will you survive
your new home? So you have to figure out how
to survive and navigate through this home. I believe this
one has multiple rooms as well that are dedicated to
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the Amityville Horror scope and cannon. So again, this is
sixty out dot com. There's a list here of the
more popular ones they have. But this is just one company.
There are hundreds, if not thousands, of companies all across
the world, and with this gating and popularity, there are
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of course going to be some pitfalls. There will be
mistakes made. Not all of them are advanced and sophisticated.
Some of them are downright hazardous and in this case deadly.
Back in twenty nineteen, there were five teenage girls who
went to an escape room for a birthday party. This
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took place in Poland, so one of these international escape
rooms here, and unfortunately, as the girls had gathered for
this birthday celebration at the escape room, a fire broke
out and the girls were unable to escape because of
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a lack of an effective evacuation route. That's according to
the head of their fire fighting service. So with that said,
there can be mazed major hazards. Now we have the
lights going off in the studio. What's that about?
Speaker 3 (13:23):
Little moot? The little moot lighting?
Speaker 5 (13:26):
I think this is a festive house.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
That was very timely.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
I'm talking about a fire and then the fire alarm
goes off here what just happened?
Speaker 5 (13:36):
I'm not leaving the news desk until I see flames.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
Is this not the spookiest most ironic I'm talking about
fire and these girls unfortunately perishing in a fire because
they couldn't get out of the escape room that they
went to for a birthday party and then the fire
alarm goes off.
Speaker 5 (13:52):
Here you did this?
Speaker 3 (13:53):
Is you plan?
Speaker 6 (13:54):
This?
Speaker 3 (13:54):
Mark has you all over it.
Speaker 5 (13:57):
You dare gaslight me about this thing that you've been did.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
This thing with that black magic you do on Halloween?
Speaker 3 (14:04):
I know what you do.
Speaker 5 (14:05):
It's a different kind of black magic.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
I don't want to know.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
But escape rooms again, all the rage. I do recommend
them if you've never gone to one.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
They're fun. They can be a lot of fun. They
can be frustrating.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
Like I said, make sure whoever you go with you
have a secure relationship with, because it will test the resolves,
your resolve, it will test your patience, It will test
you in every single way.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
But they're fun.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Tony, ever been to an escape room? You just call
that your bedroom? No, No, that's just my house here,
you exactly Mark Ronner escape.
Speaker 5 (14:41):
Room only once.
Speaker 4 (14:42):
I didn't really care for it because it was really
hard and it didn't seem like the clues were fair,
and I got kind of frustrated and so.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
You break stuff.
Speaker 4 (14:53):
No, but I mean you actually do reach a point
where you want to put your foot through the door
just to be done with it. Yeah, and you also
reach a point where you have to stop yourself from
calling you know, other people who are in there with
you imbeciles. See, because it can get kind of tense. Yeah,
if you feel like people aren't really contributing well to
finding the solutions.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
It can get very intense. And when not done well,
it can it can be a terrible experience, or it
can be one that's memorable and fun. So if you've
ever been to an escape room, hit the talk back
feature on the iHeart app let me know what you thought.
Don't be silly and say, oh, my house is an
escape room and you mean, like like Tony, you don't
do that. Give us a real example and let us
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know if you've ever gone Okay, and if you have
one to recommend, then do so. When we come back,
hopefully the fire alarm will not go off again and
we'll be here, but we'll talk about our Scammer's Gonna
scam segment. What is Hermosa Beach dealing with that? You
could very well be dealing with in the future. If
they don't get it under wraps, I'll tell you what
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the newest scam is. On the other side, as well
as Robert England, Freddy Krueger was honored with the Hollywood
Star a Star or the Hollywood Walk of Fame. That's
our viral loads story and I'll get into that as well.
On the other side of the break, Tiffany Hobbs here
k I AM six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand a thirty.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
I'm pushing myself ahead.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
By the way, the time changes this weekend, so you
will be falling back on Saturday overnight two am. Usually
your phone will do it. Don't worry about it as much,
but the time will change. But I'm here till ten
at any rate, and I'm happy to spend Halloween with you.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
Are you out?
Speaker 2 (16:41):
Are you trigg or treating? What are you doing? Are
you celebrating the Dodgers? Are you a few beers in
more than that? Are you incoherent? I'd say call, but
I don't know what we'll get, so just keep listening,
which you can hit the talkback feature on the iHeart
app and let us know what's up. What are you
doing on this Halloween? What are you doing going into tomorrow?
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I guess how are you spending your Friday night. One
of the things that I spent my Friday night doing
was looking at any number of new scams that have
come across the news wire. And at any given time,
there's no shortage of scams. You are always at risk
of someone or something trying to separate you from your money.
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And when I looked for scams to fill the Scammers
Gonna Scams segment one of my fun segments that I
love on my Saturdays with Tiffany's show, I just I
kept scrolling. It's like the scrolling never ended. It was
just scam after scam, and I put in phone scams specifically,
and it was just It's scary how many scams are
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out there. It's there's scams at this county, that county.
And then I got to Hermosa Beach and I went, uh, oh,
that's close to home.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
What's going on in her Moosa Beach?
Speaker 6 (18:00):
Find out warning from Homosa Beach Police there's a new
phone scam to watch out for. Scam involves people impersonating
members of the Homosa Beach Police Department. Author already say
the scammers are spoofing the department's official phone number and
then calling people about Warren's val or request for payment.
The department says it will never call you to demand money,
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ask for personal information over the phone, or ask you
to provide gift card numbers.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
A big red flag people.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
If anyone calls you who you do not know, and
possibly people you do know, and they say can you
pay for something with a gift card?
Speaker 3 (18:39):
It is a scam. Do not take that bait. Please.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
There are lots of ways that these things slip through
the cracks, but please do not be one of the
people who has fallen victim because you fail for the
can you pay with a gift card scam portion of
or question of the scam. That's the probably one of
the biggest red flags. In addition to being called by
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different services different agencies, many of these places will not
call you and Hermosa Beach Police are saying they are
one entity that will never call you to demand money.
But somehow scammers are able to impersonate members of the
police department through assuming the phone numbers attached to the
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police department. They call it spoofing, and it's a strange
technological entryway into scamming. I don't fully understand how they
do it, but I know I have seen numbers pop
up that look very similar to other numbers, and you
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might answer, you might respond to the text because it's
slightly different, and you might miss it. And when that
number rings and it looks like something you're familiar with,
a especially law enforcement, then you could fall victim to
this scam. And what they do is a tell you
you have a warrant. They give you something that is urgent.
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You have a warrant, and you start thinking what did
I do?
Speaker 3 (20:17):
Wait? Where was I?
Speaker 2 (20:19):
And they have something convincing, some information convincing enough to
get you to buy into the scam. They tell you
have a warrant. Everything in your body knows you didn't
do anything to warrant a warrant, but somehow you keep
listening and they know they have you, and they tell
you have this warrant. They tell you have to post bail,
and they say, no, you don't have to come down
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and post bail. You can do it over the phone
with a gift card and something in you goes that
makes sense, And then you give them gift card information,
or you send them gift card information, God forbid, you
give them your debit card information or other sensitive info.
But these people are able to do this because there
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are others who will allow it. They wouldn't get far
if they weren't able to do it in the first place.
So Hermosa Beach is saying, do not give them money,
do not give any personal information over the phone. They're
not gonna call you. And if this does happen to you,
please hang up immediately and let their department. No, don't
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call nine one one, they said, and say, hey, someone's
trying to scam me. Don't tie up the line because
you got scammed. Call the non emergency number. And it
doesn't just happen in Hermosa Beach. This is anywhere and
everywhere usay, So make sure that you are keen to
these sorts of things. If you know you have people
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in your life who will fall victim to this, who
are susceptible, then educate them as well. No one will
ever call you from these sorts of agencies asking for payment,
especially in the form of gift cards, and you don't
have a warrant, you would have gotten something in the mail,
not just a phone call. On the flip side of that,
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there may be more people on Earth than we know.
That is a scary proposition, and quite honestly, I think
there were more people, billions more, perhaps on the freeway
today given the traffic. I don't know what's going on,
but estimates that we sit around eight point two billion
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may be vastly underrepresenting rural areas. And that's because there's
a scientist, or rather a postdoctoral researcher at a university
in Finland who's also an author and published in this
journal called Nature Communications, who says that these estimates could
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be underrepresenting rural areas by a significant march. His name
is Hosaia's lang Ritter, and he says that depending on
the data set, rural populations have been underestimated by between
fifty three percent to eighty four percent over the period studied,
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and that period is about a decade. If that is
the case, then that eight point two billion could be
a lot more. Now they're saying underestimating by tens of
thousands or even hundreds of thousands is not abnormal. You
can't account for everyone and we see that with our
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own homeless counts. Every few years, not everyone is counted,
and the numbers get reported and people contest, and in
this case they're saying that that is normal. But to
have an underrepresentation that can amount to multiple millions, if
not billions, of people, would upend the world as we
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know it. They say that it's a map news story
that would need to be covered in every way because
it goes against all the years of thousands of other
data sets.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
But if you think it's only eight point two billion,
I'm here to tell you.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
Get on the one oh one freeway at five o'clock
PM and you'll you'll find out there are a lot
more people around you than you think and that you
want to be And they all seem to be traveling
with me today and yesterday.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
What's going on? Dodgers aren't even here. I don't know
what's going on.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
When we come back, we're gonna talk about Freddy Krueger,
one of my favorite actors, Robert England. He was honored
today with the star finally on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
We're gonna talk a little bit about that and his legacy.
One of his legacies He's very layered, but that legacy
definitely is the Nightmare on ELM Street, Saga the series,
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and we'll talk about some of those movies and the
franchise and how much money those movies have earned since
they debut. Robert England got a star, and I'll tell
you a little bit more about that on the other
side of the break.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
Tiffany Hobbs here till ten.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 3 (25:09):
Tiffany Hobbs till ten.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
Now we're getting ready to talk about something truly scary,
something that haunted my nightmares for many years. And I'd
say in a way that I enjoyed because I really
love this franchise. It is something that is synonymous with Halloween,
synonymous with horror and horror culture. And what better day
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to honor I'd say the I almost want to call
him the Prince of Darkness, but that'd be Ozzy Osbourne.
He needs a different moniker. But this person is the
pinnacle of horror and his name is Robert England. What
better day to honor Robert England than on Halloween with
a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Speaker 5 (25:58):
The kids of Elm Street.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
I don't know it yet, but something is coming to
get them.
Speaker 5 (26:04):
There's something out there, isn't there.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
Let me just see cuts happened?
Speaker 6 (26:14):
What did it at the time?
Speaker 5 (26:17):
I don't know. There's a car I got to say.
It's in the John Pukins.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
Since you saw it, you're gonna kill me for sure?
Speaker 5 (26:24):
Did you do it? There was somebody else there.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
He was locked in a room with a girl who
went in alive and came out in a rubber bag.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
No one knows where it came from or who it
would visit.
Speaker 5 (26:35):
Mixt Nancy, something wrong with you your imagines? Night there
on the Street? Do you believe in the bookiyman?
Speaker 3 (26:44):
No, whatever you do, don't.
Speaker 5 (26:49):
All that's good.
Speaker 3 (26:56):
She's the only one who can stop it.
Speaker 5 (26:58):
If she fails.
Speaker 6 (27:00):
I'm your boy, brand down.
Speaker 5 (27:04):
No one survise.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
From West Craven, Director of the Hills, Have Eyes and
last House on the left A new Mester piece.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
Oh man, Oh, it's like you're there street. Oh, it's
like you're there. That's the nineteen eighty four one. That's
the very first in the franchise. That is the original
Nightmare on Elm Street. There are a total of eleven
movies attributed to the Nightmare on Elm Street franchise and brand,
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but only seven sequels. And Robert England today getting his
star appropriately on Halloween.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
He's seventy eight, and he looks good.
Speaker 2 (27:59):
And did you know he's theatrically trained like most people
obviously kind of pigeonhole him into the Freddie Krueger role.
But he has so many more credits to his name,
over eighty films in fact, multiple television series, countless guest
star roles. And he was born right here. He was
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born just over down the way there in Glendale. He's
a local boy, and he got the acting bug at twelve.
He stumbled into his first acting class through a friend
and that just ignited his love for the craft. And
we know what it has become. He went on to
study at the US branch of the Royal Academy of
Dramatic Art at Oakland University in Detroit.
Speaker 3 (28:43):
He was a play actor.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
He was a theater kid, a theater actor, just theatrically trained,
and then pivots into his very first movie role. The
nineteen eighty four released Toror movie A Nightmare on Elm
Street wes crave and intended to cast a bulky stuntman
to play Freddy Krueger The Haunt, the Haunt of your dreams,
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the Terror of your nights, but instead took a chance
on Robert England after his audition, and the.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
Movie was a hit.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
Talk about a fan base, talk about a following, Talk
about the lore. Freddy Krueger lives today all these years later,
forty one years later, I'm eighty four, forty one years later,
and you can still find people dressing up like Freddy
Krueger of all ages. And one of my favorite costumes
to see every Halloween is like a baby Freddy Krueger.
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You get this like toddler Freddy Krueger with the little
plastic you know, knives at the tips of the fingers
there and they don't know. It's just the red and
green sweatshirt. That's your thing, and you always see it
and it just makes you feel good despite what the
movie's actually about. Nineteen eighty four, the first one. The
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last one was a re release in twenty twenty one,
actually a pair of them, one in which Freddy Krueger
battled Jason Vorhees, and that was a re release that movie,
Freddy Versus Jason came out in two thousand and three.
Speaker 3 (30:20):
Not the best, not the best.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
Probably one of those kind of throwaways, put it on
background or doing something else. But it's a part of
the world of Freddy Krueger and people enjoy it.
Speaker 3 (30:34):
And they don't have to be great movies.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
They just have to have Freddy Krueger because that's what
you're there for. But nineteen eighty four was followed by
nineteen eighty five, A Nightmare on Elm Street two, Freddy's
What was that Mary? Was called Freddie's Revenge? Freddy's Revenge?
And then a Nightmare on Elm Street, The dream Child,
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remember that one. Then a Nightmare on ELM's Street three
Dream Warriors. I think those both came out around the
same time. I think I just skipped, but those were
a pair in the mid to late eighties. He had
a Nightmare on Elm Street, four The dream Master. My
favorite is a Nightmare on Elm Street five, but it's
not called that. It's just a nightmare on Elm Street
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and I'm looking for it. I think that's Freddy's death,
the final nightmare. They're also back to back to back
because he was doing so well. They were just coming
out rapid fire every year every other year, and Freddy
Krueger dominated the eighties well into the nineties, and then
saw success again with the reinvention of the Freddy Krueger universe,
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pairing him with other serial killers in the two thousands
and having those re releases and the just a few
years ago, and at seventy eight, who knows, Freddy might
be back.
Speaker 3 (31:55):
I sure hope. So when we come back, we're going
to talk.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
A little bit more about Halloween, or we're going to
get into the Halloween attractions that have an ethical problem
might want to go visit these places, but morally and
ethically should you. We'll talk about it on the other
side of the break. K if I am six forty
thinking of Freddy Krueger. He's in my in my head.
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Took me hobbs here till ten and then Ghosts to
Ghost is up?
Speaker 3 (00:09):
Oh man.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
One of my favorite Halloween traditions is to listen to
Ghosts to Ghost And one of my not favorite Halloween
traditions is to watch the Dodgers play Anyone And this
is stressful. Oh my god, did you just see that play?
What just happened?
Speaker 3 (00:25):
What I Toronto hit? That ball?
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Looked like it was out of there, looked like it
was a home run, and then it came down and
wedged itself between the bottom of the wall and the ground,
kind of like when you get a basketball stuck in
the rim there.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
That's what happened. And it looked like the Dodgers.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Didn't know that it was still in play, and they
kind of threw their hands up and they didn't know
what was going on. And they finally recovered the ball
and threw it in, but not before there was a run.
They gave them the run, they took the run back,
So it's still what what kind of what just happened?
This is too much? This is horrific.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Three to one, still bottom of the nine.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Dodgers are up, Toronto's still at bat no Outs.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
That was a crazy play.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
You'll certainly see that on the highlights tonight because that
was just like a fluke. All right, let's get into
our deeper Dives segment as it's Halloween and I am
making sure that we have no shortage of interesting and
fun and engaging Halloween stories for you. And one of
the things I thought to share was the history of
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the escape room.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Now, I love escape rooms.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
It's not everyone's cup of tea cup of pumpkin spice,
but escape rooms are something that I grew to love
because I really found a lot of fun in the
puzzle solving aspect of them and doing them with people
who you enjoy being around. Because let me tell you this,
if you go to an escape room and the relationship
you have with the person or people you go with
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is not strong, it will end the relationship. It is
a relationship jeopardizers. So you better be strong when you
go in there. I don't care if it's your mom,
it's your husband, if whoever it is, it can end you.
So you better know who you're going in there with.
But I enjoy them. They're a lot of fun. They
can be very intense. And escape rooms are these they're
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literal rooms. They're rooms within like a warehouse or stay
a department store that's closed down, and they convert these
big spaces into rooms, individual rooms, where each room is
designed to test your wits and problems solving skills. Now
you have to work together with whoever you go with.
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It could be one person. You can go solo if
you're one of those people and of those crazy people.
But whoever you go with, you have to work with
to figure out the clues, find a myriad of objects,
solve puzzles all before time runs out. Yes, this goes
to a timer. They put you in a room it'd
say a size of your living room or maybe more rooms,
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and an experience, and you have to figure out how
to get out of each room before the overall sixty
minute or ninety minute timer runs out. That's how you win.
If it expires before you crack all these codes, then
you lose. And I don't know what happens when you lose.
I don't think you want to find out. But there
are rewards and surprises seemingly around every corner. They can
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be scary, they can be exciting. They can be funny,
and they are all the rage with a lot of people.
They're a growing trend in family fun in workplace activities,
challenges for friends, all in this effort to escape. So
why are they so popular? Where do they come from?
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There's a man named John Wilson, and he's one of
the earliest influencers of escape games. He's credited as being
one of the earliest. He created a virtual text based
adventure called Behind Closed Doors, which required players to enter
text commands to get out of a bathroom. Okay, John
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Wilson was a maniac, and what he did was he
put people in a bathroom and said figure these things
out and I'll let you out. And people did it.
They enjoyed it. Up up there we.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
Go one out.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Dodger's still at three to one, bottom of the ninth Okay, now,
John Wilson and his success then moved forward the next
iteration of the escape room, and that came in two
thousand and four with something called The Christom Room in Japan. Now,
this game challenged players to navigate a small red room
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and use their wits and skills to figure out how
to escape. But the modern iteration of the escape room
what we see all over the place in different areas
that you might have been by, or been asked to
go to, or taken your kids to. That emerged into
thousand and seven, also in Japan, and since then, escape
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rooms have popped up across the country, from San Francisco
to New York, across the world, from Singapore to Switzerland.
They're on cruise ships, they're pretty much everywhere. And the
popularity of escape rooms has a lot to do.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
With the Internet.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
With the Internet, quick update, Dodgers stilled bottom of the
ninth two outs.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
That's it, it's over there. Wait, that's the that's it.
Dodgers win. Dodgers win.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
Oh.
Speaker 5 (05:33):
Game seven.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Game seven's tomorrow tomorrow in Toronto.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
What a crazy inning, that ninth inning. Oh my gosh,
all right, Dodgers win.
Speaker 5 (05:45):
That's it.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
You're gonna see the highlights.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
That was an incredible finish to game six, series tie
three to three. Game seven tomorrow in Toronto. It's do
or die for both teams. We'll see what happens. Back
to the escape room. So the Internet has helped propel
the modern escape room into territory that people never really
expected it to go. And here's the thing about it.
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With twenty twenty, we saw online escape rooms emerge, which
in my opinion that probably is a felony, felony kidnapping
if you don't do that right if it goes wrong.
But at any rate, online escape rooms became very popular.
So escape rooms have continued to just modify themselves, continue
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to advance, and there are quite a few in Los Angeles.
I'm going to share some of the escape rooms that
are very popular here in the Southland as well, and
also tell you about a really unfortunate story of an
escape room, which is also a cautionary tale because escape
rooms are that they're pretty intense and they can go wrong,
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and that's not often talked about, but we're going to
talk about it in this deeper dive segment looking at
the history of escape rooms, some popular escape rooms, and
how escape rooms can go wrong.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
On this Halloween Dodgers Win.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Dodgers Win advance to game seven tomorrow in Toronto series
tied three to three. Will continue to talk about it
on the other side of the break. K I AM
six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio apps.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand Dodgers win, it's.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
A little less scary in the Southland, although again those
aren't fireworks. Those are gunshots. Nine times out of ten,
it's funny. As soon as the game ended, I started
hearing all sorts of just pop up, up, up, up
up up right here in the studio and who knows,
but I saw my one of my neighborhood kind of
social media apps, those crime apps that you can download
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to make you neurotic. It lit up immediately with people
going I think I hear gunshots?
Speaker 3 (07:52):
Are those gunshots? Gunshots?
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Down? Yes, those are gunshots. You live in La the
Dodgers one pandemonium for a bit, and if they win tomorrow,
then don't go downtown for a while.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
Just don't just stay away.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
We're talking about the history of escape rooms, why they're
so popular, what they are, and what they are these
experiences dedicated to problem solving, puzzle solving, teamwork. If you're
there as a solo player, then you're just the different
a different breed a person. Most people go with at
least one person, and they're a lot of fun, and
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they've gained in popularity in the last twenty years, where
that now they are all across the world and even
on cruise ships you can find these things. And speaking
about Los Angeles, there are some really popular escape rooms
in La.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
Here are a.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Couple and what you could potentially encounter if you go.
These are all provided by a company called sixty Out
the number sixtyout dot com and you can go on
their website and find they're not as sponsor by the way,
just want to share that, but go on your website
and see kind of kind of poke around and see
what an escape room is. They have a very comprehensive
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site that teaches you a lot about it too. So
you can go to something called a ghost ship and
they list the difficulty.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
This one is hard.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
They tell you players between two and six to solve
this time sixty minutes minimum age twelve years. Theme horror,
and what this one is. It's a haunted ghost ship
and it provides a scare factor. It says you're trapped
on a haunted ship with an entire cursed ghost crew
that's also been trapped and you have to break the
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spell or risk staying on the cursed ship forever. So
what you have to do is you have to solve
all these innovative puzzles It says it has mild spookiness
and that it is for people who are fans of
horror and if horror is not your thing, actions more
your thing. There's another one called Grandma's master Plan. This
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is for three seven players seventy five minutes. Someone as
young as ten could at tend. The theme again is action,
and in this case, your sweet old granny has disappeared,
leaving you with a letter about her inheritance and more
questions and answers about her hidden past.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
Well, ha ha ha, now you have to.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Uncover your grandma's secrets in her cozy home. So the
environment the escape room mimics your grandma's home, or at
least rooms in your grandma's home, and it says that
you have seventy five minutes to do so to make
it out in time. It's one of the longer experience
experiences because the averages are about sixty minutes. There's another
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one that's called Casino Heist. Ten years old to be
a player in this at least, and this one posits
you in a casino where gangsters are headed to steal
the riches locked inside unless you can get there first
and foil their plan and you have one hour to
do so before the casino is demolished. People love this one,
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they say it's great. There are horror action all sorts
of difficulty levels. There's an Amityville horror one for those
of you who like classic horror type scapes.
Speaker 5 (11:17):
Oh, let's hear about that.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
This one.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
The difficulty is easy, Mark. You can get there two
to six players sixty minutes. You have to be at
least thirteen. This one is a room based on the
Amityville Horror House in the small town of Amityville.
Speaker 5 (11:33):
You have to kill your whole family.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
You have to kill your whole family in sixty minutes
or less.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
Mark be specific. Here's the situation.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
You've been house hunting for a while and finally found
what you think is the perfect house. Of course, it's
not until you learn about its haunted past. Every family
that lived there before you has disappeared. Will you survive
your new home? So you have to figure out how
to survive and navigate through this home. I believe this
one has multiple rooms as well that are dedicated to
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the Amityville Horror scope and cannon. So again, this is
sixty out dot com. There's a list here of the
more popular ones they have. But this is just one company.
There are hundreds, if not thousands, of companies all across
the world, and with this gating and popularity, there are
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of course going to be some pitfalls. There will be
mistakes made. Not all of them are advanced and sophisticated.
Some of them are downright hazardous and in this case deadly.
Back in twenty nineteen, there were five teenage girls who
went to an escape room for a birthday party. This
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took place in Poland, so one of these international escape
rooms here, and unfortunately, as the girls had gathered for
this birthday celebration at the escape room, a fire broke
out and the girls were unable to escape because of
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a lack of an effective evacuation route. That's according to
the head of their fire fighting service. So with that said,
there can be mazed major hazards. Now we have the
lights going off in the studio. What's that about?
Speaker 3 (13:23):
Little moot? The little moot lighting?
Speaker 5 (13:26):
I think this is a festive house.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
That was very timely.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
I'm talking about a fire and then the fire alarm
goes off here what just happened?
Speaker 5 (13:36):
I'm not leaving the news desk until I see flames.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
Is this not the spookiest most ironic I'm talking about
fire and these girls unfortunately perishing in a fire because
they couldn't get out of the escape room that they
went to for a birthday party and then the fire
alarm goes off.
Speaker 5 (13:52):
Here you did this?
Speaker 3 (13:53):
Is you plan?
Speaker 6 (13:54):
This?
Speaker 3 (13:54):
Mark has you all over it.
Speaker 5 (13:57):
You dare gaslight me about this thing that you've been did.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
This thing with that black magic you do on Halloween?
Speaker 3 (14:04):
I know what you do.
Speaker 5 (14:05):
It's a different kind of black magic.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
I don't want to know.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
But escape rooms again, all the rage. I do recommend
them if you've never gone to one.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
They're fun. They can be a lot of fun. They
can be frustrating.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
Like I said, make sure whoever you go with you
have a secure relationship with, because it will test the resolves,
your resolve, it will test your patience, It will test
you in every single way.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
But they're fun.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Tony, ever been to an escape room? You just call
that your bedroom? No, No, that's just my house here,
you exactly Mark Ronner escape.
Speaker 5 (14:41):
Room only once.
Speaker 4 (14:42):
I didn't really care for it because it was really
hard and it didn't seem like the clues were fair,
and I got kind of frustrated and so.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
You break stuff.
Speaker 4 (14:53):
No, but I mean you actually do reach a point
where you want to put your foot through the door
just to be done with it. Yeah, and you also
reach a point where you have to stop yourself from
calling you know, other people who are in there with
you imbeciles. See, because it can get kind of tense. Yeah,
if you feel like people aren't really contributing well to
finding the solutions.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
It can get very intense. And when not done well,
it can it can be a terrible experience, or it
can be one that's memorable and fun. So if you've
ever been to an escape room, hit the talk back
feature on the iHeart app let me know what you thought.
Don't be silly and say, oh, my house is an
escape room and you mean, like like Tony, you don't
do that. Give us a real example and let us
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know if you've ever gone Okay, and if you have
one to recommend, then do so. When we come back,
hopefully the fire alarm will not go off again and
we'll be here, but we'll talk about our Scammer's Gonna
scam segment. What is Hermosa Beach dealing with that? You
could very well be dealing with in the future. If
they don't get it under wraps, I'll tell you what
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the newest scam is. On the other side, as well
as Robert England, Freddy Krueger was honored with the Hollywood
Star a Star or the Hollywood Walk of Fame. That's
our viral loads story and I'll get into that as well.
On the other side of the break, Tiffany Hobbs here
k I AM six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand a thirty.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
I'm pushing myself ahead.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
By the way, the time changes this weekend, so you
will be falling back on Saturday overnight two am. Usually
your phone will do it. Don't worry about it as much,
but the time will change. But I'm here till ten
at any rate, and I'm happy to spend Halloween with you.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
Are you out?
Speaker 2 (16:41):
Are you trigg or treating? What are you doing? Are
you celebrating the Dodgers? Are you a few beers in
more than that? Are you incoherent? I'd say call, but
I don't know what we'll get, so just keep listening,
which you can hit the talkback feature on the iHeart
app and let us know what's up. What are you
doing on this Halloween? What are you doing going into tomorrow?
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I guess how are you spending your Friday night. One
of the things that I spent my Friday night doing
was looking at any number of new scams that have
come across the news wire. And at any given time,
there's no shortage of scams. You are always at risk
of someone or something trying to separate you from your money.
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And when I looked for scams to fill the Scammers
Gonna Scams segment one of my fun segments that I
love on my Saturdays with Tiffany's show, I just I
kept scrolling. It's like the scrolling never ended. It was
just scam after scam, and I put in phone scams specifically,
and it was just It's scary how many scams are
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out there. It's there's scams at this county, that county.
And then I got to Hermosa Beach and I went, uh, oh,
that's close to home.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
What's going on in her Moosa Beach?
Speaker 6 (18:00):
Find out warning from Homosa Beach Police there's a new
phone scam to watch out for. Scam involves people impersonating
members of the Homosa Beach Police Department. Author already say
the scammers are spoofing the department's official phone number and
then calling people about Warren's val or request for payment.
The department says it will never call you to demand money,
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ask for personal information over the phone, or ask you
to provide gift card numbers.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
A big red flag people.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
If anyone calls you who you do not know, and
possibly people you do know, and they say can you
pay for something with a gift card?
Speaker 3 (18:39):
It is a scam. Do not take that bait. Please.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
There are lots of ways that these things slip through
the cracks, but please do not be one of the
people who has fallen victim because you fail for the
can you pay with a gift card scam portion of
or question of the scam. That's the probably one of
the biggest red flags. In addition to being called by
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different services different agencies, many of these places will not
call you and Hermosa Beach Police are saying they are
one entity that will never call you to demand money.
But somehow scammers are able to impersonate members of the
police department through assuming the phone numbers attached to the
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police department. They call it spoofing, and it's a strange
technological entryway into scamming. I don't fully understand how they
do it, but I know I have seen numbers pop
up that look very similar to other numbers, and you
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might answer, you might respond to the text because it's
slightly different, and you might miss it. And when that
number rings and it looks like something you're familiar with,
a especially law enforcement, then you could fall victim to
this scam. And what they do is a tell you
you have a warrant. They give you something that is urgent.
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You have a warrant, and you start thinking what did
I do?
Speaker 3 (20:17):
Wait? Where was I?
Speaker 2 (20:19):
And they have something convincing, some information convincing enough to
get you to buy into the scam. They tell you
have a warrant. Everything in your body knows you didn't
do anything to warrant a warrant, but somehow you keep
listening and they know they have you, and they tell
you have this warrant. They tell you have to post bail,
and they say, no, you don't have to come down
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and post bail. You can do it over the phone
with a gift card and something in you goes that
makes sense, And then you give them gift card information,
or you send them gift card information, God forbid, you
give them your debit card information or other sensitive info.
But these people are able to do this because there
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are others who will allow it. They wouldn't get far
if they weren't able to do it in the first place.
So Hermosa Beach is saying, do not give them money,
do not give any personal information over the phone. They're
not gonna call you. And if this does happen to you,
please hang up immediately and let their department. No, don't
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call nine one one, they said, and say, hey, someone's
trying to scam me. Don't tie up the line because
you got scammed. Call the non emergency number. And it
doesn't just happen in Hermosa Beach. This is anywhere and
everywhere usay, So make sure that you are keen to
these sorts of things. If you know you have people
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in your life who will fall victim to this, who
are susceptible, then educate them as well. No one will
ever call you from these sorts of agencies asking for payment,
especially in the form of gift cards, and you don't
have a warrant, you would have gotten something in the mail,
not just a phone call. On the flip side of that,
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there may be more people on Earth than we know.
That is a scary proposition, and quite honestly, I think
there were more people, billions more, perhaps on the freeway
today given the traffic. I don't know what's going on,
but estimates that we sit around eight point two billion
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may be vastly underrepresenting rural areas. And that's because there's
a scientist, or rather a postdoctoral researcher at a university
in Finland who's also an author and published in this
journal called Nature Communications, who says that these estimates could
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be underrepresenting rural areas by a significant march. His name
is Hosaia's lang Ritter, and he says that depending on
the data set, rural populations have been underestimated by between
fifty three percent to eighty four percent over the period studied,
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and that period is about a decade. If that is
the case, then that eight point two billion could be
a lot more. Now they're saying underestimating by tens of
thousands or even hundreds of thousands is not abnormal. You
can't account for everyone and we see that with our
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own homeless counts. Every few years, not everyone is counted,
and the numbers get reported and people contest, and in
this case they're saying that that is normal. But to
have an underrepresentation that can amount to multiple millions, if
not billions, of people, would upend the world as we
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know it. They say that it's a map news story
that would need to be covered in every way because
it goes against all the years of thousands of other
data sets.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
But if you think it's only eight point two billion,
I'm here to tell you.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
Get on the one oh one freeway at five o'clock
PM and you'll you'll find out there are a lot
more people around you than you think and that you
want to be And they all seem to be traveling
with me today and yesterday.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
What's going on? Dodgers aren't even here. I don't know
what's going on.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
When we come back, we're gonna talk about Freddy Krueger,
one of my favorite actors, Robert England. He was honored
today with the star finally on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
We're gonna talk a little bit about that and his legacy.
One of his legacies He's very layered, but that legacy
definitely is the Nightmare on ELM Street, Saga the series,
(24:51):
and we'll talk about some of those movies and the
franchise and how much money those movies have earned since
they debut. Robert England got a star, and I'll tell
you a little bit more about that on the other
side of the break.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
Tiffany Hobbs here till ten.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 3 (25:09):
Tiffany Hobbs till ten.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
Now we're getting ready to talk about something truly scary,
something that haunted my nightmares for many years. And I'd
say in a way that I enjoyed because I really
love this franchise. It is something that is synonymous with Halloween,
synonymous with horror and horror culture. And what better day
(25:35):
to honor I'd say the I almost want to call
him the Prince of Darkness, but that'd be Ozzy Osbourne.
He needs a different moniker. But this person is the
pinnacle of horror and his name is Robert England. What
better day to honor Robert England than on Halloween with
a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Speaker 5 (25:58):
The kids of Elm Street.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
I don't know it yet, but something is coming to
get them.
Speaker 5 (26:04):
There's something out there, isn't there.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
Let me just see cuts happened?
Speaker 6 (26:14):
What did it at the time?
Speaker 5 (26:17):
I don't know. There's a car I got to say.
It's in the John Pukins.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
Since you saw it, you're gonna kill me for sure?
Speaker 5 (26:24):
Did you do it? There was somebody else there.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
He was locked in a room with a girl who
went in alive and came out in a rubber bag.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
No one knows where it came from or who it
would visit.
Speaker 5 (26:35):
Mixt Nancy, something wrong with you your imagines? Night there
on the Street? Do you believe in the bookiyman?
Speaker 3 (26:44):
No, whatever you do, don't.
Speaker 5 (26:49):
All that's good.
Speaker 3 (26:56):
She's the only one who can stop it.
Speaker 5 (26:58):
If she fails.
Speaker 6 (27:00):
I'm your boy, brand down.
Speaker 5 (27:04):
No one survise.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
From West Craven, Director of the Hills, Have Eyes and
last House on the left A new Mester piece.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
Oh man, Oh, it's like you're there street. Oh, it's
like you're there. That's the nineteen eighty four one. That's
the very first in the franchise. That is the original
Nightmare on Elm Street. There are a total of eleven
movies attributed to the Nightmare on Elm Street franchise and brand,
(27:46):
but only seven sequels. And Robert England today getting his
star appropriately on Halloween.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
He's seventy eight, and he looks good.
Speaker 2 (27:59):
And did you know he's theatrically trained like most people
obviously kind of pigeonhole him into the Freddie Krueger role.
But he has so many more credits to his name,
over eighty films in fact, multiple television series, countless guest
star roles. And he was born right here. He was
(28:19):
born just over down the way there in Glendale. He's
a local boy, and he got the acting bug at twelve.
He stumbled into his first acting class through a friend
and that just ignited his love for the craft. And
we know what it has become. He went on to
study at the US branch of the Royal Academy of
Dramatic Art at Oakland University in Detroit.
Speaker 3 (28:43):
He was a play actor.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
He was a theater kid, a theater actor, just theatrically trained,
and then pivots into his very first movie role. The
nineteen eighty four released Toror movie A Nightmare on Elm
Street wes crave and intended to cast a bulky stuntman
to play Freddy Krueger The Haunt, the Haunt of your dreams,
(29:08):
the Terror of your nights, but instead took a chance
on Robert England after his audition, and the.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
Movie was a hit.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
Talk about a fan base, talk about a following, Talk
about the lore. Freddy Krueger lives today all these years later,
forty one years later, I'm eighty four, forty one years later,
and you can still find people dressing up like Freddy
Krueger of all ages. And one of my favorite costumes
to see every Halloween is like a baby Freddy Krueger.
(29:40):
You get this like toddler Freddy Krueger with the little
plastic you know, knives at the tips of the fingers
there and they don't know. It's just the red and
green sweatshirt. That's your thing, and you always see it
and it just makes you feel good despite what the
movie's actually about. Nineteen eighty four, the first one. The
(30:02):
last one was a re release in twenty twenty one,
actually a pair of them, one in which Freddy Krueger
battled Jason Vorhees, and that was a re release that movie,
Freddy Versus Jason came out in two thousand and three.
Speaker 3 (30:20):
Not the best, not the best.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
Probably one of those kind of throwaways, put it on
background or doing something else. But it's a part of
the world of Freddy Krueger and people enjoy it.
Speaker 3 (30:34):
And they don't have to be great movies.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
They just have to have Freddy Krueger because that's what
you're there for. But nineteen eighty four was followed by
nineteen eighty five, A Nightmare on Elm Street two, Freddy's
What was that Mary? Was called Freddie's Revenge? Freddy's Revenge?
And then a Nightmare on Elm Street, The dream Child,
(30:56):
remember that one. Then a Nightmare on ELM's Street three
Dream Warriors. I think those both came out around the
same time. I think I just skipped, but those were
a pair in the mid to late eighties. He had
a Nightmare on Elm Street, four The dream Master. My
favorite is a Nightmare on Elm Street five, but it's
not called that. It's just a nightmare on Elm Street
(31:20):
and I'm looking for it. I think that's Freddy's death,
the final nightmare. They're also back to back to back
because he was doing so well. They were just coming
out rapid fire every year every other year, and Freddy
Krueger dominated the eighties well into the nineties, and then
saw success again with the reinvention of the Freddy Krueger universe,
(31:41):
pairing him with other serial killers in the two thousands
and having those re releases and the just a few
years ago, and at seventy eight, who knows, Freddy might
be back.
Speaker 3 (31:55):
I sure hope. So when we come back, we're going
to talk.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
A little bit more about Halloween, or we're going to
get into the Halloween attractions that have an ethical problem
might want to go visit these places, but morally and
ethically should you. We'll talk about it on the other
side of the break. K if I am six forty
thinking of Freddy Krueger. He's in my in my head.
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