October 3, 2025 • 28 mins
Taylor Swift’s new album dropped. It’s called “The Life of a Showgirl.” Andy plays a little bit of it on air. Baller Hardware store in Silverlake, which has been around since 1959, has become super cool, with the store selling merch to hipsters. People are driving dangerously slow in Ohio. And California HOAs are finally facing fine restrictions. Taylor Swift has just posted on social media about her new album; Andy reads it out on air. Rolling Stone has already reviewed the album and gave it five stars. In Brentwood, the beloved faux fiberglass dinosaur at the gas station has been stolen, and locals are upset. Breaking news, a large fire has broken out at the Chevron Refinery in El Segundo.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Is Aliott with Ariana Grande? Want to move on this
Tanler Swift moment? I know, Tony's like, well, I don't
know what the carry of this? Who cares about any
of this stuff? Tony's got a stogy right now. He's like, Hey,
what do I care about these guys? Eh, They're not
the same to me. God, ghoul, I don't know. I'm
(00:24):
so sorry. If it ain't that old punk or old scat,
I probably don't know it. Yeah, you and me bout brother.
I mean, I here's the thing. I'm lucky that I've
been able to work in this industry for a little
bit and and have access to pop music. I love
pop music. It's very interesting, but uh, I have a
hard time with the obsession, the fervor, the fanaticism. But
(00:47):
you know, look, look, we got to give it her
a do. Taylor Swift. Really there's there's really not anybody
like her, and I think that there's probably not been
anybody like her in her generation for sure, But even
before that, just the absolute domination of the conversation, which
I think is especially impressive in an hero when everyone
is so doing other things when it comes to pop culture.
(01:09):
But here we are on the other side of nine
o'clock Tony. We survived Mark Ronner. There was no rapture
when the Taylor Swift record dropped.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Well, if there was, I got left behind. You know,
maybe that's what it is. You look at them, I
don't see you.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
But I wasn't expecting friendship bracelets just floating up into
the air. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
I didn't think I was gonna be in that demographic
when worry there there you go.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
All right, Well, I will say this. Listen to a
couple songs, and with your permission, I'm gonna just play
some moments here of the new songs from Taylor Swift's
The Life of a Show Girl. Many of them are explicit.
We won't be playing those here on terrestrial radio. I
understand if you're gonna be like, I can't do this,
(01:52):
but we're gonna listen to try to analyze.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
We're gonna hang on a second. There's there's dirty Taylor Swift.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Oh yeah, I think tracks four through twelve.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
I had no idea, and now I'm interested suddenly.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Oh now you want to know? Well, one of them
includes it girl Sabrina Carpenter as well. Life of a Showgirl.
Can't play that for you. That's got an ex to
it that means explicit. But let's just listen to a
little bit of this first track off of the new record,
The Fate of Ophelia. The Fate of Ophelia, We got
that one. The next track is called Elizabeth Taylor. Let's
see what she's singing about here. I need to stop this,
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and I don't want to be rude, because I know
this is important to a lot of people. But this
sounds like a to me, a little bit like a
parody of Taylor Swift, like she's doing an imitation of herself.
It doesn't feel so glamorous to be made all all right, guys,
that's that lyric. It doesn't feel sometimes it doesn't feel
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so glamorous to be me. She got some pushback from
a lot of the fans yesterday and into today because
they said, I think it would be pretty good to
be you.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Well, let's know, Jenny from the block, Okay, so do
you think this is a little low energy? Is that
what you're saying and not getting the blood pumping? I
feel like I shouldn't say a single word about a
Taylor Swift.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Because you're worried they're gonna come for you. I know.
I was talking to a music a guy a couple
of weeks ago, I think Adam on the show last week,
and we were talking about how there's a lot of
fear for music journalists to be critical of pop, especially
big pop stars like Beyonce or Taylor, because they're worried
that their fans are so i mean sometimes toxic, that
they will, you know, show up at their house with pitchforks.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
I would like to go and record and say I
cannot stand Taylor's swift.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
And everybody get her. Oh my god. Okay, well, well
it's pretty interesting. I have a lot of thoughts sort
of which I'll keep to myself, but I the record
is out now on you know, not a little sleepy
intro there to it, but I'm sure we'll warm up
to it. I guarantee you're gonna hear those songs everywhere
for the next six months, NonStop, whether you like it
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or not. Interesting that this record is produced by Max Martin. He,
of course, is the Swedish mega producer who was responsible
for the Backstree Boys in Sync Britney Spears, I mean,
you hear a little bit of that sort of dance
at least on that first record, but it also kind
of reminds me a little bit of that reputation era Taylor.
So very very interesting Taylor Swift new record, lots of
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ways to get into the Taylor Swift spirit This week too.
They're doing a pop up of sorts over at the
Westfield Century City Mall tomorrow goes all the way to
October ninth. You can reserve a spot. Just do a
little quick google of that. It's called Taylor Swift a
Life of a Showgirl TikTok fan activation. I imagine that
will be very very popular. Also, the female owned bar
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called Banter Bar is doing an album release party complete
with themed cocktails of friendship, bracelet stations, small bites, and more.
The dress code is described as bejeweled, showgirl glam plus
eras the event twenty one and over. Of course, that
is on the south to Pulvida, the Banter Bar that's
tomorrow of that Saturday from seven to eleven thirty, and
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then downtown tomorrow from seven pm to two am. The
Resident Downtown Los Angeles is hosting a listening and dance party.
So people who love her, I'm sure are listening to
her record right now and not listening to us, And
that's fine. That's good, good for them and good for her.
A lot of speculation on what this record means, what
the things that she is saying. The lore of Taylor
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Swift is very important as much as the music, the
sort of reading between the lines, who are you disin?
Who are you you loving on? We of course know
that she's engaged to Travis Kelce. I'm sure there's some
songs about that. I can only imagine that our boss,
Brian Long, who's the biggest Chiefs fan of all time,
is curled up with a nice Macha latte listening to
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this non stuff.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Well, you know, as we descend into Taylor Swift madness
this whole weekend, we have another sort of very La
thing that has happened. Our friends over at Fox LA
Channel eleven investigated a hardware store. It's pretty baller.
Speaker 5 (06:21):
A small silver Lake hardware store is building quite a following.
Customers in sorts of screws and Wrenshes are also looking
for an unlikely trend in fashion show us the merch.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
This is our little display. This is it the Valor merch.
It's a pretty good haul. Yeah, yeah, it's quite a bit.
It's kind of expanded over the years.
Speaker 5 (06:44):
Valor Hardware has been NAILI it since nineteen fifty nine.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Nice Bobby DeCastro anchor over there, good writing uteen fifty nine.
Speaker 5 (06:55):
The family owned shop has battled the big box invasion, recessions,
evenual disasters. But today it's not only drywall and duct
tape drawing crowds, it's threads. Somewhere along the way, the
family realized that their store name was too good.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Not to laugh at.
Speaker 5 (07:13):
Joe is fourth generation.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
B A L L E. R.
Speaker 5 (07:17):
So pronounce it for me. It's it's.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
It's balor.
Speaker 5 (07:22):
Balor, Yes, balor, but it's not spelled that right, okay,
you growing up as a baler, Yes, it must.
Speaker 6 (07:28):
Have always been, always been a thing, And I don't
really care as long as people are saying it right,
whether it's balor or baller whatever.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
You might as well own it now. Yes, but it
is balor.
Speaker 5 (07:39):
The Balor not baller logo A blue circle with two hammers,
sturdy and stylish on the back. A vintage photo of
his great grandfather's ride hammering home that classic California cool.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
So basically what they've done is taken the store and
they made a bunch of what you may call hipster merch.
I don't know what the young people are called now.
When I was that age and I would be interested
in silver Lake, I would have called it hipster that
Now they're just gen z.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
It's really a great idea. It worked really well for them,
and honestly, you can't fault the hustle. It's a very
la thing. I don't know that there's a lot of
silver Lake people who are like hitting up the hardware
store every single day. But I just think about like
my grandpa or a grandpa type in the hardware store
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who's like picking up some picking up some roof and nails,
And there's this little sickly teen putting on a trucker
hat and taking a selfie front of the hardware store.
Can't swing a hammer. No grit literally no, doesn't understand
what grit is. In the fortitude way and also the
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sanding way. But it's kind of fun and it does
feel very la to do this. Everything now has to
have a sort of cultural importance. It feels like it's
tailor made for social media. I don't blame them. You
know they're making it work. They're on the news. That's great.
But why stop there? There are other places that we
could we could do this with In Los Angeles, we
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might need the help of the Los Angeles Unified School District,
but there is a Stoner Elementary school that would be great.
I could put a T shirt with Stoner Elementary School
on it, or in that same in that same vein
the Baked Potato in Studio City. In Koreatown, there's the
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gay Lord apartments for fellas who like religion and each other.
Up to Ohio. Oh man, that was so smooth and
I ruined it your heart.
Speaker 7 (09:53):
Department of Transportation says, there is no excuse for this
kind of driving. If you're close to missing your exit,
O DOT is urging you to just take the next one.
It'll be safer for you and everyone around you. Dangerous
behavior on Ohio interstates.
Speaker 8 (10:09):
There's no excuse for putting people in harm's way just
so you can avoid maybe a two or three minute detour.
Speaker 7 (10:16):
Just this month, the truck carrying watermelons came to a
sudden stop on a highway in the Cincinnati area.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Stay with me here.
Speaker 7 (10:25):
Just this month, the truck carrying watermelons came to a
sudden stop on a highway in the Cincinnati area. The
reason a car slowed down and crossed several lanes of
traffic to get to an exit they were about to pass.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
I I grew up in Indiana, not far from Ohio.
I do think that we were superior drivers to the
Ohio people. Ohio, I think are the kind of people
who do a lot of left lane hogging. They're not listening,
they don't care, but they do a lot of staying
in the left lane even if they're not passing. And
that is that is something that I think is immediate
suspension of your license. And there isn't a lot of
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quick maneuvering happening there. This isn't a big city. We're
talking about Columbus, Cincinnati and Indianapolis, places that sort of
just they go at the speed that they go at.
In Los Angeles, you could be crossing seven lanes of
traffic to hit your exit any time of day, and
that is a normal thing that we all just tolerate.
Speaker 6 (11:19):
Now.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
Luckily, the traffic is mostly so bad. You don't have
the opportunity to do that very quickly. But this is
something I feel like that doesn't FaZe us very much.
If you're there and things move a little bit slower,
I have it on first hand account, this can be
very dangerous, especially in this situation. All over the road.
Speaker 8 (11:35):
It would have made a difference if that truck driver's
attention was on something not the road ahead. It would
have been very, very differently.
Speaker 7 (11:41):
Watermelons ended up all over the road, but odots Matt
Brooding says, luckily no one crashed.
Speaker 8 (11:48):
So there are a lot of lessons that we can
learn from looking at some of these incidents.
Speaker 7 (11:51):
It's not the first time in recent month sod on
has been.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
It's true, you know, you don't want to do that,
but especially if you're in Ohio and so they're really
looking out for people who are crossing over, especially those
people who are going to be knocking those watermelons off.
Don't want to do that. Back here in California, the HOA,
the dreaded HOA. Nothing stirs the soul or strikes fear
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in the hearts of a suburban person like those three
letters of HOA. A new law in California has restricted
the finds that an HA can impose on its people
to one hundred dollars per violation. They say that's because
some of these fines have gone up to thousands and
thousands of dollars and that it's making people foreclothes on
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their homes. Hoas typically have a lot of power. The
CEO and president of Callahan and Blaine Callahan and Blaine
represents both homeowners and HOA, says, generally speaking, it seems
reasonable to bring it down because that is one of
the biggest is she was living in California. Hoas have
very broad powers to enforce their rules. I thought the
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gas tax was up there. I thought our property tax
is pretty high. I mean relatively speaking compared to other places.
It's not I understand Prop thirty, But the homes are
so expensive that there's a lot of property tax we pay.
So now only one hundred dollars can they find you
for those violations, violations like your garage door is painted
the wrong color. I think it's probably good because a
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lot of those are irrational. I understand, though. At the
same time, like you know, bigger fines keep you from
doing It's a disincentive to do bad things. I've got
to be real with you. I grew up in a
neighborhood that had an HOA. It's our little condo complex
in Indianapolis that my mom lived in. Real Gladys Kravitz
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was the head of the HOA. She was like two
or three, two or three houses down from us. Hated me,
hated me. Speed limit was twenty I might may may
be going to a little quicker. She starts following me
on the street. I get home through the neighborhood. She
pulls in the driveway behind me, comes up to the
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car and knocks on the window, you know, And I'm like,
oh my god, I'm probably like seventeen years old. So
I rolled the window down and she yells at me.
She says, I had to go a full thirty miles
per hour to keep up with you. And I looked
at her and I said, well, you didn't have to.
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There was a time when my mom's boyfriend was doing
yard work. Brought over like a ricketty old iron wheelbarrow
or something. A few days go by, then Gladys comes over.
She rings a doorbell and she's like, where is the wheelbarrow?
I saw your stepdad using the wheelbarrow. Did you take
our new wheelbarrow? We can't find it. We had nothing
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to do with her wheelbarrow. Our wheelbarrow was like rust
it out, sixty years old. And then she she said
to my mom, open the garage. I'm gonna look for
the wheelbarrow. My mom is like pound sand Gladys. We
didn't have a wheelbarrow. That's the kind of stuff that
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happens in Hoa's. Mark Ronner doesn't know anything about that.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
I do not know. They sound terrible, and it sounds
like missus Kravitz might ended up in a shallow grave
there in Indy.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
Oh well, I certainly didn't have anything to do with it.
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
I think she's still alive. She wasn't that old. She
just was ornery. There's no statute limitations on that, you know.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Yeah, that's why I'm saying what I'm saying. By all right,
we can move on.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
Say Andy rees Marian for mister mo Kelly, just a
couple of minutes here left on the on the Old
Show on this Thursday, October two, George Nurr's coming up
in just a bit. I think we'll hear from him
in the next block. A little preview on what's going
on on that on that show. Some updates for you, gentlemen.
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Taylor Swift has spoken. I know you're really curious, She
posted just a little after the album was released, nine
oh three pm our time tonight. All these lives converge here,
the mosaics of laughter and cocktail of tears, where fraternal
souls sing identical things, and it's beautiful, it's rapturous, it
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is frightening. Uh, she mentioned the rapture. Couldn't have seen
that one coming. She goes on to say, I can't
tell you how proud I am to share this with you,
an album that just feels so right forever. Thank you
goes out to my mentors and friends Max, Max Martin
and Shellback for helping me paint this self portrait. If
you thought the Big Show was wild, perhaps you should
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come and take a look behind the curtain. She says.
The Life of a Showgirl is out now and like
we said, produced by Max Martin, Shellback, and Taylor Swift.
She also posted a bunch of photos that kind of
look like Hotel Boudoir, Italian restaurant Terry richardson Vibe. It's
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some cool pictures. She's posing next to a martini with
the twist, half drunk martini. I don't know about her.
I can't make a comment on her condition. She looks
fine and a played of spaghetti in what appears to
be a hallway of a hotel. You can read into
that as you like. In other Taylor Swift news, rolling
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Stone already has reviewed, and I'm sure they had an
embargo copy. Maybe they had an embargo copy. I don't know.
Rolling Stone review is out. Taylor Swift conquers her biggest
stage ever on the Life of a show Girl. How
many stars do you guys think? Four out of five?
(17:56):
She got five ew they gave it. They gave her
one hundred percent.
Speaker 4 (18:03):
But Rolling Stone only gave led Zeppelin like no more
than two stars. So what would they know about good music?
Speaker 2 (18:11):
Do you mean like recently?
Speaker 9 (18:12):
No?
Speaker 4 (18:13):
When when led Zeppelin we're releasing music back in the day,
Rolling Stone magazine never gave them good rating.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
In all fairness, I'm not sure that those people are
still with Rolling Stone. However, it is a good point.
The essence is still there. The essence is still there.
I think that there was a thing we talked about
last week about I was just referencing about poptimism, where
music reviewers have a hard time being critical of these
uber huge artists because they maybe are concerned about backlash. Again,
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anybody who really cares about Taylor Swift is just listening
to Taylor Swift right now. So that's fine. But let's
go out to Brentwood, where a tragedy has occurred.
Speaker 10 (18:56):
People are really upset about this, some downright emotions. The
owner of the Sinclair gas station says that people customers
have been coming in in tears, saying that the beloved
dinosaur that used to fill this spot would make their day,
but now the community is demanding that the dino nappers
return their beloved green mascot.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
I love Brentwood, I do. I will never be able
to afford to deliver remotely close to that zip code,
but I respect that people in that city can be
moved by something like this, A dinosaur logo at a
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gas station. I don't know logos the right word. A
statue can move them to tears.
Speaker 10 (19:40):
Meet Dino Claire, a four foot tall fiberglass dinosaur and
an unofficial mascot of Brentwood, often dressed for the holidays,
sometimes in Dodger blue.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
She wasn't just a statue.
Speaker 10 (19:50):
She was a selfie star, a neighborhood landmark, and a
daily dose of joy.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
Everything everything must feed the algorithm, whether you've got foler
hardware or a statue in front of your in front
of your gas station of a dinosaur. It's a spot
for a selfie, a place to reflect on the museum
of me. But now her.
Speaker 10 (20:15):
Spot on San Vecenti in twenty sixth Street sits empty.
Speaker 6 (20:18):
Even now, just looking down and not seeing it is
like a It's a big shock.
Speaker 10 (20:22):
Claire was dyno maapted early Saturday morning, a prehistoric heist
caught on camera. Watches a thief and a hoodie casually
strolls up with a power tool and cuts her free
from her base. Minutes later, he's back with a blanket,
wrapping up the fifty pound mascot and loading her into
a white getaway truck.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
I mean, at least he didn't want her to get
cold or scratched. Does he respect the art a.
Speaker 6 (20:45):
White getaway truck beyond like the initial I guess grief
that comes with the dinosaur going. It's just like a
like a y like why would they why would they
take the dinosaur?
Speaker 2 (20:55):
I just don't get it at all. It really makes
no sense.
Speaker 6 (20:58):
There's no monetary gain for artists, but also it's like
taking a piece of the neighborhood away from us.
Speaker 10 (21:03):
Sixteen year old Travis Waters works at the Sinclair and
also grew up in Brentwood. He says the friendly green
figure helped fuel his childhood love of dinosaurs.
Speaker 6 (21:11):
Dinaster was like that big thing I had, like dinosaur
birthday parties, everything, and part of that was because of
this I don't know.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
It was like it's such like a fun and then
he ended up working there at the gas station. The
power that this statue has over the people in that
neighborhood the whole He loved dinosaurs because of the statue,
and then he started working at the gas station because
of it is this I don't.
Speaker 6 (21:34):
Know, it's just like it's such like a fun such
a fun logo, such a fun mascot.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
Yeah, it's just it's a made heartbreaking. Travis certainly isn't alone.
Speaker 10 (21:42):
Neighbors say Claire wasn't just decoration. She was part of
the community's heartbeat.
Speaker 9 (21:47):
It was kind of like a symbol, like you'd come here,
and it was just one of those things as a kid.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
You'd remember part of the beat.
Speaker 9 (21:53):
It was kind of like a symbol, like you'd come here,
and it was just one of those things as a
kid you'd remember. Just honestly, so random that someone would
steal that.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
It's a kid thing.
Speaker 6 (22:01):
They dressed it up all the time, the kids loved it.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
So I don't get I don't get it.
Speaker 10 (22:05):
I don't get it, and I don't get what's wrong
where people have to do things like.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
This fair that's a fair point. I also want to
say full disclosure, Mark Ronner, I did not steal the dinosaur.
I'm not trying to downplay this because I am the
person who dino napped.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
We make light of corporate mascots station, Okay, thank you.
How many careers in paleontology were lost launched by the
Sinclair dinosaur?
Speaker 2 (22:31):
Yeah, I mean it's terrible. You're canceled. Oh I'm canceling
this guy. Oh how about some charges. I'm canceling this
guy and two of them. And I don't cancel people,
but they.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
Are canceled charged with the Grand theft Bronosaurus. What would
they charge a flintstone with. Oh, that's a good question.
I'll have to think about that.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
The gas station's owner.
Speaker 10 (23:00):
And just reiterating that Claire was a lot more than
just a mascot.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
She showed up in family photos, even in Christmas cards.
Speaker 10 (23:06):
Now neighbors are hoping that police can crack this Jurassic
size case and bring their pre stork pal home.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
I get it, it's important to have things like that.
There's some writing a Jurassic sized case.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
Give her a raise.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
She's incredible. I think this is for box eleven. I
don't know who there was reporter as but his case
and bring their pre stork pal. I don't know if
that's I don't know if that's that might be Haley,
I'm not sure.
Speaker 7 (23:29):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
Really good writing though, absolutely, I agree give her the raise.
She'd will have a lot of puns in there. It's
a place to scene plunder there, it is. That's perfect
as a throwaway. You can have that one. You t
rexed me on that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I feel bad
for these kids, you know, but I also wish that
You know, there's a lot of money in Brentwood. You
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would think that maybe the gas station. The gas station
mascot isn't like, you know, they're their savior, but hey,
what do I know? Maybe when you're that well off,
like it's the little things, you know.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand breaking.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
News right now, some information coming into the newsroom. Large
fire has been spotted at the Chevron refinery in El Segundo.
Reports are that there was an explosion sometime around nine
to forty and they have a picture up here on
k COW and you can see it from a distance.
I'm assuming that might be one of their cameras, maybe
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in the south bay looking at out towards the fire.
Two pretty large plumes of smoke and then a bunch
of active fire there. The reason I say it's from
the south maybe Palace Verdi's looking north, is because you
can see Los Angeles International Airport just behind it. You
can see the planes coming and going there. The flames
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are of course visible from the airport. This refinery in
El Segund, you know, just south of the Los Angeles
International Airport complex there burned back in twenty twenty two
in November, and then in December there was another flaring
event and then there was a bigger fire back in
twenty seventeen. And every time this happens, of course, we
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always think, oh my god, there go the gas prices.
That's what you always think. No indication on if anybody's
been injured. I'm sure we'll have some updates here very soon.
Mark Ronner's working on that. But they're asking for people
to stay out of the area from that fire. Like
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I said, around nine to forty two, emergency services got
the call or started to respond, according to Citizen, because
of a large fire following an explosion, asking people to
avoid the area. If you're familiar with the part of Elsegundo,
I mean, you can't miss the refinery as big as
the city itself. It's basically just south of the airport,
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south of lax In between the city of El Segundo
and the ocean. Twenty six oh six Laurel Avenue is
the location where it is reported, at least on Citizen.
But this is a pretty big refinery, and like I
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said in the past, it has burned and air traffic
still seems to be moving. I mean a couple of videos,
like I said, the live video that we're looking at
here in our newsroom on k COW. I can see
that the plane appears that the planes are going are
still going, So I don't know if traffic of air
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traffic is being impacted by this. I imagine they would
probably be pretty hesitant about that. Maybe they would keep
planes from taking off or landed in the South complex
of lax Ron. Are you hearing anything about this?
Speaker 3 (26:57):
Yeah, there's nothing much on the wires at all yet,
and I've been keeping an eye on it, so I'll
have whatever we get as soon as we get it.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
Yeah, yeah, it really it does it. I feel like
every five years or so it catches on fire, and
that last one was pretty tough. They did tell people
the last time that we had we had this fire,
they told people to shut their windows. There was a
lot about that, a lot about the air quality. So
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I think, especially if if you're it couldn't hurt, shut
those windows. If you're near there, you don't know what's burning,
you don't know where it's blowing. Conditions right now today,
I mean it really it was very nice today. It's
relatively calm, not a lot of wind. I believe that
the currently that there's like something like two miles an
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hour wind really coming in, so you also have some
of that cloud cover from the marine layer start to
build up here in just a little bit, but large fire,
like I said, at the Chevron refinery in El Segundo,
no indication on what happened, As Maraner said, there is
not a ton of information that we're getting. I'm checking
also the KTLA news desk. I know that we are
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heading heading to the refinery with the helicopter. So if
you want to see some more images of what's happening
down there, the emergency response to that fire, you can
check that out on KTLA Channel five, and of course
keep it here on kfive. Thank you so much for
being a part of the show tonight. My thanks go
out to so many folks who were listening, and as always,
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you can find me on the internet at Andy KTLA
and I'll be back not this Sunday, but the Sunday
after that on the twelfth. Thanks to Tony Mark Ronner. Nicky,
I'm Andy Reesmeyer. This is KFI AM six forty live
everywhere on the iHeartRadio
Speaker 1 (28:46):
App KFI AM six forty on demand
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Is Aliott with Ariana Grande? Want to move on this
Tanler Swift moment? I know, Tony's like, well, I don't
know what the carry of this? Who cares about any
of this stuff? Tony's got a stogy right now. He's like, Hey,
what do I care about these guys? Eh, They're not
the same to me. God, ghoul, I don't know. I'm
(00:24):
so sorry. If it ain't that old punk or old scat,
I probably don't know it. Yeah, you and me bout brother.
I mean, I here's the thing. I'm lucky that I've
been able to work in this industry for a little
bit and and have access to pop music. I love
pop music. It's very interesting, but uh, I have a
hard time with the obsession, the fervor, the fanaticism. But
(00:47):
you know, look, look, we got to give it her
a do. Taylor Swift. Really there's there's really not anybody
like her, and I think that there's probably not been
anybody like her in her generation for sure, But even
before that, just the absolute domination of the conversation, which
I think is especially impressive in an hero when everyone
is so doing other things when it comes to pop culture.
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But here we are on the other side of nine
o'clock Tony. We survived Mark Ronner. There was no rapture
when the Taylor Swift record dropped.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Well, if there was, I got left behind. You know,
maybe that's what it is. You look at them, I
don't see you.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
But I wasn't expecting friendship bracelets just floating up into
the air. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
I didn't think I was gonna be in that demographic
when worry there there you go.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
All right, Well, I will say this. Listen to a
couple songs, and with your permission, I'm gonna just play
some moments here of the new songs from Taylor Swift's
The Life of a Show Girl. Many of them are explicit.
We won't be playing those here on terrestrial radio. I
understand if you're gonna be like, I can't do this,
(01:52):
but we're gonna listen to try to analyze.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
We're gonna hang on a second. There's there's dirty Taylor Swift.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Oh yeah, I think tracks four through twelve.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
I had no idea, and now I'm interested suddenly.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Oh now you want to know? Well, one of them
includes it girl Sabrina Carpenter as well. Life of a Showgirl.
Can't play that for you. That's got an ex to
it that means explicit. But let's just listen to a
little bit of this first track off of the new record,
The Fate of Ophelia. The Fate of Ophelia, We got
that one. The next track is called Elizabeth Taylor. Let's
see what she's singing about here. I need to stop this,
(02:25):
and I don't want to be rude, because I know
this is important to a lot of people. But this
sounds like a to me, a little bit like a
parody of Taylor Swift, like she's doing an imitation of herself.
It doesn't feel so glamorous to be made all all right, guys,
that's that lyric. It doesn't feel sometimes it doesn't feel
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so glamorous to be me. She got some pushback from
a lot of the fans yesterday and into today because
they said, I think it would be pretty good to
be you.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Well, let's know, Jenny from the block, Okay, so do
you think this is a little low energy? Is that
what you're saying and not getting the blood pumping? I
feel like I shouldn't say a single word about a
Taylor Swift.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Because you're worried they're gonna come for you. I know.
I was talking to a music a guy a couple
of weeks ago, I think Adam on the show last week,
and we were talking about how there's a lot of
fear for music journalists to be critical of pop, especially
big pop stars like Beyonce or Taylor, because they're worried
that their fans are so i mean sometimes toxic, that
they will, you know, show up at their house with pitchforks.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
I would like to go and record and say I
cannot stand Taylor's swift.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
And everybody get her. Oh my god. Okay, well, well
it's pretty interesting. I have a lot of thoughts sort
of which I'll keep to myself, but I the record
is out now on you know, not a little sleepy
intro there to it, but I'm sure we'll warm up
to it. I guarantee you're gonna hear those songs everywhere
for the next six months, NonStop, whether you like it
(03:59):
or not. Interesting that this record is produced by Max Martin. He,
of course, is the Swedish mega producer who was responsible
for the Backstree Boys in Sync Britney Spears, I mean,
you hear a little bit of that sort of dance
at least on that first record, but it also kind
of reminds me a little bit of that reputation era Taylor.
So very very interesting Taylor Swift new record, lots of
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ways to get into the Taylor Swift spirit This week too.
They're doing a pop up of sorts over at the
Westfield Century City Mall tomorrow goes all the way to
October ninth. You can reserve a spot. Just do a
little quick google of that. It's called Taylor Swift a
Life of a Showgirl TikTok fan activation. I imagine that
will be very very popular. Also, the female owned bar
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called Banter Bar is doing an album release party complete
with themed cocktails of friendship, bracelet stations, small bites, and more.
The dress code is described as bejeweled, showgirl glam plus
eras the event twenty one and over. Of course, that
is on the south to Pulvida, the Banter Bar that's
tomorrow of that Saturday from seven to eleven thirty, and
(05:11):
then downtown tomorrow from seven pm to two am. The
Resident Downtown Los Angeles is hosting a listening and dance party.
So people who love her, I'm sure are listening to
her record right now and not listening to us, And
that's fine. That's good, good for them and good for her.
A lot of speculation on what this record means, what
the things that she is saying. The lore of Taylor
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Swift is very important as much as the music, the
sort of reading between the lines, who are you disin?
Who are you you loving on? We of course know
that she's engaged to Travis Kelce. I'm sure there's some
songs about that. I can only imagine that our boss,
Brian Long, who's the biggest Chiefs fan of all time,
is curled up with a nice Macha latte listening to
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this non stuff.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Well, you know, as we descend into Taylor Swift madness
this whole weekend, we have another sort of very La
thing that has happened. Our friends over at Fox LA
Channel eleven investigated a hardware store. It's pretty baller.
Speaker 5 (06:21):
A small silver Lake hardware store is building quite a following.
Customers in sorts of screws and Wrenshes are also looking
for an unlikely trend in fashion show us the merch.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
This is our little display. This is it the Valor merch.
It's a pretty good haul. Yeah, yeah, it's quite a bit.
It's kind of expanded over the years.
Speaker 5 (06:44):
Valor Hardware has been NAILI it since nineteen fifty nine.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Nice Bobby DeCastro anchor over there, good writing uteen fifty nine.
Speaker 5 (06:55):
The family owned shop has battled the big box invasion, recessions,
evenual disasters. But today it's not only drywall and duct
tape drawing crowds, it's threads. Somewhere along the way, the
family realized that their store name was too good.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Not to laugh at.
Speaker 5 (07:13):
Joe is fourth generation.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
B A L L E. R.
Speaker 5 (07:17):
So pronounce it for me. It's it's.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
It's balor.
Speaker 5 (07:22):
Balor, Yes, balor, but it's not spelled that right, okay,
you growing up as a baler, Yes, it must.
Speaker 6 (07:28):
Have always been, always been a thing, And I don't
really care as long as people are saying it right,
whether it's balor or baller whatever.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
You might as well own it now. Yes, but it
is balor.
Speaker 5 (07:39):
The Balor not baller logo A blue circle with two hammers,
sturdy and stylish on the back. A vintage photo of
his great grandfather's ride hammering home that classic California cool.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
So basically what they've done is taken the store and
they made a bunch of what you may call hipster merch.
I don't know what the young people are called now.
When I was that age and I would be interested
in silver Lake, I would have called it hipster that
Now they're just gen z.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
It's really a great idea. It worked really well for them,
and honestly, you can't fault the hustle. It's a very
la thing. I don't know that there's a lot of
silver Lake people who are like hitting up the hardware
store every single day. But I just think about like
my grandpa or a grandpa type in the hardware store
(08:28):
who's like picking up some picking up some roof and nails,
And there's this little sickly teen putting on a trucker
hat and taking a selfie front of the hardware store.
Can't swing a hammer. No grit literally no, doesn't understand
what grit is. In the fortitude way and also the
(08:51):
sanding way. But it's kind of fun and it does
feel very la to do this. Everything now has to
have a sort of cultural importance. It feels like it's
tailor made for social media. I don't blame them. You
know they're making it work. They're on the news. That's great.
But why stop there? There are other places that we
could we could do this with In Los Angeles, we
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might need the help of the Los Angeles Unified School District,
but there is a Stoner Elementary school that would be great.
I could put a T shirt with Stoner Elementary School
on it, or in that same in that same vein
the Baked Potato in Studio City. In Koreatown, there's the
(09:37):
gay Lord apartments for fellas who like religion and each other.
Up to Ohio. Oh man, that was so smooth and
I ruined it your heart.
Speaker 7 (09:53):
Department of Transportation says, there is no excuse for this
kind of driving. If you're close to missing your exit,
O DOT is urging you to just take the next one.
It'll be safer for you and everyone around you. Dangerous
behavior on Ohio interstates.
Speaker 8 (10:09):
There's no excuse for putting people in harm's way just
so you can avoid maybe a two or three minute detour.
Speaker 7 (10:16):
Just this month, the truck carrying watermelons came to a
sudden stop on a highway in the Cincinnati area.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Stay with me here.
Speaker 7 (10:25):
Just this month, the truck carrying watermelons came to a
sudden stop on a highway in the Cincinnati area. The
reason a car slowed down and crossed several lanes of
traffic to get to an exit they were about to pass.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
I I grew up in Indiana, not far from Ohio.
I do think that we were superior drivers to the
Ohio people. Ohio, I think are the kind of people
who do a lot of left lane hogging. They're not listening,
they don't care, but they do a lot of staying
in the left lane even if they're not passing. And
that is that is something that I think is immediate
suspension of your license. And there isn't a lot of
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quick maneuvering happening there. This isn't a big city. We're
talking about Columbus, Cincinnati and Indianapolis, places that sort of
just they go at the speed that they go at.
In Los Angeles, you could be crossing seven lanes of
traffic to hit your exit any time of day, and
that is a normal thing that we all just tolerate.
Speaker 6 (11:19):
Now.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
Luckily, the traffic is mostly so bad. You don't have
the opportunity to do that very quickly. But this is
something I feel like that doesn't FaZe us very much.
If you're there and things move a little bit slower,
I have it on first hand account, this can be
very dangerous, especially in this situation. All over the road.
Speaker 8 (11:35):
It would have made a difference if that truck driver's
attention was on something not the road ahead. It would
have been very, very differently.
Speaker 7 (11:41):
Watermelons ended up all over the road, but odots Matt
Brooding says, luckily no one crashed.
Speaker 8 (11:48):
So there are a lot of lessons that we can
learn from looking at some of these incidents.
Speaker 7 (11:51):
It's not the first time in recent month sod on
has been.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
It's true, you know, you don't want to do that,
but especially if you're in Ohio and so they're really
looking out for people who are crossing over, especially those
people who are going to be knocking those watermelons off.
Don't want to do that. Back here in California, the HOA,
the dreaded HOA. Nothing stirs the soul or strikes fear
(12:19):
in the hearts of a suburban person like those three
letters of HOA. A new law in California has restricted
the finds that an HA can impose on its people
to one hundred dollars per violation. They say that's because
some of these fines have gone up to thousands and
thousands of dollars and that it's making people foreclothes on
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their homes. Hoas typically have a lot of power. The
CEO and president of Callahan and Blaine Callahan and Blaine
represents both homeowners and HOA, says, generally speaking, it seems
reasonable to bring it down because that is one of
the biggest is she was living in California. Hoas have
very broad powers to enforce their rules. I thought the
(13:05):
gas tax was up there. I thought our property tax
is pretty high. I mean relatively speaking compared to other places.
It's not I understand Prop thirty, But the homes are
so expensive that there's a lot of property tax we pay.
So now only one hundred dollars can they find you
for those violations, violations like your garage door is painted
the wrong color. I think it's probably good because a
(13:27):
lot of those are irrational. I understand, though. At the
same time, like you know, bigger fines keep you from
doing It's a disincentive to do bad things. I've got
to be real with you. I grew up in a
neighborhood that had an HOA. It's our little condo complex
in Indianapolis that my mom lived in. Real Gladys Kravitz
(13:48):
was the head of the HOA. She was like two
or three, two or three houses down from us. Hated me,
hated me. Speed limit was twenty I might may may
be going to a little quicker. She starts following me
on the street. I get home through the neighborhood. She
pulls in the driveway behind me, comes up to the
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car and knocks on the window, you know, And I'm like,
oh my god, I'm probably like seventeen years old. So
I rolled the window down and she yells at me.
She says, I had to go a full thirty miles
per hour to keep up with you. And I looked
at her and I said, well, you didn't have to.
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There was a time when my mom's boyfriend was doing
yard work. Brought over like a ricketty old iron wheelbarrow
or something. A few days go by, then Gladys comes over.
She rings a doorbell and she's like, where is the wheelbarrow?
I saw your stepdad using the wheelbarrow. Did you take
our new wheelbarrow? We can't find it. We had nothing
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to do with her wheelbarrow. Our wheelbarrow was like rust
it out, sixty years old. And then she she said
to my mom, open the garage. I'm gonna look for
the wheelbarrow. My mom is like pound sand Gladys. We
didn't have a wheelbarrow. That's the kind of stuff that
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happens in Hoa's. Mark Ronner doesn't know anything about that.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
I do not know. They sound terrible, and it sounds
like missus Kravitz might ended up in a shallow grave
there in Indy.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
Oh well, I certainly didn't have anything to do with it.
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
I think she's still alive. She wasn't that old. She
just was ornery. There's no statute limitations on that, you know.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Yeah, that's why I'm saying what I'm saying. By all right,
we can move on.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
Say Andy rees Marian for mister mo Kelly, just a
couple of minutes here left on the on the Old
Show on this Thursday, October two, George Nurr's coming up
in just a bit. I think we'll hear from him
in the next block. A little preview on what's going
on on that on that show. Some updates for you, gentlemen.
(16:02):
Taylor Swift has spoken. I know you're really curious, She
posted just a little after the album was released, nine
oh three pm our time tonight. All these lives converge here,
the mosaics of laughter and cocktail of tears, where fraternal
souls sing identical things, and it's beautiful, it's rapturous, it
(16:25):
is frightening. Uh, she mentioned the rapture. Couldn't have seen
that one coming. She goes on to say, I can't
tell you how proud I am to share this with you,
an album that just feels so right forever. Thank you
goes out to my mentors and friends Max, Max Martin
and Shellback for helping me paint this self portrait. If
you thought the Big Show was wild, perhaps you should
(16:47):
come and take a look behind the curtain. She says.
The Life of a Showgirl is out now and like
we said, produced by Max Martin, Shellback, and Taylor Swift.
She also posted a bunch of photos that kind of
look like Hotel Boudoir, Italian restaurant Terry richardson Vibe. It's
(17:12):
some cool pictures. She's posing next to a martini with
the twist, half drunk martini. I don't know about her.
I can't make a comment on her condition. She looks
fine and a played of spaghetti in what appears to
be a hallway of a hotel. You can read into
that as you like. In other Taylor Swift news, rolling
(17:35):
Stone already has reviewed, and I'm sure they had an
embargo copy. Maybe they had an embargo copy. I don't know.
Rolling Stone review is out. Taylor Swift conquers her biggest
stage ever on the Life of a show Girl. How
many stars do you guys think? Four out of five?
(17:56):
She got five ew they gave it. They gave her
one hundred percent.
Speaker 4 (18:03):
But Rolling Stone only gave led Zeppelin like no more
than two stars. So what would they know about good music?
Speaker 2 (18:11):
Do you mean like recently?
Speaker 9 (18:12):
No?
Speaker 4 (18:13):
When when led Zeppelin we're releasing music back in the day,
Rolling Stone magazine never gave them good rating.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
In all fairness, I'm not sure that those people are
still with Rolling Stone. However, it is a good point.
The essence is still there. The essence is still there.
I think that there was a thing we talked about
last week about I was just referencing about poptimism, where
music reviewers have a hard time being critical of these
uber huge artists because they maybe are concerned about backlash. Again,
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anybody who really cares about Taylor Swift is just listening
to Taylor Swift right now. So that's fine. But let's
go out to Brentwood, where a tragedy has occurred.
Speaker 10 (18:56):
People are really upset about this, some downright emotions. The
owner of the Sinclair gas station says that people customers
have been coming in in tears, saying that the beloved
dinosaur that used to fill this spot would make their day,
but now the community is demanding that the dino nappers
return their beloved green mascot.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
I love Brentwood, I do. I will never be able
to afford to deliver remotely close to that zip code,
but I respect that people in that city can be
moved by something like this, A dinosaur logo at a
(19:34):
gas station. I don't know logos the right word. A
statue can move them to tears.
Speaker 10 (19:40):
Meet Dino Claire, a four foot tall fiberglass dinosaur and
an unofficial mascot of Brentwood, often dressed for the holidays,
sometimes in Dodger blue.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
She wasn't just a statue.
Speaker 10 (19:50):
She was a selfie star, a neighborhood landmark, and a
daily dose of joy.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
Everything everything must feed the algorithm, whether you've got foler
hardware or a statue in front of your in front
of your gas station of a dinosaur. It's a spot
for a selfie, a place to reflect on the museum
of me. But now her.
Speaker 10 (20:15):
Spot on San Vecenti in twenty sixth Street sits empty.
Speaker 6 (20:18):
Even now, just looking down and not seeing it is
like a It's a big shock.
Speaker 10 (20:22):
Claire was dyno maapted early Saturday morning, a prehistoric heist
caught on camera. Watches a thief and a hoodie casually
strolls up with a power tool and cuts her free
from her base. Minutes later, he's back with a blanket,
wrapping up the fifty pound mascot and loading her into
a white getaway truck.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
I mean, at least he didn't want her to get
cold or scratched. Does he respect the art a.
Speaker 6 (20:45):
White getaway truck beyond like the initial I guess grief
that comes with the dinosaur going. It's just like a
like a y like why would they why would they
take the dinosaur?
Speaker 2 (20:55):
I just don't get it at all. It really makes
no sense.
Speaker 6 (20:58):
There's no monetary gain for artists, but also it's like
taking a piece of the neighborhood away from us.
Speaker 10 (21:03):
Sixteen year old Travis Waters works at the Sinclair and
also grew up in Brentwood. He says the friendly green
figure helped fuel his childhood love of dinosaurs.
Speaker 6 (21:11):
Dinaster was like that big thing I had, like dinosaur
birthday parties, everything, and part of that was because of
this I don't know.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
It was like it's such like a fun and then
he ended up working there at the gas station. The
power that this statue has over the people in that
neighborhood the whole He loved dinosaurs because of the statue,
and then he started working at the gas station because
of it is this I don't.
Speaker 6 (21:34):
Know, it's just like it's such like a fun such
a fun logo, such a fun mascot.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
Yeah, it's just it's a made heartbreaking. Travis certainly isn't alone.
Speaker 10 (21:42):
Neighbors say Claire wasn't just decoration. She was part of
the community's heartbeat.
Speaker 9 (21:47):
It was kind of like a symbol, like you'd come here,
and it was just one of those things as a kid.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
You'd remember part of the beat.
Speaker 9 (21:53):
It was kind of like a symbol, like you'd come here,
and it was just one of those things as a
kid you'd remember. Just honestly, so random that someone would
steal that.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
It's a kid thing.
Speaker 6 (22:01):
They dressed it up all the time, the kids loved it.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
So I don't get I don't get it.
Speaker 10 (22:05):
I don't get it, and I don't get what's wrong
where people have to do things like.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
This fair that's a fair point. I also want to
say full disclosure, Mark Ronner, I did not steal the dinosaur.
I'm not trying to downplay this because I am the
person who dino napped.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
We make light of corporate mascots station, Okay, thank you.
How many careers in paleontology were lost launched by the
Sinclair dinosaur?
Speaker 2 (22:31):
Yeah, I mean it's terrible. You're canceled. Oh I'm canceling
this guy. Oh how about some charges. I'm canceling this
guy and two of them. And I don't cancel people,
but they.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
Are canceled charged with the Grand theft Bronosaurus. What would
they charge a flintstone with. Oh, that's a good question.
I'll have to think about that.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
The gas station's owner.
Speaker 10 (23:00):
And just reiterating that Claire was a lot more than
just a mascot.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
She showed up in family photos, even in Christmas cards.
Speaker 10 (23:06):
Now neighbors are hoping that police can crack this Jurassic
size case and bring their pre stork pal home.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
I get it, it's important to have things like that.
There's some writing a Jurassic sized case.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
Give her a raise.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
She's incredible. I think this is for box eleven. I
don't know who there was reporter as but his case
and bring their pre stork pal. I don't know if
that's I don't know if that's that might be Haley,
I'm not sure.
Speaker 7 (23:29):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
Really good writing though, absolutely, I agree give her the raise.
She'd will have a lot of puns in there. It's
a place to scene plunder there, it is. That's perfect
as a throwaway. You can have that one. You t
rexed me on that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I feel bad
for these kids, you know, but I also wish that
You know, there's a lot of money in Brentwood. You
(23:51):
would think that maybe the gas station. The gas station
mascot isn't like, you know, they're their savior, but hey,
what do I know? Maybe when you're that well off,
like it's the little things, you know.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand breaking.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
News right now, some information coming into the newsroom. Large
fire has been spotted at the Chevron refinery in El Segundo.
Reports are that there was an explosion sometime around nine
to forty and they have a picture up here on
k COW and you can see it from a distance.
I'm assuming that might be one of their cameras, maybe
(24:33):
in the south bay looking at out towards the fire.
Two pretty large plumes of smoke and then a bunch
of active fire there. The reason I say it's from
the south maybe Palace Verdi's looking north, is because you
can see Los Angeles International Airport just behind it. You
can see the planes coming and going there. The flames
(24:56):
are of course visible from the airport. This refinery in
El Segund, you know, just south of the Los Angeles
International Airport complex there burned back in twenty twenty two
in November, and then in December there was another flaring
event and then there was a bigger fire back in
twenty seventeen. And every time this happens, of course, we
(25:19):
always think, oh my god, there go the gas prices.
That's what you always think. No indication on if anybody's
been injured. I'm sure we'll have some updates here very soon.
Mark Ronner's working on that. But they're asking for people
to stay out of the area from that fire. Like
(25:42):
I said, around nine to forty two, emergency services got
the call or started to respond, according to Citizen, because
of a large fire following an explosion, asking people to
avoid the area. If you're familiar with the part of Elsegundo,
I mean, you can't miss the refinery as big as
the city itself. It's basically just south of the airport,
(26:04):
south of lax In between the city of El Segundo
and the ocean. Twenty six oh six Laurel Avenue is
the location where it is reported, at least on Citizen.
But this is a pretty big refinery, and like I
(26:25):
said in the past, it has burned and air traffic
still seems to be moving. I mean a couple of videos,
like I said, the live video that we're looking at
here in our newsroom on k COW. I can see
that the plane appears that the planes are going are
still going, So I don't know if traffic of air
(26:45):
traffic is being impacted by this. I imagine they would
probably be pretty hesitant about that. Maybe they would keep
planes from taking off or landed in the South complex
of lax Ron. Are you hearing anything about this?
Speaker 3 (26:57):
Yeah, there's nothing much on the wires at all yet,
and I've been keeping an eye on it, so I'll
have whatever we get as soon as we get it.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
Yeah, yeah, it really it does it. I feel like
every five years or so it catches on fire, and
that last one was pretty tough. They did tell people
the last time that we had we had this fire,
they told people to shut their windows. There was a
lot about that, a lot about the air quality. So
(27:24):
I think, especially if if you're it couldn't hurt, shut
those windows. If you're near there, you don't know what's burning,
you don't know where it's blowing. Conditions right now today,
I mean it really it was very nice today. It's
relatively calm, not a lot of wind. I believe that
the currently that there's like something like two miles an
(27:46):
hour wind really coming in, so you also have some
of that cloud cover from the marine layer start to
build up here in just a little bit, but large fire,
like I said, at the Chevron refinery in El Segundo,
no indication on what happened, As Maraner said, there is
not a ton of information that we're getting. I'm checking
also the KTLA news desk. I know that we are
(28:08):
heading heading to the refinery with the helicopter. So if
you want to see some more images of what's happening
down there, the emergency response to that fire, you can
check that out on KTLA Channel five, and of course
keep it here on kfive. Thank you so much for
being a part of the show tonight. My thanks go
out to so many folks who were listening, and as always,
(28:29):
you can find me on the internet at Andy KTLA
and I'll be back not this Sunday, but the Sunday
after that on the twelfth. Thanks to Tony Mark Ronner. Nicky,
I'm Andy Reesmeyer. This is KFI AM six forty live
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