September 26, 2025 • 31 mins
Andy Riesmeyer dives into Hour 2 with the viral failed prophecy fueling #RaptureTok and a breakdown of LA County’s official review of the Eaton and Palisades fires. Then Andy lightens things up with a personal tequila story and a look at why Margaritas remain LA’s favorite cocktail, before exploring VR-controlled robot battles in San Francisco. Then, KTLA’s own Glen Walker joins live from his home for a rare personal chat, and Andy wraps the hour with a take on the slow death of self-checkout.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
I'm Andy Reesemeyer Infomo Kelly this evening, thanks for joining
us just past eight o'clock. You wouldn't believe my surprise, Brigitta,
when I woke up yesterday and then also today and
I found that the world had not ended.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Rapture talk was a lie. Did you see it coming?
Speaker 4 (00:25):
Or did you?
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Were you one of those who sold their car? I
knew it wasn't happening. You knew it wasn't gonna happen.
Speaker 5 (00:30):
But doesn't it kind of feel like every day where
we don't know lately? You know, all good conspiracy war
you know every day.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
I'm like all good conspiracy theories start with a grain
of truth. And rapture talk was trending over a couple
of days. It was because of a South African pastor
who said he had a vision in twenty eighteen that
the world was going to end, or at least the
world as we knew it was going to end sometime
on the twenty third, maybe twenty fourth. They were hedging.
(01:01):
Many people, like more people than you would think, got
into this legitimately, and just like we've seen in other
situations where people think that the world is going to end.
They sold their cars, maybe they quit their jobs, they
put their affairs in order, as they say. A lot
of people thought it was a joke. And you know,
(01:24):
the fun fact is that most predictions for the end
of the world don't come true. Actually, every prediction that
the world is ending does not come true, or has
not yet, at least in my world. Coming up in
just a little bit, Glenn Walker will join us at
eight thirty. That's great. He's from KTLA. He's a coworker
of mine, the person Tim Conway Junior called the.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Only good one at KTLA. He'll be here with us
at eight thirty. Plus.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
La is a margarita town. We're going to do MARGUERITEA
is by the numbers? What are people ordering out there
in this great city of angels? And is the Martini
threatening to push the margharita off the top spot for
most ordered drink? But some real news before we get
into that, Let'll take you back to the beginning of
(02:11):
January of this year. January seventh, the Palisades fire, the
Eaten fire. The county issued an independent review, or the
commissioned one. This is the County, remember, not the city.
It was called an independent after action report looking into
how we did with the Eton the Palisades fire response
(02:34):
and what did they find. Well, we didn't do great,
a lot of communication breakdowns, weaknesses, outdated policies. Not one
individual single point of failure, instead a series of weaknesses
including outdated policies, inconsistent practices, and communications vulnerabilities. They say
(02:58):
it didn't manifest un formally though, because of all the
complexities of where the fire was when started. They said
the Palisades actually fared better as far as getting people
out because Malibu deals with fire wildfires. They etn fire
(03:18):
started at night. Maybe people who live over there were
not expecting something like this to happen. One of the
major issues was those evacuation warnings and alerts. If you remember,
which I don't know how you'd ever forget, is if
you were anywhere outside of the evacuation zone that night,
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if you were in La County, you probably got on
your phone that crazy loud sound that could mean anything
from an amber alert to an earthquake to your neighborhood's
about to burn down. People who weren't in the evacuation
area were notified that they needed to evacuate, and then
they had to go verify with the news media or
(04:02):
the watch Duty app to try to figure out if
it was actually real, because you just didn't know. We
had no idea what was going to happen. I remember
after the first round of real crazy wind in the
San Fernando Valley, which was probably six or seven pm
that night, I thought, Okay, maybe it's kind of over.
My neighbor's tree fell over and landed on their car.
(04:24):
That was crazy, but I thought, hey, maybe we're out
of the woods. Obviously we were not. Some residents in
Altadena reported receiving little or no warning before the fire
reached their neighborhood. Remember the fires in both Palisades and
Altadena killed thirty one people, destroyed sixteen thousand properties. But
(04:51):
they're basically confirming the rumor that we had all talked
about was a lot of people didn't know that they
had to leave. They didn't get the warnings, and we're
relying on these cit We don't have air raid sirens,
we don't have a guy running around knocking on the
door saying, all right, everybody, time to leave. We're relying
on our phones and those warnings. If they come and
they're not good or they're they're bunk, we're going to
(05:14):
ignore them. A bright point in the study was that
frontline responders, as we know, acted decisively in many cases
heroically in the face of those extraordinary conditions. The Board
of Supervisors will discuss the review and its findings and
recommendations at the board's regularly scheduled public meeting on Tuesday.
I'm sure we will hear more updates about that. I'm
(05:35):
curious what the city will say about this as far
as the Palisades goes. Didn't talk at all about the reservoir,
didn't talk at all about water pressure available fire trucks.
Very very interesting and not too soon. A wildfire Commission
(05:59):
now is going to discussed disaster rental assistance program. Oh
what nine almost ten months later, a fifteen member panel
will discuss eligibility criteria for a disaster release relief interim
income support program. The money is coming from ULA, which
is the mansion tax. Since twenty twenty two, that's generated
(06:25):
around eight hundred and thirty million dollars, and so there
is now an eleven million dollar income support program. One
point two million of that goes to administrative costs, but
some five hundred households will receive twenty thousand dollars an
aid for rent. This was all put into an effect
(06:47):
by La City Councilwoman Tracy Park, who introduced the motion
right after the fires happened. So they will now start
talking about that money out there to people. All right,
Lots going on here on the show, Like I said,
coming up, Glenn Walker will be joining us. We're going
(07:09):
to talk about Margarita's. Maybe we have time to talk
about margarita right now, or should we send it? We'll
send it to Brigitta. I think we'll do that Margarita's
when we come back on me.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
That's at least I can do, right Brigitta. Let's hope
so and the most I will do.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
I mean your rees myer INFROMO Kelly. Thanks for joining
us on this evening. It is Thursday, September twenty fifth.
If you'd like to be on the show, eight hundred
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(07:49):
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Speaker 3 (07:55):
You can do it again. But I like it. Just
do it off.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
They just see what happens. Don't try to make it
too fancy, you don't try to make it too serious.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
We don't want that.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
We want authenticity, and sometimes authenticity is messy. What makes
it more messy maybe a margarita or five, whether you
like it's spicy, salty, sometimes skinny. Los Angeles is a
margarita town. I've always suspected it one of those stupid
(08:28):
things that you have with your friends where you like
make a bet. It's like, what's the most ordered drink
in La? What's the most popular food in LA? I
think it's burgers. I know that it's a taco city.
I know we have got great food trucks, but I
think LA is a burger town. Margaritas, of course, are
sweet and tangy. They're born in Mexico, but they go
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great with all kinds of food, and I think especially
when it's a hot, sweaty summer, you need that crisp,
sometimes spicy refreshment of a nice to La and limes
situation punch drink dot Com survey at a bunch of
bars on one summer night to see what La was drinking.
There's a place called Daisy in Sherman Oaks. It's a
(09:10):
relatively new place. It's over there in near the Sherman
Oaks Village, if you're familiar. On Ventura Boulevard next to
mister Furley's Bar. Four hundred and twenty four margaritas ordered
in one night at a restaurant in the Arts district
called Damiens, seventy percent of drinks ordered are Margarita's bar
(09:32):
Flora is an echo park squeezed out thirty two pitchers
and two hundred and twenty by the glass ritas. Even
at fancy cocktail bars like Thunderbolt, where you might think
people are bellying up for a dirty gin martini, one
fifth of drinks that are ordered are Margarita's. They've got
an everything but the kitchen sink. Margarita there. I'm sorry,
(09:55):
Martini there, but still fifth or marks. One third of
people put mess in their drinks. Skinny is still something
that is on the menu, but it is sort of
out of vogue. As for weird orders, somebody a Daisy
ordered a Casamigos and Jeho margarita with lime, lemon, orange
juice and citrus splenda.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
Yikes.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Can you imagine putting a cosa migos with a splenda?
Speaker 3 (10:22):
I can't.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
At barnextdoor on Sunset Boulevard, a common order is just lime,
juice and tequila in the glass, A skinny margarita of sorts, brigita.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
Are you a margarita fan?
Speaker 5 (10:37):
I can't drink hard liquor. Oh, sadly, it just doesn't
agree with me. I get hung over so easily. I'm
a lightweight. I'm half Asian. I think that has something
to do with it. Yeah, you know, process it.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
It's a tough thing, man.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
And I'll tell you what my twenty first birthday, I'll
tell you a quick story. We went up to Michigan
with my friends, just a bunch of boys and one
of the boys parents and they brought their dog and everything,
and their dog passed away on this trip. It was
the saddest thing ever, and we didn't know what to do.
(11:12):
We were with this family, and so one of our friends said,
I guess we'll just go start drinking. So he goes
and he gets a bottle of tequila. And again, I'm
twenty one. I had certainly never drank before. I had
not drunk much before. So he brings the bottle of
tequila back. And I don't know how to drink at
this point, and these guys are a little more advanced
(11:36):
as far as the boozing goes. I don't even think
I could do this now. But we basically sat there,
commiserated over our sadness for the death of this family pet,
and just took turns taking shots of tequila.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
Until the bottle was gone.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
What happened next, I'll never know, because I woke up,
or at least I was aware of the reality of
what had happened. About three hours later. We were up
in Michigan. As I said, it, like this lake house.
I'm laying in the in the sand, and I hear
one of my friends saying.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
I can't do it. I can't pee on Andy.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
That was the beginning of the worst night of my life.
And I think I threw up like a hundred times.
I didn't get peed on, thankfully. My friends are very responsible. Yes,
you know who he tried, he couldn't do it. For
some reason. The universe interceded and said, this is so undignified.
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We aren't going to make this man suffer this way.
But it took me like ten years to drink tequila
after that, so I totally understand, and now that I
think about it, I don't want to have anymore. The
only rule about marguerite is I think I don't think
this is controversial.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
Take it anyway.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
You like mescal blanco and Jeho reposado, whatever, Just use
fresh lime.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
Just use a fresh line, fresh line, quantro, one line,
little quantro, a little tequila as you got a nice drink.
I'm so excited to talk to Glenn Walker. He's coming
up in just a little bit. I got one thing
I want to talk about before we get into that though.
Up in San Francisco, you know that's a techie kind
(13:37):
of city. We did a story about an app earlier.
They also have a lot of fun up there, tech fun.
Speaker 6 (13:47):
Listen, fighting robots going after it at Babe Breakers, Boxing
Jim and San Francisco.
Speaker 4 (13:53):
This crowd ain't messing around.
Speaker 6 (13:58):
Metal on met with these fighting wreck robots controlled by
players on a VR headset in this case UFC fighter
Heighter a Meal and MMA fighter Jessica Rose Clark.
Speaker 4 (14:10):
This is like a different kind of fighter.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
Yeah, it's not really fighting. You're you're putting on a
VR suit and having the robots beat each other up
using your moves.
Speaker 4 (14:20):
Different kind of fighting.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
Way different, way different.
Speaker 4 (14:24):
I've never done a single I've never had.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
A VR headset on before, let alone controlled a robot.
Fighting it on a robot.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
It was sick.
Speaker 6 (14:32):
Perhaps the sickest part of this fight was when not
one but both robots, well balanced on flat surfaces, came
crashing down as they stepped on a random keyboard thrown
in the ring.
Speaker 4 (14:46):
Who's went down for.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
This is great? We got nothing to worry about, friends.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Jesse's went down first, and in mind, dramatically after I've
been wanting to do that, you know, I you know, figuratively,
you know.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
By robots.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Robots are obviously insanely hard to do, and VR is
insanely hard to do. But if you then both right,
what you get is this ability to feel like you
are the robots.
Speaker 6 (15:11):
Each one of these rec robots weighs about eighty pounds.
Speaker 4 (15:16):
These things are heavy, even shaking the.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
He didn't need to do that, Virgina, He didn't need
to say that. He didn't need to do this.
Speaker 4 (15:24):
Eighty pounds. These things are heavy.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
Also like starry that guy's wife. Eighty pounds is heavy
to you.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
Dog.
Speaker 6 (15:36):
Eighty pounds, These things are heavy, even shaking the floor
of the ring a bit. The Wreck Company's dream is
to have sponsored robot fighters competing around the world. Come Friday,
these two rec robots will compete in their own sort
of octagon at San Francisco's Temple Nightclub. It's what's being
billed as the world's first VR controlled humanoid fights.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
We can only they've come down the five Freeway and
grace us with that kind of entertainment.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
And Andy Reesmeyer in for O Kelly on this Thursday evening.
Coming up in the show, Nate BERGATZI He's not gonna
be here, but we're talking about his I think not
super popular emmy bit why he says he didn't plan
on donating his own money for that boys and girls
club stunt. Plus what Southern California city is saying goodbye
(16:29):
to self check out. But First America's Anchorman, my friend
and yours Katla's Glenn Walker the third joining us here
on later with Mo Kelly with Andy Reesmeyer.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
Hello Glenn, Andy Restar, thank you.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
For taking time out of your busy evening.
Speaker 7 (16:50):
Oh let me tell you so.
Speaker 8 (16:52):
I live in Woodland Hills and Spectrum cable went out,
what which means also no internet. So my wife's been
watching on a phone and I've been reading a book.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
You can always listen to the radio. But I guess not.
I guess what does Glenn Walker read? Are you into
like a Colleen Hoover Little Verity.
Speaker 7 (17:18):
Mostly political books?
Speaker 3 (17:20):
I see? All right?
Speaker 2 (17:21):
Well, I wanted to ask you a couple of questions because,
contrary to popular belief, we work together.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
You wouldn't expect that. Maybe if you saw us on the.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
Street, but as sort of this anchorman who people know
and have known for a long time in southern California.
You know, I was thinking about this. You probably had
a real it was a real head trip back when
Anchorman the movie came out without naming names. Do you
know any stories of that are similar to that?
Speaker 7 (17:53):
Well, the movie was written by a former newswriter at
a station in San Diego, and when I used to
work at CBS two k Cow Harold Green was still
an anchor there. This was before your time, but I'm
(18:14):
sure anybody that's lived in LA or growing up in LA,
they know who Harold Green is. And Harold walked in
one day and he goes, hey, my, who is the
guy that started the movie?
Speaker 4 (18:27):
It was.
Speaker 7 (18:29):
Will Ferrell. Yeah, so he comes in, he goes he goes, yeah,
my old newswriter has a has written a movie called
Anchorman is coming out and it stars it's kind of
based on me, loosely and starring Colin Ferrell. Wow, Harold,
that's Will Fairly. Goes no, No, it's Colin Farley. Goes no, no,
it's Will Ferrel, the comedian he was. He was not
(18:51):
happy to hear that.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
Wow, he sounds exactly like the character.
Speaker 7 (18:57):
Oh my god, Oh yeah he was.
Speaker 4 (19:01):
You know.
Speaker 7 (19:02):
So it's funny because you know, he's one of those
guys back in the days when they used to make
like a Lilliam books a year to do local TV.
And I used to work with an anchor, Lena Winn,
and she used to say, yeah, we're members of the
ten years Too Late club. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
Really, well, because what now you're making two million a year, right.
Speaker 7 (19:18):
Yeah, in my dream.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
Well, I can't imagine you doing anything else because I
think about you and your sort of the hair and
the voice and the presence. What would Glenn Walker have
done had he not become a news anchor.
Speaker 7 (19:32):
Let's see, Originally I was gonna want to be a
high school teacher and be a baseball coach.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
I was just you.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
I could so see you have been a coach as well.
As soon as I said, I couldn't imagine he was
anything else. The idea of you being a coach was
exactly what popped into my head. So baseball though not football, No.
Speaker 7 (19:50):
It would be baseball.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
Yeah, And would you have been like, listen, guys, you
got to get it together? Like what would the disciplinary
practice be? Would you be a Jim Harbaugh type or
would you be an.
Speaker 7 (20:02):
Get it I don't know when I was a freshman's
when I was like a freshman's sophomore, when I thought
that's what I was going into. I coached a pony
League baseball team, which is like kids that are like
right after Little League, were like thirteen fourteen years old,
and one day we're having a practice and it was
just kind of it's just kind of wouldn't going good.
So I just walked over the car and pulled out
(20:23):
a football. We just played a sandwant football game.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
Oh that's a good motivator. What does he mean by that?
Speaker 7 (20:31):
I got it back on track. But I remember one
of the moms pulled up, She's like, what the heck's
get on here? Oh?
Speaker 3 (20:35):
Hey, let's thinking outside the box.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
You gotta think on your feet and do a lot
of kind of a lot of different kinds of things.
When you're calling a pursuit, what where where are you?
Are you ever thinking about anything else? Are you just
like locked in?
Speaker 7 (20:50):
Yeah? Pretty much you have to be. And you know,
somebody asked me how do you do that? I said, well,
you start with a nugget of information, then you get
another nugget and you kind of just talk in a circle.
So you just kind of talk, kind of come back
to where you were and because you know, people kind
of come in kind of recap of what's going on.
But I think, I mean, person, I think one of
the advantages I have is the fact that I was
(21:12):
a news reporter and I know a lot of the
streets and in the freeway, so I I can can't
kind of anticipate sometimes where they're going to go and
where you know, what their alternatives are to getting off
the freeway and where they be heading next.
Speaker 4 (21:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
Yeah, I'm taking notes right now so I know how
to do this the next time I have to do it. Okay,
anticipate where you're going next.
Speaker 4 (21:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (21:34):
Yeah, but you know, Lou, you know, Lou park and
I've been anchoring together for ten years now. Yeah, so
you know, you know, you just kind of one, you
just one one kind of starts talking, and then they
kind of run out of gas, you know, and kind.
Speaker 4 (21:46):
Of picks it up.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
And sometimes you guys, you guys are so on the
same page that sometimes you switch names.
Speaker 7 (21:53):
Do you remember that, Well, somebody's got to, so people
have called us glue.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
Yes, But do you remember the time when when you
said that you're I'm I'm Lou Parker.
Speaker 3 (22:08):
It is a great, great moment.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
And then I think you had a great joke after that,
say like, good thing I had Glenn Walker over here
to straighten me out or something like that.
Speaker 7 (22:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
Yeah, it's very very funny. So if if you can
remember back to the beginning, and I'll let you go
here in a minute, because I know you got to
get back to reading.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
One hundred and seven days I got, dude.
Speaker 7 (22:26):
I stayed with you till ten o'clock. I got nothing else.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
I think we'd have to start paying you if I have,
if I have you on too much after this? Uh,
do you remember your very first live shot or your
very first broadcast? And what was what was happening there?
Speaker 7 (22:40):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (22:40):
My god?
Speaker 7 (22:41):
Well, I started in the sports and I had I
went to Florida State University in Tallahassee, the state capital,
and I actually got a job coule ons of the
graduation at the station I interered at there in town.
I was the weekend sports anc and I remember the
first Saturday night I went on. I mean it was
like it was it was an air conditioned studio, was sweating,
(23:01):
and my heart was beating really fast, and it went
about as bad as you can imagine. And I remember
a couple of weeks later, my mom came into town
and I got done. You know, I kept my third time,
and I go, so, what do you think? She goes
you need some practice?
Speaker 3 (23:17):
WHOA, Well, your mom.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
Thankfully you had a mom who was going to tell
it to you straight, because there's a lot of kids
out there, you know, a lot of moms out there
just said no, you're really got honey, and then they
never get any better, and maybe you would still be
doing that job exactly. Well, I appreciate, I appreciate you
calling as always. It's great to talk to you. Go Dodgers.
What do you think and are you happy with the
way things turned out today?
Speaker 7 (23:39):
Well, you know what, they won the division. I think
their pitching is coming around finally, you know, everybody's getting
healthy at just the right time. And then I'd love
to see I'd love to see a Dodger's Yankees rematch.
That would be tough for me because Max reed, Ace
pitcher for the Yankees from Encino, is one of my
(24:02):
son's best friends and his parents are friends of mine,
so when he pitches is kind of I can't root
against Max. It's kind of weird.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
A house divided, Yes, yeah, yes, Well, mister Edward Walker
the Third, thank you so much for colling and we'll
talk to you very soon. You can catch him every
day Monday through Friday, starting at eleven am all the
way until four pm on KTLA channel five. And uh,
maybe out there at what what's your favorite restaurant out
(24:32):
there in the in the West Valley.
Speaker 7 (24:35):
Out here in the valley, I'm having a brave heart it. Hey, babe,
what's our steak out? Monty's Monty Okay, good, all right,
all right, well really old school.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
If you remember it next time, maybe they'll put a
little sign on your table next time. All Right, Glenn,
thank you so much for calling. There, he goes Glenn Walker.
Speaker 7 (24:55):
Love that. I'll see you the Salt Mine tomorrow morning.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
There we go, see you tomorrow morning. Yeah, I know
we got to go to bed man still too late.
All right, coming up, we're going to talk a little
bit more about what's happening here in Los Angeles. That's
a good generic tease, right checking in on the story
with that rapper David. That is crazy.
Speaker 3 (25:15):
Also a woman.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
As a family who's struggling with the death of their
mom because she's still alive.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
It's later with mo Kelly and Andy Reesemeyer in for
mo Kelly. This is an interesting thing.
Speaker 3 (25:33):
Okay. So today is September twenty.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
Fifth, which would have been the one hundred and first
birthday for my grandfather. He passed away about four years ago,
and I think about him all the time. But I've
been thinking about him a lot because today's birthday, and
I just wanted to tell you a little about him.
He was a World War Two veteran. He was injured
(25:58):
in the Battle of the Bulge. He got a purple heart,
moved eventually landed outside of Chicago, where he had my
dad and my aunts. He retired after being an engineer
for a long time and then became like the greatest
grandpa of all time. Made the best scrambled eggs I've
(26:21):
ever had in my life. You can't convince me any
Michelin star chef made a better scrambled egg than this guy.
I don't know how the texture was. It was as
if it was a cloude. I don't know how the
physics of it worked. He was an engineer, also was
a remarkable crossword puzzle doer. He found a website that
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had some like forty thousand puzzles or something like that,
and he was determined to work through as many as
he could, and at the time that he died at
ninety six, he had completed twenty three thousand of those
forty thousand crosswords, and he probably had done I mean,
would do like a few a day. He'd get all
the papers. I mean he'd do them all, So I'm
sure he did well more than forty thousand. My brother
(27:11):
and I were kind of our own the own only
grandkids for a long time, and so we got all
the attention. We got all the grandparent attention, and we
used to go up to their place outside of Chicago
and spend weeks weeks with them, just like exploring and
doing cool stuff. And he was a woodworker and he
would build computers and had this incredible record collection. He
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had all this big band stuff, these great turntables and stereos,
and he had an organ that he and my grandma
would play, like this old organ with tubes. You know,
you had to flip it up and wait till the
tubes had heat up before it would start going. And
(28:00):
after he died, they got rid of a lot of
the stuff. But I was lucky enough to grab that organ,
the Hammond organ. I shipped it all the way to
la when I got a stereo and some of his records,
and I put it in one of the rooms in
my house. And when I unwrapped everything out of the
(28:25):
boxes that they came in, set it all up and
made the house smell like my grandparents' house, and all
those memories came flooding back. And so I still have
all that stuff, and every once in a while when
I missed those guys, I go pop in that room
and just take a deep brush. So Herman Hreesmeyer Happy Birthday.
(28:49):
September twenty fifth, nineteen twenty four, one hundred and one
years old.
Speaker 3 (28:54):
He would have been ninety six.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
Is pretty good. You can't ask for more than ninety six.
Told you a little earlier about the slow death of
the self checkout. Here's the headline on ktla dot com.
For months, KTLA has been tracking the problems with self
checkouts across the country.
Speaker 3 (29:12):
I did not know this. I was unaware.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
We had a department that was dedicated to tracking the
problems with self checkouts. But of course, grocery stores have
struggled with how to staff the lanes while also securing
their products, and now Long Beach has shut down many
of their lanes entirely. At least four grocery stores in
(29:37):
Long Beach have shut down their self checkouts, at least
for the time being. New regulations are going to take
effect here. The City of Long Beach put out basically
a call for more staffing at checkouts, meaning one employee
could monitor no more than two self checkout lanes at once.
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The changes are at Vaughn's locations on Willow Broadway Spring Street.
I understand this. This is a tough thing.
Speaker 4 (30:12):
You know.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
There's a lot of there's a lot of crime, obviously,
and every single time I go there, I feel like
I'm stealing because I don't really know if I've done
it right. You either get the like bells and whistles
and it's making all kinds of noises, and then a
guy gotta walk over anyway and tap the screen, you know,
with this with this card, and then you get to
(30:34):
check out, or you're at like CVS and you get
a mile long receipt.
Speaker 3 (30:39):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (30:39):
It's a weird thing. And then you gotta look at
yourself in that in that camera. Oh what a pitiful
experience that is technology. It's the death of peace. Well
that'll do it for our eight o'clock hour. Stick with
us for the next hour because we're talking a little
bit more about those slang words that people like here
in California. We're gonna to actually hear from a legitimate
(31:02):
young person on whether or not people are saying those
slang words or if it's just something that the news
is made up. I always have this saying, whenever the
news gets on a thing about trends, it's over. Like
probably next month we'll hear about the rapture talk on
local news. Give us a call as always eight hundred
(31:23):
five two zero one five three four, or you can
reach us everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. It's KFI AM
six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio
Speaker 1 (31:32):
App KFI AM six forty on demand
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
I'm Andy Reesemeyer Infomo Kelly this evening, thanks for joining
us just past eight o'clock. You wouldn't believe my surprise, Brigitta,
when I woke up yesterday and then also today and
I found that the world had not ended.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Rapture talk was a lie. Did you see it coming?
Speaker 4 (00:25):
Or did you?
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Were you one of those who sold their car? I
knew it wasn't happening. You knew it wasn't gonna happen.
Speaker 5 (00:30):
But doesn't it kind of feel like every day where
we don't know lately? You know, all good conspiracy war
you know every day.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
I'm like all good conspiracy theories start with a grain
of truth. And rapture talk was trending over a couple
of days. It was because of a South African pastor
who said he had a vision in twenty eighteen that
the world was going to end, or at least the
world as we knew it was going to end sometime
on the twenty third, maybe twenty fourth. They were hedging.
(01:01):
Many people, like more people than you would think, got
into this legitimately, and just like we've seen in other
situations where people think that the world is going to end.
They sold their cars, maybe they quit their jobs, they
put their affairs in order, as they say. A lot
of people thought it was a joke. And you know,
(01:24):
the fun fact is that most predictions for the end
of the world don't come true. Actually, every prediction that
the world is ending does not come true, or has
not yet, at least in my world. Coming up in
just a little bit, Glenn Walker will join us at
eight thirty. That's great. He's from KTLA. He's a coworker
of mine, the person Tim Conway Junior called the.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Only good one at KTLA. He'll be here with us
at eight thirty. Plus.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
La is a margarita town. We're going to do MARGUERITEA
is by the numbers? What are people ordering out there
in this great city of angels? And is the Martini
threatening to push the margharita off the top spot for
most ordered drink? But some real news before we get
into that, Let'll take you back to the beginning of
(02:11):
January of this year. January seventh, the Palisades fire, the
Eaten fire. The county issued an independent review, or the
commissioned one. This is the County, remember, not the city.
It was called an independent after action report looking into
how we did with the Eton the Palisades fire response
(02:34):
and what did they find. Well, we didn't do great,
a lot of communication breakdowns, weaknesses, outdated policies. Not one
individual single point of failure, instead a series of weaknesses
including outdated policies, inconsistent practices, and communications vulnerabilities. They say
(02:58):
it didn't manifest un formally though, because of all the
complexities of where the fire was when started. They said
the Palisades actually fared better as far as getting people
out because Malibu deals with fire wildfires. They etn fire
(03:18):
started at night. Maybe people who live over there were
not expecting something like this to happen. One of the
major issues was those evacuation warnings and alerts. If you remember,
which I don't know how you'd ever forget, is if
you were anywhere outside of the evacuation zone that night,
(03:39):
if you were in La County, you probably got on
your phone that crazy loud sound that could mean anything
from an amber alert to an earthquake to your neighborhood's
about to burn down. People who weren't in the evacuation
area were notified that they needed to evacuate, and then
they had to go verify with the news media or
(04:02):
the watch Duty app to try to figure out if
it was actually real, because you just didn't know. We
had no idea what was going to happen. I remember
after the first round of real crazy wind in the
San Fernando Valley, which was probably six or seven pm
that night, I thought, Okay, maybe it's kind of over.
My neighbor's tree fell over and landed on their car.
(04:24):
That was crazy, but I thought, hey, maybe we're out
of the woods. Obviously we were not. Some residents in
Altadena reported receiving little or no warning before the fire
reached their neighborhood. Remember the fires in both Palisades and
Altadena killed thirty one people, destroyed sixteen thousand properties. But
(04:51):
they're basically confirming the rumor that we had all talked
about was a lot of people didn't know that they
had to leave. They didn't get the warnings, and we're
relying on these cit We don't have air raid sirens,
we don't have a guy running around knocking on the
door saying, all right, everybody, time to leave. We're relying
on our phones and those warnings. If they come and
they're not good or they're they're bunk, we're going to
(05:14):
ignore them. A bright point in the study was that
frontline responders, as we know, acted decisively in many cases
heroically in the face of those extraordinary conditions. The Board
of Supervisors will discuss the review and its findings and
recommendations at the board's regularly scheduled public meeting on Tuesday.
I'm sure we will hear more updates about that. I'm
(05:35):
curious what the city will say about this as far
as the Palisades goes. Didn't talk at all about the reservoir,
didn't talk at all about water pressure available fire trucks.
Very very interesting and not too soon. A wildfire Commission
(05:59):
now is going to discussed disaster rental assistance program. Oh
what nine almost ten months later, a fifteen member panel
will discuss eligibility criteria for a disaster release relief interim
income support program. The money is coming from ULA, which
is the mansion tax. Since twenty twenty two, that's generated
(06:25):
around eight hundred and thirty million dollars, and so there
is now an eleven million dollar income support program. One
point two million of that goes to administrative costs, but
some five hundred households will receive twenty thousand dollars an
aid for rent. This was all put into an effect
(06:47):
by La City Councilwoman Tracy Park, who introduced the motion
right after the fires happened. So they will now start
talking about that money out there to people. All right,
Lots going on here on the show, Like I said,
coming up, Glenn Walker will be joining us. We're going
(07:09):
to talk about Margarita's. Maybe we have time to talk
about margarita right now, or should we send it? We'll
send it to Brigitta. I think we'll do that Margarita's
when we come back on me.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
That's at least I can do, right Brigitta. Let's hope
so and the most I will do.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
I mean your rees myer INFROMO Kelly. Thanks for joining
us on this evening. It is Thursday, September twenty fifth.
If you'd like to be on the show, eight hundred
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You can also leave a message for us on the
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Speaker 3 (07:55):
You can do it again. But I like it. Just
do it off.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
They just see what happens. Don't try to make it
too fancy, you don't try to make it too serious.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
We don't want that.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
We want authenticity, and sometimes authenticity is messy. What makes
it more messy maybe a margarita or five, whether you
like it's spicy, salty, sometimes skinny. Los Angeles is a
margarita town. I've always suspected it one of those stupid
(08:28):
things that you have with your friends where you like
make a bet. It's like, what's the most ordered drink
in La? What's the most popular food in LA? I
think it's burgers. I know that it's a taco city.
I know we have got great food trucks, but I
think LA is a burger town. Margaritas, of course, are
sweet and tangy. They're born in Mexico, but they go
(08:48):
great with all kinds of food, and I think especially
when it's a hot, sweaty summer, you need that crisp,
sometimes spicy refreshment of a nice to La and limes
situation punch drink dot Com survey at a bunch of
bars on one summer night to see what La was drinking.
There's a place called Daisy in Sherman Oaks. It's a
(09:10):
relatively new place. It's over there in near the Sherman
Oaks Village, if you're familiar. On Ventura Boulevard next to
mister Furley's Bar. Four hundred and twenty four margaritas ordered
in one night at a restaurant in the Arts district
called Damiens, seventy percent of drinks ordered are Margarita's bar
(09:32):
Flora is an echo park squeezed out thirty two pitchers
and two hundred and twenty by the glass ritas. Even
at fancy cocktail bars like Thunderbolt, where you might think
people are bellying up for a dirty gin martini, one
fifth of drinks that are ordered are Margarita's. They've got
an everything but the kitchen sink. Margarita there. I'm sorry,
(09:55):
Martini there, but still fifth or marks. One third of
people put mess in their drinks. Skinny is still something
that is on the menu, but it is sort of
out of vogue. As for weird orders, somebody a Daisy
ordered a Casamigos and Jeho margarita with lime, lemon, orange
juice and citrus splenda.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
Yikes.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Can you imagine putting a cosa migos with a splenda?
Speaker 3 (10:22):
I can't.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
At barnextdoor on Sunset Boulevard, a common order is just lime,
juice and tequila in the glass, A skinny margarita of sorts, brigita.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
Are you a margarita fan?
Speaker 5 (10:37):
I can't drink hard liquor. Oh, sadly, it just doesn't
agree with me. I get hung over so easily. I'm
a lightweight. I'm half Asian. I think that has something
to do with it. Yeah, you know, process it.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
It's a tough thing, man.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
And I'll tell you what my twenty first birthday, I'll
tell you a quick story. We went up to Michigan
with my friends, just a bunch of boys and one
of the boys parents and they brought their dog and everything,
and their dog passed away on this trip. It was
the saddest thing ever, and we didn't know what to do.
(11:12):
We were with this family, and so one of our friends said,
I guess we'll just go start drinking. So he goes
and he gets a bottle of tequila. And again, I'm
twenty one. I had certainly never drank before. I had
not drunk much before. So he brings the bottle of
tequila back. And I don't know how to drink at
this point, and these guys are a little more advanced
(11:36):
as far as the boozing goes. I don't even think
I could do this now. But we basically sat there,
commiserated over our sadness for the death of this family pet,
and just took turns taking shots of tequila.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
Until the bottle was gone.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
What happened next, I'll never know, because I woke up,
or at least I was aware of the reality of
what had happened. About three hours later. We were up
in Michigan. As I said, it, like this lake house.
I'm laying in the in the sand, and I hear
one of my friends saying.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
I can't do it. I can't pee on Andy.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
That was the beginning of the worst night of my life.
And I think I threw up like a hundred times.
I didn't get peed on, thankfully. My friends are very responsible. Yes,
you know who he tried, he couldn't do it. For
some reason. The universe interceded and said, this is so undignified.
(12:48):
We aren't going to make this man suffer this way.
But it took me like ten years to drink tequila
after that, so I totally understand, and now that I
think about it, I don't want to have anymore. The
only rule about marguerite is I think I don't think
this is controversial.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
Take it anyway.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
You like mescal blanco and Jeho reposado, whatever, Just use
fresh lime.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
Just use a fresh line, fresh line, quantro, one line,
little quantro, a little tequila as you got a nice drink.
I'm so excited to talk to Glenn Walker. He's coming
up in just a little bit. I got one thing
I want to talk about before we get into that though.
Up in San Francisco, you know that's a techie kind
(13:37):
of city. We did a story about an app earlier.
They also have a lot of fun up there, tech fun.
Speaker 6 (13:47):
Listen, fighting robots going after it at Babe Breakers, Boxing
Jim and San Francisco.
Speaker 4 (13:53):
This crowd ain't messing around.
Speaker 6 (13:58):
Metal on met with these fighting wreck robots controlled by
players on a VR headset in this case UFC fighter
Heighter a Meal and MMA fighter Jessica Rose Clark.
Speaker 4 (14:10):
This is like a different kind of fighter.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
Yeah, it's not really fighting. You're you're putting on a
VR suit and having the robots beat each other up
using your moves.
Speaker 4 (14:20):
Different kind of fighting.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
Way different, way different.
Speaker 4 (14:24):
I've never done a single I've never had.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
A VR headset on before, let alone controlled a robot.
Fighting it on a robot.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
It was sick.
Speaker 6 (14:32):
Perhaps the sickest part of this fight was when not
one but both robots, well balanced on flat surfaces, came
crashing down as they stepped on a random keyboard thrown
in the ring.
Speaker 4 (14:46):
Who's went down for.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
This is great? We got nothing to worry about, friends.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Jesse's went down first, and in mind, dramatically after I've
been wanting to do that, you know, I you know, figuratively,
you know.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
By robots.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Robots are obviously insanely hard to do, and VR is
insanely hard to do. But if you then both right,
what you get is this ability to feel like you
are the robots.
Speaker 6 (15:11):
Each one of these rec robots weighs about eighty pounds.
Speaker 4 (15:16):
These things are heavy, even shaking the.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
He didn't need to do that, Virgina, He didn't need
to say that. He didn't need to do this.
Speaker 4 (15:24):
Eighty pounds. These things are heavy.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
Also like starry that guy's wife. Eighty pounds is heavy
to you.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
Dog.
Speaker 6 (15:36):
Eighty pounds, These things are heavy, even shaking the floor
of the ring a bit. The Wreck Company's dream is
to have sponsored robot fighters competing around the world. Come Friday,
these two rec robots will compete in their own sort
of octagon at San Francisco's Temple Nightclub. It's what's being
billed as the world's first VR controlled humanoid fights.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
We can only they've come down the five Freeway and
grace us with that kind of entertainment.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
And Andy Reesmeyer in for O Kelly on this Thursday evening.
Coming up in the show, Nate BERGATZI He's not gonna
be here, but we're talking about his I think not
super popular emmy bit why he says he didn't plan
on donating his own money for that boys and girls
club stunt. Plus what Southern California city is saying goodbye
(16:29):
to self check out. But First America's Anchorman, my friend
and yours Katla's Glenn Walker the third joining us here
on later with Mo Kelly with Andy Reesmeyer.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
Hello Glenn, Andy Restar, thank you.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
For taking time out of your busy evening.
Speaker 7 (16:50):
Oh let me tell you so.
Speaker 8 (16:52):
I live in Woodland Hills and Spectrum cable went out,
what which means also no internet. So my wife's been
watching on a phone and I've been reading a book.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
You can always listen to the radio. But I guess not.
I guess what does Glenn Walker read? Are you into
like a Colleen Hoover Little Verity.
Speaker 7 (17:18):
Mostly political books?
Speaker 3 (17:20):
I see? All right?
Speaker 2 (17:21):
Well, I wanted to ask you a couple of questions because,
contrary to popular belief, we work together.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
You wouldn't expect that. Maybe if you saw us on the.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
Street, but as sort of this anchorman who people know
and have known for a long time in southern California.
You know, I was thinking about this. You probably had
a real it was a real head trip back when
Anchorman the movie came out without naming names. Do you
know any stories of that are similar to that?
Speaker 7 (17:53):
Well, the movie was written by a former newswriter at
a station in San Diego, and when I used to
work at CBS two k Cow Harold Green was still
an anchor there. This was before your time, but I'm
(18:14):
sure anybody that's lived in LA or growing up in LA,
they know who Harold Green is. And Harold walked in
one day and he goes, hey, my, who is the
guy that started the movie?
Speaker 4 (18:27):
It was.
Speaker 7 (18:29):
Will Ferrell. Yeah, so he comes in, he goes he goes, yeah,
my old newswriter has a has written a movie called
Anchorman is coming out and it stars it's kind of
based on me, loosely and starring Colin Ferrell. Wow, Harold,
that's Will Fairly. Goes no, No, it's Colin Farley. Goes no, no,
it's Will Ferrel, the comedian he was. He was not
(18:51):
happy to hear that.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
Wow, he sounds exactly like the character.
Speaker 7 (18:57):
Oh my god, Oh yeah he was.
Speaker 4 (19:01):
You know.
Speaker 7 (19:02):
So it's funny because you know, he's one of those
guys back in the days when they used to make
like a Lilliam books a year to do local TV.
And I used to work with an anchor, Lena Winn,
and she used to say, yeah, we're members of the
ten years Too Late club. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
Really, well, because what now you're making two million a year, right.
Speaker 7 (19:18):
Yeah, in my dream.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
Well, I can't imagine you doing anything else because I
think about you and your sort of the hair and
the voice and the presence. What would Glenn Walker have
done had he not become a news anchor.
Speaker 7 (19:32):
Let's see, Originally I was gonna want to be a
high school teacher and be a baseball coach.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
I was just you.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
I could so see you have been a coach as well.
As soon as I said, I couldn't imagine he was
anything else. The idea of you being a coach was
exactly what popped into my head. So baseball though not football, No.
Speaker 7 (19:50):
It would be baseball.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
Yeah, And would you have been like, listen, guys, you
got to get it together? Like what would the disciplinary
practice be? Would you be a Jim Harbaugh type or
would you be an.
Speaker 7 (20:02):
Get it I don't know when I was a freshman's
when I was like a freshman's sophomore, when I thought
that's what I was going into. I coached a pony
League baseball team, which is like kids that are like
right after Little League, were like thirteen fourteen years old,
and one day we're having a practice and it was
just kind of it's just kind of wouldn't going good.
So I just walked over the car and pulled out
(20:23):
a football. We just played a sandwant football game.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
Oh that's a good motivator. What does he mean by that?
Speaker 7 (20:31):
I got it back on track. But I remember one
of the moms pulled up, She's like, what the heck's
get on here? Oh?
Speaker 3 (20:35):
Hey, let's thinking outside the box.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
You gotta think on your feet and do a lot
of kind of a lot of different kinds of things.
When you're calling a pursuit, what where where are you?
Are you ever thinking about anything else? Are you just
like locked in?
Speaker 7 (20:50):
Yeah? Pretty much you have to be. And you know,
somebody asked me how do you do that? I said, well,
you start with a nugget of information, then you get
another nugget and you kind of just talk in a circle.
So you just kind of talk, kind of come back
to where you were and because you know, people kind
of come in kind of recap of what's going on.
But I think, I mean, person, I think one of
the advantages I have is the fact that I was
(21:12):
a news reporter and I know a lot of the
streets and in the freeway, so I I can can't
kind of anticipate sometimes where they're going to go and
where you know, what their alternatives are to getting off
the freeway and where they be heading next.
Speaker 4 (21:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
Yeah, I'm taking notes right now so I know how
to do this the next time I have to do it. Okay,
anticipate where you're going next.
Speaker 4 (21:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (21:34):
Yeah, but you know, Lou, you know, Lou park and
I've been anchoring together for ten years now. Yeah, so
you know, you know, you just kind of one, you
just one one kind of starts talking, and then they
kind of run out of gas, you know, and kind.
Speaker 4 (21:46):
Of picks it up.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
And sometimes you guys, you guys are so on the
same page that sometimes you switch names.
Speaker 7 (21:53):
Do you remember that, Well, somebody's got to, so people
have called us glue.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
Yes, But do you remember the time when when you
said that you're I'm I'm Lou Parker.
Speaker 3 (22:08):
It is a great, great moment.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
And then I think you had a great joke after that,
say like, good thing I had Glenn Walker over here
to straighten me out or something like that.
Speaker 7 (22:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
Yeah, it's very very funny. So if if you can
remember back to the beginning, and I'll let you go
here in a minute, because I know you got to
get back to reading.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
One hundred and seven days I got, dude.
Speaker 7 (22:26):
I stayed with you till ten o'clock. I got nothing else.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
I think we'd have to start paying you if I have,
if I have you on too much after this? Uh,
do you remember your very first live shot or your
very first broadcast? And what was what was happening there?
Speaker 7 (22:40):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (22:40):
My god?
Speaker 7 (22:41):
Well, I started in the sports and I had I
went to Florida State University in Tallahassee, the state capital,
and I actually got a job coule ons of the
graduation at the station I interered at there in town.
I was the weekend sports anc and I remember the
first Saturday night I went on. I mean it was
like it was it was an air conditioned studio, was sweating,
(23:01):
and my heart was beating really fast, and it went
about as bad as you can imagine. And I remember
a couple of weeks later, my mom came into town
and I got done. You know, I kept my third time,
and I go, so, what do you think? She goes
you need some practice?
Speaker 3 (23:17):
WHOA, Well, your mom.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
Thankfully you had a mom who was going to tell
it to you straight, because there's a lot of kids
out there, you know, a lot of moms out there
just said no, you're really got honey, and then they
never get any better, and maybe you would still be
doing that job exactly. Well, I appreciate, I appreciate you
calling as always. It's great to talk to you. Go Dodgers.
What do you think and are you happy with the
way things turned out today?
Speaker 7 (23:39):
Well, you know what, they won the division. I think
their pitching is coming around finally, you know, everybody's getting
healthy at just the right time. And then I'd love
to see I'd love to see a Dodger's Yankees rematch.
That would be tough for me because Max reed, Ace
pitcher for the Yankees from Encino, is one of my
(24:02):
son's best friends and his parents are friends of mine,
so when he pitches is kind of I can't root
against Max. It's kind of weird.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
A house divided, Yes, yeah, yes, Well, mister Edward Walker
the Third, thank you so much for colling and we'll
talk to you very soon. You can catch him every
day Monday through Friday, starting at eleven am all the
way until four pm on KTLA channel five. And uh,
maybe out there at what what's your favorite restaurant out
(24:32):
there in the in the West Valley.
Speaker 7 (24:35):
Out here in the valley, I'm having a brave heart it. Hey, babe,
what's our steak out? Monty's Monty Okay, good, all right,
all right, well really old school.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
If you remember it next time, maybe they'll put a
little sign on your table next time. All Right, Glenn,
thank you so much for calling. There, he goes Glenn Walker.
Speaker 7 (24:55):
Love that. I'll see you the Salt Mine tomorrow morning.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
There we go, see you tomorrow morning. Yeah, I know
we got to go to bed man still too late.
All right, coming up, we're going to talk a little
bit more about what's happening here in Los Angeles. That's
a good generic tease, right checking in on the story
with that rapper David. That is crazy.
Speaker 3 (25:15):
Also a woman.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
As a family who's struggling with the death of their
mom because she's still alive.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
It's later with mo Kelly and Andy Reesemeyer in for
mo Kelly. This is an interesting thing.
Speaker 3 (25:33):
Okay. So today is September twenty.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
Fifth, which would have been the one hundred and first
birthday for my grandfather. He passed away about four years ago,
and I think about him all the time. But I've
been thinking about him a lot because today's birthday, and
I just wanted to tell you a little about him.
He was a World War Two veteran. He was injured
(25:58):
in the Battle of the Bulge. He got a purple heart,
moved eventually landed outside of Chicago, where he had my
dad and my aunts. He retired after being an engineer
for a long time and then became like the greatest
grandpa of all time. Made the best scrambled eggs I've
(26:21):
ever had in my life. You can't convince me any
Michelin star chef made a better scrambled egg than this guy.
I don't know how the texture was. It was as
if it was a cloude. I don't know how the
physics of it worked. He was an engineer, also was
a remarkable crossword puzzle doer. He found a website that
(26:45):
had some like forty thousand puzzles or something like that,
and he was determined to work through as many as
he could, and at the time that he died at
ninety six, he had completed twenty three thousand of those
forty thousand crosswords, and he probably had done I mean,
would do like a few a day. He'd get all
the papers. I mean he'd do them all, So I'm
sure he did well more than forty thousand. My brother
(27:11):
and I were kind of our own the own only
grandkids for a long time, and so we got all
the attention. We got all the grandparent attention, and we
used to go up to their place outside of Chicago
and spend weeks weeks with them, just like exploring and
doing cool stuff. And he was a woodworker and he
would build computers and had this incredible record collection. He
(27:40):
had all this big band stuff, these great turntables and stereos,
and he had an organ that he and my grandma
would play, like this old organ with tubes. You know,
you had to flip it up and wait till the
tubes had heat up before it would start going. And
(28:00):
after he died, they got rid of a lot of
the stuff. But I was lucky enough to grab that organ,
the Hammond organ. I shipped it all the way to
la when I got a stereo and some of his records,
and I put it in one of the rooms in
my house. And when I unwrapped everything out of the
(28:25):
boxes that they came in, set it all up and
made the house smell like my grandparents' house, and all
those memories came flooding back. And so I still have
all that stuff, and every once in a while when
I missed those guys, I go pop in that room
and just take a deep brush. So Herman Hreesmeyer Happy Birthday.
(28:49):
September twenty fifth, nineteen twenty four, one hundred and one
years old.
Speaker 3 (28:54):
He would have been ninety six.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
Is pretty good. You can't ask for more than ninety six.
Told you a little earlier about the slow death of
the self checkout. Here's the headline on ktla dot com.
For months, KTLA has been tracking the problems with self
checkouts across the country.
Speaker 3 (29:12):
I did not know this. I was unaware.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
We had a department that was dedicated to tracking the
problems with self checkouts. But of course, grocery stores have
struggled with how to staff the lanes while also securing
their products, and now Long Beach has shut down many
of their lanes entirely. At least four grocery stores in
(29:37):
Long Beach have shut down their self checkouts, at least
for the time being. New regulations are going to take
effect here. The City of Long Beach put out basically
a call for more staffing at checkouts, meaning one employee
could monitor no more than two self checkout lanes at once.
(30:01):
The changes are at Vaughn's locations on Willow Broadway Spring Street.
I understand this. This is a tough thing.
Speaker 4 (30:12):
You know.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
There's a lot of there's a lot of crime, obviously,
and every single time I go there, I feel like
I'm stealing because I don't really know if I've done
it right. You either get the like bells and whistles
and it's making all kinds of noises, and then a
guy gotta walk over anyway and tap the screen, you know,
with this with this card, and then you get to
(30:34):
check out, or you're at like CVS and you get
a mile long receipt.
Speaker 3 (30:39):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (30:39):
It's a weird thing. And then you gotta look at
yourself in that in that camera. Oh what a pitiful
experience that is technology. It's the death of peace. Well
that'll do it for our eight o'clock hour. Stick with
us for the next hour because we're talking a little
bit more about those slang words that people like here
in California. We're gonna to actually hear from a legitimate
(31:02):
young person on whether or not people are saying those
slang words or if it's just something that the news
is made up. I always have this saying, whenever the
news gets on a thing about trends, it's over. Like
probably next month we'll hear about the rapture talk on
local news. Give us a call as always eight hundred
(31:23):
five two zero one five three four, or you can
reach us everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. It's KFI AM
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