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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, it's Neil Savedra.
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out and about today as we're celebrating the Oscars tomorrow,
the ninety seventh Oscars Academy Awards tomorrow, we're here at
the Academy Museum at Wiltshire and Fairfax.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
And we're in Fannies. What a cool location.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Fannies is the restaurant and cafe here inside the Academy
and they've got a beautiful patio area.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
They have this great area inside. You know. The interesting thing.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
About how this is set up here is we're actually
in this little alcove, this little round that faces the
intersection of Wilshire and Fairfax, and it is it was
originally it was gosh, I'm trying to think of the
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makeup company and this used to be a lipstick. This
whole round was back during that time where architecture mimicked
actual items. LA was big for that, and whether it
is you know, tail of the pop or things like that.
There was a camera place down the street. I think
that was shaped like a camera as well. Still might
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be there though, that kind of architecture. And right now
you've got Dean Sharp probably screaming at the radio as
to what it's called.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
But AnyWho, we're.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Talking about food and the cocktails here. It's funny we
had on earlier. We had Luciana on who was a
bartender here who created ten drinks, ten cocktails celebrating the
movie the Best Movie and the nominees. Right, and someone
hit me up on social media about her voice, and
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she really I don't want to use the term doll
because it sounds so demeaning, like a guy she was
a doll, but she really she just had a cool vibe,
these great glasses really into.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
What she did, and that was cool of her to
hang out.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Of course, we talked to Eric Klein, chef Eric Klein
with Wolf kingk Puck and all his business today, and
we spent time with Jimmy the GM who just I
just love everything about this place and it's not far
from home, which is nice.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Well, Kayla's like it's even closer for me.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
I just made new friends so, and speaking of new friends,
Derek Young who is with Van Oaks Props. He is
a prop maker himself and he is a YouTuber. You
can find him on YouTube at van Oaks Props. I
encourage you to check it out. He's doing something really cool.
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He like me, is a fan of Star Wars and
he makes a lot of Star Wars props. As a
matter of fact, I just purchased one of his beautiful
pieces of work, the IG.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Eighty eight head on a stand.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
It just is a It's a droid from the Star
Wars films and actually part of the canteen as well.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
That is great. Yeah, but.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
I really love buying other artists stuff, having it for
inspiration and just brings me joy. And this piece is
it has become my favorite thing. I walk into my
shop and see it. But you've built something recently that
I had the pleasure of holding and seeing too, And
it's a helmet from Star Wars with a different twist.
Tell us about that.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
So, after the fires here in Los Angeles, the Star
Wars maker community decided that they wanted to participate and
do a charity auction to help raise some funds for
people in need and what better way to do that
than through costuming and props. And so the piece that
you were holding is an X wing fighter pilot helmet
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that has a firefighter esthetic to it. My thinking when
I was working on it was what would this look
like if a firefighter had to wear this rather than
a typical firefighter's helmet. And so myself in about thirty
to forty other makers have gotten together and we're all
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doing custom helmets that will then be auctioned off to
support Pasadena Humane Society, the World Central Kitchen, and the
California Fire Foundation.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
That's awesome.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Now, I know it was going to start tomorrow or something,
and they pushed it off.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
They did because something.
Speaker 4 (04:44):
The response has been so positive that there are new
artists asking to join to participate in this fundraising activity.
So I think by pushing it a couple of weeks,
it gave some folks more time to get involved and
to do their part to help other people.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
So you talk about the firefighter aesthetic, I know that
what that means because I held it, I saw you
make it. You know, I watched from following you on
YouTube talk about the color choices and some of the
thoughts that went through your mind when you were putting
it together.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
Sure, the first thing that came to mind when they
pitched the idea that all of these helmets would be
themed after firefighters in someway or another, I should say
first responders, not specifically firefighters, but for me, it was their.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Sort of khaki firefighter.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
Uniforms with the neon yellow stripe and the reflective band
and the grit and grime that would have accumulated from
battling fires like we've seen here in Los Angeles. And
so my thinking was to take that color scheme and
to take that overall aesthetic but apply it to something
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that wasn't a jacket or pant. And so the color
choices were, you know, khaki and lime green, and I
was able to kind of work in a lot of
the dirt and the wear that I would assume would
accumulate on a firefighter's helmet when battling fires to this magnitude,
and so I really wanted to kind of drive that home.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Yeah, seeing it now, for those that love prop making
and all these things, know the term weathering very well.
Weathering is a part of an aesthetic that makes it
look used. One of the big things about Star Wars
that was especially in its timeframe. You go to the
early sixties and when it came to sci fi, it
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was this a circular polished white chrome or metallic. It
was very clean, and so here comes Star Wars. You
get this what they call the used universe aesthetic. So
you weathered it to make it look like it had
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been it had been used to use some techniques to
build up ash or you know this weather ring.
Speaker 4 (07:11):
Yeah, it's it's a subtle art form that can get
away from you kind of quickly, but is one of
those things that when you can really bring it home,
I think it tells a story. And as much as
this is about supporting these communities through art, essentially, you
also want to tell the story of what some of
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these fire companies would have gone through. And I use
this helmet as an opportunity to do so by really
bringing in you know, burn marks and ash and grime
and all the things that you have seen in pictures
of the burn areas. Like I tried to bring that
into the overall look of this helmet to really sort
of remind people what we're doing this for.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
So how can people bid, how can people find out more?
Speaker 1 (07:58):
How can people support this off.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
So the easiest way to stay abreast of the auction,
which is now slated for March twenty third, is to
follow La strikes Back on Instagram, or you can also
go to Lastrikesback dot com and all of the information
will be there, or if you want to give me
a follow on any social platform, I will be sharing
it and.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
My social name is at van Oaks Props.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
And that's great, so they can if they want to
bid on yours. And I got to tell you, as
sexy and cool as it looks on camera, holding it
and seeing the details and the subtleties on it is
really really cool, So I encourage you to do that
Van Oaks propsvan Oaks Props on social media and on
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YouTube as well as La strikes Back is going to
be the auction is going to be going off on
the twenty third of this month.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
We are now in March, by the way, rolling out.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
Of the first first quarter soon, but I encourage you
to check it out. It's a neat way to have
a tangible reminder of some of the things that took
place during the fires, and also the art and the
talent we have here and a great cause really but
it's a cause that you can donate and have something
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to hold as a reminder as well. Stick around more
to come as we broadcast live our special Oscars show,
how about that that we're doing before the Academy Awards tomorrow.
We're broadcasting live from Fannies here in the Academy Museum
at the corner of Wiltshire and Fairfax. We still got,
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oh just a little under an hour to go before
our friend Tiffany Hobbs comes on, So go know where
Neil Savedra KFI.
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By A six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. Heverybody,
Neil Savager here as we're broadcasting live from Fannies Restaurant
and Cafe. Well, thank you you stop it over there
because of the Oscars are tomorrow, and where better to
be than at the Academy Museum right across from the
Peterson Museum, which is a stunner as well. So you've
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got these great places. This is a great area to
be able to just park the car and walk around.
They've got I am really impressed with what they're doing
here at Fanny's and thrilled to be a part of
it today and taste the food, which was phenomenal. It's
gorgeous too, and the plating, the color choices, the ingredients
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just are absolutely excellent. So we've been enjoying that here.
Funny thing about Fannies is it's named after Fanny Bryce.
I was talking to Bert, our engineer about this. She
was a comedian actress in the twenties through the thirties there,
famously known for her radio and film appearances.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
So you got to love that.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
And the restaurant plays tribute to this funny lady and
the movie Funny Girl. It's a movie about Fanny Bryce,
as a matter of fact, and it was played by
Barbara Streisan, as we all know. But in order to
understand the restaurant, you got to understand the beauty of
old Hollywood and who Fanny was. And she found humor
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in all kinds of things, you know, in life ups,
downs and all those things. And she didn't take herself
too seriously, unlike you know firefighters that are driving by
right now that are probably going somewhere serious. But I
love that and I kind of lived by that. I've
told you before that my brother Craig, when I was crying.
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I was a pretty young kid. He said, come here, buddy.
He actually calls me Pie which is short for pie face,
which is the nickname because my face is round. And
he took me into the bathroom and I'm crying, and
he said. He turns on the light and he goes,
look at yourself. Look how stupid you look when you cry.
And I started laughing, and he just reminded me that
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in all things, there's humor, and life is, you know,
in its ups and downs, it's still pretty funny. And
I love that they've used that to name this place
after it really speaks to it. And the whimsical art
on the walls, and the attitude really is through everything,
and the approachable food yet the level of sophistication is
really nice. So I'm here with my friend Derek. Derek
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Young is a prop maker and a fan of props.
He's a designer and an artist and I love his
work and I love watching his YouTube videos keep me
company on many a day and night as I'm working
in my own shop. And I encourage you to check
out Van Oaks Props. They're on social media and also
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on YouTube because he just I.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
Love him the way he breaks things down.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
If you've ever thought about, ah, I want to do
you know a Halloween scene at the house this year.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
It's a great place to start if you love Star Wars.
Great place.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
And of course the La Strikes Back auction that's coming
up on the twenty third, where mini makers are coming
together making these custom xwing helmets to raise money for.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
The Pasadena Why did I just.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
Blank Altadena and the Palisade fires.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
Yeah, but the Pasadena exciety thank you. So it's really
cool and you can check that out there.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
Props.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
When you're watching a film and a prop is not right,
it's not weather or whatever, it takes you out right,
it takes your It can take you right out.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
Of the film.
Speaker 4 (13:42):
It's challenging to be a prop maker and to have
spent countless hours looking at the minutia of screen used
props to see something on screen that just doesn't fit.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Yeah, And there's almost two reactions to seeing a prop
in person sometimes and it's either, Wow, this is so
under detailed. I wouldn't have expected that, you know, it's
almost a piece of crap. And then the other side
is Wow, this has way more detail.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
Than ever made it on screen.
Speaker 4 (14:12):
Yes, yeah, it's it is the benefit and the curse
of pre and post high definition world.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
Oh yeah, because.
Speaker 4 (14:20):
Seeing some of the older props, you could get away
with a lot, and now that everything is high de
F from four K and eight K, all of the
little details really matter now. And it's great, especially to
have museums like the Academy Museum where you can see
these things up close and personal and really get to
appreciate all of the labor that goes into these things
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that may spend seconds on screen.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
You know. I watched recently as someone who made the weaponry,
a lot of the weaponry for Men in Black, which
is the first min in Black I think is a
wonderful film, and a lot of really cool props in
the going with that all chromed look from the small
to the big.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
And he I can't remember his name.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
But he was so giddy still to this day talking
about all these props and how they were made and
how they had like a hero prop, which is one
that you know close ups or functions or does things,
and then there's background ones. And he was showing all
these things that had half a second of film time.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
Oh my, how do you do that?
Speaker 2 (15:27):
I mean, to be able to build something then it
maybe it doesn't even seem the light.
Speaker 4 (15:31):
Today, it's really interesting, but it speaks to having sort
of that temperament and drive towards making the impossible possible. Yeah,
it's I think that's why I've been drawn to props
for my entire life. I've worked many different careers over
my years alive, but this one, even doing stuff that's
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like specifically for YouTube or doing stuff for collectors that
may be there, really is just something about it that
speaks to me and is is so it fills me
up creatively because it's like part history, it is part
ingenuity and art. It's all of the things that like
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really makes our brains work. And so every week it's
like an opportunity to kind of do that stuff over
and over again.
Speaker 5 (16:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (16:25):
So it's it's fun, but it really does take a
certain person to do it, knowing that sometimes all of
your hard work may not ever see the light of day.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Yeah, and you know what, I'll say this for when
we come back, I have a question for you. Of
talking with Derek Young from Van Oaks Props, you can
find him on social media, and of course he is
a YouTuber as well and can be found on YouTube,
which is where I came across him, and I've really
enjoyed it. We've struck up a friendship since because we
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have a lot of similarities and things that we love.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
We come back, we'll talk about.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
Found art, like seeing props in everyday objects that you can't.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Can't have them look like that, they have to look
like something different.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
When we come back, as we broadcast live from Fannies
here in Los Angeles, just a couple miles away from
where the Oscars will take place tomorrow. So stick with us.
We've got about thirty minutes more to hang out today
talking about films and props and food and all those things.
Today on the Fork Report, I'm Neil Savedra. This is
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KFIM six forty.
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CAFI.
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AM six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. Hey everybody,
it's a Fork Report, all things Food, beverage and beyond.
Hanging out here at Fanny's Restaurant and Cafe.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
What a cool joint.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
This is you know, this is like, this has this
quintessential Hollywood vibe to it, and I just love it.
And it's right here in the Academy Museum, which you
got to check out if you're a fan of films,
movie making, and you know what we love here in Hollywood,
And fingers crossed that the powers that be will get
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it together with their tax breaks and everything to keep
filmmaking here where it belongs. You know, God bless Canada
and all. I just don't want to see Toronto for
La when we have in La right here.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
Seems kind of all I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
Any who, talking with Derek Young from van Oaks Props
and you got to check them out as social media
van Oaks Props and also on YouTube. I love his
YouTube channel. It inspires me to create. It has really
set my pace for twenty twenty five to get back
to my roots creating, of which you and I share
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some commercial artists, a graphic designer. Yeah, we both come
from that background and probably could talk fonts and type
faces more than most people would ever want to talk
or hear about indeed. But uh, you know, my brother
Craig and my brother Scott and I we've all done
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commercial art in the past, and we used to back
in the day when you know, you didn't have computers
with all the fonts on them and all of your
typefaces at the ready. We would test each other on
fonts because they would make book books of fonts. I
mean you'd have them right in from front of you.
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Letra said all that whatever it was, and then you
would and we'd test, what's this one. Okay, I see
that it's a sans serif, so I'm gonna think that
it's gonna you know, it's like and we'd you know,
that kind of geeky thing and be able to call
out Pantone colors at the ready as well.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
So when we were.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
Going to the news there, uh, there's something about visual
seeing things as something else. This is more more than
just looking up the clouds and going it looks like
a elephant.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
Sure.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Found props was some of our most beloved films, Star
Wars being one of them that was at the cornerstone,
I mean just talking about the lightsaber. Luke's lightsaber, right,
was a found prop.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
Talk about that.
Speaker 4 (20:21):
Yeah, So what makes so much of the Star Wars
weapon esthetic is that it comes from existing items. So
for example, Luke Skywalker's lightsaber is an old flash handle
from a camera, which, now that people who own them
know that that's what they're used for, you can't buy
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one for you a reasonable amount.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
But all sorts of stuff like that is.
Speaker 4 (20:46):
What was then turned into a variety of props throughout
all of the movies, even up to current day. So
for example, like the IG eighty eight head that you
are now in possession of is a Rolls Royce Derwent
flame engine from a I believe from an airplane. Who
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would have known this, Yeah, except for the prop makers
who decided to go out to a junk yard and
just look at objects and think what could this be?
Speaker 1 (21:18):
And they used it for multiple things. So it stands
like a lights or.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
A liquid dispenser or something from the.
Speaker 4 (21:26):
Yeah, I tryed to sort of in the bar area
in the canteena and it has been over many of
their properties.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
But yeah, it's it's both that. It's uh.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
And then they needed a robot.
Speaker 4 (21:38):
Ahead of a assassin draw and they said what about
those things that we have? But that is the thing,
you know, they discuss it openly in the movies, where
things are just sort of cobbled together with the stuff
that was laying around and didn't make Uh, they didn't
go out of their way to hide that. They kind
of wove it into the story.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
Yeah, And sometimes it's just a different color or they're
all of flat white or something in the back and
they're just a And of course, the one of the
most famous in the Star Wars film props that was
not so hidden was the ice cream maker. Yes, so
those of you that are familiar with the films, there's
a scene on Cloud City, I believe, yes, Empire strikes back.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
So there you've got someone running around a corner holding
this gadget of some kind and it's it's an old
ice cream maker, right And now now it actually is.
They've made a prop out of it, and it's been
used in Mandalorian and you can actually buy one that
at Disneyland that works as as like a safe. It
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has a code that you put in it and it
opens up and.
Speaker 4 (22:47):
Correct or you know, if you want to go to
the store and buy an ice cream maker.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
You can still get them. There's still made.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
Yeah, but the problem is, like you said, once people know, right,
then one of the other things in the power button
of the light saber is the little lens, the little
half dome lens. I actually brought a remake for Derek.
My guest right now is Derek Young from Van Oaks Props.
I brought one for him because when I was at
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his shop the other day, he was making a lightsaber
and I'm like, oh, I think I have a couple
of those home, So I brought him one. Then save
you the time of printing one out. But that was
from a calculator current Texas Instruments or something calculator from
back in the day.
Speaker 4 (23:34):
Yeah, which again impossible to find by today's standards, so
much so that the fan community has gone into making
reproductions of these parts because you just can't find them anywhere.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
And if you do, they're expensive as hell.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
Exactly.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
It's ridiculous because people know what their value is. So
when you walk around I came. One of my next
projects at home is I have carried with me from
multiple moves and everything else in my life a tea pot,
an old tea bot pot from the seventies that my
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mom had, and she was going to toss out that
I made into a robot head. Now, the other parts
of the body have gone away, so this droid head
is all I have left. It's so old that it
has like old Christmas lights and incandescent bulbs some LEDs too.
I started learning about LEDs I think when I was
about eight, and you could get like two colors red
and green and think back.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
At the time.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
But so I'm going to clean it up and I'm
finally gonna finish it. I'm gonna take it apart and
do it. And one of the things on there is
a found part, and it was the synthetic plastic quirks
from cheap Champagne that have this kind of fins on
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them and you could put light under them and you
shove them into.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
The whatever the base was.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
Do you still see when you walk by a part
or some of you still go, oh my gosh, that
would make a great all the something or other all
the time junkstre you know, shops, garage sales.
Speaker 4 (25:08):
Yeah, it really doesn't matter where I'm at it. I
literally could just be sitting here with you and see
something and kicking around like, oh, the old rubber feet
on these chairs in front of us, Like, I bet
you that would be just the perfect touch for blank.
It is kind of weird though, because you start bordering
on the edge of like hoarding.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
Yeah, I know my wife is very concerned about that
because she's here too. Thank you, love for understanding. I
love you so much.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
I'm sorry for being a bad influence.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
Yeah, he's now my dealer because he's got cool stuff.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
I'm like, I want that. Yeah, well, honey, it's it's
not like I'm you know, buying these massive brick pillars
until he moves in a year. But uh, the you know,
when we come back, we'll talk about Halloween stuff sure
as well, because that ties into the movies and also
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the spookiness. And I know that this year for the
Academy Awards, there's actually a horror film ish right, that
is nominated, which I think is the first time ever.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
All Right.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
Derek Young is my guest with Van Oaks Props. Please
check them out on social media. Also, his YouTube channel,
Van Oaks Props, is fantastic.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
It's a great watch. He goes through.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
Painting techniques, building techniques, tools and things to use.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
He does Halloween stuff.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
He does replicas of movie props and Star Wars stuff,
including a helmet that is going to go up for
auction on the twenty third of this month for a
great cause to raise money for various charities dealing with
and helping with those that were victims of the major
fires we had at the beginning of January.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
So you can check that out via his social media
as well. I'm going to be keeping an eye on
it myself.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
All right, we'll be back with more from Fannies Broadcasting
live right next to the Academy, right in really the
belly of the Academy Museum here in Los Angeles.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
This is Kfi'm Neil Savedra.
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You're listening to The Fork Report with Neil Savedra on
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I am your well fed host, Neil Savadra.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
How do you do?
Speaker 2 (27:29):
A big, huge thank you to Fanny's at the Academy
Museum of Motion Pictures. What a treat The hospitality has
been insane. Thank you to everybody who has treated us
so well. And Jimmy, the general manager, is just a stud.
But I this is my recommendation to you if you're
in Orange County and you're doing a day trip, come
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out great area.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
You can see the museum here, get.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
Some food, walk across the street to the Peterson Museum,
which is phenomenal as well. Just a art museums here.
There's tons to do and you can enjoy yourself if
you hear long enough, and for multiple meals you can
come have one of them here. Desconso is down the
street and phenomenal as well. So just a lot that
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you can enjoy out here. Any last thoughts Derek before
we send people away, and I talked to Tiffany coming
up shortly.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
Now, Oh that was well done. So brief.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
That's Derek Young in his precise way. But really I
encourage you to check out his work. He is a
prop maker and an artist and I'm a big fan
of his work. It inspired me to really look at
twenty twenty five different and remind myself why I do
anything I do. And it didn't matter where I worked.
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I worked at, you know, Kinko's. I still focused on
connecting with people, doing art, creating things, making things the
radio station.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
Hell, even when I.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
Worked at a correctional facility, when I had to take
someone down.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
I did it with art. And flair.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
Why am I not surprised by that?
Speaker 2 (29:12):
No one ever is, sadly but all of it. So
it's really taken me back to creativity as well. So
check us stuff out at Van Oaks Props Van Oaks
Props on social media and of course on his YouTube channel.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
And look into that helmet that he made, the X wing.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
Fighter helmet that is modified with a tip of the
hat to first responders and firefighters. I love the little
embellishment you put the little seal on the back of
the helmet as well.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
The little is very cool.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
So check that out and bid on it if you
are interested. Tiffany Hobbs, my friend. What's coming up?
Speaker 6 (29:54):
Hello Nio, Good afternoon to you.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
Hi.
Speaker 6 (29:58):
I kind of feel like there there's some sort of
plan that you guys have put in place, you and
super producer Kayla where that when I'm here, you're not
And I don't like that.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
It's not on purpose.
Speaker 6 (30:10):
It feels deliberate.
Speaker 5 (30:11):
Now.
Speaker 6 (30:11):
I want to be with you guys.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
I love me some, Tiffany, I love me some.
Speaker 6 (30:16):
Neil, and I love Kayla, and I miss you guys here.
You sound like you're having so much fun.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
No, it's boring. Say it's boring. Oooh, it's boring.
Speaker 6 (30:24):
It sounds like fun, Neil. It sounds like you're lying, Tiffany.
Speaker 3 (30:27):
I was sitting my cocktail and bike the girl.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
I am so.
Speaker 6 (30:29):
Bored over here, and I wish I was in the
studio there with you last week Marongo and Margarita day
today drinking and burgers.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
I mean, you know, Okay, I'm a big guy. They
say you want to do a show. I said, yeah,
let's make it about food. Okay, that's the.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
Reality you want to co host. So I'll tell you what.
You know what, you're the one that chooses general talk.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
You want to talk about horrible things, talking about you know, Trump, bullying.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
A leader, set the flagpole or.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
Stands out the school, then you go and do that.
I'm going where the free food is.
Speaker 6 (31:04):
Well, let me tell you I'm not. I'm not talking
about that today because we don't have enough time to
get into what happened between Zelenski and President Trump. There
are plenty of opportunities for that to be talked about.
We are not talking about that today, but thank you.
But since you are there in the mid Wilshire area,
did you hear about that guy who was pulled out
(31:24):
of his car by the group of bicyclists and.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
Yeah, yeah, yet that's actually not far from here.
Speaker 4 (31:31):
It's not.
Speaker 6 (31:31):
It's right down the street in Hancock Park And there's
up there updates to that story and the victim, the
guy is talking. So we have some audio from that
that we will be playing and getting into the updates.
They caught a couple of people, so that is an
ever developing story as well. We're going to get into
some updates about what's going on with Chief Crowley. The
(31:52):
lines are being drawn in the sand, who's on her side,
who's not, And there are more people emerging on the
who's on her side side, and I'll tell you about
who and what groups those are. Sadly, if you're in
the San Fernando Valley, her home burglaries are on the rise,
knock knock burglaries. I'll give you some updates and ways
to keep your home and your property safe. There are
(32:15):
some surprising tips about surveillance cameras, what kinds you should get,
and what you should be doing. At five point thirty,
we have Rick Polizzi coming on. He's the producer of
the Simpsons who created that really cool tree house Yeah,
you've eve been seeing about that. It's beautiful. It's modeled
after the Simpsons episode or our Halloween series Treehouse of Horror.
(32:36):
He's coming on at five point thirty to tell us
why the city is demanding he take it down or else,
and hopefully that or else will turn into him being
able to keep it up just a little bit longer.
We also have Judy Mancuso of animal advocacy organization Social
Compassion coming on at six to talk about some legislation
(32:58):
they are working on in California that will help our
furry friends. Then for our second deeper dive segment, we're
starting this deeper dive segment. What is the fentinyl fold?
The fentonyl fold?
Speaker 1 (33:12):
Is that a dance?
Speaker 6 (33:13):
It sounds like a dance. It might even look like
a dance if you if you see a group of
these people doing the fentanyl fold. But no, I will
tell you what it is and why. The optics are
terrible for the city of la especially as we get
closer to the Olympics and the other big events.
Speaker 1 (33:30):
The optics are bad for LA.
Speaker 6 (33:32):
Right now, the optics are a little bad.
Speaker 1 (33:35):
Can't we just fire the head of a department.
Speaker 6 (33:37):
I'm I'm definitely advocating for that starting I.
Speaker 2 (33:41):
Think you did it, by the way, Evan Levitt, Yes
from from a LA minute. Yeah, is a friend and
his house was burglarized yesterday.
Speaker 6 (33:53):
I'm going to be talking about that in conjunction with
these home burglaries, and that this popular person is doing
all this wonderful work, somebody who probably should hold a
public office and be in a position of leadership. He's
amazing how his own home was burglarized. And then, lastly,
what happens if you die on a plane? What do
they do with your body? I'll tell you what they.
Speaker 4 (34:12):
Do with your body.
Speaker 3 (34:14):
Stop?
Speaker 1 (34:15):
Stop everything. We just had a great food. Don't happen.
We're talking about props and stars.
Speaker 3 (34:24):
Probably pretty nicely.
Speaker 6 (34:25):
If you're lucky, they'll keep you in a seat, nice
and cozy until your land potential ugly, you're there and
I'm mad.
Speaker 1 (34:32):
So you serve what you get.
Speaker 2 (34:34):
You deserve it, and I'm gonna eat Barada now.
Speaker 6 (34:39):
I hope you get gas, really bad gas on the
way home.
Speaker 2 (34:44):
Safe bet actually really halbs coming to ruin your world.
Moments from them, But she'll do it in a smart,
lovely way, because that's who she is up next. Thanks
by thanks everybody for hanging out. The big tip of
the hat to everybody to hear at Fannies. They were
just really really kind to Natas Nastasia my friend, and
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also to this one Kla over here for putting everything together,
Bert behind the board, making it happen in these two
knuckleheads for coming out eating food.
Speaker 1 (35:17):
You love it, don't you. Working with me is always
a joy.
Speaker 2 (35:20):
All right, Folks, I have a wonderful one. Be empathetic,
be kind to each other, and remember to each your vegetables. Yeah,
Nil Savadri KFI and KOSTHD two Los Angeles, Orange Counting.
You've been listening to the Fork Report, You can always
hear us live on KFI AM six forty two to
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(35:41):
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Hey, it's Neil Savedra.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty, the four Report
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
Six forty Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio App.
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Hey everybody, Neil Savedra here, your friendly neighborhood folk reporter
out and about today as we're celebrating the Oscars tomorrow,
the ninety seventh Oscars Academy Awards tomorrow, we're here at
the Academy Museum at Wiltshire and Fairfax.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
And we're in Fannies. What a cool location.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Fannies is the restaurant and cafe here inside the Academy
and they've got a beautiful patio area.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
They have this great area inside. You know. The interesting thing.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
About how this is set up here is we're actually
in this little alcove, this little round that faces the
intersection of Wilshire and Fairfax, and it is it was
originally it was gosh, I'm trying to think of the
(01:03):
makeup company and this used to be a lipstick. This
whole round was back during that time where architecture mimicked
actual items. LA was big for that, and whether it
is you know, tail of the pop or things like that.
There was a camera place down the street. I think
that was shaped like a camera as well. Still might
(01:25):
be there though, that kind of architecture. And right now
you've got Dean Sharp probably screaming at the radio as
to what it's called.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
But AnyWho, we're.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Talking about food and the cocktails here. It's funny we
had on earlier. We had Luciana on who was a
bartender here who created ten drinks, ten cocktails celebrating the
movie the Best Movie and the nominees. Right, and someone
hit me up on social media about her voice, and
(02:01):
she really I don't want to use the term doll
because it sounds so demeaning, like a guy she was
a doll, but she really she just had a cool vibe,
these great glasses really into.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
What she did, and that was cool of her to
hang out.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Of course, we talked to Eric Klein, chef Eric Klein
with Wolf kingk Puck and all his business today, and
we spent time with Jimmy the GM who just I
just love everything about this place and it's not far
from home, which is nice.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Well, Kayla's like it's even closer for me.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
I just made new friends so, and speaking of new friends,
Derek Young who is with Van Oaks Props. He is
a prop maker himself and he is a YouTuber. You
can find him on YouTube at van Oaks Props. I
encourage you to check it out. He's doing something really cool.
(02:54):
He like me, is a fan of Star Wars and
he makes a lot of Star Wars props. As a
matter of fact, I just purchased one of his beautiful
pieces of work, the IG.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Eighty eight head on a stand.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
It just is a It's a droid from the Star
Wars films and actually part of the canteen as well.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
That is great. Yeah, but.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
I really love buying other artists stuff, having it for
inspiration and just brings me joy. And this piece is
it has become my favorite thing. I walk into my
shop and see it. But you've built something recently that
I had the pleasure of holding and seeing too, And
it's a helmet from Star Wars with a different twist.
Tell us about that.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
So, after the fires here in Los Angeles, the Star
Wars maker community decided that they wanted to participate and
do a charity auction to help raise some funds for
people in need and what better way to do that
than through costuming and props. And so the piece that
you were holding is an X wing fighter pilot helmet
(04:05):
that has a firefighter esthetic to it. My thinking when
I was working on it was what would this look
like if a firefighter had to wear this rather than
a typical firefighter's helmet. And so myself in about thirty
to forty other makers have gotten together and we're all
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doing custom helmets that will then be auctioned off to
support Pasadena Humane Society, the World Central Kitchen, and the
California Fire Foundation.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
That's awesome.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Now, I know it was going to start tomorrow or something,
and they pushed it off.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
They did because something.
Speaker 4 (04:44):
The response has been so positive that there are new
artists asking to join to participate in this fundraising activity.
So I think by pushing it a couple of weeks,
it gave some folks more time to get involved and
to do their part to help other people.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
So you talk about the firefighter aesthetic, I know that
what that means because I held it, I saw you
make it. You know, I watched from following you on
YouTube talk about the color choices and some of the
thoughts that went through your mind when you were putting
it together.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
Sure, the first thing that came to mind when they
pitched the idea that all of these helmets would be
themed after firefighters in someway or another, I should say
first responders, not specifically firefighters, but for me, it was their.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Sort of khaki firefighter.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
Uniforms with the neon yellow stripe and the reflective band
and the grit and grime that would have accumulated from
battling fires like we've seen here in Los Angeles. And
so my thinking was to take that color scheme and
to take that overall aesthetic but apply it to something
(05:56):
that wasn't a jacket or pant. And so the color
choices were, you know, khaki and lime green, and I
was able to kind of work in a lot of
the dirt and the wear that I would assume would
accumulate on a firefighter's helmet when battling fires to this magnitude,
and so I really wanted to kind of drive that home.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Yeah, seeing it now, for those that love prop making
and all these things, know the term weathering very well.
Weathering is a part of an aesthetic that makes it
look used. One of the big things about Star Wars
that was especially in its timeframe. You go to the
early sixties and when it came to sci fi, it
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was this a circular polished white chrome or metallic. It
was very clean, and so here comes Star Wars. You
get this what they call the used universe aesthetic. So
you weathered it to make it look like it had
(07:01):
been it had been used to use some techniques to
build up ash or you know this weather ring.
Speaker 4 (07:11):
Yeah, it's it's a subtle art form that can get
away from you kind of quickly, but is one of
those things that when you can really bring it home,
I think it tells a story. And as much as
this is about supporting these communities through art, essentially, you
also want to tell the story of what some of
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these fire companies would have gone through. And I use
this helmet as an opportunity to do so by really
bringing in you know, burn marks and ash and grime
and all the things that you have seen in pictures
of the burn areas. Like I tried to bring that
into the overall look of this helmet to really sort
of remind people what we're doing this for.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
So how can people bid, how can people find out more?
Speaker 1 (07:58):
How can people support this off.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
So the easiest way to stay abreast of the auction,
which is now slated for March twenty third, is to
follow La strikes Back on Instagram, or you can also
go to Lastrikesback dot com and all of the information
will be there, or if you want to give me
a follow on any social platform, I will be sharing
it and.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
My social name is at van Oaks Props.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
And that's great, so they can if they want to
bid on yours. And I got to tell you, as
sexy and cool as it looks on camera, holding it
and seeing the details and the subtleties on it is
really really cool, So I encourage you to do that
Van Oaks propsvan Oaks Props on social media and on
(08:45):
YouTube as well as La strikes Back is going to
be the auction is going to be going off on
the twenty third of this month.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
We are now in March, by the way, rolling out.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
Of the first first quarter soon, but I encourage you
to check it out. It's a neat way to have
a tangible reminder of some of the things that took
place during the fires, and also the art and the
talent we have here and a great cause really but
it's a cause that you can donate and have something
(09:22):
to hold as a reminder as well. Stick around more
to come as we broadcast live our special Oscars show,
how about that that we're doing before the Academy Awards tomorrow.
We're broadcasting live from Fannies here in the Academy Museum
at the corner of Wiltshire and Fairfax. We still got,
(09:42):
oh just a little under an hour to go before
our friend Tiffany Hobbs comes on, So go know where
Neil Savedra KFI.
Speaker 5 (09:53):
You're listening to the Fork Report with Nil Savedra on
demand from KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
By A six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. Heverybody,
Neil Savager here as we're broadcasting live from Fannies Restaurant
and Cafe. Well, thank you you stop it over there
because of the Oscars are tomorrow, and where better to
be than at the Academy Museum right across from the
Peterson Museum, which is a stunner as well. So you've
(10:22):
got these great places. This is a great area to
be able to just park the car and walk around.
They've got I am really impressed with what they're doing
here at Fanny's and thrilled to be a part of
it today and taste the food, which was phenomenal. It's
gorgeous too, and the plating, the color choices, the ingredients
(10:43):
just are absolutely excellent. So we've been enjoying that here.
Funny thing about Fannies is it's named after Fanny Bryce.
I was talking to Bert, our engineer about this. She
was a comedian actress in the twenties through the thirties there,
famously known for her radio and film appearances.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
So you got to love that.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
And the restaurant plays tribute to this funny lady and
the movie Funny Girl. It's a movie about Fanny Bryce,
as a matter of fact, and it was played by
Barbara Streisan, as we all know. But in order to
understand the restaurant, you got to understand the beauty of
old Hollywood and who Fanny was. And she found humor
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in all kinds of things, you know, in life ups,
downs and all those things. And she didn't take herself
too seriously, unlike you know firefighters that are driving by
right now that are probably going somewhere serious. But I
love that and I kind of lived by that. I've
told you before that my brother Craig, when I was crying.
(11:44):
I was a pretty young kid. He said, come here, buddy.
He actually calls me Pie which is short for pie face,
which is the nickname because my face is round. And
he took me into the bathroom and I'm crying, and
he said. He turns on the light and he goes,
look at yourself. Look how stupid you look when you cry.
And I started laughing, and he just reminded me that
(12:05):
in all things, there's humor, and life is, you know,
in its ups and downs, it's still pretty funny. And
I love that they've used that to name this place
after it really speaks to it. And the whimsical art
on the walls, and the attitude really is through everything,
and the approachable food yet the level of sophistication is
really nice. So I'm here with my friend Derek. Derek
(12:31):
Young is a prop maker and a fan of props.
He's a designer and an artist and I love his
work and I love watching his YouTube videos keep me
company on many a day and night as I'm working
in my own shop. And I encourage you to check
out Van Oaks Props. They're on social media and also
(12:52):
on YouTube because he just I.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
Love him the way he breaks things down.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
If you've ever thought about, ah, I want to do
you know a Halloween scene at the house this year.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
It's a great place to start if you love Star Wars.
Great place.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
And of course the La Strikes Back auction that's coming
up on the twenty third, where mini makers are coming
together making these custom xwing helmets to raise money for.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
The Pasadena Why did I just.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
Blank Altadena and the Palisade fires.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
Yeah, but the Pasadena exciety thank you. So it's really
cool and you can check that out there.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
Props.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
When you're watching a film and a prop is not right,
it's not weather or whatever, it takes you out right,
it takes your It can take you right out.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
Of the film.
Speaker 4 (13:42):
It's challenging to be a prop maker and to have
spent countless hours looking at the minutia of screen used
props to see something on screen that just doesn't fit.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Yeah, And there's almost two reactions to seeing a prop
in person sometimes and it's either, Wow, this is so
under detailed. I wouldn't have expected that, you know, it's
almost a piece of crap. And then the other side
is Wow, this has way more detail.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
Than ever made it on screen.
Speaker 4 (14:12):
Yes, yeah, it's it is the benefit and the curse
of pre and post high definition world.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
Oh yeah, because.
Speaker 4 (14:20):
Seeing some of the older props, you could get away
with a lot, and now that everything is high de
F from four K and eight K, all of the
little details really matter now. And it's great, especially to
have museums like the Academy Museum where you can see
these things up close and personal and really get to
appreciate all of the labor that goes into these things
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that may spend seconds on screen.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
You know. I watched recently as someone who made the weaponry,
a lot of the weaponry for Men in Black, which
is the first min in Black I think is a
wonderful film, and a lot of really cool props in
the going with that all chromed look from the small
to the big.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
And he I can't remember his name.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
But he was so giddy still to this day talking
about all these props and how they were made and
how they had like a hero prop, which is one
that you know close ups or functions or does things,
and then there's background ones. And he was showing all
these things that had half a second of film time.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
Oh my, how do you do that?
Speaker 2 (15:27):
I mean, to be able to build something then it
maybe it doesn't even seem the light.
Speaker 4 (15:31):
Today, it's really interesting, but it speaks to having sort
of that temperament and drive towards making the impossible possible. Yeah,
it's I think that's why I've been drawn to props
for my entire life. I've worked many different careers over
my years alive, but this one, even doing stuff that's
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like specifically for YouTube or doing stuff for collectors that
may be there, really is just something about it that
speaks to me and is is so it fills me
up creatively because it's like part history, it is part
ingenuity and art. It's all of the things that like
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really makes our brains work. And so every week it's
like an opportunity to kind of do that stuff over
and over again.
Speaker 5 (16:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (16:25):
So it's it's fun, but it really does take a
certain person to do it, knowing that sometimes all of
your hard work may not ever see the light of day.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Yeah, and you know what, I'll say this for when
we come back, I have a question for you. Of
talking with Derek Young from Van Oaks Props, you can
find him on social media, and of course he is
a YouTuber as well and can be found on YouTube,
which is where I came across him, and I've really
enjoyed it. We've struck up a friendship since because we
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have a lot of similarities and things that we love.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
We come back, we'll talk about.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
Found art, like seeing props in everyday objects that you can't.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Can't have them look like that, they have to look
like something different.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
When we come back, as we broadcast live from Fannies
here in Los Angeles, just a couple miles away from
where the Oscars will take place tomorrow. So stick with us.
We've got about thirty minutes more to hang out today
talking about films and props and food and all those things.
Today on the Fork Report, I'm Neil Savedra. This is
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KFIM six forty.
Speaker 5 (17:31):
You're listening to The Fork Report with Neil Savedra on
demand from KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
CAFI.
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AM six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. Hey everybody,
it's a Fork Report, all things Food, beverage and beyond.
Hanging out here at Fanny's Restaurant and Cafe.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
What a cool joint.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
This is you know, this is like, this has this
quintessential Hollywood vibe to it, and I just love it.
And it's right here in the Academy Museum, which you
got to check out if you're a fan of films,
movie making, and you know what we love here in Hollywood,
And fingers crossed that the powers that be will get
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it together with their tax breaks and everything to keep
filmmaking here where it belongs. You know, God bless Canada
and all. I just don't want to see Toronto for
La when we have in La right here.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
Seems kind of all I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
Any who, talking with Derek Young from van Oaks Props
and you got to check them out as social media
van Oaks Props and also on YouTube. I love his
YouTube channel. It inspires me to create. It has really
set my pace for twenty twenty five to get back
to my roots creating, of which you and I share
(18:50):
some commercial artists, a graphic designer. Yeah, we both come
from that background and probably could talk fonts and type
faces more than most people would ever want to talk
or hear about indeed. But uh, you know, my brother
Craig and my brother Scott and I we've all done
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commercial art in the past, and we used to back
in the day when you know, you didn't have computers
with all the fonts on them and all of your
typefaces at the ready. We would test each other on
fonts because they would make book books of fonts. I
mean you'd have them right in from front of you.
(19:34):
Letra said all that whatever it was, and then you
would and we'd test, what's this one. Okay, I see
that it's a sans serif, so I'm gonna think that
it's gonna you know, it's like and we'd you know,
that kind of geeky thing and be able to call
out Pantone colors at the ready as well.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
So when we were.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
Going to the news there, uh, there's something about visual
seeing things as something else. This is more more than
just looking up the clouds and going it looks like
a elephant.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
Sure.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Found props was some of our most beloved films, Star
Wars being one of them that was at the cornerstone,
I mean just talking about the lightsaber. Luke's lightsaber, right,
was a found prop.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
Talk about that.
Speaker 4 (20:21):
Yeah, So what makes so much of the Star Wars
weapon esthetic is that it comes from existing items. So
for example, Luke Skywalker's lightsaber is an old flash handle
from a camera, which, now that people who own them
know that that's what they're used for, you can't buy
(20:41):
one for you a reasonable amount.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
But all sorts of stuff like that is.
Speaker 4 (20:46):
What was then turned into a variety of props throughout
all of the movies, even up to current day. So
for example, like the IG eighty eight head that you
are now in possession of is a Rolls Royce Derwent
flame engine from a I believe from an airplane. Who
(21:09):
would have known this, Yeah, except for the prop makers
who decided to go out to a junk yard and
just look at objects and think what could this be?
Speaker 1 (21:18):
And they used it for multiple things. So it stands
like a lights or.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
A liquid dispenser or something from the.
Speaker 4 (21:26):
Yeah, I tryed to sort of in the bar area
in the canteena and it has been over many of
their properties.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
But yeah, it's it's both that. It's uh.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
And then they needed a robot.
Speaker 4 (21:38):
Ahead of a assassin draw and they said what about
those things that we have? But that is the thing,
you know, they discuss it openly in the movies, where
things are just sort of cobbled together with the stuff
that was laying around and didn't make Uh, they didn't
go out of their way to hide that. They kind
of wove it into the story.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
Yeah, And sometimes it's just a different color or they're
all of flat white or something in the back and
they're just a And of course, the one of the
most famous in the Star Wars film props that was
not so hidden was the ice cream maker. Yes, so
those of you that are familiar with the films, there's
a scene on Cloud City, I believe, yes, Empire strikes back.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
So there you've got someone running around a corner holding
this gadget of some kind and it's it's an old
ice cream maker, right And now now it actually is.
They've made a prop out of it, and it's been
used in Mandalorian and you can actually buy one that
at Disneyland that works as as like a safe. It
(22:44):
has a code that you put in it and it
opens up and.
Speaker 4 (22:47):
Correct or you know, if you want to go to
the store and buy an ice cream maker.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
You can still get them. There's still made.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
Yeah, but the problem is, like you said, once people know, right,
then one of the other things in the power button
of the light saber is the little lens, the little
half dome lens. I actually brought a remake for Derek.
My guest right now is Derek Young from Van Oaks Props.
I brought one for him because when I was at
(23:16):
his shop the other day, he was making a lightsaber
and I'm like, oh, I think I have a couple
of those home, So I brought him one. Then save
you the time of printing one out. But that was
from a calculator current Texas Instruments or something calculator from
back in the day.
Speaker 4 (23:34):
Yeah, which again impossible to find by today's standards, so
much so that the fan community has gone into making
reproductions of these parts because you just can't find them anywhere.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
And if you do, they're expensive as hell.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
Exactly.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
It's ridiculous because people know what their value is. So
when you walk around I came. One of my next
projects at home is I have carried with me from
multiple moves and everything else in my life a tea pot,
an old tea bot pot from the seventies that my
(24:06):
mom had, and she was going to toss out that
I made into a robot head. Now, the other parts
of the body have gone away, so this droid head
is all I have left. It's so old that it
has like old Christmas lights and incandescent bulbs some LEDs too.
I started learning about LEDs I think when I was
about eight, and you could get like two colors red
and green and think back.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
At the time.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
But so I'm going to clean it up and I'm
finally gonna finish it. I'm gonna take it apart and
do it. And one of the things on there is
a found part, and it was the synthetic plastic quirks
from cheap Champagne that have this kind of fins on
(24:51):
them and you could put light under them and you
shove them into.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
The whatever the base was.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
Do you still see when you walk by a part
or some of you still go, oh my gosh, that
would make a great all the something or other all
the time junkstre you know, shops, garage sales.
Speaker 4 (25:08):
Yeah, it really doesn't matter where I'm at it. I
literally could just be sitting here with you and see
something and kicking around like, oh, the old rubber feet
on these chairs in front of us, Like, I bet
you that would be just the perfect touch for blank.
It is kind of weird though, because you start bordering
on the edge of like hoarding.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
Yeah, I know my wife is very concerned about that
because she's here too. Thank you, love for understanding. I
love you so much.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
I'm sorry for being a bad influence.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
Yeah, he's now my dealer because he's got cool stuff.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
I'm like, I want that. Yeah, well, honey, it's it's
not like I'm you know, buying these massive brick pillars
until he moves in a year. But uh, the you know,
when we come back, we'll talk about Halloween stuff sure
as well, because that ties into the movies and also
(26:05):
the spookiness. And I know that this year for the
Academy Awards, there's actually a horror film ish right, that
is nominated, which I think is the first time ever.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
All Right.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
Derek Young is my guest with Van Oaks Props. Please
check them out on social media. Also, his YouTube channel,
Van Oaks Props, is fantastic.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
It's a great watch. He goes through.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
Painting techniques, building techniques, tools and things to use.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
He does Halloween stuff.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
He does replicas of movie props and Star Wars stuff,
including a helmet that is going to go up for
auction on the twenty third of this month for a
great cause to raise money for various charities dealing with
and helping with those that were victims of the major
fires we had at the beginning of January.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
So you can check that out via his social media
as well. I'm going to be keeping an eye on
it myself.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
All right, we'll be back with more from Fannies Broadcasting
live right next to the Academy, right in really the
belly of the Academy Museum here in Los Angeles.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
This is Kfi'm Neil Savedra.
Speaker 5 (27:12):
You're listening to The Fork Report with Neil Savedra on
demand from KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
I Am six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. Everybody,
It's the Fork Report, all things food, beverage on beyond.
I am your well fed host, Neil Savadra.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
How do you do?
Speaker 2 (27:29):
A big, huge thank you to Fanny's at the Academy
Museum of Motion Pictures. What a treat The hospitality has
been insane. Thank you to everybody who has treated us
so well. And Jimmy, the general manager, is just a stud.
But I this is my recommendation to you if you're
in Orange County and you're doing a day trip, come
(27:51):
out great area.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
You can see the museum here, get.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
Some food, walk across the street to the Peterson Museum,
which is phenomenal as well. Just a art museums here.
There's tons to do and you can enjoy yourself if
you hear long enough, and for multiple meals you can
come have one of them here. Desconso is down the
street and phenomenal as well. So just a lot that
(28:18):
you can enjoy out here. Any last thoughts Derek before
we send people away, and I talked to Tiffany coming
up shortly.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
Now, Oh that was well done. So brief.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
That's Derek Young in his precise way. But really I
encourage you to check out his work. He is a
prop maker and an artist and I'm a big fan
of his work. It inspired me to really look at
twenty twenty five different and remind myself why I do
anything I do. And it didn't matter where I worked.
(28:53):
I worked at, you know, Kinko's. I still focused on
connecting with people, doing art, creating things, making things the
radio station.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
Hell, even when I.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
Worked at a correctional facility, when I had to take
someone down.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
I did it with art. And flair.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
Why am I not surprised by that?
Speaker 2 (29:12):
No one ever is, sadly but all of it. So
it's really taken me back to creativity as well. So
check us stuff out at Van Oaks Props Van Oaks
Props on social media and of course on his YouTube channel.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
And look into that helmet that he made, the X wing.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
Fighter helmet that is modified with a tip of the
hat to first responders and firefighters. I love the little
embellishment you put the little seal on the back of
the helmet as well.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
The little is very cool.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
So check that out and bid on it if you
are interested. Tiffany Hobbs, my friend. What's coming up?
Speaker 6 (29:54):
Hello Nio, Good afternoon to you.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
Hi.
Speaker 6 (29:58):
I kind of feel like there there's some sort of
plan that you guys have put in place, you and
super producer Kayla where that when I'm here, you're not
And I don't like that.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
It's not on purpose.
Speaker 6 (30:10):
It feels deliberate.
Speaker 5 (30:11):
Now.
Speaker 6 (30:11):
I want to be with you guys.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
I love me some, Tiffany, I love me some.
Speaker 6 (30:16):
Neil, and I love Kayla, and I miss you guys here.
You sound like you're having so much fun.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
No, it's boring. Say it's boring. Oooh, it's boring.
Speaker 6 (30:24):
It sounds like fun, Neil. It sounds like you're lying, Tiffany.
Speaker 3 (30:27):
I was sitting my cocktail and bike the girl.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
I am so.
Speaker 6 (30:29):
Bored over here, and I wish I was in the
studio there with you last week Marongo and Margarita day
today drinking and burgers.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
I mean, you know, Okay, I'm a big guy. They
say you want to do a show. I said, yeah,
let's make it about food. Okay, that's the.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
Reality you want to co host. So I'll tell you what.
You know what, you're the one that chooses general talk.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
You want to talk about horrible things, talking about you know, Trump, bullying.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
A leader, set the flagpole or.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
Stands out the school, then you go and do that.
I'm going where the free food is.
Speaker 6 (31:04):
Well, let me tell you I'm not. I'm not talking
about that today because we don't have enough time to
get into what happened between Zelenski and President Trump. There
are plenty of opportunities for that to be talked about.
We are not talking about that today, but thank you.
But since you are there in the mid Wilshire area,
did you hear about that guy who was pulled out
(31:24):
of his car by the group of bicyclists and.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
Yeah, yeah, yet that's actually not far from here.
Speaker 4 (31:31):
It's not.
Speaker 6 (31:31):
It's right down the street in Hancock Park And there's
up there updates to that story and the victim, the
guy is talking. So we have some audio from that
that we will be playing and getting into the updates.
They caught a couple of people, so that is an
ever developing story as well. We're going to get into
some updates about what's going on with Chief Crowley. The
(31:52):
lines are being drawn in the sand, who's on her side,
who's not, And there are more people emerging on the
who's on her side side, and I'll tell you about
who and what groups those are. Sadly, if you're in
the San Fernando Valley, her home burglaries are on the rise,
knock knock burglaries. I'll give you some updates and ways
to keep your home and your property safe. There are
(32:15):
some surprising tips about surveillance cameras, what kinds you should get,
and what you should be doing. At five point thirty,
we have Rick Polizzi coming on. He's the producer of
the Simpsons who created that really cool tree house Yeah,
you've eve been seeing about that. It's beautiful. It's modeled
after the Simpsons episode or our Halloween series Treehouse of Horror.
(32:36):
He's coming on at five point thirty to tell us
why the city is demanding he take it down or else,
and hopefully that or else will turn into him being
able to keep it up just a little bit longer.
We also have Judy Mancuso of animal advocacy organization Social
Compassion coming on at six to talk about some legislation
(32:58):
they are working on in California that will help our
furry friends. Then for our second deeper dive segment, we're
starting this deeper dive segment. What is the fentinyl fold?
The fentonyl fold?
Speaker 1 (33:12):
Is that a dance?
Speaker 6 (33:13):
It sounds like a dance. It might even look like
a dance if you if you see a group of
these people doing the fentanyl fold. But no, I will
tell you what it is and why. The optics are
terrible for the city of la especially as we get
closer to the Olympics and the other big events.
Speaker 1 (33:30):
The optics are bad for LA.
Speaker 6 (33:32):
Right now, the optics are a little bad.
Speaker 1 (33:35):
Can't we just fire the head of a department.
Speaker 6 (33:37):
I'm I'm definitely advocating for that starting I.
Speaker 2 (33:41):
Think you did it, by the way, Evan Levitt, Yes
from from a LA minute. Yeah, is a friend and
his house was burglarized yesterday.
Speaker 6 (33:53):
I'm going to be talking about that in conjunction with
these home burglaries, and that this popular person is doing
all this wonderful work, somebody who probably should hold a
public office and be in a position of leadership. He's
amazing how his own home was burglarized. And then, lastly,
what happens if you die on a plane? What do
they do with your body? I'll tell you what they.
Speaker 4 (34:12):
Do with your body.
Speaker 3 (34:14):
Stop?
Speaker 1 (34:15):
Stop everything. We just had a great food. Don't happen.
We're talking about props and stars.
Speaker 3 (34:24):
Probably pretty nicely.
Speaker 6 (34:25):
If you're lucky, they'll keep you in a seat, nice
and cozy until your land potential ugly, you're there and
I'm mad.
Speaker 1 (34:32):
So you serve what you get.
Speaker 2 (34:34):
You deserve it, and I'm gonna eat Barada now.
Speaker 6 (34:39):
I hope you get gas, really bad gas on the
way home.
Speaker 2 (34:44):
Safe bet actually really halbs coming to ruin your world.
Moments from them, But she'll do it in a smart,
lovely way, because that's who she is up next. Thanks
by thanks everybody for hanging out. The big tip of
the hat to everybody to hear at Fannies. They were
just really really kind to Natas Nastasia my friend, and
(35:07):
also to this one Kla over here for putting everything together,
Bert behind the board, making it happen in these two
knuckleheads for coming out eating food.
Speaker 1 (35:17):
You love it, don't you. Working with me is always
a joy.
Speaker 2 (35:20):
All right, Folks, I have a wonderful one. Be empathetic,
be kind to each other, and remember to each your vegetables. Yeah,
Nil Savadri KFI and KOSTHD two Los Angeles, Orange Counting.
You've been listening to the Fork Report, You can always
hear us live on KFI AM six forty two to
five pm on Saturday and anytime on demand on the
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