November 29, 2025 • 29 mins
Live from Wendy's in Mission Viejo, with special guest, KFI's Bill Handel! The countdown to PastaThon and Thanksgiving is on!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, it's Niel Savedra. You're listening to KFI EM six
forty the four Report on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Let me tead you had it, Let me teach you
had it. Let me teach you who had it.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
It's a COLUMNARAE KFI six live everywhere on the iHeart
Radio app. Hey, everybody, it's a four Report all things Food,
beverage and beyond. Broadcasting live today. It's Pastapastathon season. I'm
broadcasting here at Wendy's in Mission Vieh. We're at two
three zero, two to two Alicia Parkway in Mission vie Ho.
(00:58):
Bill handles out here with me, of course, Miss Kayla's
out here and producer Michelle as well. And I just
want to thank everybody coming out dressed his chairs today.
That's nice. Yeah, yeah, seriously, I appreciate the applaud You've
been a wonderful audience. Thanks Kayla. No, it's a little
(01:19):
smaller than Conway's group last night. Just a skosh, yeah,
but it's the beginning. We just got here. I know
it's one two No, that's our security. Oh one no,
that's me okay, yeah, so but we have plenty of time.
(01:40):
He got yeah. Well, you know, we don't want to
overcount anybody, but we appreciate those of you, and we're
gonna be here till five, So come on out, hang out,
say hello. I know it looks like it's trying to rain,
but I don't think it's going to rain. I think
it's going to be absolutely fine. So come on out
say hello. At two three zero two two Alicia Parkway
Ambision Vieho. Not only will we be broadcasting here at Wendy's,
(02:04):
but also Tiffany Hobbs will after us. We've got some
giveaways we're going to be given away and of course
just a huge thanks to the folks at Wendy's. They
have this very cool book again, this coupon book again
this year, and this is our partnership with Katerina's Club.
Wendy's jumps headfirst in this every year with this great
(02:28):
book that gets you a free kids meal, free four
piece chicken nuggies, free four piece French toasticks. They're very delicious,
by the way, those are very tasty, free junior frosty,
free cold brew with cream. So you've got there. There's
a lot of great stuff in there, and they're going
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to be donating a mess of it to Katerina's Club.
Of course, this is a project of the heart form Cube.
She's been doing so much. He's our executive producer at KFI,
but she really has put everything into this for well
(03:10):
over a decade now.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
Oh gosh, yes, this is the fifteenth year.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Turn on your mic club.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
We go bither way, I got it.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
There, it is I your there, you go got it
all right.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
You've been doing.
Speaker 5 (03:26):
Thirty two years in the morning and Michelle found Katerina's Club.
She introduced Katerina's Club to us. So it's it's been
a really good ride for Katerina's Club and we get
better at it every year. They get better at it
every year. By the way, in terms of the number
of people that have shown up, we got a lot
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of these from Nielsen, so everyone is worth ten percent.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Oh is that right? Good to know we're not supposed
to talk about fight club. Yeah, okay, So when it
comes to when it comes to Katerina's Club, I heard
Bruno and last night on with Tim Conway, Junior's talking
about how the KFI listeners cover about sixty percent, Yeah,
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sixty nearly the avenue that they need.
Speaker 6 (04:13):
Sixty to seventy percent of the yearly revenue comes from
Pastathon and.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
That is that is you, folks, That is you listening
to KFI. That is the six of you here.
Speaker 5 (04:23):
That is no, no, look the eighteen of us here
remember three to one.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
Oh, I got it.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
We got to count more of them. Ah, but they
keep pulling up. They're just afraid of you.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
They do what they do.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
But that's amazing. Yeah, And what are those numbers? What
are the nightly numbers? Are they feeding the weekly they're feeding, well,
they're feeding.
Speaker 6 (04:42):
They're providing twenty five thousand meals a week, so it's
five thousand a night, five days a week, Monday through Friday.
And they're doing it in over one hundred locations in
thirty cities in southern California, all the way down into
right by San Diego out into San Bernardino, Wow, Long Beach.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
And it's just grown and grown and grown. And our
pasta thon the actual big day that we do, the
final blowout is December second.
Speaker 6 (05:12):
Yeah, Giving Tuesday, December second, that's when we're going to
be doing our all day live broadcast five am to
eight pm. It's going to be great and Like I said,
it's the fifteenth year we've been doing this, and if
you think about it, the very first year that we
did it, we raised a total of eighty thousand dollars
and three thousand pounds of pasta and sauce.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Wow. Which was the first year. That was year one,
a year I.
Speaker 4 (05:31):
Was feeding two hundred kids a night at that time.
Speaker 6 (05:33):
At the time, he was feeding two hundred kids a night.
And then last year we did just under one point
three million wow and ninety thousand pounds of pasta and saw. Wow.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
That's insane.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
It's incredible.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
And I got to tell you is and I share
this with Michelle. I know she busts her hump on
all this, and there's a lot of people working hard
with Wendy's and Smart and Final at all, but really
it's the KFI listeners that rise to the occasion that it,
through thick and thin, through anything that we've ever done
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to raise money for those in needs need, they have
been right.
Speaker 6 (06:07):
Here, the most generous listeners in the world. I mean,
they are just incredible. Like you said, they rise up
every single time we asked them to do something, and
this they embrace just like we did otherwise we wouldn't
be doing it for the fifteenth year.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
And there's just so many ways for people to help.
Speaker 6 (06:24):
It's just every year I just try to think of
a way. How am I going to make it bigger
and bigger the next year? Because I start planning this
in June is when I start planning this.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
It takes mon anything new this year.
Speaker 6 (06:34):
There's a whole ton of stuff new this year. Do
you want to you want to do it? Or do
you have to hit a break?
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Oh my gosh, she's such a producer.
Speaker 5 (06:41):
She just.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Come back.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
Gee, I just.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Noticed that I should have brought my wife. All right,
So stick around. We're broadcasting live today at Wendy's. They
are such great hosts. And you know how I feel
about the food. I think Wendy's is uh, it's California.
So the California is the only time you're going to
see so few Wendy's. You go anywhere else in the
United States and they're everywhere, which shows you what a
(07:08):
pain in the acid is to have a company in California.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
By the way, today is the perfect day for a
cup of their chili.
Speaker 4 (07:14):
I just had it.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Yeah, So come on out. We're gonna be out here
until five o'clock and then we'll hand everything over to
Tiffany Hobbs and she'll be out here till set till seven.
So stick around. Bill Handles with me, Michelle Cubas with me,
talking pasta thon as we are eyeballs deep in pastathon season.
How you can donate and participate when we return, So
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go nowhere. It's the Fork Report on Neil Savedra KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 7 (07:40):
You're listening to the Fork Report with Neil Savedra on
demand from KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
It's the Fork Report. Oh you could clap yeah, if
you clap twice as fast, it'll sound like twice as
many people are here. KFI AM six forty live everywhere
on the iHeartRadio app Neil Savedra and the Fork Report.
Here your friendly neighborhood four reported things for hanging out.
It's a special show. Is we're actually at Mission Vieho today.
We're at Wendy's here on Alisha Parkway. It's at two
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three zero two to two Alicia Parkway, a Mission Viejo.
Tiffany hobb is going to follow us today. She'll be
out here as well. We'll be giving away stuff. Wendy's
has a lovely tent out here. I saw a human
Frosty walking. Now I'm going to tell you something. I
also saw Wendy Wendy's out here too, But the human Frosty.
The concern about that is, originally I thought Frosty's were
(08:33):
made for Miscreen, but once I saw the human Frosty,
I'm wondering how they're made. So they came.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
They came out of Papua New Guinea.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Better than that than the human Frosty. But you can
come on out take pictures, say hello, we'd love to
meet you. Bill handle us here with me producer Michelle.
We're kind of going over the history of the pastathon.
Of course, the big day is the is Giving Tuesday,
which is December second. We'll all be out at the
Anaheim White House in Anaheim, conveniently enough. So how could
(09:09):
people participate? What are some new ways to participate this year? Well?
Speaker 3 (09:14):
Did I turn it on?
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Yeah, you're on, I'm on.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
Okay, good, Sorry, I should know this too after thirty
something year.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
Right next to handle you start forget the.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
Traditional ways always.
Speaker 6 (09:24):
You can go to KMPIM six fray dot com slash
passes on.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
You can donate there.
Speaker 6 (09:28):
You can donate in any Smart and Final store or
any Wendy's store. And when you can donate it Wendy's like,
if you're here today, donate five dollars a more and
get a little coupon book.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
Look at this is wonderful as not really a coupon book, Like, hey,
you're going to get ten percent off. This is free
kids meal, this is free four piece nuggets, free four
piece of French toe sticks. And I've said this before
many many times. Wendy's food is not just good, it
is superior, seriously, and it is so underrated because we
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don't have the pleasure of having them on every corner
like you do when you leave California. Oh yeah, they're
a little spread out in southern Califia.
Speaker 6 (10:05):
But there are some new ways that you can donate
this year. A very exciting one for me because I've
been working on since February is if you are out
at Yamava Casino and Resort, which is one of my
favorite places.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
In the world.
Speaker 6 (10:17):
When you go out there and you play and you
go to cash in your winning ticket at the kiosk,
when you cash it in, it'll ask you if you
want to donate your change, and if you say yes,
four charities pop up on the screen, and one of
those is Katerina's Club and it'll be up there until
twelve three, So the day after Giving Tuesday, you can
do that right there at Yamaba. It's really really great,
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so happy that they were able to do that for
us this year. And then starting on Monday, Wild Fork
Foods is doing something really great for us at all
eleven of their Southern California stores. And you don't have
to do anything but shop like you normally shop. You
go in there and you shop, and when you go
up to the register, all you have to say is
KFI Pastathon and fifteen percent of your percha will automatically
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be donated to Katerina's Club. And that's all eleven locations
in Southern California. I have them all listed on our website.
That will start on Monday. They've been spectacular, amazing partners.
They jumped aboard last year participading and they were very
eager to be a part of pastathought. Yeah, and then
the last way that you're going to be able to
participate obviously, other than coming out to seeing us on
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given Tuesday.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
Is there is a company called.
Speaker 6 (11:26):
Giving Machines, and these are these vending machines that appear
across southern California between Thanksgiving and the end of the
year in certain places. The ones that we are going
to be focused on is there's going to be one
at the Tyler Maler Riverside, one on the Huntington Beach
Pier right by Duke's Restaurant. Oh yeah, one in San
Clemente at the sant Clomentia Outlets, and one in San
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Diego in Old Town San Diego. And it looks like
just a vending machine, but inside the vending machine that's
got different cards for different charities, and they'll have a
row of Katerina's Club charity different levels starting at five
dollars going up two hundred dollars and you can donate
right there at the kiosk Oh that's to Katerina's Club
and that's going to go on till the end of
the year. So that's going to be another great way
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to generate money for Katerina's Club.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
Last year we caught Handle. He had gotten this big
box from a refrigerator and decorated it to look like
one of those donating kiosks, and he sat inside and
just waited for money to fall in.
Speaker 6 (12:23):
Ok.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
Good, but we called him out on it. I know
it was about fifty bucks into it. We caught him.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
Yeah, I got a lot of change.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
It was a lot of change. Would make us know
that much.
Speaker 6 (12:34):
And until December one, there are some small businesses across
southern California. Also listed on the website at cafim six
to four dot com slash pastathon where you can drop
off pasta and sauce donations at some small businesses across
southern California from Valencia all the way down to.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
Mission Bah.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Okay.
Speaker 5 (12:52):
You know, if I had the surrogacy agency still, I
would offer if.
Speaker 4 (12:57):
You donate fifty dollars or more, you get a free kid.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
That's super generous. I don't know what the legalities of
that would be. It's a tough one, but I'm kind
of I'm kind of happy. You don't know, they'll have that.
Speaker 5 (13:09):
Yeah, I don't have that anymore after thirty years, I
wonder why.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Yeah, it's done with it.
Speaker 6 (13:16):
One of the really quick things I wanted to remind
people is that Kadarina Club doesn't just feed the kids
that day. They have this kind of three prong system
where they help families get back into stable housing by
paying first and last month's rent for them. And they
also Bruno has a hospitality academy where he teaches teenagers
the skills to work in the hospitality industry to try
to help break that cycle and give these kids the
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skills they need to get a good paying job.
Speaker 4 (13:40):
If you go to Anaheim, do I have this right?
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (13:42):
Yea. If you go to Anaheim White House, which by
the way, is the best, one of the most phenomenal
restaurants on the planet, you will see several young kids
there and they that's part of the training academy where
the servers they go up and waiters ask you.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
And then the back they're making shoes. Yes, environments. Yes,
it's a great program.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
It really really, it really is. So anyway, it's kind
of neat all of it.
Speaker 6 (14:08):
So many ways you can help this year, anythink appreciate
We love each and every one of you.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
Thank you so much for your support.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
Yeah. Well, when we come back, as we broadcast live
today mission via ho Bill handles with me, Michelle Cube
is here twenty three zero two to two. Alicia Parkway.
Here in mission via Ho. Just look for Wendy's. Got
some signs up, come by, say hello, I sure would
love to meet You can't promise that from Bill. But
when we come back, we're going to talk about auctions.
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Another way to donate is via auctions. We'll tell you
about that when we return. So go nowhere. This is
KFI the Forek Report.
Speaker 7 (14:42):
You're listening to the Fork Report with Nil Sevedra on
demand from KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
So for report all things food, beverage and beyond. We
take three hours every Saturday. I kind of shake off
the heaviness of the news and come together and just
celebrate food, you know the culture behind it. And today
is special because your friendly neighborhood Folk Reporter is joined
by Bill Handle and of course from Michelle Cubas with
us as well as we broadcast starting pastathon season out
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here in Mission Viejo. We're at the Wendy's Restaurant here
in mission via Ho two three zero two to two
Alisha Parkway in mission via Ho. We're out here till five.
They will hand the mic and everything else over to
Tiffany Hobbs, so she'll go till seven so you come
out when he's convenient for you and say hello. We'll
be doing some giveaways. Of course, Wendy's is set up
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out here doing some giveaways with spinning the wheel and
all of that. So very very cool as we continue
to celebrate this time of the year of giving and
being thankful and Katerina's Club and everything that they do
with Chef Bruno and the Anaheim White House. Since twenty ten, right,
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since twenty ten, KFI listeners have raised, listen to this
eight million, five hundred and twenty two thousand, eight hundred
and one dollars. Right, that's impressive. Half of Bill Handrel's
yearly salary. It's amazing. It just is amazing. Nine hundred
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and nineteen thousand pounds of pasta sauce. Also half of
Bill Handel's calorie intakes, so that's also true, really really wonderful. Now, Michelle,
on Monday, things will change and the on the website
you'll have the opportunity to donate differently.
Speaker 6 (16:36):
Yes, you have some exclusive auction items happening starting on Monday.
You guys will describe yours in a minute, but we
have some KFI host exclusive items. Dodger Game with Gary
and Shannon, Dodger Game with Dean and Tina Sharp. John
always he I don't know why he does this, but
he does because you never know what you're going to get.
He auctions off to host an Hour with John colebelts.
Speaker 3 (16:59):
It's worked and it's great.
Speaker 6 (17:01):
He's loved everybody who has done it so far. It's great.
Doctor Wendy has an auction item this year where she's
auctioning off, you know, some kind of therapy session, and
so there's going to be a lot of great things.
You guys have a really great item, which I think
is really really good.
Speaker 5 (17:18):
Well, first, if I have an auction right now, my
half eaten chicken sandwich.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
Wow, that's generous.
Speaker 4 (17:25):
And let's start at ten dollars.
Speaker 7 (17:30):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (17:30):
Okay, let's go to eight dollars.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
People are actually leaving. That seems odd but appropriate. I
only took two bites out of this, Okay. He started
eating the chicken sandwich and says, okay, now I want
to hammer it.
Speaker 4 (17:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
Now, you guys.
Speaker 6 (17:46):
Bill has auctioned off in the past, you know, go
to Brent's Deli with him for lunch. But this year
they came up with something both with Bill and Neil
that I think is it's very unique.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
Well, it's going to be great.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
Okay. The first part is since I do the show
on Saturday, I'll be broadcasting, doing a live intimate broadcast
from Bill Handle's backyard as we do a barbecue, an
old family barbecue in Bill's backyard at his new home
with Lindsay but two listeners. Yeah, you if you are
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the highest bidder and your guest will be able to
come to Bill Handle's home.
Speaker 5 (18:25):
Yeah, so only to be about twenty people there. It'll
be just family and very close family friends. I don't chefs, Yeah,
we'll have chefs there, some serious food. My friend at
at Lake Industries Savile, he is donating a seventeen piece
set of cook of knives gourmet knives is two thousand
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dollars value years of Zelman's and the invitation to my
house where we're going to do a barbecue and I've
never ever done that.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
So let's just show this real quick.
Speaker 4 (18:58):
It will be because we've got security here. Yes, let's
predata out.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
David will be there, invite listener, a listener and their
guests to your home and give them knives. Am I correct?
Speaker 4 (19:09):
That is correct?
Speaker 1 (19:09):
Okay? I just wanted to make sure I was hearing correctly.
That sounds like a wonderful idea. Checks out. We don't
have like a gun company that we can okay.
Speaker 4 (19:19):
Oh, also, Anaheim White House is catering it.
Speaker 5 (19:22):
So it's it's gonna be some grilling. Yeah, oh yeah,
we're gonna do It's gonna be phenomenal. And so I've
never done this before, never opened up my house, uh
to anybody.
Speaker 4 (19:32):
So we'll we'll see.
Speaker 5 (19:34):
As Neil said, Uh, there'll be people paying not to
come to the house, but we'll accept it.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
We'll accept it. It'll be a good time. It'll be great.
Speaker 6 (19:41):
And starting Monday, you'll be able to bid on that
stuff at kf I am six four dot com slash Pastathon.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
The donation link for the auction item will be there.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
And so that's great. That that and that's for any
of the items that are there's.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
Gonna be a ton of stuff.
Speaker 6 (19:55):
We've got a couple of Vegas getaways that are going
to be up there. I think there's gonna be a
getaway for tear Nay up there. So there's going to
be a ton of stuff for you to bid on.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
That's absolutely wonderful.
Speaker 4 (20:07):
Usually how well we do on the auction items.
Speaker 6 (20:09):
The auction items last year brought in over fifty thousand
dollars just for the KFI.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
Stuff, just for the KFI host stuff, So that's huge.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (20:17):
I think the John one last year went for almost
nine thousand dollars.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
It was up there, It was up there. Yeah, that's
pretty insane amazing. So when you think about that, eighty
thousand dollars was the first year fifteen years ago, and
now the auction items themselves do almost that exactly. Wow.
Speaker 4 (20:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
KFI listeners are awesome.
Speaker 6 (20:40):
I never would have thought when we started this that
I would say every year, hey, our goal is a
million dollars, and we'll hit it easy.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
You know.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
It's like the last five.
Speaker 6 (20:49):
Or six years, you know, we've been well over a
million dollars and it's it's very humbling.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
Yeah, and you see that it's going to be clocking
the same this year. Yeah, your prayers up, yep.
Speaker 3 (20:59):
I think it's going to be right again.
Speaker 6 (21:00):
With all the different ways to donate this year, I
think there's it's going to be a record breaking year.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
And that's a testament to you folks, anybody that supports
the station that listens that donates anything you can comes
out on the second on Giving Tuesday in December when
we're out and you know, since the lineup changes and stuff,
how late are we broadcasting.
Speaker 6 (21:22):
Till eight o'clock to Kim Conway, We'll close it out
at eight o'clock. And yeah, there's nothing better than seeing,
you know, a little kid come to the Pastathon with
you know, his little piggy bank and he's donating his
piggy bank, or he's donating a couple pounds of pasta
and sauce. It's really it brings the community together in
a way that I have never seen. And I've been
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at camp I now thirty You and I both have
been at CAFI thirty two years now, and it's one
of the most amazing. It's the most amazing event.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
That we do. It's huge, and the hearts and the
giving are always amazing. All Right, we're talking Pastathon because
it is Pastathon season and that means it's all about
you giving and KFI and our partners giving four kids
in need here in southern California through Katerina's Club of course,
tied to Bruno Serrato and his giving heart in the
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love of his mother, God rest her soul and the
kids in need in southern California. There and Anaheim white
House really puts together wonderful meals for them, feeding them,
and beyond housing them, doing all kinds of great things
as well. We'll be back with more as we broadcast
live in Mission viah Today. Bill Handles with me. You've
(22:34):
been hearing Michelle Cube, our executive producer at KFI. We're
out here Mission VIEJ at Wendy's two three zero two two.
Alicia Parkway come out say hello. We're here till five,
and then Tiffany Hobbes will be here till seven. So
go know where.
Speaker 7 (22:51):
You're listening to the Fork Report with Nil Savedra on
demand from KFI AM six forty FOURK Orpart.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
I'm Nil Savedra hanging out with Bill Handle Today. We're
out here in Mission, vi Aho. You gotta love Orange County.
You can just tell when the roads have no potholes
that you're here. Yeah, you know, like they it just
seems like there's law and order. It's weird, you know,
people aren't intense all over the street. It's just a
different experience. I think that's why I moved to Orange County. Oh,
(23:24):
there's nothing, because because you know, and people ask me.
I was just asked, why did you move to Orange County?
Speaker 5 (23:29):
Go because of the kids, to get away from them
as far as I could and still be in southern California.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
When Handel says that he went, uh and moved to
Orange County for his kids, and you say, oh, they
live out there, he goes, no, they live in La County,
And this is as far as I.
Speaker 4 (23:44):
Could go, yeah, and still be in southern California.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
There's nothing. Nothing pleases me better than someone who has
liberal ideals like yourself, screwing up Los Angeles and then
moving out to Orange County where where they cleaned it
up and want to be nothing like La. Yeah, so
thanks for that. Don't vote for the same people in
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Orange County.
Speaker 5 (24:08):
You know, I don't even know the the Assembly people
in the district.
Speaker 4 (24:13):
I don't I really don't know that.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
The politics of Orange County.
Speaker 4 (24:17):
Yeah, not very much. I'll get there.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
I'll stay out of it. Yeah, don't touch it. Yeah,
please don't ruin it. Yeah. So it is pastathon and
we're out here at two three zero two to two
Alicia Parkway and Mission Viejo at Wendy's. They're always great
hosts to us, and Bill's already gone through two different sandwiches,
so he is here for the free food because nothing
(24:41):
says help the poor children that need food like handle
stuffing his face. That's true, It just says true.
Speaker 4 (24:49):
We're here at Wendy's.
Speaker 5 (24:50):
And by the way, I just want to point something out.
If you go inside and buy something at Wendy's and
mention Neil's name, you'll get absolutely nothing than the food
you ordered and paid for.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
It's a powerful name. It does nothing for you. It
doesn't even do anything. In my house, I tell my
son all the time, do you know you're talking to
the four reporter? He goes, I don't.
Speaker 4 (25:11):
Care, yeah, but I will tell you.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
Donating to Pastathon this year is always a great thing
raising money for a Catarina's club. And of course everything
that Chef Bruno does with the Anaheim White House is
just amazing. One of the cool things our partners here
at Wendy's. Not only do they, you know, super serve
(25:33):
people like me who love good food, because I think
they have fantastic Their burgers are absolutely fresh and wonderful.
We've gone through. I've gone through and been in the
kitchens of these places. They are insane, the technology and
the cleanliness of these locations. But not only you get that,
but if you donate five dollars or more, you can
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get one of these coupon books and they're really great.
Not only does it have more than five dollars worth
of stuff in here, you got a free kids meal
with any purchase. You got a free four piece nuggets,
you got free four piece French toast, you got a
free Junior frost, and of course free cold brew with cream.
You know, that's a really good deal. And that's their
way of saying thank you for thinking about the children
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during this season of gratitude and holidays and people come.
You know what gratitude is, right, no idea? Okay, so
normal people that weren't not hugged or loved as children,
they are grateful. That's like when you're full of greatness
and you're like, I love what you did, thank you,
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and you tell them things.
Speaker 4 (26:42):
I don't know, No, you don't.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
So do you ever feel warmth here in your chest?
Speaker 4 (26:49):
Yeah? When it's hot?
Speaker 1 (26:50):
Oh no, now I'm not talking about heartburn. Oh god,
how would you explain the heart to the grinch. When
you love something.
Speaker 5 (27:01):
You're really milking this one, aren't you?
Speaker 1 (27:03):
For you are really you are? No, it just really
is this great time for you know.
Speaker 5 (27:11):
Let's talk about Pastathon coming December second.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
Yes, it's going to be a big deal as all
the hosts will be out in one place at one time.
That's scary. Yeah, and that is going to be the
White House and I'm White House, and that will be
the big day of which is Giving Tuesday on December second,
where we just continue to ask for your help in
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in beating what we did last year, which was it
sounded like it was knocking on the door of one
point three.
Speaker 5 (27:43):
Now, we normally don't give you know, I normally don't
give a whole lot away because I normally don't give
a whole lot of Wow, that's not true. But if
you come in the morning to Postathon where I'm broadcasting,
we are serving up obviously for free coffee, muffins, pastries,
and real jew bagels.
Speaker 4 (28:05):
Thank you.
Speaker 5 (28:06):
And it's in my contract they have to serve up
real jew bagels because you know, you go to the
store and you buy bagels. Do you know what the
car call bagels in the store they call it bread. Okay,
they are not bagels. So you get the real stuff.
You get the ms okay, and it's yeah, the schmear.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
God, I've never seen you more excited, you know, And
I was at your last wedding talking about real jew bagels.
You'll never get it more exercised. All right, Uh, stick
around more to come as Bill Handle and I are
broadcasting live here in Mission Viejo out at Wendy's. They're
just God bless them here at two three zero, two
to two, Alicia Parkway, come on out and say hello.
(28:53):
We'll be here till five, and then from five to
seven you've got Tiffany Hobbs. Go nowhere. This is KFI
Hurt everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. You've been listening to
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Speaker 2 (00:21):
Let me tead you had it, Let me teach you
had it. Let me teach you who had it.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
It's a COLUMNARAE KFI six live everywhere on the iHeart
Radio app. Hey, everybody, it's a four Report all things Food,
beverage and beyond. Broadcasting live today. It's Pastapastathon season. I'm
broadcasting here at Wendy's in Mission Vieh. We're at two
three zero, two to two Alicia Parkway in Mission vie Ho.
(00:58):
Bill handles out here with me, of course, Miss Kayla's
out here and producer Michelle as well. And I just
want to thank everybody coming out dressed his chairs today.
That's nice. Yeah, yeah, seriously, I appreciate the applaud You've
been a wonderful audience. Thanks Kayla. No, it's a little
(01:19):
smaller than Conway's group last night. Just a skosh, yeah,
but it's the beginning. We just got here. I know
it's one two No, that's our security. Oh one no,
that's me okay, yeah, so but we have plenty of time.
(01:40):
He got yeah. Well, you know, we don't want to
overcount anybody, but we appreciate those of you, and we're
gonna be here till five, So come on out, hang out,
say hello. I know it looks like it's trying to rain,
but I don't think it's going to rain. I think
it's going to be absolutely fine. So come on out
say hello. At two three zero two two Alicia Parkway
Ambision Vieho. Not only will we be broadcasting here at Wendy's,
(02:04):
but also Tiffany Hobbs will after us. We've got some
giveaways we're going to be given away and of course
just a huge thanks to the folks at Wendy's. They
have this very cool book again, this coupon book again
this year, and this is our partnership with Katerina's Club.
Wendy's jumps headfirst in this every year with this great
(02:28):
book that gets you a free kids meal, free four
piece chicken nuggies, free four piece French toasticks. They're very delicious,
by the way, those are very tasty, free junior frosty,
free cold brew with cream. So you've got there. There's
a lot of great stuff in there, and they're going
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to be donating a mess of it to Katerina's Club.
Of course, this is a project of the heart form Cube.
She's been doing so much. He's our executive producer at KFI,
but she really has put everything into this for well
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over a decade now.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
Oh gosh, yes, this is the fifteenth year.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Turn on your mic club.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
We go bither way, I got it.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
There, it is I your there, you go got it
all right.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
You've been doing.
Speaker 5 (03:26):
Thirty two years in the morning and Michelle found Katerina's Club.
She introduced Katerina's Club to us. So it's it's been
a really good ride for Katerina's Club and we get
better at it every year. They get better at it
every year. By the way, in terms of the number
of people that have shown up, we got a lot
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of these from Nielsen, so everyone is worth ten percent.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Oh is that right? Good to know we're not supposed
to talk about fight club. Yeah, okay, So when it
comes to when it comes to Katerina's Club, I heard
Bruno and last night on with Tim Conway, Junior's talking
about how the KFI listeners cover about sixty percent, Yeah,
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sixty nearly the avenue that they need.
Speaker 6 (04:13):
Sixty to seventy percent of the yearly revenue comes from
Pastathon and.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
That is that is you, folks, That is you listening
to KFI. That is the six of you here.
Speaker 5 (04:23):
That is no, no, look the eighteen of us here
remember three to one.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
Oh, I got it.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
We got to count more of them. Ah, but they
keep pulling up. They're just afraid of you.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
They do what they do.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
But that's amazing. Yeah, And what are those numbers? What
are the nightly numbers? Are they feeding the weekly they're feeding, well,
they're feeding.
Speaker 6 (04:42):
They're providing twenty five thousand meals a week, so it's
five thousand a night, five days a week, Monday through Friday.
And they're doing it in over one hundred locations in
thirty cities in southern California, all the way down into
right by San Diego out into San Bernardino, Wow, Long Beach.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
And it's just grown and grown and grown. And our
pasta thon the actual big day that we do, the
final blowout is December second.
Speaker 6 (05:12):
Yeah, Giving Tuesday, December second, that's when we're going to
be doing our all day live broadcast five am to
eight pm. It's going to be great and Like I said,
it's the fifteenth year we've been doing this, and if
you think about it, the very first year that we
did it, we raised a total of eighty thousand dollars
and three thousand pounds of pasta and sauce.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Wow. Which was the first year. That was year one,
a year I.
Speaker 4 (05:31):
Was feeding two hundred kids a night at that time.
Speaker 6 (05:33):
At the time, he was feeding two hundred kids a night.
And then last year we did just under one point
three million wow and ninety thousand pounds of pasta and saw. Wow.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
That's insane.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
It's incredible.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
And I got to tell you is and I share
this with Michelle. I know she busts her hump on
all this, and there's a lot of people working hard
with Wendy's and Smart and Final at all, but really
it's the KFI listeners that rise to the occasion that it,
through thick and thin, through anything that we've ever done
(06:04):
to raise money for those in needs need, they have
been right.
Speaker 6 (06:07):
Here, the most generous listeners in the world. I mean,
they are just incredible. Like you said, they rise up
every single time we asked them to do something, and
this they embrace just like we did otherwise we wouldn't
be doing it for the fifteenth year.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
And there's just so many ways for people to help.
Speaker 6 (06:24):
It's just every year I just try to think of
a way. How am I going to make it bigger
and bigger the next year? Because I start planning this
in June is when I start planning this.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
It takes mon anything new this year.
Speaker 6 (06:34):
There's a whole ton of stuff new this year. Do
you want to you want to do it? Or do
you have to hit a break?
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Oh my gosh, she's such a producer.
Speaker 5 (06:41):
She just.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Come back.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
Gee, I just.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Noticed that I should have brought my wife. All right,
So stick around. We're broadcasting live today at Wendy's. They
are such great hosts. And you know how I feel
about the food. I think Wendy's is uh, it's California.
So the California is the only time you're going to
see so few Wendy's. You go anywhere else in the
United States and they're everywhere, which shows you what a
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pain in the acid is to have a company in California.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
By the way, today is the perfect day for a
cup of their chili.
Speaker 4 (07:14):
I just had it.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Yeah, So come on out. We're gonna be out here
until five o'clock and then we'll hand everything over to
Tiffany Hobbs and she'll be out here till set till seven.
So stick around. Bill Handles with me, Michelle Cubas with me,
talking pasta thon as we are eyeballs deep in pastathon season.
How you can donate and participate when we return, So
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go nowhere. It's the Fork Report on Neil Savedra KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 7 (07:40):
You're listening to the Fork Report with Neil Savedra on
demand from KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
It's the Fork Report. Oh you could clap yeah, if
you clap twice as fast, it'll sound like twice as
many people are here. KFI AM six forty live everywhere
on the iHeartRadio app Neil Savedra and the Fork Report.
Here your friendly neighborhood four reported things for hanging out.
It's a special show. Is we're actually at Mission Vieho today.
We're at Wendy's here on Alisha Parkway. It's at two
(08:09):
three zero two to two Alicia Parkway, a Mission Viejo.
Tiffany hobb is going to follow us today. She'll be
out here as well. We'll be giving away stuff. Wendy's
has a lovely tent out here. I saw a human
Frosty walking. Now I'm going to tell you something. I
also saw Wendy Wendy's out here too, But the human Frosty.
The concern about that is, originally I thought Frosty's were
(08:33):
made for Miscreen, but once I saw the human Frosty,
I'm wondering how they're made. So they came.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
They came out of Papua New Guinea.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Better than that than the human Frosty. But you can
come on out take pictures, say hello, we'd love to
meet you. Bill handle us here with me producer Michelle.
We're kind of going over the history of the pastathon.
Of course, the big day is the is Giving Tuesday,
which is December second. We'll all be out at the
Anaheim White House in Anaheim, conveniently enough. So how could
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people participate? What are some new ways to participate this year? Well?
Speaker 3 (09:14):
Did I turn it on?
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Yeah, you're on, I'm on.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
Okay, good, Sorry, I should know this too after thirty
something year.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
Right next to handle you start forget the.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
Traditional ways always.
Speaker 6 (09:24):
You can go to KMPIM six fray dot com slash
passes on.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
You can donate there.
Speaker 6 (09:28):
You can donate in any Smart and Final store or
any Wendy's store. And when you can donate it Wendy's like,
if you're here today, donate five dollars a more and
get a little coupon book.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
Look at this is wonderful as not really a coupon book, Like, hey,
you're going to get ten percent off. This is free
kids meal, this is free four piece nuggets, free four
piece of French toe sticks. And I've said this before
many many times. Wendy's food is not just good, it
is superior, seriously, and it is so underrated because we
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don't have the pleasure of having them on every corner
like you do when you leave California. Oh yeah, they're
a little spread out in southern Califia.
Speaker 6 (10:05):
But there are some new ways that you can donate
this year. A very exciting one for me because I've
been working on since February is if you are out
at Yamava Casino and Resort, which is one of my
favorite places.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
In the world.
Speaker 6 (10:17):
When you go out there and you play and you
go to cash in your winning ticket at the kiosk,
when you cash it in, it'll ask you if you
want to donate your change, and if you say yes,
four charities pop up on the screen, and one of
those is Katerina's Club and it'll be up there until
twelve three, So the day after Giving Tuesday, you can
do that right there at Yamaba. It's really really great,
(10:40):
so happy that they were able to do that for
us this year. And then starting on Monday, Wild Fork
Foods is doing something really great for us at all
eleven of their Southern California stores. And you don't have
to do anything but shop like you normally shop. You
go in there and you shop, and when you go
up to the register, all you have to say is
KFI Pastathon and fifteen percent of your percha will automatically
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be donated to Katerina's Club. And that's all eleven locations
in Southern California. I have them all listed on our website.
That will start on Monday. They've been spectacular, amazing partners.
They jumped aboard last year participading and they were very
eager to be a part of pastathought. Yeah, and then
the last way that you're going to be able to
participate obviously, other than coming out to seeing us on
(11:24):
given Tuesday.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
Is there is a company called.
Speaker 6 (11:26):
Giving Machines, and these are these vending machines that appear
across southern California between Thanksgiving and the end of the
year in certain places. The ones that we are going
to be focused on is there's going to be one
at the Tyler Maler Riverside, one on the Huntington Beach
Pier right by Duke's Restaurant. Oh yeah, one in San
Clemente at the sant Clomentia Outlets, and one in San
(11:47):
Diego in Old Town San Diego. And it looks like
just a vending machine, but inside the vending machine that's
got different cards for different charities, and they'll have a
row of Katerina's Club charity different levels starting at five
dollars going up two hundred dollars and you can donate
right there at the kiosk Oh that's to Katerina's Club
and that's going to go on till the end of
the year. So that's going to be another great way
(12:08):
to generate money for Katerina's Club.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
Last year we caught Handle. He had gotten this big
box from a refrigerator and decorated it to look like
one of those donating kiosks, and he sat inside and
just waited for money to fall in.
Speaker 6 (12:23):
Ok.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
Good, but we called him out on it. I know
it was about fifty bucks into it. We caught him.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
Yeah, I got a lot of change.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
It was a lot of change. Would make us know
that much.
Speaker 6 (12:34):
And until December one, there are some small businesses across
southern California. Also listed on the website at cafim six
to four dot com slash pastathon where you can drop
off pasta and sauce donations at some small businesses across
southern California from Valencia all the way down to.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
Mission Bah.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Okay.
Speaker 5 (12:52):
You know, if I had the surrogacy agency still, I
would offer if.
Speaker 4 (12:57):
You donate fifty dollars or more, you get a free kid.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
That's super generous. I don't know what the legalities of
that would be. It's a tough one, but I'm kind
of I'm kind of happy. You don't know, they'll have that.
Speaker 5 (13:09):
Yeah, I don't have that anymore after thirty years, I
wonder why.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Yeah, it's done with it.
Speaker 6 (13:16):
One of the really quick things I wanted to remind
people is that Kadarina Club doesn't just feed the kids
that day. They have this kind of three prong system
where they help families get back into stable housing by
paying first and last month's rent for them. And they
also Bruno has a hospitality academy where he teaches teenagers
the skills to work in the hospitality industry to try
to help break that cycle and give these kids the
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skills they need to get a good paying job.
Speaker 4 (13:40):
If you go to Anaheim, do I have this right?
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (13:42):
Yea. If you go to Anaheim White House, which by
the way, is the best, one of the most phenomenal
restaurants on the planet, you will see several young kids
there and they that's part of the training academy where
the servers they go up and waiters ask you.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
And then the back they're making shoes. Yes, environments. Yes,
it's a great program.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
It really really, it really is. So anyway, it's kind
of neat all of it.
Speaker 6 (14:08):
So many ways you can help this year, anythink appreciate
We love each and every one of you.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
Thank you so much for your support.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
Yeah. Well, when we come back, as we broadcast live
today mission via ho Bill handles with me, Michelle Cube
is here twenty three zero two to two. Alicia Parkway.
Here in mission via Ho. Just look for Wendy's. Got
some signs up, come by, say hello, I sure would
love to meet You can't promise that from Bill. But
when we come back, we're going to talk about auctions.
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Another way to donate is via auctions. We'll tell you
about that when we return. So go nowhere. This is
KFI the Forek Report.
Speaker 7 (14:42):
You're listening to the Fork Report with Nil Sevedra on
demand from KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
So for report all things food, beverage and beyond. We
take three hours every Saturday. I kind of shake off
the heaviness of the news and come together and just
celebrate food, you know the culture behind it. And today
is special because your friendly neighborhood Folk Reporter is joined
by Bill Handle and of course from Michelle Cubas with
us as well as we broadcast starting pastathon season out
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here in Mission Viejo. We're at the Wendy's Restaurant here
in mission via Ho two three zero two to two
Alisha Parkway in mission via Ho. We're out here till five.
They will hand the mic and everything else over to
Tiffany Hobbs, so she'll go till seven so you come
out when he's convenient for you and say hello. We'll
be doing some giveaways. Of course, Wendy's is set up
(15:33):
out here doing some giveaways with spinning the wheel and
all of that. So very very cool as we continue
to celebrate this time of the year of giving and
being thankful and Katerina's Club and everything that they do
with Chef Bruno and the Anaheim White House. Since twenty ten, right,
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since twenty ten, KFI listeners have raised, listen to this
eight million, five hundred and twenty two thousand, eight hundred
and one dollars. Right, that's impressive. Half of Bill Handrel's
yearly salary. It's amazing. It just is amazing. Nine hundred
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and nineteen thousand pounds of pasta sauce. Also half of
Bill Handel's calorie intakes, so that's also true, really really wonderful. Now, Michelle,
on Monday, things will change and the on the website
you'll have the opportunity to donate differently.
Speaker 6 (16:36):
Yes, you have some exclusive auction items happening starting on Monday.
You guys will describe yours in a minute, but we
have some KFI host exclusive items. Dodger Game with Gary
and Shannon, Dodger Game with Dean and Tina Sharp. John
always he I don't know why he does this, but
he does because you never know what you're going to get.
He auctions off to host an Hour with John colebelts.
Speaker 3 (16:59):
It's worked and it's great.
Speaker 6 (17:01):
He's loved everybody who has done it so far. It's great.
Doctor Wendy has an auction item this year where she's
auctioning off, you know, some kind of therapy session, and
so there's going to be a lot of great things.
You guys have a really great item, which I think
is really really good.
Speaker 5 (17:18):
Well, first, if I have an auction right now, my
half eaten chicken sandwich.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
Wow, that's generous.
Speaker 4 (17:25):
And let's start at ten dollars.
Speaker 7 (17:30):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (17:30):
Okay, let's go to eight dollars.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
People are actually leaving. That seems odd but appropriate. I
only took two bites out of this, Okay. He started
eating the chicken sandwich and says, okay, now I want
to hammer it.
Speaker 4 (17:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
Now, you guys.
Speaker 6 (17:46):
Bill has auctioned off in the past, you know, go
to Brent's Deli with him for lunch. But this year
they came up with something both with Bill and Neil
that I think is it's very unique.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
Well, it's going to be great.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
Okay. The first part is since I do the show
on Saturday, I'll be broadcasting, doing a live intimate broadcast
from Bill Handle's backyard as we do a barbecue, an
old family barbecue in Bill's backyard at his new home
with Lindsay but two listeners. Yeah, you if you are
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the highest bidder and your guest will be able to
come to Bill Handle's home.
Speaker 5 (18:25):
Yeah, so only to be about twenty people there. It'll
be just family and very close family friends. I don't chefs, Yeah,
we'll have chefs there, some serious food. My friend at
at Lake Industries Savile, he is donating a seventeen piece
set of cook of knives gourmet knives is two thousand
(18:47):
dollars value years of Zelman's and the invitation to my
house where we're going to do a barbecue and I've
never ever done that.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
So let's just show this real quick.
Speaker 4 (18:58):
It will be because we've got security here. Yes, let's
predata out.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
David will be there, invite listener, a listener and their
guests to your home and give them knives. Am I correct?
Speaker 4 (19:09):
That is correct?
Speaker 1 (19:09):
Okay? I just wanted to make sure I was hearing correctly.
That sounds like a wonderful idea. Checks out. We don't
have like a gun company that we can okay.
Speaker 4 (19:19):
Oh, also, Anaheim White House is catering it.
Speaker 5 (19:22):
So it's it's gonna be some grilling. Yeah, oh yeah,
we're gonna do It's gonna be phenomenal. And so I've
never done this before, never opened up my house, uh
to anybody.
Speaker 4 (19:32):
So we'll we'll see.
Speaker 5 (19:34):
As Neil said, Uh, there'll be people paying not to
come to the house, but we'll accept it.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
We'll accept it. It'll be a good time. It'll be great.
Speaker 6 (19:41):
And starting Monday, you'll be able to bid on that
stuff at kf I am six four dot com slash Pastathon.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
The donation link for the auction item will be there.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
And so that's great. That that and that's for any
of the items that are there's.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
Gonna be a ton of stuff.
Speaker 6 (19:55):
We've got a couple of Vegas getaways that are going
to be up there. I think there's gonna be a
getaway for tear Nay up there. So there's going to
be a ton of stuff for you to bid on.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
That's absolutely wonderful.
Speaker 4 (20:07):
Usually how well we do on the auction items.
Speaker 6 (20:09):
The auction items last year brought in over fifty thousand
dollars just for the KFI.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
Stuff, just for the KFI host stuff, So that's huge.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (20:17):
I think the John one last year went for almost
nine thousand dollars.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
It was up there, It was up there. Yeah, that's
pretty insane amazing. So when you think about that, eighty
thousand dollars was the first year fifteen years ago, and
now the auction items themselves do almost that exactly. Wow.
Speaker 4 (20:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
KFI listeners are awesome.
Speaker 6 (20:40):
I never would have thought when we started this that
I would say every year, hey, our goal is a
million dollars, and we'll hit it easy.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
You know.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
It's like the last five.
Speaker 6 (20:49):
Or six years, you know, we've been well over a
million dollars and it's it's very humbling.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
Yeah, and you see that it's going to be clocking
the same this year. Yeah, your prayers up, yep.
Speaker 3 (20:59):
I think it's going to be right again.
Speaker 6 (21:00):
With all the different ways to donate this year, I
think there's it's going to be a record breaking year.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
And that's a testament to you folks, anybody that supports
the station that listens that donates anything you can comes
out on the second on Giving Tuesday in December when
we're out and you know, since the lineup changes and stuff,
how late are we broadcasting.
Speaker 6 (21:22):
Till eight o'clock to Kim Conway, We'll close it out
at eight o'clock. And yeah, there's nothing better than seeing,
you know, a little kid come to the Pastathon with
you know, his little piggy bank and he's donating his
piggy bank, or he's donating a couple pounds of pasta
and sauce. It's really it brings the community together in
a way that I have never seen. And I've been
(21:43):
at camp I now thirty You and I both have
been at CAFI thirty two years now, and it's one
of the most amazing. It's the most amazing event.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
That we do. It's huge, and the hearts and the
giving are always amazing. All Right, we're talking Pastathon because
it is Pastathon season and that means it's all about
you giving and KFI and our partners giving four kids
in need here in southern California through Katerina's Club of course,
tied to Bruno Serrato and his giving heart in the
(22:14):
love of his mother, God rest her soul and the
kids in need in southern California. There and Anaheim white
House really puts together wonderful meals for them, feeding them,
and beyond housing them, doing all kinds of great things
as well. We'll be back with more as we broadcast
live in Mission viah Today. Bill Handles with me. You've
(22:34):
been hearing Michelle Cube, our executive producer at KFI. We're
out here Mission VIEJ at Wendy's two three zero two two.
Alicia Parkway come out say hello. We're here till five,
and then Tiffany Hobbes will be here till seven. So
go know where.
Speaker 7 (22:51):
You're listening to the Fork Report with Nil Savedra on
demand from KFI AM six forty FOURK Orpart.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
I'm Nil Savedra hanging out with Bill Handle Today. We're
out here in Mission, vi Aho. You gotta love Orange County.
You can just tell when the roads have no potholes
that you're here. Yeah, you know, like they it just
seems like there's law and order. It's weird, you know,
people aren't intense all over the street. It's just a
different experience. I think that's why I moved to Orange County. Oh,
(23:24):
there's nothing, because because you know, and people ask me.
I was just asked, why did you move to Orange County?
Speaker 5 (23:29):
Go because of the kids, to get away from them
as far as I could and still be in southern California.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
When Handel says that he went, uh and moved to
Orange County for his kids, and you say, oh, they
live out there, he goes, no, they live in La County,
And this is as far as I.
Speaker 4 (23:44):
Could go, yeah, and still be in southern California.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
There's nothing. Nothing pleases me better than someone who has
liberal ideals like yourself, screwing up Los Angeles and then
moving out to Orange County where where they cleaned it
up and want to be nothing like La. Yeah, so
thanks for that. Don't vote for the same people in
(24:07):
Orange County.
Speaker 5 (24:08):
You know, I don't even know the the Assembly people
in the district.
Speaker 4 (24:13):
I don't I really don't know that.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
The politics of Orange County.
Speaker 4 (24:17):
Yeah, not very much. I'll get there.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
I'll stay out of it. Yeah, don't touch it. Yeah,
please don't ruin it. Yeah. So it is pastathon and
we're out here at two three zero two to two
Alicia Parkway and Mission Viejo at Wendy's. They're always great
hosts to us, and Bill's already gone through two different sandwiches,
so he is here for the free food because nothing
(24:41):
says help the poor children that need food like handle
stuffing his face. That's true, It just says true.
Speaker 4 (24:49):
We're here at Wendy's.
Speaker 5 (24:50):
And by the way, I just want to point something out.
If you go inside and buy something at Wendy's and
mention Neil's name, you'll get absolutely nothing than the food
you ordered and paid for.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
It's a powerful name. It does nothing for you. It
doesn't even do anything. In my house, I tell my
son all the time, do you know you're talking to
the four reporter? He goes, I don't.
Speaker 4 (25:11):
Care, yeah, but I will tell you.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
Donating to Pastathon this year is always a great thing
raising money for a Catarina's club. And of course everything
that Chef Bruno does with the Anaheim White House is
just amazing. One of the cool things our partners here
at Wendy's. Not only do they, you know, super serve
(25:33):
people like me who love good food, because I think
they have fantastic Their burgers are absolutely fresh and wonderful.
We've gone through. I've gone through and been in the
kitchens of these places. They are insane, the technology and
the cleanliness of these locations. But not only you get that,
but if you donate five dollars or more, you can
(25:57):
get one of these coupon books and they're really great.
Not only does it have more than five dollars worth
of stuff in here, you got a free kids meal
with any purchase. You got a free four piece nuggets,
you got free four piece French toast, you got a
free Junior frost, and of course free cold brew with cream.
You know, that's a really good deal. And that's their
way of saying thank you for thinking about the children
(26:18):
during this season of gratitude and holidays and people come.
You know what gratitude is, right, no idea? Okay, so
normal people that weren't not hugged or loved as children,
they are grateful. That's like when you're full of greatness
and you're like, I love what you did, thank you,
(26:40):
and you tell them things.
Speaker 4 (26:42):
I don't know, No, you don't.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
So do you ever feel warmth here in your chest?
Speaker 4 (26:49):
Yeah? When it's hot?
Speaker 1 (26:50):
Oh no, now I'm not talking about heartburn. Oh god,
how would you explain the heart to the grinch. When
you love something.
Speaker 5 (27:01):
You're really milking this one, aren't you?
Speaker 1 (27:03):
For you are really you are? No, it just really
is this great time for you know.
Speaker 5 (27:11):
Let's talk about Pastathon coming December second.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
Yes, it's going to be a big deal as all
the hosts will be out in one place at one time.
That's scary. Yeah, and that is going to be the
White House and I'm White House, and that will be
the big day of which is Giving Tuesday on December second,
where we just continue to ask for your help in
(27:37):
in beating what we did last year, which was it
sounded like it was knocking on the door of one
point three.
Speaker 5 (27:43):
Now, we normally don't give you know, I normally don't
give a whole lot away because I normally don't give
a whole lot of Wow, that's not true. But if
you come in the morning to Postathon where I'm broadcasting,
we are serving up obviously for free coffee, muffins, pastries,
and real jew bagels.
Speaker 4 (28:05):
Thank you.
Speaker 5 (28:06):
And it's in my contract they have to serve up
real jew bagels because you know, you go to the
store and you buy bagels. Do you know what the
car call bagels in the store they call it bread. Okay,
they are not bagels. So you get the real stuff.
You get the ms okay, and it's yeah, the schmear.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
God, I've never seen you more excited, you know, And
I was at your last wedding talking about real jew bagels.
You'll never get it more exercised. All right, Uh, stick
around more to come as Bill Handle and I are
broadcasting live here in Mission Viejo out at Wendy's. They're
just God bless them here at two three zero, two
to two, Alicia Parkway, come on out and say hello.
(28:53):
We'll be here till five, and then from five to
seven you've got Tiffany Hobbs. Go nowhere. This is KFI
Hurt everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. You've been listening to
the Fork Report. You can always hear us live on
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