January 5, 2025 • 40 mins
The LA Sheriff's Department Computer Aided Dispatch system crashed on New Year’s Eve. Homeless deterrent, the Blue Chirper, comes to the Promenade. Echo Park's Sage restaurant closing months after facing a vegan backlash. Golden Globes 2025: All you need to know about who's nominated, hosting, more.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Tiffany Hobbs here with you, filling in today from two
to four. Thank you so much for hanging out with us.
I hope you are enjoying this beautiful It is an
absolutely gorgeous day today in the Southland.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
I don't know if you've gotten outside.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
If you can, please do it, because I hear we
are in for a cold snap coming up, so just
make sure that you get out there and enjoy today
and whatever capacity. A lot of us are going back
to work tomorrow, if you have students, perhaps your students,
your kids are going back to school tomorrow, and we're
all kind of soaking up the last relaxing wee can
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end in the beginning of January before it's back to
the grind. It never stopped for me. I'm here again.
I'm happy that you are with us. And what an
interesting start to the year, right, What an interesting start.
Usually the beginning of the year is a little sleepy.
We don't have big news stories, but undoubtedly the next
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two weeks will be filled very busy with a lot
of breaking news. Make sure you keep it right here
on KFI so that we can keep you abreast of
everything that's going on. The inauguration is in fifteen days.
Just a few weeks ago, it felt so far away,
and now it is literally two weeks from tomorrow, and
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no doubt, safety and security is on everyone's minds, especially
because of what happened in Las Vegas and New Orleans.
I'll have updates for you about those two stories, specifically
updates about New Orleans in the second half of the show.
And also what's going on with this Toro app. You
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might have been hearing about it in the news, you
might have been seeing it talked about, and correlation to
these stories. It's what both suspects in Las Vegas and
New World Orleans apparently used to rent the cars that
they used in those separate attacks. Well, I'll have some
information about Touro for you, so that in case you
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were expecting to maybe become a host on Touro or
you've maybe toyed around with the idea of renting a
car from the app, some things that you might want
to know.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
In a moment.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
We'll also get into what's going on with the La
County Sheriff's Department and how they quietly, very quietly handled
something that could have caused a major crisis on New
Year's Eve. Nonetheless, I'll get into that in a bit.
And in the midst of all of these big safety concerns,
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all of these stories, President Biden will make his final
visit to Los Angeles, to the LA area tomorrow, So
we'll be expecting that big jet and all of that
traffic congestion as he and First Lady Joe Biden descend
upon the Southland and they'll be here to announce the
creation of a new national monument just south of Joshua
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Tree on the outskirts of the park. That monument is
called the Chuck Walla National Monument, and it will make
drilling and mining and other sort of environmental compromises illegal
on the areas that are considered as tribal land. So
they will be here to kick that off tomorrow, that
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is in the afternoon, because before President Biden and First
Lady Joe Biden get here, they will be going to
New Orleans. They have a very busy Monday's travel schedule,
very busy schedule for the Bidens. They'll be in New
Orleans tomorrow morning where they will address the tragedy of
what happened on Bourbon Street. But when they make it
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to southern California, how much more secure will their secure
In the wake of all of these incidents. What they
thought was secure is no longer and they will have
to adjust. I'm glad the Bidens didn't visit on New
Year's Eve here in the Southland because Sheriff's dispatch, the
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LA County Sheriff's dispatch system that controls the entire county crashed,
and we have some audio about exactly what happened.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
Robin, can you play that audio for.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
US communications system crash within the LA County Sheriff's Department.
It is the main system that dispatchers used to respond
to emergencies.
Speaker 5 (04:38):
So the shutdown started New Year's Eve, a busy night
for law enforcement, and comes as cities are on extra
alert following the attack in New Orleans.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
NBC four's Laura Cornado is.
Speaker 5 (04:49):
Living downtown LA with how our nine to one one
calls are now being handled.
Speaker 6 (04:53):
I want to start by stressing nine to one one
lines are still operating. That's the good news, But like
you said, this is really impact dispatch and how they
get information about calls to deputies who are going to
respond to the calls. So we're talking about the CAD system,
the computer aided a dispatch system which crash like you
said New Year's Eve. A spokesperson for the La County
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Sheriff's Department says deputies were having trouble logging into their
patrol vehicles digital computers, which is normally where they receive
details about calls for service from dispatch. Now dispatchers have
to radio information to deputies the old school way. The
deputy will manually log it and respond extra steps for everyone.
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This kind of workflow happens temporarily during power outages or
when Wi Fi issues come up. Apparently, the outdated CAD
has been an ongoing issue. In a statement, the department
says it has long faced significant challenges with outdated technology,
and since taking office, the sheriff has emphasized the urgent
need to improve and upgrade our internal systems. In mid
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twenty twenty three, the department issued a formal request for
proposals to acquire.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
As so as you heard, this was a major catastrophe
in the making, and the La County Sheriff's Department again quietly,
very quietly, because you didn't know I surely didn't know
put this thing to rest and made sure that it
didn't become a huge news story except for the fact
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that it did, except for the fact that it did
get out, and now we can talk about it because
of all these safety concerns and the implications about safety.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
If we do not have a way to.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Communicate our emergencies, if we do not have a way
to communicate with our law enforcement, and that is compromised,
then we are potentially in a world of hurt, and
not only people who would be the potential victims of
said crime or tragedy, but people.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
Who would take advantage.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Of a fledgling system, because just as people who would
be victims have found out about this, others who use
these opportunities for crime, these are crimes of opportunity, would
use this as an advantage use as to their advantage.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
This system is.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
The main way that deputies respond to emergencies. Again, it's
called the computer aided Dispatch system.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
And on New Year's Eve.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Where Los Angeles turns into Gotham City, it's probably the
worst possible time, if any, for something like this to
go down. I find it very funny that they were
using language that was indicative of the old school way
of communicating with dispatch, saying that operators were still able
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to talk to law enforcement. The patrol vehicles could still communicate,
but everything was more or less analog. They had to
log in or use RADI to be able to transmit
this information before they could respond to the call. But
because of how convenient their system, this CAD Computer Aided
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Dispatch system is, how sophisticated it is, it is electronic,
the dependency is there. They have grown dependent on the
ease of the CAD system, and so when it went.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
Down on New Year's Eve, there was a panic.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Nevertheless, and it is interesting that they say that this
has happened before, but it happens usually during powder power
outages or when there are Wi Fi issues. That makes
me nervous when I hear Wi Fi issues. Think about
your own WiFi, Think about your own cellular service and
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how often these things malfunction, how inconsistent Wi Fi service
can be, and when it is inoperable, what happens in
your own household. I imagine it is pandemonium when the
Wi Fi goes down in your home, So imagine what's
happening in the sheriff's dispatch system, or in the sheriff's
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different offices or at these different control rooms. When Wi
Fi goes down, you're in the middle of an emergency,
and you have to wait for all of these channels
to be put into effect so that you can communicate
your emergency and then have that emergency communicate it to
a responding officer, whether New Year's Eve or today January fifth,
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that is not something that we should be reckoning with
or dealing with because of these major security concerns. We
are not as secure as we think we are, and
a lot of these concerns need to be addressed quickly
and stringently before these major events come to Los Angeles,
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New Orleans, Las Vegas, wherever it may be, because we
are poss positioning ourselves for a lot of trouble. I'll
talk a little bit more about some ways that local people,
local residents are hoping to be able to respond to
crime or respond to incidents in which let's say, law
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enforcement might not be able to get to as quickly,
say because of a crash, or just because of anything else,
maybe traffic because the bidens are coming into town.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
I don't know, but we'll get into that and a lot.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Of other stories in this next two hours, so you
stay tuned. Thanks for hanging out with me.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Sidney Hobbs here with you from two to four. Thanks
for hanging out with me. I am filling in today
and you make sure you stay tuned for Chris Merrill,
who will be up after from four to seven.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
Can't wait to talk to him, all right.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
I was telling you in the previous segment about safety concerns.
They are on everyone's mind because when you look around,
you want to know that wherever you are going, wherever
you are is safe.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
That is just synonymous.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
It is it should be an inalienable right safety. But
over the last few days and the last many years,
we have undoubtedly had our safety compromised, and our confidence
and our safety has also been shaken at its core.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
Well.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
As I was telling you, the La County Sheriff's dispatch
system went down on New Year's Eve. It crashed because
of Wi Fi issues, connectivity issues, and that is a
huge concern as we prepare for things like the Olympics,
things like the major sporting events, other events that are
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coming in the next few months. The next few years
things that need to be ratified and codified, and apparently
have not been because going back to twenty twenty three,
the department, the La County Sheriff's Department actually issued a
formal request for proposals to acquire a new modernized centralized system.
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So for over one year, heading into two years now,
this has been an area of concern for the La
County Sheriff's Department. Let's say you're experiencing an issue. Let's
say that issue requires law enforcement intervention, and you wanted
to call law enforcement on New Year's Eve or any
other day, and for some reason, connectivity is down and
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you're finding it to be lagging. Let's say there's an
encampment that you perhaps want to be moved, or some
sort of disturbance, someone's lurking around your business or your home,
things that we experience here, probably all of us at
this point. If you live in Los Angeles County, Orange
County as well as it's creeping there too, and you're
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trying to get some sort of support, you might have
found that it's been difficult. You are told to call
three to one one, and if you're like me, you
haven't had the best response in that way. Well, there's
a Santa Monica resident named Stephen McMahon who has something
for you. Necessity breeds invention and Stephen McMahon, the Santa
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Monica resident, invented something called the blue Chirper and it
has now come to the Santa Monica Promenade, a place
where if you've been listening to KFI, you know, there's
been quite an increase in crime, quite an increase in
loitering and encampments and the Santa Monica Promenade, like many
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of our social gathering spaces in the Southland, has been
infringed upon. It's not what you may remember from five
or ten years ago. Well, that crisis shows no sign
of improving just yet. And Stephen McMahon's blue Chirper device
is an attempt to dissuade people from loitering by sleeping
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on benches or leaning on in areas, or standing around
getting too comfortable where they should be moving along. That
could be you too, if you have one too many drinks. Okay,
so keep that in mind. It is a device that
wants you to move along, and it's been strategically positioned
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above businesses like Barney's Beanery and others. Let me tell
you a little bit about what this device in tails.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
Well, in May of.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Twenty twenty three, Stephen McMahon kind of rolled these blue
Chirper devices out and he used it as a way
to discourage the homeless from making camps and partaking an
illicit and illegal drug use in his building's courtyard parking space,
which then turned into repeated burglaries. There's a kind of
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a one two chicken or egg there what comes first.
But again, if you live here in southern California, we
do know that this is a huge problem.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
Well, the blue chirpers.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
Became highly demanded because more loitering was happening, more drug
use was happening, and this was around Santa Monica. McMahon
created this and helped different businesses, like I said, including
Barney's Beanery, which was chronicled in different interviews by local
Santa Monica activists. And because of the popularity of what
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was happening at Barney's, others said, you know what, I
want that too, So business really shot up for these
blue chirpers.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
And what it is.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Is that when you put it up high, it has
a flashing light and it also has kind of a
high pitched sound. It's something that you don't want to hear,
and especially when it gets dark, it's something that you
don't want to see. You might have seen or heard
at Local seven elevens or other businesses this loud classical
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music or some sort of music. There are other strategies
that businesses are employing to create deterrens for this sort
of loitering activity. And they say that when people hear
this noise, they get their things and they move along.
At first, there was some skepticism would this really work?
Speaker 3 (16:30):
Should we buy these? That's what the businesses were saying.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
But they did find these businesses that they were successful.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
One business said.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
Five o'clock in the morning, they were out there, they
were installing the blue chirper and by seven point thirty am,
a person who had been in front of the business
had moved along. So that was a quick turnaround for them.
And again it allowed others, because of this really high
success rate, to demand and increase the production of this device.
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So while you may not be able to turn to
the La County Sheriff's Department because of connectivity issues, Stephen
McMahon is saying, if you would like one of these
devices to definitely get in contact with him and that
they can come out and install one of those, I imagine
at the premium at a premium price because it is
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extremely popular and with popularity causes and creates an increase
and what he's able to charge. But that they have
a one hundred percent success rate.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
Not a lot of businesses can boast that.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
I don't think in and Out can boast a one
hundred percent success rate. As much as I love them,
I still have a couple of days where it's not
fully there. Okay, But this Stephen McMahon's Blue Chirper is
saying they have a one hundred percent success rate and
that they will help quell loitering, homelessness, activity, drug use,
other unsavory characters from being in front of your business.
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I imagine you could also then move that to homes
and that's probably what will happen next.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
Sadly, we are not proactive.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
We are reactionary, and this is yet another example of that.
But when we react and it is successful, then at
least we can find some sort of relief in being
able to change things. Something that changed that shouldn't have
changed has to do with a restaurant that originally marketed
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themselves as being vegan.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
This is southern California.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
We have no shortage of vegan and other specialty restaurants.
This restaurant said that they were vegan when they went
into business, began their business fourteen years ago. However, something
changed and with the change in their business model came
a lot of backlash. Tell you more about this business model,
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the name of the business as well, and what happened
to the business because of their pivot.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
You would say pivot.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
If you watch Friends, you know that because of their pivot,
not a lot of people are happy with their pivot,
and they definitely stood their ground and demanded that the
business changed back. We'll get into details about what happened
when we come back, as well as let's talk about
the Golden Globes there tonight, and I'll have a list
of nominees and things you should watch out for in
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tonight's ceremonies.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
Tiffany Hobbs here with you until six o'clock. I was
just telling you about change, and there's a restaurant that
changed their business model. They went from what they had
originally been designed to do and the patrons they were
designed to serve, intending to serve two a different group
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of patrons, and that change, that pivot has angered a
lot of people.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
What am I talking about? Let's find out.
Speaker 4 (20:12):
Go with signs reading like meat is murder, protesters invading
Echo Park restaurant, even dumb red paint on the sidewalk
out front.
Speaker 7 (20:23):
Is at least the third time.
Speaker 4 (20:24):
All this because the owner decided to add meat and
dary to what was a vegan only menu. Fox Levin's
and Matthew Sudorff is their live with the story you'll
see only right here on Fox eleven plus Matthew Christine.
Speaker 8 (20:36):
These protests have been taking place outside the restaurant and
inside the building. It's impacting the business here. The owner
worries it could force them to shut down. HMN Freedom
Animal rights protesters holding signs and blasting whistards. I don't
care inside and outside. Sage Regenerative Kitchen and Brewery and
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Echo Park Group upset the restaurant after thirteen years added
meat to what had been a vegan only menu.
Speaker 9 (21:07):
We have a right to decide and grow and change
our opinion it's not the best actually option for the planet,
for the soil to exclude animals from this circle.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
Okay, So that audio is it's interesting. You know, you
hear you hear a lot of passion. You hear a
lot of passion in the protesters. Protesters are always passionate,
whether you agree with them or not. And in this case,
I can understand why they are angry.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
All right, not necessarily.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
I am not a vegan. I enjoy meat. I enjoy
a lot of meat. So I apologize to any of
you out there who are on the opposite side of that.
But I do understand why it is difficult to let
go of something that you are used to.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
Change is already hard for people.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
And if you are going to a restaurant and their
menu has been this and then they changed to that,
especially a big change, then I can I can understand
why people would be resistant. And in this case, again
it was fourteen years in business, and I say was
fourteen years in business because this restaurant Stage is going
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out of business as of this weekend. They announced it
on Instagram. Today is their last day, and that is
for two locations, including one in Pasadena. The co owner
and chef Molly Inglehart said a few months ago in May,
that the restaurants, both of them, had been losing money
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since the pandemic, and that she had actually sold her
home and other possessions to keep the businesses running again.
I sympathize. I empathize the pandemic was difficult. People are
still recovering. We are still recovering as a city. We
have adjusted to what is now a new normal. It's
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why there are patios everywhere for restauran It's something that's
not going away anytime soon. Remember five years ago, we
didn't have that, but now it is commonplace. And while
people were able to change and adjust, there were others
who struggled in this business. The Stage restaurant, the owner
says that it was difficult, that they were really struggling
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to keep both restaurants running. But in May, what they
decided to do to recoup some of their lost earnings
to be able to pay their employees was to shift
from vegan to something that they call regenerative. And regenerative
is an agricultural practice that includes the cultivation and use
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of animals. I don't know why they're calling it regenerative.
It's just a meat. It's a restaurant with meat, right.
McDonald's is not a regenerative restaurant, nor is you know.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
Your steakhouse down the street. It is just a restaurant.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
We don't need a fancy term to justify the use
of meat.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
It is what it is.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
But they wanted to kind of soften the change and
ease into it with some flowery language. You can't really
soften going from vegan, which to my knowledge, and Richie, hell,
are you familiar at all with vegan options anything for.
Speaker 7 (24:18):
The most part.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
Yeah, it's vegan completely, just plant based only.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
Or is there any can you do any sort of
dairy or.
Speaker 10 (24:25):
I think you're supposed to stick away from the dairy
or any of that, like no cheese, no milk. It's
like just plant based you know. Oh how sad? Yeah, tragic.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
So when you come to you think of vegan and
I'm gonna go with Richie's expertise here because I don't know.
I love a steak, okay, but with vegan going from
no meat at all whatsoever, no dairy products whatsoever, to
quote unquote regenerative practices, which is meat is going to
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be a little harmful for people who were expecting to
go into the Sage restaurant and order their salad burger
or whatever else it is that they were trying to order.
But this shift again brought a swift, a very fast
as you can imagine, and bitter backlash.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
People.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
As you heard, there were camping out in front of
the restaurant. They had their signs. One such sign says
Sage kills for profit. And the protester here has on
a very scary mask, kind of with a clown, a
very sad clown face. These people were serious about theirs.
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They do not want you going from vegan to meet.
Speaker 10 (25:38):
There was like the video clip of the musecast that
you know, talk about the story, there was footage of
them throwing like red paint all.
Speaker 7 (25:45):
Over the floor.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
They are serious.
Speaker 7 (25:47):
It was like a red situation.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
And you know, I don't like when protesters do that,
when they throw paint and.
Speaker 7 (25:52):
Then they flowers or whatever.
Speaker 3 (25:55):
I'm like, it's very hypocritical to me.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
You're protesting something that you don't like and something that
you feel harmed by, and then you turn around and
then you harm Yeah.
Speaker 7 (26:04):
Like do it peacefully, you know what I mean.
Speaker 10 (26:06):
In the video, also, there was like you know, people
actually eating there while all this was going on, and
it looked like a madhouse.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
It's just crazy.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
People really want their stage restaurant, I guess. But with
that they've now had to close their business. They have
not been able to sustain the change. Think about your
favorite business that is meat. If your local steakhouse shifted
from steak and chicken to only russell sprouts and other
things that grow from the ground or trees or whatever.
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Vegans eat sticks and stones. I don't know, but if
it shifted from that to that, there would be a
huge backlash for sure, And I can't I understand it.
Like I said, I can totally validate people being angry,
but then it comes out of costs.
Speaker 3 (26:51):
You lose your business.
Speaker 7 (26:52):
Yeah, don't play with the vegans.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
They are a very tumultuous and just adverse group, aren't they.
You think it'd be peaceful and flowery because they don't
have a lot of protein and a lot they get
pizce and love, and they'd be a little, I don't know,
a little less strong. But they're out. They're big guys
out the show. It's very interesting. It says now that
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they're deep in debt and unable to make their payroll,
which is sad because you think of the employees who
are there. They're not able to then be paid for
their work. So you do have more people now entering
into the unemployment line.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
Sadly.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
We'll see what Stage restaurant does in the future, but
for now, they say, visit us during our last week,
which is now their last day to day, and share
your favorite memories with them, whether the vegan pivot memories
or the meat eating regenerative. We need to drop that
regenerative practices. I do not like that at all, and
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I do not want that to become a thing. All right,
we don't have enough time to get fully into the
Golden Globes list, but I will start off by telling
you because we're gonna talk about it, we're gonna get
into it.
Speaker 3 (28:07):
The Golden Globes are tonight. Do you watch?
Speaker 2 (28:10):
Is this something that you look forward to? The Golden
Globes are said to be the fun Awards Show. It's
the awards show where you see all of these actors
and actresses and musicians sitting at tables and its kind
of restaurant style, and you have a comedian up on
stage and people are having a great time. The Golden
Globes is supposed to usher us into awards season because
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then it's the Oscars, you have the Grammys, you have
these other awards shows. SAG is right behind it, and
the Golden Globes gives us a really good preview of
who could take home the trophies and these major categories.
Throughout the awards season, we'll get into the nominees, the
list of movies and TV shows and other things that
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you should look out for, and where traffic is going
to be absolutely insane. It likely already is, especially if
you are in the Beverly Hills area. Hint, stay away
from the Beverly Hills Hotel.
Speaker 3 (29:11):
I think it's the Beverly Hills Hotel.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
Either way, stay away from that area and I'll tell
you more about it when we come back.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
You're listening to KFI AM sixty on demand.
Speaker 3 (29:21):
Taking hops here with you. It is Golden Globes time.
Do you like Award shows? I like awards shows. Do
you like award shows? Richie?
Speaker 7 (29:33):
I do?
Speaker 10 (29:34):
But I know what you really, really, really really love
about award show.
Speaker 7 (29:37):
I love the fashion.
Speaker 3 (29:39):
The fashion. I miss Joan Rivers. Rest in Peace. I
used to enjoy.
Speaker 2 (29:44):
I'm aging myself now, but I used to enjoy watching
Joan Rivers get out there and what.
Speaker 3 (29:48):
Are you wearing?
Speaker 7 (29:49):
What are you?
Speaker 3 (29:49):
Who are you wearing? And all that right, so much fun.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
But it's it's it's as much a spectacle visually as
it is something that you check for as far as
the results and to be a to kind of get
a pulse on what is happening in cinema and what's
happening in television because it's unavoidable. We're watching, you're going
to the movies. Movie viewership seems to ebb and flow,
but it's up right now. You have Moana, you have
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wicked things like that that have really boastered movie watching
and the cinema industry, the movie industry. But the Golden
Globe celebrates not just movies but television as well. This year,
for the second time, Nicki Glazer is the ceremony host,
but it is.
Speaker 3 (30:34):
Her first time by herself.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
She is the first woman to host the Golden Globes
without a male companion.
Speaker 3 (30:43):
So it's historic in that way.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
Interesting that we're still having those kind of firsts, but
you know, it is what it is. So eighty Second
Awards ceremony will air tonight on CBS and be streamed
on Paramount Plus. And here are some things that you
should know. First of all, comedian Nikki Glazer, the host,
is a very righteously sharp witted comedian. So she is
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somebody you usually see who performs at these celebrity roasts
where they just just lay into people and clown and
make fun of and it can be kind of uncomfortable.
Sometimes she is that person and she's going to host.
She recently did the roast for Tom Brady and that
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was all over the place because we saw reactions from
Tom Brady that looked.
Speaker 3 (31:35):
Like he wasn't really into what she was saying.
Speaker 2 (31:38):
Because of the success of that, she is now going
to host the Golden Globes. She also earned an Emmy
nomination for her latest special, Someday You'll Die. So she
is an Award nominated or an Emmy nominated host.
Speaker 3 (31:52):
Good for her.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
So let's talk about some of the nominations. We have
quite a few musical, we have quite a few kids
movies or family friendly movies, a movie about the Pope
oh Man. So for Best Motion Picture Comedy or Musical,
we have Wicked, Anora.
Speaker 10 (32:17):
Have you seen that, No, but my nephew talked about it.
He said, it's a really good film.
Speaker 3 (32:22):
Okay, I never heard of it.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
Emilia Perez, which is pretty good. Challengers, that's the tennis
movie with Zendaya kind of came and went. It was
out in the theaters for like five minutes. There were
billboards everywhere, and then it was gone, poof and gone.
We have something called A Real Pain. And then also
the Substance starring Demi Moore.
Speaker 7 (32:44):
That one was something.
Speaker 2 (32:46):
Okay, of those of those six, who would you say
would be a major contender for Best Motion Picture Comedy
or Musical, Wicked Anora, Emilia Perez, Challengers, A Real Pain,
or the Substance.
Speaker 7 (32:59):
I will say Amelia or the Substance.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
All right, My money is on Emilia Perez. They cleaned
up at the con film fests. I believe for the
first time ever, the three lead actresses in Emilia Perez
all split the Best Actress award. They split it three
ways for the first time ever, and awarded those three
actresses that title. Wow wow, right, So they are the
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I think the major contender. That and the Substance with
Demi Moore. All right, Best Motion Picture Drama Here we go,
Here we go. We have the Brutalist, a complete unknown Conclave.
That's the one about the Pope, Dune Part two, Nickel Boys,
and September fifth. I have seen none of these same.
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All right, moving along. Best performance by a male actor
in emotion picture, musical or comedy, we have Jesse Eisenberg
for a Real Pain, Hugh Grant for a Heretic. We
have Gabriel LaBelle for Saturday Night, Jesse Plemons for kinds
of Kindness, I Love Him, Glenn Powell for Hitman, and
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Sebastian stan for a Different Man. Best performance by a
female actor in a motion picture, comedy or musical, we
have Amy Adams for Knight and I'll let you kind
of all right, We're gonna play a little game. It
rhymes with Witch but starts with a B night. That
that's the name of it, all right. Then we have
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Cynthia Erivo for Wicked, she played the Witch the Green One,
Carlo Sofia Gascone for Emilia Perez, Mickey Madison for Honora,
Demi Moore for the Substance, and Zendaia Zenza Gosh, Zendeia
for Challengers. All Right, don't know who's gonna pull that off.
But I know Wicked really is beloved by people. They
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say that Cynthia Rivo did amazingly well, so she could
be a major contender, as well as as Carlo Sophia
Gascon for Emelia Perez. So we'll see Best Performance by
a Female Actor in Emotion Picture Drama. Alright, so these
are some surprises for the first time ever nominated this
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person's first time, Pamela Anderson for the Last show Girl.
Speaker 3 (35:20):
We have Angelina.
Speaker 2 (35:21):
Jolie for Maria, Nicole Kidman for Baby Girl, Tilda Swinton,
who is amazing for The Room next Door, Fernanda Torres
for I'm Still Here, and Kate Winslet for Lee. For
Best Performance by a Male Actor in Emotion Picture Drama,
Adrian Brody the Brutalist, Timothy Chalomy a complete unknown, Coleman
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Domingo for sing Sing, Ralph Fines for Conclave, and Sebastian
Stand for The Apprentice. All right, so let's move on down.
Let's move on down. Best Animated Film Flow inside Out two,
which is please go see inside Out two. It's see
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inside Out one. It is such a revolutionary film. It
really deals well with emotions and it's not just a
kid's film. It will jerk your emotions for sure. So
Flow inside Out two, which is the sequel memoir of
a snail, Moana two, Wallace and Gramet, Vengeance, Must Foul,
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and The Wild Robot. For Best Performance by a Female
Actor in a Supporting Role in an Emotion Picture, Selena Gomez,
Ariana Grande, Felicity Jones, Margaret Qually, Isabella Rosalini, Zoe Saldonna.
Best Performance by a Male Actor in a supporting role,
You're a borisov Kiaren Cocin. It's really weird to see
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Kieran Cocin do interviews because I just remember him. He's
the younger Cocin McAuley's brother. You see him. I just
see him at home alone. I just see the baby
Kiaren Cocaine in the back with the glasses. I think
he's the one that one of the ones who had
the glasses. Edward Norton, Guy Pierce, Jeremy Strong, and Denzel Washington.
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And that's for Gladiator too. Best Director, This is a
big one. Jacquis Audiad for Emilia Perez, Sean Baker for Honora,
Edward Berger for Conclave, Brady Corbette for The Brutalist, Cora Lee, Fargia,
The Substance, and Payal Kabbadilla all we imagine as light.
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All right, so we have some original songs as well.
The Last show Girl is in there, songs from Challenger.
A lot of these are from the musicals this year
Better Man, Amelia Perez, the Wild Robot. Interesting that we
do not see an original song nomination for Wicked. Very
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interesting television. Let's get into some television before we break.
Best Television Drama, Showgun, The Diplomat, Slow Horses, Mister and
Missus Smith, The Day of the Jackal, and my personal favorite,
Squid Game. Best Television Series, Comedy or Musical. Here we go,
Abbot Elementary, which has one I think it's It's it's
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vied with the next nominee. They kind of volley back
and forth. Abbot Elementary, The Bear Hacks. Nobody wants this,
only Murders in the Building and the Gentlemen. Best Performance
by a male Actor in a TV Series or Drama,
Donald Glover for Mister and Missus Smith, Jake Jillenhall, Gary Oldman,
Eddie Redmain, Hirayuku Sonata, Billy, Bob Thornton who just finds
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himself just back on the scene. Best tell Our Best
performance by a female actor in a television series drama,
Kathy Bates for the Resurgence of Mattlock Mattlock Is Beck,
Emma d'arci, Maya Erskine, Kiera Knightley, Carrie Russell, Anna So
why So, there are a lot to look out for
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for series music or comedy. For a female actor Kristen Bell,
Keina Brunson, Ao Eta Berri, Selena Gomez, Catherine Hahn for
Agatha all Along, Gene Smart for Hacks.
Speaker 3 (39:15):
We have Adam Brody for Nobody Wants This.
Speaker 2 (39:18):
For best performance by a male actor and a television
series Musical or Comedy, Ted Danson is in that category,
Jason Siegel, Martin Short, Jeremy White, and also Steve Martin.
Oh my gosh, that's probably the most exciting category for me.
Best Performance by a male actor in a TV series,
Musical or Comedy, because there are some major legends in
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that category. Stay tuned. It will air tonight. I do
not have the time handy, but I think it is
around five PM. But just know that if you are
around Beverly Hills, Santa Monica Boulevard, Sunset Boulevard, it is
going to be absolutely insane. Stay away from there, but
enjoy show and hit us on the talkback app.
Speaker 3 (40:01):
Give us some of your predictions. I'd love to hear it.
Speaker 1 (40:04):
KFI AM six forty on demand
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Tiffany Hobbs here with you, filling in today from two
to four. Thank you so much for hanging out with us.
I hope you are enjoying this beautiful It is an
absolutely gorgeous day today in the Southland.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
I don't know if you've gotten outside.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
If you can, please do it, because I hear we
are in for a cold snap coming up, so just
make sure that you get out there and enjoy today
and whatever capacity. A lot of us are going back
to work tomorrow, if you have students, perhaps your students,
your kids are going back to school tomorrow, and we're
all kind of soaking up the last relaxing wee can
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end in the beginning of January before it's back to
the grind. It never stopped for me. I'm here again.
I'm happy that you are with us. And what an
interesting start to the year, right, What an interesting start.
Usually the beginning of the year is a little sleepy.
We don't have big news stories, but undoubtedly the next
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two weeks will be filled very busy with a lot
of breaking news. Make sure you keep it right here
on KFI so that we can keep you abreast of
everything that's going on. The inauguration is in fifteen days.
Just a few weeks ago, it felt so far away,
and now it is literally two weeks from tomorrow, and
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no doubt, safety and security is on everyone's minds, especially
because of what happened in Las Vegas and New Orleans.
I'll have updates for you about those two stories, specifically
updates about New Orleans in the second half of the show.
And also what's going on with this Toro app. You
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might have been hearing about it in the news, you
might have been seeing it talked about, and correlation to
these stories. It's what both suspects in Las Vegas and
New World Orleans apparently used to rent the cars that
they used in those separate attacks. Well, I'll have some
information about Touro for you, so that in case you
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were expecting to maybe become a host on Touro or
you've maybe toyed around with the idea of renting a
car from the app, some things that you might want
to know.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
In a moment.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
We'll also get into what's going on with the La
County Sheriff's Department and how they quietly, very quietly handled
something that could have caused a major crisis on New
Year's Eve. Nonetheless, I'll get into that in a bit.
And in the midst of all of these big safety concerns,
(02:46):
all of these stories, President Biden will make his final
visit to Los Angeles, to the LA area tomorrow, So
we'll be expecting that big jet and all of that
traffic congestion as he and First Lady Joe Biden descend
upon the Southland and they'll be here to announce the
creation of a new national monument just south of Joshua
(03:10):
Tree on the outskirts of the park. That monument is
called the Chuck Walla National Monument, and it will make
drilling and mining and other sort of environmental compromises illegal
on the areas that are considered as tribal land. So
they will be here to kick that off tomorrow, that
(03:31):
is in the afternoon, because before President Biden and First
Lady Joe Biden get here, they will be going to
New Orleans. They have a very busy Monday's travel schedule,
very busy schedule for the Bidens. They'll be in New
Orleans tomorrow morning where they will address the tragedy of
what happened on Bourbon Street. But when they make it
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to southern California, how much more secure will their secure
In the wake of all of these incidents. What they
thought was secure is no longer and they will have
to adjust. I'm glad the Bidens didn't visit on New
Year's Eve here in the Southland because Sheriff's dispatch, the
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LA County Sheriff's dispatch system that controls the entire county crashed,
and we have some audio about exactly what happened.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
Robin, can you play that audio for.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
US communications system crash within the LA County Sheriff's Department.
It is the main system that dispatchers used to respond
to emergencies.
Speaker 5 (04:38):
So the shutdown started New Year's Eve, a busy night
for law enforcement, and comes as cities are on extra
alert following the attack in New Orleans.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
NBC four's Laura Cornado is.
Speaker 5 (04:49):
Living downtown LA with how our nine to one one
calls are now being handled.
Speaker 6 (04:53):
I want to start by stressing nine to one one
lines are still operating. That's the good news, But like
you said, this is really impact dispatch and how they
get information about calls to deputies who are going to
respond to the calls. So we're talking about the CAD system,
the computer aided a dispatch system which crash like you
said New Year's Eve. A spokesperson for the La County
(05:15):
Sheriff's Department says deputies were having trouble logging into their
patrol vehicles digital computers, which is normally where they receive
details about calls for service from dispatch. Now dispatchers have
to radio information to deputies the old school way. The
deputy will manually log it and respond extra steps for everyone.
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This kind of workflow happens temporarily during power outages or
when Wi Fi issues come up. Apparently, the outdated CAD
has been an ongoing issue. In a statement, the department
says it has long faced significant challenges with outdated technology,
and since taking office, the sheriff has emphasized the urgent
need to improve and upgrade our internal systems. In mid
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twenty twenty three, the department issued a formal request for
proposals to acquire.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
As so as you heard, this was a major catastrophe
in the making, and the La County Sheriff's Department again quietly,
very quietly, because you didn't know I surely didn't know
put this thing to rest and made sure that it
didn't become a huge news story except for the fact
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that it did, except for the fact that it did
get out, and now we can talk about it because
of all these safety concerns and the implications about safety.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
If we do not have a way to.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Communicate our emergencies, if we do not have a way
to communicate with our law enforcement, and that is compromised,
then we are potentially in a world of hurt, and
not only people who would be the potential victims of
said crime or tragedy, but people.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
Who would take advantage.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Of a fledgling system, because just as people who would
be victims have found out about this, others who use
these opportunities for crime, these are crimes of opportunity, would
use this as an advantage use as to their advantage.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
This system is.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
The main way that deputies respond to emergencies. Again, it's
called the computer aided Dispatch system.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
And on New Year's Eve.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Where Los Angeles turns into Gotham City, it's probably the
worst possible time, if any, for something like this to
go down. I find it very funny that they were
using language that was indicative of the old school way
of communicating with dispatch, saying that operators were still able
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to talk to law enforcement. The patrol vehicles could still communicate,
but everything was more or less analog. They had to
log in or use RADI to be able to transmit
this information before they could respond to the call. But
because of how convenient their system, this CAD Computer Aided
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Dispatch system is, how sophisticated it is, it is electronic,
the dependency is there. They have grown dependent on the
ease of the CAD system, and so when it went.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
Down on New Year's Eve, there was a panic.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Nevertheless, and it is interesting that they say that this
has happened before, but it happens usually during powder power
outages or when there are Wi Fi issues. That makes
me nervous when I hear Wi Fi issues. Think about
your own WiFi, Think about your own cellular service and
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how often these things malfunction, how inconsistent Wi Fi service
can be, and when it is inoperable, what happens in
your own household. I imagine it is pandemonium when the
Wi Fi goes down in your home, So imagine what's
happening in the sheriff's dispatch system, or in the sheriff's
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different offices or at these different control rooms. When Wi
Fi goes down, you're in the middle of an emergency,
and you have to wait for all of these channels
to be put into effect so that you can communicate
your emergency and then have that emergency communicate it to
a responding officer, whether New Year's Eve or today January fifth,
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that is not something that we should be reckoning with
or dealing with because of these major security concerns. We
are not as secure as we think we are, and
a lot of these concerns need to be addressed quickly
and stringently before these major events come to Los Angeles,
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New Orleans, Las Vegas, wherever it may be, because we
are poss positioning ourselves for a lot of trouble. I'll
talk a little bit more about some ways that local people,
local residents are hoping to be able to respond to
crime or respond to incidents in which let's say, law
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enforcement might not be able to get to as quickly,
say because of a crash, or just because of anything else,
maybe traffic because the bidens are coming into town.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
I don't know, but we'll get into that and a lot.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Of other stories in this next two hours, so you
stay tuned. Thanks for hanging out with me.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Sidney Hobbs here with you from two to four. Thanks
for hanging out with me. I am filling in today
and you make sure you stay tuned for Chris Merrill,
who will be up after from four to seven.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
Can't wait to talk to him, all right.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
I was telling you in the previous segment about safety concerns.
They are on everyone's mind because when you look around,
you want to know that wherever you are going, wherever
you are is safe.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
That is just synonymous.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
It is it should be an inalienable right safety. But
over the last few days and the last many years,
we have undoubtedly had our safety compromised, and our confidence
and our safety has also been shaken at its core.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
Well.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
As I was telling you, the La County Sheriff's dispatch
system went down on New Year's Eve. It crashed because
of Wi Fi issues, connectivity issues, and that is a
huge concern as we prepare for things like the Olympics,
things like the major sporting events, other events that are
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coming in the next few months. The next few years
things that need to be ratified and codified, and apparently
have not been because going back to twenty twenty three,
the department, the La County Sheriff's Department actually issued a
formal request for proposals to acquire a new modernized centralized system.
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So for over one year, heading into two years now,
this has been an area of concern for the La
County Sheriff's Department. Let's say you're experiencing an issue. Let's
say that issue requires law enforcement intervention, and you wanted
to call law enforcement on New Year's Eve or any
other day, and for some reason, connectivity is down and
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you're finding it to be lagging. Let's say there's an
encampment that you perhaps want to be moved, or some
sort of disturbance, someone's lurking around your business or your home,
things that we experience here, probably all of us at
this point. If you live in Los Angeles County, Orange
County as well as it's creeping there too, and you're
(12:53):
trying to get some sort of support, you might have
found that it's been difficult. You are told to call
three to one one, and if you're like me, you
haven't had the best response in that way. Well, there's
a Santa Monica resident named Stephen McMahon who has something
for you. Necessity breeds invention and Stephen McMahon, the Santa
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Monica resident, invented something called the blue Chirper and it
has now come to the Santa Monica Promenade, a place
where if you've been listening to KFI, you know, there's
been quite an increase in crime, quite an increase in
loitering and encampments and the Santa Monica Promenade, like many
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of our social gathering spaces in the Southland, has been
infringed upon. It's not what you may remember from five
or ten years ago. Well, that crisis shows no sign
of improving just yet. And Stephen McMahon's blue Chirper device
is an attempt to dissuade people from loitering by sleeping
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on benches or leaning on in areas, or standing around
getting too comfortable where they should be moving along. That
could be you too, if you have one too many drinks. Okay,
so keep that in mind. It is a device that
wants you to move along, and it's been strategically positioned
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above businesses like Barney's Beanery and others. Let me tell
you a little bit about what this device in tails.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
Well, in May of.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Twenty twenty three, Stephen McMahon kind of rolled these blue
Chirper devices out and he used it as a way
to discourage the homeless from making camps and partaking an
illicit and illegal drug use in his building's courtyard parking space,
which then turned into repeated burglaries. There's a kind of
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a one two chicken or egg there what comes first.
But again, if you live here in southern California, we
do know that this is a huge problem.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
Well, the blue chirpers.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
Became highly demanded because more loitering was happening, more drug
use was happening, and this was around Santa Monica. McMahon
created this and helped different businesses, like I said, including
Barney's Beanery, which was chronicled in different interviews by local
Santa Monica activists. And because of the popularity of what
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was happening at Barney's, others said, you know what, I
want that too, So business really shot up for these
blue chirpers.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
And what it is.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Is that when you put it up high, it has
a flashing light and it also has kind of a
high pitched sound. It's something that you don't want to hear,
and especially when it gets dark, it's something that you
don't want to see. You might have seen or heard
at Local seven elevens or other businesses this loud classical
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music or some sort of music. There are other strategies
that businesses are employing to create deterrens for this sort
of loitering activity. And they say that when people hear
this noise, they get their things and they move along.
At first, there was some skepticism would this really work?
Speaker 3 (16:30):
Should we buy these? That's what the businesses were saying.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
But they did find these businesses that they were successful.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
One business said.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
Five o'clock in the morning, they were out there, they
were installing the blue chirper and by seven point thirty am,
a person who had been in front of the business
had moved along. So that was a quick turnaround for them.
And again it allowed others, because of this really high
success rate, to demand and increase the production of this device.
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So while you may not be able to turn to
the La County Sheriff's Department because of connectivity issues, Stephen
McMahon is saying, if you would like one of these
devices to definitely get in contact with him and that
they can come out and install one of those, I imagine
at the premium at a premium price because it is
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extremely popular and with popularity causes and creates an increase
and what he's able to charge. But that they have
a one hundred percent success rate.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
Not a lot of businesses can boast that.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
I don't think in and Out can boast a one
hundred percent success rate. As much as I love them,
I still have a couple of days where it's not
fully there. Okay, But this Stephen McMahon's Blue Chirper is
saying they have a one hundred percent success rate and
that they will help quell loitering, homelessness, activity, drug use,
other unsavory characters from being in front of your business.
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I imagine you could also then move that to homes
and that's probably what will happen next.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
Sadly, we are not proactive.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
We are reactionary, and this is yet another example of that.
But when we react and it is successful, then at
least we can find some sort of relief in being
able to change things. Something that changed that shouldn't have
changed has to do with a restaurant that originally marketed
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themselves as being vegan.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
This is southern California.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
We have no shortage of vegan and other specialty restaurants.
This restaurant said that they were vegan when they went
into business, began their business fourteen years ago. However, something
changed and with the change in their business model came
a lot of backlash. Tell you more about this business model,
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the name of the business as well, and what happened
to the business because of their pivot.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
You would say pivot.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
If you watch Friends, you know that because of their pivot,
not a lot of people are happy with their pivot,
and they definitely stood their ground and demanded that the
business changed back. We'll get into details about what happened
when we come back, as well as let's talk about
the Golden Globes there tonight, and I'll have a list
of nominees and things you should watch out for in
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tonight's ceremonies.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
Tiffany Hobbs here with you until six o'clock. I was
just telling you about change, and there's a restaurant that
changed their business model. They went from what they had
originally been designed to do and the patrons they were
designed to serve, intending to serve two a different group
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of patrons, and that change, that pivot has angered a
lot of people.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
What am I talking about? Let's find out.
Speaker 4 (20:12):
Go with signs reading like meat is murder, protesters invading
Echo Park restaurant, even dumb red paint on the sidewalk
out front.
Speaker 7 (20:23):
Is at least the third time.
Speaker 4 (20:24):
All this because the owner decided to add meat and
dary to what was a vegan only menu. Fox Levin's
and Matthew Sudorff is their live with the story you'll
see only right here on Fox eleven plus Matthew Christine.
Speaker 8 (20:36):
These protests have been taking place outside the restaurant and
inside the building. It's impacting the business here. The owner
worries it could force them to shut down. HMN Freedom
Animal rights protesters holding signs and blasting whistards. I don't
care inside and outside. Sage Regenerative Kitchen and Brewery and
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Echo Park Group upset the restaurant after thirteen years added
meat to what had been a vegan only menu.
Speaker 9 (21:07):
We have a right to decide and grow and change
our opinion it's not the best actually option for the planet,
for the soil to exclude animals from this circle.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
Okay, So that audio is it's interesting. You know, you
hear you hear a lot of passion. You hear a
lot of passion in the protesters. Protesters are always passionate,
whether you agree with them or not. And in this case,
I can understand why they are angry.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
All right, not necessarily.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
I am not a vegan. I enjoy meat. I enjoy
a lot of meat. So I apologize to any of
you out there who are on the opposite side of that.
But I do understand why it is difficult to let
go of something that you are used to.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
Change is already hard for people.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
And if you are going to a restaurant and their
menu has been this and then they changed to that,
especially a big change, then I can I can understand
why people would be resistant. And in this case, again
it was fourteen years in business, and I say was
fourteen years in business because this restaurant Stage is going
(22:16):
out of business as of this weekend. They announced it
on Instagram. Today is their last day, and that is
for two locations, including one in Pasadena. The co owner
and chef Molly Inglehart said a few months ago in May,
that the restaurants, both of them, had been losing money
(22:37):
since the pandemic, and that she had actually sold her
home and other possessions to keep the businesses running again.
I sympathize. I empathize the pandemic was difficult. People are
still recovering. We are still recovering as a city. We
have adjusted to what is now a new normal. It's
(22:57):
why there are patios everywhere for restauran It's something that's
not going away anytime soon. Remember five years ago, we
didn't have that, but now it is commonplace. And while
people were able to change and adjust, there were others
who struggled in this business. The Stage restaurant, the owner
says that it was difficult, that they were really struggling
(23:18):
to keep both restaurants running. But in May, what they
decided to do to recoup some of their lost earnings
to be able to pay their employees was to shift
from vegan to something that they call regenerative. And regenerative
is an agricultural practice that includes the cultivation and use
(23:40):
of animals. I don't know why they're calling it regenerative.
It's just a meat. It's a restaurant with meat, right.
McDonald's is not a regenerative restaurant, nor is you know.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
Your steakhouse down the street. It is just a restaurant.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
We don't need a fancy term to justify the use
of meat.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
It is what it is.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
But they wanted to kind of soften the change and
ease into it with some flowery language. You can't really
soften going from vegan, which to my knowledge, and Richie, hell,
are you familiar at all with vegan options anything for.
Speaker 7 (24:18):
The most part.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
Yeah, it's vegan completely, just plant based only.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
Or is there any can you do any sort of
dairy or.
Speaker 10 (24:25):
I think you're supposed to stick away from the dairy
or any of that, like no cheese, no milk. It's
like just plant based you know. Oh how sad? Yeah, tragic.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
So when you come to you think of vegan and
I'm gonna go with Richie's expertise here because I don't know.
I love a steak, okay, but with vegan going from
no meat at all whatsoever, no dairy products whatsoever, to
quote unquote regenerative practices, which is meat is going to
(24:56):
be a little harmful for people who were expecting to
go into the Sage restaurant and order their salad burger
or whatever else it is that they were trying to order.
But this shift again brought a swift, a very fast
as you can imagine, and bitter backlash.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
People.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
As you heard, there were camping out in front of
the restaurant. They had their signs. One such sign says
Sage kills for profit. And the protester here has on
a very scary mask, kind of with a clown, a
very sad clown face. These people were serious about theirs.
(25:33):
They do not want you going from vegan to meet.
Speaker 10 (25:38):
There was like the video clip of the musecast that
you know, talk about the story, there was footage of
them throwing like red paint all.
Speaker 7 (25:45):
Over the floor.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
They are serious.
Speaker 7 (25:47):
It was like a red situation.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
And you know, I don't like when protesters do that,
when they throw paint and.
Speaker 7 (25:52):
Then they flowers or whatever.
Speaker 3 (25:55):
I'm like, it's very hypocritical to me.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
You're protesting something that you don't like and something that
you feel harmed by, and then you turn around and
then you harm Yeah.
Speaker 7 (26:04):
Like do it peacefully, you know what I mean.
Speaker 10 (26:06):
In the video, also, there was like you know, people
actually eating there while all this was going on, and
it looked like a madhouse.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
It's just crazy.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
People really want their stage restaurant, I guess. But with
that they've now had to close their business. They have
not been able to sustain the change. Think about your
favorite business that is meat. If your local steakhouse shifted
from steak and chicken to only russell sprouts and other
things that grow from the ground or trees or whatever.
(26:37):
Vegans eat sticks and stones. I don't know, but if
it shifted from that to that, there would be a
huge backlash for sure, And I can't I understand it.
Like I said, I can totally validate people being angry,
but then it comes out of costs.
Speaker 3 (26:51):
You lose your business.
Speaker 7 (26:52):
Yeah, don't play with the vegans.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
They are a very tumultuous and just adverse group, aren't they.
You think it'd be peaceful and flowery because they don't
have a lot of protein and a lot they get
pizce and love, and they'd be a little, I don't know,
a little less strong. But they're out. They're big guys
out the show. It's very interesting. It says now that
(27:15):
they're deep in debt and unable to make their payroll,
which is sad because you think of the employees who
are there. They're not able to then be paid for
their work. So you do have more people now entering
into the unemployment line.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
Sadly.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
We'll see what Stage restaurant does in the future, but
for now, they say, visit us during our last week,
which is now their last day to day, and share
your favorite memories with them, whether the vegan pivot memories
or the meat eating regenerative. We need to drop that
regenerative practices. I do not like that at all, and
(27:54):
I do not want that to become a thing. All right,
we don't have enough time to get fully into the
Golden Globes list, but I will start off by telling
you because we're gonna talk about it, we're gonna get
into it.
Speaker 3 (28:07):
The Golden Globes are tonight. Do you watch?
Speaker 2 (28:10):
Is this something that you look forward to? The Golden
Globes are said to be the fun Awards Show. It's
the awards show where you see all of these actors
and actresses and musicians sitting at tables and its kind
of restaurant style, and you have a comedian up on
stage and people are having a great time. The Golden
Globes is supposed to usher us into awards season because
(28:35):
then it's the Oscars, you have the Grammys, you have
these other awards shows. SAG is right behind it, and
the Golden Globes gives us a really good preview of
who could take home the trophies and these major categories.
Throughout the awards season, we'll get into the nominees, the
list of movies and TV shows and other things that
(28:56):
you should look out for, and where traffic is going
to be absolutely insane. It likely already is, especially if
you are in the Beverly Hills area. Hint, stay away
from the Beverly Hills Hotel.
Speaker 3 (29:11):
I think it's the Beverly Hills Hotel.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
Either way, stay away from that area and I'll tell
you more about it when we come back.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
You're listening to KFI AM sixty on demand.
Speaker 3 (29:21):
Taking hops here with you. It is Golden Globes time.
Do you like Award shows? I like awards shows. Do
you like award shows? Richie?
Speaker 7 (29:33):
I do?
Speaker 10 (29:34):
But I know what you really, really, really really love
about award show.
Speaker 7 (29:37):
I love the fashion.
Speaker 3 (29:39):
The fashion. I miss Joan Rivers. Rest in Peace. I
used to enjoy.
Speaker 2 (29:44):
I'm aging myself now, but I used to enjoy watching
Joan Rivers get out there and what.
Speaker 3 (29:48):
Are you wearing?
Speaker 7 (29:49):
What are you?
Speaker 3 (29:49):
Who are you wearing? And all that right, so much fun.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
But it's it's it's as much a spectacle visually as
it is something that you check for as far as
the results and to be a to kind of get
a pulse on what is happening in cinema and what's
happening in television because it's unavoidable. We're watching, you're going
to the movies. Movie viewership seems to ebb and flow,
but it's up right now. You have Moana, you have
(30:16):
wicked things like that that have really boastered movie watching
and the cinema industry, the movie industry. But the Golden
Globe celebrates not just movies but television as well. This year,
for the second time, Nicki Glazer is the ceremony host,
but it is.
Speaker 3 (30:34):
Her first time by herself.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
She is the first woman to host the Golden Globes
without a male companion.
Speaker 3 (30:43):
So it's historic in that way.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
Interesting that we're still having those kind of firsts, but
you know, it is what it is. So eighty Second
Awards ceremony will air tonight on CBS and be streamed
on Paramount Plus. And here are some things that you
should know. First of all, comedian Nikki Glazer, the host,
is a very righteously sharp witted comedian. So she is
(31:10):
somebody you usually see who performs at these celebrity roasts
where they just just lay into people and clown and
make fun of and it can be kind of uncomfortable.
Sometimes she is that person and she's going to host.
She recently did the roast for Tom Brady and that
(31:31):
was all over the place because we saw reactions from
Tom Brady that looked.
Speaker 3 (31:35):
Like he wasn't really into what she was saying.
Speaker 2 (31:38):
Because of the success of that, she is now going
to host the Golden Globes. She also earned an Emmy
nomination for her latest special, Someday You'll Die. So she
is an Award nominated or an Emmy nominated host.
Speaker 3 (31:52):
Good for her.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
So let's talk about some of the nominations. We have
quite a few musical, we have quite a few kids
movies or family friendly movies, a movie about the Pope
oh Man. So for Best Motion Picture Comedy or Musical,
we have Wicked, Anora.
Speaker 10 (32:17):
Have you seen that, No, but my nephew talked about it.
He said, it's a really good film.
Speaker 3 (32:22):
Okay, I never heard of it.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
Emilia Perez, which is pretty good. Challengers, that's the tennis
movie with Zendaya kind of came and went. It was
out in the theaters for like five minutes. There were
billboards everywhere, and then it was gone, poof and gone.
We have something called A Real Pain. And then also
the Substance starring Demi Moore.
Speaker 7 (32:44):
That one was something.
Speaker 2 (32:46):
Okay, of those of those six, who would you say
would be a major contender for Best Motion Picture Comedy
or Musical, Wicked Anora, Emilia Perez, Challengers, A Real Pain,
or the Substance.
Speaker 7 (32:59):
I will say Amelia or the Substance.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
All right, My money is on Emilia Perez. They cleaned
up at the con film fests. I believe for the
first time ever, the three lead actresses in Emilia Perez
all split the Best Actress award. They split it three
ways for the first time ever, and awarded those three
actresses that title. Wow wow, right, So they are the
(33:24):
I think the major contender. That and the Substance with
Demi Moore. All right, Best Motion Picture Drama Here we go,
Here we go. We have the Brutalist, a complete unknown Conclave.
That's the one about the Pope, Dune Part two, Nickel Boys,
and September fifth. I have seen none of these same.
(33:48):
All right, moving along. Best performance by a male actor
in emotion picture, musical or comedy, we have Jesse Eisenberg
for a Real Pain, Hugh Grant for a Heretic. We
have Gabriel LaBelle for Saturday Night, Jesse Plemons for kinds
of Kindness, I Love Him, Glenn Powell for Hitman, and
(34:08):
Sebastian stan for a Different Man. Best performance by a
female actor in a motion picture, comedy or musical, we
have Amy Adams for Knight and I'll let you kind
of all right, We're gonna play a little game. It
rhymes with Witch but starts with a B night. That
that's the name of it, all right. Then we have
(34:30):
Cynthia Erivo for Wicked, she played the Witch the Green One,
Carlo Sofia Gascone for Emilia Perez, Mickey Madison for Honora,
Demi Moore for the Substance, and Zendaia Zenza Gosh, Zendeia
for Challengers. All Right, don't know who's gonna pull that off.
But I know Wicked really is beloved by people. They
(34:53):
say that Cynthia Rivo did amazingly well, so she could
be a major contender, as well as as Carlo Sophia
Gascon for Emelia Perez. So we'll see Best Performance by
a Female Actor in Emotion Picture Drama. Alright, so these
are some surprises for the first time ever nominated this
(35:13):
person's first time, Pamela Anderson for the Last show Girl.
Speaker 3 (35:20):
We have Angelina.
Speaker 2 (35:21):
Jolie for Maria, Nicole Kidman for Baby Girl, Tilda Swinton,
who is amazing for The Room next Door, Fernanda Torres
for I'm Still Here, and Kate Winslet for Lee. For
Best Performance by a Male Actor in Emotion Picture Drama,
Adrian Brody the Brutalist, Timothy Chalomy a complete unknown, Coleman
(35:46):
Domingo for sing Sing, Ralph Fines for Conclave, and Sebastian
Stand for The Apprentice. All right, so let's move on down.
Let's move on down. Best Animated Film Flow inside Out two,
which is please go see inside Out two. It's see
(36:06):
inside Out one. It is such a revolutionary film. It
really deals well with emotions and it's not just a
kid's film. It will jerk your emotions for sure. So
Flow inside Out two, which is the sequel memoir of
a snail, Moana two, Wallace and Gramet, Vengeance, Must Foul,
(36:28):
and The Wild Robot. For Best Performance by a Female
Actor in a Supporting Role in an Emotion Picture, Selena Gomez,
Ariana Grande, Felicity Jones, Margaret Qually, Isabella Rosalini, Zoe Saldonna.
Best Performance by a Male Actor in a supporting role,
You're a borisov Kiaren Cocin. It's really weird to see
(36:52):
Kieran Cocin do interviews because I just remember him. He's
the younger Cocin McAuley's brother. You see him. I just
see him at home alone. I just see the baby
Kiaren Cocaine in the back with the glasses. I think
he's the one that one of the ones who had
the glasses. Edward Norton, Guy Pierce, Jeremy Strong, and Denzel Washington.
(37:12):
And that's for Gladiator too. Best Director, This is a
big one. Jacquis Audiad for Emilia Perez, Sean Baker for Honora,
Edward Berger for Conclave, Brady Corbette for The Brutalist, Cora Lee, Fargia,
The Substance, and Payal Kabbadilla all we imagine as light.
(37:34):
All right, so we have some original songs as well.
The Last show Girl is in there, songs from Challenger.
A lot of these are from the musicals this year
Better Man, Amelia Perez, the Wild Robot. Interesting that we
do not see an original song nomination for Wicked. Very
(37:54):
interesting television. Let's get into some television before we break.
Best Television Drama, Showgun, The Diplomat, Slow Horses, Mister and
Missus Smith, The Day of the Jackal, and my personal favorite,
Squid Game. Best Television Series, Comedy or Musical. Here we go,
Abbot Elementary, which has one I think it's It's it's
(38:17):
vied with the next nominee. They kind of volley back
and forth. Abbot Elementary, The Bear Hacks. Nobody wants this,
only Murders in the Building and the Gentlemen. Best Performance
by a male Actor in a TV Series or Drama,
Donald Glover for Mister and Missus Smith, Jake Jillenhall, Gary Oldman,
Eddie Redmain, Hirayuku Sonata, Billy, Bob Thornton who just finds
(38:42):
himself just back on the scene. Best tell Our Best
performance by a female actor in a television series drama,
Kathy Bates for the Resurgence of Mattlock Mattlock Is Beck,
Emma d'arci, Maya Erskine, Kiera Knightley, Carrie Russell, Anna So
why So, there are a lot to look out for
(39:03):
for series music or comedy. For a female actor Kristen Bell,
Keina Brunson, Ao Eta Berri, Selena Gomez, Catherine Hahn for
Agatha all Along, Gene Smart for Hacks.
Speaker 3 (39:15):
We have Adam Brody for Nobody Wants This.
Speaker 2 (39:18):
For best performance by a male actor and a television
series Musical or Comedy, Ted Danson is in that category,
Jason Siegel, Martin Short, Jeremy White, and also Steve Martin.
Oh my gosh, that's probably the most exciting category for me.
Best Performance by a male actor in a TV series,
Musical or Comedy, because there are some major legends in
(39:42):
that category. Stay tuned. It will air tonight. I do
not have the time handy, but I think it is
around five PM. But just know that if you are
around Beverly Hills, Santa Monica Boulevard, Sunset Boulevard, it is
going to be absolutely insane. Stay away from there, but
enjoy show and hit us on the talkback app.
Speaker 3 (40:01):
Give us some of your predictions. I'd love to hear it.
Speaker 1 (40:04):
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