Hey, it's Neil Savedra.

You're listening to KFI EM six forty The four Report on demand on the iHeartRadio app KFI AM six forty Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.

Hey everybody, it's the Fork Report, all Things Food Beverage on Beyond, celebrating food and the people that make it the culture behind it, every single Saturday from two to five.

After our broadcast today, my friend Tiffany Hobbs is going to follow us at five as she normally does, but she's going to do it here at Wisconso Restaurant in La on the Miracle Mile on Wilshire there next to the tar Pits.

So we're going to continue this party afterwards too, eat, drink and be merry or Susan or Betty or whatever you want to be.

It is fine here with some dear friends today as we're celebrating my birthday, which was actually on the twenty eighth.

But I've been wanting to do this.

With Rob and show off this beautiful restaurant here in La.

So it's a good excuse as any I say.

Simon Majumdar from the Food Network is with me and now I want to introduce you to my buddy Derek Derek Young from Van Oaks Props right here.

He's been on the show before.

We had him on in March talk about, you know, props and things like that, because you know, you had the oscars going on a time.

We've had you in October to talk about props.

And the funny thing is it's August and everywhere I look is Halloween already.

Yes, so, but.

If this is the time that you're gonna want to start putting things together for Halloween and you have a big Haunt display in your yard.

Every year, sure, I mean, if you're an Angelino, you know that July is really when you start.

The minute the temperatures start to go into the triple digits, that's it.

It's over with.

It's time to start building things on your driveway.

It's sweating to the oldies.

Where's that guy got a coffin in his yard?

Well, it's July, honey, totally normal.

Because global warming is real, exactly nothing we could do about it.

Here we have the heat and it's here to stay.

It really is.

So you've started now.

I wanted you to tell people because Midsummer Midsummer stream is going on in Long Beach next weekend, and you've got some seminars going on there.

I do so when I'm not teaching people how to make props, particularly for Halloween on YouTube, I also do workshops in person, and so Midsommer Scream has been a great platform for that for me for many years since their inception, and it's a great way to network with the community and share a lot of the information that I've learned from other makers, have figured out on my own in the process of trying to create something out of nothing, and so it's something that I look forward to every year to share what I know.

Where can people find out if they want to attend that the seminar now one of the things that I love.

I came across Derek at van Ooks Props on YouTube.

He has a YouTube channel there and I became a huge fan of his work, especially we both share a lot of the same interests when it comes to prop making, but also Star Wars and Halloween and all those things.

Your tombstone work is spectacular, your weathering and all of that is that what you're focusing on in these classes.

So there's four different classes that we're offering this year.

I'm sorry.

There's three different classes that we're offering this year, one of which is a tombstone class.

It's probably our most attended.

It's the one thing that I think is sort of the gateway prop for a lot of people who want to decorate for Halloween, and so we'll be doing that.

We'll also be teaching people how to make led flickering candles from random PBC pipe and things that you'd find that the hardware.

Should talk a little bit about that today.

And the third class will be sort of a traditional flicker box that would let you plug in any incandescent bulb into this box and it would create the look of a failing light bulb.

So kind of some traditional Halloween stuff that is good for any skill level.

That's amazing.

I love I love that stuff.

I know you had the live feed this morning where you get a live stream talking about Halloween and prepping people the It's funny we've talked about, you know, from the cocktail to other things, how the more simplistic it.

Is, the easier it is to fail.

Sure, So tombstone you say, it's probably the entry level, but there's it's an easy one to make a mistake because you're trying to make it look like stone.

It is and it isn't at the same time.

And the reason I say this is because we have the benefit of I think for Halloween fanatics, particularly if you subscribe to the sort of aesthetic that I do, which is old cemeteries, that a mistake can become a feature.

Oh sure, there's many a tombstone where I've misspelled to name or had inadvertently taken off a chunk that was supposed to stay there, and it becomes sort of the best part of that prop because now you've you've taken the sort of humanness out of it and have kind of let it go to the gods and they've figured out the problem and the solution all in one.

So while it may seem like something that you could easily get wrong, some of the best results come from those mistakes.

And so I think if you can get over the hump of understanding the tools and the methods to sort of get you from point A to point B, the rest is sort of creative freedom.

Yeah, perfection is not what we're attracted to.

Actually in life where attracted where you know, all the things that we love in one another and we connect with other humans or the imperfections on that, you know, the things, the mutations that make us different, whether it's eye color or not being symmetric or whatever.

It's like when you look at your partner you go, well this on, they go, I.

Don't like this, Like wow.

But that's the thing that I love the most is that that stands out.

But it's like that in food because you go in and you see stuff that's technically good, but it has no soul.

And that's what you're talking about.

With what you do.

You'll have a mix.

You've got to be technically really good, but you have this mix that comes in from you as a human being.

Right, all right, stick around because I got another question for you, and also I want you to give out how people can come and see you next week and take one of your classes.

My guest right now is Derek Young from Vana Oaks Crops and you can find them on Etsy, you can find them on YouTube, you can find them.

On all these places.

We'll be back with more, so go nowhere.

You're listening to the Fork Report with Nil Sevedra on demand from KFI AM six forty.

Oh the.

Very nice of you.

Oh really, is that you legal California?

Look away, counsel woman, look away.

Wow, that is awesome.

They brought me out a beautiful, beautiful cake looks like possibly whipped cream style frosting with strawberries and blueberries and two massive illegal Roman candles on top burning at about twenty five hundred degrees fahrenheit.

Not a problem.

You can you can train that will translate that into see if you want.

That is lovely.

Thank you so much, Trace Legend.

Oh my gosh, family favorite.

Yeah, it's like, hey, break that.

Thank you very much.

Thank you.

That is lovely.

KFI in six forty Neil Servager with the four Report here celebrating my birthday with you know, friends, family and listeners who have become friends.

Your your dedication and love for what we do at KFI means a lot to us, and for you to come out and spend your time here today, it's super cool.

Think you think you Thank you.

I hope you're enjoying all the great.

Food here at Disconso Restaurant.

I want to give a shout out to server Alfonso, who was probably left for the day at this point, but he was the one serving us and taking care of us and I got to tell you, there is nothing better in life than recognize the people that serve us, the people that take care of us.

It is everything we do is based on doing and reaching out to others, and we've kind of misplaced that these days and have to go.

Back to the simple steps.

Hearing about Steffushe and his accident, Our beloved Steffushe and his accident, I guarantee you he would not be alive if it wasn't for the three men that I saw in the photo that we don't even know who they are yet, because the video was just taken by a bystander that pulled him out and put a turn on his arm and called nine to one one.

His id burned in the accident, so they he was a John Doe.

They didn't even know who he was.

So serving is a massive thing, So thanks to Alfonso for doing that.

I've got many guests coming by today.

I've got my buddy Simon Majumdar with me from the Food Network and his wonderful podcast, Eat My Globe please check that out, And my newer buddy Derek Young from Van Oaks Props, and I just you know it's funny.

I was listening to He did a live stream this morning, and he releases his videos at nine am on Saturdays.

So usually when I'm prepping with a show, I before I prep I watch, and today I had a bunch of stuff that I was doing, so I watched and listened as it was live, and you your.

Voice soothes me.

I like all all the weight.

Of the week, and I'm like, ah, you're WelCom You're welcoming to you.

So this is going to be your last year.

You're going to be moving.

This is the last year for your Haunt.

That is correct.

Derek is a prop maker and puts together these wonderful props for you know that are replicas or in the vein of certain movies like Star Wars.

But also you do the Haunt stuff.

And next Saturday, a week from today, you'll be out in Long Beach.

For Midsummer screen.

Yes, and you're doing some classes.

They're what thirty five bucks.

I think once once our ticketing platform takes its share.

Yeah, it's pretty close to what they're thirty The ticketing platform takes godget five dollars faith, But yeah, it's a great way for people of all skill sets to kind of come out and learn from me in person versus learning from me every Saturday morning on YouTube.

Some basic prop making skills that can be used for a variety of Halloween themed projects.

Yeah, I'm looking forward to seeing that.

I'm going to try and get out there myself the next week.

I'd hope to maybe do a broadcast or something out there, but it turns out that the Chargers are back, and so we will be being preempted next week.

We'll only half an hour of the FOURK report next week.

Then you can listen to the Chargers go Bolts, Nah, Comma, we got to share the love.

That's very cool.

And then of course tell people where they can find you online.

The easiest place to find me is every Saturday morning at nine am over on YouTube slash van Oaks Prompts.

And if you want to find out more about ticketing for the workshops at Midsummer Screen, it's best to go to my Instagram account, which is also at van Oaks Prompts and there's a link there to pick up tickets.

Very cool, and if you're into three D printing and the like, you can also purchase or sometimes if you are a Patreon or something like that and get access to his very cool files for stuff as well.

That's right, and stuff as well as stuff that he makes, which I have.

I've actually pursed just one of your pieces that is gorgeous and sits in my shop at home, and they've given me one that is in my shop at home, and.

There's one floating around here somewhere.

I actually will.

I spoke with your wife because the last time we did a broadcast, she asked me not to encourage bringing more things into your home.

The thing is, I really I love you know.

She doesn't care if I spend money.

She cares if I just add Because there's a full sized storm Trooper in the living room and then there's a full It's like it gets to be a little much.

I get.

Even my son's like, man, can you get dark Vader out of the I'm like, how dare you the dark Lord?

Yeah?

He's yeah, he's seven and a half feet tall and has a laser sword.

You tell him to leave.

But yeah, she knows.

I love this stuff.

But thanks so much for coming on, buddy, and see you next weekend as well.

All right, stick around, I have another person I want to interduce you, my friend Chris Perez from American Vision Windows, who actually is an artist himself and builds.

All kinds of neat things as well.

Here you go, my friend.

All right, stick around, more to come.

It's the Fork Report.

I'm Neil Savadra KFI AM six forty.

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Howdy Howdy, howdy everybody.

It is the Fork Report, all things booed, beverage and beyond.

We get together every Saturday from two to five to celebrate food, the people that make it, the culture behind it, and today is cool.

We're celebrating my birthday here at Disconso Restaurant.

Thank you I was born.

I appreciate that.

Yeah, you know what.

I don't remember a lot of it.

I was pretty young.

I remember going towards the light and then boom, I'm here.

Thanks mom.

I appreciate it.

I hear you had a lot to do with it.

But I still don't know how They're made.

Something about a stork, but AnyWho, happy to be here at Desconso in Los Angeles.

They have another location in Orange County.

Keep that in mind as well.

Rob and his team have been very kind.

Their hospitality has been amazing.

The food has just been spectacular.

It really is wonderful.

So thanks for coming and hanging out.

At five o'clock, we're going to hand the reins over to Tiffany Hobbs, who's going to do her show from five to seven, and I'm going to sit back and drink because I didn't.

Drive, and that's wonderful.

I wanted to introduce you to another friend of mine, genuinely a friend.

I know people always go my friends at so and so when they're sponsors.

But Chris Perez is the president of American Vision Windows, and he and I have a lot in common and became friends.

He's an artist and he used to make furniture and loves doing paintings.

You did framing for.

A long while, and so you and loved Star Wars and so we will get on with each other and talk about nothing but that and have nothing to do with American Vision Windows.

But I wanted people to meet you, and you were kind enough to come down.

And how's everything going, how's biz?

Everything's good?

I mean, it's it's the it's this time of year when everybody's thinking about the heat and the windows are going to be replaced because they're sweating in their house right now.

So for us, it's really it's always the shining time, you know, July, June, August is starting to it just gets really really busy.

You know.

Sometimes it's a little bit too busy.

But I that's a good problem to have.

I suppose I will tell you that we've had you guys replace some windows.

We've had you guys create a space for French doors.

And you know, since we live in a in a an old heritage house, a century home, you know, there's always that line between upbrading and doing something and changing.

The face right because you want to keep the look.

Yeah, I'll be your.

Stuff has just marry well to the point where there was a couple of windows we weren't going to change that.

We're rattling with the winds back.

I don't know if it is January, February or whatever, but we had all these killer wins, and I guess it would have been January.

Actually, Oh, did you get a paper plane as well?

I did?

Oh wow, I just saw you had it.

I have to try it.

Yeah, Oh, paper plane is a fantastic, fantastic drink, very refreshing, great for summer.

But it's it's lovely.

So you know, so we're going to have you guys out and change our windows.

Well there's my wife and my wife, so we're going to be doing that soon as well.

So it is a crazy you know, it's nice working with people like yourself because obviously you said it where you know, I have a lot of places.

I advertised a lot of different things, but I became friends with you where we can talk about nothing to other than just talking about and.

We've called, we talked about theology, We've talked about art, We've talked about all kinds of things exactly.

And I've had such a diverse career.

I mean art galleries and this and that, and I'm sixty years old and it's one of those things it's like what am I going to do now?

But I'm in the window business for twenty twenty yeah, twenty one years.

And then our twenty fifth anniversary is this.

We're gonna have it on September six at our at our location, and it's going to be celebrating twenty five years of an American vision and hopefully.

You can be listening to that.

You have Shannon out there or something like that.

I think one of the a couple of maybe a couple of guys are coming out there.

Fortunately, we're doing an event Handle and Eye, so I can't I can't come.

You're doing there breath Mint thing right.

No, actually, it's everything over.

I want to know who's going to do Wild Fork.

We're going to be out in Long Beach at Wild Fork in Long Beach on September sixth, got it, got so, yeah, So it'll be fun there.

But I would have loved to celebrate with you guys because you've been such a big part of the Fork Report and such a powerful sponsor and partner.

But yeah, the friendship has been great because we geek out.

You had a I mean you you have many of the things that I have in my own shop, whether it's die supplimation and things like that laser.

Well say something, Oh I got one of.

Those, we'll talk about it goes oh, yeah, I got it.

I got that in the house.

But you actually had a framing company for a while running out.

I had a copy called When I Start when I got out of school in Arizona, I came back to Sami Valley, California, and I started on my mom's grod started coming called Frame and Art Center of Southern California because I went in myself to sound.

Big, Yeah, art center the world.

But I did a lot of I did a lot of wholesale picture framing, but I did also high end and designer stuff for like the west Lake Crew and in the South and where they custom car beings and all that stuff.

There's an art to framing though, too.

That's why it's so expensive.

Well, it's like if you go, like you said, if you go to a picture frame store, you don't be two three hundred dollars for a frame that's just basically four pieces of wood in some glass.

But it's expensive.

Yeah, it is expensive, it really is.

But it changes things.

I mean it changes correct.

Yeah, it is something.

You know the Mona Lisa's gorgeous but still has a frame.

You know, it's like there's you got to have those things to wrap it together.

What kind of art or things are you doing these days?

You know, it's funny, I'm not doing a lot.

I have been trying to convince myself to get back in and because I started pulding a little studio at the house and I just never finished it, like meeting a place where I was sunlight like and.

Actually start painting again.

And do you know I did a lot a little like abstract kind of art work in my gallery.

That was Gallery nine when I was twenty five.

I had that for four or five years, five years, and it was on Canan Road right now, right going to Malibill.

Yeah, I was right there.

It was six thousand square feet.

For a kid, I had just big gallery and it was good and I used to sell art working.

It was fun.

But wait what it was right next do you guys remember Hamburger Hamlet.

Yes, it was right next to Hamberger Hamlet.

I remember the gallery.

Yeah, it was the only one around for a while.

So it's just off Canaan on a Girl Road.

Yeah, right there.

Yeah, yeah, Oh my god, that's so funny.

Yeah, because I grew up in the same area.

Yeah, so that's so funny.

I remember that.

I always did some crazy things, and doing that was one of those things.

I didn't have any money.

I just didn't figure out how to get a gallery and I just told the guy, I go, this has been vacant for a long time.

Let me have it and kick me out if you haven't need rented, let me have it so that my next Samberg Handlett and six thousand.

Core fee later to do that for about four years.

Well that's so cool.

Yeah, I want you to do more.

I know that you had recently, I don't know, maybe a year and a half ago or something.

We were talking about you were telling your son, you know, because our kids never know everything about us, right, they don't remember all the things that they weren't around for, so that you told him you could paint this diorama or something.

Oh yeah, Star Wars And he's like what you pulled out your paints and started pull out.

Air pressures out of the car and weather ain't and doing the whole thing.

And it came I showed you a picture of Yeah, it's insane oil and the you know all that was it the ad at or something like that.

Yeah, but that just is uh And.

Then then they're like, oh, do more of them.

I'm like, yeah, no, that's a one time dad has a job exactly, that has a job.

Sorry.

Well, I just wanted to say alone, how you come by?

Here's incredible?

I really can we say one thing, though.

It isn't just because we get on with this gentleman here.

He gets on with everybody.

And that's why we're gonna.

We're gonna, let's start.

It's your birthday.

It's very kind.

It's his birthday.

Should we give him a round of applause?

And well, I do have enemies.

Don't trust people with that.

The reason the reason you do this is and the reason that you make so many friends when you're on the radio is because you are a very special person.

And I don't think we have the time, and I think you should be noticed for it.

So thank you very much.

I think you're.

Get with him so well.

And we've studied theology different areas, but we studied theology, we'd start about food and from now on, what's ten years now?

Oh yeah, we've been friends.

Yeah, And if we can't see each other, we hit each other with text and you know, let you know what we're thinking about each other.

And that's because of who he is as well as anybody.

Else it is.

You know, it's funny as people ask how I got why I got into radio, I said, I'm actually a more of an introvert than people would think, and I'm much more quiet than I come off, and I want.

An excuse to.

Wait?

Is that my wife?

I think I see him.

Uh, But it's an easy way to meet people, so I thought it gives me an excuse, say hi, I do radio.

What's your name?

You know?

And then if they go, well, it must be safe.

They trust him with a microphone.

But it I appreciate that was very kind of you.

Say, all right, it's the Fork Report on Nil Savedra KFI AM six forty.

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Well, Kelly, it's a good man right there.

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Hey everybody, KFI.

And with a four report and Emil Savedra and we're hanging out at Desconzo Restaurant today in La This is a really special remote for a bunch of reasons.

One, it's intimate.

We decided it was going to be one hundred or less here and Rob and his team, Rob Ariano, the owner and his team have treated us, from Alfonso to everybody.

It has just really Justin is behind the stick.

He's the one oversees the the bar, the.

Bar and chef Andergio the chef.

It just everything has been spectacular.

So I'm gonna I know, it's gone very quickly.

We want to talk to Rob a little bit more, as well as Tiffany Hombs.

Who's going to take things over.

How cool is it that Tiffany came out.

She's gonna host you from five to seven, and so the party continues.

I have to interrupt Neil for a second, he said.

Tiffany Hobbs agreed to stay on.

No, I begged, I beg, please let me stay on.

And thank you Rob for letting our little show we call it the Little Show that Could Saturdays with Tiffany.

Thank you so much for letting us come on and be here with all of you.

This is wonderful, wonderful.

You know this is great because a lot of times I'll do something and the event may end at six, and you can't, you know, try and do these things.

So I'm glad that you could be here.

I never can come to your events, so this works out nicely.

Yeah, and you can drink and pretend that has to do with work.

Seven oh one.

Yeah, the bar, I've been staring wistfully at the bar five O one five.

I'm not management anymore.

Do what you want, but Rob anything else you want to say.

We're going to have your your wonderful chef come on the show someday time down the line.

I come into the studio and we'll talk more about everything you have to offer.

But just wanted to one thank you for the hospitality today.

You can do nothing better for me than to treat my listeners and my friends and family my pleasure.

My pleasure.

I appreciate that.

I just want to say thank you, Neil.

And I've said this before.

You're such a great steward of the restauranteurs and the restaurant.

Industry, especially here in Los Angeles, and kudos to you.

And I really appreciate you and what you.

Do for us my pleasure.

I really.

I said this on the very first Folk Report over a decade ago, and that was the local economy rises and falls on the service industry, on restaurants, on hospitality, and if we don't get out, it goes away.

I remember talking with my former boss but a really good friend, Robin Bertolucci, when Mother's Circus, the coated circus cookies.

Oh yeah, the pink.

And white ones when they were going out of business, and I said, damn, I love those And Jesus said, when was.

The last time you bought them?

Yeah?

Damn uh.

And that's very easy to get in that rut you have to.

I hear more and more from people that say, oh, I live right by that place and never go in.

Yeah, And I said, oh, well, it's gonna be a vacant place for you.

Know, crackhead soon for you.

That's what you're gonna Yeah.

So if you want that there, then just go and have a meal or let the crack ease take it over and you'll be good.

I mean, it's a little dark, but I'm just trying to are you crackies?

Well if we stay, but don't you think isn't it hard?

I mean it is to remind ourselves to go into those local places to.

Eat, you know.

And and we had a councilwoman, Monica Corodriguez on earlier seventh district.

Look at that, you get a what when was the last time a politician got applause?

And it wasn't And it wasn't factious.

It's like yeah boom.

But the way that we met it was from Ralph.

Chef Ralph over there at my Key's on Van Eysen Puemama shut out, remember Ralph, and you probably know this.

The higher the socks, the down or the full.

So we met and he introduced me to Monica and we've become dear friends.

And it was for our love of not only food and good cocktails and like, but restaurants.

And she's been an advocate in that sense.

And we have to remind people.

That's one of the right reasons we're here today is to remind people to get out this.

I don't even want to know.

I don't even want to go near the room where you do your books because I know what a property this size takes to run in Los Angeles on Miracle Mile, you know.

Which it reads gorgeous.

But if we don't come in, it goes away absolutely, So get out here, friends, family events.

Uh.

It really is beautiful.

And I love what you've done with the place that came here many times when it was Marie Calendar's.

And it's close to the museums of course, Lebrea tar Pits and a Lacma and everything else that you've got here.

If you want to take pictures with a whole bunch of lampposts.

You got that, not far and you're good to go.

You got a little something for everybody.

It's a landmark.

Yeah down the street there, it really is.

So thanks for everything, and I wish you nothing but the best.

Come in.

Say hi to this man.

Yeah, you deserve it.

Appreciate you, Neil.

I appreciate you, buddy.

Thanks for the hospitality, Thank you for being here.

No great, Oh, I'm not leaving.

I told you I didn't drive waymo is gonna drag my ass home, is my guess.

But Tiffany Hawk's coming up.

Please stick around for Tiffany and I'm going to hang out.

And if I didn't get a chance to say to hello the other people that are out here, I want to say hello.

So so don't go anywhere.

But thank you so much to all my friends that came out and to all these lovely people that without them, I'd be talking to nobody in a room.

Yeah, me and Tiffany going, what do you go?

Fish reversal card?

But I appreciate that.

And this one right here, this beautiful one, Miss Kayla.

Look at her, isn't she awesome?

She does it all show its show.

This is great.

Show him the face when I don't go to break.

Yeah, let's see that makes you.

Want to go to break and you're not even on the air.

It's pretty powerful.

Yeah.

I think she taught it to my wife.

Because they both do it and it's very similar.

Thanks to my wife and my boy who came out to Simon majum Dark always good to see you, my buck.

So thrilled that your journey with cancer is coming up in a good way right now.

And the news that you got recently is fantastic.

We'll have more of Simon, of course, who's one of my dearest friends.

For all the people, an old friend from high school, snow Cane haven't seen her in forever, a lot of really great people.

And I thank you all for taking the time that means the world to me and to all the folks that it takes, Craig and everybody else, and the team from promotions, and of course Dana who's carrying a gun in case any of you get too close.

All the people that make this happen.

But thanks so much.

Be good to each other, have empathy, it's free and we can get along.

And remember, above all things, it's we the people, and that is all I will say about that.

And happy birthday.

Oh, thank you, continue that's why we're here.

Happy birthday.

Yeah, yeah, thirty five.

It's good.

Yeah.

It's good when you shave your head at twenty two, because then you don't have to worry about balding.

It's already done.

All right, Thanks so much, and stick around for Tiffany Hobbs.

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