{"id":78039,"date":"2025-06-17T06:25:15","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T06:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/78039\/"},"modified":"2025-06-17T06:25:15","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T06:25:15","slug":"la-chopper-pilot-goes-off-script-during-no-kings-protest-reveals-love-of-bourbon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/78039\/","title":{"rendered":"LA Chopper Pilot Goes Off Script During No Kings Protest, Reveals Love of Bourbon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Los Angeles reporter who was covering the No Kings protest from the air on Saturday started tracking the wrong conversation and started telling viewers secrets about his personal life.<\/p>\n<p>Stu Mundel talked about everything from his separation from his wife to his feelings for bourbon while Fox 11 Los Angeles streamed his coverage to its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/live\/gFsC8H-9gU4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">YouTube channel.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou know, I don\u2019t care about my \u2026 I, uh, I am married. I am legally married. I am legally married,\u201d he said. \u201cThat\u2019s about the only way you can really say it,\u201d Mundel said after a viewer asked about his relationship status.<\/p>\n<p>He went on to say that he was actually separated from his wife and was not \u201clooking for someone to date\u201d because of \u201cdebacles\u201d in his personal life.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to be beholden to no one at this point. Do I get lonely? Of course. But I got cats,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxla.com\/person\/m\/stu-mundel\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.foxla.com\/person\/m\/stu-mundel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">his station bio<\/a>, Mundel joined the LA Fox owned station in June 2020 as an aerial reporter providing live traffic and breaking news updates from SkyFox.<\/p>\n<p>Around five thousand people tuned into the live stream at one point wondering if he was seeing the protest through bourbon flavored goggles.<\/p>\n<p>Mundel acknowledged at one point, \u201cI love bourbon,\u201d he said. \u201cI do. I do love the bourbon. I love the whiskey. I love the bourbon. Love the gin. Do love the gin. Alright, kids, we\u2019re making our way to Torrance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He snapped at one viewer after she complained she wasn\u2019t seeing enough of the protest. \u201cYes, Paloma, I know! It\u2019s not a magic carpet,\u201d he said. \u201cI can do a lot of things, but I can\u2019t bend space and time. Yet. Emma, same thing! We\u2019re on our way! \u2026 Sandra? No, we\u2019re not there yet. Three minutes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo Fox 11, this is a pr disaster. For me, this guy should get a raise,\u201d one commenter wrote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Los Angeles reporter who was covering the No Kings protest from the air on Saturday started tracking&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":78040,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5126],"tags":[15373,5,186,1760,240,5303,793,145,5304,5302,4,15372],"class_list":{"0":"post-78039","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles-kings","8":"tag-fox-affiliates","9":"tag-hockey","10":"tag-kings","11":"tag-la","12":"tag-la-kings","13":"tag-lakings","14":"tag-los-angeles","15":"tag-los-angeles-kings","16":"tag-losangeles","17":"tag-losangeleskings","18":"tag-nhl","19":"tag-shoptalk"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/114697281612249352","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}