September 7, 2025 • 36 mins
Hour 1: The Powerball's estimated $1.8 billion jackpot is a lot of money, but is it too much? Michael asks, what's the right amount of wealth to feel rich, comfortable, and sane?; Chicago says it doesn't want LA's experience with immigration enforcement as the White House takes aim at the Windy City, and LA Mayor Bass has some advice for her counterparts there; And what's wrong with San Bernardino? It's at the very bottom of a pair of recent surveys calling it dirty and expensive.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Michael Monks Reports. I'm Michael Monks from KFI Knew,
so glad to be with you on this Saturday night
in southern California. We are watching a couple of wildfires.
The Crump fire they've called it, This fifty five acre
brush fire near Lake Elsinor. Firefighter say they've got that
twenty percent contain now. They've also stopped at the forward
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rate of spread of this brush fire in this unincorporated
area near Lake Elsinor. It was reported around twelve thirty
this afternoon near the area of Crumpton Road in Highway
seventy four. That's where fire crews reported smoke and the
fire was burning at a moderate rate of spread in
these what they called medium fuels, but it looks like
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they are getting a better handle on that. We've also
been watching this Pyride fire in the in Harupa Valley.
There were some evacuation orders some warnings there. That has
burned four hundred and twenty five acres. Firefighters say they
have that fifteen percent contained at this point. This guarded
at five twenty yesterday afternoon near Pyrite Street in Granite
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Hill Drive. Nearly three hundred firefighters had to go out
to that scene, including eight hand crews, and then there
were some water drops from two helicopters. I was watching
some live video of that as it was happening last
night and as the evacuation warnings were coming in. We'll
continue to monitor those situations. We also had a minor
earthquake just a little bit ago, a three point five
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magnitude earthquake rattling East la today. They say it was
initially measured at this magnitude of three point five. According
to the US Geological Survey, its epicenter was determined to
be a little more than six miles north of Laverne,
roughly the same distance north northeast of San dimas six
point eight miles north northwest of Claremont. And we don't
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have any reports of any damage of something that small,
but it's always fun to get a little shake, big shake.
In Baltimore, the Dodgers are at the Orioles and there
was some excitement. This game is still going on. It's
in the bottom of the ninth right now, but my goodness,
Yoshinobu Yamamoto took a no hitter into the bottom of
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the ninth and it was just ended just before we
went on the air, Jackson Holiday from the Orioles knocked
a home run, and now there have been two hits
by the Orioles. There two outs to go there in
the bottom of the ninth Dodgers up three to one.
Of course, you can always hear the Dodgers game on
LA Sports Am five seventy. The Angels are at home
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against the Athletics. They're already down three to nothing in
the top of the second. We're also watching some college football.
USC up big in the third quarter over Georgia Southern
forty four to thirteen, a little over eight minutes to
go in that quarter, and my goodness, the Bruins are
going to have a heck of a season. It looks
like last week blown out by Utah forty three to
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ten right here in LA and now against UNLV it's
the half. UCLA is losing twenty three to three. Hey, Michael,
what can I do for you? I got a question
for you. Yeah, yeah, this is Eric Sklar, you know
him from the John Cobalt Show, getting some overtime on
a Saturday.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Yes, you brought up UCLA just now. Yeah, we know
there's a lot of fans not going to the games.
The Rose Bulls pretty empty the first two games of
the year. Okay, we got Oasis at the Rose Bowl
Tomorrow night sold out. Okay, do you think Tomorrow Night
Oasis sold out gets more fans in one night than
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the Bruins get at the Rose Bowl all season?
Speaker 1 (03:39):
I think yes, I think that's possible. You don't get
depressed at an Oasis game, even if the songs are
kind of downers at times. Yes, you know you're thrilled
to be there, But if you're getting blown out by Utah,
then you look to rebound against UNLV and you're already
down twenty points at halftime, it's going to be a
long season in Westwood. Yeah, Yeah, that's rough. One thing
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that can make everybody's day brighter is if you hit
this powerball now. If you don't have your tickets, it's
too late for tonight's drawing. Like the clock just ticked
to the points where you cannot buy a ticket for
tonight's drawing. If you buy a ticket right now will
be for two zero Windsior whatever the next one is.
But this thing has soared to a jackpot of one
point eight billion dollars. It is the second largest in
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US history chiching. Indeed, that is, that's not chump change. Now,
if you're wonder what your chances are, you already know.
I don't have to tell you they're very, very slim.
But there's a lot of superstitions, and maybe you think
that your due. We heard from Professor Christopher Lutsko, who
knows about this sort of thing, and here's a bit
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about what he has to say, the kind of dash
your dreams a little bit.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
The chances of winning are about one in three hundred million.
To put that into context, you're about fifty times more
likely to get struck by lightning than you are to
win the power ball if you buy one ticket. This
is something called the gambler's fallacy. If you've ever heard
someone say that they're due for a win, at least
if it's a game of chance, then there's no such
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thing as being due for a win. Every drawing is
its own experiment for the jackpot. There isn't really any
strategy you can go with. Whatever the number is, that's
what it is, And whatever number you choose, that's what
you choose. It's up up to the gods whether or
not they match. For the rest of the ticket. There
might be a bit of strategy you could play. If
you buy multiple tickets and you choose the same numbers
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on different tickets, then you're less likely to win, but
if you do win, you'll win a bit more money.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
I guess it is up to the gods, like you
said there, and you know, I don't play this game
very often, but I did buy some tickets this week
when Powerball fever started to sweep the nation. And when
I've gotten swept up in this myself, I don't even
get a number. I'll buy three or four games, and
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I mean complete o first nothing. On Wednesday, I got
three numbers. That's seven bucks. So I got to play
again today, which was very exciting. I've never gotten more
than one number, but I got three. I would think
the prize might have been a little more than seven bucks.
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I don't know if I was feeling greedy. Yeah, I know.
But here's what I want to talk about tonight. We're
gonna get into some very big news. Don't you worry
about that. That's what we do here on Saturday nights.
But this is kind of on everybody's mind right now.
I'm sure a bunch of us have tickets, and we're
waiting for that drawing, which by the way, comes up
in less than an hour. So if you hear some
dead air at the top of the next hours, because
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I've won and I've left, but we are going to
get to news in the meantime. I want to dream
about this for a moment. It's really hard to wrap
one's head around one one point eight billion dollars. And
as I was thinking about, you know the generic questions
we ask when this sort of thing happens, What would
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you do with it? What would you do with it?
I don't even know. So I want you to join
the conversation today. Open up the iHeartRadio app, click on
the talk back button. I'm not worried about what you
would do with the money. My question is this, As
I think about one point eight billion dollars, I feel
like I would be really excited to have five million dollars.
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It maybe somewhere between five and ten million dollars seems
to be a sweet spot of wealth in my uneducated mind.
A little bit of that liquid. You can go on vacation.
You probably have a house, maybe a vacation house. You
got a nice car, you're comfortable My question to you
tonight is what is the right amount of wealth? What
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is the amount of money you think you need to
be completely comfortable and happy and rich. One point eight
billion dollars is ridiculous. And the way that I try
to wrap my head around it, even though it's impossible,
is think about if you make one hundred and fifty
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thousand dollars a year, that's not a bad living. It's
it's tougher in Los Angeles, of course, worth everything's really expensive.
But let's say you make one hundred and fifty thousand dollars,
that's not bad. Think about how far your dollar goes,
what type of apartment you have, what kind of car
you can drive. And now double that salary. So now
imagine you're making three hundred thousand dollars a year. That's good.
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That's comfortable here in LA You can have a nice home,
nice car, go out to dinner. Double it again, six
hundred thousand dollars a year, it's pretty good. We have
to double that before we even get over a million
dollars a year. Think about being a one point two
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million dollars a year of income. What you could buy
based on what you know about what you can buy
now on how much you're making, and we can keep
doubling it and doubling. It's two point four four point eight,
what's next? Six point six? I don't know. Eight point
six help me out here. Nine point six, nine point six.
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There we go public school. Nine point six million. That's crazy.
One point eight billion. Now, I know they take the taxes,
and if you do a lump sum, it's it's much
less than that. You're still in the hundreds of millions
of dollars, though, So when I'm asked what would you
do with it? I really don't know. That's overwhelming. That's
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so much money. So I'm gonna ask you tonight to
join the conversation. Open up the iHeartRadio app, click on
that talk back button. We'll play some of your comments
throughout the next couple of hours that we spend together.
What's the right amount of wealth? What do you think
is an amount of money you could manage, you could understand,
and you could use, and you could be comfortable. I
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think it's five to ten million dollars. Eric Splorer, what
do you think fifty you need fifty at least? Are
you buying jewelry? Are you flaunting it.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
I mean, I'm definitely gonna buy a nice house and
a couple of nice cars.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
I look at Zillo a lot, and I see some
outrageous houses in Los Angeles to where I think, who
needs twelve bedrooms. I'm not trying to live in a hotel.
I'd like a nice manner in Hancock Park. You know,
I want people to know that I'm doing well. I'd
rather have more land than more bedrooms. Yeah, you're gonna
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have some cattle.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
I don't know about cattle, but a pool of basketball court,
maybe a pickleball court.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Orgita, what do you think is the right amount of wealth?
Speaker 4 (10:56):
The right amount of wealth is any number that allows
you to happily have a family and be able to
pay your bills, go on vacations, and have the traditional
American dream of thirty five years ago.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
Yeah that's sweet and all, But what's the number, Brigeta.
Speaker 4 (11:12):
I'd be happy with like ten million dollars exactly. I
could make it.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
I make it rain with that.
Speaker 4 (11:19):
You can reinvest and make more money off your money.
That's how I swingers are not doing a great job.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
No, they blow it new money, And don't get me wrong,
I long to be new money. I think I would
be really good at being new money. You would I
would be great at it. As soon as I move
into Hancock Park with my my modest manner, people will
know I'm doing well.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
Of the modest manner.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
It's a modest manner, all right. Don't let us hog
the conversation, join us, open up the iHeartRadio app, click
on that talk back button. That's going to be our
theme for tonight. Obviously, any of the news we talk
about is also fair game. We want your perspective. That's
what our airwaves are four. We're going to get into
some big news next. LA has already had a taste
of the Trump administration immigration policies, and now Chicago says
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it doesn't want to be the next LA. There are
protests there. They're a protest in DC. The President says
deportations are coming to the Windy City. We'll get into
that next and later. What is wrong with San Bernardino.
This city has found itself on top of a pair
of recent list that are not particularly flattering. That's coming
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up later this hour's Michael Monks Reports continues, I got
an update on this Dodgers game, and folks, if you're
a fan, You're not gonna like it. The Dodgers had
a no hitter going into the ninth inning, they had
two outs in the ninth inning, they lost. Not only
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was the no hitter squashed with a solo home run,
the Orioles walked off the Dodgers. Eric Sklar is a
big Dodgers fan. I know you're feeling it right now.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
I don't think I've ever seen anything like this happen before,
where the starting pitcher for one team pitches eight and
two thirds innings, has a two to one count, gives
up the home run to lose the no hitter. Okay, fine,
Dodgers are down three to one with Dodgers are up
three to one with two outs in the bottom of
the ninth inning in Baltimore. They somehow end up losing
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four to three. I mean, it's it's gotta hurt.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
You know. Somebody takes a no hitter to the sixth inning.
You're you're starting to think about it a little bit, like, uh,
is it possible. I'm I gonna take it as far
and it gets broken up? You know, you feel bad
for the pitcher eight and two thirds of an inning.
Yamamoto's no hitters broken up and then they lose the game.
Never seen anything like that. I bet that's historic, and
I know how fast they get those types of sports
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stats out, so we'll be looking for some commentary on that.
If you're an Angels fan, it's not going any better
for you tonight. It's only the second inning and the
A's are up seven to nothing in Anaheim. Bruins fans
rough for you in Vegas as well. Un LV up
twenty three to three. The only bright spot is USC
whipping up on Georgia Southern after whipping up on Missouri
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State last week. I'll start facing some big ten oppositions
starting next week, and we'll see how the Trojans hold up. Meanwhile,
other cities are thinking about Los Angeles and what has
happened here over the summer as it relates to immigration
enforcement efforts, the protests around them, and how those have gone.
The National Guard being sent here. All that sort of
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thing is going to other major cities. The National Guard
is already in Washington, d C. But President Trump really
has his eyes set on Chicago. He made a post
on social media. It's this artificial intelligence image of him
in military garb. There are explosions and helicopters behind him,
and it's got the text, I love the smell of
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deportations in the morning. Chicago about to find out why
it's called the Department of War. The smell of deportations
is a reference, of course, to the nineteen seventy nine
Vietnam War movie Apocalypse Now in the famous line I
love the smell of napalm in the morning. Mayor Bass
has weighed in on the situation in Chicago and what
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that city may be facing. She posted to social media quote,
the deployment of the military against American cities is disgusting,
wrong and illegal. They tried it in Los Angeles, but
we stood strong. I know Chicago will stand strong too.
They cannot win if we stay united. So protesters took
to the streets in Chicago today.
Speaker 5 (15:34):
Illinois Governor Pritzker, as well as the Mayor of Chicago,
has made it very clear that they do not want
to see National Guard troops or federal intervention into Chicago.
There are concerns that what happened in la earlier this
year could happen in Chicago. Or there's immigration raids sparked
those mass protests.
Speaker 6 (15:57):
There is a protest here outside of Naval State Great
Lakes that has been going on, one of two protests
planned for today, this one and then one downtown about
forty minutes away from here. Now, we have not seen
any increased to immigration enforcement. It was thought it might
start yesterday, it didn't, and then it was believed, well,
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it may start today.
Speaker 7 (16:19):
We have to stand up together and we have to
fight because we cannot hide.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
Our heads in the sand.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
We cannot ignore this situation.
Speaker 6 (16:27):
We have not yet seen anything or heard anything around
the Chicago area with President Trump going on True Social
and writing that Chicago is about to find out why
it's called the Department of War. So the rhetoric, the
talk ramping up, the President saying that there will be
increased immigration enforcement, but saying that he's not going to
say if it'll be today or some other day.
Speaker 8 (16:49):
It's devastating, it's heartbreaking. I mean, just look around. We're
not all bad people. Everybody's not a bad person. Where
it's separating families where were maybe separated families, that's what
we're doing, and I don't think that's fair. Everyone deserves
a chance here. Everyone was given the chance, you know,
to make a living here. I think everybody deserves that.
Speaker 6 (17:12):
The President saying that there will be increased immigration enforcement,
but not exactly saying when that is going to be
saying that he's not going to say when it is.
This is the beginning of Mexican Independence Days celebrations this week.
Some of them have been delayed or canceled. There is
one parade that is getting going today. Many of those
that are moving forward are going to increased security, but
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they say that they want to move forward with it.
Speaker 9 (17:35):
Everyone must.
Speaker 7 (17:36):
Everyone feels a parade, But at the same time they
they also feel powerful and want to fight back against
this force step wants to separate us from their train
alle So.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
A lot of that sounds familiar to those of us
who were up close to these protests in Los Angeles
earlier in the summer. There hasn't been much in the
way of what we saw in early June, late Lee.
But the President, of course is help bent on his
deportation policy. He's eyeing Chicago, he's eyeing other places, and
you can bet that they'll be back at force in
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Los Angeles at some point. The courts are making some
decisions and we'll see how that plays out. We're expecting
some further rulings on that battle between the city, the county,
and the federal government over the nature of immigration raids
in southern California. I believe the date is September twenty fourth,
is the next court date for that, unless the Supreme
Court acts first. So that was in Chicago, Washington, d
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C residents are also upset about the presence of the
National Guard, even though the mayor there seems to welcome it.
Speaker 10 (18:50):
Protesters taking to the streets in DC near the White House,
large crowds voicing their opposition to President Trump's immigration policies
and federal takeover in the district. Thousands taking part in
the We Are All DC march, protesting against National Guard
troops deployed throughout DC.
Speaker 11 (19:08):
Not just taking the kidnapped, just snatched up, taken away
from their families, their kids, thrown in cars and sent
to who knows where, Oh what kind of due process
is that? That is not constitutional, it's inhumane, it's horrible.
Speaker 12 (19:30):
Among those demanding withdrawal of the troops in the nation's capital,
Mark Fitzpatrick, I'm.
Speaker 13 (19:34):
Worried about so many things that this administration is doing
kinishaw authoritarian nature, but what they're doing to d C
is worse than you're doing to any other city.
Speaker 12 (19:44):
He says it's because DC has no voting House or
Senate members. Tammy Brice says immigrant kids are being taken
away from families.
Speaker 11 (19:51):
That is not constitutional, it's inhumane, it's horrible.
Speaker 12 (19:56):
President Trump claims the National Guard has made DC a
crime free zone.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
Now. A court ruled recently that President Trump's deployment of
the National Guard to Los Angeles was a violation of
federal law and the governor's office here in California, Governor
Newsom his office has put out a report that says
the deployment of National Guard troops to Los Angeles cost
one hundred and eighteen million dollars, seventy one million for
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their food in basic necessities, thirty seven million for their pay,
four million on logistical supplies, and three and a half
million spent on their travel. One and a half million
was sent to de mobilize them. That's according to data
from Governor Newsom's office. Former Vice President Kamala Harris no
longer has Secret Service protection here in Los Angeles, but
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the LAPD was sent to protect her. They've also been
yank We'll get into that next. Michael Monks from KFI News,
We'll be together till nine o'clock on this Saturday night.
Vice President Kamala Harris, who is one of our neighbors
here in southern California, was he's protected by the Secret
Service for the six months following her departure from office,
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as is standard procedure for vice presidents once they leave Washington, DC.
But President Joe Biden had previously extended protection for the
former vice president for a little bit longer than that.
President Trump, however, decided that would not be the case.
We'll get into what happened locally momentarily. First, let's go
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back to that announcement from President Trump. Just as a
little background here.
Speaker 14 (21:32):
A senior White House official tells ABC that vice presidents
typically only have a detail for six months after they
leave office, but former President Biden extended Vice President Harris's
protective detail an additional year on top of the six
months she's required by law to have Secret Service protection.
This is just the latest protection detail that President Trump
has canceled. Early in March, he canceled former Secretary of
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Homeland Security Alejandro Majorcis's detail, as well as the details
of President Biden's children, former Trump National security Advisor John Bolton,
and former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
Her office has put out a.
Speaker 14 (22:05):
Statement, not technically getting into the.
Speaker 15 (22:08):
Details of the security detail being pulled, but says quote
that the Vice President is grateful to the US Secret
Service for their professionalism, dedication, and unwavering commitment to safety.
Vice President Harris is supposed to be going out on
a very significant book tour in the coming weeks, very
publicized and big, big cities, so now there are a
lot of questions about what this new development will mean.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
For that tour.
Speaker 6 (22:32):
Harris is a resident of Los Angeles, and a source
close to Laayor Karen Bass tells ABC News at Bass
and California Governor Gavin Newsom are in touch on the issue,
but did not offer any details that LA may take
in response. In a statement, Bass is slamming President Trump
for abruptly yanking protection for the former vice president, calling
it quote another act of revenge end quote. Bass arcues
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it puts Harris in danger, and Bass says she will
work with Newsom to make sure the former vice president
is safe in LA.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
So after the President ordered the secret Service detail to
be pulled off Kamala Harris, the former vice president. The
California Highway Patrol moved in along with specialized units from
the LAPD's Metropolitan Division. Mayor Karen Bass ordered that it
was met with heavy criticism within the LAPD's own ranks.
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According to The La Times, these officers were being diverted
from crime suppression. Sources told the La Times that Metro
officers had to be drawn away from crime suppression work
in the San Fernando Valley this week and what's been
happening in the San Fernando Valley string of violent crimes
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and burglaries. So a lot of criticism towards the mayor's office.
And the decision has been made for the LAPD to
stop providing special protection for former Vice President Kamala Harris,
and that ends outside her Brentwood Hunt home. It should
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not be that big of a deal. I suppose. It
is tradition that the vice president gets six months of
additional Secret Service protection after leaving office. President Biden had
tried to allocate longer protection for the former vice president.
Trump says that's not happening. Of course, former presidents get
it for the rest of their lives. But Los Angeles
is a very safe city. In fact, it is the
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second safest large city in the United States. That's according
to a new study from smart Asset, which took a
look at the country's major cities and tried to determine
which ones were the safest. So they looked at the
fifty largest cities in the country based on population and
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looked at issues like violent crime rate, property crime rate,
vehicular mortality rate, and other metrics. San Jose was declared
the safest by smart assets and the metrics that they
used here, having the third fewest violent crimes in the
country relative to its population the fifth fewest property crimes.
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But La came in at number two. What do you
think about that analysis? Long Beach, by the Way, came
in at number eleven, the eleventh safest big city in
the country. San Diego was number thirteen, Sacramento fifteen. And
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Mayor Bass seems to agree with this. She tweeted out
a link to a story from this past March with
the comments, violent crime is down in LA and the
city's on track for a sixty year low in homicides.
We will continue implementing aggressive prevention strategies to address crime.
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That scared me. I am not used to having an
active board operator. I almost died, Eric, I'm too old
for that. I'm having some fun. I live downtown. I'm
scared of these types of noises.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
I just figured you would want to know what John
thought of this whole Paul was that Cobalt?
Speaker 1 (26:08):
That was his scream? Oh, I love that. I know
when he gets back here in the studio on Monday,
he's gonna have a field day with some of these topics.
I know he's gonna have a field day with the
Vice President's story in the LAPD. I know he's gonna
have a field day with that smart Asset report. And
I will definitely be among the mini tuning in for
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John Cobalt at one o'clock on Monday. But I was
at this press conference in March where the mayor was
joined by the Chief of Police, Jim McDonnell, and they
did share statistics that showed homicides had decreased by fourteen
percent year over years, shooting victims down nineteen percent, felony
hit and run cases down more than six percent. They
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used that as a triumph theate that their policing policies
were working. So you've got the actual statistics saying that
crime is down. I've got this analysis by smartesset that
says La is the second safest big city in the country.
What do you think? You can join the conversation by
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opening up the iHeartRadio app click on that talkback button.
We'll play some of your comments. We've also put out
the question as we await the big powerball drawing, how
much wealth do you need? What's the right amount of
wealth to have where you're comfortable, you're on top of it,
you got enough to do what you want. I'm sure
it's not one point eight billion dollars. Who needs one
point eight billion dollars? Same thing. To join that conversation,
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open up the iHeartRadio app, click on that talkback button.
We're going to play some of those coming up. Last week,
we told you about another list the dirtiest cities in America,
and San Bernardino was number one in the country. Excuse me,
the dirtiest city in the country. Now another list is
out and San Bernardino is on the bottom of that
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one too, So I want to know what's going on
in San Bernardino. We'll get into that next, I'm Michael
Monks from k I News with you till nine o'clock tonight.
On this Saturday night in southern California, we are minutes
away from the big Powerball drawing one point eight billion
dollar jackpot. My question to you tonight, what's the right
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amount of Well, that's too much, right, one point eight
billion dollars is a crazy amount of money. How much
do you think you need to where you could feel
rich and comfortable and able to wrap your head around
how much money you have and to be able to
do the things that you want to do. Let's hear
from Brad.
Speaker 13 (28:34):
Come on, Monks, you gotta ask Bezos or Musk how
excited they would be to win one point eight billion
dollars since they're worth like three hundred billion.
Speaker 3 (28:46):
They'd be a static.
Speaker 13 (28:47):
They'd go jump it up and down on the bed
and stuff like that. That's chump chain to them, that's
pocket change. They carry one point eight billion in their
pocket every day.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
You're not wrong, that is what I mean though. That
is a crazy amount of money. And look, honestly, I
don't mean any disrespect to Elon Musk or Mark Zuckerberg,
but they strike me as a little strange, right, the
type of strange that only money can buy. That you
start to lose your mind a little bit when you
have that much money. So I'm thinking five to ten
million dollars. Boy, that's perfectly fine with me. Let's hear
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from Lisa Kay. How much money do I need?
Speaker 6 (29:25):
Well?
Speaker 11 (29:25):
To me, would be enough money I could buy myself
in and out of any kind of trouble I choose
to participate.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
In here here, Lisa Kay, to be able to get
into some trouble. And that's the other good thing. Money
can get you out of some trouble. Money can get
you out of trouble. And I suppose if you do
have one point eight billion dollars, you can get out
of a lot of trouble. And maybe my paltry five
to ten million dollars that I dream about, I could
still I don't know, go to jail or get beat
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up or something. I wouldn't have secret service protection certainly,
which is five to ten million dollars, I don't know.
You tell me. Open up the iHeartRadio app, click on
the talkback button, and let us know what you think
is the right amount of wealth. As we all sweated
out waiting for the powerball drawing and the one point
eight billion dollar jackpot. Let's go to San Bernardino. Now,
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there was an interesting story about a tortoise that came
out of that city this week. Here's our friends at
both ABC seven and NBC four reporting on it.
Speaker 16 (30:28):
An actor in Saberdagano needs help find in his missing tortoise.
Cactus Bash says his pet Dolly is about three years
old and recently he noticed, you know, she went missing.
No escape, just came loose. Well, Cactus has been frantic
putting up flyers around town, even on social media.
Speaker 9 (30:46):
Just the response has been overwhelming and I still haven't
found her, but it gives me so much hope.
Speaker 3 (30:53):
How many people have reached out to try and help.
Speaker 16 (30:55):
Kactas says this is the first time Dolly has escaped
from his yard.
Speaker 17 (31:00):
A San Bernardino man is in a desperate search to
find his missing tortoise, Dolly. The tortoise escaped from her
enclosure three days ago. The Silkata tortoise is only about
three years old, and the species can live up to
one hundred and thirty years old, so Dolly is a baby.
She's about the size of a cat. Her owner says
he's looked everywhere within a few miles of his home,
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but a poster's posted online called animal shelters, you name it.
He's done it, and so far no sign of Dolly.
Now he's hoping to expand his search.
Speaker 9 (31:30):
She was able to push part of the gate forward
and create a hole big enough for her to get through,
and so I did not know and she got out escaped.
I want her found so much. I miss my baby girl.
I want to make sure she's safe. I'm worried about her.
Speaker 17 (31:47):
The owner asks that if you spot his tortoise or
know her whereabouts, please contact him on Instagram at the
Goshdang fire Trucking Batman. Again, that's at the Goshdang fire Trucking.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
That is his Instagram account. You can here at the
bottom of her screen right there, that is his Instagram account.
His name is Cactus Bash. The Instagram account is the
gosh Dang fire Trucking Batman, and I did just go there,
and I'm happy to report that he's found the tortoise.
So Cactus Bash has been reunited with Dolly. That story
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had a happy ending after all. How about that with
the You're gonna kill me I'm too old for these
sound effects. I gotta keep myself entertained Somehow do you
do this to John Colebelt? Oh yeah, and he doesn't
fall over and die, He'll start laughing. He can't be
healthier than me. I see what he eats. Oh man,
(32:45):
all right, it's fine, it's fine, it's fine. No, I
don't I'm glad you're participating. Thank you. Just uh, I'm
a nervous wreck. My suspicion when I saw this tortoise
story was that perhaps Dolly was trying to flee San Bernardino,
because I don't know what's going on in San Bernardino,
but it is not getting a lot of love on
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these lists that some of these random organizations and websites
make up. I'm sure that they are done in earnest
with actual metrics and all of that, and they make
for fun headlines. But last week we told you about this,
and you probably heard it on other KFI reports and
shows that San Bernardino, for the second year in a row,
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was ranked as the dirtiest city in the country. LA
was number two, San Bernardino was number one, and this
was determined by seventy five percent of San Bernardino residents
saying they're dissatisfied with local pollution. Were worst air quality,
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a lot of big warehouses, high nitrogen dioxide levels. Dirtiest
city in the country is San Bernardino. I'm a guy
who likes cities, and Southern California is a lot of
cities that have substantial populations, and San Bernardino is one
of them. And I've been there. I've been there for
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stories and what surprised me was, well, it's not as
big as LA. It gave me some La vibes as
a downtown LA resident because I was there for a
news conference, and you know, I had to use the
bathroom and everything was locked up the same way that
it is in downtown LA. You could not get into
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any of the bathrooms. You couldn't even get into the
Starbucks at all to order. It would only take drive
through orders. And I didn't see any riff raff. I
didn't see any bad behavior, but I thought something's going
on here that I do not see. Well. Another report
has come out about the best and worst places to retire,
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and there are one hundred and eighty two c across
the country evaluated here in the Retirement Confidence surveyuting put
out by the Employee Benefit Research Institute. Do you want
to guess which city finished in one hundred and eighty
second place? Well, if you said San Bernardino, California, you
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are correct. And I think that's why Dolly the tortoise
was on the run. It's dirty. You can't retire there,
and you know tortoises live a long time. You've got
to find a city, or you can stretch your dollar.
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One hundred and eighty two cities evaluated, the worst one
San Bernardino. What's going on out there? Let us know?
Give us a talkback. Open up that iHeartRadio app, click
on the talkback button, share your thoughts about San Bernardino,
Share your thoughts about LAPDS, secret service, violent crime in
Los Angeles. But most importantly, answer our question of the night,
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what is the right amount of wealth? As we all
sit here patiently waiting for that powerball drawing of one
point eight billion dollar jackpot? How much money do you
really need? How much do you want? What's the sweet
spot for you in terms of wealth. We'll have more
of your talkbacks coming up in the next hour. If
you don't hear me in the next hours, because I
want and I've just resigned and I've left, Okay, and
(36:30):
Eric Sclarer will take over with the sound effects. Okay,
we'll have more coming up. We have another hour together
to talk about Powerball and more local news, including this
LA trying to expand its convention center. It's costing a
lot of money. Guess what the price tag just went up.
By the way, the city's broke. That's next on Michael
Monk's reports right here on KFI Am sixt
This is Michael Monks Reports. I'm Michael Monks from KFI Knew,
so glad to be with you on this Saturday night
in southern California. We are watching a couple of wildfires.
The Crump fire they've called it, This fifty five acre
brush fire near Lake Elsinor. Firefighter say they've got that
twenty percent contain now. They've also stopped at the forward
(00:20):
rate of spread of this brush fire in this unincorporated
area near Lake Elsinor. It was reported around twelve thirty
this afternoon near the area of Crumpton Road in Highway
seventy four. That's where fire crews reported smoke and the
fire was burning at a moderate rate of spread in
these what they called medium fuels, but it looks like
(00:43):
they are getting a better handle on that. We've also
been watching this Pyride fire in the in Harupa Valley.
There were some evacuation orders some warnings there. That has
burned four hundred and twenty five acres. Firefighters say they
have that fifteen percent contained at this point. This guarded
at five twenty yesterday afternoon near Pyrite Street in Granite
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Hill Drive. Nearly three hundred firefighters had to go out
to that scene, including eight hand crews, and then there
were some water drops from two helicopters. I was watching
some live video of that as it was happening last
night and as the evacuation warnings were coming in. We'll
continue to monitor those situations. We also had a minor
earthquake just a little bit ago, a three point five
(01:26):
magnitude earthquake rattling East la today. They say it was
initially measured at this magnitude of three point five. According
to the US Geological Survey, its epicenter was determined to
be a little more than six miles north of Laverne,
roughly the same distance north northeast of San dimas six
point eight miles north northwest of Claremont. And we don't
(01:49):
have any reports of any damage of something that small,
but it's always fun to get a little shake, big shake.
In Baltimore, the Dodgers are at the Orioles and there
was some excitement. This game is still going on. It's
in the bottom of the ninth right now, but my goodness,
Yoshinobu Yamamoto took a no hitter into the bottom of
(02:11):
the ninth and it was just ended just before we
went on the air, Jackson Holiday from the Orioles knocked
a home run, and now there have been two hits
by the Orioles. There two outs to go there in
the bottom of the ninth Dodgers up three to one.
Of course, you can always hear the Dodgers game on
LA Sports Am five seventy. The Angels are at home
(02:34):
against the Athletics. They're already down three to nothing in
the top of the second. We're also watching some college football.
USC up big in the third quarter over Georgia Southern
forty four to thirteen, a little over eight minutes to
go in that quarter, and my goodness, the Bruins are
going to have a heck of a season. It looks
like last week blown out by Utah forty three to
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ten right here in LA and now against UNLV it's
the half. UCLA is losing twenty three to three. Hey, Michael,
what can I do for you? I got a question
for you. Yeah, yeah, this is Eric Sklar, you know
him from the John Cobalt Show, getting some overtime on
a Saturday.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Yes, you brought up UCLA just now. Yeah, we know
there's a lot of fans not going to the games.
The Rose Bulls pretty empty the first two games of
the year. Okay, we got Oasis at the Rose Bowl
Tomorrow night sold out. Okay, do you think Tomorrow Night
Oasis sold out gets more fans in one night than
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the Bruins get at the Rose Bowl all season?
Speaker 1 (03:39):
I think yes, I think that's possible. You don't get
depressed at an Oasis game, even if the songs are
kind of downers at times. Yes, you know you're thrilled
to be there, But if you're getting blown out by Utah,
then you look to rebound against UNLV and you're already
down twenty points at halftime, it's going to be a
long season in Westwood. Yeah, Yeah, that's rough. One thing
(04:02):
that can make everybody's day brighter is if you hit
this powerball now. If you don't have your tickets, it's
too late for tonight's drawing. Like the clock just ticked
to the points where you cannot buy a ticket for
tonight's drawing. If you buy a ticket right now will
be for two zero Windsior whatever the next one is.
But this thing has soared to a jackpot of one
point eight billion dollars. It is the second largest in
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US history chiching. Indeed, that is, that's not chump change. Now,
if you're wonder what your chances are, you already know.
I don't have to tell you they're very, very slim.
But there's a lot of superstitions, and maybe you think
that your due. We heard from Professor Christopher Lutsko, who
knows about this sort of thing, and here's a bit
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about what he has to say, the kind of dash
your dreams a little bit.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
The chances of winning are about one in three hundred million.
To put that into context, you're about fifty times more
likely to get struck by lightning than you are to
win the power ball if you buy one ticket. This
is something called the gambler's fallacy. If you've ever heard
someone say that they're due for a win, at least
if it's a game of chance, then there's no such
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thing as being due for a win. Every drawing is
its own experiment for the jackpot. There isn't really any
strategy you can go with. Whatever the number is, that's
what it is, And whatever number you choose, that's what
you choose. It's up up to the gods whether or
not they match. For the rest of the ticket. There
might be a bit of strategy you could play. If
you buy multiple tickets and you choose the same numbers
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on different tickets, then you're less likely to win, but
if you do win, you'll win a bit more money.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
I guess it is up to the gods, like you
said there, and you know, I don't play this game
very often, but I did buy some tickets this week
when Powerball fever started to sweep the nation. And when
I've gotten swept up in this myself, I don't even
get a number. I'll buy three or four games, and
(06:06):
I mean complete o first nothing. On Wednesday, I got
three numbers. That's seven bucks. So I got to play
again today, which was very exciting. I've never gotten more
than one number, but I got three. I would think
the prize might have been a little more than seven bucks.
(06:26):
I don't know if I was feeling greedy. Yeah, I know.
But here's what I want to talk about tonight. We're
gonna get into some very big news. Don't you worry
about that. That's what we do here on Saturday nights.
But this is kind of on everybody's mind right now.
I'm sure a bunch of us have tickets, and we're
waiting for that drawing, which by the way, comes up
in less than an hour. So if you hear some
dead air at the top of the next hours, because
(06:48):
I've won and I've left, but we are going to
get to news in the meantime. I want to dream
about this for a moment. It's really hard to wrap
one's head around one one point eight billion dollars. And
as I was thinking about, you know the generic questions
we ask when this sort of thing happens, What would
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you do with it? What would you do with it?
I don't even know. So I want you to join
the conversation today. Open up the iHeartRadio app, click on
the talk back button. I'm not worried about what you
would do with the money. My question is this, As
I think about one point eight billion dollars, I feel
like I would be really excited to have five million dollars.
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It maybe somewhere between five and ten million dollars seems
to be a sweet spot of wealth in my uneducated mind.
A little bit of that liquid. You can go on vacation.
You probably have a house, maybe a vacation house. You
got a nice car, you're comfortable My question to you
tonight is what is the right amount of wealth? What
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is the amount of money you think you need to
be completely comfortable and happy and rich. One point eight
billion dollars is ridiculous. And the way that I try
to wrap my head around it, even though it's impossible,
is think about if you make one hundred and fifty
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thousand dollars a year, that's not a bad living. It's
it's tougher in Los Angeles, of course, worth everything's really expensive.
But let's say you make one hundred and fifty thousand dollars,
that's not bad. Think about how far your dollar goes,
what type of apartment you have, what kind of car
you can drive. And now double that salary. So now
imagine you're making three hundred thousand dollars a year. That's good.
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That's comfortable here in LA You can have a nice home,
nice car, go out to dinner. Double it again, six
hundred thousand dollars a year, it's pretty good. We have
to double that before we even get over a million
dollars a year. Think about being a one point two
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million dollars a year of income. What you could buy
based on what you know about what you can buy
now on how much you're making, and we can keep
doubling it and doubling. It's two point four four point eight,
what's next? Six point six? I don't know. Eight point
six help me out here. Nine point six, nine point six.
(09:22):
There we go public school. Nine point six million. That's crazy.
One point eight billion. Now, I know they take the taxes,
and if you do a lump sum, it's it's much
less than that. You're still in the hundreds of millions
of dollars, though, So when I'm asked what would you
do with it? I really don't know. That's overwhelming. That's
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so much money. So I'm gonna ask you tonight to
join the conversation. Open up the iHeartRadio app, click on
that talk back button. We'll play some of your comments
throughout the next couple of hours that we spend together.
What's the right amount of wealth? What do you think
is an amount of money you could manage, you could understand,
and you could use, and you could be comfortable. I
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think it's five to ten million dollars. Eric Splorer, what
do you think fifty you need fifty at least? Are
you buying jewelry? Are you flaunting it.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
I mean, I'm definitely gonna buy a nice house and
a couple of nice cars.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
I look at Zillo a lot, and I see some
outrageous houses in Los Angeles to where I think, who
needs twelve bedrooms. I'm not trying to live in a hotel.
I'd like a nice manner in Hancock Park. You know,
I want people to know that I'm doing well. I'd
rather have more land than more bedrooms. Yeah, you're gonna
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have some cattle.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
I don't know about cattle, but a pool of basketball court,
maybe a pickleball court.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Orgita, what do you think is the right amount of wealth?
Speaker 4 (10:56):
The right amount of wealth is any number that allows
you to happily have a family and be able to
pay your bills, go on vacations, and have the traditional
American dream of thirty five years ago.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
Yeah that's sweet and all, But what's the number, Brigeta.
Speaker 4 (11:12):
I'd be happy with like ten million dollars exactly. I
could make it.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
I make it rain with that.
Speaker 4 (11:19):
You can reinvest and make more money off your money.
That's how I swingers are not doing a great job.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
No, they blow it new money, And don't get me wrong,
I long to be new money. I think I would
be really good at being new money. You would I
would be great at it. As soon as I move
into Hancock Park with my my modest manner, people will
know I'm doing well.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
Of the modest manner.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
It's a modest manner, all right. Don't let us hog
the conversation, join us, open up the iHeartRadio app, click
on that talk back button. That's going to be our
theme for tonight. Obviously, any of the news we talk
about is also fair game. We want your perspective. That's
what our airwaves are four. We're going to get into
some big news next. LA has already had a taste
of the Trump administration immigration policies, and now Chicago says
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it doesn't want to be the next LA. There are
protests there. They're a protest in DC. The President says
deportations are coming to the Windy City. We'll get into
that next and later. What is wrong with San Bernardino.
This city has found itself on top of a pair
of recent list that are not particularly flattering. That's coming
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up later this hour's Michael Monks Reports continues, I got
an update on this Dodgers game, and folks, if you're
a fan, You're not gonna like it. The Dodgers had
a no hitter going into the ninth inning, they had
two outs in the ninth inning, they lost. Not only
(12:44):
was the no hitter squashed with a solo home run,
the Orioles walked off the Dodgers. Eric Sklar is a
big Dodgers fan. I know you're feeling it right now.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
I don't think I've ever seen anything like this happen before,
where the starting pitcher for one team pitches eight and
two thirds innings, has a two to one count, gives
up the home run to lose the no hitter. Okay, fine,
Dodgers are down three to one with Dodgers are up
three to one with two outs in the bottom of
the ninth inning in Baltimore. They somehow end up losing
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four to three. I mean, it's it's gotta hurt.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
You know. Somebody takes a no hitter to the sixth inning.
You're you're starting to think about it a little bit, like, uh,
is it possible. I'm I gonna take it as far
and it gets broken up? You know, you feel bad
for the pitcher eight and two thirds of an inning.
Yamamoto's no hitters broken up and then they lose the game.
Never seen anything like that. I bet that's historic, and
I know how fast they get those types of sports
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stats out, so we'll be looking for some commentary on that.
If you're an Angels fan, it's not going any better
for you tonight. It's only the second inning and the
A's are up seven to nothing in Anaheim. Bruins fans
rough for you in Vegas as well. Un LV up
twenty three to three. The only bright spot is USC
whipping up on Georgia Southern after whipping up on Missouri
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State last week. I'll start facing some big ten oppositions
starting next week, and we'll see how the Trojans hold up. Meanwhile,
other cities are thinking about Los Angeles and what has
happened here over the summer as it relates to immigration
enforcement efforts, the protests around them, and how those have gone.
The National Guard being sent here. All that sort of
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thing is going to other major cities. The National Guard
is already in Washington, d C. But President Trump really
has his eyes set on Chicago. He made a post
on social media. It's this artificial intelligence image of him
in military garb. There are explosions and helicopters behind him,
and it's got the text, I love the smell of
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deportations in the morning. Chicago about to find out why
it's called the Department of War. The smell of deportations
is a reference, of course, to the nineteen seventy nine
Vietnam War movie Apocalypse Now in the famous line I
love the smell of napalm in the morning. Mayor Bass
has weighed in on the situation in Chicago and what
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that city may be facing. She posted to social media quote,
the deployment of the military against American cities is disgusting,
wrong and illegal. They tried it in Los Angeles, but
we stood strong. I know Chicago will stand strong too.
They cannot win if we stay united. So protesters took
to the streets in Chicago today.
Speaker 5 (15:34):
Illinois Governor Pritzker, as well as the Mayor of Chicago,
has made it very clear that they do not want
to see National Guard troops or federal intervention into Chicago.
There are concerns that what happened in la earlier this
year could happen in Chicago. Or there's immigration raids sparked
those mass protests.
Speaker 6 (15:57):
There is a protest here outside of Naval State Great
Lakes that has been going on, one of two protests
planned for today, this one and then one downtown about
forty minutes away from here. Now, we have not seen
any increased to immigration enforcement. It was thought it might
start yesterday, it didn't, and then it was believed, well,
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it may start today.
Speaker 7 (16:19):
We have to stand up together and we have to
fight because we cannot hide.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
Our heads in the sand.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
We cannot ignore this situation.
Speaker 6 (16:27):
We have not yet seen anything or heard anything around
the Chicago area with President Trump going on True Social
and writing that Chicago is about to find out why
it's called the Department of War. So the rhetoric, the
talk ramping up, the President saying that there will be
increased immigration enforcement, but saying that he's not going to
say if it'll be today or some other day.
Speaker 8 (16:49):
It's devastating, it's heartbreaking. I mean, just look around. We're
not all bad people. Everybody's not a bad person. Where
it's separating families where were maybe separated families, that's what
we're doing, and I don't think that's fair. Everyone deserves
a chance here. Everyone was given the chance, you know,
to make a living here. I think everybody deserves that.
Speaker 6 (17:12):
The President saying that there will be increased immigration enforcement,
but not exactly saying when that is going to be
saying that he's not going to say when it is.
This is the beginning of Mexican Independence Days celebrations this week.
Some of them have been delayed or canceled. There is
one parade that is getting going today. Many of those
that are moving forward are going to increased security, but
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they say that they want to move forward with it.
Speaker 9 (17:35):
Everyone must.
Speaker 7 (17:36):
Everyone feels a parade, But at the same time they
they also feel powerful and want to fight back against
this force step wants to separate us from their train
alle So.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
A lot of that sounds familiar to those of us
who were up close to these protests in Los Angeles
earlier in the summer. There hasn't been much in the
way of what we saw in early June, late Lee.
But the President, of course is help bent on his
deportation policy. He's eyeing Chicago, he's eyeing other places, and
you can bet that they'll be back at force in
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Los Angeles at some point. The courts are making some
decisions and we'll see how that plays out. We're expecting
some further rulings on that battle between the city, the county,
and the federal government over the nature of immigration raids
in southern California. I believe the date is September twenty fourth,
is the next court date for that, unless the Supreme
Court acts first. So that was in Chicago, Washington, d
(18:35):
C residents are also upset about the presence of the
National Guard, even though the mayor there seems to welcome it.
Speaker 10 (18:50):
Protesters taking to the streets in DC near the White House,
large crowds voicing their opposition to President Trump's immigration policies
and federal takeover in the district. Thousands taking part in
the We Are All DC march, protesting against National Guard
troops deployed throughout DC.
Speaker 11 (19:08):
Not just taking the kidnapped, just snatched up, taken away
from their families, their kids, thrown in cars and sent
to who knows where, Oh what kind of due process
is that? That is not constitutional, it's inhumane, it's horrible.
Speaker 12 (19:30):
Among those demanding withdrawal of the troops in the nation's capital,
Mark Fitzpatrick, I'm.
Speaker 13 (19:34):
Worried about so many things that this administration is doing
kinishaw authoritarian nature, but what they're doing to d C
is worse than you're doing to any other city.
Speaker 12 (19:44):
He says it's because DC has no voting House or
Senate members. Tammy Brice says immigrant kids are being taken
away from families.
Speaker 11 (19:51):
That is not constitutional, it's inhumane, it's horrible.
Speaker 12 (19:56):
President Trump claims the National Guard has made DC a
crime free zone.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
Now. A court ruled recently that President Trump's deployment of
the National Guard to Los Angeles was a violation of
federal law and the governor's office here in California, Governor
Newsom his office has put out a report that says
the deployment of National Guard troops to Los Angeles cost
one hundred and eighteen million dollars, seventy one million for
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their food in basic necessities, thirty seven million for their pay,
four million on logistical supplies, and three and a half
million spent on their travel. One and a half million
was sent to de mobilize them. That's according to data
from Governor Newsom's office. Former Vice President Kamala Harris no
longer has Secret Service protection here in Los Angeles, but
(20:42):
the LAPD was sent to protect her. They've also been
yank We'll get into that next. Michael Monks from KFI News,
We'll be together till nine o'clock on this Saturday night.
Vice President Kamala Harris, who is one of our neighbors
here in southern California, was he's protected by the Secret
Service for the six months following her departure from office,
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as is standard procedure for vice presidents once they leave Washington, DC.
But President Joe Biden had previously extended protection for the
former vice president for a little bit longer than that.
President Trump, however, decided that would not be the case.
We'll get into what happened locally momentarily. First, let's go
(21:28):
back to that announcement from President Trump. Just as a
little background here.
Speaker 14 (21:32):
A senior White House official tells ABC that vice presidents
typically only have a detail for six months after they
leave office, but former President Biden extended Vice President Harris's
protective detail an additional year on top of the six
months she's required by law to have Secret Service protection.
This is just the latest protection detail that President Trump
has canceled. Early in March, he canceled former Secretary of
(21:53):
Homeland Security Alejandro Majorcis's detail, as well as the details
of President Biden's children, former Trump National security Advisor John Bolton,
and former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
Her office has put out a.
Speaker 14 (22:05):
Statement, not technically getting into the.
Speaker 15 (22:08):
Details of the security detail being pulled, but says quote
that the Vice President is grateful to the US Secret
Service for their professionalism, dedication, and unwavering commitment to safety.
Vice President Harris is supposed to be going out on
a very significant book tour in the coming weeks, very
publicized and big, big cities, so now there are a
lot of questions about what this new development will mean.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
For that tour.
Speaker 6 (22:32):
Harris is a resident of Los Angeles, and a source
close to Laayor Karen Bass tells ABC News at Bass
and California Governor Gavin Newsom are in touch on the issue,
but did not offer any details that LA may take
in response. In a statement, Bass is slamming President Trump
for abruptly yanking protection for the former vice president, calling
it quote another act of revenge end quote. Bass arcues
(22:53):
it puts Harris in danger, and Bass says she will
work with Newsom to make sure the former vice president
is safe in LA.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
So after the President ordered the secret Service detail to
be pulled off Kamala Harris, the former vice president. The
California Highway Patrol moved in along with specialized units from
the LAPD's Metropolitan Division. Mayor Karen Bass ordered that it
was met with heavy criticism within the LAPD's own ranks.
(23:20):
According to The La Times, these officers were being diverted
from crime suppression. Sources told the La Times that Metro
officers had to be drawn away from crime suppression work
in the San Fernando Valley this week and what's been
happening in the San Fernando Valley string of violent crimes
(23:42):
and burglaries. So a lot of criticism towards the mayor's office.
And the decision has been made for the LAPD to
stop providing special protection for former Vice President Kamala Harris,
and that ends outside her Brentwood Hunt home. It should
(24:02):
not be that big of a deal. I suppose. It
is tradition that the vice president gets six months of
additional Secret Service protection after leaving office. President Biden had
tried to allocate longer protection for the former vice president.
Trump says that's not happening. Of course, former presidents get
it for the rest of their lives. But Los Angeles
is a very safe city. In fact, it is the
(24:24):
second safest large city in the United States. That's according
to a new study from smart Asset, which took a
look at the country's major cities and tried to determine
which ones were the safest. So they looked at the
fifty largest cities in the country based on population and
(24:45):
looked at issues like violent crime rate, property crime rate,
vehicular mortality rate, and other metrics. San Jose was declared
the safest by smart assets and the metrics that they
used here, having the third fewest violent crimes in the
country relative to its population the fifth fewest property crimes.
(25:10):
But La came in at number two. What do you
think about that analysis? Long Beach, by the Way, came
in at number eleven, the eleventh safest big city in
the country. San Diego was number thirteen, Sacramento fifteen. And
(25:31):
Mayor Bass seems to agree with this. She tweeted out
a link to a story from this past March with
the comments, violent crime is down in LA and the
city's on track for a sixty year low in homicides.
We will continue implementing aggressive prevention strategies to address crime.
(25:52):
That scared me. I am not used to having an
active board operator. I almost died, Eric, I'm too old
for that. I'm having some fun. I live downtown. I'm
scared of these types of noises.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
I just figured you would want to know what John
thought of this whole Paul was that Cobalt?
Speaker 1 (26:08):
That was his scream? Oh, I love that. I know
when he gets back here in the studio on Monday,
he's gonna have a field day with some of these topics.
I know he's gonna have a field day with the
Vice President's story in the LAPD. I know he's gonna
have a field day with that smart Asset report. And
I will definitely be among the mini tuning in for
(26:29):
John Cobalt at one o'clock on Monday. But I was
at this press conference in March where the mayor was
joined by the Chief of Police, Jim McDonnell, and they
did share statistics that showed homicides had decreased by fourteen
percent year over years, shooting victims down nineteen percent, felony
hit and run cases down more than six percent. They
(26:50):
used that as a triumph theate that their policing policies
were working. So you've got the actual statistics saying that
crime is down. I've got this analysis by smartesset that
says La is the second safest big city in the country.
What do you think? You can join the conversation by
(27:11):
opening up the iHeartRadio app click on that talkback button.
We'll play some of your comments. We've also put out
the question as we await the big powerball drawing, how
much wealth do you need? What's the right amount of
wealth to have where you're comfortable, you're on top of it,
you got enough to do what you want. I'm sure
it's not one point eight billion dollars. Who needs one
point eight billion dollars? Same thing. To join that conversation,
(27:33):
open up the iHeartRadio app, click on that talkback button.
We're going to play some of those coming up. Last week,
we told you about another list the dirtiest cities in America,
and San Bernardino was number one in the country. Excuse me,
the dirtiest city in the country. Now another list is
out and San Bernardino is on the bottom of that
(27:54):
one too, So I want to know what's going on
in San Bernardino. We'll get into that next, I'm Michael
Monks from k I News with you till nine o'clock tonight.
On this Saturday night in southern California, we are minutes
away from the big Powerball drawing one point eight billion
dollar jackpot. My question to you tonight, what's the right
(28:16):
amount of Well, that's too much, right, one point eight
billion dollars is a crazy amount of money. How much
do you think you need to where you could feel
rich and comfortable and able to wrap your head around
how much money you have and to be able to
do the things that you want to do. Let's hear
from Brad.
Speaker 13 (28:34):
Come on, Monks, you gotta ask Bezos or Musk how
excited they would be to win one point eight billion
dollars since they're worth like three hundred billion.
Speaker 3 (28:46):
They'd be a static.
Speaker 13 (28:47):
They'd go jump it up and down on the bed
and stuff like that. That's chump chain to them, that's
pocket change. They carry one point eight billion in their
pocket every day.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
You're not wrong, that is what I mean though. That
is a crazy amount of money. And look, honestly, I
don't mean any disrespect to Elon Musk or Mark Zuckerberg,
but they strike me as a little strange, right, the
type of strange that only money can buy. That you
start to lose your mind a little bit when you
have that much money. So I'm thinking five to ten
million dollars. Boy, that's perfectly fine with me. Let's hear
(29:20):
from Lisa Kay. How much money do I need?
Speaker 6 (29:25):
Well?
Speaker 11 (29:25):
To me, would be enough money I could buy myself
in and out of any kind of trouble I choose
to participate.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
In here here, Lisa Kay, to be able to get
into some trouble. And that's the other good thing. Money
can get you out of some trouble. Money can get
you out of trouble. And I suppose if you do
have one point eight billion dollars, you can get out
of a lot of trouble. And maybe my paltry five
to ten million dollars that I dream about, I could
still I don't know, go to jail or get beat
(29:54):
up or something. I wouldn't have secret service protection certainly,
which is five to ten million dollars, I don't know.
You tell me. Open up the iHeartRadio app, click on
the talkback button, and let us know what you think
is the right amount of wealth. As we all sweated
out waiting for the powerball drawing and the one point
eight billion dollar jackpot. Let's go to San Bernardino. Now,
(30:18):
there was an interesting story about a tortoise that came
out of that city this week. Here's our friends at
both ABC seven and NBC four reporting on it.
Speaker 16 (30:28):
An actor in Saberdagano needs help find in his missing tortoise.
Cactus Bash says his pet Dolly is about three years
old and recently he noticed, you know, she went missing.
No escape, just came loose. Well, Cactus has been frantic
putting up flyers around town, even on social media.
Speaker 9 (30:46):
Just the response has been overwhelming and I still haven't
found her, but it gives me so much hope.
Speaker 3 (30:53):
How many people have reached out to try and help.
Speaker 16 (30:55):
Kactas says this is the first time Dolly has escaped
from his yard.
Speaker 17 (31:00):
A San Bernardino man is in a desperate search to
find his missing tortoise, Dolly. The tortoise escaped from her
enclosure three days ago. The Silkata tortoise is only about
three years old, and the species can live up to
one hundred and thirty years old, so Dolly is a baby.
She's about the size of a cat. Her owner says
he's looked everywhere within a few miles of his home,
(31:21):
but a poster's posted online called animal shelters, you name it.
He's done it, and so far no sign of Dolly.
Now he's hoping to expand his search.
Speaker 9 (31:30):
She was able to push part of the gate forward
and create a hole big enough for her to get through,
and so I did not know and she got out escaped.
I want her found so much. I miss my baby girl.
I want to make sure she's safe. I'm worried about her.
Speaker 17 (31:47):
The owner asks that if you spot his tortoise or
know her whereabouts, please contact him on Instagram at the
Goshdang fire Trucking Batman. Again, that's at the Goshdang fire Trucking.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
That is his Instagram account. You can here at the
bottom of her screen right there, that is his Instagram account.
His name is Cactus Bash. The Instagram account is the
gosh Dang fire Trucking Batman, and I did just go there,
and I'm happy to report that he's found the tortoise.
So Cactus Bash has been reunited with Dolly. That story
(32:24):
had a happy ending after all. How about that with
the You're gonna kill me I'm too old for these
sound effects. I gotta keep myself entertained Somehow do you
do this to John Colebelt? Oh yeah, and he doesn't
fall over and die, He'll start laughing. He can't be
healthier than me. I see what he eats. Oh man,
(32:45):
all right, it's fine, it's fine, it's fine. No, I
don't I'm glad you're participating. Thank you. Just uh, I'm
a nervous wreck. My suspicion when I saw this tortoise
story was that perhaps Dolly was trying to flee San Bernardino,
because I don't know what's going on in San Bernardino,
but it is not getting a lot of love on
(33:06):
these lists that some of these random organizations and websites
make up. I'm sure that they are done in earnest
with actual metrics and all of that, and they make
for fun headlines. But last week we told you about this,
and you probably heard it on other KFI reports and
shows that San Bernardino, for the second year in a row,
(33:26):
was ranked as the dirtiest city in the country. LA
was number two, San Bernardino was number one, and this
was determined by seventy five percent of San Bernardino residents
saying they're dissatisfied with local pollution. Were worst air quality,
(33:49):
a lot of big warehouses, high nitrogen dioxide levels. Dirtiest
city in the country is San Bernardino. I'm a guy
who likes cities, and Southern California is a lot of
cities that have substantial populations, and San Bernardino is one
of them. And I've been there. I've been there for
(34:09):
stories and what surprised me was, well, it's not as
big as LA. It gave me some La vibes as
a downtown LA resident because I was there for a
news conference, and you know, I had to use the
bathroom and everything was locked up the same way that
it is in downtown LA. You could not get into
(34:31):
any of the bathrooms. You couldn't even get into the
Starbucks at all to order. It would only take drive
through orders. And I didn't see any riff raff. I
didn't see any bad behavior, but I thought something's going
on here that I do not see. Well. Another report
has come out about the best and worst places to retire,
(34:58):
and there are one hundred and eighty two c across
the country evaluated here in the Retirement Confidence surveyuting put
out by the Employee Benefit Research Institute. Do you want
to guess which city finished in one hundred and eighty
second place? Well, if you said San Bernardino, California, you
(35:20):
are correct. And I think that's why Dolly the tortoise
was on the run. It's dirty. You can't retire there,
and you know tortoises live a long time. You've got
to find a city, or you can stretch your dollar.
(35:42):
One hundred and eighty two cities evaluated, the worst one
San Bernardino. What's going on out there? Let us know?
Give us a talkback. Open up that iHeartRadio app, click
on the talkback button, share your thoughts about San Bernardino,
Share your thoughts about LAPDS, secret service, violent crime in
Los Angeles. But most importantly, answer our question of the night,
(36:07):
what is the right amount of wealth? As we all
sit here patiently waiting for that powerball drawing of one
point eight billion dollar jackpot? How much money do you
really need? How much do you want? What's the sweet
spot for you in terms of wealth. We'll have more
of your talkbacks coming up in the next hour. If
you don't hear me in the next hours, because I
want and I've just resigned and I've left, Okay, and
(36:30):
Eric Sclarer will take over with the sound effects. Okay,
we'll have more coming up. We have another hour together
to talk about Powerball and more local news, including this
LA trying to expand its convention center. It's costing a
lot of money. Guess what the price tag just went up.
By the way, the city's broke. That's next on Michael
Monk's reports right here on KFI Am sixt
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